I say this because New Game is more than just pudding fights and lolis-who-also-happen-to-be-adults. To ask for change would be to ask for change entirely. I think, to some extent, it is justified, as the worries and the activities of the average adult are at odds with the light-hearted, relaxing nature of the genre. If lolis are your thing, hey, enjoy! But if you are expecting ladies in their early-to-mid twenties to have an interest in the opposite sex and actually behave their age, you may find yourself a bit disappointed. Heck, most of them could even pass for primary schoolers, a fact that New Game does not hide away from, what with most of the cast dressing as kindergarteners in the ending sequence. If there is one issue with regards to the characters, it is that they never truly behave like adults.

If New Game were an accurate representation of game development, their game would have gotten delayed so hard it would give The Last Guardian competition. Even as incompetent as they all are, they still end up producing an excellent, finished product by the end. It would have been nice to see New Game do something more substantial with the setting, as it can sometimes feel more like a stage than a real place. More often you'll see the girls fight over pudding or air conditioning rather than, y'know, developin'. It just never really develops beyond that glimpse, with the vast majority of the anime focusing on Aoba and friends' daily adventures rather than their actual job as game developers. Rather than focusing on the video game industry from the eyes of a bunch of kids who play Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy after school, it takes an insider's perspective as a result of the setting, a glimpse into the art of game production. 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.Д¬ute slice-of-life anime are a dime a dozen, but ones like New Game are noticeably rarer. It is heart-warming when it decides to takeДЄ more meaningful turn, and never ventures into the realm of melodrama.

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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