Ore Monogatari!!

With his muscular build and tall stature, Takeo Gouda is no ordinary high school freshman. However, behind Takeo's intimidating appearance lies a pure heart of gold, and he is considered a hero by his male peers for his courage and chivalry.

Unfortunately for Takeo, his appearance does not bode well for his love life. As if his looks were not already enough to scare the opposite sex away, Takeo's cool, handsome best friend and constant companion Makoto Sunakawa easily, and unintentionally, steals the hearts of the female students—including every girl Takeo has ever liked.

One day, when Takeo saves cute Rinko Yamato from being molested, he falls in love with her instantly. Unfortunately, he suspects that she might be interested in Sunakawa. Despite his romantic feelings for Yamato continuing to bloom, Takeo decides to act as her cupid, even as he yearns for his own love story.

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Gouda, Takeo Main

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Sunakawa, Makoto Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Yamato, Rinko Main

Han, Megumi Japanese

Sunakawa, Ai Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Gouda, Yuriko Supporting

Aoki, Kazuyo Japanese

Saijou, Mariya Supporting

Maeda, Rena Japanese

Oda, Hayato Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Amami, Yukika Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Gouda, Yutaka Supporting

Genda, Tesshou Japanese

Ichinose, Kouki Supporting

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Inage, Hiroyuki Producer

Ikeda, Shinichi Producer

Shindou, Tomohiro Assistant Producer

Asaka, Morio Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Aug 7, 2024

ninelline

Recommended

I'm glad I stuck with this anime because I ended up having a lot of fun.
Takeo is a boy who doesn't fit into the Japanese aesthetic standards. He's super tall and wide, and is admired by boys for his strength and rejected by girls, unlike his best friend, Suna, who is the handsome boy in his class. So, all the girls Takeo has feelings for have fallen for Suna, but this time it was different. After saving a really cute girl named Yamato from a stalker, Takeo gets a chance to find true love.
The anime in general is in that style of a light story ... without much conflict, where the plots are different in each episode. This style can work if done right, or it can go wrong and become uninteresting, and Ore Monogatari is both (much more interesting than uninteresting, anyway). Up until episode 12, the anime is nothing exciting, being a little funny every now and then, but nothing too special. However, after the amusement park episode, the anime becomes more fun and comical. I don't know why this happened, but I'm glad I didn't give up because it made me laugh a lot. The anime's jokes are incredible, especially the ones involving Takeo and Suna. My favorites are the one with the kiss with plastic wrap and Suna alone in the amusement park. The romance in the anime is also very fun, although I don't think it's what makes the anime shine, but it's still super cute.
Note: Yamato is living proof that girls can be cute and girly without having to be insufferable and whiny, which seems like a lot of anime/manga fail to understand. My favorite part about this character is that even though she's a super princess, that doesn't stop her from acting out in situations.

~Nine <3

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 30, 2023

lihanEAD

Mixed Feelings

optimistic slice-of-life bright dramedy with a focus on the small stuff that we try to sweat and then leave to fester, self-doubt, body / self-image, petty problems, in the tangle of new love. Pop the bubbles and water the soil.

prefer the manga. Decent adaption, but stylistically adapted too cleanly, like not-all-but-most mainstream stuff post 2000's digi-paint era. Decent-enough translating and intertwining of Aruko's illustrative quirks into movement and set-pieces.
Both voice acting teams did a decent job as well, it's good, it's fine ! The whole endeavor just feels redundant to me, would still recommend to anyone interested who prefer watching anime instead of reading manga.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 20, 2021

Resting_Bonfire

Not Recommended

My love story!


A typical example of "We have an idea and no plan what to do with it" so the comedy romance began, which could not maintain its quality for longer than 3 episodes.

Really, the concept of the giant "Hulk" rescuing a petite girl and becoming her crush is interesting. I was also able to enjoy the first 3 episodes very well, thanks to the characters and humorous scenes.

Instead of the series maintaining its level, everything was gambled away. The process was trapped in a vicious circle, the process was monotonous, the jokes have completely lost their color and I almost only start on the ... monitor in the hope that one of the characters will do or say something interesting. And to top it off, the anime wasn't even romantic.

What is left after that? Only the animations. And that's sad. The rest of the anime isn't fundamentally bad, it's just below par and every episode had at least a minimal glitz. Unfortunately, too much emphasis was placed on clichés (including the fire episode) instead of characters or humor.

[Characters]

There is nothing I like more than sympathetic, bizarre, and complex characters. I don't expect them all to have 300 pages of character development and more character depth than Jesus personally. Simply sympathy is enough for me to satisfy me. And not even that was present.
The protagonist, the Hulk, and the pretty boy are all completely monotonous and have hardly any real deviations, they are just as the template suggests. As soon as you have seen them for 3-5 episodes, nothing will come up where you think "Ohh, typical this character" or "Interesting what's left in his personality", nothing like that. And these are usually the most important aspects of a Slice of Life title.
But the characters weren't fundamentally bad, just far from being up to standard.

[Animations]

Colorful, glittering, and beautiful surroundings and detail. This is almost everything the heart desires.




Conclusion


The anime is still good for in-between. Unfortunately, he has far too many episodes, half would have been enough.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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