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About Otome Game heroines

Okay, I’ve been an otome game player for more than six years and as many people know otome games are one of my favorite game genre. I’ll play anything as long I have the money and if I am interested in the plot and the characters. This said, I never thought much of the heroines in otome games.

Disclaimer: What I say in this post relects my opinion and does not in any way represent the views of other otome gamers.

I personally do not understand the hate the heroine in these games get. The heroines get critized for often being bland, clumsy, stupid and naive. Having read these opinions so many times I found myself asking: What is wrong with being clumsy? What is wrong with being naive? Is naivety a sign for lack of intelligence? I wonder what is wrong with being a little clumsy. 

Another word caught my eye as well and that it “weak”. How do people define weakness and what makes otome game heroines weak? I wonder how people define this. Many otoge have very unrealistic plots and the heroines face a lot of very strange situations that we as the player do not experience in real life, so I wonder how the ‘weak’ comments come from. 

There are a lot of women who are very clumsy and naive. Are they bad examples of women if they are this way? Are clumsy and naive women naive? Does are woman have to fit into the picture of the out-spoken, extroverted and confident woman? Isn’t there otoge heroine who stand up for themselves? Are clumsiness, naivety and shyness a sign for the lack of independence? Isn’t it possible to be naive, shy and clumsy and be strong and independent? 

I really wonder why otoge heroines are hated?

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*The screencaps are out of order. I just wanted to compare the boys’ grown up and high school selves. Ishigami and Goto look exactly the same…*

Anyway, here’s the summary of the high school event story which got quite long again…

At the start of the story, you were out late the night before with friends, so you’re quite tired. Now you’re out shopping but you keep running into Noir members, namely Ryoichi, Ishigami, Goto and Ren. Shields and Noir are now on friendly terms but you’re still uncomfortable with dealing with them on your own, so you avoid them before they notice you.

You get home and find a letter inviting you to your high school reunion. Then you realize that you’re late, so you stuff the letter in your bag and hurry off to Shields headquarters.

Later, you’re in the canteen at Shields, feeling extremely tired and you can’t stop yawning. You take out the letter for another look. Yamato comes over, concerned by how tired you look. You explain why and also tell him about your upcoming high school reunion. He leaves after a while. You wonder what the Shields and Noir members were like in high school and you fall asleep with that thought…

You wake up and you’re back in senior high! It’s the first day of school and Yamato is your new classmate. He’s also really popular with both the guys and girls in your class. Anyway, you have to stay after school one day to fill in the class diary. Yamato finds you sitting alone in the classroom and comes to see what you’re doing. He remarks that you have beautiful handwriting and he stays back with you to help you complete the diary. Then he leaves saying he’ll see you tomorrow. Your heart goes doki doki~♡

Now you’re on the train on your way home. The train suddenly stops and you lose your balance, luckily someone catches you. You soon find yourself face-to-face with a beautiful prince-like boy, Ren~♡ You are struck by his beauty and can’t help staring at him. He asks what’s wrong. You say he has beautiful eyes, so he steps closer for you to have a better look at his eyes!! So here you are completely entranced by his lovely ‘gleaming, jewel-like’ green eyes~ Then he steps back, blushing, because you’ve been staring into his eyes for too long~ :3c Then it’s time for him to get off. You ask for his name. He tells you and you find out he’s still in junior high. He calls you ‘senpai’ and says he’ll see you tomorrow. You really hope you’ll get to see him on the train again~

Several months pass, you are a member of the student council. Ishigami is the student council president. You want to speak to him after school but before you can, he’s been called away by a teacher. You look out the window and see your classmate, Goto. You’re rather scared of him as he has a reputation for being a delinquent, but you’re curious as to what he’s doing so you go outside for a look. You find him smiling and playing with a kitten! You decide there and then that anyone who likes small animals can’t be a bad person. You call him. He is very surprised to see you. You notice that his hand is injured and insist on taking him to the sick room. He lets you. Goto explains that he got hurt protecting the kitten from a group of older boys who were bullying it. You tell Goto that you think he’s a very gentle person. He is once again surprised. He soon leaves after his injuries are dealt with. You kind of find yourself attracted to Goto…

More time passes, it’s graduation time. Ishigami is graduating and everyone is sad as he was the perfect student council president. You want to go over to speak to him but you trip in typical otome heroine fashion… Ishigami helps you up with cherry blossom petals blowing all around him! XD;; He then says something like how he hopes you’ll take good care of the student council after he leaves.

It’s a new school year and now it’s time for the annual culture festival. This year it’s a joint festival with another school. You meet the charismatic president of the other school, Ryoichi. All the girls in your school are swept off their feet by him! XD

(Edit: Forgot this part!) That Sunday, you’re doing your homework at the library when Ryoichi suddenly comes over to sit opposite you. You feel rather nervous about being so close to him. He then remarks that your homework answer is wrong. After that, he helps you with your homework. When he leaves with a casual ‘see you’, you can’t help but begin to feel quite attracted to him.

The festival is a success. Ryoichi asks you to meet him on the school roof, then suddenly it’s love confession time! He takes your hand and comes closer and closer…

…you hear a voice calling you! You wake up and find yourself back in the canteen at Shields headquarters. Yamato is calling you. You kind of accidentally call him ‘Kougami-kun’ instead of ‘Yamato-san’ which confuses him. You find out that you’re still clutching the high school reunion invitation and wonder if that’s why you had that dream. You also wonder if it’s been influenced by all the shoujo manga you’ve read. Anyway, you think it was a very wonderful dream~♡ End.

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I hate doing this but there's drama in the horror webtoon community and I have to vent.

Do NOT support Hanza_art

If you don't want to be spoiled/involve yourself in a toxic situation do not read further.

My Deepest Secret was infamous for its overly miserable plot twist ending. The main character turned out to be "crazy" and "delusional". Somehow that protagonist was capable of living a normal life and being a serial killer at the same time. This character never got real professional help, and they were left to suffer in their delusions.

The horror community is often wary of authors that portray mentally ill people as unsalvagable or monstrous. Personally, I was horrified.

The backlash was horrible because the plot twist made no sense in general. In addition the story was marketed as a romance and by the end nobody had paired off. I felt my time was wasted, and I was disgusted by the way the "true villain" was discarded for the crime of being mentally ill.

When Hanza returned with a more level-headed protagonist and a more violent psychopathic villain....some readers gave the author another chance.

I don't blame them. Paranoid characters like Rozy are very interesting! Especially as main characters!

Hawa, the secondary female lead, grows out of her "naive victim" stereotype as well. It's very satisfying to watch. It was tied together nicely by the handsome villain, Adam.

Adam is extremely evil and irredeemable. When the story begins he is a serial killer who targets "innocent, sweet" girls like Hawa.

Rozy is overprotective and she doesn't trust men. In fact she's a known man hater. The characters are all adults, so their character traits and desires aren't just quirks. They are all deeply flawed people.

It was a very promising start.

Plus, it wasn't marketed as a romance so I was sure it would be written better! The weakest part of My Deepest Secret was the romance (by the end I mean) so yay!

Or not...

I do not keep up with TGU on a regular basis. The plot slowed down considerably and I noticed a worrying trend. Frankly, I'm not shocked by this immature behavior in the slightest.

Every single male character in TGU is a sexist abuser who harbors violent thoughts about women.

Hanza is very good at writing scary, irredeemable, sexist pigs that belong in jail...but it was a worrying trend all the same.

Adam was a smart, handsome serial killer who liked to hide in plain sight. By about chapter fifty he was alot dumber, and I cannot stress this enough.

Every male character that associates with Rozy or Hana turns out to be a stalker or harasser. The kind that would get charged in real life.

That kind of hatred towards "all men" is worrying in a thriller comic, and it was very annoying.

I wanted Rozy to outsmart Adam.

I don't want to watch her and Hana be abused by multiple men (mostly former friends!).

I came for the girl boss mystery, and I got alot of sexism instead. What a slap in the face.

Past a certain point I was only checking in to see how bad the story had gotten....and...yup....the male police officer helping Rozy is also a weird guy.

............first of all that's boring.

Second of all it's insulting.

Hanza hates toxic romance, and it shows, and that's perfectly ok. It's not for everyone, but Hanza has built their entire career on top of sexy murder men...so their attitude is extremely hypocritical and annoying as heck to watch.

"I hate toxic romance but I'm also going to sell suit merch of Elios and Adam."

Like, what did you expect?

Hanza is an adult creator, and they do know who they're catering to.

At this point they are absolutely insulting the fans that pay their bills, and that's unacceptable.

Authors are public figures now. They have been since the Facebook Era. Random internet trolls should not influence how you speak to your fan base. I understand that working for Webtoon is brutally hard, but Hanza is a popular artist despite their fumbled first story.

It's like watching somebody blow their nose on a golden ticket.

TGU was their second chance. A very generous second chance, that got great reviews in the beginning.

I'm astonished that Hanza somehow managed to concoct another dud plot twist. Their rude attitude has to be the nail in their coffin. They should not get a third generously funded chance.

Don't interact with their posts.

Don't review bomb the webtoon.

Don't give them any more attention.

They've made more than enough money off of fans they clearly don't respect.

Every creator worth their salt knows trolls and super perverts are only 0.05% of any given Fandom.

If Hanza wants to spit on the 99.95% fine.

Just don't give them any more money or support. That's the only punishment fans have the right to inflict.

Why am I so upset?

Well, as you can see Hanza posted spoilers. They spoiler bombed Twitter because they don't want to finish TGU.

That's right. On top of insulting everybody who paid for this comic they also don't want to finish. Despite the fact that the story reached its climax recently. The girlboss alliance is finally forming against Adam but...too bad I don't wanna write it (suckers).

The sibling plot twist is just abysmal as well.

Shame on you Hanza.

You damn well know that this sibling plot twist is completely out of left field and unexpected. (and boring. I am convinced you are trolling your fans.)

The shipper trolls and the edgy Rozy/Adam fans had no idea it was coming before you randomly spoiled it.

For the record I don't ship anything in this lackluster comic, because I know better. Again, My Deepest Secret was marketed as a Romantic Thriller and then there was zero payoff. Sure, this one isn't a romance, but I don't think anyone signed up for every guy on the block being evil. Just the guy upstairs. Since the story isn't even about love I never imagined so much drama would come out. It feels very pointless and petty. Every time I hear about this artist it's a drama issue and I can't help but think they're part of the problem. Their recent behavior on social media hasn't left me with any other options.

Hanza, you are being manipulative and childish on purpose because you don't want to finish what you started.

You pandered to horror and toxic romance fans on purpose just to get money.

You spoiled a story millions of people have been reading regularly just to satisfy your childish need to bully your own fans.

You took their money.

You signed your contract.

Nobody made you do it.

If you really are super conservative and you think romance must be pure LEAVE US ALONE, and go write pure romance.

Nobody is stopping you, but you wanted to milk more money out of people you don't respect.

It's sickening, and I'm happy that TGU will never get a physical release.

You don't deserve a dime of that money.

Shame. On. You.

*** REBLOG THIS AND GET A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE COPY OF SHEEP’S PATH! *** (Available until 14 July 2018)

Sheep’s Path is OUT!

Story Summary:

Clena, your normal everyday girl, finds herself in front of a circus filled with lovely animals. However, she quickly discovers that they are not ordinary animals - They are actually human boys who can transform into animals!

Get the full game here: http://zeiva.net/anicon/game_buy.html

Anicon Homepage: http://zeiva.net/anicon/index.html Anicon Demo: http://zeiva.net/anicon/game.html

Use this discount code for 15% off: EMER000E4 Valid for the first 100 orders!

Note: If you pre-ordered and have not receive a new download link, please email me at zeiva@hotmail.com. I might have missed you.

By: 水梨★学トラ3/エ31