Saiki K. is comedy that respects your intelligence enough to whisper the joke instead of screaming it. Every gag lands because nothing lands, his flat affect and monotone narration turn supernatural chaos into the most boring apocalypse imaginable, and that contrast is the entire point. Five minutes at a time means you never overstay the premise; it hits, moves on, trusts you caught it the first time.

Saiki Kusuo has a wide range of psychic powers, from telepathy to x-ray vision. The problem is that he considers them a curse rather than a gift. He can read every thought around him, so nothing surprises him and he never gets a normal human experience. All he wants is a quiet, ordinary life free of hassle. Saiki keeps his powers hidden from his classmates, but strange people keep drawing close to him anyway, like the dim-witted Riki Nendou and the delusional Shun Kaidou. Dealing with their antics, he learns that an ordinary life is much harder to reach than he expected. Adapted from Shuuichi Asou's manga, this supernatural slice-of-life comedy runs as 120 five-minute episodes, and the same content also aired as a 24-episode series of full-length episodes.