I’m Living With An Otaku NEET Kunoichi?! is a gag anime that aired in the Winter 2025 season, and was the fanservice show I went with this cour. It’s an okay example of its genre, and the jokes generally land fairly well, but the series is not without some issues.

 The show follows Shizuri, a Ninja who comes to live with a salaryman named Tsukasa, who is generally worn down by his job, but because he comes from a powerful warrior bloodline is at risk of being attacked by Yoma. Shizuri offers to fight off the Yoma in return for living with him, and generally being able to indulge her NEET Otaku habits in the meantime. Throughout the series, several other Ninja end up moving into the apartment complex, some protecting other masters, others just drawn to the apartments – with it turning out that Tsukasa’s landlord is also a ninja. Hilarity ensues.

Generally, the humor in the series is more of the wacky and madcap slapstick variety. Where the fan service comes in is that many of the female characters generally wear form-fitting outfits, but we don’t have any nudity or sexual come-ons or anything like that. There is absolutely lewd humor here – with some problematic bits that I’ll get to in a bit, and it doesn’t quite pass the “could your parents walk in on you watching this” safely test. However, there are plenty of bits in each episode where if a parental figure (or a partner who wasn’t also into fanservice anime) did walk in you’d probably be fine.

Where the humor gets skeevy in a way that makes it harder to recommend without caveats (or at least, without the regular caveats intrinsic to fanservice anime) is the character of Momochi. Momochi is an otonoko – a male character who cross-dresses and presents as female, complete with using Jutsu to present as female, and who is sexually obsessed with Shizuri. She also is a masochist who gets off on getting smacked around by Shizuri and can recharge her chi to keep her special gender transformation jutsu up by perving on Shizuri’s knickers. In short, she is deeply problematic in several very gross and likely transphobic ways. It’s playing being trans for comedy, and playing being trans (and also lesbian) as an act of sexual deviance. That said, the otonoko jokes tend to be made overtly less often, but they’re present – and it’s something of a general background trait with the character.

The animation in the series feels kind of flat and basic. It works well enough with the jokes within the series, but it doesn’t do anything to stand out. There’s also a lack of the real subtle animation touches with facial expressions and reactions that you’d want for a show like this. It plays well with the big, grand gestures, but it never even tries on more subtle elements.

If we got more of this show, I’d probably end up weighing whether I’d watch it based on what other shows were airing that season. Winter 2025 was a light season, so I kept with it. Spring 2025 is much busier, so I would have dropped it, had it aired there.

I’m Living With An Otaku NEET Kunoichi?! is currently airing on Hidive.

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