Review of Kiss Him, Not Me!
*bear with me, this is my first review (also first anime I completed Fall season)* I'll be honest, I'm not a big fan of harems with male leads (mainly the concept of it), but after watching Watashi ga Motete Dousunda, it dawned on me that I love the idea of REVERSED harems--probably typical for a girl though, right? That thrown aside, this anime was quite entertaining for me regardless of it being a reversed harem, and I totally would recommend girls AND guys to watch this if you're looking for a silly, short and easy-to-watch anime to pass time. *** I say the first 5 episodes of Watashiga Motete Dousunda were the most interesting. The first 5 really lure you in. An overweight otaku loses--or I should say drops--weight and transforms into a beauty queen, and suddenly she is surrounded by a group of handsome males who are originally after her for her looks, but soon grow to like her for more than what's on the outside. Starts off pretty original, right?
After episode 5, well, things became *sort of* unoriginal. Not entirely. But there were a couple of scenes that you have most likely seen before in a school/harem anime. Did that make it 1% less entertaining? Well, I guess, but it was still entertaining anyhow.
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Onto the characters:
Some of the characters were somewhat unoriginal, so the character descriptions will be simple. Although they are kind of generic, they each had small traits that separated them from other similar characters. Each one of them has an 'eye candy' appearance and are all very lovable, and watching the characters interact with one another was very enjoyable and fun, sometimes funny.
Kae Serinuma - The female protagonist, Serinuma, is defintely not your standard heroine. She is a diehard otaku with a huge BL (Boys Love) fetish that she shows all throughout this anime. Although she has that typical nice-girl personality - the mix of her weird, drooling fujoshi nature is enough to differentiate her from other heroines.
Yuusuke Igarashi - The mature "nice guy" type
Asuma Mutsumi - The happy-go-lucky 'stoner' type
Nozomu Nanashima - The tsundere/aggressive type (personal fav)
Shima Nishina - I'll start off by saying she is voiced by one of my favorite female voice actors--Miyuki Sawashiro. She's the female, lesbian 'prince charming', very similar to Kashima from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun.
Hayato Shinomiya - The weak, 'scaredy-cat' type (voiced by my overall favorite male voice actor, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka!)
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The setting and music were nothing out of this world. The OP and ED were both cute and give off the familiar happy vibe that gets you enjoying what you're watching even more, that being said I would rate the music a 7.5. The setting is your average school-life environment, but it varies as the main characters do new activities so the sights never get boring.
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My biggest problem--and I won't spoil--is as the anime is further executed you begin to wonder; do ALL of them actually like Kae Serinuma for more than her looks? That's one thing that put me off a bit with the story, as it didn't show much proof of them liking her for who she is and not solely what she looks like, and in a way this can send a bad message to women - so if you are easily offended or perhaps have a light sense of humor, I would recommend you to not watch this.
If it were not for that issue and the already-been-done events in this anime, I may have rated higher for the cute concept - I would say this anime is more of a 7/10, but I rated it an 8 because I'm generous with my ratings :)