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Gamers! (Anime) add (All reviews)
Apr 27, 2018
Mixed Feelings
Gamers! Is a series that has some good cute and funny moments, but ultimately suffers from a perpetual status quo. It follows tropes found in many romcom animes, though sometimes it manages to put a twist in it that will keep you watching a little longer.

It also has several nods to gaming culture, and the last episode frames an engaging discussion on the pricing of games and DLC, if you don't completely miss it due to the fanservice. The show is good about showing and comparing different kinds of gamers.

I enjoyed the first part of the series, when the misunderstandings were fresh and the gags were unexpected. The stories and relationships were getting really tangled up, but it felt like that it was building to a climax, which the show did provide about halfway through the series. It looked like a clear resolution was coming, but then the plot started to get tangled again, except this time the direction was not as clear, and the characters were making the same mistakes, and the season ended by pausing the tangled storylines and giving us *ahem* distractions. What looked like a cute rom com had turned into kind of a harem perpetuated by lies and assumptions.

I feel that if the show got a second season, no substantial forward progress would be made. I would love to be proven wrong, but considering how similar the gags, misunderstandings, overreactions, and "fixes that made things worse" felt the same as the season progressed, I do not have high hopes.

The art was fine. The opening is wonderful and the character reactions can be quite fun. I would say it is standard. The characters draw on tropes but have some quirks that make them somewhat interesting.

Overall, I'd say it wasn't bad, but it did get annoying toward the end. Watch it if you like crazy love triangles/rectangles/pentagons, awkward but cute high school romance, or gamer culture.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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