History Anime / LoveFlops

* MissingMom: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Asahi's mom isn't present nor mentioned during the first half of the series, [[spoiler:because he's in the {{Cyberworld}} where she's not relevant. In the real world, he lives with her.]]

* MidSeasonTwist: Halfway through the series, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the entire harem setup is actually a virtual simulation that Asahi willingly took part in. Each member of the harem was actually an ArtificialIntelligence, and the simulation was meant to teach AIs how to love]].
* MissingMom: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Asahi's mom is not present and not mentioned during the first half of the series, [[spoiler:because he's in the {{Cyberworld}} where she's not relevant. In the real world, he lives with her.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's implied that the series takes place some time in the future, as robots and ArtificialIntelligence are rather common. [[spoiler:This is later confirmed to be the case, especially with the reveal of just how advanced AIs have become and the fact that bananas have apparently become very scarce.]]

* BrainUploading: [[spoiler:All of the most recent AI tech in the series's future is based on the brain uploads of Asahi's deceased ChildhoodFriend, Ai.]]

* ChildhoodFriend: All the girls have moments of recollection of Asahi. [[spoiler:This is because their memories are based on Asahi's real ChildhoodFriend Ai.]]

!!!''Anime/LoveFlops'' provides examples of the following tropes:

''Love Flops'' is an original ecchi harem anime by Creator/{{Passione}}. Directed by Nobuyoshi Nagayama (''Manga/MyGirlfriendIsShobitch'', ''Manga/HappySugarLife''), it began airing in October of 2022.

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, UnluckyEverydude Asahi Kashiwagi has a bizarre dream of a mysterious girl in a white dress. This dream ends when he is awoken by his talking alarm clock, Loverin. He watches the news before school and an AI fortune teller states that people with his birthday are destined for a fateful encounter, with five key words marking his fate. Throughout his morning routine he encounters five people in incidentally [[AccidentalPervert sexually charged situations]] and when he arrives in class he finds that ALL five of them are [[ContrivedCoincidence transfers into his class]].

Things get stranger when Aoi, the only one native to Japan, confesses her love to him. The other four follow suit. Baffled, Asahi decides to return home, only to receive a message from his father. All of them, including the [[GayOption Bulgarian boy, Ilya]] and his [[HotForStudent Homeroom teacher, Mongfa]], are potential brides for him. They will be living with him until he makes a decision on which, if any of this people he's going to marry. HilarityEnsues.

* AccidentalPervert: The universe contrives Asahi to grope the girls breasts, make his face plant into their crotches, and for a banana he's carrying to conveniently end up right by ''his'' crotch, a cleaning robot actually steals a girl's bra and panties. [[spoiler: Likely the simulation's physics engine warping him into these scenarios.]]

** Mongfa is actually quite a capable fighter [[spoiler: since she's actually a cybernetic killing machine trying to escape her old life.]]

* ACupAngst: Amelia has a complex about her small breasts and is the butt of several jokes, but pretty much all of the girls feel insecure about their chest size in comparison to [[BuxomBeautyStandard Mongfa's bustiness]].
* AlienInvasion: [[spoiler:Episode Six has "Ball Taker" aliens invading the world with the objective to sterilize all men.]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: Every woman Asahi comes across is incredibly attracted to him. and they tend to openly lust after him. [[spoiler: This is a product of them being AI that only understands the physical aspect of love initially. In the real world women act as you would expect people in their position to act.]]
* AndYourRewardIsEdible: [[spoiler: Asahi was paid for his services playtesting the VR simulation in bananas. Notably, these bananas are implied to be ''incredibly'' rare in the time period this anime takes place in.]]

* ArtShift: Through Episode Seven, the anime uses an odd line style using a solid color rather than traditional black lines. After the reveal, characters [[spoiler:in the real world]] use the traditional style.

* BeachEpisode: Episode Seven centers around a trip to the beach. Things get worse from there.

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: In episode 4, Asahi is in awe at how large Ilya's package is. [[spoiler:But it turns out to be a fake GagPenis.]] and stars [[TeenyWeenie feel extremely inadequate about his own size]].
* BlackComedyRape: Asahi is nonconsensually penetrated by a dog in the First Episode.

* BrainUploading: [[spoiler: All of the most recent AI tech in the series's future is based on the brain uploads of Asahi's deceased ChildhoodFriend, Ai.]]

* ChildhoodFriend: While all the transfers, even Mongfa have moments of recollection of Asahi, [[spoiler: this is because their memories are based on Asahi's real ChildhoodFriend Ai.]]

* {{Cyberspace}}: [[spoiler: The first 7 episodes take place in a simulation to teach AI girls about love.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: Every potential LoveInterest gets one in episodes Three through Six. [[spoiler: When it's Aoi's turn she initially appears to be RetGone from the show... Only for her to use her control of the simulation to RetGone ''everyone else'' and reveal herself as a {{Yandere}}. From this point on, Aoi is the show's main villain, with her obsessive love having negative effects even on reality.]]

* DinnerBathOrSexOffer: In episode 2, when Asahi returns home, he finds all 5 of his suitors at his house and they welcome him home and give him the stand "Dinner, bath or me" offer, which annoys him given they're an UnwantedHarem.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Episodes 10 and 11 climaxed with Mongfa, Karin, Irina, and Amelia [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing themselves]], but at the end of the finale, they have been uploaded into bodies of their own in the real world.]]

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Ai appears in a dream in episode one, and in the OP. Her face is pixelated in the latter, however.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Asahi is able to better process Ai's death by talking with her in the simulation. Doing so solves the crisis created by her malfunctioning, and in Asahi's real life, he's more capable of opening himself up to new relationships with people. [[DisneyDeath The other AI girls who had been deleted in their attempt to reach Ai, were restored with new robotic bodies in the real world]]. Yoshino's research was effectively used to give all AI human emotions.]]

* GagPenis: Ilya sports one in Episode Four. [[spoiler:As she is actually a girl, it's made by placing a tengu mask over the ModestyTowel covering crotch.]]
* GayOption: Ilya. [[spoiler:It is [[SubvertedTrope revealed]] that Ilya, actually Irina is a girl RaisedAsTheOppositeGender in episode 4.]]

** Karin punches Asahi in the crotch after their CrashIntoHello, when she thinks he has a RagingStiffie over seeing her underwear (it's actually just a [[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe banana he just happened to have on his pocket]].

* LensFlareCensor: In the broadcast edition of episode 7, some convenient light rays cover up the naughty bits of Asahi and the girls when they get naked on the nudist beach.
* LoveConfession: Episode 2 has Asahi receiving a love confession for all 5 of his "brides", which weirds him out given he just met them. [[spoiler:This is because they're all [=AIs=] who don't fully understand how a real relationship works.]]
* MagicalGirl: [[spoiler: Karin accepts a deal to become one which is explored in Episode Six. She uses the PowerOfLove and the PowerOfLust to defeat alien invaders who wish to sterilize humanity. Irina and Amelia get in on the action to fight their way into the simulation's central area in episode 10.]]

* MidSeasonTwist: Halfway through the anime, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the entire harem setup is actually a virtual simulation that Asahi willingly took part in. Each member of the harem was actually an ArtificialIntelligence, and the simulation was meant to teach AIs how to love]].
* MissingMom: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Asahi's mom is not present and not mentioned during the first half of the show, [[spoiler:because he's on the {{Cyberworld}} where she's not relevant. In the real world, he lives with her.]]

* ModestyTowel: During the HotSpringsEpisode, both Asahi and Ilya keep themselves wrapped in towels while bathing together, but while Asahi has it on his waist Ilya brings it up to his chest [[spoiler:because she's actually a girl and is trying to hide her chest.]]
* MsFanservice: All 5 of the girls are played for fanservice at different times, with the story often putting them in fanservice and perverted situations and providing several MaleGaze shots on their bodies.

* NewTransferStudent: 4 of the 5 girls are new transfer students that moved into Asahi's class. The last one, Mongfa is the new ''teacher'' who just transferred in.

* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Ai, who passed away of a brain tumor two years prior to the events of the anime.]]

* RetGone: [[spoiler: Aoi is seeming gone with no explanation in episode 7, until it's revealed she grew too jealous of the simulation and has started to take control of it, and uses said control to erase all of the ''other'' girls instead.]]

* RuleOfSymbolism: Bananas. While the VisualInnuendo and EroticEating are obvious, [[spoiler: in reality, bananas symbolize how the real world society has become overly dependent on the AI based on Ai's consciousness, to the point that massive parts of their system glitch up when said AI goes through emotional distress. This parallels the Cavendish banana, which Yoshino's company is named after, which is similarly critically endangered in the time period this anime takes place in because of the genetic uniformity of the breed.]]

* SleepCute: In episode 1, Asahi first meets Mongfa when she decides to sit right next to him, even though they're in a completely empty train, then [[SleepCute she quickly falls asleep and rests her head on his shoulder]], causing him to be very uncomfortable. At the end of episode 5, they also end up falling asleep together atop each other once they get back home.

* TooHotForTV: The normal broadcast version frequently covers the girls with SceneryCensor and LensFlareCensor to make it suitable for television.

* TransformationSequence: [[spoiler:Karin gets the cliche MagicalGirl transformation sequence in episode 6.]]

* WardrobeMalfunction: [[spoiler: When trying the open-air bath, Illya ends up losing her ModestyTowel to a gust of wind, forcing her to rely on using a Tengu mask to hide her face and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear cover her body with her hands]] to prevent an UnsettlingGenderReveal.]]

* YearInsideHourOutside: [[spoiler: The VR simulation that the first six episodes take place in was perceived by Asahi as two months. Outside the simulation only a day had passed.]]

* TooHotForTV: The normal broadcast version frequently cover the girls with SceneryCensor and LensFlareCensor to make it suitable for television.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Episode 4 mostly resolves around Ilya trying to prevent this while also sharing a bath with Asahi. After many shenanigans, it does end up happening when she loses her towel and gives him a full frontal view.]]

* GagCensor: Whenever nudity occurs that isn't covered by SceneryCensor, the character's naughty bits get covered by [[SeriesMascot Loverin]] making different expressions, such as an impressed face when covering [[BuxomBeautyStandard Mongfa's chest]] but a disappointed one when covering [[ACupAngst Amelia's chest]].

* LensFlareCensor: In episode 7, some convenient light rays cover up the naughty bits of Asahi and the girls when they get naked on the nudist beach.

''Love Flops'' is an original ecchi harem anime by Creator/{{Passione}}. Directed by Nobuyoshi Nagayama, it began airing in October of 2022.

''Love Flops'' is an original ecchi harem anime by Passione. It began airing in October of 2022.

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture UnluckyEverydude Asahi Kashiwagi has a bizarre dream of a mysterious girl in a white dress. This dream ends when he is awoken by his talking alarm clock, Loverin. He watches the news before school and an AI fortune teller states that people with his birthday are destined for a fateful encounter, with five key words marking his fate. Throughout his morning routine he encounters five people in incidentally [[AccidentalPervert sexually charged situations]] and when he arrives in class he finds that ALL five of them are [[ContrivedCoincidence transfers into his class]].

* GagCensor: Whenever nudity occurs that isn't covered by SceneryCensor, the character's naughty bits get covered by [[SeriesMascot Loverin]] making different expressions, such as an impressed face when covering [[BuxomBeautyStandard Monfa's chest]] but a disappointed one when covering [[ACupAngst Amelia's chest]].

* {{Gonk}} The proprietress of the hot springs in episode 4 is a tall, old woman with bizarre facial features, to the disappointment of Amelia who expected her to be a great elegant beauty.

* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: [[spoiler:Yoshino, Ubukata and all their fellow AI researchers all hate white labcoats as their uniforms.]]

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture UnluckyEverydude Asahi Kashiwagi has a bizarre dream of a mysterious girl in a white dress. This dream ends when he is awoken by his talking alarm clock, Loverin. He watches the news before school and an AI fortune teller states that people with his birthday are destined for a fateful encounter, with five key words marking his fate. Throughout his morning routine he encounters five people in [[ContrivedCoincidence incidentally]] [[AccidentalPervert sexually charged situations]] and when he arrives in class he finds that ALL five of them are transfers into his class.

* ActionGirl: [[spoiler: Mongfa is actually a cybernetic killing machine trying to escape her old life.]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: Every woman Asahi comes across are incredibly attracted to him. [[spoiler: This is a product of them being AI that only understand the physical aspect of love initially. In the real world women act as you would expect people in their position to act.]]

* AnimeChineseGirl: Mongfa is Chinese, has part of her hair in two small buns, wears a qipao, and is proficient in martial arts.
* ArrangedMarriage: All five of the transfers were arranged to be "potential brides" by Asahi's father. This includes Ilya.

* BestialityIsDepraved: Asahi is mounted by a dog in the First Episode.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: [[spoiler: "Ilya" is revealed to be one in episode Four.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: Every potential love interest gets one in episodes Three through Six. [[spoiler: When it's Aoi's turn she initially appears to be RetGone from the show... Only for her to use her control of the simulation to RetGone ''everyone else'' and reveal herself as a Yandere. From this point on, Aoi is the show's main villain, with her obsessive love having negative effects even on reality.]]

* GagPenis: Ilya sports one in Episode Four. [[spoiler:As she is actually a girl, it's made by placing a tengu mask over her crotch.]]
* GayOption: Ilya. [[spoiler:It is [[SubvertedTrope revealed]] that Ilya, actually Irina is a girl RaisedAsTheOppositeGender in Episode Four.]]
* {{GIRL}}: [[spoiler: Inverted. Yoshio is actually AI researcher Yoshino Feynman in reality.]]
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Alien invaders try to sterilize humanity by slapping chastity belts on males, which then explode.]]

* OccidentalOtaku: Amelia is an American who learned kanji from hentai manga. This leads to several rounds of CringeComedy until Asahi buckles down and works with her on her writing skills.
* PervertRevengeMode: When the universe conspires to put Asahi in AccidentalPervert situations, the transfers often retaliate with violence.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Ai, who passed away of an unknown illness two years prior to the events of the anime.]]

* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: "Ilya"/Irina]]
* ToastOfTardiness: Asahi first meets Aoi while she's running to school with a piece of toast in her mouth. Naturally, this results in a CrashIntoHello.
* {{Tsundere}}: Amelia has shades of this trope. Initially mad at Asahi for stealing her clothes, [[PervertRevengeMode she slaps him.]] Later in the episode she apologizes after realizing that the robot responsible wasn't his fault.
* UnluckyEverydude: Asahi is perpetually forced into awkward situations by the will of the universe.

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Aoi goes mad for love of Asahi, and unlike her predecessor Ai, she wasn't capable of handling it. As a result she tries to trap him in the simulation, force logs off everyone else, and interferes with Yoshio/Yoshino's attempts to contact him. It takes the original Ai upload to get him out of the simulation.]]

* VirtualReality: [[spoiler: The first 7 episodes take place in a simulation to teach AI girls about love.]]