Sket Dance

Sket Dance
Cover of the first volume of Sket Dance, featuring Himeko, Bossun, and Switch
スケット・ダンス (Suketto Dansu)
Genre	Comedy, Drama, Slice of life
Manga
Sket Dance (pilot chapter)
Written by	Kenta Shinohara
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Akamaru Jump
Published	January 16, 2006
Manga
Sket Dance (pilot chapter)
Written by	Kenta Shinohara
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Published	August 28, 2006
Manga
Written by	Kenta Shinohara
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Imprint	Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Original run	July 14, 2007 – July 8, 2013
Volumes	32 (List of volumes)
Light novel
Sket Dance Extra Dance 1: A True Theory! The Seven School Wonders
Written by	Sawako Hirabayashi
Illustrated by	Kenta Shinohara
Published by	Shueisha
Published	November 4, 2009
Anime television series
Directed by	Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Produced by	Ken Yoda
Music by	Shuhei Naruse
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Original network	TV Tokyo
English network	SEA Animax Asia
Original run	April 7, 2011 – September 27, 2012
Episodes	77 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed by	Keiichiro Kawaguchi
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Released	February 4, 2013
Runtime	27 minutes

Sket Dance (スケット・ダンス, Suketto Dansu^?, romanized as SKET DANCE in Japan) is a manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara and serialized, beginning in July 2007, in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. Sket Dance won the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga Award in 2009 for best shōnen manga. An anime adaptation, produced by Tatsunoko Production, premiered on April 7, 2011 on TV Tokyo. On March 30, 2011, Crunchyroll announced that it would simulcast the Sket Dance anime series.

The manga focuses on the (mis)adventures of Kaimei High School's campus support club, the Sket Dance (Katakana: "スケット・ダン"; Kanji: "助人団"; Transliteration: "Suketto Dan"; Translation: "Helper's Club"; included English acronym: "SKET (Support, Kindness, Encouragement, and Troubleshoot)"). Dedicated to the general improvement of campus life, the Sket Dance is devoted to solving any and all problems submitted by the staff or student body. However, due to its general lack of meaningful assignments and the unglamorous reputation of being just a 'group of handymen', the Sket Dance is treated with widespread contempt and it is composed of only three members.

The story is told through a series of short, self-contained stories focusing on cases undertaken by the Sket Dan and is usually told in the space of one or two chapters. Cases to date focus on a variety of issues from more humorous cases (like chasing monkeys around the school or helping a wanna-be samurai find out why he cannot win kendo tournaments) to more serious cases (like those hinting at Himeko's violent past or those concerning near-terminal illness).