Huh. An okay ending but at least its not depressing.

last edited at Sep 19, 2024 5:23PM

Finally together again.

I was worried the ending for this one would make me feel empty like Girls Last Tour did, I'm glad it didn't.

this was pretty trippy and cute, loved the whole journey.

it's shimeji simulOVER folks...
it was a wild ride but i thoroughly loved this one, another absolute heart wrenching and heartfelt tkmiz work.

truly incredible

What an absolutely incredible and unique story. And utterly beautiful.

Best guess as to what this is is Shimiji dealing with the fallout of something happening to her girlfriend, and either accepting it and moving on (relies on egg girl not being the friend in the colored strips) or mending her relationship and both of them being able to reconcile and heal one another.

I might be reading into it too literally, but I felt that the prologue strip happened before the "simulation" and affected Shimeji so much that it took years of simulated time to come out of her isolation.

last edited at Jun 3, 2024 3:44PM

Best guess as to what this is is Shimiji dealing with the fallout of something happening to her girlfriend, and either accepting it and moving on (relies on egg girl not being the friend in the colored strips) or mending her relationship and both of them being able to reconcile and heal one another.

I might be reading into it too literally, but I felt that the prologue strip happened before the "simulation" and affected Shimeji so much that it took years of simulated time to come out of her isolation.

It's definitely a prologue set a couple years before the series, she's in middle school there and high school here. After Yocchan's death Shimeji stopped going to school for the rest of middle school and only started attending again in high school. Yocchan wasn't any Shimeji Simulation character and she wasn't around for any of its events.

the ending was so fucking existential and for what?? 10/10 dude

The whole thing gives me FEELINGS.
10/10

This series reminds me of otherside picnic.

The fear of knowing/being known, but also the joy of knowing/being known. To know/be known is to change. The connection that overcomes the alienation of the universe. We crave freedom but need stability, true freedom is also true loneliness, the bonds that connect us also bind and limit our realities. Stories expand our own limits and show us things we can't imagine ourselves, it's a freedom that comes from being bound up by the ideas of many others.