Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun

Story:5
From what I've seen its just a standard romance about a gamer boy who meets a gamer girl and she helps him become a functioning member of society and get a girlfriend

Art:4
Its pretty meh, the mc looks like a hentai protag

Sound:5
Didn't stand out in either a good or bad way

Character:1
... The usage of Gamer and Normie and the overall reddit talk made this show practically unwatchable, anything the mc says is so cringe that you literally have to pause the show and look in the mirror and think about why you are actually doing this to yourself, this obviously also means that...

Enjoyment:1
Its just painful to watch, nothing more to say, just pain

Overall:1
If you unironically go on gamer subreddits this anime is probably for you however if you are a functioning member of society, please stay away from this show

Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun is about your typical loner gamer dude who plays *not* Smash Bros at a very high level, and decides to one day meet up with the person right after him on the leaderboard, who ends up being a cute, popular girl from his class. After this meeting, this girl, Aoi, having scolded our protagonist, decides to help him out by teaching him how to become a riajuu, a “normie” you could say.

I really wish I were be here right now saying good things about this show and how I used some of the advice Aoi gave to Tomozaki myself, but alas, here I ... am, incredibly disappointed by what could have been a nice romcom with a school setting. The show presents an interesting idea, I haven’t actually seen anything like it before, but the execution of the premise set in place by the first few episodes is a complete miss.

So, what is this premise? Tomozaki goes through several lessons with Aoi, who teaches him basic social skills, manners, posture, and so on, and gives him challenges such as “talk to three different girls” or “force a smile while wearing a mask”. Tomozaki doesn’t necessarily do well at completing these challenges, but he does try his earnest to do so, more often than not with the help of Aoi. Here is my first issue with show. If the whole premise is about the evolution of a loner into a riajuu, then why does Aoi do most of the work for him? It would be way more satisfying to watch Tomozaki do these challenges on his own, failing them or not, with all the cringy situations that these challenges may bring. I fail to understand why Aoi would be so invested into a random dude she met online. She’s not in love with him, and Tomozaki’s first impression on her was awful. Is it pity? Is it self-fulfillment? Who knows, but Aoi intervening as much as she does only reinforces all of the problems this show has.

There’s an analogy Jaku-Chara brings up regarding real life and games, even though it’s slightly “cringy”. If real life is treated as a game, then the social skills and achievements can be the equivalent of the skills and achievements in a video game. Tomozaki being really good Tackfam comes with a contrast of him being really bad at real life. This brings up quite a disparity. If you’ve ever played a fighting game, you’d know how much effort it takes to be good, let alone a top level player in said game, even in a game like Smash Bros. It takes years and years of practice before you could consider yourself competent at a fighting game, practice that Tomozaki has clearly put into Tackfam out of his passion for the game. So why is it that he goes from being a complete loner to a good looking socially capable guy in the span of 4-5 episodes?! How come the show is 12 episodes long when Tomozaki achieves all but one of his goals in 5 episodes? Of course, the rest of the show feels like filler content that serves close to no purpose to the overall plotline. I will attribute this to poor pacing. I assume that the light novel goes way deeper into Tomozaki’s struggles and hardships, or at least I hope so.

You might now ask me, “why am I comparing real life scenarios to fiction?” or “Why does it matter that Tomozaki achieved his goals quickly?”. The answer to that is simple, suspension of disbelief.

I’ll let you google what suspension of disbelief means if you don’t know this term, but it’s a fancy way of referring to the reader or watcher believing and investing themselves into a given scenario. Here lies the main problem of Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun: I do not believe a single event that happens in the anime.

When you pick a school setting for your work of fiction, you can go down two paths, a realistic depiction of high school life with down to earth, believable characters (for example, Hibike! Euphonium), or an absurd depiction of high school with extraordinary events and out-of-this-earth characters (for example, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu). These paths aren’t that well defined, and most of the time you can get away with mixing absurd characters with regular high school events (for example, Chuu2Koi), which ends up being quite a nice way of showing what a character is going through, be it a completely exaggerated depiction of an emotion or an emphasis on the importance of a particular event in the character’s life. Chuu2Koi does this with chuuni magic battles, Monogatari does this with long elaborate dialogue, although Monogatari isn’t your typical high school setting show. Point is, your story and characters have to be believable or relatable. You want the reader or viewer to care for the characters you’ve written. As for Tomozaki, his only relatable point is that he’s a loner, and so are most anime watchers. Nobody will relate to being the best at a certain game, and very few will relate to being competent to a high level at a certain game, and most certainly NOBODY will relate to Tomozaki’s character progression. Without being relatable, the main character now must appeal to the audience with his actions, most of which are dictated by a third party or happenstance. He’s effectively a puppet of the other characters in the show, sometimes adding his own ad lib to the situations he finds himself in. Even after becoming a “normie” 5 episodes in, Tomozaki just comes off as bland and uninteresting. He’s nothing like OreGairu’s Hachiman who’s a way better example of a loner working on himself in order to become a better human being. This is the main problem, Jaku-Chara is too unrealistic to be a down to earth high school romcom, and too ordinary to be an absurd high school romcom. The viewer is stuck in a situation where they cannot relate to the main character while also not being able to enjoy his personality or the results of his actions. They cannot “suspend their disbelief” in order to fully invest themselves in the show.

The other characters don’t help. Aoi has no personality, she hardly even fits a trope. She’s somewhat twofaced, but not enough for her to be an appealing or interesting character. Minami isn’t a character; I refuse to acknowledge that someone wrote her as she is. She’s an amalgamation of completely different charm points and gags that the writer probably finds appealing in a waifu. She is so over-the-top energetic that it becomes hard to watch any scene that involves her. Izumi is your generic high school girl, again, without a personality. Out of the female characters, this only leaves Kikuchi, voiced by Kayano Ai, who I like a lot, and Hanabi, who’s cute and inoffensive. I could mention the male characters, but other than Nakamura, who’s sort of another rival to Tomozaki, they, yet again, serve no purpose and just act as filler content, NPCs for Tomozaki to interact with.

Speaking of Kayano Ai, her and Nobuhiko make this show bearable. The rest of the voice actors are unremarkable at best, obnoxious at worst. Hasegawa Ikumi does an awful job at Minami, but then again, Minami is an abomination of a character, so that’s most likely because of poor direction.

The opening is a cheerful song by DIALOGUE+, an unknown idol group, and sounds as generic as you’d expect it to. I thought it was ok at first, but it very quickly got obnoxious to listen to. The ending is unremarkable, as one would expect.

Finally, the art and character design are fine. They’re bland, and I absolute hate the modern character design standards when it comes to drawing eyes and faces, but that’s just me. Again, unremarkable, but at least the animation isn’t appalling.

Without a solid and interesting story, Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun fails to entice the viewer with its unremarkable characters. The viewer finds themselves watching seemingly unbelievable events unfold as the main character lackadaisically moves from happenstance to happenstance that just happen to work out in his favour. Without achievements that can be attributed to Tomozaki’s efforts, the show feels like an empty shell with no substance, an exhibition of events that collectively have no impact.

There is very little to take away from Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun, I wouldn’t recommend trying Aoi’s advice in real life, let alone watching the show. If you want a good story about a loner working on himself, watch OreGairu.

TL;DR:

Pros:
-Kayano Ai voicing a cute taciturn bookworm
-The first couple of episodes and tips

Cons:
-Unremarkable characters
-Unbelievable events
-The show fails to suspend the viewer’s disbelief
-Little to no substance – an exposition of random events
-Minami
-Awful pacing

Final Score: 2/10

Thank you Kayano Ai for saving this show from being a 1/10. God bless.

I don't understand how anyone could possibly enjoy this. From what I can see, it's simply a show with decent art and a possibly interesting start.

The main point of this show is that an unsocial high schooler gets tips and tricks from a riaju to help him become more social. The premise is really quite stupid as in real life, unsocial people wouldn't be talking with others let alone one of the most popular people in the school.

The characters in this show are somewhat unique, but they're mostly all disgusting people. Take the riaju for example. Her meeting with the main character is ... through a game called "tackfam" or essentially a rip off of super smash where she's rated 2nd in the game while the mc is 1st. To me, her real reason of meeting him is to find someone that's better than her and I'm assuming to date or hang out with. Unfortunately for her, she meets the mc, an unsocial guy in her class, and some of her first few words to him are just insults.

What is her problem? I'm not really sure, but she clearly believes that he's failed in the game of life. She's utterly disappointed that the only person that she found that was better than her was a quitter and basically a loser. The fact that you only respect people better than you is absolutely disgusting.

She accuses the mc of quitting in the game of life and that he's not a "gamer" and the mc is forced to either accept that he's a loser or get better in the game of life. However, there's nothing wrong with quitting. If you're doing drugs and someone explained that you're a quitter for quitting drugs, is there something wrong with that? She then decides to help him win in life. Why? There's really no reason for you to help him out at all, but one possibility is that you're improving him to date him.

She goes on to create a set of goals to help him improve, and one of them specifically is to get a girlfriend. Dating someone for the sake of achieving a goal is honestly really disgusting. You're toying with other people's feelings to simply feel good about achieving your goal and not to nurture the relationship. She clearly doesn't care about other people, yet other people view her as a goddess.

Another thing she recommends the mc to do is to memorize conversation topics. Yes. Memorize conversation topics. Does anyone actually do this because if they do, they definitely have some serious problems. Additionally, she tells him to start a conversation with a female. As someone with few friends in real life, I can confidently say that it's nearly impossible for me to do so and it will certainly be awkward. However, the mc feels practically nothing. While it is awkward, he breezes past it like doing so is normal. He doesn't even have a fml moment and acts like nothing happened.

The mediocre plot and the appalling characters make this show an absolute wash. While a few moments are nice and some characters are waifu material, I don't think they can save the show.

3/10

Honestly I can’t even tell you why this show pisses me off like it does. It’s pretty basic and formulaic but it is so pretentious, like it thinks it is so smart. It’s acting like My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU which is actually smart, but it just has no fucking idea what it’s talking about. They try to do the whole social commentary thing but it land flat on it’s fucking face. It was so in your face that any nuance just went right out the fucking window. I mean it was like that in SNAFU as well but at least that one had something ... interesting to say and actually had a lot of different arguments and examples. This show can only say one thing and they shove it down your throat at every chance they get. None of the characters are interesting in the slightest and the fucking premise on how they met is stupid. They literally disrespect their own demographic so hard. I mean don’t get me wrong, what they say is true and its demographic absolutely needs to be called out, but like, could they do it in a smarter way? I don’t want to keep comparing it to SNAFU but once again, it’s literally just a better version of this show. Honestly, I never even thought about why I hated this show and I never even made the connection to SNAFU until I started writing this review. I am a genius. I kinda write whatever comes to my head and I am getting off track. Anyway, shit sucks.

Girl: "If you smile and take care of your appearance to look decent, people will like you more". MC: (Surprised pikachu face) <-- this is the kind of CRINGE fest that abound in this show portraying an introvert as a socially inept dude who doesn't understand basic human interaction. I'm not even exaggerating, from episode 1 you'll see meme-level "Wow" reactions from the MC when he's being taught about HOW HUMAN SMILES WORK.

The main story is about this no-life dude that gives cringe speeches about how life is crap and is obsessed with the Tackfam videogame (basically Super Smash Bros), who then meets a cute ... superficial girl who suddenly decides to be his social life coach to make him a chad in no time.

Basically, the story is a creep otaku fantasy where a cute girl (who "coincidentally" also happens to be a top gamer) will help you get a girlfriend, leading to interactions with more cute girls, and some of them may also want you to teach them how to play your favorite videogame. How cool and UNREALISTIC is that.

Simply put, the whole show is very unlikable. We're talking about a MC who snaps and yells at people who dare to criticize his favorite videogame. You will probably be cringing hard with plenty of face palm and eye-roll moments if you continue watching.

Overall, I cannot recommend this show.

Bruh this shit is trash. I dont mind the main character being trash but the purpose of the whole show is trash. The show will emphasize on the idea that if you don't want to be a loser, you have to follow the trend and care what others think about you. Aoi is one of the worst characters out there. The author wants us to see that she is hard-working. And WHY is she hard-working? Well, it is a simple answer: She cares about her social status and acts all fake around others. I know I may be going overboard on writing how the themes ... and the meaning behind this show is trash, but I think they should be giving better themes and ideas, rather than it just being on your ego and social life. To be honest the show was not that bad, I did enjoy the main character more when he wanted to be popular. ITS NOT WRONG TO BE LONELY AND UNSOCIAL. This is not me trying to project my insecurites to the world and shit on this dumpsterfire, but this is a poorly made anime. It permits the Tu QuoQue fallacy about a million times. The anime is fallacious LMAOOO!

First of all, I literally thought that this is going to be a typical Harem anime, but it wasn't. It did justify the "comedy" genre, but somehow I felt it lacked or rather did injustice to
"romance" genre. It was basically a gamer trying to think life as a game too and tried to raise his level but somewhere along the line he realised he wasn't doing what he "really wanted".

It did have some comic moments and its a good slice of life but it wasn't, not even a little a romantic anime. It was more like friendly kind of thing and nothing more. ... But even so, if it does gets a sequel and justifies the "romance" part of the story then that would be something to look forward to.

Overall, you can watch it if you are bored or something like that. But not worth that much of attention though. My rating would be somewhat 4/10.

There's more drama than a K-drama! I felt the cringe so bad on this show. You'll know when you get to the cringes. It was difficult to even watch some of the MC's outbursts. There are no spoilers in this review because it literally says on the show description "Aoi decides to assist him in succeeding in what she calls the greatest game of them all." Taken straight from MAL itself I only elaborate on the "Game of Life" and MC being a "Tackfam" friendless gamer. Tackfam is basically the anime equivalent of Smash Bros. I only elaborated on Aoi helping Tomozaki in the game ... of life/friends/social stuff. It's already there in the MAL show description and there are no specific details or spoilers.

I don't like the plot or characters at all. The idea of "changing yourself" to fit into some social norm is the very opposite of modern day society. People have been working hard to promote "self acceptance" and being yourself. But this show undermines all of that. It demonstrates a beta male trying to "fix himself" because a woman told him to. Said woman who blindly insults him heavily without even trying to get to know him. Main female character is extremely disrespectful and only cares about the status quo. MC is talked into being more "normal" and I severely disagree with the idea of changing yourself to someone else's ideals.

So yeah, story and characters are dreadful in my opinion. The entire base for this story is terrible. I genuinely hope the MC gets a mind of his own and starts thinking for himself. And maybe one day he can leave the girl in the dust or tell her off because she deserves it. After their first meeting you can see exactly what type of person the girl is. I don't care if she has "pride", that's no excuse for her to be disrespectful to other people.

The only saving graces are the smooth artwork and the potential for the MC to develop into a thoughtful person that can have his own opinion and be himself. But I doubt that is going to happen unfortunately and I'm not going to hold my breath.

shit is trash bro
aint much more to say, had to watch the last few eps at 2x speed idk why i even finished this garbage
what kills me is they tried to shoe horn in some physiological shit towards the end
one i finished this anime i felt like tearing off my cock and feeding it to myself

what a fucking horrid show, if i where to be more objective a 3/10, but that would just have been if i dropped it like 3 eps in. watching this fully has caused me so much suffering imma give it a 1/10
shit is trash bro

the high scores this anime receives from other reviewers shows how unfortunately mainstream anime has become.

this entire show reads as just an excuse to deride the socially awkward for "not trying hard enough". the examples and methods are awful. the people on here calling the MC "cringey" are the exact people this anime is aimed towards. he's just a normal socially awkward teenage boy, and he's right. games are balanced, life is not. people can and do end up failing through no fault of their own. not only is the plot nonsensical but it seems like it was intended to be deliberately insulting to "losers" ... as the MFP calls them.

Where to begin with this one... Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun is a boring, uninspired mess. The protagonist is introduced as an antisocial loner who is the number one ranked player at “tackfam” ,or Smash Bros as we know it, and meets his rival who happens to be the perfect girl at his school. She is smart, athletic, popular and the ideal role model for everyone around her but to me she was unbearable. The school has this unwritten rule that popular girls wear neck ties and the unpopular ones wear bow ties which leads me to my main criticism of relatability.

Relatability is a key part of ... anime and this one did not handle it well which ruined the show for me. The characters introduced, other than the MC, are so “socially perfect” that it eliminated any potential relationship to form between the viewer and the cast. The MC is a total wreck and treats social skills like it’s a Skyrim speech tree, Aoi (the rival) is the one providing these “lessons” and cannot be liked by the viewers as she is too far away from reality; Ironic really as that’s what the premise of the show is. I highly doubt the world created here is anything like the experiences any of us have had which is why it’s so boring.

My next gripe is more about a recurring phrase, “this game of life”. I don’t know why but every time This was muttered my skin would crawl, it’s just frustrating to hear as I find the premise of treating the real world like a game cringe-worthy. The show tries to delve into complex themes, similar to Oregairu, but fails due to the nature of them. They treat the real world like you need xp to talk to popular people and if you don’t meet the level requirements you’ll become a laughing stock. This couldn’t be farther from reality as people naturally drift to those with similar interests and hobbies regardless of popularity.

I’m going to wrap this up as I’ll be here all day discussing every issue otherwise. The only saving grace is the middle of the show where they focus more on the trips out and less on the game aspect, it feels like they’ve built an average romance story with the typical growth of a boring MC and tried to force the growing popularity of the gaming genre into it. It fails this task and the ending leaves the characters in the same spot as the beginning, “training” the MC into becoming socially acceptable.

I never had the intentions of watching this anime but after i heard it was about gaming, i knew i just had to see what creativity lies in here. Fun or not, gaming is what you will hear the most in episodes, should you watch it that is....too annoying even but i will explain that more detailed as we go through.

So we meet Fumiya Tomozaki, a lowlife who spends his days playing Smash...so much that he's the number 1 player in Japan. After one match with the number 2, the two of them decide to meet and...its one of the girls in his class. Normally, ... she gets embarassed and pretty dissapointed that he was the number 1..so she decides to help him get better in life after COMPLETELY saying she was terrified of him...where does this make sense? No matter; now our "hero" with the helpful tips from Hinami Aoi(his classmate), is trying to be a somebody and try to "beat" this game called life. Essencially, this is an educating anime for those who probably feel like this..but honestly this is an insult. They make this situation look too easy like as "you do this and that's it, you're the best"...its not always like that you know? Lots of people struggle with this shut-in problem, some feel terrified about opinions on what other people might have on them and others perhaps had some experiences in life that, unfortunately, led them be like that...but this anime throws that fact out of the window by using its "facts and logic"("you do this and that's it, you're the best"). The problem with this anime is that it gets decent...on the last episodes.
I get it, this anime most likely will have more seasons as we go but that glimpse of what's to come only shows very rarely; clearly Tomozaki is growing to be a better person but those scenes show up very rarely in the anime and gives more focus to other character's problems..hasn't our MC suffered enough in his life? I don't think he would be capable of understanding other people's issues when he can't even fix his(if he ever had issues either way). If the trend from episode 11 continues, perhaps this turns out to be a good show afterall.

Characters are too uninspired. There's tons of girls and yet not a single one where i can be satisfied with; either they don't have screentime or they just talk nonsense that doesn't interest anyone. Regarding Tomozaki more, often you will see him say "I suck at this game of life."; "I want to become a better player at this." ; "Her level is too high...", can't they tone down with the gaming talk...its making this anime more cringy every time i watch it(biased opinion, you can discount that from this review.)
Art is pretty dissapointing, sure it looks alright but they cut perhaps the best scenes that the manga had and replaced them with generic boring normal things...this is where all the "gaming" content could have been presented like in the manga. Animation is quite decent, nothing out of the regular. Music is nothing special too, the opening and the ending sound quite upbeat but other than that, its as generic as it could be.

So should you watch this anime? Frankly, depends how the second season goes or how the story in the manga is because i can't recommend this at all. The best compliment that i can give to this anime is that the voice acting is quite good but other than that, better stick to the manga; its not a huge step up but its a better experience than what you see from this animation. Dissapointing.

Okay so from the start i thought something like " This could be fun, something like Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy" .
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The few first episodes were kinda fun, but now its really, really bad. The anime is about a boy who is just playing this one game all the time. Then he find out, that girl from his school also play this game. But they have opposite personalities so she start to teach him "how to live life". And thats it. Nothing speacial and the graphic is nothing spectacular or something.

Story have some progress for like 5 episodes. There is literally zero ... sound and the characters are boring af.

Story: 2/10
Art: 5/10
Sound: 6/10
Character: 1/10
Enjoyment: 1/10
Overall: 2/10
Goddamn dude, & here I was thinking that it couldn't get any fucking worse after Campione, but I guess I was wrong. This new year sure is kicking off which an abysmal first season, & this show is the worst anime of the year so far. This slice of life has absolutely nothing going for it. Its generic & flat out boring with nothing making me smile in the slightest, in fact it was the polar opposite really, it made me mad, especially after watching episode 10. I'm not sure if this anime has a manga to it, ... but if it does, I really hope its at least a little better than the anime, cause the anime is a complete waste of time, I want a refund. The characters are just the worse with nothing going for them. I couldn't care less, & simply hearing the op & ed song's are enough to grind my shit, not because they're bad songs, but because they give me terrible vibes. Anyways, I'm gonna get going, I just had to let this shit off my chest, so that I can erase this show from my memory, & its gonna be a big difficulty tryna top this one for worst anime of the year.

Out of the 3 episodes I've seen of this anime, I can definitively say it's just not for me. I found the characters to be quite cringy and boring. The titular Tomozaki-kun is written to be cynical and wary of others' actions, which I think is a fine trait to have, albeit a bit dry and overdone. However, his (and many others') usage of "gamer terminology" throughout the anime made me cringe all the way back to middle school, where people acted like using these terms would make them cooler. Many of the lines feel forced and beat the dead horse of "life is the ... shittiest game out there". I'm sure there's some sort of depth to the characters and there is some growth throughout, however, I seemingly can't get past the cringetopia of attempting to relate real life to a video game, and that's coming from someone who's been in the hardcore fighting game community for many years. The characters feel bland and washed out, and the only thing that seemed to set this anime apart from other loner high school romances was the obsessive pandering to gamer audiences.

Do have poor communication skills? Do you stink? Do women run away from you?? Well, I got the perfect solution for you! It’s simple, easy, and takes less than a day. All you gotta do is sit down… and think about getting your life back together. And when you’re done, you can watch Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-Kun.

Tomozaki is your average ideal gamer. Only earning the title as the best Buper Bash Bros gamer in Japan, which I’m sure many of you could relate. And like how most of you could also relate… he is a loser, a nerd, geek, incel, a typical average smelly little GAMER that ... receives the face of disgust every time he walks by someone in the hallways (not that I also experience that or anything…). And, because of having little to no social ques, he blames the world for being so unfair towards him. Calling it a “stupid pay-to-win game”, he strays further and further from society, creating a never-ending cycle in which he would never try escape from.

But one day, he plays against N-N-N-No-Name, the second-best Buper Bash Bros player in Japan. Getting curious about who that special someone is, Tomozaki decides to go out of his comfort zone and invites to hangout. In which he realizes that she is actually a girl… never seen those in a while!.... And on top of that, she is “Hinami”, one of the best and most popular students in his school. Getting offended about Tomozaki’s GAMER STENCH, she decides to help clean him up and implement him back into a decent member of society.

Similar to the structure of an RPG, Tomozaki receives quests from Hinami in which he has to complete before a certain time frame. Brining out his INNER GAMER (*says in a very deep voice*), Tomozaki decides to take on these quests and beat the game he calls life.

This isn’t really a romance anime, but a tutorial for losers like me on how to become a decent person in society. It doesn’t mainly focus on romance like a typical romance anime but on society as a whole. Sure, there are some aspects to romance, but it makes sure to show it in an observatory sense as possible. Making it feel like the main character is playing a dating-sim rather than actually developing feelings. It focusses significantly more on how Tomozaki maneuvers around the game of life and the skills he picks up from experience and other experienced players.


At first, I saw Tomozaki as a generic self-insert character meant to gain sympathy from sweaty incels. He is awkward and views the world as unfair without even putting in any significant amount of effort. But I soon realized that is his whole purpose. To start him off as a loser of a person to become someone better. There is nowhere to go but up once you hit rock bottom. It’s not just his looks that improve but also his confidence, social skills, and attitude towards society in general.

Tomozaki also uses the fact that he is a pro-gamer to give him opportuties to succeed. Which I think is cool because most shows use the aspect of the main character being a gamer or otaku as a tool for relatability. But they actually use the fact of being a gamer more than just that, I don’t know why, but it makes me feel happy whenever is see him relate real life things into game mechanics. Seeing life portrayed in something that I can actually connect to makes me also want to play this so-called game of life as well.

Hinami Aoi is the opposite of Tomozaki where she has a lot of friends, in a club, and has good grades. Her socializing skills are extraordinary, and while being double faced, she’s also kind to the people she cares about. She serves as a sensei for Tomozaki giving him quests to complete. It’s also truly terrifying how much information she can learn just from observing people and their social ques. I know it’s just an anime, but dammb, this girl should’ve been on death note.

The other characters were constructed pretty well. They act like normal people and have their own personalities and ideals. Such as Nanami’s desire to be the best, Kikuchi’s love for books, Izumi’s attachment towards the cocky douche bag Nakamura, and Natsubayashi’s stubbornness to not wield to society.

Each Character has their own personality and look. All their clothing matches their personality. Take for example Hinami’s casual… drip... Her earrings and puffed-up clothes perfectly match her self-confidence and desire to look her best in front of other people. She looks mature, in which she is supposed to be in order to be Tomozaki’s sensei.

But for some reason, I felt there was something missing. A missing puzzle piece that I so badly wanted to fill in. Sure, the characters acted human, but they never felt human. They had their own personalities, emotions, and struggles, but I feel like they were only being used just to progress the story.

Nanami was a prime example of what I noticed. She was bitter of Hinami for being the star student that can do anything, feeling as if no matter how much she tried she will never become equals. This on its own, is a great concept of humanizing a character, showing their side of week and vulnerable. However, we only get to see so little of these sides before we’re forced move on to a different plot point. Granted, the producers were only given 12 episodes to work with. But that still doesn’t change the point that I think these subjects should’ve been explored more.

I also have a problem, teeny tinny problem, with what the conveying message is. It mainly focuses on the improvement on looks and social skills to beat the game of life rather than improving academics and joining clubs. Sure, having many friends may help you beat life in the short run, however getting good academics and finding a stable career path would benefit you much better in the long run. (God Damb dude… I’m sounding like my dad…)

But I guess this message is mainly targeting towards anti-social hikimori’s. Who definitely need better hygiene and social skills over anything else…

For some reason, the narrative weirdly changed from a tutorial game format to a knockoff Oregairu parody (searching for the “true” relationship), but then transitioning back to as before in the last 5 minutes of the last episode. Idk, it felt kind of cheesy to me, and if they were going to introduce a heavy subject like this, I wouldn’t think of it as a good idea for them to start at the last 2 minutes of the second to last episode, which further ensures my point in the video that I think the subject this show tackles should be explored more.

Overall, I would rate this show is a 4 out of 10. It contains the same deeper societal aspects such as Oregairu however, big however, large however, phattest however ever, lacking in character depth. With the structure of Dr. Stone, it has a very unique concept that I think any anime fan should experience. Even if you didn’t enjoy it, you could still BOP to the Sweeeet openings and endings songs. The opening perfectly fitting the game concept with it is Gameboy’isk 8-bit synths. I swear get the sudden urge to dance every time, and it never gets freeeeking old!

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

I'm gonna start with a banger and say that this was trash. I can't even call it mid, calling it a mid anime would just disrespect the mids out there. The reason I'm coming in so hot is how this got rated higher than 7.

Story: From episode 1 to episode 12, we've quite literally run a full circle in terms of the romantic relationship between Fumiya and Aoi. Starting from the first half I was starting to believe that Aoi was just a straight-up wingman and the anime would focus more on the MC's romantic relationship with Minami or at least Fuuka, hell even Yuuzu ... just give me something that justifies a "romance" tag there. Jealousy is not even a thing in this anime, Aoi hasn't shown her jealousy but that's probably out of character since she always has a "mask" which is fine but what about our MC Fumiya who is known to be honest. During the scene when Takahiro (probably the best character in the series) confessed to Aoi, the only reaction we get out of the boy Fumiya is a "pogU face". So far the only romance route I can deduce is Fuuka and it's from the fact that she willingly goes on 1on1 dates with him.

Art: Very basic facial expressions, yeah the MC got a hairdo wooh and I could barely even tell apart the difference.

Sound: Nothing memorable. So I give it a Fair score

Characters: The top 2 characters in my opinion is not even the MCs. It's the little sister and Takahiro. You might think, really? but I thought the 2 MCs were the best. Yeah sure, we can count Aoi in the fact that she manages to stay in the character of having a "mask", if we want to count that as being a good character.

Overall: TLDR; Don't bother watching, there's no point investing time into any of the supporting characters in this anime because they're just gonna get sidelined. You can't even support the main characters together because they clearly have no attraction towards one another. The interactions between each characters is insanely dull with little to no facial expressions. The progression is almost non-existent, you finish the anime and you realize nothing fucking happened in 12 episodes.

Sorry for ranting, if you disagree with me and think this deserves higher than 7 then that's fine, hope you all have a nice day.

typical highschool anime with first world problem
Gamers with social anxiety who blame the world for being suck and not being good like videogame escapism all the way
Hes the 1 player in the game
He met the 2nd player that is a girl that also hes classmate
That also beautiful and a waifu material that is normal functional being
That will help him to become a normal human
And become his lover sooner or later It seems theres some wishfullfillment that was going on here


Boring as hell
... And the character is one note
Boring setting since its highschool
Cringe otaku humor and dullest animation

about an introvert boy that wanna be an extrovert

just that
the idea Is not bad,Is good,can i say very good
but things that i dont like Is how the Storytelling is
like the "game" is just a gimmick
How the MC so naive
the Anime full with Fan-Service
and the comedy that sounds cringe for me

... but things that good from this Anime Is the life Lessons
like how to make ourselves improve at social skills

so the Light Novel Version is good (i've already read it) because the Light Novel Is all about Social Skills And teach the reader how to improve it
but the Anime version is different Its more focused to school life and Romance
and the story Is not fit to focus on these genres

so i'll not recommended this,but if you'd love fan service and want to kill Your own time just give It a try