Hi Score Girl: A Nostalgia Bob-omb That'll Break Your Heart anitay.kinja.com

Spoiler alert - Hi Score Girl tore my hardened, battle-scarred adult heart into soft and squishy itty-bitty pieces, stomped on it and made me cry like an emotionally desolate sixteen-year-old boy again.
AdvertisementThe Hi Score Girl herself Akira Oono is the most magnetic character in the whole show - as well she should be.
What elevates Hi Score Girl over its peers is how accurately it portrays the unfairness and sheer difficulty of navigating relationships as an adolescent.
Hi Score Girl means a lot to me because I was very Haruo-like as an adolescent.
Watching Hi Score Girl is like peering through a window in time at my own adolescence.