Koi wa Sekai Seifuku no Ato de

Err, I guess I'm at the point where I'm absolutely sick all of these generic rom-coms.

While people might complain about isekai's being omnipresent in a lot of shows, it being a direct mutation of the classical high fantasy novels and old school RPG games, people tend to forget the other tropes that have been around forever, like power rangers, or even stuff like Godzilla.

This show is comedy based on Super Sentai, or Power Rangers genre, and I still don't get why it even uses this trope. There's basically no meaning at all to using power rangers as the theme, as the story has nothing ... to do with them, other than the initial premise. It could have been another fantasy setting, or even just a normal medieval setting for how little the show interacts with the sentai theme.

Compare this to Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san, where they are still both comedies based on the power rangers/hero genere, yet look at the layers of interaction and worldbuilding that Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san does, that this show just does not bother with even attempting at doing. The power ranger theme isn't just thrown there, but it's actually developed. It shows how people get hired in villian organizations, how monsters get created, the relationship and rules between the villians and heroes are, and how these seemingly ridiculous organizations can function in modern society. Of course, this is all done with a comedic tone, but Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san definitely takes a lot of effort in developing a believable setting for the comedy to take place. If you want to actually watch something that takes the power rangers theme and does something with it, I highly recommend Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san.

That was a bit of a tangent, but this show basically has nothing going for it. Basically, it's just a rom-com. It's been done over and over again, but basically it's just a couple that's embarrassed about the smallest things, have misunderstandings, and also comedy that's generated from the interactions from the other characters. I have to say, comedy wise, I did not even come close to laughing or cracking a smile. You could argue that there wasn't even any comedy attempted in this show. Were there any jokes? Could these shitty setups even be called comedy? At least the romance exists. Not that it's any good. It's just giga cringe. Like haha, girl is embarrassed about holding hands despite wearing a glorified garter belt. Let's watch her fight in randomly low angles to get a good look at her garterbelt. Super funny!!

You have to give me a reason to like the characters. Like cool,. the Male lead and female lead are dating. So what? Their personality doesn't even exist. All you get is elemetary levels of "dating" and you're supposed to find their "embarrassment" funny? Relatable? Cute? No, it's just cringe. Get me out.

There is not a lot to say about this show. It's what I would colloquially describe as a 5/10 show, but even that's a little generous. This is watch and forget television. It has a pretty unique premise and setting, however it manages to do less unique and interesting things than something like Komi-san or Azumanga Daioh, both of which have arguably mundane and retreaded settings and plot devices.

The art, the animation, the character design, the jokes, none of it is particularly bad, none of it is particularly good. Even by the standards of feel good, by the numbers romance, when you have so ... many options out there why would you pick this? If you've ever walked into the cereal aisle, seen 20 boxes of Korn Flakes, from 20 different brands, this is that. This does not contribute anything, nor does it take away.

I understand that sometimes you just want a mid tier show to not focus on, but even then you have so many choices. The one character I did like was the warrior on the evil side, who constantly gets clowned on. Even she is just an archetype of the character I like, that I have seen done better 100 times. This is not a terrible show, but just why? Why does it exist?

Surely it may seem to be a unique take on romcoms where heroes and supervillains get into a "forbidden love", Love After World Domination is nothing but saccharine barf once you get a taste of getting cooties from naughty girls back at elementary school. (Also known as cringe) Overall the context of the show has "been there, done that" in every existing medium if you take off the Tokusatsu parody elements. No offense but it's baffling to me and more power to you if anyone out there found this anime entertaining. Now if you excuse me, I better get myself a barf bag...

[dropped after ep 9]

Sounds and looks like a cheap Power Rangers rip-off. Well, although this show has a lot of problems, I don’t consider the conflict between righteous heroes and evil organization trying to rule the whole world, as one of them (but still, the fights are generic with no substance).

The main couple is cute and the chemistry between them works fine. One is from the ‘hero’ faction and the other from the ‘villain’ faction. So their dating needs to be kept secret. At the beginning it’s nice and funny and I got a good time.

That goes for first two or three episodes. And then, ... later episodes start to be repetitive, the whole show starts to drag and gets more and more boring, cliche, with no actual development. It just goes nowhere. It starts creating side stories and dangers of being exposed in episodic format. At the end, all such problems are resolved in cheesy and happy-end manner.

One element I find really annoying is the narrator introducing (almost) each episode with ‘explanations’ of what’s happening. Whether the style or voice of the narrator, I don’t think this kind of introduction works well anytime.

Needed to mention, the fanservice here is really flashy and may discourage a regular rom-com enthusiast from watching. Other than that, just another regular romantic comedy of the season.

Pros:
+ first few episodes are fine
+ interactions of main couple are quite funny

Cons:
- cliche rom-com elements
- annoying narrator
- it goes nowhere

Double-edged:
+/- fanservice may feel too eye-invading

5/10 (AVERAGE)