Gamers!

 So, we are up to the letter G now in the alphabet challenge, and this time it's a romance comedy show, Gamers!

 

 

Which might probably be partially relatable when I saw the synopsis...

 

Keita Hamano is one of so many out there, a gamer living out his student life.  But one day, Karen Tendou, the cutest girl and one of the smartest, of the school has an accidental meeting with him.  As she learns he is a gamer, she desperatly wants to recruit him into the school's game club.  She is a gamer herself, and wants to revive that club as it apparently folded before she entered the school.  He refuses though after meeting the other members when Karen asks formally, as he wants to play for fun and not for performance.

But Amano finds himself in all kinds of awkward situations with others, like playing all non solo games in the arcade with the class cool guy Uehara.  He used to be a geek himself that still actually loves to talk video games, but also sees that Tendou is madly in love with Amano.  But Amano seeks out Hoshinomori, a loner gamer girl that is as passionate about games as him, though neither wants to step back when they have a difference in opinion.  This leads to a heap of misunderstandings as well between Uehara and his girlfriend Aguri.

 

When she sees him holding Hoshinomori, she draws wrong conclusions.   He actually held her for a moment as he figured out she was Uehara's online gamefriend, the one he always has fate in but they didn't know of each other behind the nickname's.

But due to miscommunications and misunderstandings, it all starts to get out of hand and nobody still knows who of them exactly likes who.  But Amaro asks Karen out at last, trying to put all the pieces back in order amongst the friends group.  But as they go to the swimming pool, Hoshinomori approaches him to talk about how she can`t find her kid sister, and this is something Karen picks up worngly, so they need to clear that out.

 

But the online alliases are slowly revealed, and it turns out that the mobile game Amaro loves so much is actually created by Hoshinomori, so the two people he actually talks to ingame turn out to be one and the same. Or aren`t they, and is her younger sister involved?  He decides to take Uehara's girlfriend, who doesn't game herself, along to a gamer gathering though, as he believes her boyfriend is confessing his love behind her back to another.

 

 But by talking to each other and getting to know each other, and especially Amaro's weird way of thinking, they start to acknowledge their through loves, feelings and passions.  They draw the parallels between the gaming industry and relationships, bringing Uehara and his girlfriend back together, but Amano himself remains in a spot torn between the other girls... as he teaches them about the joys and pitfalls of gaming.

It's an enjoyable, if not great series, with a topic many can probably relate to.  It won`t be a waste of time to watch this, but it is not that this is something you just have to have seen, a decent slice of life comedy and not much more.