This story is NOT about games. IS NOT about gaming. And IS NOT about gamers (per se).
>>This story is about misunderstandings<<
Just because we have games involved, and gamer characters does not mean this story is about games, that is just collatheral.
And I have that fact by the proof that so far in the light novel, none of the character are shown participating in competitions or doing a lot of gaming besides certain scenes.
To understand you need to put yourself in a Japanese person stand point and think how they think. Because this series was made for THEM.
In a way this story is a comedic protest to how japanese people always jumps to conclusions based on impressions or misunderstanding views and how they never talk about it to clear them because "it affects the harmony of the whole".
I've seen people dissapointed with the series because they cant stand the misunderstandings because they had the impression this story is about games, which is not.
Now up to the review:
Gamers!
Is a story about a bunch of gaming kids that love to play games.
Some use the games to gain prestige and win competitions.
Others just play to have fun with them and be casual.
Then we have the pressure of the normalfags who make fun of them.
Between the characters and their low confident or low self esteem, we have the typical case of japanese person who asume things based on image and impressions and how they dont feel worthy to others.
Pushing their views to others and how they always jump into the wrong conclusion based on image and how they always keep everything inside without talking about it.
This is the beauty of gamers!
An exageration of the infamous japanese misunderstanding thoughts based on impressions!
A bunch of teenage kids who likes to play games which end up assuming things based on their low self esteem and impresions coming to the wrong conclusions and never talk it out to clear them.
And since its an exaheration it gives charm to the comedy of it.
Which also add some dramas and facepalm moments which makes this series enjoyable!
Its like a rollercoaster thrill of ups and downs and mishaves that makes you sometimes cheer for these characters and other times just punch them.
First of all we have Amano Keita:
A casual gamer otaku with low self esteem that really wants to make friends to have fun with games in a joy and casual form. But dont insult his friends or else he will bite at you.
Sadly his low self esteem makes see himself unworthy makes him always jump to conclusions and exagerates the pesimistic view in his mind.
Second we have Tendou Karen:
A princess type girl who is the madonna of school. She is into competition gaming to gain prestige and fame. She rebuilt the gaming club for such actions as the previous club members won many trophies so she dont want to ket them down. Also the principal let her have the club with the condition to gain prestige. She also dislike casual games and sees them as trash since you cannot win competitions with them. (Reason why i began to dislike her, i took offense to that). Fell in love with Amano after she hears him defend her and her club in a valiant way. Since then she sees amano as a prince and tries to recruit him for her club to be with him but ended as his girlfriend by a misunderstanding.
Third is Uehara Tasuku:
An ex game otaku now turn into ikemen. Became friends with Amano by a misunderstanding as he saw the kid had gust in the end when provoked. He has the chuuni habit of talking to himself in a superior sense as if all of them would be lost without him. He also decided to be Amano's wingman for the girls that were interested in Amano making himself wall in a riot of misunderstandings because of it, but he is not far into jumping to conclusions.
Fourth is Aguri:
A nerdy girl turned-bubbly-bishoujo who had a crush on Uehara since middle school. After she saw him change she changed herself to fit his liking and ended dating. But also fell into a riot of misunderstandings as she also jumped to conclusions after she saw Tasuku interact with other girls (when he was working as Amano's wingman). She ended up becoming good friends with Amano because of, as Amano tries to help her save her relationship.
Fifth comes Chiaki:
Another gamer girl who is the female synonim of Amano Keita. Chiaki met Amano when he came to her class after Uehara tried to hook them up. Everything started well, both of them likes same things, same games and get along... Until they discovered they have different opinions about certain games then the bickering began. Since then Chiaki and Amano act like a bickering married couple which made Uehara wonder why dont they just hook up. In the end it turns out that Chiaki is in fact Amano's admired doujin game maker and his best game partner Nobe and Mono.
Sixth is Konoha:
Chiaki's little sister who was dragged into the mess thanks to Chiaki herself. She and Amano hits it off and become good friends since they both love visual novels, but deep inside Konoha is a pervert who wants to bang bishoujo (cute girls) making her a bit of a lesbian or at least bisexual. Her preference is erogaming which she tries to keep it a secret to hide her lewd persona. She also becomes Chiaki's wingman (or wingwoman) as she tries to hook both Chiaki and Amano up.
And that is the whole deal.
"Gamers!" Is about teenagers getting involved in misunderstandings to add drama to their youth. Which makes the beauty of the series.
