Audience reviews
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MrSlamboni
This anime is so horrible it inspired me to make an account and start rating them. I was also left unsatisfied just rating it a 1 so now I'm writing a review for this. The show was boring at its best parts and completely insufferable every other time. A lot of the reviews refer to the fact that it's a parody. Parody of what? Parody of itself? It's a one-to-one copy of what it's trying to parody (apparently). Of course, this was completely lost on me because I assumed that the show was just that bad, and I still don't see how it's a parody.
The only good part is that the 'boring heroine' had some rare moments where at least there was something between the lines here and there. I do like it when I have to fire some neurons to connect with what a character is saying. That's it. Moving on to…
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Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata is one of the best shows I've seen in a long time and let me tell you why.
(Make sure you watch Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata: Ai to Seishun no Service Kai before watching the series. Keep in mind that when you do, the episode is literally titled "The fanservice episode of love and youth", so the episode is not a representation of the amount of fanservice in the actual show (which is almost none))
Story: 9/10
The title of the show translates roughly to "How to Raise a Boring Heroine", and that's effectively what the show is about. Aki Tomoya, a hardcore otaku and our protagonist, one day comes face to face with his destiny. He encounters a spectacular girl, and this inspires him to make a galge or romantic visual novel based on this encounter.
He manages to…
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I’ve never really been an A-1 Pictures fan, but it’s like they used up all their goodwill with the people who do consider themselves a part of that fanbase after making Your Lie In April, because 2015 has been a bad bad BAD year for them. So bad in fact that prior to my decision to watch this, I have yet finish any of their output, and half of them have already been forgotten by the mainstream crowd as of this writing. From an Aldnoah Zero second half that failed to live up to the promise of its predecessor to some Spring anime that I already forgotten the names of to this, I think it’s safe to say that “A-1” and “quality” will be antonyms for at least the remainder of this year and most likely many more to come. At least until they learn about a little business practice I’d like to call q…
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Rest in Peace : the fourth wall.
Normally you would have a 'dense' male character in some harem anime but Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano for short) is an anime that is ironic to itself so much that you can call this whole show 'dense'.
It is original and yet cliché and I felt that this show had more potential if it wasn't rushed. I thoroughly enjoyed this show and I was watching it while it was airing. Every week I was excited for another episode of Saekano and I was staffed with every episode.
Story:8/10
This anime's story is realistic, light yet humorous. I liked the fact that they make reference to other shows but in moderation so the show does not feel like a Parody anime, it made me feel like that somewhere, in Japan, the event is happening as I am watching it. It all seem…
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Alright here is my second attempt at a review for an Anime.
One day, our main protagonist happens to lay his eyes on a girl that just steals his otaku heart. He decides to make her the magnificent heroine in his game and proceeds to gather the necessary people. However, unbeknownst to him, everyone who decides to help him have their own reasons for being there.
7:Story
The story is not anything new. Here you'll see a group of friends try to make a dream come true in the form of a game and learn the hardships of going through such a process. Is it a bad story? No, but it won't make you go "WOW" either.
8:Art
The art is fine. I think the coloring might be overly bright during the anime. There also seems to be a mini-blush on almost on the girls and I found it unnecessary to their facial e…
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Saenai Heronine no Sodatekata, for me, started out promising. The storyline had the potential to be a really good anime and would really connect with the viewers who would obviously share the same interests conveyed in the characters such as anime, manga and so on.
However the title of "How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" soon became known to me as "How to Make a Boring Anime." At times, I found the show to be very dialogue heavy, which I usually don't mind however it was often just waffling on. I was always waiting for something to happen when i watched the newly released episode each week, but I always felt like there wasn't too much development, and if there was, it was too predictable.
Watching this anime series quickly became a chore rather than for my own enjoyment, as I was really…
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Saekano is the most frustrating kind of bad show: the kind which could have been legitimately good if it tried.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hyped for Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano for short) at the start of winter 2015. It’s a shiny new adaptation of Fumiaki Maruto’s light novel series – the same Fumiaki Maruto who wrote White Album 2, which got an anime around a year and a half ago. He also wrote Parfait and Sekai de Ichiban NG na Koi – both of which I’ve seen glowing reviews of. Naturally, I’d expect Saekano to be something close to his work in eroge.
I probably should’ve listened to the warning signs. Certain Maruto fans on Twitter had already panned the show and the LN for being self-gratifying otaku humor. People who have watched the first two episodes called the show ob…
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Saekano, at first glance, may seem like a typical harem/fanservice filled series where the main otaku character can flourish himself in. However, it honestly took me by surprise and vastly exceeded my expectations, especially how the show knows how to subtly and implicitly convey its awareness of the current anime industry and its current clichéd trends.
The characters of the show is one of its most entertaining aspects. In a mere 12 episodes, the show is able to characterise its characters and develop them to a satisfactory extent, In particular the girls, and their distinct personalities are the foundation of the show itself. There is Eriri, the hotblooded tsundere blonde twin-tailed girl who manifests the clichéd childhood friend troupe. She is the doujinshi artist of the group, and c…
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This series commits to nothing.
Great coloring, animation, camera angles and alternative color palettes. A pleasant viewing experience that delivers fan service in spades.
You will get several self aware character archetypes and a very superficial look at visual novel game creating. Closeups of female body parts and flustered faces.
Other than that its not really much of anything.
It is not quite slice of life, not quite character drama, not quite comedy, not quite romance. It seems to try to be all, but not really committing to either of them.
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It's kinda difficult to express my dislike for Saakeno, without sounding like a total snob, but I will try. So, here it comes. BEING SELF-AWARE DOES NOT MAKE YOU A GOOD PARODY OR SATIRE.
Yeah, Saekano is one of those. The kind of work that pokes at some over-used trope or cliché and then loudly proclaims "Isn't that totally a cliché, huh, guys?!". Yeah, it is, but so what? Are you going to expand on that? Maybe in some way subvert that trope and bring about something new? You just poke at it. Okay.
And that's the main problem with Saekano. It tries to be a parody simply by being self-aware. It keeps saying that characters are "Tsunderes" and "Yanderes" without even trying to expand on them. It keeps saying how given situation is "Totally out of some harem anime" and then proceed to play it…
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Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata is to me, a breathe of fresh air in anime. At first, I looked at it and said, "Oh no, another harem anime, i'll wait a bit to watch it..." Boy am I happy I gave it a chance.
Saekano is the story of how Aki Tomoya finds his passion to create a new game after he meets a girl named Katou Megumi. He considers her to be his perfect "heroine" when trying to talk to his friends about her. However, when he actually gets a chance to talk to her, she is monotone, isn't actually interested in the things he is, and just seems plain boring. However, that is probably the greatest part about her character. Her being that way, actually makes her probably the most interesting characters in the anime.
Tomoya also has two other friends who help him on his journey to make his "…
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(Reposting because apparently it fell foul of rules about previews :/ )
How to write a boring parody
Don't you just love it when a show knows it's a show? When characters find themselves in a situation that only occurs in fiction & they know it? How pretty much every new series nominally set in the real world has someone say “This would only happen in manga” or “This isn't anime” at least once? Well I hope you do, because Saekano is basically an entire series made up of such oh so witty observations & self-referential jabs at the genre it is set in. Too bad it sucks.
Our main character is one Tomoyo Aki, a super otaku with a popular blog & a reputation for being the nerdiest nerd in nerdom, which apparently is a good thing. Basically he's Keima Katsuragi from The World God Only Knows, e…
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Creating something is an act that a lot of people take pride in. A good piece of work in a world such as ours doesn't go unnoticed all too often and at the very least, gets some recognition. With successful shows like Shirobako and Bakuman explaining and detailing the basis of how anime and manga are made perspectively, what about things like Doujinshi or games? Well, thankfully we have Saenai Heroine no Sodetekata, or "How to raise a boring girlfriend" to remedy that debacle. Let's begin.
Story (7.45/10): The story of Saenai Heroine or Saekano as the shorter version is, begins on one single faithful day. Tomoya Aki is our main protagonist, a proud Otaku who appreciates the finer things of Otaku creation. One day when returning back home, with the cherry blossoms blowing through the wind…
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Here's a show with an interesting theme
About an otaku with a dream:
To create a new game
That puts all else to shame
And produced by the girls from his team
One day he met a girl dressed in white
It was a case of love at first sight
Except instead of love
It was rather kind of Like he wanted her soul's copyright
She would model for the female lead
For the game; he made sure she agreed
But despite interests joint
To just get to that point
There was one more thing that they would need
So he then asked with all of his heart
If his tsundere friend could take part
Since under a fake name
She'd gotten tons of fame
For her professional hentai art
Lastly the top student of his grade
With the plotline, he asked for her aid
But as he came to see
What she wrote up was the
Most ridiculous script…
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Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata is a nice surprise of the Winter season. It is one of these anime that always made me lose my patience when an episode finishes its airing. It is something that I want more. So far, I could not find a translated manga or light novel source, so it remains a mystery after the anime unless I bought its non-translated ones and find a translator.
The anime has its ‘special’ episode aired a week before the anime series started airing. It contains fan-service galore, so if you do not want to ruin your experience in watching, I suggest you watch it after the anime. But if you do not mind, watch it before, both works for different people.
We all have dreams that we want to pursue. At least, that is how the protagonist Tomoya wants to. He is a typical high-school otaku…
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Harem-ridden and trope-driven as anime nowadays is, many a disillusioned fan don’t hesitate to call out the medium as fallen. Indeed, though Miyazaki may not actually have uttered the words “anime was a mistake.” (only not in public, mind you) the wide circulation of the phrase is nonetheless a reflection of the sentiments of our oh-so-critical generation. Along comes Saekano, or How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, the latest entry of the harem genre’s self-critique and introspection.
Tomoya is, well, your ordinary harem lead who is seemingly unremarkable but whose charm is so irresistible yet so subtle, that the girls around him cannot but fall for him, much to the frustration of some viewers who cannot see any logic to these affections (as they’ve surely through logic and reasoning disce…
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What does it take to create a dating SIM which will cause people to laugh and cry, but also touch their hearts? This was a question our main character asked himself, which sparked the beginning of the roller-coaster of laughs we call Saekano.
I’m sure when we were younger you’ve all had dreams and goals you wanted to achieve when you get older. The anime tells the epic adventure it took our MC, Tomoya Aki, to achieve his goal of creating a game, complete with all the girl problems, and sexual harassments he receives each day from his devious co-workers.
While I was scrolling through the notoriously long new anime section of an unnamed website “how to raise a boring girlfriend” caught my eye, then I thought to myself “better take some notes.” At first glance Saekano looks like an average…
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Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, or Saekano for reduce, is an anime where the protagonist is an otaku who wants to fulfill his dream of creating a galgame, after meeting his beautiful heroine in a captivating scene in which his hat flies downhill, stopping near of protagonist, who is shocked to see a girl with such beauty. To follow his dream of creating a game, he forms your harem... I mean, your team, with qualified people in various areas which are needed to create a game, but with unique personalities, which consequently develops a bit of humor on the series thanks to this factor, and then from there the story begins to unfold. Obviously what will be written from here is my opinion on the series. I'm available to discuss the show with anyone who's interested, regardless of have or not agr…
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When i first started watching this anime ,i really didn't know what to expect from it and it surprised me at first. Saenai is not like your average romance comedy anime. Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata gives a really refreshing new and unique plot that keeps its viewers wanting more at the end of every episode.
The name of the anime "Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata" itself means how to train a girl to be a herione. Right away you would see that Saenai has a really unique plot which very little anime can relate to out there. The story starts of with Tomoya Aki, a high school teenage boy who is a major otaku/shut-in ,who doesn't know much besides video games and dating sims. On one faithful day he meets the girl of his dreams. He later finds out that the girl goes to the same school as him. With…
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A series like Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano) doesn’t really need much of an explanation judging by the cover content. There are at least four girls and a guy in the far background. Anime logic dictates that the show is more or less a harem. And if you’ve come to that conclusion, you’re not wrong. The series is indeed a harem with some generic romance tropes thrown in. However, there are some clever angles to approach the series as more of a social commentary. What I mean is that the show has far more dialogues than skin showing and indeed, it strives to accomplish that with its set premise – to create a visual novel based on a girl that our main protagonist met during Spring vacation.
Based off a light novel of the same name, the show has a rather dexterous title. Translated as ‘H…
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