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New Game! Vol. 1 by Shotaro Tokuno
4.0

This was both super cute and pretty informational about the life of Game Developers.

Aoba is fresh out of High School and starting her first job. How nice it must be to not work till after High School. I've been working since 15. Okay, enough self pity. Anyway, Aoba joins the work force on becoming a video game designer. While she's great at character designs she has so much to learn from being on time, to crunches, getting her work done in time, to even something as simple as getting a paycheck and depositing it.

This series is done by the 4 panels down reading. So took me a bit to get into it but once I did it was great since the jokes usually hit every 3rd or 4th panel. Most of the jokes worked and would make me smile or chuckle. None made me burst out laughing but I enjoyed my entire time reading it. The Yuri undertones are bit much at times, and while I'm not opposed to seeing half naked chicks sleep in a office, give each other back rubs, or call each other "super cute >.<" I do find it beating around the bush when they could just say they like each other.

But either way if into Slice of life comedy with some cool nuggets on how video game development works, this might be the one to check out. I got the next few volumes on a great deal, scoring volumes 1-8 for less than 35 bucks. I'm very glad I did.

A 4 out of 5.