In reality, this feels like the best romance series I’ve seen in a very long time!ĪNIME RANKING: #45 – Slightly let down by its conclusion, MMO Junkie still finds itself in a solid spot on our list, placed between respectable titles such as Black Lagoon and Konosuba! The ending is premature, but it’s only your love for the two main characters that amplifies this. It is well-directed and the story is told at a great pace. The animation is strong, doing a good job of painting a difference between the game and reality.
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In an Autumn ’17 Cycle dominated by loud action series, Recovery of an MMO Junkie has offered a really good example of how to do a rom-com right. She features in the anime’s outro, but never in the actual show itself, and that feels really odd. It seemed to me like her story would branch the series out a bit, yet it was never brought up again after its introduction. While it only slightly prematurely finishes in terms of the main two – you never hear any sort of confession, for example – there were a few other stories in their little group that were teased, particularly Lilac’s player.
Some series can end after this time and it works well, unfortunately, this certainly feels 2, maybe even three episodes short of its conclusion. However, that brings me to this shows biggest downfall – the 10-episode runtime. This sense of patience, filled with funny, loving moments in between, constantly leaves you desperate for more! However, it’s only many episodes in that it is revealed to the characters themselves. It’s clear that they will eventually meet each other, and that they are both perfect for each other. It becomes clear from an early point to the audience, maybe even in episode one, that the two single gamers both know each other. MMO Junkie, for the most part, is about the awkwardness concerning how online characters Hayashi and Lily, both falling for each other in-game, half-know each other outside of it. What I liked most about this, though, was how good the show’s timing was.
There’s not a single school-bell in sight! MMO Junkie has teen romance elements to it, but the adult characters and adult moments give it a more sophisticated feel compared to similar series.
This is an all-out rom-com, but what I liked going into it was that, unlike many other shows in the genre, and shows in anime in general, this is a show with almost exclusively adult characters. However, the gaming, despite in the title, doesn’t overly-dominate the series. At first I was put off watching this series – you’ll notice it didn’t feature at all in our Half-Term Report – because I looked at the posters and images and saw another cringe-worthy comedy about gaming. This was, for the most part, a really good series.
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Hayashi is invited to join Lily’s guild in the game, and the two of them develop a close relationship in the game, not knowing that their secret offline selves may be closer to each other than they think.īasically Plot: A woman leaves her draining job and rediscovers her love of online videogames, while her encounter with a similarly gender-swapped character online awakens her heart to another, very real love. Playing a male character named Hayashi (far-right) in the fantasy world of Fruits De Mer, ‘she’ is befriended by a high-level healer in Lily (far-left), who helps Moriko learn the game. She buys herself a new computer and, in search for a new meaning to her life, devotes herself to her love of MMO (Massively Multiple Online) Games. The series follows Moriko Morioka (left), a 30-year-old single woman who, after becoming disillusioned with her draining corporate job, decides to quit. Recovery of an MMO Junkie (2017, S1, 10x23mins) The reason we’re cramming these three major series together is because at the end of the week we are holding our first ever 2017 ANIME AWARDS!īest Fight Scenes, Best Relationship, Most Underrated Series and, of course, ANIME OF THE YEAR 2017 will all be decided, and these three will all be in the running, so let’s start with a series that completely caught us off-guard this cycle: I’m not joking, this is one of our biggest APR’s ever, featuring heavy-hitting reviews for three of the Fall ’17 cycle’s biggest series! Happy holidays, and welcome to a jam-packed Anime Pocket Reviews!
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