Love Flops follows Asahi, an average high school kid whose day goes sideways after a morning fortune-telling segment from an AI program, and it all starts coming true one prediction at a time and for each one that comes true he crashes into a different girls from around the world and somehow ends up rooming with them. It plays like how you would expect from any harem comedy at first, then it pivots into a sci-fi twist about simulated reality and grief when you learn why these “perfect encounters” keep happening. The show leans into fanservice at the start, but then it starts to ask some heavier questions near the end about escapism and moving forward.
We jumped into Love Flops at the recommendation of Jeb and at first we thought it was going to just be a standard harem show with some comedy which was true for the first half of the series but then it takes a hard pivot to VR Escapism because of grief coupled with AI trying to “learn love.” We talked about the intentional time leaps as well as how time passed vs how it appeared to have passed, and how each girl basically feels like they used a different “training dataset” for what love might look like.
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