By the third episode she gets her first major task on the sequel to her beloved game franchise, Fairies Story 3, which consists of designing various NPC characters. Upon joining the company, Aoba undergoes a very rigorous training regimen with Ko, going through various game design tutorials and practice tasks. Leading the way are project manager Rin Toyama and their boss, the eccentric Shizuku Hazuki and her fat pet cat, Mozuku. On her first day at the job she is introduced to the crew members: including her idol, Ko Yagami, a blond senior game designer whose main trait involves spending long hours at her desk and waking up there with her pants down (this isn’t an exaggeration), much to other employees’ embarrassment Hajime Shinoda, a model animator with a penchant for everything superhero-related Yun Ijima, a nerd turned fashion expert and fellow game designer who lives with her two younger nephews and Hifumi Takimoto, the token introvert and closet cosplay enthusiast. Unlike most high school graduates who move on to some sort of post-secondary education, instead you have Aoba Suzukaze, an 18-year-old purple-haired girl who moves to Tokyo to start a new life as a game designer at her dream studio: Eagle Jump, the developers of her favourite childhood game, Fairies Story (not to be confused with Sword Art Online‘s horrific equivalent of abomination in the Fairy Dance Arc). For reference, some of their other works included games for the Konosuba, Steins Gate and Quintessential Quintuplets franchise. (now known as Mages) to create a video game (how fitting, isn’t it?) based on the characters’ journeys on the Playstation 4 and Vita handheld consoles in 2017, titled The Challenge Stage, playing out in the form of a visual novel. It initially started off as a myriad of 13 serialized four-panel tankobon manga volumes in the Manga Time Kiara Carat magazine, created and illustrated by Shotaro Tokuno, that ran modestly for seven years and recently had its final issue last September.Īlthough it has not yet received the same level of critical acclaim or memetic recognition from the wider anime community since its initial release as some of its other works, it was popular enough to warrant Tokyo-based game developer 5pb Inc. This is another work of studio Doga Kobo, alongside the popular Himouto Umaru-Chan franchise (shout-out to all the people who liked and re-tweeted my Twitter post announcing that, by the way) which aired two seasons lasting 12 episodes each the first from July to September of 2016, and the second a year after that. Such an anime is what I will be exploring in today’s rendition of the Anime Review.īehold the only software company in the world run by women Which is why when I started watching New Game last July, which also was the first series I tuned into after my self-imposed episodic series hiatus and my first lunch break series since Gakkou No Kaidan two years ago, it was quite hard not to find myself drifting back to these thoughts whenever I saw in-show activities that distinctly reminded me of something that me and my co-workers have done before in the last 4 years. It goes without saying that working from home just doesn’t have the same perks and benefits of the office experience. One of the fondest memories I’ve also had were the early morning walks across my office complex’s first floor shopping mall, going on a company-sponsored boating tour across Lake Ontario in August 2018, and shuffling out on a Friday evening in May 2019, sporting my Judge Claude Frollo cosplay out the door, and walking the short mile from my office to be greeted by the exciting sight of thousands of weebs gathering in the hot May evening. Starting from the relaxing commutes on the bus, having a cubicle to myself, being able to talk with others in the lunch room about their day, the enthralling view of Toronto’s skyline from high above on the 68th floor, and most especially, the random events that I’d encounter on occasion (like free lunches, game meetings and groundhogs). I miss the days when I used to work as a software developer in an office setting.
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