#but the ~yandere~ scene for this fandom was huge back in 2016

[5eraphim]

SCREAMING AND CRYING AND PISSING AND BASHING MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL

i was nostalgia lurking around my old circle i used to run with back in 2016 when i made my first yandere themed writing account and- so my old tumblr got terminated so most of my old writing has been lost to the tumblr sands of time (thank GOD) but i actually managed to find one of my ANCIENT posts that was in this style-

and i stg i felt myself lose a solid half year from my life line in that one second

i just- MAAAANN this isn’t gonna make any sense to people who weren’t on fandom tumblr in the mid 2010s i used to see those posts EVERYWHERE, but i forgot all about them and then was reminded I WROTE ONE AND I WANNA FUCKING DIEEEEE

[cinnamonest]

Hi, do you have any visual novels that you would recommend?

TIME TO GUSH ABOUT OTOMES all of these are available on steam btw unless otherwise mentioned!!

Personally one of the first otomes I ever played was a game called Ozmafia, it was super cute, dark fairytale style. There's *technically* a canon yandere but it's not really revealed until the very end after you've beaten all the other routes but I LOVE him and it's great bc it's the last character you'd expect (or first, kinda?). Note that there's like, 10 routes and each has several endings, which is a lot for an otome, it takes a good while to finish but that counts as a plus imo. It has some of my favorite love interests from any otome ever, it's a shame it's not nearly as popular as a lot of others.

Amnesia is really good too, there IS a canon yandere who drugs you and locks you in a cage so :))))) It's what it sounds like, basically you're a girl that lost her memory.

Cheritz is a company that made two games: Nameless and Dandelion, I've played Nameless which is good and I've heard Dandelion is good too! Nameless plot is basically your dolls come to life as ikemen.

This is also the same company that made Mystic Messenger. Which was a sorta-VN-ish app, but, if you've never played through Mystic Messenger I highly recommend. The fandom is kinda dead now but it had huge hype back in 2016-2017, and they add new content every now and then. I bought an $80 box set of merch and to this day I do not regret that purchase. (It came out in my senior year of high school, I used to sneak out of class and go to the bathroom just to get into the chats in time lol). There's actually a good deal of yandere content, kinda depends on the ending you get. Yoosung is literally called a yandere once in-game.

Now... two favorites I HAVE to gush about are Fxxx Me Royally and Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome! They're both made by the same people and they're both eroge! Literally, the ONLY female-targeted, hetero eroge I've ever come across, which kinda sucks bc the market for male-targeted eroge is so huge and there's a few good BL ones but almost no M/F eroge. One big downside is there's only two love interests in each, both games are pretty short. The first is you're a tall high school girl who meets a dude in your class, who ends up becoming obsessed with you being his muse for fashion design, aaaand his friend. The first is kinda subby, the second is a sadist/dom. The second is, ok the plot sounds ridiculous but I promise it's good, you're like... a princess from another realm where sex is 100000% destigmatized and everyone is wildly promiscuous, come to earth to find a virgin boi for a husband. It's great. With these though you have to download the R18 parts from the dev website.

There's also Diabolik Lovers is supposed to be really good, I intend to play it eventually, it's just not available in English unless you wanna read translations side by side which can be a pain or use VNR/Visual novel reader which can be a pain. There's an anime though. You also need a PSP emulator, it's not on steam unlike the others.

As far as non-otome, Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. It's horror, has several anime series, one in 2006, one that just finished earlier this year and one about to start soon. Be warned that while the VN doesn't have any really bad visuals, the anime is notorious for being incredibly bloody and violent. For example there's a famous scene where a character puts a knife to the wall facing outward and slams her head into it until it kills her, fingernail torture, that sort of thing.