#ebi-hime

[goosologist]

played it gets so lonely here, a yuri visual novel by @ebi-hime. decided to draw my own version of Gravedigger bc i thought she looked too weak and well-dressed. ended up in butch trance for six hours. please send help.

[arialilies]

Merry Christmas Eve and Happy one-year anniversary to Winter Fragments!

Have you guys read it yet? Please give it a try if you're looking for a super cute(and free!!) visual novel to read this holiday season: https://ebihime.itch.io/winter-fragments

[farvn]

"In the end, you were always destined to return here."

Ebi-hime's "It gets so lonely here" receives an overall score of: 7/10 GOOD

Read my Steam Review here: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Far2close/recommended/2386250/ Follow my Steam Curator here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34294631/

Store Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2386250/It_gets_so_lonely_here/?curator_clanid=34294631

[cinnabar-rhubarb]

I've just had the pleasure of playing It Gets So Lonely Here, a sapphic, fairy tale-themed horror VN about girls so pretty it kills you.

This lovely little visual novel by ebi-hime is only 3-4 hours long, and includes:

A delightfully eerie atmosphere stitched together with the art you can see above and totally original music

The floweriest of prose with enough commas to kill a small animal (I mean this only positively, I love the writing!)

Three(?) pretty girls who will never leave your side, three tragic ways to meet an untimely demise

Being called a good girl

Domestic lesbian bliss

Domestic lesbian stew

It Gets So Lonely Here is also totally free! You can download it on Itch.io or on Steam right here. Do be mindful of the content/trigger warnings on these download pages, though. Nothing graphic is shown at all, but some of the descriptions given could still be upsetting. I hope this can give you a nice helping of toxic yuri.

[thepolishlynx]

Shut-in Vampire - Landlady is a Goddess!!! [Part 2]

[satoshi-mochida]

The Fairy’s Song is now available digitally for the Switch, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series/One. It is also available on Steam and Itch.io.

[canonqueercharacters]

The canon queer character of the day is:

Tabitha De Quincey from Asphyxia, who is a lesbian.

[centi-chan]

Finished reading My Dear Prince. It was gay as shit. Girls cute, I'm gay as shit. There was a nice little cast of characters, the art is nice and the music was fun. Nothing giga deep but a cute little yuri story is always nice. My 3rd ebi-hime vn, this one is my favorite ;~;

[andrewknightley]

Gonna liveblog It Gets So Lonely Here by @ebi-hime​

Going to the village first!! Because i know the others have a mermaid and a princess but no idea who awaits for me in the village! also im running away so a village seems the safest 

i am feeling this. but also damn what happened to the village??

omg she is so cute

oh noooooo

she said the title.... .

this girl seems nice im sure she wont be evil or anything on the yandere vn

i also like the main chara’s narration that’s like a noble maybe?? and is very judgy of a commoner even if she doesnt intent it to. A+

im sorry for her but also suspicious of if she really poisoned the people or something.. .. ... how is she the only one alive..... 

fopjgfojpgfjgfjgf

The gravedigger girl didnt ask my story and i wanna know who am i running away from!!!

IS THIS REAL AND IM PLAYING A GHOST OR IS HIGH LEVEL BULLYING ... .

i love a non delicate girl that laughs like a horse <3 

i think she got paranoid i got the illness ayyyyy ;;

mmmm sudden first person.... or maybe the chara said it outloud but... curious...... 

im suspecting the narration mmmmMMMMMM

this is how the main chara talks so... (squints at first person narration)

FUCK NO THIS WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND NOW IM ON A TOMB NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

maybe i was so sleep sick that i sleep for days and that gravedigger thought i died . . . . .oh no 

GRAVEDIGGER WHY . .. .  .WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME. . . .

I CANT BELIEVE GRAVEDIGGER WOULD DO THIS 

is the NARRATOR PERHAPS THE PERSON I WAS RUNNING FROM AT THE START. . .

I JUST WALKED HERE ToT 

OK I will continue the other routes later but!!!!!!!!! noice 

[iloveabunchofgames]

#JakeReviewsItch

AIdol

by ebi-hime

Price (US): $10.99

Included In: Bundle for Racial Equality and Justice

Genre: Visual Novel

Pitch: A Vocaloid fan is shocked when the virtual idol she adores sends her a DM—and says she's in trouble!

My expectations: Developer ebi-hime has published 39 anime-style visual novels to Itch in the past eight years. I can only see the date they were made available on Itch, so it's possible some were released somewhere else prior to 2015. Regardless, 39 games is a mind-boggling number of games for anyone to develop in one lifetime, and ebi does appear to be a one-woman developer. Okay, but anyone can throw something together at a weekend game jam and call it a game, right? Well, here's where it gets weirder. Many of the Itch listings include each visual novel's word count and estimated time to completion. Among the pages with this information, most hover around either 50,000 words (2-3 hours) or 100,000 words (4-6). At least one game is double that. And people are playing these. ebi has more than 3,000 followers on Steam. Three people I follow on Twitter also follow @ebihime, including one of my close, personal friends. AIdol was funded by a KickStarter campaign that raised $2,872. I'm not saying these are huge numbers, but these games have dedicated fans. I am beyond intrigued.

Review:

Hana is just a boring girl. She doesn’t have friends. Her hair is short. She doesn’t know anything about makeup. She can’t cook. She listens to music. And on top of all that, she can’t cook and she doesn’t have friends!

Maybe if Hana didn’t spend half of her time repeating this list of unremarkable characteristics to herself, she could develop a personality, but who needs to be a human when they could instead be a fan?

Her passion is “virtual idol” Aiko, a Vocaloid popstar who performs hologram shows and sells stomach-churning quantities of overpriced merch. She’s basically Hatsune Miku, except the Lyriq corporation has given her artificial sentience for some reason. But something sinister is happening at Lyriq. Aiko’s programmer has been fired. Her code has been changed, and her memory has been erased. Now Hana and Aiko must work together to solve the mystery.

This mostly involves oops-I-bumped-into-you-and-spilled-coffee meet-cutes and shirtless boys.

It all bores the heck out of me. After an hour of purple prose and static images of generic anime people, I started skipping dialogue, hoping to get to the end, but I couldn’t even put up with that. Not for me.

+ The intro sequence—lots of quick cuts and effects set to (I think) an original song. It's lively and well produced; not at all what I expect from a visual novel. + There are occasional typos and grammatical errors, but again, it surpasses my expectations for this type of game. + Professional-looking artwork. I don't know how much is original, but asset packs are made to be used. + Ditto, music.

– I brushed my hair away from my forehead. It's hot today, and I hoped it would help me to cool down. Mom thinks I should try a new style, but I don't know anything about hair. We disagree about hair, but I am lucky to have her. Sometimes when I look at her, I think she looks like she's the same age as me, except her hair is different than mine, and I don't know much about hair. Or makeup. I prefer Aiko figurines. I ordered one from AImazon, an online store that is very popular on the idol forms. Other people on the forums can be rude, which is why I'm thinking about cutting back to only posting for 14 hours a day. With my hair away from my face, cooling me on this hot afternoon, which feels as hot as yesterday, I leave the forum and turn my attention to Tumblr. "Now I understand how someone can write 39 visual novels," I write. – Aiko asks Hana to help her find her original programmer. Hana asks the idol forum if anyone knows anything. Then she hops on a train and visits Lyriq headquarters. She doesn't get any information there. She spends a few minutes commenting on every person she sees walking outside. (Throughout this scene, the only things onscreen are her internal monologue and a picture of a deserted city block.) She stops into a café and watches a young man order coffee, with all the pointless detail of that scene from The Room. The man bumps into her and almost spills the coffee. The game forgets about Hana and instead follows the man on his walk to his office, where he waits for an elevator, talks to a co-worker, goes up the elevator, and talks to another co-worker about his experience getting coffee. The perspective shifts again to this co-worker. We learn about her life for a few minutes, and then she sits down to do her work. Part of her job is moderating the idol forums. She sees Hana's post and closes the thread. Back at home, Hana reads every response to her question, until she finally sees that the thread has been closed. She texts Aiko to tell her the bad news. – No.

🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 Bottom Line: Props for making a complete product with decent production value. Anime and visual novels with minimal interactivity don't usually do anything for me, but even if that is your scene, surely there are better options than AIdol.

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[littlegal100]

Usually, I do not care if I get spoiled or not because 1/3rd of the time being spoiled with a plot happens is what makes me play the game in the first place but I think it backfired with Salome's Kiss.

I got spoiled with the twist because I was stupid enough to see a discussion in the forums so now I'm dragging my heels in finishing this VN because aaarrg! and I can't help but feel certain things for a character that I might have felt differently if I went in blind

alas...what to do

[wigc]

Misery Loves Company in 'Sweetest Monster Refrain' but That Could be a Good Thing…

Love. Without a doubt one of the most overwhelmingly powerful emotions one can experience, and when it works out, it can be genuinely wonderful. But there are unfortunately also times when, say, one person wants to run for the hills (or in this case, back to his wife and daughter), while the other simply wishes to keep showering their partner with love and affection. Welcome to Sweetest Monster Refrain.

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[morrisnek]

It Gets So Lonely Here - Ebi-Hime

I love cannibalism as a form of love language, like yea I love you so much I’d like to eat your heart so you’d live in me forever or I want you to devour me whole with your kisses cause there’s no better home than the tip of your tongue.

[farvn]

"Nobody makes me happier than you do!" Ebi-hime's Unluckily in Love receives an overall score of: 7/10 GOOD Read my Steam Review Follow my Steam Curator Unluckily in Love Store Page

[momoipilled]

love this silly princess

[thepolishlynx]

Unnatural Urges - Oni Girl finds a Human Friend? [Part 3]