My Girlfriend is Shobitch
僕の彼女がマジメ過ぎるしょびっちな件 (Boku no Kanojo ga Majimesugiru Sho-bitch na Ken)
- Comedy
- Ecchi
- Romance
- Harem
- School
- Episodes
- 10
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Oct 12, 2017 to Dec 14, 2017
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Haruka Shinozaki has admired his class representative, Akiho Kousaka, since his first year of high school. Athletic, beautiful, and seemingly flawless, she’s the kind of student everyone looks up to. Now that they’re finally in the same class, Shinozaki works up the courage to confess—and to his disbelief, Kousaka accepts and becomes his girlfriend.
Dating her, however, quickly reveals a side he never expected. Despite her perfect image, Kousaka has no experience with relationships, and she throws herself into “research” to make Shinozaki happy, focusing on explicit ideas and fetishes with earnest dedication. As Shinozaki tries to rein in her extreme enthusiasm, their awkward, provocative romance turns everyday school life into a string of misunderstandings and bold attempts at affection.
Otaku Consensus
My Girlfriend is Shobitch lands as a niche raunch-comedy whose best asset is its brisk 10-episode pacing: Nobuyoshi Nagayama’s direction keeps the barrage of puns, double entendres, and reaction gags moving fast enough for viewers already tuned to ecchi school farce. Critics and user scores converge on the same verdict, with its 6.2 MAL average and 58/100 AniList score reflecting limited affection beyond fans of nonstop dirty humor. The dominant complaint is not production incompetence but creative thinness: reviews repeatedly cite crude, repetitive jokes, minimal character substance, and occasional offensiveness.
Why You Should Watch
Watch My Girlfriend is Shobitch if you want a short, shameless ecchi school comedy that treats innuendo as the whole engine rather than a side dish. It scratches a similar itch to Seitokai Yakuindomo’s rapid-fire sex jokes, but with more overt fan-service pressure and less interest in club-room banter or slice-of-life warmth. The 10-episode length is the selling point: no long melodramatic arcs, no slow-burn romance padding, just escalating misunderstandings, deadpan delivery, and slapstick embarrassment. Aoi Yuuki’s presence also gives the show a sharper hook than its reputation suggests, since her vocal precision helps sell the contrast between clean-faced seriousness and filthy comic timing. If you want ecchi comedy without pretending it is secretly prestige drama, this is exactly that.
Key Characters
- AAkiho Kousaka(VA: Aoi Yuuki)
Akiho is the show’s deadpan comic center, with Aoi Yuuki turning her kuudere-styled seriousness into the delivery system for its most absurdly explicit jokes.
- HHaruka Shinozaki(VA: Mitsuhiro Ichiki)
Haruka functions as the audience’s straight-man anchor, and Mitsuhiro Ichiki’s performance is built around escalating panic, restraint, and incredulous timing.
- SShizuku Ariyama(VA: Larissa Tago Takeda)
Shizuku broadens the series from couple-focused farce into female-harem ensemble chaos, giving the comedy another pressure point beyond the lead pair.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The series was produced by Diomedéa and Studio Blanc., a pairing that favors compact TV-comedy staging over elaborate visual spectacle, with the animation built around reaction cuts, suggestive framing, and gag timing.
- 2
Its AniList tag profile is unusually blunt about its identity: Slapstick at 92% and Satire at 85% rank above School and Romance, making it more gag-machine than conventional dating anime.
- 3
Hideki Shirane handled series composition and also scripted episodes 1, 5, and 10, while Tomoyasu Ookubo and Noboru Kimura rotated through other credited scripts; that staff structure helps explain the anthology-like rhythm of joke setups across the run.
- 4
The sound team pairs Chikako Yokota’s sound direction with Shunsuke Takizawa’s music, while Aoi Yuuki performs the opening theme in addition to voicing Akiho Kousaka.
- 5
Its reception footprint is split between visibility and lukewarm approval: MAL lists it at popularity rank #936 with over 135,000 votes, yet its 6.2/10 score and #9712 rank show how narrow its appeal became after the initial ecchi-comedy draw.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The anime adapts Namiru Matsumoto’s original work and aired during the Fall 2017 season, running from October 12 to December 14, 2017.
- Fun fact 2
- Aoi Yuuki has a double credit here: she voices main character Akiho Kousaka and is also credited for the opening theme performance.
- Fun fact 3
- Character designer Shouko Yasuda is one of the key staff members credited with translating the cast into TV-anime form for the Diomedéa and Studio Blanc. production.
- Fun fact 4
- Web reviews were unusually consistent in their criticism, repeatedly describing the show as a sex-joke comedy with little story or character content and a heavy dependence on puns, cliches, fan service, and crude misunderstandings.
- Fun fact 5
- AniList’s tags capture the show’s tonal mix with unusual specificity: Female Harem sits at 58%, Kuudere at 56%, Yuri at 20%, and Tsundere at only 10%, suggesting the audience read it more as deadpan ecchi farce than standard tsundere romance.
Studios
- Diomedéa
- Studio Blanc.
