| Main Title | Romantic Killer (a17583) |
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| Official Title | zh-Hans |
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| Synonym | L`amour? Plutôt mourir! |
For two thirds of Romantic Killer, I was fully prepared to come here gushing about the one true surprise of the season, as the show seemed to be punching far above its weight in its parodic, meta-level treatment of the reverse harem genre - and even in a way that was fully in service of the story to boot.
For a good bit, then, Romantic Killer indeed does several things very well at the same time, providing a multidimensional and refined viewing experience - if a silly romcom show can be called that! The early show is quite the joyous parade of hilarious visual gags as the lovely and always reliable (and relatable!) Anzu-chan butts heads with her destiny, but alas, the
When the show works, it is because it does two things at once: playing romance both straight and crooked, switching mood effortlessly from silly to sappy, from idiotic to realistic. A little bit of magic - the show isn't an isekai by any means - doesn't erase the fact that the show is ultimately fairly rooted. This allows the show to linger longer on moments that fleshes out the two-dimensional characters nicely.
Like the heroine, so does the viewer sometimes "forget" that s/he is being constantly manipulated. Indeed, the resistant heroine knows her romantic tropes so well she cannot but surrender to them reflexively; her knowledge of otome games makes her at once immune and completely porous to the "ikemen" cast. It is her competence that makes her so easily overtaken by the mood, no matter how much she wants to rebel against being thrown into a world of romance.
A true cavalcade of absurd, laugh-out-loud visual gags consistently erases minor blemishes to the animation, of which there are admittedly plenty. The word to use for the show's look and feel is "inconsistent", yet the anime is simply visually so delightful and funny, that it is easy to let go of minor complaints.
All in all, its most immediate parallel is the show "Kiss Him, Not Me", both in quality and content, in good and bad. Not a bad show.
| Script/Screenplay (脚本) | Fukuda Hiroko | ||
| Ooba Sayuri | |||
| Storyboard (絵コンテ) | Takada Mari | 1, 6 | |
| 及川雄大 | 2, 11 | ||
| Shimizu Akane | 3 | ||
| Kaieda Miyuki | 4, 10, OP1 | ||
| Satou Kumi | 5 | ||
| Tanaka Shiori | 5 | ||
| Ootsuka Makiko | 7 | ||
| Yajima Kanako | 8 | ||
| Fukada Asuka | 9 | ||
| Matsuura Arisa | 12 | ||
| Episode Direction (演出) | Shimizu Akane | 1, 6, 12 | |
| 及川雄大 | 2, 11 | ||
| Iida Yuuki | 3, 9 | ||
| Kaieda Miyuki | 4, 10 | ||
| Tanaka Shiori | 5 | ||
| Ootsuka Makiko | 7 | ||
| Yajima Kanako | 8 | ||
| Fukada Asuka | 9 | ||
| Matsuura Arisa | ED1, OP1 | ||
| Animation Direction (作画監督) | Matsuura Arisa | OP1 |
| Relation | Song | in Episodes | Rating | Credit | Staff | Comment |
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| opening | Roma Kira | OP1 | N/A (2) | Vocals/Performed by (歌) | Yurika | |
| Lyrics (作詞) | Kumano Kiyomi | |||||
| Music Composition (作曲) | Shirato Yuusuke | |||||
| Music Arrangement (編曲) | Shirato Yuusuke | |||||
| ending | Romantic Love: Ren`ai Shimasenka? | ED1 | N/A (1) | Vocals/Performed by (歌) | Komatsu Mikako | |
| Lyrics (作詞) | Shinozaki Ayato Tachibana Ryousuke | |||||
| Music Composition (作曲) | Shinozaki Ayato Tachibana Ryousuke | |||||
| Music Arrangement (編曲) | Shinozaki Ayato Tachibana Ryousuke |
| Last Update | Name | State | N | Episodes | HE | SP | Languages | Source | Rating | Cmts |
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| 27.07.2025 | Kitsune-AB [Kitsune] | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en ja zh en de fr it es ru ko pl sv ar pt no cs da nl fi el he hu th tr ro my vi id uk hr | Blu-ray | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 08.05.2025 | NPMS | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en en | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 27.10.2024 | AnimeChiby | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 03.08.2024 | Erai-raws | complete | 12 | 0 | ja ja en de fr it es ru ko pl sv ar pt no pt-BR cs da nl fi el he hu th tr ro my vi id uk hr zh-Hant zh-Hans es-419 | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 01.08.2023 | E.N.D | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en ja zh en de fr it es ru ko pl sv ar pt no cs da nl fi el he hu th tr ro my vi id x-jat uk hr | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 18.03.2023 | LoliHouse | complete | 12 | 0 | ja zh | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 20.01.2023 | MADD | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en en | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 29.12.2022 | Anime Time | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en x-unk ja zh en de fr it es ru ko pl sv ar pt no cs da nl fi el he hu th tr ro my vi id uk hr | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 06.12.2022 | Hi10 | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 16.11.2022 | EMBER | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en en | www | N/A (2) | 0 | ||
| 28.10.2022 | Rapta | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en x-unk ja zh en de fr it es ru ko pl sv ar pt no cs da nl fi el he hu th tr ro my vi id uk | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
| 27.10.2022 | NanDesuKa | complete | 12 | 0 | ja en de fr es pl pt th id x-unk ja zh en de fr it es ru ko pl sv ar pt no cs da nl fi el he hu th tr ro my vi id uk | www | N/A (0) | 0 | ||
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