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Hi Score Girl (2019), Season 2 picks the story back up and you can watch it online on iFILM — nine episodes where the arcade rivalry finally turns into a question of who likes whom.
Koharu Hidaka stops hiding her crush on Haruo and challenges Akira head-on — not for the title of arcade champ, but for something she wants far more. Haruo, for once, actually asks himself what the silent Akira means to him. Meanwhile Akira is sitting on news she won't share: a move overseas. It all converges on a tournament in Osaka, where the two travel together and end up matched in the final bracket. The fighting games are still here; the stakes just stopped being about high scores.
At nine episodes it runs tighter than the first season — less hardware nostalgia, more of the feelings the show had been circling. J.C.Staff carries the Haruo–Akira arc to the payoff that made all those thirty losses at Street Fighter worth sitting through. Stream Hi Score Girl Season 2 online on iFILM.
9 episodes
S2·E1ROUND 16
Moemi has pushed Akira to excel her whole life, but all she cared about was arcade games. She still likes games, but she also likes Haruo.
S2·E2ROUND 17
Completely oblivious, Haruo watches in awe as Koharu and Akira duke it out on Virtua Fighter 2. At the game center, Koharu can't help but taunt him.
S2·E3ROUND 18
Representing Shibuya, Haruo faces players from Mizonokuchi, including Koharu, in a 10-person Street Fighter Zero 2 arcade battle.
S2·E4ROUND 19
When Makoto presses him about his feelings towards Akira and Koharu, Haruo flees. Out on the street, he's abducted by a group of men in suits.
S2·E5ROUND 20
Koharu challenges Akira to a Super Street Fighter II X match. For her, there's more riding on the game than which of them is the arcade champion.
S2·E6ROUND 21
Haruo realizes how much Akira means to him and visits Miyao to confirm it. To prove himself, he invites Akira to join him at a tournament in Osaka.
S2·E7ROUND 22
Akira keeps her impending move to Los Angeles a secret. In Osaka, she and Haruo spend their time on the eve of the tournament in various arcades.
S2·E8ROUND 23
The tournament begins with Haruo running on very little sleep. After he advances in his own match, he's dumbfounded to see the result of Akira's.
S2·E9ROUND 24
Akira and Haruo face off in the tournament's final round. Months later, Haruo hasn't recovered and Akira's departure nears. Then Makoto comes to visit.
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