Douse, Koishite Shimaunda.

Aspiring manga artist Mizuho Nishino has grown alongside her four childhood friends: Kizuki Hazawa, Shuugo Hoshikawa, Shin Kashiwagi, and Airu Izumi. But on Mizuho's 17th birthday, Kizuki suddenly asks to be her boyfriend. Having no previous experience with romance, Mizuho brushes it off easily, but Kizuki is genuine and intends to win her heart.

Kizuki no longer hides his affections, and Mizuho hesitates, worried about the consequences their potential relationship could have on their whole friend group. As Mizuho works through the confusion of youth, it seems that the other three boys have fallen for her as well—and she must find a way to sort her feelings out without shattering the close-knit group she holds dear.

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Hazawa, Kizuki Main

Ura, Kazuki Japanese

Nishino, Mizuho Main

Shinfuku, Sakura Japanese

Kashiwagi, Shin Main

Yoshitaka, Sion Japanese

Izumi, Airu Main

Chiba, Shouya Japanese

Hoshikawa, Shuugo Main

Inomata, Satoshi Japanese

Yamamoto Supporting

Okai, Katsunori Japanese

Akiyama Supporting

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Shiraishi, Manami Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori Japanese

Hoshikawa, Tougo Supporting

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Kurashiki, Chika Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Herek, Samantha Producer

Sakurai, Takashi Producer

Yamamoto, Junichi Director

Ebina, Yasunori Sound Director

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Mar 4, 2025

iNinjeek

Recommended

Preliminary (8/12 eps)

I guess I’m the only one here who enjoys cringy, trashy anime—HAHA.

This anime has a laid-back, easygoing vibe and follows a girl with four super popular, attractive childhood best friends. The story explores different routes, showing what it would be like if she ended up with each of them while offering insight into their perspectives and relationships with her. You’ve got your classic male tropes: the hot nerdy guy, the fashionable popular guy who used to be a delinquent, the caring but emotionally clueless guy, and the crybaby-turned-reliable athlete. The pacing is slow, and it seems to take place during the 2020 pandemic. Personally, I ... enjoy it because it feels like an otome game—except instead of choosing your route, the anime decides the endgame guy for you.

I didn’t have any issues with the art; the visuals were pretty and gave off a nice summer feel. The plot isn’t anything revolutionary—just your typical reverse harem—but the way each character expresses their feelings for the main girl is pretty entertaining. The series shifts between the past and present, reminding viewers to appreciate the present because you never realize how good things are until you look back on them later in life. The present is clouded with mystery, always carrying a sad element whenever the main character reminisces about the past.

Maybe I just have a thing for trashy shoujos, but even though it’s predictable and you already know who she’ll end up with, it’s still fun watching everyone’s emotions unfold. It took me a few episodes to really get into it… or maybe I’m just shoujo deprived LOL.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jan 23, 2025

griddyweeb

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

This is just bad. Lazy animation, horrible direction and just overall not good story/storytelling.

I usually don't give a damn about animation, but when it's this shameless it's hard to overlook it. Budget aside there are ways to make it work, this studio didn't even try to look for compromises or try to hide the fact and that sums up the studio's entire attitude towards this anime and lack of effort.

Direction is also full of interesting choices, most notably the amount of staring in this anime. It should serve as a dramatic effect, but at this point it's comedy, the characters stare at each other almost ... like they're confused or socially awkward.

And the story, maybe the worst thing about this anime and the only thing that's not the studio's fault except for adapting it in the first place. It feels like some wattpad fantasy, it feels so amateur, everything just happens without a reason most of the time, there's no build up so everything feels forced and unprompted. It also speedruns tropes and cliches, it's one of the main reason I haven't dropped it yet because it's intriguing to think about what's gonna happen in later episodes if they use up every shoujo trope in the early episodes.

It's not fair to judge characters with just 3 episodes out, so I'm not gonna go there even though there many things to complain about there too. But I will mention how it's hilarious all the male leads look alike, basically fuckboy clones.

There are sweet moments in the show that's for sure, the only redeeming quality, but once again the issue is that most of these moments come out of nowhere and while they're heartwarming they also feel out of place and it makes it a bit awkward, so it's not that simple to just take in these moments.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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Feb 5, 2025

apjjk

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

This was actively terrible, and I'm someone who loves Brothers Conflict. There is no animation to speak of, everything is a png. The 3d is ugly and doesn't fit in with the garbage art, the lighting makes it so you can't even tell what color hair the protagonists have, every single character is one dimensional and is lucky to have any sort of personality, characters will be shy and quiet one moment and bubbly and confident ten seconds later, you can see hastily cropped out white remnants of plain white background on each character, one scene has characters under a shower of water and the ... droplets were depicted by using default sparkle vfx, the writing and pacing could not possibly be any worse, and all in all, this anime is actual garbage. Us reverse harem fans are so starved for content that we have to resort to slop like this. I refuse to watch any more of this, and if you were thinking of watching this series, stay back, for your own good.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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