Animeand video games often go hand in hand due to their relatively similar cultural tropes. Even some of the mostpopular anime released were adapted from video games, and vice versa. Watching an anime character who plays and enjoys video games as much as you will draw you into them due to how relatable they can be.
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No matter what type of gamer you are, just know that you are not alone. There are a bunch of gamers out there both in the fictional and real worlds that you can surely relate to.
7Konata Izumi - Lucky Star
Konata is an eccentric and mischievous high school student, known for being a hardcore otaku gamer. She works part-time at a cosplay café to sustain her passion for gaming and anime. After all, they sure are expensive hobbies. She loves to pull all-nighters, but not to study or do homework – sheplays RPGsinstead – we’ve all been there.
Despite this, Konata always seems to pull off miracles and ends up passing her tests. She is indeed a lucky star, just like the anime she stars in implies. Watching Konata’s daily life as a student and a gamer will undoubtedly be an enjoyable and relatable experience.
6Karen Tendou - Gamers!
The most popular girl at Otobuki High School, Karen, has managed to capture the hearts of her peers due to her exceptional beauty. She is what you would consider a poster girl – She has the looks, the intelligence, the athleticism, and is well-mannered to boot. Due to this, she is treated like an “idol” at her school. Even her teachers are extra polite towards her. But wait, that’s not all.
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In addition to her already remarkable characteristics, she also loves playing video games! In fact, she is the president of the school’s gaming club. It is Karen’s goal to recruit genuine gamers and create a community that strives to be the best. Her only downside is that she can be frighteningly jealous and possessive when it comes to love, making her lose focus on her games.
5Tomozaki - Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki
Fumiya Tomozaki isn’t like any average gamer. He is the top-ranked player of a popular online game, Attack Families, under his in-game name “nanashi." Although, there seems to be one problem: while he’s a superstar in the gaming world, in real life, he’s the complete opposite. He doesn’t excel at academics, is terrible at sports, and struggles to make friends. This makes him feel like a social outcast.
However, that is all about to change as he meets Aoi Hanami, a picture-perfect student who is also an excellent gamer, who would guide and teach Tomozaki all the right strategies to win in the game of life. A once ‘bottom-tier character’ slowly finding his way around life is an inspiring story, and is a reminder that we should all strive to experience all the great things that life has to offer.
4Moriko Morioka - Recovery Of An MMO Junkie
Moriko, an extremely introverted 30-year-old woman, used to work in the corporate world but decided to quit her job to become a full-time NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) – Sounds like the dream, right? With Moriko’s newfound free time, she begins toplay an MMO gamecalled Fruits De Mer. However, she decides to create a character of the opposite gender and lies about her age and occupation. Let’s admit it, we’ve all done this at least once. After all, it’s just a game, right?
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Over time, Moriko’s quiet and reserved self manages to create meaningful relationships with her online gaming friends, which helped her develop new characteristics. Consequently, this allowed her to slowly come out of her shell both online and in real life. Seeing Moriko’s growth shows how video games can also have a significantly positive influence on one’s life.
3Hiroshi Yuuki - Full Dive
Hiroshi Yuuko was once the ace runner on his track team. But that all changed when he tripped and peed in his pants during a track meet. Due to his failure and embarrassment, he vowed never to run again. Hiro then turned tovirtual reality gamesfor comfort and to escape his new reality. As a result, he is now often looked down upon by his sister and peers due to his excessive video game playing.
One day, a pretty saleslady in the store convinced Hiro to buy a full-dive VR RPG game that pursued ultimate realism. From then on, his once-empty life has become filled with wild adventures that push him to become better both virtually and in real life, hoping to make his family and friends proud of him again.
2Keima Katsuragi - The World God Only Knows
Looking for the ultimate Cassanova? That’s Keima. People even refer to him as “The Capturing God” due to his impressive ability to make women fall in love with him. Well, only in the gaming world. In reality, he has never even held hands with a girl.
However, this is his own choice - as Keima says, he is only really attracted to girls in games as they are less complicated. Keima spends most of his time alone playing games, particularly dating sims. Despite his aloof personality in the real world, Keima runs a gaming blog wherein he gladly gives advice to gamers who want to complete certain game levels.
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One day, he unknowingly accepts a contract from hell to help capture runaway spirits. But the only way to do so is to capture the hearts of women in the real world. Do you think applying his next-level romance simulation skills to reality will work?
1Sora And Shiro - No Game No Life
Sora, an eighteen-year-old boy with excellent observational and manipulative skills, and Shiro, an adorable eleven-year-old girl with incredible logic and calculation abilities, are two siblings so inseparable that they literally become catatonic without each other. They come as a package deal, even to the point of sharing a gaming account under the username “Blank." With their combined skills, they have become the most feared gamers in the world, holding the highest scores for over hundreds of games, while remaining undefeated. They even ended up beating God inthe game of chess.
As a result, Sora and Shiro were teleported to an alternate world, a place where everything is decided by winning games. Whoever plays against these two mastermind siblings will surely need all the luck in the world, and maybe even more than that.
