NEW GAME is a four-panel comic currently being serialized in Manga Time Kirara Carat. It is a manga about the daily working life of the game production company Eagle Jump, depicting what goes on behind the scenes in game production. The manga is mostly made up of young female employees, making it a bright manga that dispels the dark image of the work. Due to the popularity of the original work, it was first broadcast as an anime in the summer of 2016, and ran for one season. The anime also attracted attention, and a second season was broadcast as an anime the following summer. In this article, we will introduce the famous supporting characters that appear in NEW GAME.
Sakura Nene
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Sakura Nene is a childhood friend of the main character, Aoba. She is very small (144cm tall), clumsy and selfish, which makes her look childish. At university, she is treated like a middle school student and teased. Although she looks childish, she has a good figure and a large chest. While Aoba chose to get a job, Sakura Nene chose to go to university. Even after entering university, she keeps in contact with Aoba and has become a good confidant who she can talk to about the good and bad things about work. They maintain a good relationship and on their days off, they go to see anime movies for little girls, which is a hobby of theirs.
Sakura Nene is an excellent test player
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When summer vacation began, Sakura Nene tried to make a date with her childhood friend Aoba, but he was busy finishing up the game production, and the summer vacation was delayed. At that time, Sakura Nene, who wanted to help Aoba with his work, started working part-time at Eagle Jump, the company where Aoba works, as a test player for Fairy's Story 3, which is currently in production. Sakura Nene, who played the previous game thoroughly, reported very minor bugs and bugs that you would only notice if you had played the previous game thoroughly, and the development staff praised the game highly.
Sakura Nene begins to aim to become a programmer
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Sakura Nene has learned that this is the last time she will be recruiting test players, and that from the next new game onwards, they will be outsourcing. Sakura Nene couldn't hide her disappointment, but she wanted to work on game production as a part-timer and make games with Aoba, so she started studying to be a programmer. With advice from Awane Umiko, who had helped her out during her part-time job as a test player, she completed her own game, and her progress was so well-received that she was hired by Eagle Jump as a contract worker and assigned to the programming team.
Umiko Awane
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She is from Okinawa Prefecture and is 162cm tall. She has a tan and looks reminiscent of Okinawa. She is a member of the programmer team at Eagle Jump. Her hobbies include military, airsoft, and FPS games. She is very serious and has a strong personality. He has a complex about his surname and dislikes being called by it. When Yagami purposely calls him by it, he gets furious and wants to point his airsoft gun, which is his hobby, at him and shoot him. There are also scenes where he gets furious at his boss, Hazuki, for slacking off. Although he has a very strict image, deep down he is kind and cares about his subordinates.
Hazuki Shizuku
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Hazuki Shizuku is a game production director. She is the owner of the cat Mozuku. She claims to be 20 years old, but is thought to be the oldest character in the game. She has long wavy hair, wears glasses, and wears a scarf. Her hobbies are memorizing the profiles of cute girls and taking pictures of their cute appearances and cute actions. He holds a position close to the top in game production, and is in a position where he can change specifications at will and incorporate his subordinates' ideas into the game. Despite his high position, he does not make forceful statements in the story, and is a kind boss who cares about his subordinates. However, because his hobbies are just that, his coworkers call him a pervert and a weirdo.
Yamato Christina Kazuko
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Born in France. 171cm tall with long blonde hair. Half French and half Japanese, with family living in France. Not good with people touching her, she sometimes makes statements that can be misunderstood. He is the producer of the investment company, Hobundo, and Yun says he is the most important person on the team, but there are times when he cannot go against the company's wishes. As a spokesperson for the investment company, he announced that the key visuals for the new game PECO should be commissioned to Yagami instead of character designer Aoba. This also led to the graphics team seeing him as a villain. However, he wants to get along with the graphics team, and thanks to Hazuki's advice, he no longer sees any distinction between them. When drinking with Hazuki, he criticizes himself for not being able to change the investment company's wishes, which shows he is a very good and kind person.
Mochizuki Momiji
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19 years old, the same age as Aoba. 160cm tall and has a great figure. She entered Eagle Jump as a trainee. Like Aoba, she admires Yagami Kou and feels a sense of rivalry with Aoba, who was entrusted with character design earlier than her. She is not good at communicating with people, especially remembering people's names. She carries a note with people's names written on it and tries her best to remember them. She has some similarities with Hifumi, such as not being able to greet people on the spot or not being able to see the point in eating lunch together. However, she talks to her childhood friend Tsubame, with whom she lives, in a friendly tone, and at home she shows off her natural side by walking around naked after a bath and going to work in her pajamas.
Narumi Tsubame
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Age: 20, she is childhood friends with Momiji. Like Momiji, she entered Eagle Jump as a programmer trainee. She is 164cm tall. Her family runs a lodging business, so she has been taught manners and housework since she was a child, so she can do all kinds of housework. Her parents are against her going into the game industry, telling her that if she fails to get a job even once, she should take over the family business. She is usually very reserved, but when she finds out that Nene doesn't have a clear goal for her work, her attitude changes completely and she starts scolding her. However, after hearing about the family situation and Tsubame's efforts, Nene helps Tsubame out of a mistake he made, and the two make up.
Hotaru Hoshikawa
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A friend and classmate of Aoba and Nene. After entering Houbun Art University, she studied abroad in France. Her dream is to become an illustrator. She has had a great talent for illustration since high school, and has worked on illustrations for light novels. She was the person who inspired Aoba, who was undecided about his career path, to seriously pursue character design. He was a good friend, art teacher, and rival to Aoba in high school. Even after returning from France, he keeps in contact with Aoba and Nene, and they go on hot spring trips together and continue to have a good relationship.
Soujiro
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Hifumi's pet hedgehog. He always hides, but he's tame enough to touch people with his bare hands. In the photo of Hifumi with Sojiro, we can see her smiling face, which is not usually seen.
Mozuku
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Hazuki's cat with a selfish body. He often appears in serious scenes and scenes that need to be lightened up, and he is a cat who plays a surprisingly important role. She appears in the first episode of the anime, but in the original manga, she finally appears in Aoba's second year after joining the company.
Summary of Famous Supporting Characters
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What did you think? We've introduced the great supporting characters of NEW GAME. The supporting characters are also very unique, and it's because of them that the main characters stand out. That's all for now. Thank you for reading.
