I can't believe nobody's already done this:Let's Play Tokimeki Memorial GS1

Other way around, Kijyo sub Hazuki. I didn't meet Kijyo until 3-4 months in because I wanted to focus on stats before the first test and you have work on the Style stat for the first encounter. Natsumi makes your Style score around 80 for the first test just by beefing up her Social.

Did you watch the thread?

Wow, this is the second time Othello's been relevant on this site within a week. Reading it for English right now. Does Dom Casmurro also have a huge douchebag running the plot? What is the jealousy about? I'm not very fond of the type prevalent in Othello since his love for Desdemona kind of flies out the window once her love doesn't make him special anymore and thus (along with military blah) knocking him from his self-thought secure standing in Venetian society despite his dark coloring. (I just realized this in the library the other day. Pyschoanalyzing characters for the win)

tldr; not found of stories based mainly around racism

Have you read Othello? If so, I want to ask: Iago--homo/bisexual or not?

Aw, I'm going to feel sorry for Hazuki, poor baby. But it's all in the name of the Perfect House-Husband!

Yes I did, that's the odd thing!

Oh no, there's no racism or anything, Dom Casmurro's mostly about the jealousy.
But there is indeed a douchebag ruining Bentinho's relationship with Capitu, even if unintentionally, and that is actually Bentinho himself.

I have read Othello, but the version I read was this abridged version for 14-years-old with small attention span and it's been a while since I read it, I was younger then and might not have caught the subtext that implied Iago was homo/bi, so to me he was just this asshole who was in love with Desdemona or something. Again, i'ts been a while since I've read it, and the details are kinda blurry, so take it with a grain of salt.



EDIT: Whyyyyy is the formatting so weeeeiiiiirrrddddddd

Cultural festival week!



Nope~<3 Why, do you have something for Yume?





Yum. Are those peas? I love peas in my fried rice.

Yume: Eh? You cooked that by yourself?

Fried rice is not that hard to make.

Kijyo: Yeah. Is that a big surprise? I live alone so at least I gotta know how to cook.

Living alone must be quite difficult. And I smell the savory, mildly oily scent of familial conflict! Goody, just as delicious(ly dramatic) as the fried rice.

Kijyo: Shall I feed you? Aaaaah...

/insert choo choo train/airplane joke here/ /insert representational phallic objects joke here/

Yume praises him and he thanks us in return.



1. Why not?
2. Whatever, more nom nom nomming for us then.

Yume: You're really good at cooking.
Kijyo: Nah, it just requires practice. Besides, I'm not just good at cooking. I'm pretty good at doin' laundry, cleanin', and even sewin'. I'm pretty much like a handy man who can do everythin'.

I miss typing 'g's. Also, it sounds like you're the perfect mother for our (Yume and you that is) children. It's not like I already have your two's entire life planned out on a note on my computer labelled 'battle strategy'. Earn love points on Christmas event, confession on last day of school, college, get married, have twin girls named Kikyo and Nami.

Kijyo: Anyway, it's pretty tough. I gotta do all those while keepin' up with my studies.

Huh. I never paid much attention to this scene before but that is really difficult. Just being a student is stressful enough but having to take care about the rest of your life...where are the irresponsible parents who shifted all the responsibility unto your shoulders? Watch, this is going to turn out to be totally insensitive because his parents are dead. (I actually don't know)



Wait, you chose to live by yourself? Wow, those must be some really bad family conditions. What is it? Crazy mother in the attic? Siblings forced to live in the attic and eat poisoned rats all the while experiencing puberty? Never read Flowers in the Attic. Just don't do it.

Kijyo: Hm, well...I've got so many issues with my father...Oh, well. Let's not talk about it. Thanks for eatin' my food! See ya later!

An unartful avoidance. Be warned, we will unleash the spill your guts powers of the protagonist on you. And you will like it.

We head up to the roof (what? Inconsistent nouns/perspective? Lalala, can't hear you) and find Hazuki. Having a personal conversation on the phone. Oh boy. Seeing as how I don't have a choice to make Yume turn back instead of being a nosy eavesdropper, we'll just have to sit through this mess.




Then, why don't you just leeeeaaave? And somehow I can telepathically molest Hazuki without interrupting him?



This line kills me. I just love lonely rich boys so much. Hazuki still tries to be a good child instead of acting out to get attention (too perfect sometimes /suspicious glance/). He's also accepting of his parents' schedule. Cuuute, don't worry, Yume can comfort you~ Come into my bosom.

Hazuki: ...It's okay, I'm used to it this...Sorry, I didn't mean it that way...Anyway, you really don't have to worry about me. Well, I have to go. Bye Dad.

AND THEN YUME CHOOSES TO GO OUT AND PROBE HIM FOR DETAILS. What happened to the japanese social standard of trying to avoid making others uncomfortable as a way of living?



Hazuki: Really?



Okay, I know I partially said this just a few lines ago BUT WHY ARE YOU SAYING IT TO HIS FACE. Hazuki is understandably miffed at out statement and ellipses passive-aggressively at us (employing Canadian tactics, I see).

Yume: And you looked a bit lonely too...

Hazuki: ...You probably just imagined that.

Hit a sore spot huh? Okay, Yume, before you poke his emotional wounds with a scalpel anymore, can we please try to get out this whirlpool of awkwardness? Hazuki ends up being the one ushering us back to the class for cultural festival preparation. Nothing like the blood and sweat of students to bring out the shadows of characters, eh?

I walk back home with Arisawa, here's a transcript because I clicked right past it by accident.

Yume: Are there any exhibits you want to see?
Arisawa: I'm going to visit the gardening club's cafe...Th-that's because I heard they have very good herb tea!

Right.

Our class is putting on a coffee cafe this year and wonder of wonders, somebody other than Tsukushi comes to visit us! I like you just for that, Kijyo.



...That still means you were checking out the girls in here. Mm'kay, ignoring that for now.



Cute~ He orders hot coffee; Yume delivers it with milk.



Why must everything that comes out of your mouth be wonderful? It's actually pretty nice having a forward love interest for once.

Kijyo: If possible, ya can come to my place and make coffee for me, Yume-chan <3.

DO WANT. One of Kijyo's favorite date locations is his house



so this is quite possible! Yume gives a flustered response and the Cultural Festival concludes smoothly.



Our relationship with Kijyo is progressing splendidly and Hazuki is almost at :) level. Just according to keikaku.



So, which mundane topic do we want to start with?

Food. That is number one priority to ask about. Even if it's probably something I'd never actually ask a person in real life.

Food.

The G-key on my old laptop either doesn't work or double-taps, so when I write from it, half the time I sound like Kijyo.

And that Hazuki scene still gets all my WTF. It's even weirder because normally the protag if anything is a lot more passive than this and would just try to walk off, only to trip, adorably clumsy, and be forced to reveal she heard it all.

Mmhmm. It's not consistent with the standard protagonist. Plus, the purpose of this scene was to show some of the background and depth to the main character. That little tidbit afterward the phone call was completely unnecessary other than the ''lonely'' section which could have easily been incorporated into the protag's thoughts while eavesdropping.

It's something I feel Love Revo handles a lot better in a similar scene with Ayato. Everything she infers she thinks rather than blurt it out, and she's discovered by accident rather than just barge in and start questioning him. Add to that, Hitomi has a lot more moxie than most protagonists. The Hazuki scene here at best feels inconsistent and at worst makes the protagonist seem rude and obnoxious.

Favourite food. food is all that matters.

I've actually asked people this irl, usually trying to decide what/where to have food. Maybe i'm using otome games as a guide to life. Uh.

So, Kijyo-kun, what do you like to eat?



Or you can not answer my question. Ah, the delicate art of subterfuge is strong within this game.

You live alone so you cook for yourself most of the time, right?



Noted.

Man, this voice acting for this line was really great. He ended the sentence in a laugh and I'm just enjoying the improved quality a lot.



Huh, this is new. I wonder, are we going to get some sort of event? Date disturbers usually pop up without any warning.



Nope, just Seaweed Brain and not even the adventuring demigod one.

Seaweed: Just forget about the guy that stood you up and go have some drinks together.
Or to say it in Kansai dialect (how does he know? The creeper information network is larger than I thought)..."Dontcha wanna grab a cuppa joe with me?" Or something like that.

You know, that might've come off as charming if he wasn't kind of making fun of another dialect and definitely would have worked in a shoujo manga if he were the main lead.



Of course since I said that, the Kansai guy immediately appears to argue against my point.



Blond seaweed apologizes for imitating a Kansai accent in front of the real deal and runs off. ...One of the weirder pick ups I would have to say.



A bit of reaction when I touched his hair.



Now that we're at smiley, Kijyo walks Yume home. I don't attempt Japanese third base juuuust yet and settle for randomly ramming into his chest a few times on the way back.

Lines like this are the reason I love Kijyo.

Be sure to follow up with falling face-first into his back and then accidentally stepping on his feet!

On the way back from shopping





That's actually a very good metaphor. I don't seem to be in a criticizing mood.

Exam week. We should be safe but nothing special. /sigh/ Dating two guys takes up a lot of time!



Morimura CG again.

[I forgot to take a screenshot of the exams but Morimura 1st, Arisawa 2nd, Yume 48th, Hazuki 70th]

/spit takes/ Whoo! We just made it into the top 50s which gives us a love points boost. Hazuki fell asleep again.



/spit takes again then proceeds to choke on spit/ WHAT. I went on one extra date with you! How are you above Kijyo? At any rate, goal of double smiley before Christmas achieved~

Wow, it went from a chalice to a sword ...I finished the Da Vinci Code today. in the 2 weeks since I checked.

I get a pure dress for the Christmas party since there isn't a sexy option this year after pining after the furisodes. They're so pretty this year! Also purchased a music box for Kijyo. I'm sick of giving glass vases every single year. Now, I'm practically destitute! Yaaaay



Pretty qi pao~





Not bad for Konami but still, picking a tux to match your hair color?




I am quite familiar with that feeling myself.

We get a collection of Christmas Cds from Kijyo. Kijyo asks if we're an esper for knowing what he wants (I wish, they would make an awesome game).

I find myself very fond of Hazuki after that 'drunk from the crowd' comment.

And then I laugh at him sleeping in the save screen. Hazukiiiii XD

Everybody's such a better dresser than us! I hate that feeling when I'm in a crowd of people I know.

Both the guy on the left and the guy on the right look like they're about to confess their undying love for him.

All the homo.

New Year's!






No cards from Arisawa or Himuro?



Kijyo calls us up to go to the shrine. No money for a furisode but I finally happened upon some sexy clothes at the marketplace.





He's making Yume pay for food because he's hungry. /totes judging you right now



Kijyo: Tsk! Fine. Let's hurry and get it over with.

Why did you even bother asking us out?

Hmm, should I get a love boost for Hazuki since I need to get him to :D faster? No, he usually moves up pretty fast...education it is! This is the first time I've asked for anything other than love. Priorities, I have them straight.



I...don't think you can get prizes from drawing fortunes.

Yume: (I think he's getting the wrong idea.)

Noooooooo /cue Darth Vader link/ I got bad luck. Stress here we come. Kijyo gets his usual good luck.



Kijyo: It's good to come here once a year. Anyway, time to head home and chow on some cakes.

I get the feeling that

Has officially become this forum's motto.

Why do I have an awful feeling he's making you pay because he's flat broke?

I'm still on page 24 of this thread with no end in sight, but I'm just replying to say that I've never read such illuminating and in-depth discussions on a forum. It's glorious. It always starts as a game but can potentially go anywhere, and DOES go everywhere, smoking pipes in front of fireplaces and drinking tea before going back to squealing over blushing bespectacled teachers.

Also the fact that everyone here seems to have a different Mother Tongue makes me so happy because I have a thing for the sound (especially via songs) of just about every foreign language ever and German in particular, at times Russian and Ukrainian and I can't explain it. I just want to listen forever, don't even need to understand.

It makes me a little sad that Urdu, and Hindi (and hell Arabic and Persian I had to study them enough) weren't mentioned. Won't someone please try to learn our languages? :<

If it helps, Arabic is the fastest growing language department at my university.

As unrealistic as this may sound, I'm planning on eventually learning every possible damn language I can cram into my head.

As soon as I stop being lazy.

This is something I wish I could do.

KitabiKeera's post made me go back and read pg 24 again and I realized I lied in my last post--apparently, I wished for education in Himuro's route.

I get ridiculously happy whenever somebody other than me posts in here, so please leave comments on anything~ I happen to love derails.

Hazuki has now joined Yume in the little chibi activities.



I'm not really sure what's going on with that jacket but I like it. It clashes horribly with your hair though. okay enough about clothes already.

U jelly, Kijyo? Blatantly avoiding my question, he orders a cappucino and goes.



The guys start getting here early after :) level. It's a nice change.



Kijyo: Dressin' so fancy for my sake...It makes me so happy <3.

He has this completely awed tone of voice at my sexy style clothing. It amuses me greatly. Yume pulls a NigaHiga worthy 'Tee hee'.

Birthday! For she's a jolly good fellow, for she's a jolly good fellooooow~ Nobody can deny~



Huh, I thought it was going to be Hazuki since he was on my save screen. Oh well~<3

Kijyo: If I forget a girl's birthday, don't call me Kijyo Madoka.

He hands over the present.



PFT. I love you Kijyo. Yume recieves an antique radio. Cool!

I love antique stuff! Seriously, I need more impractical stuff in my house. Desperately. I once bought a shiny toaster, not for toasting purposes, but because it looked nice in my kitchen. My mother was pissed.

Also, now I feel bad for sucking at my Mother Tongue and basically being monolingual.

I have great need of that sweater. And of the act of poking it.




Yume apologizes profusely before...



The Amazing Furry Suit arrives to save the day. The fur stimulates his energy fields and allows for the wearer to have increased sensitivity. /nod nods/ Yume rushes to apologize again.

Hazuki: ...Don't worry. I'll drop by the coffee shop later. Your treat, okay?

I like that this scene is different depending on whether you're at smiley or above with Hazuki. At neutral relationship, he'll still help you but gives you a cold look accompanied by "Clumsy!" Konami is wonderfully detailed. Writing all those date scenarios...my head legitimately starting hurting at the thought.

And to finish off this post, dialogue from asking Kijyo out.

Kijyo is an adorable tease, isn't he?

If we're back to talking about languages, I'd definitely like to learn French at some point. It was pretty nice to be able to read Otto Hintze in his own language and most of the other great political scientists I can't understand right now are French. I can sort of improvise-parse written French using comparison between English and German/Scandinavian, but that's about it. And I wouldn't call it reliable.

It shouldn't be too difficult. As far as I can tell, most of it's just different verb tenses and memorizing vocabulary. I can get through random segments of French that pop up in my books with a general idea of the sentence. J'apprends francais un annee mais je peux comprendre la plupart. Not too sure about that last word.

Man, Kijyo is taking his time getting here. I've had to click past like, three screens.

I'll test your skin! I freaked out over what to wear for 30 seconds because I don't have anymore warm sexy clothes which turned out to be pointless since you came along (guys don't care about your clothes if these guys show up), I haven't slept all night from studying, and I'm armed with pierces (Kijyo's favorite accessory). Don't mess with me.



Yeah sure. You're speaking suspiciously fast you know?



Jacket-kun, you've returned to me! Then why didn't you come on time?

The salesman dashes with a veritable Team Rocket impression: J-just wait for our future produuuuuuuuctsss! /shiny star in the sky/ I'm not kidding here.



Fine. I'll eat all the candy myself. Okay I have a weak will, to the time machine.



Kijyo rocks at blackjack apparently. 21 is an awesome movie kind of about blackjack by the way.

I try getting to third base on the way home but Kijyo pushes me away with blue hearts and a loud bashful "Nooooo". You know Maneuver #23 of Japan's failed strategy plan to pretend like they're still pure.



NONONO YOU'RE GIVING ME THE TALK, AREN'T YOU. THE 'WE NEED TO TALK' ONE? WHHHHHY.

'Most' or 'many' would be my guess, going from the Latin Pluralis.

Now we're at language, funny thing. Did you know 'State' has basically the same name everywhere in Western Europe? 'État', 'Staat', 'Estado', 'Stat'... In Russia, the word for a state is 'Gosudarstvo' which means 'dominion'. All the Western European words stem from the Latin STATVS. Why? Because when Roman Law was rediscovered, Western Europe was crawling with the priviledges estates, the Church, the nobles, the free towns and the king. It was used to describe their legal rights. 'Status Rei Publicae' - 'The Business of the Republic' was also incorperated into the administrative apparatus and by the time Machiavelli was writing the two meanings had come together to not mean 'right' but 'state' in the traditional sense.

EDIT: NOT THE RIVAL TALK, MY SOUL IS SUCKED AWAY.

It doesn't sound unrealistic! Well... only because I want to do the same. The most I actually managed in that regard is knowing how to say 'hello', 'goodbye', 'please' and 'thank you' in eight languages. XD So I'll be very POLITE while not knowing what anyone's saying. I've been boning up on French and German a little better because I happen to have a couple of gorgeous musicals in those languages that I listen to all the time. But them being dramatic songs mean I'm probably not good for any normal conversation.

ALSO, I'm sorry if this is hideously off-topic again but we've been given permission to derail in any case, but could any of you share with me any songs or artists you like in your native languages? I recently got a Spanish friend drown me in a massive list of names and links and it's been marvellous. Not just because music with translated lyrics truly does help learn, but also because I really really really like good songs in foreign languages regardless of understanding, as I've mentioned before...

So, anyone and everyone, if you want to contribute (possibly via message so it doesn't take over THIS thread), I would be extremely grateful. And to our thread host, I hear you're Chinese so songs in that vein? :D

Most well-known Danish artists send out their songs in English. It might need your definition of 'Good'. In actual Danish there's Peter Sommer for the quiet, introspective stuff and Nephew for the sort of breakaway wacky*. But, erm, I guess there's always... considering it became oddly popular in Japan several decades later: Vi Er Røde Vi Er Hvide (It means; We Are Red We Are White and was the 1986 offical Danish National Football Team hymn. It's got a lot of nostalgia to it in Denmark. Japan just likes singing men with truly regrettable hair, I guess.)

*First album, USADSB contained a song called A Wannabe Darth Vader that had absolutely nothing to do with Star Wars.

Back when I dyed the ends of my hair colors like purple and fire engine red I used to make sure my jacket was an identical or complementary color. I also still have days where I dress in a single color, or two complementary colors. I never realized that those things are weird before, okay? Don't look at me like that.

Good to know! My parents won't let me take an etymology class over the summer because learning Physics ahead of time is more important which it kind of is but ETYMOLOGY.

Eh, you're Eboby, you get to be fabulous no matter what you're wearing.

KitabiKeera

1. Not sure if this counts but some of the songs from Eurovision are really good. I like Norway 2009 who happened to be the winner that year.
2. Chinese songs oh boy, concerts show on almost every cable channel because this how chinese networks work: "Hey, those guys have a show with <insert dating/singing/variety/etc> that has good ratings." "Really, let's incorporate that too!" It's difficult to remember the titles though...
--Chun Tian Li Nong Ming Specifically the version sung by a couple farmers auditioning for the Spring Festival(which is this really big annual concert in China). This was their audition video so the sound quality is kinda iffy but it's the best singing version I could find. They won. Here's english lyrics.
--I can't remember any more at the moment.
3. Time to say Goodbye is italian and really pretty. The english version doesn't sound as good.
4. Glow is a japanese song that vocalic has sang. It's really pretty.