/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Foraging for wild roots and nuts one day, you accidentally become lost in the woods away from the village. As darkness falls, and you still have yet to find your way back to the village, fear sticks its icy claw into your gut. These woods are not safe at all after dark. Carefully, cautiously, you wind your way around overly rambunctious fairies playing danmaku with one another, and give wide birth to a dancing swirl of fireflies with some likely highly dangerous girl playing in the midst of them. Desperation sets in, as even the light of the moon seems less and less sufficient to find your way. Have you gone so far into the woods that the trees have blocked almost all light?

A sudden wave of relief hits you as you hear a beautiful voice echo through the woods. You can somehow manage to discern where it comes from, and decide for reasons that aren't clear to you to follow the voice. Though the voice is wondrous, the lyrics of the song are... well, odd. At the very least, you are comforted by the fact that the voice is extolling the wonders of eating eel, rather than human flesh, and press on in hopes of finding someone who might help guide you home.

You stumble through the brambles, and can finally dimly make out what appears to be a small food stand. Even the lantern lights of this apparently grilled eel stand seems impossibly dim. A young woman with odd clothes and strange wings flips skewers of eel over the grill.

>>1890460
Eel? Ugh, I'd rather just have chicken.

>>1890460
OH GOD NOT THIS PASTA PLEASE NO

>>1890495
TAKE IT LIKE A MAN

>>1890495
WE MIGHT BE GAY BUT WE DON'T LIKE FAGGOTS. GO AWAY, FAGGOT.

>>1890689
...But I'm not gay...

>>1890460
I didn't get a chance to save this, could one of you post the rest of it?

>>1890689
If I'm a faggot for enjoying delicious Mystia--

WAIT NO DELICIOUS IS ENTIRELY THE WRONG CHOICE OF WORD

FUCK YOU, YUYUKO ;_;

"Oh, traveler, traveler, bloodied red, red~.
He looks like he's scared out of his heady head~.
It's dark, too dark, indeed, for human eyes, eyes~.
But I'm selling a cure. It's true, no lies lies~.
All you need is to eat some tasty eel, eel~
It’s the wondrous night blindness curing meal, meal~!
Sight returns with great speed, speed~.
Trust it, it's guaranteed, teed~!"

“I remember reading something about this,” you mumble, “aren’t you the one that’s causing this night-blindness in the first place?”

“Hee hee. Yes, and you’re absolutely right, right~, But eat, or you’ll stay blind all night, night~.” Keeping your thoughts about the absurdity of the lyrics, much less the attempt to carry on a conversation, in the song, you resign yourself to eating the food of this suspicious youkai.

Your vision suspiciously, immediately improves.

You, however, refuse, saying that such an offer is much too generous. Such ingredients are hard to come by, and you would be horribly embarrassed to be in such a debt to a girl working as hard as she is. (Avoid Bad End #1!)



Reaching into your pockets, you realize that you were traveling a little light, as what you had planned to be a quick gathering expedition has turned into almost an overnight stay. Feeling more than a little sheepish, you ask if you could, perhaps, exchange some of the wild vegetables or nuts you had gathered to help pay for a portion of the food. Although she is somewhat tempted by the nuts, you come up with an alternate plan.

Starting from that day, you help to sell grilled eel inside of the village. It’s something of a commute between the two places, but sales of eel are surprisingly good, especially since the rather landlocked humans are too afraid of youkai to go out for more than shoreline seafood. She quickly starts to raise significantly more money for feeding her ‘extended family’ with grain using a direct approach instead of trying to trick wayward wanderers.

Eventually, your partnership is strengthened in a far more personal way, as the two of you progress from friends to lovers. You come to love her silly way of singing through conversations, and her perpetually cheerful, tricksterish ways. You start to grow into the habits of a youkai, sleeping most of the day away. Every evening you spend with her, you feel like a child again.

Later in the night, however, the two of you are entirely adult. In the mornings, you take her up in your arms, her frame almost terrifyingly light. In your bed, she sings, too. It’s incredible, the sensation of her wordless voice, and the sensation of her body meld in a harmony that melt through everything else in your mind.

It’s something that takes getting used to, but Mystia swells up quickly, and comes to lay your eggs in a nest-like futon at her home in the forest. You have to take more and more time away from the human village to stay with your unborn children, and keep the eggs warm, and working on adding more eggs to the nest.

The End: Then it all changed. A pair of ghostly girls came crashing through the forest, laying waste to everything that moved. They brutally murdered fairy after fairy, even ones who put up no fight whatsoever. You tried to stop her, but Mystia leapt out to stop them from harming the woodland home of her fellow birds. She tried to use her night blindness ability and her ability to call upon other youkai upon the leader ghost, but to your horror, you see the green-silver streak of the younger-looking girl invader dart behind your lover, and cruelly skewer her from behind. Blood and yolk from her most recent unlaid eggs mix in streams pouring off of her quickly drenched dress, as her wonderful voice cracked and fell into a bloody gurgle.

“Youmu~. That looks so tasty, why don’t we stop for a bit to have something to eat.”

As you wildly stumbled forward, coming close to the green-and-silver girl far too late, the girl twists ever-so-slightly. Her forearm darted out in a blur, backhanding you through the wall of Mystia’s home without her ever even turning to face you. You crumpled into a ball, broken in body and soul.

“Yuyuko-sama, we really need to manage our time better. We can’t stop for eating every ten minutes if we are to ever complete our task.”

“But You~mu~, there’s even an empty yakitori stand below us. The oven still has some coals smoldering. Just fire it back up.”

The girl called Youmu sighs, and says, “Yes, Yuyuko-sama.” To your indescribable horror, she lifted your still-struggling lover up, and threw her down upon the grill, cooking her alive after rekindling the flames.

The ghost called Yuyuko giggled with glee as she tears the arm off of Mystia. Once the songbird youkai’s gurgling scream of terror died down, the ghost said, “It’s lovely to cook yakitori like this. It sears all the juices right in!”



“Ah! I just remembered.” The ghost then said. “That girl had eggs! Let’s have omelettes, Youmu, omelettes!”

Youmu disinterestedly floated over the hollowed out husk of your dispirited body, to take away your unborn children, and crack them over a skillet. “Ick. They were fertilized.” The light in the eyes of Mystia then went out, drowned in her tears of horror and sorrow.

“You can’t be so picky, Youmu. I just think of it as extra protein.”



“I can’t make myself believe you think of what you eat at all, my lady.”

“Well, that’s not true at all, Youmu! A girl must always think of what she eats! If she doesn’t, she’ll lose her girlish figure!”

“I don’t even want to start arguing with that, my lady.”

...



After enjoying their macabre meal, they finally left you to your puddle of ineffectual tears.



After a seeming eternity, though you could no longer understand rational concepts like time in your state, another pair slowly floated through the night.



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>>1890735

Shouldn't Yukari be with Reimu during the Imperishable Night?

Thanks. So, what's the tiger dojo for this one?

>>1890760

Falling in love with Youkai is a dangerous business!
Youkai always attract trouble to themselves, especially the mightier ones who draw trouble to others.
Find a nice human girl instead!

>>1890760
...You know, I don't remember. 90% sure it was in Heavens Feel, and it was definitely before 32, but aside from that... Probably in one of the ones where you piss Ilya off.

Since this thread is basically worthless, I'm going to ask here.

I was thinking of getting Tsukihime on my computer, and wanted to know about how big it is, to make sure I've got enough room on my hard drive. Does anybody have it installed at the moment who is willing to tell me?

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>>1890731

GRIMDARQUE GENSOKYO, FFFFFFFFFFFFF
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUCK YES!

>>1890794

168 MB with the music tracks.

>>1890805
Really? That's really small... Considering how many women there are in Melty Blood, I figured it would be at least as big as F/SN, but that's 1.71 GB. Is Tsukihime shorter, or is something else going on?

...I am thinking of the right Visual Novel, right? Tsukihime is the one Melty Blood is based on, right?

>>1890902
Melty blood gives side-characters and different versions of the same people proper character status. Plus there's people like Kouma and Mech-Hisui who don't actually appear in Tsukihime at all.

>>1890902
Tsukihime is quite long, it's just not as fancy as FSN.

>>1890902

Tsukihime is plenty long, it's just that the CGs are low-res and simple. The arc.sar is only 100mb itself.

>>1890902

Text does not take up a lot of size.

High-detail CGs and immense amounts of sound effects and minor animations do, as well as quite a few needlessly-repetitive music tracks (THEY PLAY ON LOOP, WHY DO YOU NEED TO LOOP THEM MID-SONG)

>>1890910
I figured on the different versions of the same person, but it's still quite a roster; Ten individual women to four (five? Still not clear on the Shiki thing) men.

How many of them actually have routes? And even taking that into account, 1.71GB is still a pretty massive amount more than 168 MB.

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>>1890931
Ah, of course. I should've figured earlier work would be less complex. Thanks all; TO /rs/ I GO!

>>1890940

Fate has a shitton of special effects and stuff, plus whenever there's an event cg on the screen (not sure what to call it, when there's no character sprite on the screen) and the character changes expression or whatever, it requires a whole new image with the new expression, so there's 5-6 copies of the same scene with the character in a different position or facial expression. Tsukihime doesn't have much of that at all.

>>1890940
There are 5 routes.

>>1890968
....Damn. And we still didn't get an Ilya route in F/SN? Fucking overcomplexity...

>>1890986

You mean a Taiga route.

>>1890990
...You're joking, right? Taiga is worthless in battle; a route with her would just be keeping everything secret and crappy romance. She's basically Rin with less attitude, less chest, and less fighting ability.

>>1891001

>keeping everything secret and crappy romance.

But I want that.

>>1891012
Me too. ;_;

>>1891001

There was that one doujin where Taiga takes Saber's armor and beats everyone up, and marries Shirou at the end. That would be a fun route.

>>1891077
>That would be BEST END
I agree.

>>1890986
I believe that F/SN is longer than Tsukihime despite having fewer routes. File size isn't the issue (F/SN came on multiple disks to begin with), the game is already about as long as a visual novel should ever be with just the three routes.

>>1891001
I'm not quite sure how you'd draw any connection between Rin and Taiga, but hey, I'd sure like to hear it.

In any case, Taiga might do well as Caster's master, as the buff + fighting ability seems to have worked well before. Of course, that would also make it a Caster route, so depending on your tastes...

>>1891114

With Taiga as the main character? And she'd have to give Caster mana? Healthy adult female yuri? Do want. And perhaps a threesome after they kidnap Ilya.

>>1891108
I believe they even said that a Ilya route was supposed to be included, but ended up inevitably cutting it because it was already fucklong. The only problem is that they left a number of loose ends that were likely written in to be resolved in said arc.

>>1891144

I'd rather have a Sacchin route.

>>1891135
>And she'd have to give Caster mana?

I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a penis...

>>1891148
Nah, I've always thought Sacchin was a Shiki fan. Shirou doesn't have the animal in him.

>>1891151
I'm pretty sure Caster has means to fix that.

>>1890968
Not that I don't believe you, but what's up with this? If there are five routes, why are there four sections? Or do more open up later (I'm assuming that's the case, but some clarification would be nice)?

>>1891171
pretty sure it wouldn't be yuri anymore.

>>1891266
>why are there four sections?

Because Kohaku dies.