Talks about otome games, drama cds, and occasionally provides advice? Running away endlessly from my backlog of hobbies.

Ilinox

Well, you can try to curse the merchandise for this banner to be mid, my wallet will thank you—HAHA. If they make something out of the animations to sell I'm going to be doomed... and I think they will because they did go through the effort of making those confession cover pages that didn't get used anywhere (although they might be game assets). The 5th anniversary livestream is in two days too, so future collaborations and an artbook might be announced there.

... Is this a safe place to say that I feel like a crazy person for not seeing the 1st anniversary callbacks? LMFAO. If pressed, I can make some connections between the two banners, but nothing immediately jumped out to me about being a callback. The trip down memory lane really is crazy though, as well as the new reveals about how many times we brushed past each other in the past only to finally meet in that first encounter.

I think "happiness" and "marriage" are incredibly hard topics to land for people, because everyone has very personal views, ideals, and shapes for these things. It's not something like sadness where everyone can basically universally agree on things that are sad like loved ones (people and pets) dying, dreams going unfulfilled, etc. So, just like you, I'm not big on marriage, proposals, or even a sense of ceremony, but the PV still made me sigh with emotion at everyone's journeys up to this point.

Putting all that aside though, I'm actually a huge sucker for the trope of two people being drawn together by the universe LOL. There's something super romantic about how, even if you miss your first chance of meeting someone important to you, you'll eventually encounter them again.

Well, you can try to curse the merchandise for this banner to be mid, my wallet will thank you—HAHA. If they make something out of the animations to sell I'm going to be doomed... and I think they will because they did go through the effort of making those confession cover pages that didn't get used anywhere (although they might be game assets). The 5th anniversary livestream is in two days too, so future collaborations and an artbook might be announced there.

... Is this a safe place to say that I feel like a crazy person for not seeing the 1st anniversary callbacks? LMFAO. If pressed, I can make some connections between the two banners, but nothing immediately jumped out to me about being a callback. The trip down memory lane really is crazy though, as well as the new reveals about how many times we brushed past each other in the past only to finally meet in that first encounter.

I think "happiness" and "marriage" are incredibly hard topics to land for people, because everyone has very personal views, ideals, and shapes for these things. It's not something like sadness where everyone can basically universally agree on things that are sad like loved ones (people and pets) dying, dreams going unfulfilled, etc. So, just like you, I'm not big on marriage, proposals, or even a sense of ceremony, but the PV still made me sigh with emotion at everyone's journeys up to this point.

Putting all that aside though, I'm actually a huge sucker for the trope of two people being drawn together by the universe LOL. There's something super romantic about how, even if you miss your first chance of meeting someone important to you, you'll eventually encounter them again.

*clown noises honk honk* I told myself I would refrain from buying more presale merch for a while (like you mentioned in a recent perch, because of 180 day preorder and 90-day storage proxy kicking my ass mostly)....yeah ahahahaha. fuck. Welp. Gotta buy more stuff when the time comes then because I am not about to ship a handful of things just to get taxed on wasting space. [or maybe just release 2nd artbook bruh]

i'm so down bad for the animation. the callback to 1st anni is gutting me so badly, just oh my fucking god. I don't know, this shit making me cry. I just am so down bad for these callbacks (like not to compare too much, but for themis' 5th anni wedding, I don't even care for marriage but the pv for that got me so bad because of just how sentimental i was). even the titlecard and all the fucking mathematical equations got me. lord.