Otherwise known as the show with the misleading title. A/N: Part of Organization Anti-Social Geniuses' Winter 2013 Evaluation Japanese portmanteaus and their meanings in English aside, this is a cute short in the same vein as Animation Runner Kuromi in that it seems to want to provide a behind-the-scenes perspective of what goes into making a manga magazine while still being accesible to newbies. It does this by making its characters clueless about how to actually run a magazine and paints them with very broad character strokes (the energetic one, the straight man, the glutton, the cute otaku). Their situation and problems are mostly hand-waved away; they magically obtain 15 writers to work in their magazine, and the company that they work in is never explained (what workplace has an "Eating-Out Division"?). Those problems would be much bigger if this were a full-length episode, but here it feels more like it's just some condensing to fit the time limit. The bulk of episode focused on distribution costs versus revenue, and recruiting artists to get the magazine off the ground. IT's clearly trying for comedy, but I was more interested in the technical aspects they were discussing than the jokes, which mostly fell flat. I'm expecting some interesting tidbits on the industry on this show, and the art style is pretty cute as well (although most of the characters look like young teenagers rather than adults). So far this looks like a harmless way to get a quick anime fix. Images from Crunchyroll.com.
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