Gamers!

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Gamers!
Original title ゲ ー マ ー ズ!
transcription Gēmāzu!
Gamers! Logo.svg
genre Romantic comedy
Light novel
country JapanJapan Japan
author Sekina Aoi
illustrator Sabots
publishing company Fujimi Shobo
magazine Gekkan Dragon Magazine
First publication March 20, 2015 - ...
expenditure 10 + 1 extra volume
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Tsubasa Takahashi
publishing company Fujimi Shobo
magazine Gekkan Shōnen Ace
First publication October 26, 2016 - ...
expenditure 5
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2017
Studio Pine Jam
length 25 minutes
Episodes 12
Director Manabu Okamoto
music Yoshiaki Dewa
First broadcast July 13th - September 28th 2017 on AT-X
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Gamers! ( jap. ゲ ー マ ー ズ! , Gēmāzu! ) is a light novel series by Sekina Aoi , which was illustrated by sabots . It has been released in Japan since 2015 and has been adapted as a manga and anime . It belongs to the Romantic Comedy genre .

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High school student Keita Amano ( 雨 野 景 太 ) only plays video games in his spare time, he especially likes Ren'ai simulation , and has no friends at school. One day he is invited to the games club by Karen Tendō ( 天道 花 憐 ), the prettiest and most popular girl in school. But after Keita got to know the club, he turned down the offer. For him, its members are too eager to win, while he himself plays for pleasure. Tendō is disappointed with his decision and tries unsuccessfully several times to change his mind.

Meanwhile, Keita meets more often with Tasuku Uehara ( 上原 祐 ). Until then, he had gone to the arcade with his buddies and now befriends the game-loving Keita. At first, Tasuku only feels sorry for his lonely classmate and wants to help him get together with Tendō. Because Tasuku immediately noticed that Tendō is secretly in love with the keita. While practicing conversation with a girl, Keita gets to know Chiaki Hoshinomori ( 星 ノ 守 千秋 ): an inconspicuous girl who is just as enthusiastic about games . They make friends quickly and Tasuku is thrilled that Keita seems to have found his girl. But suddenly the two fall out because they have different ideas about games.

While Tasuku still tries to pair Keita and Chiaki - after all, both seem to fit together perfectly - Tendō Keita doesn't want to give up either. Together with him, Tasuku and Chiaki, she wants to found a gamer club that is all about fun, the way Keita likes it. And Tasuku's friend Aguri ( 亜 玖 璃 ) becomes suspicious because her boyfriend is so busy with other girls, and fears he is cheating on her. Through her attempts to find out more, she met Keita and met with him more and more often. So finally the other three suspect the two of having secretly an affair with each other, and all five get into alleged difficulties in love.

Eventually, Keita breaks his shyness towards Tendō and asks her if she is going out with him. Both quickly become a couple and the others also talk to each other - even if Aguris and Keita's close friendship keeps making their partners jealous. However, Chiaki learns that Keita is also her long-known online friend and discovers her feelings for him. In Tasuku and soon also in her sister Konoha, she still has allies against Tendō. But she doesn't dare to tell Keita about her online identity and eventually even pretends to be her sister. Keita is just confused by this and Chiaki is desperate about her feelings. But her further attempts to win over Keita also fail. And while the five spend more and more time together as a gamer club, the relationship between Keita and Tendō is also strengthening.

Print publications

The light novel has been published by Fujimi Shobo since March 20, 2015 with ten volumes so far (as of June 2018) and one extra volume - Gamers! DLC - with short stories.

The same publisher has been bringing out a manga adaptation of Tsubasa Takahashi since October 26, 2016 . The chapters of the Yonkoma manga will initially be published in the magazine Gekkan Shōnen Ace starting with issue 12/2016. So far, five collective volumes ( Tankōbon ) have been published. Altraverse has published the manga in German in four volumes since September 2018 .

Anime adaptation

In 2017 Studio Pine Jam directed a 12-part anime adaptation of the light novel, directed by Manabu Okamoto . The main author of the series was Hiroki Uchida , the character design was designed by Tensho Sato and the artistic direction was by Masami Saito . The series premiered on AT-X in Japan from July 13 to September 28, 2017 , and a few hours later on Tokyo MX , Sun Television, and BS11 . The Crunchyroll platform published the anime worldwide with subtitles in German and English, among others. An English dubbed version was released by Funimation Entertainment.

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role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Keita Amano Megumi Han
Karen Tendo Hisako Kanemoto
Chiaki Hoshinomori Manaka Iwami
Tasuku Uehara Toshiyuki Toyonaga
Aguri Rumi Ōkubo
Konoha Hoshinomori Yūki Kuwahara

music

The music for the series was composed by Yoshiaki Dewa . The opening credits are underlaid with the song Gamers! , sung by the voice actors of the three female protagonists, Hisako Kanemoto, Manaka Iwami and Rumi Ōkubo. The closing credits song is Fight on! by Luce Twinkle Wink ☆ .

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