MC makes sense to me, in a convoluted way. They keep flipping between the roles of the player and the character.
It's like playing D&D. You can chat with the other players OOC, but that's you, not your character. But what if all of the players are actually on the board? Well, when you talk to...
Thank you for this. The first couple episodes of the anime haven't quite managed to hook me, but it looks like it'll end up pretty interesting, so there's enough for me to pick it up. :)