Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo

If you enjoy Romance anime, then I highly recommend this one to you. Over the past few seasons, I felt as though the Romance genre has been pretty stale, but this one has got me excited for every new episode. I have only seen the first 4 episodes so far, but if you are checking in on this new series, this review is for you.

Story: The story is pretty simple. Two cute girls go up to the MC and start doing a confession, MC gets nervous, but BAM, they both confess that they are in love in MC's best friend. Then enter a 3rd girl, ... who is nerdy, keeps to herself, and works in the library, she confesses to the MC. Nothing to grand or super unique, but it is how the anime goes about it, from plot twist to plot twist and fun interactions.

Art: The art and animation in this anime is top notch for a Romance (non-action) anime. The characters all look aesthetically pleasing (girls look cute) and the facial animation really gets you into the scene. Absolutely no complaints in this department.

Sound: I feel as though all the voice actors fit their characters so far and help bring out the emotion needed for each scene. I am not a sound expert by any means, but I have seen plenty of anime with voice acting that stands out in a bad way and not once have I cringed during this anime.

Characters: This is what separates this anime from the recent Romance anime. The MC and the two main side characters (best friend and the nerdy girl) really showcase their individual personalities in these first 4 episodes. The best friend appears to be the basic "popular kid" in the school at first, but you get to see more of him fairly quick. MC is dense to an extend (to keep the romance from budding too quickly) but he is pretty squared away majority of the time. I hate dumb main characters, he is not a dumb character.

Overall: I cannot recommend this enough if you enjoy Romance / Comedy anime. It even adds a little drama/mystery in a quirky and fun way. So far the writing and characters are EXTREMELY entertaining. It is already in the top 3 animes of the season for me personally

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 is ... accurate, 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

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This is also my first, and only, review I will ever write on MAL, so apologies if the format or the content reads a bit messy.

"Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo" (or "Are you the only one who loves me?") was an anime hailing from Fall 2019's season, but I only got around to watch it during these dreadful times, and oh boy, it only aggravated whatever misery I was trying to block out in me.

We are given the typical introduction to the main character in these high school animes, alongside the childhood friend who, of course, is a girl. As ... more minutes go by we find out he is also a member of the student council and he has a second childhood friend, the ace player of the school's baseball team. Neat. It is a decent introduction and there's nothing that really stands out, either negatively or positively. The plot, as we are led to believe, will involve these colorful, flower-inspired girls and the two childhood friends who are the Sun and the Moon, quite literally (due to their nicknames) in harmless, rom-com banter, as Joro, the main character, states right at the beginning.

But things take a turn when he's invited to what he assumes is a date by both his female childhood friend Hinata and student council president Sakura.
You see, the only segment on the four episodes I have watched in this show that could pass as the comedy portion of "rom-com" stem from both girls, on separate dates, asking for his help in hooking up with his friend Oga (or Sun-chan). The misunderstanding Joro made when on his "date" with both girls is what cranks the engine for the plot during the next three episodes.

And this is where Oresuki rears its ugly head and the one-hour crucifixion of my soul began.

The anime never was a rom-com. It was, at best, a commentary on the duality of Chad v Incel. I say that because the second half of the first episode our main character reveals that we, in fact, live in a society, where girls use their childhood friend status and maturity as a pretext to toy with a poor guy's heart strings, as if it was an harp playing a requiem for the fallen at a funeral for love. At every opportunity Joro can't help himself but to insult under his breath the two girls he felt that used him, calling them "bitches" at times. But, of course, the first episode's trainwreck could not stop there, because there was one more course, apparently. And that lies in the third girl, the one that loves Joro but Joro doesn't love her, since she is that weird, ugly girl that everyone avoids like they're at the peak of the Black Plague and she had just grown a small lump on her cheek. She appears holding a "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", in what I assume is a comparison of the man/beast with Joro's "obtuse", kind boy with the incel inside. To be honest, she could had been holding a copy of Shrek 1 and I'd still get the idea that like onions, Joro is multilayered.

And from here, it only got worse. At this point, any expectations I had sunk faster than the stock market in 1929 and I kept going through the see-through, predictable, mess of a story to realize that while Joro was helping both girls hooking up with Sun-chan, no character was likeable. Both girls are completely braindead. The plot here is that Sun-chan must never find out that they like him or that Joro is helping them, but... that doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm also braindead, but if Sun-chan knew about Joro's endeavors regarding the girls wouldn't it facilitate Joro's work since Sun-chan could just take over? But alas, for the sake of a plot point I could see on the other side of the world just like a mushroom cloud in the night sky, Sun-chan likes the weird girl (who is, by the way, extremely hot and not ugly as she appears). The anime picked up the love-triangle and decided it wasn't enough, we needed a love-pentagon (or a square if you bundle up the two girls that want Sun-chan together).

The third episode was, to no one's surprise, any better.
The plot goes out the window because Sun-chan, hurt by Joro's refusal in helping him with his love affairs, takes revenge on him, turning both girls against our infant Joker behind the scenes, resulting in a clash in the empty library (where our weird girl works as an aide) that hurts beyond repair Joro's image in everyone's eyes. Ostracized by his peers, left without any friends but the weird library girl, he lives a week used to his outcast status.
But, lo-and-behold, this was a master plan of the library girl, because Sun-chan was unmasked as a despicable villain by having betrayed Joro all because he got butthurt over a girl TWICE (the first one was in middle school) And that, for those who are keeping count, makes the total of unlikable characters to four. At least, the library girl wasn't bad in the three and a half episodes I watched before I decided I wasn't into this kind of torture. There was also a bit of dialogue that suggests Joro is in fact multilayered: apparently, he has the outer façade, the incel within and then underneath that lies the kindhearted friend. Adding more layers to a character doesn't help him when all of them are paper-thin.

The fourth episode (at least, the 10 minutes I spent on it before dropping this show altogether) opened up with the Meta-Commentary™, truly, the symbol of a show who doesn't know what to do next. This is followed by the addition of a new girl, who is also based after a flower (who could have guessed?) and works as a reporter. This conversation only got me until they mentioned an event called the Flower Festival (which already doesn't feel very original since all of the girls are based after flowers) where the crux of it is when a guy dances with three other girls in succession, and what do you know? We have EXACTLY three girls that will probably dance with him because the plot demands it!

I say "will probably dance" because this was when I said "aight, I'm boutta head out" and dropped it.

In terms of technical parts, the art and the sound are serviceable. The art looks good and the sound works. The OP and ED aren't really that memorable but I'm not docking points for that. The animations are what you would expect from an anime from this generation and look alright too. It's just the characters that are beyond salvation that even Jesus himself wouldn't die for their sins.

Seriously, if you want to watch a rom-com that is actually good, go see "Toradora". For the Flower Festival bit that also says that one of those three girls will marry the guy, "We Never Learn" is another rom-com with a similar festival but better, since the manga is taking full advantage of having five girls to do different routes for them starting at that event and its superstition. I wouldn't recommend Oresuki to anyone unless they would like to know if there's an anime version of Agent Orange or they are into BDSM, because this kind of torture is astounding. Hell, I watched Ishuzoku Reviewers, alone, in daylight and the sheer embarrasment I felt wasn't nowhere near as painful as having to sit through the first episode of this anime, I never got why they called Rising of The Shield Hero an "incel fantasy" when this anime features one as its main character.

There are great rom-coms out there, but this isn't one.

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 who ... manages 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.

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 of ... the 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

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 the ... affection 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.

Who would have thought that I will ever plan to give a Comedy/Harem show a 10/10? I guess noone and least myself, but here we are. Ore Suki (Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo) is definitely worth to be compared to the phenomenal anime adaption of Oregairu or other fantastic rom-coms.

The most interesting part of this show are the characters and the way storytelling is done. I had a feeling of unreliable narration as certain story sections are told from different perspective with differing outcomes and how the characters have understood or misunderstood the situations. This leads to a plethora of hilarious ... and both gratifying and just overall funny moments.

We have Joro, who is a real suckup for the girls that he is interested in and does everything for them he can to support them with their chores. He seems like a total beta but he is actually the real chad of this anime. We see this as soon he realizes that none of the girls (quirky Osananajimi and strict but shy Seitokaichou) he puts so much effort to please like him, rather want him to help them getting together with Joros best friend, a handsome guy called Sun-chan.

Joro encounters at the core three women of which only one turns out to have actual interest in him. But the show tells us that that girl is undesirable for Joro and thus he fights with all his energy against getting together with the third girl. This third girl turns out to be sharp and saves his ass from abusive reliance.

Are the characters flat? Are they as confuciusdragon points out "bad characters"?
I would heavily disagree, because I see that show inherently as a deconstruction of the romance genre as we know it. We don't have an ecchi protagonist that is totally oblivious to the female charme and we don't have conventional characters. What he do have are the most overused tropes of a romance show possible: impossibly clingy Osananajimi, Senpai Seitokaichou and an Ojou-sama Librarian..

Some of the jokes are crazy in hilarity. There is this scene where Ayano isn't able to speak to her love interest without getting nervous and so she starts talking in a traditional Sengoku-Era Samurai tone and says shit like: "I'd like to indulge with you in the practice of having a meal on the roof" while Joro is just cringing hard. I nearly died of laughter.

The first 4 episodes I was constantly in a state of excessive laughter at the genuinely funny jokes and in dismay for the beta protagonist to be stepped on and exploited. But in ep 3 after ep2 ends with an impossibly sadistic cliffhanger, we are introduced to the smartness of the Librarian character who deduces based on strings that were pulled by the aforementioned narrative earlier that theres betrayal among the characters, despite them thinking they are all doing each other favors. This kind of 4D chess feels amazing to follow and it kept me interested.

The music is strange, because its sometimes dramatic at places where it doesn't need be and sometimes the musical underlining is perfect. We have more eerie sounding OST as well as Piano music sometimes. Also the sound design is superb and adds wonderful accent to each of the jokes.

The art is decent, it could be better and it definitely doesn't reach legendary status but it's likely the best this stupid can produce. For that sake its nothing to complain about. Also the superdeformed characters can add to the jokes.

I didn't plan for this review to be so long, especially since the anime didn't even finish airing but with such an awesome show I cannot keep my words brief. Really appreciate this season, even though nothing looked appealing at first glance.

I can only give this show kudos for the times it made me laugh and that I consumed 6 episodes of it when I should long be asleep (5:38am) and I still bother to write a review...well that should mean a lot.

Good night!

I have only watched the second half of the first episode before I understood what this anime was really about, didn't read the description or the tags before so I thought it might be a laid-back back-to-basics "normal", cliche anime, but soon I realized how wrong I was.

In this anime the main protagonist is purely a joke and I have no doubt that beyond the second half of the first episode, he will continue to play the "joke" role simply being there to be made fun of, trampled and abused by his "best friend" and probably 6 girls that fall in "love" with the baseball ... team captain (the "best friend") for whatever reason (probably all 6 with the same reason AND at the same time somehow)

So yeah, the anime is not cliche except for all the bad parts, go figure...

In short

Library Girl: Oh you want me to forgive you even though you tried to assault and rape me, ye sure thats fine.

MC: Oh you betrayed me, used me, tried to rape a girl while I watched, but you still want to be friends with me, ye sure thats fine.

MC: Oh you used me to try date my 'bestfriend', your sorry you abused me used me and treated me like shit and your sorry for blaming all your problems on me? Ye thats fine I forgive you.

Started of cringy, so I dropped it. But I heard it got better so I continued to watch and ... found out about his actual personality and got a bit interested. As I was interested I kept watching and expected him to eventually cut his ties with these people that are using him. But he doesn't he forgives them for literally no reason, because they've 'changed'. If someone treats you like shit, uses you, some what abuses you and blames all their problems on you, You don't forgive them its common sense for you to cut your ties. The attempted rape that the mc's 'best friend' committed that was forgiven like 10 seconds later, that was amazing, like yeah thats definitely how that works. After a girl gets sexually assaulted they become friends with the guy who did it, 100% amazing story writing. I didn't bother to watch much afterwards, it was just annoying knowing that the characters writing was skipped over and was lazily done. It had potential in my opinion, they just had to cut those guys out of the mcs life and actually make a good story.

Sorry for bad grammar lol

Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo (2019)

Short name: ORESUKI

The show revolves around initially a character Joro who hides his real personality behind a kinder demeanour. He is in fact much more unkind than expected but he has got a lot to deal with. Initially, he has his childhood friend Aoi Hinata and Sakura Akino the student council president who he is very close too. They both want to see him and confess their feelings but initially, it doesn't go how he thought it would. Then a new girl, the one he thinks is weird Sanshokuin Sumireko appears and he ends ... up on a bench once again. He fears what will happen and a confession occurs.

As the show progresses the harem style show begins building with the possibility of a single girl resolution. Although a harem is what he wants he does realise it won't work in the long run. His personality, however, makes it difficult to act.

Many dramas occur along with the show that put Joro into weird situations that make various girls appear with similar but varying intentions. Thus we have Joro and Bench-Kun in their adventure to find out who loves who.

The art style of the show is very good. It works really well and makes it enjoyable. The cameos from shows that appear at times are great and the Bench scenes especially when Hina Hanetachi appears are just wonderful.

The OP for the show is great. Within a few seconds, it is a really catchy opening to then a great song. The ED as expected is also great and very suitable for the show.

Characters:

Amatsuyu Kisaragi (Joro) the main character with a split personality. He is actually just someone trying to find himself and is actually a pretty touching character in that respect. He ultimately is trying to find his place. He goes through many hardships but also many funny scenes.

Taiyou Ooga (Sun-chan) a star on the baseball team. He is the best friend of Joro and has an equally twisted personality. He is a very hard character to like and enjoy how he is.

Aoi Hinata (Himawari) the childhood friend of Joro that is a tennis star. She is one of a varying love mess that changes throughout the course of the show.

Sakura Akino (Cosmos) the student body president. She is known by her nickname due to her beauty that is rivalled by few.

Sumireko Sanshokuin (Pansy) is the main female in the show and is very interesting. Her revelation during the show is amazing and her personality is just wonderful when put up around the others.

My favourite character in the show for she is like a dream is Hina Hanetachi (Asunaro) is from the newspaper club and is in love like many girls. She is a simple character who you figure out fights off the loneliness that she wants to fill. She goes to lengths perhaps the wrong way to get what she wants. She has a hard fight going forward.

Although many more characters can be written about there is one that is just unexpected during the show:

Asaka Mayama the 'gal character' (known as Sasanqua). She is somewhat hostile towards one of the guys in the show but later after a revelation at the swimming pool about the type of girl the guy likes she takes a huge u-turn in how she is. She is a great character too being that she is the textbook Tsundere character.

The show is an absolute enjoyment. It has got many typical tropes and situations but it is done in a refreshing way. Although it is going towards a harem it also has the potential to go in many directions.

The show has OVAs under planning and a second season could come easily. The show leaves off with a major cliff hanger that forces more episodes forwards because it is just suspense to the stars.

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 being ... part 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.

I came into this late due to watching other things. But boy howdy was it worth the wait for me.

With how it's been built up, it's quite a unique story, something that I certainly haven't seen done as of yet. Along with the fact the pacing doesn't feel rushed at all. It also gives off the vibe that you may not know what is going to happen next. As what is used in the show, could possibly be dragged out more, but it's fit perfectly to tell a good story.

The characters are rather interesting too. Sure, some may seem like regular characters that you ... see in most anime. But that doesn't make them bad in the slightest. But I believe their personalities really go with the flow of the anime, and make for a great experience.

If you still haven't watched this as of yet, you should give it a shot! A few eps in won't take that long at all! I'm looking forward to more episodes, and so should you!

CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST FEW EPISODES AND GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE SHOW

I may sound a bit bitter in this review. But please make no mistake, I think this show is a pretty fun romp. But I’ve seen the elevator pitch thrown around for this show. It promises “a harem show where the protagonist is the best friend gag character instead of the Harem MC”.

That seems like the premise, at first. The Gentleman Gamer main character can’t get women to fall for him because they’re too busy drooling over his best friend. Given this, he tries to get laid by manipulating the femoids behind ... the scenes, all while dealing with the unwanted attention, possessiveness and manipulation of the one girl he isn't horny for (who happens to look like Saki from Emergence) as well as a supernatural malicious bench that appears out of nowhere to the tune of a bootleg version of Star Wars’ Imperial March (yes, that last part is real).

This all leads to the idea that we are in for some clever subversion of the genre, or at the very least an irreverent comedy with a fresh premise. Maybe it’s some sort of nasty teen drama, where all the characters are massive dicks, even? You may be getting all excited in your seat.

Do not buy into this filthy deception.

It rapidly becomes apparent that this is a classic harem show of the “prick with a golden heart chased by women with issues” variant (think Oregairu or Bunny-senpai). Women he interacts with start seeing the good in him and tripping over themselves to eat his meat. And all fertile females from his past or places certainly outside the plot start flocking to him from a 20 mile radius. All very standard Harem, and certainly not the subversion you may have been led to believe this was, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, of course. Same same. But different. But still the same.

So does it stand up to scrutiny as a “prick with a heart of gold, women with issues” drama-harem show?

Sort of.

Its characters are unfortunately for the most part too shallow and too tropey for it to really hit home in the same way something like Bunny-Senpai might. And some of the characters definitely do some horrible shit that we could maybe laugh at in a “wow these people are terrible” style of comedy, but that just makes them hard to root for in a show that expects us to care about them. Like how Pansy is essentially an emotionally abusive GF and a stalker, both of which are criminal offenses. Or the fact that Sun-chan makes an actual, unironic rape threat (with the definite indication that he is going to follow through on it) in episode 3. Yeah. Yikes. He’s supposed to be the goofy best friend character.

But is the show fun, at least?

Yeah, it is. It’s full of gags and charming, (albeit superficial) characters. I wish they would have made them bigger jerks in their everyday life, I think it would have made them funnier, but you can’t always get what you want. And that Darth Vader bench-gag does get me every time. I have to admit, I binged the first many episodes of this show in one day. It has a nice flow and can be pretty hot at times. And the mini-plots of each arc are pretty engaging and don’t outstay their welcome. It’s definitely an enjoyable watch, if you’re into something lighter.

So, should you watch this show if you’re looking for a high-concept comedy that takes the piss out of harem tropes by turning them on their head? Probably not, you’ll just be left with a bitter taste in your mouth as you discover the true harem nature of the show.

Should you watch this if you’re looking for a good Bunny-senpai style drama/comedy/harem/romance? Only if you’re out of other good options.

Should you watch this if you’re looking for low-effort-required fun harem with a main character that’s a bit of a prick? Yeah, probably.

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.

OreSuki tells the story about Amatsuyu Kisaragi "Jouro" who had a normal day. One day "Jouro" suddenly got two phone calls from a girl, she was named "Sakura Akino" and "Aoi Hinata". "Jouro" who get a call from a girl immediately rushed to meet them, "Jouro" felt that he would be shot by the two girls, like the romantic story "Jouro" came with a nervous feeling. After meeting the girl, "Jouro" was surprised because what the two girls said was not like what "Jouro" imagined. That way the story of OreSuki begins...

There are things that make me interested in this. If ... you've watched this, I'm sure you are familiar with this word "chair". Each anime has its own "signature" such as "Steins Gate" with its time machine, "Kuzu no Honkai" with a love triangle, "One Piece" with the number of episodes, "Angel Beats" with the ending, "No Game No Life" with strategies in the game, while "OreSuki" with the same seat in each episode. Those that I mentioned have their own "signature". In fact, they make this to show that their work has characteristics that only they have.

What does "Chair" have to do with the storyline? Of course, they do not have a relationship to the storyline but a setting, atmosphere, and time are created to support the storyline, so even though it has no connection to the storyline, this is a supporting point to add an impression of the storyline to make it seem unique. With the appearance of a similar "chair" and "situation" in each episode, I thought this "joke" would not be funny anymore. If you have friends who like to "joke" are you going to laugh with the same "joke"? But seeing the same "situation" and "place" isn't bad either. in each episode even with the same "situation" and "place" I feel like laughing even though their "joke" is repeated continuously.

Am I just going to talk about chairs? Of course I didn't, if I were only talking about chairs, I'm sure this won't get much "helpful" even the moderator will delete this. Therefore, press the "Helpful" shucks.

The above expression is just kidding xD. Most of you who visit here must be from "Youtube", "Facebook", "Instagram", and others. After seeing a sexy, big-breasted, and beautiful character. You guys commented on Youtube, Facebook and Instagram pages "Kyaaa ... Senpai, who is this cute character?", "I need an anime title!", "This girl is" waifu "this year". I know those who comment like that are ignorant publics aroused by a picture. Ma, I don't deserve to say that because I'm also someone like that xD.

The girl you fought over on "Youtube", "Facebook", or "Instagram" was named "Sumireko Sanshokuin" aka "Pansy", thank me for telling me who the girl in the "Youtube" thumbnail was jerked. "Pansy" is an ugly girl, with glasses, two braided hair, a nerd, a stalker, a loner, basically all kinds of bad things gather on her xD. behind the figure there is a secret, where "Pansy" must maintain his appearance to avoid someone.

"Sumireko Sanshokuin" is the heroine in this story, sometimes it can be beautiful, ugly, even become a traitor. Despite having many advantages "Pansy" has a unique taste in choosing a man. For now "Pansy" is in love with "Jouro", he is the main character in this story. Why is Pansy taste so unique in choosing men, whereas many cool men fall in love with her but why should it be with Jouro? "Jouro" is a typical character who plays anti-social, even though he is a main character in the story, but "Jouro" often rejects himself as the main character in this story. Even "Jouro" prefers to be a supporting character. behind its nature is actually "Jouro" is the type of person who works hard and never gives up when asked for help by anyone, even though it is pointless for "Jouro".

It's not just "Sumireko Sanshokuin" that has a secret. It turns out that "Amatsuyu Kisaragi" aka "Jouro" also has a secret. His kind heart turned out to have a secret, where "Jouro" used to be a person who often spoke harshly, perhaps in his sentences containing some harsh vocabulary, and "Jouro" hid it. The one who knows the secret of "Jouro" is "Pansy" sometimes "Jouro" shows his true nature to "Pansy" to frighten "Pansy" but it turns out that "Pansy" likes the nature of "Jouro" like that, maybe since "Baseball Tournament" Pansy started to fall in love with "Jouro".

Baseball tournament? What's more, get off the stage right now! The basis of the writer of the deceit * cheers of the reader shown to me *

In addition to "chair" it turns out that "baseball tournament" also have a relationship like "chairs", I mean "baseball tournament" often have to do with the "jokes" in this anime. Simply put if "Chair" is a "spoon" then "Baseball tournament" is a "fork". In every heroine who asks for help from "Jouro" they always say these two things "Chair" and "Baseball tournament". Even though their "jokes" are repeated sometimes it still makes me want to laugh.

The storyline they present is very good, moreover this is a love story "romance comedy" so it's no wonder their comedy is still fresh even though some "jokes" are repeated in each episode. To be honest, after completing this anime, watching it every Thursday "Thursday" is only good at the beginning, after entering a few episodes, it feels boring. I mean this anime was only good in the beginning because the story is still "fresh" but after entering further, this anime seemed to take me to the bottom of the "sea" as a result most episodes were making me bored, like watching "Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood" . Maybe it only happens to me, so it all depends on each taste. Even so, I can't betray my words, because this is basically a good anime compared to harem anime and other romantic comedies, at least superior to others.

Adaptation comes from "Light Novel" I think most of the anime adaptation comes from "Light Novel" as their source of inspiration, even rarely studios that adapt anime come from "Visual Novel" as their source of inspiration. The adaptation that comes from "Visual Novel" is "Grisaia series", "H2O: footprins", "Amagami SS", and others. I've never read this before so I can't "compare" this with the "Light Novel" version. Sometimes "studios" sort out some of the scenes that will appear in the anime, such as some anime that stray far from "Light Novel"; You-zitsu and Kaguya-sama, you could even say the "studio" is actually reading the light novel or not.

I think the design and graphics are good, although the adaptation of "LN, VN, Manga" does not really affect the quality of the anime adaptation. They only take a few, such as character design, storyline, and others. For voices "Voiced by" there is nothing to comment on because I don't really understand this part, other than that for OP and ED it is also good because I think it is "good to hear" and that reason seems to be enough to prove it.

It seems like it's been quite long, overall I like this anime starting from the storyline to graphic design. From most of the anime I've watched this season, it seems like one of the best for me is "OreSuki".

Although it has a generic art style and a pretty bland soundtrack that can be compared to a majority of “harem comedies” this is a very unexpected spin on a genre the fact that Joro acts like a scum bag and has actual motives unlike majority of the standard romcom protag makes it so he’s just as much a star as the female cast. I get the most enjoyment out this show when everyone’s scheming about what to do with each other because some of it’s genuinely unexpected. This has to be one of if not the best “harem comedy” anime and also one of ... the most unexpected and funny shows I’ve ever watched.

In my opinion i really really like this anime in many aspect as i can think
From the story, unlike many school romance anime, this anime has quiet a good different kind of story that could make you asking for more of it
The art is amazing too really well made by the studio love it
And by most important thing i think i'ts because of the characthers, well you will know what i mean when you watch it,
In my opinion i really really like this anime in many aspect as i can think
From the story, unlike many school romance anime, this anime has quiet ... a good different kind of story that could make you asking for more of it
The art is amazing too really well made by the studio love it
And by most important thing i think i'ts because of the characthers, well you will know what i mean when you watch it,

This anime is a history about Jouro, and his love interests, after some luckly (?!) events he find more about the people he likes.

Well ...

Sound 1 -

The intro and the ending music is really generic, there´s no memorable parts in it ... and the sound inside the caps. are forgotifull too. The sound don´t get in the way of the anime ... because it is not there.

Art 4 -

... The art at the intro is great they´ve put a great effort at that... but aside that
the animation is ok ... if you look closer the charaters always make the same mouth moviment when they are talking . Sometimes the art get pretty bad but you can find animes with a worst art.

Storyline 1 -

Come on ... it took almost 1 eps to make a really bad joke ... they just trow a joke in your face and thinks that the joke is gonna be good ... after that they throw at you the "wierd" aspect of the main character whitout a good reason ... it´s just beucase the writter wants .
A ton of actions of the characters are just randon to get the history going, they have no reason to do it, they do just for the joke or the plot, just showing how awfull the anime is.


Overwall 1 -

The anime must be pretty good for the ones who laughts with the first big joke. But after that the anime just get worst and worst, it´s a comedy/romance anime, and it fails at both. You can try to watch, but i think there´s a lot of better kind of animes like this.

That´s all folks.

Oresuki is the perfect example of a show that starts out strong but fails to regain its initial momentum after the first arc.

Why then did it get an 10 from me? Because I still found it to be one of the funniest series I've seen in a long time, despite getting generic and cliche towards the middle, it did bounce back in the final third and finished pretty strong and lastly, I just enjoyed the characters, art, music, etc. Panji best waifu of the year.

Oresuki starts out by trying to tackle the usual tropes in harem rom coms by having all the girls fall ... for someone else other than the MC, the show then reverses that later on and becomes the very thing it sought to destroy, ironic considering it uses the imperial march theme often throughout the series.

Overall, if you're looking for an enjoyable one cour rom com or just want constant laughs, this is certainly the series for you. Despite falling short of its goals, it still is definitely worth the watch. The OST, art, characters and comedy are all very well done.

TL:DR One of my favourite rom comedies of all time. Definitely worth a watch for the comedy and waifus.

Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo (aka. OreSuki) presents itself as a comedic subversion of your bog-standard harem romcom following the (mis)adventures of Watering Can Boy (aka. Joro), as he attempts to build his own high-school harem fantasy.

Though the premise is initially promising a harsh and cynical subversion of its genre, trashy teenage drama, an inconsistent tone and shenanigans galore completely dominate this show, which ultimately is an mixed bag of an attempt at meta humor of the average harem romcom.

< STORY: 4>

As with most other romcoms, the story of OreSuki is definitely its biggest weakness. It is intended as a play ... on the typical, clichéd story where the MC is a naive and innocent "nice guy" that gets surrounded by love interest by essentially just being nice to them at the exact right moment, devoid real life logic and acting as pretty obvious escapist fantasy. Except, instead of a a typical romcom MC, you get Joro, who is supposedly a scumbag high schooler that has kept a front as said typical MC in order to create his own harem fantasy, only for things to go south very quickly for his plans, and for the story itself overall.

Even though the show makes an honest attempt at delivering on its premise, much of the runtime of OreSuki after its first arc is spent developing its supporting cast rather that look for ways to keep its initial formula fresh, and this comes at the expense of underdeveloping its main cast or having them behave in ways that fly in the face of said premise. Most of the time this creates an inconsistent plot that demands you keep your suspension of disbelief held on tight, as it can really test your patience when the characters act in counter-intuitive ways simply because the plot demands.

A lot of the problems that create the inconsistencies of the show have to do with how it tries (and fails) to deliver its more serious, emotional bits: appealing to the "good" side of Joro, as a person who cares for his friends. This crutch allows for some drama to ensue throughout the show's run but this drama is not very interesting and it creates some serious issues with the MC's character down the line, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

At the very least, the story is not a complete failure, as the comedy is biting and unapologetic when it takes central stage at many points in the story, especially when it acts as means to make fun of the characters (most commonly Joro). Unfortunately, many of its jokes ultimately fall into lampshading rather than parodying or making fun of, tropes typical to romcoms, as OreSuki utilizes many of them in its story and plays them completely straight, maybe with some meta commentary by another character (again, most commonly Joro). So in the end, the comedy shines when it tries, it just doesn't try hard enough, or frequently enough.

< ART: 6 >

The visuals of this show are pretty good for a romcom, though not without its hiccups.

In terms of its animation, OreSuki just gets the job done and calls it a day. Very few moments in the show have more than the bare minimum of animation, though it doesn't dip in quality in any unintended way throughout its run.

However, besides consistent animation quality and mostly decent character designs, this show doesn't provide anything else in terms of its visuals, with somewhat bland and boring backgrounds that you could find in any other high school anime ever. Nothing is outstanding in its background art and that unfortunately drags it down a bit.

< SOUND: 5>

There is not much to be said in terms of the sound direction of the show. The sounds of the show are very average and unappealing.

The music of the show is very unremarkable, with a pretty standard J-Pop OP and a cutesy ED sung by the actresses playing the main girls of the show. Nothing new under the sun. The rest of the soundtrack also turned out to be lacking in memorability, with no standouts among its tracks.

The VAs performed effectively and did a good job delivering their lines, though there were a couple of questionable casting choices along the way.

< CHARACTER: 5>

The characters are very conflicting in this show. For every great moment there tends to be a questionable one along the way. This is particularly true for the MC.

Watching the characters of OreSuki is an exercise in patience as it not apparent what their true motives are most of the time (we only get to see into Joro's thoughts) and the author takes full advantage of this, but mostly to the detriment of the story. Though initially portrayed as a manipulative bastard of sorts, Joro is, in the grand scheme of things, naive and all too willing to accept the goodwill of others as genuine, which completely shatters the initial image presented to us the audience. Joro styles himself a puppeteer but is more often than not one of the puppets instead, manipulated by someone else' plan. This damages his character greatly, to the point that you may question how much of a scumbag or even a subversion of the romcom MC, he really is.

The other characters of the show are just as troubled, as the main cast is either trope-y or inconsistent in some way. The girls (with the exception of Pansy) are all defined by their stereotypes and, though they who glimmers of being more than meets the eye, they are not developed well enough for this to really show. Sun-chan, the best friend, suffers from similar problems to Joro mostly because their intertwined character arcs and ultimately is a very awkward character to watch in the story. And lastly, Pansy herself is put in a bit of a pedestal despite being a rather nasty person. While it doesn't hold true the whole way through it does for most of the show and so it becomes a character upon which most of the story revolves around despite her relatively inactive role after the first arc.

In the end, OreSuki suffers from not being able to sell its characters. It shoots for "true characters", those that are great because of their personality, their "larger-than-life"-ness, however it constantly shoots itself in the foot by trying to also go for "real characters" with realistic motivations and behavior, with a compromise in the middle of both that doesn't work. As an example, the motivations of Joro are not realistic in that his harem fantasy is of course in the realm of la-la land, however this is supposed to be the main driver of his actions and it fails to really convey this after the first arc because it gets side-tracked trying to make him more likeable as a person, in the end breaking his initial character and making him hard to like as a character overall.

< ENJOYMENT: 7>

Now I'll come out clean and say that despite its obvious flaws, OreSuki was a relatively enjoyable show. I consider myself a bit of a romcom junkie (more for the "com", than the "rom") and have no problem giving them at least a chance to convince me to watch all the way through, even if they look pretty trashy. OreSuki is one such show and even though it had plenty of moments that put me off, the comedy of the show vastly redeemed it in my eyes despite its clumsy attempts at teen melodrama and consistent character issues. The few recurring gags of the show were well executed for the most part and the timing of the show rarely fails to deliver jokes which was great, but I could never become invested in the story as much as I would want to and that prevented me from giving it a higher score here.

< TL; DR >

OreSuki is a show that is too caught up in trying to make fun of trashy harem romcoms to look at how much of a trashy harem romcom it is. No amount of lampshading and meta humor can forgive it for this. Despite trying to subvert expectations it ultimately falls in line with many romcoms of its type before it.

Good comedic timing and competent visuals and voice acting are about all this show can offer and that is shame. If you enjoy romcoms no matter how self-indulgent they are, have a go at it, but know that this far from a perfect show.

<<Overall Score: 5.4/10 = 5 >>