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Aug 22, 8:39 AM
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GangsterCat said:
@DragyG
Roshidere isn't a braindead ecchi romcom, sorry.


It should've been

Aight, now I understand where all this is coming from then ๐Ÿ˜‚

I agree with the saying that it's a bait to a bigger story. It worked for me at least. Came for good looking anime girl and got hooked on by the plot.
Aug 22, 8:43 AM

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I enjoyed the early episodes before it became a student council election focus. I agree with you. The mc does not appear to have much hobbies at all. The heroine is just getting saved by him all the time making her appear incompetant even as the student council president she is aiming for.
I was mainly watching later for the rumored hypnosis scene and ecchi stuff that apparently got skipped for political drama.
Aug 22, 8:51 AM
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the more episodes passes , the more I feel that alya is dumb, i don't like that, and I am fine with student council thing but why add a random bullshit plot like last episode , some random side characters blames mc ,alya for no reason...

i am watching this anime only because of yuki and her maid .
Aug 22, 8:52 AM
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Sometimes I like episodes of character growth and some serious dialogues like SNAFU. It expands more than just a Russian flirting to a Japanese dude.
Aug 22, 8:56 AM

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Yes, it was funnier at first, you can see that something went wrong.

I said from the beginning that Too Many Losing Heroines! is the romcom of the season xD
Aug 22, 8:58 AM
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I only watched episode 1 and 2, and this is how I feel. The anime is trying to be this whole thing about a otaku guy and a tsundere girl just having fun, but then the author felt the need to make it that the otaku is a chad, who can speak Russian because of a past and shit and it’s sort of annoying; because then the anime just feels unnecessary. Someone said it once very well: “it feels like an anime that was made for YouTube shorts”
Aug 22, 8:59 AM

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Yes, it was funnier at first, you can see that something went wrong.

I said from the beginning that Too Many Losing Heroines! is the romcom of the season xD
Ba-Cii10 said:
I said from the beginning that Too Many Losing Heroines! is the romcom of the season xD



The number of losing heroines are at an all-time high there, though.
“๐–จ๐–ฟ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‰๐—‹๐–พ๐–ฝ๐—‚๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐–ป๐—…๐–พ, ๐—‚๐— ๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—…๐–ฝ ๐–ผ๐–พ๐–บ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—๐—‚๐—๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐— ๐–ฟ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹.” – ๐–ค๐—…๐–พ๐–บ๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ฑ๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—
Aug 22, 9:09 AM

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@GangsterCat The first two volumes, as @DragyG puts it, acts as a bait for ecchi fans. I guess you would've regained your interest in the show (like most other users) had they adapted the hypnosis scene from V2 in the latest episode, which would've been much to @DragyG's dismay.


To summarize, it's a full-on ecchi scene where Masachika hypnotizes both Alya and Masha via a book that specializes in hypnosis. Nobody thought this would actually work. It proved to be effective, and Masha went... well... It's better left unsaid.


Back to the stance, Roshidere isn't centered around uncalled for fanservice or ecchi. The rest of the volumes still have them, to some extent. It's a story about struggles and hardship, about fortitude. How the two main characters help each other in overcoming their respective drawbacks; how Masachika tries to rectify his sense of low self-esteem and depressive mindset, as well as his relationship with his mother. Alya acts as a catalyst in his case, benefitting both of them as an emanation. While it has its wholesome and comedic moments, it is important to realize that, that's not the focus of the story.
@GangsterCat There ya go, blud.
“๐–จ๐–ฟ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‰๐—‹๐–พ๐–ฝ๐—‚๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐–ป๐—…๐–พ, ๐—‚๐— ๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—…๐–ฝ ๐–ผ๐–พ๐–บ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—๐—‚๐—๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐— ๐–ฟ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹.” – ๐–ค๐—…๐–พ๐–บ๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ฑ๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—
Aug 22, 9:16 AM

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I agree with everything you said really, the first episodes when it was mostly about the romcom were much better, but when the student council elections started being mentioned, it became annoying

But imo, the worst part is MC's backstory, especially the "I'm actually a genius child from a super rich family, but me and my father left it, and now I have to keep this secret to my grave" was never even hinted at first and feels very forced, especially the "secret" part, which looks like it's just an excuse of the author for MC to not spill the beans about his relationship with Yuki to keep the spice

Also, while we're talking about MC's relationship with Yuki, I feel like at some point it suddenly changed from simple siblings that get along despite bickering at each other, to perfect accomplices
Aug 22, 9:28 AM
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C'mon it didn't fall off,
I mean obviously they have to progress the story somehow. They can't just make Alya speak Russian and Kuze understand it while keeping the suspense . I really like the student council stuff and it's not like they ignored the romance. There are signs of romance here and there in every episode.
Here is one of the scenes from last episode where Alya says why she chose Kuze as her partner.The original had Russian sub so I google translated it.

Aug 22, 9:31 AM

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C'mon it didn't fall off,
I mean obviously they have to progress the story somehow. They can't just make Alya speak Russian and Kuze understand it while keeping the suspense . I really like the student council stuff and it's not like they ignored the romance. There are signs of romance here and there in every episode.
Here is one of the scenes from last episode where Alya says why she chose Kuze as her partner.The original had Russian sub so I google translated it.

@TempestDrak She loves him so much~ it's so wholesome for me.
“๐–จ๐–ฟ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‰๐—‹๐–พ๐–ฝ๐—‚๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐–ป๐—…๐–พ, ๐—‚๐— ๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—…๐–ฝ ๐–ผ๐–พ๐–บ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—๐—‚๐—๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐— ๐–ฟ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹.” – ๐–ค๐—…๐–พ๐–บ๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ฑ๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—
Aug 22, 9:45 AM

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Reply to TempestDrak
C'mon it didn't fall off,
I mean obviously they have to progress the story somehow. They can't just make Alya speak Russian and Kuze understand it while keeping the suspense . I really like the student council stuff and it's not like they ignored the romance. There are signs of romance here and there in every episode.
Here is one of the scenes from last episode where Alya says why she chose Kuze as her partner.The original had Russian sub so I google translated it.

I disagree, being a romcom is not an excuse to follow the usual tropes of school life stories to force some plot progress
Especially since they were already putting some plot progress without the whole student council election stuff, with Yuki's mindgames for example
And even there, does a romcom really need an actual serious plot to be good? Back in the days, romcom were pretty casual without big stuff going on and it was fine too

It's like they put like 30 threads early on, to develop each of them in different arcs later on, instead of just making new threads organically

Imo it's a common problem with the recent japanese stories, they feel like they have to make everything be complicated, when they don't always have to be
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Aug 22, 10:15 AM
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fr, ep 1-2 was almost a 9/10 and now im forcing myself every week to watch this show. the character writing is so bad and there's no actual story/goal. all down for the incest fan service tho
Aug 22, 10:17 AM

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You're talking about an Anime which main-appeal it was that there's a half-russian hottie, wearing overknees...

Yeah, it fell off....from a tiny, tiny tree...
Aug 22, 10:45 AM

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Nah you're definitely trippin lol
Aug 22, 10:52 AM
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The student council plot isn't a bad thing in my eyes but it does feel like almost nothing has happened yet and it's already been 8 episodes. Not really a bad thing but it is a very slow show.
Aug 22, 10:59 AM
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I respectfully disagree with the OP
Aug 22, 11:29 AM
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the only reason to watch this anime right now is Yuki cause she is a fucking menace and gremlin, she is a lot of fun
Alya is just your run-of-the-mill tsundere with the gimmick that she speaks a little russian from time to time, Masha seems like she will be the onee-san for the incels who never felt female warmth and affection, plot seems to be your standard school romcom that has been done 1000s of times before
so yeah i also enjoyed it more when it threw in some ecchi and felt like it didnt take itself too seriously
Aug 22, 12:27 PM
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this reads like such a loser wrote it lol
Aug 22, 12:32 PM
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now that you mention it your kind of right. i felt like it had a bit of a different vibe from the recent episodes compared to the beginning but i didn’t really think about why. it’s definitely getting worse i agree
Aug 22, 12:50 PM

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Agree, just another case of authors trying to force interpersonal drama into everything even when they have no skill at writing it
Training to become a real magical girl
Aug 22, 1:14 PM
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Yep, it's getting worse with every episode, but hopefully it'll get back on track before we realize it.
Aug 22, 2:04 PM
i like re zero

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GangsterCat said:
@TypicalWeeb047 It worked for Takagi, Nagatoro and many many many more. this could've been a fun fluff but NOOOOOOOOOO we must STUDENT COUNCIL DRAMA!

I honestly like what roshidere is going for over takagi and nagatoro tbh
Aug 22, 2:30 PM
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Short answer is yes, I agree. But I tuought the show was at max a 6/10 from the start so it wasn't a huge shock for me.
Aug 22, 2:35 PM
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I mean I did enjoy the scenes with the mc and his little sister. Just the banter in general. (Not the whole "wincest" thing or whatever). I feel like the comedy between him and his Sister carries a lot. The scènes where Yuki attempts to bait Alya in spilling her emotions add to that as well. I feel like the whole election arc and all the drama's taking the whole vibe elsewhere. Instead of funny and cute, it turns into a drama and seriousness. (tags are just comedy/romance/school)

I still enjoy it for what it's worth. Animations good, VA's are great as well. It's still worth a watch.
Aug 22, 3:07 PM
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Yes, I agree with OP
Aug 22, 3:14 PM
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habib_kun said:
I really don't understand why people complain about lack of fan service. Just go watch Hentai. There are thousands of them.

"Go watch hentai if you want fan service"
We can tell it’s pretty obvious you don’t understand
Aug 22, 3:19 PM

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I didn't even watch this anime yet but your points are too plausible, I can feel a pain of the fellow anime watcher which just wanted to watch some silly comedy with nicely looking female character which is slightly fresh but instead got some ridiculously serious and pretentious social melodrama. My honest condolences.
Aug 22, 3:51 PM

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aurora_yuuki said:
NewestPersonHere said:
Have not watched the anime. Does the anime deviate from the light novel?

If I recall correctly in the first few volumes. they spend a lot of time playing games with one another.



Define "games".`

I don’t remember clearly on the first few volumes, I remember there is hypnosis and cheating with mahjong.

Has been more than a year since I read the earlier volumes. XD
Aug 22, 7:41 PM
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Todday said:
habib_kun said:
I really don't understand why people complain about lack of fan service. Just go watch Hentai. There are thousands of them.

"Go watch hentai if you want fan service"
We can tell it’s pretty obvious you don’t understand

I'm glad I don't understand
Aug 22, 8:15 PM
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Ok, that's very very precise. I felt exactly like that, the good feeling of a funny comedy with the russian and the otaku that made all unique just turned into a generic love comedy in just three episodes.

I was very excited about this anime, but I now just want to drop it, I didn't know why, but now it makes sense.
Aug 22, 8:19 PM
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Agreed 100%. started first 2 eps as a 9.0 now its a mid 6.5 to me
Aug 22, 8:23 PM
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This is kinda fr to be honest
Aug 22, 8:55 PM

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aurora_yuuki said:
NewestPersonHere said:
Have not watched the anime. Does the anime deviate from the light novel?

If I recall correctly in the first few volumes. they spend a lot of time playing games with one another.



Define "games".`

I don’t remember clearly on the first few volumes, I remember there is hypnosis and cheating with mahjong.

Has been more than a year since I read the earlier volumes. XD
NewestPersonHere said:
I don’t remember clearly on the first few volumes, I remember there is hypnosis and cheating with mahjong.

Has been more than a year since I read the earlier volumes. XD



Yeah. They skipped both of them, apparently.
“๐–จ๐–ฟ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‰๐—‹๐–พ๐–ฝ๐—‚๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐–ป๐—…๐–พ, ๐—‚๐— ๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—…๐–ฝ ๐–ผ๐–พ๐–บ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—๐—‚๐—๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐— ๐–ฟ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹.” – ๐–ค๐—…๐–พ๐–บ๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ฑ๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—
Aug 22, 9:27 PM
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I agree!!! also not the ayanokouji comparison ๐Ÿ˜ญ am on the floor
Aug 22, 11:51 PM
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it never fell off, it was never good from the beginning

the characters are lame, MC is super boring and too much of a beta to actually respond to Alya's BS, alya is an annoying tsundere attention whore whose gimmick doesn't matter and you get tired of it after like 1 ep, the other characters are basically nothing and they matter for nothing, yuki is the best but her whole personality is being super cringe and her whole role is just revolved around the MC, with nothing else to her other than being cringe


the show is also super boring, nothing interesting happens and I'm not surprised we're unironically having a student council arc now, what a boring way to progress the story
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Honestly idk what'll be worse, staying as the usual gimmick romcom or adding bad executed drama.
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You basically wanted a full cliche story with fan service almost every ep and recycling the same jokes every time with no character development, you can’t be serious about it lol. I personally prefer the ones of serious plot to the fluffy ones(don’t hate them though), they’re more down to earth.

I’ve read the first 4 volumes of the LN, at least for me the story isn’t generic and doesn’t use the classic cliche formula of RomCom often.
Aug 23, 2:41 AM

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You basically wanted a full cliche story with fan service almost every ep and recycling the same jokes every time with no character development, you can’t be serious about it lol. I personally prefer the ones of serious plot to the fluffy ones(don’t hate them though), they’re more down to earth.

I’ve read the first 4 volumes of the LN, at least for me the story isn’t generic and doesn’t use the classic cliche formula of RomCom often.
Coast27 said:
You basically wanted a full cliche story with fan service almost every ep and recycling the same jokes every time with no character development, you can’t be serious about it lol. I personally prefer the ones of serious plot to the fluffy ones(don’t hate them though), they’re more down to earth.

I’ve read the first 4 volumes of the LN, at least for me the story isn’t generic and doesn’t use the classic cliche formula of RomCom often.



Check out the PV of EP9: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2175514
“๐–จ๐–ฟ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‰๐—‹๐–พ๐–ฝ๐—‚๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐–ป๐—…๐–พ, ๐—‚๐— ๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—…๐–ฝ ๐–ผ๐–พ๐–บ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—๐—‚๐—๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐— ๐–ฟ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹.” – ๐–ค๐—…๐–พ๐–บ๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ฑ๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—
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I don’t remember clearly on the first few volumes, I remember there is hypnosis and cheating with mahjong.

Has been more than a year since I read the earlier volumes. XD



Yeah. They skipped both of them, apparently.
@aurora_yuuki You will see it in episode 9 next week.
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@aurora_yuuki You will see it in episode 9 next week.
@MrBruhMan262 Duh, I know. I made a thread about the PV. It's right above you.
“๐–จ๐–ฟ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐—๐–พ๐—‹๐–พ ๐—‰๐—‹๐–พ๐–ฝ๐—‚๐–ผ๐—๐–บ๐–ป๐—…๐–พ, ๐—‚๐— ๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—…๐–ฝ ๐–ผ๐–พ๐–บ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐—๐—ˆ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—…๐—‚๐–ฟ๐–พ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ป๐–พ ๐—๐—‚๐—๐—๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐— ๐–ฟ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹.” – ๐–ค๐—…๐–พ๐–บ๐—‡๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–ฑ๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—Œ๐–พ๐—๐–พ๐—…๐—
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If you guys wanna fanservice scene, then wait for next week episode. I know it's going to be wild. ๐Ÿ—ฟ๐Ÿ—ฟ๐Ÿ—ฟ
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I love how the same title is criticized for both being a "one joke formula" and wanting to have a plot outside of the formula.
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What happened to MAL in the last few years that most users have no profile picture anymore?
@GangsterCat Many users are quite young to have experienced the “era” of classic forums, so they simply did not create a forum avatar and write for no reason. Especially because of the old need to adjust the image size.
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It just focuses too much on the student council imo.
Aug 23, 9:46 AM
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I'll just wait before saying this anime really fall off until I finished watching all the episodes, not every episode is peak after all especially when it comes to romcom....



(ใฃโ—”โ—กโ—”)ใฃ ๐“˜ ๐”€๐“ฒ๐“ผ๐“ฑ ๐”‚๐“ธ๐“พ ๐“ช๐“ต๐“ต ๐“ฑ๐“ช๐“ฟ๐“ฎ ๐“ช ๐”€๐“ธ๐“ท๐“ญ๐“ฎ๐“ป๐“ฏ๐“พ๐“ต ๐“ญ๐“ช๐”‚ ♥
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt like this
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I feel like you all are watching for the wrong reasons or have poor comprehension of what the plot is even about but don’t let me stop yall for claiming this anime has fallen off when it’s literally the best thing to come out this season.
Aug 23, 2:16 PM

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Agree. This show fell hard.

The drama concerning the student presidency is so overblown it feels like an episode of house of cards whit WW3 stakes.
I love that in the last episode they "plan" stuff while throwing in lines " Yes we do it like this"., "Maybe we a bit more like that" cause the author cannot bother to actually think of a strategy and it's left to us to believe they actually have a plan.

And ofc the end result was just a boring debate with no actual masterplans that would amaze anyone. It was just "hey look , the current president was a dweeb but worked hard and so can we! "


W/e , i give up.
This show can go to the trashbin alongside so many others

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This anime went from great to mid; literally just keep the romcom aspects and it would continue being a 9/10. Now im debating to drop my score to a 7/10
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