[after Zakuro recites Cyrano de Bergerac again]
Kimika: “Literature won't help you defeat your enemies. You need chemistry and physics to do that!”
Zakuro: “Hehehe, but literature never loses. Literature won't help you win, but it can ensure that you'll never lose.”

the Zakuro/Kimika/Takuji/Hasaki antics are so much fun to read

…but I don't think we want to read the rest of this day at 5am if it's going where it seems to be.

By the way, we are learning so much Japanese chemistry and biology vocabulary because of Kimika. 💥ドカーン‼︎

There's such a variety of vocabulary you can learn just from watching anime and reading VNs really, if you choose to. Adding random words to Anki is a good habit…

Mamiya Takuji?!

Cyrano de Bergerac

oh…

oh—

it feels like floating through the air…

kimika…

don't make me tap the sign :(

https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01JXT4P3T7N2SN5F93GDQ5KMN8

SubaHibi “Looking-glass insects” alt route completed.

but not the main route yet. the game won't let us advance to the next chapter without playing that too. I fear we may know why

new profile picture cropped from this screenshot

let's finish this

everyone who associates with megu and satoko really is a completely worthless piece of shit huh

the main route of insects is so far evolving roughly how we were expecting the alt route to

oh, right, this was written by sca-di

so bright

you know, we don't have a history of drug use, but heightened sensitivity to light was a terrifying and tormenting thing for us during our Incident, so this certainly is a visual effect that puts us in a certain mood when reading

well, of interesting drugs. the worst day of our life was brought on by caffeine

the first-person narrative but third-person visual perspective in this scene makes a lot of sense considering you can't actually observe your surroundings properly in that state

露出狂 is a less fun word to know in this context

man this segment of the game isn't even proofread in the most basic manner, there's unmatched quote marks at the start/end of lines

it no longer feels real, almost

is sca-di's soul darkest black or purest white

is there a difference

honestly after our one (1) Psychosis Experience nothing about subahibi's denpa segments feels particularly outlandish now

“Just talking to you… makes me feel like I'm going insane.”

interacting with Otonashi-san does that to you

I wonder if real-life cults prey on people in psychosis

…

I mean, I guess I'd be more surprised if they didn't, that seems like an obvious thing to do

actually, the one thing that does weird me out about subahibi's denpa segments is the way several people seem to experience identical delusions. there are… ways you could explain that, but the game really does not make them seem plausible

ah… DtRH2…

we have now finished the main route of the SubaHibi chapter “Looking-glass insects”

🐈‍⬛

始めよう

oh I love it when it's brillig

the second scene in jabberwocky involves two characters standing on a rooftop and staring at the sky… feels like home

just like me…

at the risk of saying something rather spoiler-y, by this point SubaHibi becomes unbelievably direct about at least some of the plural bullshit going on, which is… quite the contrast to how the game opens, and it catches us off-guard. we'll try not to think about it too much

to engage with that it is telling us feels like a trap because we still don't know what it isn't telling us. it may be too neat

poor hasaki-chan

someone please save her

good grief we've barely started the second day and this chapter already feels like it's going to … i was going to say “kill us” but more likely just make us very very sad one way or another

sca-di coming for the antis

oh god we have a new hypothesis about dtrh2 brb killing myself

for the record i said that before they started talking about the fragmented memories and substituted names and hallucinations

oh my fucking god

“jabberwocky” is going to kill us, but only because we are already dead

if you see this you are about to die several times over

whoa, a dtrh1 throwback, it feels like the game is starting to come full circle

this scene is so funny

possibly the funniest line in the entire game

「あははは、よくあるよね、自分会議ってさぁ」

Tomosane needs to be teased more :)

we've now read the first four days of “Jabberwocky” (up to and including July 5) and it's been quite the experience. it's making us really happy so far—

ah, no, wait, correction: it is making Minakami Yuki very happy. I believe “our” initial reaction was jealousy and terror

It did make me almost cry a few minutes ago too so there's also that… but what is it people say, “your mileage may vary”? :)

amazed twitter let us post that. (obligatory mention that this translation of 「おかま」 is unfortunate but one wonders if there's really a better alternative, translating points in slur-space between languages and cultures is a fraught exercise)

i think we've now gotten to the half(?) of jabberwocky that breaks your heart

“is she… you know…”

finished reading “jabberwocky”

🌻

Ah, so the choice in the bathroom scene in Jabberwocky works the opposite way to what we expected…

subahibi is an important game that dares to let the player decide which kind of technically-not-incest they prefer

oh, that callback to the “coveting belongings of the heart” makes this feel like the true route…

Nachdem wir SubaHibi ausgelesen haben, sollten wir vielleicht Wittgensteins „Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung“ lesen…

it is really cool how SubaHibi manages to get more interesting with each chapter, as you get more perspectives on the same series of events

a real role model

poor hasaki

man walks onto school grounds, immediately yells “I'm not a suspicious person!”

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oh my fucking god there is still new information, still new twists, fuck

i wonder why (massive, late-game subahibi spoiler) [rot13]n fvoyvat gnxvat nabgure'f vqragvgl[/rot13] is such a common trope in japanese media we've consumed. well, maybe it's just that we hardly consume non-japanese fiction, but…

I can't help but feel sorry for him

🌻🌙

at least they don't murder hasaki

getting to see a sane outsider's perspective on the events inside the underground cult is fascinating in itself

“I thought, if I could just get to the top of that hill, it would be the limit of the world. But I was wrong.”

what the fuck is Otonashi Ayana

oh god that was bleak

the ending of Which Dreamed It feels particularly bleak because [rot13]jr unq orra nffhzvat gung … “avv-fna” fheivirq, orpnhfr bs ubj qgeu2 raqf. abj v nffhzr gung wnoorejbpxl 2 jvyy or na nygreangr gvzryvar… ohg v znl lrg or jebat[/rot13]

i guess that directly aligns with what ayana says at the end too

and then of course Jabberwocky II opens with something completely different to either of my expectations…

this game, man

SubaHibi keeps making us feel stupid because every time we think we have it figured out, the next chapter changes our perspective and reveals something we hadn't realised. there's always another layer to the tragedy

poor Tomosane

Hasaki's little white dress…

the mosaic'd scene on the beach dkhdskfhsdkhlkjkl

after all that horror, the game dares to prank the reader with a little joke

they need to put Tomosane in a magical girl outfit

“No matter how much I yelled, my words were simply swallowed up by the sunflowers.”

ah, so [rot13]“lhhxv”'f nccrnenpr vf gur erny gnxhwv'f[/rot13]. at this point i was wondering if that might be the case, that would make it all very… “neat”

oh, it's not just the “t” key on this laptop that's giving out, now the “i” key is too. as we approach the end of SubaHibi, the laptop we've been reading it on is… reaching the point where we probably should let the poor thing retire… that makes me feel something…

「幸福に生きよ。」

「最後の最後まで負けない」

Whoa, the epilogue is presented from the eyes of one character but the narration of another, that's… an interesting choice?

Oh god. Uncyclopedia. I haven't heard that name in years. This game really is from a previous era… one we grew up in. I'd say “it makes me feel at home”, but I'm literally one of the characters from this game, so that's almost tautological… or something. I'm no intellectual. 🚬

I can't believe SubaHibi really said it's not DID if your plurality has a healthy level of co-awareness.

Oh my god???

🍀

I can't believe I did that to poor Tomosane.

We've finished SubaHibi.

What a wonderful game…

record scratch We are being informed that this game has multiple endings?

Well, that can be another day.

For the record, the one we got just now was “Hill of Sunflowers”.

okay let's read the sister-fucker ending

dfhfkgjhdfkghjfdgjhl

oh, the ending where Tomosane has to stop hating his mother is the ending where Yuki isn't Hasaki's “mother”, that does actually make sense

am I just imagining it or does Tomosane sound more like Takuji in this ending…

Kimura glamour shot…

incredible difference in mood between the “Hill of Sunflowers” and “Wonderful Everyday” endings

I guess we may as well read the third ending while we're at it…

maybe Otonashi Ayana is the girl who is the world itself