Aug 24, 2016
I am one of those anime watchers that purposefully seek out anime with a more eechi background. If it's Harem or Eechi, sign me up. Enter "Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai" where the entire series is predicated on eechi jokes as a world building tool and for a long time this has been a series that has flown on my radar since it's release over a year ago. (It's August 2016 at time of writing)
I finally broke down and watched it, after putting it off for god know what reason, and I can honestly say I enjoyed it, but
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I feel the need to be slightly critical. See from this series I was hoping to get something it never went the full way to provide... and no it's not raunchy eechi scenes, it had that in spades.
"Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai" comes so tantalizingly close to being more than a series about eechi. As a world setting it has ample opportunities to be about several political issues such as Government Monitoring, Censorship, Police States, even Sexual Education in schools. Heck even if they never take those topics there's also peaceful revolution versus terrorism in the modern world and it. pardon the pun, skirts the edge.
Now I'm sure it has a lot to do with the market this anime was set up to sell to. Let's face it, us eechi watching anime otaku, neets and hikikomoris are not the type of people who are going to start a revolution. Far from it. However I cant help but be mad at the missed opportunity.
Otherwise, it's overall a good series, I guess there's nothing really else to talk about, oh wait I almost forgot, A MAIN CHARACTER GETS RAPED. I mean look, I'm not bringing this up because of the whole "rape is bad m-kay" I feel I shouldn't have to say this, but I mean it is GRAPHIC. They don't hold ANYTHING back (okay not true they do) but this is messed up right? Is this just me? and we're supposed to laugh, like this is all okay right?
Still, it's a good series. You should be watching it. Ota-kun out.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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