Review of Nisekoi: False Love
If every boring dude gets his own harem...then where's mine? Story: To say that Nisekoi has a story would be wrong, it's more like an excuse. An excuse that gets thrown out the window as quickly as possible. Actually, if you started watching halfway through, you would probably not even know about the lock and the keys. The forced couple-plot is also pushed aside more and more and only comes up again if needed for the next shenanigan. All the coincidences will stretch your suspension of disbelief and so will the behaviour of the characters (but that's a different point). Nisekoi is a vanilla harem and nothingelse. It has no compelling story, no development at all, no surprises, no conclusion, just the very, very basic stuff. That's not enough for the n-th harem anime, it has to have something...but it doesn't.
3/10
Art:
Nisekoi doesn't look bad, but seeing how it is a modern SHAFT anime, it is not as special as it could have been. Maybe that's an unfair assumption and they simply didn't want to go there. Solid, but not breathtaking.
6/10
Sound:
Openings and endings were pretty forgettable, but that's often the case, so I won't hold it against Nisekoi. The voice acting was good, especially the main girls. I have somewhat of a crush on Kana Hanazawas voice.
7/10
Characters:
Oh boy, here we go...The male lead is a generic idiot like in almost every other harem. He starts out liking only Onodera, but in the end he doesn't seem to care about her anymore and fully embraced the Chitoge route. Why? Chitoge is the basic tsundere love interest, though they forget the dere part untill the final two episodes, so I have absolutely NO idea why anybody (Raku as well as the viewers) would like her. All she says, all she does, she is just being a bitch with no reason. Anyway, how about the other girls? Onodera is a big ball of cuteness, but she is just as stupid as Raku. She takes every opportunity she gets to DENY her love for him. Wtf? Her friend even outright tells her that she's an idiot for not taking the chance, but that doesn't seem to help. Untill a certain point, such a behaviour is cute and funny, but Nisekoi crosses that line very fast. So we have two major contenders who have no right to win. Tachibana feels completely out of place. She appears out of nowhere and just interrupts what SHOULD have been a love triangle. She doesn't even feel like a main character, so why even have her? Tsugumi...well, she's as unimportant as any other side character two episodes after her introduction, so why is she even there? That makes a stupid ass hero (even for harem standards), two female main characters who don't get me to root for them at all and two more girls who add nothing to this anime. This cast is a complete failure and they make me not care about the outcome at all.
1/10
Enjoyment:
Some of you will think that I'm just hating on Nisekoi, but I'm not. I was preparing to like this show before I started watching, as the premise sounded interesting and I heard a lot of good things about it. And to be honest, I did enjoy it for the first couple of episodes. But the further the show gets, the more I got angry about it. In the end it made me so angry that I couldn't watch any more anime for the rest of the day after watching an episode of Nisekoi. And that's sad.
2/10
Overall:
3.8/10