Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Two0ld4this
This show was advertised as a romance anime "without the drama", but after the first few episodes, you realize that there's nothing BUT drama! The high rating here (around 8 at the time of writing) is definitely not deserved. The animation is very smooth and bouncy, and I believe this is the main reason it has such a high rating. However, the writing is terrible. Everything feels forced: the jokes, the drama, the cuteness, the romance... None of this flows naturally; it's not paced well. It's shoved into your face, especially the dramatic parts. While the show did get a couple of laughs from me here and there, most jokes just fell flat. The main female character is annoying, has little chemistry with the male MC, is the butt of a recurring joke that is not the least bit amusing (the food),…
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I started it thinking about the unique concept. it was good at first but as the episode goes on it becomes bad to worse. All the break up story are same about childhood friends and not confessing their feelings which is annoying. The girls broke their hearts and refuse to let the feeling go. After that MC come to sympthaize them and again it's same every time without any variety. There is also another annoying part, after being dumped the girls go to their crush and crush's GF to build friendship and they successfully build it with mc's help. the crush and crush's gf fill bad for the girl but they support her. The writer did it everytime without any difference. he just repeated the same thing three times with different characters. Man at least you can have someone hold grudge or try to get…
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This anime is about a simp who orbits a bunch of reject girls who spend every other sentence negging him and openly ripping on how much of a failure he is and he just takes it. Theres a line between friends who rip on each other and w/e the heck happens in this show.
It normalize how much attractive women can just act like absolute garbage and theres always some guy who will white knight for them in a totally "platonic" way.
Otherwise there is some cute moments and some emotional moments but all of it gets overshadowed by the constant harassment if you even remotely pay attention.
Also the anime is filled with tropes and fan service.
Not sure why people praise this so much.
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Makeine was an anime that I had high expectations for. The ammount of hype and praise it got right after its release and the promise of showing us a realistic highschool romance experience was enough for me to pick it up. It should be obvious that it was a horrible decision on my end.
Makeine is the single worst "romance" anime I have ever seen in my life. I won't go into a lot of detail about it but the reasons are as the following.
Makeine was the first anime to make me suffer as much as I did. Not because I related to the painful reality of rejection when it comes to highschool romance or anything. No, the reason behind me suffering is how boring this anime was. By the final episodes all I could do was to scream for it to end.
The decision of using the male MC as a tool for showing…
Read at the sourceKYOTO5
This anime might seem like a good cure for a broken heart, but it is the opposite. If you are into melancholy and the feeling of hopelessness this is for you. The hero is your typical "good boy" who does nothing significant, but this time also nothing significant happens to him. He is just there, watching how various girls get rejected and then bottle up their emotions because they have to see their crushes every day. It is realistic, that is true. But it depicts that cynical reality of the "I don't care, I give up" people. The anime has no point, it leads to no conclusion. No idea, no message, no moral... nothing. A waste of time.
Read at the sourceAethyriel
What starts out as a fresh comedy show sadly and quickly breaks down into a melodramatic teenage romance mess with neither depth nor comedy nor anything worthwhile really. The first ~ 4 episodes sort of really hook you in, especially with how funny some scenes are, but the story then never goes anywhere, opens up a ton of side plots that aren't interesting and basically carbon copies of each other.
While initially the characters promise some depth or at least variety and possibility for growth, none of that is ever realized, probably because too many characters are given screen time with nonsensical melodramatic conflicts that are resolved in the same half-assed way every time. Ultimately, I was really let down by this and I think most viewers who are looking for comedy romance with a tw…
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Yep, I can confirm that there's definitely Too Many Losing Heroines! 😜
What sets Makeine apart from all the other shows in its genre is its natural approach to romance and an actual sense of realism in its characters and writing itself.
• The dynamic between Anna and Nukumizu just oozes with chemistry and in my opinion is next to none when it comes to how well these two play into each other's roles, it's seriously just fun watching these two interact with one another because of how goofy ahh their interactions usually turn out to be. 📑
↓ → A very similar thing can be said about the rest of the cast... The sheer variety of personalities you encounter throughout the show that're just as well "grounded in reality" as Anna and Nukumizu makes for a sincerely memorable experience, it's simpl…
Read at the sourceKoraxCatalyst
I don’t know if it’s just me, but doesn’t this year of anime seem kind of… bad? Two Jump manga ending with unilaterally disappointing conclusions aside, 2024 is probably the weakest year of the decade so far, and one of the weakest years of anime I’ve witnessed since joining the community six stupefying years ago. Despite harboring a strong winter season, 2024 has been the victim of constant underwhelming release after underwhelming release. In a year with Slime Isekai, Mushoku Tensei, Demon Slayer, the return of Code Geass, and the return of Konofuckingsuba, all at the same time, the most praise I’d passively seen from spring was for the most recent season of My Hero Academia of all shows (and Dungeon Meshi, a show from winter). To be fair, maybe I’m just distant from the community compar…
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It's like every other high school rom-com where girls are overly sexualized and lacking depth in personality and the protagonist has a little sister who has nothing else going on in her life other than her brother's business with a bit of sprinkle of ADULT WOMEN (working in the school) sexualizing children !!! Ah and the "plot twist" is that the main characters get rejected. Overall everything that happens is predictable and boring if you are an adult and you have left your "high school phase", and all of the unnecessary sexualization of children makes you wonder whether the director of the anime doesn't get laid or whether it's all men in Japan, considering for there to be supply there has to be a demand.
It's just another boring self-insert male protagonist who has no personality other…
Read at the sourceArcticRaccoon
"Makeine-Toooooo Many Losing Heroines"
Truly captures the essence of what makes a good slice-of-life, rom-com anime shine. It reminds me so much of Oregairu in the best possible ways, blending witty dialogue, nuanced character relationships, and that familiar mix of humor and heartfelt emotion.
The protagonist in Makeine feels like a perfect blend of relatable awkwardness and sharp introspection, much like Hachiman from Oregairu. The inner monologues, the subtle social dynamics, and the way characters grow and connect felt both nostalgic and refreshing. Every interaction carries weight, yet the series maintains a light, enjoyable tone throughout.
What I loved the most was the character development, especially how the anime explores the more subtle, awkward emotions of high school life.…
Read at the sourceIloveshadowclone
okay if you are here with expectations of witnessing a romance, then you'll be disappointed because everything about this Anime is anything but that. our MC is not interested in any girl romantically, maybe it may seem like that, but he knows it isn't gonna work so he never tries.
there's no real development happening and all i get to see is people ranting about their break ups.
although there were some fun elements, most of the story felt flat.
animation was quite good.
if you don't want too much romantic elements anyways then this might be good for you.
Read at the sourceLuan1000grau
It Begins well, but as the anime progresses, nothing happens, they keep edging us to make us think that something is going to actually happen, but nothing happens.
The final episode is terrible, the true ending is at episode 11, episode 12 feels like a filler episode.
There are still moments where the anime is fun, generally where we think that its actually going to develop into something.
So basically the first half is really good, but the second half loses completelly the pace of everything.
With all of that in mind, you can still have fun watching it, in the end that's what matters.
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So in Make Heroine ga Oosugiru-
- The MC gets dicked around by the rejected girls
- The heroine who got the most screen time yanami anna gets 0 character development
- Lemon is basically a forgettable side character
- komari is insufferable -0 romance in a "romance anime"
-yanami's repetitive dialogue with the MC about her crush who rejected her
- dramatic camera shake's
- nice hair animation
Original concept like this have so much potential but always gets destroyed by shit writing. Had high hopes for this anime but left feeling disappointed.
I personally would've liked to see
-A little less drama
- A little more romance
- Equal screen time between three heroins
-Some personality in the MC
- Not so much talking about the ntr'd crush
- MC not getting used as a convenie…
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So I am writing this review with a lot of hate in my heart ... and its coming on my fingers now
1. I literally started cause of the first ep and know doubt its good i mean real good
2. but when mc met all the girls and then the focking idiotic story tahts get you to sleep kicks in and fock but watched cause of 1. point reason but does story gets good nhhh i just have to skip lots of part but same crying and babbling till the end /
3. but the reason i watched it till end is animation is good and voice actor has done there work but that focking food eater girl when ever the mc have a good chat with other girls she appears and fock that guy goes to her and buy something to eat its repetitive/ so where i am animation is good big hugs to studio.
not recommended if looking some quick laugh show…
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This had a strong start, thanks to an interesting premise, strong animation, and exceptionally good direction and editing. The early episodes were also solid 8/10 material with a good combination of comedy and romantic drama. The problem is when it started giving multi-episode story arcs to each girl, which is when it becomes apparent that each is more tedious than the last. When it reached an entire episode about a stuttering girl's attempts to read out a few sentences in front of a dozen people, I found myself wondering, "Why is this the story?" As the series goes on, it leans ever more heavily on its strong production values to carry it, with some scenes carrying a strong visual impact, only to end with no indication of why that scene even needed to exist.
The other main problem with t…
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From the very first episode Makeine was my anime of the season and that’s not changed. The last 12 weeks have been a nonstop magical run from A-1 pictures and one of the most refreshing and enjoyable takes on the romcom genre. Makeine takes the usual harem male fantasy bait romcom formula and turns it on its head, instead focusing on platonic relationships, helping teenagers overcome heartbreak and move forward with their heads held high. I’m a big fan of the mature and somewhat realistic way the story handles this. You don’t always get what or who you want in real life, learning to accept and deal with that is important. Even more important is not getting bitter or angry and instead seeing it as a growth opportunity, which the show focuses on. The well written story and character dynamics…
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I remember when I decided to start watching Makeine, it wasn’t in my plans to watch this show at the start, because when looked from afar, it looked exactly like every other romcom you and I already saw dozens of times, and I thought I was already watching enough of those. I decided to start watching it after I dropped a show whose name I cannot even remember anymore and because I heard that this “wasn’t like other harem romcoms”, this “this was different”, and without even having even started it I knew those claims were a lie, why would I believe these people when the cover and the synopsis definitely doesn’t even imply what they’re saying? But the second you start the first episode with a quote that even Oregairu would deem childish, and which is not actually relevant to the series becau…
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TV shows these days won't stop making anime related to the rom-com genre any time soon. Whether it's about childhood romances, school crushes, or workplace love, there's seemingly always one or two that pops up every season. Makeine Too Many Losing Heroines didn't seem too different from the usual suspects but offers a somewhat unique take on the rom-com genre.
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! is connected by its genre, something that can't escape from since its first episode. It doesn't take long for us to discover why the heroines are known for 'losing'. Humans emotions are complex and there are countless ways to describe how we feel each day. For the female cast of this show, they are connected by heart break. The anime intentionally sets up for them to be crushed mentally when their…
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Too Many Losing Heroines! - It's too easy being an average Joe, but yet still score loads of girls no matter the circumstances! So how about being the average Joe, but twisting the formula to be in the realm of the secondary girls instead?
Of all the genres known to man, romance series are one of the easiest to write, but it's harder to nail its content, much less nail the intended ending that authors wanted to pen with their series, only to see it fail or get absolutely ridiculed by the fans. Case in point, the AniManga industry with its many romance, comedy, or the combination of both genre's works over the decades that, for better or for worse, achieved what authors greatly wanted out of it through the exposure of as much content as it can be covered with anime adaptations, that gets t…
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There are few media as recursive as the modern light novel industry. Whenever anything succeeds in this space, there will immediately be waves of imitators trying to capitalize on that success by using the same surface level elements. You know what I’m talking about – villainesses, abandoned by my party, cheat skills, reincarnated as something unusual, the list goes on and on. But the light novel fad that most fascinates me is “self-aware”. In an environment where a large number of the works present are just Frankensteined together collections of tropes, it’s only natural that some works would emerge that make a point of drawing attention to how trope-y they are. And really, who doesn’t love seeing the same tired tropes again and again as long as they’re accompanied by a wink and a nudge?…
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