What the fuck?! Renai flops is either terrible or a masterpiece and I can't tell which. My brain is broken now. The episode before the most recent one might be the most absurd single episode of anime I've ever seen and then this one is uncanny mindfuck. What even is this show? I'm actually so glad it's anime original so I don't have to avoid spoilers. Somehow the most recent episode kind of reminded me of baldr sky. Actually now that I think about, so did the cyborg episode.
Somehow I feel like this managed to one up akiba maid wars in terms of absurdity because of how insidious it is in this show. Akiba maid war hits you with nonsense 15 seconds into episode 1 but this show... I don't even know. Well, I do have SOME thoughts.
This latest episode had some clear simulation effects and the show's name is love flops. The girl he meets in the "past" is named Ai (love) so clearly she is central to the concept. They even removed all the other girls from the ending making it more creepy. In the previous episode, we see a bunny alarm clock council overseeing shit with one human redheaded woman seemingly in charge. It seems as though she is somehow managing this simulation. My best guess is that maybe Ai died, and her mother, the redhead scientiest created a simulation using data uploaded from her dead daughter and trapped the main character in there. Or perhaps main guy chose to enter the simulation because he couldn't accept her death.
It's also possible main guy is a vegetable after some accident. The thing sticking with me is Ai saying never to return there. That makes it sound like he can leave but she can't, which is why I think it's her that died.
Although hm... Maybe theres more to the title play on words than I thought. We've seen it before in somnium files but maybe Ai is an artificial intelligence all along and main guy was used for her development or is a second AI, the one that actually made it to production while Ai "flopped" and was scrapped, confined to the simulation.
With how absurd this show is and how quickly they change all the rules every other episode, it feels pretty hard to accurately predict outside of this all being a simulation. I can't beleive a show where in episode 1 the main guy gets PTSD from losing his anal virginity to a dog has become something that feels almost profound.
One thing I CAN say though, is why the hell is it censored? This shit is up there with the lewdest of the lewd and yet is completely censored. It just seems incongruent.