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67. New Game
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Yay, a series where the second season doesnt shit the bed! How nice! With New Game, I actually liked the second season a lot better than the first. The show has a good premise and some good fundamentals, but S1 didnt do much that was very interesting with them. The primary problem with the show, in my eyes is the main 4 characters. It feels like the show wants to copy every other cute girl SoL by having a primary cast of four relatively new girls with less experience than the others, and has them hanging out and doing typical cute girl stuff more often than it should. Aobas quite good as the main character, showing a lot of development throughout the show and feeling like someone you should cheer for. The show handles her well throughout both seasons, though her dumb ribbon thing looks terrible and they should have kept it away after they got rid of it for that one scene. Hifumi works well as the older woman whos just starting to get promoted, too. Her personalitys quite different from Aobas, so its cool to see the different ways she tries to adapt to new challenges, and shes just plain entertaining on her own, hanging out with her hedgehog too. Its the other two that really shouldnt exist. Hajime and Yun might be okay characters in another show, but they really serve no purpose here. The greater cast is much more interesting than they are, and they dont have any particularly good development. When theyre around I mostly just get annoyed that theyre stealing screentime from better characters (itd be great to see even more Hifumi).

What really makes the show is the setting and the greater cast. Its cool how its a reasonably big company, and we get to see people in a whole bunch of different departments and roles. Kou is the highlight, since shes super fun and interesting and gets a ton of screentime. Shes actually more important than pretty much everyone other than Aoba, I feel. Her comedy is usually dead on, she has the best fanservice in the show (walking around with no pants all the time is one of the best ways to do fanservice, rather than dumb jiggles or grabs or flashes or whatever), her character development surpasses even Aobas, plus she has a cute (almost) girlfriend. Kou and Rin should really be dating, but for whatever reason SoL authors have an aversion to making couples real rather than just teasing them. They seem to live together for a substantial portion of the series, and Rin is pretty clearly crazy in love with Kou, but they never want to make anything clear. Bleh. Hazuki unfortunately isnt as good as the rest her comedy isnt funny, and she never evolves much beyond that. Ahagon is solid, but probably because she hangs around with the other star of the show: Nene. I was expecting Nene to be an annoying character at first, but once she finally becomes an important character, shes amazing. Her starring episode in S1 is by far the funniest of the season, and her becoming a main character in S2 is a big reason its so much better than S1. Her development is extremely emotional and good, and honestly more interesting than Aobas is. Everyones development is basically better in S2, really, so she probably benefits from becoming a more serious character there. The new characters introduced are cool too. Would be cool to see a third season, though the S2 finale was oddly final for a show like this.
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