Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy

'What a mess of a show,my word' If i could summaries this show with one sentence, it would be that lets go with the obvious things, Story: when i looked over the anime that will be release this season, i usually picked the one that interest me. by what i mean, is i look over their poster because i like to watch my anime blindly. so the first ep of this show just make me facepalm so hard since it defies logic ( well for me anyway ) how could u reject someone infront of a class and not get embarrassed. the funny thing is kuro stilllikes the dude i mean wth lmao. now, lets go to the actual story that ive gathered from this show. its a abt a boy name sueharu, a child actor that retired from acting due to personal reason, and follows him as he tries to pick which of his 'childhood friend' to be his lover. yup, thats it. there's nothing to the story itself like im so confuse to the point i dont even care when im watching the episodes. The story makes no sense since its literally in their title 'Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won't Lose' and guess what all the girls are his childhood friends. Art: i mean it was okay but i do like the dance tho ( it was a pathetic attempt btw ) Sound: I dont even remember if they add sounds to their episodes... Charaters: my god, the characters are just flat and dont even have a reason to why they liked this dude, i could go on but u get the point... the only character i liked i guess is tetsuhiko. why i liked him.... no reason really i think his cool. Other than that, theres nothing to talk abt them since i didnt even care abt their existence, how can i liked them when the show just throws us many random characters 'supposedly' to be his childhood friend . Overall: Dont watch this anime. i do recommend for ppl that like to experience bad anime hahaha. Bottom line, i hate this anime since the show didnt even know what they want to be. oh yeah.... what ever happened to their cooking contest? i guess plothole lmao.... what a show

ARE YOU DEBATING ON WATCHING THIS? I think I've gathered a good consensus to try and defend it and I'll list the charges that it's convicted of then state my case. I spoil a few things just to get my point across for evidence but I think seeing it played out will still have the intended effect. CHARGE A: EPISODE 1 - A no brainer. So, I started this and really liked the character designs. I was thinking it was going to go a route where she's been there for him this whole time. Nope. They make it a revenge plot, which is a stupid plot butthat's not where it ends up staying. To make his crush, Kachi, jealous, this girl, Kuro, volunteers to be his revenge girlfriend. Why her? She's genuinely interested. Some people do like this though and were just disappointed that it wasn't a parody. CHARGE B: EPISODE 3 - This is where everything changes, because at some point, our main man Haru is revealed to be a child actor who had to quit, which seems out of left field. But he plans to "act" out a confession to this crush of his. It wasn't really acting, it was more just dancing and singing but I could complain about that all day. The main point is that this is where the revenge plot ends. He does a twist and decides to confess to Kuro, his revenge girlfriend, instead. Twist to the twist: She says no. CHARGE C: AFTERMATH - Where do you expect the plot to go, a confession was made already, that's how all romcoms seem to end. Well, it makes both the girl he was originally going to confess to interested AND the revenge girlfriend, Kuro regret telling him no. So, that's an awkward situation but it gets worse. They add more love interests. This, in my opinion, is a stupid decision and is actually where most of the reviews for this stopped (around episode 4), I don't blame them for dropping it, I almost did myself, but I ended up pulling through in the end and I'm glad I did, here's why. DEFENSE 1: LOVE INTERESTS - There's really only one more. They add more female characters but the only one that's actually a love interest is Momo. It can seem overwhelming at first to see all these new characters suddenly come in, but it was probably a bad play on the anime's part because most of them have their own thing going on and it was just sowing the seeds for a later date, unrelated to the love scene. DEFENSE 2: RELEVENCE - The title is relevant. But some people won't like the gimmick that all 3 girls are considered "childhood friends", I get that, but I also see that as a clear way to pick favorites and see it through the protagonist's eyes. Do you find yourself critical of the love interests and think they need to have the same amount of quality? I personally see them all getting a fair share of screen time and personal connections. Momo may be lacking in some departments but I think that's intentional, they even point it out. But I think you'll be happy with whichever preference you choose as your OTP, they each have standout moments. DEFENSE 3: FANSERVICE - I'll meet you in the middle with the fanservice thing because it's a romcom, what do you expect? I feel like you're calling out half of anime by complaining about fanservice. Doesn't make the anime right for using it though. DEFENSE 4: KURO - Really, you could just use this defense and be done with it. What? You thought the title was a spoiler? No, it's a threat. Most of the girls in this anime have ulterior motives and can get really scummy about their tactics but I feel like after the whole revenge plot thing, Kuro has the moral. For instance, when they propose Haru come back to acting, she's the first to say that she doesn't want to cause him pain for everyone else's gain. She's one of the reasons I stuck with this series, because she made that much of an impression. DEFENSE 5: THE ENDING - This is based on a manga/light novel that is still currently running (I haven't read it). This wasn't meant to be a one-off anime, it's a first season. So, taking the ending at face value, it'd be a pretty crap ending if it wasn't looking to build on it later. But some people will still complain about it even then. So I'm going to talk about it (with enough missing context that it won't spoil). If someone came to you and offered that, you might think "Am I not worthy of the whole thing?" but under the circumstances, I think it's a pretty smart idea. A trial run to get to embarrassment and awkwardness out of the way and make sure that you like it before you go all in and get hurt. I do really think that people will like a season 2 more but you need to see season 1 in order for that to happen. Do I think it could've been done in one season? Not with the same quality unless it did a 24 episode season because the characters get a fair amount of work put into them. DEFENSE 6: CONTRAST - I can't say that I've seen an anime like this. It does kind of bug me that it does a complete 180 from those first few episodes and becomes a harem but I feel like the underlying plot has a lot to offer that I've never seen anything cover. I mean, who hurt the writer enough for him to write a story about "first love is poison"? I feel like that's what Sing Yesterday For Me was trying to accomplish but it explored the actual relationship aspect so that the characters could regret it later or instead call it an experience. This one tip-toes cautiously so that Haru (hey, both anime have a character named Haru!) chooses right the first time...or so it's proposing so far. There's even a part where someone tells Haru not to fall for the (bridge or rollercoaster effect) where the heat of the moment can give you feelings that can be mistaken for love. I waited until I was actually done with the series before I reviewed it, in fact, I wasn't even going to review it until I saw the score on MAL. A 6.09 as of writing this? I looked at the reviews and nearly all of them were preliminary, which I guess that's just MAL for you. And I learned from 'Gamers!' that in order to see a season 2, the stars need to align with the source material and current anime ratings, so I decided to show my support. Don't be turned off by the score, if this anime sounds like 'you' then I'd say go for it, I'm just telling you what to expect. So, the verdict? You be the judge.

To understand how the anime community got from the awkward HenSuki, then strong OreSuki to the ass-pull OsaMake (this show), here are 2 excerpts of the interview between Joey The Anime Man and novelist Rui Tsukiyo, the author of Redo of Healer: "Let me give you a common scenario: You have a woman crazed with jealousy. She corners the protagonist and forces him to sexually assault her. Doesn't that say that you...that women love r**e? Conversely, the genre women hate the most is the harem love-comedy style (that's) filled with women fawning over the protagonist and softcore fanservice. According to my research, thes shows appeal tovery few women. When heroines fawn over the protagonist, I have a feeling that's a deal breaker for most female viewers. But I only realized this after the fact." This self-research really shows that only males will like this show, and a few females who are OK with the harem rom-com style. This excerpt however, hits home to why this show sucks BALLS (Rui Tsukiyo was mentioning how he got motivated to write Redo of Healer): "I deliberately wrote something that I thought would sell well. There is a site called Syosetu where users can upload their writing, and many of the top-ranking submissions of the site were revenge stories. Since they were popular and I like them, I thought I'd write my own. But those stories are very weak, they kept talking about revenge...but after like 2 or 3 chapters, the revenge part is over. And then it just turns into the story of an OP protag with a harem." AND GUESS WHAT, Rui Tsukiyo IS DAMN SPOT ON, as such we're seeing with OsaMake, the scapegoat to a common trend. And folks, even if you like or dislike Rui Tsukiyo for writing the controversial Redo of Healer, you can't deny that he is a very calculative guy who knows how to buck the trend in a wise manner. And his pointers are especially damning to this seemingly "newbie" author that is Shuichi Nimaru, who did 2 short LNs between 2011 and 2014 before assuming a "long hiatus" before creating OsaMake in 2019, and popular it did get in Japan, scoring 5th in Takarajimasha's Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! (This Light Novel Is Amazing!) list in 2020, and sales of the LN are still soaring in the Top 10 as of the time of this review. Honestly though, this is a surprise given that Japan is lukewarm to the harem rom-com genre's successions of staleness, to which Western anime fans like us have long been complaining that this kind of genre has seen a lot of derivatives and deviations to the point of endless mediocrity. OsaMake though, drives just one point of just bearing the absolute r**e-fest of a cringe show that can be summed up in one word: PATHETIC. We've been through a hell lot of rom-com stories like these in recent years, heck I'd say that for every legit decent-to-good rom-com show like OreSuki, BokuBen, 5-toubun no Hanayome a.k.a. Quintessential Quintuplets, or even reverse-harem ones like Hamefura a.k.a Otome Game, there are at least a few bad iterations like it, both in anime and source material form. OsaMake truly stands on the opposite spectrum as one of the modern popular works with a shit-load kind of plot that only serves to degrade its overarching story by cramping in as much of the features that even hardcore harem rom-com fans like us DO NOT WANT to see, but yet it did in its shameless subservient form. If this is the standard going forward for new manga or LN harem rom-com series, I'm sorry to say that "new" authors like Shuichi Nimaru have only found a formula to earn them food on their table for a living, while bringing absolutely nothing new nor groundbreaking in the stymied genre that once you saw one, you've seen one many times over. Prodgies, and very specifcally, revenge. We've seen this kind of plot play so many times over, it doesn't feel like I'm being that type of weeb who likes OP characters, especially "child prodgies" that earn a cult reputation and being chased after fans, only except that in OsaMake's case, they live next to you as a childhood friend! And guess what? As if the lovey-dovey sense of the childhood friend isn't enough, the MC's line of work has also earned him the attention of the girls whom have worked with him since young, that are now trying to take a piece of this weak-ass MC's "virginity". Guys, this male MC called Sueharu Maru, is nothing more than your average generic guy who only has enough "drama" in his life just to be "intertwined in the red thread of fate" of girls that are same age or even younger, to have an admiration for him. To be rejected in love by one of his past female "friends", that is now a prominent figure in the industry, this girl who goes by the name of Shirokusa Kachi, with her lush demeanor and bright presence, she is a "force" to be reckoned with. OK, so what's the solution? Bring in your good ol' childhood frend: Kuroha Shida, to help you out with your so-called revenge, while she still harbours romantic feelings for you since young! Yes, that's right, now you see why this is the rom-com that the childhood friend will not lose! This supposedly love "triangle" (which constantly evolved as the female count goes higher) is in all: one painful experience to watch, let alone experience. If I have to match the character cast that's similar to a movie, it'd be Snow White and the 7 Dwarves, or in the case of OsaMake: Dumb Black and the 7 Thirsty Sisters. Sueharu's VA Yoshitsugu Matsuoka is a staple in rom-coms, as is Kuroha's VA Inori Minase and Shirokusa's VA Ayane Sakura. With the inclusion of yet another girl in the love "rectangle" mix: VA Saori Oonishi (SaeKano's Eriri Sawamura) voicing Maria Momosaka, no doubt in my mind that the VAs are definitely the best part about this show, and just like every harem rom-com, I can tell that the VAs are definitely having fun while recording their lines for this show. Unsurprisingly, this is about as far as my praise would get, because everything else is tacked-on appalling, and don't even think about trying to defend this dense-less density of a show that's weaker than cooking oil to burn the flames even greater than imagined. I'll admit that if there is one thing that Shuichi Nimaru can get it right, is naming his characters, which are references to characters in Fire Emblem: Sueharu (Marth), Kuroha (Sheeda), Shirokusa (Catria), Tetsuhiko (Cain) and Maria (obviously Maria) respectively. Even Kuroha (black wing), Shirokusa (white dress) and (Maria) Momosaka (pink hill)'s names include colors. Ready to see who I'll label everyone as such? Here goes: - Sueharu Maru is the abridged Snow White's Dumb-and-Dumber Black - Tetsuhiko Kai is the Prince (just because I hate all girls who tries to win Sueharu's heart) - Kuroha Shida is Grumpy - Shirokusa Kachi is Bashful - Maria Momosaka is Happy - Rena Asagi is Dopey - Midori Shida is Sneezy - Aoi Shida is Sleepy - (Last but not least) Akane Shida is Doc Maru Sueharu is very apt as I call him Dumb Black because he doesn't know how to read his situations nor give solutions to circumstances. Instead, everything is hell-bent reliant on the best friend chad that is Tetsuhiko Kai, who does the in-between jobs for him like how a personal manager would be accounting to a former child star. It always makes me wonder who's playing the actual MC role here, and at more times than not, Tetsuhiko is like playing the "Prince Charming" or the dwarves' "Doc" role here to literally kiss the MC's butt and suck up to his shortcomings. For the girls, honest-to-God I've tried to have a better comparison for the background girls (especially Kuroha's 4 sisters), but for the 3 central girls Kuroha, Shirokusa and Maria, there's no mistaking their roles for how much screentime they got to eschew the living hell out of this child prodigy that's all talk but no action. This type of harem exists everywhere, but the execution here sucks my balls dry, not hard. One thing's for sure, this is not a Snow White kind of story that is a modernized classic fairy tale in the imitation space. Doga Kobo's production animation...sure seems wonky for a harem rom-com type of show. It seems to me as if there's a disconnect between the character designs and the visuals, which often come to me as 2 different byproducts that don't seem to mesh well together. Granted, slice-of-life shows is the studio's consistent bread-and-butter (and you can definitely feel a Doga Kobo show that way), but in recent times, going experimental with difference of styles from the magic fantasy that is Maoujou de Oyasumi, to the dark and depressing mystery drama that is Ikebukuro West Gate Park, it seems as though like it's etching its thematics like another studio (Ajia-Do). I'm not saying it's wrong to try out of the comfort zone, but you can definitely feel the difference in production (that's not necessarily a departure). Even the OST here really is so-so levels of decent. I really admire Riko Azuna's charmly voices when her songs are chosen for either OP or ED, but while OsaMake definitely feels like her normal rhetorical self, I've gotta admit that the peppy OP is kinda boring. Compare that to Spider Isekai and Yagate Kimi ni Naru a.k.a Bloom Into You's OP (which the latter is still by far the best beautiful song she's ever written), and it feels like a step down in quality. Overtime as time passes, character-centric EDs are sounding more mediocre, as much as I can give a thumbs up to the VAs who collaborate together for A+ effort, I can't say as much that it really does get old rather fast and for good reason. Should I say that I feel disappointed by what OsaMake tries to "be something different"? Apparently not, just find any word that rhymes with the prescriptive words of "bad","cliché", or even "cringe" as hell, and associate it with this bastardized harem rom-com of a show. Mark my words that this excruciating experience of a sleazy showing is absolutely not worth your time, and don't even think of starting this one.

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