 https://myanimelist.net/anime/55071/ Plot Summary Uryuu Kamihate has had a rough start to life, but plans to forget it all by achieving his dream—matriculating into medical school. But when he arrives at his new foster home, a working shrine, his dream of a quiet place to study goes up in smoke. Not only will he be living with the three beautiful, lively Amagami sisters—but he learns that he must marry one of them and take over the temple! Other Information Type: TV Episodes: 24 Status: Not yet aired Aired: Oct 2, 2024 to ? Premiered: Fall 2024 Broadcast: Wednesdays at 00:00 (JST) Producers: None found, add some Licensors: None found, add some Studios: Drive Source: Manga Genres: Comedy, Romance Theme: Harem Demographic: Shounen Duration: Unknown Rating: None |
| This plot feels familiar. Does the guy turn into girl when splashed with cold water? |
| The tomatoes are coming! Arm the dicer! Prepare the olive oil! |
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This plot feels familiar. Does the guy turn into girl when splashed with cold water?
| @Domvina Nope, and the MC isn't a martial artist, either. He's a bookworm who's thrown into the lion's pit of desire, and he's forced to marry one of these sisters, but this time he gets to choose his suitor rather than being stuck with the tsundere of the bunch. Episode 1 And thus it begins with Uryu being adapted by the Amagami family, and all he cares about is studying, but the sisters Yae, Yuna, and Asahi are making life difficult for him. The dreaded perceived pervert cliche rears its ugly head at the start as Uryu finds himself in a compromised position with all three sisters on his first day. Seeing how he doesn't believe things will work out that Uryu decides to distance himself from them, and is not exactly a religious person seeing that his prayers couldn't save his mother from dying young. And then head of the shrine gives Uryu the order to marry one of the sisters and take over the shrine, which isn't exactly what he signed up for. The show started off being just like a standard harem romcom, but the second half adds quite a lot of depth there, and seeing that the manga is pretty good and the show runs for two cours that I have a good feeling about this show. Nevertheless, how this show builds off the start will be critical. |
| Well that just laid all its cards on the table in the first episode, didn't it? The MC's hair is oddly overcomplicated. Why, oh why does no one ever fall with their eyes open? I guess it was too much to hope for a complex treatment of the (false) faith vs. science dichotomy filtered through the lens of a harem rom-com, lol. I feel like I've seen these exact same show ingredients, slightly rearranged, in about a dozen other anime. |
boldulyssesOct 1, 2024 10:34 AM
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
Domvina said: This plot feels familiar. I'm thinking more of the one from a few seasons ago, where the guy's father was a real man whore, and his own libido was in overdrive, so he tried to take a vow of celibacy to be able to study harder...and ended up at a shrine with like 4 or 5 sisters who were trying to keep the shrine from closing down. Edit: Looked up the name of the show it was Temple |
HOOfan_1Oct 1, 2024 11:51 AM
Trivia-man-Frank said: Right away- middle sister definitely falls into the archetype of character i absolutely can’t stand, so I don’t have high hopes for her. Unfortunately middle sister is MC's obvious match here; the flags were all over the episode. I don't really see this show ambitiously throwing a curveball and pairing him up with one of the others. Which completely drains all the tension out of the harem premise, and reduces the function of the other two girls to upholding trope-y stereotypes and being fodder for compromising situations. Sucks for them, I guess. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
boldulysses said: Unfortunately middle sister is MC's obvious match here; the flags were all over the episode I thought the same with Ouka in "Cafe Terrace and It's Five Goddesses". She was the first one the MC walked in on changing. Also she is the tsundere type, like the middle sister in this one, and for some reason the tsundere type usually seem to be the ones that fall the hardest, but after 2 seasons, she never did show any interest in the MC, and he never showed interest in her, but there were 3 others who were all over the MC. |
Trivia-man-Frank said: “I don’t have high hopes for her” in the context of me liking her as a character. Right right, but you always hope you'll like the characters that eventually get paired up, since that's where most of the emotional energy in a rom-com goes. Trivia-man-Frank said: She’s not the worst though; at least her default is throwing salt instead of hitting the MC. This is true, and might actually be the one thing that keeps me watching this. I like a tsundere, but the constant threat of physical assault against the MC gets really old. HOOfan_1 said: after 2 seasons, she never did show any interest in the MC, and he never showed interest in her Were they flagged as being destined for a relationship as hard as the MC and middle sister are in this premiere, though? |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| I'm also giving it 3 episodes to win me over. It has a slight supernatural element, which is a positive, but it seems to be a standard shonen harem story. The characters are okay, but nothing memorable. |
| Ironic to me is that the oldest sister is voiced by the same VA as Alya from "Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian", but she acts almost exactly like Alya's older sister |
| Someone must have dusted off a script from 2004. There wasn't an original idea anywhere in the first episode. And there are 24 episodes of this? "Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister is written and illustrated by Marcey Naito, who had previously worked as assistant under Negi Haruba on The Quintessential Quintuplets." Not a reassuring pedigree. |
runec said: And there are 24 episodes of this? Wait, really? Holy crap. I could wrap this up in 5 given the way ep.1 went. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| After last season's Pseudo Harem I was all: "Okay! There's Cool-Chan, Imp-Chan, and Tsundere-Chan present and accounted for!" just as soon as they opened the door in their underwear. |
| Is there any first ep harem rom-com trope this show didn't hit? The accidental oppai grab is about the only one I can think of. Harem shows where there's a clear front runner make me wonder why the harem is there in the first place and often end up making me feel like I'm wasting my time. How long before we start getting hints that he met one of the girls ten years earlier? |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
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Is there any first ep harem rom-com trope this show didn't hit? The accidental oppai grab is about the only one I can think of.
Harem shows where there's a clear front runner make me wonder why the harem is there in the first place and often end up making me feel like I'm wasting my time.
How long before we start getting hints that he met one of the girls ten years earlier?
Harem shows where there's a clear front runner make me wonder why the harem is there in the first place and often end up making me feel like I'm wasting my time.
How long before we start getting hints that he met one of the girls ten years earlier?
zkeleton said: Harem shows where there's a clear front runner make me wonder why the harem is there in the first place Gotta fill 24 eps somehow. |
zkeleton said: Harem shows where there's a clear front runner make me wonder why the harem is there in the first place and often end up making me feel like I'm wasting my time. For no reason other than Drama. Ai Yori Aoishi was the same. All the other characters were there so we could ponder whether he will stay true to his love and to have them squabble amongst each other. But in all honesty, unless the MC actually winds up dating/marrying every single one of them I find it hard to call it a Harem anime. Or at the very least express interest in more than one girl. Tenchi's problem is that even though we all knew it would happen, it was far too rushed and in your face in the final season of Ryo-ohki. |
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zkeleton said:
Harem shows where there's a clear front runner make me wonder why the harem is there in the first place and often end up making me feel like I'm wasting my time.
Harem shows where there's a clear front runner make me wonder why the harem is there in the first place and often end up making me feel like I'm wasting my time.
For no reason other than Drama.
Ai Yori Aoishi was the same.
All the other characters were there so we could ponder whether he will stay true to his love and to have them squabble amongst each other.
But in all honesty, unless the MC actually winds up dating/marrying every single one of them I find it hard to call it a Harem anime.
Or at the very least express interest in more than one girl.
Tenchi's problem is that even though we all knew it would happen, it was far too rushed and in your face in the final season of Ryo-ohki.
Dosantsu said: Ai Yori Aoishi was the same. All the other characters were there so we could ponder whether he will stay true to his love and to have them squabble amongst each other. Ai Yori Aoishi was a great example of how a harem ruins an otherwise decent show set up. You can basically watch the first 3 episodes and the last 2 episodes and miss nothing of any importance. |
runec said: Ai Yori Aoishi was a great example of how a harem ruins an otherwise decent show set up. I don't hate harems, but I hate pointless harems. Or harems purely to add unneeded drama. |
Dosantsu said: A show doing it today is a lot more egregious than a show that did it 22 years ago.Ai Yori Aoishi was the same. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
zkeleton said: A show doing it today is a lot more egregious than a show that did it 22 years ago. And that ain't gonna change. "If it worked once, why wouldn't it work another hundred times a second time?" |
Dosantsu said: For some reason when shows do that though a lot of people seem to get upset about it for some reason. And I'm not even talking about the people who claim to be anime fans while constantly bashing anime and trying to get it to conform to their sensibilities either. It's never really bothered me, except when done poorly, and considering that one man with multiple wives has been common all over the world in human history I don't get why some people get their panties in a bunch over it.But in all honesty, unless the MC actually winds up dating/marrying every single one of them I find it hard to call it a Harem anime. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
zkeleton said: For some reason when shows do that though a lot of people seem to get upset about it for some reason. It's fine when it's done properly, but in most cases Harem anime wind up that way because simply "I want to make everyone happy and not hurt anyone" which in most cases is a cop out on actually choosing which one you love. But it's fiction so it's okay. Most people complaining about it are people who don't even watch anime and just want an excuse to villainize the medium. In Techni Muyo: Ryo-ohki's case it's because they wanted to wrap up the main Tenchi Muyo story in a way that solves all the questions we had throughout seasons 1 through 3 and tie it in with War on Geminar. Same with GXP and GXP Paradise Starting. It was all rushed so that they could tie all the various Tenchi Muyo stories into one big story. Which ends (For now) with War on Geminar. Most Harem anime are only Harem anime because a whole gaggle of girls love MC-kun, and not because MC-kun loves every single girl. But out of masculine pride he has to 'protect' every single one of the girls which has them all fall harder for him. In the Ai Yori Aoshi manga, the reasons why all the girls love Kaoru is pretty acceptable, but in the anime most of the details are just skipped out because of time constraints. A Harem show has to have some redeeming factors for me to not hate it. Character interaction, quality of drama, reason why they fall for the MC. And the characters themselves need to not be walking cliches. |
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zkeleton said:
For some reason when shows do that though a lot of people seem to get upset about it for some reason.
For some reason when shows do that though a lot of people seem to get upset about it for some reason.
It's fine when it's done properly, but in most cases Harem anime wind up that way because simply "I want to make everyone happy and not hurt anyone" which in most cases is a cop out on actually choosing which one you love.
But it's fiction so it's okay.
Most people complaining about it are people who don't even watch anime and just want an excuse to villainize the medium.
In Techni Muyo: Ryo-ohki's case it's because they wanted to wrap up the main Tenchi Muyo story in a way that solves all the questions we had throughout seasons 1 through 3 and tie it in with War on Geminar.
Same with GXP and GXP Paradise Starting.
It was all rushed so that they could tie all the various Tenchi Muyo stories into one big story.
Which ends (For now) with War on Geminar.
Most Harem anime are only Harem anime because a whole gaggle of girls love MC-kun, and not because MC-kun loves every single girl.
But out of masculine pride he has to 'protect' every single one of the girls which has them all fall harder for him.
In the Ai Yori Aoshi manga, the reasons why all the girls love Kaoru is pretty acceptable, but in the anime most of the details are just skipped out because of time constraints.
A Harem show has to have some redeeming factors for me to not hate it.
Character interaction, quality of drama, reason why they fall for the MC.
And the characters themselves need to not be walking cliches.
Dosantsu said: It's fine when it's done properly, but in most cases Harem anime wind up that way because simply "I want to make everyone happy and not hurt anyone" which in most cases is a cop out on actually choosing which one you love. Can't upset the status quo or risk choosing worst girl. Every girl is someone's worst girl so the author essentially dooms themselves to backlash if they conclude anything. But they have no one to blame but themselves. Although sometimes picking the wrong girl its particularly egregious. Oreimo for example was unforgivable and then the same guy went on to also write Eromanga Sensei and managed to drift even further from God's light. |
| I never managed to watch the Oreimo OVAs, and they were important to Season 2 which infuriates me. And Eromanga Sensei just rubbed me the wrong way the whole time. Then there's Kiss x Sis OVA/TV adaptation that I haven't watched either that was a popular topic ages ago. Harem anime are always the odd duck in romance shows. They are either funny as all hell or so completely unwatchable that bleaching your eyes seems less painful. I still find the Tenchi franchise fun at least until the latest installments. Have the manga too. And War on Geminar is a treat. |
| Episode 2 Gramps just threw a curveball as Uryu is required to get married to one of the sisters, and neither Uryu nor the sisters are thrilled about it. All Uryu cares about is studying, but he's stuck doing all the chores around the house seeing that the girls are totally incompetent when it comes to that. Seeing that he can't get any studying done that he packs up and leaves to return to the orphanage, and the sisters tail him. There, the sisters meet up with the foster home director Mahiru and Uryu's childhood friend Shirahi, and they quickly becomes great friends with them. There, they make paper cranes together at the orphanage, and through meeting these people, the sisters understand Uryu better and they tell Uryu to try and get along with them. So Uryu returns to the house to try and do exactly that, but even if the girls are now willing to do the chores, he just can't help but to do them himself after seeing the girls being so bad. So after all that, the sisters are at least more respectful of Uryu's wishes. And then gramps comes back telling that Uryu will undergo a marriage meeting with all three sisters. After a start that mostly revolved around the use of fanservice, this episode focuses largely on Uryu's background seeing that the sisters need to understand that and not impose on him like they did in the first episode. |
| I'm quickly losing interest. I don't see how I can make it through 24 episodes at this point. |
| Are we allowed to ship the tomboy instead? |
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No crotch faceplants at all?
| @marklebid They gotta stretch this out for 24 episodes man. Can't just dive straight into the crotch. |
SparkyBob said: Are we allowed to ship the tomboy instead? Tomboy is the childhood friend, ergo one of the losers. I really don't see this show bucking any tropes. The black scribbly eyes for the kids were really off-putting. Was it really that hard to draw actual eyes for each of the 2-3 kids on screen at the most? As far as I'm concerned, this anime had exactly one shot at being different than a straight-down-the-middle, paint-by-numbers harem fantasy: Leaning into the faith-vs-science tension between Uryu and the girls. But Uryu isn't a committed enough atheist. I give this 1-2 more episodes to pick up some steam. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Better than the first ep but that's pretty much the lowest of bars. Yeah the weird black eyes were pretty creepy and had me thinking that was why he hadn't wanted to live there any more. Also, did anyone else think the outside of that orphanage looked a lot like a public restroom? I'd take him being with the childhood friend, or the doctor, or the younger or older daughter just to see him with someone else besides the redhead. |
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Better than the first ep but that's pretty much the lowest of bars.
Yeah the weird black eyes were pretty creepy and had me thinking that was why he hadn't wanted to live there any more. Also, did anyone else think the outside of that orphanage looked a lot like a public restroom?
I'd take him being with the childhood friend, or the doctor, or the younger or older daughter just to see him with someone else besides the redhead.
Yeah the weird black eyes were pretty creepy and had me thinking that was why he hadn't wanted to live there any more. Also, did anyone else think the outside of that orphanage looked a lot like a public restroom?
I'd take him being with the childhood friend, or the doctor, or the younger or older daughter just to see him with someone else besides the redhead.
zkeleton said: I'd take him being with the childhood friend, or the doctor, or the younger or older daughter just to see him with someone else besides the redhead. The only anime I can recall that ever had a non obvious girl win was Shuffle! Though the childhood friend also does lose in it. Looks like there are 16 volumes of this and its still ongoing so I doubt we're going to get any sort of closure even after 24 episodes. I expect this to get dragged out to Love Hina levels. |
| Episode 3 And now, Uryu does the marriage meetings with each girl. First up is Asahi, who is a track-and-field athlete and she has him go out on a jog with her. Of course seeing that Uryu spends all his time studying that he doesn't have the stamina that Asahi does. And then the two spend the night being locked in the storage shed and Uryu ended up having to go out the top window to unlock the door. After that, it's onto his next marriage meting, this time with Yuna as they end up going to a cat cafe knowing that she loves cats. While she admits that she had a great time, it just isn't in her nature to do so. Then comes the marriage meeting with Yae, but she takes a long time to get ready, and after waiting another hour, she goes missing as it turns out she's drawing art instead. Thanks to the painting, Uryu finds out where she is and is painting. And then just as the meeting wraps up, Uryu falls down the steps, and ends up back in his room. Uryu just isn't ready to get married to one of these three girls seeing that the marriage meetings all ended up being a disaster in one way or another, but he's being put through all this thanks to gramps. |
| The OST seems to be trying to make certain scenes more humorous than they really are. The disjointed romance, slight humor, and slight supernatural elements aren't enough to keep me going. I'm giving up on this. |
| I'm sticking with it mainly because the OP music is actually decent. Been a dearth of good openings so far this season. Ed's not bad either, although both of them are louder than the show by a considerable margin. |
| Well this show is a dud. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| I think I might be done as well, especially since this is going to get 24 episodes. I just don't see how they're going to keep (make?) it interesting barring some major development or plot twist. Little supernatural tease at the end there, so I may watch the first few minutes of the next ep. just to see if they do anything with that. Also I'm kind of creeped out by the middle school sister being a marriage prospect. |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
| Episode 4 Uryu meets up with Miemon, and he's telling the Amagamis to sell the shrine as the the visitor count has nosedived since their mother passed away. With the festival coming up, the sisters make a deal with Miemon to get one more chance to save the shrine and if they fail to do so, not only do they lose the shrine, but the house in addition. So to start things off, the shrine's webpage is so out of date, and the girls are needed to promote it. Simple fanservicey shots won't cut it, but a group photo got plenty of attention. And then the girls perform dances on video as promotional material that is getting the place buzzing. And then on the day before Uryu drops by the shopping district for some extra help, and they were already working on it before he asked as they have so many great memories at that place that they will defend it to the end. So pretty much, this goes to show just how much the shrine has declined since the sisters' mother passed away and having Uryu join the family is a big blessing seeing that they will need to pull out all the stops to get people coming to the shrine again. |
| I like the show. It's cute and Yae is the best girl. So far, it gets a 7/10. But running 24 eps might change the score. Just my opinion and way too early score. |
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| I was kind of expecting Uryu to punch the dude when he was talking about their mother....this episode makes it even more like Temple now. Seems like Japan would have something like protected historical/heritage site that would prevent the shrine from being touched. |
| I think I'm out, guys. This a completely paint-by-numbers harem rom-com, from the character designs to the direction to the sound/music to the writing. It's just not holding my interest. HOOfan_1 said: Seems like Japan would have something like protected historical/heritage site that would prevent the shrine from being touched. No tax exemption, I guess. Although, even with tax-exempt status in the US, many places of worship still fold... |
| Away from the things of man, my love, away from the things of man. |
boldulysses said: No tax exemption, I guess. Although, even with tax-exempt status in the US, many places of worship still fold... It's not just economic viability, it's the fact that they said this shrine has been in continuous operation for over 1,100 years. In the United States, something like that would be granted protection, so it wouldn't be as if someone could come in and buy it and bulldoze it to put up a 7-11. With something like that, even if they had to stop operating it as an active shrine, it would still be protected. |
| I just reached the "What if we got 5,000 visitors?" part (I too was expecting Uryu to punch him) and I had to pause the show in exasperation to check this discussion. Wanted to see if I should even keep going. Okay, if there are cute photos of the girls I will tentatively allow the episode to finish... Finished. All right. It's extremely paint-by-numbers but the charm designs were good and at least they didn't stretch "getting the local merchants to participate" over three episodes like I was expecting. |
SparkyBobOct 22, 2024 2:12 PM
| Episode 5 It's the day of the festival, and already things are off to a bad start as Miemon made a fake account and used that to tell everybody the festival is cancelled, and there's nothing Uryu could do about it since the site was shut down for term use violations. So Uryu comes up with a plan that involves parading the sisters around the community, while handing out flyers, which he has trouble doing until Mahiru comes and has her children help out. Then comes another setback with aa sudden rainstorm, but that helped Uryu find a better place to do the dance as there's a koi pond covered with cherry blossom petals for the dance. In the end, they 5000 on the mark with Miemon being the 5000th visitor, so the shrine will continue to live on. While Miemon was being such a menace, he does have a point and is doing this to motivate the shrine to start shaping up knowing that unless things change this place will need to be shut down. |
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