Inarguably one of the season’s worst premieres, Love Flops is all crass, no comedy. But is it hiding an even more bizarre secret behind the facade?
Oct 13, 2022 • Subscribe
More like this
First Look: Love Flops
Average nobody Asahi Kashiwagi has a fated encounter with, not one, but FIVE cuties from his school. Somehow, this makes all of them fall in love with him.
First Impression: Love Flops
After a vision of a girl that dissolves in virtual bytes, our protagonist, the ill-fated Asahi Kashiwagi, wakes up in what looks like the near future, with Alexa-like…
Love Flops – 01 (First Impressions) – Five Uneasy Pieces
Kashiwagi Asahi lives in a spacious apartment with an AI assistant Lovelin (Nanachi again), and while listening to the morning news, his birthday of October 8 (just four…
Love Flops Dropped
The third and final episode of Love Flops I watched focused on Amelia Irving, who starts the episode under Asahi’s covers trying to put his toeprints on a wedding…
Seasonal First Impressions: THE GENE OF AI
Part medical procedural, part one man’s quest to clear his mother’s name.
Autumn 2021 First Impressions – Deep Insanity: The Lost Child
Streaming: Funimation Episodes: 12 Source: Multimedia Project Episode Summary: A mysterious ailment called “Randolph Syndrome” has started to affect the people of Earth. The suspected s…
Tune of the Week(ish): Love Flops: Love? Reason Why!
I’ve not watched this show, but I might have to change that! The Tune of the Week is the opening theme to Love Flops: Love? Reason Why!! by…
Anime Like Love Flops
One normal day, high school student Asahi Kashiwagi wakes up and watches a fortune teller's predictions on TV. On his way to school, as according to the
Love Flops – Episode 1
As well as being a bad, dumb comedy, however, it’s a bad, dumb comedy with a disgusting concept at the heart of its “humor”.
Love Flops Review — B-
Four girls move in with the main guy and want to marry him.
SEASONAL FIRST IMPRESSIONS MASTERPOST
Hi friends. This season, I decided to write short first impressions. Why? I’m as lost as you, kind of just felt like it. Well, one reason I can…
Seasonal First Impressions: The Soothing World of HEALER GIRL
Gentle as a breeze, soft as the morning Sun, Healer Girl is a standout in an already-promising season.
Seasonal First Impressions: The Soothing World of HEALER GIRL
Gentle as a breeze, soft as the morning Sun, Healer Girl is a standout in an already-promising season.
Seasonal First Impressions: The Robotic World of PRIMA DOLL
The season’s first true dud is a retread of ancient slice-of-life clichés, as robotic as its main characters.
Seasonal First Impressions: The Puzzle of PON NO MICHI
Pon no Michi is a mahjong-themed slice of life comedy rife with light-hearted laughs, but you won’t find this anime on your local streaming service.
Seasonal First Impressions: OSHI NO KO and The Dark Side of Fame
What would you do if you’d been born as a celebrity’s child?
Seasonal First Impressions: SABIKUI BISCO
An atmospheric, engrossing, and surprising offering from a new studio, Sabikui Bisco is one to watch.
Seasonal First Impressions: SELECTION PROJECT
Selection Project is Doga Kobo’s swing at the idol anime genre, but does it sing or is this a flunked audition?
Seasonal First Impressions: The Beautiful Bloom of KOMI CAN’T COMMUNICATE
Komi Can’t Communicate stands as the second truly essential anime of the fall 2021 season, a beautifully warm portrait of young love.
The Existential Horror of Monogatari
I don't know about you guys but something seems a little off about Hachikuji... PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/keksiweksi TWITTER: https://twitter.com/keksiweksi ~Music~ Bakemonogatari OST - Date Bakemonogatari OST - Doutokutosetsu Bakemonogatari OST - Suteki Meppou Kizumonogatari OST - Spasibo! Welcome…
Love Flops – 02 – Menage a Cinq
Asahi is so distracted by Aoi’s, er, display, he completely misinterprets her confession to him as a confession to going commando. When she asks him what he thinks and he…
Seasonal First Impressions: Spring 2023 Stragglers
So many anime airing in a given season means I can’t possibly devote full columns to them all. Nonetheless, here are some short thoughts on a midnight slice-of-life,…
Mobile Suit Gundam, Otaku Elf, THE MARGINAL SERVICE, Tokyo Mew Mew, TOO CUTE CRISIS
Seasonal First Impressions: What is THE MISSING 8?
Stylish and atmospheric, but with notably limited animation, The Missing 8 is the year’s last–and probably most mysterious–anime to premiere.
Winter 2022 First Impressions – Love of Kill
Streaming: Crunchyroll Episodes: 12 Source: Manga Episode Summary: Chateau Dankworth is a young bounty hunter executing hits on behalf of a larger organization. One day while out on…
Seasonal First Impressions: A Short Stay IN THE LAND OF LEADALE
Seasonal First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about a currently-airing anime’s first episode or so. I’m not going to sit here…
Seasonal First Impressions: Breaking Down the Madness of BRAVE BANG BRAVERN!
Bizarre, ambitious, and fitting easily into no single genre, Bang Brave Bravern provides a seasonal highlight off of entertainment value alone.
Seasonal First Impressions: Dragons, Tigers, and Isekai in FLUFFY PARADISE
The year starts off in decidedly so-so fashion with this cotton-light “cozy” isekai.
Seasonal First Impressions: Springtime Comes Again in SKIP AND LOAFER
A tale as old as time and early seasonal highlight; country girl moves to the big city, is a fish out of water, vomits on her teacher, etc.…
Seasonal First Impressions: Hacking and Slashing Through RWBY: ICE QUEENDOM
The highly-anticipated anime adaption of the beloved CGI web series has finally arrived, but does it stand on its own two legs?
Seasonal First Impressions: The Revolution Wears Red and Pink in MAGICAL DESTROYERS
Magical Destroyers is Pretty Cure meets Rumble Garandoll. What else can you say? —-
First Impression: Deep Insanity: The Lost Child
The next pandemic is much more colorful than our current one, or so it seems. The Randolph Syndrome comes from this new underground realm at the South Pole…
Dread Journey
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
Metroid Dread
The gameplay of Dread is similarly spectacular. A lot of the DNA from Samus Returns – Mercury Steam's first Metroid project – is present here, albeit with the…
Seasonal First Impressions: TAKT OP.DESTINY is The Season’s First Must-Watch
takt op.Destiny opens with a triumphant, soaring symphony of a premiere. The season’s first must-watch has arrived.
Tokyo Love Hustle – First Impressions
Tokyo Love Hustle is a hilarious slice of life otome game and the latest Love Choice title in Voltage Inc.'s Love 365 App.
The Insanity of Blue Lock
Blue Lock is one of the new anime of the 2022 Fall season going into a second cour in the 2023 Winter season. It's an amazing football anime…
Seasonal First Impressions: From The Closet With Love – Socially Anxious and Slinging a Six-String in BOCCHI THE ROCK!
Seasonal First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about a currently-airing anime’s first episode or so. We’ve all heard this story before,…
Seasonal First Impressions: Hitting the Jackpot with HIGH CARD
In just 22 minutes, HIGH CARD proves itself to be a standout among a surprisingly dense anime season. A cast full of violent, superpowered prettyboys helps.
Seasonal First Impressions: BIRDIE WING Tees Off
Birdie Wing manages to somehow make 22 minutes of golf-related video watchable. I can pay it no higher compliment.
Seasonal First Impressions: The Wild Blue Yonder of SOARING SKY! PRETTY CURE
The new Pretty Cure begins with a bang; a jet fighter screaming across the open blue sky.
Seasonal First Impressions: Under Cover of Darkness, Enters NINJA KAMUI
Seasonal First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about a currently-airing anime’s first episode or so. There are a handful of interesting…
Seasonal First Impressions: Does REIGN OF THE SEVEN SPELLBLADES Pass the Entrance Exam?
Spellblades strikes me as incredibly basic from this first episode. But, given some developments in its final few minutes, there is a non-zero chance that it’s Doing Something…
Seasonal First Impressions: Something is Wrong in SMILE OF THE ARSNOTORIA THE ANIMATION
Is the LIDEN FILMS “cute girls at a magic school” as warm and cozy as it seems, or is something going on beneath the surface?
Seasonal First Impressions: The Radiant Magic of YOHANE THE PARAHELION -SUNSHINE IN THE MIRROR-
The third fantasy idol fusion anime in just four years gets off to a strong, brilliantly-produced start in this delightfully sunny premiere episode.
YOHANE THE PARHELION -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR-, Love Live! Sunshine!!, RADIANT
Seasonal First Impressions: THE EXECUTIONER AND HER WAY OF LIFE is a Knife in Isekai’s Heart
The Executioner and Her Way of Life has seen your light novels, and it is not impressed.
Seasonal First Impressions: Logged in and Losing it in YUREI DECO
Science SARU’s new original is a colorful, cyberpunk dystopia. A worryingly plausible extension of our current cultural moment.
Seasonal First Impressions: REINCARNATED AS A SWORD is Dull and Rusty
Reincarnated as a Sword is yet another isekai with a marginally interesting premise that completely squanders it by being as dull and full of shortcuts as possible.
Renai Flops
Are we running out ways to have an interesting story for a romantic comedy harem genre? Maybe. Because yeah, it may sound as cheesy as it is for…
Seasonal First Impressions: Climbing The Stairway to a HEAVENLY DELUSION
Gorgeous and haunted, the post-apocalyptic adventure gets off to an absolutely stunning start.
Seasonal First Impressions: Gaze into The Void with TESLA NOTE
The nightmare is inside of you and Tesla Note knows it.