Review of Recovery of an MMO Junkie

Story: Average Being predictable isn't a shortcoming, but being predictable without any charm is. We know right from the start what is the goal of the series and we are there just to lay down and enjoy the ride, and I sure didn't. Most of the reason for that comes from the characters, but the plot is also at fault. If you make your end goal known to the public at least make your journey until there fun. I mean, I'm pretty sure that I have watched this already. Isn't this just a mixture of ReLIFE, NetoYome, and Gamers! ? - Romance involving two main adult characterswhile having some sort of "rehabilitation". ✔
- Having characters that know each other in a game meeting irl. ✔
- A bunch of misunderstandings or slow progression that could have been easily solved if they talked with each other. ✔

Sound/Art: Fine/Bad

I don't have much to say, I found the music a bit above average while the art being somewhat bad. It's more or less consistent, but I don't think that it has any appeal. Backgrounds and characters designs are really generic and I don't have any memorable moment where I thought that the show looked good. On the other hand, I have several memories where it was meant to look good, but it wasn't.

Characters: Very Bad

So, let me see if I got this right. For a change instead of high school age characters we have adults, but instead of making any good use of that we just use them as if they were still high school age characters.
Yes, we have this huge superficial difference while everything else that really matters is the same as any other anime out there.
This story could easily have been made without them being adults while having almost no differences, just changing some events to something similar or changing them to something different while getting a similar purpose/intent.
I just feel like it was a waste on that part.

But hey, they are not even the only characters, we have more which we know absolutely nothing about and were always there. I guess that we shouldn't expect much since not even the main characters were that well developed. We known about Sakurai's past and we kinda know about Morioka's. But it's in a superficial manner. Sakurai only has that going for him because it was needed. Otherwise, he could not share a bound with Morioka, and the exact same thing with the MC. A superficial plot point for them to have some sort of connection while making it "so beautiful", otherwise they would have 0 reasons to want to get to know one another. Especially taking in considerating both their personalities, especially Morioka's.

Overall: Average

I feel like I made this series seem worse than it is. I honestly just found it average. I ended up focusing on the bad points of the series since most of the reviews are positive with some high scores and I wanted to give some "balance" to it since I really don't think that this series was as good as people make it out to be.