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#90 : Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata flat #9

(Woah, the episode number just quite matched this post number haha..)

Well, actually I’m still in the middle of constructing my post on last week’s episode of Saekano-flat (Episode #8) but it just doesn’t seems to naturally roll off from the top of my head onto the keyboard and by this time, I’m still sort of in thinking process that the Episode #9 just came out.. I could use this week’s episode as a warm-up to my Episode #8 posts - I never really seriously do this kind of text post before (review of an episode - sort of like a ‘bedah buku’ style with a bit of a blogging twist) so I guess this can be a good start for that..

This week’s episode is sort of high pace kinda story (the first time I watched it, I thought I’ve only gone through half of the episode when the ED theme played), I think this might be a good time to start this kinda post since I’m still thinking that Episode #9 doesn’t really have much to say about. It’s pretty much concise and straight to the point (kinda). I think I can handle this haha

..and yeah, after a whole fluffy scenes of Episode #8, we got thrown a curveball this week.. What a turnaround, I should say..

Long short story, Tomoya is in a pinch!

Continuing from after he had convinced the main heroine (#KatouBestGirl lol) to stay in Blessing Software for his next project, apparently that wasn’t the case for the other members.

Early in the episode, we were shown that Tomoya had at least some improvement in making a proposal for his project - unlike in Season 1 where his proposal got rejected straight out. From there to getting a score of 75 by Utaha, I say that’s a good improvement - I mean compared to Tomoya, she has a lot more experience about the industry. She was a best-selling light novel author before she even join the circle in the first season while Tomoya had just trying to make a baby step into the industry.

Of course, she wasn’t too happy when the game is about “showing everyone the appeal of the heroine” which is none other than Megumi. We know how she views Tomoya as - she had given hint about it numerous times only for dense Tomoya didn’t picked up any of it (I feel like he’d talked about it but I think Tomoya did knew about it but didn’t react due to wanting the keep the balance of the circle as it is). But that’s not the reason why she can’t work with him..

Much to Tomoya surprise (and to anyone that didn’t expect the curveball), both she and Eriri had been scouted earlier by Kosaka Akane from a rival circle for her big new project Final Fantasy (ahem) Fields Chronicle. While she wasn’t too eager to join that project, more than anything she wanted to team up once more with Eriri in the same project (given that Eriri was the one who Kosaka Akane wanted the most in her project).

Given the short 5 seconds scene after that, I supposed Eriri had agreed to join the other project but it’s all to look forward to in the next episodes..

So what went wrong? Well, the other half of the episode subtlety explain how Tomoya - although seen as somewhat improved a bit as a producer - still lacking the more essential part of it by showing us how Kosaka Akane trying to scout both Eriri and Utaha.

Done. Proposal accepted :P (Well I guess this is why we always heard stories about overworking in the industry in Japan..)

Ahaha but in all seriousness, this is what Tomoya failed to do as a producer - ask (and force).

And to make things worse for him, Eriri’s “slump”. He do ask Eriri to provide their webpage with promo art for the game in January but the story is now in February and she haven’t even finished it yet. What he lacking the most is the force behind his request, as pointed out by Utaha.

Forget the affection both Eriri and Utaha had for Tomoya to join his circle, above all, both of them are “creator” in the first place. And that’s what creator do - forcing themselves to do the things that they do day by day to be better than the day before.

Earlier in Season 2, Tomoya bravely pointed out the mistakes that Utaha had done in constructing the story for their game and Eriri gone out of her way and holed herself in a room to try to make the best illustration that she can for the game. Just take my 2 cents as a comic artist that hasn’t been but we all need that sort of push to be better than before, to improve ourselves.

And Tomoya, as a producer and overseer of the project, failed to give that push to them.

Because of that, he might lost Eriri as his illustrator and along the way, would also lost Utaha as his writer.

Eriri’s slump turns out to be a bigger issue than what Tomoya had thought.

For someone with artblock, waiting out is not a solution. The very thing that we need to do is to grab hold of a pencil and sketch out whatever and realign ourselves by force back into the groove - where we can just draw whatever we thought of. Nothing can be done if we did nothing.

I think, in Tomoya defense, he couldn’t ask for more simply because he felt inferior towards the two. Well, even before starting their first game, Kasumi Utako and Kashiwagi Eri are both already well recognised as the author of best-selling light novel and renowned doujin artist. For someone as him just starting to get into the industry, he might think his project is smaller compared to whatever other project that both of them is currently involved in. Kouhai asking their senpai to follow instruction is not an easy thing to do, y’know..

..and that’s how Tomoya is in a pinch he is right now.

I never read the original light novel version of Saekano before (I really wanna but there’s no one picking it up for translation, and my Japanese is still elementary) so to be honest, I’m kinda surprised of this curveball. I mean, they given us the lovely Episode #8 last week and then all of a sudden, this happened.

To give a sneak peek of my thoughts of Episode #8 as I’m still trying to finish up (don’t wanna jinx it but hopefully I can finish that up), I think last week’s episode is the best on so far. I might be a bit bias as Megumi is definitely my favorite character in this series but from a character development standpoint, that episode is the writer Fumiaki Maruto showing off what he’s really capable of doing. In short sentence, I think Katou Megumi is the most colorful character out of all.

Well, all of that later (hopefully)..

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She deserved it. She fought her way against the harem and other anime girls.

SHE IS THE BEST GIRL OF THE BEST GIRLS OF THE SEASON.

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He’s finally realized that Megumi was the best girl all along.

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