I Can't Belive My Best Friend is a Praying Mantis

[Wizardly-K9]

You know about Otome games, right? Those games made for girls where the goal is to pursue one of several pretty boys? Well... somebody is making one those where all the pretty boys are replaced with hideous monsters.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2014-06-04/doujin-circle-promotes-creature-loving-otome-game-with-new-video/.75146

Yes. This is real. Because Japan.

 

[DANEgerous]

Is it weird that I find this not so much as bland (it is not bland) but rather just something that I expect to happen? I mean Is this weird? Yup it is but given our time things that are weird are easily brought to light, one video or interview hits the Today Show or any news run by a major media corporation and it is like a match hits an ocean of gasoline. Look at the recent Slender Man nonsense to many it is very new and that thing that is of the internet but how any of us have known of it for several years, I assume most of us. So yeah in closing is this odd? Sure but we expect odd, frankly I find that kind of fantastic,tech bless.

 

[Aerosteam]

So it's a followup to the previous game? This time it's a girl who has to choose between two monster guys instead of a boy who continually gets put into awkward situations involving a human-sized cricket? No, Japan. Not this time. Still no.

Spoiler: If you are curious, here's a screenshot of the previous game. NSFW... I think.

 

[Queen Michael]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

No, this is not a low-context post. WHat I just saw was something that seemed like it lives in Cthulhu's nose.Screaming like a banshee on speed is the logical reaction. WHo could want this game? Who would pay for this game? WHo? Who? Who?

 

[JoJo]

Wat. Either this is a parody game, or the market for insect / monster fetishism is much larger than I thought... not judging but that's eh, surprising 0.o

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Okay, so. I made the mistake of clicking on that link, and the still shot on the video there has a blue... something whose face is made of eyes. And it's wearing eyeglasses. That only one of the eyes can see through.

Oh, Japan.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Why what, Loki?

I dunno, I guess it's a weird thing from Japan.

But Loki, cultural differences enrichen the human experience!

I know. I know.
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Did not know about Otome games but it's nice that Japan is catering to the female-with-a-Cthulhu-fetish demographic.
... yet Nintendo won't do gay couples in their dating game.
Oh SNAP!
Just kidding, just kidding. It's their game, they can do whatever the fuck they want with it.

PEACE!

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Ah romance and mandibles. Handy, I'd just ran out of nightmare fuel :/

 

[Wizardly-K9]

Wat. Either this is a parody game, or the market for insect / monster fetishism is much larger than I thought...

If I've learned anything from Japan, it's that there is a market for EVERYTHING.

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

Isn't there a dating sim about pigeons that's being remade? This at least seems like it's in the same ballpark, so it's not that crazy really.

Mantis-fetishists have been under served for too long.

 

[Gamer87]

Ah romance and mandibles. Handy, I'd just ran out of nightmare fuel :/

Hey! Romance and mandibles go very well together in Mass Effect. It's the best romance in the game!

 

[FPLOON]

Yes... Yes, I can believe that... because one of my friends is considered a Succubus...

OT: This is, like, one of those game you would play [with friends] and laugh at the obscurity of it all...

This is [also] sounding like something parodied on Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai for some reason...

 

[Madame_Lawliet]

I've seen weirder, I spent three years frequenting Tumblr, very little surprises me anymore.

Fun DM fact: Call of Cthulhu gives you the ability to give your players a fear of something OR a fetish for the same stimuli if their sanity is lowered enough, this game has given me all sorts of new and creative ideas for how to torture my players.
Thanks Japan!

 

[Elfgore]

I believe they're parodying the recent popularity of Monster Girls down in Japan. Thanks to Everyday Monster Girls and Monster Girl Quest, along with the aid of Kenko Cross. Monster Girls are really popular with manga and h-games now. This is just for laughs, though some girls may be into it.

 

[The Enquirer]

snip

I give you a lot of credit for embedding all those gifs.

Anywho, I just started laughing uncontrollably at the video thumbnail before I even got a chance to play it.

 

[Hargrimm]

Guess you guys haven't heard of hatoful boyfriend

 

[Vegosiux]

I believe they're parodying the recent popularity of Monster Girls down in Japan. Thanks to Everyday Monster Girls and Monster Girl Quest, along with the aid of Kenko Cross. Monster Girls are really popular with manga and h-games now. This is just for laughs, though some girls may be into it.

That was my first thought, too. Honestly, some of them monster-human hybrids are downright creepy. I keep wondering who comes up with all that stuff.

 

[Shinsei-J]

I'm gonna go for the kawaii bispectacled lovecraftian tentacle monster on my first play through in hopes for some hot tounge on tentacle action. It's the colour of his eyes that just make me want him.

But really even if this is a parody, monster x human action has become quite a trend recently.
Personally my favorite monster girl/guy thing I've seen has to be the manga Monster Musume.

Spoiler: Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou

Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou

It's a good ecchi harem manga if that's your thing.
Just the right kind of terrible in all the right ways

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Just when you think the internet is done with you, it makes you stay up just that little bit longer.

Well, I'mma go into a corner and curl into a ball now.

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