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NEWS: Quality Assurance in Another World TV Anime Delayed to July

The title and the synopsis don't seem to match. The former sounds like an office comedy, while the latter sounds like a medieval adventure quest.

I don't know who Free Guy is, but to me, "Quality Assurance" and "dragons" don't belong in the same universe. Not saying they can't be, just that it creates a strong esthetic dissonance without a series context to tell me what they're trying to do. Like, Smartphone in Another World does too, but the synopsis lets you know it's going to be as stupid and unserious as it sounds. This, I got no idea if it's going to be a farce or a drama or a corporate slice of life or what.

Also QA and Dragons do belong in the same universe because the QA team would be looking for bugs where the Dragons show up and using the premise in the synopsis that Dragon is popping up in a area it's not supposed to and the QA user has to deal with it.

chronium wrote:

Also QA and Dragons do belong in the same universe because the QA team would be looking for bugs where the Dragons show up and using the premise in the synopsis that Dragon is popping up in a area it's not supposed to and the QA user has to deal with it.

Bugs? There's nothing in the synopsis to indicate this is a game and not an actual world someone got isekai'ed to. If that's the "true nature of her world" it's not clear. And no, dragons and QA don't belong in the same world unless there's a corporation within the world's reality that openly manufactures dragons for sale or rent, i.e. a product.

If the QA team are actually game admins of some sort for a world that doesn't know it's a game, then they're outside the game world's reality and are not operating within the dragon world as QA personnel, but rather as investigators of a new phenomenon, like local scientists investigating a rash of earthquakes in a previously quake-free area. Those people wouldn't be assuring the quality of the area's fault lines. Unless we're in a game...

tl:dr the point is, if this is about a game world, they need a different synopsis to go with the title.

You think you’re living a quiet life in the countryside. Then, one day, a dragon shows up, and everything changes—not because of the fire-breathing serpent, but because of Haga, the man who shows up and “debugs” the situation. Can it be that your life is nothing like what you thought? And what, exactly, is “QA?” A thrilling isekai action fantasy from a fresh, new perspective!