Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (Seasons 1–2)

Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (2015) is a Japanese rom-com anime you can watch online on iFILM. Otaku Tomoya Aki has one dream — to build the visual novel game of a lifetime.

It all starts with a chance meeting. One spring morning Tomoya chases down a stranger's wind-blown hat, and the moment lodges in his head as the perfect opening scene. The girl turns out to be Megumi Kato, a quiet classmate nobody ever seems to notice. So Tomoya makes a bold call: turn that very plainness into the heart of his game and cast her as the heroine.

To hit his deadline he ropes in a crew of gifted, prickly friends — a star artist and a hotshot writer — neither of whom approves of his leading lady. The fun is in how the show ribs its own harem genre while showing, honestly, how games actually get built. Adapted from Fumiaki Maruto's light novels by A-1 Pictures. Stream Saekano online on iFILM.