This one gets you with the flatline delivery. Akane sobs her breakup into voice chat and Yamada answers "I don't care," and somehow that becomes the most trustworthy thing anyone says to her all series. The show runs on the gap between his blunt game-brain logic and the devastatingly sincere lines he drops with zero expression, then walks away like he didn't just detonate her whole week. The offline meetup where he clocks her by her handle instead of her makeover, him dozing off against her shoulder, the cat cafe, Runa loudly staking her claim while Eita reads the room better than any adult in it. Fair warning: Akane whines, and Yamada is more a wall you slowly warm than a character who grows, so if you need combustible banter you'll bounce by episode four. Stay and you get an actual confession, not a stalemate, and a heroine who logged in to escape and left with a guild that shows up for her.

College student Akane Kinoshita's love life falls apart when her boyfriend leaves her for a woman he met in an online game. Heartbroken, she takes out her frustration in the MMO they used to share and pours out her story to Yamada, a guildmate she meets by chance, who answers only with a blunt "I don't care." After a makeover, Akane goes to an offline event for the game hoping to get back at her ex, and there she hears those same cold words again. The speaker is Akito Yamada, a legendary player who seems to care about nothing but gaming. Akane pulls the antisocial Yamada into her plan and leans on him for comfort. The two are very different people, yet time together in the game and outside it shows each of them the other's better qualities, and as Akane's feelings grow, the question becomes whether Yamada's attention can ever move beyond the game. Adapted from a shoujo manga by Mashiro, the show is a romantic comedy with dramatic moments.