Deniisu

Is by rewatching Utena (NO WAY everything starting from just before the last battle, especially the winding staircase and the fates of Ren, Takuto and Goro were just a coincidence) because Utena did it better, even if I find interesting how the Anthy role would change for a male character like Goro - I've seen an essay going around that the role of "male Anthy" in SKU goes for Touga, and Goro's prince outfit DOES resemble Touga's uniform a little, they both have fangirls, etc. But still, Utena has the better story and does not treat the girl with the sword as a Mandatory Waifu (and when Utena conforms to gender roles in certain points of the plot, it's a Big Deal and framed as bad).

To realize Sula's Shuake fanart was more accurate than everyone expected!

But I digress — despite enjoying the massive Shuake pandering (ok, mostly enjoying the Shuake fandom reactions) even if it's not a masterpiece or my main P5 ship because I'm weak for m/m fanservice, I'm still cold-angry about the rest of the PT's shit treatment from Atlus, especially Yusuke. Since for mental health reasons I don't want to get too emotionally involved about this kind of stuff, I reworked my anger into some cute Sims 3 Shukita screenshots you can see here — no, the written commentary isn't stellar (SORRY FOR THE PUN), it was just something to justify why they were sitting on a frozen sidewalk. Enjoy the cute pics.

All of this made me sorta-revert to Castlevania fandom, but the mad lad that's my mind ended up elaborating a P5S (yup, because of weird metaverse shit happening on the real world that's not just Mementos + excuse to travel to Hakuba) + CV crossover/AU/fusion that would end up fitting on the Castlevania timeline! I ended up bouncing ideas with mieldyne and rikkuni and... it could actually work, even if all of us are shit about coding (despite my diploma). For now it's just silly stuff. I'll post the details here, but not right now since I've already had to translate it into English for Miel since I discussed in Portuguese with Rikku first =_=

 Some of you know I'm the writer of the Mayonaka Danshi FFA origfic - not a big deal, I never wanted it to be a secret.

Thing is, Minato needed to be fannish about something other than classic shoujo manga to make him feel more realistic to me as a 18 year old boy, so I searched for something that would stir his imagination and would have that cross-demographic appeal so it would be plausible for him to discuss it with the manga club girls.

SO YEAH, PERSONA 5.

And God help me, it fit the character a bit too right, and while there is a chapter that he gets positively nerdy about it because of SPOILERS, i gotta restrain myself!

It does not help that Minato hawthorne and Ren Amamiya are two dark-haired, pale skinned megane with a tendency to be huge flirts :P It also does not help that I've hanged out with SMT fans for a while.

OOOH BOY.