SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary
TV Series2024–2025 · 1 season · 22 episodes · Ended

SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

Taste attributes: animationmysterydramateenfresh & originalwholesomeimaginaryintricateglossyenclosedcoming of agecomplex relationshipsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Season

Season 1

· 2024 · 22 episodes
Episodes (22)
  1. 1Sheep Costume7 Jul 2024

    Kobato and Osanai made a pact to lead a quiet life as regular students upon entering high school. However, soon after, a handbag mysteriously disappears at the school, and Kobato is asked to help solve the case.

  2. 2How to Make Delicious Hot Cocoa14 Jul 2024

    Kobato and Osanai are invited to Dojima's house, where he makes them cocoa using his special method. When Osanai leaves, Dojima asks Kobato about his change in personality.

  3. 3Humpty Dumpty21 Jul 2024

    During a class assignment, a vase in the cabinet seemingly breaks by itself, but there's an elaborate plan behind it. However, this mystery is quickly forgotten when Osanai sees the bicycle thief again and plots revenge.

  4. 4Mind of a Lone Wolf4 Aug 2024

    Kobato, along with Kengo, tries to get to the bottom of Sakagami's motives. It seems there is more to the case than initially suspected. However, Kobato's concern for Osanai is also growing.

  5. 5Berliner Mystery11 Aug 2024

    Kobato finds Osanai crying in the school hallway, but she runs away without telling him what happened. At the student newspaper club, a new mystery involving Berliner Pfannkuchen (jelly doughnuts) awaits him.

  6. 6But I Get to Keep Charlotte18 Aug 2024

    Osanai ropes Kobato into her plans for the summer vacation. However, the cake he is supposed to buy for her proves to be irresistible, even for Kobato.

  7. 7Shake Half25 Aug 2024

    Just before a date with Osanai, Kobato runs into Kengo, who shares some disturbing news and leaves a strange message. Together with Osanai, Kobato tries to solve the mystery. However, shortly after, it appears that Osanai is in great danger.

  8. 8C'mere, You Want Some Free Candy?1 Sep 2024

    When Kobato goes to visit Osanai at her home to invite her to eat candied apples, he learns that she has been kidnapped. Just as he leaves the apartment, he receives a mysterious message from Osanai and, with Kengo's help, sets out to find her.

  9. 9Sweet Memory (1)8 Sep 2024

    To top off their summer sweets tour around the city, Osanai treats Kobato to a Tropical Parfait as thanks for rescuing her. Along with this delicious treat, Kobato is also served the whole truth about Osanai's kidnapping.

  10. 10Sweet Memory (2)15 Sep 2024

    After a long conversation, Osanai and Kobato come to the conclusion that their agreement has failed – and with it, their friendship. From then on, they go their separate ways.

  11. 11A Warm Winter (1)6 Apr 2025

    After starting to get involved with Osanai, Itsukaichi investigates a possible string of fires in the city.

  12. 12A Warm Winter (2)13 Apr 2025

    Urino begins writing articles predicting the locations of the next suspicious fires.

  13. 13Hesitant Spring20 Apr 2025

    There will be a change of pace in the school newspaper. Kobato shows an interest in serial fires.

  14. 14Suspicious Summer (1)27 Apr 2025

    Urino has a plan to catch the arsonist in the act.

  15. 15Suspicious Summer (2)4 May 2025

    Urino's rules spark escalating arson; Hiyori supports him while Osanai gives advice as bonds shift.

  16. 16Midsummer Night11 May 2025

    Urino and Kobato both arrive at the site of the final fire.

  17. 17Autumn Returns18 May 2025

    Kobato explains to Osanai how he arrived at his conclusion about the arsonist’s identity.

  18. 18Should We Really Have Met?25 May 2025

    Kobato remembers his encounter with Osanai when they were in middle school.

  19. 19Kobato-kun and Osanai-san1 Jun 2025

    Kobato wakes up in the hospital and sees a box of chocolates with a message from Osanai.

  20. 20Please Water the Dried Flowers8 Jun 2025

    In the hospital, Kobato thinks back to the circumstances around Hisaka's car injury in middle school.

  21. 21The End of What Seemed Like a Golden Age15 Jun 2025

    Kobato finally manages to see Osanai in the hospital, revealing a sinister and terrifying truth.

  22. 22Just Deserts22 Jun 2025

    Kobato and Osanai finally find out the whole truth and get help from an old acquaintance.

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Synopsis

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?

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Taste Attributes

Characteristics

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SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

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Details

Genre
Animation
Year
2024
Episode length
23 min
Status
Ended
Studio
lapintrack
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