heard this was done by the people behind Azumanga daioh which i loved, so was gonna give it a look. ADB shows its 13 epps but i see 2 versions here. an incomplete tagged 13 epp mix and a 'complete' version from ED.. but that ones 20 eppisodes? Id rather get the other version becaue im not a huge fan of ED and i hate dual audio, its a waste of space, but im confused on those extra episodes
what gives? It should be 13 epps should it not? What are episodes 14-20
also any opinions on the show? Im assuming its worth a look? The art looked kinda meh to me, but it sounds amusing and if it is in fact by the group that did AD im sure itll be worth my time
If space is that much of a concern to you, you can always remux the files to be single-audio. Or grab 1-13 from the fansub torrent and 14-20 from E-D. Tbh I'd trust the DVD translations more, since the fansubs are a mix of random and unknown groups. I watched E-D's release, and it's certainly possible to set the defaults to watch in Japanese and never hear the English. The only inconvenience for me was manually switching from the .srt to the vobsub tracks.
As for the show itself...
I can't say it was a good use of my time. The animation is limited and lazy, there's a huge reliance on stills and text content, and the characters are too visually similar. The "adult child teacher" concept is all right, but most of the plot is by-the-numbers SchoolEvent1, Holiday1, SchoolEvent2, Holiday2, etc. The OVA episodes have some more creative and off-the-wall situations, but that freshness comes as too little, too late. The comedy is sometimes amusing, but what I like to say is that they got the formula wrong. Good formula: 20 jokes in 1 episode. Bad formula: 1 joke in 20 episodes. DDSH falls closer to the bad formula. The characters have eccentric traits (lesbian obsessed with the teacher, gay guy with crush on oblivious sports jock, guy who talks like an old man, rich class rep, cross-dressing guy, otaku, and so forth) that are amusing at first... but they're one-note characters that never change. You can practically make a drinking game out of predicting exactly what they're going to do and say in any given situation.
So while there were some laughs to be had in DDSH, it's not in the same league as Azumanga in any way. I was too bored with it to watch more than 1 or 2 episodes at a time. They all feel so similar that marathoning becomes impossible.
