‘What’s a polygon? Can you eat it?’ The arrival of the heyday of good old-fashioned 2D games was 1991.

In a corner of an arcade rampant with salarymen, delinquents, and otaku, she sat there quietly and coolly. This 90’s arcade romcom is told through the eyes of the main character, Haruo!

The series is more or less an homage to everything classic games. It’s very old and it knows it. We hear about consoles that existed around the time that classic sega consoles and the NES existed. It’s pretty cool, but unless you know about retro games, you are going to be lost fast. The story is overall cute, but… how do we say it? It’s not really anything that will draw you in. Rather, what may keep your attention is Haruto’s countless expositions about old games and consoles and the fact that this is very well-done 3DCG art. At this point, we may watch another episode, but it really depends on what else we watch. If we are dropping shows left and right, maybe this is one to keep. If we are not, we may find ourselves struggling to keep up with High Score Girl.

Haruo Yaguchi

Voice Actor: Kouhei Amasaki

Birthday: June 1st, 1979
Blood type: O
Haruo refers to himself as ‘Guile’s right hand’. He’s terrible and sports and his studies, but he is more passionate about games than anyone else. He goes to an arcade daily where he refines his skills.

Akira Oono

Voice Actor: Sayumi Suzushiro

Birthday: October 10th, 1979
Blood type: O
Akira is an honors student who is attractive as well. She looks like the picturesque ideal of a well-to-do young woman, but she’s really an amazing arcade gamer behind that facade. Her strict family sends her daily to all sorts of lessons, but games are the one thing that she can use to release stress.

Koharu Hidaka

Voice Actor: Yuuki Hirose

Birthday: April 4th 1979
Blood type: A
Koharu is a young girl who is Haruo’s classmate. She secretly desires to be uninhibited like Haruo is, rather than her overly reserved self.

Koutarou Miyao

Voice Actor: Kazuyuki Okitsu

Koutarou is someone that Haruo meets in middle school who understands Haruo and gets along well with him. He is above reproach in both looks and personality and appears to be somewhat of the perfect superhuman. For some reason he is abnormally devoted to Haruo.

Genta Doi

Voice Actor: Daiki Yamashita

Genta is Haruo’s classmate. He has good looks, but because he is petty, he’s not popular with the girls.

Chihiro Onizuka

Voice Actor: Daria Midou

Chihiro asserts that she is the best heroine(?) out of all of them. She went to the same school as Haruo for both middle and elementary school.

Namie Yaguchi

Voice Actor: Satomi Arai

Namie is Haruo’s mother who is sometimes strict and sometimes loving in the raising of her son. She’s not tall which gives off the impression that she is young, but her actual age is unknown.

Moemi Gouda

Voice Actor: Shizuka Itou

Moemi is the instructor for the Oono family who handles all of Akira’s lessons. In order to force Akira to learn every single possible art and skill, Moemi forces her to adhere to a cruel schedule.