Status Updates From Our Crappy Social Game Club...

Close to 2/3 through this one. Only thing stopping me are my commitments to my physical books (library stuff). It started fairly technical in terms of having the lead, Kai, explain a planner's role in creating a game, the character's seriously reacting to the potential of the club being disbanded by reading books on game design, and just generally heavy stuff. Now it's into a lighter mix of RomCom with drama.

DNF. I just wish romcom LNs didn't have weird perverted moments that are cringey as fuck 😬

Why is his sister such a pervert I hate thiiiiiis

I would love to direct/storyboard the anime for this, it could be so much fun??

No, using your own blood as a signature is not 'cool'

Damn the student council is so cartoonishly evil I can't take them seriously AT ALL

Hnnng don't like that we're getting the knight in shining armour troupe here;;

Ah, the lifelong cliche of a guy joining a club full of cute girl.

I actually love this world building where students are prompted to make video games and how available the medium has become!

I kinda find it cool that his sister is a novelist with a trickster mind tbh!

Damn this was some dramatic as shit, I'm very intrigued now!

Next part I'm up to, he's going to get introduced to his other new club members. There's a second blonde (with pigtails or twin tails) and a slightly insane looking poofy dark haired artist. Dynamic should be interesting.

Kai is conveniently unskilled at anything besides sitting in a chair on a PC, so he's going to have to join this club even if he doesn't want to. The light atmosphere will probably help.

The sandy blonde on the cover is Aoi (Nanaka?), a young woman whom one of the senior staff at the school introduces Kai to. Despite her cute attitude and looks, she's a social game development fan and part of that club (she also thought Kai was "too cool" looking for social games too). The Niigata high school game club is more laid back and zany than Kai's previous "serious" club Kai was in back in Tokyo.

I kinda skipped the prologue as I read it before, but it basically follows a teen who has some trauma related to being the "fall guy" for theft of his social game club's drop rates that's keeping him up at night and forced him to leave his old school. Now in the countryside, he tries to start anew, but the school rules mandate he join a club... His sister also tells him people can't change their routine so easily.