Review of Kiss Him, Not Me!

This anime was one of the cringiest shows I've ever watched in my entire life. I found myself cringing throughout the entire thing- not even exaggerating. Reverse harems are a huge guilty pleasure of mine, so I found the show and decided to watch. I wasn't expecting too much out of it as it seemed like your generic shoujo anime with a bunch of cute guys, an average main character, and all that jazz. I thought the concept of it would be interesting, you know, the whole fangirl "wants the guys that want to be with her to be with each other." ButGod, I wasn't expecting it to be that bad.

So the main character, she's the worst. The whole fangirl trope in the series was something I could relate to, but the way that the show portrays Serinuma, making her "fangirling" so exaggerated to the point that she couldn't even control herself while two men were speaking made the show so unbearable to watch.

Now, I understand that the show is a reverse harem so the base concept for the show is unrealistic in itself, but the fact that five characters followed around this girl just waiting so blatantly in competition to be with her was so impractical it made me feel bad for them. Not to mention that most of the characters that wanted to be with Serinuma were extremely superficial. It rubbed me the wrong way that the idea of the anime for a while was that if you're fat then you are undesirable, but if you're skinny then people will like you.

Let's not forget the fact that throughout the entire series there was little to no character development for any of the characters except (in the slightest way) Asuma.

I get that the show was basically a slice of life, but every single episode was just a recycled plot trope from every single anime you've probably ever seen. Same with the characters. I can name at least three shows that each character was so obviously taken from.

The humor was OK, the art was good in certain parts, but I feel like often in order to avoid elaborately animating certain scenes the animators would just put in excessive chibi clips which got old after the second episode.

In conclusion, this show was worse than your average slice of life reverse harem anime, and if you're expecting a lot out of it, think again.