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Yoshio x Mio day was yesterday, oops.

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Another SD version post! This time is Shiori Fujisaki and Miharu Tatebayashi from Konami's revolutionary dating sim Tokimeki Memorial ❤️

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She hates being drawn…. She would hate this!

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i am a saki nijino fan first and foremost, but nozomi kiyokawa is also great :)

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"The most beautiful, intelligent, successful, and popular girl in school.

Shiori Fujisaki

Look at her

Do you love her?

Do you… want to love her?

Do you ACTUALLY want to love her or do you just WANT to want to want to love her?

Do you just want to be the sort of person, who wants to love her?"

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Happy Valentines Day!

I haven't played Tokimeki Memorial (i dont want to fiddle around with translation patch -_-) but I've wanted to for a long time. Firstly out of respect for the dating sim genre and second because Action Button Reviews makes a great sales pitch on it. I've watched his video three times in the past month (one of them specifically for Valentine's Day)

Though it's not the first time I've felt that pull towards dating sims, the invisible link of why there's so many of them tagged 'psychological horror' these days lol, but he communicates that idea FANTASTICALLY!

Something something that I don't have the right words for about the cognitive dissonance in something so close to human and yet clearly synthetic. Emotional storytelling that reeks with the artificial taste of bubblegum. The further they push the illusion of something real the further the veil of illusion is forced into view.

This 'pull' is in a lot of other things I enjoy, (dating sims, magical girls, love nikki, etc.) I don't consider myself traditionally feminine and distance myself further from the idea of being a girl everyday. The sparkly pink fiction of ideals fighting the substance of reality of being.

This is an observation made of genuine love and respect for these works and yet I write this in the same prose I write my horror.

I'm my own 'post cyberpunk digital idol'

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hope everyone’s having a good holiday season with friends, family, and loved ones 🥰

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does anyone care them

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HAPPY TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL DAY!

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Muscles are hard to draw (;-;)

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it's saki nijino day, happy birthday to my favorite tokimeki girl!

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A (late) Valentine's day art, I've been meaning to do some Tokimeki Memorial art for a while now and this was as good an opportunity as any.

The snes version was ROBBED of the very sweet scene in Sega Saturn at least where Rei gives you chocolate on the third Valentine's day