It's 1992, arcades are booming and Haruo really, really likes Street Fighter 2. His entire life revolves around him waiting to get the chance to go to the arcades and play a whole lot of Street Fighter. One day he's defeated by Oono, the genius, beautiful, perfect student from his class. As they continue to play games together a relationship develops but since this is an anime, neither can fully acknowledge their feelings, nor they can properly express it. You seen this before I'm sure.
High Score Girl has three fronts to speak. It's a slapstick comedy, which I didn't particularly like or dislike, it's just there. Then you have the games. There's a lot of talking about gaming here, which is nice. I happen to be old enough to have visited arcades a lot in the mid 90s so there's a lot of content here for someone like me.
Then there's the romance part, which starts really well but it gets quite repetitive fairly soon into the series. Oono is kinda of an one-note character. Actually more like a no-note character. She never speakers. I'm pretty sure that's the main reason they introduced Hidaka into the mix, so Haruo has someone to talk to. Oono is the weakest link in this plot. She's not very captivating. In fact she's gone for a few episodes and there's absolutely no loss. If anything, it's better when she's not in it. It's just that when she's around the whole thing becomes very formulaic.
My favorite character is probably Namie, Haruo's mother. She's the only funny character in this and whenever she appears the enjoyment factor goes way up. Overall a nice series and I plan to watch the second season, but I'm glad it's not 12 episodes long this time.
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