Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara (If Her Flag Breaks)

In visual novels, an imaginary flag is defined as an event that serves as a turning point for the whole story. A player triggering the romance flag for a heroine will proceed to her route, or a death flag will signify that a certain character will die afterwards.

High school student Souta Hatate can see these flags above a person's head, and has the ability to bring them down to stop certain events from happening. Using this power, he has prevented other people's deaths. But, after a past accident with him as a sole survivor, he ended up believing that only misfortune will befall those who are near him, and has refrained from making friends or having relationships ever since.

However, everything starts to change after transferring to a new school. After toppling another death flag, his classmate Nanami Knight Bladefield notices his powers and tries to learn more about him, promising that she will remain at his side no matter what may happen. Thus begins Souta's journey as he meets new friends and acquaintances while uncovering the mysteries of his ability—which might run deeper than what anyone expects.

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Adaptation:	Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara
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Toyosaki, Aki
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Fukuda, Jun

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Watanabe, Ayumu

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Aketagawa, Jin

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Shimazaki, Nanako

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"Cupid Review (クピドゥレビュー)" by Aoi Yuuki (eps 2-12)

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"Kanojo ga Flag wo Tateru Wake (彼女がフラグを立てる理由)" by YELL (Ibuki Kido, Ai Kayano, Kana Asumi, Kana Hanazawa, Yoko Hikasa, Ayaka Suwa)

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Oct 13, 2014

Jarrbearr

Recommended

The concept of flags seems interesting right? Death flags, friendship flags, even a romance flag to top it all off. The low score this anime has is something I strongly disagree with. I think people are reading the synopsis and jumping the gun when they read about the concept. This is NOT an Action/Adventure whatsoever. This is a Comedy/Harem anime!

With that in mind this anime has a concept that is unique and did a good job showing it for the genre that this anime is under. It made some really good comedy and actually has some serious parts in it.

This anime has sprung a lot ...

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Jun 30, 2014

Hime-In-A-Box

Mixed Feelings

What an ending.
Flag Matrix: Harem Edition.
Also known as "If Her Flag Breaks".
I honestly feel as though they should have done something different with this show. I'm glad they tried something new, but it was way too obnoxious for me to appreciate it, at all.
They should have stayed away from being a harem in general. The plot was intriguing and had a lot of potential, so why fill it up with annoying and cliche harem devices? The harem was way too big, too. Around 12 or 13 girls. Seriously? Come on, man.
If this show was, instead of a silly and ridiculously large ...

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Jul 6, 2014

P_D_S

Not Recommended

[Three points before I begin: 1; I'm sorry for the length, sometimes I tend to ramble. I do a TL:DR at the very bottom for a small conclusion. 2. There will be minor spoilers, I will try to review this with the least amount as possible. 3.This is just my opinion, feel free to disagree or agree. But remember, this is just one man's opinion and the scores go by MAL standards, 7/10 is a C, which means average]

This is one of the worst animes I have seen. Sure, it is competent enough on a good amount of points, it ain't no Garzey's wing or ... Mars of Destruction. But on the other hand, this anime flops so many times I'm surprised it survived it's own death flag.

Story: So our MC can see Flags! That is a perfectly fine premise. Sort of like in Noucome, where the protagonist can see different choices like in Visual Novels. But in Kanojo Flag, instead of this being a random curse, he was given this curse by a loli magician, who he lost in chess. He must now muster a group of girls who represent different fantasy RPG classes and in doing so take the red pill and WTF is going on? No seriously, this anime is split into two halves. Harmless harem romcom and the third matrix movie. Plus, it is introduced to us a couple episodes later with no explanation. What explanation we get, is even more confusing than before. 3/10

Characters: If I can give this anime any accolades, it does pull off a good 7+ girl harem. SEVEN+ GIRL HAREM. We got, the Classic Tsundere, Modern Tsundere, Oneechan, the Imouto, the Trap, the Ojou-sama, The Childhood Friend, the Tomboy/Genki Girl, Yandere, the foreign girl. There is every harem stereotype there is in this anime...and that is the problem, they are all stereotypes. Take any trope for one of these stereotypes, for example: The Tomboy wanting to be more girlish? Check. Childhood friends meeting each other after 5+ years? Check. That is the problem with all of these girls. They are so cuttout and cardboard you don't even have to recycle. Compost them. Sure you get some molding, for example: The Foreign girl is also the tsundere ect. But we have seen that before (Hidan no Aria for example). That is the problem, we have seen ALL of this before. Quantity doesn't always mean quality.

Now, the main character... So you know that anime OreGairu/ Teen RomCom SNAFU? How that main character tries to avoid people and responsibility because he is a nihilist and makes himself the enemy because he sees that the community around him needs one and he gets no accolades by anyone? WELL F*** THAT NOISE. This guy gets a majority of his harem by trying to not make flags, he flags them anyway. At the start he is pretty unlikable. At the end...he is ok I guess, but he does nothing. 3/10

Art: The art is fine. If I can give Hoods Entertainment anything it is that their art is pretty good. The only thing about this anime being done by hoods, it is probably the worst art done by Hoods. At least animes like Fantasista Dolls had good action art. The best art in this anime is probably the death flags and a horse....a very very majestic horse. 6/10

Sound: The VA's do their work well, and each have their own voices, even the characters who only appear for one episode, they are all noticeable and well done. I do like the OP but the ED I could do without. 6/10

Enjoyment: Now I do admit, the first couple episodes were enjoyable. The anime did do some new things we don't see in harem animes. (ex:The Childhood friend character is still in contact with the MC via texting), Hanakana's character has some good quirks and a pretty funny running gag punchline. But that is about it. When the anime introduces the fantasy elements, it makes no sense whatsoever. Many a'time I was almost yelling at my computer saying "EXPLAIN ANIME....EXPLAIN", and when it does....it doesn't help. It then goes all "TAKE THE RED PILL" and spirals even deeper down the Death Flag Spiral. 3/10

Overall:

While this anime at first does seem like a nice harem anime, it is brickwalled by confusing and unexplained plot elements and the most, THE MOST cardboard of cardboard harem characters with a pretty unlikable MC.

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