Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets♥Sareta Ken

Kimito Kagurazaka is a commoner with a fetish for men's muscles—or at least that's the lie he must keep telling if he wants to keep himself out of trouble at the elite all-girls school, Seikain Academy. Kidnapped by the school under the assumption that he prefers men, Kimito is made to be their "commoner sample," exposing the girls to both commoner and man so that the transition to the world after school is not jarring. Threatened with castration should his sexual preferences not match the school's assumptions, Kimito keeps up the facade to protect his manhood.

But there are eccentric individuals around every corner who begin to make Kimito's life even more difficult. Among them are Aika Tenkuubashi, a social outcast who blurts out whatever comes to mind; Hakua Shiodome, a young genius; Karen Jinryou, the daughter of samurai who is obsessed with defeating Kimito; and Reiko Arisugawa, the perfect student who has delusions of marrying Kimito. Along with the commoner himself, these four girls make up the Commoner Club, which attempts to teach the girls more about life outside the school, while Kimito gradually learns about the odd girls surrounding him.

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Shiodome, Hakua Main

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Jinryou, Karen Main

Morinaga, Chitose Japanese

Tenkuubashi, Aika Main

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

Arisugawa, Reiko Main

Tachibana, Rika Japanese

Kagurazaka, Kimito Main

Tamaru, Atsushi Japanese

Kujou, Miyuki Supporting

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Hanae, Eri Supporting

Hara, Yumi Japanese

Sakimori Supporting

Fujimura, Ayumi Japanese

Arisugawa, Houko Supporting

Tsunematsu, Ayumi Japanese

Kimachi, Sayuri Supporting

Honda, Takako Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kaneko, Hayato Producer, Planning

Kawamura, Hiroshi Producer

Aoki, Eriko Producer

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Dec 23, 2015

HaXXspetten

Recommended

Shomin Sample is one of those rare ecchi harems which actually feels genuinely original and refreshing to watch. Not just because the setting is somewhat unusual, but also because its ecchi elements feel perfectly natural and that it's actually really funny. It's even got a likable harem protagonist for once, just how rare is that?

The idea of having a sheltered all-girls high school for rich young ladies and then letting a lone male student transfer into it is nothing new to the world of anime. But for the ladies to be completely and utterly clueless about how the world of ordinary citizens works, and for ... them to have a misconception that the protagonist is actually gay and has a serious fetish for muscle men? Yeah I don't think that one has been done anywhere else before.

That is to say, our main character Kimito is one day kidnapped and forced to enroll in the school in order to help the female students to learn how to interact with not only a commoner, but also a person of the opposite gender for the first time. And I dare you, do *not* underestimate just how unbelievably ignorant these girls are about how the real world functions. In their eyes, ordering food at McDonald's is equivalent to the second coming of Jesus. That's how disconnected they are from reality in this series, and it's also the main source of the comedy that Shomin Sample has to offer. It's incredibly silly, but that's also what makes it so charming and original.

This is also emphasized a lot by the fact that Kimito is, in lack of a better phrasing, quite simply a huge troll. Since the girls are not only clueless but also about as gullible as it gets, he time and time again tricks them into learning things about commoners which are complete nonsense, and then watches them make fools out of themselves before springing the truth upon them a bit later on. It might be considered rude, but it's done in a very light-hearted and comedic fashion, and it rarely fails to make you laugh as a result.

Of course seeing as this is a harem, the anime still hinges on the likability of the main heroines. There are primarily 5 of them in Shomin Sample. First we have Aika, the so-called "Tsun-pure" girl of the series. She is a loner who has a very hard time making friends with the other students, but desperately wants to be popular on the inside and she therefore asks Kimito to help her. She is also mind-bogglingly easy to trick as she believes literally anything Kimito tells her without a second thought. Secondly there's Reiko, one of the most respected ladies in the school and pretty much your stereotypical Ojou-sama character, albeit a lot less haughty. For what it's worth, she's probably the most generic and least interesting character of the show. Thirdly we have Karen, a beautiful black-haired woman who carries around a katana. More unexpectedly though is that on the inside... she's also a pretty hardcore lolicon of all things, which becomes very noticeable in the presence of the fourth girl: Hakua. She is the emotionless loli of the series who is supposedly 14 years old but looks quite a lot younger than that. She's also a genius who has her own laboratory in the school where she helps resolve serious issues in the fields of math, science and engineering. And fifth, there is the school's head maid: Miyuki. She is... also quite emotionless as far as her facial expression goes, but on the other hand the words coming out of her mouth are incredibly blunt and rude. Out of obligation she comes to wake Kimito up every morning, but instead of politely greeting him, her catchphrase would rather be "I wish you had never woken up." There's also a sixth girl called Eri who is Kimito's childhood friend, but we don't get to see her too much in the anime as she is not a student in the school, however she works as a voice actress and you can see Kimito playing games starring her sometimes.

So overall, the character cast is a very mixed bag, but there ought to be someone for everyone in there at least. Personally I think Hakua is irresistibly cute, but Aika's gullibility and Karen's incorrigible behavior are certainly treats to see as well, and let's not even get started on Miyuki. That, and I also have to say that for a harem protagonist, Kimito really deserves an honorable mention here. He's honestly one of the better ones I've seen. He knows what he wants and he's not afraid to show it, he's not shy in any way when dealing with the girls, he's got a great sense of humor and he's just a very friendly person in general.

Now it should be stated that at heart, Shomin Sample is primarily a comedy anime, and the ecchi elements are only secondary, not the other way around. That being said, there is still a decent amount of ecchi in it, and what it has is actually very tastefully executed. It's not just half-assedly slapped on as it is in so many other anime out there, but rather it generally stems from the characters' personalities. First of all, although the girls may incorrectly believe him to be a homosexual with a fetish for muscle men, the truth is that Kimito is most certainly hetero, and more so he actually has a pretty serious thigh fetish instead. He doesn't particularly care much for tits or asses; instead he's all about the legs. Many times throughout the series, we get to hear Kimito having an unbelievably rich and detailed internal monologue about just how and why the girls' legs in front of him are as beautiful as he believes them to be. Meanwhile, Hakua has the tendency to sometimes get flashes of inspiration which causes her to start writing down complex mathematical formulas all over the walls and the floor, and for some reason she also subconsciously starts stripping while she does so. This is also much to the joy of Karen who then really can't keep herself from panting like a dog in heat and having nosebleeds all over the floor as she greedily ogles Hakua's naked body. And there's plenty of eye candy starring the other girls as well.

The production value is... well probably the weakest part of this anime. Especially the animation, made by Silver Link, is quite clearly a very low-budget production. It looks pretty rough around the edges a lot of the time and it's not exactly pretty to look at. But at least it isn't straight-up ugly, and it doesn't really hamper the enjoyment of the comedy or ecchi scenes anyway. The soundtrack is about what you'd expect it to be, in other words barely noticeable. I like the OP quite a lot though, it's pretty catchy.

What perplexes me the most is just how much lower rated this anime currently is compared to its own light novel and manga versions. I have not read the novel since it's not translated very far, but I have read the manga since quite a while ago, and honestly I don't think the anime is any worse at all. Apparently a lot of people seem to say otherwise but I personally don't see why at least.

Either way, Shomin Sample was something I did not expect would ever get an anime adaptation just based on the fact that unorthodox ecchi series like this rarely do, but I'm so glad it did. Compared to the abundance of magic academy ecchi harems we normally get (this season included), Shomin Sample is better in just about every category to me. It's funny, it's cute, it's original and it doesn't feel forced at all. And for an anime of this type, that's about as much as you can ever ask for.

Gets!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 23, 2015

PyraXadon

Mixed Feelings

Harem is a genre that is widely known to be quite stale in comparison to a lot of other ones. With the concept of one gender being surrounded by members of the opposite sex being the main focal point of the series, it becomes rather difficult to create something that is unique to the majority of the other hordes of shows that share the same tags. As such, we have Shomin Sample, a series that...actually is rather unique in the grand scheme of harem, oddly enough.

Story: Kagurazaka Kimito is your average everyday Japanese high school student in the big city. As luck ... would have it for any member of the male human species in a show like this, his world is turned upside-down when he is suddenly kidnapped, taken away by some really burly men, to a place known as Seikain, a school filled with prestigious rich girls who know nothing about the outside world. His job here? To teach these innocent and clueless girls about the outside or 'commoner' world so they won't become NEETs while also masking the fact that he's straight, putting on the facade that he loves really, really muscular men. Oh what a world...

The premise of Shomin Sample already earns itself a couple of speciality points simply because its base plot is so ridiculous and out there. However, the story that we witness here is repetitive at best. Shomin Sample's structure is largely episodic, with each episode introducing the girls in the series to various aspects of the modern Japanese culture and society. This includes things more cultural things such as Japanese memes and otaku culture, to simple tasks like ordering food at a restaurant or shopping for their own clothes. (Yeah, these girls seriously don't know anything about how outside society works.) This in turn separates the general harem story as it not only focuses on Kimito's relationship with the four girls of the series, but also on what the series's base plot is.

The main issue that comes with this is pacing. Every episode pretty much pulls one or two chapters from the Shomin Sample manga, and either really condenses certain chapters to fit what they want to fit, or, elongate what they want to show in order to fit the runtime. This in turn creates some moments that first of all, were not part of the original source material, but were just...cringe to watch sometimes.

As mentioned before, Shomin Sample has Kimito teach the girls various Japanese memes and aspects of otaku culture. (Mostly the simple stuff like anime, manga, and maid cafes.) As such, the series doesn't inherently click or seem funny with a western audience simply because people outside of Japan just don't know what some of these things are. In addition, the show uses a lot of retorts and some perverted comedy in order to convey other parts of comedy. Most importantly though, the perverted comedy. Ever seen a character go on and on and on and on about his fetish? Well, if you haven't, Kimito expresses that kind of character perfectly. As a man who loves thighs, a common gag with the series is the fact that he LOVES thighs. And I mean LOVES thighs. To the point that the show spends quite a lot of time on his monologues on the beauty of each female character's legs. (They're still too short if you ask me.)

In the end, Shomin Sample's real problem was its pacing issues. As a result of those issues, the show was added in original material that to me didn't really make sense (and was rather cringe to watch), and ended in a place that was rather odd and kind of shoehorned in. It was part of the original series, mind you, but it just didn't make sense as a proper ending, like Silver Link expected everything to fall in place at the end.

Overview:
+ Unique and great base story plot
+/- Unique brand of humor (As always, comedy is subjective.)
- Lots and lots of pacing issues
- Weird and somewhat open feeling end

Characters: Kagurazaka Kimito is the main protagonist of Shomin Sample. As a man who loves nothing else but to feel and appreciate the female thighs, Kimito serves as the "Shomin" (Commoner) of the series. Usually the instigator in most of the series's plot, Kimito as a character gives me severe...botheration. The reason for this is because he doesn't feel all that different from a normal harem protag. (Even though he SHOULD be.) He still possesses the nice quality like every harem protagonist, and he's unique in the sense that he has the thigh fetish and loves to troll Aika to the extent of accepting his divine punishment, but he feels too...plain still. (I'll get to why I think that later.)

And for the harem girls, we have Reiko, Aika, Hakua, and Karen.

Reiko, is the elegant Oujo-sama who is kind and popular amongst everyone, while also harboring a crush on Kimito so large that she has decided who her lifetime partner will be.

Aika, is the opposite, being a more tomboyish girl who seems nothing like a rich girl and tries to be popular, but fails because she thinks people don't like her. Known as 'tsunpure' for being a bit of a tsun and failing for every trick in the book.

Hakua is the loli character of the group, being younger (and tinier) than everyone and also possessing an IQ so large that huge corporations need a 14 year old girl in order to manage their finances. Likes to sit on Kimito's lap.

Karen is the bushido girl of the group, being the one girl in the entire school who wields a katana at her side. Has a pension for cute things to the point of possibly being called a pedophile on account of her drool and heavy breathing. (Likes to call things 'pointless.')

As a cast of females, Shomin Sample is quite an interesting group. However, as the series goes along, they don't really change, and there's really nothing significant about them in that sense. They are unique enough to separate themselves from other harem females of years past, so that is something worth noting.

Other characters are rather minuscule in terms of importance, mainly because they either show up a small amount or add in very little to the story. The only other character worth mentioning is the head maid, Miyuki, who pretty much in the anime is meant to threaten castration onto Kimito in order to prompt him to like musclemen. (Of which they use somewhat excessively.)

Overview:
+ Unique characters
- No character development
- Side characters aren't really all that important

Art: Art...oh my god, Silver Link, why... The art for Shomin Sample is something of a monstrosity in my opinion. Compared to a lot of shows these days, Shomin Sample has a lot of inconsistencies and design changes that really make the show look less than average.

For on thing, the show has a color palette that's just bright without really much depth or color detail to it since everything is rather one note. Aside from that, the characters really bother me. Not only is Kimito lacking his sharper look and has been turned into more of a moe character, but there are a fair amount of noticeable inconsistencies with the show has. Things like one eye drawn differently from the other and little things like that really made the show a little bit harder to watch as a whole.

Overview:
- Below average art
- Inconsistencies. (Come on now, Silver Link.)

Sound: The OP and ED for Shomin sample, are songs that to me...really don't fit the show or what the series is about. Both of them are rather generic in terms of sound as they're just ordinary moe songs and I don't really see much memorability to them. (Plus, their visuals are just what in the world are you thinking, Silver Link?)

The one track that I do say is even remotely worth listening to in the grand scheme of this show is the one that they played in the PV of this series. They use it in the show sometimes and for me, it fits and works with the whole rich girl school since it gives a more royal feel, like those of high society. I just wish it was used more because it's the only thing I felt fit.

Overview:
+ That one track I mentioned above
- Average OST otherwise

Personal Enjoyment: Alright, I got a bone to pick with Silver Link. Shomin Sample is by far one of my favorite series to read. And so, with seeing an adaptation, I was excited. Then...I watched the first episode, and then it all went downhill from there....

Did I like this show?

It had qualities of Shomin Sample in there, so it was tolerable. But saying that I fully liked this adaptation? That's...a bit of a stretch

What didn't I like about this show? (Warning, rant incoming.)

Alright, this adaptation is an abomination towards the Shomin Sample series. Reason being is being Kimito, as a character, does not fluster with any of the situations that he's put in. He felt far too normal and standard of a harem MC, and as such, really didn't feel like the sharp witted character that he was supposed to be. Another is the fact that the entire story was just thrown together. The entire plotline was a mishmash of what happens in the series all blended together, adding in a couple scenes that were just cringe to watch. And don't get me started on the art for this one. The production quality for this show is awful. Out of the three shows that Silver Link decided to produce this season, this is the one that they left out the door to rot in terms of animation quality. If it wasn't clear, I don't like this adaptation. At...all.

Would I recommend this anime?

If you haven't read any part of the Shomin Sample series, but you still want to experience what it is about, then go ahead and watch this. But if you are like me and know about what happens in the series to some extent, then I would suggest no. It's a unique blend of comedy with a different setting and really stands out in that regard. However, on account of its pacing issues and Silver Link's creative liberty, there are some parts of it that are just really...really out there.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 28, 2015

Lil-Bird

Not Recommended

Execution is important when telling a story. An idea may sound good on paper, but when implemented, many things can and will go wrong. Sometimes, this is the fault of the talent or lack there-of putting it together, as there was too much going on and they had to cut it down. Other times, it was too vague and it goes someplace the creator didn't originally want it to go, or wasn't open to experimentation. Or it was just all slapped together, and/or relied on too much ass pulling and so it just falls apart. But then there are ideas that simply just don't work, ... and nothing, not even good talent, will save it unless it doesn't take itself seriously from the start—but even that doesn't always work.

This is why “suspension of disbelief” exists. Creators rely on, perhaps even expect their audience to just sit back, relax, and enjoy the show/book, because it's only for entertainment. In reality, it can only handle so much before it gets broken. For the most part, the story lays its rules out in such a manner that unless something very ridiculous happens that doesn't follow the rules as such, it's easy to roll with it. Universes are easy to create, they're just harder to keep it well-oiled and functioned without having to throw in a wrench to “find and fix” a problem.

“Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni 'Shomin Sample' Toshite Gets-Sareta Ken”, another light novel adaptation with such a ridiculously long title that it's shortened simply to “Shomin Sample”, tries too hard to get its audience to just “roll with it”. The synopsis already tells you what to expect, yet it just doesn't work because even in its own little universe, it doesn't work, and they acknowledge it's a failure. Newsflash: Being meta at the door is not enough to save your little harem from self-destruction.

STORY: Kimito Kagurazaka was just chilling in school one day when suddenly, militaristic muscle men nab him from the hallways, drag him into a limousine where they sexually fawn over him, and take him to a secluded prestige all-girls academy. The reason is because he was chosen to be a subject to help teach the girls more about the outside world, but he can only stay as a student if he was a raging homosexual with a muscle fetish. Since he wants to keep his penis intact, he has no choice but to roll with it, and he begins to develop a friendly relationship with the girls and correcting their misconceptions on the “commoner world”, as they call it. At the same time, he attracts a few socially inept girls who becomes his harem on the side, but he is not allowed to romance them. And even then, would he really want to?

Here's where my suspension of disbelief is thrown out the window from the first episode: the fact all of these girls don't know anything about the outside world, and they become shut-ins because of it. And here I thought I was a sheltered girl, but they all take the cake and eat it, too. Becoming shut-ins aside, how the hell do they even function in life? Are we to just assume that from the day of their birth they weren't allowed to leave their premises? I don't care that they're rich and they have maids waiting hand and foot to cater to their every little needs, they clearly are living in a messed up world where they don't know about other people—I'm sorry, “commoners”. Apparently, this was such a huge problem with their graduates that the administration had to bring in someone from the “outside world” to teach them. This is proof they are warped in the head, blinded by their own perfect little bubble where nothing bad happens to their perfect little angels, and the concept of boys and how they function as people are close to a thing of fiction. Just what the fuck were they expecting?

Idiots.

And there's really no way one “commoner” boy can tell all of these girls everything about the outside world unless he was to really go into politics and social cues (which he himself has to understand, but he's “normal”, so apparently he does), because that's how the outside world works, ladies and gentlemen. It's not just about the kind of phone you own, or what clothes you wear, or what food you eat, it's about interaction with the people around you. I don't expect these girls to go out and find work when they're probably just going to be married off to wealthy businessmen, but they should still at least be able to go out in public and be normal, and make friends. If they can't even do that, which is what the school and parents are supposed to prepare them for, then they are failures because they were set up to be failures. And since there's only one of him, they can't all personally interact with him, and many of them don't.

You know what this school is? A gilded cage, plain and simple, it's just that at least they're getting some kind of education. It's probably why they haven't gone mad yet, but maybe that'd make for a more interesting harem to have a cast of loons. And speaking of which...

CHARACTERS: One of the issues (albeit it's an attraction) with the harem genre are its character archetypes, which is believed to have been set in stone by “Love Hina”. “Shomin Sample” doesn't appear to have been inspired by it, but the female leads still show signs, just in a “different” light. The saying “Once you've seen X, you've seen them all” pretty much sums up the genre, and this is no exception to its characters. Character archetypes aren't bad on their own, mind you, it's when the characters are stagnant that it becomes a problem.

Kimito Kagurazaka has my sympathy for being forced into a school and become someone he's not. The raging homosexual with a muscle fetish they label him with? That was all a misinterpretation of his normal everyday life, because he was interacting more with his male peers than female peers—even though he has a female childhood friend they personally interviewed. The school believed her lies, but they refused to take responsibility for their mistakes, let alone listen to what Kimito had to say in his attempts to correct them, and pretty much threatened him to cover it up. So now, he has to put up with all of these loony bins who have attached themselves to him all while hoping he'll still get to keep it in his pants or it'll get snipped. But unlike with other harem protagonists, his penis is honest-to-goodness in real peril to the point I'm shocked it hasn't shrunken into him, he's constantly on his toes.

Penile peril and humiliation is grade-A comedy in romcoms, apparently.

But I'll have to give him some credit in that he's actually rather nice and helpful to the girls and doesn't ogle them—usually; this is because he has a thigh fetish, so most of his ogling is focused on the thighs and going on monologues about them. Although it's generalization to label every harem protagonist as a pervert, it hasn't always been the case since they're typically thrust into a harem they didn't want. It's pretty clear Kimito respects them, and that he's managed to stay sane despite being watched like a hawk, however, he still has his perverse moments that he still ends up getting into on accident—like every other harem protagonist. At the very least, he's not getting himself beat up for this, but his genitals still run for the hills each and every time.

And then there's the roll call of your classic one-dimensional harem girls obliviously trying to get him castrated in the process of getting in his pants, politely. From sane to the less sane:

In terms of personality, Reiko Arisugawa is the most normal of the harem girls, very ladylike and formal, but can't socially interact with a “commoner”. It's a form of anxiety for her, although there's nothing that proves she improved since Kimito basically is always there to hold her hand. Then episode four happened, in which she went very much out-of-character, and became borderline yandere, if not clingy. It was very jarring, and I don't know if this is out-of-line or not, but she only acts like this around Aika and not with the other girls for some reason.

Speaking of, Aika Tenkuubashi is introduced trying to force herself on Kimito because she was told by a classmate, and believed 100%, that kissing a commoner would make her dreams come true. Of course, she's also the odd one out, because she believes she doesn't fit in, even though she's not actively interacting with everyone despite others attempting to (or so they say). And yet, she wants to be popular when she won't talk to anyone, which is why she forced her Commoner Club upon Kimito. She's ditzy, loud-mouthed, and clingy, but not in a good way with her lack of social cues. Some girls do come forward wanting to be her friends, yet somehow, this gets reversed, so she remains stuck in square one.

Kujo Miyuki is Kimito's personal maid while he's a student, and although her mannerisms are as such, she clearly doesn't like him and is cold around him. She reminds him (more like calmly threatens with giant scissors) that if he puts so much as a toe out-of-line, he'll be castrated (or emasculated), and she'll most likely be the one doing the snipping. But of course, like all of the girls, she comes to love him, too, she's just more stoic about it.

Karen Jinryou is the supposedly-Yamato Nadeshiko girl with tsundere tendencies who neurotically pulled a katana on him in her introduction. As to be expected from wildly swinging an actual sharp weapon around, after exposing him, herself, and all the girls in the sidelines, she gives herself to Kimito—although nothing has come out of it. There's hidden depths of her wanting to be girly, but it goes nowhere. She immediately gave me bad “Love Hina” flashbacks, and she is the least-developed of the girls (which doesn't say much, since hardly anyone develops).

Lastly, there's the token loli character, Hakua Shiodome, except let's pull the rug out from under the feet of lolicons because—gasp!—she's actually fourteen. (So are loli-traps a thing, now?) Unless she just has really recessive genes or she was forced to stay a certain size for life (which is all sorts of messed up on its own especially because she can't even dress herself), I'm calling bullshit, because this character is clearly the size of an elementary school child, about six-to-seven years, maybe less. And apparently she's also a genius, even though she's in the exact same boat as every last one of these girls despite being locked away in a lab for most of her life. I can't tell if she's the metaphorical sultan of the group of students, or if the lab's a gilded cage in a gilded cage and she's just as cuckoo, if her stripping like a toddler every time she does equations is anything to go by.

ART/ANIMATION: Silver Link at least is talented in this department, but as with all productions, the quality has taken a steady dip after the first episode with occasional spurts of energy here and there, like the dance sequence in episode two, Hakua's epiphany in episode three, and the so-totally-not-DDR sequence in episode six. It doesn't automatically mean the animation has become stilted, though, there's still fluidity in parts when it calls for it, reflecting the grace of being a lady. The colors have a pastel look to draw your eye to them, particularly in the hair, eyes, and panties, complimenting with the moé style. However, the only thing that really pops in this category is the opening, but that's only because it's on a sugar rush and has a few different stylistic choices going on throughout. The ending also deserves a little bit of mention for looking like a sketchbook, but that's about it.

SOUND: It's rather generic, to be frank. No voices stand out (although Aika's is a bit bothersome when shrilly, and Miyuki sounds collective at the least), no piece of score has left an impression lasting longer than the scene it's played in, there is nothing to be said here. Far as I can tell, it probably does fit the elegance of being prestige, but it's all blended in together that there's no way to really pick them apart. Same goes for the opening and ending, although the opening at the very least has something to it in being cute and light-hearted, but not enough for me to care outside of wondering what the hell I'm looking at during the opening. But damn it, I can't say it's not an earworm, albeit one I don't want.

ENJOYMENT/OVERALL: If it couldn't be gleaned from this review, then I'll come out and say I had not enjoyed this show, let alone have any care for it outside of my snarky comments here and there. While I have run into a few pleasant surprises, the harem genre is not for me, but it unfortunately is part of the package in some romance anime. If the characters weren't so chiseled out from their respective archetypes and more was done with them, then maybe I wouldn't have too much of a problem, but it'd still be another generic anime series that'll end up being forgotten except among the fans—maybe. So it tries to at least stand out a bit from other harems by having a stupid, broken premise, but it became like every other harem anime almost immediately, it's just that Kimito is falsely accused of being gay. Clever. Bet that took the creator months to plan out rough drafts for.

If it hadn't been for the stupid premise and the fact it's animated by Silver Link, I'd have glossed over this one and not given it a second thought this season. It's clearly made for fans of the harem genre, and since they seem to come back to the same thing over and over again and don't bother caring about its story, I'm not going to take that enjoyment away from them. I'm just disappointed in how homogeneous the genre tends to be, in all honesty.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Sep 28, 2018 4:43 PM by Snow | Discuss (28 comments)

	Poll: Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets♥Sareta Ken Episode 10 Discussion ( 1 2 ) Stark700 - Dec 9, 2015	94 replies	by Gabranth »» Aug 11, 12:21 PM
	Poll: Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets♥Sareta Ken Episode 5 Discussion ( 1 2 3 ) Stark700 - Nov 4, 2015	119 replies	by devil1001 »» Feb 22, 8:46 PM
	Poll: Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets♥Sareta Ken Episode 1 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 ) Stark700 - Oct 7, 2015	152 replies	by removed-user »» Feb 2, 11:01 AM
	Poll: Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets♥Sareta Ken Episode 12 Discussion ( 1 2 3 4 ) Stark700 - Dec 23, 2015	158 replies	by ErlikTanir »» Aug 6, 2023 12:16 PM
	Poll: Ore ga Ojousama Gakkou ni "Shomin Sample" Toshite Gets♥Sareta Ken Episode 11 Discussion ( 1 2 ) Stark700 - Dec 16, 2015	65 replies	by jasutin_hoshi »» Jun 6, 2023 12:52 PM