Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
AMNEZICUL
i dont like the anime cause manga better allways but thats not even the beging whats wrong abt this adaptation the art its bad i dont recognize misaki the way shes animated and drawn its bad you can compare them anime to manga the diferences are big and the voice actors kinda dont matches my expectations cuz i read the whole manga first than watch the anime so in conclusion i recomand reading the manga instead thats what i did idk abt yall but when i read it i had other voice actors in my mind when i wass reading it.
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Koi to uso is a love drama that touches the heart, right in the first minutes of the first episode you can see where this story goes, every episode is a rollercoaster. It's the 1st anime I've seen, which shows what it is true love, passion and all the physical contacts you want to have with the person you love, not in an exaggerated way but being very faithful to reality. I can identify with the main character because I'm a little shy, but at the same time I can have friends and be happy with them and have a good relationship with the family. I'm rooting for every second that everything works out for the main character. This anime isn't about crying as there's no room for it, and instead it leaves you with a really tight grip on your heart wishing we'd switch places with the main character…
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In order to find out wether Koi to Uso is a good romance or not, perhaps it would be useful to define what a good romance is.
First let me ask you : what is love to you ?
Do you consider it something that is constructed, that has to be built over time ?
Does it require some kind of effort to be able to grow ?
Is it about gradually liking a person the more you learn about him/her ?
Would you say your loved one has to be a partner in life, sharing the best moments like the worst ?
Maybe you see it as a long tranquil river, flowing quietly without getting out of its bed, until finally it calmly disappears with both of your lives in the sea.
This is the love of reason, the one that is compatible with duty, honor and other values, and exists in a harmony between mariage, family and society…
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Holy damn was this a mess I did not see coming.
What was shaping to be a decent to good drama about fighting an imposed marriage law for a 5 year old love's sake turned out to be a really poor excuse of a harem.
Story: 3
Started out strong but slowly devolved into a really bad attempt at not hurting anyone, followed by the most predictable open and inconclusive ending I've ever seen in my life.
Art: 4
While the big ol' eyes look cute in most girls they certainly look very uncanny in male characters such as MC himself, backgrounds didn't make me go crazy and overall animation wasn't great either.
Sound: 6
The one good thing about this series is its soundtrack, but other aspects of the sound design were lackluster at times.
Character: 3
While I absolutely loved Misaki and Yukari's relati…
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Spoiller free section:
If you like Romance and Drama, ignore the reviews and scores for this show and watch it. It's good.
SPOILLERS BELLOW
Anyway, about the show:
The characters are interesting. They actually have a personality.
The plot moves forward in most events. The soundtrack is very good, with a very good OP and ED.
Hanazawa Kana and Shinnosuke did a very good job on the acting side, as one would expect from them. The other actors were also not bad.
The art is good.
The premise is interesting and forms a good setting.
That's it.
Bellow I will talk about most things I read in previous reviews:
"The writting (dialogue) is bad"
Mate, I watched this in Japanese (with english subtitles and later with portuguese subtitles), and there is nothing wrong with the writing on this show…
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Koi to Uso deserves this rating of 3 because of the only three points that make it bearable - 1 point for the fact that its drama level was enough to keep me watching despite the vapid plot, 1 point for Ririna who is a very good character in a very poor anime, and 1 point for a truly fantastic OP which is the sole reason I started watching the show (this system is not actually the way I rate shows, but it seemed too fitting that the rating matched the scant number of redeeming points).
Besides these saving graces, Koi to Uso was nothing short of a waste of time. From the very beginning, the show relies heavily on cliched tropes which makes everything a else feel a bit tasteless. From this unoriginal start, the series devolves into blatant wish-fulfillment surrounding a main character, Nej…
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The only thing sadder than this show's mediocre writing is how much potential the premise had.
From episode to episode, there is remarkably little plot progression. And where the plot does progress, it does so without much sense of advancing the story's themes. It's just a whole lot of dancing around the relationship drama, with the mostly unfounded expectation that viewers are actually invested in it.
Yet, the premise! Who comes up with this premise and just turns it into a generic trope-following romance? Koi to Uso could have explored the interactions with the government, and how that builds on the themes of logic vs. intuition, and obedience vs. rebellion. Yet it hardly did, opting instead to spin its wheels in typical harem nonsense with a one-dimensional protagonist.
But, hey, at…
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Only two words to describe this anime. Absolutely horrible. The characters are all idiots. The main character is on my nerves because he chooses the wrong girl. The plot has holes in it and it moves way too fast. Neji (the main character) is seriously the worst kind of character ever made. He is just too stupid and I don't like him at all. The animation is weird. The eyes are way too big. I didn't enjoy it at all. Also, the last episode has the worst kind of ending. Like nobody wants that. I also continued in the manga just to see if the story turns around and IT DOES NOT. Conclusion: don't waste your time on this crap.
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Do you ever have a voice in your head that tells you when you decide to start doing something (Hey, this is bad. Don't do it). But you convince yourself that you're a rational and logical human that follows Descartes' doubt ideology and you shut the voice up. You start seeing signs that it really is bad, the voice screams (Stop already!) but you keep on going. When you're finished, the voice goes (Ha! I told you so). This is the experience that I had with Koi To Uso.
I have seen The Signs :
-an MC who has the brain and way of thinking of a three years old child.
-he can't even look a person in the eye for 0,03 seconds without blushing.
-he is portrayed as the good, nice guy but is actually a f***boy who kissed two girls in the same day without shame.
-we never know why he is loved so mu…
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** Minor Spoilers throughout**
Koi to Uso is the worst show I have ever watched. It is a romance anime without the romance. It is worse than shitcom. Worse than any other 5 minute "WTF" show. It was physically and mentally painful to get through this show, and I continued watching only because I am a masochist. However I would urge others to watch this show so they can have a solid basis concerning what a "Bad" anime is- the worst of the worst- an absolutely shit show.
The first episode introduces us to the absolute worst MC of any show, let alone anime, in existence. It is almost as if the show is self-aware because the MC openly admits how shitty he is. However instead of normal shows where the MC is being hard on himself for little to no actual reasons- he is fully deserving of the…
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Since everyone is hating on Koi to Uso because of the ending I thought I would write a review to show that it's really not that bad.
First off, I found the story very interesting I have read a book series before with a similar plot of government arranged marriages so I was excited to see that played out again in a different setting. This story is all about Nejima Yukari and how he deals with his feelings for his 5 year long love and his new assigned future wife who everyone says he now has to love. If you are a fan of romance and drama then you should definitely give Koi to Uso a try.
I thought their love story was pretty different in the good way. I mean growing up in a society where loving whoever you want is forbidden and you are told to marry someone you have never even seen before?…
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To sum it Up This Anime is a perfect example of what happens when you make an anime adaptation of a Manga and don't even have enough source Material to begin with. Due to the Manga still being at seemingly the 1/2 way point of its production/storyline this was to be expected. The anime changes quite a few key factors that the Manga had in an effort to try to shape its own ending but unfortunately they do this terribly too late at like the last 3 episodes which leaves the entirely Made up anime conclusion feeling extremely empty and unsatisfying. The Whole premise of this anime/manga was him having to choose his true love and essentially go against his fate to pursue his original true love which is shown in 3/4 of the anime. However towards the end it essentially betrays that entire plot by…
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Koi To Uso is one of the most painfull to watch romance anime I've ever seen. Nothing encapsulated the horrible parts of teenage drama shows more than this one. It truly is perfection, in a perverted way. So let's talk about all the horrible things this show has to offer. (Oh, and there will also be light spoilers)
-,,Just don't think about it"
If you don't think about anything. You'll understand everything. But if you think about it too much, you'll realize everything is nothing and life is pointless. I mean, you'll realize just how amazing this show is. I mean, it fucking sucks. The show is filled with so many stupid plotholes, that I genuinely could not have gotten past the first episode if I didn't write down all the dumb stuff that happened, for satisfaction. So, just 'cause, I gues…
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Koi to uso, love and lies, this was one unique anime where it doesn't involve a lotta harem member, rather i was more like a "Ménage à trois" so how do I rate this?????
Story, Fair 6.
The story itself was more like pattered after Romeo and Juliet, where guy and his childhood friend love each other but they can't because of some law that was created in which the gov't get's to decide who will marry who, and somehow has made no exception about those who were already in love with someone, now, to me the plot was good but somehow it was a bit shallow for such a scenario in which such situation, where the guy was seemly allowed to have some form of consensual cheating, on his assigned wife, the assigned wife seemly tolerates it and the childhood friend looks like she likes it. Also there were…
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There is absolutely nothing more frustrating in romance anime than an obstacle standing in the way of two people that love each other. Even worse in the case of Koi to Uso this obstacle is a nonsensical, bullshit love mandate that threatens sanctions if broken leading to characters betraying their feelings over and over again. Watching characters do that to themselves is suffering and I don't like to suffer so this anime is crap.
An annoying narrative can at times be salvaged by great characterization of which Koi to Uso has none of. MC is a beta male wimp with aspirations of not being a beta male wimp someday you can find him in literally every anime ever. His love interest is cute but she never says what she actually feels and doesn't have the resolve to fight against the system that op…
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Please note this review assumed that you have already watching Koi to Uso and while care has been taken to minimize story related spoilers there may be some spoilers in character analysis.
Based off the popular manga of the same name Koi to Uso which translates literally into love and lies makes use of a theme that’s not often seen in animes which is marriage. The premise of this story is that in this world that the anime is set in Lies are forbidden and Love is doubly forbidden which sets the stage for the story. In this world as a result of population decline the government in an effort to control this crisis comes up with a complicated plan that it hopes will solve this problem.
In this plan when you turn sixteen you are assigned a marriage partner by the government thus eliminating…
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TL;DR: Japan establishes futuristic e-Harmony & forces 16 year olds to marry who they are assigned. 4 people find themselves entangled in a four way love rhombus. Will Arrange Marriage or Love Marriage win? Find out next time in KTU.
[Story: 5/10 , Characters: 3/10, Art: 6/10, Sound: 8/10, Enjoyment: 5/10]
What do you get when you want to deal with a serious issue like Japan's decline in child birth & marriage but still want to attract people from various age groups to explore Love? You get Love and Lies. A show where you end up lying to others telling them how much you love it when in reality you don't.
The premise of the show is futuristic Japan adopts the arrange marriage policy labelling it "The Red Thread of Science". Where the government chooses your partner, based on "hard-core…
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Love and Lies is a 12 episode anime where love takes the form of lies and each of the characters are like walking chalkboards, constantly scratching upon each other. Japan for some reason deemed it fit to pass on the torch of its current social crisis to the biggest intellectual heavyweight of a medium out there. By presenting a theoretical scenario in which society as a whole is shaped a certain way in order to entertain the idea of Japan's birth rates not being in the gutter, we are hence introduced to another run-of-the-mill-overdramatized-romance-love-triangle-rectangle-harem-cocktease. And impressively enough, its' atrocious and unexplained setup remarkably gives something like Eromanga a whole new level of credibility. While its' innovativity didn't didn't speak for much in the minds…
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"This show was like a bad roller coaster. You love the first turn, the second turn isn't that amazing, and after more turns, you just want to get down and forget the experience."
The story was interesting at the beginning but then transformed into a mess to the point that it was unexplained and inconceivable possible that happens. The partners and couples are selected by "Japan's officials" at the age of 16, so you will need to marry with them because the law demands it.
The writers created a weird love square and combined with a failed character progression titled it "Koi to Uso." I can't lie that the story is average from the perspective of the characters. The main character Yuraki Nejima failed to express his feelings. He loved Misaki Takasaki since the middle school. When the govern…
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Drama series with love as a central theme tends to draw a variety of audiences. When I seek one of these shows, relationship dynamics is something I trust for the series to capitalize. Koi to Uso (Love and Lies) is one of those series that define love more than just holding hands, dating, or kissing. It’s an anime that dances around the idea of love and drawing the audience into a world of drama.
Getting into this show was actually quite easy. The premise is simple to understand and as a manga reader, I went into this show with tolerable expectations. The first few episodes easily establishes the principle character cast – Nejima, Nisaka, Ririna, and Misaki. These four characters have distinctive personalities that makes them different from one and other. The story interconnects their liv…
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