Tag: otome
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Anime Review: The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl
ゴリラの神から加護された令嬢は王立騎士団で可愛がられる (“The noble girl who is blessed by the Gorilla God is spoiled at the royal knights’ order”) This is an anime that I watched with a long-time friend over the weekend. Shoutout to M because I know you are reading! We also rewatched Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited which I may do a review on…
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Review: Volontés
魔女と亡霊のヴォロンテ Completion date: July 31, 2025 The game currently only has Japanese download version. After an initial unsuccessful attempt, they have met their Kickstarter goal for an English localization and will be targeting end of 2025 (but latest end of 2026) for an English localization. They have plans of porting the game to Steam as…
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Review: OVER REQUIEMZ
Completion date: July 24, 2025 After finishing some older titles I decided it was time to try an anticipated new release this year. It exceeded expectations. Translated Director Review PROS: CONS: My play order (hyperlinks to jump to each route also included): Molly > Claude > Noil > Kaize > Dorothy Recommended play order: Molly/Claude/Noil…
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Review: BUSTAFELLOWS Season 1
Completion date: July 20, 2025 Along with Gensou Manege, I started this game in early 2025, January to be exact. This is a long review. Quicklinks: Mozu/Scarecrow/Limbo/Shu/Helvetica/Final Thoughts I only played the happy endings for this game. As the game advertised, the play order does not matter because you’re experiencing each character’s individual story and…
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Review: Gensou Manège
Completion date: July 17, 2025 This game was played as a group-play/book-club esque Discord project as the game was ported to switch. Yep, the game was started in February, then life and work happened. FINAL THOUGHTS FIRST I’m going to be straight up that this game was not really my cup of tea so every…
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Review: Trouble Magia
トラブル・マギア ～訳アリ少女は未来を勝ち取るために異国の魔法学校へ留学します～ Completion date: February 5, 2025 From Wand of Fortune we dive into Otome Hogwarts but in 2024. Like many, I initially bought this game without high expectations given all the hype last year around new J-otome releases are Uchronia, Matsurika, or Mistonia. I am a longtime fan of the artist Suzunosuke, who is…
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Review: Wand of Fortune R
Replay date: January 29, 2025 Given the amount of miscellaneous content this game, I feel obligated to disclose that I did not play Elbert, Ami, Edgar content, but went through all of the main LIs’ stories, liar cards, after stories, and that game where you increase affection. You may notice the screenshots have 2016 or…
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Plot summary & review: even if TEMPEST
Completion date: December 2024 I don’t think there is a comprehensive plot summary of the base game online. This is a very packed game with lots of action that is hard to keep track of and organize. Again, always a fan of Ushio Ayane and her fascinating imagination. I will be adding some thoughts at…
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Translated Director Interview ~OVER REQUIEMZ~
OVER REQUIEMZ is a dark fantasy otome game set for release on April 17, 2025 by Otomate, and loosely based on The Wizard of Oz. Source (Sweet Princess magazine) Interviewee: Hosoya Hiroko, Director Q1. How did you come up with the concept of this game? For a while now, there have been talks under the…
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