Taiari deshita : Ojousama wa Kakuto game nante shinai Episode 1

Taiari deshita is finally here at nyaa! I first saw the trailer very very long time ago for this 2023 jdorama. Main reason I was waiting for Taiari deshita is that it is a gaming jdorama, not just just a random made up game, it is for Street Fighter 5!

Aya is poor girl studying at this prestigious boarding school, Kuromi high school for daughters of the wealthy and influential. You get to see every anime ojousama stereotype from the hohoho to the desuwas to the overuse of hinkaku (dignity)

The Kuromi, gaming is forbidden. Early in the episode we see a poor student who's mobile phone has been confiscated for gaming and told that gaming is an activity that is without dignity. Aya's roommate, Natsume informs her that worst case scenario, one could be expelled from the school.

We are then introduced to the second main character Shirayuri who is the only girl in the school with a white wig who returns Aya's handkerchief to her. Shirayuri is the only daughter of a big zaibatsu. They should have named the zaibatsu Mishima Zaibatsu IMO but that's a different game. She is a potential to become a Kuroyurihime and I think they are 7 of those and they are people with an assured future. Sounds like a going to Toudai kind of thing.

One night Aya discovers Shirayuri playing SFV on a laptop and 

Shirayuri is scared of being expelled.

Shirayuri discovers that Aya is a kakuge (kakuto game/fighting game) player because she called SFV Suto5 and the marks on her thumb are from playing arcade sticks. (akekon)

Shirayuri challenges Aya to a match but is interrupted by someone doing night patrol and they both hightail out of there back to the rooms as they were playing in a forbidden classroom. 

Aya and Shirayuri have unfinished business so they sought each other out and asked Aya's roommate Natsume if she could stay in Shirayuri's room for the night so Shirayuri could stay over.

Natsume's face when she realised why Shirayuri wants to swap and she said love comes in many forms. lol

Episode 1 ends with Aya and Shirayuri getting it on. I love fighting games and Street Fighter and am happy there is a jdorama with an actual real game. I had a quick look and there is an anime version of the story and it seems like they are using a made up anime fighter. I remember learning Japanese fighting game terminologies back in the day and now most of my fighting game knowledge are from Japanese sources.  Thanks to magicstar-subs for uploading the raws to nyaa. For gaming fans and fans of whatever girl group the girls are from. I am going to keep my expectations very low and as long as the jokes are decent, I will be happy. Sadly no Jp subs.