#sd madarame

[m-tachibana]

I want amvs to be how they used 2 be…

[mink-shit-shrine]

Now that I’m done with Madarame route I can finally shelve this man forever.

/sushi

[utowarazed]

guess who decided to bring his ass back from the dead. enjoy

[mallardducksaysquack]

So I was looking at some artbook page I found online and

I have never seen these before lmao

[oreonyu]

i forgor to show here but i participated in a slow damage zine called Shinkoumi Delights a while back! and here's my piece hehe

[postmanlinksbootyshorts]

OH IT JUST FUCKING DAWNED ON ME WHOSE ALL IN THIS PICTURE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[takekawa]

top 5 ships >:)

oh god this is such a difficult question. like choosing my favorite kid..

if held at gunpoint and not in order of how much i like them

shumika. easy. the combination of someone who blindly wants to be dehumanized and has to be outright taught to care for himself at all + neurotic controlling freak who ruins his relationships with literally everyone else, and only starts to gain some 'humanity' through seeing mika both think thats hot and also slowly, clearly deteoriate is so. auhoruahourhguh. i like the sweet route theyve taken in es!! where they get mentally better together but i do still prefer the psycho shit happening in es!. i th;ink they should have formed a suicide pact.

wranduin. ive been their shooter since i was like fucking 12 years old you would not believe how excited i was reading war crimes finally & seeing wrathis cute new model. my sexy 5 year old dragon wife.. more seriously i do like how they oppose and compliment eachother. i do really miss the little bit of shadow magic anduin dabbled in during MOP and lament him going full paladin mode. it fits with warcrafts love of turning everything into a fatherhood trauma arc but still.. auuu...it was much cuter to have holy priest boy anduin learn to be 'bad' (stand up for himself) and 5d chess 12 steps ahead 'the end justifies the means' wrathi learn to be a little kinder/softer. also i just love wrathion being fucking insane him freeing garrosh only to have him fucking die immediately and cause the next 5 years of expansions is funny as fuck. love you king. he should get to terrorize the fuck out of anduin forever to cheer him up from his knight depression

madohomu. i dont even have to explain this one. i cant. theyre everything. theyre nothing. every single fucking oc universe i make i have to physically hold myself back from just doing another timeloop a la madohomu. killing myself

tamamori/kawase. "making a tulpa of my dead friend who is actively suibaiting me and calling me a bitch ass loser and walks me around on a dog collar" obscenely fucking funny premise. i hope tamamori never figures out hes trying to get dick from an alter. more seriously i do really love kawases character and i wish there were more unrepentant cunts like him. it is genuinely fascinating for tamamori to develop a real, romantic attraction towards an alter who ostensibly is meant to represent his own self-hate, guilt and shame with himself. self care?

lucio/sandalphon. i havent touched gbf in seeeeveral years but i still love lucio so much. comedy wise they have endless potential with lucio looking exactly like his dead wife and the fucking. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" "laundry ^_^" scene still makes me crack up remembering it. the angsty aspect of sandalphon turning to someone who looks like his wife in his grief after losing him also makes me cackle like an evil maniac considering lucio does want to befriend him and see him happy. very moe smiling through the knowledge that sandalphon doesn't actually like him. giggle.

honorary mentions that are a little too recent for me to be totally ride or die for them: caelus/aventurine, durgetash (all durge/evil!companion pairings are really good too), xalatath/alleria & joker/goro

honorary mentions that i dont consume much content for now but sagely nod in great approval at: jaina/sylvanas, pate/creighton, lawrence/gehrman, varre/mohg (ONESIDED.), purple!hawke/anders, caejose, kristoph/klavier, adachi/p4protag & stridercest.

ive had 5 billion pairings ive loved over years there are undoubtedly huges ones im completely forgetting. #AMENSIAGANG

[vaplord]

I am going crazy

[timetravelstudies]

(goes in the sd tumblr tag)

(2 minutes pass)

as an empath , i can tell i overestimated how old towa was in those blonde flashbacks

[waraueuphoria]

towa and madarame horses

[ruskatuskapuskasapuska]

Slou Damake? Nääh, se on poka Hiras Lämä (I swear suomalaistan kaikki fandomit johon saan paskaiset näppini)

Tein nää pahimman SD-brainrottini aikana ja toivottavasti nää pääsis joskus iha tarramuotoonki (kuha vaa saisin itteni joskus vielä taidekujakuntoon)

And as usual, poor translations just in case (I've actually thought of making eng. versions of these, but ehhhhghhh i don't think that'll happen for a while (if ever)):

Towa "Booze & smokes"

Taku "In my medical opinion: Don't."

Rei "I wanna beat you, then eat you <3" (can't believe it rhymes in eng as well!)

Madarame "Ya wanna get beat?"

Fujieda "Thank you, that's enough."

Kotarou "Fuck it's cold!!"

Mayu "You look just like my anime-waifu <3"

Eiji "Nuclear bomb! :-D"

Vampire "Thristy..." (it's actually in estonian (or as we like to call it: drunk finnish))

Ikuina "wanna play knife-tag??"

Asakura "uncle-ing hazard" (a word play on "radiation hazard" and...? "uncle-ing?"/acting like a creepy guy (probs the most tastleless out of the bunch but eghhhh i'm cancel-worthy anyways))

Mizuno "(I) got beaten up..."

(Nearly all of these are in low/highkey dialect or slang and just stolen memes/jokes in general)

[michiruze]

Thoughts on Slow Damage

A six-year long wait turned into a desire, and before we know it, today is the euphoric moment of the desire, realized.

I started Slow Damage expecting your usual dark and occasionally trashy but awesome Nitro+Chiral game. Like watching a grindhouse film in an arthouse theatre reserved for people who are into the genre and the subculture around it.

What I got instead is dark, unrelenting, heartbreaking, and cathartic work on the darkness of people, breaking free from chains, desires, and the captive nature of guilt. 

Slow Damage is a painting where colors lights up the dark canvas.

It’s a memorable game that hopefully will go down in VN history, it’s impeccable and mesmerizing, altough still, not for everyone and not for the faint of the heart. But if you do have the heart, please give this game a go. It’s worth your time and money.....and desires. It is very wonderfully made and presented.

My main thought upon finishing Slow Damage is that this is what getting a therapy after suffering for so long in silence feels like. Confronting the hard-to-face, the uncomfortable truth, the source of your pain, speaking up about it....then work for the better. Heading towards light at the end of the tunnel.

Slow Damage is a story of suffering, but there’s always hope to end it.

And for that, it’s hard for me to call Slow Damage as the ‘usual N+C sufferfest’ because SD has a lot to say. And boy, it did.

All the darkness has a reason (Shinkoumi is NOT a wonderful place, and all the suffering is clear), and I find it hard to look away from parts I personally find normally upsetting. This game makes me keep looking at it in a mesmerizing, direct way. I can’t look away, it almost feels like I am having a euphoric session with Towa himself, trying to look into us audiences.

A common theme in this game that I consistently see is how pain and suffering affects our lives. Everyone in the game is tied to their painful pasts and the scars it did. Even whey they live normally, there’s still pain inside of their hearts. It is either remaining pain or worse, repressed pain.

All the smiles and joy are real, it’s a way to keep yourself intact in the painful world of Shinkoumi where everyone gets pain inflicted upon them. However, the sense I am feeling in Rei and Taku’s routes is that while Towa might seem to have 'moved on' from his past through his time today, he’s not actually moving on from his pain. This applies to Taku and Rei. Taku and Rei still have their pain and guilt, and Towa is running away from it.

Towa continues to live on since his life after the pain with Taku and Rei are comfortable. It’s a comfortable new world.....without resolving the pain and problems. Just forgetting it and pretend most of it didn’t happen.

[MAJOR SPOILERS ONWARDS]

Madarame’s route felt like him returning Towa to the plentiful, pleasurable, and ‘better’ past, by making Towa almost recalling his past and pain, but Madarame uses that chance to push him back into 'the good times right after your worst trauma’. Because for Madarame, Towa was at his best and most composed during those days. Why not return to those days? And throw all our opponents and obstacles into the trash?

But this still does not make Towa ‘move on’ from his pain. He just runs away to a different direction.

Even if Towa rejected Maya, he’s still unconsciously doing what Maya does....to Madarame, especially when he decided to try Euphoria session on him. It makes sense after reading Fujieda route.

Which brings us to Fujieda route, and why it’s great. Not only that they both face the darkness in order to find light, the reasons why it’s a great and highly cathartic route is:

1) Towa actually has someone in his side, and friends to help him address his past. And by that, he actually helped them to address their pasts too. Taku and Rei also faces their darkness in the process. We find light together

2)  Towa acknowledges his problems, and while he initially has extreme guilt (he cant separate his art from his PARENT), he thankfully isn't consumed by it. The usage of paint thinner as fuel for fire is also apropos, as paint thinners function as erasers. Towa wished he could be erased to blankness again, but he realizes that he could just make himself better. Like deciding to paint something better on a messy work.

3) Fujieda and Towa work together to find the truth. While it hurts (VERY painful), all they can do is to respect Mei's life by living and becoming better people and supporting eachother, living the life they deserve to have

4)  Both acknowledged pain and their scars. And doesn't think it never existed. Instead, they don’t see it as their sins, and unconditionally embrace eachother in their pain-riddled bodies. It just happens, and there’s nothing they can do to completely erase it. Again, all they can do is support eachother to be better.

5)  Most importantly: not running away from the past and all the pain. And reclaiming those. 

And all of that will bring us into the light.

There’s more to Slow Damage than that, however. The themes of acceptance, guilt over denouncing your parents, and embracing yourself are present, along with the harrowing longtime effects of trauma, written in elegant ways. Fuchii Kabura and Nitro+Chiral took their sweet time improving their craft, and it’s especially present here.

I’m glad I waited so long for Slow Damage, it felt like a tender embrace from the painful world, best described by this BGM track.

That’s all I can say about the game proper. On the artistic front, Yamada Uiro’s art is really great. This game really showed off her sheer skills and talents that she previously only shown in light novels and promo arts for Nitroplus and Nitro+Chiral games.

The character designs are still memorable even though the game has a more realistic setting. The memorable elements comes from the different features each character has and their toned bodies too. There’s something for everyone in this game.

The overall feel of the game in terms of the aesthetics is that while it is dark in the level of Togainu no Chi, it’s actually one of the more colorful games that N+C ever made. Closest comparison I can make is the works of film director Gaspar Noé, specifically his later works. The darker-toned CGs with colorful lighting evoked the same feel of Noé’s cinematographer Benoit Debie with the striking colors dimly lighting the dark.

The 3D backgrounds has improved a lot from DMMD, and overall....the production value is BIG, and you can see it right from the title screen!

As usual, the music is delight to the ears. Personally I adore Madarame’s ending themes. Very much bangers, altough I have soft spots for Rei (GOATBED!!!!! SHUUJI IS BACK!!! PROVING THE ‘GOAT’ IN GOATBED!!!!) and Taku’s themes too.

That’s all I can say about this game, really. It’s a difficult game to write about, and really needed to be experienced.

Overall, I am grateful to have stepped into the dark tunnel of Slow Damage and walking into the light with new perspectives. Slow Damage will make you see impossible colors, and how even the darkest of places can, and will be guided towards the light.

Also, this is an Inada stan account. We stan an unbothered king minding his own business!

[mallardducksaysquack]

Pretty sure most people have seen this page already since it's on the wiki (where I've grabbed it from for sake of image quality) but can we just appreciate the curves?

[stophangiingdjs]

So early this morning (re: 3 am) I finished the Taku euphoria route of Slow Damage.

Reviewing in as few sentences as possible: As much as I love Rei, Taku is genuinely best boy so far. TakuTowa is the best sd ship. I love Yaoi Walter White.

I’m currently in the middle of the Madarame route right now, so I might as well give my thoughts on it so far. He’s like if Shiki, the VLG route of sweet pool and fanon!Mink were rolled up and combined into a character (unlikeable asshole who’s Not A Very Good Boyfriend). Sorry Madarame gang. I will concede and say he is, however, kind of a Bad Bitch.

[postmanlinksbootyshorts]

i went from super determined to make a long as fuck post abt rei's route to being like "eh maybe i won't, ppl are allowed to have their low iq takes" to seeing a take so cold and stupid that it's ignited my drive to actually write a post abt rei's route and why 90% of ppl who talk abt his route are severely incorrect

[unrelatabledude]

in which sd route would you add cannibalism to fix it

i totally forgot to answer this

the short answer is that it really only would make sense in takus route, a guy whose literally so protective of towa he threatens to kill him in his good end.

so like you could easily transition that into an obsession of literally consuming him so no one else gets him… and that would fix how horrifically boring takus bad end is.

i also think it would be a good route for the german cannibal conversation but really the perfect route for that would be fujiedas…

madarame bad end could also rip with cannibalism but i really don’t wanna change his bad end. sorry madarame