/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>45590649
Is this alive

>>45589722
>A-s used to be so active and often re-uploaded links, what went wrong really.
imo part of why it died is over moderation. There was one mod in particular who was very anal about following all the rules, even rules that probs didn't exist.

>delete reuploads that didn't have "clear permission" to be reuploaded even when the original uploaders were long dead
>took control over the reupload community that users made saying that every game needs to be linked to a forum post before other links are associated with it
>make their own uploads of things that led to older links with rare tokuten die of inactivity
>peace out after ruining the place
>vomit inducing profile pic

Yeah sure, I understand the reasons for some of these things but this was already when the otome section was starting to die down. They were really fucking bad at reading the room.

>>45591424
This sucks so bad. So the otome section no longer has a mod there?

Found a freeware doujin otome that is a denpa psychological horror. It was inspired by sayooshi and even has a few references in. Might not be nsfw but the text descriptions do get pretty wild like when one of the LIs who murders and then engages in necrophilia and there's a few rape, gang rape scenes. If not all, majority of the LIs are mentally unstable, along with the heroine. It could be a kamige if the creator took more effort. Not half bad. https://vndb.org/v33584#main

What are you reading this Christmas?
I always just reread Present o Kimi ni.

>>45591987
they recently recruited a new mod iirc but I'm not sure how involved they are in the genre themselves

>>45591424
it's quite a contrast with the R18 otome CD thread, where a bunch of people will trip over themselves to fulfill any requests and last I went there, one glorious nutjob had archived everything and was busy covering dead links.

>>45592057
A freege with decent art and menhera? Sure, I'll give it a try ASAP

On R18 otome game talk one popped up out of nowhere yesterday. Seems to basically just be an older drama CD series repurposed into a nukige with some extras though.

>>45592224
Virche

Merikuri, /blog/!

>>45602581
Merry Christmas!

>>45592224
The bible.

>>45591424
Schizos ruin everything.

KUREIJI DAIAMONDO

>>45602581
Merikuri, /blog/
I posted in the wrong fucking thread like a retard but Ooe in June 2024
>頒布時期：2024年 6月 発売予定

>>45592224
Hana Awase. Just finished up the main route of Mizuchi's volume which was cute and fun. Now for the other routes? Bad ends? Himeutsugi's first.
It's a weird structure, could be interesting though becuase I enjoy more involved bad ends. Still it makes it kind of painful to leave the boy you've been with the entire rest of the game for some random. The whole time I feel like I'm the woman in an NTR doujin saying 'sorry darling, but I've found someone else' while the ugly bastard wraps his arm around my shoulders. I am not sure which boy corresponds to which man in this situation.
Also not sure about Hime's sudden yandere switch. I have an issue with yanderes sometimes where I find it frustrating because they'll get some characterisation but then it will all get flattened for them to start acting like a complete nutjob. I'll see how it goes, it could work for me since it does to some extent tie in with the various hangups he's shown to have so far. Still think his yandere mode is more creepy than appealing though.

Merry Christmas sisters! We made it for yet another year! Keep living, eat well, don't forget to brush your teeth twice a day and to take care of yourselves!
2024 starting promising

Merry Christmas Sensei...

>>45609350
pedo-sensei can now make you a LADY in glorious HD, amazing

I need to find a LI or a protagonist that looks like gilgamesh.

oh...

>>45610379
>no reactions to wearing slutty skirts to the amusement park
Utterly disappointed

>>45609486
Just play Extra as Hakunon

>>45610379
You literally can't defend this

>>45610379
Unfortunately the japs never liked the tenshi/koakuma system.

>>45610379
I’m honestly disappointed, no new additions whatsoever to 1 and 2, and they took out the devil-angel mode from 3 which is one of the best features to be added in Tokimemo gs
They are so lazy, the one good thing is to hear DS voice lines in good quality

>>45610379
What the fuck? I understand when the PSP version was an ugprade over the fucking DS but how can the Switch version be inferior to the PSP? Not even Vita but PSP?

>>45610379
Why bother including the hidden character but not stuff like the new events?

>>45609486
Too chad.

>>45610379
I wish they'd stop being bootlickers for one second

>>45610379
Searched on why Nips hate Devil/Angel on 5ch
Devil mode (to them) heroine becomes a disgusting whore
While angel mode she becomes a stupid idiot and it pisses them off
I personally love both, it’s fun to tease and bully the characters in devil
And I love the cute innocent heroine in angel mode
Well whatever will replay the game on PSP

>>45614616
Never

>>45614616
This sounds more like a swan song than Konami fully responding to fan support desu. No preorder bonuses or physical editions, not even a value bundle for all three like what the DS games got. That really tells you how Konami sees the series
Better than nothing I guess, but it's probably the last ditch effort to see if this series will ever get support from Konami again

>>45618207
I don't get why though, even gs4 sold genuinely well despite the downgrade in art and taking a gorillion years to release

>>45618207
Konami is just a joke nowadays in reality. They don't give a shit about anything anymore besides seeing if they make an easy profit off something that's relatively successful with low amounts of effort like with all of their other remasters and remakes. They treated all their popular IPs like trash, too.

Had enough with this hobby. I'm going to pirate every single game from now on and make my own merchandise off aliexpress and temu.

>>45619486
What happened anon

>>45619495
Had enough of being treated a d milked like a cow and getting shit in return, especially in this horrendous economy. Maybe it's just the otome genre, I don't know how fujoshis have it.

>>45619513
>I don't know how fujoshis have it
Getting 3 games at best in the a 5 year span

Talking about bl, ooe will come out in 6 months.
>have to last half a year *sign*
Aromarie new game when? Release it or cancel it so that I can finally off myself in peace.

Which upcoming game are you looking forward to anons?

>>45620125
BL
>ooe
>tokyo gentou
>cage remake
>arcadia *if not dead*
>sayonara junsei

Otome
Eternal TBA
>gikei,zettai kaikyuu fd, dorico, dolce vita
>the voltage ones
Might pirate the otomate ones and drop them after a route

>>45620125
Still waiting for EOP version of luckydog.
I could probably read it myself at this point, but I refuse.

>>45620125
Mostly Ooe at the moment.
I was looking forward to Qualia, Primula's new game, but it's been on hiatus due to the writer's illness for a while now and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up getting cancelled.

>>45620125
None. I expect nothing nor think shit will be good in this currrent era of cucked shit for everything VNs/vidya. I have a massive backlog I need to finish instead.

>>45620125
YandereTown + Love and Deepspace, hate gacha but the battle system seems fun

Yves is a such a good boy. He deserves to be in a high school sol/romance vn instead of Virche

Anyone played Chevalier Historie? It's rpgmaker lose-to-get-monster-fucked slop in the base game but the dlc adds ikeman romance

https://youtu.be/2T8d7Nkbn5I?si=-ga28anXUeIB00Ii
Takuyo is working on a new game.

>>45622907
Takuyo's darker games used to be decent but everything I've heard about their more recent works makes it hard to have good expectations about this.

>>45622135
I remember that, the one where you can romance the two whore bros? It was pretty good as far as RPGmaker/WolfRPG trash goes.

>>45622135
No, but you got my interest. Always wanted that sort of slop with otome elements. I might buy that on DLsite along with 姫の楽園 by the end of the year.

>>45622907
Nice, something to wait for 2024! >psychological and horror
A genre i have yet to come upon, at least in otome. Can you recommend me some anons? No need to be commercial.

>>45626611
魔女の処刑日 has slasher movie-like moments

>>45626611
Anon and anons, try this >>45592057. I finished it a few days ago and I can't believe how underatted it is! It's completely free. Hidden gem.

I want to play sweet clown but I'm an mtl eop pleb.

>>45622135
I didn't play much of it but I remember thinking that a few charas were surprisingly ikemen for the type of game. Maybe I'll try it again if it's supposed to feel otome-like

Oh no, StoryTaco has discovered both otome isekai and NTR. Now their trashiness will reach new levels.

>姫の楽園
Soon! Can't believe this is going to be the last Succulent VN...

I heard in Very Berry the girl tells one of the guys to kill himself and he almost does and that's why reddit hates her is this true? Based if true ngl

>>45627393
Yamano said that might go back to it some day so there's a small chance she'll make games again.
Still, it's a huge shame.

Finished Hamiel’s route in Despera
It was decent, the usual bad guy changed thanks to good girl trope in otome, he hated Japanese women because he thought his mom left them only to find out she was ill and couldn’t come back to see them
Now I’m doing Sally’s and as expected he is a boy, his story is sad he thinks he is his little sister who died due to his trauma

>>45633263
>he hated Japanese women because he thought his mom left them
What a retard

>>45633836
I forgot to mention it’s because the mother is Japanese and he is spanish
He ended up scamming and hurting Japanese women who are tourists as revenge, he even hated the heroine at the beginning
The heroine has this ability to read people’s memories so she saw the mother’s memories on her death bed after Hameil finally found her

>Cool-B is ending publication after April next year
2024 is off to a bad start

>>45634431
Well that's a bummer. Were they struggling to find material or something or just ran out of money?

>>45634554
Didn't give an explicit reason but it seems to be financial. Sad.
>唯一のBLゲーム雑誌の灯火を消してしまうことになり忸怩たる思いです
RIP

>>45634554
I assume it was a combo of both. How many BL games did even come out in recent times? Gacha ate everything.

>>45633263
i would never want to give birth to a son irl desu

Thinking about it, if the cast is going to be all criminals I would want the player character to be a criminal too. And none of that "I'm an assassin but I've never killed anyone before uwu" weird shit either

>>45633263
Not looking at spoilers since I've just started reading this, but I find it funny how two characters went "noo piracy bad" as if anyone but Japan thinks that.

>>45639217
Bad boys must be saved by good girls.

I post here because it's an otome game. >>45643846 Basically looking for a hook for this game, chou no doku hana no kusari that doesn't mess with the kanji that have furigana, thanks!

>>45627393
RIP

>cool-b had to die in order for them to wake up and finally post them

>>45646555

>>45646569

Are you fans of otome artists doing art for bl?

>>45647620
If you mean haiiro's artist, she mostly does art for otome cds. From the samples alone I can't tell, but I like what I'm seeing so far. Yoshiwara's artist who also did the art for omega vampire is pretty good. Let's not forget kurahana from uta no prince sama who was originally a bl artist. I like my boys cute everywhere. I find art in nty and hadaka though pretty hideous.

>>45647620
While I read some BL for the plot/characters, I don't particularly care about the gay no matter how much I try so it's an ambivalent feeling that almost leans to slight frustration.

>>45647620
I personally don't see why it matters. After all, making art is just a job for artists. Their entry point into getting a job and making a name for themselves in the industry shouldn't have to limit what jobs they take on in the future.

>>45647620
Why not?

>>45646555
Looks like he's gonna be the minku? A shame they didn't post this one

>>45646569
>>45646555
>>45646579
Reading the preview the dialogs seem a bit meh. A lot of yada not there and shit.

I just really don't care for school stories desu.

>>45649980
Nips love reliving their teenage years.

Not a fan of school life settings too especially in bl.
>unhygienic sex
>retardism
>plot flat and boring
Shingakko was good though

pretty generic looking

>>45661133

Yagasaki, ALIBI
This route was very, very different from what I had expected. Also very exhausting. Haven't had one this long and with this many characters since Nitta's good one. But for real, this route came out of absolutely fucking nowhere.

>surprise childhood friend route
wat
>played completely straight
wat
>with headpats
wat
>and handholding
...excuse me?
>ゲロ、口移し
lmao
>and keeping promises under the cherry tree in Sweet Home Osaka
Fine, fine, it did have some twists to it, but not terribly big ones.
I mean, at the end of the day at its core it really was a childhood friend route played completely straight.

How the fuck has no one dragged Teppei to CT yet. What the fuck man he wasn't that young, and it wasn't that long ago, and he doesn't even have the trauma excuse. Having memory this bad is not fucking normal, it's absolutely terrifying. Even more now that the game finally mentioned Teppei's exact age.
Why the hell did Maki have the coin? I thought the admins weren't supposed to intervene unless it was to enforce the rules or to alter them as necessary. His meddling ensured an even more anticlimactic final day than the one in I SCREAM, and that one was literally rigged. Y u no care for ratings, Maki?! Props to Teppei for finally using the legendary weapon though. Even if only against a single guy. Non-lethally.
Funny how Kujo's "Hi, I'm gay" sent Teppei on a route-long freak out but Yagasaki's "I'm bi, you're bi, end of story" five minutes into his route shut him up for the rest of it.
Out of everyone Yagasaki came out the cleanest on his good route. Right now all that's clear is that he can be a pretty unplesant person, maaaybe a glowie, but not a thoroughly awful fucked up human bean like everyone else. But that's what the bad routes are for, eh? Still, given the branching point I don't know how we are going to take his ex and his sister teaming up to get him killed for insurance bucks and somehow turn it around to make Yagasaki be the bad guy.

akeome

>>45670237
happy new year!

>>45670237
あけましておめでとうございます！

Yagasaki, TT Syndrome
lol

See this is why I love this game. I have to be some special kind of retard because even on my final route I still fell for it, so mea culpa and mad respect to L&D. No really I knew something was up, I mean calling it "ALIBI" was hardly subtle, but lol. Loved the "what if" question pair. Pure pottery.
The CG though. I know I've already complained about this, but this CG actually actively made the scene worse. There is no obligation to give every sex scene a CG. If the CG is not going to have anything in common with what is happening then come on, just skip it. The still incredibly toned down ending CG would have been more than enough.

Also ED. 11... yeah. What a nightmare.

>>45665316
>>45678953
lmao
It was hard to resist interjecting but I didn't want to spoil it.

>How the fuck has no one dragged Teppei to CT yet
To be fair I don't remember the names or faces of almost every kid I grew up with so that's pretty believable.

>Maki
You'll have to wait for his route to find out his unique circumstances I'm afraid, though you can piece it out from other routes in Close too. Remember, the client is king.

>bi
Teppei's freakout in every route really boils down to him not realizing there's any option between being straight or being a prancing homo who exclusively takes cocks, what a dumbass. I guess it was a pretty common misconception in the Japan of the time, especially for a working-class lad.

>ED. 09
So close, yet so far.
Very hot though.

>>45679920
>It was hard to resist interjecting but I didn't want to spoil it.
I can imagine, lel. Thanks, I appreciate it. The game hasn't pulled this particular trick since Nitta, so I let my guard down. Fumbling around like a blind idiot in this game is oddly rewarding.

>I don't remember the names or faces of almost every kid I grew up with
Oh, that is fair enough, but Teppei does much more than this. "I factually know that I used to live in Osaka, but other than that I'm drawing a blank." Chrissake he was in elementary school when they moved. Not remembering where in Osaka you lived, how many of your siblings were alive back then, or what your own house looked like is as hardcore as it gets.
>"Uuhhh I think my toddler little sister wasn't even born yet, maybe."
>Teppei (23)
For my own sanity I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that saying Mayuko here was a typo and it was meant to refer to Asami, or that I dreamed the whole thing.

>You'll have to wait for his route to find out
Soon then. For Close I'll be sticking to the Maki > Saiki > Ishimatsu running order. Hype.

>I guess it was a pretty common misconception in the Japan of the time, especially for a working-class lad.
I'm very impressed with how the game handles this actually. Kujo is totally upfront about being gay, Nitta and Yagasaki are openly bisexual, only Yoshimoto isn't confirmed one way or another, probably because there would be no point. By the way dunno if I'm reading too much into this or it really is heavily implied that Yoshimoto is fucking Nitta, but nice if so. Wish we could see it, must be a spectacle.
And even how well and how fast Teppei gets over being a closeted bisexual varies drastically from route to route. His complete "I have nothing against gays but benis in boober nu uh unnatural disgusting homo degenerate do not want" meltdown was the absolute extreme end of his reactions, and even then he dropped it once Kujo confronted him about sending mixed signals despite saying no.
Beside, he got suddenly and involuntarily recruited into the underground gay hookup culture and revolutionary group therapy know as the Game. When a roster of forty-something male participants gets put together in a way that everyone has an ex or two or their entire extended ~friend~ group running around no wonder kid got spooked.

>>45674275
Cute!

>>45661133
>>45661157
The girl looks nice.

>>45693676
for your dick

>>45693676
Only the girl looks nice. I don't like the eyes on any of those guys.

>>45661157
fruits basket ass>>45665316

Finished Hana Awase Iroha-hen. The original Japanese version for PC, so I haven't read the afterstories that I believe come with the switch port, maybe they explained some things better.
Honestly I wish I hadn't played it at all.
First of all, I just couldn't feel like it was any sort of satisfying follow up to the previous volume because the parallel Iroha and Mikoto are just straight up different characters entirely, for the worse. Even if their story was 10/10 I still wouldn't have been happy. Their dynamic is different, their personalities are different, their backstories are different. Iroha comes off like one of those asshole strict megane characters (he doesn't have glasses but you know the type) and Mikoto is useless and ditsy. The fact that this seems to be intentional is the most bizarre part, I have no idea why you would make that choice. Because of this it was hard to enjoy the SOL parts because all I could feel was 'who are these people' when watching their interactions. Every time Iroha calls Mikoto お前 I wanted to gag.
The plot is extremely confusing, I don't know how much of this is due to it being overcomplicated and how much is outright plot holes. It was basically a rehash of the fixing the past/time loop plot in K/U but very rushed and significantly more poorly written. Nino was Mikoto's other world counterpart? But he was a different person, more like her alternate universe brother? Who was also Momotose somehow? And inhabitated a robot body from the future?
If I were to list the things that seemed like they were supposed to receive an explanation and didn't I'd probably go over the character limit.
Making Iroha the MC for the game was weird, I guess it's just another way it was rehashing the K/U Iroha route. I was expecting it to switch back to Mikoto's POV at some point but nope, it literally never does, she's just kind of hanging around. She waits around for 10 years for Iroha to come back after he's sent foward in time and it's brushed over. It's revealed that the main villain is her father and I can't even remember if she was in the room at the time?
It's also weird that they never went back to the parallel world even once. I thought there'd be some kind of conclusion to this Iroha's must be loyal to the emperor shit but it's also never followed up on.
And maybe not the worst part about it but I found it very corny. A lot of 'power of friendship'-type stuff that feels out of pace with the rest of the series.
I'm guessing it went through some production issues given it seems to have been delayed by years but, yeah. It's a shame because I was really enjoying it before this. I had heard the last volume wasn't good but I was expecting it to be either overly focused on wrapping the plot up without enough time for romance or one of those superfluous victory lap type routes because everything had been solved already, but to me what's there is worse than either of those.
At least it feels fairly seperate from the other volumes so I won't be reminded of it too much if I go back to play some of the other routes again.

Okosan in 2024

>>45697981
So lifelike!

What are you planning to play this year blog?

>>45702439
Cage anons have made me very interested in that.

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/01/boys-love-visual-novel-voice-love-on-air-launches-this-spring-for-switch-pc

How is this? Art looks nice

Yagasaki, LOVE STORY
Here we go again.

"This is bullshit." was my initial reaction. But then I had to call it a night in the middle of Yagasaki self-immolating, and after sleeping on it, yeah, it actually made perfect sense. Even assuming some level of quantum fuckery I can't say the other route didn't lay the groundwork for it. So nice. The only plot point that I still don't understand even after finsihing everything is Ainiwa's motivation for prostituting Teppei. It didn't seem like he bears any grudge against him for indirectly ruining his life, so why? And why was he allowed to kidnap a participant when there were still two days left? Of course they wouldn't have anything against it -during the day-, but being on whore duty sounds like a very flimsy reason for absention. They take this seriously enough that they'll foot the hospital bills if that's what it takes to keep a participant from needlessly prematurely biting the bullet so that they can kick him back in the cage, they'll happily go on a car chase lasting hours or raid Disneyland for an escapee, but they'll shrug and say "oh well sexual slavery is more important, you have our blessing to quit now"?
By the way Yagasaki also falls in the same category as Nitta in that his routes were clearly structured with a very specific play order in mind, unlike Yoshimoto and Kujo whose routes really can be played in any order without it affecting enjoyment. Is this because L&D has two writers? There are other marked differnces between the way Nitta/Yagasaki and Yoshimoto/Kujo were written, style, structure, and all. Or I could be totally wrong about this and it's only a coincidence. But it's also interesting how disproportionately more CGs Yagasaki and Nitta have compared to the other two. Like about twice in Nitta's case, and almost thrice in Yagasaki's. That's without counting LET'S CARNAVALE for Kujo though, becasue LET'S CARNAVALE doesn't count.

All in all I am happy with this as my final Open route. It was a fun ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzwYUBk_HmI

>>45702439
I finally got started on Shingakkou over the holidays so I'm playing that for now.
I eventually want to get into Taisho Mebiusline this year, but I doubt it'll be any time soon since I suspect I'll put a lot of hours into tokimemo girls side when the switch ports go live.

Aaaand finished!
I'm going to celebrate with some rankings, even though it won't have any surprises whatsoever.

Best Day 2:
Nitta > Kujo > Yoshimoto > Yagasaki

Best Day 3:
Yoshimoto > Kujo > Yagasaki > Nitta

Top 3 main end:
1.INVISIBLE 2.THE HOLLOW 3.Grays

Top 3 minor end:
1.scapegoat 2.処刑の日 3.僕のすべて

Route supporting characters:
Segawa > power gap > Ainiwa > Miyase > Momoya

Route antagonists:
Saiki > Ishimatsu > Maki
Ishimatsu beats out Maki for the sheer comedy factor of his single noteworthy appearance on his designated route.

Top 3 sex scene:
1.I SCREAM 2.Reptilian 3.Reticulian
It's that focus on sensory description that gets me, whether it's light, or temperature, or the roughness of the pavement. Of course sensory overload is hack writing, but these scenes had just the right amount.
Special mention goes to Pale Sky for being by far the most memorable sex scene, and among the game's most memorable scenes in general.

I was going to rank the routes themselves, but on second thought, nah. It's like I said in my previous posts, some routes just have an inherent advantage in terms of content. So I'll just say this: Yoshimoto's route was totally my jam. Even if it branched extremely late and had the most same-ish routes, or recycled the same info dump four (!) times and because of this I wouldn't be able to rank him higher than third place. But that wouldn't be fair because again, it was totally my jam. So no route ranking.

Now on to Close.

>>45704904
Fuck, I only forgot the most important thing.
>no Kiba gang rape
0/10 shit gaem would not recommend I have never been more blueballed in my life.

>>45704904
Otsucurry anon! Had fun checking in here for your posts

>>45685933
>the underground gay hookup culture and revolutionary group therapy know as the Game
I'm dead, holy shit
to be fair Nitta's posse is probably responsible for >50% of the homosex (despite making up only 10% of the participants.....)

>>45704062
>two writers theory
honestly I don't know, in Paradise for example the writing and route scheme felt extremely consistent so presumably they worked on all the routes together, but it's not impossible they split the writing for their doujinge. It could also just be that Nitta and Yagasaki's routes came first and thus got more attention while the other two were a bit more rushed, or they were still learning to pace themselves while writing, or something. I felt the difference much less in Close btw.

>Ainiwa
Saiki has free rein over the game really, unless the backers have some objections/input, so it's basically up to him when/how to apply the meta rules.
And the audience has an interest in participants getting whored out anyway.

>>45704904
otsu!
Yeah, while there's probably an objective ranking based on writing quality or whatever, my biases totally decide how much I'll enjoy something. I do like gore and cannibalism a lot in terms of content, or characters going completely fucking nuts and turning yangire/yandere (much better than when characters are obviously that from the start), or MC being completely wrung out mentally and physically, so that largely determines if I feel a route delivered or disappointed.
Also a lot of weird personal biases like how I didn't find noodlehair mommy particularly attractive so I felt more empathy for Teppei's reluctance in that route, that sort of thing.

>>45705088
Well those are Saiki's underlings you know, they can't just fuck around on the job unless ordered.

Anyway please enjoy Close. That one is way more fresh in my memory so I should have some proper kansou, maybe.

>>45702787
Looks gay.

>>45709517
It is.

>>45702439
Virche

Teppei gets a manlier jawline and immediately starts roughing punks up. Also film grain effect. Whoa, technology. We are off to a good start.

>>45705739
>>45706941
Thanks anons. I still would have had fun either way, but having company and other impressions to read really elevated the experience.

>writers
In that case you are probably right. I don't know what order the routes were written in but if those two came first then that could explain it. I also can't shake off the feeling that if Kujo came last then LET'S CARNAVALE may have at one point been planned as a serious route that just somehow devolved into a brain fart. And they kept it in the game to at least somewhat meet the 2.5 routes/3 main ends per character quota. And because why the fuck not. Desu I'm still recovering from that one.

>And the audience has an interest [...]
Yes, yes they do. Most certainly. Saiki'd be wise to recognize that, but also
>>45706971
While that's very professional, yes, truly respectable, yes, indeed, I swear to fuck if that order doesn't come I might suffer irreparable damage here for real. Holy fuck have mercy.

>>45702439
Mamiya series, Luckydog, maybe Juuzaengi. And Ooe when it comes out.

>>45620125
Jock Studio even though its not getting a release till 2025
TMGS4 when it gets an english patch hopefully this year (Apparently Tokimemo 2 is also getting an english patch this year ??? we'll see)
Baradise Escape

Apparently Kenka Bancho Otome is coming to the switch in Chinese and maybe Japanese? I'm hoping it gets attention so Spike Chunsoft keeps their word or it ignites people to want to do a fan translation.

Update on TMGS4 Fan Patch and Angelique btw:
The end of the year strangely ignited a fire within all the team and are now back hard at work with TMGS4. It is now over 56% done and it's very possible that Kazama's route can be fully completed by Valentines Day so you can enjoy one of the routes fully translated.

As for Angelique, I haven't really been doing much for it as I've been busy finishing up Idolmaster OFA which is gonna finish by the end of this month. But I recently got in touch with a programmer to see if he can make translating Angelique easier. He said he enjoys hacking SNES games for translations as long as the team has the same fire as him and I've seen his previous work so hopefully things will go well.

>4
................................................no, it's nothing. Don't overthink it.
Anyway, just some random thoughts. Alternate Universe Teppei is somehow even dumber than his predecessor. Calling the police after he was explicitly, personally warned. What an idiot.
As for the new Prologue, I liked it very much. Very cinematic, if that makes any sense. Hits completely different though, like going from from Cube to Cube Zero. Also man, that was one lame ass "gore" CG. It's not like Open had that many of them, most of the time, including this scene, it was kept text only, but bruh what the fuck was this. I'm getting used to the new artstyle, but this has me a bit worried. On the upside (?) the chuuni finally washed his disgustingly greasy hair and probably managed a few nights of decent sleep. Meanwhile even with a completely new sprite Shizuka looks as neurotic as ever.

>>45727421
Good luck anons! You are all amazing! Angelique is such an under-rated game.

The ending of Hana Awase absolutely sucked and my feelings on it as a whole are pretty mixed yet the series still has a hold on me. I wish more otome games went full chuuni like that. How am I supposed to enjoy another otome game when I can't put my off the deep end yandere boyfriend out of his misery by fighting him via superpowered card battle?
Unfortunately I think I've played pretty much everything with that kind of appeal at this point.

>>45620125
This in English.

>>45735997
Put him in a cage.

>>45731517
why yes there's a 4th route. I know you wanna leave Ishimatsu for last but...

>Teppei is somehow even dumber
Poor Saiki must have a perpetual headache from this pig. You totally see this tepid happy-go-lucky type IRL though, it's like they have a mental block over the consequences of their fuckups. "b-but that's cruel and unreasonable and unfair, surely there must be a mistake, how could this actually happen?"
or I guess "chat is this real?" now
He gets off scot-free for it in Maki's route but the others are less kind.

>art shift
I certainly have issues with the art direction in these. Open's quasimodo style was pure doujinge jank due to lack of skill/unconventional techniques, but you get used to it and it's very evocative somehow. Close's style is massively improved and cleaner, but in a lot of cases I just prefer the former. I think they were responding to feedback that the unique art put off most people, so it can't be helped.

It's like the remake's art, while it's objectively much better and more professional I feel it kinda lacks the charm of the originals with their FKMT noses/chins and ill-fitting clothes and thin spiky hair and so on. I don't know what they did with the scene CGs but they're almost certainly going to be disappointing compared to the hazy nightmare-like ones of the old version.

>>45709517
well... yes?

>>45755795
Good?

>>45750912
What happened with the Cage remake anyway? It looks like L&D have been quiet since August.

>>45735997
The ending isn’t that bad. The problem is Iroha-hen focused too much on the things that don’t really matter instead of Iroha himself so the pay off didn’t feel that satisfying. Literally no one cares about Gotou and I doubt people ended up finishing the game caring about Nino. If they want to focus on a character Momotose should’ve gotten it instead. The male counterpart is pretty yandere too and he would’ve made a more interesting counterpart to Iroha. The final installment is finished and until now we still don’t know where the fuck Iroha came from and why he suddenly showed up in Mikoto’s house

>>45765821
Gotou/Tsuzura, Nino and Momotose are to some degree the same entity, I think so I think it was in some way supposed to be about her, but it's really poorly explained. 99 (Tsuzura) and 1 (Nino) make 100 (Momotose), and Nino speaks as if he was Momotose at one point, wishing 'he' wasn't born a girl.
If I remember right Iroha gives a chinese zodiac name at some point so I think he might just have been from one of the noble families in the parallel world from the start, wandered over to Mikoto's world and was just sent back to where he came from at the end of KU-hen? But the name might just have been something do with alignment during hana awase and meant in the sense of literal direction. I kind of got the feeling that originally Iroha and Mikoto were supposed to be brother and sister or like, alternate versions of the same person from different timelines somehow but the writers chickened out on this because it was too weird, but then again that's literally the case with Nino (somehow) and no one comments on it, and no one says anything about the incest between Kagami and Matsurika either, so who knows. In any case it's really odd that you learn practically no new information about him in his own volume, no idea what they were thinking there.
Though to be honest there's a lot of stuff that feels like it should have been clarified that never was. It became way too complicated of a story to be written like it is without narration as soon as they introduced sci-fi and time travel elements in Himeutsugi-hen.

I finished Cecil's route. I still don't really care about him. Kinda wish his past was revealed earlier on or more gradually, but they just had to be interrupted every time. Pic related was literally me for majority of the route.

It was decently cute in terms of romance, but I might've liked it more if it had been a full on NTR situation. It was otherwise on the side of being too wholesome to the point of it being kind of boring. It certainly could've used more spice even if that hadn't been NTR. I was also disappointed that the sex scene was in Cecil's pov and the fact that the Michael seme route seemed to be the more complete/true route compared to the uke route.

The story surprisingly wrapped itself up pretty well by the end. I was half expecting to be left with more questions, but maybe what I saw in this route isn't the ultimate truth or whatever? Also Gabby being so present but also being never present at times feels questionable and I have doubts about his existence. No wonder his route is behind all those locks. But also lol if there's nothing weird like that going on with him.

Anyways I'm gonna move onto Leonid next.

>>45766293
>spoiler
That’s the thing. Even though they’re supposed to be the same i think most people cared for the one that spent the most time with the audience and actually worked hard to make Mikoto happy. In this case, it’s Momotose yet she isn’t the one that was rewarded with a short story with Mikoto and Nino got with her pseudo Mikoto in some world. The game could honestly do a lot without the ‘fortune’ shit I wouldn’t have minded if actual genderbend Momotose was sort of Iroha’s rival/antagonist in Iroha-hen too since the Tokoyo section seemed to be building up to a Master vs Servant relationship at some point. It’s so weird that we’re also somehow never shown whatever the hell happened there after Iroha and Mikoto disappeared. And for some reason, both of them still knew each other as children too but they never delved to that part either.
That’s my guess. A lot of people pointed out that Iroha from Iroha-hen isn’t the same Iroha but I’ve always thought that Tokoyo!Iroha was the original Iroha in the first place or at least, that’s where he came from. Especially when he says at the end of KU-hen to send him back to other world so his existence wouldn’t cause Mikoto’s death, and that “another” one of him waiting for her in Tokoyo to fulfill their promised reunion, which again, the game never delved much to it when it’s got a whole line to it. They’re siblings, or at least, they’re supposed to be the same person. KU-hen pointed out that only Amagi and Ren’s child could possibly hold the power to change the world yet Iroha can also do it. My guess is the Ren from Tokoyo came down to Utsushio and met the Ren from Utsushio and somehow only one remained and Iroha’s memory got wiped? But then Hinata also said that Mikoto is the only child of Ren and Amagi. There’s too many plotholes and plot points missing you can’t even properly form a theory by the end. I don’t think they even chickened out by the incest because they still revealed by the end that they’re essentially reincarnations of Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu who are also siblings who married/loved each other. Overall it just felt rushed or the writer doesn’t know what they were doing with it anymore since there’s a huge gap between Iroha-hen and the other games. I wish there’s at least a drama cd or short story like what the other guys got that explained a bit about Iroha’s past. I was thrown off by him saying he hates sweets and is actually good with household chores but in his short story in the console ports he went back to loving sweets again so I think the whole switch with hobbies, likes and personality had to do with him being “reborn” when he got sent back to Tokoyo and he slowly reverted back to the Iroha most people know of when his memories returned to him
Also I can’t be the only one who finds it amusing that Hana Awase essentially felt like a cuck/NTR story because Iroha is forced to watch seeing the love of his life end up with a different man and he remembers all of the versions of her not choosing him by the time his feelings/memories return to him

>>45768538
From what I've seen, Iroha wasn't originally supposed to have his own volume, there were only 3 planned with KU-hen as the last one. I think somewhere during the development of KU-hen they decided to give him a volume for himself, the change in plans is probably part of the reason why it's a total mess.
I never thought the Tokoyo Iroha was literally a different Iroha. It's the same one that disappears at the end of KU-hen, he's just forgotten all the previous time loops and has a different childhood so his personality is different. I am not sure about the Tokoyo Mikoto though. I think they mention that Mikoto was also from Tokoyo originally and that Ren had taken her across to escape Amagi/Gotou? I don't know why this didn't happen in the Iroha-hen timeline. Like you said there's so much missing information it's almost impossible to even theorise. The series needed an Adelta style Q&A book to be honest, though that's assuming the writer even has answers.
Another thing I was curious about was what the fuck the deal with Ime and Utsutsu was and why Ime seemed to know about Utsutsu. Utsutsu is described as having disappeared sometime before the events of the story but how this happened is never explained, since the way they explain it later it seems more like he was kicked out of the timeline entirely with Ime as his replacement so no one ought to have remembered him at all. I also couldn't figure out what the deal with his age was. I guess that the original idea for how he was going to interact with the story was very different? They don't really make it clear whether Utsutsu/Ime and Karakurenai are half brothers or whether Karakurenai only thinks this is the case as well.
Even more minor but it seems like it's very important in the earlier volumes that Mikoto choose one particular boy in each world, but the reason for this is never explained and is pretty much forgotten about in favor of the Mizuchi's dad murder stuff which is the only reason given for the time loop. I really didn't understand how it was supposed to protect her, or whether the 1st, 2nd, 3rd worlds were actually a totally different thing that's again, never explained, and the destiny cage loop was only put into place in the 3rd world when picking Utsutsu goes horribly wrong?
I wish I could just wash lingering questions like this from my mind but unfortunately I'm a huge autist and things like this bother me to no end.
>NTR
The KU-hen Iroha route particularly felt this way. Never seen a route in an otome game before where you're playing from the perspective of one boy after MC has paired up with a different boy in his good ending. Particularly cruel if that was really how the series was originally intended to end.

Alright, who lobotomized Ishimatsu. That constant "this party sucks" expression of his is killing me. He already had more screentime than in the entire first game but I swear he used to be more chatty and condescending than this. Being a stoic autist is Nitta's shtick.

>>45750912
Well shiet. Now it's true that I was going to leave Ishimatsu last, but that was because you rated his endings the best in the game. Going simply by what I know about the characters I would have assumed Close's intended play order was Ishimatsu > Maki > Saiki, though I still would have swapped the first two around. I got blindsided by this mystery nigga real good and I have no idea how to deal with him. So if you have any advice for me senpai, I'm listening. I trust your judgement, it has yet to lead me astray.

Seeing Teppei's surprised pikachu face was the highlight of every route, but he really wasn't anywhere near this hopeless in Open. Sure having friendlies around probably improved his state of mind a lot, and Maki basically held his hand throughout the announcement so he paid proper attention to it, but still. Open Teppei was capable of picking up on implied threats, and never seriously considered stepping out of line. Close Teppei's certified dumbfuckery is testing even my patience, and I fucking love that kid. I want to see him thrive so he can be broken in as many ways and by as many people as possible, but Saiki is totally correct, he really doesn't deserve getting bailed out this time. Now on the other hand running the Game is bad karma. So Saiki had all that headache coming too.

>art shift
Open's art had some misses, some hilariously bad anatomy, and I do have my issues with the CGs not reflecting the text properly, and I don't just mean gore which I already bitched enough about, but also for example clothing, which is much harder to excuse. But boy did it excel at setting the mood. That's one thing it almost never failed at.
That said, at this point I have seen very little of Close's art, and that godawful Nitta is my first time seeing the remake's. So I can't really start comparing them just yet. I do have a weird thing for photo backgrounds in VNs though so the remake is almost definitely going to disappoint me in this regard as well.

cute boys

>>45773362
makes sense. I guess they wanted to include his happy ending in KU-hen but they didn't want to make the game as long as it already is.
>spoiler
Yes, that's what I thought too. But the reviews I've been seeing have been saying that he isn't the same Iroha because he actually knows how to clean and he didn't like sweets. But they made it clear in his volume that he existed in Utsushio but his existence got wiped out after Utsutsu sent him back to Tokoyo. About Mikoto, I think the same too. Iroha/Mikoto's stories also heavily borrow from Kaguya-hime who descended in the human world except they chose not to go back to where they came from. That's how I understood it too but my guess is this timeline is somewhat changed because the current Gotou is different and took a different method? I honestly wish they could've explained more.
I understood it as Ime being Utsutsu's replacement after he fully became an inorigo or some shit and Utsutsu got sent in the purgatory but the timeline still needed an inorigo as not to cause inconsistencies in their history hence Ime's existence. I guess it's sort of like a doppelganger case too because those two are essentially never shown to be together. I think it's explicitly hinted that Karakurenai and Ime/Utsutsu are half-brothers. Kurenai's dad also fucked his wife's sister (who happens to be Ime/Utsutsu's mom) that's why the wife went mad and turned into an abomination. i honestly wish they delved more on the rivalry between their houses too. Kurenai and Utsutsu's hostility towards each other honestly still feels a bit lacking.
It's been a while so I don't know if I'm remembering it right but I think it basically goes
1st/OG world - Izumi(?) kills Mikoto. Utsutsu and Iroha make a pack to make a 2nd timeline
2nd world - Mikoto somehow always dies during the 19th of April(?) so Momotose and the grandpas make their own cage of fate and Iroha always gets off'd in it as not to trigger Mikoto's death flags because the deal with Utsutsu is still in effect
3rd world - Is where they try to fix the cage of fate after Utsutsu causes a mass murder because Mikoto died
A lot of things sucked in Iroha-hen but I'm glad he at least got his own ending with Mikoto desu. He's arguably the one who suffered the most and got the hardest beating when he only wanted to be happy with his waifu. You've got to be a sadistic writer who really hates their own character if you still want them to live in misery. It's somewhat funny too because Iroha-hen literally had an entire scene of Iroha seething after he remembered how much he got cucked in the other timelines.

>>45781851
He's not literally a different person but to me it didn't feel that satisfying seeing Tokoyo Iroha get Mikoto because it felt like all their history together had been wiped. In the previous volumes Iroha was always fixated on Mikoto even if he didn't understand why, but at the start of Iroha-hen he doesn't care about her at all, she might as well be any random girl and he seems to regard being paired up with her as a chore at first. Maybe if it had been more obvious that he had remembered the previous timelines somewhere along his route.
>Kurenai and Utsutsu's hostility towards each other honestly still feels a bit lacking.
Karakurenai in particular is really out of focus in his own volume. His route was IMO notably weaker than even the side routes, which he hardly appears in either. In the end KU-hen ends up being more about Utsutsu and Iroha. Even Mizuchi gets a lot of focus since his parents are major side characters. If they knew they were going to do an Iroha volume they should really have left the Iroha content for that to be honest.

>>45774339
Ishimatsu has the most satisfying endings but the surprise route is meant to be a surprise or extra, even an epilogue of sorts, so it still feels right to leave that for last. There's another reason too, it's that it just hits harder after watching Teppei seethe into insanity in Ishimatsu's.

>Saiki is totally correct, he really doesn't deserve getting bailed out this time
Yeah that's why Maki's route is kind of jarring in that respect. After you've seen Teppei getting thoroughly punished for his stupidity in the other timelines it's an amusing change of tone to see him get carried scot-free for most of the route like some hetare otome heroine, but if you play that first it just feels like he's some hack writer's favorite getting lucky breaks. Maki's route is just way more meta too, it's like the entire game is just a prelude/setup.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOAThCBk-5fdc7KvA7sUVrU4SdaNFWesUnvsHQs1ehbAGcXA/viewform

>>45647620
It's an upgrade so yes.

>>45647620
I lean himejo/GL and not fujo/BL, but otome art has a certain charm that I think those fujo leaning fans would find refreshing.

>>45786608
Time to put in mebiusline again

>>45786608
I will con't later.

>>45786608
I doubt they're checking these and what are they doing with luckydog. I put mebiusline again too.

>>45791097
they post which games got most votes usually

You know, I genuinely didn't know this was a thing. Learn something new everyday. I understand the idea of wanting to make boys squirm and be on the receiving end. But, I thought the butt was enough. The idea of it sorta being taboo and physically bad for you I would assume adds to it. So, what was the idea behind this? Wanting to see more loving sex instead of something as violent as anal sex? I need to ask you fags about it to comprehend this, I don't really understand it as a boy.

>>45795383
>So, what was the idea behind this?
Futa for girls.

>>45795383
Honestly I think it's just weird anatomy

Never really liked futanari, but I guess if you put it that way it makes sense.

>>45783281
Yes.. After the edgy but really fun escalation of the first nightmare, and the slow build up of second daydream/nightmare leading into the pure, desperate adrenaline rush of the third daydream (night) - I blew it. I cockblocked myself. Well done. The level of seethe and cope in that room would have been funny if I wasn't doing the same.
Well, what's done is done. I still maintain that starting with Saiki would have been wrong on too many levels, so keeping the rest of your advice in mind, that's that. At least it's consistent with my usual MO of always aiming for the good routes first.
>it's like the entire game is just a prelude/setup
This is a bit concerning however. Or at least odd. But I'll see what you mean soon enough.

Anyway, suddenly the amount of redheads in this game went up by 200%, perhaps to compensate for Teppei and Tetsuya losing their own reddish tint. Also I could finally take a good look at Nitta's new sprite. It's a good compromise, exactly what his remake sprite should have been. I can't get over how many of Nitta's characteristic features that abomination erased. That healthy skin tone, that posture and normal/stocky build, those normal fitting clothes, and his hair barely even hides his eyes. Awful.

>>45795383
From memory yaoi hole was a meme (possibly a self deprecating one?) about how fujos tended to write and draw anal sex as if it was PIV. The diagrams and such you'll find are an ironic attempt at 'explaining' this, but the artists who were being parodied were not deliberately writing futa scenes, though male futanari does exist as a niche genre.

>>45795407
That’s just omegaverse

>>45795985
Speaking of Tetsuya, look what they did to my boy.

>cockblocked myself
Eh, it's probably not fatal and it's the VN's fault for not enforcing a reading order either way. Just persevere through Maki's early route.

Who were /blog/'s faves in each of the tokimemo girls side games? Shitara gets brought up from time to time but I'm curious about the boys in the other games

>>45802277
The literal background NPC for me
Taiyo is also worth mentioning
For 1 and 2 I preferred Chiharu and Akagi, but I didn't feel too strongly about anyone from those games. Only played a bit of 4 so I'm not sure.

>>45802277
>Sensei
>Hikami
>Shota
>Harry
3 is my fave but looking back I also enjoyed 2 a lot. And even though we joke about Teru their dynamic was also cute.

>>45802544
He's cute.

I had UUUltra C on my VN backlog for a while and I've completed it today. I thought the approach of having three sets of couples was an interesting way to handle the game. I like that because of the switching viewpoints you could see different aspects of certain characters through another's eyes, like for example how the name on a character's dialogue box can change depending on the route and POV character. I don't really have much to say otherwise except that I generally had a good time and I thought the characters were all interesting and likable in their own way. I certainly wasn't prepared for Choutsugai to be the unfortunate rape bait of the cast. The story seemed weird at first but it made more sense over time. It's also kinda funny how the first route was tame as far as extreme content goes but then I started the second route and realised that this game should definitely remain obscure so that the author doesn't get death threats from zoomers on twitter. The next BL game I play is probably gonna be something older that's been gathering dust on my pc for a while such as Sukisho or Silver chaos. I've gotten interested in watching early 2000s anime recently and I'd like to experience some early 2000s BL too.

>>45808230
I found Silver chaos to be really disappointing. The routes felt like they existed to give context to the porn which is fine if that’s what you’re looking for. The story felt really lame and thrown together and none of the boys really grew on me besides Laika and the shota. The nice thing about it was there’s a big variety of characters from a shota to a middle aged man (who was ULTRA disappointing because I was looking forward to his route the most) and the MC can be seme or uke depending on the route. I haven’t played the second game yet but the fanbox was okay if you wanted more porn.

>>45808417
Also, I forgot to mention but the shota grows up in the fanbox so if you liked the shota because of that then you will probably hate the fanbox haha

>>45802063
ffffffffuuuuuuu what have they done to the cutest shota god damn. I suppose it's not that bad objectively, not a crime against humanity like the YU-NO remake at least. And new players probably won't have anything against these either. What makes this so disappointing is that these were done by the original team.

>Just persevere through Maki's early route.
It's been pretty amusing so far actually. The entire scenario is like an inverted Kujo route, with Teppei being attracted to Maki to a painful degree. Coupled with the hero worship? I feel almost bad for him. Saiki's reaction at the parking lot was priceless.
>お喋りな男は好きじゃねえな
Sounds familiar. Ah, yes.
>躾のなってねえ犬も、好きじゃねえ

>>45808230
>this game should definitely remain obscure so that the author doesn't get death threats from zoomers on twitter
That good?

Do you commission for the agent scripts?

>>45811818
Which game are you interested in?

>>45811860
binary star and sweet clown

have you guys played chinese otome games? they're all my friends talk about these days... i wish i could get into them like tears of themis since they look high-quality and the story's apparently good, but i can't explain my disinterest. is it the gacha, maybe?

>>45812074
I can't keep up with gacha, but I will try Love and Deepspace for the player character creation and SEGGS simulator

>>45808907
>That good?
The first route was pretty tame but then I started the second route and the protagonist got nearly raped and killed by what seemed to be a transwoman kaiju who magically turned the protag into a woman.
As a sidenote, I did actually think of something else I can mention about the game. I found it interesting how one of the couples was mutually toxic to each other. They really were a match made in hell.
>>45808417
I'd still like to give it a fair shot but I'll keep my expectations low.

>>45811896
Doesn't Sweet Clown not work emulated?

>>45812074
Playing Evol x Love, Tears of Themis and For All Time. Will also give Love and Deepspace a try, although for some reason my expectations are pretty low for that game.

>>45813376
Sounds fun. I have an important question about the spoiler though. Is it body horror?

>>45819361
No. It was just an instant process, nothing drawn out or detailed.

>>45819554
Oh. Well. Not a deal breaker. I might still be able to get into it.

>>45812074
I play it because japs refuse to pander to me. I know if nips tried they could do even better but nah, not worth their money I guess. I agree though the gacha elements are tedious and can fatigue you easily leading to you missing out on certain stories about the mc/character's relationship.

>>45813376
Enjoy, if you go in with low expectations and turn your brain off for some parts it’ll probably still be pretty entertaining. Unfortunately someone hyped it up for me and what a mistake that was

>>45815158
NTA but works on latest switch version now. Used to run only on ryujinx. No idea about the psvita version.

>>45821726
*i meant yuzu emulator

>>45812074
No. I’ve never been able to get into mobile games at all, so it’s more to do with that than the country of origin.

>>45821732
Vita stalls once you enter a name last i checked. Good to know yuzu handles it, thanks

Any anon that has played this? It's freege and fully voiced apparently? https://vndb.org/v41556

Ended up reading the two side story collection books for Hana Awase and have an urge to sperg about it, apologies for the text wall.
They're sold as side story collections but around three quarters of each book is made up of a single main after story with shorter stories for the side routes and even shorter ones for the sub characters/NPCs. The main stories are long and pretty involved, they have full on plots with drama and battle scenes etc. so it felt more like having read a fandisc, but in book format, I guess.
Though there's no way they could be an FD as they are becuase they're a lot more sexually explicit than the games, which are already pushing it for all ages. Particularly the Himeutsugi one. It's not exactly eroge level, like, there aren't any lengthy full on sex scenes, but there are definitely segments that would push it into R18 territory if it were a PC game.
It's a shame they didn't seem to make one for KU-hen, which could really have been fleshed out and also because I'm morbidly curious about seeing Utsutsu in lewd situations. I am not sure anything could have been done to salvage Iroha-hen though I guess I'd still take an attempt.

Mizuchi's main story ends up being more Mizuchi vs Iroha stuff. It gives the route a more definitive ending since like basically all the routes before Utsutsu it ends on this ambiguous note because there's the whole thing about the emperor wanting Mikoto to officially serve him etc. that's left hanging. Of course you finish the series and find out the emperor is just Momotose so it ends up not mattering. The real obstacle is Iroha who still hasn't given up, poor guy. Iroha gets corrupted and takes Mikoto away for 100% wholesome non sexual plot important naked mana transfer sessions and so we have to fight a monster etc. They actually describe what happens in the hana awase battles here and it does seem to literally involve throwing cards at shit. Anyway I liked the details about Aoi that they added here, and about why Mizuchi ended up aiming for gokou status. I hadn't thought about it before but Mizuchi is the only boy without some kind of cool special power, unless you count mental illness, which is not exactly a unique trait among them. He just tries really hard.

Himeutsugi's book felt kind of necessary. Personally, Himeutsugi was a character I neither liked or understood much before reading his book. Yeah, they reveal what he's really like in his own route but it happens so late putting it together with all the events that happened previously is difficult. But here you start the afterstory in Hime's head and get a good look at what his deal really is. The main reveal(?) in this story is something that is kind of implied in the games if you squint but never directly stated, that Himeutsugi is actually a virgin. Before meeting Mikoto, he had never even had sexual feelings before because he was too traumatized. This is not really that relevant but there's this scene where they describe him masturbating for the first time (in a public restroom of all places) in concerningly vivid detail. I was kind of taken aback. Is it really ok to whore out your characters like that? Anyway I guess the only non-virgin of the boys is Karakurenai, maybe that is why he is fairly well adjusted and never turns evil or yandere. Another tangent but I swear the writer hates Karakurenai. He doesn't appear in either of the afterstories for his routes in the books. I guess he dies in all his endings? I can't remember.
It also fills out a lot of missing or vague stuff from Himeutsugi's volume, like about his parents and the girls. Stuff that feels like it probably should have been in the games to be honest. I ended up kind of endeared to Himeutsugi and how pathetic he is, when previously I thought of him as an unpleasant rat-like creature who was pathetic and unreliable in an annoying way.

Though both books had a tendency to walk back some of the darker endings or parts of the games. Like the afterstories of yandere endings being like 'don't worry, he didn't really rape her and afterwards he let her go and killed himself out of guilt'. I guess that's not exactly not dark but, I dunno. And revealing that Kagami didn't really kill those girls and they were just karakuris (I think) which I think is an attempt to redeem Onosada more than anything. They also totally gloss over the virginity requirement which to be honest the games did too. I get the feeling they regretted that piece of lore despite it being so significant to the plot, it throws a huge wrench in any happy ending and has awkward implications elsewhere too.

But I'm glad I I read them though because they let me jump off the series on a relatively positive note. I guess there's drama CDs but I'm not sure it would be worth hunting them down and importing them. Unless anyone has them to hand.

>>45833778
>Though both books had a tendency to walk back some of the darker endings or parts of the games.
Don't you just hate it when that happens. Damage control for bad ends should for the most part remain the domain of doujin and fanfics, otherwise why make them in the first place?

>>45831232
>yandere

Good?

>>45812182
>Love and Deepspace
I keep seeing ads for this.

>>45812182
the designs give me the creeps but I'll try it for Tachibana Shinnosuke kino

>>45840650
They want the Final Fantasy audience.

>>45831232
It was alright, however devs that don't normalize their sfx volume should be boiled in cat piss

Is Touken Ranbu Warriors worth playing if you’ve never been into the franchise? Its on sale now so not sure if I should try it out

>>45847358
Only if you like swordsluts.

>>45847358
There's a demo IIRC

>>45847358
It's unironically a good entrance point as it's fully voiced and has a coherent story.

I was browsing dlsite and I found this new r18 doujin otome game. 8hrs and has 2 LIs, fully voiced binaural audio both haraguros. It's a bit pricey for me to buy but if someone tried/tries it tell us your opinion.

https://vndb.org/v49136

>>45849766
I have it but haven't got to it yet beside running it and checking it works. As far as I can tell it's basically frankensteined out of an older drama CD series, reusing the same audio.

>>45847358
I only played the demo but I was bit disappointed all the enemy were mooks, mousou games really rely on the opponents being formidable heroes just like your own commanders

>>45854414
>mousou
musou of course, damn my brain's autocorrect

Remind me what went wrong with this anons?

>>45859832
No luck.

>>45859832
What's the story?

Schizoposting aside, have you ever felt jealous of a heroine? I know it's lame and pathetic to get jealous of a fictional 2D character whose life situations are impossible in real life, but I can't help but feel like that for some of them. Having cute chuunis pamper and simp you.

>>45866251
Can't say I ever have. Most otome games don't really have situations that pander to me personally enough for me to sincerely wish I was the heroine I guess.
What were the heroines you had in mind here?

>>45866251
Not really since they are usually supposed to be (you) anyway. But there are times that make me wish I'd just get teleported into a game.

>>45866251
What is there to be jealous of, like >>45867250
said they are supposed to be (you). Just self insert and enjoy your escapism

>>45866761
LIs that are very soft and affectionate and usually start off as chuuni tsundere autists. Ex. natsuhiko from norn, shougo from nil, riku from olympia. Made me so 焼きもち. It's the LIs and how they treat the heroine, not her life, which is unbearably hard and shitty.

>>45867250
>>45868034
Nip yumejoshi advised me to change the name and remove the heroine's sprite and some even offered to send me cropped/sooped cgs where the heroine's face isn't shown, but I feel kind of bad for the heroines desu. They are cute. I feel like I'm too lame to self insert to such a cute and hardworking individual.

Told you schizoposting.

How was virche received? Did eops like it or not? I'll go back to it eventually but I'm caught up with Juuzaengi.

>>45868660
i feel kinda similar desu. not really the jealousy part, but the "self-esteem too low to self-insert" part. tried "self-inserting" once (putting in my name, hiding heroine's sprite), and it just felt really insincere and unpleasant lmao
maybe you could try playing otome games where the heroine isn't shown at all and has no name? don't have to feel bad for them that way

>>45868660
>I feel like I'm too lame to self insert to such a cute and hardworking individual.
I'm glad 4chan exists so I know I'm not the only schizo who's like this

>>45866251
It's hard to relate to most heroines and the beyond unrealistic plots/settings but I'd unironically get jealous over not having a brother I'm close to since my irl one is terrible. Some otome is escapism to cope for me with that reason.

>>45871756
>>45874203
I get this sentiment but I don’t think this is the right way to self insert. Self inserting to me is less about 1:1 inserts where you literally transplant yourself into the game and more about taking on the role of the MC of your current game. I use to do 1:1 self inserts and agree it was weird because you can’t but help compare yourself to the MC. If you view it as roleplaying though I find it’s much easier to delude myself and find enjoyment in such escapism. I don’t know if this makes sense but imagine self inserting into blge MCs.

How's what in hell is bad? The closest to an R18 otome and tachibana's in.

>>45878634
It's shit, non-f2p-friendly, and very whale-y. But how I love this cute lil degenerate virgin autist who gets off getting beaten, defiled, cock cages and getting drizzled by ugly fat bastards cum. He is very disgusting and unhygienic, but there's something very charming and deranged about him that I can't explain. Has me gacha-cucked and won't let me rage quit. he paywalled

Tachibana was the reason I started desu lol, but his king is meh. Very lewd and maso tho. Smelly armpit-smelling king and richcuck king are cute tho. I don't like the manlet king, but his height complex is pretty kek. He is very total-bottom energy; I might end up liking him if he gets dick/pegging-pilled. TBA king looks like blonde Towa lmao.
I'll just keep getting cucked till it shuts down.
I give it a year.

Other than that, it's obey me 2.0, but with pretty kusoge writing
>God and Solomon were fucking
>Solomon fucked off
>God fucked off too
>now left heaven and his 3-archangel God loving boner cucks alone
>they go apeshit and want to destroy hell and kill (you), Solomons ancestor
>you get dragged to hell, and all you do is fuck the demons and drink your cuck best friends cum special drink (friend zoned)
In order to survive in hell you need to fuck the demons and ""exchange energy,"" but also human energy, aka the cucks coom drink.
The porn is censored at the moment too, but they said they'd fix it in the Erolabs version. And the events are unvoiced and mtl'ed.
Picre autist I'm talking about, is one of the 3 archangels, but all archangels are paywalled atm and surely they'll remain paywalled.
Normies didn't like their events, not because of all the above atrocities but because the heroine/hero abducted them, tied them up, self-inserted to paradises Matsuda and started to beat the shit out of them. Then proceeded to rape them with toys and that urethra ouchie-shit. Didn't go all the way because they are virgins and wear magic chastity belts because they dedicate virginity to God and he has the keys to them.mc has the power to unlock them, does for a second and gets them off, but they get teleported back to heaven
Talking about it really got me thinking that I seriously need to re-evaluate my gaming choices.
Yes I still don't recommend it. Play nucani moes better.

>>45879274
>covers ears and screams
Kek is he legit autistic? An autistic love interest would be nice for once.

>>45879494
I'm legit autistic and first thing that came to my mind was that kek, noise sensitivity really sucks tho. There are a few implications and the kings all do have mental illnesses so it is possible. But whatsoever, i don't expected the best writing and I haven't seen a well written autistic "representation" in a game so far. Recommendetions would be appreciated.

Autistic LIs that do come in mind are some club suicide LIs, one is indeed legit. Another legit one is a moshikami one surprisingly! I always though that Kent from Amnesia is too. Not so much the math autism but his reaction to heroines dog dying. His undying love for belts too lol.

>>45879274
>the heroine/hero abducted them, tied them up, self-inserted to paradises Matsuda and started to beat the shit out of them
Holy based, too bad it's a gachaslop.

>>45879494
I think Ao from Shinigami to Shoujo was supposed to be autistic, or the writer had the condition in mind at least. He’s pretty boring though.

Picked up tokimeki 3 today, but unfortunately none of the dudes are really doing it for me. Are there any other life sim otomes that are similar to it, preferably for psp or 3ds?

Maki, Isn't it a beauty?
Despite my initial optimism up until the branching point this route truly was a test of endurance. By that point I actually very seriously considered going Destroy first, because a, I already knew where that one is heading, and b, I simply couldn't imagine the story going in any other direction without some trite asspull. So I went into the Love route with some trepidation.

And then they just went straight for the simplest, most realistic outcome. And that was fantastic, completely fitting Maki's "I brought a gun to a melee and wtf this is boring?!?!?!" nepobaby tier flippant decision making. Really cool. And then the remainder of the route was basically one long ass sequence of barely relevant lore dumps which basically brought the flow of the route to a screeching halt. Points of interest:
>getting raped by a literal 10 year old
Fucking wow Teppei, that's a new low. Jesus how embarrassing. Also this was my very first ending in Close.
>we got cheated out of an old man route
You know this was already a disappointment but they just had to rub it in. Man. Rude.
>Cage, Rope, Sword, Chain, ?????
So Cage is of course Cage, scapegoat and the new common route were Rope, Open's Day 2-3 were Sword, and we haven't (yet) seen Chain or ?????. Well amputation is actually one thing I'm not a big fan of, so I can live without Chain gettin invoked on one of the routes.

Oh yeah and for the first time ever Teppei wasn't a total starfish, holy shit aren't we feeling bold with this route? Which would make the permanent breakup ending even bolder, that is, if it weren't just one of two endings. Now it's absolutely infuriating how many times Teppei cheated karma by the end. He didn't even get trapped in the underground world of illegal gambling, he just fucking walked away, zero repercussion. And the actual epilogue felt a bit superfluous, but that final scene between Maki and Teppei? That was very nicely written.
Also
>Kurusu&Oohira
Huh.


tl;dr this was a waste of time.

>>45885768
Yeah, I promise the Destroy endings are more worthwhile. Mainly because Teppei turns into a real brat in those.

>a literal 10 year old
no silly, that's the Saiki route his cousin looks like that but IIRC he's at least in highschool, or rather college from how he was talking. "高校の時" and stuff

>we got cheated out of an old man route
oh don't worry, he has better luck in the next life
(incidentally Paradise Kiwame has a degenerate old man's boytoy bad end too, love these writers)

>Cage, Rope, Sword, Chain, ?????
Besides Cage and Rope the rest were just for the lore I believe. It's all taking place in the same game anyway, it's just different modes of enjoying it. I like to think of them as Patreon subscription tiers.

>>45886056
Oh I was mostly just being cheeky with that tl;dr, the route itself went better than expected. I've been looking forward to seeing how this game handles the Love/Destroy split since all except the two new guys are already firmly established as fucking terrible people, so they can't just reuse Open's twist formula. Another thing I'm curious about is whether Close will also give every character's route a central theme that in one way or another all of their branches build on. Like for Nitta it was lies, Yagasaki was memory, Yoshimoto comprehension or Kujo fear.

Yeah but Saiki is Saiki, that's just the natural hierarchy of things. Meanwhile this was an absolute total rando introduced 5 lines before he jumped Teppei. Maximum shamefur disprey. But I'll cut him some slack if he really was older.

>he has better luck in the next life
>incidentally Paradise Kiwame too
That's what I like to hear!

>the rest were just for the lore I believe
I mean Sword was "you get to larp as a Kiba and hang rule-breakers", so. I'm not sure I understand the difference between a Rope foul and a Sword foul, but at least it explains why they were so trigger happy in Open. You have to give your customers something for their money after all.
Chain is the odd one out, since that one actually takes participants out of the game. Not sure how that can coexist with Cage betting unless the selection has to be made before the Game begins.

>>45879274
>Normies didn't like their events
As far as i know everyone liked their events except for 3 reddit autists bitching "wahhh it's non consensuel!!1!" when they could've just...idk, not read their stories?
Also this game's shit writing is unironically funny, like, yeah let's put a sex toy joke right in the middle of two characters tragically suffering.

>>45887557
>Also this game's shit writing is unironically funny, like, yeah let's put a sex toy joke right in the middle of two characters tragically suffering.
This anon kek! Another reason why I keep playing are these unironically funny uncanny moments. Reminds me of Karin entertainment's good old dark humor days which I miss dearly.
Nice to know that the majority liked them in the end, because this shit my fetish. The angels need to be punished and put in their place. Ok...instead they enjoy every single moment of it, especially Raphael but that's just a tiny detail.
I just saw that they'll give smelly kings card for free for Valentine and the upcoming nsfw cards will be obtainable for free afterwards...Bullying works huh. If only they make the angels for free too. Best boys.

ill start your gachaslop if you tell me more about shotajiji

I tried playing the slutty angel gacha game but the english tl was so shit and esl that I gave up

>>45889809
Yeah, I don’t understand how anyone is playing it (the en ver at least). Maybe it’s not so noticeable if you’re esl yourself.

>>45889809
>>45891702
The Japanese version is good. There's no Korean version anymore because the game got banned in Korean.

Maki, Bless your dear heart.
I see it isn't just Teppei getting away with shit that should have ended with suicide by six bullets to the back of the head. What a troll this motherfucker is. An absolute menace. And Teppei's ass is apparently the Holy Grail of asses or something. Yeah, I don't know.
Anyway on to the real deal.

>>45891702
As an esl, you're right
However there are some odd sentences that put me off (especially the warm as mother womb from sitri's sex scene) tho i still continue playing because next arc is gonna focus on leviathan and not worst king (sorry s8n but you're annoying).

>>45897228
>worst King
Kek Satan? I don't like him too.
I'm excited for ch.5 for both Tachibana Shinnosuke and the gymbro donkan. I hope the side charas will get L cards eventually. Especially mekakare mute tism kun. He is super adorable. Wants to have anime watch dates and show (you) his LP collection. Also he's glad that he is mute and not deaf because he can listen to (your) voice.
Why such husband materials are gachashackled and we get shit LIs in the 90$ switch ones kms.

I don't care about the devils I want Michael's BWC 39cm long.

never understood the horse dick appeal

>>45897669
Mr Hands...

Now that I've caught up with Charisma I want to gatekeep it from gaining a large english speaking audience.

>>45902318
My Japanese friend shown me it. It's pretty good.

>>45902318
What so werid about it?

>>45897669
*38 sis
They are all legit mentally ill tho? Just learned about it. Mentally ill sluts that are so sluts that they cry cum.
>>45900618
My sides.

>mental illness the gacha with equally cringe designs
They know their audience well.

What difference does it make 38 cm or 39 cm

>>45903431
Idk but maybe, maybe if it's 1cm smaller you might not die from peritonitis?!

>>45891702
>Maybe it’s not so noticeable if you’re esl yourself.
It’s probably this since most of the anons delighting in discussing it are clearly esl lol

The new upcoming cards look so hot.

https://youtu.be/Ja8w30LSq1E?si=AD10VVY4EEw5Xl5G
But Tachibana only doing gacha now? He no longer to regular otome?

I thought this horse sized dick thing was a Korean only kink but then I remembered Fujitas schlong and Hanazawa's "childs arm".

Straight porn aimed at women is consistently ugly as shit why is it always like this

>>45905986
Korean art always sucked to me, be it manhwa or visual novels. These designs >>45889025 >>45903385 don't look that bad though?
But talking about it, I can't think of an R18 otome game that had relatively good art.

I'm an esl and it does get too much at times for me too, but overall it's pretty fun story. And if you are a dedicated seiyuufag you'll swallow anything your fav seiyuu does and you'd want to support him in any way.
I had to accept the fact that gacha would prevail at some point, whether I liked it or not. At least if a gacha becomes popular enough the company might give it a steam/console port one day.

Maki, Can you help me find my way?
I'll say this plainly: Maki has only one route. That other thing was, at best, a daydream.


I think I'm going to need some time to let all of this sink in. But man oh man this route delivered. Totally worth the wait, and the cockblock. It was everything I wanted it to be and more.
I think the thing I continue to admire most about L&D is how little they care about treating routes like romances. This stone cold, uncompromising ruthlesness is what made this route work. It's another great reminder that you don't need the LI to have even the tiniest bit of interest in the MC in order to have a story. When the remake drops I'm going to have to buy that shit in bulk regardless of how I feel about it because I have to repay these two somehow.
Anyway, funny that on a route with so many memorable parts the scene that stuck with me most was when Teppei dejectedly corrected his ス. You could practically hear his heart break in two.
Apparently Maki's scene titles are Wizard of Oz references? Very interesting choice.
Also Teppei succesfully survived every branch of the Love route, but Maki predictably dropped dead on Destroy. I'm kinda hoping this won't remain a trend because the Destroy routes are usally more laser focused and less brancy and this type of predictability really works against them. It's like when Yagasaki torched himself I actually bursted out laughing because all I could think of was "ah yeah, it's that time again". Speaking of Yagasaki, hell of a cameo. It was what, two lines? Guess we'll never know what his relationship with Maki is.

I still have one or two minor ends to collect here, probably nothing major. After that, Saiki.

>>45906577
I agree completely.

Some highlights I remember from this:
- Maki's heartless pimp shtick
- Teppei inner monologuing like some weary gyaru whore
- the absolutely awful incest LARP
- currying favor with Maki's partner/rival with the hammy NTR acting
- the whole exchange with his cousin
- Teppei popping a boner just from hearing Maki is angry
- "uhh I have to fap now so could you please leave"
- Teppei's entire slow descent into desperate yandere insanity
- that final scene with cocky Teppei teasing Maki, you could just feel the writer getting ready to deliver the final blow but Teppei just kept babbling happily
- "uh? what did he say? I don't understand..."
- Maki just destroying every bit of hope and ego Teppei still had for the nth time

I was ready to award that ending a 10/10 already when I was expecting him to just kill himself, but he went and exceeded my (and Maki's) expectations. Then that little monologue while Maki's dying, just perfect. I had to applaud.

It's happening

>>45908609
Nice, I'm excited. Hopefully it's good, I like the art but the previews on the site looked a bit bland

Anyone else here getting it

This one is coming out too.
So 3 BL titles confirmed for 2024. Cage remake and Tokyo Gento remain TBA. Ah there's a BL Taiwanese gacha that's coming out too.

>>45908609
So is the teacher fuckable? He got no preview

>>45907674
Teppei's insanely shitty acting skills combined with his dry internal monolog in general was a riot, especially with the business partner and the second client who sucked so hard at sex Teppei would rather eat a bullet than endure it (RIP). Also is it just me, or does this team have some strange aversion to blowjobs? The entirety of Open had nothing but handjobs and anal, at least Yoshimoto could have gone through with his threat. And now that they finally wrote dicksucking in Close even that scene's CG was awarded to yet another anal, like a good few paragraphs before we even got to the anal part.

I had pretty much the exact same experience with the epilogue. From "Teppei. Teppei, stop. Pls. You are only making this worse for yourself." to "Oh, he is going to jump, he is going to ju---........haha, nevermind" And then Teppei opened his mouth and all that pent up insanity came flooding out and I was floored. Just speechless. That's the most fun part about writing these posts minutes after I finish a route. On the better ones my brain goes into a full shutdown and I have to scramble to write down whatever the fuck still manages to come to my mind at that point.

>>45916199
>does this team have some strange aversion to blowjobs?
That's a good question. I've noticed this too (since I prefer blowjob scenes to anal if anything), roughly all the scenes are handjob/fingering/anal. I'm not sure I remember any bjs from Paradise either (there was an absolutely spectacular face-humping scene in Kiwame though.)
I get the feeling the writers think blowjobs are something only literal whores do? or equivalent to rimjobs in straight porn

>my brain goes into a full shutdown
Indeed, it's just so overwhelming and masterful you can do nothing but enjoy the relentless decent into madness. Relatively few games manage that. (Shitoku no Gyokuza comes to mind, for a non-L&D example)

My fetish is
>gay or bisexual-but-heavily-leans-towards-men man has a single exception, preferably his sister
Anything for me?

>>45922476
Anon I... I'm so sorry for you, I don't think any game like that exists.

The closest I can recommend is Ani datta Mono, about a girl getting together with her dead brother's bf, but that's a manga of course.

>>45927371
That is less romance more horror/drama. She also does not really “get together” with him.

>>45922476
Does great great great great great, more than 1000+ generations ago great grandpa/uncle/brother do? He used to fuck all of your 72 boyfriends.

>>45922476
Dynamic Chord Liar-S, except the sister part

still no collar x malice movie uploads? I need to check how shit the movie is.

Do you mind non-virgin LIs?

>>45934343
No one really cares about purity for guys.
Unless it's anal virginity, in that case it's an enormous deal. I like sluts.

>>45934343
I like pure love stories where both parties are innocent but I also like broken anal sluts.

>>45934343
I mind virgin protags

>>45934343
I really want an otome where the LI isn't an anal virgin or used to sell his ass but of course this doesn't exist.

Finally got around to playing the hamefura pirate game, and its very enjoyable to just play through a stupid lighthearted story like this, especially after getting through some super depressing shit before this.

Though I do feel bad for Geordo for getting so pathetically cucked out of his engagement in every route other than his own.

>>45928321
You can fuck grandpappy Solomon in this gachaslop? Depending on your answer I might re-download it.

>>45934343
Not on principle but I have a soft spot for spaghetti spilling DTs.

I tried my best to relive the rush of Third Daydream (night). I couldn't, but it was still good. How many stabs was that, Teppei? Damn, kid, this was some Looney Tunes shit, you got Maki in one. Ahh. As much as I loved Maki's route, god, I missed this. And finally some solid gore with Teppei searching for his tulpa's missing face. Based Saiki, he is the heart and soul of this game.

>>45921074
Guess we all have things we like and things we don't, though ironic that this would be theirs. You'd think if that's how they feel about it they'd do it for the humiliation factor, if nothing else. Then again Teppei in Open already considered nakadashi the epitome of humiliation.

>>45935498
There's a guy like that in Tengoku Struggle, there was some controversy about it on release.

This would be my favourite otome game if it was a real otome game.

Just play the bee game

>>45905986
>>45906398
Chou no Doku's art doesn't look good to you?

>>45934343
In BL no
In otome yes they should all get anally raped and die

>>45941572
Right? How can they not like best boy gremlin manlet kings design?! if you are Majimasis, hi sis hope u doing well <3

>>45935562
Not yet but...in a way yes? Since you are fused together or some shit. He dead for the time being.

>>45903385
I like LIs with long black silky hair so damn much. Hakuoki's Hijikata was my first crush so this trope stayed with me. Refreshing seeing them still alive, had enough with kpop hairstyle designs.

>>45939514
I go with carnal love

>>45941572
Not those anons but desu as much as I simp hard for Choudoku and Majima, I feel like the erotic content for that game is on the lacking side - this is strictly in regards to the art and ero variation. The FD's CG art is much higher in quality compared to the main game, however.
Though for the most part, much of R18 otome's art is "ugly" to me because more masculine anatomy is frankly devoid in many of them. It's not just チンポ being mosaic'd but also depicting muscles within a more visceral level, which seems to be more common in BL related content. It makes me a little jealous.
Personally I'd kill for an otome with Metal Gear characters. Always wanted one as a kid.
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/4247

>>45943270
Glad to see you're around, sis. Also nice to see other Majima appreciators still, too. Not too long ago, I spent close to ~7000 yen on just a small acrylic stand and bromide card... A small fortune to pay to start off with building a shrine of the cutest.

BTW Paradise is a very solid BL rec - great taste to everyone who recommended it, love the writing style in this one. I finished Matsuda's route not too long ago. It's interesting how Matsuda is more or less the inverse of Mitsugi. The contrast between the major bad endings in the two routes is quite good. I can't decide which one I like more, bloodthirsty Azuma or Matsuda

>>45941572
Not those anons but desu as much as I simp hard for Choudoku and Majima, I feel like the erotic content for that game is on the lacking side - this is strictly in regards to the art and ero variation. The FD's CG art is much higher in quality compared to the main game, however.
Though for the most part, much of R18 otome's art is "ugly" to me because more masculine anatomy is frankly devoid in many of them. It's not just チンポ being mosaic'd but also depicting muscles within a more visceral level, which seems to be more common in BL related content. It makes me a little jealous.
Personally I'd kill for an otome with Metal Gear characters. Always wanted one as a kid.
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/424776

>>45943270
Glad to see you're around, sis. Also nice to see other Majima appreciators still, too. Not too long ago, I spent close to ~7000 yen on just a small acrylic stand and bromide card... A small fortune to pay to start off with building a shrine of the cutest.

BTW Paradise is a very solid BL rec - great taste to everyone who recommended it, love the writing style in this one. I finished Matsuda's route not too long ago. It's interesting how Matsuda is more or less the inverse of Mitsugi. The contrast between the major bad endings in the two routes is quite good. I can't decide which one I like more, bloodthirsty Azuma or Matsuda

>>45953081
>>45953081I can't deny that part either, desu. Compared to BL, the erotic content in otome ain't the best eyecandy indeed. What I liked in chou no doku tho, was the focus on the LIs in some scenes instead of the heroine, but the derpy faces and the lack of nipples sucked. The fandisk did it justice, yeah! But compared to other r18 otome choudoku from the best art-wise. Yoshiwara Higanbana's art is one of my favorites. Paradises artist did art for Mashou Megane. I liked her art better in Paradise, though. All the otome artists that I like have done art for BLVNs, surprisingly. Gikei will save R18 otome.
Glad you are doing well, sis! Building a goblino shrine is tough, sis but well spent money and well deserved! If only we could summon a devil and teleport us to a Majima isekai.
Have fun with Paradise! I give it to Furukawa, my bro making the Matsuda experience x3 better! He is awesome! Jast is close to releasing the game, from what I see. Eop anons can enjoy him. I really like Nanjou from Paradise (he is in the fandisk). if only that virgin bastard had a decent route. I wouldn't mind another Paradise sequel. If luckydog and hakuoki can do it, paradise can too. Give me more Nanjou.

I just like very masculine, slightly domineering men and I'm tired of sidestepping the fact I do to avoid "you're a basic bitch" or "you have internalized misogyny". Sadly this exact combo is super rare in otome and only slightly more common in BL. It's more present in western media (just barely) but western media a shit.

>>45955528
Examples of this archetype you speak of?

souchan so erotic!

>>45957434
I enjoyed his route but I wish his CG's were better, most of them are so fucking boring with nothing going on because they're usually just him standing around. His best CG's aren't even route exclusive ones.

Does Jack Jeanne actually have romance or is it only implied?

>>45961702
It does
But be warned that it does the thing where the common route is longer than the character routes, so the routes end up not having entirely too much time to spend on mushy lovey dovey shit. I still liked the game though. Have even used the CGs as a coloring reference at times and listened to the musical songs for a while afterwards
I'm glad the anon above is also a Sou enjoyer as well. Not only best boy but also included best side character in his route.

>>45961848
It does, its just a very 'high school romance' type thing that doesn't get too heavy physically.

The least overtly romantic is Shirota's route, but even then, it pretty clearly gets the intended feeling across during the story.

speaking of Jack Jeanne, am I the only one who thinks Suzu was miscast mainly because he was too good of a singer? All the characters (including Suzu himself) acknowledge him as being the weakest singer, but honestly IMO he's probably on par, if not better, than Shirota's VA.

When he started belting lines during the first performance I couldn't help bust laugh at how off the perception of him being a weak singer was.

https://youtu.be/IYLRN5FpgFo?si=nKYWT2nILemtVbIO&t=90

>>45962067
I was surprised too, but I can't imagine they'd want to feature intentionally bad singing
Though that reminds me that I thought it was funny how they barely let Sou be audible in songs. Everyone else gets their time to shine, but I think the only time Sou gets any solo lines is the last group song, by obligation. Poor lad

>>45962390
Its definitely a shame, I really loved how he sounded in "Hallelujah ~Shout the name of god my friend~", he would've been great if they gave him more prominent deep vocal roles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QQZu4kV7Y

>>45955528
Yeah I get it. I myself had to come to terms with the fact that I don't actually mind handsome shoujo/josei rapechads in my smut but I can't always say it out loud cause I'll get judged.

I'm reading DMMD for the first time, with the official translation instead of the much older fan translation. It's fun but I didn't get the hype from like 10 years ago on tumblr until I recently found out many of the girls talking about it back then were 12 years. I don't know what's up with the official translation adding dumb shit like "man" or "bro" at the end of some of the characters' sentences, it looks corny as hell but then again I'm ESL so maybe I'm missing something here. I've seen some horror stories about the official Slow Damage translations, I really want to start it once I'm done with DMMD but I'm a bit worried it'll ruin my experience. How is it?

>>45963654
>adding dumb shit like "man" or "bro" at the end of some of the characters' sentences, it looks corny as hell but then again I'm ESL so maybe I'm missing something here.
I can only assume the translator wanted to convey a vibe of the guys talking casually with each other and/or using slang. I agree that it's awkward but I remember reading that the fan translation had issues too, mainly that Mink's route was altered because the translator didn't like him. So in the end it sounds like a pick your poison type of deal with Dmmd. Can't say anything about Slow damage.

>>45963654
Is slow damages translation that bad? I played through it recently and didn't notice any dialogue that read as wholly unfitting, worst it got was a bit of crude slang, but that seemed like some adaptation of crude JP slang that wouldn't translate well either.

>>45963849
I can't speak for myself here but I've seen people saying that the game is written in first person in Japanese and in third person in English, or the reverse.

>>45963654
Going by the few dozen screenshots I've seen of the translation it is shit, but not so shit that it would completely wreck the experience. I'm most mystified by their decision to switch to first person narration.

From the top of my head
>1st person
>Rei and friends speaking like a teenager girls
>eyepussy
>MURICAAA

The dialogue is not that bad since you can just ignore the text during voiced sequences.
After finishing the game I searched the archives for SD discussion and "Madarame shits the floor" because "wait, that didn't happen" - you fucks kept shitposting about it for months I actually believed it... Then I read about the perspective change, it left me feeling like I knew Towa less than originally intended, since I don't know what is /narrative/ and what is his own thoughts and descriptions. It was very confusing when it suddenly swapped "narrator" in the last route.

>>45954310
>>45954310
Good to see you're doing well yourself too, Majimasis! 2024 is the year of dragon, let's hope it's a lucky one for wellness and we'll get good stuff for BL/otome even if it is sparse.
>Glad you are doing well, sis! Building a goblino shrine is tough, sis but well spent money and well deserved!
Thanks! Figured I might as well just shell out some $$$ to keep my mental sanity since I've been eyeing on some things for long time anyway. Majima mechandise is often the most expensive as expected from best.
>If only we could summon a devil and teleport us to a Majima isekai.
I wish. Little devil gnome arsonist Majima lives rent free in my head. Reminds me when I saw that Stellaworth 特典 illustration with Yuriko/Shiba vs. Majima. Want...

>Compared to BL, the erotic content in otome ain't the best eyecandy indeed
The ugloo Ken doll tier bodies could be a lot better but for whatever reason, it's somehow decided to not include a lot of traits that make men, well men in otome. I'm not sure where this came from at all so I just headcanon it's pic related
And yeah, I noticed with Aromarie in particular that they're probably one of the few who even bothers with female povs CGs for their games. I can definitely appreciate that even if the ero content isn't perfect. Seeing Majima up close in his first h-scene still warms my heart. His smile is so lovely.

>Yoshiwara Higanbana
I'm dumb so I got confused for a sec and thought Kotomi Youji was the artist for that game lol. But yeah, Yoshiwara Higanbana has a nice style and happens to be really high on my backlog for R18 otome, too.

>Paradise
I came mostly for Furukawa's work but I also love Azuma's and Mitsugi's VAs. The characters in Paradise are such cheeky bastards where the voicework just makes it better, I love it. Kitayama did such a good job at portraying Azuma's casual facade vs. his battered little girl screeching/moans.
I'm starting Takara's route soon which will probably take me another month to read... but I'm totally looking forward to the FDs! Can't wait to read about Nanjou and look more into everyone's backstories.
Tbh as much I like the horror genre in VNs, I wasn't so impressed at the beginning since a lot of it reminds me of those old trainwreck American slasher horror films (in a really over the top, shock value without much reason way) Though unlike those movies, the characters do grow on you. The writing style also shines as the story progresses more into the heavier themes. I thought the bad endings and the latter half of Matsuda's route was great at describing the ambiguous tension and fear in the violent scenes especially. It's that sort of heaviness with the wording which really enchances the experience for me while reading in Japanese. On the flipside, the lighthearted banter is also very entertaining - had lots of fun reading Mitsugi's route for that reason, too.
I'm pretty much done with English localizations but it'll be interesting to see how the TL compares! Looking forward to seeing more commentary from others. If it does well overseas, maybe we'll get to see another game one day. Hope they'll get Kotomi Youji again or at least keep his art style...

>>45963877
It's both in Japanese, mostly third person. I think they made it first person.

>>45964749
>>45954310
Could you two swap discords and take it to a private chat already?

>>45963654
It’s 2024 why are we still having this discussion. English translations will 9/10 times be worse than the original text in its original intended language. Exceptions being like Edgerunners where the Japanese script completely lost the entire vibe of Cyberpunk.
If you can read it in Japanese then do it. If you can’t, learn Japanese. If you can’t learn Japanese, then shut up and suffer. There’s no point in asking if it’s good because it’s the only option you have. At best it’s serviceable and intelligible and at worst it’s complete fanfiction or translated by someone who’s both JSL and ESL.

>>45965829
Let the Majimasisters speak here, their back and forth is not only on topic but also heartwarming to read, in a way.

>>45965829
Yes, this current conversation about shitting on localizations ad nauseam is way better lmao

>cute, 'younger' type boy
>youngest member of the cast
>still older than the heroine
What's the point in this? I know IRL there are women who find a man being younger to be an instant turn off, but does it go so far as to matter even in 2D where the player's age is most likely not going to match up to the heroine's anyway?

>>45965829
God forbid people actually talk about /blog/ VNs.

>>45965829
while it is indeed on topic and I look over them warmly, they should really get a room

>>45961848
I have the game but haven't had time to play it. I'm mostly interested in the blonde fag and mutsuki

>>45966324
This pisses me off so much. It also sucks when they're only like 1 year younger but get treated like they're 5+ years younger. At least have the balls to actually make a bigger age gap if you're going to force me to read a dynamic like that anyway.

>>45966324
Otome writers either too scared to do shota or are out of touch

>>45964218
Eh, I mean, even as someone who doesn't really know japanese very well, I noticed that Rei and his little squad do tend to speak in that exaggerated feminine tone (basically just like textbook okama) a lot of the time, changing his english dialogue to something akin to teen girl style talk seems like a reasonably fitting adaption, I'm not sure how else they'd convey that tone.

>>45967454
Or they don't care for shota but is force to include one for variety,.

>>45966324
God I hate japs so much.

>>45964749
Tysm Majimasis! I really wish you all the very best, and to the anons here! Let 2024 and dragon chads bless us all, and of course Aromarie too, so that they can finally give us Gikei oniichan. Shouchan ain’t a goblin king, but he is a great menhera goblino successor! From the upcoming otome, I’d like to try the new takuyo game, which seems promising, and maybe the otomate fairy one. From the BL, I’m definitely getting Haiiro and Ooe. Tokyo Gentou looks very promising too; I really like the artist! But it doesn’t have a date yet. And from what I’ve seen, cool-b won’t die in the end?! The cage anons really made me want to try cage, idk if I should just start or wait for the remake. From what I heard, they'll tone down a lot of stuff in the remake.

>goblino shrine
You did well, sis! Nothing is better than coming home to a goblino shrine to brighten your mood and life! I should build mine too, and once I’m better financially, pay the Chinese chads that make custom action figures and order a Majima one. I don’t know if I’ll make it nsfw, I mean, goblinos existence is oozing sexo alone, but yeah, just make a normal one where he is surrounded by fire. Dakimakura reprints when aromarie... Custon fees are so disgusting. Wtf are these prices?

>Shiba print
Sis, zerochan! You gotta go poorfag way when it's too much and there's no reprint. I saw that Shiba one on aliexpress once lol.

>The ugloo Ken doll tier bodies
My sides sis! But you ain’t wrong; I don't know why they do that. I’m trying hard to find more than like 5 R18 otome where I liked the art and the plot was decent.
I love that Majima Gnome CG so much! From my favorite! Ah, he is so beautiful. But yeah, Aromarie actually bothered to show us the LIs only and their POVs (rare for r18 otome). Let’s not forget Fujitas horrorshow CG.
You might like Sanzen Yuugi; they have a very chad-looking LI, from what I can remember. I never 100% finished it, and my friend did tell me many times to go back to it since it gets better and it has incest apparently. I should just listen to her and play it, to be honest.

>kotomi
Kotomi did art for R18 otome, Mashou Megane. I liked Cidre and his design; he was cute. Doutei was cute, too. Peach was a really good boy; Azuma voiced him, but his design was hideous, to say the least. What were they thinking?
Yoshiwara’s artist did the art for Omega Vampire. Anons here are tsunderes, so they won’t admit how heartwarming Omega Vampire was.
Hope you have fun with yoshiwara sis, wherever you play it! I liked Akito the best; I loved his design, his personality, everything. Souchan is the best tho goblino tier, so you might like him the best too.

>Paradise
I’m so glad Azumas VA is getting the recognition he deserves. Taiwanese fujos knew business when they hired him for the nuc MC. I like him the best in BL. His otome roles are pretty good too, and so are his galge. Hell, did he sound super frightening in natsu no Kusari? But moaning cheeky himbos suits him the best. I have no words for furukawa really man is so sexy even if he voiced a toilet, you’d want to fuck him. I love how Azuma makes all those bastards mellow down and succumb to his succubi powers!
Have fun with Takara sis! The fandisks are super worth it for his family! Nanjou my beloved.
Couldn’t agree more! I loved the character development so much in paradise.Kyuuyouzawa can write some based stuff.
Paradise at first strongly reminded me of pigeon blood haha, which is the American horror b movie equivalent, but thankfully it wasn’t similar haha. not that I hate the game I won’t deny that it is really bad, but like anons have mentioned here, it has some stuff you can appreciate . Ah, that Matsuda bad ending lives rent-free along with Goblino’s. If I ever get dementia, I really wish I won’t forget these!
>jop
Japanese all the way, sis! Thankfully, Pilslash’s writing is very jop-friendly. Shingakkou might be the toughest, bc religious terms Bible verses etc at times, but it's not that bad. Unlike the shit in Mebius. You really made me want to replay Paradise i miss it. I’ll check out too if Jast really did it any justice doubt once it’s out, pretty soon from what I see, but I'm really curious about what they censored haha. I’ve given up on localizations too, desu. But even though chou no doku got cucked and only got the switch port localized, the translation is very polished and good. It shows the translator really put a lot of love and respect into translating it.

Weird question but does anyone here know why crimson memories got removed from steam? Found it on a wikia and got intrested but it said the game has been removed (found an alternate site to download it tho)

>>45981727
Because of the horrible machine translation translation from what I can remember.

>>45963654
>>45963897
The translator said they changed it so the reader could connect more with Towa or something like that. At least that's what I heard.

The funniest part is that the Spanish translation of Slow Damage will actually be in third person like it was in Japanese. I hope they finish it so we can have a translation without the first person thing or eyepussy for that matter (Same dude/group also did Dramatical Murder, Totono, Muramasa, Tokyo Necro)

Didn't the anons here hate the Chou no Doku translation before when it was just on mobile? I thought the Switch version was just a slightly edited version of that.

>>45983073
But that distance with the third person feels like the point with him... changing it just makes it fanfic.

>>45984205
The mobile one was unedited and pretty rushed. Had a shiton of typos. Many still don't believe and get angry if you tell them that the switch translation is the same from that failed mobile port. They fixed and polished it in the switch/steam version though. It's the most decent translation that you can find of an otome game.

>>45977813
Surprising things happens all the time. I like to believe this year will be an auspicious one. Hopefully out of everything coming out, we'll have at least one good one. I also want to read the Cage series, though I'm probably gonna take a break from unvoiced stuff for the time being since I did marathoned 禁飼育 doujinge

>Majima shrine
Majima is just so calming to look at. Like a drug as he constantly describes his attachment to Yuriko haha. Hope you can get better financially and be able to get something nice too, sis! AAA great meme edit btw! Speaking of Zerochan - can always start off something simple like a little bulletin board or scrapbook with printouts of your favorite illustrations and/or quotes. I was thinking about doing that since all mechandise, especially brand new, is so expensive. Proxy services + custom fees are crazy indeed and so is the more rare stuff. I saw a brand new Majima body cover for over 66,666 yen the other day. Fucker should sell it for 666 yen, that's a more appropriate price and number for devil spawn goblin...
desu can't pick one CG, I just love everything with Majima in it haha. And yes! Choudoku really was great because of the LI's PoVs. I need more of that.

>You might like Sanzen Yuugi; they have a very chad-looking LI, from what I can remember.
Sis, I just want some nice man titty, ass and abs in my straight powerpoints once in a while. I was looking at Sanzen for that incest too. Thanks for reminding me!

>Kotomi
Much better at making more simplistic designs, I'd say. I think that's why all the art in Paradise and guys were way more handsome to me. Peach is supposed to be a flamboyant guy but his design really does fall flat. Like I get the reason why he looks like that but it's still pretty meh

>Yoshiwara
Yes! I'm the most interested with Souchan. Cutest to me but I have a feeling I will like Akito, too. I need more time in the day to read more

>Paradise
>I’m so glad Azumas VA is getting the recognition he deserves.
Same. Paradise is my first BL game I've played with his VA where I was very pleasantly surprised by everyone's VA work even for the lesser known ones imo. Azuma's VA in particular is truly a pro at moans and yelping as perfectly as the writing describes him. I'm looking to playing more games with his VA!
Games taking place in more historical settings definitely are way more of a pain to read in JP. I think a lot of BLs are pretty rough on beginners but Paradise is OK as an intermediate title. Tbh I found the overly slangy dialogue in Paradise to be confusing at first, though. On the other hand, it was really good as practice to pay closer attention to the wording in JP. Also love it how the game has the characters greet you and say goodbye whenever you exit the game which also changes depending on the time of day - it's really good for motivation! ドキドキする Matsuda and Azuma

>You really made me want to replay Paradise i miss it.
Definitely give it a read again one of these days! I really think the bad ends are so worth a revisit for sure. Matsuda's bad end was great, especially at the end. Couldn't help but felt kinda sorry for the guy, especially with his final words: 一人ぼっちは、寂しいよ
And also Azuma's entire monologue about Matsuda at that moment. It was just perfect at conveying the effects of an abusive relationship involving DV
Frankly loved Mitsugi's major bad end so much, too. Azuma was like a lost little puppy in that one. His descend to complete madness was something else. Pretty certain I have a huge thing for menhera guys who kills all your enemies for (You)
Despite thinking the whole development around their relationship is questionable (still don't understand why Mitsugi even came to like Azuma even with all the reasons given in the route) Azuma/Mitsugi still ends up being really a very sweet pair to me. Mitsugi is like that one brutally honest friend who calls out on Azuma's shit everytime. Given with how much of an emotional wreck Azuma is in reality, I really do feel like that's something he seriously needs imo. Mitsugi's words in his route's finale were words of wisdom:
……楽園なんて、自分で作るもんだ
俺はずっとそうしてきた。お前にだって、できるははずだろ
desu kinda can't help but feel a little bit like Mitsugi sometimes while reading Paradise. Can understand that exasperation and yet amusement with how much of a silly baka Azuma can be

>TL
I've been shilling Paradise pretty hard to a friend who read English TLs so I'm hoping the game will be a good experience for them when it does come out. More opportunities for potential fan mechandise too. And yeah, what's nice about the Choudoku's Switch/Steam TL is that they did respond to people's feedback when they commented on the text quality. Apparently it was pretty bad in the earlier Twitter screenshots iirc.

>>45987948
>Also love it how the game has the characters greet you and say goodbye whenever you exit the game
tfw Matsuda praises you for getting up early but you're a neet who was playing at 5 AM