History Manga / NewGame

** In the opening, Hajime twirls her hand and points at the camera like [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: More or less everyone, though special mention goes to Rin, who is often hinted at being in love with Ko. She also becomes jealous of Ko and Aoba's mentor relationship, as well as Ko liking Hifumi's cooking and getting Hifumi to call her "Ko-chan" like Rin does.

* TwoDecadesBehind: Tokuno worked in the gaming industry in the mid-to-late 2000s, before mobile gaming and downloadable console games exploded in popularity. A lot of the issues with ''Destruction Dodgeball'''s production came from the fact that Eagle Jump insisted on making an unproven IP about a rather simplistic sports game into a full physical release, rather than publish it on a platform with minimal overhead and the ability to easily patch or update it later.

''New Game!'' is a 4-koma format manga by Shotaro Tokuno, which was serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Carat'' from 2013 to 2021. While it leans heavily on a cute aesthetic, [[WorkCom it also portrays how the video game industry works]] in a realistic yet light-hearted way. Since this is a 4-koma, [[HilarityEnsues expect lots of hilarious moments]]. Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment released the manga in English in 2018.

* ExcitedShowTitle: That's ''New Game!'', with an exclamation point. The name of season two of the anime adds one more exclamation point.

* SuperOCD: Ko has the tendency to redraw the same things many times to change even the slightest details. She even takes too long to take Aoba's [=ID=] picture because she takes off Aoba's ribbon and unbuttoning her collar to make her suit look more proper, before realizing the look doesn't fit her and changing it back. [[spoiler:This is somehow {{Deconstructed|trope}}; her stint as the art director for ''Fairies Story 2'' was extremely bruising for her partly because of this trope--she was seen to be an overly demanding superior.]]

* InnocentCohabitation: PlayedWith when Ko [[spoiler: returns to japan. She and Rin begin living together and even sharing a bed, while Ko feels she is being a burden, Rin is of course extremely happy with this set up, despite no hint that they are even dating yet.]]

** While the story and characters depicted for Destruction Dodge Ball are fictional, the gameplay mechanics described are identical to the classic Tecmo game [[VideoGame/SuperDodgeBall Super Dodge Ball]].

* IllGirl: The Queen of Peco's world was this in the real world, which resulted in her being lonely and ending up as a tyrant in the land of stuffed animals.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Everyone the manga focuses on is female, despite how the video game industry in RealLife is still male-dominated even after more women have entered it. Aoba brings up that the department she's in is staffed entirely by females during her evaluation where we learn that Shizuku purposely only hires women. The {{Prequel}} manga further explains this; the ''company'' as a whole might be equal-opportunity, but ''team assignment'' isn't.

* BookEnds: The manga ends with [[spoiler: a TimeSkip and a new employee walking up to the Eagle Jump offices, ready to start working on a new game.]]

** Toward the end of the series, Naru has to take a month off, forcing Umiko to bring in a replacement. Nene feels a bit hurt that Naru could be replaced so easily. Umiko sympathizs with Nene, but points out that Nene has to accept that none of them are irreplaceable. Nene gives what Umiko said some thought and admits Umiko has a point, but says she wants to make a game that can only be made by combining the talents of everyone at Eagle Jump.

** Toward the end of the series, Naru has to take a month off, forcing Umiko to bring in a replacemnt. Nene feels a bit hurt that Naru could be replaced so easily. Umiko sympathizs with Nene, but points out that Nene has to accept that none of them are irreplaceable. Nene gives what Umiko said some thought and admits Umiko has a point, but says she wants to make a game that can only be made by combining the talents of everyone at Eagle Jump.

* AscendedGlitch: In episode 9, the fact that the player can see PantyShots of characters when there is a SkirtsAndLadders Situation. Since it was never on the specs, Umiko declares it a bug, but the CovertPervert Producer Hazuki overrules Umiko, and rather requires the graphics people to go overtime to make sure the panties are rendered properly.

* PantyShot: {{Invoked|trope}} in an anime-only part of Episode 9. [[UsefulNotes/BetaTest Nene]] noticed under specific conditions, players may be able to see this through an application of SkirtsAndLadders. Umiko immediately declared it a bug, but [[CovertPervert Hazuki]] overuled Umiko, which in turn made the character graphics team going overtime just to make sure all characters have their panties rendered.

* RunningGag: Aoba's suit is often mistaken for a school uniform because of the ribbon she wears. In Volume 12, an applicant for Eagle Jump mistakes Aoba for an interviewer and suggests that she not wear her GirlishPigtails to the interview, unaware that Aoba will be the ''interviewer''.

* {{Flanderization}}: In season two, Rin's tsundere crush on Ko is ramped way up and her actual job duties are shunted to the background, making her appear markedly more tempermental and passive-aggressive than in the first season.

** In Japan, the manga was obscure and on the verge of cancellation until a panel of Aoba declaring "I'll do my best today!" became an enormous meme, taking Tokuno by surprise. Per the Japanese Wikiepdia, he didn't think much of the panel, since it was just a transition line and wasn't very well drawn, and said he had no plans to have other characters repeat the meme. [[spoiler: Literally the very last panel of the manga is a grown-up Sophie-chan declaring "I'll do my best today!"]]

** In Japan, the manga was obscure and on the verge of cancellation until a panel of Aoba declaring "I'll do my best today!" became an enormous meme, taking Tokuno by surprise. Per the Japanese Wikiepdia, he didn't think much of the panel, since it was just a transition line and wasn't very well drawn, and said he had plans to have other characters repeat the meme. [[spoiler: Literally the very last panel of the manga is a grown-up Sophie-chan declaring "I'll do my best today!"]]

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: In chapter 150, Aoba goes around to the other staffers to hand out candy. Hotaru quips, "It's almost over, isn't it?" InUniverse she's talking about the development of ''Fairies Story 4'', but out of universe it's a clear reference to the fact that the manga is ending and Tokuno is writing the very last comedy bits with all his characters before it's over.

** ''Utopia'', a WesternRPG game made by French company Blue Rose which Ko and Hotaru had helped with the design of its main monster.