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[digibamonfan]

PLUS SIZE MAIN LEADS IN SHOUJO AND JOSEI

Pochamani

Size 10

Debu to Love to Ayamachi to!

Bloody Romance

Ore Monogatari!! 

Yamatoha koi no Mahoroba

Join us in our Shoujo & Josei Anime, Manga, Manhwa, Webtoon server in: https://discord.gg/shoujosei  

[playrole]

bite-sized rp plots part 1

muse a (17-21) is a prodigy from a rich family that only ever fights and controls, whose parent(s) treat him horribly, so they run away, cut their off, never to be seen again - hopefully. they've always been charming, adaptable, pleasing, so it's easy to find people who sympathize, or even people who would offer their own bed - provided they date or sleep together or whatever. maybe muse a is picky in this regard, or does it while resenting that they have to - that's up to you. one day they find their way to muse b (30-40), who says no, no way, absolutely not, i don't have time for charity or relationships. i just want a pet. muse a insist they don't need autonomy or respect, they're fine with listening to muse b's every whim. so muse b calls their bluff, accepting the arrangement. but muse a was not joking... [any. if m/f, m should be muse a]

not interested? check out my other plots!

[fallendreams97]

Murder Mystery Click and Drag Promo

Hi, this is my first click-and-drag game wanted to make a fun promo for our shoujo and josei manga manhwas and webtoons server! Please join us in our upcoming Halloween events! Link: https://discord.gg/hfd8bK4b

Warning: Flash Images

Characters Included: Tohru Honda, Mizaki Ayuzawa, Haku, Tamaki Suoh, Yuki, Kujou Mikoto, Matsunaga Jun, Mabuchi Kou, Melissa Podebrat, Hong Seol, Claude, Kim Tae Mu

How it works:

1. If you're on mobile, screenshot the gifs either as a set or individually.

2. Please use a browser other than Google chrome to play because the GIFs always lock onto their first frame on Chrome. Safari and Firefox work, please try those. Or take a screenshot as a set or individually.

Shout out to @anime-clickanddrag-geemu for their tutorial was super handy thank you! Make sure to check them out they have all kinds of themes!

[raspberrytealeaf]

💫 Hello Everyone ! Shoujo fans out there. ;) If you are interested in joining a fanbased community, please join our discord server ! The link is below!

We are a small community-server who want to grow into bigger things. I personally love art and writing, and eventually would love to create my own manga/ comic and share it with you guys. As the owner of this server, I definitely want to this place to grow and meet new people who love the same things I do. I am an artist and working a casual job. > . > I don't have all the time in the world but I try to make it work. Our server has a variety of channels to discuss manga and anime of different genres, manhwa, Asian dramas, and hobbies such as art, writing, media, photography, food and music.

Nothing more is required to join apart from you are 13+ and like shoujo. 🍒 Please message me if you would like to help our server grow! We need mods and admins

THANK YOU FOR READING! 📚

♡ Need mods and admins (Please don't be afraid to dm me, I don't bite) 👾

♡ Need more members for events and clubs

[otomedev]

Otome Jam 2024 jam page is finally up and along with it, we are continuing last year's Josei Jam!

Join now to be notified when it starts and go ahead and prepare yourself for the start OtoMay (and June)! As always please be sure to read the rules as we have made some updates again and this time provided more international support by adding translations (currently French, with German coming up) for Otome Jam! Even if your game is not in English, you can submit it to both jams, but as a disclaimer, the two hosts mainly speak English. If you would to submit a translation for either jam, feel free to contact us on Discord!

Likewise, we are still updating and getting some things ready, for any more questions our Discord server is available!

Logo & Thumbnail Art by @akuakourin

Banner Art by Everium

[arimiadev]

What is Josei Jam?

Josei Jam is an annual visual novel game jam held from May 1st to June 30th on itch.io with the goal of making games meant for women! A game jam is an event where participants have a limited amount of time to make a game- sometimes these have themes, but the only theme for Josei Jam is to make a game for women.

While our sister jam Otome Jam requires entries to be a romance game with a female lead and at least some male love interests, Josei Jam allows participants to make stories with boys love, girls love, and even non-romance! As long as the game is intended for women, you can enter it. You can learn more on our FAQ.

If you’ve never made a visual novel before, we have a list of resources & guides to get you started. We also have a Discord server where you can find people to work with and share your progress.

[animangacreators]

first thing we're doing in the server for the year: fighting it out.

this time it'll be a four way battle to chose the favorite demographic ever: shounen vs. shoujo vs. seinen vs. josei.

each one has a big range of different stories, so make sure to check properly what each one offers before making your decision (and before dragging others to your side).

ask a mod to give you the role you want and use the channels to be as convincing as possible.

this time we're giving you the character that will be in the badge if your side wins so make sure to do your best! possible badge characters:

shounen: edward elric (fullmetal alchemist)

shoujo: yona (akatsuki no yona)

seinen: guts (bersek)

josei: fuyutsuki mio (koori zokusei danshi to cool na douryou joshi)

to complete the challenge and earn the badge, you must:

make ONE original creation featuring an animanga or different animangas that fit in ONE demographic.

if your edit has an animanga that is labeled as a different demographic than the one you voted for (stated in the caption) your vote will be nullified.

game edits are not allowed.

ask a mod for a role (optional).

you can only chose one demographic.

mention @animangacreators and include "badge battle #2" and what demographic you voted for in the caption of your edit

this challenge is worth ONE challenger point

your creation must be posted by midnight CST (UCT -6) on march 5th .

submit the link to your post on channel on discord so staff can award you the badge on the members page

if you have any questions, please check our faq page and feel free to message staff on discord. we can’t wait to see your creations!

[peachapartmentsrp]

18+ Slice of Life Roleplay!

NOTICE! The Peach Apartments are looking for new tenets to move in!

Momonoki is an 18+ modern multi-fandom slice and oc of life roleplay heavily inspired by shoujo and josei anime/manga set in a 90s anime city. Make friends, deepen relationships, and build up the community! Inspired media includes:

Princess Jellyfish

Nana

Neighborhood Stories

Maison Ikkoku

Sailor Moon

Whether you've recently moved in or have lived on the island your whole life, the Peach Apartments welcome you!

RULES PREMISE MASTER LIST/BANS WISHLIST DISCORD

[chibivesicle]

The sadness of Steven A. Starphase.

How Kekkai Sensen/Blood Blockade Battlefront is painfully realistic.  In the most banal adult ways possible.

With me going back to rewatch Trigun before Stampede began to air, I was itching for more work by Yasuhiro Nightow.  However, his follow up manga that started as a one-shot that became Kekkai Sensen/Blood Blockade Battlefront came out while I was in grad school and when the anime was briefly on Crunchyroll later, it didn’t ping me as a suggestion.  I’m very much a josei/seinen person with occasional forays into good sports or slice of life series, then shoujo and then shounen series if they have a good sense of humor.  Essentially, I need something like FLCL or Gintama to keep me amused.

With Stampede not meeting what I’m realizing were unrealistic expectations, I was curious and decided to follow up on Blood Blockade Battlefront (B3).  The title alone would be a turn off for me; I put faith in it that it would have that original Trigun quirky vibe.  Honestly, I wish they’d not have translated and told me it was Kekkai Sensen, I would have been easier to convince to watch it.  I watched the first episode and was already loving the style, the artwork and the OST. That OST man - so good.  And the VA cast - so many actors from Gintama and I was shocked no one was commenting that Femt, the King of Depravity, was voiced by one of my fav VAs, Akira Ishida!  What sealed the deal for me, besides the incredible graphic design, story boarding and attention to detail from studio Bones was the entire sequence in S1E3 - A Game Between Worlds when Klaus and K.K. go to the Alterworld following the former Soviet chess grandmaster to the Alterworld Mafia Don’s home. 

As the story unfolded in season one, I started to gravitate towards my usual character types; tough independent females and tall, dark, and handsome males.  Yeeeaaaaah; I love Chain Sumeragi, K.K. and Steven A. Starphase.  I also appreciate Leo with Sonic and Klaus Von Reinhertz is the best male tank character I have ever seen.  He’s so adorable!  And gentlemanly with his tie and oxford brogues.  B3 is a workplace drama/comedy that just happens to take place in a secret organization that handles weird supernatural stuff.  Seriously, that is a great summary and it is a great cast even if I’d likely kill Zapp and punch Brody & Hummer for being double ditzes.

I haven’t finished season two yet (I’ve watched through S2E7 - so no spoiler comments for the rest of season two or the manga please!).  But the character who ticks all my boxes is Nicholas D. Wolfwood - er - I mean, Steven A. Starphase.  Steven is the second in command of Libra, one of the oldest team members (over thirty), has a facial scar, dark hair, sarcastic, stylish and the team member; who gets shit done.  That peaking bit of a tattoo and his ruffly black hair . . .  Chain may have gotten Wolfwood’s outfit and is a werewolf, but Steven is the evolution of Wolfwood, balancing out Klaus’ unwavering principles, and willing to take on the role of doing the dirty work in the background which is necessary.  The body language of Steven is the same as Wolfwood, he’s a mix of straight lines, angles and noodle.

Steven is also paired with Vash - I mean - K.K. on missions.  Following the anime format he’s teamed up with her in S1E5 - Bloodline Fever where they have to fight a Blood Breed in a subway station.  Unlike, Vash and Wolfwood, K.K. is not keen on him all the time calling him black-hearted and giving him the mocking nickname of Steven-sensei (I guess since he is the logistics expert of Libra always coordinating the teams while K.K. is a lone sniper character).

However, despite their one-sided discord, the two of them work well together where he shows his noodle qualities saving K. K. and the young girl and her mother in S1E8 - Z’s Worst Day - Part 1.  Interestingly, Steven takes K.K.’s criticism rather seriously as he’s shaking as she scolds him . . . Steven takes K.K.’s words into account indicating that he does want work well with her.

Before, reverting to his oft “Now, now, now” line to de-escalate things.  The two also naturally balance each other out and communicate well with their options when trying to determine which of the two mysterious individuals is the Blood Breed from the India Gate.

They are also characters who are able to info dump quite naturally due to them being the most senior members of Libra in the main cast besides Lucky Abrams.   And the storytelling makes their info dumping flow with the story - sometimes they are trying to figure something out, sometimes Steven is pondering a situation. Either way it works well for the second in command to be the man with a bookmarked to hell reference text and even have a color swatch for a Blood Breed’s aura.  He also has lots of paper reports which indicates he’s the kind of guy who likes to read through physical items than scan a computer all the time.

By the end of season one, we know that Steven is for the most part, serious about work, a deadpan snarker, leans towards the more pessimistic side despite having hope for the future. e.g. he’d likely describe himself a realist as opposed to Klaus being a dreamer.

It gives us enough information that he’s been beaten down and is no longer an idealistic youth.  Take when he asked about why Leo wouldn’t accept higher pay despite struggling financially and comments that Leo is an upstanding young man.  He also originally was hesitant for them to even invite Leo to join Libra in the first place, despite knowing the value he brought to them, we know this is alleviated by S1E5 when he takes a literal beating to stall for time. Steven looks chronically burnt out - he is the only character who always has lines under his eyes.  His facial expression is rarely one of him smiling or laughing and he maintains a sort of meh or down turned expression when not dealing with serious work situations.  Even in the image below when he’s smiling it isn’t a happy smile, he’s thinking about the situation they are about to enter, looking back on the past three years.

His character is frequently shown with a cup of coffee - at the office, he has a blue mug with a red bottom that matches his shirt, frequently when he has papers in the other hand.  He will also drink tea with Klaus but it is clear he’s reached that working adult phase of life where coffee is fundamental to your day to day function.  Steven is also shown to down energy drinks in times of extreme deadlines as well.

Season two, B3 & Beyond appears to be a season of back filling manga chapters that were skipped in season one to have a tight story.  The one aspect that was a bummer in season one for me was how characters besides Leo, Klaus, Black and White got loads of development and growth everyone else was just in the background as support.  Season two likely pulled from manga chapters that were published earlier which lead to some confusing/unclear points for viewers aka, like why K.K. calls Steven black-hearted and the Steven-sensei nickname.  It is too bad they didn’t have these episodes earlier but I’ll take my character development background whenever, just give it to me.

We first get the explanation from Klaus and Steven at the hospital that reappeared about their personal experience of the Great Collapse to Leo and the introduction of Dr. Lucina Estavez (who should totally date Klaus) as well as defeating the Blood Breed that the two hand been training to fight.

The episode that really hit on my idea that there is a sadness to Steven wasn’t until S2E3 - Day In Day Out.  We get a few parallel story lines that show what happens in Leo, Zapp, Steven and Chain’s day where they are independent of each other but still cross paths by the end.

The first thing we learn is that Steven has an amazing loft apartment with a balcony and cool artwork and an Alterworld/Beyondian housekeeper, Mrs. Veded.  He emerges from a bedroom with a cup of coffee in one hand and the newspaper as he greets her.  With a genuine smile too.

I can look beyond his choice to put milk in his coffee - however, that goes against K.K.’s comment that he’s got a black heart.  I’ll excuse his milk in coffee for his stress and soothing his tummy.  The phone rings and he goes to pick it up.

We can still see the lines under his eyes so again, he is either always exhausted or we are to read them as actual wrinkles.  Maybe both - he’s older and tired due to working hard.  A rather playful female on the phone jokes with him about waking up early - at 11AM and it is clear that he hasn’t been up that long either.

There is a conversation about how much alcohol to bring tonight, cluing us into the fact that he’s having a dinner party at his place.  Which again, is freakkin’ swanky as all hell.  I want Steven’s place.

He’s got a carefree attitude as he talks to two different people on the phone about arrangements for the evening. These are not Steven at the office looks, these are Steven potentially having an outside life facial expressions!

When he gets off the phone, Mrs. Veded comments that he looks happy and Steven seems shocked.  She also noted that he seemed very stressed out and tense all the time and she is glad to see him not in such a state.

Since we know that Steven keeps a straight face for the most time at work, he can’t help but reply that he’s shocked at her observation.  Which is true, I’m sure Klaus can read him pretty well in work situations, but it is his thing to keep his cards close to his chest.  In season one, he is frequently the go between for Libra and the government whether it is the FBI, HLPD, the League of Casters and so forth.  Angelica’s comment of Klaus-san and Steven-shi shows that she knows Klaus from previous interactions, but the -shi on Steven implies that she’s never met him, but knows of him and speaks to him respectfully.  The English equivalent would be like staying, “Oh, you’re the well-known organizer at Libra, Steven Starphase.”  The point is, Steven is well known in certain circles and is respected professionally.

In season one, he was only happy when they were successful at work or his plans went well.  For example, his delight at how Leo was able to spot the Ghost Wagon and how he told Klaus that he needed to work on his management skills of others.  He additionally has a mix of a dark and offbeat sense of humor, able to laugh while Leo is wrapped up in bandages.

This is not a relevant image other than that it shows time has passed and I still want Steven’s loft.

Mrs. Veded has been helping him all afternoon to prep for his party and we see that he even gets in on the action cooking and wearing an apron of course.  He goes with his more casual dress shirt with no tie.  There is an almost excited look on his face.  I’d guess he hasn’t had people over in sometime.

He goes to let people in and he hands the flowers to Mrs. Veded (who adorably inhales their scent looking happy) and after greeting them, trips over.  Of course the friends comment that he’s been working too hard.  Steven, adulting hardcore.

The gifted flowers are placed on the table in a vase by Mrs. Veded and he thanks her for all of her help.  However, it is clear that he doesn’t need her for the rest of the evening and she takes her leave.

Again, we see another nice subtle smile from him here but something about it lingers, like he’d like to say more but can’t.  After she departs, he talks to himself about getting things started, grabbing a bottle of champagne from a bucket of ice and commenting they should get started.

The next time we return to his place, all of the party guests are eating, drinking and chatting up a storm.  There is chill music on, everyone looks fashionably dressed, wealthy - and human.  All of this gives us the indication that outside of work, Steven has the most ‘normal’ social group.  Look at his swanky place, the nice artwork, stainless steel fridge, kitchen island . . . yet while everyone is chatting merrily in groups we get a framing shot of him silently standing alone leaning into a column in his living room.  You can tell that every single individual except for him is talking with another person or two based on their body language.  This is such an excellent image and it lingers just long enough before it zooms into him looking off in to the distance with a wineglass of course.

Steven has such an interesting expression here, he’s got what appears to be his usual poor posture, leaning against the wall, holding the wine glass and has a soft but almost sad smile.  Wistful is the best I can think of.

The fact that his left hand is across his chest and under his right is unusual for him.  He rarely displays this type of conservative closed off body language, think of how frequently he’s got at least one if not both hands in his pockets.  Steven speaks rather casually and bluntly; I like to call his overall posture, noodle, which is relaxed and confident.  Yet, here, he appears much more stiff and is alone at his own party as you look more closely. Something is definitely off.

He goes off to get more beer and leaves the living room when all of his guests raise their arms to reveal biological weapons and tell him to remain in place, Steven Alan Starphase of Libra.  Love the use of his middle name for emphasis as well.  Of course he denies any knowledge of Libra at first before turning back towards them slightly.  Another great part of this scene is how when he walks the few steps up to his kitchen we get a glimpse of his shoes he’s wearing at his house party. 

They aren’t some sort of relaxed shoes, the few short steps allow us to see that they are his modified shoes for Esmeralda Blood Freeze techniques.  We didn’t get this when he tripped in the foyer, but this is now giving the viewers a hint that he’s prepared for a serious fight.

The first sign that things are about to go south is that when he calls out two guests for only just meeting this evening but appeared to actually know each other.

As they continue to threaten him, he concludes that they need to capture him alive; likely due to his role as the second in command at Libra.  This allows him to stall for time as he teases them to give him more information, by stating their bosses are idiots for wanting to capture him alive - as it implied he was expecting them to shoot him.

The framing for this entire sequence is top notch.  He never turns to face them directly while continuing the conversation with Ellen. She tries to threaten him to stop being all pretentious and that they’d have no choice but to attack him.  Of course he replies mocking them by throwing the question about it back at them.  The resignation in his body language that this is what is happening.  I don’t think that at this point that he can even look them in the eye.  He’s too upset and is keeping it calm and collected.

The shading over his eyes as he looks down, the slack shoulders, this is not how he wanted his evening to go down.  Yet, here he is inside his kitchen in a tight spot.  Or so it seems.

However, Steven is anal retentive when it comes to organization and details, and he faked tripping at his front door to use his Needles of Absolute Zero move on them.  Obviously, he likely did this at the beginning of the party for the rest of the guests being a good host circulating himself.  This also explains why he sent Mrs. Veded home, he didn’t want her to witness him doing something this ruthless.  Plus, she likely doesn’t know what he does for a living anyways.

The look on his face as he freezes them is so lonely, his eyes are closed and he’s hunched forward.  He may not regret his actions honestly; he had no choice but to follow through with this course of actions but that feeling of disappointment, sadness, loss, betrayal. It hurts.  Only after he’s frozen them all in place does he even glance back to them as his breath is visible in the air.

Once everyone has been subdued, he gets a moment to gloat over them and their mistakes.  He notes that Larry was smart to select weapons that could get into his building undetected implying that he lives in a pretty secure building and that Larry was carrying his weight funny for the past ten days.  He also tells Ellen that she tried too hard to cover the scent of the weapons with her usual perfume - by adding more.  However, she should have changed the scent and he wouldn’t have noticed.  After telling them how he figured out things were off, he steps back and looks at the group, his entire expression tired and blank.  More stress lines under those eyes.

His own personal clean-up crew is there to take them all away.  And since this isn’t under the guidance of Klaus, he’ll likely let those masked individuals use questionable methods to interrogate everyone for the information he needs to know.  Who or what is targeting him?  Why?  What do they want from him?  These are the sorts of things Steven has to know, but the type of things that Klaus wouldn’t be involved with due to his stricter moral code.  In this instance, Klaus is Vash, holding an almost impossible level of hope and goals while it is clear that Steven is pragmatic and realizes sometimes you gotta slog through the shit to get things done and protect others like Wolfwood.  Though, Steven would have been very upset if Mrs. Veded’s roast were damaged in anyway so he clearly loves her cooking and the love she puts into it.

The likely immediate reaction for a lot of viewers at the end of this scene when he goes out for some air is; Holy shit!  Steven is a total badass.  He just froze his entire dinner party and turned them over to shady underlings to pump them for information.  Badass indeed!

Yet, when I saw the end of that scene, I felt so sad.  When it goes to him alone along the road, he’s chastising himself for his own behaviors.  He’s leaning on the railing looking out into the night giving himself criticism for letting his guard down and enjoying himself too much.  He tried to meet ‘normal’ people who didn’t work for Libra and look what it got him?!?!

He thinks back to how he met various individuals like Ellen and Larry.  And that is when it really sinks in and all of its subtlety.  You think back to his comments and realize he had to likely know these people for a few years as he met them and slowly thought about having them meet.  To realize what type of perfume Ellen wore all the time.  To notice that Larry started walking oddly with in the past ten days meant he saw him walk a lot more for a decent amount of time prior to the recent days.

And then it sinks in - all of those people might have went out of their way to befriend him over the period of several years - for the purpose to kidnap him for their boss.  The level of deception, of effort.  If that was how he met all of them, it sucks so much that it could break someone down.  I almost felt like crying the more that I thought about the entire situation.  Even if they’d met him first to just be friends, it still shows they were convinced to join this plot to capture him.

Thinking about that hurts; it would make him absolutely paranoid to befriend anyone who isn’t associated with Libra and socialize with them outside of work.  But you don’t want to hang out with your work friends outside of work do you?  

The entire mood of this image captures his feelings of sadness, isolation and loneliness.  He’s the darkest figure in the image as the car headlights, apartment windows and orange construction barrels are more illuminated than he is.

The car turns out to pull over and stop as it is Mrs. Veded and she’s got her two children with her who meet him.  Steven smiles at them and they have a pleasant conversation.

The icing on the cake is when he thanks her for everything - she likely thinks it is about her help prepping for the party and cleaning his place.  But Steven is speaking from his heart.  She’s likely one of the most normal people he knows.  Oh, that smile and his smiling eyes.  Steven, you’re a good guy even though you have to do some not so great things.  You care about normal people, you know how to talk to normal people and you are not biased based on species.

Her daughter shows him the cat they found and he knees down to see them eye to eye and comment on how the cat is so cute.  Note, he’s totally channeling Wolfwood, by talking to the children like they are normal and then comes down to their level to continue to chat with them.

The bonus is that he properly pets that cat which shows it is happy.  Aaaahhhh my heart is melting.  I love it when someone knows how to properly interact with cats.

The episode then ends with Leo, Sonic and Zapp riding by, Zapp having a total meltdown about his eminent loss of his most important body part.  Steven laughs how his friends are having a wild night out on the town - revealing that for better or for worse - his closest friends are his colleagues at Libra and Mrs. Veded.

I’m sure that when Leo stops by to chat with Steven, they likely notice the heads of the two goons in the car and figure out that cat is the missing purebred and all’s well that ends well.

The entire episode was a wild ride as the different characters navigate challenges for the current stages of their lives.  The one though that stuck with me the most was how realistic Steven’s entire situation is, besides being a key member of a secret organization who can freeze stuff with his blood.  I mean more along the lines of what it is like to be a hardworking professional over the age of thirty. Trying to navigate a work-life balance and meet people outside of a school context.  It is really difficult and it makes his situation in this episode sadder.  He likely put a ton of effort into meeting all those people as adult friendships are bloody hard.  Steven’s actions were not out of revenge nor malice; it boiled to either something bad happening to him or to them.  He outsmarted them and won the contest but at the loss of likely a bunch of people he socialized with outside of work and clearly never told them who he was - with the whole working for a secret organization.

We can also guess that with his multilingual skills, like Klaus, he’s not a native of NYC originally and moved there to be a part of Libra.  Which makes his story even sadder and more lonely.

We don’t have enough information if he’s a native speaker of Spanish or that he knows it for his Blood techniques.  Zapp and Zed have to do theirs in Japanese (with very Buddhist undertones as opposed to Christian for Steven and Klaus) and they were taught by a mysterious ‘otherwordly’ man with a dark skin tone and wears a skull sooooo one can’t correlate Blood technique language with ones own racial/ethnic background.  All that it has revealed is that between Steven and Klaus, besides English, they can speak a total of nine languages knowing that Spanish and German are two of those nine.

I’ve gone off track, but getting back to my main point.  The entire episode fills in a few gaps from season one.

Steven does have a black heart - sort of.  K.K. isn’t incorrect, but he isn’t doing this all for fun.  He’s the guy who has to choose between two terrible options.  He is the character who makes decisions - very deeply thought out decisions for the overall good of the many as opposed to the few.  Unlike Wolfwood, he does not charge into situations and instead, does his research, assembles teams and will work himself to utter exhaustion to prevent disaster.  He commands others with a strong presence and organizes almost all of their coordinated plans as well as making sure they are executed properly.

Though his interactions with Veded and her kids as well as his concern for protecting normal people or other staff; he cares a lot about others. 

Older characters are more reserved. Steven frequently interacts with all sorts of people and is the contact point for Libra.  Everyone has his number.  He does not show his emotions easily and takes much effort to be convinced.  Detective Daniel Law is the one who talks directly to Steven while Klaus listens silently.  Though, as obvious as it is that Law is manipulating Klaus, Steven doesn’t say anything aloud and instead sighs and groans at the expected outcome. When Master Raju Jugei Shizuyoshi appears, it is Steven who quickly determines his identity, implying he’s done his research though it was still after the Blood Battle God utterly mocked both K.K. and him, the two most senior members of Libra. Yet, he holds his own and keeps his cool - interestingly, Klaus does not speak until addressed by Shizuyoshi, instead allowing Steven to carefully question him without being intrusive. A character like Steven also hits differently.  The antics of say Chain or Zapp aren’t as interesting or realistic as watching Steven lose it over making sure his computers aren’t destroyed.

He’s realistic even in the context of something like B3.  The burnt out vibes, the snarky comments, the confidence in regular work situations.  Steven is an easy older character to connect with.  And he’s got that twinge of adult isolation and loneliness where you wonder how you got to this point professionally successful, yet, somehow are still alone? What did you sacrifice to reach this point?  Was it worth it? I still have a few more episodes to go, but I’m curious to see how things pan out.  Annoyingly, the print version of the manga is out of print (throws serious shade at Darkhorse) AND they don’t even have it digitally for me to legally support.  That’s pretty annoying there Darkhorse . . . Yet so far, hands down, I love Steven’s character and all of his banal realistic flaws.  As life gets older, you have to compromise on things and his character is a great example of that along with the grind of working and being successful

[digibamonfan]

White/Silver-haired Main Leads in Shoujo and Josei anime

Itsuomi Nagi from Yubisaki to Renren

Himuro Yukiya from The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague

Zen Wistalia from Akagami no Shirayuki-hime

Tomoe from Kamisama Hajimemashita

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[momentswithmani]

As I arrived to the place, I had a smooth check in. Although I was on a pretty lengthy line, I was still able to go in the front of the stage. DJ Miss Milan was also encouraging more folks to move closer to the stage, which was reassuring. I was dancing a lot to the music she was playing, and she would notice me being so lit a couple of times.

Once she started playing “Water” by Tyla, she decided to hold a contest for free tickets. Two young black women were doing the choreo for the song. DJ Milan was like “make some noise if you think this person went hard” to both of them. Afterwards, she was like “it’s unfair to put two black queens together, so you both get a free ticket!” Which I thought was dope.

Fast forwarding to my queen, fave, and amazingly multitalented artist Rakiyah’s chance to perform. She had a dope entrance. It was giving space galaxy, alien communication type of entrance. One part of her outfit was lit up, and her aesthetic was *chef kiss*. I made it a mission to get noticed easily by her in the crowd. I yelled “I love you Rakiyah!”, she responded “I love you too baby!” and I was hyped. She performed for the rest of the show as an opening act, and I was vibing along.

The headliner named Jai’Len Josey put on a great performance too. It’s my first time knowing about her, and I knew I needed to tap into her discography! I was right near her family + best friend whom I complimented. She does RnB herself, and got the crowd lit with her amazing energy. It gave me the impression majority of the people in the crowd were there for her, which was dope.

After the show, I figured I’ll go to the back where they were selling merch. I went over to her section, saw she was standing near, and I freaked out. I went up to her, and asked for a selfie first. Then, I told her who I was, and that I’m the girl she saw in the front of the crowd. I proceeded to tell her about me discovering her since around 2018.

From her music video “Like You”, to us interacting on Twitter, to me interacting with her in her Discord group chat, we slowly started to build history. As soon as I mentioned Discord, she was like “was that the conversation when we talked about my artist development + me needing recommendations?” I responded “yes, that was the convo!”.

At the time, I was willing to give her some critiques, such as posting more of the content that helps her get around, and the type of videos that work for her the most. Around the end of that convo, I told her my name Mani/Amani. It was a way for her to remember me, since I consistently had the name MomentsWithMani. She said, “wow, I can finally put a face to the name”. I responded, “yep, this is all me!”.

I was telling her how proud I was of her journey, how good her performance was, how on brand and dope the intro to her performance was, and started telling her how much of her merch I have. One of the key merch, was the poster she was giving out from one of her first releases that she signed that I still have on my wall. I also have her “Like You” poster and a tshirt of her. I also got a keychain from her some years back.

I also asked about her outfit, which unsurprisingly she put it together herself like the creative queen she is! She expressed her sentiments on how grateful and appreciative she was of my support. How I’m one of her biggest “Rockets” (her fandom name), and she was in awe of me being around and contributing to her journey in my own way. Her finding out I was the one in the front who was also the same person that interacted with her for years online, her face was giving 🤯😦😧😲.

She was just like “wow”. I explained to her that I’ve waited years to meet her after following her for a while now, and I was glad to get the opportunity of seeing her perform. I came out to show her support, since it was very necessary that I do so. She had thanked me, and appreciated the support I’ve had towards her throughout the years. As we said our farewells, I was in a high about me interacting with her in person for the first time, and the experience was way better than I expected.

[devilscreekballad]

Alright, I could use a sounding board (here and on the discord) cause I think trying to tackle the name hijinks code all alone with only basic help from the twine discord was... a mistake. (bite off more than you can chew... and then chew it >>)

So, below are all the possible combos for names (Mc, Charlie, Others and Horse) I can think off. Did I forget anything? Is something doubled when it shouldn't be? Also spoilers for which names net you special text

MC can share the following names with NPCs:

For Charlie:

Charlie, Charley, Charly, Charles, Charli, Charlee, Charleigh as First or Nickname, First Name not in Combo with Mulligan or Mullygan. E.G. 'Charly Mullygan' is not possible, but 'Charlotte 'Charly' Mulligan' is.

Mulligan or Mullygan for Nickname or Last Name. Restrictions similar to the above, also not as First Name.

TO DO: Charlie, Charley, Charly, Charles, Charli, Charlee, Charleigh as Last Name, Restrictions pending.

Others:

First name and Nickname can be identical/similar to NPC names, but not in combo with Last Names.

Current list (copied from twine):

First/Nick

"tommy", "tommie", "tomas", "thomas", "tom", "thom", "sean", "seán", "shawn", "shaun", "quinn", "quin", "giles", "gyles", "florence", "robert", "ada", "tess", "therese", "finley", "finn", "lien", "lian", "leanne", "liane", "lianne", "josephine", "josie", "josy", "josefine", "josey", "josee", "josée"

Last/Nick

"burke", "burg", "bourke", "o'brian", "o'bryan", "o'brien", "o'briain", "quinn", "quin", "o'reilly", "o'reileigh", "o'riley", "giles", "gyles", "florence", "robert", "ada", "tess", "therese", "finley", "finn", "meadow", "meadows", "mckee", "mcgee", "magee", "mckey", "mackee", "macgee", "mackey"

Meadows/Meadows will lead to Mrs Meadows addressing you as Fleabite.

Certain RDR2, TOH and DbD names will also net you bonus bits and bobs.

Need to add the sheriff to the lists?

Combos for your horse (all overlaps net an achievement):

MC, Charlie and Horse share a name (all varieties of Charlie and/or Mulligan)

Charlie and Horse share a name (doesn't have to be the same)

Horse and Mc share a name

Mc and horse share a name along with an npc (e.g if Mc and Horse are called a variety of Tommy).

Horse can be named Horse.

Horse cannot be named "wicklow", "bullsnot", "caboose", "cahoots".

That's what I have so far. does this sound right, does this make sense, did i overlook something?

[pumpkin-interactive]

Emi is a Josei manga artist who loves to write historical romance manga. She is very carefree and says whatever is on her mind, even if it's inappropriate.

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[ilovejosukehigashikata]

We Need More Yankiis Discord

Josuke's (styled after) a yankii! Yankiis are basically Japanese greasers. They're the ones who run around with pomps and can sometimes be found dancing to rock and roll in parks. I decided that I liked Josuke so much that I liked the GENRE of guy he was so much that I would just translate and facilitate the translation of every good yankii-containing manga I could find. That's why We Need More Yankiis exists! Yes, I named it myself.

Our main export is High Teen Boogie---that's the picture you're seeing up there on the link. It's a josei romance manga from the 80s that was popular enough to get a movie in '82, but faded into obscurity. I've spent the last 2 years committed to translating it, with 59 chapters uploaded so far! You'll be hearing a lot more about it on this blog. You can hop in and check out all of our works, and we're taking requests for yankii manga!

[gundamcalibarney]

[ Doves vs Cats ]

@standswap-september

A little prose story about the Standswap version of the Ratt fight that me and Junie discussed on discord.

For a bit of context: CATTs and their Stand [What’s New Pussycats] can turn people into literal toys via projectiles while When Doves Cry can change the material of an object (i.e turn felt into cotton).

also Sada is Love Deluxe but a human and Tenki is Heaven’s Door but human.

///🕊🌟🐱///

When Doves Cry and Whats New Pussycats launch their projectiles (a rock turned metal ball and the toyofication bullet), Joudai clenches his hands together as his heart races for the plan to work-then the numbing sensation of plastic washes over him.

‘I Failed, we Missed.’ he thinks as his heart sinks and as the plastic creeps it’s way through his body.

Falling to the ground with a light thud, this was it, he was going to live an immortal life like this and despite Eiichi’s words it felt like nothing were to reassure him from this.

Yet then came feeling, his gloved hands the soft fabric of his jacket (and the muffled groans of people behind him). Confused, he sits himself upright, he actually *sits* upright.

“Joudai, You did it!” cheered Josei. “You got the cats!”

“Get the FUCK off of me!” groaned Eiichi from beneath the small body pile on.

Joudai couldn’t believe it.

His Heart still raced but now it was for a different reason, despite having no visible mouth he could tell that When Doves Cry smiled at him proudly. Just he was tackled in a noogie by his elder nephew.

“Right so i didn’t plan for this to happen (Stands are usually unpredictable) but you did Awesome! Your on the spot planning was through the roofs!” Josei gave him a hard pat (ouch) to the back.

His breathing began to calm as his body un tenses itself, was he to embrace this sudden new feeling of okayness that filled his chest? When Doves Cry seemed to think so, the often glaring Stand that was Wayward Son seemed to second the cree.

Josei then slung an arm over the pitcher’s shoulder, with a smile on his face he then says, “Say how about we get ice cream as a sort of breather after this, pretty sure the whole turning into a plastic figure wasn’t the best thing for you. Don’t worry by the way the money’s on me.”

“HELL YEAH ICE CREAM!” shouted Sada in joy, this was followed by Eiichi once again groaning in swear words and Tenki falling over.

Joudai breathed out a deep sigh of relief, he briefly looked up to the two humanoid mech Stands who seemed to give a look of approval (despite Wayward Son’s everlasting glare). His shoulders sag, relaxed this time instead of tire from stress he nods.

Yeah ice cream does sound very nice.

<—To Be Continued—

[arimiadev]

What is Otome Jam?

Otome Jam is an annual visual novel game jam held from May 1st to June 30th on itch.io with the goal of making more otome games! A game jam is an event where participants have a limited amount of time to make a game- sometimes these have themes, but the only theme for Otome Jam is to make an otome game.

While some sites define an otome game strictly as a romance game with a female lead and male love interests, our definition allows for main characters with varying genders and a variety of gendered love interests, as long as the option to play as female and romance men exists. You can learn more on our FAQ. If you want to make an otome-esque game without these requirements, check out our sister jam Josei Jam!

If you've never made a visual novel before, we have a list of resources & guides to get you started. We also have a Discord server where you can find people to work with and share your progress.