It ambushes you. Three minutes of Ryugu Elementary and you're already arguing about whether Musubi is a rice ball, which is exactly the trap. This is the school that mass produces famous characters, and Matsuda Meisaku is the one ordinary kid in the room, stuck between Sweets running on pure sugar and volume, Nokio insisting he's a robot while admiring himself, and Bolt outrunning the actual rabbit. The short format is the joke delivery system here, no runway, no setup tax, punchline and out before the gag can curdle. Ten years after the 2016 run, the class is back, and the appeal hasn't changed: a cast built entirely from fairy tale leftovers and a protagonist whose only superpower is being normal enough to notice. You will defend Musubi's honor to someone who has never seen it.

Aware! Meisaku-kun returns in 2026 with a new short-form comedy series. The 2016 entry centered on Matsuda Meisaku, an ordinary boy who enrolls at Ryugu Elementary School, a prestigious academy famous for producing well-known characters. There he was surrounded by eccentric classmates such as the hyper, dim-witted Sweets, Musubi, who hates being called Onigiri, and Nokio, a narcissist who insists he is a robot.