Boku no Kanojo ga Majimesugiru Sho-bitch na Ken

To be honest, I was looking forward to My Girlfriend is a Faithful Bitch (Sho-Bitch for short) at the start of the season. From what I could see, it was a bunch of cute girls making fun of the MC by being as lewd as possible. It didn’t sound like anything amazing but it looked fun enough to give a try. I thought I was right with my judgement as the first few episodes were pretty funny and I genuinely enjoyed it. Then it just kept adding more and more characters, each lewder and dumber than the last one, and I slowly started to regretmy decision. As I already said, I laughed at first. It didn’t do anything extraordinary with the comedy but it was funny nevertheless. However, the show tried to become more and more extravagant with its lewdness, devolving into forced gags every single episode. At first, it only had the generic MC, an airhead girlfriend who can’t figure out how to act in a relationship, and a childhood friend and little sister who were too close for comfort. This cast wasn’t much but the jokes they created were just enough to make most chuckle. That was until the cast slowly increased its numbers, which just overloaded the show. Each one would create misunderstanding after misunderstanding which got more and more unbelievable and unrealistic, throwing in an assortment of incest jokes, gay jokes, and public sex jokes. You just can’t laugh at a show where a transfer student says she loves playing with hairy boys, which is what she calls her dogs for whatever reason, or when the most popular kid in school (who also happens to be gay) helps the MC to get better at baseball, which somehow manages to look and sound like him giving him a handjob from afar. To make matters worse, it provides no breathing room as it transitions from scene to scene to show off the next new gag. The lack of a coherent flow just buries you under a mountain of bad comedy, making you want nothing more than to finish the episode already so you can be free of this torture. Sho-Bitch tries way too hard to make the character's every piece of dialogue as dirty as possible that the only thing you can do is sigh in disbelief, unable to understand why these characters are so fucking stupid. After a while, the only time I could laugh was when someone running around went head first into a desk, which I think is a good representation of how much I dislike the cast. In fact, I will go as far as to say that by the time I reached the halfway mark, I hated every single character and would love nothing more to watch the entire school burn to the ground in a fiery blaze. The romance isn’t much better. It tries to be really sweet all the time, like the MC thanking his girlfriend for trying to make him lunch, even though it sent someone to the infirmary when they tasted it, or him trying to look cool in front of her by practising hitting a home run in secret. It really would have been sweet if the build-up to the romance wasn’t riddled with the terrible humour mentioned above. When you can’t take the show seriously, everything suffers, and the romance suffered the most. Another reason would be the actual couple. I said before that I hate all of them, but I was actually fine with Shinozaki and Kousaka (along with a few others) at the beginning. It was somewhat cute watching Kousaka try (fail) to understand Shinozaki's fetish so she can be a better girlfriend, but you soon grow tired of it. She just ends up looking like a massive idiot. Shinozaki ain't any better, as he doesn't have a defining characteristic about him. He's just there to either make a comment after each gag or be added to the evergrowing pile of misunderstandings. His boring personality doesn't stand out at all, making him more uninteresting than a bag of rocks. It had a nice start. I’ll give Sho-Bitch that, but what followed shortly after is unforgivable. If I haven’t convinced you to avoid this show, then go for it. Proceed knowing the fact that you’ll probably be in excruciating mental pain as you try to force your way through this disaster disguised as entertainment. I know I said I enjoyed it at first, but giving this show a higher score just would not sit right with me.