#ayakashirr

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His hyperfocus is impressive

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I WAS LIKE "WHO DIS" FOR A WHOLE MINUTE WHEN I SAW YURA BECAUSE I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION TO THE NAME LABELS HELP

I ALMOST THOUGHT HE WAS SHIDZUKI

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My ayakoi art book arrived yesterday!

Some more stuff to my cube

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Saaame, Oji and fox! But also the lazy birb Kuya.

Ayakashi Romance Reborn fandom rise up!

If your all wondering what Otome game I was talking about its called Ayakashi Romance Reborn! I’ve recently started playing it a few days ago and omg am I in love with these fine men.

I might start writing for them, if I get further far into the main story so ARR Fandom…watch out eheheheheh~

Might open requests for them if no one else sends requests for Genshin and Black Butler~

Question to the ARR Fans: Whose your fav? Mines Oji (Because he gives me Aizawa vibes) and Toichiro (I love foxes)

Its nice to be a new member of this fandom :3

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Headcanons about the Ayakashirr characters during valentine's day?? 👀✨

Koga

I am sure he knows what Valentines is.

So he is not surprised when you give him chocolate.

I guess all the women who know him give him chocolate on the day.

He probably showers his special lady, yes you, with gifts on White Day. Expect more than just chocolate from him. ;)

Kuya

He doesn't know what Valentines Day is.

It doesn't make much of a difference to him, as he spends half the day sleeping.

He is intrigued when you give him chocolate.

So he asks Koga if it is a special day.

He doesn't know about this chocolate-giving tradition, so he also gives you chocolate on the same day.

Toichiro

I don't know what Toichiro does for a living.

He probably gets a lot of chocolate from noblewomen.

He likes to brag off to his friends about all the chocolate he gets.

He probably prefers inarizushi over chocolate.

But he will give you loads of chocolate and affection on White Day!

Shizuki

Shizuki also receives lots of chocolate from his many admirers.

Some of the kitsune girls from Toichiro's village also send him chocolate.

Shizu also gets chocolate from his ex, aka Kagemaru.

He will probably take you to the playhouse to spend time with you.

Expect lots of affection from him on White Day! :)

Aoi

Aoi says it is silly.

But he accepts chocolate from you either way.

He isn't surprised Oji is still trying to flirt with women instead of focusing on work.

He will probably blush a lot as he gives you chocolate on White Day.

Oji

He receives a lot of chocolate from his many admirers on Valentines Day.

He will probably overdo with the flirting.

He learns to make chocolate just for you.

He will give you lots of love and homemade chocolate on White Day.

Ginnojo

Gin reads a lot, so he probably knows about Valentines Day.

He still can't help but blush when you give him chocolate.

He spends hours getting the perfect chocolate for you on White Day.

Kuro

Kuro didn't think he'd make a mistake like this, but he mixes Valentines Day up with White Day.

He's pretty confused when you both end up giving chocolate to each other on Valentines Day.

He'll arrange a circus with his troupe just for you.

Aizen

Being a high-ranking soldier is not easy, but he is aware of this Western tradition.

He is still surprised when you give him chocolate on Valentines Day.

Keep in mind, he can be surprisingly bold sometimes.

He spends a long time selecting chocolate for you for White Day.

Yura

Yura is ancient, so he doesn't know what Valentines Day is.

He asks you if it is a special day when you give him chocolate.

Poor guy doesn't have the patience, nor knowledge of White Day.

He gets you lots of sweets and desserts on the same.

Gaku

Gaku may be old, but he has heard of Valentines Day from the kitsune he hates so much.

He eats the chocolate with wasabi right in front of you.

He will gift you chocolate and invite you on a date the next day.

Kagemaru

He gets lots of chocolate from his customers on Valentines Day, so he is aware of what it is.

He sends chocolate to Shizuki just to spite him.

He will spend the whole day with you on White Day, to show his appreciation for you.

Akiyasu

He doesn't know what Valentines Day is. :')

He is pretty surprised and confused when you give him chocolate.

So he gives you chocolate back.

He will also practice onmyoudou with you because what is more romantic that practicing together?

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Kagemaru's Birthday Card.

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Kagemaru in a dress

Actually it’s about 1/3 of the drawing but I chose the worst possible medium to work on details and gradients... markers are definitely not good for that so I just cut off the rest T_T

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He does have a point tho 🤣

And neither of you is even human

[aikakyu]

beloved

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Futaba being so dense it gave Tatsu a shock 🤣

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Hi there!😊 Hope you have a nice day!!❤ I just wanted to ask if you have time, can you tell me what was the plot in the new Aizen birthday card??🙏🏻🙏🏻😭❤ I just have really bad luck with the gacha right now...

Thank youu so much!!

Heyyy sorry late reply. Was farming like hell for the event, so I only just now read the story.

Aizen and Fu were in a cafe one day, and since his birthday is coming up, she mentioned celebrating. But he said he had to attend an engagement party hosted by a baron that day, so they decide to plan for something else another day.

Aizen offers to take Fu home at least part way (since he has something else to do), but she refused him because she wanted to buy a gift. You can totally feel that Aizen was kind of :( but doesn't show it, LOL.

Then when Aizen left, Toto and Shizu popped up. Toto of course has been spying. And he doesn't even hide. He was just like "Yes, I even purposely sat somewhere close so I can hear :)".

Shizuki: "I tried to stop him :/"

Toto offers to take her to the baron's party so she can wish him Happy Birthday on the day. Fu hesitates but in the end says she wants to go.

In the party, Fu sees Aizen and from behind she saw that he had a female companion. She saw the companion holding on Aizen's arm and she feels jealous and goes out to the balcony.

Except that the "companion" is just Mrs Ooyama :'D Aizen saw Fu, but wasn't sure it's her. Mrs Ooyama confirmed that it was Fu and told Aizen, so he goes to chase after Fu.

Outside he teased her a bit going "Oh what a coincidence, you're here too."

Fu then confessed that she came there with Toto to wish him happy birthday, and ha laughed. He knew, he already asked Toto inside. And he invites her to just leave the party together. Before heading back in, he noticed her dress button (on the back) had come loose and fixed it.

He asked if Toto gave it with jealous voice but Fu doesn't notice and think he was just being awkward about the button. She says no, it was a gift from her dad's customer. Aizen: Oh :)

When they leave, Fu asks what about the companion. And Aizen says "Madam just told us to go ahead and leave". Fu: Oh :o

The one who needed to go was Mrs Ooyama anyway, because the baron's wife was her friend. Aizen just thought he needed to escort her and greet the baron, who he's acquainted with, for formality.

Now that the misunderstandings (TM) has been resolved Aizen mentioned it would've been nice to have one dance. Fu says she thought so too, so Aizen told the coach to go to the Ooyama house. He brought her to his childhood study room and brought out a gramophone.

Remembering what she knew about his past she felt melancholy, but Aizen said it's not a bad memory so she shouldn't be sad for his sake. She wished him happy birthday and he says he's glad to have met her. They kiss, and then they have a private dance together.

*) Random but her birthday greeting was "Thank you for being born", and apparently this is a common thing in Japan, but it just feels weird to see haha.

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There are so many issues with Voltage that make them extremely unreliable that just yeeting a game onto the market with no advertising or promotion whatsoever is the smallest of the problems honestly.

Before I start, I need to also mention, that it's not just Voltage losing its fandom. Route otomes seem to be now outdated as a genre on the mobile market. I believe it has something to do with card gacha games taking the niche. Those games offer a longer investment in the love interest and are very expensive and time-consuming. A card gacha won't leave much time and money left for anything else and they have a faster pace with more to aim for than other, even theoretically stingier gachas.

The purge that AppStore and Play Store did a few years ago didn't help either (Voltage seems to have been largely spared but those two stores basically wiped out the entire genre at some point with only the biggest companies spared). Abracadabra Inc. was entirely nuked overnight and never recovered, Okko aggregated their stories in Honey Magazine, that is much more paywalled than standalones were and never made it back to the old grace either, Solmare survived but eventually shutdown and deleted most of their SWD games sometime later.

Now, back to Voltage.

First, Voltage releases EN localisations with discontinuation in mind. When Lovestruck and the US subsidiary of Voltage went down, I read some of Voltage's financial reports and plans. The company isn't actually interested in running global games - their main method is to ditch old ones for new ones. AyakashiRR was doing decently (and it's absolutely active in JP), but because Voltage prioritises new releases and doesn't keep too many active games, it got discontinued to make room for MirPri. One of the currently running games will be replaced as well with a new app at some point (I bet on CoD or MirPri). That did not make me want to invest in anything released by Voltage ever again - it comes with an expiry date their JP apps don't have, and that a relatively popular and profitable game can be replaced by a new title.

I belive that people from neighbouring Voltage fandoms do notice that the company ditched a game and theirs might not be safe either. Who would invest in a game that's already on borrowed time?

Especially considering there's no promotion or advertising, it seems very deliberate. Voltage releases games basically exclusively to the same playerbase - a playerbase that already got burned or scared. Voltage is basically setting the localisations to fail. And I would bet that's why they're also not lowering the prices or requirements for MirPri. If something isn't meant to last, it doesn't have to be friendly enough to keep the playerbase invested. They absolutely do know that keeping it as expensive as in the original won't work because they lowered costs in AyakashiRR and made several cost adjustments when it was still ongoing. They know that and I believe they have a very good idea why they're doing what they're doing in MirPri and what for.

And lastly something that offends probably exclusively me: the Switch ad games. Games released there are incomplete, just to be an ad for the Love 365 app. Those games are often barely described, with only character list and how much of the route it covers, in a way that's virtually uncheckable without the app. (They're still cheaper than buying the same in the app... they're still cut halfway to make you go to the app to buy the rest of the route so there you have it.)

It's not just Voltage, I'm rather not going to touch anything new by Solmare or Cybird either (those two have their own offence lists) because of how they treat players. Not investing to just see another shutdown.

Voltage Inc Games...

So in my eleven years of otome gaming I played almost all of Voltage Inc games (also tried various companies including cybird and several indie games on steam.). I still play a lot games, mostly voltage inc games, and today I was thinking of their reduced player number... and nonexistent fandom. I see a few hearts and reblogs for cod and some for SLBP but their recent app MirPri? No one seems to be playing this lovely game. Of course not every player might have a tumblr account... Even so cant help but feel Voltage isnt garnering as much attention as it should.

i once again truly feel voltage should change its policies

like they have to reduce the PP required to clear main routes... They can keep the events hard to clear but main routes, do average players have that much patience...? yes you want folks to spend but how many can? and to how much extent? I spend with regrets, I always overspend and I know a few others like me and a few more others who are rich enough to afford every event but seriously... they need to rethink their strategies and get more people to play their games if they don't want to shut off their games prematurely

Marketing strategy is a real thing. As a book writer I learnt it the hard way that initially for a rookie author, low priced books are more likely to sell. You can't expect to write a massive book and wish people will buy. If you want to reach more you have to rethink your strategies

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It’s his birthday today

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SSR - Birthday 2022 - Kuya

Dad Mototaka caught MC making out with Kuya and asked them to take it easy... 😳 poor MC 🤣🤣🤣

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Toichiroooo