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Dance with Devils...where do I even begin? I'll try to keep this as short as I can.

First of all, before I even watched the series, NO WHERE in any synopsis or description did it say that this was a musical and the songs were absolutely dreadful and cringe worthy. The story, without the terrible display of reverse harem, had potential but the first half of the series focused on devoting full episodes to develop the characters of the love interests. This was executed so poorly and it was embarrassing to watch. EVERY episode about the love interests were the same structure, but ... they just threw in the character and gave them a horrible song with dreadful lyrics. This amount of episodes about the characters, that were basically never focused on again, made the second half of the series sloppy, rushed and just ridiculously stupid.

The characters where just stock standard reverse harem characters that tried to be edgy but ended up being pathetic. The female lead was also an incredibly boring protagonist, so i guess one of the only things this anime got correct was that she would end up with most boring and mundane love interest of all the male leads.

These are just some of the main reasons why this anime was not worth my time. A short but not so sweet review of an absolute waste of an anime. I cannot stress enough how awful the experience of watching this anime was and every week I hoped and prayed the next episode would maybe redeem the series. It do not.

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 ... each week, but I always felt like there wasn't too much development, and if there was, it was too predictable.

Watching this anime series quickly became a chore rather than for my own enjoyment, as I was really trying hard to like this anime but couldn't. I would sometimes become so bored during the episodes towards the end of the series that I actually skipped through scenes as I found them to be excruciatingly long. Of course, I went back to re-watch the episodes, just to ensure that I felt the same as when i first watched it, and my view has not changed.

I feel bad that i didn't like this anime as I've seen many great reviews and many of my friends have said they enjoyed the series but, alas, I found the series was lacking and I was overall disappointed with this series. I'm not a massive fan of Harem anime to begin with but i don't feel my dislike of Harem skewed my view of the anime, because even I felt like the Harem in this anime could have been done a whole lot better.

I could go into further detail about what I don't like about this anime but I just wanted to cover the main points.

As for what i did like, even though she was labelled as "The Boring Girlfriend", Megumi was my favourite character and I liked the connection she and Tomoya had. (Although i wish it did focus a little more on them)

If you've watched the anime and you feel the same as me, or at least have a similar view, please let me know, as i feel like the only one who didn't enjoy Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata.