I’m almost disappointed. It would be an amusing way to go for more cross-over appeal with yaoi fans!
The Confusion Of Interacting With Kijyo: A 4 Act Play.
It’s awfully nice of you to share your lunch with m–
Well, that’s a change from my regular boyfr–
So, you’re saying you’d make a great househusb–
WHAT?
Getting Kijyo to blissfully open up about his daddy issues seems to have triggered something because now the dude is all over me. He takes me out to a cafe to tell me about sports.
Good… to know?
Then he shows up for my birthday and gives me an antique radio. I sit by the door all day but Mihara never shows up. MIHARAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
So I go to work and Hazuki gets all bitchface with me because I dropped a cup. Fine, fine, I’ll ask you out on another napdate, don’t look at me that way.
It’s exams time again, and while Tiger Mother wouldn’t be happy with these scores, I am climbing up the academic ladder pretty successfully, I would say. No one comes by to congratulate me. My imaginary love life is totally in the shitter at this point.
White Day comes and goes. This it the day that the guys who got chocolates on Valentine’s Day are supposed to return the favor by giving girls something white. No, not that. Mihara gives me an obligatory white hankie, just like everyone else who gave him chocolate. Kijyo blushes and gives me a moonstone. This situation is getting bad, I am asking Mihara out on another date. And he shows up like this.
I suspect that he is doing this on purpose now. What the fuck, where did he even buy that shirt?
Oh look at that, I was so disappointed in Mihara that my fingers slipped all whoopsie-daisy and somehow I ended up on a totally romantic field trip with my impossibly good-looking teacher. Also, balls has a good point.
I love that look of disapproval I MEAN MY HAND JUST SLIPPED I WASN’T TRYING TO LEAD YOU AWAY FROM THE GROUP BY THE TIE, REALLY
My balls always have time for you I MEAN SURE THING, WHAT’S GOING ON, TEACHER?
kijyo would probably congratulate you on your exam scores but he is too much of a badboy/househusband. does that mean he vacuums in leather?
Oh! Are you sure you should be inviting your student out like this?
Alright, I see that you’re a man of action then! Where are we going, anyway?
Aw yeah, you must have been planning this.
How am I feeling? HOW AM I FEELING? You got me all excited and then took me to watch the sunset. I’m feeling a little blue.
But this serves as a good reminder. I won over your difficult ass the first time I played this game, nothing adorable little Fabulous throws at me can be half as difficult as you were. I am re-vitalized!
I love QT3 so much.
It’s the start of my second year in high school. That means I am 1/3rd of the way through the game and that it’s time to introduce the shota character.
Sigh. A shota character is a younger boy character, and this dweeb is intolerable. He idolizes Hazuki, in fact, the only reason he talks to you to start with is that someone said you were close to Hazuki. He wants to get closer to Hazuki because
Kid, don’t even bother. And do something about that hair. And no, don’t say that you are setting your mark on me, most of the guys in this game are already way too young for me. When you ask your perverted little brother for Hibiya’s information, this is what he says.
I feel gross just looking at it.
So here I am, minding my own business, raising my Charm stat before my cherry blossom-viewing date with Mihara when
OMINOUS MUSIC
So who’s the target audience for this? Is this really aimed at women (or girls) in Japan?
Yeah, there’s even a pornographic counterpart to “guy get” games like this. The girls who play them tend to be called “fujoshi” or “rotten girls.” Basically, she-nerds.
What car?
Speaking of inscrutable cultural questions, why does the game make such a point of recording blood types? Are type O’s sexier in Japan or something?
Japan has this huge fixation on blood type as an indicator of personality, similar to the US fascination with the zodiac. Here’s a pretty good article explaining it.
Sounds like Angie.
I live in a glass house so I’m not one to throw stones.
This is the most hilarious thing I’ve read in months. I don’t think I could stomach playing, but I’m glad you have the… masochism? to persevere with this AAR.
Did you mean “sounds like awesome?”
That’s fascinating. Every time I think I understand Japan, it gets weirder. Though I guess I’m not surprised that the “empathic” AB blood type is considered undesirable in Japan.
I’m AB(I know because I used to donate blood). Guess it’s just as well I don’t plan on ever going to Japan, what with me being a horrible gaijin as well.