![]() On numerous occasions, Ako makes it clear that she is a terrible girlfriend who has no right dating anyone. At least something like Oreimo, as painful a show as it often was, actually made an effort to make its characters something more than that. She is a collection of silly tropes to throw on a body pillow and sell to otaku. That Ako is completely serious about it makes it quite clear that she is a basket-case and that the show has no interest in painting her as an actual person. Even the most extreme of otaku on 2ch and other places have the sense to treat these sorts of comments as a joke. She claims real-life is a kusoge and compares luck to item drops in a game. So forgive me if I do not care when the show tries to make me feel for them (and often, unfortunately, it does).Īnything that comes out of Ako's mouth is a pain to the senses. A couple like this would not last more than a few weeks in reality, much less a lifetime. And the two of them like to imagine themselves a married couple? Really? Marriage is not play-time- it requires a great deal of compromise and sacrifice, and would crush their childish fantasy as a result. Anyone who has dated before, especially at a young age, knows that desperate relationships like these never go anywhere. A game! This is not love- it is two mentally troubled and lonely children infatuated with one another because they share a superficial hobby and because they cannot get anyone better. It certainly does not do anything in the later episodes to convince otherwise.įor what is supposed to be an anime involving romance, said 'romance' is about as shallow and as juvenile as it can possibly get. If you were to drop the show immediately after the first episode, I would not blame you, and I would actually suggest you are making the right choice. in-game waifu who immediately clings all over him and proclaims herself his wife, despite not actually knowing anything about who he is in the real-world. This is an anime where the protagonist's entire set of friends in an online game just so happen to be attractive (in some cases, popular) girls who, conveniently, attend the exact same high school and know him personally, including a twintailed tsundere and his It would be one thing if Netoge was just more run-of-the-mill mediocrity, but it instead goes all the way in being silly tripe. The anime industry clearly hasn't had enough of those. Another light novel adaptation with a harem, a stupidly long title that nobody in their right mind would want to pronounce, and a story revolving around MMOs. However, after a discussion between the guild members that led to all of them having an offline meeting, Rusian finds out that Ako, along with the other members, is not just a girl but also his schoolmate. Although he entertains the possibility that she might be a guy, Rusian accepts her proposal, claiming that her gender does not matter as long as she is cute in-game. Ako is deeply in love with Rusian and wants to marry him. Years later, Rusian is now in a guild with three other players, one of whom possesses a female avatar by the name of Ako. ![]() With his dreams crushed and his heart broken, Rusian comes to an abrupt decision in the midst of his raging fit: he will never trust another girl in an online game again. ![]() To make matters worse, the girl reveals that she is actually an older man in real life. After mustering up the courage to propose to a girl in an online game, naive otaku Hideki "Rusian" Nishimura is devastated when she flat-out rejects him. ![]()
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