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I know that they don't just play video games (in the first or second episode they play rock paper scissors). It is what they're doing in the beginning of the first episode, though, and it's what they (as blank) are known for worldwide.

Probably because video games don't seem to exist in the world they're transported to, but I wouldn't know if that's actually the case or not.

Another terrible audience-pandering circle jerk show like Sword Art Online. Overpowered, cocky self-insert character appealing to the ego of the shut-in losers who watch it? Check. Loli sister who unconditionally loves the self-insert character, appealing to the sick pervertedness of the shut-in losers who watch it? Check. Typical cliche ecchi humor, appealing to the depraved sense of humor stemming from inexperience of the shut-in losers who watch it? Check.

Now, I'm not going to go so far as to say that anyone who enjoys this show is a stereotypical shut-in loser, but the show is obviously pandering to that audience, and has no shame in doing so, much like Sword Art Online before it. It caters to the unrealistic idea that being good at video games means you're a genius and the childish fantasy land where being good at video games is a skill deemed valuable by society as a whole. The only thing positive I can say about it is its interesting art style. Apart from that, everything it does is processed and safely catering to everything a very specific (and very unfortunate) demographic wants to see.

You don't see how a show in which people who are good at games are brought to another world where they play games to survive and prosper is similar to a show in which people are trapped in a game and have to play to make it out alive? Alongside the cocky, overpowered main characters, both shows are constructed to cater to the comfortable idea that being good at video games makes you a hero and a genius.

I'm not very familiar with "Problem Children," but I can definitely see how it's also similar SAO and No Game No Life with the cocky, overpowered main characters serving as self-insert wish fulfillment fantasies, but, as far as I can tell, it doesn't imply to its viewers that what makes its characters strong is that they're good at video games, which is one of my biggest gripes with No Game No Life and SAO.

You don't see how a show in which people who are good at games are brought to another world where they play games to survive and prosper is similar to a show in which people are trapped in a game and have to play to make it out alive? Alongside the cocky, overpowered main characters, both shows are constructed to cater to the comfortable idea that being good at video games makes you a hero and a genius.

I'm not very familiar with "Problem Children," but I can definitely see how it's also similar SAO and No Game No Life with the cocky, overpowered main characters serving as self-insert wish fulfillment fantasies, but, as far as I can tell, it doesn't imply to its viewers that what makes its characters strong is that they're good at video games, which is one of my biggest gripes with No Game No Life and SAO.