Love After World Domination

恋は世界征服のあとで (Koi wa Sekai Seifuku no Ato de)

7.4(118,398)

MAL Score

Ranked #2760

Popularity #1012

Action
Comedy
Fantasy
Romance
Parody
Urban Fantasy

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Apr 8, 2022 to Jun 24, 2022
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Fudou Aikawa and Desumi Magahara have begun dating in secret—an arrangement that would be impossible if anyone found out who they really are. Known as Red Gelato, Fudou leads Gelato 5, the heroic team sworn to protect Japan. Desumi, feared as the Reaper Princess, serves as a top combat leader for Gekko, the clandestine organization aiming for world domination and Gelato 5’s most dangerous rival.

Publicly, they clash as bitter enemies; privately, they slip away from their battles to steal moments together. Still new to romance, the pair tries to build a relationship without raising suspicion among their allies, balancing duty and affection while keeping their forbidden love hidden from everyone around them.

Otaku Consensus

Love After World Domination earns its affection by treating its tokusatsu parody as a rom-com engine rather than a disposable gag, with Kazuya Iwata's direction and Satoshi Sugisawa's series composition keeping the couple comedy brisk across a compact 12-episode run. Critics and fan reviewers consistently point to the chemistry, adaptable central joke, and unusually smooth romance pacing as its biggest strengths. The main limitation is scale: viewers coming for hard action or deeper superhero mythology may find Project No.9's adaptation more committed to fluffy secrecy games than to raising dramatic stakes.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Love After World Domination if you want a Super Sentai riff that delivers actual romantic progress instead of endless almost-confessions. It scratches the same itch as Kaguya-sama: Love Is War's tactical couple comedy and the costumed absurdity of classic Power Rangers parodies, but with a warmer, less combative emotional center. The appeal is in the contrast: henshin-team theatrics, villain-organization pageantry, and urban-fantasy nonsense are staged around two painfully sincere teenagers trying to be normal. Its 12-episode length also works in its favor; the show moves quickly from gag setup to relationship texture, which is why reviewers singled out its pacing and chemistry. If you want romance without melodramatic punishment and parody without pure cynicism, this is the sweet spot.

Key Characters

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Fudou Aikawa
Fudou's charm comes from the gap between his Red Gelato hero image and his almost aggressively earnest approach to first love, making him more lovable than cool.
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Desumi Magahara
Desumi stands out because the feared Reaper Princess persona is filtered through shy, girlish romantic anxiety rather than a flat villain-to-good-girl conversion.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Project No.9 produced the anime as a single-cour, 12-episode Spring 2022 series, airing from April 8 to June 24, which helps explain why its romantic beats feel tightly scheduled rather than stretched.
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The show's identity is unusually tokusatsu-forward for a TV rom-com: AniList users tag it Tokusatsu at 94%, Parody at 92%, Superhero at 88%, and Henshin at 78%, placing the sentai language at the center of its humor.
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Reviewers repeatedly praised the romance pacing, with fan and critic commentary calling the Fudou-Desumi build-up well paced and the core chemistry the reason the gimmick keeps working.
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The opening theme has extra otaku draw because it is performed by Yukari Tamura and Masayoshi Ooishi, pairing a veteran voice-actress singer with one of anime music's most recognizable anisong performers.
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The production credits split the musical role between Satoshi Houno and Ryuunosuke Kasai, while Satoshi Motoyama handles sound direction, giving the series a dedicated audio team for both rom-com timing and hero-show bombast.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime credits Hiroshi Noda for Original Story and Takahiro Wakamatsu for Original Character Design, while Akemi Kobayashi adapts the designs for animation.
Fun fact 2: Kazuya Iwata directs the series, with Satoshi Sugisawa on series composition; that staff pairing is central to the show's balance between episodic parody and ongoing relationship progression.
Fun fact 3: Its reception is solid but not cult-dominant: it holds a 7.37/10 MAL score from 118,398 votes, an AniList score of 73/100, and 1,500 AniList favourites.
Fun fact 4: On MAL, the series sits at popularity rank #1012 and overall rank #2760, a profile that fits its reputation as a well-liked niche rom-com rather than a mainstream seasonal blockbuster.
Fun fact 5: AniList's tag spread includes Female Protagonist at 84%, Male Protagonist at 83%, Gyaru at 68%, Urban Fantasy at 68%, Animals at 60%, and School at 48%, showing how much of its appeal sits outside standard hero-versus-villain action.