Review of My Girlfriend is Shobitch
Yay it's a sex comedy.... but without the sex and the comedy was bad. This is unfortunately very poor attempt to make an ecchi harem comedy based on dirty jokes. Jokes are very dirty yes, but they are hardly funny. Many of these jokes are predictable, awkward or just boring. At first I was not sure why they felt so bad. I usually love sexually themed humour. Then I came to a conclusion that timing and voice acting were ruining most of the actually pretty delicious jokes. They were too predictable, lasted too long and they were often taken too far. In the endthey were no more jokes and it feels like some weird pervy stuff just happens for no reason. Many things that definitely shouldn't be said out loud is said out loud but it doesn't feel funny, just weird. Most puns are impossible to understand in English and most are probably not that good in Japanese either.
Story 3: Poor love story overall. No real character development. Main character Haruka Shinozaki is boring as hell. He has no redeeming qualities really, he is "normal" guy and he likes the main girl Akiho Kosaka because she is pretty and seems smart and responsible. But when they start dating it turns out Kosaka wants to know everything about sex and be a perfect girlfriend, respectable goal I think but it seems to be an obsession. So what is supposed to be funny is this Kosaka's obsession of sex. But obsessions are not necessarily funny. It's like watching an alcoholic who drinks, it's more sad than funny. Most jokes are about Kosaka studying sexual things and talking all sorts of pervy stuff and Shinozaki trying to act normal. That is supposed to be funny. For me it was not.
Art 3: Rather ugly art style IMHO. Animation was at times very poor quality and it was obviously low-budget. Nothing to write home about.
Sound 3: Voice acting was at times amateurish IMHO, I think that better acting could've also saved some of the jokes. Maybe....Acting was mostly not that bad as writing or art was, but overall it was very generic. Music was very poor. Opening song was one of the worst I've ever heard. Very forgettable ending song as well.
Character 4: Main guy Haruka Shinozaki is boring, he has no personality to talk about. Akiho Kosaka is obsessed about sex and is also pretty boring otherwise. There are attempts of cute scenes between them, but they feel mostly awkward attempts of romance that don't work. There are all sorts of pretty stereotypical side characters like clinging little sister, clinging Onee-chan from neigbour, clinging rich girl who knows nothing of men, clinging gay guy.... all these characters seem to be clinging to Shinozaki because he is so nice. This seems to mean that despite all those unscrupulous intimacies of those characters he stays as their friend. My favorite was probably the gay guy... surprisingly there is no fujoshi-character to enjoy about his interactions with Haruka (who has broken gaydar of course) which was actually quite refreshing, instead these near-BL moments made Akiho jealous. This in turn made supposedly funny scenes surprisingly serious which didn't really work that well.
Enjoyment 6:
I laughed like 5 or 6 times total when watching this 10 episodes long show, and some of those laughs were caused simply by bewilderment. I was so surprised how bad this show was at times that it made me laugh. So I guess that can be counted as enjoyment...
Overall 4: Very forgettable attempt of ecchi/ sexual comedy, lots of missed opportunities to make it funny. Some ideas were actually nice, but in the end achievement was probably one of the worst ecchi shows ever.