Shimoneta

For the owarai term, see Glossary of owarai terms § shimoneta.

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist
First light novel volume cover
下ネタという概念が存在しない退屈な世界 (Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai)
Genre	Comedy, Dystopia
Light novel
Written by	Hirotaka Akagi
Illustrated by	Eito Shimotsuki
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Gagaga Bunko
Demographic	Male
Original run	July 2012 – February 18, 2016
Volumes	11
Manga
Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai: Man**-hen
Written by	Hirotaka Akagi
Illustrated by	N' Yuzuki
Published by	Mag Garden
Magazine	Monthly Comic Blade
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	May 2014 – March 2016
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Directed by	Youhei Suzuki
Written by	Masahiro Yokotani
Music by	Akiyuki Tateyama
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Funimation
Original network	AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS, CTC, tvk, SUN, TVA, BS11
Original run	July 4, 2015 – September 19, 2015
Episodes	12

Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist (下ネタという概念が存在しない退屈な世界, Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai), officially abbreviated as Shimoseka (下セカ) in Japan, is a Japanese light novel series written by Hirotaka Akagi and illustrated by Eito Shimotsuki. Shogakukan has published nine volumes since July 2012 under their Gagaga Bunko imprint. A manga adaptation titled Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai: Man**-hen (下ネタという概念が存在しない退屈な世界 マン●篇) with art by N' Yuzuki began serialization in Mag Garden's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Comic Blade from May 2014. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired from July 2015 to September 2015. Shimoneta (下ネタ) is a Japanese word for "vulgar slang" or "dirty joke", "blue joke", "erotic topic".

Plot

In a dystopian future, the Japanese government is cracking down on any perceived immoral activity from using risqué language to distributing lewd materials in the country, to the point where all citizens are forced to wear high-tech devices called Peace Makers (PM) at all times that analyse every spoken word and hand motions for any action that could break the law. A new high school student named Tanukichi Okuma enters the country's leading elite "public morals school" to reunite with his crush and student council President, Anna Nishikinomiya. However, Tanukichi quickly finds himself entwined with the perverted terrorist "Blue Snow" ("Tundra's Blue" in some translations) when she kidnaps and forces him to join her organisation, "SOX," in creating and spreading pornographic material across the city as a form of protest against the regulations.

Characters

SOX

Tanukichi Okuma (奥間 狸吉, Okuma Tanukichi)

Voiced by: Yūsuke Kobayashi (Japanese); Josh Grelle (English)

The protagonist of the story, Anna's childhood friend, and the son of an infamous dirty-joke terrorist named Zenjuro who was arrested by moral authorities years ago after trying to spread condoms around the Diet building in defiance of the moral laws. Tanukichi graduated from a public intermediate school with the "lowest morals score" according to his classmates. He finds himself constantly torn between keeping the secret of Ayame's alter-ego as a lewd terrorist and turning her in to the authorities to win Anna's favour. He is understood to have a knowledge of all things considered sexual and/or vulgar, obtained from and encouraged by his father during childhood. It is also implied that due to his upbringing, he finds the lewd activities to be quite stimulating to some extent, though he denies it. Over time, he starts to develop romantic feelings for Ayame despite not approving of her habit of saying innuendos constantly.

Ayame Kajou (華城 綾女, Kajō Ayame) / Blue Snow (雪原の青, Setsugen no Ao, lit. "Blue of the Snowfield")

Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami (Japanese); Jamie Marchi (English)

The vice-president of the Student Council and daughter of a disgraced former Diet member who unsuccessfully fought against the public morality laws. Ayame secretly acts outside of school as the perverted terrorist "Blue Snow," wearing panties over her face, spreading semi-pornographic leaflets, and shouting dirty jokes in defiance of the Japanese moral authorities. After kidnapping Tanukichi, she decides to form the group SOX with him and expand her activities to include the school and beyond. Her father taught her a code she can use on her mobile phone that disables the collars and PMs she wears for 3 minutes per day allowing her to freely say or do any lewd things during the time. Later on, it is shown that she might have developed romantic feelings for Tanukichi as she starts to act shy when the two of them are alone.

Otome Saotome (早乙女 乙女, Saotome Otome)

Voiced by: Satomi Arai (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English)

An artistic prodigy whose paintings have won awards and are even displayed throughout the school, though she seems bored by the attention. After inadvertently discovering Tanukichi changing out of a Blue Snow costume, she blackmails him into being her "pet" for a while, and later joins SOX in order to learn how to draw explicit artwork after being educated on the subject by Ayame. Because the PMs she wears detects any lewd movement her hands make, she instead taught herself to draw by holding tools with her mouth to avoid her PM's sensors. She has an unrequited crush on Anna.

Kosuri Onigashira (鬼頭 鼓修理, Onigashira Kosuri)

Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese); Lara Woodhull (English)

The daughter of Keisuke and a fangirl of SOX who carries multiple weapons (such as air guns and electric stuns) with her and uses tactics she learned from romantic and shoujo manga to manipulate people, even her allies. Ayame lets her join in partly because her hairstyle looks similar to the tip of a penis. At first, she became upset that SOX was not being aggressive enough with their tactics, and momentarily defected to Takuma's organization under the presumption that he was more dramatic with his approach against the Japanese authorities. She went back to SOX after finding out it was nothing more than an elaborate cover for him to pursue his fetish. She is currently pretending to be Tanukichi's sister while hiding out at his apartment.

Hyouka Fuwa (不破 氷菓, Fuwa Hyōka)

Voiced by: Saori Gotō (Japanese); Mikaela Krantz (English)

A budding scientist and classmate of Tanukichi who is obsessed with solving the mystery behind how babies are truly conceived, as the Japanese moral authorities have censored everything pertaining to sex education beyond vague generalities. She even went so far as to constantly visit gynecology clinics and hospitals in order to learn more until she was banned from visiting them. Often collects insects to study their reproductive habits. She has a very sharp sense of observation, able to deduce Kosuri's manipulative tactics, tell a fake gun from a real one, and convincing Oboro that her yaoi comics have an educational value through Oboro's restrictive mannerisms. She believes Tanukichi may hold the answers to her questions due to his knowledge of sexual terms and pesters him constantly to reveal what he knows about pregnancy to her. Though not officially a member of SOX, she helps them out from time to time because she is aware (to some degree) of the identities of its members.

Student Council

Anna Nishikinomiya (アンナ・錦ノ宮, Anna Nishikinomiya)

Voiced by: Miyu Matsuki (Japanese); Monica Rial (English)

Student Council president and Tanukichi's childhood crush who has tasked him with hunting down "Blue Snow" before she can endanger the morals of the school. After being accidentally kissed by Tanukichi, she develops an obsessive love for him but due to lack of knowledge on "immoral" subjects she ends up expressing her love in extreme tendencies. These include pursuing him relentlessly and attempting to rape him, endangering Kosuri and Ayame when she sees them with Tanukichi, and becoming far more harsh and strict on her surveillance, believing that by doing "justice" and "good things" she will be loved by him. She exhibits extreme amounts of strength and dexterity, especially when angered or motivated.

Raiki Gouriki (轟力 雷樹, Gōriki Raiki)

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese); David Wald (English)

Treasurer of the Student Council with a posture and demeanor similar to that of a gorilla, though he hates bananas. He initially distrusted Tanukichi upon learning that he is Zenjuro's son but later comes to respect him and care for his well-being after Tanukichi saved Anna from stalkers that attacked which left him hospitalised.

Moral Authorities

Matsukage Nishikinomiya (錦ノ宮 祠影, Nishikinomiya Matsukage)

Voiced by: Hajime Iijima (Japanese); Ben Bryant (English)

Anna's father and a National Diet member who was the driving force behind the original public morals laws that turned Japan into a "highly moral society." Uses the excuse of protecting morality to exert his control over the whole country.

Sophia Nishikinomiya (ソフィア・錦ノ宮, Sofia Nishikinomiya)

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese); Lydia Mackay (English)

Anna's mother who is behind a push for even-stricter public morality laws than the currently enacted ones, in order to create an ideal world that poses virtually no threat to Anna's chastity.

Oboro Tsukimigusa (月見草 朧, Tsukimigusa Oboro)

Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka (Japanese); Megan Vanderpluym (English)

A seemingly female school Prefect trained by Matsukage to adhere to a strict moral code that mostly revolves around protecting Anna from all potentially immoral influences, including mundane items like basketball hoops and toilet paper rolls. Oboro even has this codified under "Five Provisions," which includes the caveat that Oboro cannot interfere if Anna herself exhibits lewd behavior or desires. Surprisingly quick to change position on what is considered "illegal" material when a student protests strongly enough. Tanukichi later discovers that Oboro is biologically male, though Oboro insists that their gender is whatever the assignment requires.

Non-SOX Terrorists

Keisuke Onigashira (鬼頭 慶介, Onigashira Keisuke)

Father of Kosuri; ero-terrorist who made deals with the moral authorities, angering the other terrorist groups around Japan, as well as his own daughter.

Takuma Ichinose (一ノ瀬 琢磨, Ichinose Takuma) / White Peak (頂の白, Itadaki no Shiro, lit. "White of the Top")

Voiced by: Ken Narita (Japanese); Anthony Bowling (English)

Ero-terrorist who wraps himself in panties and is obsessed with underwear, having his own concepts of what is considered the best type of underwear. A "high-class pervert" who leads the group "Gathered Fabric" to steal all kinds of undergarments across Japan, he ends up clashing against SOX because Ayame believes him to be ruining the group's reputation by performing terrorist acts such as hijacking public transportation under the claim that Gathered Fabric is an ally of SOX. Ayame eventually confronts him saying that she only wants to protest against the anti-profanity laws, not actively target the Japanese authorities.

Base Black (手の黒, Tehen no Kuro, lit. "Black Hand")

Voiced by: Sho Hayami (Japanese); Christopher R. Sabat (English)

An ero-terrorist who appears in the anime's last episode. He personally knew and worked alongside Zenjuro and planned to unlock a secret vault filled with erotic treasures using an artefact that was passed down to Tanukichi. He gathered the main cast to a resort via false invitations and challenged them to a duel for the artefact through Yakyuken. He noted on his satisfaction on how Tanukichi had grown up like his father before him when he departed.

Others

Binkan-chan (びんかんちゃん)

Voiced by: Yui Ogura (Japanese); Sarah Wiedenheft (English)

An anime-original character. Binkan-chan is just an innocent bystander who is often nearby whenever SOX performs another act of ero-terrorism, staring at their latest handiwork. She is hardly acknowledged by the main characters until the final three episodes, and her real name is never mentioned. Binkan-chan roughly translates to "little sensitive (girl)."

Nadeshiko Kajou (華城 撫子, Kajō Nadeshiko)

Ayame's stepmother who secretly opposes the new moral laws, especially the ones against mixed bathing. Runs an old-style Japanese inn with a hot spring bath, and taught Ayame how to be a proper Japanese lady growing up.

Ranko Okuma (奥間 爛子, Okuma Ranko)

Tanukichi's mother, nicknamed the "Fullmetal Ogress" for her tall stature and gruff demeanour. Ranko is a staunch supporter of the new moral authorities and a friend of Sophia. She taught Tanukichi how to fight and defend himself.

Annie Brown (アニー・ブラウン, Annie Brown)

An American technical expert hired by the Japanese government to promote the PM technology overseas, but has a tenuous grasp of the Japanese language, leading to her often using dirty innuendo when she tries to speak it. Later becomes attracted to Tanukichi.

Yutori Nuregoromo (濡衣 ゆとり, Nuregoromo Yutori)

An old childhood friend of Tanukichi and member of a rural farmer family.

Love Machine (羅武マシーン, Rabu Mashīn)

Media

Light novels

The first light novel volume was published on July 18, 2012 by Shogakukan under their Gagaga Bunko imprint. As of February 2016, eleven volumes have been published.

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	July 18, 2012	978-4-09-451352-3
2	November 20, 2012	978-4-09-451376-9
3	April 18, 2013	978-4-09-451407-0
4	August 20, 2013	978-4-09-451432-2
5	January 17, 2014	978-4-09-451463-6
6	May 20, 2014	978-4-09-451485-8
7	September 18, 2014	978-4-09-451511-4
8	February 18, 2015	978-4-09-451536-7
9	June 18, 2015	978-4-09-451555-8
10	September 18, 2015	978-4-09-451572-5
11	February 18, 2016	978-4-09-451594-7

Anime

An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff began airing in July 2015. The anime is licensed by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand, who simulcasted the series on AnimeLab.

Episode list

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External links

• Anime official website Template:Ja icon
• Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai: Man**-hen at Mag Garden Comic Online Template:Ja icon
• Shimoneta (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia