Otome Mc - Blog Posts

This has been bothering me since I started playing otome games, especially the Ikemen series (aka “Kidnapping for Fun and Profit Romance”). Why are the MC’s always helpless as shit and/or shaking in their boots as soon as the love interest gets into some kind of scuffle?

My daddy didn’t teach me to throw a haymaker so some malnourished nineteenth-century twat could pick me up and carry me away. When the MC is threatened by an antagonist/random mugger/whatever plot device, I want an option to say, “Bitch I can bench-press you and your Dickensian orphan buddies, go eat whatever sewer rats you use as a protein source and come back to me in a couple months.”

Maybe it’s a cultural thing, and the Japanese market likes their protagonists sweet and innocent, or maybe I’m just white trash, I dunno. Give me an MC who is about to take her earrings off and turn her rings in ‘cause she is gonna step to these fools.

In summary:

I feel this about the set MC appearance (and one reason I like Obey Me! is that they don’t do that). I got a boy cut and no curves and I dress like Saul Goodman on drugs and I want my androgynous representation GOD DAMN IT.

But also I’m trying to learn Chinese so props to AL for helping inspire me to study.

reasons why afterl!fe is better then Obey Me

pros & cons

obey me ;

pros ;

• nice and well developed (some) characters

• good plot

• devil points are easy to get (daily missions, events, etc)

• fair prices (devil points, vip, etc)

• gender neutral, no set gender for the player

• has no appearance for the mc, so you can put whoever in it

cons ;

• nightmare events. the rates are unfair, and only depends on luck (i have shit luck)

• favoritism. they play favorites with the characters AND players.

• new lessons. they’re great, but the amount of strength is ridiculous. its becoming to where you HAVE to spend money to play.

• events. theyre great, cards are amazing, but the prizes and amount of event points you need is becoming bullshit. 93k points? 127 points per battle, 3 plays a battle. its becoming insane.

• ap. the ap doesnt need to take 5 mins to get just 1. its insane as well. takes like, 8 fucking hours to get full stock.

After L!fe

pros ;

• in different languages (chinese, english, japanese, korean, thai(?)) for players around the world (mainly in asia & countries with english as a main language) can play

• dont play favorites. they’re equal with characters AND players. (for download milestones, you get 10 premium tickets but have to log in at a certain UTC time.) the characters are getting their own SSR cards (i think they already have a separate SSR card per character, the rest are events).

• events. they’re easy to play through. very nice plotline, + its very long. the prizes in the events are fair.

• ap (sp in this case) is easy to get. it takes 1 min to get 1, which goes by very fast.

• the characters. theyre well thought out and have different and unique personalities. they have backstories that make them them, and are different for each character.

• there is no set dating option, just the characters & you (the manager). you can choose which character you want to favorite, but wont get really intimate options with them.

• prizes (or gifts for the characters) are easy to get throughout the levels. the levels are fair as well.

• plot is well thought out.

• side characters (nyang leader, sei housemaster (let me have sei >:() as well as the characters/animal hybrid things from the levels get introduced to the plot.

cons ;

• money prices. love the game, characters, and stuff. but the money prices, $5+ for one pull, yeah kiss my ass. 👺

• ep. why does it need to take 30 mins to get 1 refill. maybe lower it or something, to maybe 15 mins instead of 30?

• the amount of storage it takes up. stop making me fill my storage up with only after l!fe i have photos 😭 and other shit

• set appearance and gender. ok, i dont mind the gender but the appearance, it needs to stop i swear. im done with the mc having brown hair and no other hair color. its annoying. maybe i want the mc to be someone who got shit on by a goblin >:( and the gender, yeah it’ll be a bit upsetting for those who are non-binary and male.

thats about it. thanks for listening/reading <3