Dogeza de Tanondemita

In modern times, where virtual reality is becoming increasingly popular, more and more anime studies are daring the "POV" step. Already in 2018, we saw a masterpiece with Opantsu (or let us say the name full in English: I Want You To Make a Disgusted Face and Show Me Your Underwear) that the world has never seen before. The long-awaited successor Opantsu 2 followed one year later (you can check out my review for this one as well). Their faces and underwear will surely be remembered by many of us, how can we forget such a divine sight. The current situation with the pandemic is ... terrible, but fortunately we are experiencing a real miracle from the anime studio "DMM pictures", previously only worked in dubious works such as "Domestic na Kanojo" or "Kanojo, Okarishimasu". But their latest work "Dogeza de Tanondemita" gives mankind faith and hope for a better year 2021.

Let’s take a look at the English name of the anime first: “I Tried Asking In Dogeza”. Many of you probably had the same questioning face as I did: What is "Dogeza" (土 下座)? After weeks of research I was able to find out that there is also an English term for this: "Kowtow". This information was of course very interesting, but this word didn't mean anything to me either. Thanks to the help of this anime, I was able to find out the long-awaited meaning: Dogeza is an element of traditional Japanese etiquette where people gets down on their knees, places their hands on the ground, arches their back, and presses their forehead to the ground in the space between their hands (AMEN and very hard to learn). You do all the difficult moves just to show the highest respect to the other person and how serious your request is. You really hope they make your wish come true.

Why was all that information necessary? Because in this anime you are the MC (with the name Suwaru Doge) and do “Kowtow” with an urgent request every time. Fortunately, the plot doesn't require 200 IQ to understand it. In every episode (which only lasts 3 minutes, 30 seconds of it is the outro) you are faced with a different girl in another environment. Sometimes your teacher is in front of you, at other times you are in the library or even when refueling you only have THAT thing in mind. Some of them have bigger OPPAIs, for others the famous saying "Flat is Justice" by Confucius applies. It doesn’t matter, you are cultured enough to know all boobs are great. BUT STOP! Breasts alone are not enough of course and so you decide in four of the twelve moments that you prefer to see their underwear. Since it has already worked out at “Opantsu”, the goal will be accomplished here as well for sure. In the end, only the result counts and you passed that with bravur in every episode!

The art style is very beautiful in general, you can see and recognize all the important shapes. The exciting scenes are also highlighted by a special background effect. BUT I think we all agree in this point: We want to see uncensored OPPAIs and PANTSUs. So why is there a crappy, green mini version of us that obscures everything. That of course takes the fun out of it.

Nowadays you can hardly find a more motivating song than the ED "DOGEZA! Do get that!" which is played after each short episode. The music gives you strength and the belief you can manage everything no matter how difficult the path might be. The lyrics are super easy to learn and should be a mandatory song at school, college or work to keep you motivated. With a good "Dogeza" everything is possible!

A masterpiece is no use if it is not enjoyable. As an enthusiastic fan of the VR world, I already had fun watching "Opantsu" and "One Room". You don’t even need an expensive device here, so you can spend all the money for your next waifu figure. Anime shouldn't be compared directly with each other, but there is no way around "Opantsu" in this case. If you are cultured enough, do yourself a favor and watch that first if you haven't. There are no rational explanations why you should watch all of these. But as we all now, men are simple. You can see eight pair of boobs and four panties here, what else do you want more? The only thing that triggers you very hard is the censoring.

Finally, I really can only recommend this anime to every cultured person. But do yourself a favor and don't try the "Kowtow"-thing in real life, the probability of ending up at the police station is much higher than being successful.
We have to learn more about the "Dogeza" culture, so the only question left is:

Luckily an OVA is already announced for the isekai-world but when will we get the second season?

Hello fellow ecchi enthuasists.

First off this show is extremely short, so there's not really much to talk about.
It feels like a downgrade from "Iya na Kao sare nagara Opantsu Misete Moraitai" and it's also even shorter.

The animation could be better, but both dialogue and the girls so far were enjoyable. They got some pretty popular seiyuus on board, surprisingly.
I kinda enjoy POV anime like One Room or Iya na Kao so if you do as well, definitely check it out.
We cannot see the main character when he's kneeling in front of the girls, which I appreciate a lot.

Usually I wouldn't give it a 6 but ... it's 3 minutes long so I took that into account as well. Also boobs.
Sometimes I just lack the energy to sit through a 20 minute episode before going to bed so I enjoy stuff like this every now and then.
3 minute episode with boobs on top of that? Count me in.

PS: You might want to wait for the uncensored version.

Damn it! I thought the worst anime of the year was already declared when I saw Gibiate. Today, I have my doubts. If you want to see a fast, uninteresting and controversial show, Dogeza is perfect for you! Now, if you hate random, immoral and horrible ecchi, stay away from this show!

The ecchi genre always continues in current anime. No matter what year or decade, we will always see some work gain fame for continuing the legacy that To Love-Ru and Highschool DxD left, however controversial and contradictory that statement may be. This year was no different. We had Ishuzoku Reviewers, Dokyuu Hentai HxEros and ... Peter Grill, all with a giant amount of ecchi content. But, what's wrong with Dogeza? Why would anyone speak so badly of this anime, while defending these others? Well, I'll explain.

First, we need to demystify the idea that all ecchi is bad. There are incredible works that know how to treat the subject as an important narrative element and others that simply put this type of scene for no reason. Dogeza goes beyond the two options and creates a third one: he uses ecchi as a narrative element, but he has no other reason than to show young people naked on the screen. The anime adapts a compilation of comic strips of the same name and you don't even have to read the subtitles or understand another language to follow the work without problems. I, for example, am Brazilian and read Dogeza quickly, but when I realized that the text didn't matter, I just turned the page and always had the same structure: a girl ashamed to show her body, a highly perverted, immoral and disgusting and a more uncomfortable environment than another.

In addition to being a bad ecchi, the anime is repetitive. As much as some try to contradict me saying that the show is short and you can consider some things, I can't see any factor that makes it positive. It is not as if the creators did not know. They don't even try to hide the shit that it is.

In my sincere opinion, whoever thinks this is cool and likes this type of content, needs to get their ideas back, because this is ridiculous. It is nothing more than a material for self-pleasure. It is as if the anime wanted to make the audience see themselves in the protagonist's view, which disgusts me. There are already animes that try to use the main element in first person (example: One Room), but I never saw them use it in a way that was horrible to follow.

I will not blame anyone, as this type of content is considered common today. It is normal to see a type of show that passes between big episodes, as if it were a commercial. Dogeza was made to occupy a small portion of the day on your TV station. In this respect, I understand the reason for producing something like this. It is the profit it generates. Nothing more than that. Nobody will say that the anime had any other intention. Any anime that has breasts and asses as the predominant elements becomes profitable even today. The same legacy that I mentioned earlier has become a problem today, where you can still see this incredibly sick attempt to have money with products of sexual content, be it an anime, manga, figure, etc.

Finally, Dogeza should not exist. It doesn’t show any content and features one of the most display and free ecchis I’ve ever seen. At least Gibiate tried to be something, Dogeza was complete rubbish from the start. Just like the anime had 12 Dogezas, I ask you in dogeza too. Definitely don't watch this!