OppaiEmperor
4 years ago·Jul 1, 2021
30
/ 100
4 years ago·Jul 1, 2021
This is my first review, so don’t expect it to be perfect. I will try my best to be as “objective” as possible when writing this. My review is spoiler free for the most part, so you can rest assured. Without further ado, let's begin, shall we?
“Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Come” or “OsaMake”, for short, is a romantic comedy centered around our three main protagonists: Sueharu Maru, and his two childhood friends, Kuroha Shida and Shirokusa Kachi. Stereotypically in anime/manga, the childhood friend usually doesn’t win the affections of the protagonist, but the author of OsaMake tries to remedy this by making both our heroines the childhood friend, thus meaning that no matter who Sueharu picks in the end, a childhood friend will finally win. However, the problem with that is, while the two childhood friends in the story don't lose like the title suggests. Another problem also arises, they don’t win, as ironic as that sounds. Why? Because of the fact that they're both childhood friends. As far as I know, it's the norm in our society to only date one girl, so no matter what happens, theoretically, there has to be a loser in the end. Sure, it's a temporary win-win and a lose-lose situation created by the author, but it doesn't actually solve the issue of no one wins in the end.
The basic story of OsaMake is a love triangle between the primary protagonists: Sueharu Maru, Kuroha Shida, and Shirokusa Kachi. The premise of the show is that Sueharu has a crush on Shirokusa, who is an extremely popular girl and an award winning high school author. However, his childhood friend, Kuroha Shida, is madly in love with Sueharu and confesses to him, but he only has eyes for Shirokusa, thus rejecting her in the process. Sueharu plans to confess his feelings to Shirokusa, but is devastated after finding out she has a boyfriend. Feeling down, his childhood friend, Kuroha, offers Sueharu to help him get revenge on Shirokusa and her boyfriend. After the matter gets resolved, the plot goes absolutely nowhere because the characters are being stubborn and illogical.
Oh boy, where do I even begin? Out of the various romantic comedies I’ve watched, the characters in this show were one of the most insufferable for me. I’ve watched a myriad of romantic comedies before and I at least liked a few of characters no matter how bad the show was. For this show? I hated almost all the characters in this show, except for Shiro. The main character, Sueharu, is bland and lame; Kuro is extremely annoying and illogical; Maria is a conniving bitch; and Tetsuhiko is, well, simply put, a scumbag. Shiro is the only character I didn't dislike in the show. Okay, the best way to explain this to you is: Let's say you're visiting a farm, and everywhere in the farm you went to, you find a pile of cow poop. Then suddenly, amongst all the cow poop, you find a beautiful flower. Yeah, that flower is Shiro for me. For me personally, I highly value having likeable characters in a show in order for me to fully enjoy it. This show doesn’t fulfill that requirement, therefore, the show is not going to be a fun ride for me. “Why don’t you just drop it?” you might be wondering. Well, my retort to that would be: Why drop it when I could instead finish it and roast it?
Believe it or not, I actually think the art is one of two strong points for this show. The visuals in this show are pretty colorful and are nice to look at for the most part. The art style is pretty faithful to the original style in the light novel. It’s nothing too outstanding, but it’s not outright terrible also, so I’ll give it some credit for doing something right. Ui Shigure did a great job designing the characters, but man, if only most of the characters in the series weren’t so unlikeable. I actually like the art quite a bit. As a fan of Ui Shigure, it's truly disappointing that her work is being wasted like this.
The only thing that is saving this absolute dumpster fire of a show from being truly terrible for me is its amazing seiyuu cast. The seiyuu cast is absolutely stacked, ladies and gentlemen! We have the legendary king of harem protagonists himself, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, voicing as Sueharu Maru; Inori Minase voicing as Kuroha Shida; Ayane Sakura voicing as Shirokusa Kachi; Saori Oonishi voicing as Maria Momosaka; and last, but not least, Nobunaga Shimazaki voicing as Tetsuhiko Kai. There are many more noticeable seiyuus voicing in the show as well, but those are the main cast. The stacked seiyuu cast alone earned the show 40 points from me. As for where the remaining 20 points are coming from, it came from the opening and ending being slightly above average in my opinion, and the seiyuus did a phenomenal job bringing life to the characters. As much as Kuro pisses me off, I want to give a huge applause to Inorin for making her so mischievous and annoying. Hate Kuro all you want, but without her, the show wouldn’t be what it is (for the better or worse). Once again, I want to give a huge applause to all the seiyuus who had to voice act in this dumpster fire of a show.
Please forgive me after being as objective as I could because I’m going to be absolutely blunt here: This show is trash. I can speak Japanese to a proficient level, so when I saw the title of this show for the first time, I had a gut feeling that it’ll be terrible. The literal translation of OsaMake is “The Romantic Comedy Where the Childhood Friend Won't Lose”. Yeah… You instantly know the show will probably be bad from reading the title. However, I wanted to be wrong on this, so I gave it a shot to prove me wrong. I gave it as minimal of an expectation as I possibly can to surprise me, but it failed. The first two episodes weren't too bad, but after that, oh boy, my pre-expectations were proven right: It was terrible! It was painful to watch this show without turning off your brain, but I would be lying to y’all if I told you I didn’t enjoy it at least a bit. Nothing in this show made sense, but that's precisely why I sort of find it entertaining. There were so many instances the show made me facepalm and make me ask myself, "but why though?" Make no mistake though, my homies, this show is bad. Very, very bad as a matter of fact. However, it’s one of those shows that is so bad, it’s actually good.
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