継母の連れ子が元カノだった

MAMAHAHA NO TSUREGO GA MOTOKANO DATTA

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
September 21, 2022
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

Ah, high school. Is there any better place to start fresh after a horrible middle school relationship? Nope! Not unless your ex ends up at the same school as you and is now your stepsibling. What was supposed to be a sanctuary of peace where I could avoid ever seeing her again has become a living nightmare! Everywhere I look, I see her—in my house, in my school, in my class. There's no escape! She even claims that she’s the older sibling. Like hell she is! But I won't lose to her. After all, I'm the older brother in this new family situation. That’s right, we’re family now. No matter how much we may have thought we loved each other before, we saw one another’s true colors and realized we weren’t meant for each other. That’s why even though we may keep up a buddy-buddy sibling act for the sake of our parents, things will never go back to the way they used to be.

(Source: J-Novel Club)

CAST

Yume Irido
Rina Hidaka
Mizuto Irido
Hiro Shimono
Isana Higashira
Miyu Tomita
Akatsuki Minami
Ikumi Hasegawa
Yuni Irido
Ai Kayano
Kogure Kawanami
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Madoka Tanesato
Youko Hikasa
Chikuma Tanesato
Hinata Satou
Mineaki Irido
Kazuyuki Okitsu
Maki Sakamizu
Manatsu Murakami
Nasuka Kanai
Kyouka Moriya
Natsume Irido
Miho Yoshida
Joshi Seito B
Kozue Yuuki
Joshi Tomo B
Shuu Natani
Joshi Seito A
Misato Kaede
Shikai no Sensei
Akira Kuwabara
Youji
Minami Kurisaka
Joshi Tomo A
Nao Ojika
Joshi Seito
Hana Satomi
Danshi Seito A
Tasuku Kaito
Gaya
Naoyuki Shimozuru
Gaya
Minami Kurisaka
Tenin
Honoka Sasaki
Danshi Seito
Tasuku Kaito
Joshi Seito
Miyari Nemoto

EPISODES

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REVIEWS

TheFrostKai
30/100
A Incest based anime that kind of makes me feel a bit uncomfortable

My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex is a absolute shockingly mid anime about 2 "step siblings" if you even call them that that were the year before boyfriend and girlfriend and their relationship kinda hit at home with me which is saying that their relationship was pretty embarrassing and pathetic, and these 2 still try and cling on to their previous relationship they had while they are siblings which turn some scenes turning pretty weird and uncomfortable to watch myself but i can see how some people like this anime but its personally not for me.

honestly this anime doesn't have a lot going for itself it like most of the episodes feel kind of repetitive with their flashbacks with "back in junior high i had a thing that most people call a boyfriend/girlfriend" type bs and with those flash backs being pretty pathetic and not a lot being shown in those
flashbacks.

the setting and the plot of the show is just all over the place and not in a good way like just watching this anime was great sleeping material tbh i couldn't sit through an episode with exiting out and watching youtube for half and hour before continuing then realizing clicking back on it was a bad idea. but this anime's story just gets a bit off track sometimes and some scenes seem a bit unnecessary and repetitive like the flash backs and scenes of Ayai crying and obsessing over Mizuto which feels like they had nothing else to write about and wanted to drag this story to 12 episodes.

The Characters are even worse like the only good character in the show was Ayai because she got some character development and grew up during the show and the rest of them kind of were there lurking around being annoying and painful to listen to like Kawanami was such a useless character in the story and had no purpose of solely known for being that guy who was Mizuto's "friend" kind of and being a weirdo.

honestly if your trying to get into anime i recommending not to watch this because story is a little weird if your not the type of person to watch anime and the plot gets a bit confusing and shaky in some areas but if you are the type of person who likes a good romance anime and can get into this type of thing then go ahead and watch this. but this anime is personally not for me because of its crappy features
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Douzeries
20/100
The most pretentious shallow anime to ever air
I do not write hate reviews.

Heck, I usually barely even mention the bad aspects of the animanga I'm reviewing. That's because I normally talk about series which I think are so great that the strong points heavily overshadow the weak ones. It makes sense: If I write and structure my reviews based on how I feel about the story, then naturally, when its flaws don't impact my overall opinion on the show I won't mention them.

Plus, I firmly believe that many "flaws" people point out actually are what make the story revelant in the first place. By example, many critiscize how The Horizon lacks context or how Cowboy Bebop lacks a defined plotline. However, to me, if it weren't for these "flaws", these stories would be completely different thus their original purposes would vanish. Their unusual setting exactly are what make the story unique. I feel like we critisizce too much works of fiction based on how we personally want them to be rather than what they're trying to be.

I'm not saying we shouldn't talk negatively about works of fiction but I'm explaining why it's, generally speaking, not my thing.

Now where do I want to go with this?

This anime singlehandedly made me rethink the whole paragraphs written above.

It made me seriously ponder about how it may be impossible to see a manga or an anime for what it is but only for what you want it to be. And maybe, that's fine.

Maybe that's as fair as to mindlessly butter up a manga just because you think "it's so deep and you feel it so much".

Maybe hating is the proof of the free will that was given to us.

If it may just be that simply hating on one anime is as valuable as simply loving another... Then it's only rightful for me to deal with this sorry excuse for a romcom without the most superficial semblance of respect.

CRINGE NONSENSICAL FIRST EPISODE

"My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex". With a title as pathetic as this, surely, you wouldn't expect me to actually act surprised finding out that the content of the anime is as trash as its title. I didn't expect this to be any good but what I really didn't expect was it being that f#cking pretentious despite not providing any decent substance backing it up. I wish you could've saw the faces I made when characters randomly quoted philosophers or unironically used corny metaphors to describe their situations.

It's as if this story was so advanced in its sagaciousness and its depht that it forgot the simple little notions of self awareness and hindsight.

Now, if you got that far into the review, you must be dying to know some context and examples that would illustrate and define what I'm actually complaining about. Well, you shall be served.
The synopsis: __When they were middle schoolers, Rizuto and Yume were a couple. The two students stayed together until they entered high school, where they finally decided to break up. What they did not know was that they will be reunited again as stepbrother and sister only after two weeks. In order not to hinder their parents' happiness, they accept the situation and decide to put in place "the rule of brothers and sisters", according to which the first who feels attraction towards the other loses???__
My problem starts at about the last sentence. How did the initial premise got bended so bad that it ended up being "a game according to which the first step sibling who feel attraction toward the other loses"? Alright, fair enough. Just because the descritpion is weird doesn't mean the anime sucks. The most important part is the execution. Well, you'll be glad to know the execution was creative enough to surpass the uncomfortability the premise already gave off.
(If I had to bear shots like this you do too) - Plot: Yume (the stepsister) barges into Mizuto's room (the stepbrother) and tell him that they gotta play this insane game where the loser has to call the other "onii-chan". The conditions are simple: act sus toward the other first and you lose! To which Mizuto answers "aight bet." Mizuto then proceeds to seduce his step sister in order to win and manages to do so (yes, it's incoherent). Overwhelmed by this extraordinary twist, Yume is forced to utter the words "oniii chan" to satisfy her ex. Their interaction carries on by Lizuto mocking Yume, making her cry?? She then says: "You never used to be this mean to me back then!!!!". To which he replies "You're right, I'm sorry Onee...Nee san" and pats her? She replies "This is the part of you... I always hated how you flip-flop like that!" _(which is somehow a good foreshadowing to their backstory reveal but I have no hope it was done on pupose)_ and she adds "Stupid Oni-chan!"... Alright so, nevermind the cringe. How does this first scene completely nullify any pretense of logic and cohesion in the story? 1. Firstly, the introduction of "the sister and brother rule" establishes the "humorous" aspect of the anime. You're like: Oh, is it going to be a mind games comedy similarly to Kaguya-Sama? But then Mizuto basically just seduce Yume, disguising it as "normal siblings behaviour" (as someone who has a sister I fail to see the "normal" in "normal siblings behaviour" tho) in order to make Yume react "strangely" which leads to her losing. He litteraly wins by doing something that defy the settings that were just established, and knowing that these were already messy and stupid to begin with, It's literaly adding absurdeness over absurdness making the settings of the anime even more unbelievable to the viewer. 2. Secondly, it shows how little thoughts the author gave to his characters' writting and it's even worse if he ACTUALLY did think before coming up with this scene. The moment where Yume says "You never used to be this mean to me back then" is supposed to be the "serious" moment narratively wise. It's the moment where she breaks character and stops this cringy ahh roleplay in order to convey her real feelings. It's the moment when she becomes weak and vulnerable which is in opposite to how she was introduced to viewers since the beginning. It's supposed to give away important informations about her personality and her relationship with Kizuto and it does at first but then SHE HAS TO SAY "BAKA ONIIII CHAN" FOR NO REASON. I need a meeting with the editors of the light novel because the way they let the author simply write what he wants needs to be studied. At the moment where she was litteraly the most vulnerable and __honest__ possible she called her ex onii chan even though they're not related and even though she doesn't consider him as her brother (I think!?). The first time she said oni chan was due to the fact the she had lost but the second time is just nonsensical since she was being honest with her feelings. Why the f#ck does she call him onii chan at that moment? The childish games (I feel wild for calling that a childish game) are supposed to be excuses to cover up the fact that they actually just want to interact with eachother. Their egos and persona don't allow them to be honest so they come up with weird shit like this just to in eachothers precense. And that's right at the precise moment she was supposed to drop the act that she calls her ex boyfriend onii chan. I can't repeat this enough. Abysmal writting. But hey, gotta give props where it's due. I have to give credits to the anime for leaving me like this staring at my screen in complete disbelief of the cringe I witnessed only ten minutes into the first episode. Even my favorites manga didn't surprise me that much right at their opening scenes. ____ __PITIFUL ATTEMPT AT TRYING TO BE PROFOUND__ Now we get into the real reason why I hate this anime. The ninth episode features the mcs' backstory and the reason they broke up. Surprinsgly enough, the flashback actually started out as...It pains me to say it but it started out as pretty decent, somewhat cliché but pretty decent. Yume and Mizuto are both having hard time socializing with their classmates. They are recluse who found comfort in books and that's how they find eachother. They start going out and it goes smoothly until holidays come to an end and back to school arrives. They end up in different classes but they promise to eachother to do the utmost to always meet up whenever possible. There's no problem in their couple until Yume finally manage to make friends. As someone who tried for many years but never succeedeed, she is overjoyed and it captivates all her mind. It captivates her mind so much that she starts going out less and less with Mizuto. Mizuto feels disheartened, he feels like he was used as a stepping stone by Yume to make her feel better until she finds new friends. Even when she is with him, she only ever talk about her friends, making him even more hostile towards them. One day, he lashes out at her and says he doesn't care aboout her friends. Thinking it back in his room, he feels guilty and regrets what said to Yume so he decides to apologize to her tomorrow. The day after, worried about her boyfriend, Yume goes to the library instead of going out with her friends and she finds him with another girl. She spies them until the random girl leaves and while Cringezuto makes his apologies to Lume, she gets angry and say something along the lines of "so I can't have friends but you can see other girls? Are you cheating on me?" then long story short they break up. I initially liked where this was going because it was a __legitimate__ conflict. Mizuto felt used and unwanted because Yume spent more time with anyone else but him. She stopped giving him attention which is obviously not okay when you're in a relationship. The interesting part tho was that Yume wasn't completely in the wrong. She never had friends and Mizuto knows how important it is to here. She thought she could have the support of her boyfriend for this matter but he became jealous and annoying. She doesn't feel like she used him as a steppingstone, she just tried having other relationships which shouldn't be a problem even if you're in couple. In simpler terms, her POV is as legit as Mizuto's. Thus I was interested in how it was going to turn out but...Really? "you must be cheating on me I wait you!!!" The climax of the conflict made absolutely no sense. What I thought was an interesting POV on Yume's part was just completely reduced to "You dare talk to another girl than me in school you fucking cheater???" Mizuto actually had legitimate reasons to be mad while she litteraly saw him talk to a human being that happened to be a girl and that's her whole reason for being angry. Imagine being in couple and you can't to anyone of the opposite gender because of it. Completely unreasonable and shallow. Even if Mizuto acted on mere petty jealousy, they were actual concrete __effects__ to Yume's actions. They spent less time together. How he acted was really low but it was based on facutal negative events for their relationship. Meanwhile, Yume invented herself a baseless fanfiction because the author didn't why she would be mad (even though there were reasons, such as the ones I mentioned earlier, that were possible). In comparaison to Mizuto, who had actual internal conflict, she got reduced to a girl that simply get mad whenever her boyfriend talks to a girl that isn't her. What could've been an interesting conflict ended up being meaningless. Yume is an horribly written character. ____ __CONCLUSION: ABSOLUTE FAILURE__ Alright, so I think I made my points pretty clear. Sh#tty anime that tries to be something it's not. You could say trying to add more depht to your story, even if it fails miserably, is at least better than copy paste the billions of tasteless sol anime that come out every season. Well, no. I'll quote Avatar The Last Airbender in response: "I'm just saying that, considering his (Zuko) messed-up family, and how he was raised he could've turned out a lot worse" "You're right, Toph, let's go find him and give him a medal; the "not so much of a jerk as you could've been" award. Bad trying to be good is still bad all the meanwhile. The secondary characters are as awful as the main ones, nothing surprising. Yume and her friends pass time by fondling each others breasts, classic girl things am I right? And when we discovered that Mizuto was actually having bad grades on purpose so that Yume could be the number one in the class?? Peak fiction. And I just love how Mizuto gets random internal monolgue Light Yagami style, and how the series try to make him look like some sort of intellectual genius. Truly one of the anime of all time, honestly. I sincerely hope Aniplex brung the creators of this disaster in courts for ever featuring a book of I Want To Eat Your Pancreas in their crappy anime. Easily one of the worst romance in fiction. The author didn't even manage to give proper reasons they're in love with eachother. I understand Yume is simping over her dream "intelligent" boyfriend but why is Mizuto even into her in the first place? There's no actual scenes justifying why they love each other even though the whole anime revolve around this. I learned absolutely nothing about relationships and I think I'm even dumber than I was before starting the anime. While some romances genuinely made me rethink how I treat people, Mamahaha gave me nothing but embarassing scenes to remember. I guess you could say it made me learn how to love and appreciate anime that are actually well written.
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