It does the thing where you press play for five minutes and lose twenty, because each episode ends on a punchline so flat and mean it takes a second to detonate. Four seasons in, Masuda Kousuke's omnibus has stopped explaining itself entirely: a sketch starts mid-absurdity, drags a historical figure like Shotoku Taishi or Kukai into some idiot errand, and cuts out the instant the joke curdles. Nothing escalates, nothing is animated with any ambition, and that restraint is the weapon. This is the same deadpan machinery that once got an entire bit out of the stickers inside snack packaging, still refusing to raise its voice. The characters exist purely to be run over by the gag, and the show has never pretended otherwise. Twelve shorts, zero lessons learned, and you will still quote one of them at a friend who has no idea what you are talking about.

Masuda Kosuke's gag manga from Monthly Shounen Jump returns for a fourth season of hyperactive, random nonsense. The short omnibus episodes jump between unrelated sketches and a rotating cast of characters, historical figures among them, with no story to follow from one bit to the next. The humor runs on sarcasm and cynicism, and it cares more about the joke than about making sense. The broadcast adds 12 new episodes and mixes in 14 reruns from earlier seasons, so returning viewers will know exactly what to expect.