Nukumizu Kazuhiko is a high school boy that is content with just blending in with the crowd. One day, he watched a popular classmate, Yanami Anna, get dumped by her childhood friend that she had confessed to.
Feeling like he should comfort her, Nukumizu ends up increasingly entangled with Yanami as well as several other girls who he witnesses get turned down by their unrequited loves.
If harems live and die by how cute their girls are, Makeine may very well be immortal. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines, head on down below.
Anime Like Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
For Fans of Romantic Struggles Played Out Through Clever Dialogues
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Hachiman Hikigaya firmly believes that a joyful youth is something that people make up just to lie to themselves.
After writing an essay criticizing relationships, he is forced to join the Volunteer Service Club that is aimed at helping others solve their problems.
With the only other member being the icy Yukino Yukinoshita, they use their wits and cold views on society to help others.
Similarities Between Makeine and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
- Uninterested male main character is dragged into a club with girls
- The male main character also gets dragged into everyone’s personal problems
- Lengthy periods of clever dialogue
- Love triangle elements
Differences Between Makeine and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
- The love triangle element in My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU is for the main character. Nukumizu is just observing love triangles.
- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU features less female characters, thus doesn’t have as strong of a harem vibe.
- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU features a more actively pragmatic and snarky protagonist.
- My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU is about a “helping people” club, which is the catalyst for the uninterested main character being forced into the problems of a lot of people.
O Maidens in Your Savage Season
The girls of the literature club have recently been reading sexually charged pieces of literature. This combined with a newfound interest in adult relationships sends each member spiraling off into the world of sex and intimate relations.
Similarities Between Makeine and O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- Young people struggle with their first loves and unrequited love
- Many heroines with different experiences with love
- Occasional moments of comedic, puberty-fueled romantic chaos
- Literature clubs be falling in love.
Differences Between Makeine and O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- O Maidens in Your Savage Season has a female main character, and focuses on the different loves of the five members of the literature club. So it is not a harem-type thing or even a singular romance since it has so many different couples.
- First love is messier and more complicated in O Maidens in Your Savage Season for drama.
Hyouka
After his sister’s nagging, energy-conservative Oreki joins the Classic Literature Club. However, he gets more than he bargained for when he is dragged into a 45-year-old mystery that surrounds their club room by the endlessly curious and intriguingly cute Chitanda.
Alongside his club mates, he also finds himself dragged into a host of other cases by Chitanda’s curiosity, using his keen mind to come to logical solutions.
Similarities Between Makeine and Hyouka
- Disinterested male main character with a subdued personality gets pulled into a number of different problems/mysteries
- Both male main characters join the literature club with at least one cute girl
- Romantic hints for the main character that are slow moving
- Lengthy periods of sometimes mundane, but also sneakily clever, dialogue
Differences Between Makeine and Hyouka
- Hyouka is a singular romance with no harem elements/love triangles/unrequited love
- Hyouka has a plot about the him and his love interest investigating supernatural-seeming mysteries.
- Hyouka goes on far lengthier monologues since it has to walk through mysteries.
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For Fans of Attempted Harem Subversion
Pseudo Harem
It is Eiji Kitahara dream when he joins the drama club that he can form a harem in high school like in his favorite manga. It is a dream that has yet to happen.
The next year when Rin Nanakura joins the drama club, she falls hard for Eiji and, unable to confess her feelings openly quite yet, tries to win him over by putting on all the persona that would make up a proper harem story.
However, whether she is acting mature and collected like Cool-chan or devious and flirty like Imp-chan, her real feelings for him continue to grow. Will she ever be able to tell him how she feels as her real persona?
Similarities Between Makeine and Pseudo Harem
- Subverts harem elements while also featuring harem elements/archetypes
- Fairly cute romance about characters just hanging out and living their school lives together
Differences Between Makeine and Pseudo Harem
- Pseudo Harem subverts being a harem by having one girl pretend to be all the harem archetypes, Makeine is an actual harem done sneakily.
- Pseudo Harem is a singular romance with progression
Oresuki – Are You The Only One Who Loves Me?
Jouro is your average high school boy that dreams of a love story. He is thrilled when he lines up two dates, but unfortunately, both girls confess their love for his best friend.
Of course, his friendly face is just a facade. Schemer that he is, he decides to make his friend fall for one of the girls so he can swipe the other.
Unfortunately, his efforts are threatened by Pansy, a gloomy girl who knows of his secret personality.
Similarities Between Makeine and Oresuki
- Subverts harem elements while also featuring harem elements/archetypes
- The joke is that the traditional high school harem experience for the main character goes awry. Both Makeine and Oresuki are pretty obviously being self aware about it.
- All the heroines are flawed
Differences Between Makeine and Oresuki
- Oresuki is on the more “comedy” side of the “romantic comedy” spectrum, but it is still a romance.
- The comedy in Oresuki comes from everyone – from the main character to the girls in the harem – being comical scumbags that are only out for their own desires.
- The heroines in Makeine are cutely flawed, the heroines in Oresuki are psychopaths or otherwise not good people, for comedy.
Osamake – Romcom Where the Childhood Friend Won’t Lose
Sueharu Maru, once a child actor and now just a normal high school boy, is considered lucky to have the constant company of his beautiful and popular childhood friend, Kuroha Shida. However, when Kuroha confesses to him, he immediately rejects her.
He still has his sights set on his first love – school idol and author, Shirokusa Kachi. Despite thinking he still has a chance, he finds out one day that she has a boyfriend which starts him on a complicated path of feelings.
Similarities Between Makeine and Osamake
- Titles that are self aware and trying to subvert harem stereotypes
- Both series are harem anime that focus on at least one harem archetype that traditionally loses the harem.
- They subvert the harem genre, but are still very much harem anime
- Romance moves sluggishly
Differences Between Makeine and Osamake
- Osamake poking fun at how the childhood friend always loses in the harem/love triangle. It then makes all the girls his childhood friends.
- Makeine is more about the stories of the girls, Osamake is more about the male main character overcoming his personal issues.
- The main character in Osamake is far more interested in trying to date at least one of these girls.
For Fans of Cute, Occasionally Chaotic First Love
The Dangers in My Heart
Kyoutaro Ichikawa looks like a normal boy, but he has a danger in his heart – a dream of murder. He has aimed his violent tendencies at the class idol, Anna Yamada.
While reading in his haven, the library, he accidentally runs into Yamada, who comes there to secretly consume snacks. Through frequent observation, Ichikawa learns that this beautiful and popular girl is actually a huge ditz and frequently finds himself supporting her from the periphery in her ventures.
Over time, Ichikawa learns that he doesn’t actually want to kill Yamada, but rather, his desires were actually something much different.
Similarities Between Makeine and The Dangers in My Heart
- Dark haired girl has a large appetite for comedy and cuteness
- Male main character is a loner who, throughout the series, is increasingly surrounded by new friends.
- Pleasant school day moments as characters work through their various coming-of-age and romantic problems.
Differences Between Makeine and The Dangers in My Heart
- The male main character in The Dangers in My Heart is, in the first episode, pretty edgy, but he mellows out quickly.
- The Dangers in My Heart has no harem elements, it is a singular romance with progression.
- The Dangers in My Heart is more about the male main character’s personal growth while Makeine focuses on every other girl instead of Nukumizu who is pretty normal.
Insomniacs After School
Every night, Ganta Nakami is overtaken by insomnia that leaves him grumpy during the day. However, he happens across the easygoing Isaki Magari from his class sleeping in the Astronomy Club’s abandoned, supposedly haunted observatory. It turns out that she, too, suffers from insomnia and uses this room to sneak away for naps.
While the pair at first agree to share sneaking naps in the observatory, they are soon caught. In order to preserve their beloved nap spot, they persuade the school to let them revive the Astronomy Club where they soon share a growing love for the stars as well as each other.
Similarities Between Makeine and Insomniacs After School
- Male main character with a subdued personality has a clandestine meeting with an energetic girl
- They start hanging out more and more, pulling the male main character into interacting with more people.
- Emotionally rich coming-of-age and romantic drama
Differences Between Makeine and Insomniacs After School
- Insomniacs After School is a singular romance with progression, so no harem.
- Both male and female characters in Insomniacs After School have some emotional drama that they need to work through, and do so together.
- Insomniacs After School is prone to more melancholy.
Toradora
Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle student with a passion for housework, but his thuggish face causes his fellow students to think him a delinquent. Taiga Aisaka is small and cute, but with an attitude as fierce as a tiger.
Both of these misunderstood students also harbor feelings for their crushes, and after a series of misunderstandings of their own, they find themselves in an unlikely alliance to get their crushes to notice them.
Similarities Between Makeine and Toradora
- Young people with emotional drama about their lives and love lives
- Harem elements, but also atypical of normal harem anime
- Girls that love someone else, but eventually come to love the main character
Differences Between Makeine and Toradora
- Toradora has harem elements in that all the girls eventually display affection for the male main character, but it definitely a singular romance with progression.
- In Toradora, some of the female characters work through their drama on their own, without the main character’s help.
- There is no tsunderes in Makeine while Toradora has a tsundere heroine.
- Toradora is about trying to hook a girl up with her crush, Makeine is about soothing a series of girls rejected by their crushes.
Love, Chunibyou, and Other Delusions
Everyone has that stage in their life where they think themselves special, different from mere humans. This phenomenon is called Chunibyou Syndrome and is most common in pre-pubescent children.
In middle school, Yuuta Togashi thought himself the Dark Flame Master. He has since grown out of it upon entering high school and looks back at those cringe-worthy times with displeasure.
Unfortunately, after a chance meeting with Rikka Takanashi, a girl believing to have a God in her eye, she attaches herself to him and brings that Chunibyou past back out.
Similarities Between Makeine and Love, Chunibyou, and Other Delusions
- Normal, albeit nerdy guy has a clandestine meeting with a energetic girl that leads to getting to know more girls.
- Harem elements, but atypical of normal harems
- Male main character is forced to join a club full of women
Differences Between Makeine and Love, Chunibyou, and Other Delusions
- Chunibyou has harem elements in that he joins a club of all women who he befriends, but it is very much a singular romance with progression.
- Chunibyou is far more energetic and intense with its comedy and slice of life moments. Makeine is fairly normal.
- Chunibyou features more eccentric characters
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