My Girlfriend is Shobitch: Complete Collection

It’s rather hard to be outraged when the material here (derived from comics) is so upfront about being raunchy, smutty humor that is akin to the American Pie franchise (even the scene transitions feature schoolgirl skirts hiking up). High-school sophomore Haruka admires accomplished classmate Akiho and asks her to be his girlfriend. She accepts—and begins reciting sexual positions with reference numbers. Although a virgin, perfectionist Akiho is an aspiring sex adept, studying erotic fetishes and sensual gratification from early childhood (encouraged by her lookalike mom) in order to be an ideal bed partner. Repetitious situations find polite Haruka constantly misunderstood about his intentions; meanwhile, the school itself is a hothouse environment of oversexed/curious females (and lascivious faculty, especially the nurse), where everything from curing hiccups to gripping a baseball bat gets misinterpreted as dirty mischief. Even when the series turns genuinely sweet and emotional—as in the penultimate declaration-of-love segment—it’s followed by stuff like the leads trapped in an "excitement hotel" where robots will not release them until they have intercourse (with robots, if not each other). Among the extras is a gag episode redub in which the English-language cast dispenses with the original script and just spouts double-entendres nonstop. Compiling all 10 episodes from 2017 (along with an OVA) in a dual-language Blu-ray edition, rated TV-MA, this is an optional purchase. (C. Cassady)