I mean, I like Katawa Shoujo as well, but there’s no need to be that condescending towards other games😅

I curate my home feed by mostly following accounts that put politics and stuff under a CW.

You are able to filter posts by searchterms and tags, but that might not remove everything, so I’d use the local and federated timeline with caution if you’re worried about that.

I personally use the filter feature to remove all genAI images and that works pretty well for me so far^^

It also helps that I’m mainly a…proactive? user and tend to seek out interesting posts with selfmade feeds instead of solely relying on my timeline.

dhskhda I forgot to put it in the original post but I added it afterwards, I hope it shows up for you 😭

So that means that if you find a game you don’t like, you should send it my way…? 😆

I personally just really like if the protagonist’s gender doesn’t really matter and they’re treated as an equal. I’ve stopped playing otome games just because I couldn’t deal with how the LIs tended to treat the protag. I also learned that I absolutely despise games where the MC is a complete blank-slate for self-insertion purposes (looking at you, Amnesia). Otomes don’t seem to have fleshed-out MCs that often, so I often get my fix from BL games instead :/

In the case of Jack Jeanne, I’m also ok with the cross-dressing, since the setting is very clearly inspired by the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theatre troupe. (I had actually played a Yuri-VN that was heavily inspired by Takarazuka before.) The protagonist plays both female and male roles and really grows through that, so I think she doesn’t really care about being perceived as a girl or not, I think.

At no point, female roles are treated as less desirable than male roles, and actors who can convincingly play a female role enjoy lots of admiration from their peers, which I find pretty neat. The plot hasn’t really addressed how the MC feels about privately cross-dressing though 🤔 It doesn’t get brought up unless there’s a situation where she might get found out.

I can totally understand if the cross-dressing is a dealbreaker for you, though^^

Several things! I like how it’s focused more on the drama school plot and the MC’s personal development as an actress than on romance. There still is gradual and consistent development with your chosen LI, but it’s all in the context of the greater plot.

The whole setup is also very interesting since the protagonist is a girl pretending to be a boy at an all boys drama school where they play both the female and male roles. So there’s just so much cross-dressing going on all around 🤭 It’s not only that the characters are all playing around with gender-presentation as part of their training (and just for fun), but also that MC is essentially putting her LI’s in a General Shang situation (if you’ve seen Mulan).

Also I’m just a fan of Ishida’s art style and rythm games 😊

The only thing that I’d criticize so far is that the rival classes aren’t really getting enough focus. You aren’t even told what their plays are about :/ You just get pretty CGs in the first round of plays and that’s it

How about blorbo.social? It’s a fandom-centric instance and I’m following a bunch of accs from there!

BlerdyOtome also has a “proper” mastodon account aside from the bridged one: https://mastodon.social/@blerdyotome There’s also ebi-hime, who does different kinds of romance VN, less otome though I think: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ebihimes

I’ve been playing Jack Jeanne, the otome game by Tokyo Ghoul author Sui Ishida! I’m in the middle of Suzu’s route and really enjoying it so far~

I didn’t censor it. The original says “my bals” but there’s only a single “bal” at risk here, so I adjusted it (badly) to fit the joke

I’ve mostly spent this patch making glamours and doing dailies now and then. Motivation is kinda low :/ Regarding 7.1, I’m just curious about the Alliance raid and possible news about the exploration zones tbh. I really hope the AR story won’t be an exposition dump like the Stormblood AR storyline was

Favourite of the season: Oshi no Ko without competition, the animation quality and story were both amazing! There were some scenes that go so hard that I’m sure they’re still going to be talked about for years.

Biggest disappointment: Tower of God S2. I really looked forward to this, but the story didn’t pick up until the final two episodes of the first cour :/ The animation quality was also pretty mid. I’m still looking forward to the second half though…

Kinda meh: Elusive Samurai. At first, I got pulled in by the fantastic animation and interesting premise, but the follow-up didn’t really live up to the initial hype. It’s still entertaining to watch though, even if I think the way the protag is portrayed and treated by the cast is kinda…sus, sometimes

I finally got a Switch Lite last weekend and ordered Jack Jeanne first thing! It already got delivered, so I’ll start as soon as I get home~

I found like 5 more of these and made a Mastodon thread, here you go

100% gonna watch:

• The new Blue Lock season, still gotta watch episode Nagi though
• Dandadan
• Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
• Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.

Gonna give it a try for a few episodes:

• Uzumaki
• Trillion Game
• I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
• Yakuza Fiancé

I don’t know about Re:zero to be honest, I was kind of disappointed with where the plot was going in the second season, and it feels like the stakes aren’t really that high anymore :/

Yeah, the biggest problem with this approach is different moderation philosophies. You would have to set up a vetted set of approved non-problematic instances. I’ve read several accounts of people who tried out fedi and left soon after, and nothing sours the newcomer experience more than unknowingly joining an instance with a toxic community/moderators

My time has come!

!otomegames@ani.social

!anime@ani.social

!visualnovels@ani.social

!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

!ffxiv@possumpat.io

!finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world

What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn’t blocked bluesky as well

My perspective as someone who is mainly active in the anime/gaming fandom and gamedev space:

• Easier onboarding overall since you don’t have to bother with choosing an instance and all that
• despite starting out with less features than mastodon (no gifs, they are only getting video in the next update wth), the UI is overall more user-friendly and similar to Twitter’s
• Customizable feeds you can easily subscribe to in-app so you instantly have some content on your timeline (+ it’s easy to be found in these feeds without having to research the specific tags to use)
• Discoverability (through features and community efforts) is so much better. As someone who mainly follows artists, the last few days my TL was full of people doing artshares via quote-repost chains or sharing “starter packs” with lists of people to follow
• I have seen exactly one artshare post on mastodon so far (the japanese side seems to have it figured out a bit better, though. I regularly see tag-based artshares going around)
• meanwhile, to achieve a similar experience on mastodon I had to manually build myself different feeds in phanpy in which I’m following ~30 tags I have painfully collected to find the posts I’m interested in
• quote-retweets don’t exist yet but I kind of see the benefit now
• the stackable moderation also helps a lot

Overall, I think the main problems on Mastodon’s side are difficult onboarding and lack of actual community-building efforts. Also, the community just seems to be less welcoming for creators in general imo

Apparently I missed two whole otome game releases in the past month D:<

Anyway, I’m definitely gonna take a look at FFS, Another Northern Duke (which isn’t available in my region on steam for some reason)

The Demo for Eternal Glory also looks good, but seems to be machine translated 🤔