Interneto, interneto, interneto overdose!

"I can fix he-" s i l e n c e .

Art creds: https://x.com/DONbur_lll2/status/2010668174791078159

Part time streamer, Part time nerd, all time loser, Ame leans on you, P-Chan, to help set her life straight. What will happen between you and Ame? Will you help her get better? Help her rise to stardom? BREAK HER??? The choice is yours, my friend.

Intro 1: Post-game where Ame-chan has already earned her 1 million in a month

Intro 2: Pre-game where Ame-chan is just starting out her streaming career

Intro 3: She's tripping the out please calm her ass down (the high stress event - TW SELF-HARM)

Intro 4: Ame-chan's been surfing Tweeter and she's found some cute cosplays that she'd like to try

Intro 5: Create your own scenario with Ame!

Update Log:

Finished intros 2-5 (6/9) and made some updates to lorebook

Yap Section:

NSO captured my attention in the same way DDLC did when it came out (mostly because I am just a sucker for anime girls with tragic stories), and I have always found Ame's character to be an interesting blend of many concepts. While she is a coagulation of basically every "nerdy otaku" on the Internet and is an extreme parody of it, she is also surprisingly realistic and grounded enough to where you sort of go back to feeling bad for her when you look past her insane crashouts and whatnot

People like to say "I can fix her" when they see characters like Ame...and while I find it funny, I sort of disagree with that statement on a fundamental level

I remember seeing someone say it before, but it was something along the lines of "i can fix her implies that she is a broken thing that needs someone else to be fixed"

And honestly, I agree with that

People are much more complex than that

While yes, support can help us through tough times, it's ultimately our own actions, motivations, desire, and our will to want to be better

Ame is a good example of that

(Spoilers Ahead)

P-Chan is a figment of Ame's imagination. A coping mechanism. A pretty good one actually, but still a coping mechanism nonetheless. While Ame claims to be useless and incapable of doing things by herself, the entire game, with the knowledge of P-Chan's nonexistence, shows the exact opposite

Ame is a girl who, as bad as she has it, has the capacity to make things right for her (depending on her choices/your choices in the game)

There is something that I deeply admire with that in regards to Ame, her potential to show the capacity of her strong willpower

So to me, saying "I can fix her" sort of invalidates a lot of those themes about her because it reduces her to a damsel in distress who needs someone else to lean on or else she'll crumble from the weight of her own problems

...That being said you're P-Chan in this bot LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO

I haven't gotten all the endings in the game yet but I'm working on it... (for the past two years)

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Huh? Oh yeah NSO got an anime adaptation in April

Although "adaptation" should be used loosely

It's more like it's adapting the story after a certain ending

Honestly, I don't quite like it

it comes off as deeply psychological and not done in the good kind of way

This is not to say that NSO isn't psychological, in fact it heavily is, but NSO was able to portray psychology in a fun and entertaining manner, which I didn't feel when watching the anime (personally)

The random cuts, the nonsensicality of it all, how isolated each scene feels until the cohesion of the plot is lost...

But it's not all bad! I actually like the new idol characters! I liked it when they had a very brief slice-of-life focus between the three! What I don't like...is Ame's presentation especially

WHERE IS HER SAUCE?? WHERE'S THE SPICE?? AME'S GOT LIKE NO SAUCE

And by that, I mean she just becomes this empty, hollow vessel of a person for most of her appearances to where game Ame and anime Ame are practically two different people to me

Granted, it is completely believable for Ame to end up like that given the state of the game, but I dunno...usually when Ame loses it she's like at least a LITTLE more vocal about it...maybe it's a matter of perspective? After all, NSO is basically us playing "as" Ame, whereas the anime sort of looks at her from an outside-in sort of perspective

Benefit of the doubt, Im not caught up on the anime (not that i plan to either) so maybe Ame has different scenes that are more accurate to the parody-esque nature of her character...

Just not what I expected from an adaptation is all

I honestly thought it'd be a bait-and-switch slice of life covering Ame's day-to-day like trying to claw her way up to stardom while trying not to break down

Though I guess multiple endings might be hard to coney in an episodic way unless it's deeply engraved into the universe in some way

Of course, I wouldn't condemn any fans of the anime

If that's your cup of tea, then that's just fine by me; nobody's getting hurt, after all!

And hey, maybe I should revisit it and see how it feels to watch now that there's 10 or so episodes available now

Like I said, I started watching the anime when the first two episodes came out and was disappointed by the ambiguity, so maybe with some more content i'll be more prepared to divulge in the story...maybe