alabaster_comet

I would reccomend High Score Girl if you are looking for anime about 90s arcades (mostly street fighter 2) videogames, culture around the two and some fun adolescent romance. What makes this work for me is while it's a romance anime It highlights a lot of japanese arcade scene and 90s videogames by highlighting characters impressions, expirence, and bonding over them. Despite not growing up when they were new or the same game I can recall similar competitive or funny times I have had with my friends. As for the main couple Haruo Yaguchi while mediocre in everything else has committed himself to passion of videogames with enough self awareness to admit it regardless of what others think. This however gets challenged when silent popular and rich girl Ono Akira matches even surpasses him. Naturally he is pissed that someone so talented in life would take the one thing he is good at and declares her his rival. Both the characters are great in this even if one ends up doing all the talking for both. Might be contrived way of writing heroine, but I find it interesting having to observe Ono's actions, circumstances, and such to understand her feelings. Example: https://youtu.be/QW_5G4HSh1Q