Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine (冴えない
The Blu-ray & DVD was released on September 23, 2020 to commemorate Megumi Kato's birthday.
Plot[]
After the performance of Michiru Hyodo's Icy Tail at a convention, Tomoya Aki and Megumi Kato meet up with everyone for an after-event party and to discuss the progress of the Blessing Software's game for the Winter Comiket. Utaha Kasumigaoka begins teasing Aki about their first kiss, earning the reaction of everyone, and later she starts playing footsie with him, but eriri uses her own foot to stop the game. Akane Kosaka later joins them and begins complaining to Kasumigaoka and Eriri Spencer Sawamura about the game they are currently working on.
Aki struggles to complete the screenplay for the main heroine route of their game so he decides to visit Kasumigaoka in her apartment for opinion but encounters Kosaka instead. Kosaka agrees to check his script and finds it too pure for everyone in today's world to pursue so she advises him to add obscene scenarios to catch the viewers' attention. After their meeting, Aki begins planning for a date with Kato to celebrate her birthday but on the day of their meeting, he finds an unconscious Kosaka and accompanies her to a hospital, where he learned about the short-term paralysis of her right hand. Kasumigaoka and Sawamura become worried about their project as it still needs to be submitted on schedule despite the absence of Kosaka, who wanted them to come up with something amazing that they could be proud of. They decide to seek help from Aki to convince the main director to delay the deadline of their game for them to perfect the work. Aki tells Kato about the situation and decides to leave their circle temporarily to help them, causing her to feel heartbroken for his decision to give up everything they worked on.
Aki manages to convince the director to delay the deadline by two weeks and stays with Kasumigaoka and Sawamura to help them complete their game. Kato takes over the leadership role in the circle to help to finish the game on the schedule. At a meeting inside the Hashima residence, she ends up confessing her feelings for Aki in front of Hyodo and Izumi Hashima. After he helped Kasumigaoka and Sawamura, Aki returns home to meet up with Kato to discuss the script he came up with their main heroine route. He then confesses his feelings for her, and the two share a kiss. They begin working on their game, with Kasumigaoka and Sawamura, who both came to terms with the relationship between Aki and Kato, later visiting his house to help with the finishing touches. Blessing Software's game manages to sell a thousand copies at the Winter Comiket.
The post-credits scene takes place ten years later and shows scenarios depicting the future lives of the main characters, which turned out to be a fictional story written by Kasumigaoka for the Blessing Software's new game. Aki and Kato are now happily married and are the chairman and vice chairwoman of their company, while Kasumigaoka and Sawamura are hired as their writer and illustrator. The original members of Blessing Software reunite in Aki and Kato's apartment to begin working on their new game.[1]
Main Cast[]
- Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tomoya Aki
- Kiyono Yasuno as Megumi Kato
- Saori Ōnishi as Eriri Spencer Sawamura
- Ai Kayano as Utaha Kasumigaoka
- Sayuri Yahagi as Michiru Hyodo
- Chinatsu Akasaki as Izumi Hashima
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Iori Hashima[1]
Trivia[]
- In Tomoya's room, posters for the anime series Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? and Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story can be prominently seen on the side of his display case by the foot of his bed.
- They replace the "Kohakuiro Concerto", Noelle Kagamigawa and other video game posters from season 1 and 2.
- The top of Tomoya's figurine display case has been changed for the movie. It now features:
- A large figurine of Madoka Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica in her goddess outfit.
- A large figurine of Ryūko Matoi from Kill La Kill in a bunny girl outfit.
- A Nendroid of Elf Yamada from Eromanga-Sensei.
- A Nendroid of Mash Kyrielight from Fate/Grand Order.
- A Nendroid of Iroha Tamaki from Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story
- A Nendroid of Zero Two from DARLING in the FRANXX.
- Saekano and the anime featured in the posters and figures share the same anime distributor, Aniplex or were animated under its subsidiaries, A-1 Pictures and CloverWorks.
- A poster for the film can be briefly seen in the 2nd OVA for Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku as Naoya and Ko run to the movie theater.[2]
- Both Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine and Wotakoi were animated by studios that are subsidiaries of Aniplex, A-1 Pictures and CloverWorks (a studio that was originally part of A-1 Pictures before separating in 2018). Though the first two seasons of Saekano were animated under A-1 Pictures.
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