So the last couple days I’ve been hammering along at the script and working out the paths and menu choices. I even bugged Tom, the Ren’Py creator, to help me out at the beginning when I realized that there would be possibilities of going on a character’s path without being properly introduced to them. Thankfully he helped me get that working so all is well in that aspect. While I haven’t really done any new artwork, I’ve been playing around with photoshop filters to achieve a less photoey but still a nice background to use during the character dialogue. For event CGs, I was actually going to draw a background, but perhaps do it otome game style where it’s a flat color with sparkles & bubbles all around lol. As far as status goes, at this point I got the “main branches” done, and Jen and CJ’s routes also done, bad ends inclusive! The next 2 routes are going to be difficult for me but I can’t go into detail to avoid spoilers. And for the inquiring minds, yes I plan to stick Impz in there as a resident trap. (He does already have some dialogue early in the story.)

Here’s a question I bring to you. I began to write a little dialogue here & there (although it’s mostly placeholders) and I found myself going “holy shit this is SO CORNY.” Is corny ok? I mean aren’t these kinds of things supposed to be corny? I wanna bang my head against the desk when I write some of these sentences XD The other thing is, how does one express love in English? I mean in Japanese you always have your おまえのことが好きです！ but then in English do you say I love you? Or I really like you? Or I want to be with you? I mean I’m having difficulty deciding on what the heck to write. I’m gonna have JP proof read my script since he was an English major after all but for these kinds of things I wonder what’s the best way to approach it?

Trying a bit of a different approach this week I’m gonna try to summarize by memory like I do with my other shows - rather than summarize as I watch. This week there were like 4 Molest-Misaki scenes scattered throughout the episode, and it features a really ugly female. I mean, why is it that every female in this anime is so fucking ugly but all the guys are hot? It’s like in Ogiue’s fantasy, how all the ugly fat guys were bishounen and Saki looked like some ugly prostitute lol. It must be some sort of BL works thing, cause god forbid there be beautiful WOMEN! Continue Reading »

I thought this episode was only going to focus on the studying/college crap but it surprised me as nearly halfway through they went right into Christmas. I mean no offense to Kotoko, but sometimes I feel that she and her friends are so stupid. As hard as Japanese mock tests are difficult and all, how the hell can they not know EVERY question? I mean what the hell did you do in class the past year? So this time around I felt kinda sorry for Naoki cause unlike him, I wouldn’t have done their homework, I woulda thrown the book back in their face Continue Reading »