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| Haruo still needs to work on understanding emotions but it's alright because he did the right thing at the end and he's still young. Man, I'm on the verge of crying after this one. I do appreciate the last bit of dialogue between Hidaka and Haruo. I felt if Hidaka did not make an appearance in this episode, I would have felt so empty. I'm glad they got some kind of closure, though it did hurt me so bad because I really grew to like Hidaka as a character. Unrequited love is painful, Haruo never saw Hidaka that way, but she still always pursued him even knowing that. I couldn't help but cheer for her. Overall, I came into this series with no expectations but came out of it with no regrets. A touching story about young love with video games as the main focus, truly a wholesome combination. |
| Damn. Feels before 2021 will come. Gonna read High Score Girl Dash to fill the void. |
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| Meh. Didn't like the ending nor the series overall, but I did enjoy the scenes where they played retro video games, and the sound and music were good too. Although, the games they played in the first part of the anime were more interesting. Both Haruo and Ono (who never speaks for no reason) were very annoying and every other character was either boring or obnoxious especially Haruo's mom. Hidaka was decent I guess. And the worst part, I don't remember the anime making me even smile once with its comedy. EDIT: almost forgot to mention I hated the CGI animation and ugly character faces/expressions. 4/10 mediocre but had its redeeming points. Season 1 was better IMO. |
INU4SH4Apr 17, 2021 2:28 AM
Futari wa Milky Holmes was a mistake Yoshii did nothing wrong |
| Damn, this got good by the end. The music was greatly climatic, it tied some loose ends like Haruo recognizing he steped on Hidaka's feelings, Haruo actually speaking his feelings and even if they were to split he'll still follow through. What I didn't like is that they hinted before Hidaka would also compete in the tournament or would make a come-back as a gamer. The battle had the emotion of a EVO-fight, sweet. |
| 34 years old ossan who still watches anime |
| A big step up in OST quality this season. I expected her to finally say something after so many episodes but it didn't happen |
yamenFeb 24, 2022 11:40 AM
| The closer you get to the light,the greater your shadow becomes. |
| I really love the ending! 🥰 Especially the game characters' voices suggestions to Haruho. This has been such a wonderful story. |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
| And so it ends. Nice while it lasted |
 My biggest regret: Reading all 200+ chapters of Kanojo, Okarishimasu |
| Just finished my first re-watch of this series and I enjoyed it more the second time around. I bumped the score up one point. Probably helped not having to wait for the second season to actually be made. Overall the quality of this show is surprising. I do not usually notice such things but the direction is spot on. that scene when Hidaka tried to seduce Haruho deserves special mention. Oh, and that scene when Guile disappears into the sunset as if to signal that Hauho finally became one with the manly voice deep inside his subconscious. Good stuff! One thing that would have made the entire experience better. Just one tiny little detail I am shocked they did not include: If Oono had talked...just once. Right there at the very end. Imagine after all the silence finally hearing her say the word "yes" to Haruho's proposal. That would have been amazing. PS: Oono best girl. Sorry Hidaka. |
epidemia78Jun 9, 2022 1:07 PM
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| Can't believe it took me this long to watch this series. What I thought was going to simply be an arcade nostalgia show turned out to be the best teen romance anime I've ever seen. |
| Disappointing Ending. 4/10. Overall, 5/10. As a Gamer who isn't an arcade enthusiast or a fighting game fanatic, I didn't have any bias to the whole retro arcade video games involved in the story. Visually and Audibly I have to state that the quality is greatly impressive in how they utilized licensed video games, not only to display gameplay, but also using the game characters as characters. Comedic-wise, all-around, it's a little odd with the supernatural element which breaks the firmness of where this story lies. In a normal world, or a supernatural world. It feels like a realistic normal world, but then the use of having the game character literally hit or speak to the protagonists, as well as aid him to reach the airport in the end at supernatural speed feels very out of place in a realistic setting. The use of the game characters motivating, consoling or giving any insight to the main characters is interesting, somewhat funny, yet kinda odd. Another flaw and disappointment is how surprsingly throughout the whole story ... Akira never ever speaks a word. I would have hoped that throughout 3-5 years after primary school we would have received the satisfaction of her finally speaking something meaningful after never being heard from all the unknown candid emotions she has that she never speaks. Unfortunately, the Mangaka chose to never do so which is a shame. I guess for that originality... having her family, butler and Haruo, etc. speak for her was decently done. My problem with this story, partly from personal taste is how love is forced through a game competition, Haruo's flaws and the love triangle itself. It's all stupid. Even though I'm a sucker for heroine's who have a crush on the male protagonist, as usual I stayed loyal to rooting for Akira, albeit adoring her too much from the start, but... I have to admit that later on, even though I originally didn't like Koharu's dismissive personality before she fell in love, I came to like her more for her strong love, how sweet she is and moreso after she lusted for Haruo and aggressively tried to throw herself onto him with sex. Some of the elements of the love triangle are good and entertaining. Her scene of flirting him was surprisingly arousing, and her determination was thrilling, while being a use to force the main pairing to act on themselves, but unfortunately the romance plot only progresses through (from a teenager) the strange childish idea to win a game against the wanted partner. First from Koharu to win and start dating. Followed by Haruo to win and confess. ... It's idiotic. Just confess. Koharu's perseverance is oddly irrational as well. We know she'll never win, but she can't help herself but love him, so she tries, until she quits... after losing a game. Stupid. Worse is how dense and in denial Haruo is to love, even with the aggressiveness from Koharu against Akira, while being fully aware (but in denial) that he has romantic feelings for Akira and that Koharu is fighting against Akira. The rest of the characters are funny in their own silly way even though none are great characters. The mother, Akira's older sister Makoto, Doi and Chihiro are hilarious at times and serve their purpose somewhat decently to motivate or help Haruo to realize. Haruo's friend Miyao was the one who had the strongest impact to change Haruo, but as underutilized he was and how dumb Haruo is, he should have been used better to make Haruo realize because he's not that dumb and dense-wise wasn't established as a logical idiot to have this bad of a plot to progress the romance to succession. So, with all these flaws and not loving the focus on gaming competition enveloping the story's plot, it's bad for its flaws. Including how easy it was for the tutor to suddenly (without any hints) change her mind and allow Akira to have some freedom. ... The open-ending of never knowing how they'll get back together after she moves out to LA is worse, but at the very least, the romance of the main pairing itself was sweet for the most part. Akira herself is a good character but also lost a lot of potential in how complex her origin is. A daughter who follows her parent's will to be perfect in grades, sports, arts, etc. by studying and practicing everyday without any distractions, including the 90's mentality of gaming being a unproductive loser/delinquent activity which is what saved her as an escapism of enjoyment, 3 weeks before she met Haruo. Her being naturally talented to instantly be an elite gamer from a day to a few weeks is ridiculous, but whatever. Her struggle and frustration, especially the moment where she is first about to move out and cries in Haruo's arms is bittersweet. Her abusiveness is funny and cute when she's scared or hiding her embarassement, but it's a little execessive whenever she injures his face. I would have loved a backstory to that character of her and where that violence stems from, to then her whole restricted feelings, including to being mute and eventually be rewarded to hear her speak for the first time and awe and finally listen what she has to say, but... unfortunately that never fucking happened. That complexity would have been fascinating to experience being fully exposed. Of course, as well as the damn parents who are the whole cause of this, and how Makoto's rebeliousness affected all of this, and why Akira is not fully rebelling for her own desires. Damn shame. |
| After rewatching this I'm seeing the ending in new light. Feel much more positive about what will come after the conclusion, that the two will find their way to each other in the future. Being pessimistic is no way to react to that scene at the airport even if optimism in this regard is not as "realistic". Its a story so I can feel positive! Will bump this season up to the 8 I gave the rest of the series. I do feel bad for Hidaka, even more now. Tried so hard to not succeed only to fail against someone who doesn't even speak to Yaguchi, still managed to wiggle into his heart. Strange that Oono has a voice actress listed, for what? She sighs a few times, grunts? |
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| Didn't mean to take so long to get around to this. I wanted to wait a bit after finishing the manga, but didn't think it'd take me 3 years. Really reminded me of what I love about this series, and has given me some motivation to finally get around to that spinoff and two extra oneshots. Even a bit tempted to read it all over again, but I think I'll wait a bit longer for that. |
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| I'm glad Haruo finally confessed his feelings. Him and Oono hugging each other and crying was sweet. I was crying with them... Still, I really hoped this show would have a more satisfying conclusion. I kept waiting for a post credits epilogue or something... and there was nothing. As others have mentioned, this final cour being a mere 9 episodes felt weird/too short. I really would have liked to know what happens to Haruo and Oono in the future. Like, can they make the long distance thing work? Do they eventually get married?? IDK! All that said, this was a cute little show and I'm glad I watched it. Some aspects really did not work for me, namely the 'comedy,' but I liked the characters for the most part and the romantic plotlines were written well enough to keep me invested. Oono is an oddball, but I can see why Haruo chose her. They really seem to love each other and they're adorable as a nerdy gamer couple. P.S. Guile is best girl. |
ShmubmJun 6, 2023 7:38 AM
| Going to miss this show |
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| What's with all the supernatural miracles that happened in this episode? They were blocking traffic, disrupting flights and creating powerful gales. This series hadn't really set a precedent for it prior to this. |
  ｲ乇刀乇乃尺ﾑ乇 ╔⏤═⏤╝   ╚⏤═⏤╗☽ Shaded Horizon ☾ |
| That was so much better than the first season, a moving coming of age story and a love polygon done very well. |
| Unbelievably depressed after finishing this series. I'd really been putting it off for years, avoiding what I thought would be a lackluster episodic show about grade schoolers playing Pac-man. This series was so rich with characterization and development and heavy hitting moments. The janky CGI animation even quickly became super charming. I loved all the characters, and dialogue, and plot points. I didn't expect this to be a 10/10. I became so invested in the story and now that the story is complete and not continuing, I'm very sad. Haven't been this depressed after finishing an anime since like 2016-ish when I watched Welcome to the NHK for the first time. |
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