Amatsuyu "Jouro" Kisaragi is a completely average second-year high school student who has two dates over one weekend—with the student council president Sakura "Cosmos" Akino on Saturday, then with his childhood friend Aoi "Himawari" Hinata on Sunday. Sadly for Jouro, both girls proclaim their love for his best friend Taiyou "Sun-chan" Ooga, the ace of the baseball team. Accepting each of their requests for advice and guidance, he is now responsible for helping the two girls win the heart of the same guy.
Unbeknownst to his friends, Jouro's friendly and obtuse image is all but a ruse designed to cast himself as the clueless protagonist of a textbook romantic comedy. A schemer under his cheery facade, he makes the best of this unexpected turn of events with a new plan: get Sun-chan to fall for either Cosmos or Himawari and take the other as his own prize. But Jouro's last-ditch effort is threatened by the gloomy, four-eyed Sumireko "Pansy" Sanshokuin, who surprises Jouro with not only her knowledge of his secret personality but also a confession to the true self he hid for all this time.
Stuck in this hilariously messy situation, each of the five students must navigate countless lies, traps, and misunderstandings to come out on top.
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YeeYeeAss
What is this? This truly is the romance of the season. The main character Joro is basically the mix between Deku and Narancia. Joro is this nice and helpful little fella but of course when he snaps, he snap real hard. Sanshokuin Sumireko aka Pansy is the best girl of this show. She is really manipulative and very smart. Cosmos is the student council president who is very smart but gets flustered really easy, and whenever she is in an awkward position she starts talking like a samurai. Hinawa is Joros childhood friend. She is really into sports. She wants to be helpful but sometimes sheis not. Sun-Chan is Joros best friend who is the baseball teams captain and the first 3 episodes are based around him.
It seems this anime is divided into 3 episode long arcs. So far we have had a friendship arc? (I don't know the actual name) Flower Dance arc I guess and two others but I cant figure out a name for them
The arcs: First we have the confession arc where the 3 girls tell their story to Joro how they want to become sun-Chans girlfriend and Joro helps them. It turns into a huge clusterfuck at the end. Flower dance arc: They need to practice for the flower dance but then a sneaky reporter stalks Joro and wants to release a news article of Joros harem. The arc ends with the dance. Then in the third arc we first hit the pool where Sun-Chan turns into a real bro. I think the arc is about one book that Pansy lent Joro but in the end the book kinda got trashed or something so Joro had to get work. Then We have the fourth and final arc. Where the gangs meeting place is gonna be shut down so they need help. Joro meets a new character who is like a Joro v2 and Pansys worst nightmare.
Finally a harem RomCom with realistic characters and shit. I guess.
Do I recommend this? Yes. If you enjoy RomComs this is the perfect show for you
Stark700
Have you ever had one of those moments in life where you feel as if a miracle is about to happen to you but then suddenly ends up being disappointed beyond disbelief? Someone by the name of Joro sure did. Just when he thought his life would turn into a miracle, he gets asked by two beauties to help them win their loves. Now that’s a slap to the face and reminder that life sometimes just isn’t fair. Ore wo Suki Nano wa Omae Dake Ka Yo (Oresuki) may be a romantic comedy but loves to flirt with the idea of manipulation. It’s almost like areal life version of a soap opera filled with drama but without the violence. Or is there? Physically, the show has limited amount of action unless you count Joro getting kicked or slapped on around on the occasions. But on a psychological level, Oresuki deals with manipulative love and drama that twists and turns until you see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Watching Oresuki has been a rather unusual but pleasant experience compared to some of the other rom-coms I’ve seen in recent years.
In wasting no time, the first episode drops Joro into a drama angle with upperclassman Cosmos and Himawari. In a particular depressing incident, he finds out that both girls are in love with Taiyou Ooga (Sun-chan), his best friend and baseball club ace at school. What’s worse? Both girls wants him to help with their love problem. That’s only half the drama as we later learn that Pansy, a library girl at the same school, is actually in love with Joro himself. With this setup, Oresuki establishes a peculiar love story with Joro being forced to become a matchmaker. However, a twist reveals that Joro has a much more manipulative personality that he keeps hidden from others. Only Pansy is aware of his true personality and is why she is in love with him. Now you can imagine how this type of story may play out. It essentially becomes a labyrinth of mind games. Joro’s goal is live his life as a “Romantic Comedy Protagonist”. He invented his own character while masquerading as a typical protagonist with a gentle personality. It’s essentially what people call a “two-faced” person. Deep down, Joro has his own insecurities and often feels inferior to others around him. The reason he hides his true personality is often so that he can craft plans to make things go his way. Although some people see his role as an anti-hero with such a role, Joro is also fundamentally a decent person. He doesn’t truly try to harm others and show his true feelings when someone in his life is jeopardized. Does this type of protagonist appeal to you?
This question can be answered if we take a look at how he develop relationships with the main cast. Starting with both Cosmos and Himawari, he reluctantly agrees to help them but also formulates plans of his own. Watching his moves carefully, the audience should take quickly why he interacts in his ways. Because let’s face it, Joro is actually quite a skilled actor who is able to change between his “nice guy” persona to his true nature very quickly and vice versa. On the other hand, both Cosmos and Himawari are dreadful liars. Their lies can easily be seen through by others and Cosmos even have absurd reactions whenever she gets nervous. Comparing their acting skills to Joro is like night and day. Joro’s goal of making his dream harem becomes a complicated plot for himself. Because Pansy is in love with his true personality, he has to accept such a fact despite still seeking to be the “romantic comedy protagonist” he hopes to be. Essentially, Joro becomes his own enemy and often times, his problems arises because of his own machinations. On individual levels, Cosmos and Himawari are clueless about his true visage. They still see him as an average classmate who doesn’t have a girlfriend but nonetheless, they spend time with him. But as the series progresses, they both seem to develop feelings of their own towards the boy. Is this perhaps true love? What happens is that love can change how people behave and in later portions of the show, it seems both characters show more affections towards Joro than they realize. On the other hand, Pansy constantly beats Joro at his own games. Whatever plans Joro crafts, she sees it through and actually makes him see his own mistakes. Between the two, they are the only pair in the show that doesn’t have a problem insulting each other. It’s a bit ironic since Pansy is in love with him and in a perfect world, couples are supposed to be loving with care. In Oresuki, we have this imperfect world where manipulation is part of the norm and almost everyone wants to be someone they’re not.
While the series has its own antagonists, I believe the true enemy is human nature itself. As a skilled actor, Joro has his own human faults that he even realizes. In fact, every character in the show has flaws in some way or form. However, I don’t want to throw everyone under the bus. There’s characters who learn from their mistakes such as the case of Sun-chan. Even supporting characters such as Asunaro realizes the trouble she caused when manipulating others as a member of the newspaper club. Joro himself even realizes that he has to face with consequences in life. It’s in human nature that people commit sins and the show teaches about how characters needs to learn from their actions. The only character that seems immune to corruption is Pansy. Her position in the show is unique in that she is the one who can see through others, in particular their lies. When the show finished airing, I find that Pansy is perhaps the most real character in the show for not only her observation skills but also being a life coach to others. Someone such as Joro could learn a lot from her.
Watching Oresuki may feel like an anime dosed with heavy amounts of drama. Every episode keeps the adrenaline going and there doesn’t seem to be a stop in the momentum. However, you have to remember that it’s also a romantic comedy. There are certainly a lot of comedic moments too such even including the physical aspects of the show. Whenever Joro gets hit, it’s portrayed comically. Many of his character reactions is often over exaggerated, almost like he’s acting. The anime also loves to throw in running gags associated with Joro’s matchmaker role and even occasionally moments of the fourth wall breaking. So take a breather and relax. Oresuki isn’t just a show with every square inch filled with drama.
As a 1-cour show of 12 episodes, it seems Oresuki was able to fundamentally get the audience to know what the show is. Divided into arcs, the plot is formulated with mind games but I do wonder how much the producers really wanted to be animated. The light novels continues the drama so as it’s up management to decide if they want to animate more of the series. To my delight, Connect managed to make the characters look sharp similar to their manga designs. Every female character in the show stands out and is portrayed with feminine features and beauty. Cosmos and Himawari are prime examples of this as they have an attractive valley girl look. While Pansy normally looks plain with braids and glasses, her true appearance is that of a beautiful girl endowed with attractive appeal. Even supporting characters such as Sasanqua has their own appeal when they show their true appearance. All this is contrast to Joro, who is portrayed as normally as possible on the outside. However, the character expressions he shows in secret is a different story.
As an anime with heavy amount of dialogues, I do commend on the voice actors on taking on their roles as dominantly as possible. This is especially true for Joro and Pansy, two voices who speak lines that often clashes against each other. Their character interactions is the most noticeable because Pansy knows the real Joro. Other times, Joro’s inner dialogues with himself speaks as his real character. On other technical standards, Oresuki’s theme songs adapts a more lighthearted tone with flashy images of character expressions.
Oresuki is kind of like a taking a multiple choice test where you have to figure out what’s real and what’s not. The idea of manipulative characters in romantic comedies isn’t entirely new. But for Oresuki, this anime took it on a whole new level with Joro at the center. This is type of rom-com that will keep you at the edge of your seat to see what will happen with each progressing episode. And by the time it’s over, you won’t feel like a loser beyond disbelief.
KingLeonard23
This show took one of the biggest nosedives in quality that I've ever experienced in any media. The first 3 episodes were really fun and entertaining. I loved the constant 4th wall breaks by the main character, the jokes surrounding "bench-kun"were hilarious, it was a romcom with an interesting premise that imo was building up to be something comparable to in the best of cases Oregairu. And oh boi was I wrong because this became a painfully generic harem after that. After the first 3 eps, the show kept introducing more and more girls instead of making the viewers care about the already existing girlsby giving them any bit of characterization more than just being magically attracted to Joro. And of course like in any harem, almost all the girls the show introduces are immediately in love with the mc for some reason. I like my fair share of harems so that wouldn't a problem if I could care about any of these characters but I don't and most of them are really annoying.
The animation was nothing special and the art while it wasn't horrible, it was mediocre as there were characters that looked very much identical but with different eyes and hair color. Don't have anything to say about the sound.
Lastly I want to talk a little about the mc Joro. I found him to be such a bad character, he's a f***ing idiot with an inconsistent personality. He's mostly your typical dense harem protagonist, but he can also be a character with sass and kind of a douche bag but not really which is a type of character I like (example: Sakuta from Bunny Girl Senpai), and he can also be an actual douche bag on other times. I do like some of his monologues and his 4th wall breaks but yet I despise all of his actions and all of the decisions he makes.
The only reason I don't give this show a 1/10 is because of those first 3 eps and there's a tiny amount of things that I enjoyed like the 4th wall breaks like I already mentioned. I'd say definitely skip this show, is just a subpar harem. If you want a good romcom from this year then watch Kaguya-Sama Love is War. If you want a harem from this year then watch 5-toubun no Hanayome.
RiverRode
“Amatsuyu “Joro” Kisaragi is your typical dense harem lead who is showered in affection by a cute childhood friend, a mature student council president, and many others as the series progresses” – this is the false pretense that Oresuki presents to cover its true premise: that Joro is aware of this trope and is actually a manipulative scumbag invoking it intentionally to pick up girls. However, one of these being true does not negate the other, and both are layers of the show’s narrative. Oresuki is a show that is about subtext and layered narratives. Basically every character in the show lies about what motivates theiractions at one point or another, and this is made extremely clear from the very beginning. In doing this, Oresuki is tasking the viewer to try to discern where their real intentions lay. Rather than the text itself, Oresuki prompts the audience to read the subtext.
However, treating subtext as text does not erase the original text. As a better show once said, “People have several faces… and they’re all real.” Oresuki adopts a Kantian philosophy where the morality of an action can only be judged based on the intention behind it, and in doing so, it ignores the action itself. At one point, Joro is chastised for doing a good deed, because his motivations are deemed to be selfish. If one is committed to the idea that subtext is the only thing that’s real, then everything else must be fake.
In training the audience to only read subtext, Oresuki demonstrates how dangerous this perspective can be. After the first few arcs, the viewer becomes unable to judge a good deed for itself. There was one character who ended up being completely benevolent in their actions, but I still was convinced that they couldn’t be trusted long after they were introduced. If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
With all of that said, I do think that the ideology of Oresuki is usually on the right track. Joro loses all of his friends as a result of his scheming in the first arc, and though he tries to scheme to regain them at first, he is only successful when he ultimately drops all façade and tells them directly that he wants to be friends again. There are no shortcuts or cheat codes when it comes to relationships, and if you want something real, then it has to start with you.
I get the sense that Rakuda said everything they wanted to say in the first volume of the series, and didn’t really know how to follow it up. To a certain extent, Joro keeps making the same mistakes over and over again, although I’ll charitably read that as understanding that it would be difficult for a misanthrope like him to so easily change their ways. Fittingly, this season ends with another of Joro’s schemes backfiring, and him being backed into a corner as a result. His immediate impulse may be to devise a new scheme to escape this situation, but if he wants to show that he’s learned anything over the course of this season, then he’ll need to finally be honest about how he feels. We can only wait and see.
So, is Oresuki good? No, absolutely not. It pretends to be a subversion of a genre, but ultimately doesn’t amount to more than just being the thing that it’s aping with a few more winks at the camera. But I had a lot of fun with it! There are a lot of ideas here that I thought were interesting to engage with, even if I disagreed them. Maybe my experience was mainly the product of my taking a philosophy class at the same time that this was airing, but if you like to play with your trash, then I think that Oresuki is worth a try.
Gomez719
So, apparently, we have the anime that wants to break the cliché of the romantic comedies, wants to give us something new, wants to give us something different from what we are already tired, and I really appreciate the intention, I really do, but unfortunately this anime does not finish convincing me. And I’m going to be honest, I had no interest in watch this anime the first time, I read the premise and I watched the trailer, but I simply thought that this would be another bland and ridiculous anime…and yes, they shut my mouth with the first leg of this anime. The comedy, thecharacters and the development was good, I thought that had a particular but funny way to see the things through the eyes of a “non main character”. And I was expecting more of this, but unluckily, in my opinion, just the beginning is the strongest part of the anime. But let’s start with the sections:
Story:
I thought that the story was kind of dumb to be honest, but in the progress of this, it starts to grow on me and I started to appreciate the characters. Because we’re going to be honest is hilarious how everything planned by the guy is just ruined by the unexpected events. So, I can say that the story was okay, at least it’s trying to be creative and unique, and those are elements that are always appreciated.
Development of the story:
As I said, the first leg of this anime is probably the more enjoyable, because we see a guy who every plan he has, it’s ruined by random and unpredicted event. And we have two girls that are in loved with his best friend and they need his help, and we have the other girl with glasses who always is hard with him but apparently she is the only one in loved of him. I’m thankful that this premise was changing throughout the anime, and we found the good and the bad intentions of the characters. Also was funny to see the double personality of Joro (the main character) and how he always had his high and lows. But the things start to wobble in the middle of this anime (for be more specific since the episode 7), because the funny and comic moments feel a little exaggerated and repetitive, I mean the first scenes of the confession in the bench were funny and enjoyable, but later it feels like a dead meme. Also adding the fact that some characters start to acting like morons. At least I enjoy a little bit the appearance of girls like Tsubaki. But the worst part in my opinion is the finale, because the main problem, the situation that makes everyone feel uncomfortable (the official appearance of three characters more) in my opinion is really stupid, overly dramatic and simply unnecessary. Because show us, that everyone has no self-esteem, and they are just a bunch of manipulated fools.
So in general I think the development is okay, the beginning is great, the middle is kind of meh, at least had funny and good moments on it so I’ll take it, but the last leg is the bad point here they could end this in a better way I’m sure.
Characters:
In general, I think many of the characters are okay, they in some point show good performances, and when they are in the spotlight they show good charisma and personality. Let’s start with the main: Joro. The “non protagonist” character. I really liked the double personality that he has, and is funny to see how everything goes bad to him, how is constantly breaking the forth wall and some of his reactions are entertaining, and the moments where he acts like a douchebag are well done and does not feel forced, but I felt his drama moments a little bland and sometimes he is so manipulated that is annoying, maybe that’s the reason why the bad things happened to him. The female protagonist is Pansy, and I think at the beginning she is very smart, manipulator, funny and cute, the way she always is three steps forward of the others is incredible. But in the last leg of this anime I think she is one the worst characters, because all her intelligence, tenacity and liveliness goes straight to the trash because she can’t say no to a guy that she is not interested in. And also, I think her attitude with Joro (especially in the episode 7) is disgusting. So she could been the best but she is just okay.
I think Cosmos is a good character too, her attitude of girl in love is cute, the times where she is serious is really essential for the good development of the things in the future, I would have liked to see her more in the development of the final, than many other characters. Same with Himawari, I think she is okay too, I like that her attitude is kind of childish, but she really cares about her friends, I would like to see her more in the finale too, but what were going to do. Sun, sincerely, is the best, because he starts as an idiot that doesn’t care about the feelings of the people around him and just think of him and he becomes a very good friend that helps Joro in the difficult situations. I think he was the best character in the end, where he plans everything to give the spotlight to Joro. It’s a very good secondary character and in my opinion, the best.
I like the personality of Asunaro and her real intentions with Joro, I think she is cute, lovely, energetic and charismatic, and, like Cosmos and Himawari I would like to see her more in the last leg. Tsubaki is the good but kind of forgettable character, I think the way she felt in love of Joro is kind of corny, but she at least has memorable moments. Sasanqua could be more, but unfortunately her moments in the spotlight are unmemorable, and does not change the course of the anime. But at least she is not as bad as Tampopo, where she is easily the worst character: She is annoyingly energetic, overreacted almost if not all the time, her intentions are corny and she is forgettable, so yeah, she is the worst. Oh also, every time she speaks exaggeratedly loud my ears wants to bleed.
And the rest I mean Hazuki is a good element for the drama ending, and he is the “nice and correct guy” so I don’t mind it at all. The other two girls Momo and Luna are just the girls that accompanied the nice guy, because they are not important and the fact that they left their feeling for Hazuki for his happiness is just so annoying and cliché so I’m going to skip them.
Development of the genre:
This is a romantic comedy, and I think probably this the best aspect because it combined the two genres very well, some episodes are funniest than romantic and vice versa. It has some elements of drama too, and most of the time are a little bland and it feels unnecessary so I wouldn’t put too much drama on this in the future. It has some ecchi moments too, a few, and amazingly they work, all because they are connected with some jokes or funny moments so they feel fresh and complement well the scenes.
Music:
I think the opening is good, not amazing and is far from the best that I heard this year but I like the chorus and the melody sounds very sunny and happy, the instrumental is good and compliment the aspect of the anime very well. I think that the ending song is very meh and forgettable; the instrumental is good but the vocals from Haruka Tomatsu amazingly are forgettable, and Hiraishi and Misawa do very little to save the track. The background music is at least good; they complement very well with the situations so I’ll take it.
Overall:
I think this anime is good, has some funny and entertaining moments on it, and the performances of the characters in the beginning of the anime are interesting and well done. But unfortunately this anime stays there: being only good, when it has the elements to be one of the best comedy animes of the year if not the best, but thanks to the repetitive and forgettable moments and that bad finale leave this anime a little stagnant. But you know what, I’m going to look forward for this, I want to see the next phase and I wish that many if not all the mistakes presented in this season are fixed and they at least give us something that will be remembered in a positive way.
I give this anime a 7 out of 10, and apparently an OVA is coming for the next year, so were going to see where does this anime take us.
LaLeLuLiLo
The main thing that is clamored about when it comes to Oresuki is the “twist” that occurs midway during the first episode, even though it’s quite explicit in the synopsis. Anyway, the gist of it is that the first half of the shows first episode comes off as a generic school romance anime. The protagonist is a by the numbers nice guy with a supporting cast consisting of the obligatory girl childhood friend, the elegant girl student council president, and a cool guy friend to help him out. All together they play through the motions of the show until a point where it looks likethe childhood friend and student council president may confess to the protagonist, only for it to slap him in the face when they actually ask for his help to get in a relationship with his friend. Disillusioned and in the privacy of his home the protagonist reveals that his personality is a facade that he used in hopes of having his own harem as would be the expectation from a show like this. This “twist” forms the main idea and tone that will run throughout the rest of the show, most of which I would argue isn’t for the best.
This idea is the sense of duplicity that not only comes from the main protagonist, but also from every notable character in the cast. No matter how they act or what they do, there probably is an undercurrent of something quite the opposite. It does a good job early on for creating a sense of doubt for the viewers. However, the show really plays into it far too many times that it starts to feel predictable and too reliant on it's twists. It leads the show to only laying down two roads to go through but with the shows modus operandi, you can easily guess which one they will go with. I would chalk this up to the show letting the cat out of the bag far too early that the impact it had in the first few episodes die down way to quick and it is unable to replicate it again. Even more so is that once you get past all the duplicitous nature of the show, you realize how inconsequential the plot really is.
This also goes to the characters as well. Once you look past the thin covered veil, you can see how paper thin these characters are. Sure the duplicity lends to many of the characters being two faced, but it doesn’t equate to complexity or depth. They still play within their designated archetypes as any run of the mill harem rom-com only with the added degree that there might be something more underneath. Most of the time there really isn’t, and when there is it doesn’t really add much to the character that has already been known. Nevertheless they aren’t bad, and depending on how you see these kind of shows, they make a somewhat decent cast of two-dimensional characters. The best character being the main girl Pansy who’s the only character that worked well around the show.
If you are wondering why I haven't called any of the characters by their name until now, it’s because it requires a space of its own. One thing this show has going for it in spades are it’s meaningless meanings. By this, I mean their names have some meaning behind them. The most obvious ones being the girls who literally wear their names they're called on their hair as flower ornaments such as pansy, cosmos, himawari(sunflower), etc. And as we all know flowers are full of meaning, but as said before in the last paragraph, it adds very little to what is already known to the character. The main character and his guy friends have a bit more going on with their names, but not really a substantial amount. The main protags name is Joro which is translated to “watering can”, while his friend is called Sun-chan. Two essential things that are needed in order for plants such as flowers to grow. One being cold water that’s useful when there’s no rain, and the other being a warm glow star. Overall they are just neat tidbits that people can find appreciative from this show.
A bit less than the last one, but there a some literary titles that are dropped into the show. Three of which i can bother to think of off the top of my head, Dr.Jekyll And Mr.Hyde, Crime And Punishment, and I Am A Cat. the most obvious one being the first one explicitly presented, Dr.Jekyll. Being the case of one man living two different lives and how that is directed towards Joro and his two-faced personality of one being kind and the other one being more of a scumbag. The other two books are a bit more up in the air on whether or not they also play into the same role of Dr.Jekyll, stand for something else, or are just there because the setting takes place in a library.
The other thing that Oresuki has going for it is it’s comedy. One of the first things that easily comes to mind is how this show can be viewed as a parody of the genre that it’s playing. From the subversion of expectations, to the nonsense characters and situations throughout the show. The obvious one being “the bench”, a magical bench that appears just about anywhere, and brings a foreboding future towards Joro. It does happen enough time that it starts to have a feeling of ad nauseam, but that’s also part of the humor as well due to how overused they are in the genre as well. The other example is “the baseball game” an event that coincidentally lead to the motivations of most of the characters of the show. Starting off as a generic plot point only for every new character adding a new perspective to the event that gets increasingly ridiculous, even if there seems to be more going on underneath. The show also has its share of standard comedy that you will expect from the average run-of-the mill comedy anime. However for all that it does to make fun of the genre of harem rom-coms, it inevitably falls into line with the rest.
One of the worst things that can happen to a fictional story that attempts to be subversive, satirical, or a parody is that they may fall for the same narrative trapping that they are deconstructing or making fun of. It makes you wonder what was the point of all the setup, if the payoff is the same as the derivative works that it’s riding off of. At least with the more generic and derivative works you get what you expected, through and through. What was the point of the deliberate use of characters and plot elements, when they end up being the same shit as everything else. Why bother giving Joro a two-faced personality, when his more or less “good side” is the one that prevails the most. Why bother knocking back the harem aspect in the beginning of the show only to prop up a much bigger one later on. Seriously, why bother when in the end it ends up being a pile of nothing.
In this day and age, where every form of fiction is easily available for almost everyone. It is quite easy to get quickly used to story conventions and tropes. Leading some to create works that differentiate themselves from the rest of the crowd by being subversive or meta, and thanks to their understanding of the tropes used they are able to succeed in doing so. Yet it comes to a point where it is done so much that it ends up being the new norm. To be so overdone that it is forgotten why they need it to be subversive or meta in the first place. It only becomes a dumb game of the author attempting to one-up the audience in the most stupid way possible, and that’s what Oresuki is. A harem rom-com that tries to play smarter than it really is and only reveals time after time how it’s just kind of... Dumb. That’s the greatest use of duplicity this show inadvertently ends up achieving.
Also they did the redhead girl dirty and that’s unforgivable...
abystoma2
Finally, a fun and entertaining parody of cliche harem shows that subverts the tropes with levelheaded protagonist... yeah, for about 3 episodes. Slight spoilers might follow, but not that the story is anything worthwhile. OreSuki runs out of steam very quickly and became it's own villain - a cliche harem romcom. The protagonis,t with the character design of generic hentai mc, turns into unsympathetic spineless coward that does everything in his power to maintain the status quo and prevent any significant plot progression. His main motivation also turns out to be correlated to being too fixated on his male friend. A friend that also turns to bea douchebag and basically tries to attempt to rape a girl. The protagonist witnesses it. The protagonist doesn't care. Neither does the series. Everyone act like this doesn't happen and the series continues to make a best-bro moments with those two scumbags. Have I also mentioned that the mc shows more interest in the quiet/creepy girl only after he finds out that she has some really huge tits? Yeah.
Likewise, the female supporting cast gradually turns into members of "this isn't actually a harem but it is actually harem". The jokes in the first part of the series being that the girls are not actually into the protagonist turns into the girls in fact clinging to the protagonists.
As most of the characters are reduced to a single-trope bearers with no depth, the show tries to save this using the method of introducing more characters. Too bad that each new character is more annoying than the previous ones and this unsurprisingly does more damage than it mends.
The comedy itself is stale and you could reduce in into three or so kinds of jokes. Then, as the last dich effort to make OreSuki interesting the final part forces some shallow drama with wannabe deep characterizations of some yet another new characters or whatever that was supposed to be.
The good parts are the opening and especially ending which are surprisingly catchy. Unfortunately they are the most entertaining parts of some of the episodes.
Ultimately, this is just another generic show that tried to be different but failed miserably.
korix_
Oresuki starts its first episode by presenting our black-haired, run-of-the-mill high school boy and his two love interests: airheaded childhood friend, and student council president. You'd assume this is another harem anime doing its thing, but that facade quickly shatters when the two love interests come up to our MC Jouro to confess. Because there's a catch; the person they like is his good-looking, baseball player of a best friend. Then there's another catch; Jouro isn't actually a run-of-the-mill high school boy. Deep down, he's a massive asshole who thinks he can get girls by playing up the harem-protagonist persona. As a concept, this isfunny. A dig at harem anime and their bland-ass protagonists getting girls for no reason is satisfying to see. Plus, it's presented in an entertaining, sassy manner, embellished by the greatest antagonist in anime, bench-kun, along with our MC Jouro calling everyone a "bitchii" in his head.
It's all fun and games, but then fast forward a few episodes, and the show is doing exactly what it was making fun of in episode 1. The two girls who had confessed to liking baseball boy wake up one day and decide that, nah, Jouro's looking good now, and there's no real reason for this switch-up.
Moreover, the second aspect that Oresuki was parodying, the protagonist himself, gets thrown out the window. Because ACTUALLY, Jouro has an alter-alter ego, so deep, deep down, he's a kind, run-of-the-mill harem protagonist.
What was the point of making him an asshole then?
The occasional comedy. That's it.
This here is the entire show in a nutshell. It parodies the harem genre, but that's exactly what it is. The few jokes it makes every so often exist in a vacuum, and are only there to spice up an otherwise unapologetically trashy show. I didn't mind the comedy in this series, but Oresuki separates itself from the humor bit by bit, filling in that void with forced drama, while developing character relationships in the most ridiculous way possible. Nothing is dealt with properly, and by the end, you're left asking yourself, why? Why is Jouro amiable with the girl who purposely isolated him from his friends and ruined his reputation? Why is this girl having lunch with the guy who threatened to rape her last episode?
All this does is make every character super unlikeable. They exist to act annoying and cause conflict when the plot wills it, only for them to be rewarded for their psychotic behavior. There's a limit to the absurdity I can tolerate because "it's trashy, comedy anime, the characters don't need to make sense 24/7", but when Oresuki's humor falters, it takes away any room for excuses.
I did mention a lot already, but is any of this even a big deal? Maybe I went into this with unreasonable expectations.
To that, I say, yes! I did expect more.
What truly bothers me about Oresuki is that it had the potential to be a good, satirical rom-com with harem elements sprinkled in there for the fun of it.
The first episode laid out everything well. It even introduced Pansy, who challenges everything Jouro wants and doesn't fit his idea of an ideal girl. Pansy is our bespectacled, disheveled-looking love interest who admits to stalking Jouro, and then admits her non-mutual feelings toward him, only to get immediately shut down. As far as their initial interactions/arguments go, they were entertaining to watch together, and dare I say, they had chemistry. All Oresuki had to do for the next 12 episodes was have Jouro continue his desperate harem protagonist act, have him fail in haha funny ways because the world doesn't work like that, and develop his hate-to-love relationship with Pansy as they both realize their flaws and become better people. But no, let's disregard the fact that the story writes itself because that would be too consistent, and god forbid this anime has any form of redeemable takeaway.
KoraxCatalyst
If I could describe mindful self-indulgence gone awry as succinctly as possible, this would be it. Oresuki is a show that genuinely blew me away the first three episodes which encompass the first arc. Only to then tarnish that good will for the next seven episodes, only to then at the last minute change course back to what the point of the initial arc was. What was that goal you say? To subvert with Harem RomCom genre with a Konosuba attitude, adding some sprinkles of Death Note here and there. Or maybe to deconstruct? I'm not a huge fan of the term but it encompasses what theshow was trying to do just as well. Let's describe how it goes about its goal.
Joro is a boy who is seemingly the insufferable good willed harem protagonist we are oh so used to. Only to then halfway through the first episode have the rug thrown out from under us and are exposed to his true personality. Joro it turns out, is a what the internet deems as a NiceGuyTM. He is nice to his childhood friend and the student council president with which he works closely, with the ultimate goal in mind to date them. And when it turns out that the girls are using Joro's attraction to them to help them get with his Chad best friend on the baseball team; Joro's goal for the next few episodes is to try to help both of them in which one will win and he will inevitably get second picks at whoever's left.
This is a great set up, Joro it turns out, is an absolutely insufferable d-bag. Rude, Narcissistic, selfish, weak, manipulative, and insecure. Very similar to a well known isekai protagonist doesn't it?
We follow him through another episode in which he tries to help his friends, in the mean time hanging out with this ugly girl named Pansy duing lunch who is his stalker. Remember this, the woman actively commits a crime, openly so in fact. The reason she does this is because she is in love with the main character. Blackmailing him bear in mind but we will come back to her later.
Eventually Joro's true nature as a bastard is revealed, his friends abandon him, and his reputation is tarnished all across the school. It becomes so bad this kid is shown to be bullied for an entire week.
Next week it is revealed that Joro's best friend Sun-chan was manipulating everyone the entire time because of a time when he liked a girl who asked him to help her get with Joro, despite Sun-chan telling her of Joro's terrible personality which he obviously knew about even though Joro pretended to hide it. And even though he acted oblivious, of course Sun-chan knew that the two girls liked him, how could he not? They made it extremely obvious, he just decided to use it to his advantage.
Joro is secretly listening in during this conversation in which he eventually confronts Sun-chan using his douchey personality. Thereby being in the gratitude of Pansy who reveals herself to be a hot girl in disguise! And it turns out the bullying thing was an elaborate bit by Pansy to expose Joro's terrible friends who manipulated him! Look at all these ruses!
In all honesty it was pretty cool to watch the plan come together and for Pansy to deconstruct the plans of Sun-chan. Honestly at this point I was ready to give the show a seven, but then the rest of the show happens.
What I just summarized was the best part of the entire show, the rest is never as good as this. Remember when I said Pansy was kind of a bad person? She is never punished for this besides not getting to be with the MC right away, in fact she's even absolved to a degree. Eventually the other girls in the initial arc and others encountered later come to like the main character as well. And while he initially makes it a goal to have a harem, he very quickly abandons it two episodes later.
And while there is substance that's worth diving into, the actual content of most of the show is still a standard harem or just poorly executed attempts at being interesting. The Monogatari series allows you to indulge in the personalities of the girls while also trying to convey a complex narrative with indepth characterization; Konosuba similarly if maybe having a slightly less complicated cast of characters, Oresuki just doesn't have that.
You can have your cake but cannot eat it, or maybe more accurately you have the cake but it's super dry and the frosting is sub par at best. The cake itself was trying to be a big wedding cake, which the baker unfortunately didn't have the talent to execute.
The show is funny sometimes, not every joke lands but the show had enough going for it originally that it didn't matter. Same goes for the visuals that never look garbage per se but certainly never look good.
I don't entirely regret the experience but I was way too close to doing so. I contemplated dropping around episode eight or nine, but I stuck with it and was graced with a few episodes that were tolerable. Ultimately I would only recommend Oresuki to those who really like the harem genre, if you do not then you will inevitably be disappointed with the lack of humorous cynicism later on in the show and eventually get bored as I saw happen to a number of people watching weekly.
To those outside that niche crowd, I would give the show a pass.
ragiolow
Are you tired of the same old isekai trash that has been ass produced every season? Are you sick of watching shitty romcom anime that has zero plot and focuses only on ecchi and harem? Are you craving for a romcom anime that has a good romance plot and comedy ? Well I have been feeling those emotions and have been craving for a ‘decent’ romcom anime. But those feelings disappeared when I came across the anime “ORESUKI Are you the only one who loves me?”.This anime caught my attention due to the description of its plot and the similarity of the main heroine’s faceto a certain doujinshi. When I watched the first episode I thought this anime was going to be another generic shit-shat romcom stuff again but it turns out to be fairly good not only for its characters but also for its comedy.
Story-
Well to sum up , I find the story of oresuki to be good.To give an overall view,the story basically comprises of drama and comedy mesh together in one whole lump.The romance is in the anime but progresses in a slower pace which allows character development for most of the characters.The anime has many light-hearted moments but definitely has many dramatic scenes.I felt that the dramatic scenes were quite boring and really lackluster.If you are looking for a romcom that has more romance and less drama then this anime really isn’t for you.Furthermore,as the story progresses , the anime also slowly becomes a borderline harem. Though the story was a bit dull as it has many drama content, the comedy in this anime is really good. I believed the comedy in this anime is the redeeming feature in its subpar storyline.
Character-
The characters for this anime is actually pretty good.This anime has the usual set of characters for a romcom anime such as the good looking best friend , the childhood friend , the pretty senpai , the tsundere girl in your class and etc.The side characters all have the usual trait in basic romcom anime with a little bit of difference in it but they were enjoyable in the show.The main character and main heroine is what stands out the most in this anime .The main character was a likable mc due to its hidden twisted personality which stands out in the anime compared to the other generic romcom main characters who is oblivious to their surroundings.Although the mc has moments where is oblivious to his surroundings in the anime, he was still very much enjoyable.The main heroine is also quite an unique main heroine.She is portrayed as the ‘most uninteresting and unattractive’ female in the story but in actuality is the opposite of all those traits.She is also very smart and observant in the anime which in overall,her character and her traits feels like a breath of fresh air for a romcom anime main heroine.
Animation-
The animation is borderline good in the anime.There are many scenes which are well done but overall the animation is ok.The animation is not in the very good category nor in the very bad category.Therefore, there isn’t really any praise for it nor any criticism for its animation.
Music-
The opening and ending were quite good and I enjoy it .
Enjoyment-
The anime was enjoyable as it has many funny scenes and jokes in it.I enjoyed this anime as the romance in it wasn’t force and was just right but the high amount of drama in it was boring for me.overall, I was able to watch it weekly thanks to the comedy in it.
Overall -
I think oresuki is good for a romcom anime as it has a decent plot filled with romance and a really solid comedy in it.The character development is also good in the anime.Even though the anime has quite a lot of drama in it , the comedy and its characters were able to carry the show.Therefore, the anime is fairly good but does not really stand out much for me but it definitely should be watch if you are looking for a ‘decent’ romcom anime.
DaCraziGuy
Well, this was pretty boring and hypocritical show. This show started with a pretty unique idea and a couple of episodes later, it threw it trough the window. The show despite starting like if the MC were the harem main character's best friend, he ends up being the MC of a harem show... and the only girl that seemed to pay attention to him was "an ugly (that wasn't that ugly to begin with) bitch with an ugly personality". But like I said, a couple of episode later, the bitch ends up being hot af (wow, like if I didn't see that coming) and actually, sheisn't a bitch, she is dere AF... oh, and all the girls that were into the other guy ends up falling in love with the MC from one day to another... but don't worry, this time is true love. Oh, also some random gurls fall in love with the MC too, just in case you were worried about the Harem being too small.
The main character despite acting like a Kazuma on discount, it ends up acting like a generic harem MC with no personality. The MC tries to think like an asshole, but he always ends up being the nice generic beta harem mc guy. His "mean side" ends up being a product of his imagination and never gets reflected in any of his actions.
Also, "ALL" the characters were bland AF and they never seemed to have anything else besides what they are showing... and even if they had, the show tells you right away that there is something behind that is obvious af.
Overrall, this is your generic haremshow that tries to act like it isn't, thing that actually makes it worse than a generic harem show. Fake as the friendship between the main cast. It is a watchable show, but it's been a while since I got so disappointed about a show.
The art and animation was pretty nice tho, these are the best things about the show.
yahyamei
Hello from 2021, no one is going to read this but it has to be said. This is one of the only shows I will ever give a 10/10 on. Is the story good, not really. Is the art good, nothing special if not subpar. Then why is this show a 10 you the 2 people reading this might ask? It because of the main character joro, who is the most human character I have ever seen in a show, not in an anime mind you, but in a show period. He's a two-faced liar who is also a somewhat closeted pervert. Like, this isaccurate, this is how real people act and think and try to. The show's ability to show whats he's thinking, the comedy behind him navigating having an almost bipolar attitude makes it a 10 of a show. the side characters and story are filler. Joro is real, he acts and thinks in a way people do and it is very refreshing, this show understands what it is and kudos to that. Well nice talking to you watch this show oml its good if you appreciate comedy and a nonstatic character
mastertetas22
This anime in itself started out with an awesome start. For those watching I recommend going a little past the 10 min mark. this anime was an awesome experience of emotions. Many times, I laughed and many times I got angry. The MC is no typical MC he is a background MC character. I highly recommend it though. in all animation, it is my type of animation sort of like a new style. every character has their story. I think many will like this story. the characters are all very well written. the plot twist in plot twist goes crazy in this anime.
AnimeExplorer21
I'm not even kidding when I say that this anime has left an indelible mark on my heart. It's one of those rare shows that I'll always remember, no matter how much time passes. And it's all thanks to the incredible cast of characters, particularly the brilliant and complex Sumireko. At first glance, Kisaragi might seem like your typical harem lead, but trust me, he's so much more than that. And when all the girls around him betray his trust, it's Sumireko who stands by him, using her incredible intelligence and dual personality to help him navigate the chaos. I mean, this girl is on a wholedifferent level. Her intelligence is on par with Ayanokoji from 'Classroom of the Elite' - she's that smart. And it's not just her brains that make her special; it's her unwavering loyalty and compassion for Kisaragi.
The ending might have been humorous, but let's be real, we all know that Kisaragi is going to end up with Sumireko. It's the only way it can be, given how much she's helped him and supported him throughout the series.
What really sets this anime apart, though, is its ability to surprise you. There are so many unexpected twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat, laughing and crying and cheering all at once. It's a wild ride, but it's one that's totally worth taking.
Cdynamo
Oresuki is a frustrating show to me. After the first 3-4 episodes, I was ready to call this show the best this season. The writing was on point, the characters were interesting and complex and animation was very nice. I was ready to call this a solid 9/10. Then the rest of the series happened and it all blew up in my face. If you were to ask me why it simply ends up being what show with short-lived premises: Where do we go from here? This show doesn't answer this question for at least 6 episodes. After those first four episodes, this becomes one ofthe most obnoxious, repetitious and aimless shows I've seen in a while. Those six episodes do include new girls but they either are used for gags or are forgotten entirely. The fourth wall breaking jokes start as funny and then they become inconsistent, then they become straight-up bad.
Let's get the jokes out of the way first. The Bench joke was really funny at first but then the show uses it as a crux. It comes back at so many intervals and so many moments that by the end, it becomes a gag that isn't funny and they use it way too much. Then there are the fourth wall jokes. In the first three episodes, they come off as playful and I would admit that I laughed a good chunk at them. After those three episodes though, the show gets weird with them. One episode we could have multiple jokes of Joro saying something akin to making fun of rom-com protagonists or the animation looking piss poor for a second or two (Seriously, that joke about the animation still makes me angry). The show doesn't use these jokes to any smart effect but more to the effect of pointing something out using it in some type of excuse. By the end, I hated hearing the fourth wall jokes because it would continue to show the inconsistency of this show's humor.
Then there are the characters. At first, I found Joro to be an interesting protagonist but by the end, I just didn't like him. Pansy was the only character I actually liked but there was also a good chunk of episodes where they just didn't focus on her. When it comes to the other girls of the show, it's a mixed bag if there ever was one. The two first girls Hima and Cosmos are ok, but Cosmos suffered from being interesting and not getting any screen time in later episodes and Hima was just obnoxious. Asarino was whatever because she didn't add much. The other girls are so forgettable that they don't even add really anything to the main plot and are just gag characters. One of the main gags the show focuses on is one character who just wants to confess to Joro and she constantly messes up. It's one of the dumbest gags I have seen.
You are probably saying to yourself that I have been a little too hard on this and sure, I am but it has less to what it is and more of what it could've been. The first three episodes were amazing and while not on the same level, episodes 4,11 and 12 were not that bad (minus the ending which was just stupid) and the animation by Connect was pretty top-notch for the most part (minus that stupid scene where they changed up animation styles). It's just that the show between those episodes is an aimless, poorly done, repetitious slog that made me feel like I was forced to watch some dumb harem show which was for a good bit. No matter how many meta-jokes they could throw out or have a subversive moment here or there, the show just ended up being a harem show that wasn't generic, but a mess and while that is better than a generic harem show, that doesn't mean it gets away with the potential it had. That's what makes this show so sad to witness. Would I watch a second season? Maybe, but I don't have the highest expectations.
Story: 5/10
Art: 6/10
Sound: 6/10
Character: 5/10
Enjoyment: 5/10
Overall: 5/10
snapular
This show is hilarious. Fourth-wall-breaking like I've never seen, hilarious situational comedy, etc. The humor alone would be enough for me to give this show a 7 or 8 with just average to decent characters and story. Unfortunately, this show fails to deliver on that front pretty hard. The characters are all extremely unlikable and unrealistic, starting with the protagonist, Joro. Joro is a gigantic scumbag, but in a good sort-of Kazuma from Konosuba kind of way. But unlike Kazuma, he pretends not to be a scumbag and fails to have pretty much any other redeeming qualities. Joro starts out the show trying to win theaffection of either his childhood friend or the president of the student council whom he assists, but both of them are in love with his best friend, Sun-chan (who is the actual best character).
Both girls start out the show asking Joro to hook them up with Sun-chan, which ends up being pretty hilarious at first but quickly turns into a big pile of melodramatic garbage after about three episodes. Every episode there's some new melodrama that turns everybody against Joro for no reason, and then by the end of the episode or in the next episode they all make up with Joro, again for no reason.
While all this is happening, Joro finds out that the only girl who actually loves him is the openly scumbaggy, manipulative, nerdy, braid-haired, glasses-wearing library assistant Pansy. Which is actually pretty hilarious at first and might continue to be if they went even deeper into that character, but it turns out she's just a kind girl who, as the trope goes, becomes beautiful when she puts down her hair and takes off her glasses. So she goes from kind of interesting to pretty boring real fast.
Each new episode churns out a new cute girl with at best a two-dimensional personality that she flip-flops between for no reason. Most of them go from normal to crazy inexplicably, but there's also one who goes from crazy to normal inexplicably. And most of them end up falling in love with our unlikable protagonist for absolutely no reason. And the show tries to shove all of them into each episode just to remind us how cute and annoying they are. The show is called "Are you the only one who loves me?", but in the end it's just another giant harem.
This show is a melodramatic piece of garbage with awful characters, but at least it's hilarious and the animation is pretty good. This show goes next-level in the fourth-wall-breaking department, even mentioning the singer of the OP by name while it's playing in the background in the last episode. And every time "the bench" comes up is pretty funny. So maybe the show is worth watching for the humor alone, but there's so many better shows that this should be pretty far down your list.
Horn_dawg_2019
Well then, that ends another romcom harem themed anime for this last part of 2019 and as 2020 comes in I wonder what kind of romcom we'll be getting next year...........................? So Story: Pros: Basically when we have a romcom with harem theme anime it was usually the garden variety kind, you know where guy gets a harem and guy doesn't know what to do with them. But here the plot was somewhat the same, only this time it always involves guy getting into messy situation where it doesn't involve each harem members but only one in particular and yes, it was the book worm girl whomanages the library. Another thing about this anime was that it doesn't make any BS of keeping the guy as this perfect guy thing, rather here, the guy was more like into what we can called as organize chaos, where things would be repetitive as to how the guy's bestie becomes this stabbed in the back SOB to being an apologetic guy to back again to this stabbed in the back bestie again, then again if one was to observe his statement to the guy, one would know that he was giving him hints that he should go for the girl he loves.
Cons: Cu'z this has that organize chaos, if one can't follow the in between the lines of the character's dialogue then t can be misleading. Also given that this has a harem themed in it was kinda annoying that a new harem member gets added every once in a while and 3 of which weren't intensely competing for the guy's affection.
Verdict: 7 over 10
Art:
Pros: the usual eye candy and occasional fan services and Himawari has the most, Tanpopo has the swiftest.......
Cons: Pansy has the worse fashion sense, even wearing a swim suit in one of those pool services and even in her out of the uniform kind of attire.
Verdict: 5 over 10
Sound:
Pros: Good opening theme.
Cons: Joro sounded like he's gay, Sun Chan sounded too old to be a teenager, Pansy's seiyuu Tomstsu Haruka was just too old to even voice a 16 year old, same thing for Cosmos seiyuu.
Verdict 3 over 10
Character:
Pros: When it comes to giving this anime some climaxes, no one delivers it like Sanshokuin, Sumireko when she confronted Ooga, Taiyou who sets up Kisaragi, Amatsuyu to take some shit for him, there is Akino, Sakura moment when she confronts Hanetachi, Hina about her sand bagging Kisaragi, Amatsuyu, now these character did deliver some rather unique impact with this anime, of course there was that Hanetachi, Hina whom for the moment serves as the antagonist as she tried to destroy Kisaragi, Amatsuyu to have her for herself, also the addition of Hose, Momo and Cherry from another school provides some spice to this anime given that there is competition for Sanshokuin, Sumireko's affection by Hose which was something that gives this anime something different.
Cons: There is that quintessential childhood friend , Aoi "Himawari" Hinata whom at first loves Ooga, Taiyou but later one starts to love Kisaragi, Amatsuyu, but frankly she was more like just another competition for Kisaragi, Amatsuyu given that just like Mayama, Asaka and Youki, Chiharu. Let's not forget a couple of interlopers like that Momo Sakuraba and Runa Kasumi who has some infatuation with Hose, TBH, I basically see them as nothing more than excess baggage.
Verdict: 7 over 10.
Enjoyment:
Pros: Given that this anime has presented something, hummmm, something new to the romcom harem anime, it was enjoyable given that it wasn't that boring.
Cons: The idea that the school plans to close the library to provide the setting for the nest situation was just lame to begin with.
Verdict: 7 over 10.
Overall:
Verdict 8 over 10.
TBH, this anime wasn't all that bad, frankly rating this a 4 below was just an injustice since this has brought something new to the table thought I can't deny that there were something lame about this. So, Merry Christmas everybody.
Harviall
I AM SO MAD AT THIS ANIME OH MY GOD The potential it had and how it got ruined so quickly is really impressive. But, if you got nothing to watch, you can watch it! It's not bad, just really questionable.. Okay well, the first 5 episodes are REALLY AWESOME. Some complex relation between characters.. it really is great to get to know them through their motivations on this drama dump. It was a pretty unique way to develop an anime, also this early on. I also really like the humor of this anime. It was stupidly funny. (Light spoiler on the humor type, not about thestory. Skip to the next paragraph) There was a running gag with a bench that got me every time. Also, when the MC breaks the 4th wall and start saying stuff as someone watching the anime it's really funny as it's not seen often.
But that's exactly where it falls appart. It tries too much. It became ecchi and building humor around ecchi, let alone ecchi itself, it never end up well for me. Beside, that last episode was dogwater. I didn't watch the group of 13-15 episodes thing caues at this point I didn't cared no more cause I lost hope in the love triangle. The love triangle just kept on growing and growing.. I know it's a harem, but this harem was so messy and kept adding new girls and it's just infuriating.
Anyway. If you don't care about romance watch this, it's really more of a solid comedy and drama. The romance bit is cringe and horrible.
Excalibur2512
This was a wonderful adventure. I am someone who has been focusing on a lot of light Anime recently (I am also watching Attack on Titan and Death Parade) but my focus has been more on those created on lighter tones. If you like something which just refreshes your mind and where you would like logic but not to the extent of something grave - this is a perfect watch. I really loved the characterization. The main focus is how the protagonist wishes for a harem and he always misses out on it. This creates humorous plot points, with ideal archetypes for the same beingpart of the story alongside. I like the art which never left that humorous tone but could touch the wicked side of the protagonist when required. I think describing further would be spoiling the game for those wishing to watch it. The music could have been better, I believe. Though, I loved both the starting and ending songs, especially the first half of the latter.
Those who like, My Youth Romantic Comedy SNAFU, this is the perfect Anime to try out. This is an anime where you need to pay attention to the dialogues, verbatim, if you want to the enjoy it to the fullest. They do not penetrate to philosophy but the writer foreshadows a lot using them.
