This is my first review so dont 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 lets 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 doesnt 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 dont lose like the title suggests. Another problem also arises they dont win as ironic as that sounds. Why? Because of the fact that theyre both childhood friends. As far as I know its 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 its a temporary winwin and a loselose situation created by the author but it doesnt actually solve the issue of no one wins in the end. Story: 20/100 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. Characters: 10/100 Oh boy where do I even begin? Out of the various romantic comedies Ive watched the characters in this show were one of the most insufferable for me. Ive 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 didnt dislike in the show. Okay the best way to explain this to you is: Lets say youre 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 doesnt fulfill that requirement therefore the show is not going to be a fun ride for me. Why dont 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? 350https://i.ur.com/bEhdl28.jpg Art: 40/100 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. Its nothing too outstanding but its not outright terrible also so Ill 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 werent so unlikeable. I actually like the art quite a bit. As a fan of Ui Shigure its truly disappointing that her work is being wasted like this. Audio: 60/100 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 wouldnt 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. Enjoyment: 20/100 Please forgive me after being as objective as I could because Im 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 itll be terrible. The literal translation of OsaMake is The Romantic Comedy Where the Childhood Friend Wont 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 werent too bad but after that oh boy my preexpectations were proven right: It was terrible It was painful to watch this show without turning off your brain but I would be lying to yall if I told you I didnt enjoy it at least a bit. Nothing in this show made sense but thats 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 its one of those shows that is so bad its actually good. 350https://i.ur.com/cueKAlv.gif In conclusion OsaMake is not a show I would recommend to you if you want a good story. Its more of a show to watch if youre seeking for a good laugh because of how bad it is. If thats what you want then I would suggest giving this a shot. As I mentioned earlier in the enjoyment section you shouldnt expect too much from the show. I feel like it could be better than what it is right now if the characters werent so unlikeable. My closing thought for this show is: Its a show that is so bad that its actually good. All right math time: 150/500 = 0.30 0.30 x 100 = 30/100
30 /100
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