Recovery of an MMO Junkie (Season 1)

Recovery of an MMO Junkie (2017) is a Japanese anime series you can watch online on iFILM. Thirty-year-old Moriko Morioka quits her job, shuts herself in and sinks fully into an online game.

In the virtual world she plays a handsome young man named Hayashi and soon befriends Lily, a sweet female character who helps the newbie find her footing. Out in the real world, Moriko has an awkward run-in with a charming blue-eyed blond named Yuta Sakurai, an employee at a major company. The wall between who these two are in the game and who they are outside it slowly comes down, growing into a surprisingly grown-up romance about adults who find it easier to be themselves behind an avatar than face to face.

The show runs a single season of ten episodes, set to a gentle score and refreshingly free of teenagers — rare for the genre. Mamiko Noto and Takahiro Sakurai lead the voice cast. It lands best with anyone tired of high-school rom-coms who wants a story about people in their thirties. Stream every episode of Recovery of an MMO Junkie online on iFILM.