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“Otaku Tomoya recruits talented friends to turn his dream girl into a 2D dating sim heroine.”
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata: Egoistic-Lily
冴えない彼女〈ヒロイン〉の育てかた ～egoistic-lily～
7.09
8,307 rank · 4,703 readers · 17 favorites
Seinen
School
Drama
Romance
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Synopsis
Otaku Tomoya recruits talented friends to turn his dream girl into a 2D dating sim heroine.
A high school otaku named Aki Tomoya runs into his dream girl one day... only to find that she has the faintest presence to his chagrin! Now with his otaku passions, Tomoya wants to turn the girl into a heroine in the only realm he is familiar with: 2D dating simulation game. To accomplish this objective, he scouts Eriri Spencer Sawamura, his half-foreigner childhood friend equipped with artistic talent, as the illustrator, and Kasumigaoka Utaha, a famous prodigy writer, as the script writer. (Source: Batoto)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
7.8
/10
What 4 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 0.83
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.83 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.25
Running avg · Dec 2016 → Feb 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “If you've already read/seen the original 'Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata', then you'll find yourself re-reading a large chunk of that here. The only chapter that's properly different from the...”
- 9 “First of all, i'm doing this review after i finished this manga and currently reading the original Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend) manga. And i've been seeing clips...”
- 8 “Hmm I guess no one reviewed this since it isn't really popular. This is kind of an extra from the manga Saenai Heroine Sodatekata (Saekano in short). I'm warning you ahead this review might have...”
Verbosity
Short · 75%
Medium · 0%
Long · 25%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 15 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 00m approx
- Published Feb 2013 – May 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M21919 catalog