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You can stream Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (2015) on Crunchyroll with a subscription.

Tomoya Aki is an otaku who has a dream. His dream is to create the best visual novel game ever. The main heroine for this game and the inspiration for this dream is a background character named Megumi Kato who somehow stumbles into main character-esque traits in his eyes. To complete the game in time he has to call upon the aid of his anime loving professional friends who aren't so keen on the choice of his main heroine.

While most romantic comedies lean into predictable archetypes, this series centers on an aspiring developer obsessed with the charm of an utterly unremarkable girl. It subverts genre tropes by treating the creation of a visual novel as a frantic, meta-textual battle against creative stagnation.

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