I affair this will be one of those situation when you release any game that close to Cyberpunk 2077's release date.

Does we need Kou at this point ? I mean, it seem that everyone is better than her in no time. Mind you that even Aoba had take some time to learn the 3D and that's considering she had study it at school and Hotaru had (to my knowledge) no prior experience in that domain neither she have make studies in it but after reading ONE book and a bit of practise on ... canvas apparently, she is better than the other girls of the team. That's said maybe i understand it wrong but if i understand it right, that's some bullshit for Kou who always get outdone by a rookie nearly instantly. Honestly Kou will be better at living with Rin in Japan and idk, draw doujin maybe.

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Honestly Kou will be better at leaving with Rin in Japan and idk, draw doujin maybe.

living*

Don't worry, once this story arc is over, the series mostly goes back to normal.

moguTL posted:

Don't worry, once this story arc is over, the series mostly goes back to normal.

Mangaka be like "Keep you waiting, huh?"
Well I saw the raws of vol 9 and I'm really excited to see that

Does we need Kou at this point ? I mean, it seem that everyone is better than her in no time. Mind you that even Aoba had take some time to learn the 3D and that's considering she had study it at school and Hotaru had (to my knowledge) no prior experience in that domain neither she have make studies in it but after reading ONE book and a bit of practise on ... canvas apparently, she is better than the other girls of the team. That's said maybe i understand it wrong but if i understand it right, that's some bullshit for Kou who always get outdone by a rookie nearly instantly. Honestly Kou will be better at living with Rin in Japan and idk, draw doujin maybe.

This is an ancient trope: the grizzled master who tutors the youngsters with an amazing degree of raw native (or latent) ability.

IMO, this doesn’t detract from Kou’s character at all. I’d bet a small sum that at some point she’ll be there when a canny veteran is needed to save the day.

I'm reminded of a phrase from My hero Academia.... When Bakugou was mad because the protagonist was getting stronger each day, Allmight said to him "A level one will grown faster than a lvl 50"

I don't think she's better than the other girls in the company, but she's incredible ... Anyway, if you become an artist, at some point you'll understand, you'll never be as good as X artist no matter how hard you try, but you'll become a better version of YOU if you keep going (or you might waste your time trying to copy someone's else for the rest of your life and become a lesser shadow). When you're a pro, sometimes is a matter of taste, you can't really measure ability and I don't think Hotaru will be a perfect fit for all areas.

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"A level one will grown faster than a lvl 50"

Problem is that Hotaru is like when you trade a pokemon, she grow faster than the other. The fact that the others employees are astonished that Hotaru manage to be as good in no time prove that Hotaru don't grow as the same path

I don't think she's better than the other girls in the company,

Given how good she become in less than a week, it won't take long before she become better.

IMO, this doesn’t detract from Kou’s character at all. I’d bet a small sum that at some point she’ll be there when a canny veteran is needed to save the day.

Yeah but when ? It's not like Eagle Jump gonna beg Kou to comeback if the Dodgeball game fail. It's just a side project so it won't impact that much.

"A level one will grown faster than a lvl 50"

Problem is that Hotaru is like when you trade a pokemon, she grow faster than the other. The fact that the others employees are astonished that Hotaru manage to be as good in no time prove that Hotaru don't grow as the same path

I don't think she's better than the other girls in the company,

Given how good she become in less than a week, it won't take long before she become better.

This is one of the benefits of studying in another country/environment since you already have skills you know and are filling up the gaps (especially in Hotaru's case, her skillset is already very strong and she's filling up her gaps from the other side of the world, lots of new things to learn). This is one of the reasons people want to study abroad, given that the environment is suitable for learning, they'll be able to bring their skills and mish-mash them into a lot of new ways.

IMO, this doesn’t detract from Kou’s character at all. I’d bet a small sum that at some point she’ll be there when a canny veteran is needed to save the day.

Yeah but when ? It's not like Eagle Jump gonna beg Kou to comeback if the Dodgeball game fail. It's just a side project so it won't impact that much.

This one I'm not sure, I'll just buckle my seatbelt for when the time comes :D

especially in Hotaru's case, her skillset is already very strong

That's my problem here. Hotaru is like an Isekai MC, she perform better after less than a week of learning then people who probably work here for more 2/3 years and have make studies in this domain.

This one I'm not sure, I'll just buckle my seatbelt for when the time comes :D

Kou is suppossing to improving herself with that job, i don't see her coming back after less than a year just because Eagle fail a side project (fail that mostly due how it was handle tbh).

I mean, you probably won't be happy with what ends up happening, but at the same time, it's kind of fascinating to watch happen in the same way a train wreck is.

(Not actually any spoilers, but marking it just in case.)

As I said before, though, after that the story goes back to being more like how it used to be.

Unless you like Momiji, in which case you might just be fucked.

(That's a bit closer to some sort of actual spoiler, so beware)

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Unless you like Momiji, in which case you might just be fucked.

Dodgeball game is a fail, she think it's her fault and she resign ?

I figured that would be the immediate assumption, but not quite. Not gonna go into any actual details, but

It actually starts more with her characterization getting fucked. And then the story fucks her.

TFW I actually like Momiji... But the story seems to be structured in a way to make people hate her like that time she made "those" desings
Glad things will go back to "normal" soon

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Yes, make them all girls, you've been given some good advice Hajime.

This girl is starting to piss me off, she have being so indecisive this whole arc! all this freaking trouble better be worthy, stupid tits!

Glasses girl from the scenario team is probably based on Kirara editors

Yes! Next episode is all fanservice!

Is it wrong of me? I thought this had a Shirobako feeling, but it seems like the MC/VPC has become lost in the shuffle, losing out to Momo and somewhat to her art-school-educated friend. They set her up as Ko's successor and an up-and-comer, and then it switched gears. I miss Aoba like that.

Sooo bath scene coming next chapter? XD

Eh, wait until this arc is over. Things improve a bit after that, storywise.

So far, at least.

Sooo bath scene coming next chapter? XD

Seems to me like the bath scene already happened offscreen, as per last narration box.

Finally caught up to the English translation
I was already reading it in Portuguese, but the translation was progressing slowly so these days I started the English translation from where the Portuguese one ended.

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This chapter is just a big Ooff

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don't know what to feel about this one