Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun

Fumiya Tomozaki is Japan's best player in the online game Attack Families, commonly known as "Tackfam." Despite holding such a revered title, a lack of social skills and amiability causes him to fall short in his everyday high school life. Failing to have any friends, he blames the convoluted mechanics and unfair rules of life, forcing him to give up and proclaim himself a bottom-tier character in this "game."

After a fateful meeting with another top-tier Tackfam player, Fumiya is shocked to discover the player's true identity—Aoi Hinami, a popular, smart, and sociable classmate who is the complete opposite of himself. Aoi, surprised at how inept Fumiya is at everything besides Tackfam, decides to assist him in succeeding in what she calls the greatest game of them all. Through the gruesome ordeals of social interactions and relationships, Fumiya begins to advance tiers in the glorious game of life.

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Hinami, Aoi Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Tomozaki, Fumiya Main

Satou, Gen Japanese

Nanami, Minami Supporting

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Kikuchi, Fuuka Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Izumi, Yuzu Supporting

Hieda, Nene Japanese

Natsubayashi, Hanabi Supporting

Maekawa, Ryouko Japanese

Mizusawa, Takahiro Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Narita, Tsugumi Supporting

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Nakamura, Shuuji Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Takei Supporting

Mizuno, Shuntarou Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

Koutani, Satoshi Producer

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Dec 10, 2024

MrSlamboni

Recommended

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All jokes aside, I enjoyed this show quite a bit. I do not think it's amazing or a masterpiece, but it did everything I expect. I got invested in the main characters, I was entertained, I thought the interactions seemed... plausible. I honestly expected a very cliche plot, but I was pleasantly surprised. That's not to say the plot is amazing or anything, but it was fun.

I've seen many reviews saying it's a self insert, I don't understand that. Most of the advice and trials that Tomozaki goes through seem pretty realistic to me. As a small example, ... it is true that posture and expression are a big part of social interactions. I naturally have a face that looks fed up. I have to consciously raise my eyebrows to make a neutral face. When I am not consciously changing it, even people who know me start to look worried.

You might hate me for saying it, but social interactions are mostly skill and practice. I'm not an authority on this because I'm a social expert, but I am someone who changes his approach to interacting with others and can notice the difference. I also talk to people who are awkward and people who are social butterflies and I notice the difference.

One downfall of this show is that some of the side characters are too shallow. Especially with the angry types, there isn't much going on beneath the surface. These personality archetypes do exist in real life, and the things they do are realistic. However, in real life they would be at least a bit more complex. However, it's hard to rail on an anime for having characters that are "not realistic enough". I should be glad that they didn't go with harem tropes and call it a day.

On the other hand, Aoi is an interesting character because you can never know if and when she's acting. It adds mystery to the show because you sometimes infer what her intentions might be, but you never know for sure. My favorite character to watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 12, 2024

VanVeleca

Mixed Feelings

The best way to describe this would be a diet soda version of "Welcome to the NHK", it's about a social outcast who one day meets a girl that wants to change him for the better. It's not a complete rip off though.

Tomozaki is a bitter person at the start who believes video games are his only friends and he never imagined that anyone in class could ever give a shit about him.

As he rises higher and higher in levels he gains more friends and more confidence, he starts to view the people close to him not always necessarily on bottom or top tiers and ... despite still staying a gamer, he goes beyond his initial bias and actually pushes forward to also have passions in the real world.

Overall it's really sweet...But...one big problem.

Hinami.

This character, this fucking character, is awful. She sucks so bad.

Her fake smile and public personality pissed me off everytime and her relationship with Tomozaki is complete bullshit that would never work if it wasn't for Tomozaki being so submissive and breedable.

She does get a few, very very few, good moments in the second half of the story, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get into the friendship between her and Tomozaki. She's genuinely just not a very interesting character and while she pushed Tomozaki forward at the beginning, eventually I was wondering why the hell she was STILL pulling this shit.

Her ideas and demands on how Tomozaki would be happier did make sense, but eventually she just gets so goddamn annoying and begins feeling redundant once the other, much more enjoyable characters also begin helping out Tomozaki.

It's not a bad anime, but my enjoyment was in the negative anytime Hinami was onscreen.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jun 26, 2024

mafixyz

Not Recommended

its totally boring and the story can be discribed in 2 lines. It resolved around an idiotic loser and a arrogant girl. I don't understand how did it get a second season. There are many good anime even in romace comedy that i am waiting for s2. I totally wasted my time on this even poem is more resourseful than this shit.the story is too short and what can i say there isn't even romance .


the characters are just so so . story don't have any creativitly its plain. just by showing dressed up and some borig dates with girls and thats ... it

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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