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Jul 20, 2026
Shimoneta is a comedy show with a great concept focusing on sexual humor, which is a vast opportunity for some creative jokes — the punchline is already here! Balls! Coitus! All you really need at this point is to come up with a nice set-up.
And, unfortunately, this show doesn't do almost anything with it. The joke is titties, and the set-up for that is buttocks. You can scream profanities all you want, and you will get some cheap chuckles at first, but if you keep hammering the same bit, it will get stale eventually. And this one does so real fast.
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concept. Dictatorial censorship driven up to the extremes, it's always a relatable conflict, which just doesn't want to leave us alone in real life even in this day and age. This show tries to make some commentary on that, reinforcing the necessity of sexual education in schools, showing examples of people growing up into twisted interpretations of love and lust, since they never knew what the norm is. Sound cool, right? This is the point when Shimoneta starts to lose its focus.
The tone of this show clashes with itself, sporadically jumping from over-the-top comedy to portraying extreme censorship in a sort of grounded and practical way, like the device tracking your movements so you can't draw smut and have to use other ways to operate your drawing utensils. So it's trying to set up some kind of plot, trying to get me to take this show seriously to some degree, and throws nonsensical comedy the next scene like I am not supposed to take the issue seriously at all. This hinders the comedy quite a bit, since it just makes me want to start poking holes in the flimsy script, and it also messes with the commentary tone, since it randomly drops the idea of realism for a cheap laugh. It makes me feel like this is made to be an excuse for sloppy writing, like it's not supposed to be well-written, but it doesn't go far enough with the comedy to justify that.
Proceeding to the comedy value, uh.. It's not good. Not terrible either, just really, really bland. It's mostly sex puns, a lot of them. There is a setup for a three minutes a day limit for profanities for the pun-spamming heroine, which makes you think it will make them space the genitalia terminology a bit, requiring the writers to be a bit more creative with their usage of dirty humor, but not really. The days in this show are very short, and whenever that timer is close to running out, usually it just skips to the next day when it's full again. There are some gags which just made me confused, and one which annoyed me a little. The "haha this person is acting kinda gay" joke. It's there, it comes out of nowhere and refuses to ever leave. One of the character is reduced to this joke completely, I guess the writer didn't feel like using him anymore since his screen time was miniscule for these 12 episodes. Cool!
The characters:
The main character: He's there. He screams loudly which is funny at first but runs out of gas quick. He changes his views and opinions rather easily, because writing is hard.
The pun dispenser: She is weirdly inconsistent. Putting puns aside, don't you feel like it's strange for a person who runs on the streets basically nude dropping around Rx-rated material being actually angry at the main character for a misunderstanding (the pinnacle of comedy!) where she thought he did something perverted? She just jumps around like that and it's jarring. I think it's the author thinking, "well she's still a girl, right? Girls do that flushed screaming thing, right?" It's like they're putting a girl stereotype before her actual character, which I find weird. Leaving that aside, that just makes her look hypocritical.
Anna: Well, at least they treat reverse assault semi-seriously. Sometimes. Her jokes work from time to time mostly depending on shock value. I guess it's something.
The pink girl: Half-Japanese, half-visual gag. An annoying character put there to create a semblance of a conflict which holds no significance to the plot. She is written to be unbelievably stupid to make the rest of the cast look smarter.
The rest are not really worth mentioning. The science girl is cool. Wish she was in a better show.
Overall, a very bland show. Not really worth your time unless you are extremely easily amused, but if it didn't amuse you in the first few episodes, there's no point to keep watching. You won't lose anything.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jul 20, 2026
Hametsu no Mars is a short animation project produced by Idea Factory in 2005, which is simultaneously the same year a visual novel named Hametsu no Mars was released by Idea Factory. The game is rather short according to VNDB and looks quite cheap for its time, so I think it's pretty safe to assume this OVA is an advertising project for the game of the same name. Which explains quite a lot!
The animation is, expectedly, incompetent, but it's not the worst I've seen in anime nor the worst I've seen from the same producer. Skelter Heaven was much worse. You can kind of
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tell what the scenes in this were supposed to look like in their head, even though they didn't quite get there, missing a few turns and ending up in the next town over. A certain amount of effort went into this, definitely extremely cheap and with no time for any polish, but effort nonetheless.
The real stars of this show in my opinion are the pacing and editing, which are actually atrocious with no exaggeration. Scenes just jump from one tone to another without any logical transition, fights are extremely slow with random shaky cam here and there in an attempt to cover the lack of movement. The soundtrack hardcuts randomly from one song to another like I've suddenly encountered a pack of greasy mudcrabs amidst a chill walk through Whiterun outskirts.
I can see a lot of Evangelion comparisons, which I can't really agree with. This show is a mishmash of sci-fi tropes, none of which were new even at the time NGE was airing. Instead, I think this rips-off Muv-Luv much more — the character designs (while being very generic) are quite similar (Yamabuki especially), the main characters name is Takeru, which coincides with the Muv-Luv protagonist. Also, the whole premise of young boys and girls trained to counter the onslaught of an alien threat while being brutally massacred does ring a certain BETA bell in my head. Also-also, I'm sure random Beethoven cameo is more a roalty-free choice rather than anything rip-off related. I would have to give them some actual credit if it was some cheap callback.
The idea of earthlings being actually from Mars and whatnot is, for a change, a little more novel, though I'm sure it also was done quite a bit before. There is no plot to judge, no character development or anything, since this is just a commercial for their game, which still isn't really an excuse, since it doesn't make a good advertisement either.
I definitely recommend this as a oh-my-god-this-is-terrible-lol watch, but it is not the worst thing I've ever seen and doesn't really warrant a 1/10 rating. There is something resembling a bad 90s sci-fi B-movie idea being realized in a way I can see what these scenes were supposed to be, which should be worth at least something, therefore making it not worthless. It's not like I didn't want to see this and say this is the worst thing ever! It would've been hilarious! Oh well.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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