Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist

(7.5/10) A funny anime with all the dirty jokes you could ever want. This series is funny, full of action, and the character developement was decent but in end it was left open to interpretation on what would happen next which was a little dissapointing. I was hoping for the relationships between the characters to play out a little more but overall it was an enjoyable series.

Coming in to this show, I want people to know that this show is dumb fun and nothing more.

While the concept of the show is used to make fun characters and weird story lines, I want you to know that's all it will do with the story. It will not push the limits of your ideas of $ex, love and freedom but just be a show to laugh at while having to look over your shoulder every five minutes due to the frankly fucking crazy, borderline rapey scenes included. Plus while the final episode was good I do feel it seems like an over produces OVA, especially because of the sold end that was episode 11.

Besides that it's good and I enjoyed the ride this anime took me on.

Well, to give you a quick rundown of my own experience, I've been watching anime since the 1990s, and reading manga/manhua/manwha since the 2000s. Now that that is out of the way;

This series is good, if you can stomach it. I was red with embarrassment the entire time. I was laughing, screaming, stunned, the list goes on. I have never been caught so off guard before. The amount of times I had to pause each episode just to regain my composure was ridiculous.

I don't care much for comedies anymore, especially in anime, because it normally supersedes anything of meaning. I don't even know how I stumbled onto this series. Nonetheless, I'm glad I did.

Forgive me if my review is not as professional as one would like. This is my first review of IMDb. For whatever reason, I needed to express my thoughts on this series, and thus I came here.

Story - 7/10 Decent. The premise is honestly not bad. We can all imagine what it would be like if society, especially the youth, were repressed more so than they are today. Through comedy, this series shows how ridiculous it is to suppress natural healthy feelings, especially naughty ones I guess haha.

Characters - 7/10 Likeable. Each character is likeable. I personally am not fond of the artist, and our main female protagonist grates on my nerves a little, but generally speaking, everyone is interesting and likeable. I was enthralled and just wanted to see more of the characters and how they grow from their experiences.

Art - 7/10 Cute and appealing. I have a particular art style I like, and to me, this anime is mostly an average artwork. Stepping outside of my experiences, cute and appealing sound fitting for it. It's not ground-shattering, but it doesn't have to be to be good.

Music - Honestly no idea, the story got me so cracked I could barely pay attention to any musical themes that were playing for almost any scene.

This anime is not safe for work. It's not safe around your parents. It's absolutely not safe for kids 17 and under. It's barely safe for your own sanity. If you are having a rough day, if you're depressed, if you want something borderline hentai, watch this. You can finish it in a day, and you'll be dying the entire time.

• P. S. When you get to the cookie scene, understand this, I do not know what I would have done if I were him. If the circumstances were more appealing to me, would I be okay with it? I genuinely don't know. I've been in healthy relationships, done a lot of experimenting, have had lots of fun, but this? Yikes.

'Shimoneta' is set in a near future where everything even vaguely sexual has been outlawed. The protagonist is roped into the "erotic terrorist" group SOX, trying to educate their high school in all things carnal by spreading dirty pictures.

While amusing for a few episodes, the dirty humor soon becomes grating, devolving from fairly clever innuendo into the secondary protagonist yelling vulgar words at opportune moments. Similarly, the reasonably fun slice-of-life approach suddenly turns into an over the top action-based mess where a panty-obsessed fetishist commits mild but genuine terrorism. There's also a non-con subplot of the female-love-interest-turned-creepy-stalker forcing herself onto the protagonist, because the writers thought that's funny I guess.

Issues with the story aside, the characters are fleshed out fairly well, the animation is good, the soundtrack does its job, and even the English dub is solid.

All in all, 'Shimoneta' is light-hearted fun, primarily targeted at male teenagers who think that yelling genital-related words is funny. I found a bit of a slog after the first few episodes, but it was amusing enough.

I would definitely recommend this show. I wish that there was a second season.

Story - This series is basically a very extreme (and hilarious) commentary on how censorship is viewed in the media today. The world gets surprisingly well developed and the characters and story is pretty clever and interesting. I don't want to give too much away, as its really really good.

Characters - The characters are all fully fleshed out and well written. You get the goals of the cast, their motivations for why they do stuff. Everyone is written well enough that the comedy works into the story.

Animation - The animation is pretty good. I like the futuristic world that was created for this story and the overall art is very good.