Monday, January 20, 2025

Shimoeta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist-Part 3 Episodes 7-9

As SOX expands its network of connections to other Dirty Joke Terrorist Groups, new threats emerge to challenge them.  The first are the Prefects led by Oboro Tsukimigusa, who seeks to eliminate all forms of naughty display no matter how small (and give Anna the room she needs to be as wild as she wants).  Then there’s Gathered Fabric, undergarment thieves who are starting to give SOX a bad reputation.  Oh and SOX has a new member who’s so determined to make her mark even if it might do damage to SOX.  Are Ayame and Tanukuchi in way over their heads or is it time for the foreplay to end and take their plans to the next level?

If Shimoneta excels at anything it’s being a world of anything goes, nothing is ever clean revolution.  While its material can be a little much even for me, I’m legit enjoying this show a ton and laughing at most of the absurdity.  The stuff that does make me cringe uncomfortably is still there (and even gets the explanation I theorized was the case in my last review) and there’s a new character I just cant bring myself to like.  Does this mean Shimoneta is losing steam and that the earlier episodes are the best ones?  Definitely not and let’s break down why.
 
Three major characters were added to the Dirty Joke War Board in this set.  The first is Korusi and she’s easily my least favorite character of the show.  She’s just a pink haired girl who wants nothing more than to make her mark on the war against decency no matter what and is a huge SOX fangirl.  Her mean acts of lewdness don’t add anything new other than making her unlikeable compared to her fellow members of SOX.  Also she’s another girl thrown in to make Tanukichi’s Harem scenario more of a living Hell than it already is.  At least Ayame has her doubts about Kosuri’s actions and I’m hoping that gets her kicked out of SOX sooner rather than later.  Then there’s the way more fun of the three: Oboro Tsukimigusa.  Oh my God the moment they stepped onto the scene and started removing every single item around the school they deemed capable of producing naughty thoughts, we had a winner.  And what are they removing?  Basketball hoops, Ping Pong Balls, Volleyball Nets…so apparently any kind of gym product can get you in the mood?  It’s the kind of absurd brilliance that Shimoneta does well (and Ayame is impressed too).  And yes, I am referring to Oboro as “They” because of a certain reveal later in the set that’s both accepting and just as bonkers as anything else Shimoneta has unleashed but more on that later.  Lastly there’s the head of Gathered Fabric, White Peak…and he’s barely in this set but he’s disgusting and looks like a very off brand Shishio from Rurouni Kenshin.
 
I do like that Ayame is planning on moving her operations beyond the grounds of her school.  Everything she and SOX have done have basically been a test run for further missions they can spread throughout the rest of the school system.  There’s genuine promise in this plot though I wonder how much we’ll see with only three episodes left.  There’s also the added hurdle of the Decency Squad’s Prefects, led by Tsukimigusa, who are cracking down on all kind of Dirty Joke Content (save for some surprising exceptions).  It adds more challenge to the SOX crusade, leading to not just some fun showdowns but Ayame having to be a bit more of a critical thinker to get passed this obstacle.  For all her uncut dialogue and references, Ayame’s a pretty good tactician when you get right down to it and her working through the problems presented is kind of fun to watch…then she tickle tortues Otome for good measure just to remind us of the perverted megastar she really is.
 
Speaking of Otome, she and Fuwa continue to be the standouts in every episode and my favorite characters in the whole show.  Otome’s furious creation of a Yaoi Manga featuring Tankukichi and Gouriki contain all the high energy of a girl right in the zone who can draw furiously and efficiently with just a pencil in her mouth.  She can do more than this and if anyone in Shimoneta deserves their own spin off side story, it’s Otome.  Not to be outdone, Fuwa got a great interaction with Tsukimigusa, even showing up to meet them in the way she usually pops in on Tanukichi when he’s in class.  Fuwa shamelessly shows off her acquired Tanukichi and Gouriki manga and desperately tried to keep the Prefect from confiscating it just because it can be used as a study guide for science.  Honestly, if anyone could pull off this feat and subvert the system, it’s Fuwa, she’s the best.
 
This does bring us to some inconsistencies with how the Prefects are supposed to work.  Sure we see them grabbing and destroying all manner of dirty and naughty material.  But Fuwa exposed certain loopholes and there is no bigger loophole than the eternally horny Anna.  Remember when I said last time that I wondered why the Peace Maker System can overlook her continuously lustful desires and let her be naughty to her hearts content with Tanikichi?  Well, apparently Tsukimigusa is here to be her personal bodyguard and that means letting Anna do whatever the heck she wants.  If Tanukichi were to somehow make an inappropriate move, he’d be arrested.  Anna does it?  Tsukimigusa will just stand there and watch and not interfere.  And honestly, the more intense and insane Anna gets, the more I don’t like her.  It’s part her being one note and some of the lengths she’ll go to get into Tanukichi’s pants (literally) is super unsettling.  She may very well be the horniest character I’ve ever seen in an Anime and alone makes a strong case for why this whole show is just Mainstream Hentai.  Credit where credit is due, I was cracking up when she make a knife outline around Kosuri so hard it make Kosuri fall into the apartment below Tanukichi’s, that was hilarious.
 
With only three episodes left, I doubt we’re going to see the full culmination of Ayame’s Dirty Joke Society Paradise vision for Japen, probably just the end of its first phase as it is.  The rest of the series will probably be focused on taking down Not Shishio and his band of Panty Thieves but I’m not expecting a ton of resolution overall.  Is this gonna hurt the final score of the show?  We’ll find out Next Monday as we close out January with the Series Finale of Shimoneta right here at the Gundam Anime Corner.

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