Nichijou - My Ordinary Life

Director(s)Taichi Ishidate, Tatsuya Ishihara, Noriyuki Kitanohara, Kazuya Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Hiroko Utsumi, Yoshiji Kigami, Naoko Yamada, Mitsuyoshi Yoneda, Eisaku Kawanami

Genre(s)Animation, Comedy, Sci-fi

Approx. running minutes24m

CastMinoru Shiraishi, Hiroshi Karasuda, Jin Domon, Tetsu Inada, Eiji Miyashita

Nichijou - My Ordinary Life

brief moderate violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; in this episode children at a fantastical high school try to work out who pranked their teacher and save someone's lunch from falling on the floor.

violence

There is a moment of comic violence in which a school girl shoots a male classmate in the head with a gun, he falls backwards whilst others gasp but recovers immediately.

moderate violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Yuko does a trick with a fire alarm and Kojiro makes a scene about his pet goat.

violence

There is a scene of moderate violence in which a female student shoots a classmate in the back of the head; he appears to be unhurt and wipes the blood from his forehead. She then fires a number of different weapons at him, none of which leave him with any injuries.

very mild violence, language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Nano brings home a cat and Yuko gets into an arm-wrestling match with Mai.

violence

There are scenes of very mild violence in which school friends arm wrestle each other.

language

There is use of very mild bad language ('freaking').

mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, the guidance counsellor Izumi Sakurai unsuccessfully tries to enforce rules on the students.

language

There is use of mild bad language ('crap').

mild sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ms Izumi hires Yuko to draw for the school paper which makes Mio jealous.

sex

Mild sex references include a character drawing a picture of a half naked man holding a wine glass.

additional issues

Very mild comic violence includes characters hitting each other over the head during a game of rock paper scissors.

moderate comic violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese fantasy comedy anime series; in this episode, Yūko witnesses the principal battling a deer, Nano traps a cockroach, and the girls go camping.

violence

A man is repeatedly headbutted in the stomach during a fight with a deer, making him spit up blood.

additional issues

There is mild comic threat when a girl frightens her friend by growing in size and speaking in a distorted demon voice during a tantrum. In another comic scene a girl panics while trapping a bug and worries that it will jump into her mouth. Bad language includes ‘crap’, ‘badass’ and ‘hell’. A girl draws pictures of shirtless men during a drawing game, making her friend squeal in embarrassment.

mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese fantasy comedy anime series; in this episode, a villain in a faraway kingdom seeks a pair of wooden cubes.

language

Bad language includes ‘bastard’, ‘freaking’, ‘hell’ and ‘moron’.

additional issues

A villain dies comically by tripping over his own feet, without visible injury detail. A man berates himself for his "impure thoughts" about a woman, but the thoughts in question only amount to wondering about her hobbies and food preferences. Other issues include scenes of very mild fantasy threat and a sequence of smoking.

mild comic violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese fantasy comedy anime series; in this episode, Nano misplaces her hand, Yūko’s jokes fall flat, and Misato has a crush.

violence

In a scene of comic fantasy violence, a girl fires rocket launchers, a cannon and a grenade at a boy to express her frustration, leaving him covered in dust but unharmed.

additional issues

Very mild bad language includes ‘freaking’, ‘jeez’ and ‘dang’. There is infrequent very mild rude humour, when a girl comments on her cat’s ‘snot bubble’. Other issues include a very mild sex reference, when a girl wonders if her friend is "up to something spicy" with a boy, and sequences of very mild comic fantasy threat.

mild comic violence, sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese fantasy comedy anime series; in this episode, Mio and Yoshino fall out over a prank, Yūko tries to kill a mosquito, and the girls visit a soba restaurant.

violence

A woman disciplines her daughter with a highly stylised, comic slap to the face, knocking her over. We see a small splat of blood after a girl swats a mosquito. Two little boys repeatedly hit a mascot at a food stand until the mascot shouts at them to stop. A man is arrested at gunpoint in a sequence played for laughs. Another girl repeatedly hits her sister with a rolled up newspaper.

sex

A teacher marks a test for which students have written captions to describe an illustration of a shirtless man in a comic ‘seductive’ pose; the captions themselves are wholly innocuous.

additional issues

Bad language includes ‘freaking’, ‘goddamn’ and ‘heck’.

very mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese-language animated comedy series; in this episode, Yūko frets over an exam, and a prank backfires on the Professor.

language

There is very mild bad language ('screw', 'freaking').

brief mild comic violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese-language animated comedy series; in this episode, Mio loses her purse at a theme park and Annaka gets into a dispute at the shooting gallery.

violence

There is a brief comic scene of violence in which a girl imagines gunning down a classmate who has irritated her.

additional issues

A girl drinks a bottle of cider. There is mild bad language ('God', 'damn', 'hell', 'freaking').

very mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese-language animated comedy series; in this episode, Yūko braves illness to perform a magic show, while Hakase is alarmed by Nano's wish to go to school.

language

There is very mild bad language ('hell').

additional issues

A girl becomes frightened during a storm, but is comforted by her friend.

mild violence, nudity

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU: MY ORDINARY LIFE is an animated series; in this episode, Nano goes to school and the Go-Soccer Club learns the rules, while Mio and Yukko yell compliments at each other.

violence

There is brief mild violence, resulting in some red bruising injury detail.

nudity

There is brief partial nudity depicting a drawn male figure.

mild violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is an animated series; in this episode, Yuuko and Mio try to prove Nano is a robot.

violence

There is mild violence including punches, kicks and fantastical shootings as well as a scene in which a character is electrocuted.

mild violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is an animated series; in this episode, Yuuko tries to work out how to order a coffee while Mio tries to perform dragon screws.

violence

There is mild violence including punches and kicks.

mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU: MY ORDINARY LIFE is an animated series; in this episode, Yuuko and Mio attempt to complete their house of cards; meanwhile, Yuuko must resist Mai's trolling.

language

There is mild bad language ('frickin').

additional issues

There is very mild comic violence.

moderate sex references, rude humour

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, the surreal moments in the lives of several characters are explored.

sex

In one scene a man wears an inflatable plastic swan around his waist, and the swan's neck is shaped like a phallus and played for comedy.

additional issues

There is also mild and very mild bad language such as 'crap', 'screw', and 'butt'.

moderate fantasy violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; this episode features surreal and comic moments in the lives of several characters.

violence

In a fantasy action sequence a man fires a gun and the bullet finds its mark in a closeup shot, however there is no blood and the scene is somewhat surreal.

additional issues

There is also mild and very mild bad language such as 'frickin' and 'dang'.

mild sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; this episode features surreal and comic moments in the lives of several characters.

sex

A manga comic drawing features a bedroom scene in which a naked man embraces a woman wearing an open shirt however there is no sexual activity and the nudity is masked.

additional issues

In one scene a child pricks a finger on a sharp pencil and screams, there is a close up shot of the blood droplet on her finger; but her overreaction is played for comedy and the moment is not gory or unsettling. There is also very mild bad language such as 'screw' and 'hell'.

mild violence, sex references, language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese anime series; this episode features surreal and comic moments in the lives of several characters.

violence

There are several sequences of mild violence including punches, throws and magic powers, but theses scenes are bloodless and played for comedy.

language

There is mild and very mild bad language such as 'turd', 'hell', 'damn' and 'dang'.

sex

In one sequence a romantic scene plays on a television, and the talking and kissing of a couple is audible; however there is no visual of this and the sequence is comic.

mild bad language, violence, threat

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese comedy drama anime series; in this episode, Tsuyoshi tries to prove religion fake, Professor and Sakamoto the talking cat are frightened by dogs, Fechcan and Weboshi discuss having a positive mindset.

violence

There is mild violence, such as Yoshino accidentally hiiting a man with her kendo stick and two girls being bitten by dogs.

threat and horror

Mild threat includes a youth screaming and running around a temple while pretending to be possessed.

language

There is mild bad language ('crap') and milder terms such as 'screw it', 'butt', and 'damn'.

additional issues

There is also very mild injury detail, when a youth rips off a mask that has been glued to his head, and tears some hair off in the process.

moderate sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese comedy drama anime series; in this episode Izumi finds a worrying magazine in Makoto's room, Makoto offers a photo of Izumi to her fellow teacher Mr Takasaki, Mio gives Yoshino a disgusting jam to taste and Mai wins over the Professor.

sex

There are mild sex references, such as repeated sight of a bikini clad model on a magazine cover. A teacher also shows unusual excitement over obtaining a picture of one of his colleagues at her graduation.

additional issues

There is mild bad language ('crap').

mild sex references, violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese comedy drama anime series; in this episode, Yuko tells tales about Kojiro's relationship with Nano, Sakamotot the talking cat needs medical treatment, and Minoshi teases her sister Misato about her feelings for Kojiro.

violence

There is mild violence, such as an imaginary sequence in which a girl shoots her sister with a bazooka.

sex

There are mild sex references, such as a girl suggesting that she saw a boy take off his clothes for a fellow classmate.

additional issues

There is also very mild bad language ('damn').

mild bad language, threat, injury detail, violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

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NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese comedy drama anime series; in this episode, Misato accidentally breaks Kojiro's spectacles, Mio runs away when she hears that Kojiro and Misato have been seen walking together in school, Ms Nakamuro pays a sneaky visit to Nano's home.

violence

There is imaginary mild violence, such as a huge explosion when a girl imagines shooting the boy she likes with a pair of rocket launchers.

threat and horror

There are scenes of mild threat, such as a girl smashing through a window at school and two girls trying to get out of the way of a train on a railway track.

language

There is mild bad language ('crap', 'bastards', 'damn').

injury detail

Mild injury detail includes sight of an accidental cut on a girl's hand, bleeding.

mild bad language, injury detail

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

NICHIJOU - MY ORDINARY LIFE is a Japanese comedy drama anime series; in this episode, Nano's friends plan a surprise party for her and Sakamoto the talking cat fears his old owner will reclaim him.

language

There is mild bad language ('crap') and milder terms ('heck').

injury detail

Mild injury detail includes a bloodless scene in which an android girl's hand is accidentally pulled off by a friend.

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Classified date25/10/2021

LanguageEnglish

violence

There is a moment of comic violence in which a school girl shoots a male classmate in the head with a gun, he falls backwards whilst others gasp but recovers immediately.

mild bad language, injury detail

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is mild bad language ('crap') and milder terms ('heck').

injury detail

Mild injury detail includes a bloodless scene in which an android girl's hand is accidentally pulled off by a friend.

mild bad language, threat, injury detail, violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is imaginary mild violence, such as a huge explosion when a girl imagines shooting the boy she likes with a pair of rocket launchers.

threat and horror

There are scenes of mild threat, such as a girl smashing through a window at school and two girls trying to get out of the way of a train on a railway track.

language

There is mild bad language ('crap', 'bastards', 'damn').

injury detail

Mild injury detail includes sight of an accidental cut on a girl's hand, bleeding.

mild sex references, violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is mild violence, such as an imaginary sequence in which a girl shoots her sister with a bazooka.

sex

There are mild sex references, such as a girl suggesting that she saw a boy take off his clothes for a fellow classmate.

additional issues

There is also very mild bad language ('damn').

moderate sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

additional issues

There is mild bad language ('crap').

mild bad language, violence, threat

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is mild violence, such as Yoshino accidentally hiiting a man with her kendo stick and two girls being bitten by dogs.

threat and horror

Mild threat includes a youth screaming and running around a temple while pretending to be possessed.

language

There is mild bad language ('crap') and milder terms such as 'screw it', 'butt', and 'damn'.

additional issues

There is also very mild injury detail, when a youth rips off a mask that has been glued to his head, and tears some hair off in the process.

mild violence, sex references, language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are several sequences of mild violence including punches, throws and magic powers, but theses scenes are bloodless and played for comedy.

language

There is mild and very mild bad language such as 'turd', 'hell', 'damn' and 'dang'.

sex

In one sequence a romantic scene plays on a television, and the talking and kissing of a couple is audible; however there is no visual of this and the sequence is comic.

mild sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A manga comic drawing features a bedroom scene in which a naked man embraces a woman wearing an open shirt however there is no sexual activity and the nudity is masked.

additional issues

moderate sex references, rude humour

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

In one scene a man wears an inflatable plastic swan around his waist, and the swan's neck is shaped like a phallus and played for comedy.

additional issues

There is also mild and very mild bad language such as 'crap', 'screw', and 'butt'.

moderate fantasy violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

In a fantasy action sequence a man fires a gun and the bullet finds its mark in a closeup shot, however there is no blood and the scene is somewhat surreal.

additional issues

There is also mild and very mild bad language such as 'frickin' and 'dang'.

mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is mild bad language ('frickin').

additional issues

There is very mild comic violence.

mild violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is mild violence including punches and kicks.

mild violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is mild violence including punches, kicks and fantastical shootings as well as a scene in which a character is electrocuted.

mild violence, nudity

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is brief mild violence, resulting in some red bruising injury detail.

nudity

There is brief partial nudity depicting a drawn male figure.

very mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is very mild bad language ('hell').

additional issues

A girl becomes frightened during a storm, but is comforted by her friend.

brief mild comic violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is a brief comic scene of violence in which a girl imagines gunning down a classmate who has irritated her.

additional issues

A girl drinks a bottle of cider. There is mild bad language ('God', 'damn', 'hell', 'freaking').

very mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is very mild bad language ('screw', 'freaking').

mild comic violence, sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

sex

A teacher marks a test for which students have written captions to describe an illustration of a shirtless man in a comic ‘seductive’ pose; the captions themselves are wholly innocuous.

additional issues

Bad language includes ‘freaking’, ‘goddamn’ and ‘heck’.

mild comic violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

In a scene of comic fantasy violence, a girl fires rocket launchers, a cannon and a grenade at a boy to express her frustration, leaving him covered in dust but unharmed.

additional issues

mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

Bad language includes ‘bastard’, ‘freaking’, ‘hell’ and ‘moron’.

additional issues

moderate comic violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man is repeatedly headbutted in the stomach during a fight with a deer, making him spit up blood.

additional issues

mild sex references

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

Mild sex references include a character drawing a picture of a half naked man holding a wine glass.

additional issues

Very mild comic violence includes characters hitting each other over the head during a game of rock paper scissors.

mild bad language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is use of mild bad language ('crap').

very mild violence, language

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There are scenes of very mild violence in which school friends arm wrestle each other.

language

There is use of very mild bad language ('freaking').

moderate violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

brief moderate violence

Classified Date:

25/10/2021

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is a moment of comic violence in which a school girl shoots a male classmate in the head with a gun, he falls backwards whilst others gasp but recovers immediately.

Director(s)Taichi Ishidate, Tatsuya Ishihara, Noriyuki Kitanohara, Kazuya Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Hiroko Utsumi, Yoshiji Kigami, Naoko Yamada, Mitsuyoshi Yoneda, Eisaku Kawanami

Genre(s)Animation, Comedy, Sci-fi

Approx. running minutes24m

CastMinoru Shiraishi, Hiroshi Karasuda, Jin Domon, Tetsu Inada, Eiji Miyashita

Classified date25/10/2021

LanguageEnglish