JO CRUDE DEHABILITATION SERVICE

Jesse we need to have a good time

With Ryukishi’s work you always have to do one tightrope game called « Is this trying to give back agentivity to victims, portraying individual choices/realistic flawed thinking relating to abuse or regular victim blaming ? » at all times.

Eva's run in ep1 was literally so good. Her family survives the first twilight untouched, son's annoying servant girlfriend is dead, annoying brother dead. Argues one last time with Natsuhi. Goes back to her room, fucks her husband and dies. Like a Pacific Salmon. Stellar. Couldn't ask for anything more.

the problem with visual novels is that they are novels, but they are almost exclusively sold on video game distribution platforms, which means that they're novels being read by gamers who are by and large entirely unequipped to critique that medium

"Let the Gweilo play. He has nothing left to lose."