SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist

Sixteen years after the "Law for Public Order and Morals in Healthy Child-Raising" banned coarse language in the country, Tanukichi Okuma enrolls in the country's leading elite public morals school and is soon invited into the Anti-Societal Organization (SOX) by its founder, Ayame Kajou. As a member blackmailed into joining by Ayame, Tanukichi ends up taking part in obscene acts of terrorism against the talented student council president Anna (for whom Tanukichi has a crush on).

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist (2015) is a Japanese animated comedy series created for AT-X, adapted from a light novel and produced by J.C.STAFF. Set in a future Japan where a Law for Public Order and Morals has banned coarse language, the story follows Tanukichi Okuma (Yusuke Kobayashi), a new student at an elite public morals school who is blackmailed by the founder of an underground resistance group, Ayame Kajou (Shizuka Ishigami). He is forced to commit obscene acts of sabotage against Anna Nishikinomiya (Miyu Matsuki), the student council president he has a crush on. The engine is a steady stream of escalating, crude gags as the group pushes against a prim, rule-bound institution. Across a single twelve-episode season, each installment is a self-contained run of absurd pranks threaded with a light romance and a satirical jab at censorship. The tone is brash, irreverent and cheerfully vulgar, with a deliberate contrast between formal school decorum and profane mischief. Fans of Gintama and Ikkitousen will find resonance in its raunchy, parodic energy, and readers of Fahrenheit 451 will recognize its censorship satire.

Audience reception is mixed, with viewers split on whether its relentless obscene-word satire lands as sharp parody or wears thin over its run.

• Gintamaabsurd satirical comedy about censorship and moral panic, cheerfully crude humor
• Ikkitousenraunchy high school comedy with ecchi humor and sexual innuendo
• Fahrenheit 451dystopian censorship satire with a rebellious protagonist against an oppressive state

Release Date

2015-07-04

Episode runtime

24 min

Rating

6.9 / 10 (167)

What is SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist about?

In a future Japan where dirty jokes are outlawed, a student recruited into a secret morals-breaking organization is forced into obscene pranks against the student council president he secretly adores.

What is SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist as brisk, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as simple.

Is SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist violent?

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist as mild.

What did critics think of SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist?

Audience reception is mixed, with viewers split on whether its relentless obscene-word satire lands as sharp parody or wears thin over its run.

Which shows are like SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist?

Shows with a similar feel include Gintama, Ikkitousen, and Fahrenheit 451.

How long is SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist?

SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist: 1 season, 12 episodes.

Is SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist still running?

No, SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist has ended.

Where can I watch SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist?

In United States, SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist streams on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel.