Another Off Beat Anime: Seitokai no Ichizon

Seitokai no Ichizon (生徒会の一存) is another of those hidden gems which will never make it  out of Japan for sure.  It may look like another moe or romance comedy series, but it is not so.

The series, which is also called Hekiyō Gakuen Seito-kaigi Jiroku (The Records of the Hekiyō Academy Student Council’s Activities), revolves around a private high school whose student council is chosen entirely by popularity vote. As a result the members are usually a group of pretty girls. The sole male member is Ken Sugisaki, who entered the student council by becoming the top-scoring student in the level. Because of this, Ken Sugisaki is the only male representative, in the otherwise all bishōjo student council.

The series revolves around the meetings inside the student council room . The story (as written in the series) has a metafiction component where, under the student council president Sakurano Kurimu orders, vice president Ken Sugisaki has to write stories to show the other students how brilliant the student council is. Ken negotiates with Fujimi Shobo to publish these stories.

Like Lucky Star, the series portrays the characters having comical conversations and parodying anime culture.

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