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What otome games are you playing this week of May 4, 2025?

Weekly what are you playing post! Post about the otome games you have been playing!

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I've finally continued my current run of Jack Jeanne! My wired headphones broke some time ago so I put off playing until I got new ones lol
I'm still on Soshiro's route, and it's a really...different experience? so far. I'll get into it a little more detail in the spoiler, but he's really struggling with not keeping up with his peers.

I'm also challenging myself to clear all rhythm games on extreme this time around, it's not as hard as I expected \o/
- So a skill issue on his part, literally. Yeah, I have not really seen that in otome.
  everyone practices a 15 minute mini-play about an aspiring singer and a tapir that wants to eat this dream of becoming a performer.
  That's definitely a wild plot. Is this tapir a dream-eater, or is it specifically about destroying that one singer's dream?
  Best wishes with the rhythm game!
  
  It's based on a mythical creature called baku that eats nightmares. The play is called "Baku to Boku", so "The Baku and Me", I think.
  I would have rather expected this kind of plot in a shonen manga/anime about competitive sports, not in a romance game. I really like it though! They set up this competitive environment early on in the common route, via a bully side-character, and it really makes sense. Only the best get to play the big roles and join the theatre troupe at the end, after all. It's really relateable as well tbh
  It's also a huge contrast to Suzu's route, which I played first. He's brimming with confidence and talent and naturally grabs all the attention, so you never really see him faltering like that.
  
  Now I'm curious about what the LIs' and MC's storylines in regard to theatre are. And I can indeed tell you that performing arts, while fun, can become very competitive and full of stressful comparisons of yourself to others (or an ideal you who practices more and has more "grit" and determination), because in the end that is what happens when people audition. Each auditionee gets evaluated on if they fit any part in the show, and if multiple people fit multiple parts they get compared to others, especially on if they have the skills to pull off what it takes. This causes lots of drama and angst in real life, and I'm wondering if the game's storylines match on to the patterns that I know exist in real life.
  
  The competitive drama mainly happens between the first year students, the older ones already are more or less settled in their "hierarchy".
  Though they do mention that the two star students who usually play the main roles and work as a pair used to beef a lot due to a talent mismatch 🤔