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 Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (My Girlfriend and Childhood Friend Fight Too Much), officially localized as Oreshura, is an "anti-romantic comedy" that takes a typical romcom premise but replaces the leads with people who actually hate love and romance in all of its forms. Or at least, that's the premise. You know as well as I do it's actually going to be a romcom disguising itself as an anti-romcom. It's also based on a light novel series so don't expect high writing quality out of this show. It's available streaming on Crunchyroll. Staff and Info Director: Kamei Kanta Composition/Script: Urahata Tatsuhiko Studio: A-1 Pictures Episodes: 13 Watch it on Crunchyroll Saturdays 12PM EST Meet the characters  Kidou Eita (CV: Ohsaka Ryouta) - Our love-hating protagonist. As a result of his parents' messy divorce and subsequent abandonment, and his fervent desire to enter medical school and become a doctor, he hates anything and everything to do with love, romance, and all that other tomfoolery silly high schoolers get up to nowadays. In the past he suffered from some serious middle school delusions, recording his heroic exploits as the wyvern-slaying Burning Fighting Fighter in a personal journal. A journal found by...  Natsukawa Masuzu (CV: Tamura Yukari) - A stunningly beautiful girl in Eita's class who has returned to Japan after many years overseas. Coincidentally, she shares Eita's burning hatred of Cupid, which doesn't mesh well with her image as the school beauty. After acquiring Eita's journal, she uses its life-destroying contents to blackmail him into becoming her fake boyfriend, in an attempt to stop every guy in the world from asking her out. She describes herself as a "bitch", and acts the part, being very cold and manipulating when not under public scrutiny. Her hobbies include loving with the other characters (a lot), and being obsessed with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, like any reasonable person should be  . Of course, there are some people who aren't happy seeing her relationship with Eita, such as... Harusaki Chiwa (CV: Akasaki Chinatsu) - Eita's childhood friend. Kind of a tomboy. Chiwa was a very strong kendo competitor in middle school, but was forced to quit after a car accident left her permanently unable to compete. She has very obvious romantic feelings toward Eita, which, as a dumb anime protagonist, he manages to completely miss. In an effort to both get back at Eita for getting a girlfriend, and to keep an eye on him and Masuzu, she accepts Masuzu's offer to help her become more popular with guys (but of course Masuzu's manipulating her into doing it). Wacky hijinks ensue.  Akishino Himeka (CV: Kanemoto Hisako) - Another girl in Eita's school still caught in the adolescent delusions that Eita left behind. She claims to have had a deep connection with him in his previous life as the Burning Fighting Fighter, and so she, as the Burning Pudding Princess, seeks to rekindle it. She's not shy about pronouncing her feelings for our unfortunate MC.  Fuyuumi Ai (CV: Kayano Ai) - Eita's classmate from much earlier in their education and currently a hall monitor. Attempts to shut down Masuzu's club, partially to prevent her from getting closer to Eita. Massive tsundere. Being so completely unable to act like a reasonable person around him, she enlists a mutual friend of hers and Eita's to wingman for her. So why on Earth would I ever watch this show So far, the dynamic between Eita and Masuzu has been pretty entertaining to watch. She's as manipulative as she claims, but there have been some fairly obvious hints that there's a lot more to her character and even Eita seems to realize it a little bit. Chiwa, on the other hand, is pretty bog-standard but she's not an offensively bad character, and her interactions with Masuzu have been pretty funny. Masuzu herself is pretty excellent for humor, too. Oh yeah and there's also the whole JoJo's theme the show has going on   (thanks Dan7el for posting this in the Winter thread)for example. Basically Masuzu rules. Relambrien fucked around with this message at Feb 25, 2013 around 10:41 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 12:25 |
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The last episode turned a bit more serious but more than made up for it with the re-enactment of the the Dio kissing Erina scene. I'd have much preferred this show if it was just Masuzu trolling Chiwa into doing stupid poo poo though. Also, Chiwa's nickname is 'Chihuahua' and she consistently wears a dog collar. 
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 14:17 |
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Maybe it's supposed to be a "cat vs. dog" type situation.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 18:26 |
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Thanks for creating this thread, OP. Pretty-much every episode references JoJo's. It fun to see an anime reference another manga/anime. Now, all we need is JoJo's to reference this anime. Yeah. I doubt that'll happen too. The show seems to be turning into a serious romantic-comedy with serious harem overtones. I'd be okay with that if the main-male-character wasn't so clueless as to the feelings of the Chihuahua-girl. They introduced the dark-haired love interest today. She needs an eye-patch and we'll have a repeat of one of last season's animes. Maybe they can reference that one too while they're referencing JoJo's. Also, do all 8th grade syndrome boys have to name their other selves Burning or Flame Something Something? Burning Fighting Fighter. Dark Flame Master? Honestly, I think the best parts of this anime are when the Natsukawa reads out of Eita's 8th grade syndrome diary/notebook and he goes nuts.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 23:42 |
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Dan7el posted:Also, do all 8th grade syndrome boys have to name their other selves Burning or Flame Something Something? Burning Fighting Fighter. Dark Flame Master?
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 23:48 |
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Dan7el posted:Also, do all 8th grade syndrome boys have to name their other selves Burning or Flame Something Something? Burning Fighting Fighter. Dark Flame Master? No, some of them call their other selves Magus Killer.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 23:51 |
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Never thought I'd say I'd had enough of Jojo references but it's getting drat close. Suzu's posing still gets me though.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 23:52 |
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How much am I missing in this show by not watching Jojo's? I dropped the series when (Jojo spoiler) the villain burned Jojo's dog alive out of spite.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2013 00:38 |
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Anime_Otaku posted:How much am I missing in this show by not watching Jojo's? I dropped the series when (Jojo spoiler) the villain burned Jojo's dog alive out of spite. Jojo spoilers (for like the first five episodes or something): The scene where Masuzu kisses Eita is a direct reference to the Jojo's villain kissing the protagonist's girlfriend to make her too ashamed to hang around the protagonist anymore. In Jojo, the victim washes her mouth out with dirty puddle water. Here, Eita elected not to reenact that part of the scene. There was another line (just before the second Jojo reference image in the OP) that made note of the fact that pretty much everything in Jojo is named for Western music (the first arc's villain is named Dio for crying out loud) but really you're not missing all that much.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2013 00:45 |
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Anime_Otaku posted:How much am I missing in this show by not watching Jojo's? I dropped the series when (Jojo spoiler) the villain burned Jojo's dog alive out of spite. It's only for a few gags, it's like one of those comedy shows that make a bunch of references to other anime only instead of 'other anime' it's just Jojo for some reason. Also, I think that's a silly reason for dropping Jojo and that's coming from someone who really loves dogs.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2013 01:49 |
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I'm kind of hoping the last five minutes of this series reveals all the stuff about past lives is actually real and Eita just blasts off into space to fight dragons, leaving a gaggle of confused love interests standing around. Roll credits.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2013 06:44 |
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Episode six seems to have cemented the tone of the series, switching rapidly between happy fun comedy times and ~dramatic character issues~. But oh man, Eita's notebook was great this week 
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 22:02 |
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They were totally playing the 'Toejam and Earl' background music just after the OP in the last episode. Still haven't worked out why the opening is so fan-servicey and yuri-tastic when there's hardly anything like that on the actual show.
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 22:15 |
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Is shouting about how much of a loser you are really considered an effective deterrent to someone threatening you? It's not quite at the level of "cliche" but I've still seen it a non-trivial number of times in random anime. I don't understand why anime characters can't just tell someone to "gently caress off".
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 15:29 |
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Aand if it wasn't obvious this was a bad harem show already, Ep 7 opening made my eyes roll and a my chest had that horrible sinking feeling and I closed the browser tab. Is it worth watching? I liked Masuzu loving with everyone else. Also, holy crap, was Death Note really 6 years old? That's plenty of time for those stupid notebooks to have proliferated everywhere.
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 12:18 |
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No, its true colours are showing now and it's the harem-iest thing ever. With the occasional (or not so occasional) Jojo reference.
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 14:50 |
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Sakurazuka posted:No, its true colours are showing now and it's the harem-iest thing ever. With the occasional (or not so occasional) Jojo reference. Was it ever in doubt that this is a harem anime?
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 16:31 |
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Yeah I'm not sure you could have expected anything different from this show, even the promotional image makes it clear that this was going to be harem central. At least Masuzu's machinations and Eita's notebook are funny; that's enough to keep me interested so as long as that keeps up I'll be happy.
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 16:46 |
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Namtab posted:Was it ever in doubt that this is a harem anime? Pretty clear. The first two episodes sure made it seem like "Oh it's about Masuzu tormenting Chiwa for amusement" but yeah, no. Just four girls swarming a guy who claims zero interest, and only one of them has actually openly said she likes him. But drat if the cinema scene in ep 8 wasn't great. I so hope that other guy picked that film intentionally, it fit way too well.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2013 00:17 |
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It is, at least, a lot more entertaining than most harem shows, though that could be because I usually avoid them like the plague so the tropes don't bother me as much.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2013 00:30 |
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Actually I think this is quite like No Fake edit: Okay maybe not really that much more like than any other harem.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2013 00:41 |
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Finally got around to watching this episode and updating the OP with Ai's information. I have to agree that the cinema scene was hilarious, as was the flashback to Eita in middle school. Outside the harem shenaniganry this show's humor can be really spot-on. edit: I'm bad at bbcode
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| # ? Feb 25, 2013 10:43 |
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I still can't help liking this show for some reason. 
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 05:32 |
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Sakurazuka posted:I still can't help liking this show for some reason.
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| # ? Mar 3, 2013 07:32 |
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Caught up with the last two episodes. His aunt doesn't beat around the bush, that's for sure.
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| # ? Mar 12, 2013 21:02 |
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Okay, I'll admit I'm unironically loving this show, it may be generic harem trash, but at least it's self aware generic harem trash. Even the MC's best guy friend is gay for him.
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| # ? Mar 16, 2013 22:04 |
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Mason Dixon posted:Caught up with the last two episodes. His aunt doesn't beat around the bush, that's for sure. Adult characters that cut through the bullshit like Alexander though the Gordian knot are the best.
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| # ? Mar 16, 2013 22:15 |
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I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and reveal that white-haired girl is actually in love with main character because he was nice to her in passing one time years ago and this is all some elaborate plan to date him. Anyone read the light novels? Is this a thing that is going to happen or have anime cliches tainted the way I see all shows now?
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| # ? Mar 16, 2013 23:26 |
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| # ? May 21, 2013 12:25 |
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organism posted:I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and reveal that white-haired girl is actually in love with main character because he was nice to her in passing one time years ago and this is all some elaborate plan to date him. Anyone read the light novels? Is this a thing that is going to happen or have anime cliches tainted the way I see all shows now? Well if nothing else she really is a sad, lonely person who has never experienced real happiness. That latest episode really brought things together, it seems everything is somehow starting to pay off. Aunt character is great. (What's up with anime's always introducing really cool characters near the end? That Kamisama Dolls thing also introduced the best character shortly before the anime ended.)
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