Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
sagemoderose
This anime doesn't start off as a typical love story anime, and I can't help but feel that's the reason this anime is so underrated.
Right off the back, you are thrown into this couples' relationship; you don't get to see the buildup of how they came to be in a relationship, but I honestly think that it okay. I actually liked how they played this out.
The reason being is that we get to see the aftermath of the love confession and being a couple. We get to see them go on dates, what they do after school, how they interact with one another.
Don't get me wrong I love seeing love confessions and the buildup between two love interests just as much as the next person, but it's also lame when we see the buildup and we get left with them ending up together as a couple, it's not common to see af…
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Look, I ain’t got no problems with strong women in romance anime and shit, in fact I believe that we should have more of that, but this straight up feels like some propaganda material serving the feminist agenda or something. Like, the power dynamics are hella off, even nasuo, the artist for the OP, addressed this by saying 「なんか僕よりも彼氏みたい」which roughly translates to “you look more like the boyfriend than me”. You get what I’m saying now?
The story goes like this, Izumi Yuuki, who’s been under an umbrella while God was making luck rain from the sky, pulls Miyako Shikimori, the baddest girl one can ask for. Yet both of them have some screws loose for real. Miyako be trying to be more feminine, as if her looks ain’t enough for that. My friend Ediz (a.k.a BRUHLAS) actually had some shit to say…
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i never review but the other reviews made me soo mad😭😭😭😭
This anime is supposed to be silly and cute and entertaining AND IT IS!!! Its not groundbreaking or anything but I think its pretty unique to have an anime focusing on after two characters get together. Its not really fair to get upset that its not in the normal format where they crush on each other for 12 episodes then confess at the end?? like its not trying to be that??
And the art and animation are beautiful!! the side characters are simple but they all feel like actual friends instead of characters that show up to interact with the mcs sometimes.
And the last thing,,,, this anime really doesnt seem like it was written to appeal directly to men.... Theres not really any fanservice, the male mc is honestly kind of pathetic…
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Imagine a plain general shoujo romcom from the 2000s, early 2010s, make it even more over the top (not in a good way) and switch the gender roles - Boom, there you have it, Shikimori is not just a cutie.
Thats all there is to the whole show, there are only two redeeming qualities to the show, one is that the mc pair is already in a relationship, so we skip the bullshit "accidental hand touching = losing virginity" type of shit (Dont get me wrong, that trope can be funny in a VERY short time (like 1 ep.max), but not all the time). The other one is that the mc did not get castrated during the show, bro was so forgettable I literally forgot his name already, and I bingewatched it an hour ago- and on a related note Shikimori (female mc) does not turn yandere (except some comedic moments).
So,…
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They took the whole ‘not much happens, feel good’ thing way too far. Now some of my favorite shows and movies are things where not much happens. My Neighbor Totoro, K-On!, Horimiya, Tsukigakirei; all of these have nothing going for it plot-wise but are some of my all time favorites. But this show had me straight snoozing. I thought I would like it because the premise said that the main characters were already a couple, which is not something you see much. I loved that aspect in Horimiya and Tsukigakirei so I thought a show where you just see a couples life could be wholesome and comforting. But this is way too unrealistically perfect. There is no conflict, no drama. They are always doing happy stuff and saying romantic things for no reason. Both the characters and the plot are straight up…
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English.
A super toxic love that never advances, I hate this series like they have no idea, not only because the protagonist is the worst, also because I will never understand the point of this series, they show us a guy with very bad luck and his girlfriend according to super beautiful that she fell in love with him suddenly and wanted him to be her boyfriend. Not only is the idea the most stupid thing I've ever seen, but I also don't find a virtue in the guy at first glance, besides being a very good person, most romance series present us with the problem and then gradually teach us how to the secondary characters of the series and becoming fond of them, most of the romance series in the same series show us how they fell in love and it creates a really beautiful dynamic where we see how…
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Overhyped. That's a pretty word.
When Shikimori was about to air, manga readers were promising us THE next big thing. Something, that will dethrone Marin and Dress Up Darling. Expectations were great, so what did we had? Well, to say that we've been lied to is an understatement. We've been backstabbed, deceived, bamboozled. We've got a show so bad at fundamental level (so you can't even blame quality of adaptation), that fails at absolutely everything it does.
At what exactly?
This show is being sold as a romcom.
It utterly fails as a romcom, because it completely skips development of relationship between two main leads, which is bread and butter, fundamental aspect of every romance. There is a good reason why most of the good romances end on confession. And if they continue further after…
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100% recommended.
One of the best anime is this. Although I wish I could say it is flawed, it is not. One of the best exchanges occurs between the main characters. Shikimori is the best, and Izumi perfectly complements her; I enjoy how these anime make me feel warm. Izumi unintentionally sold all of his luck to meet Shikimori, and they could not help but fall in love and warm each other's life with happiness. They both complete each other's hearts and are a match made in heaven.
While they are separated, they miss one another and think about one another often. They are honest and do not try to conceal their emotions from one another. I really admire how they care about one other's happiness.
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She slices, she dices and she annoys the f out of ISIS. I curse those Redditors who kept saying it gets better. This show belongs at the bottom of a volcano. In traditional anime fashion, a girl likes the most pussy useless dude you could conceive. The End. Yes, that is the whole show. Is Shikimon an athlete? Yes, like that was something new in anime. You get the vacation trip to a beach/river, girls in bikinis, a school festival, etc. If you pick any Romcom slice of life, the most generic repeated scenes constitutes the entirety this show. The art was nothing special.
Who really should watch this show?
Infants: Yes!
Kids: Sure why not?
Teens: They'd have more fun and less cringe by counting blue cars.
Adults: Just kill yourself before the brain rot kicks in.
Read at the sourceSanaeK10
Shikimori has got to be one of the most dreadful experiences I have had in months.
With any romcom, a common pitfall is to only have the love interests be interesting while the MC is left as an uninteresting bland self insert. Shikimori unfortunately has the double whammy of having BOTH its MC and Love Interest be some of the most unlikable boring characters in all anime.
The basic premise is that Shikimori occupies a boyish role and Izumi the girlish role, ie the idea is that common tropes in romcom are switched for the two. However in practice this does not happen at all. A good example would be something like Nozaki-kun that uses its time well to demonstrate and highlight the tropes or cliches commonly associated with romcoms and build a strong comedic foundation upon it. Shikimori h…
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Here is an honest review. I barely write any reviews, but the low score by others made me write one.
Let me point out that most people probably wrote a low score because of jealousy. Probably most of them thought "guy that is so useless, how did he get such an amazing GF, while I haven't"
The main moral of the story probably is "True love exists when you really love a person for who (s)he is, you don't search for his(her) weaknesses or judge by appearance."
It's hard to find a person who is kind and trying their best for others.
This anime could serve as an example of what true love is.
Although I must say that while others might think he is unlucky, He is the luckiest person in the world to find such a wonderful person.
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Disclaimer: I don't hate Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie. I just don't think it's a good anime overall.
What's up with their eyes?
No, but seriously, this is one of the weirdest eye designs I have ever seen in anime. It actually looks good from some angles, but most of the time it's rather creepy. The blonde girl literally has dead fish eyes. And it looks horrible.
Since I see people that seem to be saying that the ratings of this show are low from a lot of watchers because "the expectations were too high", " everyone thought this will be Dress-Up Darling 2", and "yall just watch mainstream media & shounen": sorry to break it to you, but that isn't the case! (at least for me). I went into this with no expectations, and Dress-Up Darling wasn't the best show in existence anyway; yet, Shikimo…
Read at the sourceBaronBrixius
I'll start by saying this - Kawaii Dake ja Nai Shikimori-san is a fluff romcom. Nothing more, nothing less.
The premise is very simple - an extremely unlucky boy has an extremely cute girlfriend who can switch to "cool" mode and be his knight in shining armor when his bad luck strikes again, and a group of friends who they both hang out and do mundane things with. It's nothing groundbreaking. There is no depth to it. Its whole purpose is to give you a dose of fluff.
So then, why a 9/10?
It's simple - because Shikimori succeeds at fulfilling that exact purpose with flying colors and more.
If you truly enjoy these types of shows, then Shikimori has it all - a huge amount of cute couple moments, a vibrant color palette, high school shenanigans, festivals, and most importantly - a fun supp…
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When we see a romcom a lot of time we ask to ourselves “when are these two going to get together?”, so we have here one of those not-so-normal series where the couple is already stablished from the first episode and we don’t have to ask “will they or won’t they?” because they already will. So that’s what Kawaii dake ja nai Shikimori-san is about, a boy named Izumi and a girl named Shikimori that are boyfriends and we follow them while they spend time together both with their friends and as a couple, so don’t expect an actually deep plot.
Izumi and Shikimori‘s relationship is more on the side where the girl is the one with the dominant dynamic on this one, since Izumi is pretty clumsy and gets in a lot of problems for his bad luck Shikimori is there to protect him and helping him, they car…
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Bakugo on MHA? Hell nah he crazy as hell
Bakugo on Shikimori-san? Well atleast he's more friendly, but still a no for me.
Hey, Kylinity here, back at it again with the low quality reviews about seasonals. Today, I'm gonna talk about somehow the 2nd most anticipated non-sequel anime of Spring 2022, Shikimori-san. Yeah... yet another waifu bait anime.
Shikimori-san is the perfect romcom example on how it fails to become a romcom. I don't see any good chemistry between the MC and the main girl and feels more of like a pretend-relationship between them. I don't even feel the romance this anime is trying to bring out at all, so this totally feels like a Slice of Life show. I like my SoLs a lot, but a romcom like this that fails to be a romcom doesn't even make it even interesting in the least…
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I do appreciate when shows try to subvert tropes and have unique stories, but the protective girlfriend shtick of Shikimori did not work for me at all. It actually made the show a downright chore to watch most times and caused me to like the side characters more.
Shikimori-San had been hyped up as one of the best upcoming manga adaptations and a waifu of the year prospect for months. For that reason, I had some decent expectations for the story. Unfortunately, the show did not live up to it at all. I found the MC, Izumi to be one of the most insufferable and annoying beta male characters ever. The whole girlfriend saves boyfriend constantly gimmick of the show did not land on me and most of the time I found it to be gratuitous and unfunny. I mean, a few times here or there would have been…
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The final show to end the supposedly high-key season that is Spring 2022, and this one...really gets a major bad rep about how mangaka Keigo Maki's insanely popular series has managed to last this long for 3 years plus (like come on, at least it ain't Reiji Miyajima's work that is nothing but a cuck wasteland of padding torture at this point). And since I'm seeing that the majority of the community sees Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san a.k.a Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie as a target of objectification worth its massive hate (and to be unbias, it's warranted), so let me be the Devil's Advocate to tell you the other side of the story why this rom-com works, is overall very good (but not great) for the most part, and most certainly, doesn't deserve its maligned status of being overhated to hel…
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Anime openings truly are magical, aren’t they? The excite us, inspire us, and stay in our memories for years. Just this season, the OP for SPY×FAMILY, where it begins looking like a hyper-stylized spy thriller, but then quickly devolves into children’s artwork perfectly encapsulated the charm of the series; the OP for Summertime Render was so slick and atmospheric; and Paripi Koumei’s OP was a brilliant modern classic for obvious reasons, but the two runner-ups have to be Shikimori-san and Love After World Domination. They were both absolutely stellar, and Shikimori’s was so delightful, it almost successfully gaslighted me into thinking I was actually watching a good anime.
They say 70-93% of human communication is non-verbal, and I stand by these findings completely. This show has one of…
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Well… this show’s actually pretty good… wait, everyone hates it? I guess I’ll just have to play a bit of devil’s advocate here then…
This show presents to us a bit of a different take on the romance genre, a clumsy but lovable main character, with an alpha, and very cool female main character. This show gets people into huge debates about gender roles and the dynamic between the main characters, but for me, the problems lie not necessarily on the dynamic of the main couple, but more on the repetitiveness of certain tropes presented. There are a lot of good aspects about this show as well, especially some of the supporting cast, which was surprisingly strong and intriguing to watch, and I’ll highlight all of that in my review below.
My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Char…
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"Yes, our expectation of this anime might have been a bit too high"
If I were to use a sentence about describing this anime I would use this one. After the succes of Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru many manga fans of Kawaii dake ja Nai Shikimori-san would try to convince you that this anime will be as good as Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru or even better with its unique premise and intressting Side-characters that would blow you away with a couple that everyone will love. After watched this show I can say that "well, that was dissapointing". I will tell you why I think what went wrong with this show and why it was such a let down.
Story:
The first problem with this show is that there wasnt really a narrative structure, it felt like every episode random things happend without any ryhme o…
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