Poputepipikku
Pop Team Epic

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There haven't been a single page that haven't made me laugh.

Poputepipikku or Pop Team Epic, is a 4-koma, seinen gag manga that is bustling with intuitive and surreal comedy. With characters dressed as generic high school girls with never changing cute faces, this manga is everything BUT generic.

Being a 4-koma manga, doesn't give much room for a story. Each individual page is a (somewhat) self contained story of head scratching and seemingly random comedy.

The art is oddly fitting for the type of comedy that it delivers. The characters are always drawn with a ":3" face, no matter the situation, which in itself creates comedic situations. ... For example when a ":3" faced high school girl is planning to destroy a cuckoo clock with a sledgehammer because "It's fucking pissing me off just looking at this shit." That is the actual quote from the manga.
Sometimes oddly realistically drawn hands are drawn in order to make a comedic point stronger. It works surprisingly well

A lot of the comedy comes from the unusual situations our 2 nameless main characters find themselves in.
The small and blonde girl is the instigator of mostly all of the jokes/gags and the tall, blue haired girl is the "straight man" that either 1-ups the joke that the blonde girl set up, or shoots the joke down (sometimes literally), which in itself is really funny.

I enjoy Pop Team Epic immensely. I read the first 20 chapters in one sitting and the manga just got better and better. There were some jokes that i didn't get, mostly because i'm not the target demographic (which is Japanese people) but the vast majority of the jokes are easy to understand.

Overall Pop Team Epic is hilarious. From the surreal comedy and drawings, to the unusual reaction of our main characters and the illogical but really funny decisions that they make. Every page is brimming with comedy that you might, or might not get at first.
Some of the jokes requires a little research or knowledge beforehand, but is still enjoyable nonetheless because of the funny drawings that accompany the jokes and gags.

Honestly, this manga made me laugh so much to the point that my stomach hurts, heck I have the strips saved on my phone just because of how absurd and hilarious it is.

The amount of Japanese and Western parody such as Annie, Michael Jackson and Disney Classics such as Aladdin involved reaches out to not just Japanese audiences, but to the rest of the globe (basically not a niche). However, there are some puns in which Japanese might only get and require some Reddit guide but when you get the joke or not, you'll laugh due to the comedy genius and meta humor.

This is a ... fresh piece of comedic art alongside being downright hilarious and random and deserves a read as you will not regret it.

No story whatsoever.

No character development (does not need it as it will ruin the whole series in my opinion).

I do like the main characters and how well they contrast and stay true to themselves with running gag not being repeated and re-used through out the whole manga.

It is a short read and you can finish a volume in 5-10 minutes without laughing. Legit took me an hour due to how hysterical I find it to be.

This manga is just perfectly fine. it has plenty of content fit for screenshotting and using as reaction images online. it has enough moments i chuckled or found funny, maybe i even sent some panels to friends because i liked them.
but man it's lacking something for me.

Pop Team Epic just feels no different from reading your standard 4Koma, the humor is kind of dry and mostly made up of references to things such as Video games *Pop* culture or parodying anime/manga tropes (or in general meta humor).
as an example there's a reference about the game Metal Slug, and if you haven't played metal slug the ... joke likely isn't going to connect.

I expected more from half of the comedy than just, [reference to thing] [the end] but it's 100% intentional and a complete shitpost of a manga, for what i got it's just fine, there's just nothing to have you non-stop laugh on the floor unless you really like reference humor to that degree. which is okay! i'd just like to see something more interesting done with it personally is all.

The artwork is perfect. in a simplistic way and it adds comedic effect to the dialogue which is all you need, in fact the style is straight up ICONIC. I've seen so many artworks of random characters straight up drawn in this style.

I'm glad I read this and got a good chunk of the humor without looking into any of it, but I couldn't rate it much higher than a 6. I enjoyed it so i hope you do too if it sounds like your thing but it is NOT a comedy for everyone at all.