Happy New Year!

Recovery of an MMO Junkie First Impression Review

A recent anime that is out on simulcast is Recovery of an MMO Junkie, the story of a 30 year old NEET named Moriko Morioka, who gave up on romance, job, and ordinary life to become a NEET by choice. She starts playing an MMO game called Fruits de Mer. She decides to play as a handsome guy in the game, keeping it a secret from all her online friends that she is really a 30 year old woman, in the game she meets a girl character named Lily and they become really good friends in the game.
One day Morioka stays up all night with Lily playing online, she catches a cold. In the morning as she is heading to the store she runs into a cute guy with glasses who knocks her down in his own haste. The gentleman takes her to the hospital and introduces himself as Yuta Sakurai, it seems there may be some chemistry between these two, more than they know.  You know where this anime is going with this right when this happens.

I initially wanted to just check out a couple of episodes just to check out something new but this is really good, I am hooked and I started watching all available episodes on Funimation, the series was just so good that I couldn't wait for the next episode so I found myself watching the subs on Crunchyroll, both are equally wonderful subbed or dubbed.

I highly recommend this anime if you like a good slice of life, romance, or if you like online gaming worlds.  I especially recommend it if you can relate, being a grown up Otaku who likes to play games online.  This anime shows that even if you give up on everyone around you, sure you can make a life online but in Morioka's case, the real world ends up intertwining with the fantasy game which makes for a juicy anime where you end up wanting to root for the main characters to get together!