Gamers!

Keita Amano is a typical high school gamer living out an average student's life. One day, however, he has an unexpected meeting with the cutest girl in school that makes him want to disappear without a trace!

This girl, Karen Tendou, is an exemplary student who is proclaimed to be the school's idol. She discovers that Amano is a gamer, and this newfound knowledge incites a passionate desire within her to recruit him into the game club. Upon visiting the club, Amano is forcefully made aware of a side to gaming wildly different than the one he loves so dearly.

Tendou's interest in Amano begins shaking up what was once an uneventful life, filling it with spontaneity, awkwardness, and a little bit of mayhem. As a result, every day becomes a comical battle for Amano's sanity as he tries to adapt to these wild, unexpected changes.

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Tendou, Karen Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Hoshinomori, Chiaki Main

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Aguri Main

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Amano, Keita Main

Han, Megumi Japanese

Uehara, Tasuku Main

Toyonaga, Toshiyuki Japanese

Hoshinomori, Konoha Supporting

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Oiso, Nina Supporting

Yoshino, Yuna Japanese

Kase, Gakuto Supporting

Takumi, Yasuaki Japanese

Misumi, Eiichi Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Misumi, Riki Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Kaneko, Hirotaka Producer

Ogura, Mitsutoshi Producer

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Mar 10, 2025

Failsaint

Recommended

Let's iterate the thesis right now as clear as possible: Imagine a romcom where every character has a heart of gold, but is also convinced that everyone else in the group is secretly plotting against each other, and it is their responsibility to uncover the conspiracy.

Few people who watch this show seem to get it, but this is one of the rare gems that displays a cast of stereotypes who grow and change as people over the course of the show, and it makes you love each and every one of them no matter how stupid they seem to be from your all seeing ... eye. A simple concept of "I like playing video games because it's fun" is only a tool for the author to force these teenagers to confront things about themselves.

For example, by the time we're introduced to Uehara, this has already played out as a plot point, and we've barely even started. Uehara is the popular guy. He has a friend group of goofs and gals and he likes it that way, or so he thinks he does. He has a girlfriend he doesn't like that much, he thinks she's an airhead. Between Amano and his girlfriend, Aguri, Uehara is forced to look at himself as a person who is removed from these stereotypes, because they both seem to love him regardless, and they don't seem to judge him either. Completely alien concept that he naturally takes to heart. Uehara is the mastermind for the first act, and only as the punches keep coming does he realize he's in way over his head. There are no main characters here, or perhaps every single one of them are the mains.

There is one episode in which this all happens at once, and not only does Uehara realize that he's still confused, he realizes Amano is a better person than him, and so is Aguri. It's normal to knock the cool guy down a peg in anime like this, but instead of keeping him around as Amano's lapdog, Uehara rises to the same level as Amano and Aguri out of his respect and affection for them. He takes it upon himself to really be Aguri's boyfriend, and to really be Amano's friend, no matter how hopeless he convinces himself either of them are. There are no gimmicks in this anime, there are no characters with real amounts of screen time that are not integral to this plot, and who are not good people trying to be better.

Oftentimes in romcoms you get a villain, or multiple. Someone who exists to terrorize the plot. Gamers! functions as almost an anti-romcom in this sense, even though it definitely is one. All of the characters are convinced by some point in time that they're in that kind of story, but they're not. They're good kids experiencing new feelings for the first time, and they're all trying to help each other. It is an altruistic, fun kind of dynamic, and I struggle to pick a favorite character for this reason. I find this genre oftentimes has a hard time doing that in anime. They're always negative and brutal and gutwrenching in ways that make you hate the cast. This one isn't like that.

Watch Gamers! for this group of lovable, confused, passionate, and altruistic people, and find yourself coming back over and over.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 31, 2025

MozartDaniel

Mixed Feelings

After watching several, erm, couple-based romcoms (sounds like a nice term for it), one after the other, I decided to take a small break, by watching a romcom involving a group!

It was a smart decision, and I got it easy feeling right at home with this one. Gaming has been my main hobby for over a decade, and only in the last 3 or 4 months I've been watching tons of anime, so this felt like the perfect bridge for me.

I did not read or know anything about Gamers! really, only thought it looked interesting enough. My biggest caveat with the whole thing is just ... how convoluted, or more like ridiculous, things get past about the half point of the season, with plenty of misunderstandings and coincidences all around, all the time.

So it didn't feel organic anymore, and the narrative started to resemble more of that of an american sitcom. Anyway, characters, as plain as they are, are charismatic enough to endure the watch, and the gaming references kept me entertained enough.

The first part of the season just has more charm to it, it's fun to discover the characters and their motivations. It has a nice way of showing us how their relationships come to be, and how they feel about their current situation. Things devolve into a conflict after the other, and it loses its charm.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 31, 2024

Tetrafix

Not Recommended

This show I thought had a lot of potential. I really liked the characters, however, they never flushed anything out. It ended up just getting sad tracked about misunderstandings, which honestly was in good fun, but then you finish the series and realize we wasted actual development for nothing. In the final episode, there is like a 5-minute fan service scene three quarters into it. There were a lot of places this show could've gone, and I was enjoying it. But honestly, in the end, I would not even say it is worth your time.

The art style was fine, there was nothing major to complain ... about, and I liked some of the character design, I thought it was semi-unique. However, they were reused character designs, but they wrote it into the story ig.

I wouldn't say the characters were well-rounded. They all had clashing personality types, which made for interesting pairings. They are pretty goofy and kinda dumb though for half the series is about misunderstandings.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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