Gamers

If you haven’t seen this anime be advised that **SPOILERS** will be below.

Characters

Amano 
A sweet guy who is completely addicted to gaming. At first because I found his voice to be a bit soft spoken and shy I thought he was going to be this push over throughout the anime, but my mind was quickly changed during episode 2 when he stands up physically to Tasuku and defends Tendou and the Game Club. But he’s so clueless on how Tendou feels about him he is constantly rejecting her without meaning too for most of the anime. They finally get together but he’s got other followers now and again is completely clueless, gaming seems to be his life and sometimes I wished he hadn’t asked Tendou out because he doesn’t spend enough time or attention on her like a boyfriend should because he’s so into all his games. I guess that’s a hard habit to break though when you’ve been a loner tour whole life up to this point.

Tendou

She is sooo cute, from the first episode I had a feeling she really liked Amano and was trying to get close to him. She really truly loves Amano and I feel heartbroken for her when his attention is on games or Chiaki. I understand her jealousy; I would be too if my boyfriend’s time was split with two other girls and games. I do feel like she doesn’t get enough respect from Amano and that he asked her out in the heat of the moment, and of course she said yes because she loves him. I think she deserves some of his undivided attention now and then.

Tasuku

Surprisingly I really love his character, seeing his past and how he changed himself to fit in with the kids at school is what happens every day in this world because kids never seem to feel they are good enough for just being themselves. With bullying and peer pressure they feel like there is no other option then to conform to what others think they should be. He’s the best friend of Amano, and is kind of like his advisor and matchmaker and most times a referee, their relationship is comedy.

Aguri

Love her!! What a cutie, she totally dotes all over Tasuku and is very much in love with him. She is just like Tasuku as she advises Amano with his romance issues with Tendou; she is a very jealous girl who jumps the gun with suspicion every time Tasuku is with or talking to another girl. She acts like a ditz but I believe she is smart and talented and only hides that because she thought that was what Tasuku wanted in a girlfriend.

Ships

Aguri and Tasuku

I loved watching their relationship grow throughout the anime. In episode 2 when Tasuku was contemplating why he was even dating Aguri he asks her why she liked him and she explained that she fell in love with him way back in middle school when he gave her a plushie. Because he had changed himself for high school she found out he liked
girly girls and worked hard to become that for him. You could see that Tasuku was completely surprised that she liked him “in his dark age when he was a loser”. I loved that part because Tasuku seems to start to have real feelings for her. Their relationship is complicated but their feelings for each other always showed.

Amano and Chiaki

I would have been ok if these two ended up together at the beginning but as the anime went on and Chiaki realized who Amano was and started to developed feelings for him I started to feel bad for Tendou. Amano and Chiaki are very much the mirror image of each other, both very passionate about games but very stubborn on how they see things. This is one reason I don’t think they would make a good couple they are just too much alike.

Chiaki and Tasuku

Again another girl changing the way she looks for Tasuku, man he just says one thing and she falls a little for him. I know what he was saying was to cheer her up but I don’t think he realizes the effect he has on girls, in the end they end up just being close friends which is how I think it was meant to be.

Amano and Tendou

My favourite couple in this anime, I honestly don’t know what it was about these two that made me like their relationship, because if I’m being honest their relationship to me was the lesser of the growth between couples. Nothing really happened in their relationship, one minute they were strangers the next friends, then boom they were dating but barely seeing each other. I guess I have the tendency to like the main characters as a couple. We do know Tendou is suspicious of Chiakis motives with Amano and I feel somewhere down the road she’s going to be torn whether to stay with Amano or give Chiaki a chance with him because she will just want him to be happy and doesn’t feel she is what he wants anymore, I don’t blame her he doesn’t pay that much attention to her for the most part I mean it took till episode 11 to hold hands jeeze. I don’t want this to happen but somehow I feel like that cliché moment will come. I’m hoping for a season 2 because I can see a lot more drama in the future for this couple.

All in all this anime was ok but sooooo unbelievably frustrating to watch, I felt like pulling my hair out over the billion times misunderstandings happened in this anime, I mean how do you even keep this straight in your head. Many of the plot points and misunderstandings were cliché and served no purpose in the show imho, it felt a lot like they were only placed there to make drama. I have to say I think there was more than enough drama to last a life time in this.  The one other thing that stood out as a negative part to me was the title of the anime, now I know they were all gamers and all but they rarely played games in the series, I found that they talked a lot more about games then they played them. I would have loved to see more about the Game Club or to see them actually play in a RPG like in the opening song. I would give it 6/10 it definitely needs a second season to tie up loose ends and clear up all the misunderstandings that we still don’t completely understand but it was still a decent anime.

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