Review of Love Tyrant

Normally, I tend to like light-hearted, ecchi comedy series (this is relatively light ecchi though). But I have three major problems with this anime which I will get into later. So what did I like? Well, the music is pretty good actually. This anime has a pretty well made OST. The opening is catchy, and some of the songs in the anime itself are good too. I thought parodying Death Note was a pretty neat idea, having it be a kiss note instead. Akane is... Kind of a well made character. Some of it is funny. I found the anime to be decently entertaining in a generalsense.

I thought it was interesting how hell was portrayed. I won't give any spoilers but I liked the way it satirized how so many people allow work to interfere with love and relationships.

But there's three major reasons why this ended up getting the rating it did from me.

1. Is the main character. The main character is just a dick a lot of times. Showing affection to the girls he is supposed to be in love with seems to be the most difficult thing in the world for him but he has no trouble saying incredibly mean and harsh things.

2. Is that the story is really not very well done. There's not much emphasis on the romance, instead it seems more like a rescue shonen the majority of the time. The penguin B-story was incredibly stupid in my opinion and I found myself wanting to skip the scenes it was in.

3. The third main reason, was because I was really disturbed at how this anime treats violence. This anime is really, really violent for a slice of life/romance anime. Now I'm not a squeamish person. I've seen some incredibly graphic animes like Corpse Party, Tokyo Ghoul, and Hellsing. But the difference is that I do feel, on some level, like all the other animes treat violence with more respect. The consequences of violence are shown, and the pain it causes is not made light of.

The reason this anime disturbed me was the same reason Home Alone 2 really disturbed me once I watched it as an adult. A lot of sadistic and horrible behavior is treated as if its not a big deal. Something we should overlook as essentially childhood antics. I'm all for artistic freedom, but the way violence is portrayed in this anime disturbed me on a unique level. Not because it was super graphic (although it was surprisingly graphic sometimes), but because I got a weird feeling from watching the anime that the writers genuinely don't understand the consequences or gravity of this kind of behavior.

I'm not gonna say that anyone who enjoys this is a bad person, or that the writers necessarily are. But it honestly rubbed me the wrong way and dramatically impacted how much I enjoyed watching it.