Review of Recovery of an MMO Junkie

What I gave it: a solid 5 What it probably deserves: 6.6 The only reason I started watching this was because it was highly rated on MAL, which just goes to show, score isn't everything. I've seen the setting of NEET with slaptick internal comedy so. many. times. Honestly speaking, I zoned out for most of the first couple of episodes, tuning in only when the real world came back into play. Honestly, I'm surprised I completed this. The comedy was absolutely average, the development average, the outcome very obvious, and yet I stayed. Probably because I'm such a fan of Sakurai Takahiro (voice actor of Sakurai in theshow. I wonder how he felt about that xD).

There were some nice fluff moments, but honestly, in the end they fell short. What I was surprised to notice was the directing was actually good, subtle detail without being thrown in your face, for example blushing with the tips of the ears going red, withOUT someone pointing it out by saying "WHy aRe YOuR eaRs So ReD". It was just a detail meant for the audience to see, and if they missed it they missed it. I really wish this happened in anime more often.
And there were several of these little, realistic type details in there, but oh my gosh did it do nothing to save the show. Just means the director was not bad.

Another let down is they say the characters were 30 years old and yet there was more maturity from the teens in Kimi ni Todoke. I am a fan of shojo, so I didn't mind TOO much, but if you're expecting 30 year olds, that's not what you're getting.
The characters themselves had no development. They stayed with the same feelings starting episode 1.

I'm not going to even go into what could have been added to help, because what was already there was so hopeless to start with.

However, by rating this 5, I'm not saying it's worse than something at 6 (I did finish the anime, after all). It's just that it was so incredibly bland. Nothing stood out, at all.

So should you watch it?

I guess I'll leave that up to you: Do you like very, very cliche portrayals of a NEET, drawn out in between scenes to fill up the 23 minute time slot, with the meek attempts at slapstick comedy, and a healthy dosage of shojo-blushing and stammering?
Then sure.