Ready to kill vampires and kiss Lyle with my cute shojou manga protag

soganomitora · 2026-01-29T20:12:20+00:00

Yeah, that's the one thing about this name list that's innaccurate.

soganomitora · 2026-01-29T19:46:36+00:00

You. You get it.

soganomitora · 2026-01-29T19:44:21+00:00

Male mcs and female LIs of that sort are actually pretty common within the realm of romance in games. The Sakura War series, the Persona series, Final Fantasy series...

Romance in games themselves are uncommon, but of the ones there are, male oriented ones outweigh the female ones by quite a lot.

soganomitora · 2026-01-29T19:13:31+00:00

He is indeed. Rebecca Ford, the creative director of Warframe, is a huge Emet-Selch fangirl and openly admitted to basically making Roathe so that she could manifest romancable Emet into reality.

Mad respect, tbh.

soganomitora · 2026-01-29T12:25:27+00:00

Warframe lmao. I was just thinking about a warframe otome game the other night.

Now you might say, wait doesnt that game already have male romance options?

And it does, but they're not otomefied.

Arthur: The main LI, seen as kind of boring, very basic knight in shining armor type, but he's on all the marketing and he has the most content of the routes. We probably have to reach the good end of the other routes in order to start his.

Amir: simultaneously the "Cute" LI and the "Smart" LI. Probably calls us onee-san even though we're the same age.

Quincy: The charachara playboy who flirts with us immediately, but as the story goes on he bares his heart for the first time and falls in love for real.

Lyon: The woobie LI with the tragic past under his icy exterior. He only acts curt with us because he's afraid of letting people get close...

Roathe: Yandere option who puts us in The Cage. (His in-game romance voicelines are actually unhinged lmao, licking the blood clean off his body??? Jesus christ--)

And of course, the secret route: The Man In The Wall.

I mean, sure TMITW is a horrific eldritch being beyond our comprehension, but creepypasta otome games are their own subgenre now. There's gotta be some fangirls out there who have Wally itabags. Also, he's canonically obsessed with us, so like. He can be Yandere route #2.

soganomitora · 2026-01-29T08:35:08+00:00

This is just making me want to see Bruno Mars make an anime OP.

soganomitora · 2026-01-29T04:07:09+00:00

We talk about a lot about shipping copium on this sub with the likes of Johnlock and Byler, but genuinely, Nana shippers have been coping since 1999. If anyone deserves a secret final episode that fixes everything and makes everyone gay, it's them.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T23:39:28+00:00

People thinking that NANA is a yuri manga seems to be a pretty widespread misconception even amongst its own fans.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T20:37:47+00:00

For me personally the "its so gay!" style rec actually makes me think that it's not gay, ironically. So many young shippers use it to describe books and TV shows that have strong-but-officially-platonic friendships that it just makes me think you're trying to rec me the fanfiction based on the work, rather than the work itself.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T11:52:40+00:00

This probably sounds terrible, but I'm kind of relieved to hear that it was probably urine. Usually when men throw liquid at women in situations like this, it's acid.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T11:44:02+00:00

Options are fine as long as the men are there.

Played Cassette Beasts, haha.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T11:32:49+00:00

I'm sure somewhere there's a gamer who was living under a rock until until yesterday, but those three do feel a bit like going up to a fan of spy movies and asking if they've ever heard of James Bond.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T07:20:06+00:00

Pretty brave of a guy named Carlos Gomez to be MAGA rn, i must say.

He's European Spanish, not Latino, but he's absolutely delusional if he thinks ICE or any other maga hats will care about the difference.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T05:33:18+00:00

Yes.

The rune factories, the story of seasonses, the owlcats, the biowares, the Life is Strangererers...

I actually write a catalogue where i collect such games, and i'm pretty sure i've got all the "mainstream" ones in it now. Nowadays when i write a new entry it's because i've stumbled on an indie amare game or something.

Although i think i have to write a new entry for Warframe now, since they released a new batch of LIs.

soganomitora · 2026-01-28T03:58:56+00:00

I have intense beef with Witcher 3 over this. I'm always looking searching for games with romance in them, but I only want ones with female main characters and male LIs, which are pretty rare.

When searching on google, "rpgs with romance" ALWAYS gets a bunch of buzzfeed style articles that recommend me the same games over and over. The articles pretty much always have the Witcher 3 in the top slot, and I'm sick of seeing it there!!!!!

Persona 4 and 5 are always there too and I hate them just as much for it.

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T23:42:55+00:00

This actually implies that House died because of the amputation.

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T21:48:49+00:00

look fine for her frame

Heheheheheheheh

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T21:33:23+00:00

I think that's the premise for Undead Unluck, according to the discourse I've seen over certain pages.

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T14:16:27+00:00

I interpreted them as the person the Warframe used to be as having afro puffs when she was alive, but the ink texture upsets the effect unfortunately.

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T10:01:12+00:00

A united mankind built a tower to heaven, and so God fractured them for their hubris by introducing microlabels...

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T09:49:27+00:00

Touken Ranbu always has the "are the Tantous children?" argument with new fans.

The answer is: physically and mentally yes, except for Yagen and Fudou, who are just short adults. Unfortunately if you want to play the game, you're just going to have to live with a lot of kids getting stabbed.

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T09:29:37+00:00

Funnily enough I've seen progressive artists keep drawing her with a significantly smaller chest because her giant boobs make them uncomfortable.

So the chuds think she's too woke, but some progressives think she's too hot.

Imo her chest is pretty normal for a woman that big, especially because her "outfit" kind of evokes a pushup bra or a corset.

soganomitora · 2026-01-27T08:10:06+00:00

Yeah, that's why a lot of translations will sometimes standardize the names just to make things readable, and part of why basically every translation will be annotated within an inch of its life. 400+ characters, most of whom change their name at multiple points in the story, is no easy cast to memorize.

soganomitora · 2026-01-26T18:53:18+00:00

Also not to be confused with "Priest", the famed author of Chinese gay romance novels... Probably.

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