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- Producers
- KADOKAWA AT-X BS11 Movic NTT Plala TOKYO MX TV Aichi Sun Television Sentai Filmworks
- Studio
- Passione
- Source
- Original
- Aired
- October 2022 to December 2022
- Genres
- Comedy Drama Ecchi Romance Sci-Fi
- Number of Episodes
- 12
- Jack's Score
-
7 / 10
- Rick's Score
-
9 / 10
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.
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.
Asahi Kashiwagi
Main
VA: Ryouta Oosaka (JP)
VA: Jeremy Gee (EN)
Aoi Izumisawa
Main
VA: Miku Itou (JP)
VA: Natalie Rial (EN)
Amelia Irving
Main
VA: Ayana Taketatsu (JP)
VA: Brittney Karbowski (EN)
Ilya Ilyukhin
Main
VA: Rie Takahashi (JP)
VA: Juliet Simmons (EN)
Mongfa Bai
Main
VA: Hisako Kanemoto (JP)
VA: Maggie Flecknoe (EN)
Karin Istel
Main
VA: Marika Kouno (JP)
Nobuyoshi Nagayama
Director
Fujiaki Asari
Assistant Director
Midori Yui
Assistant Director
Ryou Yasumoto
Series Composition
Kazuyuki Ueda
Character Design
Eiko Tsunadou
Art Design
Sakie Suzuki
Color Design
Kouji Hayashi
Director of Photography
Ayako Tan
Editing
Nami Niinuma
Editing
Hisayoshi Hirasawa
Sound Director
Yasushi Inomata
Sound Effects
Kenichirou Suehiro
Music
Ryou Yasumoto
Script
Kazuyuki Ueda
Chief Animation Director
Tarou Yamada
3DCG
Q-MHz
Theme Song Lyrics (OP)
Konomi Suzuki
Theme Song Performance (OP)
Yuuki Kishida
Theme Song Arrangement (OP)
Q-MHz
Theme Song Composition (OP)
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