Audience reviews
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AmineBee
I still don't know what force of nature compelled me to watch this entire thing because it was an absolute waste of time. This show falls flat in basically every way and I was just in disbelief from how bad this show was.
The characters, dialogue, animation, art style, and story were just so poorly made and boring. There is nothing compelling about any characters, some being annoying and others painfully cringey. The main character we follow around is a total loser and not the kind that is funny or relatable but instead obnoxious and stupid. He constantly talks about how video games are all he’s good for and has like no character development whatsoever other than the fact he’s like “Wait a minute! I like girls!” and even then he doesn't grow as a person at all.
The main love interest Oo…
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The fact that Akira Oono is never say anything really put me off. Why would a highly intelligent girl such as Akira never say anything at all from episode 1 until the last episode? What is the-- author of this story-- need to make the character this way? What is the reason? Dramatic effect? It only make things superficial and one sided. Even a single word such as “hi” or “arigatou” never heard from her. It always facial expression and all the character near him say tremendously long sentence and long phrase, and sometimes it just represents her.
No. I don’t need movie like this. Koharu Hidaka is much better as a MC than Akira Oono. At least we can hear her thought, we can hear her day to day conversation at class. She is human, unlike Akira who is mere a doll with human expression and ver…
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There are two main things about this anime that make it deserving of the masterpiece rating, this anime is not groundbreaking, it's themes are not world-shattering, but it doesn't need to be, because it's set out to be a feel-good anime about adolescent romance and video games, and it achieved it's goal.
The romance in this anime is fantastic, it's over the top and goofy, but it still feels real, Ono and Haruo are stupid kids and they act like stupid kids. They're abysmal at mature communication, made worse since Haruo just kind of has to intuit everything Ono is thinking, and they're both hot-headed nerds who can't handle a loss. They stay consistently characterized, they don't break character to move the plot along, and they're both grounded in reality, they feel real, and they're eas…
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In life there are things people randomly hate. For instance, stuff like "minecraft youtubers" and competitive eaters. There are things we randomly hate with a passion even when it doesn't harm anyone or anything in anyway shape or form.
However, after watching this anime the opposite may be true as well.
I remember the first time I set sight on this anime while browsing through Netflix. It seemed out of place, a childish cartoon shape figure set between the beautifully drawn art of Violet Evergarden and critically esteemed Kimiuso.
I disregarded it, I never was a gamer or into arcade life so why would I be into a poorly drawn "Gamers"?
Then came a day when I, still using my friends Netflix, got bored of the 15 anime Netflix had and decided to give High Score Girl a go. I was taken aw…
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(WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SEVERAL MINOR SPOILERS)
In an anime that takes place in the retro 1900's where arcade video games and early generation consoles were most commonly played and at large, everyone's on their feet and anxiously waiting for the new Street Fighter games. Who knew that two talented aspiring young players met in the same arcade and began to gradually fall for each other as the anime progresses, all of which contains many references to classic arcade games that will truly bring you fond memories of the golden age of video games.
One of the most unique aspects about Hi Score Girl that I find to be noticeably unique is the music or overall sound, the soundtracks are beautiful and rich in emotions that it will tug at your heat strings. You generally won't find a lot of…
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this is definitely a diamond in the rough. mostly due to its jarring art style which can throw some people off. if you can get past this its definitely one the greats of all time.
shows similar to this would be like one piece and ore imo because each have their own little thing that could rub people the wrong way. one piece with its art style and ore imo with its topic in the title.
High score girl is so empowering and fulfilling to watch it literally takes all the good aspects of a good shounen as well as complementing it with superb comedy from the rom com aspect. every episode is a treat and really is a pleasure to watch. i would actually just like get amnesia so i can experience it again in its novelty.
the inclusion of the greats from voice acting means you already know youre in…
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Sheer mediocrity hiding under clichéed nostalgia.
I had decent enough expectations for this anime, since gaming is by far my biggest passion and this series has a relatively high score by MAL standards.
The lesson, as always, is "have no expectations whatsoever". Let's get to it.
[For the sake of it I'll be covering S1 along with the Extra Stage stuff. There's nothing to spoil as the story is phoned-in from the very first episode, go ahead without any fear.]
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I won't go on to rate every single aspect of the anime, since it's largely pointless: I'll focus instead on its two biggest failures: characters and "story". Characters first. Well, it's like the authors watched Hinamatsuri and Kaguya-sama and thought "oh, which are the least likable traits of the female protagonists? Yes, let's…
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This show reminds me a lot of Ready Player One. It has a bunch of cool nostalgia and references. It also has a main character that will annoyingly explain the reference to the audience, just to make sure you know that the show made a reference.
The story is simple, an arcade otaku meets the most perfectest and popularest girl in his school at an arcade and loses to her in street fighter 2. This sparks an almost one sided rivalry between the two which blossoms into something more, as the show goes on. I found the story a little better than the generic romance anime. This show is pretty ugly though. The backgrounds are flat and boring. The characters are all cg with not much animation. The cg was probably used to make the characters feel different from the video games. However, there are al…
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When talking about a show that leans this heavily into licensed content, I feel like there is one question that must be asked: Would the show still stand on it's own without the inclusion of this licensed content? Sadly, I believe the answer for High Score Girl would be no.
The first thing most people will notice when watching HSG is the particular art style J.C. went with. The show is largely CG, which I particularly don't mind, but to call the animation 'budget' would be putting it lightly. It's not horrendously bad enough to ruin the show single-handedly, but it certainly isn't doing it any favors.
The writing in HSG is... not great. Momentarily ignoring the shtick of including licensed games, what we have is a largely generic and uninspired rom-com whose writing ranges from inoffen…
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I have been reading other opinions and positive praise around High Score Girl, but I still don't get why this is supposed to be so good and the savior of summer 2018 anime.
It's just a generic love story where the main dude is an over exaggerated character whose behavior is the outcome of "anime" and not any personality traits. The main female is perfect gamer and student, beautiful and ideal girl with tragic past story AKA a textbook example of a Mary Sue. There is also another girl in the series who creates the fallacy of harem, but she only appears in few episodes and her entire purpose in the series is to have silent monologue inside her head where she praises the main dude for being so amazing and kind and perfect, and cucks herself for the "canon pairing".
The romance is build aro…
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Summer 2018 will pass as one of the most mediocre seasons for me, but it was saved by High Score Girl.
The video game story concept is one of the most popular but also one of the most difficult to create. It requires an unusual plot to satisfy a difficult and demanding audience. Gladly, High Score Girl does a marvelous job and delivers one of the most amusement stories in this field. The series mixes the historical video game developing (the 90s) with an amazing plot where the memories of any gamer will have some empathy. In this world, we are all experts but also we are ignorant, and sooner or later our talents will meet challengers as happens in this fascinating story. But what can I tell you about the 90s? This decade is one of the most important technologically speaking. The internet…
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art: 8
background score: 10
character: 10
enjoyment:10
overall: 10
high score girl is a good anime now after finishing all the episodes its my favorite anime of the year aside from the animation every thing is awesome. even though the story seems to be moving slowly but you never want it to end. the sweet budding romance between oono and yaguchi totally wants you to root for them. also the background score is good and the ending song is cute as hell. and it gets very emotional at the moment you least expect which pulls your Heart Strings.what makes this so enjoyable is the heartwarming interaction between these two which makes you wish that can they increase the anime length another 20 minutes or more
*****
spoilers
the protagonist is one who is not popular & not good in studies…
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I don’t think it was made for me, but I resonated with it all the same. High score girl. Whatever I write here probably won’t put everything I love about this show on paper. This show takes place in the early 90’s with our protagonist, a 6th grader named Yugichi Haruo. He’s not very kind, and his grades aren’t the best, to be honest he’s kind of a shithead. But he is good at one thing, his passion, video games. He spends a majority of his time just dicking around at various arcades around town. On one faithful day, Haruo encounters a beautiful, smart, rich girl from his class named Ono. Who absolutely decimates him in street fighter 2. After 30 consecutive wins against him, Ono follows him around various arcades playing various different games. From then on, the two create a strange bond w…
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Sometimes in life you come across something that’s been under the hype radar that turns out to be a gem, that’s what this is. Back to a day an age when you went to arcades and rented movies at blockbuster, the nostalgia factor alone had me intrigued in this show. One of the other things that hooked me was having a character who never speaks but conveys their emotions so well that I can’t not care for them. These things hooked me in but I stayed and discovered so much more.
In just three episodes I couldn’t put this series down, I ended up crying and being so connected to the characters in such a short time. It does a great job of setting up not only a rivalry but a romance as well. The boy who escapes his mundane life through a hobby he loves is something anyone can connect with immediat…
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High Score Girl's soul fundamentally lies in it's throwback setting to the golden age of arcades, the fighting genre and videogames in general, but the show doesn't use this setting as a crutch but rather makes something special out of it.
Yaguchi is an arcade/videogame addict who self-proclaims that his only value as a person is his talent in video games, so he always spends his time in arcade, beating other people and feeling good about himself. So naturally a girl named Oono comes and beats the sh*t out of him, both figuratively and literally, story ensues.
The show mainly uses videogames as a parallel to our world, but it's not forced, so it makes the show feel more legit and realistic. The main story on the other hand is more about the youth of these particular characters and how the…
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High Score Girl Review – A Brilliant Series Even for Non-Arcade Era People
Notes – High Score Girl may be referred to as HSG for easier typing purposes.
There is only one minor spoiler in paragraph 2. It is noted in parentheses.
TLDR: Amazing show with likeable characters, neat OP/ED, and a compelling story make this my AOTS - 10/10.
Games are fun. Although they may result in many side effects such as you losing friends because you used the infamous Blue shell in Mario Kart while your friend was in first place, causing them to get passed by the person in 2nd place. They are a great source of entertainment and some are even played competitively in official tournaments around the world. Today, games feature massive detailed worlds that are powered by fast components in either our compute…
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High Score Girl is one of the theses seasonal shows that quietly snuck up on me at the of the Summer 18 season. It was a manga series done by Oshikiri, Rensuke and until mid August where it Netflix announced they will be streaming the series in December 2018 the show least for a short while was hanging around in obscure vile and even after that Netflix announced the series is still pretty obscure compared to almost every other anime from this summer season.
Fast forward to late September where I was done watching throwaway seasonal anime from this season like Angel Of Death, How to Not Summon a Demon Lord and Happy Sugar Life I decided to check out High Score Girl after leaving the show in my plan to watch list for so long. Then I watched it and after watching all 12 episodes of this I ca…
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It's rare to see series like this that is very niche: Covering nostalgia in the form of retro arcade games, to their home conversions and the like. However, this is certainly not an anime for everyone, and solely caters to the gaming audience of old times lore, whom for all intensive purposes, will love this overlooked anime.
The story goes of the early gaming scenes in the early 90s (specifically 1991 and beyond), where Japanese retro arcades (at that time) had a massive following due to the big wave of top-tier games, and that accelerated with the release of Street Fighter II, that single-handedly revived one of the best gaming periods ever in the history of gaming. So naturally, casual gamers flocked into the arcades to try out the hit sensational game, and that is no difference to 6th…
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There’s often times when I feel a bit of nostalgia in life. Who doesn’t really? The 1990s may not be technological advanced compared to our current modern times but it had great music, a more relaxing atmosphere, and moments that we’ll never forget. I remember the days when people actually went to places like Blockbuster to rent home videos rather than binge watching Netflix. People weren't on their phones half the day. Nowadays, everything is just too convenient and people operate at their homes through the digital web. Why do I mention this?
It’s because High Score Girl made me feel a bit of that nostalgia. Don’t get me wrong though. I love the convenience of our current times and everything being so simple. However, watching High Score Girl gave me the impression of old school video ga…
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Video games are games that use interaction with the user interface through images produced by video devices. Video games generally provide a reward system such as a score calculated based on the level of success achieved in completing tasks in the game.
The word "video" in "video games" initially refers to a raster display device. But with the use of the term "video game", now the word video game can be used to refer to games on any display device. The electronic systems used to run video games are called platforms, for example personal computers and game consoles.
taking the theme in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety one in that year the video game is still experiencing its popularity, a child named "Haruo Yaguchi" spends his days playing video games regardless of how his fu…
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