Romantic Comedy Otome 'Cupid Parasite' Is Coming To Switch This Year

I got nothing against these otome games but damn there seems to be way more otome than bishojo, need more games like date a live and world end syndrome

My gaydar is going absolutely bananas. This being an otome game and not yaoi does not compute.

the Switch could definitely use more games like this that are designed for people who like guys.

I'm not the target audience, but there are a LOT of Switch owners who would lovingly snap up every such game.

Remember when Nintendo was known as a "kid friendly" company?

I'm not a fan of Bishounen looking dudes and they have no six pack though.

Woman need love to. (Yes you men to)

And a Western physical release to boot?

What timeline are we living in?

Not even the runaway Wii attracted these sorts of games.

In any case, why are the blokes in these games always hairless? Even Wario’s bare torso in the Olympics game was completely hairless, and that bothers me... a lot.

Not my type of game but the artwork here is amazing.

That is some gorgeous character design.

I can't wait for this one! It's supposed to be a really funny romcom which are currently pretty rare in localised otome (Variable Barricade is coming too later).
I love my serious adventure and sometimes thrilling otome but I like to play different genres of it too!

@UltimateOtaku91 I think the reason for that is because bishoujo/eroge are more focused on PC. On PC they can have adult content while on console they can't. So most original eroge are released on PC and not everyone is keen on buying a censored console port. Otome games on the other hand only rarely have adult content and most often start out on console.
This is why there are way more otome games to localise on Switch than bishoujo. I personally wish for Tsukihime to come west too...

Hitch a terrible egotistical matchmaker? Did we watch the same movie? 😶

Hitch is one of my guilty pleasure films.

Funny premise, but you're not selling me on the idea that these hot anime guys can't get dates because of some personality foibles.

The art is fantastic.

@nessisonett I mean, bl and otome stuff are both aimed at a cishet female demo, so there being stylistic similarities wouldn't really surprise me.

@Ralizah I had a friend in high school who was basically the western equivalent of a fujoshi. It’s only now I’m older that I actually realise how massively dreadful it was being involved with someone like that. The gay experience is turned into this weird toxic nightmare that’s spoon-fed to cishet girls in a way that blinkers them when it comes to real life actual gays. Some of the power dynamics in these BL games are stomach-churning. I fully understand why my mate gets irritated when she sees lesbian content clearly made for heterosexual men.

But when are we gonna get Fortune Lover?

I doubt anyone will get what I'm talking about without Googling it.

@StefanN

It's been years since I've seen Hitch, but it might be a difference of interpretation based on the gender of the viewer.

I feel like Hitch's character may come of differently to women than to men. Obviously, I don't know that for sure, so take it with a grain of salt, but I wouldn't be surprised if that turned out to be true.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about the character if I'd had people like him hit on me in real life.

@nessisonett The way modern "yaoi" and "yuri" anime/manga are totally make sense when you realize 90% of it is meant to feed the sexual appetites and gay/lesbian fetishes of straight women and men. Which has been true of bl since the beginning, since it was always meant to be an outlet for Japanese women to explore their sexuality sans the patriarchal norms that loomed over even fictionalized heterosexual couplings. Yuri arguably started in a more genuinely queer place, but since then it has been almost totally co-opted by himedanshi.

Finding decent content in that vein is like looking for water in the desert. Especially bl stuff, which leans so heavily on rapey/abusive character dynamics. Still ashamed of myself for watching Gravitation so many times as a kid, although, in fairness, I literally didn't have other options.

@UltimateOtaku91 Absolutely agree Switch could do with more bishoujo games.

@Kiwi_Unlimited Now that you say it...i saw the movie when i was like 12 or so. Actually thinking about how he was, i can see him being sort of obnoxious. But i mean, he did really care for the girl he wanted to date, so i guess that's good 😄. But yeah, to really be able to judge, i should watch the movie again.

@StefanN

I, personally, can't be sure at this point, either. It's just been too long.

It seems Kate has given us a movie assignment.

@Kiwi_Unlimited Pretty much haha