VN Demo Round-Up!

I have 17 demos installed in my Steam library, most of them are spicy gay visual novels.  I need to get through them to decide if I want to buy them or not.  I'm going to play each one until I reach an ending, then write down my thoughts and judgements here.

The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns

For years, I've been enticed by the girls love visual novels of an indie writer who goes by Ebi-hime.  However, before today, I have never been able to finish one!  Finally, I corrected that issue today, by completing The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns.  Now, I'd tried to read this one before, but I was much more emotionally fragile in 2019 and couldn't finish it, and stopped halfway.  Today, with a more secure heart, I read it the entire way though!  I'm not gonna lie, it got hella wordy some times, and I was frustrated that it told in words, rather than show the scenes with images, but all in all, it is a pretty good VN.

Anime Review: I'm in Love with the Villainess

I'm in Love with the Villainess is an anime based on a light novel series about an office worker woman who gets isekai'd to her favorite otome game where she can finally, at long last, romance her favorite character, the villainess.

Not gonna lie, at first, I had my doubts about this one.  The protagonist, Rae, does experience some homophobia by side characters, and it doesn't seem like Miss Claire is into her until the end, so I thought it would be an unrequited love, and that kinda sucks, but in the end, they get together and seem pretty happy so yay!  Apparently, in the light novels, they have children together and save the kingdom.  Awesome!

Anime Review: Bofuri, I'll Max my Defense!

Bofuri is about a girl who isn't very practiced in video games becoming remarkably powerful almost by accident.  She and her skilled PvPer girlfriend play as much as they can, start a guild, and have lots of fun shenanigans.  Their little guild becomes full of surprisingly powerful players, in unexpected ways, and they end up competing in some large scale guild events.

Unlike reality, in this anime, everyone is friendly and a good sport, so this is s pleasant anime to watch.  Also, the relationship between MC and her PvPer girlfriend is a little vague, but I ship them, so whatevs.  It's a good, cozy anime to watch.

3 Yuri Visual Novel Studios, 1 Comparison Review

On Steam, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of visual novels.  Most of them are heterosexual male fantasies.  Some of them are heterosexual female fantasies.  Even fewer are LGBTQ+.  My favorites to read are girls kissing girls.  I've started to get back into boys kissing boys too, but we're talking lesbians in this blog entry.  I've been searching extensively for more lesbian and sapphic romance visual novels.  Many VN studios do the occasional one off girls love story.  You have to dig to find it.  But three studios have stood out to me for producing multiple lesbian and sapphic romance visual novels.  I've sampled all three's works, and here's what I have to say on each of them.

Dharker Studio is a long standing VN studio that focuses on heterosexual male fantasies, but has 27 LGBTQ+ tagged games in their library.  Their oldest VNs go back to 2015, and one of their most famous series, is a lesbian VN series starting with Negligee.  So I bought Negligee and started reading it.  The artwork was very nice, but I hated the writing.  It wasn't funny, it wasn't sexy, it was just dry.  So dry, I got bored before finishing my first playthrough, and I returned it.  After an hour and a half of reading, I wasn't invested in the characters at all.  It felt like they had no emotion, and were just sexy robots with nice art, trying to imitate human life.  I would have PREFERRED if they were robots trying to imitate human life.  So yeah, gonna pass on Dharker Studios from now on.

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady Review

The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady is a lovely anime with a long name.  It's an isekai featuring a girls love romance.  It currently only has 1 season of 23 minute episodes, but it ends really nicely and doesn't really need any more.  The title is a mouthful, and the character's names are a mouthful, but it's really amazing  otherwise.  It portrays a sapphic romance without being sleazy and fanservice.  I'm not against fanservice as a whole, but it's just nice to see it not used once in a while.

Euphie is engaged to a crappy prince and scheduled to be the next queen, but shenanigans happen and the prince is a turd, so princess Anis says "Mine now" and rescues Euphie, then they fight monsters, have fun, blah blah blah.  Go watch it.  My review?  10/10  Now go watch it.

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san Review

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san, is a cute, short form girls love high school anime where most of the characters take on traits of animals.  And they all act pretty innocently gay.  It's available subtitled on Crunchyroll, and there are 12 seven minute episodes.  The main characters are a doglike girl, a catlike girl, and their perfectly human and sane friend.  The dog girl and the cat girl have crushes on each other, and the totally human girl plays the straight man for comedy purposes.  I enjoy binging this quick and fun anime.  It's really cute, and silly.

YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily

YuruYuri: Happy Go Lily is a slice of life anime for a group of middle school students at an all female school.  At least, I think it's an all female school, because I don't remember seeing a single boy in the show.  It's based on a manga that's still ongoing, and I've only seen the first 3 seasons, so my review is based on that.

YuruYuri has been one of my go-to anime to watch when I'm feeling down.  Like Lucky Star, it cheers me up when I'm sad.  Season 1 is just about 4 girls in an after school club, being silly, and a little gay.  Oh yeah, major gay undertones in this anime, like a lesbian sledgehammer.  Another reason why I like the show, of course.  It's all incredibly innocent though, not lewd at all.  The girls don't have sexy times, they just crush over each other a lot.  In all 3 seasons, I think there's only one kiss ever.  Most of it is their very active childlike imaginations.  They are middle-schoolers afterall, still children.

There is no dub available for this show, that I'm aware of, it only comes subtitled.