#Japanese otome game

[toshiakikijima]

Shunichiro Tachibana’s Last Season Spoiler

I have to be honest.

I’ve been a huge reader of Irresistible Mistakes since 2017, when I was just a freshman in high school. Back then, I was captivated by its melodramatic flair, and the plot had this exciting, forward-moving energy that kept me hooked. I vividly remember when Kijima, Kiriya, and Shunichiro’s first season debuted on the standby app—it felt fresh, engaging, and full of promise. But after season four, the magic started to fade. The pacing became unbearably slow, and the storylines dragged on without delivering any real payoff for the readers. It became a frustrating read.

Take Tachibana’s arc, for example. In his final season, the first part opens with the MC reflecting on changes within the company, which had become a more progressive and liberal environment. By now, the MC is a part-time employee because she’s juggling her career as an award-winning novelist. That’s when the familiar trope hits: she starts feeling sick, notices she missed her period, and takes a pregnancy test. She’s pregnant. Yay, right? Except, this is where it all feels strangely… underwhelming.

Tachibana, noticing her odd behavior, asks what’s wrong, and to my surprise, he reacts to the pregnancy news with happiness—totally different from his panicked reaction in season three during the pregnancy scare. They visit a maternity hospital (which I’m sure surprised Kings of Paradise fans), and it’s confirmed she’s six weeks along. He tells her to take it easy at work, and she eventually informs her co-workers that she’ll be working from home. Kiriya, Yuuki, Minoru, Sakura, and a couple of others are supportive, but here’s where things start to crumble for the MC.

Morning sickness hits her hard, to the point where she’s losing weight and can’t keep anything down without getting sick. Tachibana advises her to take it easy since it’s her first pregnancy, and there’s a lot of internal dialogue between them—mostly arguments. Then, Tachibana’s parents drop by, furious they weren’t told about the pregnancy sooner. His father asks the MC if she plans to contribute anything to the family or if she’ll be ‘lazy’ unlike Shunchiro’s mother, who supposedly did it all without help. This scene just grates. After they leave, Tachibana pleads with the MC to stay with her parents for the remainder of her pregnancy, but she refuses.

Part two of the last season focuses on them making amends, and now she’s going on maternity leave. Minoru and Toma are emotional, telling her she can always come back after the baby is born. Tachibana, trying to be thoughtful, makes her dinner when she returns home, and she starts reminiscing about their breakup in NYC. He apologizes for his earlier comments about sending her home and promises she can always lean on him because pregnancy isn’t easy.

And yet, despite all this support, the MC continues to feel sick and tired constantly. Things get so bad that Tachibana secretly hires a maid to take care of the chores she can’t manage. This, of course, leads to another fight. The words of her father-in-law echo in her head, making her feel useless, and it drives her to argue with Tachibana again. Eventually, he sends her to stay with her parents for a few weeks, and she feels much happier there. However, Minoru reaches out, wanting to meet up about a project she helped with before leaving. During their meeting, he confesses that people at work see Tachibana as distant and depressed.

When she returns, she and Tachibana make up, and then—boom—the baby girl is born. And that’s it. The storyline feels like it builds up to this massive crescendo, but the conclusion falls flat, like an ending that was filtered through just to tie up loose ends.

The last three seasons really dragged. Instead of exploring more nuanced themes—like political family dynamics, which is what initially drew readers to Shunichiro’s arc—they spent far too much time portraying Tachibana as this ‘flawless’ man while the MC came across as a complete mess. Voltage missed the opportunity to introduce new characters or develop more meaningful family drama. And honestly, I was hoping for a boy instead of a girl, which could’ve added more layers to the family dynamic.

Ultimately, this chapter felt like a slow march toward nothing significant. It lacked the emotional depth and plot progression I was hoping for. I haven’t even bothered to read the other endings yet, because frankly, this one left a bad taste in my mouth.

[thecuddlymuffintop]

Tonight, at 7 pm CST, I will be playing Fyhir's game pick for Short Game Fridays.

The cursed My Horse Prince.

Feel free to join when I'm live with the above link.

[rs-camroll]

|| unfortunately, I've forgotten the name of this game, so in case y'all know the name! Pls do share ||

Yokai-ish otome game !!

It was the bird dude for me y'all ✋😳 remember downloading this game cause I fell so hard for him. Couldn't continue playing it, due to the constant need of an translation app in order to understand the dialogue😞

Wish they would have an offical english version of this game 😩🙏

#∆

[xinyuehui]

ᓚᘏᗢ Yes, Cat Caretaker ♡

[theyareweird]

Diabolik Lovers: Yui's School —Aesthetic (Requested)

Yui Komori as a Student

Prior to living at the Sakamaki Mansion, Yui attended a regular Japanese high school. This is clear when she's confused at the idea of attending night school. To get there, Yui must ride in a black limousine with all six vampire brothers who awkwardly sit in silence as none of them appear to get along. Once she arrives at the academy, she's surprised to see the luxurious private school she now must attend. During her time at school, Yui is a studious person who dislikes skipping class. Unfortunately, she's occasionally pressured into the rebellious act by one of the brothers and only complies to avoid physical punishment.

Requested: @nunezs-stuff

[vynnyal]

Of all games why this one

[majunju]

I found so many new cool games from you:0 Can you do a list of what you play, please? It’s mostly otome, right?

oh of course! these are the otome games that i'm currently playing/have played recently:

virche evermore (switch)

birushana: rising flower of genpei (switch)

jack jeanne (switch)

even if tempest + even if tempest dawning connections (switch)

lovebrush chronicles (this one's a phone game but it's still classified as an otome game)

yumekuro (same as above)

[blupengu]

Felt obligated to share my favorite sketch from the Virche fan book!

Sweeties 😭

[letimerald]

Praying for an FD y´all-

[blerdyotome]

Japanese Indie Otome You Can Play in English

[toshiakikijima]

VOLTAGE 😭

LET ME HAVE HIM

[singdancegetnaked]

hey, if you follow me and are not watching From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated! then, as of episode four, this is my official recommendation that you should do so

[neerons]

Her Love in the Force | Art Collection

Illustrations

Tsugaru’s death?! “The Dog, the Little Hare, and their Captain” (COMIC)

Shinonome’s past Part 1 - Part 2 (COMIC)

Kaga being sweet to his insecure MC (Manga panel)

HLITF Anime Version

[xinyuehui]

⁺˚⋆｡°✩ Celestial ₊ Message ✩°｡⋆˚⁺

[queen-esther]

It’s so insidious how leftists want to take over every single aspect of entertainment. It’s not enough for them that they’ve already infiltrated mainstream gaming spaces and forced their ideology into those games—they have to look at extremely niche releases from the East like otome games and go, “Wow, a genre that appeals to straight women? That’s bad! We should start demanding that these games shoehorn in trans characters and gay love interest options and the option to make the MC nonbinary or male!”

[theyareweird]

Diabolik Lovers: Karlheinz —Aesthetic (Requested)

King Karlheinz "Karl" Sakamaki's Character & Personality

Karl is a demon over two-thousand-years-old. Specifically, he's one of the Six Demon Kings as the King of Vampires. As such, Karl rules over the Bat Clan and lives in Eden Castle in the Demon World. However, being Cordelia's husband also makes him the King of Demons and the current Demon Lord. In addition, Karl is married to Beatrix and Christa. Furthermore, he's the father of the six Sakamaki brothers, the illegitimate father of Kino, and the adoptive father of the four Mukami brothers. Beyond being the Head of the Sakamaki family, Karl is a famous human politician in Japan who's known as a prominent philanthropist named Tougo Sakamaki. At Ryoutei Academy, he's Reinhart, the school doctor. While in either disguise, Karl appears as a friendly, open-minded and ambitious man.

He's one of and arguably the most powerful creatures in the demon world. Karl is viewed as “a God” by the bat clan and his family. Despite holding an enormous amount of magical power and knowledge, he never stops pursuing more. Even with great physical power, Karl rarely dirties his hands. Instead, he uses his extreme intelligence to manipulate others into doing his bidding. This includes charming women to use them for making strong children who can one day kill him. Karl is incapable of feeling emotions and doesn’t understand love at all, even for his demonic sub-species. Though this isn't true, he thinks all demon-kind can't feel true love. Thus, Karl admires and glorifies the human way of feeling. Eventually, he becomes fascinated and obsessed with humans.

At first, Karl was asked to find a cure for the Endzeit virus. This disease was killing the first demonic ancestral race/founders, aka. First Bloods. However, Karl decided to create the Adam & Eve Project where he would make a new demon species to replace the current demons. The “perfect” race would experience the richness of life without a short human lifespan while still retaining demonic abilities and human emotions. Karl would achieve this with a human girl and his sons. The many experiments would eventually give his family name incredible power over the demon world. Whichever son is able to win Eve and kill him shall ascend to the throne.

Due to this, Karl is determined in his utopia goal and uses everything to his advantage; from lying to keeping secrets. He even uses his wives and sons as test subjects; only viewing them as tools for his experiments. Karl has no remorse for using his family or hurting them. Yet, he can feel confused and show hesitations if his experiments begin to fail. Still, Karl is merciless and will dispose of any failed experiment.

He's strict and cruel to his sons. Karl will punish his own kind for their nature despite knowing they're this way for having his genes. Even though he's neglecting them completely through their childhoods, he can order punishments if his sons do something to displeas him. Ironically, Karl can show more concern for people who aren’t his own sons, like the Mukami brothers, due to previously being humans. But he still saved them to make them willingly serve him for his experiment.

Requested: @nunezs-stuff