#hyperdimensional neptunia

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haha i have no friends who like any of the things that’s in this meme so i have to sit and stew on my excitement and hyperfixation until i feel overwhelmed and end up burnt out and feeling cold and alone because of it

is there such thing as a therapist but specifically for listening to infodumps because i have too much excited energy and information in my brain for me to handle

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Nothing in HDN will ever be funnier to me then the fact that all the characters have fantasy/sci fi weapons and then there’s just IF with a real-ass handgun

Iffy just has an actual handgun and nobody questions it and I find that hilarious

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Wait, you LIKE Valkirye Drive Mermaid?? AND HDN?? But you're so... Not a degenerate??!

Well let me show you this helpful diagram to explain that;

(Yes I made that in MS paint)

Ecchi actually makes me really uncomfortable because almost always it’s at the expense of women and tied somewhere into misogyny. I almost always just skip past the parts in whatever series I’m watching but even so I usually stick around because I absolutely adore everything else about it. I’ll talk about that at length under the cut ‘cause that’s gonna get long. 

Edit: It’s not letting me use a cut for some reason

Hyperdimensional Neptunia

I almost feel like I don’t have to explain this but since you’re asking I might as well. This series is actually incredibly good. The writing is amazing a good chunk of the time, the jokes are funny, the characters are amazing, the character DYNAMICS are amazing, and I love this series so goddamn much oh my God. Yeah there’s Ecchi and inappropriate jokes but the Ecchi is easily skippable and the dirty jokes tend to lean more towards the funny side then the gross side which is rare when it comes to those kinds of jokes. There are literally too many things I love about this franchise for me to list them all or even half of them so I’ll have to cut it off here before I start rambling about how UniGear is the purest thing in the world and Peashy must be protected at all costs.

Valkyrie Drive Mermaid

The biggest one that i’m guessing is your biggest concern is Valkyrie Drive Mermaid. Let me preface this with there are a LOT of things I genuinely hate about this series, don’t even get me started on the actual character designs of literally everyone except the cowgirl who have bust’s that are either unnecessarily large, inhumanely large, or are literally always on display. There are a LOT of gross things in this show that I don’t want to discuss but instead I’ll tell you what parts of it that I like and love. 

First off, the actual premise and plot is interesting and genius as hell and would be amazing if they dialed down the explicitness several notches and made the trigger something different. Like, a virus that is almost like magic that turns people into weapons and the infected are kidnapped from their homes and sent to islands to be quarantined, meanwhile they aren’t actually trying to find a cure but instead trying to weaponize it by using and abusing test subjects to the point that when two of them manage to escape one of them is so emotionally closed off she doesn’t act like her true self whatsoever and the other has gone genuinely insane? That’s just a really cool plot right there. 

I also really love Mirei in general in the same way I love characters like 2B; entirely for her character. (And unlike 2B I actually don’t find Mirei that attractive and moreso find her adorable as all hell when she acts like her true self)

She’s so incredibly traumatized and cold to others but then she is constantly forced to be intimate with someone to keep them safe but then she genuinely starts to love Mamori and her walls slowly come down and you discover that this badass looking girl is actually the biggest shiest softy to ever exist. 

There’s also the whole plot with Akira, and while there are some problematic undertones to it, if you took the concept and twisted it to be more progressive and less closed minded how cool could that turn out? 

A girl sent to a random island despite her mother’s best efforts who cuts her hair and pretends to be a man so the other girls on the island will follow her because she’s ‘unique’ but then she slowly starts to realize that something about wearing a binder and dressing in princely garments and having others call her ‘Sir’ feels so right and basically what I’m getting at is trans boy Akira AU. Just imagine how much more interesting and cool this would’ve been if Akira had become Trans after a year or two of pretending to be a boy to gain followers on the island and instead of Charlotte (I think that’s her name) tearing Akira’s clothes and revealing ‘Oh my god Akira’s a girl’ instead revealing Akira’s scars from top surgery and that Evil Miku was wrong Akira actually is a boy and don’t you dare invalidate him you blue haired gremlin

Speaking of blue haired gremlin’s, here’s Momoka aka Evil Miku, the literal definition of the ‘Does this look like the face of mercy to you’ meme

Hoo boy she’s so utterly insane and sadistic and she genuinely scares me to my core. She’s so deeply terrifying when she wants to be it’s kind of amazing. She looks innocent-ish and then you learn JUST HOW MESSED UP she is in the head and it’s terrifying. The scariest part is that she’s what Mirei could’ve been and her entire character excluding the rapey part (because of course she’s rapey this is extreme ecchi remember everything has to be tainted -_- ) is a really good example to me as a writer on how to write a character like this effectively. Plus, uh, if you can make me, a lesbab, scared of a cute girl’; as a writer you’re doing something either very right or very wrong and I’d like to think it’s the former because she’s not scary because she’s an inhuman creature, she’s scary because she’s internally monstrous.

Final points on this series in particular; Mirei and Mamori’s relationship.

Now you may be asking yourself, how the fresh frosted fruity pebbles can a girl as cute as a button

Have any sort of meaningful relationship with someone who looks like they saw god, took one look at him, wasn’t impressed, then proceeded to challenge god to a knife fight?

Sure they were forced to be together by necessity, Mamori needed protection from the people after her power and Mirei needed said power and knew how to use it. Mamori is Mirei’s Exter and Mirei is her Liberator, they’re two halves of one whole and complete each other in a literal and practical sense. But when two people are forced to be intimate, an emotional connection is bound to be made, it’s just human nature. But even then there was still a lot of Resistance on Mirei’s side of things, she’s been through so much trauma and her past relationship with Evil Miku over there didn’t help that she doesn’t trust anyone and refuses to let herself ever be vulnerable. She refuses to let herself be herself. But Mamori doesn’t let things stay that way. Slowly but surely Mirei comes out of her shell, she starts to act like who she really is, a bashful dorkasaurus who wants/needs a freaking hug. This is when they realize they complete each other in a much less literal sense as well.

At the end of the day, no, I wouldn’t recommend this series. It’s got a LOT of bad going on in it to the point of being unwatchable but there’s just enough hints and pieces of something really good here to get my little writer brain wizzin’ away. 

So yeah! No I’m not a pervert or degenerate, I just tend to flat out ignore all Ecchi and pick out all the parts I genuinely enjoy and go ‘This is good.’ I would like both of these series infinitely more if they focused on the good things they have going on moe but sadly I’m not the kind of person these things are marketed to.

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An Extremely Gay Rant About Iffy From Hyperdimensional Neptunia

Hey I know literally nobody else here like Hyperdimensional Neptunia but can I just rant about how much I love Iffy

*clears throat* PREPARE FOR A PARAGRAPH OR TWO OF ME RANTING ABOUT HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS TINY ADORABLE GAY BADASS FICTIONAL GAL

This is Iffy, yes her outfit is a pain to draw which is the only reason I haven’t drawn her

Iffy is a mercenary and would probably punch God given the opportunity. She’s badass, a really good fighter, and deadass has a handgun when everyone else’s weapons are sci fi or fantasy and once rode in on her motorcycle shooting at someone who had the powers of a Goddess at their disposal because why the fuck not

Meanwhile she’s also the only sensible person in the squad and is the only reason they kept on task throughout the first game and is extremely quick witted and plays the straight man to the squad’s usual antics which makes said antics a thousand times more hilarious then they already are

Now you might be asking yourself, if she’s all that, why did I call her tiny and adorable? Well, you know how she has that hugeass coat? She looks normal sized with it on, but when she takes off said hugeass coat...

SHES SO FREAKING TINY!!! SHE IS A TOOTHPICK!! THIS TOOTHPICK IN A HUGEASS COAT IS OUT HERE KICKING DRAGONS IN THE FACE DESPITE HOW FKIN SMOL SHE IS!! no im never getting over how fkin tiny iffy is under her coat and you cant make me

Now yes her being this tiny is unbearable adorable but she almost never takes off the coat so it doesn’t matter too much, so what else makes her so adorable?

Enter Vert, Goddess of Leanbox. Iffy (in the first game at least) is a massive fan of Vert’s even before they meet and their whole reason for going to Leanbox is Neptune claimed that Vert is probably an Otaku and gamer and Iffy refuses to believe her Goddess is the same as Neptune because Neptune is the word ‘doofus’ personified and she doesn’t want ‘Her lady’ to be like that. (Yes she calls Vert ‘My Lady’ even before they meet and its adorable)

Iffy stumbles into her room on accident trying to find the exit and IMMEDIATELY Vert takes a liking to Iffy and Iffy turns into actual mush. Like. She legit faints when Vert tells her she can call her by a nickname because they’re friends now. I shit you not. Iffy faints because of her gayness. Vert spends every second she’s with Iffy teasing her or hugging her close or just calling her cute to the point Iffy’s face knows no shade other than red and she  loses all of her braincells when Vert hugs her, evidence below.

Iffy is such a massive gay disaster its a wonder that she hasn't died from the head trauma of hitting her head on her floor when Vert makes her faint every other week and like having the normally composed Iffy stumbling over her words and giggling like the lovesick puppy she is is just so freaking cute it makes my heart almost explode with love every time it happens, to steal a quote from Vert (minus the last bit);

So yeah thank you for reading this, that one person who was curious about this. This has been an extremely gay rant. I might make this an actual thing where I highlight fictional gals I love. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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