Review of Recovery of an MMO Junkie

It's been a couple years, and this is still my favorite romance anime - nay, my favorite love story of all time. I was hooked from the description because of the whole implied "two-person love triangle, in love with each other's alter ego, not realizing they were someone you knew all along with a dash of gender bender" plot, but the anime is so much more than that. I feel like I can really relate to the main character, Moriko's struggles as a lonely 30-year-old who's done nothing with her life but worked a menial job for a humdrum corporation and decides to screw hercareer and play video games all day. I'm twenty-eight-and-three-quarters years old as I write this, and I feel like I am constantly half a millimeter away from doing the same. As for the plot, I was on the edge of my seat with all of the gradual twists and coincidences and revelations that pull Moriko and Yuuta closer together, in spite of the two's social anxiety and ineptitude at relationships (Koiwai is the greatest wingman in anime history). Even if it wasn't meant to be, this is wish-fulfillment fantasy done so very right and I love it.