My Love Story!!

俺物語!! (Ore Monogatari!!)

9.0(1)

OtakuDen

7.9(352,248)

MAL Score

Ranked #949

Popularity #318

Comedy
Romance

Episodes: 24
Duration: 22 min per ep
Aired: Apr 9, 2015 to Sep 24, 2015
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Takeo Gouda towers over his classmates with a muscular build that makes him look far more intimidating than he really is. Beneath that tough exterior is an earnest, kindhearted freshman known among the boys for his bravery and old-fashioned chivalry.

Romance, however, has never come easily—especially with Makoto Sunakawa, Takeo’s calm, handsome best friend, effortlessly drawing the attention of nearly every girl Takeo has liked. After Takeo rescues the sweet Rinko Yamato from being molested, he’s immediately smitten, but assumes her feelings must be for Sunakawa. Determined to help anyway, Takeo tries to play matchmaker even as his own feelings for Yamato continue to grow.

Otaku Consensus

Otaku Consensus: Morio Asaka’s Madhouse adaptation turns Ore Monogatari!! into a rare shoujo romcom where emotional sincerity is the engine rather than a reward delayed until the finale, with critics repeatedly singling out the near-immediate couple dynamic, clean character comedy, and warmth of its 24-episode run. Its most common weakness is momentum: the episodic structure can feel light on plot and occasionally slow, and several reviewers note that its idealized romance is so frictionless it can seem almost unreal.

Why You Should Watch

Watch My Love Story!! if you want shoujo romance that rewards emotional security instead of manufacturing jealousy for 20 episodes. It scratches the same comfort itch as Kimi ni Todoke and the early-couple pleasure of Horimiya, but with broader physical comedy, more food-as-affection scenes, and a friendship dynamic that viewers routinely single out as the secret weapon. Madhouse’s 2015 TV version gives the material a clean 24-episode runway, so the appeal is in watching tiny acts of kindness, awkward etiquette, and teen embarrassment become set pieces rather than waiting for a final-episode confession. If your ideal romcom is wholesome without being inert, silly without being mean, and romantic without treating decency as boring, this is a shoujo adaptation built for repeat comfort viewing.

Key Characters

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Takeo Gouda
A shoujo lead fans remember because his appeal is not makeover potential but visible, unembarrassed decency paired with linebacker-scale visual comedy.
R
Rinko Yamato
Her charm comes from direct affection, food-centered tenderness, and anxious teen sincerity, making her less a trophy heroine than the source of the show’s soft domestic rhythm.
M
Makoto Sunakawa
Often discussed as the ideal best friend, he gives the romcom its deadpan counterweight and its unusual refusal to treat male friendship as a rival to romance.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The series is structurally unusual for TV romance because reviewers highlight that it puts its central couple together almost right away, shifting the comedy from confession suspense to relationship etiquette, insecurity, and support.
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Madhouse produced the adaptation under director Morio Asaka, with Kunihiko Hamada translating Aruko’s original character designs into animation; the result preserves the manga’s key visual joke of soft shoujo expressions colliding with exaggerated physical scale.
3
Natsuko Takahashi handled series composition across 24 episodes, and the show’s AniList profile reflects that shape with a high Episodic tag at 73%, matching the way many installments operate as self-contained emotional or comedic tests.
4
Its tag mix is unusually specific for a school romcom: Food appears at 57% and Judo at 50%, pointing to how the show repeatedly turns snacks, cooking, and physical strength into character language rather than background flavor.
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AniList users also tag it Aromantic at 60% and Asexual at 48%, a notable profile for a heterosexual shoujo romance because the story gives major weight to non-romantic attachment and emotional loyalty outside the couple.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime’s source credits are split between Kazune Kawahara for the original story and Aruko for original character design, which helps explain why the series is remembered for both its emotional simplicity and its immediately recognizable character silhouettes.
Fun fact 2: The production credits list multiple design assistance roles, including Tomoya Uehara, Kunio Katsuki, Izumi Kawata, Rie Tamaki, and Geum-Su Kim, reflecting how much of the adaptation’s identity depends on consistent expressive character acting.
Fun fact 3: The show aired as a two-cour spring-to-summer 2015 series, running from April 9 to September 24, 2015, rather than as a shorter seasonal romance with a compressed ending.
Fun fact 4: Its reception numbers show strong long-tail appeal: MyAnimeList records a 7.89 score from 352,248 votes with popularity at #318, while AniList lists a 77/100 score and 3,564 favourites.
Fun fact 5: THEM Anime Reviews rated it 4.0 and called it close to a perfect feel-good romance, while other review summaries repeatedly frame it as a warm-fuzzies watch whose biggest complaint is that the love and friendship can seem impossibly ideal.