High Score Girl (Hi Score Girl)

The year is 1991, and arcade video games are the latest craze. Becoming a professional gamer is a far-fetched dream in an industry that has yet to spread its influence. Yet, that is the path sixth-grader Haruo Yaguchi wants to pursue. His aptitude for video games has earned him respect in local arcades and bestowed him with confidence and pride, both of which are shattered when fellow classmate Akira Oono easily defeats him in Street Fighter 2.

Akira is rich, pretty, and smart—as close as can be to a perfect girl. But Haruo had never cared about these things as, despite his multiple shortcomings as a person, his supremacy in video games was, in his mind, undisputed. So, now that someone has appeared who can rival him, part of Haruo cannot help but loathe her. Another part, however, itches for somebody who can compete with him on equal terms, and Akira is more than capable.

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Sequel:	High Score Girl: Extra Stage

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Oono, Akira

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Suzushiro, Sayumi
Japanese

Hidaka, Koharu

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Hirose, Yuuki
Japanese

Yaguchi, Haruo

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Amasaki, Kohei
Japanese

Yaguchi, Namie

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Arai, Satomi
Japanese

Oono, Makoto

Supporting

Akasaki, Chinatsu
Japanese

Jiiya

Supporting

Cho
Japanese

Miyao, Koutarou

Supporting

Okitsu, Kazuyuki
Japanese

Guile

Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki
Japanese

Doi, Genta

Supporting

Yamashita, Daiki
Japanese

Onizuka, Chihiro

Supporting

Midou, Daria
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Maeda, Toshihiro

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Kimura, Yasutaka

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Miyagi, Souji

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Abe, Ryuuji

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Opening Theme

"New Stranger" by sora tob sakana

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Ending Theme

"Houkago Di(e)stra(u)ction (放課後ディストラクション)" by Etsuko Yakushimaru

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Sep 28, 2018

Syureria

Recommended

Video games are games that use interaction with the user interface through images produced by video devices. Video games generally provide a reward system such as a score calculated based on the level of success achieved in completing tasks in the game.

The word "video" in "video games" initially refers to a raster display device. But with the use of the term "video game", now the word video game can be used to refer to games on any display device. The electronic systems used to run video games are called platforms, for example personal computers and game consoles.

taking the theme in the year one thousand nine ... hundred and ninety one in that year the video game is still experiencing its popularity, a child named "Haruo Yaguchi" spends his days playing video games regardless of how his future destiny is as if the world is just a link between himself and video games .

The manga composed by "Oshikiri Rensuke" has made JC Staff studios make this series as an anime series. JC Staff made this series feel good and have a big impact (to be honest this studio has adapted some good manga / light novels for example Shokugeki no Souma and of course Shakugan no Shana which was adapted by three seassons).

no part of the voice is like eating without a drink, it doesn't feel complete if an anime doesn't have a supportive voice. For this series of voice actors, "Suzushiro Sayumi" acts as Oono Akira (although Oono's character rarely speaks) "Hirose Yuuki" acts as Hidaka Koharu and "Amasaki Kouhei" act as Haruo Yaguchi.

from the song theme section, it might be quite fitting and well, the opening song "New stranger" which was sung by Sora Tob Sakana was so good even though I don't know who he was, but what made me like the series this time for the closing theme song could be a favorite " Houkago die strauction "which was sung by Etsuko Yakushimaru.

in this series maybe at the beginning of the episode Haruo Yaguchi was an academic fool and only liked video games after the meeting with Oono Akira Yaguchi began to regard him as a rival but after a while Oono left Japan for a reason. When Oono left we got or the appearance of playing the third character, Hidaka Koharu, acts as an encouragement even though she also has feelings with Yaguchi.

The series adapted by JC Staff this time is more prominent on the impression of romance and honesty, I as an audience are very enthusiastic about this series and can't wait for the story to continue where a child who often goes to the place of video games begins to have feelings for his rival and his meeting with Oono Akira grow the seeds of love are very good to watch for teenagers and adults.

in the end we as humans also have a sense where we want to relieve stress from our daily busyness with the existence of video game games which are now very sophisticated and this series reminds us that we do not fall into a world that is only temporary.

if you expect a happy life forever then fight from now on because of the future what we do today.

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Oct 3, 2018

Karhu

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I have been reading other opinions and positive praise around High Score Girl, but I still don't get why this is supposed to be so good and the savior of summer 2018 anime.

It's just a generic love story where the main dude is an over exaggerated character whose behavior is the outcome of "anime" and not any personality traits. The main female is perfect gamer and student, beautiful and ideal girl with tragic past story AKA a textbook example of a Mary Sue. There is also another girl in the series who creates the fallacy of harem, but she only appears in few episodes and ...

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Feb 26, 2019

Forte_

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When talking about a show that leans this heavily into licensed content, I feel like there is one question that must be asked: Would the show still stand on it's own without the inclusion of this licensed content? Sadly, I believe the answer for High Score Girl would be no.

The first thing most people will notice when watching HSG is the particular art style J.C. went with. The show is largely CG, which I particularly don't mind, but to call the animation 'budget' would be putting it lightly. It's not horrendously bad enough to ruin the show single-handedly, but it certainly isn't doing it ... any favors.

The writing in HSG is... not great. Momentarily ignoring the shtick of including licensed games, what we have is a largely generic and uninspired rom-com whose writing ranges from inoffensively mediocre to laughably bad, with a remarkably forced romance at its core. Now, add in the fact that a good half of the show is comprised of the writers nerding out about almost every notable early 90's game release, narrated by one of the most annoying protagonists to ever be on screen, but I'll come back to *him*. It's actually somewhat confounding how knowledgeable the writing staff seem to be about these games, and yet completely failed to capture how people would casually talk about them. Imagine several Steve Buscemi's walking around, fully decked out in 'fellow kids' gear, talking about 90's arcades.

The characters are, sadly, remarkably flat. At the three points of the obligatory love triangle are the main characters: Ono, Hidaka, and the protagonist Yaguchi. Ono is tsundere to the max, and inexplicably *does not speak throughout the entire show*. No, she's not mute, she's just 'quiet' or so the show will tell you. Already riding the crutch of not having any dialogue to express herself, she instead relies on Yaguchi to mind-read her intentions and explain them to the viewer. The show already has a "tell, don't show" problem, but this is kinda ridiculous. Next is Hidaka, an uptight girl unfamiliar with games who inexplicably drops madly in love with a guy who does literally nothing but play games and act like a general asshole. She is, after this point, completely defined as a character by this forced romance.

Now for Yaguchi, and oh man is he the WORST. This protagonist is easily my biggest grievance in what was already a mediocre-at-best show. Taking up a good 90% of the screen time, Yahuchi is exaggerated to the point of being a parody of all those negative early gaming stereotypes, to the point of being borderline offensive. His dial is permanently stuck at 100 while he screams in everyone's face about how much of a GAMER he is, while acting like a douche to everyone he interacts with and self-admittedly not giving a shit about anything that isn't a game, which *of course* causes all the panties in his harem to drop. His personality is that of an intentionally hateable side-character that was pushed into the role of protagonist. For someone framed by the show to be relatable, man is he annoying as all hell. Even by the end he, and the other characters for that matter, undergo little to no development other than realizing they like a person, and maybe working up the guts to tell them about it.

Overall, High School Girl is a show that rides exclusively on the novelty of incorporating licensed games. It got people's attention with it's catch line, but had little of substance to actually offer once people got through the door. I have a feeling that without the 90's gaming frame, this show wouldn't be getting nearly as much praise.

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