| Anime: | Love Flops |
| Producers: | Kadokawa, AT-X, Tokyo MX, KBS Kyoto, SUN TV, BS11 |
| Studio: | Passione |
| Source: | Original |
| Aired: | October 2022 to December 2022 |
| Genres: | Harem, Romance, Comedy, Sci-fi, Ecchi |
| Number of Episodes: | 12 |
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We jumped into Love Flops at the recommendation of Jeb and at first we thought it was going to just be a standard harem show with some comedy which was true for the first half of the series but then it takes a hard pivot to VR Escapism because of grief coupled with AI trying to “learn love.” We talked about the intentional time leaps as well as how time passed vs how it appeared to have passed, and how each girl basically feels like they used a different “training dataset” for what love might look like.
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Show Synopsis
Love Flops follows Asahi, an average high school kid whose day goes sideways after a morning fortune-telling segment from an AI program, and it all starts coming true one prediction at a time and for each one that comes true he crashes into a different girls from around the world and somehow ends up rooming with them. It plays like how you would expect from any harem comedy at first, then it pivots into a sci-fi twist about simulated reality and grief when you learn why these “perfect encounters” keep happening. The show leans into fanservice at the start, but then it starts to ask some heavier questions near the end about escapism and moving forward.
Staff Credits
- Director: Nobuyoshi Nagayama
- Series composition / Head writer: Ryo Yasumoto
- Character design & Chief animation director: Kazuyuki Ueda
- Music: Kenichiro Suehiro
- Assistant directors: Midori Yui, Fujiaki Asari
Cast & Characters
Select a character from the list to learn about their development during the season and see the talented Japanese and English voice actors who bring them to life.
Asahi Kashiwagi
The Main Character who’s an ordinary high school student that becomes involved in a series of unusual, chaotic, and perverted encounters with five girls who we find out are his bride candidates. He’s portrayed as a kind, and considerate guy who’s initially reluctant to choose a bride. Only later we learn that he applied to be a subject in a virtual reality program that’s specifically designed to help AIs understand love after he had a personal tragedy.
Japanese VA
Ryota Osaka
English VA
Jeremy Gee
Aoi Izumisawa
She is one of Asahi’s classmates. She wears glasses, has a bright and cheerful personality that's also talented at cooking and household work. It's later revealed that she's a AI character, and is the closest in nature to Ai Izawa, the base for the AI girls’.
Japanese VA
Miku Ito
English VA
Natalie Rial
Amelia Irving
An American transfer student that's also one of Asahi’s classmates. She often wears cat-eared headphones. She has an innocent, clumsy, and selfish personality, and is commonly described as tsundere. She wants to improve her Japanese from smutty books and is later revealed that she is an AI.
Japanese VA
Ayana Taketatsu
English VA
Brittney Karbowski
Irina Ilyukhina
A shy Bulgarian transfer student that's also one of Asahi’s classmates. Initially they passes herself off as a boy to honor her late father’s wishes. But then in episode 4 she reveals that she is a girl named Irina, and she chooses to live as herself at Asahi’s encouragement. She is also an AI program.
Japanese VA
Rie Takahashi
English VA
Juliet Simmons
Karin Istel
A self-conscious German transfer student that's also one of Asahi’s classmates. She is an active model that's gaining popularity in Japan and has a cheerful personality with a hidden alter ego that's a magical girl and is also an AI.
Japanese VA
Marika Kono
English VA
Cate Smyth
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