Saekare: The Reason Why the Boring Boyfriend Wasn't Picked (CoTE x Saekano)
6 parts Ongoing Crossover: Classroom of the Elite x Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata)
Japanese Title (Fanfic): 冴えない彼氏の選ばれなかった理由 (Saenai Kareshi no Erabarenakatta Riyuu)
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Ayanokouji Kiyotaka is many things: quiet, detached, analytical... and very much uninterested in extracurricular drama.
After wandering into a clubroom in search of tea and silence, he instead finds himself surrounded by chaos in the form of two overachievers with very different ideas of what "good storytelling" looks like.
Kasumigaoka Utaha writes bestselling romance novels with a pen dipped in sarcasm and self-satisfaction. Sawamura Spencer Eriri draws with passion, precision, and the emotional control of a shaken soda can.
They have ambition, no focus. Creativity, but no direction.
And now, they have Kiyotaka.
As he critiques their half-baked plotlines and emotionally vacant scenes, he's pulled deeper into the mess-not because he wants to help, but because someone clearly needs to.
But even as he claims indifference, the lines between "observer" and "participant" begin to blur. Because beneath all the clashing egos and awkward comedy, there is a story worth telling.
And apparently, he's becoming a part of it.