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ao3 (i promise i’ll get back to writing idk when) art blog

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Had to recreate this meme for Yosuke’s last story 😖

I ended up using my hands as an additional reference (the horror!!!! 😱) and then gave up on the rendering cause I had a flare up towards the end sorry

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There’s a triset event going on at moment on 100Koi and you know I had to get Yosuke’s 😖 Dunno if this was an error but his bromide version from last year has him labelled as the “cool/cold-hearted type” (I’m going off of translation apps/dictionaries so don’t take my word for gospel) but then the app version is the “attention-seeking type” (?)

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We’re on Season 2 now!! It’s a shame they cut the opening scene with the gang at Pandora 😞 I hate seeing Tomohiro and Kozue again I wonder if they’re going to cover all 6 seasons now that the title is over.

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Once again, Love 365’s filters wouldn’t let me write what I really wanted to say about Kaisei’s story but I think my original review was a lot more scathing or maybe I was a bit groggy because it was still morning. Anyways, I can’t help but be reminded of Abby Lee Miller going “Boring, yawning, sloppy, LAZY” and think how that’s the best way to describe these stories so far.

Today’s recycled sprite is from Destind, to be fair I do like their art style and it doesn’t look nearly as inconsistent as the sprites for Kana or Sumire but production couldn’t be bothered to pay the artist to draw a few more characters?

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Babe wake up guess who finally finished drawing something

Technically this is a redraw of an old WIP but 🤫 backgrounds and hands are still my weakness 😩

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Great, now I want an Office AU… If I wasn’t busy with uni, I’d definitely come up with something 😖 How much do you want to bet Yosuke is still wearing those damn deck shoes

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I got impatient and decided to get Yosuke’s story with the coins I had slowly hoarded on 100Koi, just for the CG (hidden under the cut for anyone who doesn’t want to be spoiled) because I can’t read Japanese 🌻 Despite the language barrier, I’m pretty sure Sumire’s sprite is also recycled from an old title and aside from Taki, none of the other guys or Sydney showed up…

Okay fun’s over now guys I’ll see you again in January, or whenever this story drops on Love 365 for my next rant review

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Inconsistency alert: I know Hikari never met Kaisei or Sydney, but here she is being introduced to the rest of the Paradiso gang when they already spent time together in the Season 4 epilogue.

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I tried to leave a review on the app but I kept getting flagged for random words (what’s new) so I’m going to air my thoughts out on here instead. I’m sure I’ll have other things to say about this story as time passes but the only way I can describe this right now is that it felt mediocre. The pacing is a mess. To be fair, it always has been - I remember 5 years ago complaining about pace to my friends in this community when Voltage first introduced the 2 part format so I understand if I appear fickle.

It starts off with a time skip and a brief explanation that Kiyo’s old agency has been struggling it, we meet his grandma, whose sprite is clearly recycled from an older title (which already feels like foreshadowing for how this story will go). They finally achieve their goal, only for it to be snatched away almost immediately because Kiyo gets affected by his old agency's prostitution scandal. Then they have to meet the MC’s parents to convince them that the MC won’t get hurt again and before you know it, it’s wedding day and that’s it.

Speaking of the wedding day, it’s just a montage of his old CGs while the other characters talk amongst themselves before the screen cuts to the new CG. You don’t even get to see all of Kiyo’s outfit for the wedding because they didn’t create a new sprite.

You skip ahead again to a few years in the ending set when the siblings finally get onto that billboard in New York, MC tells Kiyo she's pregnant, cut to her struggling during the first trimester so Kiyo decides he's taking a break and then MC gives birth to their daughter who you don't get to see. His mother never appears at any point throughout this story and I feel a little disappointed by that because Kiyo once said the MC and his mother weren’t alike despite both being divorced so I thought it would have been an interesting interaction.

The pregnancy could’ve been a story on its own. Keep the time skip and show Kiyo and Hikari doing well when the MC discovers she’s pregnant. Rather than having Kiyo announce a hiatus and skipping straight to the baby’s birth, they could have explored the tension of this period further:

Kiyo becomes too busy to notice how much MC is struggling, while she tries to quietly deal with the symptoms on her own. Maybe she tries to prove that she can handle managing his and Hikari’s careers because she’s afraid of holding them back when their careers are thriving. Her parents could’ve reappeared to say “we warned you this would happen,” pushing that emotional conflict even further.

In the unlikely event that Voltage is reading this, they’re probably thinking “Damned if we do, damned if we don’t 🙄”. But they’ve had three years to put something together and THIS is what they came up with. You can tell that Voltage just wanted to get this title done and over with.

I’m just baffled how the writers managed to miss the mark with Kiyohito here. I said in my post from around New Year’s that I thought Kiyo was going to be the easiest character to wrap up. I’m guessing that the stories for the other 4 characters will be going in a similar direction.

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Yes, thank you for reminding me of what we could have had AGAIN 😔😔

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I’m surprised this event got released so soon but I’m not complaining!! I started my postgrad today and it feels really nice to come home to this 🩷

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More scans from the comic, turned the last one into a GIF 🥂

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In celebration of Yosuke’s birthday, have this WIP from last year that I never finished 🌻

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🚨 Okay everybody start panicking Yosuke’s last season is next month 🚨 I was half expecting Voltage to save him for last (but it makes sense for Taki’s to be last especially in November because that’s the month when the title was first released on 100Koi and it’s his birthday) but I will not complain about an early birthday present