Don't Miss Your Deadline! (Manga Editor Quest)
- Thread starter zamin
- Start date
- Original Modern
[x]Plan Networking, vampire and study
- Location
- Italy
he's still our cousing though, and while his advice was
I want to at least meet him ONCE before deciding that no, he's better ignored and forgotten.
- Location
- Australia
[X] The Vampiric Cousin
-[ ] Look At Me, I Am The Senpai Now (Special): It seems that the new editors will be joining your team later this week. Considering his current workload, Masaru would probably be really grateful if you 'volunteered' to handle the welcoming process. The fact that it'd let you make a good first impression is just the icing on the cake. (Gain +1 Favor)
-[ ] Networking (Mangaka)
--[ ] Aoki Akira: You have to admit, Aoki-san doesn't seem like the kind of person you'd typically expect to be interested in a mangaka career. It might be a good idea to learn more about his motivations.
-[ ] Networking (Coworkers)
--[ ] Team Player Maeda-kun: People tend to appreciate the little gestures. A cup of coffee here, a friendly ear to listen to problems there, and suddenly they think you're friends. But if you want to make a stronger impression, you need to go the extra mile. (Unlocks options to spend extra Favor)
-[ ] Networking (Assistant Editor in Chief): Ah, shit. Who decided to give such an important position to your idiot cousin? Meeting with him isn't going to be pleasant, but you should see if you can do some damage control before things get out of hand.
I would like to see what favors we can pull, and what we can work towards with future plans vs blindly building it is all
-[ ] Look At Me, I Am The Senpai Now (Special): It seems that the new editors will be joining your team later this week. Considering his current workload, Masaru would probably be really grateful if you 'volunteered' to handle the welcoming process. The fact that it'd let you make a good first impression is just the icing on the cake. (Gain +1 Favor)
-[ ] Networking (Mangaka)
--[ ] Aoki Akira: You have to admit, Aoki-san doesn't seem like the kind of person you'd typically expect to be interested in a mangaka career. It might be a good idea to learn more about his motivations.
-[ ] Networking (Coworkers)
--[ ] Team Player Maeda-kun: People tend to appreciate the little gestures. A cup of coffee here, a friendly ear to listen to problems there, and suddenly they think you're friends. But if you want to make a stronger impression, you need to go the extra mile. (Unlocks options to spend extra Favor)
-[ ] Networking (Assistant Editor in Chief): Ah, shit. Who decided to give such an important position to your idiot cousin? Meeting with him isn't going to be pleasant, but you should see if you can do some damage control before things get out of hand.
I would like to see what favors we can pull, and what we can work towards with future plans vs blindly building it is all
Fluffy_serpent
a snake pretending to be human
[X]Plan Knowing our Team
Agree on second quote, the cousin said it himself that he also nepotism hire...directly to high position.
We need to meet him once to determine whether he's callous trendseeker, or inexperienced well-meaning guy.
But honestly, I expect plot twist since "fulfilling head editor request for unpopular manga" is part of the gameplay.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X]Plan Knowing our Team
Eh, I'm not sure I really agree that meeting him is our utmost priority. Eventually, sure, but is meeting with family really something that needs to be done right away?
I feel like it's much more urgent that we meet with our mangakas and/or work on ridding ourselves of our noob-penalty. Heck, there is an argument to be made that it'd be more important to meet the Chief Editor first... considering that they have the final word on all of our work.
- Location
- Italy
I kinda want to make certain he won't take offense to us ignoring the ecchi advice, though I'll admit there's a good argument to be maid to ignore him in favour or adding another mangaka...
That's basically Plan Knowing our Team, so no reason to add a new plan, though I still think big 3 should come before our own magazine's manga.
I haven't seen anyone mention this, but isn't the ecchi thing only part of the suggestion? The main point of the suggestion was that the series be focused more on the comparatively more interesting misadventures of the daughter, instead of her dad.
We could mention a little more focus on developing the daughter as a character, or something of that nature, and truthfully say that we took their suggestion without truly compromising on the integrity of the story itself.
zamin
The Watcher in the Dark
I admit, I was kinda surprised that nobody noticed it earlier lol. It's a bit of a hint about what Aoki's traits/issues are linked to.
At the moment the company is so desperately understaffed that even a newbie like Maeda can be put in charge of a brand new mangaka. Once things settle down a bit, this is probably going to change. Senior or more connected editors wanting to hog all the successful series is going to be an issue, but Maeda should have more than enough Favor to throw around to keep most of them at bay.
I'd say that at that level it becomes a massive success and a household name overnight. So something like My Hero Academia or Demon Slayer, for example. Of course, once you've reached that level of success, the problem is gonna be maintaining it.
Yeah, as Pittauro said, the best you could reasonably do is put one guy in charge and assign the other two as manga assistants. They'd still give a bonus to the relevant stat, but it won't be as high because they need to adjust to fit the leader's personal vision and art style.
Bear in mind that Maeda's editor skill is basically non-existent right now, which is why he has such a tiny pool of points. A senior editor like Masaru has about 100 Editor Bonus points to spread around.
Of course, with more experience comes more series for you to juggle. Masaru's 20 series at once is pretty extreme, but as time goes on even Maeda will be expected to handle anywhere between 5 to 10 series at a time - all while maintaining the same high standards, of course.
You can spend Favor to delay it, but unless all your current works are popular enough to justify it the cost is just gonna get higher and higher.
I only watched a few episodes, but I remember the main character being absolutely hilarious.
"Dude, I thought you said you never raced before! How did you learn to drift so good?"
"I take my dad's shitty car to deliver tofu every day."
"I take my dad's shitty car to deliver tofu every day."
I don't want to stereotype, but from my understanding a lot of Japanese corporate culture is still stuck in the Boomer era. So there's really strict ideas of "this is how it's supposed to be done" and anyone who diverges from that gets punished even if it's something that actually helps the company.
Of course, as time moved on, more and more of the younger generation are realising how bullshit it is to be expected to spend all your time working and sucking up to your bosses, which is why things like hikikomori started happening. When your culture develops a word specifically for "young recluse who spends all their time sitting in a room and ignoring society", you know things have gotten pretty fucked up.
Interestingly enough, if it weren't for his family connections Maeda could actually have turned into a hikikomori at some point. Even if he can kiss ass, he personally really dislikes the current work culture to the point where he tries to spend as little time in the office as possible.
If it wasn't for the fact that he knows that his position is safe, he'd probably spend all his time kissing ass rather than doing his job to try to ensure that he'd be as safe as possible.
Bear in mind that Maeda is pretty biased.
Yep. It turns out that the bosses like it when you do your job well. Of course, now that you've got a series out, they all want to tell you their own opinions and 'advice' about how to keep it going...
Can confirm the Big Three thing is just one action. He's just reading the first few volumes plus some highlights from the later arcs. Poor Maeda would probably grow old and grey if I tried to make him read every single chapter in real time lol.
Moving on, the current tally is:
I'll be busy with work stuff, so this vote will remain open for another day or two.
Oh god, I didn't even notice... even after I specifically took the time to analyze every prompt!
- Location
- Italy
...just how many series even ARE in our magazine?
As far as I remember Shounen Jump only had about 20 TOTAL, more or less. Or maybe our company has multiple magazines?
That's a lot more points than I was expecting. Will you add some limit on how many points can be added to a single stat? Because Otherwise it would actually make sense for a company to just have one editor per series, and help it bring one or more stats to 100.
yannoshka
Thunda birb
- Location
- Smartarse cramschool
I kinda noticed it, but didn't pay it any attention, cause that only works in english.
Kanji for the names does not match.
zamin
The Watcher in the Dark
From my understanding, most professional manga stories will appear together with 10-40 other mangas on a weekly, biweekly or monthly anthology production.
For the Sunday Star, I'm putting it at around 25 series on a weekly basis, with a regular churn out as less popular old series get dropped and new series are introduced.
The details are explained in Mechanics post, under the "Review Process" spoiler. But TLDR: no matter how high your editor bonus is, you can only add a maximum of +25 to any one stat at a time.
As for the "one editor per series" thing, that would only happen for really popular and successful series that the company is invested in continuing for as long as possible. Outside of that situation, most editors are expected to be able to handle multiple series at once, which means that they need to spread out their editor bonuses rather than concentrating everything on one series.
Ah, fair enough. Alas, I don't actually speak Japanese myself, so I had to do it in English instead. In character, Maeda hasn't noticed either lol.
- Pronouns
- They/He
[X]Plan Knowing our Team
