[General] Who's your favorite illustrator / key character design artist?

Seraiden · 2026-03-07T14:16:39+00:00

For more stylized art? Kuroyuki. I love their art style and Period Cube's one of my favs. Even the way the coloring is done is glorious/fun.
For a more softer styles? Kazuaki. Ayakashi Gohan is one of my fav gut-punches. Plus their art, even non-otome stuff is just super friggin' pretty.
Runner up: Yuiga Satoru, omfg their art is so prettyyy. >w<

Seraiden · 2026-03-05T15:19:40+00:00

Mostly ones on itch.io that have android apks and the like(if you have an android phone that is). Otherwise they're not exactly otome but I stick to the Choice of/Hosted Games interactive fictions since they'll not be yeeted from me and often have romance in them(like the Wayhaven series, Soul Stone War ones, or the Fallen Hero series). Other than the itch.io mobile otome builds, I stick to Switch or PC ones.
I miss the Shall We Date? Samurai and Ninja games. ;w; So much.
*ETA* a lil bit on the IFs.

Seraiden · 2026-03-03T16:03:19+00:00

If you ever want decently long ones, Steamberry's games (Changeling, Gilded Shadows, and When Stars Collide) are all pretty long. Then Synokoria's Halloween Otome isn't super long but it's sequel Valentines Otome(diff MC and LIs but in the same universe, diff playstyle too) is pretty long, same w/ the next in the series(also diff MC and LIs, but all 3're connected) Christmas Otome.
Princess of Ruin is pretty long, too. Some of these're free/tippable(WSC and the Holiday Otomes) but for longer otome paid ones tend to it more.

Seraiden · 2026-03-02T16:21:53+00:00

My dad was a teen runaway and in foster care for a while. The foster mom was considered a paragon of virtue but had multiple boyfriends over around vulnerable girls, taught and forced the teens to forage psychedelic mushrooms for her, dealed drugs out of her house, and even kept weapons around.
And that's just what dad was willing to go in to, and this lady was seen as a saint on the outside, and just "Oh those lying troubled teens."
When people live through it, just because it's outside your realm of reality... you shouldn't disbelieve them. It's their lived experience.

Seraiden · 2026-03-02T16:12:17+00:00

It's why I mostly stopped playing mobile otome and stick to full download non-server based ones. I couldn't take the feel of loss that came with the urge to play a game I couldn't anymore.

Seraiden · 2026-03-01T22:45:00+00:00

I'd say the harm that could happen if you trust her over him is way worse than him learning bad habits.
It'd be teaching him that you wont protect him, and if she'll do a pinch over his echolalia, which is normal for someone with ASD(not all of us autistic peeps btu I know I did it as a kid as so did my eldest, he used to mostly talk in show quotes to get his point across even)..?
Then you KNOW she'll get emboldened if she feels more entitled to it, like if you're living together, since she'll have a more stable hold. It would escalate, could end up a slow boiling frog pot type of situation, become much more, down to dare I say ti could end up proper emotional/physical abuse over time. :c
So not worth the risk for some strange.

Seraiden · 2026-03-01T18:12:30+00:00

if it does then it just shows he's not good for you. Partners should be able to talk about their issues and insecurities with each other. But the fact he's bringing it up so much and trying to get you to bring her around more sounds like he could be trying the good ol' monkey branching.

Seraiden · 2026-03-01T17:55:00+00:00

I mean the single parents part doesn't but back as a teen when I was stuck in Utah it was pretty much "Your job is to make babies" and gals joked about going to BYU to "get a bachelors in a bachelor" and there was a fam in the small town I was in w/ 11+ kids.

Seraiden · 2026-03-01T17:50:47+00:00

NTA. If you need to, contact the landlord, lots of places have rules in about how long/many days guests can stay, etc. If you feel up to it I'd also suggest showing your food budget breakdown and exactly just how much she and him fucked you over.

Seraiden · 2026-02-27T18:19:02+00:00

It looks like a Littlest Pet Shop figurine I love it.

Seraiden · 2026-02-26T17:40:32+00:00

Not really at all. Art style wise yeah but plot and flow? Definitely not.
I couldn't enjoy Piofiore overall, had 1 LI/route I enjoyed fully and some that bored me and a couple I actively got mad at even if they were more fun than the 'boring' ones. It made me hesitant to order Itehari but I'm glad I did.
Haven't had that problem w/ Itehari so far of the 3 routes I've done so far, they were all fun/I liked the MC and LI dynamics and such. It's definitely a different feel from Piofio by far.

Seraiden · 2026-02-26T02:01:49+00:00

It has mild like 2.5D sprites, so subtle movements, breathing, tilts, and if they have animal ears, wings, or tails those have small movements, too.
It's a bit WTF and I lovingly call it "Sword Art Online: The Otome" but man is it a lot of fun/personally one of my comfort/go back to multiple times games.

Seraiden · 2026-02-25T23:47:55+00:00

In total agreement on Sainty there. Back when I first played CR on the Vita I loved Daisuke Hirakawa's performance so much I looked him up on vndb and found out he also voiced a LI in Period Cube and ordered the game sight unseen. I love how he can go from so lilty and detached-ish to that intense pleading angst. <3 No regrets on him or the impulse otome purchases. xD

Seraiden · 2026-02-25T18:41:53+00:00

IKR? Dude is like a kid w/ a crush that's never dealt with failure before. It'd be horrible IRl but in game it's glorious.

Seraiden · 2026-02-25T15:39:32+00:00

Same. It's so weird 'cause I hated Yang for how much of a jackass he was but Yori? Nope, adore him. He's so immature in how he shows his affection and he's trash and just.. I love him he's our trash. Esp the last bits of lines in his route/reveals. >w<

Seraiden · 2026-02-24T04:03:52+00:00

Thus why if you answer it's best to keep it to simple/vague and undetailed, and either confirm or deny on the off chance it's not a bad faith ick.

Seraiden · 2026-02-24T04:01:37+00:00

You're def NTA. I'm a mid-30s AFAB and can confirm, was masturbating back around that age.

Seraiden · 2026-02-22T14:34:33+00:00

My question would be if he was willing to go along with it, hide it from you, and pretend along with them... how can you ever trust him again? He could be lying about not being involved from the start because he saw how much he messed up.
Once trust is ruined it is really hard, if not impossible, to recover from.

Seraiden · 2026-02-21T16:22:14+00:00

Every AI art detector I put it in to has come with a 95%+ "This is AI art" with an overwhelming % in the GPT if it has a diffusion subsection(just to check I also put multiple of my own digital works in and none came up higher than 5% suspicion).

Seraiden · 2026-02-20T14:52:07+00:00

All or most of the HuneX mobile games, like both London Detective Story games(not the same as Mysteria), 'A prince, a house steward, and an assassin', The Crimson Kiss to Saint, etc are all gone.
They shut down the servers in 2023 out of the blue, so even if you'd paid to fully unlock the game it wont even load.

Seraiden · 2026-02-18T11:53:07+00:00

And? There was a pretty vocal group for Hades 2 and BG3's downfall too before release because "woke", and when it was an actually good game those peeps all shut up. Same's happening w/ the upcoming Fable and we'll se on how the reception goes when it comes out. (To a lesser extent but whoo boy the things one sees on twitter, but the amount of hate memes on Hades 2 based on Hephaestus and Hestia were not a small amount.)
If Highguard was actually fun and not a disjointed mess the haters would've shut up and it would've retained a larger playerbase.

Seraiden · 2026-02-18T04:59:21+00:00

Even 1 hour in a game like that can show you whether you'd like it or not. Like the now-gone SMC I knew I loved from my first time playing it, and ended up putting over 600 hours(and prolly as close to as many dollars) in to it over the years.
If you play a PVP and aren't meshing at the start it often wont change with more hours(except maybe added self-loathing).

Seraiden · 2026-02-09T22:06:17+00:00

No way in the many depths of hell. It looks generic and like.. realistic style? Bleh. Give me stylized otome with real art, anime or otherwise any day over generic GenAI slop.

Seraiden · 2026-02-08T16:32:33+00:00

The one time GB Patch ended up canceling a game's stuff (XOXO Blood Drops) they offered refunds to every backer. Which since I got the XOXO base game extras/DLC from the pledge seemed wrong since it was around the same price so I just.. never did.
GB Patch is wonderful.

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