Review of Love Tyrant

Let me start by saying this, Love tyrant is an underrated show. That being said it isn't perfect and far from it, it's pretty sloppily made and can seem very uninspired, which it might very well be, but if you are willing to go past that and stop expecting a "normal" show you will find that it is an extremely entertaining parody of the most cliché tropes in anime. Whether it is on purpose or by accident, they reuse every tired anime trope but instead of adding something original, they crank it up to 11 which leads to everything the characters do being incoherentwith the story in an unprecedented clash that will instantly shatter any bit of immersion you may have had in the story. This contrast between what is expected and what you get turns out to be a very powerful tool of parody making the viewer realise the storytelling flaws of widely accepted anime conventions.

Of course this premise would get tired very quickly were it not for the humor put forward by the show. I'm not going to praise it as being a work of genius or anything, the laughter comming mostly from simple shock humor and visual gags but let's be real, this is anime we are talking about, the bar is already set pretty low on what constitutes a funny bit. So as I was saying, the jokes are not all that great but the writers manage to keep it relatively fresh and though I wouldn't say I laughed at all the gags, not even most of them, but a couple moments managed to make me laugh out loud (something I rarely do) even if it was only at how jarring some parts are.

Unfortunately it goes a bit downhill at the end when the "story" took a turn to something more serious, in any capacity this thing has to be, and lost the one redeeming quality it had. You end up having to follow for 2 episodes these washed up jokes of characters trying desperately to have some development that would lead to a climax and doing so, threw out the window every bit of surprise or weird factor that it previously had. All of this strongly hinted at the fact that the writer did intend to write an actual story but nevertheless, I dont believe that the intent takes away anything.

All in all, can I say that it was a good show? Not really, but it sure was entertaining to watch because in the end, even though I'm not exactly sure if I was laughing with or at it, I can tell you one thing, I was laughing.