Reply With QuoteI just think Shiki-tan is so adorable!
Look, I swear I am not cheating on Mihara, I just wanted to go for a ride in a Mazerati with my obscenely hot teacher. That's all. Look, I haven't gone on any of his study dates even though he keeps asking, I am being good!
So I invite Mihara out to a concert.
Yes, dressed in a shoulder-less purple button-down shirt. And threatening to faint because there are just so many people nearby. This guy is officially more feminine than I have ever been. But the date went well and he told me ask him out again.
Exams come up, and since I have all my stats at or near 50, I didn't do too bad.
Didn't do too well either. Afterwards Hazuki told me that he only failed the first day because he slept through the test. Sorry I haven't been asking you out on enough nap-dates, asshole.
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Why is he even bothering to use me as a beard?
I just think Shiki-tan is so adorable!
So I realize that there's no way I am going to have enough money for a yukata in time for the fireworks festival. Stupid parents, stupid job... I won't be able to save up for a furude for New Years either, I bet. Oh well, I decide to go buy another outfit so I am not just rotating through the same two things over and over. While I am out shopping, I run into Mihara.
Your what now? It's not his boyfriend, it is his favorite shade of blue paint.
Could he be more dramatic over this? Actually, the answer to this is probably yes.
So the next day I go to work at the Cafe and oh look who comes in the door.
Is... is my adorable little fabulous-kun trying to be tsundere? He's just following me around everywhere I go. I think I've been spending way too much time with Mihara and it's starting to get a little weird, so I call Hazuki and ask him to go to the zoo with me. Maybe he'll take a nap in the lion enclosure?
No, he spends the whole date paranoid about what the animals are thinking about us. Why is this the guy on the box again?
This is inaccurate, madame. The TM series has never been pornographic.Originally Posted by Angie Gallant
There were, and most likely will be all kinds of pornography whose names begin with "tokimeki", because tokimeki is just a onomatopoeia for heart beating, signifying anxiety. Konami's Tokimeki Memorial series should always be known as TM, or "Tokimemo" (because that's how abbreviations are generally created in Japanese).
I stand corrected!
The second semester begins and while I am flipping through a magazine afterschool, this happens.
Why hello there, tall, dark(ish) and handsome. This is Kijyo and he asks me on a date and then immediately breaks it because he has a job interview. I don't care, I'll be seeing more of that one.
Sure enough, a few days later I see him...
... with a motorcycle? Wearing a jacket with extraneous zippers EVERYWHERE. He's not actually riding that motorcycle, by the way. He's walking it to work because he doesn't have a license. He's a bad boy, in a "follows all the rules" kind of way. And he even spontaneously asks me out on a date to get coffee, instead of making me waste a whole day asking him and then another day to actually go on the date. I like this guy.
But don't fear, Fabulous, I am still willing to date yo--
WHO IS THIS HANDSOME AND STYLISHLY DRESSED POSSIBLY-A-MAN AND WHAT HAS HE DONE WITH MY MIHARA? The date goes well, even though it's in a spot that Mihara doesn't care for. When I get home, I am so confused that I check in with my little (stalker) brother to see how my relationships are coming along.
Yes, my little brother keeps charts that demonstrate exactly how much guys like or hate me. The yellow side of the heart is for friendship, the pink side is for love. No one really likes me much yet, probably because I am keeping my stats somewhat balanced instead of just blasting up whatever I think the dudes will like.
And dude, Hazuki, you're not supposed to hate me just because I'm constantly trash talking you behind your back.
Also, "chinderwear" is FUCKING AWESOME.
Alright, so having a guy go down to hate with you is a bad thing in these games. You see, if you neglect a guy for too long, he becomes a Bomb. If a Bomb goes off, he lowers your reputation with all the other guys by 40%. Basically, he tells everyone you are a whore because you are ignoring him, and people believe him because that's how high school works.
So that's how I ended up on another date with Hazuki.
Going out with Hazuki is more like a narcolepsy sim than a dating sim. The next day, Hazuki stops by work for a coffee.
I-is he wearing a chest toupee? Mihara starts dressing well, so now everyone else has to up the ante with the crazy fashion? His birthday arrives and I buy him a cat jigsaw puzzle as a joke. He loves it.
The culture festival comes and I paint a fucking BADASS picture of an apple, which makes the Art Club's exhibit a total success and impresses the pants off of Mihara.
Another date with Mihara, another blouse. In fact, I am so disappointed by this backsliding into women's clothes after looking so great in that shirt and vest combo that I ask out Kijyo.
YES I DO. Kijyo has the most fun reactions to the touching. Mihara accepts them as his due, of course all women want to touch him. Kijyo just gets flirty. And Hazuki passes out and drools.
Oh dear God, I love this. I will be tuning in again tomorrow, I have to know what happens!
Finals time again! I did some pretty hardcore studying before the tests this time and saw a pretty big improvement. My balanced approach to raising stats is paying off even if it is making the going slow in the "making high school boys fall in love" side of things.
It's almost Christmas time. This school has a tradition where the students and faculty all go to a big party and do Secret Santa, so it's time to go shopping and buy a nice, fancy dress for the party.
I ask Mihara out on a last minute date to the skating rink.
His winter looks are so much better than the woodland sprite thing he had going on during summer. Anyway, Christmas arrives and I realize I SPENT TOO MUCH MONEY. So I am going to give someone a shitty gift. What a bummer. On the plus side, I look fabulous! So I give Hazuki a shitty pencil holder...
AND HE LOVES IT! Game, I am so confused. You can't even take a nap in a pencil holder, why is he so happy?
And with that, I end my updates for tonight. Tomorrow: New Years, a new school year, and another annoying little boy!
I can't believe I've wasted my life playing war games.
Tony
This is already the best AAR I have ever read.
My gaming life is definitely wasted.
Why aren't these all A's? Fat missie, there will be no more dates for you! Up to your room!!!
Luckily, this is not a Chinese game...
I am awaiting the next update so much you have no idea. It's a shame that Fan-Translated Boy-Touching Dating Sims don't allow you to custom-name all the characters like X-COM does, or this could have had an entirely new level of hilarity.
A Qt3 themed AAR?
ElGuapo did one back in the day for XCOM that is friggin' epic.
I died twice!
I'm in love with this game. Or this thread. Or Angie. Or possibly Mihara's stylist.
What about the Man with the Sinister Mustache?
This is a regularly scheduled thread-read for me. It's awesome, Angie! I hope this journey never ends.
I love this, and I love you.
Well, I call the sleepy guy. That's me. Naps rule!
So much affection in this thread! But I only have eyes for Mihara. Granted, those eyes are often wide with horror at whatever abomination he calls an outfit he's put together this time. And sometimes my eyes wander to Kijyo. Ok, this has already fallen completely apart, so let's get on with the boytouching.
New Years is a pretty big event in this game, starting with New Years cards that you get from all your friends.
Of course the narcoleptic sends me a card with a sheep on it.
No doubt Mihara painted that one himself.
Kijyo's hobbies now include watching tv, walking around with a motorcycle, and paper crafts? Weirdest bad boy character ever.
... and my cheerleader BFF appears to have sent me a young child's art project that she dug out of dumpster and then scribbled on. I should so steal the guy she likes because of this insult.
Why are three or possibly four cards sheep themed?
I would totally marry a gal named "Killfuck Soulshitter" - mostly because I'm a badly damaged human being, but also because I would never be able to say her full name without grinning like an idiot and giggling like a schoolgirl on helium. To say nothing of all the cute nicknames I would coin for her! "Killfucky," "Shitterkins" - the possibilities are endless!
But it would play so well off all the dog collars the boys apparently love to wear!
What I really love about the horndog-little-brother character is it's Konami's way of basically saying the player's character is incapable of landing a soulmate for herself without someone else providing backup / interference / snarky Greek chorus duty. Because even in les affaires de cœur, girls can't do anything for themselves, amirite?
So, I have to ask: are these games all about turning not-so-secretly gay men straight, or what?
Year of the Ram, I assume.
So after getting all my cards, it's time to go to the shrine for New Years. I give Mihara a call to ask him if he'll come with me and he calls me his lucky New Years princess. Not bad, Fabulous. But as soon as we get there, he starts bitching about the crowd and how much he wants to go home.
When did you become such a downer, Mihara? It seems like just yesterday you were molesting paintings and talking about riding iron balls like a Greek god.
Anyway, we get up to the shrine and I pray for a better relationship with Mihara, because what else am I going to wish for at this point? Sure, I have the option of praying for better grades or money, but eff it, make my queeny little boyfriend like me more please. The god of the shrine says "SURE THING" in a booming voice and I hear the tinkle of little bells. This is so appropriate for this relationship.
Afterwards, Mihara spots the fortunetelling booth and insists that we both go over and get our fortunes for the year. I get "Uncertain Luck." Way to take a stance there, fortune-telling mechanism. Look, I'm at war with Mihara's wardrobe here. You are either for me or against me, pick a side!
Mihara also gets "Uncertain Luck," which he also finds disappointing, then reveals that he stole a second fortune just in case. His trickery cheers him up significantly and the date ends on a high note.
SO WHY IS IT THAT THE NEXT TIME I SEE HIM HE HAS BECOME A NUN? The gods lied to me! They aren't helping at all!
Mihara's birthday is on January 15th, and I decide to go shopping to get him a present.
Probably the best present I could give him is himself, so I pick the hand mirror.
Mihara! You don't say things like that to a lady! Well, despite the implications that he's way too pleased to be able to get a look at himself, he does say he'll treasure it and that I must really understand him well to get him such an awesome present. I have mixed feelings about this.
No, in fact, none of the other guys in this game are anywhere near this effeminate. I just struck gold when I joined the Arts club.
It's Rabbit this coming year (in less than 2 weeks!) The Ram year is 5 years away. weird...
He isn't actually a girl crossdressing as a guy to sneak into an exclusive all-boys school....is he?
Kijyo's character must have been designed by some little girl's mom.
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While my heart recovers from the revelation that Mihara is experimenting with autosexuality, I ask Kijyou out for coffee. He informs me that he is a caffiene addict and can't ever turn down coffee, so off we go. I get to ask him a question to get to know him better and I ask him what his favorite food is.
Can't any of you jerks answer a straight question! "Durr, I hate thinking about food" is not an answer! If I show up at your house with a basket full of fresh, hot nothing, you have only yourself to blame.
Next big event up is Valentine's Day. The day when school girls make chocolates to give to the guy they like. I buy the best chocolate I can and then get ready to endure the most difficult mini-game in the game.
So here is what happens. My womanizing little brother will hold up one of these four signs to tell me how to stir the chocolate and I will have a couple of seconds. In theory, these signs tell me if I am starting in the center or the outside of the bowl and which direction to stir in. In reality, these signs make my brain blow a raspberry and I just flail randomly. So I have an honest-to-god cheatsheet that lets me know what any of this bullcrap means. So fuck you, incomprehensible mini-game, I made PERFECT chocolate.
Ok, it's pink chocolate, which I would automatically classify as not perfect. And my little brother is way too excited about my success there. Mihara had basically no reaction to getting some of my chocolate, probably because he gets so many. I give the other half to Kijyo.
Don't you DARE underestimate my stirring-in-the-right-direction skills, mister!
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