Watashi ga Motete Dousunda

Kae Serinuma is a very kind second-year high school student and a devoted otaku. A little known fact about her, though, is that she's obsessed with BL, or Boy's Love. Serinuma can't help but to fantasize about her male classmates falling for each other and enjoys imagining them together. A more known fact about Serinuma, however, is that she’s noticeably overweight.

While watching her favorite show one day, Serinuma witnesses the death of her most beloved character. Utterly depressed, she can't muster up the energy to eat her meals, let alone attend school. After an entire week, she finally recovers. But now there's something unusual about her—during the time she refused to leave her room, she ended up losing a large amount of weight and has somehow become strikingly beautiful!

Now catching the eye of everyone who sees her, she finds herself at the center of attention of four boys she has always known at her school. Though they all wish to spend time with her, Serinuma would much rather they spend time falling in love with one another. How will Serinuma deal with the four boys pursuing her BL-obsessed self?

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Mutsumi, Asuma Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Serinuma, Kae Main

Kobayashi, Yuu Japanese

Nanashima, Nozomu Main

Koumoto, Keisuke Japanese

Nishina, Shima Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Shinomiya, Hayato Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Igarashi, Yuusuke Main

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Mutsumi, Kazuma Supporting

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Serinuma, Takurou Supporting

Mizushima, Daichuu Japanese

Shion Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Nakano, Amane Supporting

Shimoda, Asami Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Takanashi, Mai Producer

Uemura, Shunichi Producer

Yoshikawa, Atsushi Producer

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May 8, 2024

OwlShowers

Recommended

The best way you I can put it, is like Ouan High School Host Club. While it's certainly more problematic in the year of 2020+, it's still a very much guilty pleasure watch. It's fun and gives you the ability to root for someone in hopes of them getting together with Kai.

Though, like most, I do not like how the main character loses weight from severe depression in the very beginning. I feel like they very much glosses over that part and how everyone seemed to like her so quickly. We also don't get to have a lot of time with more side characters, ... like Amane, who is meant to be her best friend, and yet beside fan girl moments and at the very end - barely see her. It also feels like the anime barely even focuses on the other's at all at times, and we know nothing about their personal lives - while other suitors have complete episodes regarding their homelives and relationships outside of the harem.

Three out of 5 of the main suitors are incredibly shallow, only liking her for her works at the beginning. Though, it is really nice to see that despite the competitive nature, they all truly learn to care about her and like her for her personalities - so much so the young versions of themselves would barely recognize them. Near the end, while still having that nature - are completely still open to the idea of simply being friends with her and everyone else in the group.

Every suitor character besides Shima seems to have their time to improve, even in the little things like focusing boundaries, and being able to be honest about themselves and how they feel. Shima feels much more like just another rich girl and more of a platonic soulmate than a romantic one.

While it can come off as fetishy for some, that's mostly just a stereotype of how how Kai is a otaku, someone incredibly into men loving men content. Anime feels more like her one true paring than any of the actual suitors, and the anime makes it incredibly clear.

Again, I highly recommend this if you're looking for something light hearted and fun to turn your brain off to.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 30, 2024

gengrie

Mixed Feelings

Kiss Him, Not Me - An interesting and good time…if you’re the right audience.

Story: 7
Remember how I said it’s good if you’re the “right audience?” Yeah, this is really where it matters. Essentially, this overweight/obese otaku gets so sad when her favorite character dies that she ends up not eating for a week, causing her to magically lose weight and become pretty. Once she becomes super pretty, hot boys + girl go after her, but she only gets happy when the boys pursuing her have some kind of fanservice moment (or when the other girl joins in on their little fantasy or whatever). If you’re ... not a big anime fan, this probably sounds mundane. If you are a big anime fan, you’ll probably feel kind of called out (in the amusing way). There’s anime references that you wouldn’t get if you’re not into the anime community as well as situations that only anime fans really find themselves in.

Art: 9
Super pretty art. It’s very vivid and eye-catching. The colors are also very light all the time, making it feel really playful.

Sound: 9
It definitely does its job. There’s no shortage of anime sound effects or sharp changes in tone when she starts fangirling, which I find hilarious. Props to the dub voice actors; I don’t know what you had to do in the booth to get that take, but keep doing it!

Characters: 7
The characters have their own backstories and stuff, yeah, but no one had a groundbreaking character development. Are they funny? Absolutely. Are they masterpieces? Not exactly.

Enjoyment: 10
Once again, I said this show is funny for the right audience, and it’s right up my alley. The creators must’ve been otakus or fangirls themselves; there is absolutely no way they replicated the experience without knowing it firsthand. It’s a fun leisure watch (as in, you don’t need to be mega invested in the plot to have a good time).

Overall: 8
This show is worth a watch…*if you’re the right audience!* (Can’t stress that enough!) I’m not sure this is a good watch if you’re not into fanservice at all (even if it’s satirical) or if you haven’t watched enough anime or interacted with the community enough to understand what’s going on without consulting Google every five minutes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 13, 2024

nyaieko

Not Recommended

This anime's overall message to its young female audience and its fetishization of mlm relationships was concerning and annoying.

CHARACTERS: 2/10

Every single romance option (aside from Asuma Mutsumi) was EXTREMELY shallow. They only wanted Serinuma because of her weight loss. Not a single one of them truly cared about her feelings, her hobbies, or her overall personality as long as she stayed thin in all the right places. There are so many moments in the show where each of the love interests do things to court Serinuma at her own expense. None of them were all that likable. (aside from Asuma Mutsumi) Serinuma herself was a ... flawed characters. I get this is to poke fun at the fujoshi community but she was still disturbing. Definitely not saying women have 0 right to enjoy mlm media as I do not have a say in that but the fetishization over mlm media (and LGBTQ relationships in general) is weird and disgusting.

PLOT/CONCEPTS: 1/10

The overall message alone is distasteful. The main people consuming this are young women and as someone who struggles with body image, this is a terrible message. (I am ONLY talking about the anime not the manga just fyi) This essentially shows young girls that personality doesn't matter as long as you are thin in all the "right" places and beautiful. This anime would've been a whole lot better if the love interests began to like Serinuma for who she was no matter what appearance she might take. None of the love interest really show any growth in truly liking Serinuma because she's her. They only like her because she's hot. Sure, they play along with her hobbies at time despite finding them strange, but you can tell they don't do it for her sake but for their sake in winning her affection. Mutsumi Is really the only one seen liking Serinuma and respecting her as a human being before and after her weight transformation, while the others were shown to have little compassion for her as a human being. This is a terrible message and the plot is so generic, it's literally your average reverse harem anime.

ENJOYMENT: 3/10

Admittedly, this anime has its fun, cute, and funny moments. What ruined this was its message to young girls and the annoyingly pushy love interests who did whatever they could to date the new "attractive" Serinuma at the cost of her own feelings. She is shown to feel uncomfortable and upset over the love interests' selfishness and that's just a huge turn off for me. I watched it for a good laugh and I got that but I couldn't see myself rewatching this ever again

OVERALL RATING: 3/10

This anime is dumpster fire. It easily could've been better if the love interests had some more character development and begun to like Serinuma as she is. If she was to permanently revert to her old self I doubt any of them (aside from Asuma Mutsumi) would still pursue her. The shallowness of the love interest ruined something that could've been good and annoyed the living crap out of me. I finished this anime with a bad taste lingering in my mouth.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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