Hi-Score Girl season 2

 Jumping forward five years to 1996, and the friends are still as passionate about video games as they where in the first season.

And now in their second year of high school, the being brought together by just arcade games has evolved into friendship and more.

As Akira Oono sets into private tutoring, a game of Street Fighter brings back the memories of the great times she had with Haruo.  And Kohura hasn`t given up on her feelings for Haruo yet.  But with the reputation of arcades on the line against a group of high school girls, they stand up for their believes.

When Koharu comes to Yaguchi's aid, she holds him to a promise of a date for when she defeated him earlier, though they agree not to call it that.  But as the trains fall out of service due to a power outage, they pull an allnighter, and Koharu tells a part of her feelings towards Yaguchi.  This results in an awkward situation as Akira walks in on them, but she doesn't seem to mind to hard and love-triangle begins to form.

But slowly and surely, the rivalry between the girls starts heating up, not helped in the least by Oono's elder sister and Haruo's mom putting their noses in.  Haruka challenges Oono to an arcade duel empowered by her feelings, but gets soundly defeated.  As Haruo gains his license for his scooter, he visits Oono but she backs away from him...

Thinking it is because he wasn't gaming lately, he starts training again, even enlisting for a tournament, as he realises he loves Akira and wants to impress her.  But the truth is that her parents had decided to leave Japan again, for good this time, and she is trying to cut her ties to him softly.  They take the train together to the tournament, and arriving in Osaka they visit the local arcade first.  Due to circumstances, they have to share the same room, and as they go to sleep he sees Akira teary eyed.

As Harua advances to the final of his bracket, Oono lost her first match.  But she finds her drive back, and goes to smack through the loser brackets of the tournament and get back in the main tournament.   But then they have to face off in the semi-finals, each winning one round before going into the final and all deciding thrid round, which Oono takes and winning the tournament.

Later on, he engages in talks with Akira's elder sister, who tells him he should be there when Akira leaves.  Running into Koharu, she tells her Oono came to her to ask for her approval to date Haruo and tell her of her feelings towards him.  And so, at her own expense, she convinces him to seek out Oono.  

Racing towards the airport supported by his videogame characters, and crashing into the terminal, he reaches her just in time as her flight got delayed, and they fall into each others arms.

This was another enjoyable season of an anime that might not be so well-known, but sure is worth the effort to take a look at!