If you want to turn your brain off and watch some childish drama with a hot guy this is it. This show sucks as a romance, comedy, and drama. Whether you would enjoy really depends on what you are looking for. If you want something chill, sure this does it I guess, but no matter how much a fan you may be of the show, you must admit its plot and character flaws are extremely detrimental.
Plot: [3/10]- Holy shit this was boring, each episode could have been done in 5-10 minutes. The main character gets dumped and spends a bunch of time playing this video game. Here she meets the love interest and some other guy who poses as a girl online (wtf) who is good friends with the love interest. They meet up irl and the guy’s sister who’s like 12 starts beefing with MC. They end up happily ever after. Then love triangle is introduced. Amidst all this, the MC starts getting all clingy and needy over the MC with about 10 minutes per episode of just sound effects and scenes of her getting aroused by him as they stare at each other due to some random ass misunderstanding or circumstance such as randomly passing out with the guy ready and waiting to save her. Apparently, this is good romantic writing. Somehow the love interest becomes attracted to her despite being called in to save her from being drunk, sick, and her pc getting broken. Extremely boring I found myself watching the series at 1.5 speed to stay awake.
Characters: [3/10]: Akane isn’t a terrible MC and she wasn’t done justice compared to how she was in the manga according to other reviews. In any case, within the anime, she is pretty badly written. But oh boy the love interest, he is far worse, a blatant fanservice character. A professional gamer who is “bad with women” queue depressing backstory of why he is unable to talk with women, the guy has no communication skills and looks completely annoyed by the MC but is somehow magically infatuated with her by the very end. Has little to no personality as he never initiates any conversations. It’s impossible to know anything about him because he legit never talks. He just stares at people like the MC sometimes otherwise he’s just looking at the floor. Like I said, the manga may be different but the anime failed miserably here. His only quirk is that he looks good, hey if you want to see hot guys I won’t hold it against you but that's all he's got going for him lmao. Side characters are trash. Their whole video game clan consists of MC, the love interest, a Guy posing as a girl who also has a sister complex, a chronically-online sister who sits on Discord all day talking to her online friends about how shit the real world is, then some old guy. There is also the girl who is brought in solely to create a love triangle who is somehow unironically better written than every other character. Oh I forgot one, the best friend of the MC who is a decent character.
Art/Animation: [7/10]: The drawing of the panels is pretty good. Some of the general effects used are also great. The animation was good enough. They did spend half of each episode having the MC and love interest stare at each other after all.
Soundtrack/Voice Acting: [5/10]: The opening and ending are average. I liked the soundtrack, it had these chill lofi beats and stuff. The voice acting wasn’t great. It didn’t seem passionate or genuine at all. The characters were lifeless enough already, and if I had to pick a word to describe the voice acting, it would be artificial. It lacked any genuineness and was either fake or lifeless.
This wasn’t a great adaptation of the manga, I’m sure the mangaka didn’t have this trash in mind within the adaptation. If lifeless anime like this are your thing, I won’t hold it against you. But if you are looking from a completely objective perspective, this anime is very weak compared to most romance anime, including one’s from this season like the dangers in my heart, skip and loafer, and insomniacs in the night. If you want an otaku gamer anime, there are far better options like romantic killer and wotakoi. I would be surprised to see a season two for this series, unfortunately. In a world of isekais and harems, it’s just too boring for studios to take a risk on, because even if the isekais and harems are absolute trash, there is still an larger audience for them in which they can make money. Final Score: 4/10
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