![]() ![]() I’d go as far as to say that it is a far more sexist message than just having women with big boobs shove their big boobs in the camera for a half hour. It’s exhausting and shows the lack of respect the show has for any of these girls. They serve themselves on a silver platter for Asahi because they don’t have the self-respect to not make goo-goo eyes at the first boy they have more than one conversation with. ![]() Like, instead of just washing their hands of Asahi with a simple apology, their accusations somehow wind up getting them more excited to involve themselves more with Asahi’s bad luck streak knowing that he’ll never be able to get to know them normally without the wind pushing their skirts up or Asahi accidentally slipping on them. Or rather, they give up their hearts too easily because they never learned to live and let live. The girls take the wrong lesson from accidentally tripping on Asahi or catching him in inopportune moments. The girls think he’s a creep, but because he’s seen as a creep, he’s also seen as bold and adventurous. Like it drags so much ass to tell you the same joke with the same punchline. It aims to both reward and punish him too quickly, and because of that, it just feels boring. It’s supposed to be quirky that the boy is accidentally despised for every bit of misfortune he faces, yet also manages to have girls like him because they’re all slip-ups he never meant to do. The aforementioned “flops” are in how Asahi falls upwards as his ecchi protagonist screw-ups wind up getting him closer to the girls that he accidentally touches or steals underwear from. Think of any instance where a boy has been slapped by a girl for accidental perversion in an anime since the 70s, and Asahi manages to pull it off. ![]() It’s presented as a journey where Asahi, a boy who puts all of his faith in virtual fortune-tellers, winds up having all of his luck backfire in a number of ecchi-related circumstances. Renai Flops being an ecchi sex comedy isn’t nearly as damning as Renai Flops being painfully bland at its best and softcore bestiality at its worst. I think of The Joker asking near the end of The Killing Joke, “Why don’t you kick the hell out of me and get a standing ovation from the Public Gallery?” It’d make me look like a virtuous person to act like I’m taking a firm stand against ecchi. Because of how much of a low-hanging fruit they are and how easy they are to pick apart, it serves nobody but myself to get on my high horse and act as if I never made low-brow sex jokes. But while all of the shock factor I’ve seen in the Fall season’s shows were fun, edgy, and redefined what it means to watch anime as a medium, Renai Flops is a miserable tale that aims to go through the motions as a Greatest Flops collection from other harem anime of the past. I was this close to looking the other way and forgetting that Renai Flops was ever something I decided to cover. ![]()
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