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Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend

As an otaku, Tomoya Aki has spent years collecting various anime and light novels.¹ He is enamored by the stories and characters.¹ After an encounter with a woman, Tomoya is left with the desire to create his own game,² in hopes of sparking the same feeling that others have given him¹. He wants to model the heroine after the mysterious girl he'd met.² However, he cannot do this alone, so he recruits a childhood friend, Eriri Sawamura, to illustrate and Utaha Kasumigaoka to write the script.¹

To his surprise, the very girl he is modeling his character after happens to be his classmate, Megumi Kato.² Tomoya creates a fandom group to touch those who will play the game.¹ What he does not realize, however, "is that to invoke these emotions [in others], the [game's] creators" have to "experience the same feelings in their own lives."¹

Sexual Imagery

Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend contains inappropriate clothing. There is sexual imagery in the show.² This includes cleavage and extremely short skirts.³ IMDb lists a scene where a woman is seen in her undergarments, as well as several shots up a girl's skirt.⁴ This is perverted! Let's take a look at a passage of Scripture:

"And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart." (Proverbs 7:10)

Notice, there is a type of clothing referred to as "the attire of an harlot". I cannot help but conclude this is the same as the immodest dress we read about in 1 Timothy 2:9. With this in mind, it is safe to say that we ought not fill our heads with this inappropriate dress.

Yet, as mentioned in this section's first paragraph, this form of wickedness does show up in the anime. Psalm 101:3 teaches us to set "no wicked thing before" our eyes. Will we heed the Bible or not?

Profanity

Additionally, there is bad language.² According to the Scriptures, we are to put bad language away from us.

"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners." (1 Corinthians 15:33)

Unless we want our good communication to be corrupted by the evil ones, we need to stay far away from perverse language. We are commanded to put "away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee" (Proverbs 4:24). Does the LORD excuse you for watching an anime despite it having foul speech? God forbid.

Conclusion

Ultimately, whether you watch this anime will determine whether you follow God's Word or not. Either you will follow the Scriptures and their commandment to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness (Ephesians 5:11) or you won't. I believe that we all know which is the option we ought to choose (hint: following the Bible). Instead of watching Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, let's raise up a generation that seeks to follow the LORD above all else!


Sources:
1. "Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata." MyAnimeList,  myanimelist.net/anime/23277/Saenai_Heroine_no_Sodatekata. Accessed 8/16/2025.
2. Saekano -How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend-. Crunchyroll, crunchyroll.com/series/G6P8DM3Q6/saekano--how-to-raise-a-boring-girlfriend-. Accessed 8/16/2025.
3. "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend." IMDb, imdb.com/title/tt3612626. Accessed 8/16/2025.
4. "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend: Parents guide." IMDb, imdb.com/title/tt3612626/parentalguide. Accessed 8/16/2025.
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