#cut the vid out of the screenshot bc i see no reason to actually include cowboy hat head boy/man

[moon-bell5]

you wanna guess what that tubi ad is

If you have been victimized by the cowboy hat head boy in the Tubi ad then you may be entitled to financial compensation

[nitrokiraru]

masterpost of all the times nitro+chiral has referenced their own games! made bc i was bored and i like epic nitro+chiral references

also includes references to other nitroplus games, if there are any refs i missed please feel free to add to the post or lmk and i will add them!

Togainu No Chi references

to start out is the bgm playing in slow damage! credits to this channel called L on youtube for the recording, they also uploaded other vids of n+c bgm being in surodame so shoutout to a real one bc im about to use all of their vids for this post

haunt, shifty, and tactics play in the restaurant!

this next one is not exactly confirmed to be a reference but I always felt like the re:code virus and trip ending cg was a homage to Kau

like??? THE OUTFITS LOOK KINDA SIMILAR IDK!!! i like to think that it is! and considering the fact that honyarara (dmmd artist) was a togainu no chi fan, i wouldnt be surprised if the similarities were intentional

Lamento references

to my knowledge there is not a lot of lamento refs in the other games, but like togainu no chi, lamento's bgm is also in slow damage!

kowaku, kaze ga huku machikado, and ketsui (? the last one is a lil hard to hear but it sounds like ketsui) play in the cafe!

Sweet Pool references

this reference is one i was NOT aware of at all until very recently, so credit to @/slybluehologhost for pointing it out! and for the screenshots if they are yours! their post was the one i found this out from lmao

the CG of one of the first rhyme fights in dramatical murder, is a corrupted version of the Okinaga household cg from sweet pool!

here is the original CG. if you notice it's using 3d resources, something that dmmd didn't actually have a lot of as backgrounds. the reason is because it's leftovers from the previous game!

if you look at the CG flipped, you can see clearly that it is the Okinaga household living room/kitchen!

in my opinion this is one of the coolest refs on this post. bc i played dmmd before every other n+c game, i genuinely didn't notice this when i first played. its something that only people who played sweet pool would notice, and i just find that so nice! just a lil easter egg for people who know

sweet pool bgm is also present in slow damage!

scene [warp02], chills02, and calm01 play in the bar!

another ref in slow damage is the billboard with youji official art on it

prolly my fav official art of youji ever

Dramatical Murder references

dmmd's bgm is featured in slow damage!

track 10, 12, and the video says bgm 22 but i cant rly hear anything? idk regardless the bgm plays when you go to beat up that guy who likes to get beat up by his brother for some reason LOL

another very very small reference that is extremely easy to miss is the fact that clear's nendoroid is in Mayu's room

if you zoom in on the parts i circled, you can see that the nendoroid box says 597. and nendoroid 597 just so happens to be the clear nendo!

under the cut are other nitroplus title refs! (also didnt wanna make this post look too long fndskgjn)

Other Nitroplus title references

Mayu's room is FULL of Nitroplus title references. so much that some of them I didn't really recognize besides the obvious, so i literally had to just go through the character lists on nitroplus games to find what characters they were. ur welcome for this incoming information that you may or may not have known

probably one of the most recognizable nitroplus characters in this room is saya from saya no uta, mayu has a figure of her in the middle! (theres more boxes of her but this was the most noticeable imo)

his figure display has many nitroplus characters on it

to start from the top, the one in the long maid like dress is Petrushka from Kikokugai - The Cyber Slayer

Next to her is Franco il Nero from Zoku Satsuriku no Django

i couldnt find anything for who's next to this chara, so i assume its just swimsuit versions of the character Mayu's obsessed with

Going to the 2nd row, though you can just barely see her, i found this character to be Echika from Tokyo Necro

Next (disregarding the obvious figures in between) to her are the two main characters from You and Me and Her, Aoi Mukou and Sone Miyuki!

i find it a little funny that they would put these references in because the audience for the people playing nitroplus games vs the audience playing n+c games are like VERY different but nonetheless, pretty cool!

while not a "reference" per se, sweet pool is heavily inspired by saya no uta!

this is something thats just a generally agreed fact, but i felt compelled to include it anyway because i rly love both of these vns and i love rambling abt them. theyre very similar in the ways that they both got meat n gore, and the main characters dealing with the meat n gore, and the general theme of just isolating yourself from people because of it and not exactly having a happy end. fuminori completely giving up his outside life for saya, destroying friendships n whatnot, and youji locking himself in his room and shutting out people who aren't dealing w his lil problem (makoto). the ending where saya wins and the red road ending shares some vibes imo. its all very similar even down to the soundtrack that had some of the same people working on it, and even gen urobuchi himself (writer of saya) worked on sweet pool as an advisor. so in my head its canon that these two games r brother and sister

thats pretty much it! (unless i decide to add more i swear theres probably so much im missing LMAO) thank you if you read this far ^_^

edit: check notes for other references people have added!

[seelestia]

lmao i'm imagining zhongli just standing there scandalized like "did... did this child just nag me...?" slkjdflsd /j yep yeppp message me anytime!!

man reads an audiobook one time in our modern!au and it's gonna go viral cause everyone would be "puts you to sleep in 5 mins flat" and "wHO IS THIS GUY" lol hmm you know what maybe i haven't seen it. humor me... just what makes you like this specific gremlin detective boy and a certain devilish yashiro commissioner? 🤔

sldfjlsd the most frustrating thing is that i don't even know what i did wrong?? like if i at least knew that, i would be able to learn not to do it next time... but oh well. fingers crossed that my new blog will be safe 🤞🏻 and aaaaa ty ty <3 <3 <3

yeeee that's the plan!! it sounds very fun to play hehe i mean it might not be the most 'efficient' in terms of damage and such but whatever, i love my anemo boys & girls <3 and hyv seems to approve cause i did a single pull yesterday on standard banner and sucrose somehow came home??? geez look at all these anemo wielders lol

yeahhh time for farming n exploring again i guess! this is why genshin basically just. eats up all my free time sldkfjsldf

mona's stars don't favor me it seems lol yeah it's good that i got to try her out at least in the event!!

i feel like i keep hearing diluc wanters won't he diluc havers and it hits home for me slkdfjlskjdf ok so my brother has a c6 diluc which he benched (he builds all other characters except like, 4 of them, including diluc), not built at all, bc he says and i quote "i don't like his personality" - AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID WHEN HIS OUTFIT DROPPED??? HE STARTS BUILDING HIM!!! 🙄 personality my foot /lh

oh i am for sure going all out for hubby - i'm gonna try and set a limit on my spending this month just in case!!! money is earned to be spent right we shall see, comrade. we shall see...

you ate caramel pudding for lunch?? only that??? is that not... dessert?? little one, you need nutrients, go eat a full meal!! >:|

HELPDKWKRK i am basically hu tao 2.0 but more restrained, so rip to zhongli if we ever go on travels together <//3 (/lh)

ZHONGLI GOING VIRAL IN MODERN AU IS SUCH A CONCEPT. it's the 'most sleepiest voice ever' video all over again and said man doesn't even realize it until someone comes up to him to commission for a personal serenade fjickwkdk i can see it 🚶

( includes some low-quality screenshots of the promotional sumeru vid but it's just al-haitham under the cut !! )

i'm 100% ashamedly sure it's the intellectual attractiveness and their uniquely playful sense of humor — which makes me fearful of al-haitham (although from the leaks i saw, he seems like someone who is vv serious/frigid and doesn't prefer to waste time, but we'll see 👀). also, did you watch the sumeru promotional video??? because i got some low-quality screenshots, hehe. the man looks like he got a personal score to settle with cyno, help??? BUT ALL OF THEM LOOK SO GOOD THO !!

why does tumblr shadowban people without sending a single notice??? it would've been better if they give us reasons other than the suspicion that we might be a bot <//3 from what i heard, i think receiving spam-liking actually contributes to that suspicion??? but i'm not sure :( crossing my fingers for you and readying my fists in case tumblr wants a knuckle sandwich !!

yeahhh, it sure does sound like fun! and true true, there's no need to dictate everything as long as we're having fun !! after all, that's what games are for ;D pulls on the standard banner are another level of cursed because the pool of chara's and weapons are wider and more random there... but hey, another anemo girl came home !! hoyoverse is pushing you towards the agenda ksfjejdksk

perhaps, seeing c6 diluc on your brother's acc somehow magnifies the feeling of your diluclessness??? HELP??? no diluc? (/j) but he'll come home someday without a doubt since he has a chance of showing up on every banner you pull !! >:)

THE WAY YOUR BROTHER SWERVED HFEKDKSK. unlikable personality??? screw that, new skin drops and the red-haired emo bro is beautiful now. and i hope your hubby will come home to you, i shall root for you all the way !! realistic motto there, comrade but why am i laughing. (/lh)

i ate a full meal during dinner afterwards, so worry not~ the caramel pudding was good, albeit i couldn't eat much of it !! but thanks for the reminder, rin <3 make sure to eat full meals and take care too, alright??? ;( i would like to think that zhongli would console you into eating full meals if you don't. and i leave you with that brainrot for today fjekkdskks