GAMERS! (Season 1)

GAMERS! (ゲーマーズ！, 2017) is a Japanese romantic comedy anime you can watch online on iFILM. Keita Amano is the definition of unremarkable — no clubs, average grades, nothing going for him except a love of video games. Then Karen Tendo, the most popular girl in school and president of the Gamer Club, calls out to him. Everything after that goes sideways in ways the genre has no playbook for.

The 2017 series from Pine Jam studio plays the romcom formula the way its characters play games — by refusing to follow expected rules. Megumi Han and Hisako Kanemoto lead the voice cast. For fans of comedy built entirely out of compounding misunderstandings, this one delivers without taking a breath. Stream GAMERS! online on iFILM.