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

'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.

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.

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.

It is a very good anime in its own style, very different storytelling, and I have not seen anything like it except in Manga. I hope the shower season will come soon.

This show is hilarious. It's also very sexual. I can almost guarantee it will make you laugh. Its about a world where all vulgar language, porn, and anything that isn't "pure and good-hearted" is completely banned and illegal. A terrorist group called sox is trying to bring all of that back. There is some sequences of what people would call sexual assault that is borderline rape. Except all of these scenes are absolutely hilarious in my opinion. I recommend it to young men who are at least over the age of 13.