#website rec

I just wanted to share this amazing website. It allows you to create your own background noise. For example, my go-to is usually a mix of rain, brown noise, and a calm shoreline -- but there are so many options and it allows you to adjust the intensity of each track. 

1. Progress Report:

Summoning Candyman chapter 7′s draft is now 100% complete! It felt really good to reconnect with this story, and there’s a lot of plot development coming that I’m excited to share :) I aim for a release next week-end if possible. As always you can follow me on Twitter to have more frequent updates of the progress done ^^

Drama CD creation project: Audacity produced excellent results to transform my voice into a male’s pitch, so I started searching for an artist to commission for the CD jacket and thinking of the scenario. I’m really excited about the possibilities such a project offers (r18 english yandere CD, why not? *_*)

2. Quick Reviews

Wilder demo, as I posted earlier this week, is an awesome english otome from Sonnet009 about an exotic medieval world filled with djinn slaves, and the tagline alone resumes its appeal perfectly: "Do not be fooled, child, for a monster chained is still a monster." (and by that alone you know I’m on board, yesss. Please try it, you won’t be disappointed - in fact I wish we knew about the other love interests already).

The Letter demo is an interactive horror visual novel about an English mansion cursed by a vengeful spirit in The Ring style. It features seven playable characters, animated background and sprites, quick-time events, voice acting...Visually, it blew me away. This game is absolutely GORGEOUS and just for that you need to check it. Story-wise, I was annoyed by the repetitive style of the writing, but things pick up as soon as the heroine gets in the mansion, so I stay confident about the end result. I just wish I knew about this sooner to participate in their various campaigns.

3. Otome Website Rec This week I recommend you check Reverse Harem Garden. In it you’ll find not otome games, but rather everything linked to anime, drama, manga and book of the reverse harem type, which is awesome because it features lots of stuff you wouldn’t normally think of that expands the otome universe. For example, that’s where I first learnt of theatrical plays! :)

1. Progress Report:

Sharing Is Caring chap.2 is now 50% done, so I’m confident for a release next week-end :) Following this schedule, SC chap. 7 is projected for the beginning of February. 

Aigan Ningyou vol. 3 Translation: should be completed around Valentine’s Day. Yay for spending the Lovers Holiday with a grade-A yandere! :D

2. Quick Reviews

Pangs was a nice, quick and simple horror visual novel about vampirism that is worth trying, though not intriguing enough for my taste to unlock all the routes.

Mystic Messenger Christmas DLC: I don’t want to do a full post about it so I’ll just mention it here, but while it was awesome to have more content I felt it was rushed. At some places the translation was poor and not coherent with the main game’s characterization, the sound of the phone calls sounded like they were recorded in a metal can, and the whole setting left me confused. Why didn’t it take place after the main game? Why do we have to fall in love again in an accelerated fashion? I still haven’t figured it out o_O

3. Otome Website Rec 

This week I recommend you check https://xanhvert.wordpress.com. The owner has a special interest for yandere and brother fetish :D and do both drama CDs (for example, the whole Aigan Ningyou series) and game (for example, Yoshiwara Higanbana) summaries. While the game summaries are in vietnamese, the gist of it is easy to understand with google translate and should provide you with tons of ideas on what to spend your money on XD

Okay, I'm really enjoying the essays on this site by people who love and understand their media. I don't even remember how I got here (thanks, ADHD!) but now I'm browsing the archives and am zooming through KPop Demon Hunters - did you know there's a Korean art tradition of putting tigers and magpies together? I did not Buckaroo Banzai - I didn't know anyone else even remembered this movie, or quite why we watched it every year back in college. But we sure did, and still quote it now and then.

“The result of eight-hundred years of selective breeding, Giriko is still a fucking loser.”