Should I watch Gamers?
note: im LA
LA had been an avid gamer since LA's teen years before dropping it off through console jumps as such but still occasionally play games of the sorts. LA is now something of a retro gamer as of late. What does this have to do with Gamers!, because Gamers! is relatable....to an extent.
If there was one statement LA would place on Gamers! plot, it would be "a snowballing misunderstandings love dodecahedron with gamers of all sorts". Now it's not a bad thing but it's also a good thing in a sense. As such, the misunderstandings the main cast goes through do let us see both sides of the misunderstandings however the main cast do make the situation worse or are just dense to a degree, for a good side of all these misunderstandings is that characters who usually didn't interact with one anther start interacting with them and develop a friendship or relationships with one another. However the misunderstandings do at times interrupt the interesting gaming situations it does have and becomes more of a hindrance to the gaming atmosphere for characters quietly bickering or snowballing the misunderstandings even more for the sake of the plot.
For characters themselves, Aguri voiced by Rumi Ookubo is something of a casual gamer and is love with Tasuku Uehara voiced by Toshiyuki Toyonaga who wants peace in the snowballing love dodecahedron, Aguri also has a friendly friendship with our main protagonist Keita Amano voiced by Megumi Han, a gamer who love playing ANY kind of games, whether he sucks at it or not in which he grabs the heart of Karen Tendou voiced by Hisako Kanemoto and the president of the school's game club and finally Chiaki Hoshinomori voiced by Manaka Iwami who Tasuku introduces her to Keita and they have a friendly tsundere relationship with each other. You can expect even from this that a love dodecahedron forms quite quickly. LA's favourite characters would be a tie between Aguri and Karen in this anime and no not even they are immune for them to START a misunderstanding let alone be targeted to one as well. As for Keita...yeah LA agrees that he's dense as hell at times but it isn't entirely his fault as multiple misunderstandings causes him to do what he does at times, Tasuku is an instigator but a peaceful yet karmic one at that and Chiaki just kinda took too long before her friendly tsundere relationship with Keita to be a more romantic one not to mention Chiaki caused a misunderstanding herself with Keita involving her younger sister Konoha voiced by Yuuki Kuwahara that made it worse as an extent...thus it felt like for LA that she'll never get closer to Keita even though she DID get closer to Keita as a result, just not as closer as Aguri (friendship) and Karen (relationship).
The gaming elements of Gamers! however is a decent watch where they make fun of games for comedy sakes but know in certain detail about the games in question, also the dialogue about gaming does transition into real life in many ways from how "certain" gamers act to that finale about DLC's and the many viewpoints of DLC's. LA isn't gonna say that Gamers! knows everything about gamers thus it MUST be relatable to gamers, LA is saying to CERTAIN gamers it does become relatable, misunderstandings of the characters in question not withstanding.
The animation by Pine Jam is pretty decent from the gaming aesthetics of the games that are referenced in Gamers!, the character designs are pretty distinct with the backgrounding being well done overall. If there was anything the animation did well, it is the gaming aesthetics will reel you in, character designs being secondary well for LA anyways.
Voice acting, well Megumi Han crossdressing is good though it's not her vocals that are annoying but her character traits, LA really like Hisako Kanemoto and Rumi Ookubo as Karen and Aguri respectively. Manami Iwami was pretty unique in voicing Chiaki in a ways a striked something for LA and enjoyed her vocals, however best voice actor goes to Rumi Ookubo as Astolf- *ahem* Aguri...her genkiness is infectious!.
The finale?....misunderstandings are still going with relationships not patched up from those misunderstandings and instead we get a hot springs gaming DLC trip yeaaaah this being an adaptation from a light novel, LA was expecting no resolution from this besides Keita's beliefs of always having fun with games being the last message to the anime.
Gamers! is a definite tightrope act with it's flaws and strengths and sometimes vice versa having strengths and weakness they have as a result. Does Gamers! misunderstandings ruin the characters into making them idiots and NOT gamers, yes and no, yes as it makes characters look idiots and diverts the gaming element to it, but no in that it develop characters we didn't expect them interact with to interact with them and become friends and talk about gaming more but it's also no on doing misunderstandings correctly without it being annoying, Tsuredure Children in the same season did that right and NOT be annoying. Does Gamers! look at ALL gaming elements to a gamer, hell no, but it tries to be relatable to a certain group of gamers as well having certain degree of trivia and knowledge about gaming in general and to be able to be cheeky and funny about it's comedy using gaming as an element was nicely done. Gamers! is misunderstood in many ways from it's snowballing love dodecahedron misunderstandings, but it has it's own solid gaming personality about itself and that just isn't enough for LA to hate it...LA just can't.
note: im LA
LA had been an avid gamer since LA's teen years before dropping it off through console jumps as such but still occasionally play games of the sorts. LA is now something of a retro gamer as of late. What does this have to do with Gamers!, because Gamers! is relatable....to an extent.
If there was one statement LA would place on Gamers! plot, it would be "a snowballing misunderstandings love dodecahedron with gamers of all sorts". Now it's not a bad thing but it's also a good thing in a sense. As such, the misunderstandings the main cast goes through do let us see both sides of the misunderstandings however the main cast do make the situation worse or are just dense to a degree, for a good side of all these misunderstandings is that characters who usually didn't interact with one anther start interacting with them and develop a friendship or relationships with one another. However the misunderstandings do at times interrupt the interesting gaming situations it does have and becomes more of a hindrance to the gaming atmosphere for characters quietly bickering or snowballing the misunderstandings even more for the sake of the plot.
For characters themselves, Aguri voiced by Rumi Ookubo is something of a casual gamer and is love with Tasuku Uehara voiced by Toshiyuki Toyonaga who wants peace in the snowballing love dodecahedron, Aguri also has a friendly friendship with our main protagonist Keita Amano voiced by Megumi Han, a gamer who love playing ANY kind of games, whether he sucks at it or not in which he grabs the heart of Karen Tendou voiced by Hisako Kanemoto and the president of the school's game club and finally Chiaki Hoshinomori voiced by Manaka Iwami who Tasuku introduces her to Keita and they have a friendly tsundere relationship with each other. You can expect even from this that a love dodecahedron forms quite quickly. LA's favourite characters would be a tie between Aguri and Karen in this anime and no not even they are immune for them to START a misunderstanding let alone be targeted to one as well. As for Keita...yeah LA agrees that he's dense as hell at times but it isn't entirely his fault as multiple misunderstandings causes him to do what he does at times, Tasuku is an instigator but a peaceful yet karmic one at that and Chiaki just kinda took too long before her friendly tsundere relationship with Keita to be a more romantic one not to mention Chiaki caused a misunderstanding herself with Keita involving her younger sister Konoha voiced by Yuuki Kuwahara that made it worse as an extent...thus it felt like for LA that she'll never get closer to Keita even though she DID get closer to Keita as a result, just not as closer as Aguri (friendship) and Karen (relationship).
The gaming elements of Gamers! however is a decent watch where they make fun of games for comedy sakes but know in certain detail about the games in question, also the dialogue about gaming does transition into real life in many ways from how "certain" gamers act to that finale about DLC's and the many viewpoints of DLC's. LA isn't gonna say that Gamers! knows everything about gamers thus it MUST be relatable to gamers, LA is saying to CERTAIN gamers it does become relatable, misunderstandings of the characters in question not withstanding.
The animation by Pine Jam is pretty decent from the gaming aesthetics of the games that are referenced in Gamers!, the character designs are pretty distinct with the backgrounding being well done overall. If there was anything the animation did well, it is the gaming aesthetics will reel you in, character designs being secondary well for LA anyways.
Voice acting, well Megumi Han crossdressing is good though it's not her vocals that are annoying but her character traits, LA really like Hisako Kanemoto and Rumi Ookubo as Karen and Aguri respectively. Manami Iwami was pretty unique in voicing Chiaki in a ways a striked something for LA and enjoyed her vocals, however best voice actor goes to Rumi Ookubo as Astolf- *ahem* Aguri...her genkiness is infectious!.
The finale?....misunderstandings are still going with relationships not patched up from those misunderstandings and instead we get a hot springs gaming DLC trip yeaaaah this being an adaptation from a light novel, LA was expecting no resolution from this besides Keita's beliefs of always having fun with games being the last message to the anime.
Gamers! is a definite tightrope act with it's flaws and strengths and sometimes vice versa having strengths and weakness they have as a result. Does Gamers! misunderstandings ruin the characters into making them idiots and NOT gamers, yes and no, yes as it makes characters look idiots and diverts the gaming element to it, but no in that it develop characters we didn't expect them interact with to interact with them and become friends and talk about gaming more but it's also no on doing misunderstandings correctly without it being annoying, Tsuredure Children in the same season did that right and NOT be annoying. Does Gamers! look at ALL gaming elements to a gamer, hell no, but it tries to be relatable to a certain group of gamers as well having certain degree of trivia and knowledge about gaming in general and to be able to be cheeky and funny about it's comedy using gaming as an element was nicely done. Gamers! is misunderstood in many ways from it's snowballing love dodecahedron misunderstandings, but it has it's own solid gaming personality about itself and that just isn't enough for LA to hate it...LA just can't.
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