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Make whatever you want to make, but Western devs seriously need to stop calling things Otome that are not Otome. The Otome genre is FxM relationships, period, point blank. It'd be like referring to something as Yuri when it features a male protagonist...

Genres exist for a reason. If people just arbitrarily decide words mean whatever they feel like, what's the point? It sure doesn't help with classifying things properly so people can find what they're looking for. Feel free to throw whatever "ist" or "phobic" word at me you want, btw. I've heard it all before; it wasn't true then, and isn't true now.

exordice16 days ago(+17)(-5)

it's not that deep bro, no need to be so negative on a happy post.

Seraiden15 days ago(+6)(-5)

Psst, things aren't in a vacuum, genres have overlap. Things can be multiple things at once~ there's Japanese otome with female LIs.
Like being a creature collector or dungeon crawler doesn't stop a game from also being an RPG/JRPG.
If you wanna go be a whiny pissbaby, do it elsewhere. o7

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Seraiden15 days ago(+6)(-4)

Maybe longer than my kids have been alive but as someone 35+ years old? I doubt longer than I have(I've been playing the genre since the more known English term was reverse dating sim to boot). And yes, Chou no Doku(AKA Butterfly's Poison) has a female LI, there's also been multiple(sadly mostly gone because app/server shut down) Japanese mobile otome that had a mix of female and male LIs. You don't like the vernacular used on the English side of the fandom? Then go stay out of the overall English otome-spaces because even the otome reddit is a-okay with stuff like this using the term, same with vndb. Or go hang out with the worst of the worst like the self-righteous tween LADS girlies on TikTok. o7

xeb4 days ago(+1)(-4)

They weren't, but sure, go with that if it makes you feel better. A number of Otome have had friendship routes (this was the case for Kyoko in CnD), or are you one of those English players who mistakenly thought the ones in Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side, which was never released in the West, were romantic? Psst... I'm old enough to have played the original TM game with the male protagonist. And, you know... the OG Otome, Angelique? Regardless, even if there were romantic ones, exceptions do not make the rule. Also, rofl... imagine mentioning the "Otome" subreddit as some sort of point of authority, when they're as clueless as you clearly are. There's a reason Japanese players are really getting tired of Westerner's BS (localizers for anime/manga/games blatantly rewriting entire characters/scenes for "a Western audience") and I can't say I blame them.

I don't use tiktok btw, never have. It's brain-rot, which you obviously have succumbed too. Tragic. The heck even is "tween LADS girlies?" I'm not even going to bother looking that up. Brain-rot to the extreme.

Celianna15 days ago(+7)(-2)

You can disagree with it, but be civilized in the comments.

xeb4 days ago(+1)(-3)

I find it questionable that you felt the need to delete my comment, given the blatant hypocrisy of it. Apparently, it's fine for Seraiden to call me a "whiny pissbaby", but my responding post pointing out her/his nonsense (I did type "obnoxious twit," which is hardly the worst thing ever, and the only slightly uncivil thing I did type) is perfectly fine? Uh huh. Definitely glad I stopped being a patreon of yours when you first announced you were venturing into the pronoun nonsense with this new game, waaay back when Aidens' route was still being worked on. Have fun sitting in your echo chamber along with the rest, I suppose.

jaz984 days ago(-1)

very true!

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