New Game's Character Birthdays Aren't Completely Arbitrary
New Game is one of my most favourite anime. It's an animanga series about a bunch of girls who work as game developers/designers at a game studio. Though there is some drama and minor plot progression, the show is overall a mostly chill slice-of-lifey experience. It's nice and I think you should watch it. In case you don't know, I chose my internet name based off of one of the characters in this show.
So some time ago I was randomly browsing around the interwebs and I saw someone point out that one of the 4 main characters in the show has a birthday that corresponds to some attribute of them and it made a lot of sense to me. At first I didn't really think much of it, but then later on I noticed that another one of the main 4 characters also has a birthday that corresponds to some attribute of them. After that I totally had to figure out what the other characters' birthdays mean. Figuring all this out required some of my small knowledge of Japanese that I've picked up on plus knowing some otaku memes. Anyways, here's the characters and their birthday meanings:
- Hifumi - January 23rd - Hifumi's name is written in hiragana (ひふみ), but the most common way to spell this name is 一二三. For example, this is how the name of the famous shogi player Kato Hifumi (RIP) is spelled. The meaning of this name is literally "1-2-3", and Hifumi's birthday is 1/23.
- Aoba - February 2nd - Feb 2nd is Twintails Day, because 2/2. This is definitely related to Aoba's twintails.
- Hajime - January 1st - The word "hajime" in Japanese means beginning/first/start, and Hajime is born on the first day of the year.
- Yun - December 6th - I had to ask the nihongo tatsujin holeinmyheart to help me figure this one out, but basically December 6th is Big Sister's Day (姉の日) in Japan. This is related to Yun being the older sister of her two little siblings.
I haven't really looked into the other characters and their birthday meanings. Maybe there's something there, but I haven't really noticed anything. Either they are completely arbitrary or require better knowledge to figure out. It's cool that the author made the characters have meaningful birthdays. I remember in English class I was taught about how fictional characters names and other attributes may have some interesting deeper meaning if the author is really good at this kind of thing. This sort of in the same ballpark as figuring out why the curtains are blue and stuff. And I'm glad I figured out why some curtains are blue here.