Shoushimin Series


Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary

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Japanese: 小市民シリーズ
English: Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary
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Type: TV
Episodes: 10
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 7, 2024 to Sep 15, 2024
Premiered: Summer 2024
Broadcast: Sundays at 01:30 (JST)
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Lapin Track
Source: Novel
Genre: MysteryMystery
Theme: SchoolSchool
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.291 (scored by 3391233,912 users)
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Ranked: #28882
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Popularity: #2142
Members: 104,789
Favorites: 455

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Synopsis

Jougorou Kobato has a habit of inserting himself into other people's problems. After realizing his detective skills are neither wanted nor appreciated, he makes an agreement with his shy friend Yuki Osanai to become ordinary together. Now entering high school, they aim to be perceived as regular people, yet Kobato cannot help but fall back into his deductive ways when faced with everyday mysteries.

Unfortunately, mundane occurrences are not all the duo stumbles across. As they go through their school days trying to avoid drawing attention to themselves, Kobato and Osanai at times get caught up in incidents that put their plan of a peaceful, average life at risk.

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Background

Shoushimin Series aired on TV Asahi's NUMAnimation block.

The series was released on Blu-ray in three volumes from October 30, 2024, to December 27, 2024.

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"Sweet Memory (スイートメモリー)" by Eve
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Ending Theme

"Itokenai (意解けない)" by ammo

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Reviews

Jan 5, 2025
This anime was a sleeper hit for me. What I love most about the series are the interactions between Kobato and Osanai; I feel like this is the most realistic couple behavior I've ever seen in an anime! They know one another so well and respond to each others quirks so naturally. The mysteries are mostly mundane but there's an undercurrent of a larger mystery building up, which I think does pay off later. Overall it is slow paced, and while scenes don't feature background music it makes the sound design of the world really stand out. A very unique anime that I'd recommend ...
Nov 25, 2024
Mixed Feelings
THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW

Honobu Yonezawa is not just my favourite japanese author, but one of my favourite authors in general. His amazing “Koten-bu” series (Also known as “Hyouka”) drew me in with it´s small scale mysteries, great characters and the overall atmosphere. This season, another famous work of his got an anime adaptation and from the outside it looked like this show will follow up in Koten-bu´s footsteps. But did it deliver?

Story – 6/10

This is eerily similar to Hyouka and it hurts this show a lot. The setting, the characters, the pacing, the structure and everything else feels like another version of something he ...
Jan 12, 2025
It started pretty nicely but as it went on I started to hate the female lead (soft voice, manipulative, stubborn and disrespectful). You need to watch the entire 10 episodes and then feel betrayed, but this is what you would expect from a typical Agatha Christie type of crime story. The most unanticipated character is the mastermind of a very big crime. Go to the library and pick one of the bestsellers by Agatha Christie, read it to the end, and you know what I mean from my previous sentences.

Hang on with me, this is a story of Superman and Lex Luthor, or maybe Batman ...

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