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NOVEL ComedyOre wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo
MANGA ComedyOre wo Suki Nano wa Omae Dake ka yo
OVA ComedyOre wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo: Oretachi no Game Set

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  Irietan

  80/100
  Zaskakująca komedia, której fabuła jest dyktowana przez gagi.

  Recenzja Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo

  

  Postanowiłem obejrzeć to anime, ponieważ postać Panji jest uderzająco podobna do Saki z mangi Emergence Metamorphosis. Stąd myśl że to może jakaś luźna adaptacja lub coś podobnego. Po obejrzeniu pierwszego odcinka wciągnęło mnie na dobre.
  Ore wo Suki to dobra komedia, która momentami inspiruje się thrillerami i wychodzi jej to całkiem nieźle.

  Szukałem srebra, a znalazłem złoto

  

  Ore wo Suki może nie jest jakimś nad wyraz wybitnym anime, które zrewolucjonizuje branżę, ale za to na pewno jest dobrą komedią z elementami lekkiego thrilleru.
  Podszedłem do tego anime z brakiem jakichkolwiek wymagań. Coś w stylu: "Pokażcie co macie". Tytuł ten na pierwszy rzut oka może wydawać się kolejną przeciętną serią, która nie jest niczym na co warto poświęcić swój czas.
  I tutaj kryje się pierwsza pułapka! Ore wo Suki rozwija swoje tępo z czasem i im dłużej się je ogląda, tym robi się lepsze. Wynika to z sposobu rozwoju fabuły, smaczków (których jest tu o dziwo całkiem sporo) oraz prowadzenia narracji. Główny bohater, Joro to typowa postać z którą bardzo łatwo jest się utożsamić, gdyż nie wyróżnia go wygląd, specjalne umiejętności czy bohaterskie czyny. To, co sprawia że Joro staje się ciekawą postacią to jego charakter, ale przede wszystkim jego myśli. Nie raz rzuci ciętą ripostą, lub zabawnym, acz trafnym tekstem który uderzy precyzyjnie w czuły punkt. Choć najczęściej Joro ogranicza się tylko do wypowiadania ripost w myślach, to uważam, iż właśnie takie podejście tego bohatera sprawia że staje się on nieco inny niż typowy bohater haremówek.

  

  Podoba mi się w jaki prosty i naturalny sposób rozwijane są tutaj postacie. Dzieje się to albo za sprawą rozwoju dziwacznej fabuły, lub poprzez zwykły upływ czasu. Postacie zmieniają delikatnie swoje nastawienie z czasem, jaki spędzają z głównym bohaterem. Pomimo tego, że większość z nich reprezentuje klasyczne archetypy, to mimo tego są one napisane dobrze i przyjemnie jest śledzić ich poczynania.

  Jeżeli mamy mówić o fabule, to trzeba jednocześnie wspomnieć o humorze, gdyż fabuła tego anime jest niejako bazowana na gagach oraz na zabawnych nawiązaniach. Dobitnie o tym świadczy muzyka grana w trakcie pojawiania się słynnej białej ławki. Utwór ewidentnie inspirowany Marszem Imperialnym z Star Wars.
  Główne założenie fabuły wygląda mniej więcej w taki sposób: Mamy pomysł na śmieszne gagi, więc napiszmy fabułę żeby dało się je jakoś osadzić.
  Mamy do czynienia z absurdalnymi wydarzeniami, które są dyktowane przez absurdalne postacie, które to z kolei motywowane są jednym absurdalnym wydarzeniem. Wszystko obraca się w okół pewnego meczu baseballowego oraz najlepszego przyjaciela głównego bohatera.
  Nie. Nie w okół głównego bohatera, a jego przyjaciela, Sun-chana. Spokojnie, to dopiero początek. Główny bohater zostaje zapoznany z białą ławką, która od tej pory stanie się jego przekleństwem, gdyż to na niej będzie musiał wysłuchiwać absurdalnych próśb swoich koleżanek oraz wyznania miłości do... jego najlepszego przyjaciela. Koleżanki Joro wyznają mu, że kochają jego najlepszego przyjaciela...
  ...To właśnie między innymi dlatego napisałem, że fabułą w tym anime jest humor.

  

  Sposób w jaki to anime operuje żartami jest godne podziwu. Raz są one wprost rzucane przez głównego bohatera, raz wykonywane za sprawą burzenia czwartej ściany, a czasami tak o, po prostu dobry żart leży sobie na podłodze i wystarczy go podnieść. Humorek stoi na wysokim poziomie. Polecam.

  Technikalia

  To tradycja moich recenzji. Nie mogę odpuścić sobie wspomnienia o części technicznej.

  Pod kątem animacji, kreski czy też montażu jest na prawdę dobrze. Zaskakująco dobrze jak na anime, które nie wygląda na takie z dużym budżetem.
  Kreska jest rysowana bardzo charakterystycznie. Szczególnie gdy spojrzy się na żeńskie postacie. Mają one specyficznie rysowane usta, oczy oraz włosy. Jest to miłe dla oka.

  Tutaj chciałbym gorąco pochwalić aktorów głosowych, gdyż ci momentami wyciskają z siebie ostatnie soki, aby odpowiednio zaintonować reakcję postaci, które odgrywają. Rewelacyjna robota. Chciałbym kiedyś usłyszeć aktora głosowego Joro w serii Jojo.
  hehe, Jojo, Joro brzmi podobnie. Może sequel nazwijcie "Joro Bizarre Adventure?" hehe

  Opening oraz ending są wyśmienite. Pasują doskonale. Nie nudzą, nie rozpraszają, a zapraszają do obejrzenia z uwagą całego odcinka, po czym odpalenia następnego. Nawet opening odnosi się do kilku gagów, które występują w właściwej fabule.

  

  Podsumowanie

  Szukasz niekonwencjonalnej komedii, która zaskoczy cię kilkoma ciekawymi i świeżymi pomysłami? Jeżeli tak, to Ore no Suki jest właśnie tym czego szukasz.
  Może i nie oferuje kinowej jakości, ale choćby dla gagów oraz aktorów głosowych warto poświęcić temu tytułowi swój czas.

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  Pockeyramune919

  51/100
  Despite a decent start, Oresuki is a painfully typical harem that didn't get the memo, thinking it's something fresh.

  

  Alright everyone, pack it up. You can go home. Find some other, more interesting anime to watch. Twelve episodes (that felt like twenty-four) later and I can assure you that this is not the subversive anime that you might hope it to be. It makes sense why some might think that. The show may certainly say it’s subversive, while it might certainly think it’s fresh, actions speak louder than words, and speak much louder than thoughts. In action, Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka or Are you the only one who loves me? or Oresuki is nothing short of a clumsy harem anime that, in making fun of “typical” rom coms, it just makes fun of itself. Make no mistake, past the “parody” smoke and mirrors, past the “meta” lightshow, Oresuki is an unimpressive show that thinks its an almighty wizard.

  Which is a shame because, for me, it was almost that wizard, it was almost something worth watching, worth recommending. I’ll elaborate later, but much like another show I watched this year, a lot of my viotrol is born from disappointment, from a longing for what could have been. Starting off, Oresuki seems to be a mind-numbingly cookie-cutter romantic comedy, that’s light on anything funny. The MC is bland, women are inexplicably drawn to him, there’s dumb-fanservice. And of course, she’s going to confess her love...regarding his best friend? Then the other girl he’s interested in does the same thing, on the same bench. Then at the end of the episode, it’s revealed that the main character is a two-faced asshole, lamenting that he’s just a background character and expressing that he wishes he was the main character with a harem. At this point, I was totally on board. You have no idea how happy I was once Joro started referring to Himawari as “bitch” (meaning something along the lines of “bimbo”). Not because I think it’s a correct thing to say, but it’s such an insanely scummy to say about your friend that I 100% knew what they were going for with Joro’s character. He was going to be the asshole, the protagonist heel that you’d love to hate and be comfortable laughing at, knowing his devious machinations would invariably come tumbling down.

  ...or so I thought. As suddenly as it bloomed, my confidence in this show was mercilessly stamped.

  

  Oresuki is astounding in its mediocracity. I knew exactly what I was getting into yet I still was disappointed. An acquaintance told me the first arc was good then the show quickly turned to shit. I’ll (feverishly, repeatedly) admit that the show got worse, but it wasn’t absolutely terrible. Certainly not in an entertaining way; it just became meddling and uninspired, it became the harem show it originally made fun of.

  Honestly, I didn’t find the first arc all that great. Scandalous, I know. As I detailed, I was most excited during the tail end of the first episode because that’s the only time I truly felt the show knew what it was doing. What do I mean by that, you ask? Well, dear reader, Oresuki has a very, very nasty identity crisis throughout its run. I don’t say it has an identity crisis because it started off as one thing and became another; that would simply be development. Oresuki consistently isn’t sure what exactly it wants to be, flip-flopping between being a self-aware, meta harem, a harem played completely straight, and a drama several times in an episode. Unfortunately, the angle I was most interested in, Oresuki as a harem parody, disappeared after the first episode. Episodes 2 and 3 are more interested in Oresuki being a dramatic take on the romantic comedy, with characters scheming to take each other down with convoluted plots. This can be engaging and I give this angle props for still being interesting and unique in its own right, but the existence of the first episode robs this arc of its effectiveness. A big component of the first arc is Joro being betrayed by his friends and having the entire school shun him. Problem is that viewers are conditioned to not care. It’s already been established that Joro isn’t supposed to be a good person, so why would viewers be particularly distraught that Joro is being treated badly? To me, at least, it didn’t register as mistreatment; it registered as comeuppance.

  Still, even though the rest of first arc largely did away with the subversive, off-color comedy that piqued my interest, it was still decent, overall...until it began to wrap up and cracks started to show. The biggest one is how buddy-buddy everyone ended up being at the end. We have people who were hell-bent on ruining Joro’s life, including a guy who was insinuating raping Pansy, yet all is forgiven? Why other than to establish a status-quo, fostering a generally light tone that makes it akin to the very type of show it mocks? Another problem is that, near the end of episode 3, Joro’s “true self” is referenced, not really shown through any of his thoughts or actions. Oh sure, he calls out Himawari and Cosmos, but that’s not really particularly scummy of him; that’s just something any person would do. He’s more abrasive yes, but him being a jerk, the very thing that made him interesting, seemed to be eroding. Again, this would be fine if it was a change, a development, but it’s not, and the anime makes sure you know this. At the end of the episode, he gloats that he’ll gloating that he’ll finally get his harem.

  

  Which he does, but more on that momentarily. For now, I’d like to talk about Joro’s character, which is quite inconsistent. I think this mainly arises from the staff wanting to have their cake and eat it, too. They want Joro to be a good person while still having him be two-faced. The problem, however, is that if he’s a bitter, perverted schemer, he won’t come across as sympathetic, so this aspect of himself mostly becomes lip-service in the name of keeping him unique, while in effect, robbing him of notability. He gets his harem and if he were the “creepy side character” both he and the anime say he is, he’d do something with his legion of adoring women, but like any given harem main character, he just kind of lets them be.

  And let’s get this out of the way. This is a harem anime. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck even if someone says “it’s not a duck.” How exactly wouldn’t this be a harem? After the first arc, Joro has no less than three girls (and one boy) practically kissing his feet for no reason. Making this worse is the majority of these people actively liked someone else an episode ago, with Joro doing nothing to earn their affection. As the show goes on, while there’s some drama, we continue to see Joro amass a posse like a trading card collection. And the show seems to acknowledge this in the structure. The end of every arc in this show depicts at least one women falling in love with/confessing their feelings towards Joro. The water park episode is particularly bad because it’s just shameless fan-service. Fan-service is fine, but in a show that seems so concerned with not being a typical romcom, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

  

  Joro “acting like his usual self” in the final episode doesn’t earn Oresuki any of the points it squandered. In Joro acting this way so seldomly, it’s hardly his “usual self.” It seems less like an organic part of him and more something that was thrown in to remind viewers that forgot what this show originally was. Even if the return of Juro’s “usual self” was handled well (hint, hint, it’s not), the ending couldn’t magically make the journey to said ending retroactively enjoyable. And when Joro’s “usual self” emerges the only difference is that he’s a bit more theatrical. While I enjoyed Joro’s plan failing as he breaks the fourth wall, it was laughable that the women professing their love to Joro was supposed to be “surprising.” Even more laughable is Joro’s line at the very end of the episode. To the final arc’s antagonist; a dense “main character” (which is pretty hilarious considering that he’s supposed to be a foil to Joro but he pretty much acts just like him), Joro cries, “Lines worthy of a romcom protagonist! But I'm going to be the one who wins! Don't think the main character always wins! People have had their fill with that kind of story! So I'm going to leave all romantic comedies in the dust!” To this, I only have to hope that this is a joke I’m too dumb to be let in on, that the writers aren’t this unaware. They honest-to-god can’t not know that Joro is a pretty arch-typical rom com protagonist, that Oresuki is exactly the type of story that people have had their fill of.

  The music is fine, nothing really jumps out at me, but at the very least, all the tracks fit with the scenes they played in. Begrudgingly, I admit that I quite enjoyed the art direction of the show. It is a harem after all, so to be effective, it needs to have the members of the harem be distinct and visually appealing. They might not have depth to their personalities and none of them will be going anywhere near my favorite character list, but on a surface-level, I can certainly say who I like the best (Cosmos) and who I don’t particularly like (“True” Pansy in appearance, Pansy in general in personality). I wouldn’t mind seeing fanart of the characters. In art, Oresuki is pretty darn solid.

  

  The comedy is very hit-or-miss. Like I said, I found the first episode hilarious. The best joke in the series is probably “Bench-Kun” a bench that magically and insidiously appears in front of Joro to facilitate someone confessing something to him or otherwise roping him into a scheme. I loved it due to how ridiculous it was. During the second episode, it comes equipped with a Great Value-Imperial March and Darth Vader respirator noises to hilarious effect. I also loved the ridiculous of so many plotpoints being centered around the same exact baseball game. As you might surmise, I love Oresuki when it’s aware of itself (which it seldom is) and absolutely abhor it when it’s completely oblivious. The show also employs many meta jokes, but nothing really tends to be done with them. I’m not sure why the show expects me to fall out of my chair, clutching my stomach as I hysterically guffaw simply because Joro said something along the lines of “it’s episode four.” The show doesn’t lean in enough to the metatextual elements for me to care. It tends to not really turn the meta jokes to the show itself, which would go a long way in making this show more enjoyable. The closest it gets to this is making fun of other romantic comedies, not having the intelligence to understand that it’s making fun of itself.* I will say I enjoyed the final episode having Joro claim that he should have won since the main theme’s playing during the credits, since the meta element actually relates to something that’s happening in the story.

  When thinking of this show, I can’t help but think of both Rising of the Shield Hero and School Days. Both Oresuki and Shield Hero start off strong, with interesting premises, only to fall into the same shuffle as the average member of its respective genre. In short, they were both disappointing. A difference is that, at the very least, Oresuki had elements besides just being an antithesis to its genre. Granted, it doesn’t mean much when those elements weren’t handled particularly well. The drama elements kind of floundered because I didn’t perceive the characters as having any depth and thus, I didn’t care about them. Characters acted stupid (notably Pansy in the final arc not just talking when she was so forward earlier), thus made them less believable. On the other hand, Shield Hero doesn’t make fun of its genre in the show, at least not blatantly. That would make it seem hypocritical once it eventually became what it made fun of. That would make it Oresuki. Oresuki reminds me of School Days mainly in the dialogue surrounding it, with both shows’ advocates claiming that they’re “subversive” and “deconstructions.” The less I remember School Days the better, but briefly, the show is barely the genre it subverts and by using the label of “deconstruction,” it’s given an excuse to be trashy. Oresuki, at the very least is supposed to be seen as a harem at the onset, but it fails at being a deconstruction because it just adheres to the tropes of what it’s supposed to be deconstructing.

  

  When I’m not angry at this show’s lack of self-awareness or disappointed because there was a decent premise here, I’m just bored. As I’ve said ad nauseum Oresuki is a typical harem anime and as such, there’s really not much to it at times. A kind of decent pull to the show is everyone having a dark underside, but even that’s done away with. Joro’s childhood friend, Tsubaki is just a decent person with no downsides. Hell, there’s not even any conflict when she declares her love for Joro. There’s similarly nothing really wrong with Sazanka or Tampopo. Hose, as an antagonist doesn’t really work because his main flaw is being nice? I scratched my head throughout the final arc trying to figure out just how Hose is that much of a problem for Pansy and Joro.

  

  Overall, Oresuki is just a harem, nothing more, nothing less. While it talks big about not being like other romantic comedies, its actions don’t back it up. And here, I’d like to bring up the point I asterisked. The more I think about it, the more I’m open to the possibility that the writer knows what they’re doing; they know that Joro really is a main character. His nickname translates to “watering can” while all the female characters that revolve around him are flowers (Himawari is a sunflower, Cosmos and Pansy are self-explanatory), meaning that the author knew enough about Joro’s role as a central character in the story to make a pun regarding it. But this doesn’t help the show at all. Assuming the writer is self-aware, this makes it so Joro’s cries of “not being a main character” are ironic, but so what. What is the story doing with this irony? What is it saying about it? A character acknowledging tired cliches while still partaking in them doesn’t make the cliches any more excusable, if anything, it makes it less so.

  

  Oresuki fails to deliver what it sets out to do. At best, it’s inept, at worst, it’s intentionally misleading viewers to think it’s more than what it is.

  I’m just glad my journey with this show is ov- https://anilist.co/anime/114195/Ore-wo-Suki-nano-wa-Omae-dake-ka-yo-Oretachi-no-Game-Set/

  Yeah, no. Fuck that noise.

  
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  nflstreet

  60/100
  A self-aware anime, but not self-aware enough to not become what itself is parodying--very funny though.

  MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD

  

  For about ten minutes, I was watching Oresuki and thinking “This is the most cliched anime that I have ever watched”. The main character, Joro, gets asked out by his childhood friend, Himawari, and the student council president, Cosmos, out on dates for the upcoming weekend on the same day. Joro’s aloofness, the way he is soft-spoken, and the trademark main character denseness just took the icing on the cake for how bad this anime was looking. But then Oresuki did a hard 180 and showed me something different.

  On both of the dates, the girls confess to Joro that they like his best friend, Sun-chan, and that they want him to set them up to go out with him. Upon watching this, I was shown the true nature of this anime. For one, the gag of the ‘confession bench; is one of the funniest gags I have seen in an anime in a while. Also, it showed Joro’s true nature--a boy that has been trying to curate his own personal harem with girls of all tropes. His put on as a stereotypical MC was just an act, and he thought that his hard work and diligence were going to finally pay off when his childhood friend and the student council president confessed to him. When his fantasies are shattered, we are shown a petty and antagonistic main character. Joro is a very interesting main character, especially for an anime genre where the main characters are often uninteresting on purpose. His unfriendly manner and abrasiveness are somewhat more inviting and make him more likable than a washboard MC that everyone can self-insert into.

  

  This is the gist of the show for the first few episodes. Oresuki parodies the rom-com/harem genre very well in the beginning. While Himawari and Cosmos do not like Joro, he has Pansy, a (and possibly the only) volunteer librarian for the school library (and his stalker), who loves him. She confesses to him (on a similar-looking bench that is in the library for some reason), telling him that she first grew a crush on him at the final game of the regional baseball tournament the year before (the baseball tournament is also a running gag). While the love is not requited, he still comes to the library daily due to her having potentially damaging information about him. What comes after that is a complicated love polygon and double-crossing on every side. This part of the anime is the best by far--Oresuki pulls of parodying rom-com and harem anime perfectly. Unfortunately, after that, it starts falling into the trap of being what it is parodying.

  

  There are too many characters in this anime to give each their own individual paragraph, so I will try to briefly summarize them in this one-- Joro, which I have already gone over, is the main character of this anime. While he is unique in the way that he actively tries to acquire a harem instead of passively acquiring one and that he acts like a villain at times. He still is MC-like in the way that he goes out of his way to help others, and in the way that he has no distinguishing hobbies. Himawari is his childhood friend, who is also very bland. Cosmos is the president of the student council. She meticulously plans out everything she wants to do and talks like a general from the Tokugawa period when she is nervous. Pansy is Joro’s stalker, and is a librarian for the school. Sun-chan is Joro’s best friend and the ace pitcher for the school’s baseball team. Asunaro is a reporter for the school’s newspaper, and engages in a bit of yellow-journalism from time to time. Tsubaki is a transfer student that runs a skewer stand with her family. Sasanqua is Oresuki’s only tsundere--she is always failing to ask Joro on a date. Tanpopo is the school baseball team’s manager and an aspiring idol. Hose is a student from another school that comes to help Joro in times of need.

  

  Can you see the problem that this anime may have? In the paragraph above, I had ten characters that I briefly mentioned. Of the seven girls that are in there, six of them are implied to like Joro by the end of the anime. For an anime that seemingly wants to parody the harem genre along with the rom-com genre, it gradually falls into the same hole of what it is parodying. Also, six girls is a lot to fit into a twelve-episode anime. Oresuki tries to manage this by not having every character in every scene, but it nevertheless still gets crowded later on. At least everyone has nicknames so they can all be easily referred to.

  The ending to Oresuki does leave much to be desired. To be fair, an OVA will be coming out later in 2020, finishing the arc that the anime ended in the middle of. There are four main arcs in the anime, with the first one (the one I mentioned in the first two paragraphs) being the shining one. The other three arcs vary from good to okay, but the ‘holy shit’ factor of the first one will leave you wanting to binge the whole anime in one night. Oresuki’s story is good, it just goes downhill after a spectacular first arc. As stated before, Oresuki decides to go the route of what it is parodying and turns into a harem anime.

  

  Oresuki is a smart anime, but it is not as smart as it thinks it is. Joro seems to lose his edge for most of the latter half of the anime, it only coming back when he needs it the most. The luster that the first arc ends on slowly wears off through the rest of the nine episodes. By no means is Oresuki a bad anime, but it is disappointing what a downgrade it has from its first arc onward. I am not a fan of Joro gaining a harem after the anime making fun of him for wanting a harem for the first several episodes, even if his harem is more passive than other anime harems. The sheer amount of characters in Oresuki makes it hard to pick hard favorites too. There is only so much screen time--someone is going to end up less developed in character relative to others. That being said, a second season can potentially solve this issue.

  With that all being said, I do not hate Oresuki. It is a very funny anime. It has excellent gags, and Joro is one of the better main characters out there. I just believe that Oresuki is trying to be too many things at once. Being a parody of a harem anime, it fails in that Joro gains a quite big list of girls who like him throughout the anime. As a harem, it fails because we are not given enough screentime to grow attached to any girl that is not Pansy. As a comedy though, it succeeds on nearly all levels. It nails most anime cliches perfectly, even if itself falls into the same traps that what it is parodying. I genuinely hope there is a season two, so we can see how Joro deals with the harem that originally wanted to get (The lyrics “Be careful what you wish for, ‘cause you might just get it” come to mind.)

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