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SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

2024–2025 · 1 season

A quiet, gently puzzling school-life anime where small mysteries keep intruding on two students' wish for calm.

Genres
Animation, Mystery
Overview
Kobato decides to become an honest, humble citizen after enduring a bitter experience known as “wisdom work.” He forms a pact with Osanai, his classmate with the same goal, and they plan to enter high school leading quiet lives. But for some reason, inexplicable events and disasters keep happening around them. Will Kobato and Osanai ever manage to live ordinary, peaceful lives?
How it feels
Measured and needs your attention.
About
Identity, mystery, friendship
Content
Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    teen
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour3
    Realism6
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness3
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight3

    Cast

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    Details

    Genres
    animation, mystery
    Created by
    Miho Arai, Minoru Yamaoka, Takayoshi Nagatomo, Yayoi Takano
    Written by
    Teruko Utsumi, Toshiya Ohno
    Starring
    Shuichiro Umeda, Hina Youmiya, Makoto Furukawa, Miyuri Shimabukuro, Katsuyuki Miura, Tomohiro Ono, Taishi Murata, Haruki Ishiya
    Music
    Takahiro Obata
    Cinematography
    Tomoyuki Shiokawa
    Length
    1 seasons, 22 episodes, 23 min each
    Network
    HTB, tv asahi, Nagoya TV, KBC, ABC TV, NCC, OAB, ABA, Niigata Television Network 21, khb, KFB, HOME, KSB, Kagoshima Broadcasting, Iwate Asahi TV, Akita Asahi Broadcasting, Yamagata Television System, Shizuoka Asahi TV, Asahi Broadcasting Nagano, Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting, Ehime Asahi TV, Yamaguchi Asahi Broadcasting, Kumamoto Asahi Broadcasting, Ryu-Q Asahi Broadcasting
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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