SOU PRINT DONE super happy with how this came out, speedpaint comes out on friday on my youtube channel! :) I’ll probably be starting on the next one in the next few days, but i also want to do some dangan prints as well nwn/
Plugging my very long comic via meme
Some dolls but they're like, normal.
Just a normal island vacation.
Sou Hiyori and Kanna’s Sister Parallels
In my short time in the Your Turn to Die fandom, I haven’t seen anyone discuss the similarities between our Sou Hiyori and Kanna’s older sister Kugie. This subtle parallel is one of the many fantastic writing details in this game, and it happens to be my favorite one. So I wanted to talk about it!
I love the irony that the characters in YTTD draw a more obvious parallel between Kugie Kizuchi and the game’s protagonist, Sara Chidouin. Both Sara and Kugie are high-school aged girls, and Sara often plays the part of Kanna’s big sister, leading Kanna to project her feelings for Kugie onto Sara. Although this is sweet, it’s still a superficial parallel. Sara and Kugie play the same role, but how similar are they really? If you choose to chat with Kanna on the first day of Chapter 2’s storyline, Kanna will tell you the truth about her adoptive sister. Instead of idealizing her, Kanna paints a more complex picture of a flawed young woman. Unlike Sara, Kugie bullied Kanna when they first met. It took time for the pair of them to feel like real siblings. On a deeper level, Kugie’s own mini-character arc is very different from Sara’s arc, but it perfectly mirrors Sou’s arc!
Both Kugie and Sou have a cruel streak and they each make rash judgments about other people. However, they eventually reveal with their actions that they truly love Kanna deep down. While Sara can make the choice to abandon Kanna, both Kugie and Sou would die for the girl. Because of the striking parallels I see between Kanna’s memories of Kugie and Kanna’s present relationship with Sou, I want to believe that Kugie was just as willing as Sou was to die in order to save Kanna’s life. Kugie’s story effectively acts as a microcosm of Sou's story. So let’s take a close look at it.
Sou gets outted as an anime soft boy by his own AI
Why calling it "logic versus emotion" makes sense
At the end of chapter 2 in Your Turn To Die, the player is forced to choose between killing Sou or Kanna. Kanna frames this as a choice between “logic” and “emotion,” where saving Sou is the “logical” choice and saving Kanna is the “emotional” choice.
Personally, I love the writing in this part. I think it’s the strongest writing in the whole game. However, since joining the YTTD fandom, I’ve read various posts from fans who don’t like calling this a simple choice between “logic” and “emotion.” For them, it felt like an emotional choice to save Sou, while it was a logical choice to save Kanna. After seeing this argument so many times, I decided to unpack my feelings on it. I also wanted to write my own defense of why calling this a choice between “logic” and “emotion” makes sense, at least to me. For me, it all comes down to how it’s written as a choice between two opposing worldviews, and I don’t focus on the little technicalities. I’ll also argue that the game is using descriptive language, rather than prescriptive language.
But first, we have to deal with a strange irony about this choice:
For the genre-savvy player, yes, it IS “logical” to save Kanna and “emotional” to save Sou.
this wasnt supposed to happen
Some of the characters from freegame キミガシネ/Kimi ga Shine/You Die. Top: Sara(MC) and Joe(MC’s best friend) bottom left: Keiji(Cop) bottom center: Kanna(depressed girl) bottom right: Sou(komaeda-y ouma-y lying piece of mysterious meat) i just love this game so much….god its so good.
Bad End Part 2 (YTTD Fancomic)
Spoilers for Chapter 3-1. Please read the first part of the comic before this one.
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Gin Annoys the Dolls
I was wondering how Gin could operate the voting tablet with those big paws
Seriously, you guys need to stop grafitting the wiki. It's not funny, it's just rude. Somebody has to go and fix that, you know. Somebody has to take time out of their day to clean up someone else's bad behavior. Just...why?? This is already such a difficult time, why do you want to add a bit more stress to someone's life for your own amusement. It kind of reminds me of the people who pull pranks on minimum wage workers. Less extreme maybe, but still a rude thing to do.
And everyone else, stop laughing at these people. Stop encouraging them. It's not funny. If you want to giggle about it to yourself that's one thing but when you post your amusement online all it does is encourage this behavior.
I don't want to appointment myself as some kind of moral authority. I just hope the kids doing this kind of stuff can see this and stop to think about their behavior for a moment and whether or not they're hurting other people