No.6763
There's nothing controversial about the games aside from the developer being a schizoid crook.
No.6772
Since the Internet Archive is seemingly collapsing and Funamusea tends to delete her shit I've made a folder on Dropbox with not all of her content but some important stuff that's not easy to find like the Shimejis that were on her site around 2015, the original Japanese versions of the games and even the translations. Will be updating it over the weeks with stuff I find.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/81qjyd12plnw20sxx0odf/AJ5wzyqqM6eqxkJuafiNFq0?rlkey=imjj718lqgj1himfpzqaa8d5s&st=z2hxfjd2&dl=0 No.6773
>>6772ahhh~ holy fuckkkkk i'm cumming!!!! oooooo my gaaaahd it's EVERYWHERE.
*kisses you on the lips*
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. we WILL be downloading :^)
No.6774
>>6773wow at least take me out for dinner first
No.6775
>>6772I've always been interested in this developer but I downloaded Wandanohara and never played (read the 1st manga though). Interested in learning more about this dev and their games. The designs are cute too.
>>6763Can you elaborate? How are they a crook?
No.6776
>>6775>Interested in learning more about this dev and their games. The designs are cute too.They've made a trilogy of indie horror games (Mogeko Castle, Wadanohara, Gray Graden) which were pretty influential in the rpg maker community during the early to late 2010's. She's also worked on a visual novel called Ice Scream, an unfinished manga "Obsolete Dream" and an unfinished animation series "Poison Bugs". But from what I've seen most people don't really seem to care about these three and only play the rpg maker trilogy or shitpost about the billions of characters she has.
>Can you elaborate? How are they a crook?Not that anon but he's got a point. The mangaka's pretty infamous for being a textbook menhera and not fulfilling any of her promises. To give you an idea her completion rate for commissions on Skeb is 17%, we've gotten barely any updates on the new manga that was announced in 2023 and it's been 10 years since the sequel to Mogeko Castle was announced with the last update on its status being from 2020. Moreover, these things have caused people in the community to lose interest in her content over the years.
So yeah, while I enjoy DSP's games, manga and lore and don't mind the
incest cunny rape present in them, even I have to admit she's got a couple screws loose.
No.6778
she had some big family debts to pay off so she was busy with that.
right now she is back to work on the angels and demons manga.
she even streams at least once a week.
though she does shift focus between her projects a lot, going from one thing to another in the middle which drags things along.
either way i think the games are the weakest of her works, being pretty boring walking simulators. ice scream and all her manga are much more enjoyable, so it's a shame only her games get recognition.
No.6779
I personally found TGG pretty boring and unironically believe it'd have worked better as some sort of manga or animation. Mogeko Castle was good but all the endings felt unsatisfying and left me with more questions than answers. Out of the three main games i'd say Wadanohara is the one I liked the most. It has a lot of filler at the beginning but once it gets good it gets really good.
As
>>6778 said Ice Scream is really good too and it's pretty sad it doesn't get as much recognition as the others.
No.6781
Honestly I think what carried these games more than anything was the fandom (which these days is a shell of its former self). I discovered these games like 9 or 10 years ago and was really active in it. It really was one of those things where you just had to be there. I miss being a stupid teen and still having hope for Gaiden.
https://youtu.be/oaRtcfTazFE No.6786
>>6775Is the manga worth the read? I loved the game all those years ago but never read the manga because by that time it hadn't been finished yet (and knowing dsp it probably still isn't finished today, but it must be more complete than obsolete dream at least)
No.6787
Well i guess it's over for real this time. I think everyone saw this coming at this point considering it's been a fucking decade.
Translation courtesy of le reddit:
>Game production has ceased indefinitely>I will only make drawings for now on>Accepting suggestions>I will retire from Ci-en>>6783Aged worse than milk
No.6790
>>6787>I will retire from Ci-enWhat a bitch, never delivered even 20% of things promised during her cien subathon campaign
No.6791
>>6790I'm a dumb faggot, what are these games about? Explain like i'm a retarded child please
No.6792
>>6791It's a collection of short stories made in RPG Maker, usually with guro and questionable handling of serious topics. Wadanohara for example starts out with a sea witch and her friends making their return to the Sea Kingdom. The game ends with
her being raped and almost murdered in front of her crush. The Gray Garden is essentially just a playable slice of life anime. Mogeko Castle is about escaping a horde of rapist cats with 2chan-esque humor thrown in. A lot of the appeal of Funamusea aside from the fact that they were one of the "big" names during the Indie RPG Maker Horror craze is the fact that she also draws manga and the fact that she has as many characters as the Touhou series. But as the previous anons have stated the creator's a bit of a menhera who has issues handling criticism and tends to not fulfill her promises.
No.6793
>>6790>20% of things promised during her cien subathon campaignnever heard of this please elaborate
No.6794
>>6787>>6790>ゲーム制作無期限体止Game production suspended indefinitely
[She wrote "体止", which isn't a standard word, but probably meant "休止", meaning pause or rest or suspension or cessation]
>•絵は描いているI am drawing pictures / (I'm not working on games, but) as for pictures, I am drawing them
>•依頼も受けてますI am also accepting requests/commissions
>•Ci-enに引きこもるI will hole up in / withdraw to Ci-en
[The verb is "hikikomoru", the origin of the word "hikikomori"]
>ばいばーいBye byye
>>6793Ci-en is like Patreon. The name presumably comes from the word "支援" ("shien", support).
No.6795
>>6794thanks for the better translation anon. i know what ci-en is. i just have never heard of the subathon campaign anon mentioned
No.6797
>>6796If anon's translation is correct then it sounds like she's just going to take a break from making games (let's be honest they're cancelled since like 2020) and will stick to skeb and ci-en
No.6817
>>6816How is this game controversial?
No.6819
Apparently IPs from both North and South America now are blocked from her website. I really think she should just stop engaging with her community for her own sake, Twitter fags are gonna be Twitter fags and talk shit about anyone.
>>6817It's not. It's another case of people disliking edgy shit in their games like it happened not long ago with that coffin game except Funamusea's work predates that western memeshit game by nearly a decade. But it also doesn't help that the developer of those games is also mentally ill and sensitive to criticism. See
>>6776 No.6820
>>6819TBF my personal website redirects American visitors to websites with randomly selected pornographic comics, so I don't blame her for that. Contrary to my predictions it increased the click-rate of my website from American users.
The art and games look okay even if I will likely give them a pass. In general I am not a fan of "games being edgy for the sake of being edgy" but I could be possibly totally wrong and being plain prejudiced. In fact, I have not played the games!
Yet that does NOT give me any entitlement and reason to be butt-hurt about such content existing and people enjoying it…
No.6821
>>6778One of my friends once described her as "the Kanye West of game developers" and i haven't stopped thinking about it since. She really is that mentally ill.
No.6823
>>6820The only game she's made that i'd consider edgy for the sake of being edgy would be mogeko castle which is about an incestuous emo chick hiding from
rapist cats. Though i'm not mistaken she said that game was inspired by 2ch culture so it being edgy makes sense.
>>6820Turns out it's only latin america that she blocked (except Argentina because Makkoeda lives there). It's funny that she decided to block latin america instead of the US considering 90% of the harassment towards her comes from there and latin america has always been more supportive of her work. The mind of a menhera really is an enigma.
No.6824
>>6786I haven't played the game but I read the first volume and it was cute if not a bit meandering
No.6830
>>6786the manga is done and definitely worth it
only half of it was officially translated to english because the 2nd half is too dark apparently, which is really stupid, but you can read it online
i think it's an infinitely better experience than walking through 15 identical maps to the next cutscene
No.6831
>>6830Considering half of tumblr wanted her dead for that rape scene in the original game i'm not surprised. Is that part actually even in the manga?.
Also just noticed we have a funamusea banner here, i hadn't seen it before and i've been here for about 8 years.
No.6932
Man, this fandom died a really slow and painful death didn't it. I've been here since 2014 when the Mogeko Castle remake came out so I've been watching everything unfold over the years. I was there for Ice Scream's release, the Tumblr incident, when The Little Witch by YZYX had just come out and was a big deal and a sign of how big our community had grown, the rise of SatanIvlis, the "I have reached the bottom" pasta, etc. All that remains are archived fanworks from deleted artists and new people discussing stuff that has already been discussed to death.
But yeah, after 10 years of false promises you kinda get tired and lose hope. I don't know why she even bothered with that Gaiden trailer in 2020 when we knew she wasn't going to release the damn thing.
Sorry for the long blogpost anons but I really miss this community.
>>6819Apparently the ban only affected Latin America. But as a latino myself, yeah I completely understand why she'd do that. Our online communities rival the Russians in edginess.
No.6933
>>6932https://youtu.be/HlC5camqoNUI still don't understand why Deep Sea Prisoner fans attacked this artist so ruthlessly hard. What's the lore behind this other than having a similar art style?
No.6934
>>6933I don't recall them ever doing this tbh. Least i remember is seeing people compare their styles but not direct attacks. I could be wrong though.
No.6935
>>6933Wait there was a Pyohato RPG?
No.6936
>>6762Yosafire is for Emalf
>>6932The reactions to the Wadarape were always priceless, it really fucking sucks DSP has the lazy shit + physically disabled combo and can't get shit done for the life of her which killed all momentum she had going on back then
I hope we at least get Carnival Rhythm and Ice Scream finished before she fucking dies
No.6937
>>6936>I hope we at least get Carnival Rhythm and Ice Scream finished before she fucking diesAnon… I…
No.6942
honestly im glad the games are cancelled and she can focus on her better projects now
i hope she will complete obsolete dream chapter 9 at least
No.6944
>>6941>As of the 17th of July, 2021, during her 40th livestream, Deep-Sea Prisoner showcased her progress on Carnival Rhythm. It was stated Carnival Rhythm will be finished before The Gray Garden (Remake).K i l l m e n o w
Shrimp looks so cute, perfect blend between Yonaka and Yosafire, it's a shame her game will never see the light of day
>So yeah, i guess some teenage girl's yuri rapefic was going to be canonized with this next game.Funamusea isn't exactly past shit like this but she does know better when it comes to separating her more extreme self-indulgent fap content from her actual games so that sucks big time to hear
Ah welp.
No.6945
>>6942>i hope she will complete obsolete dream chapter 9 at leastAnon, this is Funamusea we're talking about. We still haven't gotten a single page of Decem: Anges et Demons and that was announced last year.
No.6946
>>6944Let it go anon. Funamusea is no longer in her 20's, she's in her mid 30's. Both her physical and mental health have deteriorated drastically over time (or at least that's how the Misskey posts make it seem) and having been on Xitter for decades exposed to constant hate from western Twitter certainly hasn't helped her case. I think the vtuber incident was the last straw.
We're never getting another game, or a manga, or even commissions. She no longer has the time, energy and motivation to create things. Your best bet is to start a fangame and hope it doesn't crash and burn like Umikoume and the Secrets Of The Sea (anyone remember that?).
