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Bus Gamer (1999 > 2001 The Pilot Edition)
By: Kazuya Minekura
Whose fault: Wifebolo
Genres: Action, suspense


If this is what I'm thinking of, it actually sounds more like my jam than Wifebolo's. (not EVERYTHING I like is cute girls or slice of life. Just...a lot of it >_>)

We meet Toki Mishiba, Kazuo Saitoh, and Nobuto Nakajyo. They are a team of three assembled to play a game between corporations. It's a three on three game ("bus" appears to be short for "business"?) where the home team has to keep the away team from stealing a valuable floppy disk of data for a set time period. No holds barred, it seems, as they pick up their eighth win in a row after Toki gives a jobber the ol' Tiger Knee. Some other player shows up afterwards and tells our heroes (Team Triple Anonymous, or AAA) that the game is more serious than they realize.

Home life time with Toki! He's a martial artist and college student who lives alone and needs money for something. Apparently the other two also do, and that's all they know about why they were recruited. Kazuo does some snooping (he might be the computer guy of the bunch?) and finds that the business game is a much bigger and more organized operation than what they had thought. There are rankings and everything! Our guys are in third. About that time, one of the guys from the previous match turns up dead. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. We don't have long to build suspense about that, because a few pages later, we win another match and one of the losers just kinda...explodes. We see the most cliched villain establishing shot ever, as a shadowy guy tells a wall of monitors about how it's good that they're starting to understand and will show the world what we can do and provide some sport and stuff.

We all think about backing out, but we all need the money and there's not really a way out and we probably should've asked more questions before getting involved, so oh well. The other player guy from earlier is keeping tabs on AAA, and discusses with his teammates: a shota and a Rasta. Everybody does a lot of walking around and looking cool, which is somewhat spoiled by the cowboy hat Toki has taken to wearing. Kazuo is indeed the computer guy of the group, and seems a lot softer and more reluctant than the others. They're starting to be stalked and "warned" and spied on. There's also a failed hit on Kazuo.

Kazuo wants a bit closer, more trusting relationship with his teammates, but they're both too cool to have friends. Also, Owada Life is going belly-up really fast, and they are a rival of AAA's sponsors, Midou Life. We figure that there are probably trade secrets on these disks, and have another chat over whether to keep going. Same conclusion.

Next match is a bit tougher, but comes out a win. Kazuo shoots a guy for the first time. The team goes out for yakiniku and tells Kazuo to keep the gun, because he's the only one immune to being bought off. But he trusts Toki. Also, more info on the other team we've met: the shota-lookin' one is the son of the chief of police, and I guess he pulls the other two out of prison when duty calls?
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