Review of Love Flops

Exquisite! Transcendent! Magnificent! Sublime! Stupendous! Extraordinary! Unparalleled! Ineffable! Resplendent! Superlative! Prodigious! Enchanting! Majestic! Breathtaking! Captivating! Spellbinding! Sensational! Astounding! Unrivaled! Grandiose! Are just some of the words that fail to fully describe the masterpiece that is Renai Flops: an anime that smacked me right in the face with its wild rollercoaster ride. It was as if I had incarnated into Chris Rock's body as Will Smith slapped him at the Oscars (sorry for using this dead joke, but you should get the idea). Oshi no Ko? Attack on Titan? Farmland Saga? Chainsaw Man? Bleach? All inferior; RENAI FLOPS is the true GOAT of modern anime. Should youwatch Renai Flops? Short answer, yes.

My first exposure to this anime was from Gigguk's Fall 2022 Nutshell video. Can't lie, I was deeply intrigued by what da dog was doin, but still restrained myself after seeing the considerably low MAL score it had received. From my biased point of few at the time, all anime under an average rating of 7 are simply mid. Sorely mistaken I was. I had only given this anime a try after watching Kamikatsu, that one anime you probably know for the "terrible" tractor CGI. Let me tell you this, Kamikatsu was miles superior to 99% of the stuff I have watched and read. Honestly, I believe these often overlooked and perhaps misunderstood anime with fresh concepts and bold humor to be wayyyyy better than widely accepted favorites like Spy x Family and Bocchi the Rock (no disrespect to those anime and fans of course, I'm just raising an example). Because I was exposed to certain amounts of spoilers, I walked into Renai Flops with caution, but it turned out to be completely useless as nothing could prepare me for this. Comedy? A lot, maybe even too much. I found myself laughing out loud and hardly controlling myself, something I haven't done for an anime perhaps except Grand Blue and Gintama, 10/10. Plot? A lot of plot, in more ways than one, 10/10. Characters? Very relatable. Everyone definitely has 5 beautiful "brides" pestering them, 10/10. I say this with sarcasm but the characters really are amazing. Saying too much will be spoiling, so I'll hold off on it. But, I have to yet again salute to Renai Flops, for it has moved me to tears, something that never happens to me with seasonal anime, and I can really only recall being this emotional for One Piece and Gintama.

Does Renai Flops have a sophisticated plotline with deeper meanings like AOT? No.
Does Renai Flops have peak animation like Demon Slayer? No.
Does Renai Flops have fleshed out characters like One Piece? No.

What Renai Flops has is change. If AOT, Demon Slayer, and One Piece are the sky, sea, and earth, then Renai Flops is the drill that will pierce the heavens (I couldn't resist the Gurren Lagann reference there, MB).

Just go watch it! If you have time to read all the way until the end of this review, surely you have more time to spare for Renai Flops? You won't regret it.