#paradigm paradox

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[miraneko19]

Realized this while playing Birushana. Tomomori. You know.

[hellcatinnc]

Character Birthday Masterlist

This is as many birthdays as I could find for all the games I have played and anime's I have watched. Trust me there are more characters but some have no birthday dates posted. I will update this list as I go but you can always find this on my pinned post to come back and check the birthday calendars for each. I did want to do a calendar itself for each month but when so many have the same birthdate I found this harder to do so chose to just do a master list instead.

There was so many birthdays I had to start a 2nd list here is the link to the 2nd one HERE

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January

1st Natsume Asahina - Brothers Conflict

1st Yuito Sumeragi - Scarlet Nexus

3rd Wataru Asahina - Brothers Conflict

6th Herlock Sholmes - Code Realize

7th Saibara Kamui - Paradigm Parodox

9th Thoma - Genshin Impact

10th Yukichi Fukuzawa - Bungo Stray Dogs

11th Satoru Watabe - Stand My Hero

11th Eisuke Ichinomiya - Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

12th Gary - 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom Of Dreams

13th Hades Aidoneus - Kamigami No Asobi

13th Victor - Mr Love Queens Choice

14th Kosuke Misaki - Tomo-chan Is A Girl

16th Vlad Garfunkel - Phantom In The Twilight

18th Henri Lambert - Piofiore Fated Memories/1926

19th Edgar Allan Poe -Bungo Stray Dogs

21st Sirius Dieke - My Next Life as a Villainess

21st Rui Sagisawa - Nil Admirari no Tenbin

23rd Camus - Uta no Prince-sama

27th Urie Sogami - Dance With Devils

28th Kou Mukami - Diabolik Lovers

29th Kanato Hibiki - Maji Kyun! Renaissance

31st Mozu - Bustafellows

February

2nd Lyney - Genshin Impact

4th Gin Akutagawa - Bungo Stray Dogs

5th Takamasa Saeki - My Forged Wedding

8th Allan Melville - Cupid Parasite

9th Abraham Van Helsing - Code Realize

11th Alhaitham - Genshin Impact

12th Tsukito Totsuka - Kamigami No Asobi

13th Merenice - Cupid Parasite

14th Ren Jinguji - Uta no Prince-sama

14th Hatori Otani - Stand My Heroes

15th Arashi Spring - Scarlet Nexus

17th Soryu Oh - Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

17th Fubuki Spring - Scarlet Nexus

20th Tifalia - Radiant Tale

21st Ririchiyo Shirakiin - Inu x Boku SS

22nd Kei Okazaki - Collar X Malice

22nd Yoshikazu Miyano - Sasaki to Miyano

22nd Monet Tsukushi - Magic Kyun! Renaissance

22nd Misuzu Gundo - Tomo-chan Is A Girl

22nd Louis Asahina - Brothers Conflict

26th Sophia Ascart - My Next Life as a Villainess

28th Light Yagami - Death Note

March

1st Ai Mikaze - Uta no Prince-sama

1st Ryuunosuke Akutagawa - Bungo Stray Dogs

2nd Raeliana McMillan - Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's/M

3rd Ukyo - Amnesia Memories

3rd Yuki Itose - Sign Of Affection

3rd Lindo Tachibana - Dance With Devils

3rd Naomi Randall - Scarlet Nexus

6th Rafayel - Love And Deepspace

7th March 7th - Honkai Star Rail

8th Carol Olston - Tomo-chan Is A Girl

9th Mayuzumi Shion - Variable Baricade

18th Tsugumi Kuze - Nil Admirari no Tenbin

19th Ion - Radiant Tale

20th Sakami Laito - Diabolik Lovers

20th Takeru Totsuka - Kamigamin No Asobi

21st Kanato Sakamaki -Diabolik Lovers

22nd Ayato Sakamaki - Diabolik Lovers

25th Rintaro Tatewaki - Magic Kyun! Renaissance

25th Shiden Ritter - Scarlet Nexus

26th Kamisato Ayato -Genshin Impact

27th Keith Powell - Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

31st Yusuke Asahina - Brothers Conflict

April

1st Kyosuke Tsuduki - Stand My Heroes

1st Scarecrow - Bustafellow

1st Avi - 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

1st Kodama Melone - Scarlet Nexus

2nd Masato Hanzawa - Sasaki and Miyano

3rd Noah Volstaire Wynknight - Why Raeliana Ended Up Duke's/M

4th Canus Espada - Cafe Enchante

8th Yagami Nayuta - Variable Baricade

8th Rowan - Dance With Devils

9th Kiro - Mr Love Queens Choice

10th Takatoo Tokio - Paradigm Parodox

11th Otoya Ittoki - Uta no Prince-sama

11th Zen Wistaria - Snow White With The Red Hair

12th Toma - Amnesia Memories

12th Ota Kisaki - Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

13th Kagerou Shoukiin - Inu x Boku Secret Service

14th Jinnia - Radiant Tale

15th Jirou Ogasawara - Sasaki and Miyano

15th Hayato Ozaki - Nil Admirari no Tenbin

15th Himari Momochi - The Demon Prince of Momochi House

16th Baileu Ton - Phantom in the Twilight

17th Xiao - Genshin Impact

17th Lori Asahina - Brothers Conflict

17th Enomoto Mineo - Collar x Malice

19th Miyo - My Happy Marriage

22nd Yakumo Sumeragi - Scarlet Nexus

23rd Orlok - Piofiore

24th Ruki Mukami - Diabolik Lovers

24th Masaomi Asahina - Brothers Conflict

25th Baizhu - Genshin Impact

29th Chuuya Nakahara - Bungo Stray Dogs

29th Balder Hringhorni - Kamigami No Asobi

30th Diluc - Genshin Impact

May

2nd Ichiyou Higuchi - Variable Barricade

4th Tsugumi Nazar -Scarlet Nexus

5th Atsushi Nakajima - Bungo Stray Dogs

5th Shougo Ukawa - Nil Admirari no Tenbin

9th Akane Kinoshita - Loving Yamada Level 999

9th Aoi Nanamori - The Demon Prince of Momochi House

12th Mamiya Ayumu - Paradigm Parodox

13th Kaito Sumeragi - Scarlet Nexus

15th Karuta Roromiya - Inu x Boku SS

17th Leo Cavagnis - Piofiore

17th Radie - Radiant Tale

17th Impey Barbicane - Code Realize

18th Aki Myojin - Sweet Punishment

18th Gorou - Genshin Impact

21st Rosso - 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

23rd Sosei Arakida - Stand My Hero

26th Luke Bowen - Phantom In The Twilight

28th Kaname Asahina - Brothers Conflict

June

1st Ikki - Amnesia Memories

1st Kotaro Yui - Stand My Hero

1st Arataki Itto - Genshin Impact

2nd Shiki Natsumezaka - Dance With Devils

5th Ibuki - Paradigm Parodox

5th Nagi Karman - Scarlet Nexus

6th Anubis Ma'at - Kamigami No Asobi

8th Sasazuka Takeru - Collar x Malice

9th Natsuki Shinomiya - Uta no Prince-sama

9th Syo Kurusu - Uta no Prince-sama

10th Kasane Randall - Scarlet Nexus

11th Lynette Mirror - Cupid Parasite

11th Eita Sasaki - Loving Yamada at Lv999!

14th Renshou Sorinozuka - Inu x Boku SS

15th Anne Halford - Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

17th Shuumei Sasaki - Sasaki and Miyano

19th Osamu Dazai - Bungo Stray Dogs

23rd Cyno - Genshin Impact

23rd Erika Shinohara - Wolf Girl & The Black Prince

24th Katarina Claes - My Next Life As A Villainess

25th Shirayuki - Snow White With The Red Hair

26th Shu - Bustafellows

26th Seto Narukami - Scarlet Nexus

27th Gilbert - 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

28th Nicola Francesca - Piofiore

30th Shuichi Hishikura - Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

July

1st Gemma Garrison - Scarlet Nexus

2nd Ema Asahina - Brothers Conflict

4th Nathaniel Hawthorne - Bungo Stray Dogs

4th Kyouya Sata - Wolf Girl & Black Prince

7th Fuuto Asahina - Brothers Conflict

7th Il Fado de Rie - Cafe Enchante

7th Tomo Aizawa - Tomo-chan Is A Girl

8th Gonzaburou Tashiro - Sasaki and Miyano

9th Kaveh - Genshin Impact

7th Alice Ichijo - Scarlet Nexus

13th Mitsumori Ichiya - Variable Barricade

13th Reiji Kotobuki - Uta no Prince-sama

13th Kazu - Variable Barricade

13th Joe Sumeragi - Scarlet Nexus

16th Gill Lovecraft - Cupid Parasite

20th Tartaglia - Genshin Impact

23rd Yuma Mukami - Diabolik Lovers

24th Junichirou Tanizaki - Bungo Stray Dogs

24th Limbo - Bustafellows

26th Gilbert Redford - Piofiore

30th Michizou Tachihara - Bungo Stray Dogs

30th Rishe Imgard Wertsner - 7th Loop

August

1st Hikaru Asahina - Brothers Conflict

1st Apollon Agana Belea - Kamigami No Asobi

1st Taiga Hirano - Sasaki and Miyano

2nd Saint Germain - Code Realize

6th Tokiya Ichinose - Uta no Prince-sama

7th Toujou Hibari - Variable Barricade

8th Ignis Carbunculus - Cafe Enchante

10th Mitsunari Baba - Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

15th Louis Anjo - Magic Kyun Renaissance

16th Hanabi Ichijo - Scarlet Nexus

20th Alan Stuart - My Next Life As A Villainess

20th Geordo Stuart - My Next Life As A Villainess

22nd Vilio - Radiant Tale

23rd Tomitsuka Ryou - Paradigm Parodox

26th Victor Frankenstein - Code Realize

27th Kenji Miyazawa - Bungo Stray Dogs

29th Reiji Sakamaki - Diabolik Lovers

29th Zange Natsume - Inu x Boku SS

30th Doppo Kunikida - Bungo Stray Dogs

September

5th Yanagi Aiji - Collar x Malice

5th Zayne - Love And Deepspace

10th Maria Campbell - My Next Life As A Villainess

12th Kagero Donne - Scarlet Nexus

13th Albedo - Genshin Impact

14th Tasuku Kuresawa - Sasaki and Miyano

16th Douglas - 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

17th Dante Falzone - Piofiore

17th Teika Ichijoji - Magic Kyun - Renaissance

17th Kasuga - Variable Barricade

17th Araki Mihaya - Paradigm Parodox

19th Yukinami - Paradigm Parodox

19th Hisui Hoshikawa - Nil Admirari no Tenbin

21st Mamoru Kishi - Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

21st Akito Yamada - Loving Yamada Lvl 999!

22nd Subaru Asahina - Brothers Conflict

23rd Dionysus Thyrsos - Kamigami No Asobi

23rd Kent - Amnesia Memories

23rd Tsuki Aoyama - Stand My Hero

28th Rindo Kaoru - Cafe Enchante

29th Ranmaru Kurosaki - Uta no Prince sama

Octomber

7th Makoto Tsuduki - Stand My Hero

10th Banri Watanuki - Inu x Boku SS

10th Luka Travers - Scarlet Nexus

15th Paschalia - Radiant Tale

16th Xavier - Love And Deepspace

18th Shu Sakamaki - Diabolik Lovers

18th Shizuru Migiwa - Nil Asmirari no Tenbin

19th Hoshino Ichika - Collar x Malice

21st Ranpo Edogawa - Bungo Stray Dogs

24th Loki Laevatein - Kamigami No Asobi

24th Arsène Lupin - Code Realize

26th Sakunosuke Oda - Bungo Stray Dogs

28th Azusa Mukami - Diabolik Lovers

29th Kaedehara Kazuha - Genshin Impact

30th Helvetica - Bustafellows

31st Cecil Aijima - Uta no Prince sama

31st Junichiro Kubota - Tomo chan is a Girl

31st L Lawliet - Death Note

November

4th Subaru from Diabolik Lovers

4th Mary Hunt - My Next Life As A Villainess

4th Kyouka Izumi - Bungo Stray Dogs

8th Ritsuka Tachibana - Dance With Devils

11th Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Bungo Stray Dogs

11th Misyr Rex - Cafe Enchante

15th Lucien - Mr Love Queens Choice

15th Karen Travers - Scarlet Nexus

17th Rem Kaginuki - Dance With Devils

20th Zafora - Radiant Tale

21st Thor Megingjard - Kamigami No Asobi

23rd Wriothesley - Genshin Impact

23rd You Hattori - Stand My Hero

28th Luke Foster - Kissed by the Baddest Bidder

30th Shin - Amnesia Memories

30th Kaeya - Genshin Impact

30th Kyoka Eden - Scarlet Nexus

December

3rd Isurugi Taiga - Variable Barricade

3rd Ukyo - Asahina - Brothers Conflict

5th Tauryu - Phantom In The Twilight

7th Gojo Satoru - Jujutsu Kaisen

7th Akiko Yosano - Bungo Stray Dogs

12th Yang - Piofiore

16th Wataru Frazer - Scarlet Nexus

17th Aoi Suminomiya - Magic Kyun Renaissance

18th Neuvillette - Genshin Impact

18th Yuu Kusakabe - Wolf Girl & Black Prince

19th Soushi Miketsukami - Inu x Boku SS

20th Isaku Senagaki - A Girl And Her Guard Dog

20th Itsuomi Nagi - Sign Of Affection

22nd Keiya Uto - A Girl And Her Guard Dog

23rd Akira Kougami - Nil Asmirari no Tenbin

24th Shiraishi Kageyuki - Collar x Malice

25th Challe Fen Challe - Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

25th Akira Kagiura - Sasaki and Miyano

25th Misa Amane - Death Note

28th Keith Claes - My Next Life As A Villainess

28th Arnold Hein - 7th Loop

29th Masato Hijirikawa - Uta no Prince sama

31st Zhongli - Genshin Impact

31st Hyuga - Paradigm Parodox

31st Tsubaki Asahina - Brothers Conflict

31st Azusa Asahina - Brothers Conflict

[englishotomegames]

Paradigm Paradox (パラダイムパラドックス, パラツー)

Release dates (Nintendo Switch) Japanese: May 27th, 2021 English: October 27th, 2022

"High schooler Yuuki is as average as they come. She enjoys a mundane life of school, friendships, and generally being uninterested in boys, until one day she finds herself outside after curfew and face to face with a horrific monster. Just as all seems lost, Yuuki is saved by four female superheroes… and is invited to join their cause and protect the colony from the Vector threat!"

This is a game for the Nintendo Switch translated by Aksys Games! You can buy the physical version from Amazon.com here, or digitally from the Nintendo store.

[dreamieotome]

I was looking through my screenshots to see if I enjoyed ANY part of paradigm paradox and..

Huh I wonder why I screenshotted these 2 in particular. (Im so sorry to be making not one but TWO pegging jokes here 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔)

Bonus:

HES SO SWEEETTTTT

And yeah thats it. Literally only 3 screenshots from me, a serial screenshotter, and 2 of them was me trying to have fun where there was none to be found lol

[salty-hakuouki]

Communauté francophone otoge

(Not hakuouki related - post in french)

Salut ! Tu aimes les otome games ? Tu veux te faire des ami-e-s francophones qui les aiment aussi ? Tu veux pouvoir parler de Piofiore, Hakuoki, Amnesia et autre tout en communiquant dans la langue de Molière ?

Suite au stream (désastreux) d’Idea Factory pour la Saint Valentin, j’ai vu qu’on était plus nombreux que je pensais ! J’ai donc ouvert une communauté francophone pour qu’on se découvre un peu et qu’on partage nos passions ! Otome games, jeux video, manga, anime, club de lecture et autre…

Bref, un lien discord vaut mieux qu’un long discours ! Promis, on mord pas !

[hikapoi]

Quick Paradigm Paradox of the boys in their... magical girl outfits...  

[arandomtimeofday]

Hmm this bitch seems familiar

Wait!

No

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

THE LIBRARY BOB BITCHES

[ladies-of-fiction]

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[stick2sherlock]

Paradigm Paradox is the first otome I’ve played that feels like it was written by aliens. Everything is a little off. Reaction of characters are weird. Setting is weird. Ideas of romance are weird. There were so many moments in the story where I just had to put down the game because I just couldn’t get over how much things don’t work like that in real life. 

[lynnette-aquamarina]

🫧💧Weekly Streaming Schedule for December 12, 2023 🫧💧Streams start at 8:00PM EDT (unless stated otherwise) at Twitch

Hope to see you all there!!

A more detailed explanation of my schedule under the cut:

Wandering Wednesdays: I play JRPGs and adventure games! Right now, I'm playing Tales of Arise the most recent release in the mainline Tales of series. I'm pretty much at the half-way point of the game so beware of spoilers!!

Variety Friday: Anything goes! Variety is the spice of life after all~ This week, I'll be playing Identity V's Christmas event. And by "playing" I mean I'll just look at what's going on in the Christmas event and get the free B-tier skin. Hopefully I won't be actually playing matches... Afterwards, I'll be playing Project Diva Megamix+

Dating Novel-ty Sunday: I focus on visual novels, particularly otome games. This week, I'll doing a first look into Paradigm Paradox, where you apparently become a magical girl and join a group of guys who also become magical girls to defend your futuristic colony from the bad guys! There are routes also featuring said bad guys!

[minaliluma]

Final thoughts

Liked the artwork and the music. Characterwise I liked some more than others. Overall the only thing I have to complain about are the endings because most of them were open ends which didn't feel satisfying. The game had potential but sadly didn't make use of it properly. Maybe it would have been better with less characters and longer stories with satisfying endings? 😕 But it wasn't the worst otome I've played and I still would recommend the game to others. 6.5/10

[lunas-otome-blog]

Luna's Review: Paradigm Paradox

Official Summary:

High schooler Yuuki is as average as they come. She enjoys a mundane life of school, friendships, and generally being uninterested in boys, until one day she finds herself outside after curfew and face to face with a horrific monster. Just as all seems lost, Yuuki is saved by four female superheroes… and is invited to join their cause and protect the colony from the Vector threat!

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Luna's Thoughts (Spoiler Free)

I heard before going into this game that it was a bit of a snoozefest, but hey, I dislike a lot of games most people like, so I figured I might have a different opinion.

Unfortunately the rumors were actually kinder to this game than it deserves. It is so, so mid.

With the most generic plot description ever, I didn't have high hopes at the start, and it doesn't ever take off. The common route starts off with protagonist Yuuki thinking about how average she is, while casually mentioning the only interesting part of the setting, which is that the game is set in a post-apocalyptic world. We get a vague explanation (the environment degraded) but it isn't really satisfying.

Instead, we do a typical anime-style run-through of all the romance options — with Yuuki LITERALLY running into two of them, in a row.

The art is lackluster, as are the monsters (there's only one model with recolors) and whoever wrote the dialogue must have done so while counting the hours to the end of their shift. Conversations are clipped oversimplified and extremely generic. Nobody asks questions. This game is what you'd get if you asked a middle schooler to come up with an otoge plot.

There's a couple of fun plot twists that could have been the saving grace of this game ... if they weren't in basically every route. The first time they were revealed, I thought it was super fun and unique. But then I had to to play four more routes with the same "twists" and watch Yuuki's same reaction every time. Say it with me now: plot twists that apply to all the routes should be in the common route!!

Yuuki has it right in the first few sentences of the game: she is very average. She has no specific qualities other than being "nice." That's a pretty normal trend for otoges, but if you've read any of my other reviews, you know I like when protagonists have actual personalities. (Variable Barricade and Jack Jeanne, my beloveds.)

Honestly, though, the boring plot and protagonist could have been saved with better writing and more focus on interesting characters. Instead, you have eight romanceable guys, dividing what could have been decent characters into fragments of interest. There's not enough lore to sustain eight characters separately, so there's a ton of overlap in what you find out in each route, making the later routes you play super boring.

The game could have been improved immensely if they'd combined some of the character routes and had maybe five solid characters instead of eight barely fleshed out ones.

The worst part of this game is that it's so middling. At least with other games I didn't like, there were reasons to carry on — pretty art, fun dialogue, etc. Before playing Paradigm Paradox, my least favorite otoge was Even If Tempest, and that one was easier to get through because the system was so awful it made me furious. It was fun to hate it. But Paradigm Paradox is not fun to hate. It's just meh.

The real paradox of this game is how it manages to have so many threads and yet so little substance.

I did manage to finish all the good endings, so please find below my reviews of each character. Light spoilers abound.

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Hyuga Route (Spoilers)

Hyuga's route was so short and lackluster. Following the version of the common route where protagonist Yuuki is taken to the villain compound, she's introduced to the bad guys who live there and asks absolutely no questions about anything.

For no reason at all, Yuuki decides that she has to convince Hyuga to stop attacking humans — despite the fact that the other characters also attack humans — and goes along with him as he heads to Yuuki's hometown to fuck shit up.

(Side note: the town is canonically half a day's travel by foot from the villain compound, meaning every time the bad guys have attacked, they've traveled at least eight hours round trip. Why? This could have been solved by writing the towns closer, or established some sort of vehicle travel between them. It doesn't really affect the plot, but it's one of those things that made me realize the writers really didn't care lol.)

Anyway, Yuuki learns Hyuga's backstory during the long walk and then immediately runs into the very people Hyuga's trying to take revenge on. Yuuki gets in his way, resulting in him hurting her. He then decides he likes her and dedicates his life to helping her recover — even though he was attacking her through the entire common route?? Does it make a difference if it was an accident?

Anyway, she recovers, she says one thing that sets him off, and Hyuga goes right back to trying to attack humans. The same scene happens AGAIN, and this time Hyuga decides to quit attacking humans. Then he and Yuuki leave on a journey.

There's not really any romance in this route, and it could easily be read as a friendship route. Honestly, that didn't bother me too much. What really bothered me was the repetitive nature of this route, the lack of substance and Hyuga's 180 attitude change mid-route.

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Saibara Kamui Route (Spoilers)

This was the route that convinced me to finish the game. It was actually really pleasant. The pace slows down from the awful and expedited common route, and you get to actually meet Kamui and his grandpa. He seems to cozy up to Yuuki too quickly, but there's a decent explanation for it.

The dialogue is still pretty cringey, but I actually felt like I got to know Kamui as a character. The plot twist in this route was unexpected but really fun. Of course, I learned later that the same plot twist exists in nearly every route. But at least it was a fun reveal the first time.

I do think the ending was too neat. If it was that easy to defeat the villains, why don't we see the same technique used in other routes?

There isn't a lot of lore explored in this route, but with eight romance options, there isn't really a lot of anything explored in any route lol. Ultimately Kamui's route was just a sweet magical girl romance, and I was into it. And Kamui's grandpa is the best character in the game.

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Miyama Ayumu Route (Spoilers)

Ah, yes, the perfect student council president who is secretly an asshole. A classic.

This route starts off kinda weird, because to qualify for it, you have to get the scene in the common route where she hangs out with Ayumu in a classroom for a while. But during his first appearance on his route, neither character seems to acknowledge this happened.

This route introduces the adorable Ritsu, Ayumu's little sister and the only reason he's still breathing. She and Yuuki have a sweet friendship, though it's very underdeveloped because we don't get to see many scenes of them spending time together.

Yuuki has a little more personality in this route, but in a forced way. She doesn't like how Ayumu is treating his fans, and self-righteously demands he amend his behavior, which is just such a weird hill to die on for someone she barely knows.

This route follows the same arc that Kamui's does — Yuuki makes a good impression on Ayumu, he starts losing his powers, and he does something self-sacrificing. This route was less successful to me, though, because Ayumu just didn't seem to have much of a reason to like Yuuki. As in Hyuga's route, his opinion of her changes too quickly to feel natural.

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Yukinami Route (Spoilers)

Yukinami is more or less the yandere of this game, committing acts of unspeakable violence with no second thoughts and no concept of friendship or love. I was excited for this sort of dark character in an otherwise very surface level game.

Was it successful? Eh. I think Yukinami's cheery personality combined with his horrific lust for violence made for a pretty scary character at first. But after Yuuki learns his backstory and decides to pity him instead of fear him, the route takes a weird turn.

Yuuki treats him as more of a child from that point on, but remains attracted to him, creating a really strange dynamic. Like she's literally explaining basic concepts to him like a preschooler. It made me pretty uncomfortable.

Anyway, Yukinami changes his tune really quickly and decides to listen to Yuuki and not fight humans anymore, and that's the route. The romance was too fast and not well developed.

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Ayase Mihaya Route (Spoilers)

Mihaya is the only character who retains the same personality in his hero persona and out, so I did appreciate that. But man, this route starts rough with terrible dialogue and overexplained gestures. It felt like the writers didn't trust the player enough to understand when Mihaya was being nice.

This is one of the routes that really could have been highlighted if they condensed the number of characters. I'd have loved a longer version where Mihaya and Yuuki fight against the system together, but no, it ends before they get to do anything.

This was an alright route, but it highlights everything wrong with this game — namely that there are too many characters so the routes are too short and not fully fleshed out.

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Ibuki Route (Spoilers)

This route starts out the same as all the other routes, including the same (now obvious) plot twist. We already learned Ibuki's backstory in Yukinami's route, so there were no surprises to be unlocked for him, but we do get to learn about Yuuki's backstory, her parents and, finally, the mysterious Uncle Yashima she's been corresponding with the whole time.

One thing I really liked about Ibuki is his gender fluidity. Unlike all the other men who transform into women in this game, who treat their feminine persona as a secret identity, Ibuki seems to identify Moravia as part of himself. He doesn't need to be in her body to use his powers, but he feels more powerful in that form. I loved that!

This route actually does a pretty good job of making Ibuki seem scary. Unlike Yukinami, whose scariness came from his undeveloped sense of right and wrong, Ibuki seems to have already decided he's willing to make an enemy of the entire human race, and is just waiting for Yuuki to agree with him.

Despite being one of the better and more fleshed out routes, it ends too quickly, just like all the others. In an ideal version of this game, Ibuki would have been the true end character and gotten a nice, long, full route.

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Tokio Route (Spoilers)

Tokio doesn't make much of an impression in any of the other routes. The one thing I noticed about him is that his personality is very different in his superhero persona. I wondered if that would come up in his route, but it doesn't lol.

Tokio is meant to be the logical scientist of the game, smoothing conflict for efficiency rather than because he cares about Yuuki, and this is fairly successful. But for the character billed as one of the more important ones (at least by the icon on the switch which shows Tokio and Ibuki) Tokio's route doesn't actually provide any information we didn't already know from other routes.

The ending felt kind of true-endy, but it was too fast and too clean to have much impact. They basically were planning a heist and pulled it off with zero consequences. Why bother with even going through the motions if it's all going to go according to plan? Also, if they could just make all the researchers forget what they were doing, why would they not do it in every route?

There's a scene where Tokio asks to call Yuuki by her first name that didn't translate well at all because this game doesn't use Japanese honorifics. In English, he asks to call her "bud" which was so stupid lol. It's giving "Ayu, why are you such a freak?" from the English dub of Kanon rofl. But jealous Tokio is kinda cute. I didn't think his route was much of anything, but I did think he was one of the better characters in this game.

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Ryo Route (Spoilers)

I actually really liked Ryo's character. He's set up as the stoic, unemotional guy, but it turns out he actually has a sarcastic personality that only comes out when Yuuki gets closer to him. His affection for her happens too fast, but the pacing is bad in all the routes so whatever lol.

This is definitely the most expansive of the routes, as it's the only one that even mentions the outside world. As usual, Yuuki asks very few questions, and most of this route is her going from person to person and receiving scraps of information from each.

The main thrust of this route is that Ryo is not only a double agent for the Vectors and the Blooms, but also a triple agent, a spy sent from the ominous outside world to do ... what, exactly? He doesn't specify. But Ibuki makes the vague assumption that he's here to destroy Yuuki's world, and we're just supposed to make that leap along with him, despite no evidence. Of course, it turns out to be true, but it's just such lazy writing.

The end of the route was fine, I guess. I didn't think it went far enough. The character's just get ready for battle and then it ends.

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Grand Finale (Spoilers)

In the Grand Finale, I figured out why Ryo's route ends abruptly. It's because the finale is just an extended version of Ryo's route lol. It's literally the exact same plot, except the pacing is awful because there's a giant info dump at the beginning revealing all the plot info we already know from playing all the other routes.

The ending scene is just a big battle, but we don't see any of the enemies beyond a couple of planes. Are we really expected to believe that an entire army set to destroy all of post-apocalyptic Japan decided to focus their attack in one location? Also, they're just gonna give up after one fight?

There was just so little thought put into this ending lol. A properly mediocre ending for a mediocre game.

[hellcatinnc]

Otome Men Being First Time Dad's

I'm always looking for things to share and write about and lately I seen alot of posts on kids and all so figured I would start by writing my own list how they would handle if being told they were a daddy to be since their woman said reader is having their child. There is a few that are anime men only but had to add them.

Men that would be scared to death but still stand by you and try to be the best dad's they can be

Nicola Falzone

Kento

Shin

Ryuki

Vilio

Fran

Saeki

Go

Kazuma

Azusa (BC)

Taiga

Urie

Hades

Riku

Ichthys

Rei

Kazuomi

Subaru (DL)

Kou

Atsushi Nakajima

Ranpo

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Deadbeat dads that as soon as they find out they will ghost you and the child to come

Shikki

Limbo

Kenato

Akutagawa

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Men that have wanted a child with you the moment they fell in love with you

Dante Falzone

Allan

Ikki

Toma (Amnesia)

Eiichirou Asagi

Yuikito Sena

Paschalia

Van Helsing

Impey Barbicane

Haruka

Ren

Saint Germain

Herlock Sholmes

Natsume

Rem

Masaomi

Baldr

Ichiya

Shion

Nagito

Huedhaut

Yuzuru

Iori

Il

Azusa (DL)

Yuma

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These guys planned to breed you so this was exactly what they wanted

Conrad

Tamaki

Leon

Yang

Zyglavis

Kei

Ayato

Reiji

Laito

Ruki (DL)

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Men that would just be the best daddys ever hold to your seats these men would be best having daddy's girls to protect and would kill a fucker that would hurt them.

Gilbert Redford

Ukyo

Shelby

Liyan

Radie

Hyuga

Misyr Rex

Yamato

Zafora

Mage

Loki

Toma (IM)

Scorpio

Partheno

Shu (DL)

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Too Scared To Be A Dad Leave You Because They Can't Handle It

Orlok

Gill

Arsene Lupin

Yukinami

Tsubaki

Fuuto

Kaname

Ignis

Ibuki

Teorus

Raul

Keita

Dazai

Chūya

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If you have any others I haven't mentioned let me know and I will add them. This is more off games I have played and know the characters.

[overlordofships]

Me, staring at Kenma and Kuroo: ...

Me, staring at Linhardt and Caspar: ......

Me, staring at Tokio and Ayumu: .........

Me, completely done, staring at Craig and Lon: So being a sleepy weirdo just guarantees that I'll ship you with your childhood friend, then?!

Kenma, Linhardt, Tokio, Craig: Yes

[dreamieotome]

Recently played Paradigm Paradox and I'm afraid I have. A lot of thoughts. And I need to talk about it because WTF did I play?? Spoilers! (duh)

Paradigm Paradox

Overall Rating 1/10

Favorite ML KAMUI

ML Rating 6/10

ML Trope / Personality Golden retriever bf who is too hard on himself</3

Genre / Summary Magical Girls in a post-apocalyptic world

Overall Thoughts (SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT FR FR)

All I can say is. What a weird game. The tone is so off. The background music never fits what's happening on screen (character: talking about how he had been experimented on without his consent. the music: hehe frolicking in the fields~). The pacing is INCREDIBLY off. The characters. Just don't act normal? It's SO weird. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where you transform into magical girls to kill monsters, but the twist is that the monsters started off as humans. There’s a lot of heavy topics discussed like human experimentation, forced imprisonment, brainwashing, child abuse, authoritarianism, government cover ups, but none of it is handled very well. It doesn’t get the depth or time it deserves, and it’s more so a backdrop for the “love” story lines, which honestly are not that great either. Then in the final route you find out about ANOTHER plot twist that doesn’t get time to sink in, and neither was it foreshadowed or hinted at on any other route. Every route is very short, and I don't know if that’s a good thing or not because on one hand they could have improved the story lines with more time, but also, being short is one of its only redeeming qualities because at least it goes so quick. That’s mitigated by the fact there are EIGHT routes to get through. Holy shit. The only other redeeming quality is Kamui<3 because all the other love interests SUCK or are mediocre at best. Also the most disappointing part was Ryou, I was so excited for him and then. It’s just a grown ass 26 yr old man flirting with a 16 yr old high schooler…..my guy … what are you doin….

Individual Short Reviews

Kamui my shining beacon of hope in this stupid game. Genuinely a good story line about a people-pleasing character who tries to sacrifice himself to keep everyone else safe. (Mayhaps I cried)

Ibuki this is an interesting case of where even the writers had no idea what personality they wanted this character to have. So every scene, they have a different personality and motivations. I was so interested to know about their motivations, and just. Got nothing? Go girl, give us nothing!

Yukinami I was so excited to have a yandere route and then it.. just wasn't yandere enough? Idk it just didn't hit. I chalked a lot of plot holes to it being the 2nd route I played but in hindsight, none of the plotholes were retroactively fixed. it was not great.

Hyuga 1st route I played and I was so disappointed. There is a serious problem with how his route is written and he does not make choices that make sense for his character.

Mihaya the plot about his parents and how he overcomes his anxieties surrounding death was interesting, but could have been explored more imo

Tokio I have no feelings about him. Like I understand the trope they are trying to hit, but the transition from the misunderstanding to him being in love wasn't believable at all

Ryou get out of here weirdo. flirt with people in your own age range

Ayumu is on my shitlist fr fr. Straight up in last place in the last tier on my otome ml ranking list. Out of every ml I've ever encountered. Ticks literally every box for everything I hate in a character.

weeeeird ass game fr