demipol's lab

my headcanon is that Manji's other eye is actually Kagura's!

Manji was born with a shitty right eye and Kagura did the twin thing, both out of love and to establish a sort of sisterly dominance. considering how much of a complex Manji had about her own weakness, and that the game heavily implies Kagura was the "better" sister until her fall, i felt this made perfect sense.

🔵 protag is bae

you are Rei Shimobe, the world's cutest androgynous lady who needed to be reminded of your gender. technically you are over 40 years old but you were also born yesterday. you have no friends and whine a lot. you look like you play Call of Duty professionally. your angel parents do not help you much and the first thing they do is name you "slave mcservant" and wonder if they need to put you in more feminine clothes. one of them gives you a business card. you don't know what to do with it. this is you doing a thinky

🔵 fantastic aesthetic/cute girls

this game is gorgeous. check out my post on the backgrounds. here's some of my fave character designs:

🔵 myoosic

our pal Takada, who did Danganronpa/THL/Rain Code's music, is also on this game. here's my favorite track.

🔵 multiple gameplay styles

each of your Ministers, all potential culprits in your murder, symbolizes a different route with a different game mechanic. one's a dating sim. one's an escape room/death game. one's a murder mystery. etcetera. you must play them all, but you can play them in any order you want. the order you choose the routes does NOT affect gameplay like THL. it may affect how you feel about the plot, but this game only has two endings, so don't think you have to spend 150 hours excavating all the details. (no slander towards THL. just comparing)

🔵 actual wlw and trans rep

as i have stated many times before, the game has ACTUAL honest-to-god no-goggles canonical yuri. between main characters. it is not a romance game by far, but it is a major factor, and organically ties into the plot.

it also has a trans girl character who is a major secondary character. she was the source of some controversy before the game's release, but i can tell you that no one expresses any disgust towards who she is, her gender is never used against her, and she is not propped up for fetishistic fan service. her four sisters love her to death. she's well-developed with an arc, and adorable to boot!

🔵 the game is just really gender

besides our cutiepie trans girl there's lots of gender-bending characters and no cis fakeouts about it. (experience the character of Ku in the Ministry of Science route and TRY to define him. TRY.)

meanwhile, no one ever makes jokes about Rei's gender, but it does end up being a major part of the plot at the end. her last incarnation as "the Founder" was, well:

🔵 spikechun official reposted my art for it

which means i'm canon in the game. Kodaka said so. don't look that up

🔵 there is a talking motorcycle who is a butler?

🔵 manji fushicho

(crush on epcot ball vine voice) manji..................

🔵 this fucking thing

every Kodaka game needs one