ORESUKI Are you the only one who loves me?

俺を好きなのはお前だけかよ (Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo)

8.5(1)

OtakuDen

7.3(266,836)

MAL Score

Ranked #3203

Popularity #520

Comedy
Romance
Harem
School

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Oct 3, 2019 to Dec 26, 2019
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Amatsuyu “Jouro” Kisaragi is an unremarkable second-year high schooler whose weekend takes an awkward turn when he goes out with student council president Sakura “Cosmos” Akino on Saturday and his childhood friend Aoi “Himawari” Hinata on Sunday. Instead of confessing to him, both girls admit they’re in love with his best friend, Taiyou “Sun-chan” Ooga, the baseball team’s star, and ask Jouro to help them win him over.

Behind Jouro’s easygoing, clueless persona is a carefully maintained act meant to make him look like the harmless lead of a typical romantic comedy. Seeing an opening, he plots to steer Sun-chan toward one girl so he can claim the other—until the quiet, bespectacled Sumireko “Pansy” Sanshokuin corners him with an unsettling advantage: she knows who he really is, and she confesses to the self he’s been hiding. With feelings colliding and motives exposed, the five students find themselves tangled in a web of schemes, misunderstandings, and shifting alliances.

Otaku Consensus

ORESUKI earns its reputation as one of 2019’s more contentious school rom-coms by letting director Noriaki Akitaya and studio Connect weaponize harem grammar instead of merely decorating it. Its sharpest material is the early meta-romance reversal, where pacing, facial acting, and anti-hero narration turn familiar light-novel roles into a game of social leverage. The lasting complaint is equally specific: viewers who bounce off it tend to cite the writing’s tonal carelessness, especially the way a sensitive sexual-threat beat is treated as disposable fuel for comedy and conflict.

Why You Should Watch

Watch ORESUKI if you want a harem comedy that is less interested in wish fulfillment than in exposing the machinery behind wish fulfillment. It scratches a nearby itch to Kaguya-sama: Love is War in its “romance as strategy” energy, but with a meaner light-novel smirk and a protagonist whose nice-guy mask is part of the joke. Viewers who enjoy Oregairu’s suspicion toward social performance may appreciate how often the cast’s charm doubles as negotiation. This is not the clean, soothing school romance you put on for emotional safety; it is a compact, 12-episode series built around reversals, smug narration, and the pleasure of watching archetypes sabotage each other. If you like rom-coms that make the harem setup itself the target, ORESUKI has a very specific bite.

Key Characters

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Amatsuyu Kisaragi(VA: Daiki Yamashita)
Amatsuyu stands out because the series treats his rom-com protagonist image as a performance to be edited, exposed, and punished rather than as a default audience-insert role.
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Sumireko Sanshokuin(VA: Haruka Tomatsu)
Sumireko is the show’s most memorable pressure point: quiet, observant, and framed less as a passive love interest than as the person who understands the genre’s tricks before everyone else.
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Sakura Akino(VA: Sachika Misawa)
Sakura gives the student-council-president archetype a comic edge by pairing polished authority with romantic tunnel vision and a tendency to turn private feelings into organized plans.
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Aoi Hinata(VA: Haruka Shiraishi)
Aoi functions as the childhood-friend type with the volume turned up, making her brightness feel both disarming and strategically useful within the show’s social chessboard.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The series is produced by Connect and directed by Noriaki Akitaya, giving the anime a compact TV-comedy rhythm built around reaction cuts, tonal whiplash, and punchline reversals rather than lavish spectacle.
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Its AniList tag profile is unusually revealing for a school romance: Parody at 94%, Meta at 80%, and Anti-Hero at 81% place it closer to genre critique than straightforward harem fantasy.
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The show’s structure deliberately front-loads a rom-com bait-and-switch, using the opening stretch to tell viewers that familiar roles such as childhood friend, student council president, and harmless male lead are not safe categories here.
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Buriki is credited with the original character designs, while Shouko Takimoto handled the anime character designs, linking the TV adaptation’s clean school-romance look to the light novel’s recognizable visual identity.
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Baseball is not merely background flavor in the database taxonomy: AniList tags it at 38%, reflecting how the sports-star social hierarchy feeds into the romance and rivalry dynamics without turning the series into a sports anime.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: ORESUKI aired as a 12-episode Fall 2019 TV anime from October 3 to December 26, 2019, finishing its broadcast within a single cour.
Fun fact 2: The anime adapts Rakuda’s original story, with Buriki credited for the original character designs; the TV staff then reworked those designs through character designer Shouko Takimoto.
Fun fact 3: Its reception numbers show the gap between visibility and approval: it holds a 7.29 MAL score from 266,732 votes, a MAL popularity rank of #521, and an AniList score of 71/100.
Fun fact 4: The critical footprint is sharply split: one IMDb user review called it one of the best high-school storyline anime, while DoubleSama singled it out as the Fall 2019 anime they hated most because of its writing.
Fun fact 5: The main cast’s Japanese voice lineup includes Daiki Yamashita as Amatsuyu, Haruka Tomatsu as Sumireko, Sachika Misawa as Sakura, and Haruka Shiraishi as Aoi.