NEW GAME! - Vol. 9 Ch. 92

[KCS]

Reminds me of the woman from Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata who treats her employees like shit to draw out their full potential. Of course, though the anime didn't cover it, it doesn't work out so well. Unfortunately this is a comedy/SOL manga, so such a realistic thing wont happen here.

Its also telling that even with one glance, people that don't even know her can tell that Rin is a massive lesbo and that Kou is already married, but doesn't realize it yet.

 

[YamiryuuZero]

Hm... a conflict involving different perspectives in raising a worker from two different companies.
This actually fits the concept of the manga and the characters involved... unlike the previous game development arc!

 

[tigerstar186]

Basically what this chapter tells me is Catherine is actually a shitty boss. This is a toxic work environment even if shown as happy at face value. If the author is actually doing this I hope they go through with the drama instead of just an asspull because Hotaru was determined enough or whatever.

 

[KZO]

Rin got an expensive bag, at least something good came of this chapter. And I don't even like Rin.

 

[kojiro481]

I don't mind Hotaru getting an arc per se, I just wish this didn't mean the original cast of characters will have to take the back seat yet again .

 

[mogu]

BlueRose is not a big company, they're pretty small, but they do make good quality games, and they're one of the few from France. (This was said around when the company was introduced, I don't remember exactly what chapter)

Catherine's team in particular is fairly small, but it's just one team belonging a company presented as being much larger than Eagle Jump. Much like the team we always see is just one of the two teams belonging to Eagle Jump. Catherine specifically explained that she could be making games involving hundreds of staff, but prefers using a smaller team that she can directly supervise to make the same quality of game. So she gathers her team in a much smaller building separate from the main company. That was all explained in chapter 65, when she was giving Kou a tour of France.

 

[WillLi]

@Mogu I just went to where you're talking about, and that giant building isn't their building, Catherine says it's the building their HQ office is at(It's only one section of that building, probably just a floor, that's a common thing in japan). And Catherine says she once worked with a huge team but does not say that that is BlueRose's team. That doesn't really prove BlueRose is some huge company.

@tigerstar186 This is not a toxic work environment. Giving the better person to handle a job the job regardless of seniority is not toxic, it's practical. Also the AD's design for the character must not be that good, otherwise Catherine wouldn't have gone out of her way to bring in someone to fix it. It's more toxic to favor the seniors for work even when everyone clearly knows the newer members can do it better. That's how you end up with companies where new people join for the free training and then leave to go work somewhere else that doesn't hold them back because they're new. (That's exactly what happened with my father's company)

@Madcat6204 That's why I said she needs refining, and I didn't mean she could be AD right away next project, just that her potential is that high(cause how she deals with Aoba and Nene shows signs of good personal management skills and relation skills.), but before people accept her being -anything- more than a 'grunt' she needs to show results.

Edit: Just something needed to be included. People also need to realize, Catherine plans on having Kou redraw it if Hotaru fails, not to go with what they have. That means that whatever design they have Catherine really doesn't like. This isn't just about testing Hotaru, she legitimately thinks the design they have doesn't work, and she also thinks the girl she has on the task is not up to making something that works. Whether or not that is true is something we'll never know, but Catherine as the boss feels that her staff isn't capable of making the product she wants, so the only real option is to bring in someone to either give them the inspiration they need, or to do it themselves.

Also Animators and artist have different deadlines. @xtostos so the deadline they're talking about is probably the deadline before they have to get it to the rest of the staff to get it into the game properly

 

[Babydel]

@WillLi Personally think BlueRose is meant to be UbiSoft and Kou is just working at a smaller division of it. The manga references to other major developers and if I look into the name BlueRose I can easily see it referring to UbiSoft's logo. I know it is just the anime and I have no clue how related in canon they are, but you get quite a bit more details about the company there saying they are a well-known and diverse company. I also think as Kou wants to challenge herself that she would aim for a big global developer.

But as there is nothing concrete it is all assumptions and speculation.

 

[WillLi]

@babydel I don't deny that it's well known, I think it does have a reputation about it in the series, and I remember them talking about it. But that doesn't make it 'big' though. It's not a huge point but it's just that it was commented that they were one of the biggest companies in the world and they personally invited her, to say that her weakness doesn't make for much draw back. I was just pointing out that they don't seem to actually be that 'big' just well known, so them inviting her personally isn't some kind of amazing achievement in the game industry.

 

[mogu]

If anything, getting personally invited to a company so world-famous that even top Japanese creators like Yagami aspire to work there is even more of an amazing achievement if that company is also really small. Because of how selective they would be.

And given that Catherine's goal in particular is to make games that rival those made by huge teams in scope and quality, but using a much smaller team, she would naturally have to be even more extremely selective to be able to achieve that.

I can't understand the logic of "the company's actually not very big so getting invited there isn't any sort of special achievement." Even setting aside the lack of evidence that the company as a whole is meant to be small.

Edit / Addendum: And in any case, the original point is that the line "without this weakness, she'd be highly sought after in the industry, not coming to work here" is kind of nonsensical when the "here" is "one of the more famous game makers in the world" and she was personally invited to work there. If that's not already being highly-sought, I don't know what is.

 

[Beregorn]

This manga is looking like a Dilbert strip more and more every chapter... They should rename it "nightmare management 101"

https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-09-02

 

[Pachka84]

This series had a good thing going for a while, but it has become very banal these days.

 

[Presea_cousin]

I'm seeing this game getting delayed as all f***.

 

[ZeroR3]

That King's Hand sounds like Dahaka from Prince of Persia Warrior Within.

 

[SL4MCH1N0]

kou's outfit is straight up cute

 

[IcyFoxe]

Hey guys. I'm new here, and I'm going to win!

 

[Sleepingair]

Dammn kou chan there's a limit of how dense you could be.your kouhai's realized it already except you alone.poor rin XD