OK but let's be real here, she's been pining for ten years now. She's not a losing heroine. This girl lost ages ago, to her own lack of initiative. She's past tense. No contest. Not even on the ballot.
I mean, I love video games as much as the next person, but it's true that they are pretty much the standard outlet for teens these days who are avoiding doing anything else. In Japan it's either gonna be games or manga, but even where I live it's readily apparent that if a teen is avoiding...