It hijacks five minutes of your life, refuses to explain itself, and leaves you laughing at something you couldn't repeat to another human being without sounding unwell. Fifteen years after the last batch, Masuda Kousuke's omnibus is back with twelve more shorts, and the format hasn't softened one bit: sketch, punchline, blackout, no continuity, no lesson, no apology. The joy was never in the characters growing, because they don't. They exist to get shoved into whatever absurd premise the gag needs, whether that's Prince Shotoku doing something no history textbook mentions or a hermit reacting to modern nonsense with total serenity. Cynical, hyperactive, and proudly stupid in the way only long-running gag manga can be. If you've ever tried to describe this show to a friend and gave up halfway through, GO is your reunion.

Masuda Kousuke's gag manga returns for a fifth televised season of comedy. Gag Manga Biyori GO runs for 12 short episodes in 2025. Earlier seasons of the franchise were known for omnibus-style shorts of about five minutes each, featuring an assortment of characters that included historical figures. Their humor ran on cynicism and sarcasm, and the gags were hyperactive, random and deliberately nonsensical.