MIRU: Watashi no Mirai

Dropped!

Killed a girl in the first few minutes then we find out she’s this gross old dude’s daughter. She’s soon replaced by a new recruit that’s sort of like her that of course young.
The realistic character style of him is contrasted by the sexualized anime character style of her.
Not good for a first episode. I have no idea where the whole “time travel” part comes in. Maybe save the daughter.

Busu ni Hanataba (Bouquet for an Ugly Girl)

Stalled! (e 06)

I stopped myself at episode 6, because the anime is still airing.
It’s FINALLY a shoujo anime about an ugly girl that’s getting the pretty boy and she doesn’t have to lose weight (Kiss him not me), isn’t ugly in the first place (Kimi ni Todoke, Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge) or needs men to ‘fix’ her (Love Revo)
Really don’t like the nice girl but is evil character, however she hasn’t done anything to truly sabotage our main character.

Onmyou Kaiten Re:Verse

Stalled! (e 07)

Another anime that I stalled at since it’s still airing.
FINALLY a (n isekai) shounen anime that isn’t an isekai ecchi slave harem. Being seemingly created by two women, it does a lot of things right to keep it from falling into the pits that most all shounen do. Having female characters that are humanized is one of them. However it does have it’s shounen anime tropes. A lot of the neutral ones like “male protag can’t use his power unless it’s in an actual battle” sort of thing.
Also has Onmyouji that’s a favorite of mine. Most people say it’s “Re:ZERO” but with mecha and they are SO WRONG.

Princess Session Orchestra

Two part “1st” episode

I like the fact that the colors are Red, Blue, Yellow and the main character isn’t PIIIIIIINK like every other fucking mahou shoujo. In fact pink really doesn’t exist here. The red one has pink hair but that’s it.
OF COURSE being a shoujo the main character has to have 500000 flaws and be a weak as shit at the start. Meanwhile in shounen land he’s being awesome from the get go and just needs a bit of direction.
Might turn out to be a good shoujo.
The subtitles I have are WakuTomete and they mistranslate Muse Chikara (Muse Power) as Musessence. Bes shiuld be either Beth or Bass (Bass fitting the whole music theme)

Guimi Zhi Zhu: Xiaochou Pian (Lord of Mysteries)

Might drop
Audio: Chinese

Fansubs I have include the Japanese and Chinese audio and I use the original language audio when possible.

This one seems to be complex with Epochs, gaining powers, transmigration. Either way don’t do luck rituals before dinner.
“invented Tarot Divination” like… there’s really no such thing. Tarot cards were playing cards and diving with cards (cartomancy) was there before tarot. It just happened the two go put together.
Also this anime has confonts and…. I love confonts. Radiant Tale has one and I’d love to get my hands on it. This one looks like just Latin as a base with bits changed.
Has an ending set to Moonlight Sonata

The main crux is that this is a poor detective story. Detective stories are supposed to give you enough clues to let you solve the case. This one however just info dumps on you in Chapter 11 and 12. Chapters 1-10 feel like you just spin your wheels getting info you already know about then the game just tells you who the killer is. We then get treated to a “feel sorry for the killer” epilogue.

If you thought the other games had pointless things to waste your time. Does this one deliver!

• You are stuck at a bus stop. You literally have to go through the whole menu over and over and over and over. Before someone comes yo pick you up.
• There is another time you are stuck with Kamihara in a car and have to suffer too long about him being hungry.
• Another one with an old man, but this time he might have a clue? Oh no he just wants to comment on women’s bodies.

Then there’s the constant sexual harassment of the women.
You have chance to stare at a woman’s breasts. The game will comment on this. MC and Fukuyama have a face off over Ayumi. Kamihara lusts after Kuze.
Even kids in school sexually harass a woman. Remember boys, if you see a woman you like, just run up to her and don’t leave her alone. Make comments about her appearance.
This kid hasn’t even started puberty yet and the misogyny taught to him is strong.
Then Fukuyama shows up and “he stands way too close” and Ayumi is just ignoring it. He also gets Ayumi’s number and then the MC is weird about it later because women can’t exist in this game without men doing SOMETHING. Later on the MC and Fukuyama have a “face off” about Ayumi as if she’s a piece of meat.

This shit should have been left in the 80s where even then it was gross as shit.

Aymui’s route either involves talking to school kids or having dates with Fukuyama and she doesn’t even get any good info. Especially the first time you play as her. It’s more time wasting.

In the end a woman gives up her job to be with a man. It’s so she can help with her brother, but still it’s a very weak excuse.
Yeah Kuze’s motivations are unknown to me why she did what she did, but the narrative sure did put her in her place of being strong by making her a scared little girl as an adult. Then make her action mean she has to leave the police. (Not that I like the police.) The text tries to reassure us that “well any man would be as scared as her” but we never see it. We only see Kamihara rushing in to be brave and saaave Kuze. The other woman we see that’s supposed to be strong, is scared and screaming about a fucking bug.

Next is the translation! It’s so bad. Tantei-kun becomes “Boy Detective” which ruins it when the text is ‘shounen tantei no boya’ Boy Detective Kid. ‘-kun’ isn’t used exclusively for males and doesn’t mean “boy”. Women at work will have the -kun affixed to their names for example. There’s another spot where ‘shounen tantei’ is used and it’s like, they messed it all up with the tantei-kun nonsense.
There’s a spot where they make the text awkward to about saying ‘kohai’ because that’s TOO JAPANESE, yet ‘senpai’ isn’t. Fukuyama literally says “I’m the senpai and you are:” the answer is “kohai’. Either translate it out or use ‘kohai’.

This entry is really weak. The best entry so far has been Missing Heir, with Girl Behind a close second.

This is the weakest one by far. You have two sexual predator old men. Kumada (the doctor) being a pedophile. He’s already way older than her and he lusts after her picture when she’s 16. If he was a minor character it’d be easy for forget, but he’s not. Heikichi lusts after a married woman (Yukiko). It’s like every man in this game is a fucking sexual stalker. The only one that isn’t is the main perpetrator. Even the main character has a few comments, which is gross when you have to play him. √Letter is worse however. I’ve already started playing Emio and yeah, it doesn’t stop here.

The story also feels like it just takes to much time to get anywhere. It DOES suffer from the other games “Ask the same thing multiple times.  Ask other things you’ve asked before multiple times and then go back to the other stuff you’ve asked.” You go to places, especially the Clifftop, where you gain nothing but have to go there anyways. Women in this are to look pretty, die, be moms and die, or pine after a man. And Yukiko, the one pining after a man? We don’t even get closure on her story, you have to just imagine it. And yes we do have all the pieces for a conclusion.

Especially has the: Try an option you’d never think to try because you never had to use it in that way until now. Which can make you think you are soft locked.

Ultimately the story is weak, you don’t feel bad for the people that died. The killer has a lot of sympathy GIVEN what the family did.

Dubs are inferior. This is a statement of fact. Not subjective.

WHY?!!

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Been told the “kink” is balanced. Of course it isn’t. It blatantly caters to men that only see women as sexual objects.

I honestly do NOT see how it’s balanced. Female frames are always “sexy” (a lot with high heels) while male frames of course run the gamut of “eldrich horror” to maybe sexy.

The storylines: The women are all mothers, lovers, damsels that need to be saved, dead or a combination of these. See also: How Jade’s story was all about A MAN (who gets a name) and how he was mad that she _died in childbirth_ as well as at the Tenno for..doing nothing, they didn’t cause that. Anyways Edgebro.
The Lotus needs saving every other day. She’s also demasked and has a boob window. Something I don’t think we get to see with Teshin (Duviri doesn’t count, even then he has a beard coving his face.) Even the Dax in the Erra cutscene has her mask broken. (Always got to show the woman’s face).
Suda, a cephalon, needs saving from herself by… men (Male cephalon).
Vent Kid’s sister needs to be saved by you.
All the female Entrati family women have their breasts emphasized and their faces clear of infestation.
(Let’s not even get into how lots of women are portrayed as evil, and how machines are gendered female: Necramech, Exploiter Orb)
The men’s storylines?: Constant redemption for being horrible people. (Alad V, Nef Anyo, Ballas actually take a day out to help you a bit before going back to being evil) Heroes. Powerful people. The Queens? Nope.

The men we do see that are ‘pretty’ get “uglified” like Ballas and the entirety of On-Lyne.

The female agents you get on missions show their face, the men do not.
Let’s not mention that a majority of the men look 30+ in age and the women around 20-

Female frames: always gotta have boobs and butt and a lot have high heels. As you showed.. only 1.. 1!! male frame is even remotely ‘sexy’ and it STILL caters to men.

1999: We have the ‘exotic’ Asian woman, the ‘spicy Latina and the Sexy woman with boob armor. (Two of the frames they are based on play the same. Interchangeable. Pick your flavor of woman.)
Men?: Snake, Big Boss and Otacon.

The ‘kink’ only caters to men and having yet another ‘sexy’ skin for a female frame adds fuel to all the gamerbros that are currently screaming about how Aloy has face fuzz and thus ‘is a man!’ and how Sony censored their sexy game. As well as fueling the idea that women need to be sexy ALL the time, even when they are warriors.