Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend
TV Show · Anime · Romance

When Tomoya Aki, a geeky high school boy, organizes a team of female classmates to produce a romance-themed video game, actual romance blossoms between him and several of the girls.

2015 · 22m
Starring Ai Kayano, Kiyono Yasuno, Saori Ōnishi
Director Kanta Kamei

Season 2

  • EPISODE 1
    Fan Service of Love and Pure Heart
    The team has come to the pool of a luxury hotel to do research for a swimsuit event for their game.
    20 min
  • EPISODE 2
    Way of Two Boring Rivals' Encounter
    Utaha leaves the library and gets stopped along the way by Eriri Spencer Sawamura.
    22 min
  • EPISODE 3
    Turning Point of Earnest and Real
    Utaha and Tomoya go out on a date in Ikebukuro to celebrate the completion of the script; Utaha asks Tomoya whether she should attend a nearby university or one located in Kansai for college.
    22 min
  • EPISODE 4
    First Draft, Second Draft and Great Long Thinking
    Iori reveals that his Dōjin Team rouge en rouge is making a new game that is in the same genre as the game blessing software is working on, and that Izumi will be in charge of its art.
    22 min
  • EPISODE 5
    New Route of Two Nights and Three Days
    Tomoya has noticed a fatal flaw in the script Utaha had written; while her script reads amazingly as a novel, it does not hold up very well as a game script.
    22 min
  • EPISODE 6
    Deadline or Awakening
    With the script rewrites and additional character route, game production has been significantly delayed, and it's becoming apparent that Eriri is running behind with the art.
    22 min

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Cast & Crew

  • A‌K
    Ai Kayano
    Utaha Kasumigaoka
  • Kiyono Yasuno
    Megumi Katō
  • S‌Ō
    Saori Ōnishi
    Eriri Spencer Sawamura
  • Y‌M
    Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
    Tomoya Aki
  • C‌A
    Chinatsu Akasaki
    Izumi Hashima
  • S‌Y
    Sayuri Yahagi
    Michiru Hyōdō
  • Tetsuya Kakihara
    Iori Hashima
  • K‌K
    Kanta Kamei
    Director
  • F‌M
    Fumiaki Maruto
    Writer
  • H‌H
    Hajime Hyakkoku
    Music

About

Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend

Anime

When Tomoya Aki, a geeky high school boy, organizes a team of female classmates to produce a romance-themed video game, actual romance blossoms between him and several of the girls.

Information

Studio
フジテレビ
Released
2015
Rated
15
Region of Origin
Japan

Languages

Original Audio
Japanese, Japanese (Japan)
Audio

Japanese (AAC), * (AD)

Subtitles

Korean

Accessibility

Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.
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