Review of My Girlfriend is Shobitch

[No spoiler review] It's ironic that I just wrote that disclaimer, considering I'm about to tell you that there is nothing to spoil - unless of course you consider what is already a stale and flavourless anime as something worth consuming. If you haven't notice by the score and opening line, I didn't enjoy this show, and don't think it's worth your time - which could be better spent proving Obama is white. Initially the anime draws you in with an interesting snippet from a future episode, one that was audacious and just screamed "This anime is filled with ironic and over the top sexual humour". Andthen we a greeted with the generic male protag who's just the observer/victim in this adventure and plays the all so important task of commenting on everything in the most unoriginal way possible. By this point you'll realised you've found what anime archaeologists call "cliche". It doesn't get any better from there with the full generic set of side character who felt like they need a pair of square brackets with the words "Insert unique characteristics" embedded in them.

"Alright, it had generic character, what anime doesn't?" - You say. While I can't expect every anime to have a totally original set of characters with an unheard of combinations of traits, I expect it to use it's generic base structure to construct a unique plot or series of situations that I haven't seen more than a dozen times before. And unfortunately the anime fails to do that with the set ups for jokes always being ones that almost force you to roll your eyes as you anticipate the sexual comedic situation that they thought up - which are barely on par with the comedic product of a 7th grader new to puberty giggling over the mention of the word "Penis" in his biology classes. It come nowhere near the lever as Seitokai Yakuindomo which had it's petty boring moments but created an elaborate twist of events that lead to funny misunderstanding and setups for really good puns and clever sex jokes. Here we get no elaborate situation outside of the characters looking at people in the wrong angle - hence misunderstanding a situation that takes effort to misinterpret. It starts to get old when the main characters act surprised in situations that they would clearly be able to decrypt and class as a misunderstanting - at least in Seitokai Yakuindomo the characters were shown to be aware that there was a misunderstanding but went with the flow purposefully because they enjoyed messing with the main character - in ShoBitch there's a constant stream of what seems like genuine shock followed by a reset in all emotion and a full sweep on any saved data from previous situations - which make me reminiscent of how a brand new episodes of the Simpsons started post 2007 where the consequence of actions were volatile.

So why bother giving it a score above the lowest? Well I can't lie and say there wasn't genuinely good puns and jokes here and there - though that quantity of them is minuscule to the point that the the really bad ones eclipse it. I also can't say the above average art style didn't enchant me enough to keep me from dropping it. The art isn't amazing but from other anime I've seen like this - such as hajimete no gal - I can say it deserves some brownie points for the slightly better art direction (and story direction considering how unbearable Hajimete no gal's plot got). It is by all means watchable, there's just not much you'll get out of it. It won't have you slamming your head on the table as much as some other mentionable Ecchi comedy anime and I think many will enjoy the somewhat disturbing "homosexual misunderstandings" - If I can paraphrase it to that, they're definitely one of the most extreme jokes when it comes to misunderstanding between 2 male characters.

There's not much to be said about the generic sound track so I think I'll conclude. Who is this anime for? Probably people who are into 7th grade dirty humour or new to the ecchi comedy genre of anime and don't want something as intense as Seitokai Yakuindomo. However even if that is the case I'd recommend you just don't bother wasting your time and search for an alternative, because this anime will frankly put you off the genre if you're giving it's your first try and it will leave you unsatisfied if you came for a good laugh, a decent romance or even something to tease your sexual desires with (If you're looking for ecchi you're better off somewhere else, this is pretty much void of it visually other than covered breasts moving around). If you want the a better alternative with 2 seasons and an upcoming movie go look up the one I've referenced 3 times now, I don't think I need to retype it here.