Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Saenai Kanojo no Sodate-kata Japanese: 冴えない彼女〈ヒロイン〉の育てかた English: Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend German: Saekano? How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend Spanish: Saekano: Cómo Educar a una Novia Aburrida French: Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 12 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jan 16, 2015 to Mar 27, 2015 Premiered: Winter 2015 Broadcast: Fridays at 00:50 (JST) Producers: Aniplex, Dentsu, Fuji TV, Half H.P Studio, Cospa, Fujipacific Music, Good Smile Company, Kyoraku Industrial Holdings, Kansai Telecasting, Fujimi Shobo Licensors: Aniplex of America Studios: A-1 Pictures Source: Light novel Genres: Comedy, Romance, Ecchi Themes: Harem, Otaku Culture, School Duration: 23 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 7.471 (scored by 322,453 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #20412 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #317 Members: 681,838 Favorites: 4,434 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Mar 27, 2015 HaXXspetten Recommended Here's a show with an interesting theme One day he met a girl dressed in white Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 16, 2015 deepbluejeer Not Recommended Saekano is the most frustrating kind of bad show: the kind which could have been legitimately good if it tried. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hyped for Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano for short) at the start of winter 2015. It’s a shiny new adaptation of Fumiaki Maruto’s light novel series – the same Fumiaki Maruto who wrote White Album 2, which got an anime around a year and a half ago. He also wrote Parfait and Sekai de Ichiban NG na Koi – both of which I’ve seen glowing reviews of. Naturally, I’d expect Saekano to be something close to his work ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 26, 2015 Candangz Recommended Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, or Saekano for reduce, is an anime where the protagonist is an otaku who wants to fulfill his dream of creating a galgame, after meeting his beautiful heroine in a captivating scene in which his hat flies downhill, stopping near of protagonist, who is shocked to see a girl with such beauty. To follow his dream of creating a game, he forms your harem... I mean, your team, with qualified people in various areas which are needed to create a game, but with unique personalities, which consequently develops a bit of humor on the series thanks to this factor, and then ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 26, 2015 poormeate Recommended What does it take to create a dating SIM which will cause people to laugh and cry, but also touch their hearts? This was a question our main character asked himself, which sparked the beginning of the roller-coaster of laughs we call Saekano. I’m sure when we were younger you’ve all had dreams and goals you wanted to achieve when you get older. The anime tells the epic adventure it took our MC, Tomoya Aki, to achieve his goal of creating a game, complete with all the girl problems, and sexual harassments he receives each day from his devious co-workers. While I was scrolling through the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 29, 2015 illuminatima Not Recommended It's kinda difficult to express my dislike for Saakeno, without sounding like a total snob, but I will try. So, here it comes. BEING SELF-AWARE DOES NOT MAKE YOU A GOOD PARODY OR SATIRE. Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 1, 2015 reaganomics Mixed Feelings This series commits to nothing. Great coloring, animation, camera angles and alternative color palettes. A pleasant viewing experience that delivers fan service in spades. You will get several self aware character archetypes and a very superficial look at visual novel game creating. Closeups of female body parts and flustered faces. Other than that its not really much of anything. It is not quite slice of life, not quite character drama, not quite comedy, not quite romance. It seems to try to be all, but not really committing to either of them. Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 29, 2015 Lancehot Not Recommended (Reposting because apparently it fell foul of rules about previews :/ ) How to write a boring parody Don't you just love it when a show knows it's a show? When characters find themselves in a situation that only occurs in fiction & they know it? How pretty much every new series nominally set in the real world has someone say “This would only happen in manga” or “This isn't anime” at least once? Well I hope you do, because Saekano is basically an entire series made up of such oh so witty observations & self-referential jabs at the genre it is set in. Too bad it ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 29, 2015 crxinfinite Recommended Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata is to me, a breathe of fresh air in anime. At first, I looked at it and said, "Oh no, another harem anime, i'll wait a bit to watch it..." Boy am I happy I gave it a chance. Saekano is the story of how Aki Tomoya finds his passion to create a new game after he meets a girl named Katou Megumi. He considers her to be his perfect "heroine" when trying to talk to his friends about her. However, when he actually gets a chance to talk to her, she is monotone, isn't actually interested in the things he ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 17, 2015 Flawfinder Not Recommended I’ve never really been an A-1 Pictures fan, but it’s like they used up all their goodwill with the people who do consider themselves a part of that fanbase after making Your Lie In April, because 2015 has been a bad bad BAD year for them. So bad in fact that prior to my decision to watch this, I have yet finish any of their output, and half of them have already been forgotten by the mainstream crowd as of this writing. From an Aldnoah Zero second half that failed to live up to the promise of its predecessor to some Spring anime that I ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 14, 2015 SalvatoreDoni Recommended Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata is one of the best shows I've seen in a long time and let me tell you why. (Make sure you watch Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata: Ai to Seishun no Service Kai before watching the series. Keep in mind that when you do, the episode is literally titled "The fanservice episode of love and youth", so the episode is not a representation of the amount of fanservice in the actual show (which is almost none)) Story: 9/10 Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 26, 2015 eririri Recommended Harem-ridden and trope-driven as anime nowadays is, many a disillusioned fan don’t hesitate to call out the medium as fallen. Indeed, though Miyazaki may not actually have uttered the words “anime was a mistake.” (only not in public, mind you) the wide circulation of the phrase is nonetheless a reflection of the sentiments of our oh-so-critical generation. Along comes Saekano, or How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, the latest entry of the harem genre’s self-critique and introspection. Tomoya is, well, your ordinary harem lead who is seemingly unremarkable but whose charm is so irresistible yet so subtle, that the girls around him cannot but fall ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 28, 2015 PyraXadon Recommended Creating something is an act that a lot of people take pride in. A good piece of work in a world such as ours doesn't go unnoticed all too often and at the very least, gets some recognition. With successful shows like Shirobako and Bakuman explaining and detailing the basis of how anime and manga are made perspectively, what about things like Doujinshi or games? Well, thankfully we have Saenai Heroine no Sodetekata, or "How to raise a boring girlfriend" to remedy that debacle. Let's begin. Story (7.45/10): The story of Saenai Heroine or Saekano as the shorter version is, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 26, 2015 Stark700 Mixed Feelings A series like Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano) doesn’t really need much of an explanation judging by the cover content. There are at least four girls and a guy in the far background. Anime logic dictates that the show is more or less a harem. And if you’ve come to that conclusion, you’re not wrong. The series is indeed a harem with some generic romance tropes thrown in. However, there are some clever angles to approach the series as more of a social commentary. What I mean is that the show has far more dialogues than skin showing and indeed, it strives to accomplish that ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 15, 2015 aqing0601 Recommended Rest in Peace : the fourth wall. Normally you would have a 'dense' male character in some harem anime but Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata (Saekano for short) is an anime that is ironic to itself so much that you can call this whole show 'dense'. It is original and yet cliché and I felt that this show had more potential if it wasn't rushed. I thoroughly enjoyed this show and I was watching it while it was airing. Every week I was excited for another episode of Saekano and I was staffed with every episode. Story:8/10 This anime's story is realistic, light yet humorous. I liked the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 27, 2015 SkyNoHoshi Recommended Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata is a nice surprise of the Winter season. It is one of these anime that always made me lose my patience when an episode finishes its airing. It is something that I want more. So far, I could not find a translated manga or light novel source, so it remains a mystery after the anime unless I bought its non-translated ones and find a translator. The anime has its ‘special’ episode aired a week before the anime series started airing. It contains fan-service galore, so if you do not want to ruin your experience in watching, I suggest you watch it after ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 10, 2015 LeFlower-kun Recommended Saekano, at first glance, may seem like a typical harem/fanservice filled series where the main otaku character can flourish himself in. However, it honestly took me by surprise and vastly exceeded my expectations, especially how the show knows how to subtly and implicitly convey its awareness of the current anime industry and its current clichéd trends. The characters of the show is one of its most entertaining aspects. In a mere 12 episodes, the show is able to characterise its characters and develop them to a satisfactory extent, In particular the girls, and their distinct personalities are the foundation of the show itself. There is ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 23, 2015 KamiKurayomi Not Recommended Saenai Heronine no Sodatekata, for me, started out promising. The storyline had the potential to be a really good anime and would really connect with the viewers who would obviously share the same interests conveyed in the characters such as anime, manga and so on. However the title of "How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" soon became known to me as "How to Make a Boring Anime." At times, I found the show to be very dialogue heavy, which I usually don't mind however it was often just waffling on. I was always waiting for something to happen when i watched the newly released episode ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 26, 2015 SadIverson Recommended When i first started watching this anime ,i really didn't know what to expect from it and it surprised me at first. Saenai is not like your average romance comedy anime. Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata gives a really refreshing new and unique plot that keeps its viewers wanting more at the end of every episode. The name of the anime "Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata" itself means how to train a girl to be a herione. Right away you would see that Saenai has a really unique plot which very little anime can relate to out there. The story starts of with Tomoya Aki, a high school ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 7, 2015 fodderchara18 Recommended Saekano is easily one of the best harem romcom anime that i've watched in years. From the creator of the very good White Album 2 (which also needs a second season badly), this is one of those shows that keeps on surprising you with every episode. Even now that i've finished it, i still feel that i didn't give it enough credit. Almost as if the show is begging me to rewatch it because it has some hidden layers that i ended up missing on my first watch. It's kinda hard to explain, but i always get the feeling that Saekano manipulates the viewer into ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 26, 2015 QQJAMJAM Recommended Alright here is my second attempt at a review for an Anime. One day, our main protagonist happens to lay his eyes on a girl that just steals his otaku heart. He decides to make her the magnificent heroine in his game and proceeds to gather the necessary people. However, unbeknownst to him, everyone who decides to help him have their own reasons for being there. 7:Story Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
