I have not watched Aikatsu before, so I have to ask, are there actual vampires in Aikatsu? I see so many vampires in Aikatsu doujins; but I thought it was suppose to be an idol series.

This doujin is a reimagining of Episode 122 "Vampire mystery" where they are actors in a vampire drama. The author explains it in the afterword.

So many multilingual pun names...

Also I'm pretty sure "Jurious" was supposed to be "Julius" so that the "Caesar salad" joke would make sense.

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I often wonder what would happen if these two were found out. Would the police be called in to investigate statutory rape but accidentally arrest Kiri instead?

@Shynaku -- I know. I was referring to how he called them "yuurei", which is not what the characters are called. I agree with everything else you said, though.

@Blank Mage -- Not to be pedantic, but you just called them ghosts. I think you mean "Yurirei" Which was the term used by Sachi to refer to her and megumi combining the terms "yuri" and "yuurei".

But yes. They are indeed the best couple.

@Faust -- It was a joke about watching from the perspective of Sachi and Megumi because they are spying on all the gay sex, I think.

^Can't believe I missed that. I'll have to add it to the bucket list of anime to get around to watching.

While a pervy security camera operator, a jealous girlfriend, and a girlfriend with a secret romance fetish would normally be enough to get me hooked, this one felt like it was all setup with the actual story cut off right at the end. Seriously, I had to double check that there were no more pages. At least it left me wanting more...

Nice! We don't have nearly enough butch yuri.

The green one is Yuma from the Oriko Magica spin-off comic.

This is freaking beautiful

My favourite pairing finally has fanart!

I never knew how much I loved IncompetantSpazxHypercompetantCool pairings before these two.

@Mayjaplaya - If you listen to the drama CD, Ano and Nena get a pretty steamy scene together. it's strongly implied that that pairing is in the future.

On another note, it's great to see some more confident SasaxUmi. I always felt they were a little too awkward in the game.

If the drama CDs are any indication, the writer was just saving these two for DLC. Volume 1 has a VERY near kiss scene in which Nana nearly goes full sexy sadist.

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^^^TBH I want for this to be the thing, then it could mean she could use the zombies to her advantage and be a badass zombie leader and also help the girls get a happy ending

Yeah, that would be nice, but from a storytelling perspective it would be a little TOO helpful. The whole point of a zombie apocalypse in storytelling is that you must struggle to survive in a world where the odds are stacked HARD against you. Everyone is desperate and death and despair loom constantly. If the heroes become too powerful, you lose that.

Danggg Kurumi.. that was cold blooded!! I loved it. This is why she's my favorite.

It was sort of a "him or me" scenario, really.

I'm wondering how this is going to play out with Kurumi, though. I have a hard time believing that she would end up going full zombie in this series or getting killed off, but she seems to pretty clearly be a sentient zombie at this point. Perhaps that "cure" that she and that helicopter pilot took only preserves the mind while not actually curing anything? Or are they going to pull some crap where she's just has zombie powers but is otherwise immune?

@ Hanabi - I prefer to think of it as "Tying up the loose ends".

I shipped them almost as soon as I saw they were both gamers. Good to see I wasn't alone.

I don't normally like Yaoi, but I'm starting to wonder what it would look like if Eromame expanded on the eavesdropping squid-boys relationships with each other.

I do think there is more room for character development though - and the author is using various gags / ideas a lot - but the development doesn't HAVE to be about her feelings for ?Kaede - there is also the otaku stuff. Part of the problem seems to be Shinozaki makes progress in one area or another but then seems to backslide the next chapter.

Another part would be how almost ALL of her friends seem to be varying levels of otaku themselves at this point, thus making her reluctance to embrace it increasingly weird as it would likely have no negative impact on her life and would probably improve all of her relationships.

I'm surprised none of the people complaining about how Alice is not part of the SDM mentioned Aya Shameimaru or Reimu...

We're talking about the credits page, where the costumes used by Akina and friends are listed and cites that all are under the SDM group except for Marisa, who is basically a main character.

I'm not sure it's specifically referring to Akina and her friends. It only said "The costumes this they used..." [sic] and there were definitely Aya and Reimu costumes used in this story.

I'm surprised none of the people complaining about how Alice is not part of the SDM mentioned Aya Shameimaru or Reimu...

http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/shinozaki_san_ki_wo_ota_shika_ni_ch33#29
http://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/shinozaki_san_ki_wo_ota_shika_ni_ch33#24

Or Marisa for that matter.

Even still, it's allways fun seeing Saku Saku Tei getting back to his Touhou roots.

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It was an OK game, but it would definitely needs more than just a remaster if they want it to sell. The continuities of the various routes were inconsistent with each other for no discernible reason, the player choices were mostly irrelevant, and the pacing was incredibly slow with loads of unnecessary exposition scenes. Which was a shame because, if you just look at the cliff-notes version, they had a great concept for a plot.

On a side note, they could also stop blacking out the main male characters eyes so that he doesn't look like a rapist anymore during his sex scenes. But that's probably the most unlikely change a Japanese studio would make...

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Also, the red-head is the grim reaper and the green-head judges the souls of the dead with an iron fist and a black-and-white sense of justice. Who has the next fact about this universe? :)

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D'aww, they look so happy together.

Well this is definitely not one of the typical pairings. Looks like Reimu has finally been drawn in by the strong arms and lovable incompetence of the older Chinese girl. I'd read that doujinshi.

P.S. The text says "Reimu-chan <3" if you're wondering.

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