It is something the industry needs more of, too, as high school and middle school club activities are inherently less interesting than those of a working adult. We do not often get anime with exclusively adult characters. Even if it may not contain the same depth and insight into the industry as Shirobako did, it very much succeeds in being simple, yet well-crafted entertainment.Ĭute slice-of-life anime are a dime a dozen, but ones like New Game are noticeably rarer. a more meaningful turn, and never ventures into the realm of melodrama. It is heart-warming when it decides to take It is a cutesy tale of the mundane, a cross of sorts between Shirobako's look into the world of production, and K-ON's more fluffy elements. Where most slice-of-life anime fumble and stumble in an effort to figure out what they want to be, New Game knows from the very start what it is. It doesn't do anything too notable, but at the same time, never really needed to in the first place. New Game is a joy to watch, medicine for the mind, the perfect cure after a long day of work. New Game! follows Aoba and the others on their adventure through the ups and downs of game making, from making the perfect character design to fixing all the errors that will inevitably accumulate in the process. There is Yun Iijima, whose specialty is designing monsters the shy Hifumi Takimoto, who prefers to communicate through instant messaging Hajime Shinoda, an animation team member with an impressive figurine collection Rin Tooyama, the orderly art director Shizuku Hazuki, the game director who brings her cat to work and Umiko Ahagon, the short-tempered head programmer. In their department are people who share the same passion for games. On her first day, she is excited to learn that she will be working on a new installment to the series: Fairies Story 3-and even more so under Kou Yagami, the lead character designer. So when she graduates from high school, it is no surprise that she applies to work at Eagle Jump, the company responsible for making her favorite video game. Since childhood, Aoba Suzukaze has loved the Fairies Story game series, particularly the character designs.
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