Episode 01

Defense and First Battle is the first episode of the Bofuri anime series.

Summary
Sally convinced her friend, Maple, to try out the virtual reality video game NewWorld Online. Maple has no prior experience with video games. Sally is unable to join Maple on her first explorations because she has to study.

Not knowing better, Maple invests all her points into defense. She finds that it makes her character extremely slow, but is able to take high amounts of damage. Leveling up comes to her easily.

She asks other players for tips. Realizing she wants better armor and shield, she asks Chrome for help. He directs her to Iz, who is a smith. Iz and Kuromu advise Maple to get coins by exploring dungeons. They underestimate Maple’s lack of knowledge as she takes their advice literally and explores a poison dragon’s dungeon alone.

She is the first to defeat the dragon and unlocks unique armor and shield as well as new capabilities that make her a poison resistant tank.

Characters

 * Maple/Kaede Honjou
 * Sally/Risa Shiramine
 * Frederica
 * Drag
 * Payne
 * Chrome
 * Iz

Bosses

 * Poison Dragon

Trivia

 * It's not really Maple's fault she's so dense when it comes to gaming; NewWorld Online doesn't offer a start-up/mandatory tutorial mission to teach basic RPG mechanics to new players. It works on a Figure It Out Yourself method.
 * Getting exposed to negative status repeatedly will boost a character's resistance; Maple becomes outright IMMUNE to poison, all due to thinking on her feet (after making a massive blunder).