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Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary (2024)

Animation · Drama · Mystery

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?

IMDb rating: 7.0 (753 votes)
Episode average: 8.5 +1.5 vs IMDb
Seasons: 2
Streaming (US): Crunchyroll
Language: JA
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 2 seasons indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2024)

8.17 avg 10 episodes 7.6 → 8.7 23 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Sheep Costume	7.6	115
2	How to Make Delicious Hot Cocoa	7.9	90
3	Humpty Dumpty	8.2	84
4	Mind of a Lone Wolf	8.2	77
5	Berliner Mystery	8.0	76
6	But I Get To Keep Charlotte	8.1	74
7	Shake Half	7.9	70
8	C'mere, You Want Some Free Candy?	8.4	74
9	Sweet Memory: Part 1	8.7	80
10	Sweet Memory: Part 2	8.7	84

Season 2 (2025)

8.77 avg 12 episodes 8.3 → 9.1

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Warm Winter (Part 1)	8.3	71
2	A Warm Winter (Part 2)	8.3	66
3	Hesitant Spring	8.4	63
4	Suspicious Summer (Part 1)	8.5	61
5	Suspicious Summer (Part 2)	8.5	64
6	Midsummer Night	9.2	72
7	Autumn Returns	9.3	73
8	Should We Really Have Met?	8.9	56
9	Kobato-kun and Osanai-san	8.6	54
10	Please Water the Dried Flowers	8.7	58
11	The End of What Seemed Like a Golden Age	9.4	69
12	Just Deserts	9.1	60

Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary (2024)

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