Koi wa Sekai Seifuku no Ato de

Fudou Aikawa and Desumi Magahara have just started dating, but no one is allowed to know! Nicknamed "Red Gelato," Fudou is the leader of "Gelato 5," a group of heroes dedicated to protecting Japan. On the other hand, the "Reaper Princess" Desumi is one of the combatant leaders of "Gekko," an evil secret society bent on world domination and considered Gelato 5's greatest foe. As they pretend to be mortal enemies, Fudou and Desumi sneak away from battle to spend time together.

Despite their inexperience with romance, Fudou and Desumi strive to make their relationship work while avoiding suspicion from their comrades. With their loyalties divided between each other and their respective sides, the couple will have to stay on guard if they want to keep their love a secret from the rest of the world.

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Magahara, Desumi Main

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Aikawa, Fudou Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

Majima, Kiki Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Jinguuji, Misaki Supporting

Hieda, Nene Japanese

Houjou, Anna Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Culverin Bear Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki Japanese

Hellko Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Arisugawa, Haru Supporting

Hidaka, Rina Japanese

Big Gelato Supporting

Chafurin Japanese

Ran Ran Supporting

Momotsuki, Nashiko Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Matsui, Yuuko Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

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Sep 11, 2024

bambooo_ooo

Recommended

So this is a romcom. The twist is, you take your everyday average romcom's last episode and make it the first ep of LAWD.
So they confess in the first ep and it goes on from there.
The whole show is rather average if you look closely, there's nothing exceptionally good or bad about it. But I must admit after watching a few romcoms I was really missing the part where the MCs enjoy their relationship. Yeah here everything is easy and stakes are looow, any problems they have they just resolve by talking. Starts with the first ep (not a spoiler really and greatly ... simplified):
-b-b-but we are mortal enemies
-yes but I love you and I'm sure we'll work it out
-hmm, if you say so then let's try!
After seeing countless "will they won't they's", stretchings the plot thin, delays, misunderstandings, doubts and all.. I couldn't help but smile when they met in LAWD as a couple. Reaper Princess is softly spoken, cute, has beautiful eyes and a pretty smile. I just liked it haha.
YEAH I KNOW IT'S DUMB! They are generic, they look generic, everything is generic here. And I think that just is intentional. The show doesn't pretend to be anything more. It's just easy cutesy get along well. But not cutesy but trying too hard to be serious and turns out cringy awful. It's also a parody aimed at all the stupid serious superhero shows.
Apart of MCs there are some characters from both sides of the conflict. Not much to say, nothing deep, they're all comically bad. Most are good at heart but pretend to be bad. Evil organisation comically sucks. Minions trip over their own legs and always lose. Bosses are hoplessly stupid and gawky. They have a nice bright canteen in the dark and gloomy evil HQ and so on.. You get the gist.
The amount of butts and tits is ehh.. acceptable. That is, it's there (of course...) but not in amounts that made me roll my eyes in disgust. I try to mention this as some shows go way overboard with it.

Animation is very nice. Colorful, smooth and pretty. Super nice I'd say for such a silly show.
Music was also okay.

Bottom line is that the show knows exactly what it is. It's low stakes, pure, silly, get-along-well, happy ending fun. If you don't expect anything more from it, then it's good. But if you'll set your hopes too high, prepare for disappointment.
I enjoyed it mostly because I needed that after seeing too many failed romcoms.
Score - 7 - good, it was just good, that's all to it!

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 20, 2024

Scoofy202

Mixed Feelings

I felt like I was watching the anime the anime character is supposed to watch inside the anime itself to avoid copyright laws.

The overall concept is great, but it's an anime heavily dependent on interesting and unique characters, which becomes a problem when the characters have little to no identifiable traits and are just bland, boring, and cliche. There really isn't anything inherently wrong with this show, it's just your generic romance, and there are some instances where it is above-average in the entertainment department, but they never did anything to flesh out any aspect of the series. Not to mention, the conflict between Gekko ... and Gelato feels more like "we're gonna spar in public but frame it as hero vs. supervillain so we can do what we want without regard to public safety" rather than an actual fight between good and evil. From the world-building to the characters, there's nothing special about the series and it has very little unique qualities. Desumi is the only character that has notable depth, but that actually becomes a con when you feel the contrast between her and every other character.

The only episode that sticks out is episode 7, which focused on the fact that another member from Gelato knew Desumi when she was a little girl. Because the episode was revolved around Desumi and that member, and the member's writing in this specific episode actually made him feel like a well-rounded character, it was the most entertaining in the series for me. However, you know something is wrong when a show fleshed out characters so poorly that it took 7 episodes to properly introduce one of the protagonist's direct allies and, even after, you still don't remember his name.

Unless you really like watching generic romance animes or are as patient as me and give shows a lot of leeway if you like the concept, I wouldn't recommend this show, but I still have very mixed feelings because its flaw is unoriginality and blandness, not that it's bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 13, 2022

UnluckyCat13

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

There is not a lot to say about this show. It's what I would colloquially describe as a 5/10 show, but even that's a little generous. This is watch and forget television. It has a pretty unique premise and setting, however it manages to do less unique and interesting things than something like Komi-san or Azumanga Daioh, both of which have arguably mundane and retreaded settings and plot devices.

The art, the animation, the character design, the jokes, none of it is particularly bad, none of it is particularly good. Even by the standards of feel good, by the numbers romance, when you have so ... many options out there why would you pick this? If you've ever walked into the cereal aisle, seen 20 boxes of Korn Flakes, from 20 different brands, this is that. This does not contribute anything, nor does it take away.

I understand that sometimes you just want a mid tier show to not focus on, but even then you have so many choices. The one character I did like was the warrior on the evil side, who constantly gets clowned on. Even she is just an archetype of the character I like, that I have seen done better 100 times. This is not a terrible show, but just why? Why does it exist?

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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