for people new to riamu, she's always in some kind of surrealistic experience:
- traumatized by the ritual of land diving in vanatu
- hallucinated a 6-year old self + age regressed due to trauma
- "filthy otaku" in euphoria getting touchy with idols
- death game saw trap
when i say that three women singlehandedly changed otaku internet culture more than any other force in the world... reimu, miku, haruka... you've made herstory
i've become a fan of so many idol groups and franchises and series and games, but out of all my years of loving idols... i think these two images really hit me the hardest.
simply and beautifully explains why people love idols so much and why people dream of becoming them
no because the whiplash is fucking real.
you go from nikki seeing dead bodies everywhere during a bloody war in the hell tundra to her dressing up in a “which cunty bitch will eat the hardest” contest
the nikki series as like "dress up doll games" have had the most ridiculously complex epic fantasy lore, like if a barbie game was dealing with war and societal upheaval and assassinations and drug smuggling and banking systems so it finally just being an rpg makes sense
thinking abt the recent conversation around respecting fictional characters' emotions in card art and how when this card came out jpPs were photoshopping her on random images and intlPs were captioning it like "me when they put extra pickles on my whopper jr"
gacha games being the major source of content and lore for pre-existing series that had other methods of telling stories (anime, console games, manga, light novels, etc.) is literally the worst thing to ever happen and is just a money grab that puts all its eggs in one basket
bonus riamu trivia:
her ssr2 features her flipping the viewer off. due to bamco’s relunctance to use this image on promo material for the brand and game, her ssr3 was released earlier than anticipated to cover for this LMAO
if we went to the gakumas animate cafe and i ordered saki's theme meal bc she's my tantou and i got back her digusting flavorless white person gymrat slop i would actually start to cry i think