High school girls get very excited at winning a not very exciting board game:
This first episode spent a fair bit faffing about before it finally got around to any actual board gaming. We only get to see the actual game store halfway through the episode. First we have to deal with blue haired girl (shy, bit of a loner) bonding with the twin tailed transfer student new to Kyoto (energetic, dumb but enthusiastic) for the first half as they have adventures in and around the town. When they spy the glasses wearing class rep out after curfew (six PM and is this really a thing in Japan?) they get suspicious and follow her. All of which ends with the three of them playing a game of Marrakech with the store’s owner.
And yes, that is a real board game, as are the other games shown in the store. Which is unusual, as normally manga and anime series are very very scared of anything that could be seen as a trademark infringement. It helps ground the series to have real games being played. Just as long as we don’t get any Catan. Or worse, Monopoly. This was a fun first episode. The girls are all a bit cliched but let’s see how’ll they develop over the series.
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