YMMV / Gamers! (2015)

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Konoha’s debut establishes that she’s a Green-Eyed Monster who resents being compared to Karen’s success and popularity. With this fact in mind, it raises the possibility that at least some of her motivation in her efforts to play matchmaker between her sister and Keita comes from being Vicariously Ambitious through Chiaki in regards to competing against Karen over something.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Amano:
    • Do you like how he subverted expectations by not joining the club, or do you not like that he didn't repay the Gaming Club's collective kindness towards him? (especially since the FGC member gave him her fightstick, since those can be expensive for a good one).
    • His general demeanor is also base-breaking, because (even by Harem Genre hero standards) he is absurdly meek and eccentric. His obliviousness can quickly turn into being Innocently Insensitive and his Heroic Self-Deprecation can become unsympathetic. This is lampshaded in the second episode by Uehara, who thinks Amano is as hopeless as he used to be, only to conclude later that his old self has nothing on Amano.
  • Konoha, Chiaki's little sister. Some find her hilarious, particularly in her assessment of Amano. Others dislike how she essentially strong arms her way late into the anime and starts interfering in Amano's love life.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The third chapter of Volume 9 primarily focuses on Tasuku and the other guys trying to find Mii's guardian. It's abruptly interrupted by a mysterious girl supposedly from the future approaching Eiichi and threatening to kill his friends if he doesn't help her, leading to an Offscreen Moment of Awesome with Noodle Implements, before soon returning to Mii's search with only a short dialogue acknowledging the incident after the fact. Unlike other instances of Eiichi's Hero of Another Story adventures being depicted, this one takes place while he's interacting with the main characters and thus the main story has to be put on pause while they allude to a random Out-of-Genre Experience from their perspective that has much higher stakes but no impact on anything else they're doing.
• Broken Base: Aguri's Take That! against video gaming as a hobby in Episode 12 ended in spurring quite the debate of whether she actually had a point and it was funny, or if she was being a jerk and it was a mean-spirited jab at the viewers.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: After glimpses into their lives were revealed, a number of fans hope for Spin Offs that center around the non-Tendo Gaming Club members.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Despite the story primarily focusing on setting Keita up in a love triangle with Karen and Chiaki and Sekina Aoi ending the series with him and Karen as the Official Couple while Tasuku and Aguri get back together, there’s a significant contingent of fans who ship Keita & Aguri together romantically. Due to the chemistry and frequency of their interactions and Undying Loyalty to each other many agreed with Uehara and Tendo when they dejectedly lamented that Amano and Aguri feel like they would make a perfect couple. The sentiment is further fueled by the later light novels practically making a Running Gag out of their Ship Tease evoking jealousy in everyone else, culminating in the last two volumes essentially confirming they’re an Anchored Ship and making the “Life-Partners” part of their relationship literal.
• Ho Yay: While the circumstances lead to it having been all a big misunderstanding (because what in this series isn't?), there are a few times when Uehara and Amano come off this way. One of the more notable instances happens in the third episode when Uehara seems to do a Wall Pin of Love to Amano. The actual truth was that Uehara was frustrated after playing one of Nobe's games on Amano's recommendation, but the nearby girls watching them and cooing clearly thought that they were watching Uehara as the Seme to Amano's Uke (not helping is that Uehara is nearly One Head Taller to boot).
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Misunderstanding: The Anime. ^Explanation Because much of the humor of the series relies on the characters comically misreading situations, fans were quick to re-brandish the series as this. r/anime even took to creating a Misunderstanding Chart that grows with each episode.
  • William Shakespeare: The Anime. ^Explanation Since the anime focuses less on traditional harem tropes or love triangles, and more on Shakespearian levels of misunderstandings.
  • Uehara's a Titan! ^Explanation  In episode 8, Uehara undergoes an Art Shift after Chiaki and Amano both wind up on a game square that perfectly pinpoints them as Star-Crossed Lovers, screaming at the top of his lungs. The way he's drawn is the same excessively-detailed style as the super-serious Attack on Titan.
  • The Board Game ships our ships! ^Explanation In episode 8, the board game the characters are playing does absolutely everything in its power to ship every single Fan-Preferred Couple, including providing Amano and Aguri with Babies Ever After and a Seduction-Proof Marriage, forcing Tendou to be a lonely career woman, hooking up Chiaki (and her sister) with Uehara, and correctly pointing out that Chiaki and Amano are fateful soulmates.
• Shocking Moments: The entirety of episode 6 steadily ratchets up the tension of misunderstandings to the point where the viewer is to believe that the end result will be nothing short of disaster. Then the final exchange of the episode takes place where instead of such circumstances ruining Amano's confession, it causes him to give a more bold confession, to which Tendou agrees to, officially giving them a Relationship Upgrade.
• Woolseyism: The English Dub's script is pretty well-written, and adds a few more Shout Outs (like one to the Persona series).