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otomechuchu · 7 years

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I hope it's ok to keep asking u about POTM lol, it's just my new obsession. I've been feeling a bit discouraged bc I've noticed abracadabra japan has mostly been focused on their BL games since seraphino came out but they're still doing events for POTM which gives me hope that they haven't dropped POTM. I just downloaded the japanese lust in terrror Manor and noticed there was literally no news in the news feed but that's not the case with potm. So my question is: in your opinion, do u think the fact that they released events for POTM in March means that i should still hope for continuation? Thanks and I hope it ok to msg u like this, I just don't know who else to ask about potm

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Hi.

That’s ok :) Just ask away~ Let me just get this out of the way: Princess of the Moon is still a new game.

So, I would say that Abracadabra “specializes” in BL games. However they do have some “normal” otome games as well. Many of their games don’t really have room for more than 3 characters (because that’s how many are introduced in the story. Just look at Beloved Nightmare and Vampire Lover) but are still worth reading.

They have not dropped Princess of the Moon, Lust in Terror Manor, Love Never Dies, Vampire Boyfriend, My Superstar Boyfriend, and Feral Boyfriend. The other ones I don’t know, but they haven’t gotten new content in probably 1 year.

While I can’t say anything for the Japanese version of Lust in Terror Manor, I can say this: it got released a few days before Halloween 2016. There will be an event this month and they have not yet decided on their next character. However, I am really sure it will be Naoto. And Abra haven’t been the fastest when it comes to releasing new characters.

Vampire Lover had only 2 characters. It took around 10 months before it released the new character, Shion. Love Never Dies came out August 2016 with 3 characters. It took 7 months (March 2017) to release the new character Shi Jin. Princess of the Moon came out January 12 2017 with 2 characters. Seraphino (nr 3) came out February 24 2017. I think this one was really fast, although I do think he was supposed to be released at the game launch. He did after all have items meant only for him in the shop.

So, unless it’s been 1 year since they released new content in a game, I don’t think you should give up. Also, even if it’s a game that no longer release new content, I still think it’s worth reading if the story interests you. Beloved Nightmare was cute but never got any extra content (no gacha, no event), I still don’t regret playing it. (but I played it when it came out and didn’t think it would be a dead game).

#ask me anything #question #Princess of the Moon

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thisguyatthemovies · 4 years

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Plant life

Title: “Little Joe”

Release date: In theaters Dec. 6, 2019; on disc/streaming March 10, 2020

Starring: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Leanne Best, Phenix Brossard, Sebastian Hulk, Andrew Rajan, David Wilmot, Yana Yanezic, Lindsay Duncan

Directed by: Jessica Hausner

Run time: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Rated: NR

What it’s about: A plant breeder engineers a flower that makes humans feel happy, but at what cost?

How I saw it: “Little Joe,” the story of a flower engineered to make people feel contented, gives viewers much to think about – and plenty of time to ponder. The pace of Jessica Hausner’s brainy, Kubrick-esque science fiction film can best be described as sssslllllooooooowwwww. Cameras pan back and forth with all the urgency of glaciers. The story just kind of lies there, waiting to go somewhere. The film has all the entertainment value of hanging out in a lab where botanists develop new hybrids of plants. Which is to say, this ain’t no party.

But talk about depth: “Little Joe” is an allegory for coping with life through mood-altering prescription drugs. It also could be an allegory for self-medicating with recreational drugs and/or a veiled take on religion, if that’s what you choose to make of it. It also addresses such weighty matters as the illusion of happiness, one’s ability to choose their own reality, the need for love and intimacy, corporate greed, the hunger for fame, the way the mentally ill are treated, hurdles faced by women in the workplace, workplace relationships, workplace romances, the struggle to balance home life with work, life as a single mom, mother/son relationships and … well, isn’t that enough? “Little Joe” might not seem to have much going on to the casual viewer, but it will give you plenty to chew on if you dig a little.

Emily Beecham stars as Alice Woodard, a single mom who heads a project to develop a new strain of flowers at a lab that presumably is in England. She is also a single mom with a boy (Joe, played by Kit Connor) in his early teens at home, but Alice spends more time at work than with her son. Her flowers are engineered to make their caretakers happy by releasing oxytocin, described in the film as the “mothering” hormone. Going against protocol, Alice takes one of the flowers – she calls them “Little Joes” in honor of her son – home, telling the human Joe, “You have to take good care of it, keep it warm, talk to it. It’s a living being. It needs attention. And affection.” And if you think that makes the flower seem like a human, that’s precisely the point.

But, as with drugs, there’s a tradeoff for Little Joe’s therapeutic qualities. The plant, because it was engineered to be sterile, releases a ridiculous amount of pollen in an effort to reproduce. The pollen includes the oxytocin, which instantly changes any human exposed to it. They become happy, but not doing cartwheels happy; more like the flatlining, brainwashed happiness produced by a drug like Xanax. When Joe is exposed to Little Joe’s oxytocin, the changes (not all of them good) are noticeable. But they are explained away by Alice’s co-workers – especially Chris (Ben Whishaw, who plays Q in the most recent James Bond movies), who has befriended Joe and has a romantic interest in his mother – and her therapist (Lindsay Duncan) as the normal maturing of a teenager. Alice also blames herself for neglecting her mothering duties.

Alice starts to notice strange behavior among her co-workers, especially Chris. Also noticing is her rival at the lab, Bella (Kerry Fox), whose efforts to develop a flower that needs little care have failed. Bella tries to warn Alice of her flowers’ negative consequences, but those warnings are dismissed because, as Chris explains, Bella had to take a year off to deal with mental health issues. Eventually Alice recognizes the problems, but will she stop production of the Little Joes? Her plant, if ready in time for an upcoming flower fair, could bring her lab fame and fortune (at least by botanist standards), but it also is likely to adversely alter mankind. The Little Joes are practically surrogate kids to Alice, which means she could have trouble seeing their faults because of her love for them.

Beecham is exceptional as Alice (she earned the Best Actress award at Cannes for her efforts), a woman who is fighting for respect at work (male co-workers accuse her of breaking the rules to develop her flowers) and for the love and respect of her son. She is a gifted botanist but struggles to accept even the most pedestrian of compliments. She wants to believe in the accuracy of her work, but she wants to be socially responsible, too. Beecham manages to capture Alice’s inner turmoil and her human need for love, both as a giver and receiver. The supporting cast is strong, especially Fox. Connor also stands out as Joe. A scene in which he and his girlfriend, both exposed to Little Joe’s pollen, team up to convince his mother to try it sounds a lot like people who are high urging someone at a party to join them, while also seeming like a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses doggedly attempting to convert a non-believer.

The lab in which Alice works is suitably creepy, sterile and spacious but locked behind glass doors and walls. Light green (the official color of science fiction) is prominent throughout (not unlike in Guillermo del Toro’s 2017 Oscar winner “The Shape of Water”), but it is dotted with splashes of color, most prominently Little Joe’s crimson pedals and Alice’s red-orange hair. The avant-garde, Japanese-inspired score, by Teiji Ito and Markus Binder, is mostly a mix of flute and odd noises, including a high-pitched squeal, crashing sounds and what seems like a pack of angry dogs. It works wonderfully at first, but about halfway through it seems obtrusive. Some of the scenes seem like they would be just as disturbing, maybe even more so, if played over silence.

“Little Joe” doesn’t build to a big, dramatic payoff, though the final line of dialogue is absolutely creepy. Its strength isn’t in its suspense but in its layers of sophistication and in the questions it raises along the way. It’s too strange to be accessible. But it is a rewarding film for the thinking moviegoer.

My score: 78 out of 100

Should you watch it? Yes, unless weird, thought-provoking movies just don’t appeal to you.

#movies #movie recommendation #movie reviews #little joe #science fiction #botany #social commentary #emily beecham #jessica hausner

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