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Gakuen Heaven Review Part 2

Cut due to length

Taki Shunsuke

Shunsuke is the character who speaks in Kansai dialect, which means I’m already biased for him since the beginning. He is very chill and doesn’t want people to use keigo when talking to him, so he is one of the only characters who Keita talks causally with even though he is 1 year above (yes this is a big deal in Japan). His route starts with him questioning Keita, how he got into the school. Since Keita doesn’t really know it himself, he just tells him that, but Shunsuke doesn’t seems convinced. Then he just runs away with Keita following him (I think he dropped something? I’m not sure anymore) Keita follows him to the administration building where we learn that Shunsuke is actually working as a spy for the vice director, who apart from being an asshole, just hates Keita’s guts. Of course, Shunsuke is not doing that because he wants to but because the vice director is blackmailing him into it. Shusuke tell him all the information he has on Keita, but the asshole vice director is not happy with that and abuses him (and not only that he actually rapes him in the PC version) and since Keita followed him, he actually sees that. Keita of course tries to help Shunsuke to free himself from the director, but Shusuke just rejects him. Also, since the topic of rape is pretty heavy in this route a lot was changed in the PSP version, so much that the walkthrough was even completely different, so I’m not sure myself how they even handled this topic and I feel like we didn’t get the full story in the PSP version, which is a shame. After trying to get Shusuke away from the vice director several times, Keita finally gets Shunsuke to confess what the asshole vice director is blackmailing him with. As far as I remember Shusuke’s father left the family and his new nicer dad is working for the vice director, so that asshole choose to use Shunsuke as his personal spy, and told Shusuke if he doesn’t do as told he will make his father work hell. In addition, Shusuke, who works delivering mail around the school ground for cafeteria tickets, once read a letter of a classmate, that he was supposed to deliver, who dated the math teacher and then told the information to the vice director, which ended with the student quitting school. Of course, Shunsuke feels terrible about this and doesn’t want the anyone in the school to know it was his fault, because the student was really popular, which would lead to the whole school hating him. The vice director also uses this information to blackmail him, so basically Shusuke is stuck and has no way out. Despite the vice director telling Shusuke to try get Keita to lose the MVP battle Shusuke is a good boy and still leads them to victory. In the end Keita and Shusuke end up telling the director aka Kazuki about the asshole of a vice director, and he gets his ass fired (nice one Kazuki). Shunsuke also wishes to get the information of the student who left school because of him, since he wants to apologise. Which he does and later tell Keita that the student wasn’t actually mad and that he got an opportunity to go aboard with the teacher he was in love with, so happy end for everyone. Then Shusuke confesses that he likes Keita or rather takes a long while to confess and Keita returns his feeling which makes him super happy and them being the stupid couple, they are they kiss right on the school yard… at broad daylight… with everyone seeing it lmao. Keita then thinks that his school life will be interesting from now on and the route ends. You also need to know that Keita tops in this relationship, but I didn’t see the H-scenes so no idea how it actually goes, but these two sure are the definition of an idiot couple. They also end up screaming about their love for each other to the whole school in the fandisk, which is hilarious. I like them a lot they are cute. 

Shichijou Omi

Omi is my least favourite character, not only because he is generally just too polite but also because he is just creepy. He is the hackerman of the game and the queen’s childhood friend. Most of his route consist of Keita hanging out with him and Omi taking him to places to explore Omi’s hobby with is occult stuff. For some reason he is really into it. Kaoru also tells Keita the story how they became friends in this route. Omi grew up in the US and when he came to Japan, he did not understand Japanese, so everyone thought he was strange and could not understand him, but Kaoru was smart and could speak English already in elementary school, so they became friends. Later when they were about to start high school, Kaoru got an acceptance letter for BL school, but Omi didn’t, so Kaoru made Omi hack his name into the list of students, to be together with him. But unlucky for them the director noticed it and paid a visit to them. First, they didn’t want to admit it and Kaoru tried to take the blame himself but lucky them, the director aka Kazuki was so impressed with Omi’s skills that he invited him to join the school in exchange for taking over the security over the school. And that’s the reason why Kaoru and Omi know of Kazuki’s identity as the director. Anyway, back to the not so interesting plot of the route. Apart from the background story nothing interesting happens in the route, they do the MVP battle win and later Omi confesses to Keita on the roof of the school by lighting the windows of the school in letters to form the words “I love Ito Keita”. Keita is shocked about this and is not sure if he feels the same way, so Omi suggest for them to try out dating and kisses Keita. Now for my personal problems with this pairing. Omi is creepy and the way he basically forced Keita to date him was just red flag. Normally Keita starts to have gay thoughts about the LI at this point, but here he didn’t and even after confessing he wasn’t sure. Worst part is that the sex scenes is supposed to take place right on the roof after the confession, so Omi basically forces Keita to have sex with him which is just a big no no. Even worse is that the end scene shows them cuddling (or more like Omi hugging Keita) and Omi helping Keita with his English. The whole scene gives of “psycho love interest locking up the MC” energy and it creeped me the hell out, so yeah Omi was just to me.

Niwa Tetsuya

The president of the student council, which is why he is also called King. He is a kind and a gently man, who is excellent in every subject, thus is why the club of the school have to beat him first to get financial support. Niwa is very helpful but loves to slack of and run away from his responsibilities, which is why his wife Nakajima has a “Niwa is not doing his work” detector and therefore able to find him anywhere on the school ground. King’s routes consist mostly of him and Keita bonding over fishing and not doing their work (he is a bad influence lol) with Nakajima running after them. For Keita to partner up with King for the MVP battle  he has to stand in line because King is so popular that everyone in school wanted to be partners with him. When Keita finally got to ask him, King asked him in reverse why Keita wants to be partners with him to which Keita replied that he wants to stay in the school because he likes it here and wants to find out what kind of special talent he has (spoiler: none lol, if you don’t count his luck). The answer is enough for king to pair up with him because he just wanted to see how serious Keita is about the whole thing. The MVP battle is a bit different in this route, because Keita gets kidnapped by vice-directors’ underlings, who try to stop Keita from winning. But King shows up and saves Keita, getting hurt in the progress but beating these dudes up to pulp. During the battle they grow even closer together, and Keita hugs him before he does the final battle alone. After they win, Keita tries to find King only to be told by Nakajima that King is not in his right mind and it trying to pick fights with everyone. Looking for King, Keita finds him at the beach, where we find out that king is going mad because he has a deep crush on Keita and is now trying to sort out his feelings. He confesses to Keita, knowing he can’t hide his feelings anyway and thinks Keita will reject him, because he is a man and all, but to his surprise Keita actually ends up kissing him (damn Keita) and says that their feelings are mutual. Then they have sexy times on the beach. The routes with them once again running from Nakajima and King carrying Keita princess style. I loved Kings route a lot, their relationship development felt natural, I loved how confident Keita was with King and how soft and loving King is with Keita. Also Keita kept calling him “cute” in the route which was just precious. I also have to talk about Kings relationship with the queen, who doesn’t seem to like him much. But King sure does likes him and always calls him “Kaoru-chan” and you can tell me what you want but King has a crush on the queen. He even said he would date him if Kaoru was a woman, but honestly, he doesn’t need to become a woman for you to date him Niwa, you know? Haha (even if Kaoru would be so happy with it probably lol). The game had good LI x LI potential as well as threesome, sadly we didn’t get it, but I would love to see King x Queen or King x Queen x Keita as well as Keita x Nakajima x Queen (those three also had a very questionable scene together). So many characters so many possibilities….

Saionji Kaoru

Apart from the King, the Queen is the other best route of the game. First thing you need to know about Kaoru is that this man is so beautiful it’s criminal when Omi is standing next to him. Not only that but Keita also has to suffer because of his beauty lol. Secondly you need to know that he can be either top or bottom, but I’ll get to that later. So, Kaoru, who Keita always calls “Saionji”, but I can’t remember his family name, so I just go with his first name, is probably the smartest person in the school. He already got all credits to graduate so he is just chilling now and swallowing every book he gets his hands on. According to Omi he gets angry because he knows he can’t inquire all the knowledge of this world lol. He works as the head of the school accounting department, because he has some beef with the school president and doesn’t want to work together with him (though I personally think he is just tsun about it.) Their quarrel started when Kaoru joined the school and King started flirting with him because he thought Kaoru is a girl (honestly can’t blame him) and touched his hair (the audacity), which is where he got the nickname “queen” from, though he doesn’t like the nickname himself (but I personally think it fits him very well, because he sometimes acts like a queen). His route doesn’t really have strong plot, it mostly consists of Keita hanging out with him, but I don’t mind because that way I can simp more for Kaoru. We also find out that Kaoru not only dresses like a grandpa, but he also has grandpa hobbies, like going to classical music concerts (no offence for classic music lovers here, I enjoy it myself) and dragging Keita with him. The romance in this game hits when Keita stumbles upon a sleeping Kaoru, who looks like the beautiful princess he is, and the first thing going to Keita’s totally straight mind is to kiss Kaoru, then he has an internal conflict about wanting to kiss Kaoru despite him being a man but decided fuck it he’s going to do it. S,o he does and of course Kaoru wakes up (but honestly no surprise Keita had his lips glued to him for like a minute straight), then he asks Keita if Keita likes him and goes even further by asking him if he likes men. Keita of course goes “Keita.exe stopped working” and this is where you decided who you want to see get laid. If Keita confessed and says he likes him Kaoru will just question him further with lead to Keita later having a panic dialogue with himself and if he is actually gay (it’s hilarious), but after deciding “fuck it it’s worth to be gay for the queen” he goes to confess only for Kaoru to acts all queen on him, having Keita to swear to be with him forever and actually threating him with death if he cheats lol. The best part though is when they go to the director office to make their wish. After Keita asks the director to stay at the school, Kaoru, who knows Kazuki is the director and interested in Keita, tell him that he will be taking Keita in exchange, hinting that they are dating, and Kazuki replies with “how could you do this to me” AHAHAHAHAHAHA comedy gold. Then Kaoru invites Keita to his room, Keita thinks he will get to top, but wrong Kaoru tops the fuck out of him and the routes ends with him resting on Kaoru’s knees the next day because his butt hurts lmao. But if you choose to let Keita think about it again, Keita won’t have the gay breakdown in his brain, instead he will confess seriously and with full confidence to Kaoru the next day and kiss Kaoru right on spot (damn Keita). When it comes to the sexy times Kaoru actually allows Keita to top so Keita doesn’t waste a second thought and goes straight to sucking his dick, accepting his new gay persona immediately lmaoo. After that he goes full top and has Kaoru ride him (nice). You see, Keita as a top is just… too powerful. . It’s almost scary, he only is allowed to top 3 of the 10 characters but when he does, he goes crazy, maybe that’s why they didn’t allow him to top more hahaha.

And if you want to know why I know how the sex scene went, it’s because I had to see Kaoru bottom, so we played the PC version for this. And normally I don’t talk about sex scenes in my reviews but it sure was a good scene ahaha. It was longer than the other h-scenes and seeing Kaoru ride Keita was the best because it’s my favourite sex position in bl games. Also, bottom Kaoru is superior because man is always very serious and doesn’t show many emotions on him face apart from being mad at the King once in a while but having him actually get embarrassed and shy was just the best and he only does it when he is bottom. Their route ends with them lying in bed together, still naked with a pink background and Keita teasingly asking for more while (probably) touching Kaoru inappropriately and Kaoru just getting super embarrassed. They relationship development doesn’t feel rushed at all, since Kaoru admit to liking Keita (platonic or not) even way before the whole kiss drama happens. Also I would like to start a petition for more hime-character in bl games, I just need more of them, so writer please take notes.

Itou Keita

Keita is a complex character because he acts a bit different in every route. In one he can be annoying because of his homophobia in other he can be strong and confident, but I feel like all the different part we see of him through the game are parts of his being and which side we see of him, depend on his partner alone. Keita is a very generic MC, which doesn’t make him boring at all, rather him being the way he is, is distancing him from other main characters (if that even makes sense?). Since all his routes show a different side of him, it’s always fun to explore a new side of him. His behaviour can really surprise but also disappoint you. All in all, I think he is a very good and entertaining main character. If you only know him from the anime, I really recommend the game because in the anime he felt rather empty compared to the game.

Art

Chinssss…In old fashion style, the chins in this game are as impressive as always. Joke beside, the game has a very 90s anime-core style of art (makes sense it came out in 2002), back then they just had a bad case of yaoi chins, but if you don’t mind the old art style you will enjoy it. Since I’m already old and grew up with that art style, I don’t really mind it, rather I find it really nostalgic. The game doesn’t have that many Cgs, but the one it has are really good. There was a kiss Cgs (the most important one) for every couple. However, the important part is not the Cgs in the game but rather all the extra art the company released for this game because hot damn, they released a lot and a lot of really sexy pictures of the characters, sometimes even LI x LI pictures. If you’re interested, I recommend taking a look at the gorgeous art of the game.

Voice acting

Normally I don’t really mention the VA since Japanese games always have good acting so it’s not worth it, but this time I make an exception since only the PSP version is voiced, which is such a shame because the VA do so much to bring the character to life. You can’t play this game without having heard the way Naruse calls Keita “honey”, or how deep Kaoru sounds despite looking like a princess. Not only that but all the characters are voiced by pretty know voice actors such as Miki Shinichirou (already mentioned) Kamiya Hiroshi, Narita Ken, Konishi Katsuyuki, Morikawa Toshiyuki and so on. That’s why I really recommend playing the PSP version (with emulator) instead of the PC version because the H-scenes aren’t really worth erasing the voices for.

Conclusion

The game is great, the fandsik is great, I had a fantastic time playing this with my friends and I will really miss the amazing characters in this game (We still talk about them). And despite my complains (which is normal since this is a review after all) I had a ton of fun with this game and can only recommend it as an old time classic, but only the voiced version, or else you will be missing out a lot. The anime is also not bad if you just want to watch some slice of life school romance BL, there are also manga that follow some of the routes, such as Kazuki’s and King’s. And if you decided to play it, don’t forget the fandisk also exists.

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Gakuen Heaven Review

Gakuen Heaven is a very iconic BL game from the early 2000s, it received a Fandisk, an anime and a second game with a new MC and new love interest after 10 years of the main game’s release. This time I played the game together with my friends and we decided to play the PSP version with an emulator, because the PC version is not voiced. The PSP version has no H-scenes (they are just hinting at it) but I was willing to scarify that for the voice acting, it made a big difference so no regrets there. (Only the quality was a bit 360p in the PSP version lol)

Spoiler for the whole game below

Description

Ito Keita, an average high school boy, is surprised to receive an acceptance letter from the renowned Bell Liberty Academy, BL school for short (yes this is what they call the school lmoa, the joke never get old). After being involved in an accident, on the day of his transfer, Keita finds himself among a variety of unique people... but what is Keita's "special ability"? Will he truly be accepted into this school full of elite students?

Story

If you have watched the anime, you pretty much know what happens in this game. Keita gets accepted to BL school after the school year has already started. He arrives after his bus flies off the bridge, completely unharmed because if there is one thing Keita is good at, it’s being lucky. There he meets the king (the student council president) and the queen (the head of the school accounting department and a beauty) and after it all the other characters, his classmate Kazuki (who is overly too friendly with him), Nakajima the (vice president of student council and basically the king’s mother/wife), Omi (also working for the accounting department and the childhood friend of the queen), Shinomiya (a pro at Kyudo), Shunsuke (a boy from Osaka who is good at riding his bike and loves food), Iwai (a depressed artist), Naruse (the school’s playboy and an amazing tennis player) and Umino-sensei (who teaches biology and looks illegally young). Yes, this game has 10 love interest. In the following weeks Keita gets to hang out and to know all of these people. And that’s basically the common route of the game, it may sound boring, but the characters interactions are really fun and entertaining. Everyone has a distinct personally (even if some of the have very stereotypical one). The games plot mostly revolves around the characters and MC, so if you expect some kind of exiting adventure, you’re at the wrong place. The characters route begin around the 3rd week, when Keita gets suddenly called by the vice director and is told he has to leave school, because his admission to BL school was a mistake, so the board of directors decided to kick him out since he no special talent and therefore doesn’t belong in the school. Keita is of course very sad about it since he started to like the school and its students. So, he seeks for advice from the other character, who tell him to go directly to the director of the school. Keita tries that but the director of the school is a mystery; no one know how he looks like or where you can find him (dude is never in his office). Frustrated Keita speaks with Kazuki who tells him that he could just write a mail to the director, which he does. In the mail he states that he wants to stay at the school and ask if the director could help him with his situation. Well, as it seems the director listened to him, because the next day all students get called for a gathering, where a stuff bear (yes you read that right) who is a substitute for the mysterious director, announces a MVP battle where all students can participate in and the winner will have a wish granted by the director. The battle has 3 rounds, and you have to play in pairs. If you watched the anime, I can already tell you the battles are a bit different in the game. In the first round you have to catch in a mini game hamster (yeah idk). You can either do it by yourself, let your partner do it or do it together (and my god some of these guys suck ass at this game). In the second route you have to do a quiz on the subjects of your choice (usually the one related to your LI) and let me tell you these quizzes are hard af. First of all, they are all in Japanese and second, if you think these are some simple questions like ‘what is 2+2’ you’re greatly mistaken. They ask you really hard question about Japanese history and literature and biology and what not. Once again you can let your partner answer but some if these dudes are idiots and can answer wrong. But if you survive this round, the last round is super easy, since it’s all about Keita’s strongest subject: luck. You just have to choose between two cards, and no matter which you choose you won’t lose. During the MVP battle you basically play your partners (the LI of your choice) route. The content of them all depends on the LI you choose.

I also need to mention that if you watched the anime, the part where the school nurse goes crazy and kidnaps Keita is completely made up by the anime, while the part with his friend being in coma is true, the other part after it was created for drama purposes, I guess? But he did tell Keita about his friend and Keita tried to help him together with Kazuki, so yeah there is that.

Characters

Naruse Yukihiko

Naruse is the first character who’s route we accidently ended up on (wasn’t our first choice but we didn’t want to redo it). Like said Naruse is the playboy of the school, he is also called a “playboy” by the other characters. Beside that he is also an excellent tennis player and the captain of the tennis club. He falls in love with Keita on first sight and kisses him on the first day lmao (or not if you make the right choices). Keita is, of course shocked why another guy just kissed him, and this starts the never-ending circle of “but we are both men”. You see, Keita has a terrible case of internal homophobia (or he just never heard of being gay). Naruse, with his extreme bisexual energy, has no problem and doesn’t care if anyone knows he like Keita (pretty sure the whole school knew after 2 days). He always tells Keita that he loves him and calls him “honey” as a nickname, with Keita always countering it with “but we’re both men” … Naruse tries pretty hard to convey his love, he makes bento for Keita, kisses him constantly (Keita was even into it at some point) always tells him he likes him and also explains why he like Keita. He also mentions that he doesn’t care that Keita is a guy and he takes him on dates to romantic place and yet KEITA ALWAYS ANSWERS WITH “BUT WE’RE BOTH MEN” AAAAHHH- *smashes head against wall* Despite my dislike toward the playboy type I can say Naruse was really nice and voiced by Miki Shinichiro of course, cough sexy voice cough I am biased cough and trying so, so hard and yet Keita never took his love seriously, it’s not like he had to like Naruse back but Keita just never took Naruse seriously. Naruse was a really good boy though, he never went against Keita’s wishes, never took advantage of him and always told Keita he would never touch Keita (in the indecent way) if Keita didn’t want it himself. Man is the biggest green flag, seriously. The route was basically just Naruse trying to woo Keita and Keita rejecting him with “gay is not real”, only in the fucking end Keita realised that Naruse maybe really was serious……. *smashes head against the wall again* and also realises that he is in love with Naruse too so he run to Naruse’s training and screams that he loves Naruse too with the whole club listening (and I’m sure no one gives a shit at a school called “BL school”) . Naruse is overjoyed and picks Keita up and carried him to him room for some sexy times (not shown in the PSP version but me and my friend peaked into the PC game and they only showed the foreplay and skipped the actual sex lol) I’m honestly glad we played Naruse first because his route is my (and all of my friends who joined for his route) personal frustration with Keita as a character. I really love Keita but damn his internal homophobia was so bad in this route that we all we’re just screaming at the screen at some point. Naruse himself was really nice, still not my type but I understand his charm (And I wish they would stop giving Miki Shinichirou the playboy role because his voice is hot, but I just don’t like this stupid character trope). Also, I feel like compared to the anime he was less annoying and just overall better, and I feel like if Keita wasn’t so anti-gay, Naruse would have been even more enjoyable.

Umino Satoshi

Although Umino is 24 years old, he looks like is 12. Even Keita mistook him for an elementary student (Can’t blame him). He also has a really fat cat called Tonosama who always looks like high af. Umino sensei is not only a biology teacher, who is quite popular with the students, but also works as a researcher for the Suzubishi group, that this school belongs to, and that’s what most of his route is about. Keita gets interested into Umino’s research and ask to help him, even if he doesn’t understand what Umino is talking about. Honest his route was boring since it mostly consists of research talk (not a very good topic for a bl game in my opinion) and I found myself zooming out for most of the time. (Nothing against biology but after a hard day of work I imagine something more fun than watching 2D characters talk about cells) The real “fun” of this route is when one day Umino’s research data get stolen. Keita is shocked but Umino tells him that it always happens and that he doesn’t care because he isn’t looking for fame and just want to be helpful. And this is the part that really pissed me off in this route, Keita was really pissed at his attitude, but for this route good end you needed to make choices that immediately throws Keita’s anger out of the window. Once this topic comes up again, Keita gets mad, then you have to make a choice and suddenly Keita is all chill again and always answers with “That’s so you, Umino sensei” Like what???” The “climax” of the route is when Keita walks into the room of Umino after one of the MVP battles and sees that another teacher hat tied him down. He was the one who stole the research data and is now trying to get the password out of him. Keita tries his best to convince Umino not to tell the guy, but he ends up doing it anyway after being beaten (and I think even raped in the PC version). So, the dude escapes and you know what Keita and Umino do? N O T H I N G absolutely NOTHING. Not tell the police or the director or anything at all, like wtf??? After removing Keita’s anger, we also removed all his common sense or what? This made me so pissed because Keita normally doesn’t take anyone’s shit but here he doesn’t even try and say “that’s so you Umino sensei” What was the writer ever thinking? Anyway the route ends with the dude never actually getting the data because he understand the password wrong and Keita being so happy over it that he kisses Umino, who is also like “Oh yeah I totally like you, too”. Strange is that they don’t even mention anything about the student-teacher relationship at all, like it’s totally normal. Can’t even decide who needs to be jailed here, Umino for dating a student or Keita for dating someone who looks like 12. Oh and Keita also tops (didn’t mention yet but Keita can be top/bottom depending on his partner) and they constantly fuck in the biology room…..Umino-sensei himself was annoying, I don’t like the “hehe I’m so cute and clumsy”- type, they make me mad for some reason, and him being weak and just getting stepped on didn’t help either.

Nakajima Hideaki

Nakajima is the classic Megane, and not only that he is a Spray Megane (Spray are the one who made Kichiku Megane who I was totally fan of not). He is always mothering the king who is busy being lazy. Outside his route, his interactions are really fun because he is not taking anyone’s shit (especially the king’s). He is very smart, responsible and mostly how you imagine a Megane to be (except that he doesn’t speak polite). Nakajima’s route start with classic sexual harassment, which Keita really doesn’t take well and gets so upset about, that he doesn’t want to see Nakajima for a while (understandable, poor baby) but you have to interact with him, the game forces you to do it. Keita then starts spending time with Nakajima and is actually surprised to learn that Nakajima is actually a pretty nice guy, who even takes Keita out on dates (to an BDMS show lmao, sadly not show in neither version of the game, but Keita seemed to have liked it in some way). He also willing to help Keita with the MVP battle. During it another sexual harassment scene happened, which again upsets Keita. After the MVP battle, Keita is called by 3 guys who are mad at him because he stopped their confrontation with Nakajima, and he gets beaten up by them. Then Nakajima arrives kicks their asses and save Keita. After it is the whole confession scene, with Nakajima telling Keita that he does like him and viva versa.

And now let’s get to my commentary of this route. First, I like to say that I HATE the writer for this route (so does my friend who played with me) and not for the reason you think. I hate the writer because Nakajima’s route was actually good, but they had to ruin it through unnecessary sexual harassment, which ended up feeling completely ooc in the end. Yes, Nakajima is clearly a sadist and loves to tease Keita, but he was genius nice and helpful to Keita 95% of the route, only these random ass scenes mad the route really bitter. The worst part is that Nakajima explained in the end that he first sexual harassed Keita because he wanted Keita to be interested in him (worst excuse ever writer-san) since it turns out the director actually asked him to be basically Keita’s bodyguard. Man is out there working his ass off protecting Keita and writer though “hmm needs more sexual abuse” AJDAKKAJD I’m seriously so mad. “How to mess up a good route 101”. Keita and Nakajima had more than enough time to develop a good relationship and they did. But noooo need more sexual harassment *spits on writer*. The second scenes felt even more ooc because this was already far into the route where Keita already start liking Nakajima and was thanking him for helping him with the MVP battle and out of nowhere Nakajima pushed him in a closet and told him, how Keita seriously thinks he doesn’t need to repay the favour for helping him with the MVP battle and sexually harasses him right there.(Not shown in the PSP version but I saw what you did with the pencil Nakajima) It was just so stupid and out of nowhere. Later he tells Keita that he pushed him into the closet because the three guys, who later beat him up were looking for him and, okay that’s a decent reason, BUT NOT A VALID REASON FOR SEXUAL HARRASEMNT, WRITER *spits on them again*. Worst part is that Keita noticed his love for Nakajima not by getting reminded of all the good times they spent together, nooo he needed to think back to the sexual harassment. Ugh, I know I shouldn’t get mad over a 2002 game but this a serious problem that still happens in modern game, where the writers think forcing random sex/sexual assault is a good idea, which just ends up ruining the character and the route. And I don’t care, twitter kiddies can cry, scream and call my all names in the universe, but I’ll still say it again: Forced sexual scenes only ruin the character and story and I want them gone from BL games.

Despite my deeply rooted anger, if I close my eyes and pretend those scenes never happened, I can say that I enjoyed the route and Nakajima more than I thought even if he was sadist he was really kind to Keita and their relationship development felt more or less natural. I just go and continue to curse the writer.

Kazuki Endo

If you have watched the anime, you know pretty much all of Kazuki’s route because his route was the one that was animated. His route is or can be considered the “true route”, but personally I don’t consider it to be. Kazuki is the first-person Keita makes friends with since they are classmates. Kazuki is a rather friendly person who sticks a little too close to Keita and always follows him everywhere, which I thought was annoying. Personally, I’m not a fan of Kazuki, he is just not my type of character, and I thought the romance development wasn’t done that well in his route (you can guess why). You have to play Kazuki’s route two times; the first time you’ll only get the normal end and the second time you get the happy end. Most of his normal route consisted of Kazuki hanging around with Keita, him fighting with Naruse over Keita (with Naruse beating his ass with sass) and going on a date with Keita (they had no chemistry at all, and I felt like they were talking past each other). Only in the end we (or rather Keita) learn Kazuki’s true intentions after he kisses Keita on the cheek. Keita is so shocked to learn that Kazuki was actually trying to woo Keita all this time, just like Naruse (Keita actually thought about the possibility before when Kazuki and Naruse had their sass fight but had thrown the idea to the side after his internal homophobia striking again). And this is basically where the route ends. The second time you play the route there will be more scenes with them together as well as Keita starting to have some déjà vu’s and dreams of his past. Well, turns out Kazuki is the classic childhood friend character (*sarcastic* wuhu) and that Keita used to play with Kazuki when he was a small child, but later Kazuki had to move away, which saddened Keita so Kazuki promising that they would go to school together one day. Keita suspects that Kazuki is the oniichan he used to play with but isn’t fully sure. After MVP battel, Keita is invites to the director’s office to make his wish, Kazuki is nowhere to be found so Keita goes alone. Well, turns out Kazuki has been the fucking director all along lmaooo and he invited Keita to the school so he could fulfil his promise to go to the same school together and to live his gay dream (even Keita thinks that this is a bit ridiculous). Keita is so shocked that the poor guy can’t even get a full sentence out. Because not only has Kazuki has told him that he is the director but also his oniichan from the past. Also, btw Kazuki is actually older (even if we have never found his age and he was just pretending to be a student.) Anyway, after a bit of talk, Kazuki confesses and Keita decides he is gay as hell suddenly and they confess to each other like 7 times (seriously the confession took way too long), before finally kissing and fuck right there in the director’s office in the PC version and that’s basically the whole route. The romance was rather meh, since there wasn’t a moment Keita actually realised his feeling himself which he did in most of the route. Also, I have question why Kazuki has the hots for Keita, who he only met when Keita was like 5 years old or something. But despites few complains the route was enjoyable to play, it had many funny scenes and Keita’s reaction to director Kazuki was hilarious. I have to say that despite me not being into Kazuki I though he was a great director, really cared about the students and let them have their own freedom. Also, Idk how this man can be a student + director + the research lab chef AND still have time to be a part in the handicraft club (granny hobby) while stalking Keita. Does he even sleep? We will never know. Compared to the anime the games doesn’t tell you that Kazuki is the director until he reveals it himself or until you recognise his voice in another route lol, it’s sad that they revealed it so fast in the anime since its just a big secret in the game.

Iwai Takuto

Iwai’s route had the most induvial plot of the game. The route starts with Keita seeing him burn his painting after meeting Iwai at the artist club. And the next day he walks in on Iwai trying to kill himself by cutting his wrist (like wtf). Luckily the cut is small and no danger to his life. Shinomiya who is friends with Iwai takes care of him while he heals (Keita is also there to help) and there we find out from Shinomiya that this wasn’t the first time Iwai did this (jesus) and then he starts to victim blame Iwai (I will come back to this bitch Shinomiya later). So, Keita being the good boy he is decided to help Iwai and find out why he is so depressed (enough to try to kill himself several times??). Well, turns out it has to do with Iwai’s family, who is just garbage. Iwai’s mother is the mistress of some famous artist who taught Iwai how to paint, but Iwai got really good at oil painting, so his trash father just took credit for Iwai paintings himself and got a bunch of praise and prices for it. But not only that it gets worse, his mother is a total hoe who forces Iwai to make more paintings because if not Iwai’s father will leave her and go back to his other family. This whole situation really sits on Iwai because he doesn’t want to create more oil painting for his shitty father, but he genuinely loves to paint. He was even once rejected from a competition for “copying” the art of his garbage dad. Also, the reason he burned the paintings in the beginning was because his mother was visiting him, and he didn’t want to hand her anymore of his. Keita as a character shines the strongest in the route because he isn’t having any of this shit and tries his best for Iwai to confront his family, even if Iwai is always trying to give up. Luckily an art gallery guy noticed that Iwai’s father paintings are actually Iwai’s and ask him for cooperation to reveal the whole thing to the public, Iwai first rejects it but with Keita’s positive influence he finally accepts it. The development of their relationship was also good, though it mostly consisted of Keita (friendly) kicking Iwai’s ass to stop being a puppet for his shitty family (we love that). Also, Iwai made a painting of Keita, which he later used as the main theme for his exhibition, after the whole situation was revealed and he finally got the praise he deserved.

He also confessed first to Keita by kissing him, but good thing is that the gay in Keita has already started to bloom, so he doesn’t think much about the fact that they are both men and happily gets laid. Generally speaking, Iwai had the best route story-wise, and Keita showed the strongest part of his characters here, despites that I can say Iwai is just not my type, I can appreciate the route by I don’t really have any interest in Iwai or the pairing.

Shinomiya Kouji

Shinomiya’s route was the second one we played, and after no homo Naruse’s air it felt like a breath of fresh air. Because this time Keita is the one who is falling first for the LI. His route is a bit different from others in that way that he agrees to be Keita’s MVP battle partner only for to fulfil his own dream. Which is to save his little brother, who has heart problems and can’t get a heart transplant immediately because in Japan you need to be older to get one. And since Suzubishi also has a medical research department he knows they can help him. Keita agrees to help him even if it means that he won’t be able to stay at the school. Along the way Keita falls for Shinomiya and can’t hide his feeling anymore, so he confesses to Shinomiya and Shinomiya is like “souka” (“I see”) like bitch what kind of answer is that???? The scene just ends without him actually saying anything back lmaooo. Later Keita confesses again and to get his feelings across he kisses Shinomiya (hell yeah Keita lets go full gay, Naruse probably crying in the background, wishing he had gotten this treatment.) and Shinomiya kisses him back, so they are happy clappy gay together now. Which also starts a long back and forth between “I want you to stay at the school so we can be together” and “I want to save your little brother” but at some point, they agree that saving Shinomiya’s brother is more important than dick battles. So after Keita wins the MVP battle they go to the director office, where they of course don’t meet the director because Kazuki is hiding but they can talk to him through speakers (I seriously want to know how Keita doesn’t recognize Kazuki’s voice) but they tell him that their wish is for Shinomiya’s brother to get the medical treatment he needs and director Kazuki tells them that he will make their wish come true, but also because Kazuki’s gay ass he let Keita stay in school. So, they get both the things they wanted, happy end~ And now let’s get to the part where I drag Shinomiya through dirt because he is a victim shaming asshole. I have to say he is already flat, but the fact that he wants to be a doctor is even funnier because I hate the doctor characters who have like no other personality than being a doctor (I talked about this in another review before) Anyway the part where he shames Iwai for trying to commit fucking suicide made me really dislike him. If there is one thing that gets my blood really boiling, its people who blame victims for their situation instead of helping them doesn’t that remind you of another doctor character who victim blamed the MC for his situation? Yeah, congrats Shinomiya now get your ugly ass out of my face.

Continued in Part 2

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Mystery Inc. but it’s the 1890s

Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?

The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe

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Hello!✨ I saw your post about sewing plushies and I was wondering if you're able to post photos comparing the mini, jinlan and piyopicco 20cm patterns? I've been using the mini 10cm pattern for starfish body plushies but wanna consider other options once I'm confident enough to move onto 20cm dolls. Thx if possible! ^^

I do have some nekkid photos of plushies I made using those patterns, but I can't compare them side by side since I sold some of them as commissions. Here are some individual pics:

Jinlan 20 cm:

Mini 20 cm:

Piyopicco 20 cm:

Hope these helped! 🥰

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Based on actual events

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HE’S SO CUTE WAAAAAAA

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Sometimes I feel a bit like a clown; but then I see how Kuya looks at Eiden, and I remember that there is someone here who is the entire fucking circus🤡🎪

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the fact that this is a real ad for the game and not a tumblr shitpost sends me into oblivion

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💛8️⃣🍪🍪🍪

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Talking about my plushmaking addiction in my yearly wordpress blog post 😆

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this interaction stays in my head rent free

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brb crumbling to dust

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This time it's not only DMMd, I'm sharing my CHiRAL Café zine : CHiRAL DELIGHTS.

The menu features Togainu Mochi, Ramento, Sweets Pool and DRAMAtical Burger with recipes you can try at home!

It also contains illustrations and strips ^_^

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/325f2ad378.html

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remember when aoba DUSTED koujaku in ren’s drama cd

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iced coffee yakumo r5 ramble incoming

me walking into the preview for IC yakumo: ugh. great. SR means there's only gonna be one H-scene and it has to be penetration. lemme guess. stick it in within the first 2 seconds. thrust your way to victory. just like every other time...

me walking out of r5: i . i cannot beELIVE i'm into this. now i gotta type up a whole THING fkin catching me by bullshiet surprise with their stupoidc haracter development rurgghrANGY

FIRST of all, canonical misuse of yakumo's erogemnous zone by eiden, as he slurps at yaku's ear bc he's horny and he wants it NOW

when yakumo STILL doesn't stick it in, eiden starts up the Weaponised Bottoming behaviour

come on, eiden. your face is doing things to me. it's clearly doing things to yakumo. please have mercy. sir plaes

ThEN we get HERE and i'm like allll riiiighttt heeeeere we go (into the ol' thrust n cum automated machine we go)

WAIT. WHAT?

BUT?

you normally woulda been halfway thru eiden's guts by now. what's going on. why are you showing restraint this time

OH MY GOD YAKUMO'S GROUNDING MECHANISM IS *COFFEE* 😭 (coffee grounding technique. ehehehehehehehehheeh)

WAIT NO DO NOT LET STUPID PUNS DISTRACT YOU WE ARE ENTERING NEW TERRITORY

look, yaku's always been service toppy but the service often happily and coincidentally lines up with straightforward f0ckin. eiden is all "dick in me pls" and yaku is all "ok" and soon enough yaku loses control from how good it feels >>>Poundtown Population: Eiden. then yak's just lost in the hole and chasing his 72 orgasms (i mean, thankfully, he knows where to aim, but R.Ip>Eiden's anus for sure)

(the repetition in r5s was pretty much why i was disappointed with fateful aegis yakumo r5 (fanciful capriccio). it's like they ran out of time to even TAP that room with the imagination wand. it really was [["dick in hole" "ok" *touches eiden's nipples*->cum.]] like. dude i feel like i'm in an old school yaoi can we get a bit creative here? maybe they had to rush bc they had 4 chars to write in that event... and rei still needs that important char development... and if they slack on kuya, they'll be beheaded... aaahhh anyway. yeah. i still like fateful aegis r5 but it's bland especially compared to r2 apron yakumo my beloved)

SO HONESTLY at this point i'm as surprised as eiden

but then eiden drops these lines that betray his insecurity about yaku's behavioural changes

WHAT? WHAT????? this event has shown yaku becoming calmer and learning how to handle himself better ... which is excellent! wonderful! we love to see an anxious snake learn how to function in society better, how to interact with others, how to become confident in his movements ...

BUT IT HAS ALSO SHOWN eiden feeling a bit conflicted about yakumo's development. like not being able to fluster him as easily/reduce yakumo to a stuttering mess with a single word... eiden admits he feels a bit lonely when he thinks of those reactions disappearing completely

AND I UNDERsTAND 3000%

maybe i'm projecting onto eito but if all that nervous/adorably embarrassed behaviour just stopped... i'd feel like i've lost my only influential ability on *gestures to the clan members* these superhuman creatures with crazy powers and beautiful bodies

so, despite the happiness of seeing someone become a better version of themself, you... feel sad. is eiden thinking stuff like: - i'm not attractive to him anymore - he's tired of me - i've lost the only good thing about me - i am no longer capable of doing the one thing that made me special/different in this world

I MEAN!!!! I FELT A TWINGE OF THIS BEFORE I EVEN UNLOCKED THE INTIMACY ROOMS, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO WORD IT LIKE EIDEN DID?! When i first gave IC Yakumo the head taps (headpats?), he reacted differently than usual:

Yaku Headpatters know that the words haven't changed, but his expression is certainly abnormal. Typically, he responds with a blushy or questioning look. BUT THIS?

WHY HE LOOKIN LIKE I WAS A RANDOM CUSTOMER THAT PAT HIS HEAD AND HE'S JUST . STARING COOLLY. BECAUSE THAT'S HIS PROFESSIONAL FACE AND HE HAS DEVELOPED ENOUGH SELF-CONTROL TO *NOT* IMMEDIATELY GET FLUSTERED AND WILT AT THE VERY *THOUGHT* OF TOUCHING?????

when i noticed this, i couldn't help the "oh..."... accompanied by this tiny wiggle of desolation that i didn't think much of UNTIL THEY BROUGHT IT UP IN THIS ROOM

DEEP OIINHALE

ok. as i was saying. so eiden drops the "i might not be able to sway you anymore ahaha jkjk isn't that such a silly thought that doesn't make me feel anything in any way" and IMMEDIATELY yakumo retorts

?!?!?!?! no hesitation. even though eiden spoke in his usual "lighthearted sex banter" voice, yakumo picked up on the insecurity behind his words... AND INSTANTLY UNABASHEDLY SMASHES THAT DOUBT WITH HIS HONEST LOVING WORDS rarely do i hear yakumo declare things with such... self-assurance? i guess when it comes to his love for eito-san, he will. NOT. stutter. (((one of yaku's appeals, to me,, is that he cannot lie to save his life. so he'll catch you off-guard with really candid stuff sometimes. this is one of those times.)))

TRULY! what essentially goes down is:

eiden: guess i'm just not doing it for you anymore, huh. hahaha oh well sucks to be me yakumo: NO THAT'S NOT IT i think you're sO HOT and i will ALWAYS think you're super hot!!!! in fact i am trying so desperately not to bust a nut right now just LOOKING at your face THAT'S how attractive you are and i just really want to love you the way you deserve to be loved that's why i'm trying to wait for the perfect moment to make you feel so FUKIN GOOD that you cum 18 times at once!!!!!!!

AND THEN

WHERES THAT PICTURE OF WHAT EIDEN LOOKS LIKE WHEn HE FLIRTS WITH THE CLAN MEMBERS VS. WHEN THEY FLIRT BACK

i"M GONNA MNCFMCKING LOS\e IT

GET LOVED, IDIOT. sweetheart. wonderful, radiant eiden...........TWO THOUSADN KISSES UPON YOUR FOREHEAD

One Emotional Moment Later......

aight so they're back to business and i intake a much needed breath like "phew! that was mildly stressful! guess we're back on schedule with the regular boning---" NO. YAKUMO PERSISTS.

YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 GIVE A GUY A HAND, WILL YA?

*chants* NOT! JUST! HOLE! NOT! JUST! HOLE! (how low have my standards dropped that i'm excited at the prospect of eiden getting his dick touched during his drill sessions. i mean, seems like he can cum from buttstuff alone. buuuuuut. he deserves a lil extra attention ;) :) :) )))

Wait no, i got so distracted with the dick assist that i forgot that YAKUMO IS PERSISTING

dick assist is actually dick desist. poor eiden . reduced to babbling. head empty, dick full, yakumo won't let him cum

a bit of yakumo's assertive side peeking out again... not immediately following eiden's orders... this is horny character development...

unfortunately, i'm into this, and yakumo exercising just that lil bit of control aaaall for the sake of eiden's explosive future orgasm? yeaaaaaaaaaaa. great. guess i like orgasm denial. i mean, not that there's much denial when yakumo's involved. he's pretty forgiving in terms of that. not like he's an ultra scary sadist who'll edge you over and over for several hours until you feel like you're gonna die so REALLY, how much do i like orgasm denial if i'm only getting the mildest version of it with coffee boy over here so

MOVING ON.

in accordance with tradition and keikaku, eiden indeed gets his explosive orgasm. Blessed with post-nut insight, he resolves his previous emotional turbulence: