High Score Girl (series review)
Video games have gone a long way since they were first introduced by William Higinbotham in 1958. They went from their primal age to the Atari Age, to the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 80s, to the console wars in the 90s, or the bit wars as some would call them, to the modern age of video games. Throughout its existence, video games managed to merge with culture in different ways, like how the NES and SNES became symbols of the 80s and 90s. Video games also managed to merge with literature in different forms throughout the years, from disastrous films like the Super Mario Bros. with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo and John-Claude Van Damme’s Street Fighter to the excellent Disney Classic Wrick It Ralph films and to Ernest Cline’s science fiction, video game themed novel ready player one . In this review, I will look at the anime adaptation of Rensuke Oshikir's manga High Score Girl , a Netflix original anime that began on December 24th, 2018, for season...