Renai Flops

In the near future when technology has significantly advanced, a famous AI TV fortune teller seemingly foresees high school student Asahi Kashiwagi's day with pinpoint accuracy. On his way to school, he encounters Aoi Izumisawa, Bai Mongfa, Karin Istel, Amelia Irving, and Ilya Ilyukhin. Despite meeting them for the first time, Asahi suddenly receives love confessions from all of them at the end of the same day, perfectly aligning with the fortune teller's prediction.

As if that was not enough, Asahi soon learns that these five individuals are actually candidates to become his bride, and they have been invited by his father to live at Asahi's home. Left with no other choice, he reluctantly allows them to stay, resulting in a bawdy turn of events that brightens up his average high school life.

However, as Asahi spends more time with them, forgotten memories gradually resurface. While uncovering the hidden truth, Asahi begins to believe that his fate with these potential partners might be more than just mere coincidence.

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Renai Flops was released on Blu-ray in two volumes from January 25, 2023, to March 24, 2023.

The Renai Flops Rajio Oideyo! Asaichi program hosted by the series' voice actors has streamed on the Onsen internet radio station since October 11, 2022.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Izumisawa, Aoi

Main

Itou, Miku
Japanese

Bai, Mongfa

Main

Kanemoto, Hisako
Japanese

Irving, Amelia

Main

Taketatsu, Ayana
Japanese

Istel, Karin

Main

Kouno, Marika
Japanese

Ilyukhina, Irina

Main

Takahashi, Rie
Japanese

Kashiwagi, Asahi

Main

Oosaka, Ryouta
Japanese

Izawa, Ai

Supporting

Itou, Miku
Japanese

Ijuuin, Yoshio

Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Feynman, Yoshino

Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo
Japanese

Lovelin

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Izawa, Shiori
Japanese

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Oowada, Tomoyuki

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Tanaka, Shou

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Sotokawa, Akihiro

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Nishimae, Shuka

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Opening Theme

"Love? Reason why!!" by Konomi Suzuki

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Ending Theme

	"Flop Around" by Aoi Izumisawa (Miku Itou), Amelia Irving (Ayana Taketatsu), Ilya Ilyukhin (Rie Takahashi), Mongfa Bai (Hisako Kanemoto), Karin Istel (Marika Kouno) (eps 2-7)
	"Lost in the White" by Miku Itou (eps 8-11)

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Dec 28, 2022

Marinate1016

Recommended

Renai flops came out of nowhere and became one of my fave shows of Fall 2022. While the first half follows the usual path of a generic fan-service harem rom com, it becomes something more substantive in the second half and truly won me over.

If you’re someone with a short fuse and low tolerance for non-sense, I can tell you right now Renai Flops won’t be for you. Its first episodes are intentionally trope-y and very generic. But if you’re too quick to drop the show, you’ll miss out on seeing how the show actually deconstructs some of these generic tropes. While the first few ...

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Dec 28, 2022

Flyingsparks1130

Mixed Feelings

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Ahhh another rom-com type show for me to watch and review… How bad could this show be? Renai Flops sure made my heart flop. Not in a good way… for at least the first 6 episodes. We’ll get to that way later…

Before we begin, let me backtrack to the beginning… the very very eye stretching beginning… Renai Flops (at least the first half) is what you get when you put together all the possible rom-com tropes into one show and press copy and paste 1000 times. True Insanity… For example the guy (let’s call him Steve) “falls” down a set of stairs only to “accidentally” ... pounce on an unexpecting girl walking by. Sound familiar? If you do know what I mean, you know what happens next in the story… Oh and of course there is “accidental” groping in this rom-com and I don’t know where to begin with the other crazy shit that I saw here… So original… And yes this is basically copy and paste for the first couple of episodes. Holy shittt… It really was hot shit with no set storyline. I felt like I was drunk watching the show even though I was sober the entire time. Not good… 🙁

It was almost uncanny sort of bad. Too trash to be true... Like the whole show is supposed to be geared towards Steve, a teenage dude going through that rough patch in his adolescence with his hormones. *wink* *wink*. The first half of the show feels engineered like it's supposed to be a fantasy world to help a certain someone escape reality, a certain someone like Steve… Maybe…. Who knows? Do you know because I dunno. Are we humans living in a simulation? Are anime and manga just a figment of our imagination? Yes… Who knows which question I could be answering above? It could be one of them… all of them… none of them…Thiz werlde iz notslddl;fksd’;f’asdadksdd;’
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*Brain Overheating…*

*System Rebooting*

Sorry about that, I had a mental system error there. Had to restart my brain… Basically that’s how abrupt the plot twist hit me when it occured during the show. I won’t tell ya what happened or when it did but oh boy did it change the tone and really gave the show points for creativity and dedication to the storyline. Still very trippy though.

All I can say is that Renai Flops flopped but in a somewhat good way. The show’s slow start and confusing story in the beginning is what turned off the show for many viewers, and I can understand why viewers felt that way. However, real show showed its true colors during the second half, and you MUST watch it all the way through if you decide to pick this one up. The concept of Yin and Yang are everywhere in our world, so you must watch through the painful and bad beginning to enjoy the latter half of this misunderstood title. Balanced.

I’m not saying it's great, it’s not even that good either but it ain’t bad for a rom-com show. 5 out of 10 for me.

*Disclaimer* I have nothing against any Steve or Steve’s in the real world. Steve was the first name I could think of. Using the MC’s real name is boring… Steve is more relatable imo… Sorry in advance if your name is Steve. Anyways, what are you still doing here… Go watch the show… or not… ok bye…

Overall: 5/10

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Mar 16, 2023

KuroKun999

Not Recommended

I'm not mad, just disappointed.

I will give it this, this show certainly knows its marketing. First, it introduces itself as so generic and cliche a harem anime that people will actually end up checking it out if the studio is really going to invest an original anime on this. Then halfway through it brings in the plot twist so that a new set of viewers will be released into the wild, grabbing passing people, shaking them and screaming, "Guys don't give up, this changes everything!"

But what matters in the end is the entire product. Does this show feel complete in its story and characters, and ... does it succeed in the themes it wants to tackle? I think my score and recommendation should speak for themselves.

The first and probably biggest issue with Renai Flops is that unless you are truly a fan of harem rom coms, you will probably drop this anime from the first episode. The show initially promised some wacky harem stuff, filled with all the tropes and cliches imaginable, and that is indeed what you get for six and a half episodes.

During that time, we get small individual arcs with the heroines in typical harem fashion. That itself isn't a bad thing; it is a way to appeal the heroines to the viewers, and also build up their love towards the main character. The issue is that the show only invests a single episode per heroine, and wraps up a good chunk of their emotional arc within that episode. This means that we mainly skim over their actual development, and also don't get a deeper picture on what sort of people they are, other than their basic trope. Admittedly, the arcs get more and more bizarre and some of the antics introduced are pretty funny, almost feeling like a parody than anything else. But that only means we don't get enough genuine character study on them or the main character. They are just roles for a harem scenario for those episodes.

Now, you might say, "Well this is a harem story after all, it's usually par for the course, so you should set your expectations accordingly." Normally, you'd be correct. But then the show suddenly brings in a twist (come on, let's not pretend that the fact that there's a twist to this show hasn't already been leaked to high heaven) which then turns this show into more of a techno-drama that's much heavier and serious.

So now we have a deeper, emotional second half that's built on a tropey, style over substance first half. The emotional bits don't hit as hard as they should because they are based on characters we only got caricature versions of before, and also because the pacing is rushed due to only having about five and a half episodes, most of which is filled with some techno-thriller plot rather than genuine character exploration. It's like trying to build the Eiffel Tower on a bed of key lime pies. You ruin the pies and also fail to set up the tower properly.

It's really a shame. I feel if the tone and characters were better handled, or if it had more episodes for better pacing and fleshing out its arcs, we could have had a clever subversion of harem stories, and also a thoughtful exploration of technology and loss. As it is, both its harem bits and its dramatic bits feel artificial. How ironic.

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