Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san (2025)

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Recommended

Funny

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

THE ROMCOM ARMY NEEDS YOU!🫵🏻

YOU THERE YOUNG MAN/WOMAN

DO YOU LIKE THE CUTE PRE-RELATIONSHIP SITUATION WHERE ITS A WILL THEY-WONT THEY BUT ITS NOT LIKE KANOKARI?

DO YOU LIKE ADORABLE ASS MOMENTS WHERE YOU ROLL AROUND LIKE A LITTLE GIRL ON YOUR BED AFTER WATCHING CUTE STUFF, ONLY TO REALISE THAT YOU'RE GONNA END UP ALONE AND HAVING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS ABOUT MISSING OUT ON TEENAGE LOVE?

DO YOU LIKE TSUNDERES THAT AREN'T COMPLETE BITCHES, BRATTY LITTLE SISTERS, AND ONEE-SANS THAT MAKE YOUR ARA GO ARA ARA IN ONE PACKAGE?

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Ionliosite2

Not Recommended

loafing_loafer

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

This anime doesn't live up to its hype and its scoring is bound to drop. The starting was somewhat cutesy with alya dropping exposition bombs in russian. Even with this ok premise it seemed fresh. However with each passing episode it comes out to be incoherent and irregularly paced, throwing u off of what the show wants to achieve. There is no narrative whatsoever. The humour is so dull the show shouldn't even be tagged as a comedy. Incest jokes and the protagonist being lazy is all there is for comedic relief

The protagonist shrugs off her Russian comments but acting dense destroys his underlying ...

raceraot

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

The most generic rom com to rom com, but with a slight twist. I guess that's all that's needed to make it interesting.

Guy who's an otaku, and is "lazy" but actually gets shit done so the girls in his life are attracted to him? Check.

School beauty who hates everyone except the main guy? Check.

Elements of harem in the show? Check.

Now, that isn't necessarily a bad thing, generic shows can still be well written/enjoyable, and the show is pretty enjoyable, with it looking amazing, and being animated rather well for a rom com like this, but honestly, it's the kind of show people have seen before, ...

BeetleR19d

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

Calling 'Summer 2024' a "rare" season for anime might be an understatement. The overwhelming number of romance-centric shows made it truly exceptional. Two of these new romance shows even overshadowed the well-established popularity of "Oshi no Ko" to some extent. One of them was "Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings In Russian."

So, where does this show stand compared to classic rom-coms? Does it have enough substance to be a top recommendation? Or is it just another generic romance that tries to do everything but fails to deliver convincingly?

Art and Animation (8.5/10):

Let's begin with the animation and art style, areas that likely won't significantly alter public opinion. ...

Gsarthotegga

Not Recommended

Stark700

Recommended

Taking on a somewhat unique gimmick for a rom-com show, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian is exactly how it sounds like. Alisa Mikhailovna Kujou (aka the "solitary princess") is a difficult girl to approach because she sometimes hides her true feelings in Russian. As strange as that might sound, she doesn't realize that her fellow classmate Masachika Kuze understands her.

Delivering on the promise of a rom-com, it should be obvious to the audience that Alya harbors feelings for Kuze. Expressed sometimes in Russian, she builds a wall around herself whenever her feelings surfaces. From day one, the anime wants us to understand Alya's ...

ruukaa14

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

Autoparts_22

Not Recommended

Preliminary (7/12 eps)

This show in a nutshell: "What if we make the most standard and basic high school romcom, but with a Russian twist and a bit of cringe BS?"

Personally, I gave it a chance hoping that it would be more than just its title.
It wasn't.
It's actually worse than I thought.

It's shows like these that make me realize that while I might like anime a lot, I'm not a hardcore Otaku because the DEGENERACY in this show is INSANE!

I'll tell you what, if you like your ecchi fanservice shots every 10-20 seconds, this is the show for you. I know these studios do this ...

rrakku

Not Recommended

Well-written

Long title, name of the heroine slapped on top, and a slight twist that makes up the girl's entire personality, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian is everything wrong with the contemporary anime/light novel scene. It's the same old romcom story told in a different way, this time, particularly cringe.

Bottom line is, Roshidere is a show written by a degenerate, for degenerates: its characters over-analyses, over-dramatises, and of course, are over-sexualised. The pain point that makes this show especially insufferable is the utter sincerity in which the cast do and say the most disturbing and idiotic things, yet we are supposed to believe they ...

BlackCrowGrows

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

This anime disappointed me after a couple episodes. Ngl, I really had high hopes and expectations from this but this just was not it.

Story :

So, the story being your typical as you might have guessed from the title is just Alya speaking Russian and hiding her feelings from those around her, she does so by speaking in front of the MC. Now this concept did get my attention and I thought it might be something unique. But the way it has been progressed, I found it very cliché. Even the fact that the MC learnt a whole language such as Russian is insane and just ...

Chuy_diazz

Not Recommended

Well-written

A premise of a tsundere who speaks Russian, where in the end that was her only grace, speaking Russian.

Roshidere is a typical school romance where, what is intended to be a breath of fresh air to the genre, ends up being the anchor that ends up sinking it. It focuses so much on giving a spotlight to Alya that it ends up showing all the deficiencies that the character has, and unfortunately she does not have what it takes to carry the work as a protagonist should. Any character that appears within the story is more interesting and more charismatic than its female protagonist. Even ...

Xhile

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

Another romcom with the usual tropes.. mediocre plot in high school setting. Pretty predictable from the start, average Joe somehow knows/meets the most praise beauty of the school. She’s “perfect”, uh oh, but what makes her different? — Yep, it’s in the title.

I can see the appeal. The animation is quite fitting for what the story is. It’s slightly humorous as far as typical shyness/jealously of romantic comedies, and the lovable personas of the characters. However, I grew out of this genre.

Tropes:
- Lazy male main character
- Abnormal dream girl (who’s also a tsundere)
- Imouto
- Childhood friend

One guy, three girls? — Yep, you bet it becomes ...

khi12345

Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

joemaamah

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

Having some Russian in my family, I gave this series a shot. I really liked the first ep, it was cute and funny and seemed the plot might be headed somewhere interesting. So I decided to do the 3 eps test. It passed 3 eps well enough. Decent if not inspired artwork. About average animation for a romcom, which means not very good, but not horrible either. The characters were sweet enough, if a little cookie cutter. The VA work was fine. Let's keep going.

Then we hit ep 5, and the first half just creeped me out. And while the series managed to avoid ...

VertSang1

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

While rough, i liked the first few episodes, but the plot gets increasingly tedious as things go on. Everything get boring and it's mostly due to the cliche dialogue and happenstances. i can't recommend it but i guess it's decent enough to satisfy some of you guys. Don't expect a masterpiece tho. At most it's the kind of show you watch when it's late, your brain is fried but you still need to do something before bed to feel your day was worth it.

The good:
It's pretty. It's horny without it being overexagerated. It's pure drama. A little too much to my tastes but if you're ...

Ryzm

Recommended

Funny

Creative

Preliminary (6/12 eps)

A ROMCOM THAT ALL WE WAITING FOR.

if u are a romantic comedy enjoyer since THE GREAT WAR OF CHITOGE AND ONODERA IN 1867, you should watch this.
the animation of this anime is great. the story is SO MUCH SWEET, you need insulin for it.
the MC is decent, not like other generic romcom he kinda dependable and not cringe
the heroine is great not only they so well drawn, they have decent backstory why they fallen for mc (well this harem btw)

i've been waiting too long for this kind anime since 2014 (or less) i actually total lost interest for romantic comedy, till eventually get recomended ...

ZeroMajor12

Mixed Feelings

I'm not going to sugarcoat this, I really liked Roshidere. An anime that has vibrant production and character designs doesn't come often, paired up with actual witty dialogue and some good characters. With these strengths, Roshidere could have easily been a recommendation for everyone to take as a fan-favorite rom-com. However, as every episode came later, it couldn't stand to the height of what new romcoms have already achieved. I hoped for it to live up to the qualities of post-modern rom-coms, but sadly it has come to an end.

When you hear a studio like Doga Kobo especially if the anime has a cast filled ...

psychopeachtree

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

Aurify

Not Recommended

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

Generic romance anime ruined by an even more generic incest subplot.

It's like AI-generated background music in anime form. There's almost nothing new or interesting here. It's an anime that has been made countless times before (and will probably be made countless times again). At least Bunny Girl Senpai had some interesting supernatural elements to it.

Average animes can be enjoyable from time to time. Not every anime has to be a new, ground-breaking masterpiece. Sometimes, it's okay to just be cookie-cutter time-sink to enjoy.

However, Alya-san is so generic it's almost offensive.

Your time and attention would be better off elsewhere.