I Had Time?! To Draw?! Shock! Horror! Quick! Someone Check That There Aren't Any Tears In Reality!

Please remember the difference between plot twist and story whiplash.

Remember the Hanahaki Disease concept that was scrapped? Here's the other one.

Shizuo Heiwajima is so fucking hard to draw. I always have to go extra with him. Which is something I really don't need because I already am a perfectionist and not only that but his hair is just so ...>stressed inhale<

Game testing without context:

"Riku, imma be honest, i'm only staring at your titties right now"

Hi so here are some fandoms I’m interested in cause I’m lonely.

Durarara!!

Game of Thrones

Sailor Moon

Attack on Titan 

Fullmetal Alchemist

Fairy Tail

Black Butler

Gakou Gurashi 

Devil is a part timer

World god only knows

Hetalia 

Death Note

Tokyo Ghoul

Free!

Kuroko no Basket

Ouran High School Host Club 

Blue Exorcist

Seven Deadly Sins

Cowboy Bebop

Guren Lagen 

Kill la Kill

Samurai Shamplu 

Seraph of the End 

Voltron 

Castlevania

Avatar the Last Airbender 

Marvel 

Muskateers

Supernatural 

Sherlock 

Pokemon

Dinosaur King 

Tokyo Mew Mew 

Yugio 

Pretty Cure 

Digimon 

Akira 

Ghost in the Shell 

Your Name 

Mary and the Witches Flower

Banana Fish 

Devil Man Crybaby

Hunger Games

Harry Potter Universe

Azu Manga Daoh 

Now admittedly some of the fandoms for these kind of scare me, but that doesn’t change the fact that it would be cool to talk to someone about any of them. Also note that some of them I have not completed, so don’t expect me to know everything. Will post art and fiction based on any of these when I feel like it, if people are cool with that. I note that this is getting very long, so the next post will be a continuation of this list. 

Cursed? More like uper interesting. Because this could have so easily happened. Mika noticed Seiji purely because of Mikado's name in the anime. In fact, Anri makes a similar remark about knowing him before meeting purely because of his name.

To start off with, there's the whole distance thing. I think Mika wouldn't resort to up and leaving to find Mikado's hometown on the get go. Especially when she probably knows he will be moving to Ikebukuro soon anyways. So I imagine she would resort to cyber stalking for the time being.

Imagine the scene. Mikado is interacting with his group chat friends. There's a cute girly account interacting to him. One would think, "oh that's Izaya pretending to be Kanra". Nope. It's Mika.

Now I don't think Mika would be as intense with Mikado at the start as she was with Seiji. Mostly because distance might have forced her to tamper down her feelings. But once Mikado gets to Ikebukuro, that changes.

Similar to the anime, they bump into each other. But instead of running away screaming, Mika sticks around to show her interest in Mikado. Masaomi acts all super jealous because "no fair, you got a cute girl on your first day" but encourages the idea of Mika sticking around for the city tour.

This gives Mika the chance to follow Mikado home, and when he says "hey want me to keep walking so you get home safe?" She's like "oh no, I think I'll stay at your house" which makes Mikado realise "ok, getting kinda uncomfy here".

Mika then proceeds to make herself at home. Mikado tries to make her tea and be a good host, but he just can't settle down easily with her just, not taking her attention off of him for even a second. He doesn't even have the chance to try and call the police, but he attempts to brush it off because she's not actually being dangerous or harmful towards him.

So like, for the first few archs he's in a perpetual state of "this is fine" as Mika just does not leave him alone, and yet shows her endearing side by genuinely looking out for him.

Cursed Durarara!! AU: Mika gets infatuated with Mikado during the entrance exam

Spoilery ramblings under the cut

Because here is the thing. We know from later in the series that Mika has SCARY knowledge of EVERYTHING. She is a horrifyingly determined and effective stalker.

She would figure out immediately who Mikado is. And would take it upon herself to help him. People are giving the Dollars a bad name? Time to ruin them for Mikado's sake.

It would obviously change a LOT in the series, especially in regards to Celty's head, and the Yagiris role in the plot, and it is hard to pinpoint exactly how things would unfold...

God help Aoba, once he gets involved in the plot. The two of them would have a total weirdo-off over Mikado's attention. (I have the feeling Mika would win)

I found another gem of a Shizuo AMV, and this one is hilarious and ridiculous and so bloody well done. People were doing such amazing stuff in this fandom a decade ago.

This one is seriously a cracker, and totally RIDIC, and I can't help but laugh like a maniac every time I watch this.

From youtube.com/@jayjaybunny357 - made to The Lonely Island's Threw it on the Ground

The way the vidder has matched lyrics is brilliant and crazy.

And here is the original song/vid. The Lonely Island's "Threw it on the Ground". Until last week, I didn't even know Andy Samberg used to have this band. 🤪

Funnily, the band's name is The Lonely Island, and Shizuo's last name is Heiwajima, which means Peaceful Island. It must be fate. 😆

Go on and like. I wish there was more Shizuo-exclusive stuff in this fandom.

Updates and Responses to Feedback:

Hi all. Due to talking to some of you we thought it would be best to inform you of some changes we've made to the game since the demo was released. Most of these we had done so earlier, however after recieving feedback, we thought that this might be important

First change:

MC's new character design.

Many of you stated that in the demo, MC looked too short and young, and that it made a lot of you uncomfortable. We heard this and made the appropriate changes and the results are what you see in the above sketch. We made her chest more prominent and she should be taller--around the same height as Arabella and Anri. When we get a digital artist for the sprites, we'll make sure that she translates better to digital form. Previously, we had in story reason for her youthful appearance, but in the end both madhousefruitcake and I agreed it was too extreme, and so did some updates accordingly.

Related to this, we heard feedback stating that some of you have felt discomfort playing this game due to the MC's feminine appearance and pronouns, and that it has caused you dysphoria. We are dreadfully sorry about this, however due to technical reasons, we can't provide the players with a gender selection. The game is incredibly long, with over 30 character sprites. That's not taking into account the expressions each of those characters would have within the game. So we hope that you can understand the need to restrict ourselves to one gender. The reason we chose female and not gender neutral is both due to plot and game genre. Traditionally, otome games are made for girls, so we thought it would be wise to stick to the demographic we were aiming for. If this effects you and you still want to play the game, we consider viewing the MC as separate from you (I know I know, that kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it). If not, we completely understand not wanting to, and thank you for playing anyway.

The other change:

Since the demo was released last year, we have gone back and edited a lot of the scenes and dialogue. The specific example we're talking about today are the "I'm straight lines". When we looked back, myself and madhousefruitcake agreed and thought that multiple characters commenting on how straight they were was really stupid, clunky and unnatural, so we have since changed it. However, as of recently we have been made aware of just how glaring the lines were to some of you and we felt the need to update everyone on these changes. The mistake was made thanks to a slip in the editing and more than one script writer. We will try to avoid something like this happening again. With the exceptions of a few, most of the characters sexualities would be more ambiguous or unmentioned for now on. For the most part, our aim is to get the most accurate depiction of the series we can get through lots of reading and research, in order for the player to feel like they're actually taking part in the world of durarara. Any mentions of sexuality for now on would be either for plot reasons, or because the dialogue naturally fell a certain way.

We hope that these issues didn't turn any of you off Ikebukuro Records, but if they have, hopefully this new information will spark your interest in it again. Please let us know of more feedback you have, and feel free to ask questions.

Please consider donating to our ko-fi so that we may someday afford all the required digital artists. I'll leave the link at the bottom of this post. We will give you more art and script updates as development and donations continue. Thank you for your time.

-Ms.

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