Oreshura

This is not your typical rom/com (romantic comedy) series, in fact it destroys all the traditional elements found in a normal rom/com and makes this series interesting. If you're looking for a rom/com that involves blackmail, anti-love, witty retorts, and a new feel, this is your slice of cake.

Judging from the plot of your average rom/com, you would normally see the protagonist develop or have an romantic interest, however, there is none of that! Instead of developing a relationship, this series hits it off right off the bat by starting it off w/ a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.

Our main protagonist has an anti-love philosophy of which he adheres to which makes this protagonist different from which I've seen so far. He is black-mailed into becoming the boyfriend of his female counter-part, who also rejects "love".

This Anti-love duo has broken the idea that the protagonists should pursue love and instead, they work together to reject it. This interesting plot line combined with witty retorts should make this a fun and comedic series.

Definitely worth a try!

This show was the most fun I've had with a Harem series. Each one of the girls, though being stereotypes in a general regard, are still fun and interesting to watch. The dynamic of the show works really well and the jokes are actually really funny, instead of just being gag and perverse. Eita is actually not completely useless and has honest relationships and feelings for each girl. I really recommend Oreshura to those who typically enjoy Harems as well an any who are just looking for something silly and enjoyable.

I say this about anime and this ones no different...."oreshura" was another cute anime that im glad I powered my way through the first few episodes.
there was a few moments in the beginning eps. that made me cringe with embarrassment when the main protagonist did.
the story line was enjoyable, funny, and showed (in my opinion) some character development and made "oreshura" that much more amazing.
this anime hit all my preferences dead on, and I could recommend it to anyone.
its not like clannad at all (my number 1 anime btw) but for some reason during the season I saw some similarities between the two.
Also!!! something about the way this anime was animated stood out to me......just looks different that's all.

Oreshura is hysterical! The characters are extremely different, each with unique personalities which spice things up throughout the whole show. The way the characters are connected towards Eita is quite adorable making a viewer, in a way, root for all the girls that are trying to win his heart. I had a hard time predicting who he was going to end up with, BUT DAMN IT MAN I NEED CLOSURE!!! It ends the way many cute anime end, with cute little endings that give you a sense that there's no breaks on the harem train!

Okay, okay... I recommend this to those who are into that slice of life, anime rom/com. Its short so anybody can get through it easily. Oreshura does not disappoint.

I just loved this show. The characters were adorable and the story was very interesting. I am really looking forward to another season.

I do have some criticisms of the storyline though. As always, for the viewer to be able to deeply empathize with each of the characters, more development of them needed to be done. As it stands we know very little about the background of most of the girls. Yes, they all have some kind of connection to Eita, but we really don't know much about them. We also don't really understand what motivated Eita to declare his love for the one girl who most tormented him. In order to understand that, we need to understand Eita's background better. Finally, the one girl who was most kind and loyal to Eita from the beginning, the one that motivated Eita to become studious and strive hard in school, was rejected. Why? What a cruel outcome. It just cannot stand, and I believe this will be addressed in any possible second series of this show.

I'll give Oreshura 4/5, but, unfortunately, it's on the border to being a 3.

I really enjoyed the character design, art, and characterization. These characters are top-notch, memorable, and could have done so much more with a better plot. It hurts me that the show ended the way it did: it felt as though the writers couldn't decide what they wanted to do, and they ran out of time.

I'll come back to this show somewhere down the years, and when I come back it'll be for the characters.

Oreshura is a slightly odd case. On the one hand, it's an entirely ordinary harem comedy. On the other hand, it tries to be a little bit more than that via character development. To be clear, the characters aren't much beyond tried and true archetypes. There's the protagonist Eita, who is pretty generic and uninteresting on his own, the "almost-an-imouto" childhood friend, the gamer girl who knows the protagonist from online games, and the tsundere hall monitor. Separate from them is the white-haired Nasuzu, who is not as much of an archetype. Nasuzu is a reasonably unique character in that she seems like she always lies to everyone, but there's a twist to it. I didn't particularly like her, but that's just because my preference was the hall monitor girl (named Ai) and this was a competitive harem (hence the word "battlefield" is in every episode title).

Crunchyroll describe the protagonist as having "a disdain for love," but the simple fact is that it's only true for about the first 4-5 episodes. It's still kind of there for the rest of the series, but it was honestly just there as a mechanic to pair Nasuzu with Eita. Despite being the main premise of the series, it's far from the series' focus. Overall, the series is a funny harem with no particularly inventive ideas for it claim as its own. It almost tricked me into thinking that character development was going to be a major component towards the end, but then the ending itself proved me dead wrong.

My biggest disappointment with Oreshura is that the show starts out by giving the impression that it's going to be something new and inventive, with elements of psychopathy and blackmail. Unfortunately, these elements all but fade away into obscurity by the show's conclusion. There is no payoff or consequence for the crazed actions of Nasuzu. At the end of the day, everything fades into yet another brightly-colored harem. Keep in mind that this is not inherently bad. The show is simply more shallow than many of its fans would have others believe.

Anyway, I won't drone on any longer. There really isn't much to say. The show is very funny and perfectly entertaining to watch. More than that, it's very good at choosing its cliffhanger points, which make the show surprisingly difficult to stop watching. It's not "good" in the sense that it does anything new or has groundbreaking characters, but it is "good" in the sense that it is very funny and quite fun to watch. Just be sure that mildly shallow romances, archetypal characters, and typical harem antics are okay with you before watching.