So, I Can't Play H! Episode 13

だから僕は、Ｈができない。見えすぎ! 水着コンテスト (Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai. Mie Sugi! Mizugi Contest)

6.6(36,485)

MAL Score

Ranked #7254

Popularity #3047

Comedy
Ecchi
Romance
Supernatural
Harem
School

Episodes: 1
Duration: 23 min
Aired: Mar 29, 2013
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

With the school pool set to open the following day, Iria comes up with a plan to liven things up: a swimsuit contest.

Lisara, Mina, Quele, and Iria herself all join in, turning the lead-up to the pool opening into a playful competition with a romantic, supernatural-tinged harem atmosphere.

Otaku Consensus

Mie Sugi! Mizugi Contest is received less as an essential continuation than as a focused fan-service epilogue: feel. keeps the pacing brisk, the cast banter cleanly segmented, and the romantic tension readable even inside an ecchi set-piece. The strongest praise centers on the character interactions and the softer second-half mood, while the common criticism is that its one-episode swimsuit-contest structure leaves little room for supernatural stakes or meaningful escalation. Its 6.61 MAL score from 36,467 votes fits the verdict: satisfying for franchise fans, easy to skip for viewers who needed the main series to be more than harem comedy.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want the So, I Can't Play H! cast in pure bonus-episode mode: fast jokes, overt ecchi framing, and just enough romantic friction to keep it from feeling like a detached extra. It scratches a lighter version of the High School DxD or To LOVE-Ru itch, but without asking you to track a new villain, lore dump, or tournament bracket. The appeal is the compactness: one post-TV special, four heroine personalities bouncing off Ryousuke, and feel.’s familiar emphasis on expressions, reaction timing, and fan-service staging. If you like harem episodes that function as cast temperature checks rather than plot machinery, this is exactly the kind of glossy, low-commitment side dish that plays best after the main series.

Key Characters

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Ryosuke Kaga(VA: Hiro Shimono)
Ryosuke remains the franchise’s comic engine, a high-energy harem lead whose shameless reactions give the episode its rhythm rather than its plot.
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Lisara Restall(VA: Aya Endou)
Lisara is the supernatural anchor of the ensemble, and her appeal comes from how easily her sharper, more guarded presence clashes with the episode’s playful fan-service format.
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Mina Okura(VA: Kaori Ishihara)
Mina brings the familiar school-romance warmth to the special, giving the harem dynamic a softer counterweight to its louder ecchi comedy.
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Iria Fukumune(VA: Misato Fukuen)
Iria stands out as the instigator type, the character whose social energy turns a simple school setting into a competitive ensemble showcase.

What Makes It Stand Out

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This is a single-episode special rather than a full arc, released on March 29, 2013, so its structure is closer to a franchise bonus than a continuation with new dramatic obligations.
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Studio feel. handles the episode, keeping it visually aligned with the TV anime while concentrating the animation priorities on reaction cuts, swimsuit framing, and comic timing.
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The special puts Lisara, Mina, Quele, and Iria into the same competitive setup, making it unusually ensemble-driven for a one-off ecchi episode rather than centering only on the lead couple.
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Its reception is numerically middle-of-the-pack: a 6.61 MAL score, #7248 rank, and #3040 popularity place it in the zone of well-seen franchise extras that fans sample more than critics champion.
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The web reception highlights character interaction and romantic slice-of-life texture as the elements that work best, which is notable because the premise sells fan-service first.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The special is cataloged as one finished episode, which separates it from the main TV run and makes it one of the franchise’s cleanest standalone entries.
Fun fact 2: Its full Japanese title, Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai. Mie Sugi! Mizugi Contest, foregrounds the gag before the viewer even presses play, matching the episode’s deliberately direct ecchi packaging.
Fun fact 3: All five listed main characters have credited Japanese voice actors in the data: Misato Fukuen, Hiro Shimono, Kaori Ishihara, Aya Endou, and Arisa Nishiguchi.
Fun fact 4: Despite being only a one-episode special, it has 36,467 MAL votes, showing that the franchise’s bonus material drew a sizeable post-series audience.