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˖ ♰ ⚰️ “ 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑬𝑪𝑨𝒀, 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑹𝑬𝑭𝑼𝑮𝑬, 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑪𝑶𝑭𝑭𝑰𝑵. “

[himeiro]

                  𝐡 𝐞 𝐫 𝐞     𝐥 𝐢 𝐞 𝐬 。   Iro/Juno  19↑男   ♱  Illustrator, Gamedev, Writer.

                All my public accounts are currently run and managed by a manager.

                                whisper the coffin      @junscoffinated  。

               writing blog   @juunobox   。visual novel @kleinv01     

[himeiro]

Hi everyone, my art commissions had been closed indefinitely up until now, but I have to reopen them for the month because of unexpected expenses. My hospital bills came up, and I need some extra funds to afford rent ;;

This is not first come first serve! I'm only able to accept 3 slots because I worry about taking on too much workload. I may reopen to collect more funds later if I haven't saved up enough money by then.

Submit your request here (google forms link)

Any form of support is appreciated. Thank you so much!

[himeiro]

Once Klein v01 is done, I will probably just disappear from the internet, or take an indefinite hiatus.

Ever since the game's demo was first released, my health, both mentally and physically has only been getting worse and worse, and I don't think I would have it in me to keep creating games, unless on an extremely slow pace, which, admittedly, something I genuinely feel bad about.

I really need a long break, or maybe, a forever one.

I wish my body still lets me keep doing what I love (making games, art) as easy as it was when I first started. Game development aside, everything just feels really hard to do on its own.

I never knew I was just one fever away from getting physically disabled, I wish I had taken care of my body better when I was younger, healthier :')

Sorry for the personal posting today, I've been feeling really terrible about my working pace, and just my loss of ability to do basic things on my own. To eat, drink, get out of bed, go on walks, to shower, to play games and enjoy it. I have lost a lot of what used to be a part od what myself were. Maybe I'll get used to this body one day, Idrk

Take care, please take care of your body and mind, you will never regret being gentle to yourself, even if your mind tells you otherwise. I definitely regret giving in to the things my depression told me to do years ago. To harm my body, punish my body- simply for having human needs. I look back at my behaviour when I was younger and I couldn't really believe myself. I was a very harsh person towards myself.

And, thank you for supporting me

-Iro

[himeiro]

I name the MC "Jingle" when playtesting. It's so out of place it makes me laugh.

[himeiro]

The next update, Log 05, is a bit more of a balance in terms of mood. There's cute emotional scenes, 'cozy' domestic scenes but of course the horrors will always persist. It'll be a nice change of pace for me with the 'cute' scenes. Everyone should know that writing cute romantic scenes isn't my forte but I'm doing my best I possibly can....... (sweats nervously)

[junscoffinated]

I am genuinely thinking some people would grow to dislike some of my characters as the game's story goes on. But it's okay to feel however you want. I think it's more or less obvious where the game's narrative mood is heading to, even now. I received some messages about Al's bad ending- which one? If you know, you know. That was not the most pleasant thing to write as well. This game is not meant to comfort ,, One of my goal as the gamedev is to encourage the players to think, feel, and put the characters you find interesting into an observation jar where you can inspect them like a fine specimen *joking but, yes.

If you play the game expecting a cute yandere romance, you will be very disappointed. I'm sorry 😭

This also, of course goes without a saying that it doesn't mean I condone any of the things my characters did, ever, even if I am the writer.

[himeiro]

Throwback to when I turned Instagram into an evil anime man lol

Rip his fingers (yes I know I fucked it up please)

[himeiro]

The more I work on KLEINv01, the less the "dating sim" tag fits. I'm so conflicted. At this point it feels more like a full blown psychological horror rather than a dating sim.

[maleyanderecafe]

Diona's Flower Shop (Visual Novel)

Created by: HIMEIRO

Genre: Horror

Phew, this one was a fun experience to go through. This is made by the creator of Klein v.1, though much shorter and more focused on the horror aspect. This game has a bit of similarities to Tentador Leches in some aspects, which I will discuss later on. I enjoy the atmosphere and the general UI of it all. There are about five different endings you can achieve with this game.

The story starts out with the MC walking around at night thinking about going to a florist to get gifts for someone they like/care about. After walking about, they find a flower shop still opened very late at night. Curious to see what's inside of it, they walk into it and start talking to the florist after wandering around a bit.

If the MC starts to flirt with the florist, he will go along with it, though feels seemingly uncomfortable. He will eventually go into the back a couple of times, with a strange smell becoming stronger and stronger until we notice that he is leaving bloodied fingerprints on some of the surfaces. Even after the florist mentions that he has a wife who helps in the back, we can persist until the florist eventually decides to bring us in to the back, eventually bringing the MC into what looks like a butcher room. After kidnapping and subduing them, the MC wakes up groggily to hear the florist mutter something, only to find their arms and legs gone. After doing some screaming, the florist kills them for good, slicing up their body, thanking them for their contribution.

If the MC flirts but backs out at the last moment, they will pay to leave, only to have the florist stop them, demanding for their payment. Confused, he clarifies that while they did pay for the flowers, they did not pay for the time they wasted with him and demands that they use their flesh as payment, stabbing them with gardening shears and dragging them into the basement, where they are again brought into the meat room to be butchered. We learn also at some point that all this is to feed his wife.

If the MC instead just tries to act like everything is normal, they will actively ignore the smell, blood and various other strange things going on in the shop before buying the flowers and leaving. They are able to leave, but will never really know what's going on inside of that flower shop. If at the end, they decide to stay at the shop, the florist will again butcher them instead.

If the MC asks more about the florist's life and doesn't flirt with him, we learn about the relationship between him and his wife. He states that he met her when he was very young and that the two of them were together for a very long time. His family tried to keep them apart but he would never let her go. In the end, the florist is so happy that someone is able to listen to him, even stating that they are kindred souls to his wife. He states he wants the MC to meet his wife and brings them down to the basement. There we find out who exactly his wife is, a giant carnivorous sunflower. We learn that he's been feeding people to his hungry wife, including a detective that came by trying to find these missing people. Regardless of how the MC answers, and watching the florist dote on his wife, he states that his wife would like to eat them now. The MC tries to run away, but the florist catches them. We learn that inside the butcher room, there's a huge pile of bodies in the corner and that his wife loves the more fresh bodies. The last bit of the route has his wife eat us before everything goes to black.

First off, I always think it's fun to have yanderes that are not yanderes for the player but have their own wife/love interest that we never really see. This was the case for Tentador Leches as well, though in that game, we never actually get to see what his wife looked like (or even if she was alive), while in this one it instead little house full of horrors us. The atmosphere in this game is really impeccable giving off a unease the second you step into the store, with even more of the unease dripping in as the florist continues to work. It's also a nice touch that Diona is the name of the florist's flower wife as it means that he named the shop after her. Always a fan of monster wives though, I think it's fun to have a normal human husband and a monster (like inhuman) wife and I think there should be more of them. After listening to Butcher's Vanity, I think this really fits with it.

I think its kind of funny that in the routes where the MC continually flirts with the florist that he sort of berates the player if they tell him that they're getting flowers for their crush and that they would be okay with being with him despite being a married man. I will say, as a yandere he is very devoted to Diona, basically running a flower shop by himself, feeding her with any unfortunate soul that stays long enough and of course not trying to cheat on her with any random person that keeps flirting hard enough. He also seems to understand his wife and complies to her wishes when needed, even seeming so distant towards other people (notably calling them humans). I do think it's always really fun seeing this kind of yandere, especially since it makes him seem like a horror villain that you might see in different media. The kind of creepy with his love of his wife, a giant man eating flower. It's very fun actually. It seems like the only real way to survive in this game is to either get out of the flower shop as soon as possible or try to mind your own business despite what is very clearly strange and eerie. Very fun contrast in all of that. As per usual, the artwork is very nice and I like the overall atmosphere of it all. It's very good for a fun short horror game.

Overall, I had fun with this game. The concept is good and fits with a Halloween theme and I generally just like finding out who Diona is both through the last ending and through various dialogue that hints at who she might be.

[himeiro]

I'm going to be taking a short game dev break until January (to enjoy holidays seasons with my loved ones)! Thank you all for the support this year, and I hope to see you around next year too!

I hope my health gets better next year so I can resume working on a discontinued VN project I had. I stilll want to work on them

[himeiro]

Some sketchy portraits I did as prizes for participating in my art contest (In order) Character belongs to Lonely_Kitten , _.Lovely._

[himeiro]

Dude, writing Al's route is making my brain melt. In a good way.... I'm so excited to feed THE Al enjoyers

[himeiro]

Unfortunately due to recent censorship news. My patreon will have to be entirely SFW and not even suggestive illustrations will be drawn (because the system detected it anyways that's why my account got temporarily suspended a little while ago.)

I also have been getting a tiny bit uncomfortable with making sexually suggestive illustrations, but that was still something I contemplated. I was probably just going to tone it down a bit and continue, just test things and see how I feel. Until I saw this recent news.

Wish I can fight these people and stay on my ground but I genuinely cannot man. And it saddens me so much

I cannot risk losing my pypal account, it's where I get 90% of my income are. Art. If I'm banned forever then I'm cooked because I can't find a 'proper' job irl due to my own limitations.. All I can do is sharing awareness of it.

[miss-rum-hee]

>Toronara (doujin store) halts sale of certain works because of credit card companies

>MangaZ shuts down because payment processors blocked it

>Melonbooks no longer accepts use of VISA & Mastercard on online stores (because of censorship)

>DLsite starts to block countries from viewing certain content, no longer accepts VISA & Mastercard

>Payment processors block team payments for creators of adult games on Steam

>Now Surugaya has removed their online listings for adult games & doujin because of payment processors

Fucking hate these cretins, I swear.

[partlysmith]

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu

Reminder that the ACLU is gearing up for this exact thing, and I know people are used to petitions not doing jack shit, but issues like this are always a numbers game.

[neharbstuff]

absolutely disgusting. mastercard is a monopoly and doing this makes me sick

[himeiro]

This is absolutely disgusting and makes me feel so horrible for everyone that's affected.

Creator's livelihood shouldn't have to be ruined under the whims of these payment processors. Payment processor's job is to process money and shut up, nothing more and nothing less. They shouldn't meddle with what people spend on so long as they're legal services and products.

A lot of indie game developers or many content creators in general, rely on this as their sole income. (Me included,) It's scary how much power these people have over people's livelihoods. All because they create adult content.

It won't stop at this if we do not try to at least fight it.

[himeiro]

Once Klein v01 is done, I will probably just disappear from the internet, or take an indefinite hiatus.

Ever since the game's demo was first released, my health, both mentally and physically has only been getting worse and worse, and I don't think I would have it in me to keep creating games, unless on an extremely slow pace, which, admittedly, something I genuinely feel bad about.

I really need a long break, or maybe, a forever one.

I wish my body still lets me keep doing what I love (making games, art) as easy as it was when I first started. Game development aside, everything just feels really hard to do on its own.

I never knew I was just one fever away from getting physically disabled, I wish I had taken care of my body better when I was younger, healthier :')

Sorry for the personal posting today, I've been feeling really terrible about my working pace, and just my loss of ability to do basic things on my own. To eat, drink, get out of bed, go on walks, to shower, to play games and enjoy it. I have lost a lot of what used to be a part od what myself were. Maybe I'll get used to this body one day, Idrk

Take care, please take care of your body and mind, you will never regret being gentle to yourself, even if your mind tells you otherwise. I definitely regret giving in to the things my depression told me to do years ago. To harm my body, punish my body- simply for having human needs. I look back at my behaviour when I was younger and I couldn't really believe myself. I was a very harsh person towards myself.

And, thank you for supporting me

-Iro

[himeiro]

Who's this? (Not from Klein v01)

[himeiro]

"There you are, darling." illust referenced from @/dvinaamesca's shot. thank you!