Anime Blurb 48 Room Mate

So the other day I decided that I would find some more recent anime (as in from this year) for my friend and I to watch. From the picture and the small summary on myanimelist.net this seemed pretty promising. The palette of the clip seemed very pleasing and the episodes were only 4 minutes long. What I didn't realize...was that this is one of those otome games adapted into an anime. I don't know if I just haven't watched enough of the otome to anime adaptations to find a really good one or something, but from my experience they all suck.

So the premise of this ~48 minutes in total spread over 12 episode series is this girl couldn't get a job so her relative sent her to be the manager of her boarding house/hostel/community living space. In it are three guys: Shinya, Aoi, and Takumi. The POV is you're the manager girl (who never appears) and these three guys are just living their lives...and then fall in love with you for no reason. They try to introduce a plot by inserting a "no romantic relationships with the manager or else" rule, but that doesn't really do much. So it's basically just fuwa fuwa fluffy times. Oh and if you like shirtless guys, at the end of every episode is a picture of one or all three of the guys together with clothes on and then with lens flares or whatever other extra af edits they wanna use they reveal abs and naked upper halves. If I were a guy I can only imagine how awkward you would feel.

Overall, this was very painful to watch. There was no plot, the only content it had was the overused cliche like the supportive girlfriend, the sadistic guy that calls you a dog, the cutesy guy that tells you he'll become a man for you, the wall slam, the one compliment "I'm nice? No one's ever said that to me before" that gets them to fall for you, the list goes on and on and becomes more cringey by the minute. There's just shirtless guys and the flattest, most stereotypical characters you could ever find anywhere. Unless you're bored and you've got roughly 42 minutes to spare (save yourself 6 minutes by not watching the lens flare revealing their abs) I don't think you should watch this if you value your time. There are better things to watch, heck even playing through an otome game would be way better than watching this. Well, maybe if you were a 12 year old tween with no real understanding of relationships and you haven't been exposed to any romantic things so you think that this could really happen and you like this sort of cliche then you'd enjoy this. But to each their own I suppose.

Oh and the pacing of the nonexistent plot is very erratic

All my screenshots were Aoi because his style is my style so I resonate with him on a stylistic level

Ok I was kinda disturbed at this point because I thought Shinya was hooking up with some single mother and gonna marry into their family but it turns out it was some app and it's kinda funny how distraught he is over his game

*presents you with more cliches*