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For this low budget anime, I will use a different rating system.

A. Story - Character:
"Net Addiction" is so popular, it even appears on literature exam. But do we discuss it? No. Did any anime has done with this core idea before? No. So it's a very fresh and original. Something we might think but never too deep. Pretty predictable it has psychological which mean sure good content with mindbreak, fighting, control, smash or pass,... Very looking forward to.
So the more you watch, the more you know about what's happening (it likes playing "The Nonary Game" and you got all the bad ends first before the ... true end). I think they were in a rush so 3 last eps really hard to track what's going on. I don't want to take a re-watch so please watch these 3 carefully.
The characters are well drawn, well developed with all that background. Safe spoiler (it has "school" tag): to construct huge amount of students and teachers take so much effort. I appreciate this.
Score: 8-7

B. Art - Animation:
Some people have the misconception here. The art itself is good (typical), but the animation doesn't. Sometimes it was like reading a visual novel with thick line cover the character and a background; sometimes it was like the player stop loading with 1 frame per (few) second(s); only some big keyframes have 24-60FPS. Otherwise, it's lagging (~12FPS).
Score: 7-4

C. Sound:
- Voice actor: The voice for each character is good, it fits well with their personality. But like I said, the animation was bad, so sure they have problems with timing and character mouth synchronization. Sometimes you might feel annoying and ask if the sound was slower than the video.
- Sound effect: It isn't Inuyashiki with high-class 5 layers gun sound. Everything is just fine.
- OST: 2m27s for OP (content re-intro + 1'30 music) and I always skipped ED so yeah. I didn't remember if I heard any background music so probably they're normal.
Did I forget something?

D. Enjoyment:
First 3 episode: so cringed due to bad animation. Had to pause millions time to make overreactions.
The rest: get used to it. Laugh at some dumb line. Zero thought about anything.
Oh, I forgot to score C section.

Overall
It's just about the animation problems. There're moments when I can pause the video, imagine some choices appear on the screen and I make a save point before continuing. So I believe it was a sure success for them to transfer to visual novel rather than anime. It's that good. But anime? No.
Score: (A+B+C+(D/2))/4+0.25(if D=<5)+*
No, get that formula out. 7? ... Nah 6 - Fair enough