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Jan 24, 2009 11:13 PM
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I didn't think I was much going to care for Mimiru, but she's really growing on me. =]
Jan 25, 2009 5:04 AM
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More character development,screen time and the occasional good deed does that ,except with Piros/Piroshi :/

:? I'm guessing they plan to help Tsukasa in this episode?
Jan 25, 2009 1:50 PM
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No, this was the episode where Mimiru goes with the little girl to the dungeon just so the little girl won't quit the game. That scored some points for her, in my mind. Like Bear said at one point, Mimiru is not as dumb as she pretends to be.
Jan 25, 2009 4:11 PM
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Ah

Her intelect is shown again alittle later ^^
Apr 22, 2009 7:25 AM
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sub plot (mimiru and A-20)... i really enjoyed duh :D
Jun 8, 2009 10:01 PM
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this episode does raise a good question: why play a virtual reality game in the first place? obviously two reasons off the top of my head are, one- to have something in common with friends, and also two- a means of escape mentally from the real world, thats something in human nature
the only way to stop a gamer from playing is either: beat them, or wait until they get bored (though 2% percent suffer seizures
Jun 13, 2009 7:12 AM
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They can be rather addictive,especially level raising with friends and completing quests.
Jun 16, 2009 10:25 AM
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Not my favorite episode. In any case, MMORPGs, even the crappy cheap ones, tend to be quite addictive for different reasons. For me, it's my desire to level up and climb up the ranks as far as stats, power, and gear goes whether I have friends who play or not. Others do it for their friends and the status involved there or for more personal reasons. But they can be exceptionally addictive if there is something in it you want to achieve to the point of invading dreams. Hence why I don't play them.
Aug 30, 2009 2:35 PM
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hmm as for me reason why i tend to play online games is to achieve certain goals as a sense of accomplishment.
Nov 25, 2009 11:03 PM

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Lol, so a new character A-20 is introduced. Been here for 2 weeks yet only played for a week. :/

Seems suspicious.

But this episode seems to revolve around Mimiru
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~
Feb 5, 2010 8:18 PM

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Lol, if i was her i'd have taken that golden grunty XD
Sigh i wish The World was a real virtual reality mmorpg thatd be so awesome
Jun 7, 2011 4:56 PM

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I had to lol when the little girl was getting hit and was healing herself. Not a bad episode.
Jun 19, 2011 9:35 PM

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No Tsukasa in this episode makes d0su cry T3T
But I suppose A-20's cuteness makes up for it :)

And on a side note... if I ever saw a golden grunty... I would be like D'AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Aug 25, 2011 2:04 AM

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awww i really love that A-20 girl, she's hilarious!!
when she heals herself every one HIT
when she calls the golden grunty "ugly things"
and when she's busted of lying about have been using her last healing items, "did i say that :P" lol
TOO CUTE!!!!

she reminds me of myself, playing MMORPG just because my friends played it, end up continued playing because the connection that builts with new people online
Oct 20, 2013 4:14 PM

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Tsukasa didn't show up?
argh, that annoying little girl..i was afraid they could meet that monster tho, glad it didn't happen :x
and now i wonder what Bear does for a living..
Jun 6, 2014 12:11 AM

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Mimiru isn't dumb, but she lacks resolve to make decisions.
Jun 29, 2014 11:17 PM

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So far I only like Mimiru and Bear. Tsukasa and especially BT get on my nerves.
Aug 17, 2015 5:39 AM

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Some people just love the chase.
...get a life Mimiru
Mar 9, 2018 7:34 AM

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This episode was a little formulaic/cliche, but I still enjoyed it. A-20 was annoying, and originally I thought she was Tsukasa. I guess she's not though. Mimiru searching for Tsukasa is cool.
May 11, 2019 12:09 PM

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A-20 is very heartwarming.

It was Mimiru-oriented episode, despite me not really liking her, I liked this episode.
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May 15, 2021 3:58 AM
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I really didn't like A-20, at all. Constantly lying about things that made no real difference, and just being overall annoying. That being said, I did like that Mimiru went back to help A-20 through the dungeon. I remember being a low-level in a game like Destiny and having my friends there to help (carry) me through the stuff really convinced me to keep playing and learn to get better.
Jun 25, 2022 7:32 PM

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I will admit that it's being a torture watching this anime, they really weren't kidding when they said it was slow, I literally just watched like +2 hours and know so little about the world.


In most cases, the MAL Average Scores don't mean anything, here is a question: were the works made before 2000 all shit?
Why are they so damn scarce in the Top 50? Think about how MAL is quite literally a filtered amount of the Anime fanbase.

Here's a timeline of the Top 15 in which you can check that, almost always, the scores are affected by the freshness, popularity and other factors that have nothing to do with quality.

Nov 19, 2024 11:16 AM
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it was a wholesome episode and also kind of felt like a filler. but yeah we saw the girl's side of pov too. and i wonder if the younger player is somehow involved with the plot. overall i kind of liked this episode

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