Round 2

**Round 2** is the second episode of the Hi Score Girl (anime).

## Netflix Synopsis

*Akira brings Haruo his homework when he misses school with a fever. In return, Haruo lets her play with his collection of PC Engine games.*

## Summary

Haruo and the rest of his class are forced to clean the pool area. With two fellow students, Haruo talks with them about how the TubroGrafx - 16 is superior to the SNES. When the students leave him, Akira approaches Haruo wanting to learn about the TubroGrafx - 16. Another student by the name of Genta approaches Haruo and reproves him for talking to the "classroom's prized flower". Genta then asks Akira to go see a movie with him, only to be flatly rejected by her. The teacher appears and threatens to kick Akira's butt for slacking off and Haruo blames Akira for this. In retaliation, Akira soaks Haruo and instead of reprimanding Akira for her misconduct, the teacher allows it because, "she's cute".

The following day At Haruo's home, Haruo catches a cold and making him unable to attend school. As Haruo groans about needing a new ice pack and wanting a hug, Akira enters his room. Her presence perturbs Haruo and his mother explains she's there to deliver his schoolwork. Although Haruo wants Akira out of his house, his mother serves her some pancakes, hence, she gleefully enjoys. Haruo's mother then leaves to go shopping, but not before obviously spying on the two, prompting Haruo to snap at her to get lost.

Now alone in his room with Akira, Haruo allows her to play the TubroGrafx - 16 called "China Warrior". Haruo gives her a tip on its gameplay and states that when she's done she has to leave. Noticing that Akira's gameplay skills are sub-par compared to her skills in the arcade, Haruo asks what game systems she has at home. Tacitly, Akira answers that she has none at her home, which surprises Haruo. However, he figures due to her sophisticated background games are shunned upon. Therefore, Haruo offers Akira to play two other games of his, "Hucard" or "R-Type 1". Akira chooses to play R-Type 1 first and then Hucard; sequentially she plays "Vigilante", "Wonder Momo". Furthermore, Haruo names other TubroGrafx games like "Altered Beast", "Bonk", Darius, Kiki KaiKai, and Splatterhouse. Going on a tirade about the awesomeness of the TubroGrafx, Haruo elaborates on the Sub-TubroGrafx game systems, the TurboExpress and CoreGrafx. Finally, Haruo suggests that Akira play "The Genji and the Heike Clans" game. Having Akira play this game causes Haruo to snap and want to play the game himself and then tries to snatch the controller away from her. At that moment, Haruo's mother arrives back home, and hearing Haruo's loud voice she suplexes Haruo and wrestles him to the floor.

Back at school, Haruo relishes the fact he's exempt from swimming in the pool. On the other hand, Akira starts to splash water on Akira in hopes to get him sick again so she can play more TubroGrafx games at his house.

Summer break is a day away and the students are elated by this. Akira, however, recalls being reprimanded by her tutor Moemi. Passing by the Totsuka Corner Shop, Akira overhears Haruo learning the location of a 10 yen arcade. Envigorated by this news, he borrows the shopkeeper's bike to the 10 yen arcade location and is joined by Akira. And so the two of them go on a joint expedition to the legendary arcade. Arriving at the arcade, called the Gashadokuro Arcade, it's noted for its shoddy appearance and moldy smell. Aside from that, it has a bunch of different arcade games like the original Street Fighter game. They briefly play a Street Fighter game together and note the difficultly with its antiquated buttons. While Akira plays, "Space Harrier", Haruo uses the crane game and wins a pink ring. Akira then signals Haruo that she wants to leave. Outside of the arcade, Haruo notes that he cannot find the key to the bike, and when he tries to go and look for them at the arcade, it's surprisingly gone. An old man passing by informs them that the arcade owner died four years prior. This information, causes Akira to have a temper fit on Haruo.

Afterward, the two walk home and when Haruo gets hungry, he buys some tonkatsu from a nearby deli for the two of them to enjoy. Also to make it easier for Akira to walk home, Haruo offers his shoes for her to wear. Eventually, Jīya arrives in his car to take her home, but before that, Haruo offers Akira to come to his house whenever she feels like it.

At their respective homes, Haruo is reprimanded by his mother for his grades and Akira is overwatched by her tutor Moemi during her piano lessons.

## Characters

* Ōno Akira
* Yaguchi Haruo
* Shōgakkō-sensei
* Doi Genta
* Yaguchi Namie
* Gōda Moemi
* Jīya