Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! Premiere Tests Japan's TV Censors
『生徒会にも穴はある！』第1話、規制ギリギリの内容に海外のファンも反応
Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! premiered its first episode Saturday, October 3, in TOKYO MX's late-night slot (with an uncensored cut streaming separately), and Japanese viewers spent the reaction video's comment section treating it as the spiritual successor to a beloved 2010s comedy.
Across the 214 comments left under a reaction video covering the premiere, the most-liked comment (184 likes) said it "instantly" brought Seitokai Yakuindomo (Student Council Staff Members) to mind, and another claimed that manga's own author had praised the new series as good for 16 years of serialization — one more than Seitokai Yakuindomo itself ran. From there the thread split into two running conversations: how far studio Passione, also behind this season's FX Fighter Kurumi-chan, was willing to push the content past what the original ever attempted, and which streaming service actually carries the uncensored cut (commenters corrected each other more than once).
Not everyone treated the raunch as the whole story. A smaller group of manga readers weighed in on the adaptation's quality itself, and the episode's blunt cold open got singled out as its own punchline before the nostalgia talk even started.
Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! — Passione's Fall 2026 TV anime adaptation of the long-running yonkoma comedy manga — premiered its first episode Saturday, October 3, in TOKYO MX's late-night slot, airing alongside several other terrestrial and satellite stations. An uncensored cut of the episode streams separately from the broadcast version. A reaction video rounding up Japanese viewers' response to the premiere drew 214 comments, and almost none of them were really about the plot of a new student gradually discovering how strange her school's student council is. They were about just how far the show was willing to go in episode one, and about what it reminded everyone of.
“"That was the best kind of awful" — the highest compliment reserved just for this anime.”
最高にひどかったというこのアニメ専用の最上級の褒め言葉
The most-liked reaction in the thread wasn't shock, though. It was recognition.
“It instantly brought Seitokai Yakuindomo (Student Council Staff Members) to mind.”
すぐに生徒会役員共を思い出した。
“It's apparently even gotten the stamp of approval from Seitokai Yakuindomo's own author, who called it "a manga that could run for 16 years" (Seitokai Yakuindomo itself ran for 15).”
生徒会役員共の作者からも「16年やれる漫画ですね。」とお墨付きを頂いている（生徒会役員共は15年連載）
“A male lead plus a bunch of female characters — that combo brings back good old Heisei-era anime.”
男主人公＋複数の女性キャラは 古き良き平成アニメを思い出す組み合わせ
From there the thread turned to the studio behind it. Passione isn't just making this show this season — it's also the studio behind FX Fighter Kurumi-chan, the other Fall 2026 title whose cute art style hides much darker subject matter underneath. Having the same studio run both shows in the same three-month block was, for a lot of commenters, the real punchline.
“I was already dying laughing from the cold open, lol. Also, Passione is just too strong this season.”
開幕から終わっててバカ笑ったw 後、今期パッショーネ強すぎ
“Passione's level of depravity, making both FX Fighter and this in the same season, is off the charts.”
FX戦士とこれをやってるパッショーネの変態性が高すぎる
A parallel conversation broke out over where to actually watch the uncensored cut. It wasn't a short exchange — commenters spent almost as much time correcting each other's streaming recommendations as they did reacting to the episode itself, with at least one reply pushing back on an earlier comment for being too narrow about where the uncut version was actually available.
“Watched the uncensored version on dAnime and it was way too intense. You should watch it.”
dアニで規制なしで見たけど刺激が強すぎた 見たほうがいい
“I figured "uncensored" probably just meant one extra scene... nope, that's Passione for you. The direction has a Shaft-ish feel too, which I'm into.”
規制解除って言ってもたんだけだろって思ったら・・・流石パッショーネ制作でした。 演出もシャフトっぽいから好みです！
Not everyone in the comments was just keeping score of how far the show pushed things, though. A smaller group identified themselves as existing manga readers and used their replies to weigh in on the adaptation itself — how faithfully it handled the source material, and whether the cast translated well to animation and a full voice performance.
“Speaking as someone who reads the manga, this was a genuinely satisfying first episode. (The council president is adorable, by the way.) Looks like Komaro's about to show up properly next episode too — looking forward to it.”
原作勢の自分からしても、非常に満足度の高い1話だった。（会長可愛いよ、会長。） 次回からこまろも本格的にでてきそうでこれからも楽しみ。
“Thought the character designer, Ryo Imamura, was going hard here — then remembered his credits include Onimai and Mushoku Tensei, and it made sense.”
今村亮えぐいなと思ったらおにまいと無職手掛けてて納得
By the end, the thread had more or less decided where this fits into the season's unofficial power rankings, placing it right alongside the studio's other Fall 2026 release rather than against anything else airing this quarter.
“This and FX Fighter are the season's top two, personally.”
今期はコレとFXの2強だな（個人的に）
“Student Council Staff Members 2.”
生徒会役員共２
Not an official subtitle. But fifteen years after the original went off the air, that's the review the comment section settled on anyway.
FAQ
- What is Even the Student Council Has Its Holes! about?
- A yonkoma-comedy adaptation (studio Passione) following a new, reluctant member of a very strange high school student council. Episode 1 premiered Saturday, October 3, in TOKYO MX's late-night slot, with an uncensored cut streaming on a separate platform.
- Why are Japanese fans comparing it to Seitokai Yakuindomo?
- Commenters repeatedly said the premiere "instantly" brought back Seitokai Yakuindomo (Student Council Staff Members), an earlier student-council comedy. One top-liked comment claimed that manga's own author called the new series fit to run for 16 years — one year more than Seitokai Yakuindomo's own run, by that commenter's count.
- Is there an uncensored version?
- Commenters said an uncensored cut streams on a separate platform from the broadcast/standard-streaming version, though they disagreed among themselves on exactly which services carry which cut — one corrected another mid-thread.
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