Congrats on 2k! As a Singaporean, it was nice to hear your background in Singapore and SG's JP community/gaming industry! We live in exciting times for the internationalisation of industries invovled in otaku/weeb culture
Yea the JP community in Singapore is wild. The doctor I go to in my neighborhood apparently went to Singapore for university for her medical degree and she can't speak English much either. Tbh I don't know how she even went to university full time there like that but she graduated so that was pretty cool. Bit by bit it does seem like Japan really wants to actually put more foucs on pushing weeb/otaku culture stuff outside of Japan too (took them long enough to realise this...) so for sure it does feel like stuff is slowly getting more international which with all the global creators into anime stuff too that's p cool
@@overworkedsalaryman Used to work in a JP firm with an SG branch, and some of my JP colleagues actually want to live here long term and send their kids to SG's public schools. In their view, it was for better English exposure, which they claim SG's Japanese school wasn't doing a good job at. Pretty interesting to hear these perspectives from them and their views of raising their kids outside of JP! While still an emerging market compared to Northeast Asia, I feel like SG's scene for indie artists/developers is growing at a steady rate, and is also a growing destination in SEA for JP companies/indies to market their stuff to - now that much more Gen Z and Gen Alpha folks are consuming otaku culture compared to my time as a millenial. Excited to see more of your content here as otaku culture evolves further!
@@lebocharp Yea Singapore's public school system does prolly the best job in asia even till today it does feel like. The Japanese education system and lifestyle locally would prolly cause people to forget most of the english they learn and the Japanese school in Singapore is pretty much modelled almost fully after one in Japan and they interact so little with the rest of the country that it does cause them to not really know much English it seems. Though it does feel like the scene there is growing now more at least more so than before. I remember it being that there was barely any indie content there when I was around so that's pretty cool to hear that there's more of that now!
100% agree on DS, the overall experience is what makes it so special and unforgettable. Also agree on Rimworld, it's a standout in its genre/niche because it was executed so well. The comparison to DF is interesting because the Steam port should (eventually) bring it much closer to Rimworld in terms of UX and accessibility, while still offering the incredible depth that Rimworld simply doesn't have. However I still think Rimworld will offer a more cohesive and enjoyable experience overall, which only serves to highlight just how well Rimworld is designed and executed upon.
I do own the DF steam port and I do enjoy it a lot more since playing with a tileset does provide some level of clarity the og didn't have that I enjoy but as you said, Rimworld does feel more cohesive and enjoyable and I feel like like a large part of the success it enjoys is due to how refined the systems are so it isn't too intimidating for newcomers while providing sufficient depth in story telling for people who are fans of the genre. With DS it always struck me as having people be more divided on whether or not it's good because of the type of game it is though tbh I'm not sure if that impression I have is true or not but either way I do think it is a very fun experience ☺
"I'm sure most of you have heard of Rimworld before-" Only for me to slowly glance over to my other monitor where my quad digit rimworld hours are displayed. While also waiting for it to launch.
@@overworkedsalaryman Between how easy it is for people to add onto it with mods and custom content and the expansions, it's really an endless font of entertainment. Also the Anomoly DLC really captures my heart as a scifi horror fan and as a fan of Lobotomy Corporation (there is a LOT of overlap between the anomaly DLC and that game.)
@@Reap0 It really does have quite a lot of Lobotomy Corp vibes yea XD THe whole having to invest into holding and preventing them from escaping really does add a lot of that in to the game for sure. Plus yea the mods truly give so much additional content that it's crazy how much there is to endlessly do in the game
I'm glad you enjoy it and thank you! Glad to hear my voice doesn't get distracting if anything I reeled a little hearing myself speak chinese for that 1 line lol
Thank you if anything 🙏 It's thanks to you guys if anything that the channel got anywhere int he first place. Also that's one of the canal gardens around kinshicho. It's a lil more quiet (though not enough to create a one-shot video XD) so it makes for a good walk and picture place if you're interested in a nice angle shot of the skytree
I was surprised to see Koe de Oshigoto get mentioned. That was actually one of my first manga ever, and it really eases the reader in since the main girl also had no idea how anything worked at the start. Will have to try the IM@S game since you mentioned the character building and the first two games. I'm an old Chihaya fan. Interesting to hear bits about your story about how you got to where you were. I commute many hours a day so I watched your entire channel this past week (and thus the comment frequency). Good luck on your comiket and inevitable 3k subs video.
Yea Koe de Oshigoto was a fun read since it does show a lot of the behind the scenes of the VN indsutry especially of how the smaller firms that used to make up the bulk of the industry back then went about work. It felt a lil rushed toward the end but it was a fun read tbh, really wished it went a lot longer than it did. Glad you enjoyed the videos so far though, long commutes sound like they can get quite rough but even then good luck and hopefully the videos help make it a lil more entertaining at least. 🙏 And thank you for the support! Comiket was certainly errrrr very hot this year but ended up mostly fine at least!
ありがとうございます。🙇 If anything it's thanks to you all that the channel is even here and yes I can speak some chinese but not on the level to make an entire video in chinese at least 🤣 But I did assist with the chinese announcements for bugs and the like at times for some of the previous titles I worked on
Thank you so much for all the work you put into your videos and for striving to entertain us! Personally, the longer Illya keeps going, the less interested I am in it. And not *just* because the fan service is drying up. I think it sort of suffers from the same problem that most Fate and Fate spin-offs have; they end up taking themselves way too seriously for how silly their premise is. It's way more engaging for me when they have fun with the characters then when they lean heavy on the gravitas. That being said, the Case Files of El Malloi anime has to be my favorite of the fate spin-offs. *That and Cooking with the Emiya Family.* Small stories with lower, more personal stakes are harder to find in the Nasu-verse, and I appreciate them more.
If anything I'm glad y'all enjoy the videos! Filming outdoors in English always spooks me a little maybe more so than it should so I'm glad it at least pays off! With Illya I can see that being the case yea. For me what I find interesting about the later half is more so how the tone has shifted over the years mirroring the shifts in the genre itself over time more so I suppose. Idk if this has anything to do with Type-Moon itself exerting any form of control over the IP though. It was mostly a doujin thing and that's prolly the parts where it was a lot more fun and whimsical intially but it was certainly on the company's radar for quite a while as well so idk if the shift was a part of the original artist's taste or something related to Type-Moon indirectly or otherwise so it'd be cool to know if they ever do mention it. But yea it does feel like with how serious the original series was especially the levity of the other series in universe does make the IP feel more interesting since it does as a result have more breadth that people can enjoy
Thank you taking my questions i really really love vns and eroge as a medium. I have read quite of those and absolutely had a blast some of them were the greatest piece of literature in terms of writing , music and quality such as umineko, subahibi, euphoria, kara no shoujo, 999, saya no uta, white album, utawarerumono these were so so good and their osts i still listen to them such as yoru no himawari, kara no shoujo, blue bird lamentation etc. As for voice actors a particular stood out to me the most because of their after game notes which you get as rewards after completing the game. Nemu's Voice actress from Euphoria told in her after game note that this was her debut role i felt so bad like omg she really had a really hard debut. She also sounded so different in her normal voice which was not as high pitched when she voiced Nemu. As for female artists i knew that because euphoria also had all female team lead i think so it's not surprising. Many mangakas i love are also females even ero ones too.
I guess for people who are more into the space in general the number of females working in key positions really is less surprising huh 🤔 I see so many people on the interenet even till today get surprised by it at times that it's hard to gauge how well people know it. Though yea so many of the visual novels you mentioned do bring back quite a lot of memories. Saya no Uta especially was like a gateway for me into denpa kei contents in general which is done in a pretty unique style. The fact that they had the game notes for Euphoria like that is pretty cool though. Love when they add the behind the scene thoughts of the devs or seiyuus in so we get some insight into how they went about with their respective titles.
@@overworkedsalaryman i think other clock up titles also has after game note. i just can't play their other titles cause they rarely get translation only 2 more got translation eroge office and maggot baits but i couldn't 100% any of those due to save corrupt both times at 98% progress lol. i am surprised that there are few denpa novels only
@@theamazingfan8889 rip the corruption though that's some crazy bad luck but yea wish that more itles got translated ... it's kinda unfortunate how the market for that didn't manage to grow during its boom more. With how Japanese society was back then especially it's surprising how little denpa content there was indeed since it feels like the kind of thing that'd sit pretty at home with many of the people into this media at the time especially
@@overworkedsalaryman i think not only visual novels but gaming in general declined in Japan atleast console gaming that's why PlayStation moved to America (and got ruined) ahem. As for denpa novels I think companies didn't want delve into them that much maybe because it was a risk factor. Btw one thing I noticed in eroge office title by clock up they actually self inserted the clock up office into game cause in game you can see posters of game euphoria I think it's set in the time period of when euphoria was being developed.
@@theamazingfan8889 Can imagine they would do inserts like that for easter eggs since it does make for an intereting nod for the fans. But yea it does feel like console gaming has been falling off in Japan as well now. It does seem like aside from the switch most consoles can't really compete as well anymore because more of the younger generation are getting into pc gaming as well it feels like
Yea I was there for about 4-5 days I think in Warsaw and some cool dude was willing to drive me to Krakow since he was headed that way. Got to see the salt mine it was pretty awesome tbh. But yea it was an interesting place to visit for sure. Also thank you and if anything I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It's thanks to you all that the channel even got here in the first place after all!
Thank you if anything for supporting till now. Didn't think we'd even get here by this point so it's pretty cool that you n everyone else who helped it get here found it interesting enough to come along on this ride with
congratulation reaching 2k. I feel like Yostar picture put minimum effort into blue archive animation(lack of quality, weird directing and action scene, breaking character etc) which makes me sad. Keep up the good work
Thank you! If anything it's thanks to those like you who've supported for so long that the channel is even here. But yea the anime really did feel kinda underwhelming. On the one hand I guess it's because they used their internal animation studio which doesn't have much experience yet but even then... wish it was better
No way, i wasn't the only one who heard the singaporean accent in your voice heh Also i can add to that discussion of workforce gender presence in the eroge creation. One of the examples i can give is, lets say a hypothetical "Beauty isn't skin deep (yuri)" game that the art team had a specific member setup (atleast during the first project i worked on the CGs), it was only 5 people big, 3 males and 2 females (though it would grow exponentially by 2016). Each of the artist had a specific role to work onto their allocated CG pile, one would focus on the atmospheric setting of the novel, thus designing soft pallete CGs with only the minimum of affectionate connection between the characters. One would focus on the 'standout' CGs -as they called it- which focused on having an emotional impact ongoing between the characters, and one (me in this case) to be behind the passionate scenes, which would be more of a softcore or a play-state type of mood. the more experienced female artist of the team, would sit in a call with the others and point out design or anatomical discrepancies, give tips on polishing the art or highlighting certain zones (not always the naughty stuff, sometimes you want focus on the background, as the backdrop is key into how the player perceives the current situation to be, and can be very distracting if not done right. The experienced artist was also the one responsible for the more.. hardcore stuff CGs, and would basically supervise the whole art quality. In order to be able to carry out to her standards effectively, each of us were given crash courses on CG poses using 3d modeling tools (the -good- bad old days of maya model keyframing....) and how to draw bodies with semi-realistic proportions and what kind of curvature to pay attention to. the female team member was actually placed in the role of the soft pallete slice of life CGs, as she had a great deal experience in making shoujo doujinshi, and thus was more tailored to subserve the 'ordinary beauty theming". In specific to the male members, they had to learn the external anatomy very thoroughly and to focus on certain angles, like half tilt shots with both characters at a near perpendicular angles, or to never direct the characters face towards the screen directly, but just slightly below, among others (even had like a homework of sorts... imagine having to browse for ecchi fanarts or even official works on the internet every week and learn from how they drew specific scenes using specific angles and why this works to accentuate emotion or sensual stimulus -or just go monke mode and try to brute force it- haha there totally cannot be a job like that.... i totally did not have that surely). It does depend on the demands of the team in question, but since our doujin circle had two experienced workers with proper high production eroge portfolio backing us (the experienced artist in this case, and our director), there was a higher than baseline standards, for a doujin work that is this is likely to be standard in bigger companies maybe. It might seem off to people in the other adult oriented industries, but they definitely know how to use the artist's viewpoint to the advantage over here -if the team director is not a crippling alcoholic that is.- You can more or less have the artist either use the keen awareness of their own perspective to give the players a similar 'in-the-moment' feeling, or you can have an differently gendered artist use the knowledge of what is alluring to the characters in question, and make that be a focal point of the art. Of course, there is overlap and exchange of this roles, as one grows in experience. Yes i know, i seem to sound overtly confident, despite having worked what really amounts to the tutorial stage. But having worked with another doujinshi circle before that one, i can immediately notice how a properly experienced person carries themselves in these matter. it almost seems like a semi-professional audit, the way they tackle and fully take advantage of what could be initially considered limits/lack of regulations in the system. (Also yes, the game i mentioned here does exist, but of course not directly in that name, but that was the working name during production. A nice tidbit is that, this is one of the few circles who made a habit of releasing their content in both physical and digital copy, but the digital copy would be altered in pre-production to have a kit unlock feature, so the western releases can have the uncensored version 1without having to make a re-release of an asset update- ) Anyways, i will shut up now 🤐
That's interesting though to hear about the way that they got the rest of the team to pick up drawing the female anatomy if anything XD But yea in situations like this if anything a mixed team tends to functionally work a lot better as they understand better the anatomy of the gender the target audience is into better though it's always funny how people usually assume that only doods draw lewds for doods etc. That and as you mentioned those who are experienced especially if the tools used are similar across time too since they'd prolly have found work arounds for limitations as well I'd imagine.
Im surprised DarkestDungeon didnt make the cut o0. Really like the take on understanding and tolarence and very based sharing👍. 38:41 - Neko-chan! U madlad with balls of steel, Hina in public ///./// 🍻おめでとう on the milestone once again! ngl イリヤ sure has great plot 😆
Thank you if anything for also asking a qn for the vid and helping get the channel here i anything. Funni thing with darkest dungeon is that it's a good game i still sometimes play on streams now so I do think it's a good game but it's one of those where I do know that the code is so spaget that it apparently bugged out some features ppl don't know actually exist so I feel like my view of the game might be kinda biased tho I do think it's a good game even then
@@poornapatel409 It just looks kinda funny and in the video I initially made where I mentioned buying it I made a mention about how even though it's kinda funny since it's themed after a school swimsuit and the material actually feels really good to wear especially in summer it wouldn't be something I'd wear out of the house. Though as a homewear shirt the material actually works p well
7:13 And than you as well. Honestly with me you heat 3 key poins on why I watch your content. Blue Archive, Game Dev, and Japan. It's a blessing from TH-cam that it re comet your channel one day
You saw it!? 👀 Truth be told I really found that manga kinda interesting because of all the talk about the vn industry it did in the earlier volumes alongside the funny plotline they had going on with how her acting skill thing worked. Was kinda sad that the ending felt a lil rushed though although at least the final volume was kinda interesting that it was packed with a mini-sfw vn as well. Also, I saw the podcast you were in previously it was quite interesting to hear that much about magical girl stuff tbh 🙏
I found those to be pretty fine. They do have their bad points tho for sure so I can get not liking them like how IBO telegraphs deaths further than the Voyager 1 sends phototage back to Earth but overall within their genres I'd say they do stand out in an interesting way. Though I could very well be wrong since if it was that good Hoshiai no Sora might've actually gotten a second season instead of having to try to fund it indie.
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Congrats on 2k! As a Singaporean, it was nice to hear your background in Singapore and SG's JP community/gaming industry! We live in exciting times for the internationalisation of industries invovled in otaku/weeb culture
Yea the JP community in Singapore is wild. The doctor I go to in my neighborhood apparently went to Singapore for university for her medical degree and she can't speak English much either. Tbh I don't know how she even went to university full time there like that but she graduated so that was pretty cool.
Bit by bit it does seem like Japan really wants to actually put more foucs on pushing weeb/otaku culture stuff outside of Japan too (took them long enough to realise this...) so for sure it does feel like stuff is slowly getting more international which with all the global creators into anime stuff too that's p cool
@@overworkedsalaryman Used to work in a JP firm with an SG branch, and some of my JP colleagues actually want to live here long term and send their kids to SG's public schools. In their view, it was for better English exposure, which they claim SG's Japanese school wasn't doing a good job at. Pretty interesting to hear these perspectives from them and their views of raising their kids outside of JP!
While still an emerging market compared to Northeast Asia, I feel like SG's scene for indie artists/developers is growing at a steady rate, and is also a growing destination in SEA for JP companies/indies to market their stuff to - now that much more Gen Z and Gen Alpha folks are consuming otaku culture compared to my time as a millenial. Excited to see more of your content here as otaku culture evolves further!
@@lebocharp Yea Singapore's public school system does prolly the best job in asia even till today it does feel like. The Japanese education system and lifestyle locally would prolly cause people to forget most of the english they learn and the Japanese school in Singapore is pretty much modelled almost fully after one in Japan and they interact so little with the rest of the country that it does cause them to not really know much English it seems.
Though it does feel like the scene there is growing now more at least more so than before. I remember it being that there was barely any indie content there when I was around so that's pretty cool to hear that there's more of that now!
100% agree on DS, the overall experience is what makes it so special and unforgettable.
Also agree on Rimworld, it's a standout in its genre/niche because it was executed so well. The comparison to DF is interesting because the Steam port should (eventually) bring it much closer to Rimworld in terms of UX and accessibility, while still offering the incredible depth that Rimworld simply doesn't have. However I still think Rimworld will offer a more cohesive and enjoyable experience overall, which only serves to highlight just how well Rimworld is designed and executed upon.
I do own the DF steam port and I do enjoy it a lot more since playing with a tileset does provide some level of clarity the og didn't have that I enjoy but as you said, Rimworld does feel more cohesive and enjoyable and I feel like like a large part of the success it enjoys is due to how refined the systems are so it isn't too intimidating for newcomers while providing sufficient depth in story telling for people who are fans of the genre.
With DS it always struck me as having people be more divided on whether or not it's good because of the type of game it is though tbh I'm not sure if that impression I have is true or not but either way I do think it is a very fun experience
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"I'm sure most of you have heard of Rimworld before-"
Only for me to slowly glance over to my other monitor where my quad digit rimworld hours are displayed.
While also waiting for it to launch.
Good gooooood. Now go capture some entities we need to get that research done asap
fr though it does feel like one of those games that just keeps giving
@@overworkedsalaryman Between how easy it is for people to add onto it with mods and custom content and the expansions, it's really an endless font of entertainment. Also the Anomoly DLC really captures my heart as a scifi horror fan and as a fan of Lobotomy Corporation (there is a LOT of overlap between the anomaly DLC and that game.)
@@Reap0 It really does have quite a lot of Lobotomy Corp vibes yea XD THe whole having to invest into holding and preventing them from escaping really does add a lot of that in to the game for sure. Plus yea the mods truly give so much additional content that it's crazy how much there is to endlessly do in the game
yeeee, congrats on 2k. idk why ur voice over commentary is soothing to me
I'm glad you enjoy it and thank you! Glad to hear my voice doesn't get distracting if anything I reeled a little hearing myself speak chinese for that 1 line lol
looks absolutely beautiful, congrats on 2.3 K now!!
Thank you if anything 🙏
It's thanks to you guys if anything that the channel got anywhere int he first place.
Also that's one of the canal gardens around kinshicho. It's a lil more quiet (though not enough to create a one-shot video XD) so it makes for a good walk and picture place if you're interested in a nice angle shot of the skytree
@@overworkedsalaryman when i visit japan one day (surely no cope) i'll be sure to check it out, if i remember ;D thank you!
I was surprised to see Koe de Oshigoto get mentioned. That was actually one of my first manga ever, and it really eases the reader in since the main girl also had no idea how anything worked at the start. Will have to try the IM@S game since you mentioned the character building and the first two games. I'm an old Chihaya fan.
Interesting to hear bits about your story about how you got to where you were. I commute many hours a day so I watched your entire channel this past week (and thus the comment frequency). Good luck on your comiket and inevitable 3k subs video.
Yea Koe de Oshigoto was a fun read since it does show a lot of the behind the scenes of the VN indsutry especially of how the smaller firms that used to make up the bulk of the industry back then went about work. It felt a lil rushed toward the end but it was a fun read tbh, really wished it went a lot longer than it did.
Glad you enjoyed the videos so far though, long commutes sound like they can get quite rough but even then good luck and hopefully the videos help make it a lil more entertaining at least. 🙏
And thank you for the support! Comiket was certainly errrrr very hot this year but ended up mostly fine at least!
32:57 felt like a somewhat confused exhibitionist just showed up in front of me
yea one that would be embarrased to be seen instead if anything lol
Congrats on 2k :) 2.4k by now xd, love the comfy commentary as always.
I'm glad you enjoy the videos if anything. They end up being a lil long but I do hope they don't end up being too drony at least XD
2k sub おめでとう！！Your content is always so interesting to me. By the way 原來你也使用中文 感謝你一直以來的優秀內容創作!
ありがとうございます。🙇
If anything it's thanks to you all that the channel is even here and yes I can speak some chinese but not on the level to make an entire video in chinese at least 🤣
But I did assist with the chinese announcements for bugs and the like at times for some of the previous titles I worked on
Congratulations on 2K and Fate Prisma is the best Fate 😭😭😭
Thank you, if anything it's thanks to you guys that the channel is even at 2k and fate prisma truly is something special to the IP it feels like lol
Thank you so much for all the work you put into your videos and for striving to entertain us!
Personally, the longer Illya keeps going, the less interested I am in it. And not *just* because the fan service is drying up. I think it sort of suffers from the same problem that most Fate and Fate spin-offs have; they end up taking themselves way too seriously for how silly their premise is. It's way more engaging for me when they have fun with the characters then when they lean heavy on the gravitas. That being said, the Case Files of El Malloi anime has to be my favorite of the fate spin-offs. *That and Cooking with the Emiya Family.* Small stories with lower, more personal stakes are harder to find in the Nasu-verse, and I appreciate them more.
If anything I'm glad y'all enjoy the videos! Filming outdoors in English always spooks me a little maybe more so than it should so I'm glad it at least pays off!
With Illya I can see that being the case yea. For me what I find interesting about the later half is more so how the tone has shifted over the years mirroring the shifts in the genre itself over time more so I suppose. Idk if this has anything to do with Type-Moon itself exerting any form of control over the IP though. It was mostly a doujin thing and that's prolly the parts where it was a lot more fun and whimsical intially but it was certainly on the company's radar for quite a while as well so idk if the shift was a part of the original artist's taste or something related to Type-Moon indirectly or otherwise so it'd be cool to know if they ever do mention it.
But yea it does feel like with how serious the original series was especially the levity of the other series in universe does make the IP feel more interesting since it does as a result have more breadth that people can enjoy
Thank you taking my questions i really really love vns and eroge as a medium. I have read quite of those and absolutely had a blast some of them were the greatest piece of literature in terms of writing , music and quality such as umineko, subahibi, euphoria, kara no shoujo, 999, saya no uta, white album, utawarerumono these were so so good and their osts i still listen to them such as yoru no himawari, kara no shoujo, blue bird lamentation etc. As for voice actors a particular stood out to me the most because of their after game notes which you get as rewards after completing the game. Nemu's Voice actress from Euphoria told in her after game note that this was her debut role i felt so bad like omg she really had a really hard debut. She also sounded so different in her normal voice which was not as high pitched when she voiced Nemu. As for female artists i knew that because euphoria also had all female team lead i think so it's not surprising. Many mangakas i love are also females even ero ones too.
I guess for people who are more into the space in general the number of females working in key positions really is less surprising huh 🤔
I see so many people on the interenet even till today get surprised by it at times that it's hard to gauge how well people know it.
Though yea so many of the visual novels you mentioned do bring back quite a lot of memories. Saya no Uta especially was like a gateway for me into denpa kei contents in general which is done in a pretty unique style. The fact that they had the game notes for Euphoria like that is pretty cool though. Love when they add the behind the scene thoughts of the devs or seiyuus in so we get some insight into how they went about with their respective titles.
@@overworkedsalaryman i think other clock up titles also has after game note. i just can't play their other titles cause they rarely get translation only 2 more got translation eroge office and maggot baits but i couldn't 100% any of those due to save corrupt both times at 98% progress lol. i am surprised that there are few denpa novels only
@@theamazingfan8889 rip the corruption though that's some crazy bad luck but yea wish that more itles got translated ... it's kinda unfortunate how the market for that didn't manage to grow during its boom more.
With how Japanese society was back then especially it's surprising how little denpa content there was indeed since it feels like the kind of thing that'd sit pretty at home with many of the people into this media at the time especially
@@overworkedsalaryman i think not only visual novels but gaming in general declined in Japan atleast console gaming that's why PlayStation moved to America (and got ruined) ahem. As for denpa novels I think companies didn't want delve into them that much maybe because it was a risk factor. Btw one thing I noticed in eroge office title by clock up they actually self inserted the clock up office into game cause in game you can see posters of game euphoria I think it's set in the time period of when euphoria was being developed.
@@theamazingfan8889 Can imagine they would do inserts like that for easter eggs since it does make for an intereting nod for the fans. But yea it does feel like console gaming has been falling off in Japan as well now. It does seem like aside from the switch most consoles can't really compete as well anymore because more of the younger generation are getting into pc gaming as well it feels like
Congratulatios on 2k Sir Salaryman Overworked
Thank you based saber enjoyer it's thanks to you guys that the channel is even here in the first place after all o7
Congrats on 2K! It was nice Q&A, especially learning you have been in Poland (my home country)
Keep up the good work 👍
Yea I was there for about 4-5 days I think in Warsaw and some cool dude was willing to drive me to Krakow since he was headed that way. Got to see the salt mine it was pretty awesome tbh. But yea it was an interesting place to visit for sure.
Also thank you and if anything I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It's thanks to you all that the channel even got here in the first place after all!
Hey, glad to see you managed to get 2K sub, keep the good work !!
Thank you if anything for supporting till now. Didn't think we'd even get here by this point so it's pretty cool that you n everyone else who helped it get here found it interesting enough to come along on this ride with
congratulation reaching 2k. I feel like Yostar picture put minimum effort into blue archive animation(lack of quality, weird directing and action scene, breaking character etc) which makes me sad. Keep up the good work
Thank you! If anything it's thanks to those like you who've supported for so long that the channel is even here. But yea the anime really did feel kinda underwhelming. On the one hand I guess it's because they used their internal animation studio which doesn't have much experience yet but even then... wish it was better
No way, i wasn't the only one who heard the singaporean accent in your voice heh
Also i can add to that discussion of workforce gender presence in the eroge creation. One of the examples i can give is, lets say a hypothetical "Beauty isn't skin deep (yuri)" game that the art team had a specific member setup (atleast during the first project i worked on the CGs), it was only 5 people big, 3 males and 2 females (though it would grow exponentially by 2016). Each of the artist had a specific role to work onto their allocated CG pile, one would focus on the atmospheric setting of the novel, thus designing soft pallete CGs with only the minimum of affectionate connection between the characters. One would focus on the 'standout' CGs -as they called it- which focused on having an emotional impact ongoing between the characters, and one (me in this case) to be behind the passionate scenes, which would be more of a softcore or a play-state type of mood. the more experienced female artist of the team, would sit in a call with the others and point out design or anatomical discrepancies, give tips on polishing the art or highlighting certain zones (not always the naughty stuff, sometimes you want focus on the background, as the backdrop is key into how the player perceives the current situation to be, and can be very distracting if not done right. The experienced artist was also the one responsible for the more.. hardcore stuff CGs, and would basically supervise the whole art quality.
In order to be able to carry out to her standards effectively, each of us were given crash courses on CG poses using 3d modeling tools (the -good- bad old days of maya model keyframing....) and how to draw bodies with semi-realistic proportions and what kind of curvature to pay attention to. the female team member was actually placed in the role of the soft pallete slice of life CGs, as she had a great deal experience in making shoujo doujinshi, and thus was more tailored to subserve the 'ordinary beauty theming". In specific to the male members, they had to learn the external anatomy very thoroughly and to focus on certain angles, like half tilt shots with both characters at a near perpendicular angles, or to never direct the characters face towards the screen directly, but just slightly below, among others (even had like a homework of sorts... imagine having to browse for ecchi fanarts or even official works on the internet every week and learn from how they drew specific scenes using specific angles and why this works to accentuate emotion or sensual stimulus -or just go monke mode and try to brute force it- haha there totally cannot be a job like that.... i totally did not have that surely).
It does depend on the demands of the team in question, but since our doujin circle had two experienced workers with proper high production eroge portfolio backing us (the experienced artist in this case, and our director), there was a higher than baseline standards, for a doujin work that is this is likely to be standard in bigger companies maybe.
It might seem off to people in the other adult oriented industries, but they definitely know how to use the artist's viewpoint to the advantage over here -if the team director is not a crippling alcoholic that is.- You can more or less have the artist either use the keen awareness of their own perspective to give the players a similar 'in-the-moment' feeling, or you can have an differently gendered artist use the knowledge of what is alluring to the characters in question, and make that be a focal point of the art. Of course, there is overlap and exchange of this roles, as one grows in experience.
Yes i know, i seem to sound overtly confident, despite having worked what really amounts to the tutorial stage. But having worked with another doujinshi circle before that one, i can immediately notice how a properly experienced person carries themselves in these matter. it almost seems like a semi-professional audit, the way they tackle and fully take advantage of what could be initially considered limits/lack of regulations in the system.
(Also yes, the game i mentioned here does exist, but of course not directly in that name, but that was the working name during production. A nice tidbit is that, this is one of the few circles who made a habit of releasing their content in both physical and digital copy, but the digital copy would be altered in pre-production to have a kit unlock feature, so the western releases can have the uncensored version 1without having to make a re-release of an asset update- )
Anyways, i will shut up now 🤐
That's interesting though to hear about the way that they got the rest of the team to pick up drawing the female anatomy if anything XD
But yea in situations like this if anything a mixed team tends to functionally work a lot better as they understand better the anatomy of the gender the target audience is into better though it's always funny how people usually assume that only doods draw lewds for doods etc. That and as you mentioned those who are experienced especially if the tools used are similar across time too since they'd prolly have found work arounds for limitations as well I'd imagine.
Im surprised DarkestDungeon didnt make the cut o0. Really like the take on understanding and tolarence and very based sharing👍. 38:41 - Neko-chan! U madlad with balls of steel, Hina in public ///./// 🍻おめでとう on the milestone once again!
ngl イリヤ sure has great plot 😆
Thank you if anything for also asking a qn for the vid and helping get the channel here i anything. Funni thing with darkest dungeon is that it's a good game i still sometimes play on streams now so I do think it's a good game but it's one of those where I do know that the code is so spaget that it apparently bugged out some features ppl don't know actually exist so I feel like my view of the game might be kinda biased tho I do think it's a good game even then
what's the lore with the hina shirt?
@@poornapatel409 It just looks kinda funny and in the video I initially made where I mentioned buying it I made a mention about how even though it's kinda funny since it's themed after a school swimsuit and the material actually feels really good to wear especially in summer it wouldn't be something I'd wear out of the house.
Though as a homewear shirt the material actually works p well
Congrats on 2k, King!
Thank you m(_ _)m and double thank you for supporting till this point if anything!
It’s obvious that back drop is simply greenscreen…. Also congrats on 2k!
I swear I actually went out and touched grass for once in my life it wasn't VR clearly.
Joke aside though thank you
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Aaaah I just came home from work. I missed it 😢. Wait, was it a stream?
Welcome back! It wasn't a stream so you didn't miss out. If anything you're right in time for the video
7:13 And than you as well. Honestly with me you heat 3 key poins on why I watch your content. Blue Archive, Game Dev, and Japan. It's a blessing from TH-cam that it re comet your channel one day
@@_Kaori_Miyazono_ I'm glad you enjoy the videos that much to be honest and I'm glad youtube's algorithm chose to be nice that time XD
Congrats for 2k subs!
Thank you and double thank you if anything for watching!
koe de oshigoated
You saw it!? 👀
Truth be told I really found that manga kinda interesting because of all the talk about the vn industry it did in the earlier volumes alongside the funny plotline they had going on with how her acting skill thing worked. Was kinda sad that the ending felt a lil rushed though although at least the final volume was kinda interesting that it was packed with a mini-sfw vn as well.
Also, I saw the podcast you were in previously it was quite interesting to hear that much about magical girl stuff tbh 🙏
Hoshiai no Sora and IBO are both trash
I found those to be pretty fine. They do have their bad points tho for sure so I can get not liking them like how IBO telegraphs deaths further than the Voyager 1 sends phototage back to Earth but overall within their genres I'd say they do stand out in an interesting way.
Though I could very well be wrong since if it was that good Hoshiai no Sora might've actually gotten a second season instead of having to try to fund it indie.