Noko

Art and otome mostly ☆ I talk a lot about random crap ☆ I love pigeons

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I started on this Kanade piece but i might've bitten off more than i can chew,,, (WHYY IS HIS OUTFIT LIKE THAT OTZ IM DYING) Unsure if I'll end up finishing it so just leaving the WIP here at least,, crumbs of klap fanart,,, anyway some sick merch came in the other day which im pretty hyped about. I got a copy of the artbook for cheap bcos it was damaged on the front cover (super minor tear on the spine but contents are in perfect condition so im super happy) (i did not realise the majority of the book was just the cgs so im glad i got it for so cheap lmao) and some keychains and badges

I envy how easy it is to get ninkoi merch,,, my ninkoi merch bundle is HUGE but theres like no klap merch out there even secondhand lmfaooo. Meanwhile ninkoi is still getting new merch even now (not that im complaining i love both but i like klap more lmao)

In other unrelated news, I've been so damn busy running to the vets and looking after 2 disabled pigeons (one missing a leg, one missing a wing) its kinda taken everything out of me and i feel like im super burnt out rn OTZ. I cant remember the last time i left the house bcos one of them requires monitoring 24/7 for now so I havent really been doing much outside of that. I really miss drawing and I havent been doing any daily drills or studies for a very long time and i can feel myself regressing 😭 ah well. Hopefully things stabilise soon. The wingless one keeps getting sick bcos hes so frail so im especially worried about him :,)) (not to mention i kinda cant afford the vet bills at this point so i hope nothing serious happens) My social skills are also regressing bcos ive been cooped up and isolated looking after these guys for so long LOL

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Random rambling (trying to take learning srsly again)

Random preface i was meant to write up a longass hakuoki post like i did with ninkoi and htkr (mainly bcos i have Too Many things to say about Sanan i fucking love Sanan . Minus whatever the hell happened in that one route) but then it got too long and i kind of wasn't bothered,,, and just thinking about how much i wanted to write was making me tired,, also the reset bug hit me a second time while i was on Ryouma's route (second last fucking route cmon man) so i just kinda lost most of my hype. Maybe I'll come back to finish it but hakuoki is already so damn popular it probably isn't really worth it i kinda wanna write more about games people dont play as much in the eng sphere (WHEN IS MY KLAP WRITEUP COMING??? I DON'T KNOW I HAVE TO SO MUCH TO SAY. maybe I'll try doing one route writeup a day OTZ i really want to write it it's just so daunting to think about aughhh i have too much to say... It's so peak)

I really hate bsky's character limit so I'm here again bcos i talk way too much.

I've started trying to take learning jp seriously again so I've been playing yunohana (this one hurts i feel like a dog who got given a puzzle mat to slow down eating. I want to read through it so fast bcos I'm so excited but i CAN'T!! bcos i have a piss poor vocab and can't read,,, i have to pause on almost every dialogue line bcos i can't read the kanji and have to look it up) (i know about meikipop but for some reason it's so slow for me [I've tried both lens and meikiocr, but yunohana is vertical and meikiocr doesn't work too well on most of the words] so it's just faster to use a dictionary for me) (I'm one of those KKLC learners who only understands what the kanji represent and have not been using the supplementary reading guide so i brought this on myself ) and kannou mukashibanashi (it's a bit easier to follow along bcos everyone talks so slowly and there's a narrator bcos of the whole fairytale thing. Major downside i hate dummy head mic and the way a lot of it is voice acted so i end up pulling out my headphones a lot of the time and just rely on reading alone). I'm doing issun's route first and i didn't expect him to have the same va as ninkoi anayama LOL i was like hmmm this guy narrating sounds exactly like anayama.

But it's been going sooo slowly. I'm not used to this i kinda want to play another eng otome at the same (i prob will at one point) esp bcos I'm normally a really fast reader so this is just torture. I only have myself to blame for taking the lazy way out all these years 😔 i cringe at how i started htkr 4 years ago in an attempt to take learning seriously but instead i ended up wasting all those years and relying way too heavily on translators ughhh. 4 YEARS!!!! Bro omg what is wrong with you you could've had a decent level of fluency by now. I kinda wanna replay klap once I'm done bcos I'm sure I missed a lot of jokes lmao. Guy who's just stupid. And also really misses klap bruh i miss klap so much it's all i ever think about anymore. I miss everyone 😔....

Anyway everytime i catch myself wanting to rely on tls again i just close the game immediately bcos it means I'm getting tired and i don't wanna use it as a crutch and fall back into what i did with htkr,,, and then before i know it another 4 years will pass and I'll lament just like I am now,,. That one post with meticulous data tracking on how this guy brute forced a vn till he learnt enough jp to play smoothly is inspiring tho so I'll keep trying. If things get super bleak I'll just switch to an eng otome in the meantime but i hope i can stick to my conviction :') if they can do it surely i can too right,, it's just a matter of believing in myself. I've wasted too much time and it haunts me man i can't be doing this shit.

Also, Kannou is genuinely beating my ass bruh i can't take it anymore 🪦 the secondhand embarrassment is too much. I had to quit playing early on my last run bcos i couldn't take it anymore 😭. Please STOP talking like that 👎👎 besides dummy head mic just killing me with insane secondhand embarrassment, i keep panicking about my headphones being unplugged even tho i know they aren't I'm just so not used to it. It's crazy impressive how it sounds like they're talking right behind you though how do you even manage to do that.

Anyway the situation is so dire I've been adding 40 or so anki cards for every 30 minutes of play for kannou. I don't know shit. Somehow I've been struggling more with yunohana despite having to add less cards but I think it's more that I'm too serious about perfectly understanding yunohana bcos I've wanted to play it for so long and i refuse to play it half assed so the extra pressure is getting to me,,, meanwhile kannou is just a random one i picked up to lie in bed and play before i go to sleep so if i don't understand a line perfectly i don't really mind skipping it. And also i don't mind taking kannou slowly bcos i don't care about it as much as yunohana but having to read yunohana so slowly is torture OTZ I'm way too excited to read it but i barely make any progress per day aughh. It's okay hopefully one day I'll look back at this post and laugh once (if?) I've reached a level where i can read things at a normal pace.

[nokodox]

Always fun to see how my art's been faring over the years LOL

I think Ittosai is one of my most drawn charas so I was able to put this together (i still think that 2024 piece is one of the best pieces I've ever drawn in my life and i dont even know how i did it) (i had a few other pieces but theyre not really worth adding)

Also is it just me or is the image mysteriously low quality here.... sad. Added my latest sketch in as its own piece just in case

I cant believe it's already been 4 fucking years????? time flies wtaf. I have to replay it someday ... ive been saying that for 4 years tho... but i need to play hotokenser first. I love you twofive thank you for your comedy services

also. man. 4 years. if i locked in and actually studied i couldve gotten so much better at drawing during those 4 years... well better late than never i guess OTZ my own laziness is to blame

[pedes1ayer]

[harblkun]

Happy birthday to this troublemaker again

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYO ‼️‼️💥💥💥💥

(please dont eat the sparkler)

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Some KLAP!! doodles. Man. I have so many thoughts about this game but im afraid if I tried to do a legitimate write up it would be 12x longer than my ninkoi one.... this shit is so peak i have noo words. Genuinely the best comedy I've played in my entire life. I was absolutely floored by how insane the FD was with the amount of bonus content and you can tell how much passion went into making it OTZ THANK YOU DIRECTORS AND TEAM!!!! The Touma trio IF story is seared into my brain bruh amazing fucking character interactions. Maybe one day when I'm bothered I'll do a proper write up but at the moment just thinking about how much there is I want to say about the game makes me tired THERES TOO MUCH!!! ITS JUST WAYY YTOO GOOD i'm never gonna find a comedy like this ever again. Also Ryo's VA (Kakihara Tetsuya) knocked it out of the fucking park holy SHIT. I have so many save files just for voice clips bcos the delivery was SOOO fucking insane. At first I wasn't too sure how a Ryo route was gonna work but I think he's my fave now.... sorry Camil... ur still funny... (it genuinely kills me how Koyomi doesnt seem to gaf compared to the other routes 😭 ESP HYUUGA SHES SO DEREDERE WITH HYUUGA poor ryo bruh )

Maybe I'll try writing one character portion a day and start from there,,, i really want to write everything down here but also aughhh so much. I have way too much to talk about. I'm defs gonna have to ban myself from adding any images bcos if i do it'll get even longer OTZ

[spicymochi]

choose your fav tiny bird

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Enjoy some old assorted Garaiya while I lament.

So around October last year all my ninkoi save data got wiped while i was in the middle of Anayama's FD, and I lost around like 118 hours of gameplay OTZ i kind of died but thank god it's a vn so I've just been half skipping half replaying lately. It still really bums me out bcos I had so many save files of funny moments which are all gone but alas. A lesson in letting go i guess....

I have so many opinions about the FD I thought I'd make another massive post with all my ramblings but honestly the data wipe killed me and now I just wanna finish it 😭 so far the FD has not really impressed me but I will see it through to the end bcos i really want to see Hanzo happy LMAO. I might still do another massive rambling post who knows... I just like reading back on my reactions lmfao

Also bonus Sanada fanart (outfit from the festival in second game). I want to draw a lot more ninkoi fanart but there's so many other games I want to do fanart of and also my OCs there is simply no end !!!

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[2024] Tsugai doodles

I want to play the full release soooo bad but I haven't gotten around to it yet OTZ

(NIshi is actually my fave from the game he's too real. But unfortunately the only fanart I did of him is super ass so none here 😔)

[nokodox]

I return after a year of radio silence with my art summary for 2025 🫡

It genuinely feels like there's no good places left to share art so I guess I'm back on tumblr. At least it doesn't have a character limit 😭

Also Bonus 2025 recap to make up for not posting shit lmao. I might post some of the nicer ones separately though

[nokodox]

Extremely disorganised NinKoi thoughts (minus the FDs) (spoilers)

Disclaimer I haven't proofread this properly bcos I have too many thoughts so sorry if something doesn't make sense LMAO. I'll edit later if I'm bothered potentially.

I havent played the fds as of writing this, but once I do I'll probably make a separate post lmaooo

I also may or may not add more to this idk yet. Just thinking about writing it all up is making me tired lmfaoo

I've been thinking about doing a write up about shinobi koi utsutsu + the characters for a few weeks now bcos i cannot get it out of my head (ITS SO GOOD??? ITS SO FUCKING GOOD?? WHY DID I PUT IT OFF FOR SO LONG OMFGG) anyway i'll just leave these here in case anyone cares enough to read. I'll try to shorten it as much as possible bcos my Shun rambling turned out to be way too long even after shortening and that was just for one character...

I'll go in the order of the route order I did

KAEDE: HOLY SHIT I LOVE HER SO MUCH???? DEFINITELY IN MY ALL TIME FAVE HEROINES LIST SHES SOOOO AAAARGGHHHHH. I'm so glad there was like. Only one bad end for a cg bcos shes suffered so much i don't need her to suffer anymore. I love her so much and she deserves the world. I was annoyed (jokingly) at most of the lis very early on bcos they were so mean to her LMAOOO no one is allowed to be mean to Kaede 🔫🔫(Hanzo was a whole other deal i'll. get to that in his write up. I do like him though, I don't actually think there's many lis i totally hate tbh)

Like at times it was mildly annoying bcos she'd be like, oh its all my fault, GIRL NO ITS NOT???? ITS LITERALLY NOT NEVER SAY THAT ABOUT YOURSELF AGAIN. grahghh and shes suffered so much but shes still so positive about everything somehow HOW?? I love her so much my god. She's amazing. I hope she is happy forever :,)) no more suffering

Yuri: i am so sorry to yuri i forgot most of his meromero moments BCOS THE SECOND HAND EMBARRASSMENT WAS SO FUCKING BAD i know i play a lot of otome games but im actually terrible with romance 😭anyway as a character though I absolutely love him and I tend to do glasses guys as my first routes anyway if there aren't any specific important route orders to follow or whatever. I really liked those scenes where he was quoting waka/poetry tho that was really cute :,)) hoho. I really admire how he keeps trying even though he feels like he'll never be as good as his brother (cos I was like that but i just gave up LMAOO at one point i realised I'd never be as good or smart as my siblings no matter how much I tried so I just stopped trying ☠️) . Speaking of his brother I reallyyy wish he got a legit sprite. His meromero was by far the most embarrassing to watch I think, I had to speed thru some parts bcos it was killing me LMFAO. Personality wise, I think hes defs one of my faves (i say that but honestly the entire cast is just my fave. I dont think there's a single person I actively dislike) and his banter was great. I really think that confession scene in the good ending was really cute tho :,)) BUT WHY IS LITERALLY EVERYONE THERE LMAOOO

Sasuke: I liked him a lot more in every route that wasnt his own for some reason ☠️not to say I didnt like his route!! I just cant recall a whole lot bcos i was mostly just excited to start garaiya's route but I was trying to stick to a soft route order. As a character tho i fucking LOVE this guy hes so nice and chill. Also hilarious- the scenes where he kept messing up phrases and Yuri continuously correcting him were so good (i just like any sort of comedy in general though so I'm heavily biased lmaoo). ALSO THAT SCENE WHERE HE CALLED GARAIYA OVER TO HELP HIM AND KAEDE DIG HOLES AND SET TRAPS RAGHHHHHH I LOVE GARAIYA AND IM SO GLAD HE FELT LIKE HE MADE A FRIEND. SASUKE SO NICE...... THANKS MAN... (mildly insane about garaiya btw i love that guy. I need to stop before this becomes the garaiya paragraph). Also I think it was in the harem route?? That part where he found a ruby for kaede in the mountains to apologise for being mean to her when they first met ARGHHGHRHUHHGFHDS HES SO NICE that was so cute to me. Sanada's a bitch for snatching that tho 😭 give the poor guy his ruby back omg

Kuroudo: I kept calling this guy 'Kiri' during my entire live playthru so it feels so weird to call him Kuroudo LMAOO. DUDE HOLY SHIT THIS GUY IS LIKE. idk to me hes almost a perfect match with kaede. Not even almost he just IS but the thing is all the characters are just so top notch its hard to say that. I loved his route so much tho holy crap hes so nice. I really liked how at the start he lent his textbook to kaede (THE BAR WAS IN HELL I WAS SOO TIRED OF ALL THE GIRLS BULLYING HER AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT 😭 on that note shoutout garaiya for suggesting we just curse them. Yet another common garaiya W) idk man it was getting on my nerves so bad bcos she would be bullied so much AND NO ONE WAS DOING ANTYHING ABOUT IT???? BRO?? also she kept going on about how it was understandable bcos shes poor and whatnot WRONG!!!!! LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER poor kaede it made me so sad to see her constantly blame herself :(( ANYWAY i tihnk they were reallly cute together. Also shoutout Tadahito- I was so sad that he got a sprite but Yuri's brother didnt- on that note, dude i didnt even fucking realise Tadahito had a route in the second game LMAOOO but I was really excited to see that bcos i love characters like that (shoutout nayuta from varibari)

ALSO DUDE THE BROTHERSSSS IT MADE ME SO HAPPY TO SEE THEM GET ALONG 😭 speaking of, tadahitos route was painful bcos they started fighting and it was ripping my soul out :,(( the brothers.....

Garaiya: DUUUUDE. I wouldnt say that I have any overall favourite li out of every game ive played bcos I like them all for different reasons, but if anyone were to ask me if I had one, garaiya would instantly come to mind. His route hit really close to home with the whole outcast thing (average 'being that one disabled kid in primary school' experience 🗣️🔥‼️) and it was jsut so painful man. It hurt so bad I just want him to be happy and have friends :(( I LOVED HIS ROUTE SO MUCH THOUGH. BROOO I LOVE KAEDE SO MUCH TOO THEYRE JUST HANGING OUT FR 😭😭SO GOOD!!! I LOVE FRIENDSHIP garaiya route almost killed me (positive connotations) holy shit. When that part came where he had to choose between tokugawa or kaede and obvs he had no choice but to vanish right after the festival or else theyd kill kaede IT WAS SOOO PAINFUL. THE SUFFERING OTZ. ALSO I FEEL SO STUPID FOR NOT FIGURING OUT HE WAS FROM THE DATE CLAN EARLIER RAGHHHH ALL THE SIGNS WERE THERE OMFG. me when im fucking stupid!!!! i was kicking myself for a good portion of the route after that reveal ngl. Anyway also- WHY DOES HE REVERT BACK TO HIS PREVIOUS FORM IN THE SECOND GAME + FD. HELLO. that was rather disappointing but also I like the little guys (cursed dolls) bcos theyre cute but I like his true form better, tbh. He's so real though I love cringe characters . Bonus points for chuunibyou and being awkward as hell I love that guy so much 10/10.

I feel like out of every game, his confession scene is my absolute favourite (INGENIOUS!! IT WAS SO GOOD!!) ALSO im so glad he offered to curse kaede's classmates bcos they were bullying her hes so fucking real for that. Common garaiya W as usual. Man. Routes wise i liked the first game better overall than the second but second game was the best bcos garaiya had friends and I got to see him happy all the time :)) superb. Unbeatable (definitely not biased).

Speaking of the second game. WHY WOULD HE MAKE TADAHITO WEAR THAT FOR THE FESTIVAL 😭😭 fucking jumpscare lmaooo I was not prepared to see that. Loved his (garaiya's) outfit tho.

ALSO WHAT THE HECK THAT COOL ASS ABODE THINGY HE MADE IN THE LIBRARY IS INSANE!! DUDE I WANT TO LIVE THERE THATS LIKE MY DREAM FURNISHING?? it was so cozy man. Top tier

Daisuke: real redemption moments, loved this guy by the end but i usually dont like playboy types so even tho i knew it was a front to cover up his true self it was still painful LMAOO. I dunno actually I dont have a whole lot to say- i liked him way more in his route after he dropped the act, but tbh i get why hes like that :( sad stuff. I just like all the characters bruh ive been saying 'yeah i liked this guy' to literally everyone :,D I REALLY liked that scene where kaede finds out how hes been getting back at her bullies for bullying her without her knowing tho, I was so tired of kaede getting bullied so much and NO ONE doing anything about it urghh. LMAOOO @ that scene it was literally just this for me:

Anyway when i found out about his backstory and how his step mothers treated him it was like. Real Horrified Moments bro what in the absolute fuck. Like holy fuck no wonder things are this way. But yeah his real personality wise, definitely one of my favourite characters (I think him and kaede r also super cute LMAO sorry thats just . me with every route .)

Also during the fight scene with tokugawa when he steps on anayama's head i was like, wow if this game had gory bad endings i could easily see one where his skull gets crushed in front of kaede 😭

Sanada: As a character, I like him, but route-wise idk im just like. Yeah he sure is a route! Sorry I dont have a ton to say on his route LMAO but i love him as a character. ACTUALLY during the fight scene with tokugawa IM SOO DISAPPOINTED WE DIDNT GET A CG OF HIS JUTSU?? I WAS LOOKING SO FORWARD TO THAT BUT WE JUST GOT SOME WATER AND LIGHTNING SFX 😭 DUUUDE COME ONN. argh i was actually so cut about that. Shoutout to him realising kaede was getting bullied tho, and im glad the other lis realised that it wasnt her fault re: that blinding ball scene where the bullies acted like she was the one who messed up when it was them who tampered with it or summ, otherwise id be soo annoyed OTZ. Also the scenes where the lis were calling him out for liking kaede were actually pretty funny (possibly bcos I just love seeing all the characters interact together LOL)

Also in Hanzo route when he was teaching kaede the forbidden justu i was like bruh?? I had this internal conflict where i was like hmm. I really like sanada so i SHOULD trust him, bcos surely he has a good reason to (and it indeed was a good reason to) but at that point in Hanzo's route i was like dude what is going on who do I even trust anymore. Anyway yeah he's chill. Some of his cgs didnt look anything like him to me tho which was kinda putting me off OTZ

Harem route: I almost skipped this bcos I dont normally like harem stuff but this was actually the best route bcos everyone was friends with garaiya :) LMAO realistically tho, it is probably my overall favourite route with the game 1 cast bcos I just love seeing all the characters hang out and interact like that (SHOUTOUT YOJINBO!!!!!) and they were all so funny it was great. 10/10. Also i really like how yuri was drawn in the harem cg LMAO he looks like a cat. Sasukes meromero scene was painful bro i was just like. Not in front of his dad man cmon 😭 but it was so fine it worked out so fine in the end bcos his dad realised she was related to kirihime and whatnot. ALSO FR THO SEEING EVERYONE INCLUDE GARAIYA IN THEIR PLANS AND SEEING HOW HAPPY THAT MADE HIM ARGHHHH I LOVE GARAIYA HE DESERVES EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH !!!!!! also kaede was so smart in this route I loved it so much. Mna it was just so good dude. I'm so glad i did this route ALSO THE OVERLAPPING VOICE LINES HELL YEAH!!!! i love overlapping voice lines it adds so much atmosphere.

Also when garaiya was so nervous to ask her to eat with him at the cafeteria WARGHH... GARAIYAAA...... AND THEN EVERYONE JOINED TO EAT WTIH HIM AND THEY WERE ALL SHARING THEIR FOOD... BRO THAT WAS THE FUCKING BEST!!!!!! I LOVE FRIENDSHIP SO MUCH!!!!!!! and they were all just joking around and stuff it was just so good man :,))!! ARHGHEKDAJBDGA i tihkn about tht so mcuh... it keeps me up at night i love them all somuch.. the besties....

Also it was so sudden but like, how sasuke magically convinced her bullies to stop bullying her (well not magically, but it felt really sudden to me LOL) it felt so out of nowhere but idrc honestly I just want her to have friends :,( i hate it when games dont give the heroines friends or something shes just so alone :(( and its so much worse when the guys are arseholes OTZ stop being mean to her !! shoutout ninkoi tho everyone is awesome. Anyway as sudden as that was it spared me much pain and suffering (i cant stand seeing kaede get bullied)

Tadahito: DUUUDE I FRKEAING LOVE THIS GUY HES SO WHOLESOME. ill be real at times he was so slow at stuff i was like DUUDE CMON.... like that time he almost got scammed (shoutout kaede for stopping him i love you kaede) but MAN idk. I feel really bad for him family wise and whatnot- hes trying so hard but he's just not as good as kuroudo and idk just seeing him so sad over that was :((. ALSO I HATED HOW THEY KEPT FIGHTING 😭😭 PLEASE DONT MAKE THE BROTHERS FIGHT THIS IS SO PAINFUL TO WATCH . Man im glad it got resolved but also i felt so bad for kuroudo WHY WOULD THEY (writers) DO THATTTT RAGHHHH man it was suffering. I love tadahito tho THAT SCENE WHERE HE DIGS UP A FLOWER WITH THE ROOTS SO KAEDE COULD KEEP IT AND IT WOULDNT DIE ARGHHH,..... BROOOO....I FUCKNIG LOVE THIS GUY THAT WAS SO CUTE bro i cant take it anymore. HES SO NAYUTA FROM VARIBARI but i think i like tadahito better. ARGH so good.

ALSO in hanzo route when kuroudo was like. You are my pride! To tadahito ARFHHHHH THR BROTHERS 😭😭😭 PLEASE NEVER MAKE THEM FIGHT EVER AGAIN 🙏

Ukita: This one was really funny bcos for a good portion of his route i was just pissed as hell at him. Idk he just reminded me of shion from varibari and i really do not like shion!!! 😭😭 but by the end i really liked him (as usual) (its hard for me to genuinely hate anyone) also about all the kobayakawa stuff and whatnot, like i get it bro :( understandable. It was really funny during that scene where kaede gets a cart from one of the teachers (suzuki??) to carry him around bcos right bfore that i was like. Kaede needs to get a wheelbarrow LMAOOO (disclaimer sorry if i sound rude as hell in the screenshots lmao I just think its funny to be dramatic i dont actually hate ukita)

Screenshots alone cannot encompass what i was feeling when that happened it was so fucking funny to me bcos it was RIGHT after i said that. During his actual route tho he was pissing me off so bad at times like man. Please eat ur own food what is this ☠️ during those scenes where kaede's girl friends were like. Bro what in the hell. I was like fr... at least I'm not the only one who thinks this is insane. Some of my live playthru reacts r so funny to me tho I keep going back to read thru it again LMAO

(Kujo from hatsukare renai debut sengen. Sigh. Man. Dont even get me started I actually liked him before his route and then i did his route and i was like BRUH. )

Honestly tho by the end he was pretty chill. I like ukita a lot actually, hes really nice to kaede and hes pretty real at times ngl. Like not eating bcos hes too lazy to (me fr) (its such a hassle to eat and i find no joy in food 😔)

ALSO WHEN KAEDE WAS LIKE. I HAVE SO MUCH I WANT TO LEARN FROM HIM LMAOOO

(disclaimer again i just like being dramatic bcos i think its funny to me please dont take that screenshot srsly lmao)

Also im starting to get tired so just take more screenshots of scenes i thought were funny

Anyway shoutout ukita route for being so funny to me. Common ninkoi W not a single bad route no matter how much i seem to dislike a character (<- guy who is almost incapable of genuinely disliking any character in the first place)

Hidetora: (who i just call toyotomi. I also just called daisuke anayama instead idk im just hella inconsistent with names lmao) HES SO GARAIYA AND ANAYAMA COMBINED FRRRR i love this guy actually. My first impression was terrible (how dare you say that to kaede) but nah hes chill. That scene where he moves the branches away from kaedes feet bcos its nighttime and she might trip (even tho shes a ninja lol) GAHHH so cute :,))) sooo cute. I also love how the way he talks and how he says stuff that makes everyone go what... (just like garaiya real). Altho that scene where gariaya was talking about how theyre both lonely people but toyotomi's circumstances are way different bcos hes the next shogun and garaiya is from a clan that was on tokugawa's side so hes an outcast ARGHH..... GGGHHH..... man. so sad. Also that scene where toyotomi buys daifuku with kiri before school and yuri is going off at them for hooligan activities but garaiya chimes in and hes more concerned that they went but he didnt get to go LMAOOOOO bro i love garaiya he just wants friends. I LOEV GARAIYA DUDE im so glad he had friends in the second game it made me so happy. fr all i caer about whether garaiya has friends or not LMAO

GHKJDAGADHGKJ MAN THAT SCENE WHERE GARAIYA WAS LIKE. 'I MAY NOT HAVE ANY LAND OR PEOPLE TO RULE BUT I HAVE YOU GUYS.. MY FRIENDS!!' DUUDE!!!! power of friendship is my favourite trope sorry im lame OTZ BUT MANNNN!!! GARAIYAAA

To the point where i totally forgot he liked kaede:

Sorry this is meant to be about toyotomi but im going off about garaiya again OTZ anyway yeah. I liked toyotomi a lot :) AND IT WAS SO FUCKING COOL HOW KAEDE COMBINED HER WIND JUTSU WITH HIS SWORD SKILLS LIKE ANAYAM DOES WITH SASUKES FIRE!! SOOO GOOD

Hanzo: Hanzo.... i hated this guy for a good chunk of the game bcos he kept tryna kill kaede and i had ENOUGH!! to the point where i was like bruh i dont even want to do his route (knowing FULL WELL he would probs becomes one of my fave charas bcos that almost always happens lmaooo the characters i hate initially tend to make it to my faves list) but honestly his meromero was my FAVOURITE easily (I just really like it when lis cry ☠️ pathetic loserguy fan). LIke if i had to rank it, Hanzo's meromero is easily my favourite and garaiya is probably second. Honestly i did really like hanzo by the end- i just felt really sorry for him tbh ALSO WHY IS THERE A SANADA END IN HIS ROUTE HELLO... IDK IT WAS SO RANDOM I DIDNT FEEL LIKE KAEDE WOULD LIKE HIM LIKE THAT??? i guess they really want to push for sanada 😭 not that i particularly minded i guess it just felt like it happened out of nowhere. I need more hanzo content though i need to see him happy 😔 (CANT WAIT TO PLAY THE FD)

I also loved how he just shoves sanada out of the way during that cafe scene in the school festival LMAO i had to make a separate save file for that scene it was too good

ALSO KAEDE IS SO FUCKING BADASS RE:FIGHTING SKILLS IN THIS ROUTE IT WAS SO EXCITING DURING THE TOURNAMENT

BONUS SECTION

DUDE I WOULD KILL FOR NINKOI TO HAVE FIGHITNG MINIGAMES HOLY SHITTTT. Thats literally all i could think of during the fight scenes omfg. And losing the fighting minigame would lead to a bad end or summ - i would actually love that lmao. Like if there was a fighting game based off ninkoi, sanada would easily be the op guy (bro you cant even avoid his orochi jutsu) + his sword/ninja skills r just insane. Hanzo would probably be the second strongest, closely tied with garaiya i feel?? Idk i cant tell if garaiya or sasuke would be stronger. I feel like after sanada and hanzo they start to get pretty similar in terms of fighting skill, just with different strengths. Anyway I spent way too many nights awake thikning about a potential ninkoi fighting game and how hard it would go LMAOOO.

Anyway I tried to keep it as short as possible!! I had way more to talk about but tbh my hands r getting tired and im kinda not arsed anymore LMAOO. If you made it this far, wow I am so sorry for wasting your time but also thank you :,) here's a picture of my pigeon shes just chilling on the table with me rn watching me type this up LOL

I may be back after i play the fd!! potentially if im bothered enough!

Also heres Garaiya as well! I'm not particularly happy with this piece but you know what. Its so fine. It really does not matter honestly.

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Goemon doodle!! I really liked his route (esp bcos he's an honorable thief LOL i love characters like that so that ending scene was awesome for me 😭)

I heard all the other routes just get sadder from here on out so I'm bracing myself for that ☠️ i usually avoid sad games bcos real life is sad enough, but i feel like I've been in a good enough mindset lately to continue 🙏

In other news I'd been playing ninkoi, although i have A LOT of thoughts about that so I'm just going to make another post about that when I'm bothered BUT HOLY FUCK i think Garaiya might be my all time favourite li ever in every game I've ever played. Also his confession also feels like the best one I've ever come across bro it's just insane. It's so good I'm never going to get over it. I've played the first 2 games so far but haven't gotten around to the fds yet- feeling like something a bit more plot heavy lately so I'm taking a break but I'm also in the mood for a ninja setting so nightshade it is. ALSO I LOVE KAEDE SO MUCH???? GIRL OH MY GOD SHE'S BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH HOW IS SHE STILL SO POSITIVE 😭 😭 😭 😭 KAEDEEE.... WAGHHHH,,,i love her so much I'm actually glad there weren't bad ending cgs (apart from hanzo) bcos i don't need her to suffer anymore!! I'm not putting her through that just for the cgs 😭😭 god i love her so much. One of my all time fave heroines for sure. CAN I JUST SAY THOUGH, even tho garaiya is my fave all the lis are just so fucking good bro. Like there wasn't a single one i disliked- garaiya just comes out on top bcos i love cringe ass guys LMAOO but holy shit dude it's actually so good. Ninkoi defs in my top 10 all time fave games. Maybe even top 5?????? God i really want to draw all the characters at some point 😭😭

I also ended up picking up birushana on sale 😳 so much for not buying anymore games until i finish my backlog LOL

Anyway, really looking forward to continuing nightshade!!!! Can't believe it took me so long to get around to it omfg. Well at least I'm clearing my backlog in any case LOL

Speaking of backlog, i should really get around to finishing psychedelica of the ashen hawk as well... I absolutely loved black butterfly (minus that guy. I forgot his name that's how much i hate him 😭 starts with k?? blonde dude) so I've got high hopes for ah too. I also started my vow to my liege around the time i was playing potbb but it was so much worldbuilding i ended up getting kinda lost in the story and had No Clue what was happening ☠️ I'll need to restart that when i get around to finishing it.

Gah there i go rambling again 😭 i have too many thoughts. I really want to do a write up of ninkoi but just thinking about how much i have to say is stressing me out LMFAO :'D

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Red Riding Hood!! One of my faves alongside Snow White :) ive drawn him a few times but was never satisfied with how it turned out- but I'm a lot happier with this one Also pre-assignment art buff is too real. I suddenly gain +15 art skills whenever I have multiple major projects due in the next and/or same week OTZ but hey at least I'm able to draw the best I've ever been able to probably-

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Particularly happy with how this ittosai turned out- i literally woke up in the middle of the night to sketch out the concept before i forgot LOL

And man omfg- comparing this to my old ittosai is painful. I'm so sorry man u deserved better 😭at least i improved enough this time!!

2 older pieces (leaving out the others i have way too many ittosai fanart. Unless some other yojinbo fan out there exists i will gladly post for you):

Damn this shit hurts to look at . But hey it means I'm getting better so yay

Also bonus concept (shoutout medibang app i used to use my notes app for concepts before and it was a Pain in the arse)

I am so sorry just spamming the shit out of my stuff here. Im just rlly happy with it LMAOOO I haven't been this happy with my work in agess. The last time i was like eh this is fine was with Shun but even then he felt a bit off to me- something about the pose? Proportions? Who knows.