The fate of High Score Girl has been resolved.
The manga series from Rensuke Oshikiri’s been on an odd journey overall as it’s something you don’t hear happening too often out of Japan for a number of legal reasons. Oshikiri’s series High Score Girl began back in 2010 and had an anime adaptation announced in late 2013 with what was believed to be a 2014 debut. Little happening in regards to that series for awhile – no staff or cast were ever revealed – and then the manga series itself went on hiatus in 2014 due to publisher Square Enix being sued over the use of characters that SNK Playmore owned within the book in May 2014.
Now it looks like everything has been resolved as Square Enix has announced that they’re going to pursue “collaborative opportunities” with SNK Playmore and SNK Playmore has dropped its complaint. That means the series gets to get moving again, at least for the manga side.
Plot concept: The year is 1991 and 6th grader Yaguchi Haruo only has video games to live for. He’s not popular in school and he’s neither handsome, funny, nice nor even friendly. The only thing he has going for him is that he is good at video games. One day at the local arcade, he plays Oono Akira, a fellow classmate but who’s popular, smart, pretty and a rich girl that absolutely destroys him at Street Fighter II. Not only does he lose to her 30 times in a row, he can’t beat her at any game. Haruo can’t seem to shake Akira off as she follows him from arcade to arcade everyday after school and beats him every time. As weird as it sounds, the odd couple begins a strange bond and friendship.
[Source: Natalie]
Hopefully the anime actually happens. I really like the manga.