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Gamers!
Gamers! light novel volume 1 cover.jpg
First light novel volume cover
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(Gemazu!)
Genre Romantic comedy[1]
Light novel
Written by Sekina Aoi
Illustrated by Saboten
Published by Fujimi Shobo
Imprint Fujimi Fantasia Bunko
Demographic Male
Original run March 20, 2015 � October 19, 2019
Volumes 12 (List of volumes)
Manga
Written by Sekina Aoi
Illustrated by Yamucha
Published by Fujimi Shobo
Magazine Shonen Ace
Demographic Shonen
Original run 2016 � present
Volumes 7 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by Manabu Okamoto
Produced by Mitsutoshi Ogura
Tatsuya Suguri
Tsuyoshi Soda
Takema Okamura
Hirotaka Kaneko
Tomoyuki Ohwada
Katsumi Kikumasa
Kazuhiro Kanemitsu
Written by Hiroki Uchida
Music by Yoshiaki Dewa
Studio Pine Jam
Licensed by
NA
Funimation
Original network AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV, BS11
Original run July 13, 2017 � September 28, 2017
Episodes 12 (List of episodes)
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Gamers! (Japanese: ?????!, Hepburn: Gemazu!) is a Japanese light novel series
written by Sekina Aoi and illustrated by Saboten. Fujimi Shobo published twelve
volumes from March 20, 2015 to October 19, 2019 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko
imprint. An anime television series adaptation by Pine Jam aired from July to
September 2017.

Contents
1 Plot
2 Characters
2.1 Main characters
2.2 Supporting characters
3 Media
3.1 Light novel
3.2 Manga
3.3 Anime
4 Reception
5 Works cited
6 Notes
7 References
8 External links
Plot
Keita Amano, a high school boy who enjoys playing video games by himself, is
approached by the beautiful school idol Karen Tendo to join the school's Gaming
Club. Keita tries it out, but finds it is about competitive gaming, so he declines
her offer. This rejection sets off a trigger of events in the lives of Keita and
his fellow students in matters of both video games and romance with no small amount
of misunderstandings along the way.

Characters
In the light novels, the characters take turns narrating the chapters, with most of
them done by Keita Amano.

Main characters
Keita Amano (?? ??, Amano Keita)
Voiced by: Megumi Han[2] (Japanese); Brandon McInnis (English)[3]
Keita is a rather plain second-year high school student who loves video games. He
initially does not have any school friends, preferring to just play on his handheld
console or on his phone. He considers Karen Tendo to be the perfect girl, but turns
down her invitations to join the Game Club because he prefers to play games for fun
and not as something competitive. He often thinks of himself as unworthy of her
affections, but is encouraged by Tasuku to be friends with KarenLN 1 and eventually
ask her out. In later episodes, he reveals that sometimes, he does like to compete
to win. He uses two online usernames, Tsucchi and Yama, both of which are based on
his mother's maiden name Tsuchiyama. He is a big fan of independent game designer
"Nobe", and teams up with online player Mono.Ep. 3 He is very stubborn when it
comes to his opinions on games, clashing with Chiaki Hoshinomori regularly over the
use of moe characters and other things, even though the two are very much alike.Ep.
3, 5 In the light novel, Keita notes that he has a brother two years younger.LN 1
Karen Tendo (?? ??, Tendo Karen)
Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto[2][a] (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English)[3]
Karen is the most beautiful girl at school and the president of the school's Game
Club. She has long naturally blond hair and green eyes.[b] She excels in everything
at school from looks and popularity to sports to academics.LN 1Ep. 1 She had
enrolled in the school because of the club's prestige, but its senior members had
left, so she took it upon herself to revive the club, and she privately recruits
members as she does not want it to be filled with guys who are only interested in
asking her out.LN 1 She invites Keita to join her club, but when she is rejected,
she becomes noticeably upset. While watching Keita from a distance, she develops a
crush on him because he stands up to Tasuku in defending her and the club,LN 1 She
becomes flustered whenever she thinks of him or interacts with him to the point
that it interferes with her focus on her daily routines of going for a morning jog,
helping teachers, rejecting love confessions from suitors, and hanging out with the
Game Club.Ep. 4 She mistakenly believes that Keita and Aguri are a couple, having
seen them together.Ep. 3�5 Midway through the anime series, she spontaneously
accepts Keita's asking her to be a couple, but is willing to stay in the
relationship.Ep. 6-7
Chiaki Hoshinomori (??? ??, Hoshinomori Chiaki)
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami[2] (Japanese); Marissa Lenti (English)[5]
Chiaki is a shy and quiet girl in Karen's class. She has messy "seaweed" dark blue
hair and purple eyes. She enjoys playing handheld and phone games like Keita, and
had declined Karen's invitation to join the Game Club. At school, she and Keita
initially get along because they agree on many things about games, until they clash
over their opinions on putting moe characters in video games. She takes Tasuku's
advice on improving her appearance, and cuts her hair, but her increased
interactions with Tasuku make Aguri jealous.Ep. 3 She is Keita's online friend
"Mono" and his favorite indie game developer "Nobe", although both Chiaki and Keita
are unaware of each other's online personas.Ep. 5 She is shocked when Keita reveals
his gaming personalities to the group, and begins to develop feelings towards
him.Ep. 8
Tasuku Uehara (?? ?, Uehara Tasuku)
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga[2] (Japanese); Clifford Chapin (English)[3]
Tasuku is Keita's classmate and is a good-looking and outgoing guy. He is an
occasional gamer and is skilled at arcade games. A former gamer nerd in middle
school, he changed his appearance and attitude when he entered high school to shun
gamer nerds, yet feels drawn to be involved in Keita's life and his situation with
Karen that he is willing to help Keita progress in his social life.LN 1 He is quite
proud that he landed a cute girlfriend Aguri, but later learns that Aguri had liked
him back when he was a nerd.Ep. 2 He is the first to make the connection between
Keita and Chiaki's gaming personas, and then tries to pair the two together as
friends, while also supporting Keita and Karen's relationship. He creates a Gamers
Meet-Up Club with all parties involved, however, his efforts, as well as his
increasing interactions with Chiaki and Karen, lead to more misunderstandings.Ep. 5
Aguri Sakurano (?? ???, Sakurano Aguri)
Voiced by: Rumi Okubo[2] (Japanese); Tia Ballard (English)[3]
Aguri is Tasuku's girlfriend. In the anime, she is a petite girl with pink hair and
purple eyes. She does not play video games nor has an interest in them. She fell in
love with Tasuku after he gave her a plushie doll in middle school, and she changed
her appearance as well in order to get closer to him.Ep. 2 She becomes jealous that
Tasuku is being friendly with Chiaki, but allies with Keita to help him relate
better with Karen.
Supporting characters
Eiichi Misumi (?? ??, Misumi Eiichi)
Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese); Howard Wang (English)[3]
Eiichi is Karen's classmate who joins the Game Club at the beginning of the series.
He has short black hair. His specialty is in arcade puzzle games, but he also is
able to adapt to learning new games and growing skills based on observing how
others play. He says that he got into gaming because he had lost his memory when he
was younger and playing block puzzles gives him a link to his past.Ep. 1 The last
episode in the anime series shows his secretive past in which he had escaped some
underground organizations, and then encounters his estranged sister Riki in the
finals of a game tournament.Ep. 12
Gakuto Kase (?? ??, Kase Gakuto)
Voiced by: Yasuaki Takumi (Japanese); Alejandro Saab (English)[3]
Gakuto is a third-year student, and a member of the Game Club. He has red hair and
wears glasses. He gets serious when it comes to FPS games. He took up gaming
because his father was a mercenary who trained him in the family business when he
was a kid.Ep. 1
Niina Oiso (?? ??, Oiso Niina)
Voiced by: Yuna Yoshino (Japanese); Dawn M. Bennett (English)[5]
Niina is a third-year member of the Game Club who specializes in fighting games.
Karen considers her the sexy big sister type. She has long brown hair and brown
eyes. She doesn't talk with people while she is playing. Karen said she got into
gaming in order to win her friend back by trying to defeat her in a fighting
game.Ep. 1
Konoha Hoshinomori (??? ??, Hoshinomori Konoha)
Voiced by: Yuki Kuwahara (Japanese); Jad Saxton (English)[5]
Konoha is Chiaki's younger sister. She is envious of Karen Tendo's popularity and
is somewhat happy that she didn't have to compete with her by going to a different
school where she could become student council president. She secretly enjoys adult
games and revels in being in the company of cute girls.Ep. 8 When Keita visits
Chiaki's home and accidentally sees the "Mono" and "Nobe" information, Chiaki tells
Keita that Konoha is the person behind those accounts.Ep. 9 She tries to support
her sister in relating closer to Keita.