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NOVEL ComedyOsananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Come
MANGA ComedyOsananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Come

REVIEWS

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  charlyfox

  20/100
  The childhood friend may not lose, but the audience sure does.

  TL,DR: This anime sorely lacks direction. If you're looking to kill time or just adding another harem-ish anime to your watch-list, yeah, give it a shot. Otherwise you'd be better off watching another romantic comedy like Nozaki-kun or Ore Monogatari.

  Animation Quality: okay mostly, sometimes really pretty
  Story: starts out okay, gets confused and lost
  Characters: present, some of them actually starting to show signs of development
  Overall Opinion: Forgettable and bland

  Some friends and I started this anime because we were curious about the title. Best case scenario, we'd get a funny romantic comedy, worst case, we'd get a nice and toasty dumpster fire.
  The first three episodes seemed promising. The whole setting is your typical "High school boy likes girl" with everything building up to the confession. So pretty standard stuff really, decently enjoyable. The characters, even if displaying very genre-typical traits, are written okay. The chemistry between the character works okay. All signs were set for this anime to be an okay watching experience.
  After that we start spiraling out of control. Ever more love interest are introduced and the story starts having an identity crisis. The anime basically ditches the school setting to change into a "this is about actors/acting now"-costume. We stuck with it, because we'd still get the occasional chuckle out of it, along with not only a beach episode, but a whole beach arc!
  Boy, were we ever unprepared. Starting at roughly episode 6, every episode was basically a new first episode. The anime continues to re-establish what kind of relationship the characters have to the protagonist, and how they feel about him. Instead of feeding us the story, or whatever is left of it, in small, easy packages, we get assaulted by characters gushing exposition and repeats of their history with the protagonist up until now. Characters pop in and out as they please, too. So be prepared for them demanding you care, even if they had a whole combined screen-time of maybe 30 seconds. Don't get too attached, though, because they will disappear into the void the moment you take your eyes off the screen.
  The last episode takes the cake, though. We start off with some cheap panty-shots in the first 5 minutes, even if the anime went without for 11 episodes. Next, we get YET ANOTHER recap of the protagonist's past with one of the main love interests, and a final confession. Yet, the moment you think they finally did the thing with the most common sense and TALK, the anime just yeets that idea out of the window again, just to give us another 5 minutes of filler discussion of side characters, analyzing the protagonist's relationship and actions for whatever reason.
  To top it all off, we end on a cliffhanger, since the light novel has not come to a conclusion either.

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• 

  flavortown

  50/100
  A soap opera with brief lucid moments where it remembers it's a romcom

  The second romcom this year with Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Ayane Sakura, and Inori Minase, but this one's about childhood friends instead of quintuplets. (You should watch that instead.)

  The show starts with Maru as a pretty nondescript guy, but over the season we learn more about his past as a child actor and his current career aspirations.

  The three love interests are his childhood friends from different parts of his life - Shida knowing him the longest as his neighbour and best friend, while Kachi and Maria know him from on and off the set respectively during his acting career.

  Kai and Abe act as observers, with Abe playing the rival for the first couple of episodes before largely acting as a sounding board for Kai's thoughts. The other characters get little focus, fading in from the background for jokes at best and showing up for the last quarter of the season completely out of place at worst.

  The animation never really goes wrong, and the art style overall is bright and clean. There aren't really any high action scenes that warrant praise, but it's a romcom, after all. Or they claim it's one, anyway.

  That covers everything except the overall plot -

  Oh, man.

  The first three episodes start innocent enough. One easy to follow "revenge" plot and a few characters doing their thing. It's after that plan wraps up that the story starts to meander and pull you wherever it feels like going that episode, introducing new characters and exploring Maru's past.

  There's a lot of plot threads that don't go anywhere; to be expected since this season doesn't have a definitive ending, but there were a few "twists" in there about a few of the side characters being secretly related to each other that were brought up once and never again. This happens once per episode for a while and you never get used to it.

  The competition between the girls ends up taking a back seat for most of the season, focusing more on Maru's return to acting and the obstacles in his way. It only pops up in the show's brief lucid moments where it remembers it's a romcom just long enough to put one of the girls in the lead until Kai monologues otherwise.

  In the end, I feel like I only stuck through it because I was already committed to watching it as it aired, and I was ever so slightly looking forward to seeing what curveball they'd throw in my face next.

  P.S.: The characters mostly take their names from Fire Emblem if you're into that, like Maru, Shida, and Kachi being named after Marth, Caeda, and Catria, Kai and Abe = Cain and Abel, etc. It was interesting as a Fire Emblem fan to see how the characters' namesakes somewhat reflected their role in the anime... not enough to recommend watching it, though.

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• 

  OppaiEmperor

  30/100
  A love comedy where the childhood friend doesn’t lose, but also doesn't truly win.

  This is my first review, so don’t expect it to be perfect. I will try my best to be as “objective” as possible when writing this. My review is spoiler free for the most part, so you can rest assured. Without further ado, let's begin, shall we?

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  “Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Come” or “OsaMake”, for short, is a romantic comedy centered around our three main protagonists: Sueharu Maru, and his two childhood friends, Kuroha Shida and Shirokusa Kachi. Stereotypically in anime/manga, the childhood friend usually doesn’t win the affections of the protagonist, but the author of OsaMake tries to remedy this by making both our heroines the childhood friend, thus meaning that no matter who Sueharu picks in the end, a childhood friend will finally win. However, the problem with that is, while the two childhood friends in the story don't lose like the title suggests. Another problem also arises, they don’t win, as ironic as that sounds. Why? Because of the fact that they're both childhood friends. As far as I know, it's the norm in our society to only date one girl, so no matter what happens, theoretically, there has to be a loser in the end. Sure, it's a temporary win-win and a lose-lose situation created by the author, but it doesn't actually solve the issue of no one wins in the end.

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  Story: 20/100

  The basic story of OsaMake is a love triangle between the primary protagonists: Sueharu Maru, Kuroha Shida, and Shirokusa Kachi. The premise of the show is that Sueharu has a crush on Shirokusa, who is an extremely popular girl and an award winning high school author. However, his childhood friend, Kuroha Shida, is madly in love with Sueharu and confesses to him, but he only has eyes for Shirokusa, thus rejecting her in the process. Sueharu plans to confess his feelings to Shirokusa, but is devastated after finding out she has a boyfriend. Feeling down, his childhood friend, Kuroha, offers Sueharu to help him get revenge on Shirokusa and her boyfriend. After the matter gets resolved, the plot goes absolutely nowhere because the characters are being stubborn and illogical.

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  Characters: 10/100

  Oh boy, where do I even begin? Out of the various romantic comedies I’ve watched, the characters in this show were one of the most insufferable for me. I’ve watched a myriad of romantic comedies before and I at least liked a few of characters no matter how bad the show was. For this show? I hated almost all the characters in this show, except for Shiro. The main character, Sueharu, is bland and lame; Kuro is extremely annoying and illogical; Maria is a conniving bitch; and Tetsuhiko is, well, simply put, a scumbag. Shiro is the only character I didn't dislike in the show. Okay, the best way to explain this to you is: Let's say you're visiting a farm, and everywhere in the farm you went to, you find a pile of cow poop. Then suddenly, amongst all the cow poop, you find a beautiful flower. Yeah, that flower is Shiro for me. For me personally, I highly value having likeable characters in a show in order for me to fully enjoy it. This show doesn’t fulfill that requirement, therefore, the show is not going to be a fun ride for me. “Why don’t you just drop it?” you might be wondering. Well, my retort to that would be: Why drop it when I could instead finish it and roast it?

  

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  Art: 40/100

  Believe it or not, I actually think the art is one of two strong points for this show. The visuals in this show are pretty colorful and are nice to look at for the most part. The art style is pretty faithful to the original style in the light novel. It’s nothing too outstanding, but it’s not outright terrible also, so I’ll give it some credit for doing something right. Ui Shigure did a great job designing the characters, but man, if only most of the characters in the series weren’t so unlikeable. I actually like the art quite a bit. As a fan of Ui Shigure, it's truly disappointing that her work is being wasted like this.

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  Audio: 60/100

  The only thing that is saving this absolute dumpster fire of a show from being truly terrible for me is its amazing seiyuu cast. The seiyuu cast is absolutely stacked, ladies and gentlemen! We have the legendary king of harem protagonists himself, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, voicing as Sueharu Maru; Inori Minase voicing as Kuroha Shida; Ayane Sakura voicing as Shirokusa Kachi; Saori Oonishi voicing as Maria Momosaka; and last, but not least, Nobunaga Shimazaki voicing as Tetsuhiko Kai. There are many more noticeable seiyuus voicing in the show as well, but those are the main cast. The stacked seiyuu cast alone earned the show 40 points from me. As for where the remaining 20 points are coming from, it came from the opening and ending being slightly above average in my opinion, and the seiyuus did a phenomenal job bringing life to the characters. As much as Kuro pisses me off, I want to give a huge applause to Inorin for making her so mischievous and annoying. Hate Kuro all you want, but without her, the show wouldn’t be what it is (for the better or worse). Once again, I want to give a huge applause to all the seiyuus who had to voice act in this dumpster fire of a show.

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  Enjoyment: 20/100

  Please forgive me after being as objective as I could because I’m going to be absolutely blunt here: This show is trash. I can speak Japanese to a proficient level, so when I saw the title of this show for the first time, I had a gut feeling that it’ll be terrible. The literal translation of OsaMake is “The Romantic Comedy Where the Childhood Friend Won't Lose”. Yeah… You instantly know the show will probably be bad from reading the title. However, I wanted to be wrong on this, so I gave it a shot to prove me wrong. I gave it as minimal of an expectation as I possibly can to surprise me, but it failed. The first two episodes weren't too bad, but after that, oh boy, my pre-expectations were proven right: It was terrible! It was painful to watch this show without turning off your brain, but I would be lying to y’all if I told you I didn’t enjoy it at least a bit. Nothing in this show made sense, but that's precisely why I sort of find it entertaining. There were so many instances the show made me facepalm and make me ask myself, "but why though?" Make no mistake though, my homies, this show is bad. Very, very bad as a matter of fact. However, it’s one of those shows that is so bad, it’s actually good.

  

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  In conclusion, OsaMake is not a show I would recommend to you if you want a good story. It’s more of a show to watch if you're seeking for a good laugh because of how bad it is. If that’s what you want, then I would suggest giving this a shot. As I mentioned earlier in the enjoyment section, you shouldn’t expect too much from the show. I feel like it could be better than what it is right now if the characters weren't so unlikeable. My closing thought for this show is: It’s a show that is so bad, that it’s actually good.

  All right, math time: 150/500 = 0.30; 0.30 x 100 = 30/100
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