Koi to Producer: EVOL×LOVE

After her father passed away, a young woman inherited his production company, Miracle Entertainment, along with its most successful program, "Miracle Finder." In recent years, however, the show has fallen off the radar and it is now mostly forgotten. In an attempt to save the show from being canceled, this young woman desperately tries to look for a unique topic to use as inspiration. She finds it in the form of "Evol," a mysterious gene that has granted certain people special powers and is considered the next step in human evolution. But, as marvelous as this gene seems, its existence may lead to an unstoppable battle between humans for survival.

However, as she becomes more entangled with the strange world of the "Evolvers," her life is suddenly disturbed by the arrival of four men: the cheerful idol Kira; the neuroscientist and Loveland University professor, Simon; the stoic CEO of Loveland Financial Group and Miracle Entertainment's benefactor, Zen; and her high school upperclassman Haku, a former delinquent now working as a police officer.

As strange incidents begin to plague the city, will she be able to find out the truth about the "Evol" or "Black Swan," the organization behind numerous attacks from "Evolvers" and possibly connected to her father's death? What is her part to play in its plan, and how are the men around her connected to it all?

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Haku Main

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Zen Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Kira Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Simon Main

Hirakawa, Daisuke Japanese

Watashi Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Shou Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

Anna Supporting

Satou, Rina Japanese

Yui Supporting

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Kanya Supporting

Hayashi, Yuu Japanese

Noda, Fuko Producer

Sakurai, Arata Assistant Producer

Sakai, Munehisa Director

Uda, Kounosuke Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director

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Mar 16, 2023

Galamcie

Recommended

Oh my! Ive been waiting for this one to get anime for years! Ive been playing this for 2-3 years I think I was praying for it have anime and all of it was great but at first I didn't like how they change some anime there but I got used to watching it sometimes that I turn to like it! I stopped playing the game cuz I need storage lolololol I hope this will have a second season tho! Story is unique so much mystery! The art style is nice but I think some people like me who has play this before will be ... like hmmm eh but its great trust! I think some people will like it! It's very interesting!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Oct 22, 2020

Lisabellesan

Mixed Feelings

In the beginning the anime was really promising, great story but in my opinion they make it a little bit boring. I expected more action, the thread seems to focus too much on love etc.

The soundtrack is really bad, opening and ending songs are too melancholic.

I like the art style, characters looks really nice. Also it's great that they decided to follow the art style from the game!

In the beginning I was really excited to see next episodes but after 5/6 of them it started to get a little boring. Maybe I had too high expectacions?

It had a great potencial but they don't ... use half of it. I'm kinda disappointed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 3, 2020

Aisukurimu

Not Recommended

You look over at The God of Highschool and come have a peek at this and look again, hang on a minute, they are both by MAPPA this season???

It would be wrong to say that I didn’t contribute to the production of this anime as I have made a full on 188rmb in app purchase on the game. While I’m no whale player, I am a LV.70 player, as of writing this review, the diary function of the game tells me I’ve met our four boys for 1000 days, and Ling Xiao (Shaw/Siho/Sho) for 575 days, the Chinese server of the game existed for 1016 ... days to put that into perspective.

All the players of this game will passionately inform you that Mr Love: Queen’s Choice (Who even came up with the cringy English name, the localisation of the English names is also a bit crap in my opinion but I’m not going to dwell on that for now) is not like your average otome gacha game, joseimuke to be exact. It really is one of a kind, 50 hours down the game your ‘love interest’ will be pointing a gun to your head threaten to kill you.

Story:
The story from the game is just a mediocre superpowers plotline, and frankly that didn’t change for the anime either. “I” have EVOL (superpowers) and “I” try to uncover the evil organisation who is trying to destroy the world, that’s it in a nutshell. Safe to say the story doesn't make a lot of sense as you continue to watch on.

I don’t know how other players see it, but the plotline of the game isn’t even the fun bit, the story is a bit messy and have plot holes here and there. Season 1 of the game didn’t even have a conclusive ending and season 2 was just the MC rebirthed into a new world, literally an AU. The whole story of this game is dragged out to make sure it never ends and make players pay more money.

The MC not having a name is a self-immersion device put into the game, Chinese players of this game gets really really really angry if there was ever a hint of a name given to our MC. But man, getting called Poteto-Chippusu-hime takes you out of the immersion if anything, flipping hell, stop being a ween, just give her a damn name.

Art:
Let’s be real, you are lying to yourself if you watched The God of Highschool this season and come here to say this is even remotely equal in art quality. If you showed me EVOL and then told me MAPPA was doing season 3 of SNK I would be anticipating in a One Punch Man season 2 travesty.

This is a quick money throwaway anime, the whole point of this is to make more merch get more people to play the game, as if anyone on the production cared to draw anything properly, but the developers of the game know even if it’s shit people will still buy into it, they look down on you for playing otome games and then feed the otome game to you, kaching! Kaching! We know this because the fangirls are screaming at this saying how good it is and how MAPPA did a great job. Paper Games be clowning you.

Sound:
The music and ost is mediocre I don’t have anything to say about it. I wanted to talk a little about the CVs of the anime. There’s a Japanese and Chinese dub to it, pretty faithful to the game with the same voice actors in both versions. The Japanese dub is pretty good, the Chinese dub on the other hand is not as polished as the Japanese one I have to say. The issue I have with the Chinese dub is that the mouth flaps don’t match, they didn’t even bother to match it, funny enough, the text in the anime has been changed to Chinese, like the text on the whiteboards and notebooks, but not the mouth flaps!

As for “my” voice, “Watashi” is much better in the Japanese version, voiced by Kanemoto Hisako. In the Chinese version I don’t even know who it is, there’s very little information on “Zhang Qi” on the internet, I have a feeling they kept it low because again, allowing players to self-insert.

The four boys in the Chinese version is alright. If you are familiar with the voice of these four voice actors, you’ve pretty much watched every Chinese anime (and drama and any media that requires a voice). The voice acting industry in China is not as mature as the one in Japan, the same old voice actors will literally do every other show there is. They are very versatile, so versatile you probably didn’t even notice Kira and Lan Wangji is the same voice actor. Haku is also Wei Wuxian fyi.

Overall:
Happy Mid-Autumn, what terrible anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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