History Manga / RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie

Moriko starts the game as a male character under the handle Hayashi. After a rough beginning, a girl named Lily eventually comes to her aid. The two become fast friends, and Moriko even joins a guild. Meanwhile, in real life, Moriko would have a chance encounter with a salaryman named Yuuta Sakurai.

* CrossPlayer: Moriko is a woman playing as a male character, and Yuuta is a man playing as a female character.

** Moriko herself has purple hair.

* ChristmasCake: Not referenced by name, but Moriko states that bause she's 30, she is practically an old maid and wonders why anyone would be interested in her, let alone two men.

* ChristmasCake: Not referenced by name, but Moriko states that she's 30, practically an old maid and wonders why anyone would be interested in her, let alone two men.

* ChristmasCake: Not referenced by name, but Moriko states that she's 30, and practically an old maid.

* RealityEnsues: In a heart-to-hear with Lilly, Moriko tells "her" about [[spoiler: the events of her meeting and trip to the hospital with Sakurai, except that she flips the genders to avoid being mistaken for a girl as Hayashi. Contrary to what you might think, Sakurai deduces there isn't a way the same situation happened to Hayashi but gender flipped, mainly because of how specific Moriko was about the situation and that it can't be a ContrivedCoincidence. This allows him to figure out that Hayashi is actually Moriko since only Moriko would be able to know the specific information about what happened.]]

* CrashIntoHello: Moriko and Yuta meet when the latter turns a corner running while talking on his cell phone and knocks Moriko over. [[spoiler:He ends up taking her to the hospital and paying for her care.]]

* TeamDad: Kanbe, as the guildmaster, looks out for the well-being of the members of @House Party. [[spoiler:Ironically he's one of the younger members of the guild.]]

** [[spoiler: In episode 5, the clerk, at Morioka's local convenient store is revealed to be Kanabe]].

* SheCleansUpNicely:
[[spoiler:Episode 5 has Moriko putting care into her appearance again after being asked out on a date by Koiwai.]]

* AlliterativeName: '''Mori'''ko '''Mori'''oka. Moriko herself realizes that her name is a bit unusual.

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* RoseHairedSweetie: Lily has pink hair and is hhhincredibly kind to others.
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hbbbb* StepfordSmiler: Lily usually acts like a swbbbbeetie, but she's also jaded, [[spoiler:typically having a more sour look when talking to players other than Hayashi. As a support role, she gets tons of party invites, and even has to contend with people who assume she's having affairs with other players]].

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Sakurai catches on to Hayashi's real-life identity at the end of episode 4, after "he" vents to Lily about his love life.]]
* RoseHairedSweetie: Lily has pink hair and is incredibly kind to others.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Episode 5 has Kanabe meets Moriko and learns that she's Hayashi while also revealing that he knows that Lily is guy in real life.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler:Episode 5 has Moriko putting care into her appearance again after being asked out on a date by Koiwai.]]
* SnowballLie: Moriko-as-Hayashi tells Lilac she's 21 (the same age as Lilac) and a university student when she asks her why she's online so often, to avoid confessing to being a {{NEET}}. She's actually 30. Lilac ends up telling the entire guild the lie, after having placed bets with them. This gets built upon in Episode 5, when Hayashi asks about Lilac's real-life female friend who plays a guy in the game, and Lilac assumes Hayashi might want to play as a girl at some point.
* StepfordSmiler: Lily usually acts like a sweetie, but she's also jaded, [[spoiler:typically having a more sour look when talking to players other than Hayashi. As a support role, she gets tons of party invites, and even has to contend with people who assume she's having affairs with other players]].

Has an anime adaptation by [=Signal.MD=], which premiered on October 6th, 2017 and is simulcast on both Website/{{Crunchyroll}} and Creator/{{Funimation}}.

* CoordinatedClothes: [[spoiler: Lily and Hayashi coordinate their outfits as of episode 3.]]
* CrashIntoHello: Moriko and Yuta meet when the latter turns a corner running while talking on his cell phone and knocks Moriko over. [[spoiler: He ends up sending her to the hospital.]]

* SnowballLie Moriko-as-Hayashi tells Lilac she's 21 (the same age as Lilac) and a university student when she asks her why she's online so often, to avoid confessing to being a {{NEET}}. She's actually 30. Lilac ends up telling the entire guild the lie, after having placed bets with them.

* TeamDad: Kanbe, as the guildmaster, looks out for the well-being of the members of @House Party. [[spoiler:The irony comes that he's one of the younger members of the guild.]]

* TeamDad: Kanbe, as the guildmaster, looks out for the well-being of the members of @House Party.

* Pixellation: PlayedForLaughs. Kanbe's chest is pixellated while he tries on a corset for the amusement of the others.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Moriko using a ''Fruits De Mer'' cash card is made more awesome by her drawing and holding it in the air as she's playing ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh''.

* AlliterativeName: Moriko Morioka. Moriko herself realizes that her name is a bit unusual.

* HappilyMarried: Turns out, [[spoiler: Pokotaro and Himeralda]] have this kind of relationship.

* StepfordSmiler: Lily usually acts like a sweetie, [[spoiler:but she's also jaded, typically having a more sour look when talking to players other than Hayashi. As a support role, she gets tons of party invites, and even has to contend with people who assume she's having affairs with other players]].

''Recovery Of An MMO Junkie'', or ''Net-juu no Susume'', is a web manga series by Rin Kokuyo.

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Moriko starts the game as a male character under the handle Hayashi. After a rough start, a girl named Lily eventually comes to her aid. The two become fast friends, and Moriko even joins a guild. Meanwhile, in real life, Moriko would have a chance encounter with a salaryman named Yuuta Sakurai.

* OfficeLady: Moriko's was an office clerk before she quit due to overwork and depression.

* StepfordSmiler: Lily usually acts like a sweetie, [[spoiler:but she's also jaded. As a support role, she gets tons of party invites, and even has to contend with people who assume she's having affairs with other players]].

Moriko starts the game as a young man under the handle Hayashi. After a rough start, a girl named Lily eventually comes to her aid. The two become fast friends, and Moriko even joins a guild. Meanwhile, in real life, Moriko would have a chance encounter with a salaryman named Yuuta Sakurai.

* AlliterativeName: Morioka Moriko.

* CoordinatedClothes: [[spoiler: Lily and Hayashi as of episode 3.]]

* CrossPlayer: Both Moriko and Yuta. Possibly others in the @House Party guild.

* {{GIRL}} Inverted with Moriko, who plays as a male character. Played straight with [[spoiler: Yuta]]. It's actually implied that several guild members are the opposite gender in real life, and it is guild policy not to ask about a member's real gender.

* MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame: ''Fruits De Mer'', where much of the anime takes place.
* {{NEET}}: Moriko, after quitting her office job.

* NoHuggingNoKissing: @House Party has a policy of not forming in-game romances (enforced by Kanbe), but there's still a lot of WillTheyOrWontThey between Hayashi and Lily from episode 1.
* OfficeLady: Moriko's job, before she quit due to overwork and depression.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Hayashi has teal hair. Actually, most of the "male" guild members have some shade of bluish or greenish hair.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Lily is very much this.

* TeamDad: Kanbe, as the guildmaster, behaves this way towards the members of @House Party.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Moriko and Yuta; Hayashi and Lily.

Also known as ''Recovery Of An MMO Junkie''.

Morioka Moriko is 30, single, and a {{NEET}}. She has dropped out of the real world. Searching for a safe place, the place she ended up... is the online world!!

"This world is crap." Morioka Moriko has become a complete NEET and in search for a more fulfilling life, she ends up travelling to the online world. The place she ended up was an online game.

In the world of this online game, Moriko starts a new life as a refreshing, handsome, young man with silky hair named Hayashi. However, she’s an obvious noob and ends up dying numerous times when a lovely girl named “Lily” lends her a helping hand. “She’s an angel!” After meeting Lily, she gains a trusted ally and her online gaming life becomes rather fulfilling. Meanwhile IRL, she ends up having a shocking encounter with a mysterious blonde-haired, blue-eyed, handsome, elite salaryman named Sakurai Yuta.

Based on a Digital Manga, The show premiered October 6th, 2017 and is simulcast on both Website/{{Crunchyroll}} and Creator/{{Funimation}}.