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EP. REVIEW: Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend

Also not appearing in episode 1 are the semi-awareness and knowing metafictional comments so prominent in episode 0, so those concerned about how far the series will go with that apparently needn't worry.

While there may be picky voice actors, I suspect most take almost any work they can get. Being typecast is better than not being cast at all.

I can't help but feel that people are continuing to miss the point. Complaints are that this is just a fanservice show with overdone harem aspects. A huge part of this show is doing that, but if you are following it the right way you will notice that the way characters are following those aspects is completely on purpose as it is actually commenting on it and doing the exact opposite.

Eriri is specifically cast into the tsundere childhood friend role, kind of a fetish role, and we find that her role is someone who draws fetish work. Utaha is a Senjougaha like role, the type that has that kind of love crush under her cold exterior, and we find out her role is that she writes love stories. Both of the girls seemed to have known him but were not too happy about something, which I get the feeling he literally has taken oblivious lead too far or long and they got sick of his lack of interest. Megumi's archetype? She does not have one, that is the whole point as despite having been around her for some time where she knew him and he had a fated encounter, he did not even know what her name was. I am quite sure we are meant to compare her lack extreme features of an archetype who is the heroine to the others who fit the roles to a cliché level.

Follow the dialogue and you notice that it is even pointed out that the girls fit perfectly into their archetypes by the standard friend who explain everything about girls. The main character, an otaku culture interested in and critiques it, finds that he really is not interested in the real world versions. When he has his fateful encounter he finds that they were right in front of him the whole time, and likely don't even share the interests he thought he might need. Say what you may, but that is kind of exactly the opposite of the cliché you think it is at first, actually I wonder if that is an artistic purpose that the OP seems so heavy on fanservice, while the ED is much tamer.

Probably jumping the gun, but I think the anime is asking the question of what you really want in a story like this. It is why episode 0 started off with a commentary on using fanservice, why the lead is such an insert character, and why it set up archetypes only for centre stage to be one that does not fit. And why the shifts in art style?

While there may be picky voice actors, I suspect most take almost any work they can get. Being typecast is better than not being cast at all.

All that meta stuff from the first episode, which I liked, still doesn't change the fact that Megumi's boring. Yes, all the main characters have traits that appeal to the otaku but Megumi should have the upper hand in terms of personality but as the title says, she's boring.

I noticed two things in Aki's room you missed. one is a figurine of Hakua/Zange from Kannagi, and what appears to be volume of Amagi Brilliant Park on his floor when he got out of bed