Anime 125 Futakoi Reviews Filter Check 3

Story
Well, I must say that the story is little original, but it could be so much better if they wouldn't make the legend such a side-story!

Art
Bad. There was a lots of mistakes, and it really ruined.

Sound
Very bad OST. the opening song was boring, the ending song was horrible!

Character
... The most awaful thing in this anime. Nozomu is so wannabe perverted. ad he super annoying. all the other characters are also annoying! the voices we're awaful, and the Sakurazuki twins are the worst.

Enjoyment
I hate this.

futakoi is one of the few anime that i can really say I hate and the only one that I dropped because the it was unbearable for me and here is why:
When you hear that there is a harem that every girl has a twin lusting for you then you get the double of what you asked for, that sounds like a sweet deal and a pretty good story that separates from other harem romance, but for some reason futakoi screwed up and made this into a generic harem only duplicating the girls in the harem.
The protagonist is an asshole whose only "redeeming" quality is ... being nice (because that's something new") and was only in the right place at the right time, he is like any other indecisive harem protagonist, with the only exception that he doesn't like that any of his harem girls being seen by other male despite said male being better in every aspect than him.
I'm gonna summarize every girl in his harem in one word, bland, because you've got the textbook stereotypes of anime in here, the childhood friend(x2) the rich and sheltered girl (x2), the shy megane heroine (x2) and other archetypes that I don't really care anymore.
To sum up, this aberration of an anime is bad in every aspect, the premise fell short, the protagonist and the girls are bad even by harem standard, you know something is wrong when most people agree that the "rival" is better than him, hell, one of the reasons I created a MAL account was to warn people about this shit, that is how bad it is for me, so do yourself a favor and don't watch it.

Futakoi is difficult to sit through.

The cast is way too overblown due to the gimmick, and because of that some members of the harem basically had no goddamn screentime.

The Chigusa twins for example fade completely to the background once their episode was done and over with. Lala and Lulu were just there for comedic relief, same goes for the teacher twins. The Shirogane twins are the most interesting and overall best girls, but due to them coming into the series late they also very quickly fade as we have to focus on the very, very boring "main" girls.

The Sakurazuki twins have the same gimmick ... and behave in the exact same way, one is always just echoing the other and they don't really do anything to standout. It is the same character just copy pasted for threesome fantasy purposes. While they work well with other characters and added some decent comdedy due to their stupidity, their extreme similarity makes any scene with them feel sooooo sloooooow.

The exact same problem goes for the Ichijo twins but even WORSE. They are both the typical "kind" girls and also the token osananajimi. Aside from a little in fighting that comes to a head later on, they are just BORING, there is no other way to put it. They are plain pieces of untoasted wheat toast.

Harem series are very much about the quality of the girls and how much they manage to charm you, so having twice amount the girls should've given this a decent leg up and get a wide appeal. However, due to most twins acting the exact same together or having a very lackluster dynamic you are left with nothing more than wasted potential for a otherwise decent premise.

It doesn't help that the main guy is a coward who keeps romantically leading all the girls on (ON PURPOSE) only to then pussy out whenever things get too real and he has to actually make decisions that could impact him. He had to be guilt tripped into doing the right thing and even then it seems like he's just gonna get away with being a dipshit.

Well, it's finally happened. This is the first series I've dropped.
Maybe someday I'll come back to it just so I can have it completed, but as of right now, I can't stomach anymore of it.

I'm not one for harem anime to begin with, the idea of all of the female love interests being twins however convinced me that maybe I can watch it to see how they decide to differentiate the characters and make each of them unique in their own way.

They don't.

You literally have a cast of duplicated characters throughout, which means you're just getting a double dose of generic characters. There are ... twins that were friends with the lame protagonist since birth, rich girls that happen to notice his good deeds, teachers, children, you get the idea. They're all affectionate to the protagonist just because he's a #niceguy. The second another guy comes into the picture and states he has feelings for one of the several girls, the protagonist gets all mopey because it's possible he could lose one of his 12 options. He's a really lame character and his only redeemable quality is being in the right place at the right time, as his equally generic jealous best friend character points out.

The art is atrocious. School Rumble came out during the same season and the art for that still holds its own. Many of the characters have ear piercing whiny voices, which is made worse because they do the generic thing where they have each pair of twins speak at the same time when they address the protagonist. It's strange that they even hired separate voice actresses for all of the love interests because they sound alike.

I couldn't force myself to sit through any more of this series.