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>>46681926Thanks for reminding me that I have to go back to sweet clown. Psvita version had the best OP.Oniichans are cuteOtoutos are cute Still-the cutest is Majima!
>>46681957Funny that it's not mentioned enough that he is not only her brother but her inbred first cousin too kek .
Is he, dare I say it /ourguy/?
A little sister belongs to her LITTLE BROTHER
>>46681957God I want all of his useless sperm
Can someone update the guide with the Mega folder that has the scans anon posted and will there be more scans? I love reading about Otome boys and VAs plus all the other good information.
Do you know if these circles doujinge are available somewhere?https://vndb.org/p4063
Will he have a rape basement?
>>46684932I sure fucking hope so.
>>46684932>No CGs>Only one sex voice>"Something is wrong with this school"I wonder what's the tweeeeest
>>46682683>will there be more scans?Maybe, maybe not, but either way it won't be much. There are only four more issues with Cage SS (Nitta, Maki, Saiki, Christmas special) and I definitely want to complete this series, but whether or when this will happen is out of my hands. There are a couple more issues that have Cage/Psychedelic articles which I'll add to the order if they happen to be available at the time, but otherwise I won't be going out my way to get them.
>>46684932I hope it's the mc who ends up raping him in the basement >im gonna rape mc in the basement hehe>im gonna rape sensei in the basement hehe A plot twist for once wouldn't hurt.
>>46688447It's a virgin uke MC game, there is absolutely no chance that is happening. Your best bet is some mindbreak bad end where he seduces one of the guys.
>>46688447Is there even a VN where the uke actively seduces the probably straight love interests instead of waiting to get raped?I can think of Towa's game because he's a fullblown whore, but nothing else.
>>46691715Azuma but he gets raped
>>46692048It's not seduction there, it's borderline prison gay.
>>46692048Jastusa is up to its usual retarded tricks? Dare I hope this is the worst example?
>>46692508You don't understand, Azuma is actually a succubus and seduces all the males in the island! His trump card is his whimper puppy-like moans that signals and attracts all the males. He is a female cat during heat i tell you.>>46693600Kek you bet but good news it's not as shit as slow damage?
I was rereading Maki's Destroy route, and wow somehow the first time around I totally didn't understand what the fuck was happening in the scene where Maki kills Teppei's third customer and when Ishimatsu comes over to deal with the mess Maki casually tempts him into fucking the unconscious Teppei with a dildo, only to mock him when he is turned off by the whole thing since dildo rape by proxy is Saiki's shtick so Ishimatsu should be used to it by now. I love this asshole so much. Holy shit.
I've replayed UruC and Juurou is still very cute and pathetic
>>46698620That was some kino. Juuro best boy. His lame titjob was pathetic too. He is so desperate to get yomis ass. He is willing to throw everyone and everything just for Yomi. Destroy the world for yomi. Still majima best boy
planning to get Taisho x Alice soon
>>46698750Majima wins the schizo competition since he's just a human but still managed to achieve so much, but Juurou gets extra incest points since Yomi is also sort of his mom.
>>46698750I've really gotten a taste for obsessive mutually toxic relationships lately so I enjoyed that route more than I had initially expected.
>>46701054I loved that revelation so much. Indeed majima is a human and accompliced a lot for a human, and did get it with both his half sister-first cousin.What i absolutely loved about juuro and consider him best route in uuuc, is his writing. Juuro at first is portrayed a little cold, very hardworking but he isn't bad. Kinda feel bad for him at some point because he has so much to do like be a top actor, be a superhero + make time for his fiancée/gf and so many people who depend and rely on him his under a lot of pressure. But I absolutely love how everything started to pile up and slowly losing it the moment he realized that yomi is going to leave and all his concealed feelings for him and obsession finally burst and he just lost it. Went full blown schizo and threw everything away, started killing humans kaijuu and didn't give a fuck if the whole world got destroyed and just he and yomi stayed (that's his ideal world actually). I personally loved the ending, there are SS after stories too which are actually pretty cute and show more of yomi and his fear of being alone after juuro dies. Juuro is really awkward deep down and really cute in front of yomi. He is such a complex character really love him. From my favorite blvn protagonists! The revelation was kino too. I'd say that Yomi is like a his uncle, mom genetically and brother/selfcest in a way, a part of him too?! Based, you don't come up with that shit everyday. I want to see what kind of incest kino kurosawa will come up with in Ooe. Hashihime had too in a way. >>46701167Same! I really like yandere/haraguro tropes and toxic relationships, but not in the memeish way they are usually portrayed, cages and "no talking to other males" shit. I mean, I still enjoy such tropes a lot and have fun with them in vns, but I want more memorable character, who are more complex and can write essays exploring their personalities through their POVs and actions. A reason why I'm totally obssesed with Majima. He's great for that. His SSs are amazing and loved how his true ending and fandisk stories are from his POV. It's very ironic and tragic, seeing the true ending from both Yurikos POV and Majimas in the true ending and compare them.Yuriko finally managed to marry the love of her life and oppose and go against her family and role in society as a noble woman and is living her very best fucking like bunnies with Majima. While Majima is ofc happy but daily suffers and wallows in misery and self hate, having married his half sister/cousin, being a drug lord in Shanghai and his only comfort is going to Yuriko and their happy house. Yuriko is totally unaware of everything but she is happy and so is he and willing to protect her, but also keep her away from everyone that will try to steal her away from him, he is actually more obsessive than Shiba even.I'd really love more POVs from the LIs in blvns, but the difference between otome and bl is that in bl the focus is more on the protagonist and explore his personality more and the story through him and POV, he is the star of the game, while heroines are often "neglected" in a way? but in otome we are pampered a lot with the LIs which is great! I love chou no doku for equally exploring everyone and not neglecting their heroine! Seeing the heroine getting lowkey toxic and obsessive too is fun to watch. I'd like more Yomi POVs too. If you haven't played paradise yet you can check it out! All 3 relationships are very toxic and unhealthy.
I wish Hanazawa was more explored as a character. And the schizo son in the basement.
Are there any otome games where you don't have to be a masochist to enjoy them?
Toxic bl relationship recs?
>>46702176You don't even have to look, it's harder to find a BL game without at least one token toxic relationship in there somewhere.
Can someone post the latest character rankings from cool-b? Like best protagonist and LI?
>>46701587Do you mean that in the sense that the LIs aren't terrible to the MC, that the MC isn't suffering at the hands of the plot and/or npcs, or both
Azuma is cute. Everyone so man to him though. Get the baby some KFC to eat.
>>46704998*mean
I'm glad more people get to experience Azuma's moaning and whimpering.
Anyone has a link to paradise download?
>>46704302The former. I'd rather the MC not suffer at all, but that might be asking for too much.
>>46692048With the excessive amounts of slang in the original version, I kinda expected it to be localized to memey in some ways. I wonder if anyone has read the side characters (bad) endings yet in the localized version. Those were peak comedy. Hougou acts like a massive creep because he's forced to while Shimada gives Azuma his special wocky slush>>46704998One of Azuma's biggest charmpoints is him being a massive loser to a really funny degree. He's kinda cool in Takara's route, though. eye gouge kino in bad ending
Otome protagonist that is chaotic neutral
Replaying paradise made me remember how kino SENTIVE is. As good as ZIZZ. Pilslash always invests on good bgm and voice actors.
Kinda surprised how most of Paradise's VAs aren't that well known. They did a great job overall. I have a soft spot for Shimada's "arara"
>>46692048i-i want to be split in half by takara!
Cage-School- took only like an hour to complete and it still nearly filtered me lel. The point of this game eludes me. Guess I expected gag, a genre parody, or a Cage parody, and it had a bit of all of those, but it was mostly just a mundane sol AU. Kinda like Open's common route daydream scenes, but even more random, in a school, and only Teppei+the 4 Open LIs+Ohno (for whatever reason, talk about random) existing.But since I already came this far, if anyone has the 2018 complete version that also has the Close characters I would be really grateful if you could share.
>matsuda
>>46721176Here you go!pixeldrain com/u/RToxJEmJ (cage school)
>>46721360Oh shit fuck yes, I love you. Thank you so much!
>>46710730>I'd rather the MC not suffer at all, but that might be asking for too much.There has to be at least a little bit of MC suffering for the drama, but there is still varying levels of suffering. That being said, of the games I've played Cupid Parasite and Radiant Tale are pretty soft in terms of LIs (the meanest of each are tsunderes). Each MC goes through some suffering in these games, but it's not constant (and in some cases it's the LI that suffers much more), it's moreso route-specific obstacles. Cafe Enchante also has nice MCs, though it has some stronger angst. Even if Tempest has extreme mc suffering, but all of the LIs are nice.
>>46723165>Even if TempestI still want a Conrad route
>>46723201He has a little side thing in the FD at least. It's some good junkfood even if I hate that dickhead
I am NOT hovering.
How autistic do you have to be, to go to a deserted island wearing a suit?Lmao Mitsugi.
>>46723870Ikr. Imagine the smell.
>>46715933None
Okay, I'm done Amnesia. At least the routes I wanted to do.My favourite ending was the one where Toma takes over Ukyo's route to put the mc in a cage after killing(?) the fanclub members. The other endings involving the LIs usually happened within their respective containment world (aside from Ukyo hopping worlds for plot purposes), but Toma just couldn't stay in his own lane. It was a nice way to show that no matter which world Toma's in he's ready to bring out the cage. His route was mediocre to me though. It felt so short and nothing really happens other than the cage shenanigan. Almost felt too tame even.I found Kent's spiels amusing and somewhat adorable, but I don't know how much of that is because of his Ishida buff.I liked the overall setup for Ukyo's route, but found his defense mechanism alter ego kinda cringe. At least the original Ukyo is cute and super direct about his feelings for the mc. Also it's nice that the route doesn't dismiss the existence of the other worlds despite being the 'true' route.Orion best bug. His tsukkomis were fun, it really wouldn't have been the same without him. Otome MCs who tsukkomi as much as he does?Overall, it was a decent experience and I don't regret going back to play it.Probs won't get to them any time soon but are the fandiscs worth playing at all? >even finish Shinigami to Shoujo>odd finish Olympia Soiree>trips start something completely new
why didn't anyone tell me that matsuda's voice actor in paradise was furukawa makoto
>>46723201I feel like a Conrad route would diminish how much of a sociopath he is. What he got in the fandisk is good
>>46729989Because he's nothing special.
>>46729989everyone mentioned about it, EOPnewfagsis
>>46723165Thanks, I'll play Cupid Parasite and Cafe Enchante then. Radiant Tale had some pretty nice LIs. What happens in Even If Tempest? It better not be some gay shit like the MC being raped/kidnapped. Mainly why I tend to avoid media with suffering female characters is because it's almost always due to rape/sexual assault and I'm tired of seeing that shit everywhere.
Any (preferably BL) VN with an all-male staff targeted at males, where all the characters are male, and females don't play any role in the story and aren't even mentioned? Bonus points if females don't even exist in-universe, and super bonus points if the writing avoids kanji containing the "女" element.
>>46738067https://vndb.org/g1170?f=&fil=&l=&m=0&s=22w
>>46723201I want a Hugo route
>>46735394>What happens in Even If Tempest?A variety of bad things, not just to MC either. Primarily murder and suicide>It better not be some gay shit like the MC being raped/kidnapped.None of that in the main game (to the mc at least, it's implied to have happened to a mentioned npc). Fandisc has attempted SA in one of the routes, but it's only for a moment before it's stopped.>>46738806He should've gotten a route over Crius
Are the sex scenes in the Paradise fandiscs longer? They feel way too short in the Mitsugi route at least, I needed more slutty horny Azuma.
>>46740210I really liked Mitsugi's scenes in the fanfics, he's a good tsundere in it.
https://twitter.com/ume_matutake/status/1786326190078488835?t=dhLGS_R24o6MVzp0YTxBmw&s=19
>>46740966The title feels like one of those shitty LNs that know nothing about otome
>>46723870He's classy.
Do you like Paradise so far anons?
>>46681957Kek why they look so alike. Are they related lol.
I read Paradise years ago but it warms my heart to know that people are discovering it for the first time (I hope the translation isn't too offputting.)
>>46729407> Almost felt too tame even.Toma's route tends to be exaggerated for the sake of memes, he's really not that extreme (comparatively). Hell, when I replayed the game recently I didn't even think the cage was that unjustified given that from Toma's POV the heroine was acting like a complete retard throwing herself into danger by walking around outside 'alone' even though she'd already been harassed/threatened and nearly threatened like 3 times.> Are the fandiscs worth playing at all?I'd say so, there's one thats more actual sequel stories and one thats mostly just fluff/interesting scenarios, you can get two of them (Later and Crowd) on the switch, and theres also World but I don't think that ones translated yet.
>>46752428I miss reading paradise for the first time and getting hit by a toshishitazeme cannibal with an extremely hot bad endTakara is a literal treasure as his name shows.
For me, it still is Minakami.
Tengoku struggle is shit
>>46760918Cute
>>46765522Told you it was
>>46765522Satoi's art hasn't been in a single good game yet
>>46765522I love Satoi's art style but all the games she illustrates for are pure slop.
why do so many otoges have spelling errors or grammar errors?? Especially the one im playing now (Hamefura pirates)
The meme is dead, they actually finished it
>>46770985What a glorious time to be alive, so many BLVNs translated. Ten years ago I never imagined I'd see the day.I probably wouldn't have bothered learning their stupid moonspeak
seems like there was an updated teaser vid up for over requiemz but it got privated not too long after.
>>46771280Eh, there still a lot of hidden gems that we may never get.
>>46770985Holy shit, so it's not vaporwave after all. Wonder what took them so long, the game isn't that long or complicated. Hope the giga delay wasn't some seiyuu shitter and it ships with Tattsun's moans in it.
Place your bets on which will be released first: Dolce Vita, Library of Dorico, or the Switch 2?
>>46773003It's in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-GN0uZirDc announcement video they put up later. Odd that it's a Wizard of Oz theme but MC isn't Dorothy.
>>46771280You don't have forever to live and wait for things so knowing JP pays off in general for the better experience. Probably a waste of time if your only interest is reading BLge and nothing else, though. There's a lot out there.
>>46771280You can use it for other untranslated stuff.
>通常版 8,580円(税込)Otomate is starting to hike up their prices...
>>46738067Meat log mountain?
I saw someone mention it on otome redditAnons, which diabolik lovers LI was a virgin?
>>46784263I would assume Kanato would be, unless he was fucking the corpse dolls he made
>>46781694I’m so tired of mediocre otomate writingWhere are the other devs
ded hobby
Thanks to the anon who suggested playing through even if Tempest for Tyril. I'm not done yet, but he's a very good boy. Hearing all the times the english text invents a nicer version of what he's saying or just drops lines is great.It's the best thing I've played from Voltage so far, but still suffers from mobile-isms like character development from nowhere. It's also crashed a few times despite having a legit digital copy. The trial sections are more interactive than I expected. I wish to pet Rune.
https://vndb.org/v48733An anon was looking for this r18 otome that was no longer sold iirc. It was uploaded on a-s recently.
Who is the best paradise boy? Grandpa fuckers should not reply
>>46797628Mitsugi of course
>>46797628Azuma my loser husband
>>46797628I must say Takara.
>>46796174>Hearing all the times the english text invents a nicer version of what he's saying or just drops lines is great.Damn do they really? I bought the digital since it was so cheap and havent gotten around to it yet
>>46797628I love Matsuda sorry not sorry. Punching azumas belly and targeting specifically the place his dick is located and groan and moan like a gorilla hoe was some kino shit that you just don't come up with everyday.
>>46798147I will now read your game
I can't take Matsuda seriously sometimes when he was called a gorilla too many times. He's a monkey.
Matsuda's most moe trait is immediately falling asleep after blowing his load like the scumbag ojisan he is
>>46797936Well it doesn't quite matter as much because you can toggle the game between the English and Japanese text.
I hope everyone at JastBlue burns in hell for all eternity
>>46802151Zoinks!
>>46802151Kek, what was the original line?
Matsuda's crying face is めちゃくちゃ可愛い
>>46816026How are you upscaling it?
>>46816377https://github.com/cunnyplapper/MagpieStill looks kinda jank with some sprites though
>>46816026Is that the fandisk? What's going on here?
>>46816857It's from Matsuda's side story in the Musubi fandisk, yeah. Basically a continuation from his "good" end where both him and Azuma find out the entire incident in the main game is entirely Takara and his family's doing. Unsurprisingly, Takara was the one who actually killed Kibo. His death was part of what escalated the whole group distrust in Matsuda since he did beat the shit out of Kibo for being a dishonest fat fuck.Anyway, after Takara does the whole 黒幕 reveal and fucks off, Matsuda breaks down crying as he was ridden with extreme guilt from mistakenly thinking that he killed Kibo after the incident. From everything Matsuda did and Azuma having to console him everytime (including times when he'd cry in his sleep) it's somewhat cathartic.The Musubi FD feels a lot more vanilla where it does more comedy/SOL but it's nice to read about the other character's backstories and their POVs.
>>46802151>>46808626I'm wondering this as well because the only context in which I could somewhat understand this choice is if it was some Gegege no kitaro reference or something along those lines.
>>46818254Call me a brainlet, but after playing the game there's something I still don't understand. Is Matsuda just a fucking psychopath that puts on a mask of normalcy? Is that why he loves to beat people up and won't apologize to Azuma?.Looking forward to the fandisk if they ever decide to translate that too.
>>46818254Half the purpose of Musubi was to smooth over/explain some of the characters' controversial moments yeah. I kind of wonder how much of this was pre-planned and how much was Pil/Slash begging the writer to please add some sugar after they got negative/confused feedback about the characters. Paradise does feel very incomplete without Musubi story-wise too of course.>>46820503He just has wifebeater/tyrant tendencies since childhood, beating up other kids to impose his way. He learned to repress and control this as he matured to become a responsible manager type, but the abnormal stressful situation he was in made him go back to his brat mindset out of frustration.He's definitely not a psychopath or sociopath though, he does have empathy and guilt about his dark urges and he's fundamentally well-meaning. IIRC his POV retelling mentions he knows he fucked up beating Azuma but he couldn't help enjoy it. As for Kido or Shimada he just hit them because he felt it was necessary and maybe to vent.
Do we learn more about Shimada? I think Shimadas the true psychopath.I wonder if in Musubi the 4 dudes stay alive I liked Kido.
>>46820880Shimada gets the most background and stuff in Kiwame, but yeah, he's probably the most amoral and remorseless after TakaraHalf his dialog is hilarious shit because of thatShimada: yeah so I roofied her and sold her to the yakuza boss andAzuma: you WHATHe's not just clueless either, he trolls Azuma constantly.But even he gets a rather sweet AU version of events in Musubi where he just has a nice chat and doesn't actually drug-rape Azuma, he does get off peeping on Matsuda beating him though
Finished Paradise this morning. I liked the bad end where Azuma goes delusional and kills everyone the most. Azuma was my favorite overall, though Matsuda was my favorite voice and appearance wise out of the main boys. His romance was nonsense but beating Azuma into PTSD induced shrieking was great. I did like Mitsugi as well. Takara's good end made me briefly wonder about getting a refund for a game I spent 20+ hours in but his bad ends were uncomfortable in a good way so I guess the trade off is worth it.
So the original Cage-School- kinda left me baffled, but Kanzenban was pretty nice. I think pic related was the moment I truly warmed up to it. Maybe my brain has melted somewhere along the way but I found Teppei spending most of Ishimatsu's ending just mentally monologing about how outrageously lame his bike is genuinely funny as fuck. Yeah... I also appreciated that the title theme played exactly one time, and that was on Saiki's route. I'll take that as L&D's acknowledgement that Cage without Saiki is not Cage at all, because that's the truth. The Open routes had some minimal rewrites, nothing drastic but they improved some of the sol scenes that suffered most from being dryer than the Sahara. That said, I was looking forward to rereading Teppei's feminine whining over being a social reject now that there are 8 guys more than happy to hang out, but ha, they actually just replaced that scene (with something even more melodramatic). Can't tell if this was part of the joke, but what the fuck, zoomer Teppei is not even a tiny bit homophobic. So weird. Uncanny even. Not muh Teppei. Also I had a revelation:>鳴き声みたくなっとるやんOh. Hell. I went through two whole ass games without getting this. The nickname, "キツネみたいな名前", taming the fox, etc etc. コンコン. Ha ha.. God fucking damn I'm dumb.Anyway, this was a cute omake game. I don't really understand why it allows mxing and matching character scenes since about half of the routes have a clear arc that won't make a lick of sense if you start skipping scenes and you always end up on someone's route in the end, but watever. For science this is the Teppeibowl tiebreaker:Kujo > Nitta > Yoshimoto > Yagasaki > Oohira > Kurusu > Saiki > Ishimatsu > MakiBy the way, Kujo. The new artstyle totally butchered his OG School sprite. It's brutal. Poor guy. I also dislike that they stopped drawing Nitta with corpse white skin. Still pretty pale here though. And far better than that fuckawful Remake sprite.
>>46808626>46819770>46819770I'm a disgusting EOP so I don't know the original line, but I imagine it can't be anything close to this since it came so out of left field I almost got whiplash. All it serves is to be a really dumb segway into the next few lines.>46822566I feel almost the exact same, though I think Azuma is just the right amount of retarded that I can believe him still falling for Matsuda even after being raped by him. But goddamn Takara's route is so fucking bad, and I was so excited for him after seeing what a chad he was in Matsuda's route.
>>46681926Is pic related any good? I haven't played any takuyo game yet but I own this, shinigami and getsuei.
>>46828468Haven't gotten to the other two yet but Sweet Clown is really good.
>>46826841You can more or less think of Matsuda as a bratty child struck in a grown man's body instead of someone truly psychopathic/sociopathic as anon mentioned.It's been mentioned a few times but Paradise does write Matsuda and Mitsugi as polar opposites at its core. Both twisted people who essentially operate differently with how they approach problems and the way they treat their relationships with others. Unlike Mitsugi, Matsuda easily breaks down under stress, mistrusts everyone around him including Azuma and is often unwilling to compromise. On a side note, it's pretty funny how a number of the CGs/official art has Mitsugi getting annoyed at Matsuda in particular.
>>46829785Sorry meant for >>46820503
>still no shota game
I like Haruka's eyes
>>46836777
>>46836777Same
Eiichis game when anonas.
I'm excited for this
Does a BL where the uke is small and pretty exist?
I’m currently playing Norn9 and I finished Heishi and Itsuki’s routes and am currently playing Ron’s route.Who is best boy and who is worst boy?
>>46843793Ron. I liked the daisuono one too but Ron is good. Cute game.
>>46844141Adding that worst boy was the kaji yuki one. The tsundere was cute too. The others were forgettable to zzzz.
>>46842573Like the majority of them? What blge are you looking at
>>46843793Ok, I finished Ron’s route. >!Him having his memories erased was lame, it erased some of his appeal to me. !<
>>46844750Fuck, I made a mistake with my post.
>>46841262I'm not interested in school settings so I'm scared to buy it in case the porn is mid as fuck. Should I order it anyway? Already got my month booked for the (hopefully) new holicworks kino.
>>46844750Reddit chan...[ spoiler ] your spoiler here [ /spoiler] obviously w/o spaces and can delete stuff by pressing the 3 dots next to your post. At least you are not namefagging. It's okay you've all been newfags. I didn't like that about Ron too.
>>46841262Curious about the doctor. And time passes fast, it'll be out soon! Anyone getting this?
>>46846386Me, ginger misaki is looking sexo as fuck.
>>46846737Mc cutie looking. I like the young looking LI! I wonder if the other game that uesugi is in is still alive...Is uesugi still active lol no news about club suicide tl too.
Playing matsudas route and cooming.
>>46848254Same anon, same. His route is such kino, Mitsugicel cannot compare.
we need a virgin mitsugi vs chad matsuda pic
Mitsugi and Matsuda should just have hatesex
>>46849709Who's topping who though
>>46849997Mitsugi tries to top but it's always Matsuda. Matsuda easily kills everyone in both his bad ends. Probably fucked their asses with his massive gorilla penis before doing so like a whore he is
>>46849709Azuma/Mitsugi/Matsuda 3P where Azuma watches from the cuck chair while Matsuda breaks Mitsugi in half.
>>46850203Secret Mitsugi bad ending in Musubi. Azuma/Mitsugi think they're at peace in their new home but a starved, deranged Matsuda finally appears. He takes it against them for leaving him behind and violently rapes both. Man, I would love to see mind broken Mitsugi desu
>>46850319Based, I wish. Maybe with the help of AI in a few years this could be possible. /blogs/DLCs.
desu I kinda hated Takara and his family struck in his dick in everything. Takara should also get topped and DV'd by Matsuda. Brats need correction
>>46850469It's 'possible' now so much as you can generate the text and images, maybe even voice acting. But it would probably look like shit or at least be off model and out of character unless you put so much effort into it you might as well have made it by hand.
>>46850319You know Matsuda's dick would do the trick. You think if Azuma wasn't there he'd have raped Mitsugi since he's the weakest? Or Takara, who looks scrawny at first?
>>46850925>If Azuma wasn't thereYeah, after reading Matsuda's bit in Musubi, I kinda wondered if there ever was an Ogino route where he actually did manage to invite Azuma out instead of being led on to that booby trap tour. Probably Matsuda would get turned by Mitsugi instead maybe. A lot of his reasoning for him wanting to fuck Azuma at first is mostly physical after all. The artist for Paradise also seems to ship Matsuda/Mitsugi together for some reason??Actually I think after Azuma, Mitsugi might be the second most attractive guy in the tour group. At least according to Azuma since he always talks about Mitsugi's nice smell and how elegant/beautiful he looks in contrast to his gross habits.
>>46851028>after AzumaI'm still not sold on Azuma being the most fuckable guy in there. I'd kill Mitsugi but he's objectively sexier, even when he's being a total slob. Matsuda and Mitsugi would make good hatesex though, would watch. Maybe that's the entire point with the fact that they're practically opposite to each other.
h-he's seeing right through me
>>46854657Can you rape them?
>>46854662god I wish
>>46854657I'm going to eat him ToT
>>46854657right needs correction right now! damn brat!!!
>>46846386Trial is out apparently. But I can't access it. Can an anon who cans post it here please?https://twitter.com/holic_works/status/1791378832378982513?t=wQ4M-rF_u1oCS_ihsr0OYQ&s=19
>>46857275Herehttps://mega.nz/file/GkkBCLSQ#smi2ojRAMZgyBI1Uw6Wyr7AEV3PWwR6CorHh-s0V4u0
>>46857524Be blessed anon thanks very much.
Playing Paradise made me play mashou megane. It's peak kino. Paradises artist, like her art better in mashou. It's smoother, maybe because it's an otome. Cidre is mitsugi, but way more autistic and a necro. Doutei is a split persona mix of a toned down Matsuda and Azuma. Peach is Azuma (shares his va) but more perverted. And Oujisama is Shimada but more wicked. Wish Oujisama had a full route...we were robbed. Pretty short game I still miss a few endings I'm going to 100%. I love pil. I love the heroine, both her meek cute personality and the schizoslut version.How are pils other two otome games?
Since it was brought up here a while back and people did talk about hooking emulated games, has anyone tried using LunaTranslator to hook PS3 games? Any success?https://github.com/HIllya51/LunaTranslator/blob/main/README_en.mdSorry if this seems off topic. I dunno where else to ask for constructive answers.
>>46858580Agent doesn't hook it? If you want a specific game to hook you can request or commission for a script hook if it's for agent. Now Luna you can ask the developer, they helped me before with a script. Open an issue on their github but you need to be specific about the issues you have + might need to provide the game.
>>46857275>>46857524Wasn't that interested, but it looks very promising.
>>46858739Thanks for the input, anon. I appreciate it! Yeah, asking the Luna dev and also probably the Agent devs was gonna be the next step. I did speak to a few people at the Agent discord about another otome game before but I figured I'd just ask here first out of curiosity. I wasn't so sure about Agent's compatibility since I didn't see any RPCS3 related scripts available.
>>46858882Np anon wish I could be more helpful tho! I never tried hooking an ps3 game before, but I did a ps2 one and did manage to hook it with luna but it had a few issues like dumb text repeated lines and I don't know how to fix these. This was when luna had first come out didn't test again. What I did basically is search for a hook automatically. Had to repeate it 2 times but did manage to find one. Didn't have luck with a ds game.
>>46858922Nice, I will try that for other games and if this works on my end at some point. For Luna, the window is just completely blank when hooked to the emulator. I figured I could try hooking the unity version of the game but aaaa it also didn't work on my end, sure sucks being tech illiterate. Anyway thanks again!
>>46858996>Unity versionAgent makes some unity scripts iirc! You can request a hook from the luna dev or some textractor forks might do the job. Unity should be easier compared to an emulator.
Cage-Fool- was, well, an April's Fool comedy game. Probably its biggest surprise was that it didn't actually take place on April 1st, instead it remained a dumb but otherwise somewhat plausible Open route. More plausible than CARNAVALE at least. I guess it was also nice to see the Open cast interact a bit more as a group since that isn't something we see much of in the actual games.
>>46859825>file namethat's too truewhich is why I was pretty surprised that I enjoyed Paradise's silly SoL bits, I guess they improved over the years.
>>46859825L&D's writing style is truly an art imo Not to be whatever but it's a shame how Paradise's localization is kinda memey.
>>46860068>paradise TLLoads of typos to boot. But no eyepussies so it could be worse.
>>46857916I liked the art of Paradise better (it looks a bit more natural) and I didn't feel the cast really corresponded to the Mashou Megane ones (remember, they're written by different people)But yeah I loved this silly game. Cidre was best boy.And I'm livid that we never got Oujisama's backstory or whatever, I thought maybe in the tokuten extra but no, it was just about making nabe with old socks and condoms
>>46860000Must have, it's the same with School. The 2018 version is surprisingly not horrible. Huge step up from the 2011 Goody Goody doujins that honest to fucking god made me want to strangle someone.>>46860068How memey is Paradise anyway? CARNAVALE was chock full of pop culture references and School also had a fair amount. The rest of the games used them only in moderation, but they did drop some every so often.
>19万本セールスGS5 when
>>46860206I can't really speak for Paradise's translation 100% besides seeing what others have shown but I don't remember the main game's Japanese script being particularly heavy with pop culture references. On the other hand, it's quite big on colloquialism and more modernized words iirc. I had consult Google, Yahoo!知恵袋, etc for some of those. The most notable "memes" I saw so far were actually from the Musubi FD. ex. Azuma referencing the infamous Schrodinger's cat and quoting Muhammad Ali
yeah, Azuma speaks like a millennial but without much online meme slang or references (he's not some nerd you know)
Still have to play Takara's route but in terms of memes so far I've seen>Yoinks scoob>No thoughts head empty >Boomer, zoomer And probably one or two more I'm forgetting. I was expecting worse from what I heard about the SD loc. Also >faggot, fagIf that can be considered a meme reference.
Localization is always gonna be shit so learn japanese or use mtl and be the change you want to see
I don't really see any complains here, though.
>>46860467>faggot, fagabsolutely based translation 10/10
>>46860640>MTLas soon as it stops telling me to get professional help or saying 'this is not a good idea' when I try to make it translate porn
I don't use MTL anymore since my Japanese became more usable and less of an embarrassment but it's fun looking back at the more interesting "results"
>>46854662>>46857033>>46854657stop using male-speak
I only read a bit of the trial and the hook was boring and felt dated. I almost dropped it right there and then but overall it's not too bad and the convo about onmyouji stuff had me intrigued. I might pirate it for Tendou I guess.
>>46861181Chatgpt one is getting so accurate tho that makes me feel sad about translators.Graffic designers and translators are going to have a bad time making a living.Still i don't regret picking up Japanese I like the language but maybe I wouldn't now.
>>46863348Chatgp can't tl a whole VN and doesn't even do porn
>>46863487It can. I tested it with different commands a whole script and while it was not perfect it was actually good. Didn't have an issue with the porn it did warn me though. There are AIs that translate porn though.
>>46860338>Iku My autistic public confession machine beloved.
>>46863061That's disappointing. Would you say it's similar to 24ku? I'm not playing the trial since I want to go in blind but I hope the plot delivers, even if some of the boys look nasty.
>>46863061I was not impressed by the initial promo stuff, the premise seemed generic, but the trial got me interested, I'm not sure how much of that is due to having gone a long time without a new BL game though. Still I hate how it looks. It's somehow bland and garish at the same time. The younger guy's shirt needs to be burned.
>>46860156I really wanted to buy oujisamas cd bc I really wanted to learn more about him etc but lmao it was that hahaha. Well Sawa manaka eargasm was worth it tho sis I'm 100% sure. Cidre my favorite. > moaned louder fucking mc dead than when alive ROLF
>>46863061Ifk what annoys me the most in meganes design>his shitty haircut>his w i d e back and shoulders >his clothes that make him look fat>the fact that he's a manlet>all the aboveHis scene in trial was nice but I don't know why his design pisses me off
Surprised by how much I enjoyed bustafellows, I really liked the group's dynamic
>>46860351Heh, so nothing like Kurusu penetrating Teppei with an アムロ、行きまーす！ war cry, gotcha.I don't really want to get into translation theory or what the fuck, not for a game I didn't play in either language, and not when I lack the mastery and the reading experience to make any objectavive statements about any Japanese author's writing skills. But sometimes translating something is not about whether you can, but whether you should. At least for me when much of what makes a work so good is rooted in its use of language (because of word plays, some kind of dialect or sociolect, clever use of kanji, etc) then imho you lose too much, no matter how skilled the translator was. That was not a work meant to be enjoyed by anyone other than the original target audience. I'm not saying L&D falls into this category, I guess it's more in that grey area like Ace Attorney or Suda's games where the translation may or may not work, but the quality is going to take a hit no matter what.But if the original was not a meme-fest then doing a meme translation is just a fucking shitty thing to do, period.
>>46862916Men are the reason we get oyaji and no shota
>>46867840Honestly, I agree with many of your points. It can't be disputed how the original text gives a far more different experience, no matter how well or accurate a translation is. It's a sort of thing that can feel rather inorganic in a way.Since I became far more serious in understanding Japanese, there is a lot to appreciate about the language's subtleties. It's difficult to explain precisely but Japanese simply convey certain ideas and emotions in a more intricate, impactful way which will never be translated adequately in another language. In contrast to English, Japanese is highly contextual and often does not repeat itself with pronouns and/or the main subject. IMO this really works well to its advantage by creating a certain type of environment and mood which isn't easily achievable anywhere else. An example is when L&D describes Azuma's emotional state within a "gradiant". This is particularly noticable when a certain person Azuma truly respects Matsuda first commits rape/violence to him and cold blooded murder right in front of his face (within a certain ending) - latter being particularly very gory despite not having a CG. The fact that the writing also artfully omits the guy's identity as a way to intensify Azuma's shock is a sort of thing that really gave a huge impression on me. But yeah, as someone who loves the Metal Gear Solid games and as well as Suda51's work + the Ace Attorney games for their English localizations, I get what you mean. I figured it's always gonna be judged on a case by case basis in the event where the translation can actually work with the work's setting and be appreciated for what it is despite all the glaring discrepancies.
I love traps, shota, otokonoko, muscular guys, anal sex, handjobs, romance between a hot guy and a cute boy, sweet and dirty talk, holding hands, and kissingWhat should I play?
>>46867826Has a really nice style/setting too. I hope the sequel gets localised sometime.
>>46870808most otokonoko content on dlsite seems to be disappointing, so I'll wait for recs with you
>>46870808honestly you don't have much choice, I'd recommend Enzai, Laughter Land, Shingakkou and Mahou Shounen Sky Prim that at least hit some of those tags.Particularly Shingakkou if you don't mind your cute boys only wearing male clothing (but they are so cute they love like reverse traps)
Sex with blood related brother
>>46877045Fujos are starved of that.. there're what, 3 games in total with brothers fucking each other.Depressing
>>46877045Based and niichanpilled
>>46870388Ahh, I want to get there too. You know, for years I was scraping by with what knowledge I had, but Cage pushed me to finally get back to intensive studying. Splitting what free time I had between the two was an experience, but I badly wanted to be able to grasp it better. That was a very valuable routine, but I still have an awful long way to go. If all goes well I want to take the N1 this winter. I can already tell that even that won't be enough though. So maybe in a year's time. That will be a good time to play Paradise, I think.A thing I really appreciated in Cage was how the style would subtly shit to accommodate each route. Yoshimoto's for example was unusually dense with onomatopoeia and simple descriptions that emphasized sensations. The whole experience was terribly visceral. Yagasaki's meanwhile very quickly shifted into a more literary style with some more "highbrow" vocabulary you hardly ever encountered on any other route. It had the most hazy, dreamlike atmosphere of them all. There's a scene on this route that I particularly loved, when Yagasaki asks Teppei to read out 天鵞絨, 瀟洒, and finally 文博, and Teppei bungles all three of them. There is so much implied in this one scene. Teppei mistaking these kanji, or in the last case reading, for common ones that he learned in secondary education has some bittersweet undertones when you later learn that Fumi-kun chose the date of the promise assuming that Teppei would go into higher education and graduate around that time. Not even recognizing Fumihiro as a name even though Yagasaki already told him just drives it home how thoroughly he was forgotten, and hits even harder on Master because of course Teppei's Fumi was Fumio, not Fumihiro. Just total oblivion. It's a wonderful scene, but not one that you can just port over to English and have it land the same.
>>46877045Did anyone find a way to make the fandisk work with text extractor?>>46878611Sauce?
>>46878949Agent catches the FD no problem anon. The superior program desu.
>>46878949Sorry anon, I've lost the sauce. It's a twitter artist though, maybe you can find it through their other nie art.
>finally get to reading le salut>dahut is the sponsorHahaha what the fuckI shouldn't have put off this route for so many months
>>46879726I wish he had a route
>>46880085Could've been a fun villain route... side note but I really like his VA, he does a pretty good little boy voice
2013/06/04 vol.50, 2013/10/04 vol.52, 2013/12/04 vol.53, 2014/02/04 vol.54 in about two weeks, same deal as before.
What a dork
>>46882483Based anon thank you as always. I see omerta and mebiusline stuff so if you could share these please. And if by any chance you stubble upon any shingakkou and chou no doku crumbs I'll gladly take these too. Thank you again!
>>46883367Cute. Is the game good? I really like his voice actor is he popular on otome btw because I've seen him do mostly bl?
Please tell me that he gets a fd route
>>46882483>>46884352Seconding the Mebius request and of course, all the CAGE stuff you do find. Big thank you from me too anon, you are unfathomly based.
Does 5ch or 2ch have the coolb games that came with the cd rom discs collected and shared somewhere or they are lost media? Aarin has shared some, ikare chinpoya for example and some others can be found on dlsite, but a lot remain lost media.
>>46884383absolutely zero chance. At best you might get a new bad end with him or something, but after the shit he's done in the original game, there's really no way they can spin him in a positive light, especially to Cyrus of all people.
>>46884440Cool b exclusive games btw暗夜－ヴェンデハルスの番う森－ (vol. 21) lost media Itsuwari no Alkanet (vol. 32 + 34) trial only or op lost mediaIkare Chinpoya (aarin)Cage school (aarin)無形都市 -THE LOST INNOCENT (vol. 66) lost media (voiced) info here https://mukeitoshi.com/special.html1 ichi (aarin)>actually I'm interested in thatA patch for paradise that adds extra cg etc. (Vol. 79) Do you know if these cg etc stuff were included in the English version?Might have missed some but basically these were cool-b exclusive only
>>46885001I don't know about 2 and 5ch, but I can maybe try to help you somehow. A while back I went through almost the entirety of /blog/'s history since its inception (which wasn't easy with the switches from /vg/ and some of the 4chan archives being dead or not allowing text search) if you give me a precise date the issues in question came out, I can try to find their respective /blog/ threads and you can see if someone uploaded the CDs here long ago. Of course this only covers anything post-2013. Good Haro used to upload coolB scans and CD extras ITT back in 2014, though I'm not sure when she stopped doing it. Let me know if you're interested, I love archive work. And of course if you find anything on what you're looking for, I'd be curious to know too.
>>46885320>>46885320Thank you very much anon! Here are the issues detailed, coolbs site.https://www.cool-b.jp/backnumber/?cool-b_vol21https://www.cool-b.jp/backnumber/?cool-b_vol32https://www.cool-b.jp/backnumber/?cool-b_vol34https://www.cool-b.jp/backnumber/?cool-b_vol66https://www.cool-b.jp/backnumber/?cool-b_vol79 (Not sure if someone can confirm it'd really help but digital version of paradise does include the cool-b patch?)
>>46884372Its okay, there are parts I really enjoy and other parts not so much. It drags on for too long sometimes and the sci-fi stuff can get retarded. Even as a bad end enjoyer I became fatigued with how ZETSUBOU the game is, so take a break if you try it out and feel the same way instead of pushing through. The game is kinda long anyway.Most of the boys are loveable (one sucks in his own route but I like him in the others routes), art/backgrounds are visually very pleasing. The dynamic between the main guys is pretty enjoyable too.>OkitsuI feel like he tends to play side characters in otome but he does have a few main characters like in yoshiwara higanbana/oz mafia/reine des fleurs. He was really perfect for Ankou...
>>46885685Thanks for the links with the issues, I'll try to find all the archive links and get back to you asap. As for paradise, I just checked and indeed, the JAST version has 5 CGs more than the basic jp game I've got on my laptop.
>>46885807Thank you very much anon, really appreciate it! That's cool, it's nice for stuff not to become lost media. I wish coolb could publish all their mags on dlsite, including the cds.
>>46885971Here are the /blog/ threads for February 2016:#115 https://archived.moe/vg/thread/133272418#114 https://archived.moe/vg/thread/131688835/#113 https://archived.moe/vg/thread/131207634/#112 https://archived.moe/vg/thread/129821475/Damn didn't think I'd be able to find them, this one was a bit tricky. Haven't checked what's inside so have fun and report back if you find something interesting anon. For fun, here's thread #51 from Sept 2014. Using this you can reliably go back to the first ever /blog/ thread if you want. Some of the mediafire links shared back then surprisingly still work. I love reading old /blog/ when I finish a VN that came out during its lifetime.https://archived.moe/vg/thread/78970387/Best of luck finding all the 2010 stuff.
Will she do the teacher next? Or is it super secret?
I'm really having a hard time getting through Tengoku Struggle. Normally I can get through these games pretty quick, but I find myself leaving the game for like, weeks at a time after only playing a little bit. I've only just started the third route so far. Anyone else just kind of bored as they went through it?
>>46886405Based anon thank you! You are a Saint! From a look of it these aren't shared but they do have some other goodies thanks a tons! I love reading old conversations too. Cute 2010s anons. I wonder if they still lurk here. No thank you was that loved heh. Back then they had rough though with localizations. Mostly fantls.
>>46890006I remember finding it boring when I played it
>>46890006It's a bad game, but the non-virgin (male) was a highlight.
>>46878726Learning seriously Japanese did end up being a very valuable experience for me as well even if its usefulness is a bit debatable in my career. Although it could be true that working adults are at a disadvantage in learning foreign languages, I felt like it worked out better on my end compared to the past when I had more time. My time management skills/discipline really wasn't at great before getting invested into Japanese. But yeah, even though my understanding in the language has improved, I also have a long way to go. For me, it's just too easy to feel confident at one point but once again feel stupid after reading something else shortly after and/or trying to test myself.Though, I suppose it's natural to struggle and feel bothered while trying to learn something, can't really learn anything without pain after all. I figured I could also take N1 by the end of the year to get those credentials but it's hard to feel 100% confident when my comprehension, especially with my knowledge in pure kana still needs plenty of work. Probably another year for me too, yeah.Tbh it's only until after reading Paradise in JP, things actually started to become way more comfortable because I did struggle reading through it. While the game's plot is fairly simplistic by itself, I really didn't think interpreting the actual writing style was that simple, especially if I genuinely wanted to get a solid understanding of the little things. The huge amounts of slang and pure kana can be a headache to parse since I wasn't using anything else as an aid besides dictionary/search engine lookups, of course. Mitsugi's dialogue was probably the most difficult out of them all. On the flipside, he always had the most fun ways to piss off Azuma. When I look back at it, I'm glad I chose a L&D work like Paradise to learn. All that heavy colliquism was useful at improving attentiveness since it was a lot of white noising the details for me before. Besides the great characterization, character interactions and black comedy, Paradise's writing style is definitely one of its strongest points - the pure viscerality in the descriptions is peak. Actually kinda amazing how L&D are two writers who could work so well together.While I have not read the Cage series yet, I have no doubt I will definitely enjoy it for similar things as well. It's thanks to the 感想 from you and the other anons here that I got into the BL genre again after so many years, really.
>>46893889Learning Japanese just VN Is probably a waste (though I 'm happy I got to read some shit that never will get TL like Kintouka) but if you read manga it's absolutely useful , way so much shit comes out that will probably never see the light of the day in eng or you are at the whims of TL that may drop it at any point.
>>46893901Well, learning Japanese feels more like a journey instead of meeting a true endpoint for me right now. There are a lot of things I want to play and read besides VNs, sure but knowing JP is just part of appreciating the art. At this point, it's a bit too bland to read anything in English. I don't know, maybe it's because my native tongue is English and it always happened to be my least favorite subject at school.
>>46893889We are pretty much in the same boat. You just learn to make do with what free time you get. For example one thing that worked for me while I was learning the N1 kanji was keeping a running list of the ones I've already learned, just write the kanji on a piece f paper and nothing else. By the end I had two pages of nothing but row after row of kanji, so every day when I commute or have some downtime during work I take it out, pick a row, and start reciting them one by one. It's brain dead drilling, but hey, it works, and leaves me with more time to read when I'm home.>I figured I could also take N1 by the end of the year to get those credentials but it's hard to feel 100% confident No, don't worry about that, whether you pass or not is irrelevant if you don't need the paper. I failed the JLPT before, it doesn't matter. It's just that following the JLPT curve is actually effective since it gives you tangible goals to work toward, and setting a faux-deadline helps to not lose focus.>It's thanks to the 感想 from you and the other anons here that I got into the BL genre again after so many years, reallyIt's nice that someone other than us enjoyed it too, because it was super fun for me.It's my eternal shame that I brought that discussion to an abrupt halt because even after repeated attempts I couldn't fucking make my mind up about how I interpreted two of the more ambiguous endings. Fucking Cage and its 理解不能 endings god fucking damn it to hell they drive me insane.
>>46879103Doesn't work fo rme?
>>46882483>vol.50ld1mebiuslinenevasista>vol.52ld1ikare chinpoyanevasistaken ga kimimebiusline>vol.53ld1the foolchou no dokuoshioki salesmanmebiuslinebaka no ki>vol.54ld1mebiuslinethe foolzettai kaikyuu gakuenchou no dokuSorry it ended up being a super long list, but I'd be interested in these bits. Thank you.
Close to finishing Matsuda. Mitsugi next. Refreshing to see well written rapechads. Chiral can't write shit.
>>46898201Seconding you anon. Matsuda was such a well written schizo rapechad it just made me hate Slow Damage even more by comparison. Madarame has no personality or motivationhe's just a boring and ugly beating machine. Matsuda however is a great character and it's completely believable why he acts the way he does, when he switches it's actually kinda scary and funny at the same time cause he's so unpredictable. Madarame by comparison was boring as shit and drier than a wooden board.
>>46898735Can't agree more anon. Madarame, Mink, Shiki. They have interesting and appealing designs but they are just empty shells. Just a rape command prompt. Nothing else. Zenya and Makoto were at least interesting schizos and can justify their actions due to the meats pheromones lol. Other than that Youji was so miserable the least thing I was thinking at was him getting dick. Give that man a box of chocolates and tampax and let him chill. Kabura sucks at writing in general. But other than that you can still enjoy nitro games if you want something generic to pass time. Slow damage being 60 hrs long though is ridiculous. Could reduce it to 40hrs.Meanwhile, pilslash kinoschizo rapechads. Takara, Matsuda, August, Riku, Shuuhei, even the underwear pervert and the pigeon blood rapecels. All of them make sense. All of them have based writing. All of them are unjustifiable rape apes that you can't hate. They are creeps scary but funny at the same time.
>>46898808Nakajo Rosa wrote one of the pigeon blood rapecels kek. And speaking of nakojo her rapechads are as based. Senge and Tademaru. I loved Tademaru. Arcadia and Satsujin better have based rapechads.
Taku wasn't that bad, speaking of schizos desu. His writing and reasons were retarded tho not denying that. What was unforgivable in slow damage was true end and Fujieda. Nah fuck Fujieda seriously.
>>46898908Its been a while since I played slow damage, what was the problem with Fujieda?
>>46898908Fujieda is a generic blank slate self-insert protagonist turned into an LI. It's funny.
>>46898808Kek at Youji, for real. It's a shame the nitro game with the best rapechads (even if it's because of frankly, uncomplicated reasons like da meat made me do it) is such a depressionfest that you don't even get to enjoy it really, I just felt bad for Youji too for all the weird ass shit happening to him. For real, maybe all the historic rapechad hate is the fault of nitro and their boring-ass rapecels with shit writing. Paradise is such a breath of fresh air I didn't know I could enjoy seeing Azuma get beat so much, honest props to love&des. An abusable sexo mc and three schizos unconsensually touching him? Based as shit. Nitro protags don't even come close, not even Towa who's supposed to be into it. I honestly didn't even believe his schtick about being a whore, he just looked like an anorexic emo ana-chan. Azuma does the DV victim slut role better.
Is Taisho x Alice a fun/light-hearted game? I've been playing too many serious games back to back, even the non /blog/ ones, so I'm looking for something funny or relaxing.
>>46899118Couldn't have worded it better anon. Towa had a based design but this emo BPD anachan cigs and booze only 90s behavior was a huge turn off. And that's his whole personality. And occasionally getting random tsun mood swings and still not enjoying sex! No one in the nitro chiral universe enjoys sex. Only Aoba and maybe Konoe but they are still unsexy and unwilling at first.Azuma curses himself for jizzing a gallon everytime the 3 bastards go ape rape on him but it's funny how he initiated everything himself to begin with. He is so sexy. All pilslash protagonists are. From the purest, Michael to the sluttiest Azuma. They are based, cute and love anal sex. That's why I don't get chiral like what's the point? Why bother playing a bl game when the protagonist is so unwilling to have sex in all the routes? Don't make it a bl in the first place. I understand being unwilling at first, but he keeps going.
>>46898917This.>>46898924And turned off by the homeless mob.
Anons would have liked Fujieda if he was Towas long lost brother.
>>46899940I don't think any reveal of that nature could top dramatical murder
>>46899508For the most part yes. It has some more serious things towards the end of the routes, but the bulk of it is them being retards
>>46899940I bet that was the original intended storyline anyway. The shit with Towa and his sister was convoluted and made no sense, it would have been more impactful if she hadn't been there and it was Towa all along.That's what I'd say if slow damage wasn't just a half-assed copy of no thank you and Fujieda wasn't a worse version of Ryu.
>>46899744>Why bother playing a bl game when the protagonist is so unwilling to have sex in all the routes?Absolutely, this is the curse of nitro and their games. Even with their supposed whore mc they still made dislike sex except for the most cliché "I'm drugged so now I'm horny" scene. Azuma doesn't need drugs to be a horny turboslut and he was literally asking for it. I kekked when I played Matsuda's route and Azuma was basically willing to fuck him from moment 1 and Matsuda STILL raped him, it was hilarious kino. I really need to play the other pil/slash games, mcs who love sex are honestly just superior. Towa never again, his personality was as boring as any of the LIs except when he was being edgy and cutting himself while jerking off. Probably the only time he actually enjoyed himself.
>>46899940They didn't hire Maruki that's why. Maruki would make Fujieda Towas half brother and first cousin. And maybe Taku his real dad and uncle.
>>46899940Should have been just Towa and Sakaki.
>>46894794Yeah, I do similar drills during mornings before I go to work and downtime. For my usual routine, I'd repetitively write down vocabulary and unfamiliar kanji in a notepad app/program or on a piece of a paper as a way to quiz myself. It might be braindead and all but repetitive practice is a tried and true method to learn many skills in general.Besides while in the office, sometimes I would even do this at home as I read VNs as a "warm up" to get engaged and also write down notes after each reading session, especially about words or grammar I don't fully understand. I did this a lot for Paradise, which helped tons for my memory since I can also review my notes the day after when I'm at work and the context itself is still fresh in my mind. But when I actually do get into the zone to read, I try to keep a good flow going on with an inner monologue in Japanese by recognizing the readings as much as I can. For me, if I can't recite the vocabulary's reading then don't know the word at all, even if I do understand the meaning in English and/or just simply recognizing any of the kanji as visual aids to clue me in.Here's one thing I wrote down while reading Paradise. Matsuda's route (one of the scenes that predates to a bad end) - Azuma starts talking in his monologue about how impressed he was with Takara when he stood up to Matsuda's violence. He compares that chutzpah to himself.そんな姿を見てたら、ビビリの性根がちょっとだけ奮い立った。根性はねえよ。でも、ないならないなりの行動ができるははずだ。性根=しょうこん根性=こんじょうThese words are quite distinctive from each other so it's funny how readings can also mean differently with just a simple kanji order switch. It still confuses me so just writing about parts of the scene helped. On a side note, 外人 (がいじん) and 人外 (じんがい) is yet another one of my favorites.>It's just that following the JLPT curve is actually effective since it gives you tangible goals to work toward, and setting a faux-deadline helps to not lose focus.That makes sense. Ever since I got invested, I was aiming for solely N1 since I heard job opportunities I'm interested in aren't interested with anything less but I'm definitely at a position where I don't need any credentials right away. I haven't took any real exams in years so I'll have to prepare myself mentally as well and go back to reading about standardized exams. Failing sucks but at least you got experience with the testing. I heard N1 is pretty difficult. Guess for any sort of official testing, I figured it's not only your knowledge being tested but on how to take them.>It's my eternal shame that I brought that discussion to an abrupt halt because even after repeated attempts I couldn't fucking make my mind up about how I interpreted two of the more ambiguous endings. Fucking Cage and its 理解不能 endings god fucking damn it to hell they drive me insane.That's totally fine for me, can always come back to it later when you have a better understanding. I think it's already great to see more constructive impressions here, especially about VNs which barely gets discussions in the first place. IMO sharing thoughts and having discussions are the most important things which keeps the hobby alive even if the future may not be the brightest so I'm really glad to see you guys talk about the Cage in depth.
>>46894794>It's my eternal shame that I brought that discussion to an abrupt halt because even after repeated attempts I couldn't fucking make my mind up about how I interpreted two of the more ambiguous endings.Don't worry about it Anon, I think I had ghosted you a whole week at one point because I just forgot about the thread, I'm glad to know you even read my reply. Looking forward to talking about Paradise or whatever when you go back to reading.
Some questions: >What are you playing/have you played recently?>What are you looking forward to?>What's on your backlog (anything that you're reasonably likely to actually pick up sometime soon)?
>>46905860I'm playing Paradise and I really like it! I started Moshikami too but the emulator is acting up so I'll have to wait for an update. It doesn't load the sprites properly. Looking forward to Arcadia, Ooe and Tokyo Satsujinki. From otome Qualia and Distorted Code. My backlog is huge, but I want to go back to Yoshiwara Higanbana, mebiusline, nie no machi, dystopia no ou and sweet clown. I'll probably play Paradise kiwame and musubi though.What about you anon?
>>46895042After installing the game, you need to go in the resources folder and extract "app.asar" to an "app" folder in the same directory. You can use this to do it https://github.com/aardio/WinAsarAfterwards, hook it to Agent and run the Tyrano script from the drop-down list. This method runs all Tyrano games that can't be hooked with Textractor.
>>46905895>What are you playing/have you played recently?I'm also playing paradise and having a blast, will definitely play Musubi and Kiwame next too, though maybe I'll slip Tokyo Satsujinki in the middle. I can't believe I never played the game when it came out because some friend hated it and told me in a hundred different ways how it was bad. It's funny as fuck and the black comedy parts are amazing. Even the actual bad parts like Takara's route don't bother me because it feels like the route is making fun not only of Azuma but also you, the player, and I love that shit kek. Learned my lesson about listening to other people.>What are you looking forward to?Tokyo Satsujinki and Ooe whenever she's ready with it, hopefully it still comes out this year. Arcadia I've got my eye on but I'll wait for anons' opinions on here before I decide to buy it or not, school settings really aren't my thing.The Shitoku no Gyokuza writer is also working on a new game and I'm definitely interested in it too, she's my favorite schizo doujinka at the moment.>What's on your backlog (anything that you're reasonably likely to actually pick up sometime soon)?After my unchangeable BL backlog consisting of playing Shingakkou around Christmas but never getting to it and thus being unable to start it at any other time of the year, between paradise's FDs I want to play Uwanariuchi no Nanananuka. I remember it being discussed here a while ago and it was on my radar, plus paradise made me miss some schizo doujinka writing à la Love&Des. Hopefully it's interesting.
>>46905860>What are you playing/have you played recently?I went back to Olympia Soiree to finish the routes I hadn't touched. I was initially the least interested in Kuroba's route but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It might be my favourite route so far. Himuka is up next.>What are you looking forward to?I'm excited to find out more about Over Requiemz, and also curious about Natsuzora no Monologue too.>What's on your backlog (anything that you're reasonably likely to actually pick up sometime soon)?I'm gonna go back to Shinigami to Shoujo and Shingakkou, in that order. I've been consciously trying to focus on playing one game at a time, since the number of unfinished games can get out of hand otherwise. So I shan't think about the myriads of other games I'm interested in.
>>46906016Yeah I don't understand the "paradise is a bad game" too. I get it if they don't like abusive noncon dubcon LIs in general like all of them are red flags but I don't think that it's a bad game overall. The true route and revelation is a little retarded but like you said pretty troll fun and can't say that it ruins the game. Other than that I personally really like the psychological thriller elements, seeing them breaking down or going mad, showing the worst of themselves. And I like the LIs, literally trauma and fetish bonding in a life and death situation and I like the fact that there are 2 fandisks and 2 dramacds after that. Nice really! Azuma is perfect best protaginist I've seen so far in a bl game. No wonder he topped Gian in cool b poll. School settings ain't my thing too, but I'm the type of person you consumes every bl that comes out haha. Stopped doing that with otome though because too pricey to buy 2 new games each month but with bl it's fine, we get what 5 games ever 3 years a d localized ones cheaper compared. Based Unica! Thanks for the news anon! Shingakkou is a must. Doesn't matter desu wherever you play it. Only the prologue is set on Christmas.>>46906032Natsuzora is perfect for summer. And both shinigami and shingakkou great choices. Please both of you tell us your impressions about shingakkou when you play. I'm trying hard not to shill it here.
>>46906173>Yeah I don't understand the "paradise is a bad game" too. I get it if they don't like abusive noncon dubcon LIs in general like all of them are red flags but I don't think that it's a bad game overall. The true route and revelation is a little retarded but like you said pretty troll fun and can't say that it ruins the game. Absolutely, the entire game is almost 100% trolling you already with the fact that Azuma is already willing (rare!) and yet the entirety of the 3 LIs manage to rape him. Like an anon upthread put succintly, it's borderline prison gay. The bad ends with Hongou and Shimada had me rolling on the floor, definitely a good game just for those scenes. Lychee is so fucking funny. Personally, when it comes to the psychological thriller aspect I was expecting something more meaty like them being stuck on the island for longer and all of them slowly going insane à la Lord of the flies, I love stories where people try to create a rudimentary society in survival situations and it slowly breaks down. Though I'll admit Matsuda speedran that shit kek his route was my favorite because of that. It's no kamige but it's megafun and Azuma is a great mc, so happy there's so much side content. He does indeed remind me of Gian a bit.Did you play Shitoku, anon? I'm still reeling from this game even though it's gonne be 2 years I've played it, it was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had and I deeply loved it, so much sovl. Crazy bastard she is.>shingakkouReading CAGEanon's posts inspired me to post my impressions ITT whenever I play it, though it definitely won't be as eloquently. And do shill it anon, god knows the thread has always been dead enough.
>>46905860>currently reading The Paradise Musubi fandisk. I've been getting way too distracted by other things so going through it has been glacially slow. Though, reading Matsuda's after story and his POVs really made me appreciate him more as a character. He truly is best boy, there really isn't anything quite like Matsuda. I feel like a lot of people who hate Paradise just didn't get him at all and misunderstood the writers' intentions.>looking forward to灰色のアルカディア I like the art style a lot for this one so I'm pretty curious. Hope it turns out to be decent at least.>wanting to pick up nextPretty much all non-/blog/ related games honestly. I love Paradise but I'm also desperately looking for a change of pace. When I do get back to BL/otome, I might read the Paradise Kiwame FD or 女王蜂の王房
Can drawfags here draw mitsugi and matsuda kek
Drawfags should draw matsuda raping mitsugi while force feeding the anorexic aspie his fish
Don't bully Mitsugi, he's a cute autist. Imagine the smell in that cave they fucked in for 3 days.
>>46908962Fine anon, I'll do it.Feel free to add text >>46909029This made me cackle hysterically irl thanks anon
>>46828468Sweet Clown is great especially if you like otoutos
>>46914524HAHAHA based anon thank you for your contribution. Please next thread pic OP if possible >>46681926>>46909029My sides are in orbit anon. It's so accurate kek.
>>46914524It's fucking perfect, excellent job
>>46914524Perfection sis, I wheeze.
>>46914524Awesome edit anon!I so want to see this with text kek by >>46909029 anon. I've been laughing for 5 minutes straight and been imagining this scene LMAO.
>>46908427>灰色のアルカディア I like the art style a lot for this one so I'm pretty curious. Hope it turns out to be decent at least.Same anon. Which route are you planning to do first? I think I'll go for him, I liked what I saw from the preview seme BJ boys are always the best
Playing Musubi after years of finishing the main game. Anons how did Kido die in Matsuda's route?
>>46915854What it looked like in the main game is that he died of like, internal bleeding or something after he got his ass beat.
>>46916036Yes that's what I remember too but since takara was deep in shit maybe it was revealed that he poisoned him or something to try to frame him. He was a good guy in the end and innocent and that's why Matsuda is feeling guilty and having nightmares. Bastard never felt bad for what he did to Azuma though kek the bastard i love him.
>>46916103Haven't played the FDs yet but I thought it was funny as fuck how in Matsuda's route Takara does almost absolutely shit because it's Matsuda who starts going ape and offing everyone. How can one man be so perfect sisters, literally mogs the other 2 autismo incels in every single way.
>>46916279Loved to watch him slowly losing it. And if Azuma doesn't choose to trust him enough he starts to axe people. He is so flawless.
Is pigeonblood connected to paradise in any way btw? I can't find any good reason to subject myself to such torture but this and 4 more bl titles are the only ones that I haven't played at all.
>>46916467No, although there's a little wink to Pigeon Blood in there.Also Pigeon Blood wasn't that bad honestly, I liked the vibe. It was kinda slow, sure.
>>46914630>>46914882Glad anons thought it was funny. I was only being facetious about the request of course but I do hope to see more Paradise fanwork now that it's been gaining popularity overseas. Matsuda is precious.Great work on the silly meme edit as the others mentioned. >>46914524 Hopefully pic related is good enough cringe. I haven't fully read though Musubi or Kiwame yet to get more things to shitpost about>>46910890I really love Mitsugi but he needs more bullying[/spoler]
>>46915204I can't decide honestly. Maybe Seri or the school nurse, I like how they looks the most. Hopefully good 感想 comes soon enough at the game's release so we can get a better idea about the characters.
>>46914524>>46918398bravo.
>>46918421I assume the teacher is gonna either be a secret route, a bad ending or the true ending (doubtful). I wish they had released a demon like the other VN that releases the same day (odd timing desu), are you not playing it day one?
>>46918398Awesome work anon, I'm fucking hooting >25 year old but already has a bald spot from malding too much vs>27 year old but looks like a handsome 40 year old ossan.I'd have sex with Matsuda myself desu
>>46918398I can't stop chuckling anon
Starting Jack Jeanne, hope its good
>>46924320I had a great time with it, the music and characters are super fun.
Where do jap fujos congregate to talk about BL these days?
Gotta say, if otome games featured villainesses as frequently as light novels would have you believe, I wouldn't be playing the genre much.
>>46932795I don't get the obsession with trying to make another female character important. Obviously the villains would be male as well.
>>46932795I really don't like villainesses and isekais at at all. I'd rather have school settings. I like historical ones mostly so I don't have an issue finding otome games to play. But I wouldn't like otome adopting this much desu.
>>46927647Breezed through the Newcomer and Summer performances, its fun so far and I really like the songs they perform. It feels a bit like a coming of age manga. I'll probably play other games in-between each route since I have heard its a long game and I'm already using this to recover from another burnout. Kisa is super cute btw she makes me want to root for her
What is /blog/s favorite la corda game?
>>46939646Chiaki-sama is my bf but desu all of them
What's the best and worst bl/ otome that you played?
>>46941594Worst otome was period cube for me. The story was completely non sensical and the main character was even more idiotic than the normal otome heroine. “Online “game”? What’s that?” type of obnoxiousness. All of the love interests were completely boring 2d cut out characters. Even the npc yandere twist was extremely forced.
>>46941594>7scarlet>Art is complete shit>Characters are boring>Plot is uninteresting>Routes are garbage>MC is a thoughtless normalfag that has no chemistry with anyone>In fact the above is so bad that the autist even had his character REMOVED in his route because the MC didn't know how to react or speak to him>Trudge through it for the promise of a brother character>"Brother" is actually just some entity that pretended to be your brother for a few years, all he does is dump exposition then die0/10 may your soul burn in hellPersonal favorite is Taisho Alice
>>46944047I didn't even do the brothers route, I ended up getting depressed after seeing Toa's 'true' ending where it turns out he was one of the zombie monster things, since he was one of the only LI's I actually liked. Though I found it quite funny that in Isora's route the main guide to getting the best ending is to just shut up and do exactly what the creepy yandere man tells you because he's absolutely right.
>>46944047>>46944231Stopped playing this game when the “bad guy” in a route unironically started laughing like a mustache twirling Saturday morning cartoon villain complete with a “muahahahaha!”
>tfw older than all the "ojisan" characters nowladies.. how do I cope
>>46944938Don't worry anon, their seiyuus are probably still older than you are.
Anal sex is disgusting
Does Matsuda count as yandere? I don't think so. That's why eops shouldn't be adding tags. Takara does though.
>>46941594>BestFor me it's 蝶の毒華の鎖 solely because of 真島>WorstProbably Sweet Volley High, this one yuri/otome OELVN I played just for the hell of it years ago when I didn't know Japanese at all and was starved for anything 18+ in the genre. Not even worth it for the sex scenes if it's gonna be drawn mediocre and have the guy's face blocked out anyway. It has DV but it's not interesting in the slightest, feels more like shallow and petty bullshit the usual failure at life would bring out as drama to blame others. Maybe I'm being harsh on an indie developer's work but if doujin circles can make good shit out of zero budget so can western ones.
>>46946948Probably because of the bad ending where Matsuda kills everyone except Azuma because nobody, including himself, can trust anyone. He figured if Azuma at least trusts him, they can make it out together on the island if everyone else goes away. Of course that didn't happen. Though, pretty much everything that is holding Matsuda together somewhat in his route is because of Azuma leaning on him. Matsuda also shows huge fixation/possessiveness over Azuma, especially whenever his mental state descends to a downward spiral. I don't know if any of that is strictly defined as yandere behavior, though.
>>46946948I thought he's supposed to be an anti-yandere. Like Azuma thinks that he flipped out and went nuts but the entire point is that Matsuda has always been Matsuda and it just took a specific set of circumstances to manifest that part of his personality. Even he says it when he asks Azuma how much he knows about his neighbour and that he's probably a psycho. My husbando. Takara I don't even know what he is.
>>46948860Samefag, fuck can't delete the post. Sorry for mild spoilers sisters
I don't think that both Matsuda and Takara are yanderes but only haraguros They get obsessed and possessive with Azuma of course but not the typical yandere way. The only Canon yandere character from pilslash that i can think of is Shuuhei from Koibito Yuugi and maybe Ryo too. I don't know about August desu. He could but maybe more of a yangire. Haraguro tag matches them most.
>>46901990>For me, if I can't recite the vocabulary's reading then don't know the word at all, even if I do understand the meaning in English and/or just simply recognizing any of the kanji as visual aids to clue me in.Let's not forget about the worst of all: when you Lego out the reading and move on without realizing that you have no fucking clue what it even means.>性根/根性Oh wow that's nice. I also have a current favorite in 火花. Ran into this one pretty recently actually, and it took me multiple paragraphs to realize something was off. To be fair both conjure the same mental image, and context made the meaning clear, so it was mostly a case of "huh I had no idea 花火 could also mean that........wait what". Then there's 論理/理論, I have such a hateboner for this pair. How the FUCK are you supposed to remember which one is which? Like 凹凸/凸凹 is infamous and I don't get why because it ain't got shit on this ultra cuntish pair.This reverse reading thing just reminded me of something from Open. Have you ever heard of ズージャ語? Well now you have! Pic related. Look at my poorfag working class boy overreact because he needs to step out of his comfort zone and go to somewhere stylish (and expensive). The slang is a super cute association he is making, you can practically hear his existential crisis. Also take note of 代姦山 (Daikanyama). Don't know if they also did this in Paradise, but Cage was full of silly puns like this. Like 死武谷, or 喪成座. Best part is that all of these are story-relevant puns!You know, I like to talk shit about Kujo because I don't really like the character, but in retrospect I have to give credit for his route being so playful (except when it wasn't, but then it was kino, thanks Saiki). There is this thing going on in Cage where depending on which branch you land on past events shift around or change dramatically for the sake of the theme. But Kujo is this fairytale character. So his branch condition, which is how much Teppei fears him, does not change the setting, but the very genre of the route. When Teppei fears him too much and rejects him the story morphs into a tragedy (destroy), with moderate fear but also acceptance we get a Hollywood action flick (love), but zero fear and enthusiastic acceptance and reality itself breaks and the story degenerates into a fever dream of a shounen fight parody (also destroy). Despite everything it's actually pretty clever.>can always come back to it later when you have a better understandingNot a bad idea actually. Can't say it will definitely happen, but I'd still love to give my 2¢ about Saiki and Ishimatsu because man, they are a handful. I'd wager only L&D truly understands what really happened at the end of either's destroy route, and I sure as fuck won't be the one to solve it, but trying is still fun. And maddening.>>46902321Thanks anon. It was a spectacular failure on my part and I truly regret not responding to at least the more conversational parts. >I'm glad to know you even read my reply.Printed it out, carried it with me for weeks, put it full of notes, but I just couldn't turn it into something I was happy with. Even put off reading L&D's commentary in the 副読本 because I didn't want to be influenced by it. That still hasn't changed actually. Did skim some less important bits though.>Nitta's design concept was "danseimuke eroge protagonist">be it woman, man, dog or horse, if it has a hole, Nitta wouldSasuga my favorite coomer.Or check out this commentary of Yoshimoto's cannibal end:>お前は犬じゃねえし、吉本だって飼い主じゃねえんだ。>駄目な部分も全部受け入れてよ、それが愛情なんです、なんて、俺は絶対認めねえ。>俺はテメー等二人を失う為に、テメーに吉本を頼んだわけじゃねえ。>俺はぜったい認めねえ。Nitta/Yoshimoto 3P.... fffffffFFFuck, I wanted that too, yeah. Even if realistically a not murder-rape bad end version of it could only happen on Yoshimoto's route. But where the fuck was the murder-rape bad end? We came so close to it in Close so many times I could almost taste it.Also. While it never takes up much panel time, the doujins very quickly proved me wrong about a certain aversion. We have Teppei giving head twice (Yoshimoto, Kurusu), and there's also seme-bj (Nitta, Kujo). But that just makes it all the more baffling that it never, ever happened on any of the routes with any of the LIs. Nitta at some point was going to have a bj scene, but even that was cut. I don't get it.
>>46950013I fucking hate katakana man.
>everyone becoming matsudafags nowwtf sisters I didn't realize you were so based...?
Any games with guys embarrassed of their leg hair? Asking for a friend.
>>46952767He is so based you can't hate him. But I think azuma is the best character there. He is perfect.
>>46952767The moment Matsuda took a massive shit on a fatass who couldn't control himself to eat some chocolate, it was love at first sight.
