High Score Girl

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Synonyms: High Score Girl Continue

Japanese: ハイスコアガール

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 10

Chapters: 65

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 29, 2010 to Sep 25, 2018

Genre: Comedy

Themes: Love Polygon, Romantic Subtext, School

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Big Gangan

Authors: Oshikiri, Rensuke (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.17¹ (scored by 6,762 users)

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Ranked: #477²

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Popularity: #978

Members: 18,591

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MangaBig GanganOshikiri, Rensuke (Story & Art)

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Haruo "Beastly Fingers" Yaguchi rules the arcade gaming scene, but beneath his famous identity as a pro gamer is a plain sixth grader with an uneventful life. Neither popular, smart, nor athletic, he excels in only one thing: video games. Haruo would rather spend hours at the local arcade honing his gaming skills than take his life and academics seriously.

One day, Haruo meets his match in fellow classmate Akira Oono. Akira is not the type of person to frequent an arcade: she has perfect grades, is well-loved, and comes from a wealthy background. Even so, not only is she able to score a 29-game win streak, but she also manages to beat Haruo seven times in a row. Eager to end her domination, Haruo duels Akira in Street Fighter 2 and resorts to underhanded tactics—which earns him a slap in the face from the shy girl. This encounter starts a strange and rocky relationship between the two rival gamers.

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High Score Girl was nominated for the 6th Manga Taishou Award and the 17th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2013. In the same year, it placed 2nd on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey and ranked 9th for the Comic Natalie Grand Prize.

The series was put on hiatus between August 2014 and August 2015 due to copyright violation charges against publisher Square Enix by game company SNK Playmore for using characters from its games without permission. On July 25, 2016, serialization was officially resumed, and revised editions of volumes 1 to 5 were released under the title High Score Girl Continue.

High Score Girl has been published in English as Hi Score Girl by Square Enix since February 25, 2020.

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Sep 9, 2022

foxhunt99

Recommended

Hi Score Girl is a manga made by a gamer for gamers. If you were not a gamer you wouldn’t understand many of the plots and jokes. I am a gamer, love video games, and grew up in the same period depicted in this manga. Thus, I loved this manga.

However, video game reference is not the only thing this manga offers. It is a quite good love story centered around video games. More amazingly the female protagonist does not talk at all during the entire 10-volume manga. And she is not mute. All her feeling are displayed through her facial expression and action.

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Dec 19, 2023

Aikon83

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STORY & CHARACTERS 8/10
This is a simple yet lovely story about three main characters and the troubled dynamic between them in what is esentially a love triangle. Although the story is focused on two characters only early on, with the third character being introduced later. To describe HSG as just a love triangle story would be understatement, however. The story takes its time to develop each of our three characters individually as well as each of the dynamics between two of them, making our love triangle a web of feelings of love, rivarly and friendship.

To talk about the plot is to talk about the characters ... and their need of growth. The tension of the story comes from the different wants of the three protagonists, their struggle to express it to others and how it reflects on their relationships. This is where lies the strength of this story.

This is gag manga with quite effective and creative jokes. The comedy relies mainly on putting our male protagonist Haruo in absurd situations with goofy people in which sometimes he gets harmed either phisically or emotionally. It doesn't get to a point of inhumanly torturing the prota, just life being unfair to him from time to time. Although the story is comedic in nature, it does a good job in setting serious moments with relevance to the development of the characters. Comedy never interferes with the developing plot.

The story seems to have a loose direction at times resulting in it deviating of the plot and it extending subplots more than necessary. Some side characters could have better development. However since this is a fairly short manga spanning 10 vols it doesn't get too annoying, especially if you like both characters and comedy.

Another strong point is the whole retro-videogames/arcade theme. This a common interest relevant to our protagonists. It is what unites them and it is what drives the situations our characters get in. The plot becomes a competetive sport type of story at times. It is not the main focus and it is worked on superficially. But it serves our characters relations and development in a way that it is, nonetheless, very exciting.

ART 8/10
The art is very cartoony and it's not super detailed. It can be exaggerated to the point of being ugly for comedic purposes. However, the characters are designed in a cute way resulting in "ugly-cute" art overall. When seriousness is due, the visual element of the story serves in portraying the characters' emotions with detail. It's very distinct, unique to the author. I personally really like it.

ENJOYMENT 8/10
Loved the characters. Loved the romance. Loved the videogame theme. This is not a very complicated romance story but it is filled with both wholesome and heartbreaking moments. It is neither too long nor too short, reaching a well made conclusion when it needed to. Loved it overall.

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Aug 26, 2022

PixelB

Not Recommended

High Score Girl is about a Haruo, a guy who is obsessed with video games with no particularly redeemable traits about him, and the innocent romance with Oono, a girl who beats him in every game they play in--oh, and she also beats him up in real life too.

The beginning was pretty good. It showcases the innocent romance that young people go through, and it goes pretty well. Haruo, awkward as hell, only talks about games, slowly becomes more familiar with Oono, who despite hits him and teases him, clearly appreciates his company. Both the characters have different backgrounds. Oono's a mute, rich girl that's ...

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