Review of My Girlfriend is Shobitch

Everything rateable in the world should be rated in relation to what it aims to achieve, and no one kind of art is superior or inferior to others. Two statements that are central to the defence of Shobitch that I will try now, having taken a peek at the three out of four scored one reviews on the front page at the moment. I think this deserves better than that. And such, I mean, it's underrated. What does Shobitch try to do that they don't really succeed to? In essence it's a lewd joke show with romance in large doses, which is clear on the title,clear on the poster and clear in the synopsis, and should have been clear to the viewer, and it simply delivers just that.

Does it fail in the jokes? It doesn't. They basically throw every sex joke they can think of on the wall, take everything including the jokes that don't stick and barrage the viewer with it for 20 minutes straight- and I'd say everyone would find at least a few that sticks every episode, surely. This is more than I can say for much of the other comedy anime, or any anime that procures comedy as part of it to be fair. Maybe because of the language barrier, it's very hard to find comedy anime sketches that genuinely make you lose your breath, and even if sex jokes is a rather easy way to achieve universal larger-than-smirk laughs they do achieve and I'd have to commend them for that.

Does it fail in the romance? No. This is a preference thing, but because they are polar opposites in tone I'd expect most people to at least like one out of Akiho and Shizuku- and they both have lots of scenes that can satisfy the viewers. They even take time out of every episode to develop the relationship somewhat and endear the couple to the viewers in a different tone. Does it beat around the bush and become a frustrating drawn out romance? Nah again, they set it in stone in the first episode and run with it, to the point and without any frills, without any embarrassment. What's not to like?

Then is there any huge problems that drag the show down? Obnoxious as fuck characters? Not really. Stale writing? No, I'd even write it in as a compliment. Bad visuals? It's definitely cheap, but it's adequate enough. This kind of show is just fine with this level of art. Does it get boring at any point? Absolutely not. Frantic, fast every minute.

Then why's the score a 6? Much of the jokes still don't really work(naturally, per above), there wasn't a 'great' episode and there's an innate cheapness that is hard to deny. But are there any fatal faults that warrant such a low score, as is currently? No. Not for me.