Quote Originally Posted by MFauli View Post
Btw. can we talk about that new artist girl's attitude? Isn't she contractually obligated to finish her work within a certain deadline? The scene was all cutesy, but irl, she'd face severe fines and other consequences, right?
Seriously, MFauli, I'm starting to think you're some emotionless, "You're doing it for the exposure!" type of people who commission work from artists.

Art is hard. Especially digital art that has the level of detail that Shinoaki and Ayaka do. Each piece might take up to a couple weeks to complete. Good artists who work all the time can do them in a matter of hours from sketch to finished, but they've put in thousands and thousands of hours of practice. Manga artists are usually just doing line art with shading, and while that's 20 pages worth, there's often several assistants involved to get it all done in a week.

Ayaka is also experiencing some burnout, and struggling with her art because of people who treated her just like Kyouya treated Aki that day in 2007. Aki's monologue on why she eventually quit felt like it came from the heart, and even though she said it wasn't Kyouya's fault, it still kinda was, and he knew it. He planted that seed of doubt with her regarding her own abilities. As for Ayaka, it depends on what's written in her contract, something that this series casually glosses over. The game will get delayed, Ayaka's reputation will suffer, and she might get less work in the future as word gets out that she breached her contract delivery date. Or she'll blast through them and get it done. If she was seriously blowing her past all her deadlines, she'd probably already have been fired.

Overall, this series handles that situation at a juvenile level.

Lastly, you're projecting your own expectations and feelings onto me, which is really kinda weird. This dumpster fire is gonna end the way it does, and I'm not going to be particularly surprised because it is very predictable and telegraphed when you're paying attention to what they're saying in the episodes. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I hate this series because of how shallow and patronizing it is compared to Imosae and Saekano, which both deal with similar subject matters much more maturely.