Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! Volume 6 Discussion

Just started the anime.
Will there be any romantic development between mc and any of the girls ?
If yes, can you please tell me how soon that's going to happen ?
Thanks in advance

@My_Brain_Tremble No. There is nothing as of Vol.6 apart from some VERY vague hints and implications. That's partly why the LNs rating is the way it is (almost 7). People are kinda hyping up the anime but there is nothing involving him. He is pretty much the wailing wall for the girls to dump their traumas on to. MC is also severely dense which is funny since the story tries to come across as some sort of deconstruction but still uses the biggest and nestiest trope of them all to stall progress. The cluless MC

Is Shikiya still best girl?

Just started the anime.
Will there be any romantic development between mc and any of the girls ?
If yes, can you please tell me how soon that's going to happen ?
Thanks in advance

@My_Brain_Tremble No. There is nothing as of Vol.6 apart from some VERY vague hints and implications. That's partly why the LNs rating is the way it is (almost 7). People are kinda hyping up the anime but there is nothing involving him. He is pretty much the wailing wall for the girls to dump their traumas on to. MC is also severely dense which is funny since the story tries to come across as some sort of deconstruction but still uses the biggest and nestiest trope of them all to stall progress. The cluless MC

@Raafalga It's a good news for me actually. I like that the MC is a sort of confident but not a savior or a future love interest. That is what definitely gives this story its personality.
I hope that if he finaly grow sentiments for someone, it'll be with a completely different girl altogether.

@rvdboom

This is a sentiment shared by many for multiple reasons. Main cast of the girls are entire comprised of rejected heroines. And it was not a wishy washy confession for them either. For most it was the love of their lives (well highschoolers but still) so it shouldn't be so easy to get over it than fall in love with the MC. It would cheapen the premise immensely.

But MC himself is also discovering his emotions in the meantime (he act like a robot with no agency during majority of the story if we are being honest. He just gets dragged around by the girls.). So delaying his progression in order to wait for the girls to get over their rejections is very unfair to him. There is no much chemisty going on with the main cast anyway aside from standard banter which people usually quick to mistake with chemisty.

@Raafalga @rvdboom This obviously won't happen because Anna is the more than obvious main love interest of the show from the very beginning. Regardless of people's attempts at wishful thinking for the sake of their own expectations from the series. But I agree that it is not romance in the full sense of the word, although people desperately did not believe me despite the author's direct statement about it.

@RobertBobert

@RobertBobert So what you're saying is that the story will have the most predictable outcome, because that's what the majority of the audience wants to happen and the author will follow their demand?

@Zarutaku Where exactly am I talking about this?

@RobertBobert I implied it from these statements:


and they read like the most obvious outcome will be the final outcome.

@Zarutaku So just based on Anna being the MC's obvious main love interest from the start, you've concluded that the author did it out of fan coercion? Where is the connection?

@RobertBobert Because that's what most authors usually do to not disappoint the main audience.

@Zarutaku She was the main love interest FROM THE BEGINNING. Did the fans force the author to make her like this even before the story began?

@RobertBobert Never said force, but it seems he decided to follow the natural demand from the beginning. It's not that hard to predict how the main audience wants the outcome to be, even at the beginning of the writing process. Not criticizing him though, I was just curious if the obvious will happen or not, and ended up here.

@Zarutaku With this logic, you can blame any author whose work does not bring some super unexpected plot twists. Which I think is excessive.

@RobertBobert Not blaming him, I just got my hopes up for an unconventional ending, because the premise is also rather unconventional.

@Zarutaku Well, one thing doesn’t interfere with the other, right? You're not one of those people who thinks it's cliche even if the protagonist is human or if the fantasy takes place in the Middle Ages, are you?

@RobertBobert Wdym? The premise doesn't interfere with the ending? Protagonists being human or humanoid is kind of necessary in most cases, but middle age fantasy settings are certainly cliche by now, they don't bother me though.

@Zarutaku What I'm saying is that lately a lot of people have been really misrepresenting the idea of ​​originality, attacking anime with accusations of unoriginality even if a show is simply true to its genre.

@RobertBobert The premise is certainly original, but the probable ending wouldn't be, even if that sounds like harsh criticism it's just my disappointment.
I mean it's not like a romance show, where the protagonist doesn't end up with the most obvious love interest, couldn't be true to its genre, am I wrong?

@Zarutaku I still don't understand why this show can't end with Anna as his love interest? What will this change other than your personal expectations? The author explicitly said that the show is not about romance.

@RobertBobert It can end like that, I just think it would be too conventional for this unconventional story.
Didn't know the author doesn't see it as a romance, I just see it being labeled as a romcom everywhere, so I had to assume it's about romance.

@Zarutaku You could see from the beginning that Anna is the central female character of the story and that the other girls don't view MC as a love interest. I think you've overestimated how "unconventional" the story wants to be.

People also call it a harem, although this contradicts the very idea of ​​the title.

Probably

It's obviously an anti-harem because the girls around the male protagonist are romantically interested in other guys instead of him.

@RobertBobert Well, LN has other girls showing obvious interest in Nuku as well so someone WILL lose again in the end which is pretty meh in terms of story telling for this kind of story imo. Best outcome for me would be that he doesn't end up with anyone and find his own heroine.

Author made it a point for Nuku that he believes "you need several years of friendship before going out" at the very start of the story so i don't think we will see any resaults before the last page of the last chapter of the entire story. Story keeps intruducing new losing heroines anyway so it will be quite a while. How long can it retain readership with the same limbo though, that will remain to be seen.