YMMV / The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.

• Awesome Music:
  • Kaidou's Judgement Knights of Thunder theme is pretty damn epic-sounding.
  • Now there's even a full version complete with sung lyrics!
• Base-Breaking Character: Teruhashi. Either she's loved for being cute and her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing personality is hilarious, or she's hated for being a Clingy Jealous Girl to Saiki and subjected to Die for Our Ship.
• Broken Base:
  • If Saiki x Teruhashi should be a ship made canon. Detractors of the ship point out that Saiki isn't interested in romance, or that the one thing that keeps Teruhashi sympathetic in the face of her godly luck and charisma is that Failure Is the Only Option for her in trying to win Saiki's feelings. On the other hand, a few artists have made well-received works featuring the two together. Supporters of the ship also point out that Teruhashi's crush on Saiki is what is responsible for her Character Development (actually caring about Saiki's unpopular friends, and the need to be true to herself) and that Saiki himself may be in denial about his true feelings (he admits his powers and Teruhashi's charisma make them unbeatable, and he refuses to let creeps fawn over her).
  • Muddying the waters is if Saiki should be with Aiura. On one hand, Aiura's ego is nowhere near as large as Teruhashi's and her being a psychic also makes her more compatible with Saiki. She also has tagged Saiki as her soulmate, but detractors of the ship point out that predictions in the show are constantly proven changeable. Still Aiura is the only girl that Saiki don't use '-san'; he just calls her 'Aiura,' not 'Aiura-san,' possibly indicating closeness, and he actually smiled when she hugged him.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Saiki's female form, Kusuko/Kuriko is surprisingly popular among the fans, despite only showing up in a few stories in short bursts. To put this in perspective, she ranked 7th in the cast for the first popularity poll. One spot behind Teruhashi, and ahead of Hairo, Saiki's parents, Chiyo, and Mera. She also shows up a lot in the tie-in gatcha game with rare variants.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Mob Psycho 100, as both series star teenage overpowered psychics. Saiki and Mob have a tendency to appear in fanart together.
  • In 2022, the two fanbases have welcomed Spy X Family into their clique by having Anya Forger, a pink haired psychic with odd hair accessories, interact with the boys as though they were honorary siblings.
• Magnificent Bastard: Kusuke Saiki is Kusuo's inhumanly brilliant older brother. Obsessed with standing out from his godlike sibling, Kusuke invents a device to block Kusuo's telepathy, nearly catching him in a complex game of tag and even masochistically enjoying his defeat when beaten. Loving his brother enough to invent a time machine in an attempt to bring him back in a reality where Kusuo dies, Kusuke still takes any chance to test his powers, threatening to reveal his powers lest Kusuo complete his psychic ability tests.
• Periphery Demographic:
  • Though the manga is published in a magazine aimed at pre-teen and teenage boys, it's more popular with older girls. Shueisha even had the author to create an original special chapter for publication in the Josei magazine Cocohana as a way for advertisement.
  • The morning four minutes anime adaptation is aimed at an even younger crowd, but according a poll run by the Japanese site Charapedia it was the most highly anticipated anime for the summer of 2016 among the female voters, ranking 3rd in the overall rank even though it was not even in the top 10 between male voters. The nightly broadcast of twenty minutes compilation episodes with a more serious opening theme is probably geared towards this demographic.
    • The female Periphery Demographic may also explain the large amount of Fanservice of the male characters, compared to the Fanservice of the female characters.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Kusuke and Makoto have yet to interact, but they have gained a following due to them being older brothers with unhealthy obsessions over their younger siblings. Some people joke that no one should have to deal with their creepiness but each other.
• Squick: The main reason why Teruhashi Makoto is so disliked by the fandom is this, specifically his incestuous love for his little sister Kokomi. Making matters worse is how he's had these feelings since she was a baby, and that while he was a little kid when she was born, at present she's still in high school while he's a grown man, making his behavior ephebophilic too.
• Spiritual Adaptation: To Kotoura-san, from the main character, to the issues they both face.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Mera's supposed to look like an Ungrateful Bitch during her Unwanted Gift Plot, but a lot of people felt bad for her since her classmates know she's in Perpetual Poverty, yet their gifts are all things useless to her, like a box of bath bombs when her house doesn't have a bathtub. Even if "it's the thought that counts" is considered, people point out her classmates clearly didn't think, and that their gifts just come across as insensitive to her situation.
• Unpopular Popular Character: While Shun Kaido's Chuunibyou antics are considered weird to his classmates, they're endearing to the fandom. So much so he's ranked 2nd place for the first popularity poll.
• Woolseyism:
  • The trailer for the second season of the anime acknowledges the show is on Netflix but the follow up joke varies based on language. The Japanese trailer has Saiki asking if he will be on a dating show, while the English trailer has him asking if he’s going to be stuck "fighting monsters with those 80’s kids".
  • The episode with the fire drill initially centers around a gag in which everyone uses sentences with the acronym O-Ka-Shi in line with a common mnemonic about fire safety^note Osanai, Kakenai, Shaberanai; "Don't push, don't run, don't speak". The dub changes the acronym to SOS (Slow, Orderly, and Silent) and comes up with some impressive ways to get everyone's sentences to fit the pattern.

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