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| It’s finally happened! Crazy how just two of the eight episodes brought this show from a dumpster fire to something genuinely enjoyable; if I hadn’t expected there to be twist I probably would have dropped ages ago haha |
  "Truth is always a cruel thing." |
| Everything was VR afterall, what an plot twist. Asahi doesn't want to accept it still that he's back to reality but the doctor wants to prove it to him which he still declines. Asahi thinks that he's still in VR when he goes to school but it seems like he's back in reality. A classmate recognizes Asahi but thinks that she is imagining things. The doctor explains how the AI's were made and how their emotions were made and how Asahi got selected for the test run or some kind, damn they got far with AI technology. Pretty sad to see that Asahi lost his childhood friend Ai though. The ending though, everything went black and Aoi appeared on screen, wtf. Either this is all an simulation or its the real world. P.S. this show actually went from shit to interesting real quick lol. |
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| The truth has revealed itself, like some of the early predictions I saw our boy Asahi has been living the dream in a simulation testing a new type of AI, and this AI was made using the mind of his dead childhood friend, definitely makes sense giving the various flashbacks all the girls in the show have had, and it looks like after being kicked out the simulation the same AI is attacking the real world at the end there, and I thought that might happen when the glasses babe mentioned that the same AI was used in all the common ones today lol, this is about to get wild. I’ll say tho it’s pretty sad all those fun girls were just AI, but they felt very real for sure, the future is scary man, it might be where we’re heading. I also noticed there’s a loli version of Mongfa, tho I think I prefer the hot sensei version lol. I do wonder if this show will ever return to the fun harem shenanigans we saw for most of it, but it looks like the arc we’re entering is gonna be way different, it was fun while it lasted, time for an AI invasion lol. Also nice new ED, really liked it. And man, it’s a bit of a shame that so many people thought this show was garbage before the last two episodes, it hurts my little harem heart lol. But that’s just how it is, it’s a looked down on genre but it’s one I really love. |
TheColonel76Nov 30, 2022 6:42 PM
| So THAT was the reason Yoshio always kept an eye on Asahi... I didn't expect him to be the doctor's avatar in the VR world. It also explains why Aoi/Ai kept trying to get rid of Yoshio, I guess she wants to tell Asahi to face reality and accept Ai's death. Man, that was grim. My boy just wanted to see his childhood friend once more and he ended up being used in an experiment (which he signed up for, to be fair). They could've toned down the info dump a lil' bit, but they told us basically everything we needed to know, so it's not that big of a problem, for me at least. I'd like to know where will they go from here. |
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Tsukumo_Yuuma said: Chipp12 said: You sure you were properly watching the episode? 'Cause it was explained that the girls had no relation to Asahi and were just creations of scientists from different countries. Those memories were most likely planted by Ai AI who has decided to interfere with the experiment. You two need to watch the episode again lol, Yoshino said that ALL the human-like AIs are created from the same AI the doctor (Ai's father) created 3 years ago (by copying his dying daughter's/Asahi's childhood friend's brain). The designs were created from people from different countries, but all the girls have memories from their childhood with Asashi because they're all based on Ai Izawa. Well if you didn't write it as created from girls Asahi knows I wouldn't be confused by your post. Since it's just one girl. Also it doesn't explain why they have memories with Asahi. If they indeed had them then they'd knew about him from the start but they unlocked those flashbacks only at certain points (all of them had sudden realizations about their past relationship after seeing that flashback which is a strange behavior for somebody who already had that memory from the start). |
Chipp12Nov 30, 2022 8:23 PM
| Damn so this was the big plot twist, it was all a simulation and Aoi is a copy Asahi's deceased childhood friend... |
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Askd_d said: sabishiihito said: Now I wonder if the "Flops" part of the title has to do with processing power, like gigaflops. But in this instance, exactly as it says it's processing love hence "Renai Flops." There was some discussion about this on Reddit when the show first aired, and honestly, I think the name is pretty clever. Flops taken as the floating-point term would mean computerized love, and Flops taken literally as Flops would also portray how the love experienced by the MC is literally "flopped" in this plot twist. This anime is shaping up to be pretty interesting! So just to add to this, the daughter's name is Ai, which also means love. So Love Flops, Ai Flops, AI Flops. Maybe I'm reaching with this one. |
| I'm no Weeaboo I'm Katsura |
Chipp12 said: Tsukumo_Yuuma said: You two need to watch the episode again lol, Yoshino said that ALL the human-like AIs are created from the same AI the doctor (Ai's father) created 3 years ago (by copying his dying daughter's/Asahi's childhood friend's brain). The designs were created from people from different countries, but all the girls have memories from their childhood with Asashi because they're all based on Ai Izawa. Well if you didn't write it as created from girls Asahi knows I wouldn't be confused by your post. Since it's just one girl. Also it doesn't explain why they have memories with Asahi. If they indeed had them then they'd knew about him from the start but they unlocked those flashbacks only at certain points (all of them had sudden realizations about their past relationship after seeing that flashback which is a strange behavior for somebody who already had that memory from the start). I'm not the first guy you replied to, so I didn't say "from girls Asahi knows" lol. Anyway I think since they all have different personalities and designs, they don't share Ai's memories (I guess they can change/block their memories since Asahi forgot a lot of stuff in the VR), but their time with Asahi made them unlock part of Ai's childhood with Asahi (I guess sorta like when a character gets memories of their past life or something). |
Tsukumo_YuumaDec 1, 2022 10:50 AM
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| The mc is send back to isekai reality, meet the scientist and explaining to mc it's simulation for whole time, mc get ratio + depressing, aoi the yandere ai is back. Nothing word I can describe my happiness watch this anime series, have faith to this anime will be good and now is the payoff for it. I can't wait for the next episode. Just Monika Aoi. |
  What Does Pot of Greed do?  |
| getting interesting... what happened to the other girls then? |
| Man what a plot twist. Previous to this episode there were theories that this may be a VR world but even with it being confirmed now I felt sad that the girls weren't real (I mean within the anime) and felt the MCs pain, especially after finding out his real life friend Ai died. Yesterday was also sad in the anime world as 2 other characters died in 2 different animes (I won't spoil). The end where Aoi comes back makes me wonder if that AI will try to reach out to Asahi and if the real high school girl will intervene. I've been enjoying watching this as a silly harem but now I'll be watching with more curiosity and some potential sadness. |
| the post-credit gave me goosebumps. aoi has legit falled in love with asahi and she wanted him to stay in that world forever but when asahi started talking about the other girls in last episode, aoi felt betrayed and locked him out of the VR and he was forced back to reality. now this same aoi has taken over the real world? and did she fuckcing delete amelia, karin, mongfa and irina????????? bro it's just ;ike AI taking over the world or some shit over it's love for a human. damn. they already dropped some hint with "Ai" name lol, we were just too dumb to notice it. i thought it would be hilarious if it all was a simulation but now i don't think it is. it's just fucking sad. asahi lived in that world for months and completely forgot about the reality. it's completely understandable that he's that depressed. it was almost like playing with his feelings :/ the first episode makes so much more sense after the revalation. the childhood friend revlation was the most suprising. i have no idea why the dad didn't just make a AI Ai from the memories and it would have been like she never died. the cherry blossom scene from episode 1 held a meaning we weren't aware of. great ED and great episode. with this episode, this anime deserves a rating of at least 8. depending on the ending i might rate it 10 as well. let's see. looking forward to next episode. the rating of this anime better go up now. give it the love it deserves. also me *laughing and pointing at the reviewers who reviewed it as shit after watching 3/4 episodes* |
TsutanaiFuunDec 1, 2022 1:34 AM
 The end of an era. Thank you Wit, Mappa and Isayama. Feeling half happy, half sad. Kawaii waifus and precious best girls <3333 |
| The AI Exposition Dump is horrible |
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| Interesting... Probabaly the best episode so far, can't wait for next week! |
| Just Monika went to outside world fr |
| i began to lose interest in the show with all the nonsensical happenings, but with this episode everything is starting to actually make some type of sense. the big plot twist kind of explains why everything happening seemed to be so out of the blue. also seems to have changed the genre of the show, haha. can't wait for the next episode though. i hope more of the story is explained because im getting interested again |
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TsutanaiFuun said: also me *laughing and pointing at the reviewers who reviewed it as shit after watching 3/4 episodes* ^This. Poor soul who get foolish by 3 episode rules, they should take all shit reviewed after watch this episode. |
| What Does Pot of Greed do? |
| wow that was quite a twist, very intriguing |
| A much-needed episode of exposition to finally explain what's truly been going on this whole time. It was already a great twist, and the additional context to Ai and Aoi just makes it all the better. |
| I guess that explains what were those flashbacks of other girls: memories of Ai with Asahi. But tbh I have mixed feelings about the direction this anime took. It's good, sure, but not what I signed up for. |
| Pretty interesting plot twist, didn't see that coming, I think Aoi is trying to break this situation. Also just noticed the poster has changed. |
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| Wow, what a turn of events in Renai Flops. I definitely see the Muv Luv influence now. I always knew Ai/Aoi was the realest of the bunch, makes sense given she was a copy of Asahi’s friend. Coming from all the silliness of the first few episodes to this reality shattering twist is crazy. Can’t wait to see where we go next |
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| Not the biggest surprise, but it is decently satisfying. The bit where they were especially insane in the beginning because they were still learning is clever, though maybe we should have skipped on the super spy and magical girl stuff if we wanted to demonstrate they were becoming more realistic. I also didn't predict them all having childhood memories because they were based on the same girl. That made it seem like they had to be real people somehow. Some bits I'm not sure they'll explain, what's up with Asahi's memory? Why didn't he remember signing up? And how exactly does taking an Ai base mind and making a distinct AI work? Are they effectively brainwashing the copy till she thinks she's a tsundere loli like Amelia? We see their designs coloring the childhood memories after all. That's pretty messed up. It's surprising there's still 4 episodes left. Those will really decide whether this show was worth all the nonsense. |
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