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Reading otome because it asked to be read seriously. Strong opinions, receipts included.
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Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs · Published unpublished
The women of this book carry its weight, and the book knows it. Natsuhi, Eva, Rosa, Maria — Ryukishi07 writes them with real interiors and real failures. The question arcs give you time with each of them, not as suspects, but as people whose grief the plot refuses to stay on top…
Amnesia: Memories · Published unpublished
Amnesia: Memories is the otome I hand to people who think otome is a genre that can't hold weight. The amnesia premise is a Trojan horse — it lets the game test the same heroine against five different relationships, and the test is not "which boy does she end up with" but "what…
Steins;Gate · Published unpublished
I keep wanting to like Kurisu more than I do. The game writes her as the only person in the room who can shut Okabe down, then spends most of the script using her as his reflector — she pushes back on his bit but rarely gets a scene that isn't about him. Her route patches this a…
CLANNAD · Published unpublished
The heroine set is wider than Key's earlier books and the book is better for it — Tomoyo, Kyou, and Kotomi are not interchangeable. But Clannad is still a book that routes its women's arcs through the male protagonist's growth, and the cost of that is most visible in Kyou's…
Fate/stay night · Published unpublished
Fate/stay night is a long book about a boy who needs to be argued out of his ideals. It is also a book that spends a lot of its Fate route on Saber as a figure Shirou protects. The balance tips in the later routes — Rin's route lets her do the arguing, Sakura's route lets her…
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