Audience reviews
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LegionIscariot
"Nyaruko: Crawling With Love!" is a comedy ecchi about a boy named Mahiro who gets attacked by aliens wanting to sell him as a slave.
He is saved by a silver-haired girl named Nyaruko of the Space Defense Agency.
Unfortunately Mahiro is an ungrateful whinny b*tch who doesn't appreciate Nyaruko's love/lust for him. And is always pushing her away.
Ironically Nyaruko is lusted after by a different pink-haired alien girl named Kuuko. A childhood friend who wants to make babies with her. Nyaruko rejects Kuuko the same way Mahiro rejects her.
The interactions between Nyaruko and Kuuko is the best. Extremely entertaining.
Nyaruko is a Nyarlotephian, and Kuuko is a Cthuko. The two races are meant to be enemies.
And no comedy ecchi harem would be complete without a trap. The blond-haired Hasuta…
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I want to like this. I do. Unfortunately, there is just too much nonsense for that to be possible.
There are too many repetitious scenes and behaviors that just get under my skin. They don't even try to hide the fact that that's what they're doing and it makes some of the episodes drag badly. The show can get serious and do serious things and do it well, as in episode 12, but there's not enough substance to carry an episode. There is just too much crap. I won't be watching the second season, though I'm sure that there is hope for it once the finale gets going.
I'm going to slap a mixed feelings on this because it might be somebody's cup of tea, though I personally would not advocated if somebody asked for a referral.
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After watching Scum's Wish, I was placed in a melancholic daze of epic proportions where I almost killed myself. Just kidding. It was a coma not a daze.
I needed something light-hearted, silly, mindless, and fun that didn't take itself seriously and also had a happy ending.
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san fit the bill perfectly. Season 1 pulled me out of my perpetual melancholic state and had me smiling and laughing again.
Then I watched Plastic Memories and got sucked like a Cyclone vacuum cleaner into the void of depression again.
But Season 2 of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san bailed me out from the pits of despair yet again.
The entire series has little to no plot and hardly any character development. It revolves around the static traits of the characters and the conflicts they get into with their situ…
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First I gonna say this anime is actually in the category of Harem, Ecchi. But somehow in MAL only comedy, sci-fi and parody are written (lol).
I will briefly describe the conditions in the anime world. In this world and some of the characters here are based on references from the work of a writer named P.H Lovecraft who makes fiction, horror and sci-fi stories. Even though it's based on a writer of the genre, it's not horror at all. According to the genre, comedy and as I mentioned harem. And in the world of anime, the most sought after thing is entertainment. And earth is a place where the most tantalizing entertainment in the universe, even though only aliens know and humans do not know (because they never interact). That's more or less the story.
Actually, you don't have to worry abou…
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Sadly another anime, another show that just isn't for me.
I mainly select most of my animes to watch of top lists, ratings on anime sites, and try to look for something at least that will keep me interested, this pretty much failed in it.
I know there are people out there who love the type of comedy it offers, but to me, the show was a bag of trash layered with a steaming pile of dog shit.
The show pretty much seems to float around protecting our MC as option 2, and the path to the lewd otaku as the main part of two as is it is limited how much if at all aliens can take of it from the earth. It is almost as if this is how they predict normal human behavior.
If you're in tropey jokes of pokemon etc, your typical tsundere male uninterested in women, etc, your fine or jokes about food from…
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Okay everything for this anime is great except the characters and their development and a bit of the story.
So to begin I'll review this not as a competitor for top series but as a review of the anime itself. Some people may say that this series is somewhat "milking" the consumers but in all honesty to me its just people looking at things from a narrow perspective if that is all one has to say.
The anime does not do sins on shoving up fanservice to make big bucks but instead parodies it, if you actually know how to critique anime then you'd realize that fanservice usually is given in a seriously comedic tone. Instead of small accident types or inserts here and there, fanservice was placed in times where it could be made of and the fact that it should not have happened or other times forc…
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this anime is terrible but the idea is pretty funny so oh well what can you do
anyway time to write a kind of review to pad the length.
theres a guy who exists and then a fucking lovecraftian deity appears but its an anime girl because fuck you, then they go to lovecraft land or something because fuck you. then it becomes a slice of life featuring lovecraftian deities because fuck you. theres demons or some shit which fucking nyarlethotep punches in the face because fuck you. also all of the lovecraft characters are attracted to the protagonist because fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.
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This is a review for the first season of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. I haven't seen the OVAs or the other season. Yet.
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san isn't an easy show to review for me, because it's almost like two shows in one. Not that the characters change or the basic premise changes or anything, but the quality is not consistent throughout the season.
I actually dropped the show after watching episode 1, because I didn't find the humor particularly funny and it felt like it was all over the place, mood wise.
Then one day I came across it again and decided to try for episode 2 and ended up binging the rest of the show in one sitting.
From episode 2-7 Haiyore! Nyaruko-san is actually pretty hilarious. The main character, Mahiro Yasaka, is your standard boring ass normie high school boy with zero…
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This anime was awful, i first bothered watching the anime because i was lured in with the names of the cosmic horrors of H.P. Lovecraft only to find that it is a parody romance that has horribly portrayed the works of Lovecraft. I feel like this anime has desecrated the works of Lovecraft. Nothing here is portrayed accurately of his works or even an enjoyable spin on it. it's just another lame comedy harem. the plot is none existent and just centers on Nyarlathotep trying to reproduce with the main character boy. which by the way Nyarlathotep acts NOTHING like the hp Lovecraft version 😭 perhaps i wouldn't have rated it so poorly if not for the fact they just butchered Lovecraft, better yet why did they even use the names if they didn't use any of the lores and characters depicted accurate…
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Nyaruko is a show I came into with a strange mindset. I initially had absolutely no desire to see such a series, but I figured I might as well watch something with as outlandish of a premise as this for one of the entries for my Anime Watching Challenge of 2019. After episode 1, I was intrigued. By episode 12, those moments of intrigue were struck and destroyed. Let me explain by talking about what initially caught my interest... The story.
STORY - 6/10
The story provided at Episode 1 of Nyaruko was one of the most baffling and convoluted setups I had seen in a long time, and this just made me want to watch it more. It turns out that the deities written about by H. P. Lovecraft are alive, and not only that, the main girl - Nyarthathotep - is a huge fan of anime and manga. The idea that th…
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I like the concept of this anime, bringing mythology creatures from the Cthulhu mythos and turn them into cute girls and this battle between the monsters and gods is quite fun to watch, also the whole mc's family belongs to the clan of silver forks ninja thing which sounds kinda dumb but funny.
The only downside to this anime is how unlikable the mc is, maybe it's just me but the dude acts like a total jackass everytime Nyaruko makes a move on him. I know that most anime when it comes to a girl falling madly with a guy but since due to anime's logic the guy is either too embarrassed, dumb, dense, or in love with someone else and he always find a way to slip away when the girl tries to force her love on him but here the guy acts like a total ahole, his actions are basically saying "f u, get…
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Even after binge-watching this entire show, I'm genuinely unsure how I feel about it. I'm a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft and the universe he created, and I enjoyed the references and jokes in this, but there's no plot, the characters are extremely simple, and it's generally kind of hard to make my mind up on. One example of this is the fact that Hastur, the unspeakable, the king in yellow, is a tiny trap child. On the one hand, that's hilarious to me. On the other, I can't help but be sincerely confused as to why.
Even though I enjoyed this show, I feel like I don't want people to know that I enjoyed it. I'm not into rom-com animes, and there is 0 chance I would have watched this if it wasn't just for the absurdity of an anime where Nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos, is a small anime girl. I…
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Haiyore! Nyaruko-san - A Review as dry as the gin I drink while watching this.
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Phew, so this is my first review. And I picked Nyarko-san of all shows to start? Why?
The reason is simple - among all shows I have watched so far, this one has stood out to me for its remarkable intensity.
Intensity in what? Brutal comedy! Lack of dignity! Shameless reference-hogging! Self-awareness! But most of all, confidence.
The people behind this show probably knew what they were creating here, and had way too much fun making it.
I won't repeat the plot and setting here, MAL got you covered.
As an aside, the OP of this show is so immensely anime that I would show it to anyone who needs a lesson on what this medium can come down to.
A) What I expected when going into this show: (backstory, e…
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I liked this as a fun non serious show to watch with a fun cast of characters.
If you go into this trying to take it serious you will probably have a bad time tbh. This show likes to take the piss out of the common Harem and crappy high school story genre.
A show that is similar in terms of how the show treats itself is Renai Boukun. While i did actually like that show compared to others opinion of it. This is probably a better show in terms of how it handles itself. With Renai Boukun it could seem unfocused or lost in where it's going. This on the other hand knows what it wants to do it seems.
Only real complaints are four and you could say that they are just personal opinion so they don't really matter in a actual review.
1. The Harem. While i know that it's a harem story to make f…
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So I rated enjoyment a 9 but the whole show a 7? What gives?
I guess the short version is I liked it a lot despite its shortcomings. I'm being overcritical.
See, this is a parody show. Both of otaku entertainment culture and of the Chtulhu mythos. And I love both those things. So I am totally into this... even while I acknowledge that the whole thing is pretty cliche and silly.
Maybe I'm unfairly biased against harem anime because of the hate it gets from the Really Serious Fans... though I don't even want to call this a harem, because there's only two people chasing after our protagonist, and one's a young boy. Maybe it's because I'm bored of the monster-of-the-week... but that's not it either, because for the most part these are all pretty cute story concepts and well-executed even if…
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Spiritually, Lovecraftian horror and cute girls anime are perfect opposites; on the spectrum of things that exist, no matter what criteria you use to judge, these two things will be at loggerheads. But, of course, anime is the eternal struggle to reimagine every personality, object, and abstract concept into a cute girl, and starting with diametric opposition is either the obvious move or so decadently stupid that anyone still conscious enough to react probably couldn’t form a coherent argument against it.
Did it work, though? Haiyore! Nyaruko-san was cute for the first episode or two, when Nyaruko was a ball of energy driven by pure novelty and some adorable randomly interspersed English. The OP is endearing and I’m a big fan of the ED. Otherwise, a lot of this show is kind of a slog. Mo…
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This is one anime that almost did not thinkpart of the story, not even merely the background story as a setting for the situation-comedy love her so most did not give a clear reason for the characters to stay together. Indeed, there are still about Nyaruko opening story that comes to protecting Mahiro, but it was only last up to two episodes before then the whole story becomes meaningless. So what could be the advantages of this anime? Comedy crazy? Looks like neither. Parodi the flagship feels too forced, more just tryingto show a resemblance to the original work that became a reference basis rather than pay attention to the element of comedy itself. Using the Star Wars-style scrolling text to convey a bad joke will not make anyone laugh. And, OMG, it even went satirically political! ....…
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So This what Half Life 3 looks like meets the Cthulhu Invasion.. That's a weird combination
The Gordon Freeman in this series is neither An Cthulhu wields a crowbar as a main weapon...
Hunting on an Scavenger Hunt was so deadly and it's also part of comedy aspects... (Man that's dark and hilarious at the same time)
The Main character so far was just a decent guy with no self precautions until that girl came to her.. which reminds me of that one time show like bludgeoning angel dokuro-chan..
Due to troubles and antics by Nyaruko... The more he falls into her stupidity, he always takes it much seriously and avoid every gag which is much common to him...
Too Decent to call this a normal Parody show.. (Like Blood Lad, and Binbougami Ga) but it's enjoyable too.. I honestly get on crack li…
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Lost potential, thy name is Nyaruko-san
A little disclaimer to start: this review will cover both seasons of the Nyaruko-san anime TV series because they are both similar enough to warrant it.
On paper, Nyaruko-san has a lot going for it. It’s got a comedy-harem set up, the girls are all human manifestations of lovecraftian horror monsters, but some girls have the hots more for each other than out lead guy, which is a plus (hey, I’m a simple guy, girl-love is always going to score a few extra points with me). This show should have been a cash cow like Monster Musume before that was even a thing. But this show comes up short on its payload at nearly every turn .So, where (and why) did this show miss the mark?
First off, a bit of history. While the true-blue anime series didn’t see the li…
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An alien deity girl is sent to earth to protect an earthling from space monsters. Turns out she falls for him. This show doesn't really have any crazy plot or anything like that. It's just full of gags, parodies and funny stuff. A lot of the jokes have to do with Nyarko(Alien girl) being a pervert and trying to get with Mahiro(MC dude). I always find pervert girls in anime amusing so I thought it was pretty funny. Mahiro builds himself a nice little harem and even has a boy fall for him so he's got options. lol. Mahiro has to deal with pervert girls living with him and all the weird space stuff they bring with them. It's amusing to see. It has a bunch of comedy/parody,ecchi, Scifi and some action. It's a nice little silly anime to watch.
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