Gamers!

First review, but I felt like some of this needed to be said and I felt I've seen enough.
This does contain some spoilers, I suppose.

Gamers has a cool premise: modern gaming, where there's a school club for it and the leader is a popular and pretty blonde girl who tries to find other gamers and recruit them - but the main lead says no to joining!

The first few episodes seemed pretty decent and I was enjoying the show. After a few episodes, things got really frustrating. The show steered away from video games and gaming culture for the most part and turned into an ... extremely petty and frustrating love drama between the characters. They are all suspicious of each other liking someone else and instead of, y'know, just talking to each other and actually communicating, they have obscured POVs and do petty things to find out if their hunch is right, and, without actual proof, they draw conclusions over the dumbest and simplest things. I thought it would all stick to one, maybe two episodes, but it went on longer than it should have and is still going.

I tried to give it a chance after a couple of bad episodes. I was really excited to watch it and thought it was really cute and enjoyable at first, but the plot just went completely downhill the last few episodes that it became unwatchable. I am only being this hard on it since it's a 12 episode anime. That's short, and if you have several bad episodes within that.. that really takes the quality down several notches.
Instead of the characters developing, it's as if it's the characters just became worse - and not in an interesting way either. They went from pretty cool, smart characters to all of them just making piss poor decisions and failing so hard at communicating that it was cringe-worthy.

I understand that every plot has at least one conflict, but the kind of conflict they went with is very poor, annoying, and unfitting for what the show could/should have been about. There's so much they could have done with this show but instead of sticking to the show's actual theme, they chose to plop in a bunch of negative, unnecessary love drama.. with the odd video game reference here and there to remind you of the title, I guess.

It'd be nice if the plot picked up again and became more about gaming again, but I couldn't stand to stick around. I understand one of the themes of this anime is romance as well, which is fine, but the fact that they made all the characters so painfully stupid and oblivious is extremely unrealistic - even for naive highschoolers.


Other than my disappointment for the plot (so far) and character development (or lack there-of/character decline), the music is decent. The opening is adorable, and the animation itself is decent.


If the show does improve, I'll be happy, but its annoying fall-off in the middle (so far, anyway) is too frustrating to endure for me and seems to steer away from the original premise of what was making the show so charming.

*Review may contain minor spoilers*

Man this anime makes me so angry..

Story 1/10
there is the ''loser" who gets asked to join the game club by the most popular girl in school, once upon going to check out the game club, there are a few very talented people and they won alot of prizes etc, So you might think this anime will be very nice about competitive gaming. NO IT IS NOT!! From ep3 till the end gaming made barely an appearance, It was just a pentagon of love and misunderstanding about who loves/cheat on each other.. And it didn't even have a real ending man..

Art 4/10 ...
The art is nothing special only minor point i have to say here is that sometimes the chars look like robots, like when they zoom out on walking scenes etc there arms move like robots, wtf is this sh*t? can't you make them walk like normal?

Sound 4/10
the characters sound like they are screaming all the time with there annoying voices, 3 different ending songs also? why?

Character 1/10
Like i said in the story, they were really good at competitive gaming, but then it turns out all this anime was just about pentagon of love and misunderstandings , no background on gaming, the mc is a total loser who can't do anything, he even sucks a** at games..

Enjoyment 1/10
Man what is this F**king piece of sh*t anime, it made me so angry, you have such a cool 'story' to work with and you just gonna change everything for a boring love/slice of life/school anime full of misunderstandings and endless screaming? cmn..

Overall 2.2/10
This anime is a ''scam'' and just uses the gamer tag to draw in more people, it has nothing to do with gaming except for the occasional gaming talk they have followed up by misunderstandings about them love triangle.
Please do yourself a favor and never watch this.
also please do not make a season 2.

Gamers! is a bog-standard, uninspired romance-comedy anime that tries nothing new and fails at every stride it takes, not to mention its offensively bad representation of the gaming community.

Story: 2
Have you watched a rom-com anime before? If you answered yes, then there is no need for you to watch this show. It's your generic story of a loser, socially awkward MC that gets attention from the hottest girls in his school for no apparent reason. The relationship webs between characters are poorly done and only arise because the characters are too stupid to make logical decisions when it comes to their relationships. Ultimately, it fails ... in making the connection between these realistic, therefore defeating one of the main purposes of a rom-com.... the romance.

Oh and about the comedy, it's awful. The only time I laughed while watching this show was at myself after a joke I made about one of the characters playing a what was essentially CS:GO. The comedic timing is way off and characters have no gimmicks to play off of one another.

Art: 3
Think anime. Think anime protagonist. Now you know what our main character looks like. Character designs are bland, boring and just plain bad. However the animation itself is good and the intro has great animation featuring the main characters as if they were inside various types of games.

Sound: 5
Nothing special, background music fits the tone of situations well and the intro and ending are decent. Nothing much more to say.

Characters: 1
This is where the show is most insulting. Not only are the characters generic, underdeveloped, having no rhyme or reason as to why they like the other characters, but the misrepresentation of gamers is what really ruins the charters. You will not find a single gamer in this world that is anything like most of the main cast. They are gamers for the sake of the plot and are given no reason as to why they started playing video games in the first place, which could have given a nice conflict in ideologies which the show tried to do... yet failed.

Enjoyment: 2
There's not much to like at all about this show, if you have seen one rom-com anime, you've seen Gamers!. Do not bother watching, I've done the dirty work for you in order to write this review.

Overall: 2
---DO NOT WATCH---
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

"Missunderstandings" everywhere. You could basically sum up the whole show with these two words. To cut to the chase, the characters are really bad and 1-dimensional. This was one of many griping issues that was bugging me while watching this show; the characters are all dumb/intentionally idiotic (and I don’t mean this lightly), and the cast consists of your run-of-the-mill cliche character tropes you’ll find in any romcom anime. You’ll have your "wimpy loser MC” who is voiced by your average female shounen VA, the "prettiest girl in class that has a crush on the wimpy MC” cause for SOME REASON wimps are chick magnets, ... the "annoying girl with the annoying voice" (you’ll know which one), the "dude that is really popular but likes to hangout with loser MC", and the list goes on.

To add on top of the lame cast, the show never seems to go anywhere. The only thing that seems to be driving the plot forward would be the “misunderstandings” that would occur between two of the characters. This misunderstand could be anything: Character A was caught being close to Character B, Character B shares a drink with Character C and Character A sees this and is surprised that B and C are close (even though in reality it was mutual and not in a way of showing lovely emotions towards each other), Character C thinks Character A hate them thus undergoes depression, THE LOST GOES ON AND IT’S ANNOYING! The whole foundation of the plot in Gamers are the misunderstandings that happen in the show, it’s the only thing moving the plot. Forget good writing, forget good drama, forget good comedy, they were basically grabbing shit outta there asses and hoping anything could help move the plot forward. What a joke.

Rant out of the way, I'd like to say a few things: I don't have a clue as to why I stuck with this show for 5 tremendously bad episodes and I guess I was really hoping I'd actually get something good outta this show. Instead of romance and comedy, I got stale jokes and bad writing. Basically unoriginal cliche romcom horse arse. To be honest, the thing that drove me to stop watching this show the most was the characters. The characters were so bad it got unbearable; I was at a point in the show that I didn’t care about the plot anymore and was just focusing on how utterly terrible the characters were. It was just so...BAD! Words can’t describe how miserable each episode was, watching as the characters go on their daily lives of looping through the same problems over and over again and never learning. The characters have peas for brains! As for the art, it was mediocre AT BEST but wasn't too bad. I’d expect better quality though, the colors and designs of the setting and characters were bland and boring to look at. The Sound wasn't too bad either but not noticably great, though I did kinda enjoy the OP. The OP was catchy and I enjoyed the references to other games (such as PUBG, Super Smash Bros, and Undertale). Besides all of that though, this show could be summed up as a terrible mess or the crap I take after eating the local Chipotle burrito. I don't recommend this show to anyone who wants REAL romance with an ACTUAL plot, but if you like romcom cliches then go ahead and watch.

There is absolutely no way people can be as clueless and absolutely pathetic as these kids are. It's impossible. The amount of trivial misunderstandings in this anime is criminal. Every single conflict could easily be solved with a normal civilized conversation, with questions being asked between two people for clarification of what they meant.

I understand the whole "highschooler logic" thing where everyone gets confused and they don't understand emotions and whatever. But come on. This is going way too far.

Other than the inept communication ability of all the main characters, the anime is alright. Art is good, music is fine, the plot is ... fine too. The communication factor is just too big a problem for me to enjoy it.

misunderstandings and really awkward, awfully written characters! nice bait and switch with the gaming theme btw. i really appreciate how this turned into yet another terrible, cliche-ridden, flavorless romcom after like 3 episodes and completely threw away the idea of actually being about games at all. it's so ridiculously convoluted and over the top with the constant misunderstandings (that would instantly be solved by any single character actually acting like a human being) that it's actually somewhat memorable/noteworthy. noteworthy for being shitty, but still.

but seriously, why is this show called "Gamers!"? the show has almost nothing to do with games at this point, and as ... a """"gamer"""", i can't say that any of the characters are particularly relatable. probably because they all have a deadly combination of fetal alcohol syndrome + terminal aspergers and i don't. that and i also didn't have 3 obvious girlfriend candidates and a wide social circle in high school. i also actually played videogames, rather than spending every day poorly handling relationship issues, huffing paint, and making unfunny, forced game references. wow, a character got upset and randomly blurted out the konami code! hilarious! this is the pinnacle of comedy! what's next, a character becoming so happy that they can't help but shout "THE CAKE IS A LIE!"?

any time they do actually talk about games, it makes me cringe so hard i feel like i'm going to implode. they're playing the mario kart arcade game and MC gets an item that apparently has a 50% chance of blowing up everyone around him and a 50% chance of blowing himself up. after this is explained to him, the blonde girl says "it's really hard to use on this map!" .....what? why would the map have even the tiniest bearing on how difficult it is to use? ?????????????????? nice show. totally wasn't written by a 40 year old that only plays a mobage once a week.

i feel like people get so caught up in praising this show for the MC not immediately accepting the club invite (so unique!!!!) that they're able pretend like the show didn't immediately turn into a cliche factory afterward. i turned my brain off as soon as i saw bridge scene in episode 2 or 3 where MC is vehemently defending a girl he has talked to for all of 5 minutes with a "YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT ABOUT ME, BUT DON'T TALK BAD ABOUT HER!" and nearly kills the guy with his retard strength. of course, the girl is secretly watching this exchange and falls madly in love with MC as a result. really breaking new ground here.

in conclusion, this show is basically just Netoge no Yome season 2 but with less games and more glue consumption. only watch it if you love misunderstandings and hate anything resembling actual human interaction.

I don't quite understand the people reviewing this. Are you seriously telling me this is relatable to how "gamers" behave?
That must be a joke, because in the first place, The "Gamers!" in the title is only to lure for viewers, nothing more. The plot itself has nothing relatable to video games, this series is all about misunderstandings and a boring/generic romcom plot.

Let's start with the basics, the story is pretty bland, first 3 episodes do have a bit of game references and how the protagonists game and stuff. That's about it, after episode 4 the misunderstandings and the romcom start, but horribly. I understand the ... misunderstandings are the plot itself, but they are making it so they are slow paced and rather boring, at times it feels like filler when it obviously shouldn't be. It just feels like they are dragging it to at least make it up to 12 episodes because we haven't gotten any progress in the story so far, always at the same point, but it is a "slice of life". Althought, i wouldn't consider a slice of life.

My general problem with these misunderstandings is that they are all the same, i expected them to improvise a bit and make them different than each other, but they only spoil on how a one cheats on another when it doesn't really happen, blah, blah... Tell me, where's the creativity in that? In the end, the plot doesn't move on because of this.

Artwise, the animation is nothing special, but i don't really mind it. The designs are really good for the most part. Environments are quite good looking and scenarios are fitting. The colour palette is quite nice and vibrant too.

Sound/Music is top notch if you ask me, but i feel like the BGM does not fit with the scenes at times. VA are quite enjoyable, and really nice choice. The Op might be the only thing from this anime that includes Game references, the ED is enjoyable as well.

This is the other problem i have with most reviews and the series itself. There's nothing from the character development and behaviour that make me think "oh i act like that" "that has happened to me" "oh i hate that feeling", literally nothing. Well, i didn't think anything of that because, the character development is horse poop, like the only character we know a bit is Tendou, no one else had a "let me get to know thing" thingy were we see their daily lives and stuff. We are already at episode 10, and i would've loved to see a bit of storyline for the game club Tendou has, i would've loved to see more from the protagonists as child' and how they got into games (But, obviously that won't be possible, this isn't a series about gamers)

The whole premise was good, but not with an almost clickbait title "Gamers!", the series is just a generic romcom we see all seasons. Nothing new, nothing creative and nothing funny about it. I did wait quite some time to see if things would've gotten to the start point again, but nope, it's just the same over and over again. Edit: I'm dropping it, i'm just tired of this whole plot, it makes no sense. Lowered from 3 to 2 on overall.
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Story: 1
Art: 5
Sound: 5
Character: 1
Enjoyment: 1
Overall: 2

As i'm quite repetitive, i'm sorry for any spelling or any grammar error i may have.

Definitely wouldn't recommend it.
The anime is called gamers and they literally never talk about a video game.

The story has SO MANY misunderstandings, and the characters constantly make unfounded assumptions, which makes it tedious to watch. Everything's going well until something happens and one of the characters misinterprets everything. That's frustrating.
History is actually very predictable because of this.

Indeed, there is fan service. Unnecessary close-ups, unnecessary scenes, etc.

The anime itself doesn't leave any moral or anything to take away from it, and I could even say that the ending is quite confusing.

To be honest, I would have used the time I spent watching this anime to watch ... another one.

After catching up with the amazing slice of life-romcom, Recovery of an MMO Junkie, I wanted another game-related romance-comedy and I was hoping Gamers would touch my heart in similar ways. The production quality of Gamers was better than I expected. That opening, the references, the music, the voice acting, the art style—it's fantastic! Though Gamers started off a little bit cliched, it still piqued my interest. I thought the pilot was just a basic starting point and the second episode introduced more characters that could get fleshed out later. That was my initial thought until the anime suddenly dropped the ball after the second ... episode to opt for an endless barrage of misunderstandings. Gamers is the kind of anime where people squirm, shake their head side to side a bit, and go "it has its moments but it's not worth your time."

I appreciate how passionate about games they made each character but every time they interacted with one another, it seemed like the writers forgot the nuance previously given to them. They built and nurtured these great relationships in the second episode with tender moments only to make them one-dimensional again in order to pull off their misunderstandings gimmick. The gaming club concept could have worked to their advantage but they didn't stick with it. Misunderstandings killed anything good that could have been salvaged; the writing was very poorly thought out.

They also kept forgetting the girls were interested in video games and continuously used them as boys' sexual attraction, physically and emotionally which was so creepy. If the poor girls didn't completely forget they were into games, they were ashamed of sharing their passion and grew more obsessive about relationships and boys. Because of that, all of the characters kept jumping to their own conclusions about one another. Why write a whirlwind of confusion that would serve to irritate the audience instead of just communicating as friends and partners should? It's just plain bad writing. In addition to that, there were episodes where I was able to catch the ending CG and they were all creepy boob and ass shots of the girls in swimsuits. They're children and the skeevy producers need to rethink their careers.

This entire anime was a landfill of terrible ideas with few moments of fluff sprinkled into it. The writers would constantly forget that the characters enjoyed video games and then beat it into the viewer's head that they're gamers the next minute. I understand the need to create drama—high school can be fraught with it—but every plotline after the second episode became a string of one misunderstanding to the next. Most high school kids don't know how to gauge their emotions and express themselves, but the creators clearly had no idea how to portray adolescence without taking it to new levels of annoying. Pair that with the random creepiness of sexualizing teenage girls and you get this abomination of an anime. By the finale, none of the misunderstandings got sorted out and on the rare occasion that they did, it would soon be replaced by another. Gamers has its moments but it's not worth your time.

Just bad, really bad. The start was kinda good and even promising, it had potential for sure. I'd say the first 3 episodes were good, then it went downhill exponentially. Also, don't watch if you got interested by the name, this show has close to nothing to do with gaming, it's more like a tool to try making the conversations/storylines less boring, but even at that it failed. Also, it's more like 11 episodes + 1 OVA, 11th episode is the real ending.

After the 3rd episode, the whole story was about misunderstandings getting out of hand and turning into a crazy love polygon. Honestly that's ... all that's happening. I'm fine with a bit of cliché obliviousness, that's needed here and there to enable the story in a shoujo, but this anime criminally overused it. Is that supposed to be its niche? What a letdown.

The characters had zero depth. Nobody expects crazy characters from a shoujo, I expected nothing and still got let down. And once again, 4/5 of the main characters were "gamers", but it was just a tool and they were "gamers" for the sake of being gamers, because without that their characters would literally be empty, and funnily the 5th character's whole personality is not being a gamer so it's almost comedic how shit the characters were written.

The art was okay but that doesn't matter when it's just a huge dumpsterfire.

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Not only the whole show is just a bunch of stupid misunderstandings piled up, the worst part is that none of these get addressed by the characters. That's just so stupid. All 4 of them thinks they all cheat on each other and it never gets addressed, like wtf? They were basically convinced they were being cheated on and all of them were like "okay, we love each other now, I don't care if they cheated" and moved on. It's only really Chiaki coming to terms with not pursuing Keita and that's the ending.

I went into the last episode thinking all the things would be talked through but no, it was some random idiotic rant by the writers about the gaming industry, like ??? It's almost as if the creators didn't even give a damn about making an anime and they just wanted to make a statement. Should've given away the budget for charity honestly.

I actually have a high expectations for this anime since I really like games and maybe this anime is the perfect treat for me but then it led me to disappointment.

Okay so when you hear the anime title "Gamers" what probably comes out on your mind? Of course games! This might be an anime where characters are gamers and they would play and explore different kinds of games. Or maybe they are ought to compete with other gamers using their expertise on games. But it's not. This is really just a school romance comedy anime.

The first episode really caught my interest since it ... shows the different types of gamers and what games they are good with. But as I continued the second and then to next episodes, it became bad and painful to watch. My expectations were ruined but I did consider the theme of the anime in which "loving games and enjoying yourself on playing games is the best thing as a gamer" so I could continue. But the hell, the characters just kept on talking and spouting their ideals and perceptions on games and it became a source of conflict which is kind of annoying. But the most annoying part here are the misunderstandings of the characters. Characters are so dense and stupid and small things became a big thing. It was so annoying when you're watching like you wanted to throw the remote control on their faces but you can't because your TV might broke. I kinda dislike the characters here, a plain and dense hero, Mary Sue heroine and annoying supporting characters. There are other supporting characters there who are way better but you won't get to see them often in the series and I'm kinda disappointed with that.

So this anime just typically depicts the lives of teenagers in their adolescent days. Kind of cliche but it's a gamer teen version. I did not enjoy this really so if you're looking for an anime wich really uses games as a plot and not just talk about games, then don't watch this.

Before i start, let me "warm you up" a bit.

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Koe de Oshigoto. Work using voice. The first time you see that title, what are you expecting? Some people who uses their voice for their job? Yes, you got them. The hardship of being a voice actor plus a bit of love story.

ReLIFE. It has Re which i assume is something similar to Re from Rewind or Replay, and it has Life. Most likely the story is about people who try to correct their life for some reason. So is the story really ends up like what the title suggests? Yes, it is. The MC are ... used as an experimental object where their body are reverted to their young days with the help of some drug and forced to join high school again.

Gamers. Is it about a lifestyle of a pro-player in their competitive world? Or is it about some people who spends their days studying game? Or maybe any random story with game as the main story?

NO. None of them. It's about some high school students with their misunderstanding.

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"Misunderstanding? What do you mean?"

Every main character in this series can't communicate as a normal human being and ends up with some random and stupid misunderstanding which can be resolved IF ONLY they talk to each other instead of keeping their thought to themselves.

"What, really? But it can't be that bad, right? There's must be some kind of gaming element in it, right?"

The black-haired boy is just a student who plays games very casually.
The blonde-girl is a part of a gaming club which only explained in the early episode and never came back to the story again.
The black-haired girl is a game developer but how is she developing her games is never explained. At least until episode 5 where i dropped this show.
The brown-haired and his girlfriend are not even a gamer! Well, at least the boy used to be a gamer.

All in all, i'm not sure if these are enough to make a story called Gamers.

"Then where did that Gamers name came from?"

I think because the main characters in this story happen to love playing games. That's it.

"The fuck.."

Yes, indeed. The fuck.

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If you're expecting a show with Gamer or at least Game as the main story, don't watch this one. You'll be disappointed. A lot.

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tl;dr There's no Game or Gamer in this show. Just a forced and retarded romcom. If only this show is called "Misunderstanding", i'll shut my mouth since it fits the story.

its was a very good anime i rated it 9/10 i liked the 11 episodes i like the idea of "misunderstanding"
but the last episode makes me angry, it was horrible i have no idea why they waste a good story like that in that horrible episode with an "out of context " scene, in the beginning, i waited for the last episode , i was expecting an open ending with a possibility for season 2 , but to be honest im not excited for another season i think they should stop it right now

i change my rate to 2/10 because of that episode

I don't usually write reviews, and don't get me wrong, I'm not writing this one just so I can trash on this show. However there hasn't been a show in a while that has vexed me to this extent.

Let's begin with the premise. Regardless of what the synopsis sais, this isn't about gamers, this is about teenagers in love. I know, not original, but it's also pretty much what every anime is about these days anyway. There are four characters that all have some kind of relationship with the main character, wether it be friends or crushes. The fact that most of these characters are ... gamers is only established in the first episode, and is quickly set aside for the rest of the series. In addition all of these characters have stereotypical personalities for the single purpose of some comedic gags/skits that often fall flat.

What moves this shows premise along is just a series of misunderstandings and convoluted omissions, that could easily be resolved if any of the characters had any kind of common sense. Even when two or more characters are discussing the very topic that has been misunderstood, they arbitrarily refuse to mention the one fact that could resolve the matter at hand. This is lazy storytelling, it's trite and unimaginative.

If that wasn't bad enough they introduce more characters eventually, with the express purpose of distracting the viewer from the previous issues, by creating more convoluted situations without resolving the previous matters. An analogy that comes to mind would be that this show is like a drawer you used to store cables in, you keep adding more and more cables in there and they keep getting tangled up, so the viewer is just stuck trying to untangle the massive amounts of cables. It's not fun, it's just frustrating and it never ends.

Every other aspect of the show is average at best, the art is mediocre and the music is inoffensive. There is no redeeming factor for this show that pushes it above an average score. It uses the premise that the characters are gamers to bait in gullible viewers, but none of the scenarios or the characters are really relateable if you are a gamer.

My final score is 4/10, because despite every other aspect of the show being average, the story progression itself is just frustrating and unbelievable, and drags the score further down.

This anime doesn't really decide what it wants to do... It starts out by properly being about gamers as the title suggests, for like 2 episodes. But quickly enough it mutates into some bizzare rom com that can only go with one joke repeatedly: misunderstandings.

Stupid misunderstanding at that, ones that could be quickly and easily resolved by just talking between the characters, and they annoyingly avoid doing that just to make the viewers tear out their hair in frustration. And this drags on and on...

Finally the horrible rom com ends at episode 12 (the last one!!) when they at long last return to talk about ... games, albeit with excessive fanservice added to it which distracts from the actual conversation. And that's where it "ends". There's no story or character development to be seen here.

If you enjoy pulling your own hairs out in frustration as you watch the characters behave stupidly then be my guest and watch this. Otherwise, do yourself a favor and stay away.

For my lazy self to actually bother writing a review, well.. Just that can tell you how bad this anime is.

With a title like 'Gamers!' you'd think it'd be a show about, well, fucking gamers. Well, if you're one of those that believe that love is a game, then it technically is. A very bad example of gamers, but example of gamers nonetheless.

'Gamers!' plays out similarly to your every other shounen rom-com, except instead of yakuza bs, you've got gamers bs gimmick. What little positives it has going for it isn't worth sitting through this shitfest for 12 episodes, so I'll just list these minor positives seeing as that way you can just pretend you've seen the show and skip it completely.

- It ... has relatively decent amount of game references for the type of a show it is. They're not complex, they don't play any part in the actual narrative, they're just sort of there, but it can be fun recognizing them.
- You don't have to take it seriously 'cause the show itself doesn't take itself seriously
- You can watch first 1-2 episodes and the last, and comfortably say you've actually watched the entire show (I, myself, didn't have such fortune, as I watched it weekly. Damn me!!)

Well, now that we've listed out the positives, let's get on with the actual review of this shitfest. 'Gamers!' plays out a lot like parody - considering that it takes cliche, generic settings or plotlines and exaggerates then to nTH degree - but I'm not sure whether it realizes that it's a parody. You see, just because you take a certain scenario and exaggerate it in any way doesn't make it immediately funny. Especially if you take something that was boring and atrocious to begin with. If someone wants to parody and make fun of the classic rom-com misunderstandings plot devices, you DON'T amp them up to fucking heaven. No, no you don't. It's not funny. Trust me, ooh trust me, it's not funny.

And what do you get when the greatest problem of the show lies with what literally defines it? Well, you get 'Gamers!'. For the plot to play out the way it did, it was necessary for each and every character to literally be a pre-programmed AI that responds only when certain conditions are met. Say, a boy has a girlfriend. A boy sees his girlfriend with his friend (I know, I know, sometimes, in real life, people of opposite sex meet up without intention to fuck each other dead; but this is anime, so obviously that logic doesn't exist here). Now, it's only logical for the boy to come out and ask his friend: Oi, you fucking my girl? Obvious, right? Well no, apparently not.

Say, you think your boyfriend is cheating on you. After all, you did hear him say some other girl is cute (I know, I know, sometimes, in real life, people compliment members of opposite sex without intention to fuck them dead; but this is anime, so obviously that logic doesn't exist here). So, what do you do? Well, you talk to him obviously. Ah, no, wait, that's logical thing to do. Better, let's meet up with his friend and do absolutely nothing except whine and complain about it.

Look, I can stuff a lot of shit - especially if it's a comedy show - and especially if it's parodying something. But, even inside the fucking parodies, there NEEDS to be a baseline logic. Why the hell do you think that most of the recent spoof movies are hated almost universally? Because it's just a bunch of random shit that's not funny. And, believe it or not, I don't think it was 'Gamers!'s intention to parody anything. Yes, characters occasionally call out the absolute retardation that their situation is. But, BUT, just because you point something out doesn't mean you're parodying it, nor does it mean that it's okay 'cause you pointed it out. No, that shit doesn't work that way.

So, the story. Well, from those two prior example you can basically derive the entire story of this shitshow. There are five characters. None of them are capable of this human thing called talking. They all have immensely fucked up and skewed imagination. Let the bullshit commence. Let's not even mention that intervention of god's hand was necessary for any of this shit to even start. It's just... it's just plain fucking nonsense.

But don't worry. We've got ourselves an even worse part that the story. No, it's not the overall rating of the show. Well, kind of, but let's ignore that. Let's talk about the characters.

We've got five of them. When you first begin the show, they all seem diverse enough; you've got your generic beta-male, your generic hot chick who's interested in him (for the love of me I never figured out why except for 'well, he likes games and so do I that absolutely means I need to fuck him'), then you've got the high-school debut guy, gal(?) airhead, and the fifth wheel. No, she's the fifth fucking wheel. When you dedicate 9 fucking episodes primarily to developing the relationship of other four (even though that 'developing' is kind of pushing it), and then just ignore every other character except for her, I ain't calling her anything other than the fifth wheel.

Now, with such diverse cast, you'd think, I mean, YOU'D FUCKING THINK (RIGHT?!) that they all behave differently. RIGHT?! I wish. I wish someone turned psychotic in the early episodes and killed everyone. Ow man would that have been fun. Well, first and foremost, disregard who these characters are. The only time they act IN their character (uh...) is when they're talking. And by that I mean when people are voice acting them. That's all. All five of them - ALL FUCKING FIVE OF THEM - act exactly the same in every situation. Are they all fucking twins but they just haven't realized it yet?!

I'd love to say these characters develop and grow on you. I mean, would truly love to say that. It would have meant I at least enjoyed the show partially. But, even if Satan were to set my asshole on fire right this very moment, I couldn't do it. These characters do nothing but run in circles for 12 episodes. If they all looked the same, and had the same voice actor, you wouldn't be able to tell one from another because nothing else defines them, especially after first 2-3 episodes.

The boyfriend girlfriend pair should have never started dating. They have 0 chemistry. Fuck, I don't even know why is the girl obsessed with him so much (by the way, that's sort of a theme in this show; you don't really ever know why these girls like these guys so much, they just sorta do and you just sorta have to accept it). They don't trust each other. Fuck that. THEY CAN'T TALK TO EACH OTHER. If you're that fucking insecure about being cheated on, ASK. If we were given nothing else about that pink-haired girl, we were shown that she's the proactive type. PROACTIVE TYPES FUCKING ACT. THEY DON'T SULK WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING. And the boyfriend guy, get this. So, at first, the dude just started dating her because, well, fuck, we needed a boyfriend and girlfriend pair but we couldn't think up a reason for them to date. But, don't despair!! He does eventually like her!! Why? Because she liked him back before he became 'hot'. The level of utter nonsense presented here is reaching levels we thought impossible people!! I've seen loves on first sight. I've seen loves because of a single act of kindness. I've seen loves 'just because'. I've seen all kinds of loves in all kinds of stories. But never have I seen someone date someone for a prolonged time, don't give that much shit about them, and then, without any chemistry, without any build-up, without any banter or anything else that quantifies a RELATIONSHIP, not just a romantic one but relationship in general, just fall in love or whatever.

Then we have our fifth wheel. I absolutely hate that guy. Oh, wait, He likes my games and he plays games with me. Ooops, did I say hate? I mean I absolutely adore, worship and love that guy!! Just fuck off.

Literally the only two characters that are given even a whiff of relationship development are our beta-male and blonde beauty. Hell, when compared with the rest of the shitshow, it actually stands out as something decent. But it's not. Oooh trust me it's not. I don't know why this girl likes this dude. And I don't even know why this dude likes this girl. I mean, I can sort of understand, she's cute and shit, so whatever. I mean, the dude doesn't even know what 'playing games for fun' means, and yet I'm supposed to listen to his spiel whereas he somehow convinces this chick that he's right? Fuck off with that nonsense.

In the end, 'Gamers!' is anything except what its name suggests. It's an attempt at parody (I hope, I HOPE TO GOD IT'S AN ACTUAL ATTEMPT AT PARODY) that doesn't understand how to parody something so basic. It's like that retarded dog of yours that keeps chasing its tail until it gets dazed. Five characters act in exact same ways regardless of the circumstances, and it's just plain not fun. It's not entertaining. It's not funny. It's just fucking exhausting. Much like this review of mine.

Anyway, that's it. Go game on. Time better spent than watching this show.

Do you like typical high-school anime rom com setting?
Do you like plain characters and generic MC?
Do you like misunderstandings over and over and over and over and over?
Do you like QUALITY?
Do you like promotional anime where NOTHING will ever resolve, the plot will be stretched and you will be forced to read the original source?

If you answered "yes" to all the questions, then you should watch "Gamers" and then re-evaluate your taste in anime.

It had some good moments, that's why I didn't dropped it. But after the last episode, there is a sour taste in my mouth

Gamers!: A botched rom-com anime that has nothing to do with gaming, featuring 5 high school students who repeatedly make wrong assumptions about each other! And despite their overall outgoing personalities and privileged social standing, not one of them ever manages to work up the guts to ask the others what's really going on.

That's pretty much all there is to it. Seriously.

Firstly, gaming has absolutely nothing to do with anything except a premise for how these people meet. That's not a huge deal, except the anime makes it out to be otherwise, so it's blatantly misleading.

The first two episodes were relatively enjoyable; it ... sets up some interesting or somewhat unique choices in animation, and some of the characters didn't turn out to be who I was expecting them to be. With that said, later episodes drag each and every character through the mud, to the point it's physically painful to watch.

The anime rests entirely on the premise of five people--three of whom are *explicitly* made out to be extremely skilled in navigating social situations--being completely and utterly unable to communicate with one another. On top of that massively flawed premise, each and every scene was incredibly predictable, and not in the "familiarly reassuring" sense. The premise was neither believable nor cute; it was, in a word, stupid.

Well, characters and art style is really beautiful but the story line is so random, one episode you watch two lovers fight and other there is a bunch of nonsense,
personally i am really not into "random" animes like this one, i am sure some people will like it tho, its just my opinion.

If you like action or romantic animes, this is not a anime you should watch, there is a huge attempt to drama but it fails so bad and there is no such things called "action" in this anime nor any funny scene that you can laugh about.

I watched all 12 episodes just to ... find something funny but in the end its all a waste. I dont want to offend anybody but really, if you arent bored to death just dont even waste your time with this anime

When you see the title of this anime you'll probably expect an anime about gamers and you will see some gamers in the show, but the main character is not one of them. I never thought an anime could piss me off this much, but when they call people that mostly play mobile games "gamers" I knew this anime was gonna piss me off. A more honest title for this show which could have made it even somewhat acceptable is "gamers" instead of gamers implying that they're not gamers at all which they're not.

The story largely revolves around the concept of romance and whatnot ... and portrays it poorly at that. There's practically zero gaming or gaming related things in this series, so you might be deceived. I would be fine with the romance, but I don't see how any female could ever be attracted to the protagonist unless he got Scrooge McDuck levels of rich.

When the most dis-likable character in the show is the protagonist you know you've done something wrong unless he is meant to be hated in which case I applaud the effort. Amano Keita is the equivalent of the people that play mobile games like angry birds exclusively and call themselves gamers. I don't think there's a single character trait he has that is likable, he's basically a walking "punch me" sign.

In summary if you expect any good romance, something that will make you laugh or something gaming related you'll be left pissed off.