^^^Genshin anime if it will be made it will 100% have Aether as protag.

A lot of people who play gacha games and are invested enough to talk about them online, at least in the West are men and a lot of them are labels MCs as male because that's allow them to self-insert. You can see it the clearest in games where 100% or almost 100% playable characters are women. Nikke, Blue Archive, GFL Azur Lane even games like Honkai 3rd. It's really hard to find MCs depicted as female in these fandoms, no matter how ambiguous MC is written. I mean there is a reason why GFL had a "cucking drama" and a lot of people on Reddit and such were talking like they IRL partner got stolen.

^Yeah that unfortunately rings true from what I know, and a lot of media wants to cater to audiences like that sadly. Also personally I generally prefer to see protagonists as their own character, and I'm not one for self inserting, though either way Female and Non/Gendered/Non-Binary characters for me. So I think I'm definitely on the outside of things on average with a lot of these fandoms.

Also good lord yeah I heard some about the "NTR drama" with GFL, and I couldn't roll my eyes into the back of my head any farther if I tried lmao

^
Comments "discussing" it were WILD. And places like different "XMains" where X is usually male MC are craaaazy. It's funny how people are usually talk how same-sex shippers are crazy, when places like that are like 100 times more insane. Still remember Aether and Arleccino situation, lol.

And I'm usually doing the same. With very, very few exceptions even in RPGs I don't create "myself" I'm creating an character I'm either control or play, but I don't "insert" myself into. I think only games I kinda did it were first Baldur's Gate and the Sims, like 20 years ago. I never inserted myself into gacha protagonist, I would feel kinda weird since almost all of them have something like "canon" looks, personality that we can, at best steer, but not really change, or they have to take some choices, no matter what we think about it. So I always looked at that like I'm just an observer in the story, that they all are their own characters, not "me".

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And I just learned there are male sinners in PtN (per the wiki 7 out of 100, +1 NB with male first name). I always thought it's mere generic gooner bait so I'm surprised it has apparently so many female players, I wonder why and if its by design.

I prefer a protagonist of any gender over some nondescript husk of a person; sadly that often does not imply being well written. But then, the Pokémon protagonists got big having the personality of polystyrene foam.
(Extra shoutout to the PGR way of having your ambiguous protagonists refereed to as "Sir" and "Mistress" in various places, then doing a character model reveal, and it's just Spartan MJOLNIR armour. That must've been an intentional troll.)

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@Moedred: Yeah I've seen some of the male self insert types be really unhinged and mean spirited. I do remember with Arleccino that around her gacha banner she was unfortunately subjected to some gross homophobic nonsense from artists, I think mainly Aether fans/self insert types. Which is part of why I'm not looking forward to an anime adaption focused on Aether.

I digress as it's not pleasant to talk about and we're getting further away from the topic of this art, so I'll just conclude my thoughts by saying being an observer of a story is how I usually look at things as well.

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Hotttt

Intense

^You're welcome ^_^

Ganbare, Suletta!

probably wearing each others accessories doesn't help lol

The real question is what happened after they held hands because this doesn't sufficiently explains why they walked out wearing each other's clothes.

^Holding hands while completely nude increases the chances of pregnancy, trust me I'm a Doctor

Not into Apple dash but the artist's art is pretty
Jesus how big is that thing it's literally sticking out lmaoo
*Edit just looked through the twitter that thing is actually crazy big oml

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oh my im blushinggg

lady boner achieved

^oh my, this is pretty scary...

poketachy always hits. gorgeous art too

Somehow I feel like she isn't all that keen on fighting said demos

@DrJamesFox oh mb it seemed like you were talking about Kafka haha but I think this artist in particular makes Stelle's bangs shorter in a way it's prominent to show the ears more which makes her look younger in a sense

Her actual model does show her ears but it's only the bottom half that peaks out that's why you get the sense that she can either be a cute character or cool character as the MC

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Damn, Hanako's even drolling

Is this based on this scene from the game?

^Shimaidon

(Also, I should start actually playing Gakumas)

I'm highly recommend this game! the story and art is the best I ever play, and THIS GAME IS GAY AS FUCK, just look Zoya for an example.

The reaction change after the recent episodes lol. What a stark contrast with comments on earlier UiSaki fanarts posted here.

The truth comes out.