Aug 26, 2018
Oh me oh my... This one dropped off as a surprise, I mean, I started reading the manga, but reading and imagining doesn't compare to actually watching...
I will be level with you guys, I am coming biased massively towards this one, considering that literally the first scene is my childhood in a nutshell (only with 100% less Guile and 1000% more Ryu) so, finally being able to watch the scenes moving is... Viewtiful...
The story on itself is not that bad either and it's fun to watch the lead guy go from a douche that abuses every dirty trick to win (then again, when the Hi
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Score Girl beats the stuffing out of you 29 times in a row it gets desperate...) To a gentleman gamer letting a noisy weakling that happens to be an older guy only to have the Hi Score Girl mercilessly beat the stuffing out of him AND the girl he was trying to impress and end up taking the beating the two older morons were going to give to the Hi Score Girl To finally becoming a somewhat adequate partner in a co-op game of Final Fight... after a merciless beating consisting of an attack for every mistake from the Hi Score Girl...
The rest of the story is equalkly fun, it was so sad to watch Ono Leave for the US, only to get back finding that another girl has been insinuating herself to her man... hijinks ensue while the rest of the boy declare themselves at Ono just to be violently rejected...
Special mention deserves the framing device used in the story... Our lead actress Hi Score Girl doesn't talk, so every piece of information we hear gets given to us by the rest of the cast, and it's adorable to see the Hi Score Girl eternal state of Pink (be read as blushing) or the raging mad faces in-between the even more eternal deadpan she is...
In short a decent story, pretty animation and a truckload of nostalgia make Hi Score Girl an anime I will recommend massively, who knows, it might make new gamers of some people...
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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