The strategy to defeat the game nut is... maid service! 'Let me make it! Ejima-san' Episode 4 [Pre-release]

The fourth episode of ' Let Me Make It! Ejima-san ' is scheduled to be updated around January 15th. It is about a lovey-dovey battle between Kaidou, who uses the attractiveness of the person he admires in games, and Ejima, who wants Ejima to think of her more than games. They went on their first date, but in the end Kaidou was only thinking about games. In order to make Ejima feel excited about her real self, Ejima consults with her junior about her next plan, but they end up with an unexpected ending.

Episode 1: Let me make a love game!

Read Episode 2: 'He's always looking at the game screen instead of at me...'!

Read Episode 3: 'Make them think the real thing is better!'

Read the sneak preview of Episode 4, 'I'm going to do something that can't be done in games'!

◆ 'Let me make it! Ejima-san' Episode 4 Synopsis
Kaido and Ejima are members of the 'Game Club' at a certain art college. Kaido does not hide his love for Ejima, but his passion is focused on creating a game based on Ejima.

Making up her mind, Ejima asks Kaido out on a date, and suppressing her shyness, she makes her advances by getting closer to him and holding his hand.

However, the more Kaido gets excited, the more enthusiastic he becomes about the game.

Feeling stuck, Ejima turned to her junior members of the gaming club for advice.

The juniors, who are good at making costumes, suggest cosplaying as maids, hoping to surprise Kaidou and disrupt his usual routine.

However, the maid outfits that her juniors dress her in are gradually becoming more revealing and sexy. When Kaido conveniently appears at such a time, will Ejima and her friends' plan succeed?

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Read the sneak preview of Episode 4 of 'Let Me Make It! Ejima-san' - 'I'll Do Something That Can't Be Done in a Game'!

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◆GSC members only bonus: Episode 4 making of
In episode 4, which has a maid cosplay theme, I carefully considered how to show Ejima in cosplay. Below are color roughs for episode 4, with Ejima on the first page on the left and on the third page on the right. There were ideas to draw a large close-up on page 1, and to draw her whole body on page 3 to make her outfit easier to understand, but in order to balance the appearance and avoid having too many identical compositions, I decided on the shape shown below.

In the detailed composition of the first page, in the following draft (left), the third panel is a close-up of the junior girl 'Akane', but in the colored rough, 'Akane' and 'Nui' are drawn from a distance. This is a way to draw the two characters from head to toe, as they are appearing for the first time, so that it is easier to see what kind of clothes they are wearing.

There is another story behind the fourth episode that is related to 'AI.' In 'Let Me Make It! Ejima-san,' it is often depicted that 'Kaidou pays more attention to the AI Ejima in the game than to the real Ejima,' and when creating the color rough draft, he tried to include the word 'AI' as much as possible.

This was not only the case in Episode 4, but also in the color rough of Episode 3 (see image below, left), where I deliberately used the word 'AI' because I wanted to reflect that in AI. However, when I was creating the whole storyboard, I used the word 'AI' too much, which made the text sound a little unnatural, so I reviewed the whole notation and changed it to a more natural form, as seen in the image below, right.

However, because the structure of the work, 'The Real Eshima and the AI Eshima,' has not changed, there are some parts where the word 'AI' remains, as shown below. This word becomes important towards the end of the work, so I hope you will enjoy it until the end.

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