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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:High Score Girl / Hi Score Girl
- Official name:ハイスコアガール
- Chinese name:高分少女
- Premiered:July 13, 2018
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Funny / Love / Youth / Daily / Source manga
- Original author:押切蓮介
- Director:山川吉樹
- Scenario:冨田頼子 / 浦畑達彦 / イシノアツオ
- Storyboard:まついひとゆき / 佐山聖子 / 山川吉樹
- Co-director:山川吉樹 / 桜美かつし
- Studios:J.C.Staff
- Copyright:© 押切蓮介 / SQUARE ENIX・ハイスコアガール製作委員会
- Family:Hi Score Girl
- Rating:12+
High Score Girl
1991.
The year of the Gulf War.
The year Mount Unzen erupted.
The year the Ten-Day War in Slovenia broke out.
The year the world wavered.
Yaguchi Haruo, a 6th grader, is not only the least popular in his school, but also has the worst grades, a bad attitude towards others, and cannot be called attractive either.
The only thing he lives for are video games, and this happens to be the only thing he is really good at.
Until one day, he plays Street Fighter II against Oono Akira, a well-off female classmate, who proves to him that she is not only more popular, intelligent, attractive, and lucky than he is, but also... better than him at playing video games!
Haruo's small world wavers...
Note: Due to a then-ongoing legal dispute concerning SNK Playmore's intellectual property, the manga's publisher Square Enix voluntarily recalled its volumes from the stores, also suspending serialization, further publication and digital sales of volumes, and development of the anime adaptation.
The two companies eventually settled out of court and Square Enix resumed the previously halted activities.
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EP1 - ROUND 1
The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He's not popular in school and he's neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who's popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship.
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EP2 - ROUND 2
Akira brings Haruo his homework when he misses school with a fever. In return, Haruo lets her play with his collection of PC Engine games.
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EP3 - ROUND 3
With summer vacation coming to an end, Haruo and Akira join their classmates on a trip to the flower park, but eye the amusement park next door.
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EP4 - ROUND 4
Haruo invites classmate Hidaka to play a game of Street Fighter II Dash when she's caught in a snowstorm on her way home from school.
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EP5 - ROUND 5
Haruo is taken aback after witnessing Hidaka eliminate Sub-Zero with a complex FATALITY move while playing Mortal Kombat for the first time.
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EP6 - ROUND 6
As Haruo pulls off Guile's super combo moves on the newly added Super Street Fighter II X machine, a familiar face returns to the local arcade scene.
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EP7 - ROUND 7
Eager to play with Haruo, Hidaka buys a copy of Final Fight for the Super Famicom console. Haruo and class head to Kyoto for an overnight school trip.
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EP8 - ROUND 8
With tours of historic landmarks over for the day, Haruo sneaks off alone to the city of Osaka to compete in the Super Street Fighter II X tournament.
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EP9 - ROUND 9
With high school entrance exams coming up next year, Haruo fears his time playing fighting games at the arcade with Akira will soon come to an end.
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EP10 - ROUND 10
Now in his first year of high school, Haruo realizes his time playing the new Sega Saturn console at home have greatly diminished his arcade skills.
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EP11 - ROUND 11
Hidaka asks Akira about her feelings toward Haruo while playing Virtua Cop in co-op mode. Out of his funk, Haruo searches for Akira at local arcades.
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EP12 - ROUND 12
Stranded out late with Akira, Haruo asks his mother to help him find a place to stay. Hidaka visits Haruo's house to lend him her PlayStation console.