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''Dekiru Otoko no Mote Life'' ("The Popular Life of a Dependable Guy") is a DatingSim released by Takara Tomy for the Nintendo DS in ValentinesDay 2008. ''Dekiru Otoko'' comes in the form of two games [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo launched side by-side]]: ''Day Life Lecture'' and ''Night Life Practice''. In these games, you accompany salaryman Kanta Tateishi in his quest to get laid with one of 14 girls, 7 per game. The girls in ''Day Life Lecture'' are mostly work acquaintances you encounter in daytime situations (An office meeting, a hairdresser, an amusement park date...) while in ''Night Life Practice'' Kanta goes in nighttime dates (an office mixer, a hostess club, dinner and drinks...) with a more diverse assortment of bachelorettes.

''Dekiru Otoko'' initially presents itself as an EdutainmentGame that tutors players in the art of dating and includes a series of minigames that gauge your lovin' prowess and also your supposed compatibility with a prospective partner. However, once you launch the main DatingSim mode all premises of seriousness go out of the window and ''Dekiru Otoko'' shows its true colors as an absurd, [[WidgetSeries weirdly insane]] parody of Japanese dating simulators.

''Dekiru Otoko no Mote Life'' ("The Popular Life of a Dependable Guy") is a DatingSim released by Takara Tomy for the Nintendo DS in ValentinesDay 2008. ''Dekiru Otoko'' comes in the form of two games [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo launched side by-side]]: ''Day Life Lecture'' and ''Night Life Practice''. In these games, you accompany salaryman Tateishi Kanta in his quest to get laid with one of 7 girls. In ''Day Life Lecture'', the girls are mostly work acquaintances you encounter in daytime situations (An office meeting, a barbershop, an amusement park date...) while in ''Night Life Practice'' he goes in nighttime dates (an office mixer, a hostess club, dinner and drinks...) with a more varied assortment of ladies.

''Dekiru Otoko'' initially presents itself as an EdutainmentGame that tutors players in the art of dating and includes a series of minigames that gauge your lovin' prowess and also your supposed compatibility with a prospective partner. However, once the main DatingSim mode is launched, all premises of seriousness go out of the window and ''Dekiru Otoko'' shows its true colors as an absurd, [[WidgetSeries weirdly insane]] parody of Japanese dating simulators.

* FissionMailed: In Narumi's date in ''Night Life Practice'', if you get enough Love Points but don't manage to confess (or you confess in an... [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/166_world_yell.png embarrasing way]]) you get the initial Bad End sequence where she leaves to fulfill her ArrangedMarriage, but afterwards instead of the Bad End screen you get a DistantFinale epilogue where Kanta explains to his grandchild that he [[RaceForYourLove ran after Narumi's plane]] and they eventually got married.

* GainaxEnding: If you spend a lot of money in Ayame's route and get enough Love Points with her, Kanta gets... run over by a truck, with Ayame realizing she's in love with him and vowing to be by his side forever, with the implication that Kanta has been confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It's taken completely seriously, weirdly [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]], and the only such ending across both games.
* KavorkaMan: Kanta isn't... ugly, per se, but he's apparently 70 cm tall and has a big, eggplant-shaped head. He's still insanely popular with a whole collection of very out-of-his-league ladies, two of whom have a crush on him before the game even starts.
* MultipleEndings: Each route has, at a minimum, a Normal Ending where the relationship with your chosen girl doesn't progress past "friends", and one (Sometimes more) Good Ending where you get the girl. Also, each route has a variety of Bad Ends, either from not getting the required Love Points or for doing something really stupid that immediately wrecks your chances.
* PlayerNudge: As part of the game's faux-edutainment façade, after you get a Normal or a Good ending you're "Graded" in your performance. This translates to the game giving you some advice on how to get a good ending with your chosen bachelorette.

* PressXToDie: While normally dates use [[RelationshipValues Love Points]] to determine the ending you get, some choices, particularly in ''Night Life Practice'', can cause an instant game over.

* ArtShift: Like [[DrSlump Dr. Senbei]], Kanta sometimes appears as a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6_1_7.png very handsome young man]]. Unlike Dr. Senbei, though, this seems to be purely his imagination.

* FissionMailed: In Narumi's date in ''Night Life Practice'', if you get enough Love Points but don't manage to confess (or you confess in an... [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/166_world_yell.png embarrasing way]] you get the initial Bad End sequence where she leaves to fulfill her ArrangedMarriage, but afterwards instead of the Bad End screen you get a DistantFinale epilogue where Kanta explains to his grandchild that he [[RaceForYourLove ran after Narumi's plane]] and they eventually got married.

* FissionMailed: In Narumi's date in ''Night Life Practice'', if you get enough Love Points but don't manage to confess (or you confess in an... [[[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/166_world_yell.png embarrasing way]] you get the initial Bad End sequence where she leaves to fulfill her ArrangedMarriage, but afterwards instead of the Bad End screen you get a DistantFinaleEpilogue where Kanta explains to his grandchild that he [[RaceForYourLove ran after Narumi's plane]] and they eventually got married.

* GainaxEnding: If you spend a lot of money in Ayame's route and get enough Love Points with her, Kanta gets... run over by a truck, with Ayame realizing she's in love with him and vowing to be by his side forever, with the implication that Kanta has been confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It's taken completely seriously, weirdly [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] and the only such ending across both games.

* GainaxEnding: If you spend a lot of money in Ayame's route and get enough Love Points with her, Kanta gets... run over by a truck, with Ayame realizing she's in love with him and vowing to be by his side forever, with the implication that Kanta has been confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It's taken completely seriously, weirdly [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet] and the only such ending across both games.

''Dekiru Otoko'' initially presents itself as an EdutainmentGame that tutors players in the art of dating and includes a series of minigames that gauge your lovin' prowess and also your suppose compatibility with a prospective partner. However, once the main DatingSim mode is launched, all premises of seriousness go out of the window and ''Dekiru Otoko'' shows its true colors as an absurd, [[WidgetSeries weirdly insane]] parody of Japanese dating simulators.