Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend

Season 1 (2015) (S01) 

Silly old me, I thought that otaku people were usually on the fringes of society. Yet, in this show, I was presented with a male protagonist who considers himself an outsider and only interested in his otaku world. However, he is supposedly a celebrity in his school. He is lusted after by the prettiest girls in the whole school too. Though one can understand that since both girls are somewhat close to being otaku too, they know the protagonist well. It is all the more interesting to watch Tomoya Aki’s interactions with Megumi, who again is far from being an otaku, plus she is extremely dispassionate. She can be described as boring to a certain extent. It gave me a pretty interesting insight into otaku culture and brought out some rather charming characters. In my view, this is not a bad show, and it got better as it went on (and I was about to drop it after episode 0, which could be compared to a not-so-good and rather cliched OVA). However, it did not grab me enough to award more than a better three stars. (23.01.2015)