SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

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?

First Air Date: 2024-07-07

Last Air Date: 2025-06-22

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 22

Networks: HTB, tv asahi, Nagoya TV, KBC, ABC TV, NCC, OAB, ABA, Niigata Television Network 21, khb, KFB, HOME, KSB, Kagoshima Broadcasting, Iwate Asahi TV, Akita Asahi Broadcasting, Yamagata Television System, Shizuoka Asahi TV, Asahi Broadcasting Nagano, Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting, Ehime Asahi TV, Yamaguchi Asahi Broadcasting, Kumamoto Asahi Broadcasting, Ryu-Q Asahi Broadcasting

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Top Cast

Shuichiro Umeda as Jogoro Kobato (voice)
Hina Youmiya as Yuki Osanai (voice)
Makoto Furukawa as Kengo Dojima (voice)
Kouki Osuzu as Kimiya Itsukaichi (voice)
Teppei Uenishi as Takahiko Urino (voice)
Seiichiro Yamashita as Yuto Hiya (voice)
Yume Miyamoto as Tokiko Nakamaru (voice)
Toshinari Fukamachi as Shotaro Hisaka (voice)
Reina Aoyama as Nurse (voice)
Ryuho Nagaoka as Eto (voice)

Seasons

Season 1 (2024)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Sheep Costume (2024-07-07)

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.
Ep. 2: How to Make Delicious Hot Cocoa (2024-07-14)

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.
Ep. 3: Humpty Dumpty (2024-07-21)

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.
Ep. 4: Mind of a Lone Wolf (2024-08-04)

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.
Ep. 5: Berliner Mystery (2024-08-11)

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.
Ep. 6: But I Get to Keep Charlotte (2024-08-18)

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.
Ep. 7: Shake Half (2024-08-25)

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.
Ep. 8: C'mere, You Want Some Free Candy? (2024-09-01)

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.
Ep. 9: Sweet Memory (1) (2024-09-08)

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.
Ep. 10: Sweet Memory (2) (2024-09-15)

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.
Ep. 11: A Warm Winter (1) (2025-04-06)

After starting to get involved with Osanai, Itsukaichi investigates a possible string of fires in the city.
Ep. 12: A Warm Winter (2) (2025-04-13)

Urino begins writing articles predicting the locations of the next suspicious fires.
Ep. 13: Hesitant Spring (2025-04-20)

There will be a change of pace in the school newspaper. Kobato shows an interest in serial fires.
Ep. 14: Suspicious Summer (1) (2025-04-27)

Urino has a plan to catch the arsonist in the act.
Ep. 15: Suspicious Summer (2) (2025-05-04)

Urino's rules spark escalating arson; Hiyori supports him while Osanai gives advice as bonds shift.
Ep. 16: Midsummer Night (2025-05-11)

Urino and Kobato both arrive at the site of the final fire.
Ep. 17: Autumn Returns (2025-05-18)

Kobato explains to Osanai how he arrived at his conclusion about the arsonist’s identity.
Ep. 18: Should We Really Have Met? (2025-05-25)

Kobato remembers his encounter with Osanai when they were in middle school.
Ep. 19: Kobato-kun and Osanai-san (2025-06-01)

Kobato wakes up in the hospital and sees a box of chocolates with a message from Osanai.
Ep. 20: Please Water the Dried Flowers (2025-06-08)

In the hospital, Kobato thinks back to the circumstances around Hisaka's car injury in middle school.
Ep. 21: The End of What Seemed Like a Golden Age (2025-06-15)

Kobato finally manages to see Osanai in the hospital, revealing a sinister and terrifying truth.
Ep. 22: Just Deserts (2025-06-22)

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