“High-school duo vows to be ordinary, but Kobato's detective instincts keep disrupting their quiet life.”
Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary
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Synopsis
High-school duo vows to be ordinary, but Kobato's detective instincts keep disrupting their quiet life.
Jougorou Kobato has a habit of inserting himself into other people's problems. After realizing his detective skills are neither wanted nor appreciated, he makes an agreement with his shy friend Yuki Osanai to become ordinary together. Now entering high school, they aim to be perceived as regular people, yet Kobato cannot help but fall back into his deductive ways when faced with everyday mysteries. Unfortunately, mundane occurrences are not all the duo stumbles across. As they go through their school days trying to avoid drawing attention to themselves, Kobato and Osanai at times get caught up in incidents that put their plan of a peaceful, average life at risk.
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Derived from 48 sampled reviews
What 48 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.76 · some divergence
4.5 pts
Recommenders 8.4 · others 3.8
↓ 0.46
Running avg · Sep 2024 → Feb 2026
- 8 “Spiritual successor to Hyouka. TLDR; if u liked Hyouka, you'd like this. Penned by the same author, similar vibes all around. For those who have not seen Hyouka, this show is in a perpetual state...”
- 9 “watch it 2 or 3 episode you will like ,its a good great anime if you didn't liked it watch after a year or so because i think to truly experience it you should be ready to use your brain and maybe...”
- 10 “This show is great for fans that just wants to be taken to a ride. The plot is rather unique, in a sense that for a show set in high school, it doesn't include student council. It's a slow-paced...”
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- Format 10 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 3h 50m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2024 – Sep 2024 Summer 2024
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-25906 catalog
Produced by
- TV Asahi Producer
- Movic Producer
- KlockWorx Producer
- NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan Producer
- Nagoya Broadcasting Network Producer
- AbemaTV Producer
- Bit grooove promotion Producer
- NetEase Producer
- BS Asahi Producer
- TV Asahi Music Producer
- Tokyo Sogensha Producer