Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu

Blackmailed into playing a dating simulator set in a matriarchy, an ordinary man must put up with the unbearable and convoluted world until he clears the game. After countless days of grinding, he finally manages to beat it, but his hardcore gaming comes at a cost: extreme sleep deprivation and hunger.

While heading out to the convenience store to solve one of these problems, the man tumbles down the stairs and falls unconscious, only to wake up to the worst possible realization—he has been reincarnated into the game as the mob character Leon Fou Bartfort. Now trapped in a world he despises, Leon must use his knowledge of the game to navigate through the plot safely and sustain himself in a society where the odds are heavily stacked against him.

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Fou Bartfort, Leon Main

Ootsuka, Takeo Japanese

Rapha Redgrave, Angelica Main

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Olivia Main

Ichinose, Kana Japanese

Fou Lafan, Marie Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Rapha Holfort, Mylene Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Luxion Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Lucas Supporting

Hayami, Show Japanese

Sera Fanoss, Hertrude Supporting

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Fia Atlee, Clarice Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Fou Roseblade, Deirdre Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

WEST GROUND Producer

Nemoto, Yuuka Producer

Tokumura, Kenichi Producer

Arimizu, Soujirou Producer

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Jan 8, 2025

LilyVarbik

Recommended

Those that have been blessed to the art of Tea Party and embraced the life of Tea will continue to know that is the true way.
I don't read manga, but looked at manga panels and anime didn't do this justice.
Voice Actor "Ootsuka, Takeo" had to be my favorite part, I don't care about voice actors but I checked his other works and he does other valuable voices in shows I really like and didn't recognize him.

Content: look at the genres and themes. Does it look all over the place? Well this is an Otome reincarnation isekai anime for a game that included shounen-typical items like ... mechs from the perceptive of a background or "mob" male character (with complete game knowledge). We get suspense, we get awful people, we get drama, we get opposite of what say wants, et cetera.

Style: The animation is nothing special, I've definitely seen a lot worse a lot of times, but when I looked at manga panels felt was weak with the potential to translate to animation. Some stuff felt unique [to me] while others had trend I'm used to to different degrees. It is definitely unique [to me] having it from this angle (I watch normal Otome game animes, and play Otome games)

Personal enjoyment: Pretty good amount. The Main Main Character carried the show with his voice and lines and actions, one supporting character also was fun with nice lines, and another supporting character was best girl. I was very much happy with this ending but look forward to possible Season 2. I would give at least 8/10 if wasn't for below expectation animation and such.

Main Main Character 9/10
Other Main Characters 6/10
Good supporting charters 8/10
Queen 9/10
Princes 4/10 -> 6/10
Bad supporting characters 6/10
Actual Mob/background Characters 5/10
Opening 8/10
Ending 6/10
Voice Acting (mainly thinking of MC) 9/10
Art 8/10
Animation 6/10
Plot 7/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 10, 2025

MrSlamboni

Mixed Feelings

The name of this anime is very long so I will call it Mob Otome. Mob Otome starts out with, as far as I can understand, being a comedic parody of isekais and otome games. The way it does so is also pretty clever. Our main character, now called Leon, is reincarnated in the world of an otome game as a background character. Leon absolutely despises the game for various reasons including its annoying characters, convoluted worldbuilding, absurd difficulty, etc. Leon plays the role of the straight man here, criticizing the faults of the world by just being the "normal" person in it.

As a resident ... of the world he hates, criticism of the otome/isekai genres is brought to the forefront by Leon's straightforward outlook on the characters and setting on this world. It shows how the Marie's (her role is the MC of the otome game) romantic interests are completely devoid of will and moronic. Their entire purpose is to fall in love with the MC for unbelievably stupid reasons. Not only that, but the 5 guys are completely fine with Marie being romantically involved with all of them at once. Meanwhile, Marie is manipulative and plays them like a fiddle for her own benefit. Watching this, Leon hits us with "is this how girls feel about harems?"

Yes. Not just girls, I would say that's what most people feel about these contrived harems. The characters are reduced to mindless robots that just unconditionally love the main character for contrived reasons. However, the problem here is that after Mob Otome criticizes this type of romance story, it happily indulges in it afterwards. I will grant that Leon's romantic subplot does have a "more reasonable" justification to it. However, it is still contrived and weakly justified in general. It does fall into the very stupid "savior and damsel in distress" dynamic that it criticized earlier. Therefore, Mob Otome fails as a parody because although it criticized a trope, it failed to rise above it, instead choosing to indulge in it.

But even if Mob Otome fails as a parody, how is it as a show? Well, it's still complicated. Leon occupies an entertaining character archetype. He is like Kazuma from Konosuba, the no-bullshit straight man who will happily take out his frustrations on the annoying characters. I would say, that is the most entertaining thing about the show. It feels very cathartic seeing annoying characters get punished. Furthermore, his frustrations with the otome game's world and him giving up on its stupid rules makes for an entertaining main character. He's not a deep one and I think Kazuma was done better in Seasons 1 and 2, but Leon isn't bad either as an anti-hero protagonist.

However, it fails on a lot of other regards. Leon is way too overpowered by default. There is absolutely no way he could lose. This makes the outcome of every battle/competition frankly very boring. There is the contrived romance mentioned above as well. Leon insists he "wants to stay in the background", but does everything except that. There is also no real justification to why he would want to be a "background character". The art style is boring and frankly, pretty bad. The villains are too much of assholes, but maybe that's in line with the concept of a really badly made otome game.

In the end, I am even unsure of how to rate it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 2, 2022

Saku_k

Not Recommended

Another trashy isekai anime, this time under the guise of being trapped in an otome game setting.

Like many poorly written light novels, the title serves as both a short summary, and to describe a gimmick to make you interested in the series. Otherwise, how else would you discern it from the hundreds of other isekai series? Just like most works that follow this approach though, the title ends up having nothing to do with the series.

This is supposedly a story about a mob character trapped in an otome game, hence the title. However, the protagonist ceases to be a "mob" character after the first episode. ... He is suddenly incredibly rich, and has some cheat AI supporting him that can basically do whatever he wants it to do. He is a typical, modern isekai protag.
So the mob setting disappears right away, even though the author likes to continually tell us otherwise. (just saying you are a mob character doesn't make it true.)

So what about the otome game setting? Don't worry, that falls by the wayside immediately as well.
In the beginning, it would appear that men have almost no rights. They just exist to be married off to women. Women as well, have male slaves and stuff. Ignore the fact that none of this makes sense when you start to think about it (how do they support their population?). Instead, focus on how this is a matriarchy that is unfair for men. Women look down on men. etc.
As the anime goes on though, we realise that this is just a typical isekai. The two main heroines are basically just regular heroines. They never appear to look down on men or anything. The 5 dudes from the otome game are still worshipped by all the girls at the school (even after they are stripped of their status).
The setting only exists to get you to start reading (or in this case, to start watching).

The story itself, I'm not really sure what it's supposed to be about. It's not clear to me what the protagonist is trying to do. In the latter half of the series, it seems the protagonist is trying to make events fold out like they do in the game, but it's not very clear why, and he doesn't do a good job about it anyway. Nothing in the series is explained particularly well. In the beginning of the series, I believe he is trying to find a nice girl to get married to, but the only thing he does in regards to that for the entire series is have a tea party in the very beginning.

The characters are very generic. There is not much in the way of character development. The two main girls just spend most of the series being sad, or being the centre of some drama. I can't tell you much about the two main girls though, because the anime never tells us much either. I sat through 12 episodes, and I still know practically nothing about them.
All the other characters in the show are just side characters. Nothing more really to them.

Outside the action, the art is ok. The show has mech battles though, and they aren't particularly interesting. It's not that the art is bad, it's just not very exciting either.

I think the show would've worked better as a comedy. The most enjoyable part of the entire series was when he was playing the otome game, before going to the isekai. Because it was funny. A series making fun of otome game tropes could've been a lot better.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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