High Score Girl

Perhaps, there are tons of important things to blog about here as well as various things that will make us realize our past mistakes. The comic book series started 8 years ago and it takes place in the 1990s where the gaming scene had become bigger than ever and it's even larger today. It's about the male protagonist who has video gaming as the only dedication but keep in mind that the beginning takes place in his elementary school days and his test grades are too horrendous at the time due to too much gaming. It is when the gaming scene has been going too far for people at young age and that poses a serious problem for parents and schools alike. The solution will be disciplinary actions like children getting grounded over gaming or something for instance. Talk about a guilty experience we feel from similar past actions of ours.
The next notorious thing in the comic book series is going to the arcade centers as getting away from classes at a young age. That never happened to me in the past although I went to the local arcade centers like during the school holidays. In some chapters of the comic book or some episodes of the animated adaption which was supposed to happen a few years ago but instead, it happened this year after the lawsuit was cleared between SNK Playmore and Square Enix, there are scenes where some delinquents freak out and start a fight in the arcades. It's obviously worse than raging over games at home because there's a chance that you may get kicked out or even worse, banned from going to that arcade center again for causing such trouble. There might be cases of some players raging at the arcades or LAN gaming centers no matter which kind/types of games they played.
It's basically a fictionalized version of real cases of gaming addiction in the 1990s as if blaming parents or schools over this is one act of stupidity and playing victims. There are even news articles of some kids imitating some AAA games of the 2000s or even 2010s and even causing public trouble trying to do that. There are also criminal cases of the modern times over whatever modern video games but right now, we don't see anything like that in the cartoon show of High Score Girl. Plus, it's still on-going with additional episodes to come in the future.
Then, there are other things that ruin the High Score Girl franchise, like bringing game consoles to the school trip, taking fictional characters for brides, smashing the arcade machine, a Pachinko addict who can make Konami proud in the Konami haters' opinion.
There are interesting things like implementation of copyrighted material with permissions as well as the official collaboration between SNK Playmore and Square Enix in which the titular character is the Assist character in Million Arthur Arcana Blood where she kicks the arcade cabinet at the opponent, Iori from KOF playable in Million Arthur Arcana Blood and the Thief Arthur playable in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy.
So what are the flaws of High Score Girl:

1. Male protagonist getting 0 marks over games in his elementary school days.
2. The immature tantrum-throwing delinquent smashing the machine, taking the fictional character for his bride which is something I do not condone and getting into fights at the arcades.
3. A Pachinko addict who's actually the Chauffeur of the titular character.
4. Bringing the home game console to the school trip.

This is one cartoon show I can rate as a 4/10 or 5/10 show but as it is an important realization on how dangerous gaming can be as a hobby. Thankfully, as time moves forward according to further premises of the comic book, the characters have managed to snap out of various things. You can read this comic book or watch the animated adaption if you want but I hope that you can do better in schools in the future if you're a student of course and avoid being like those characters stated in the flaws above. The more unacceptable moments High Score Girl has, the lower the opinion score I can give. And don't you hate the male protagonist for being too terrible in his academics? Sure, his classmates have negative opinions about him and to become a professional gamer is one ambition I FROWN UPON. You would rather become a comedian, musician, DJ, actor or even a professional sports player instead.