We learn that her mother, in particular, does not approve. There is a scene in the third volume, which I just finished, where she is forced to go on vacation and Miyuki goes home to her family. However, the title is clever and I’m learning some stuff? I rather like Miyuki, even though she is a complete stereotype of a perky, endlessly enthusiastic otaku. So, it doesn’t ACTUALLY break the fourth wall since it is a MANGA about anime, not an anime about anime. Ironically, so far as I can tell, Animeta does not have an anime.
I am big fan of slice-of-life and have literally enjoyed stories about people shopping and fixing up their motorcycles (see: Super Cub, et al.) I’m enjoying it? But, keep in mind that I have a HIGH tolerance for stories that are kind of about nothing. So, if you’ve ever been curious about the processes that go into anime creation, this might be one to check out. Like a lot of slice-of-life there is actual information about what animators do and how the job works. She is aided by mysterious post-it notes of encouragement…. Interestingly, several times throughout the first three volumes (all I have, though the library has all five currently available in the US) a character will morosely say that you really can NOT survive in this industry on enthusiasm alone. I will tell you? Three volumes in? NOT SO MUCH. Possibly it is the anime heroine’s deep enthusiasm for the art? WHO KNOWS.Ī lot of the pacing/tension of Miyuki’s storyline is waiting to see if her talent will actually bud… and or her enthusiasm will actually cause a real break-through. Kugo sees something in her that he wants to cultivate. Like me, Miyuki has zero clue about how anime works, but, even so–and here’s the Mary Sue bit in play–she catches the eye of the hottie director (above), Kugo. So maybe I could have gotten a job at a major studio as a novelty, i.e., let’s hire the weird American–she’ll wash out anyway! I don’t know. Apparently, so many new hires wash out that this is actually a thing? You could get hired for a random fact listed on your resume. One of the members of the hiring committee likes the fact that she took judo and so gives her a shot. Miyuki gets her dream job entirely by chance. And, much like Miyuki, I had no actual skills (besides a few art classes) and no real idea what that job might entail. I mean, to be entirely fair to Hanamura-sensei, I literally used to regularly tell my friends in college that my dream was to run away to Japan and work for an anime studio. She is the idealized stand-in for all of us otaku who would like to believe that our enthusiasm for the genre could garner us a real job in animation in a major studio in Japan. I’m sure that the “Meta” part of Animeta is the fact that Miyuki is 100% a Mary Sue, and no one is even pretending otherwise.
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