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Hello everyone!

Issue #34 of the Amare Bulletin is out now! :tada:

As we say goodbye to winter and welcome March, we have plenty of exciting news to share!

Inside, you’ll find:

New game releases, from mystery, fantasy and spicy Otome titles

Fresh episodic updates for visual novels and interactive fiction

Exciting new game announcements, including supernatural and sci-fi romance adventures

Crowdfunding updates, including campaigns that recently ended

Highlights from the latest game jams, including Queer Vampire Jam and Trans Joy Jam

We hope you enjoy this issue. Have a fantastic fortnight, and we’ll see you in the next one!

~ The Amare Bulletin Team

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A living hell in your own body.

CW: Pregnacy, rape, male pregnancy, abuse, violence, etc. Basically, a whole NitroChiral+ game.

Please be aware that this analysis will contain spoilers from the route of Makoto and the game itself.

So, here it is.

Basically, I've been meaning to write this analysis for a while now. I waited until I finished the route of Makoto, but I'll continue on making these analysis while I do the rest.

I can admit that I wasn't not expecting to connect to Youji that much, but I surprised myself. I connected to him quite A LOT, something that hasn't occurred when referring to masculine leaning characters.

From the beginning we can see that he's the protagonist of the story, suffering from an illness that makes him weak. Having to lose time out of school due of it, Youji doesn't really seem to care about his surroundings. There's an anxiety that keeps him still, between the looks of his classmates and his daily routine.

Of course there's not a direct mention of the figure of Mary, if you're someone who has been in a catholic environment; you can tell that the feminine concept is what makes the game so important. Youji, as we soon discover through the playthrough, he is a Mesu. A parasite lives inside his body and makes him suffer symptoms of pregnancy and PMS.

From the beginning of the game we learn that there's a lot of biblical references, later we find out that the cult that exists in the Sweet Pool universe worships Sodom. For those that are not familiarized with Biblical Mythos, Sodom was the city of sinners and sodomy. God punished the citizens for their sins. The cult worships the city.

Now, going back to the virgin Mary figure. Who's Mary? Mary was the Mother of Jesus and the most important female figure for Catholics, second is Mary Magdalene.

Right in the beginning of the game we can see that in the shoe racks, there's an statue of the Virgin Mary holding a baby, her son, Jesus. Mary was impregnated by the Holy Spirit, without a sin. Her body is pure and an example of what an ideal wife and mother should be, faithful to her faith.

Youji is the opposite.

When Youji gets his first "period", I couldn't help but feel sadness. It reminded me when I first had mine when I turned 11 years old, coming back to school and suddenly feeling hot blood between legs; realizing with horror that I was able to get pregnant. Youji doesn't understand what is happening with his body and t his terrifies him.

In that very moment, Youji turned into an object of desire to others. Makoto, who was his only friend at school started to get attracted to him due the pheromones he is emanating. Zenya too, realizing that he is also one of his kind, since Zenya's family is part of the cult that I mentioned later.

Zenya couldn't become an Osu, a High Class male, with the Sodom parasyte, ending up severely traumatized and wanting to prove himself and his family that he can become one. In his ending, he ends up abusing Youji and violently does do so.

There's no happiness for Youji in his routes, but I'll mainly speak about his ending in Makoto's. Youji ends up cannibalized and raped by his best friend. If you are a someone with fem traits or appearance, you'll get definitely targeted by people who desire to touch you, or in the worst cases, to abuse you.

What I am explaining in this analysis, if you have female traits, you'll become an object of desire. If you bleed, you become something to produce. Youji turns into a whore and a virgin if you know about the Madonna complex.

As someone who deals with PCOS, having periods turned into a nightmare. Back in summer of 2022, I remember bleeding for almost two months, never knowing when it was going to end. I felt like there was a hell inside of me and that's why I connected so deeply to Youji and the parasite inside of him.

I think I'll write more of Youji later, but if there's something I can say about Sweet Pool that makes it different than DMMD, (I love both, truly, I had a very deep obsession with it back in 2014-2015), is that Sweet Pool connects to the female monstrosity.

Bleeding is something feminine and a monstrosity. Hence why is there so many horror movies that depicts motherhood and the female body like an Alien for example. I wouldn't say Youji accepts the parasite, but he ends up talking to them in a way.

I litcherly cannot sit on this anymore, and I considered making it a ko-fi free post but my GOD y'all are hard to corral over there even for free content!! 😂 I'll problem solve that later. For now....it's time for an art goodie from Loved!

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So. These are no way final, just a peek at what I'm working on. Also, I feel pretty confident that sometime next month I'll be able to make the page live (it's older than HSDJY 2 lol). I also want to work on a trailer-esque thing, but we'll see how that shakes out with the 83482 things I have on my plate.

Whatever you think of NSFW games this is only a stepping stone to complete control over what we as adults are allowed to buy

It will not stop here. Next it will be games with LGBTQ+ characters.

We must take a stand against them

Please sign the petition and share to everyone!

“As a cleric of Eldath, I cannot allow you to destroy the world and everything I hold dear. I’m sorry, but I must seal you away.”

Will this twink succeed in his quest? Find out in He's Dating The DM!?

art by @owltio

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