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[Valjean Lafitte]

A silly question for Aura, if he finds the time:



It's pretty much accepted "fanon" at this point that the blonde girl in the background of this classroom CG is Saki. But if you had to give a name to the girl at the door, what would it be? Thanks.

[ArcCain]

So I came up with a stupid question. It was so stupid that I wasn't going to ask it but then I thought 'It is Kenji...'

Something that always stuck with me as a odd detail with Kenji was Hisao's mention that he (or his room) reeked of garlic. I don't know why but to this day I remember that particular detail. Now it might just be that he likes having garlic to his food but this is Kenji we're talking about here, nothing is quite as it seems with him.

My question is, does Kenji believe in vampires? Or does he think the garlic will keep girls out of his room?

[Silentcook]

Or he could just be Korean. Buuut, definitely not Italian. Nope, not that.

[ArcCain]

Or he could just be Korean. Buuut, definitely not Italian. Nope, not that.

Is it some cultural pun or joke?

[Silentcook]

It's not definite, but it could be. Try looking up "garlic eaters". The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.

[AnotherMMD]

what happend to mishimmie, it's been days unaccesible, did you decided to shut it down definitively or it is just going to have a prolonged maintenace?

[cpl_crud]

what happend to mishimmie, it's been days unaccesible, did you decided to shut it down definitively or it is just going to have a prolonged maintenace?

The server that was hosting it kicked us off for some reason.

I think someone backed up all of the photos and some of the files.

Since no-one else is volunteering I'm going to see if I can remember how to host a website and then move the files across there, but I haven't done that in years so you'll have to bare with me whilst I remember how to Internet.

[jkascpkmc]

Have you got the image metadata (source, tags, comments, etc)?
I was thinking of scraping the most recent versions of what I could from archive.org, and possibly making a local (open source) shimmie viewer/searcher if not a website myself (although a website is unlikely from me because I'd have to host it from home).
I'm just wondering if I still need to scrape it myself or not to retrieve it.
archive.org has ~39000 saved URLs, there's a pretty good chance at recovering all tags and much of the other info.

[songofthelastsword]

Yesterday, I noticed that there came out a new page domain for shimmie, but it said that the website is still not uploaded.
At approximately what time will it come out, or is the preparation taking long time to finish?

[Valjean Lafitte]

I just realized something... Kenji's disability makes no sense! If Kenji is blind, how did he get to the roof without guidance? How did he steal books from the library? Locate a good hiding place where he could stash them? Unlike Lilly, he doesn't have a cane or a service animal (RIP Niji), or a Hanako, so how does he find his away around school if he doesn't have a clue where anything is? On the final day of Act 1 he tells Hisao that he's only "legally blind", but then later, at the Manly Picnic, proceeds to brag about how his mom sent him some "expensive Single Malt". So you know, he says some shit. Grains of salt are taken.

There's a scene in Shizune Act 3 that, to me, suggests that he gets along just fine despite (supposedly) only being able to recognize things an inch in front of him

ke "Maybe for you; I go beyond the impossible all the time. Okay, whatever, now I'm thirsty too. I'm going to get my own juice, I'll be right back."

"He does come almost right back, so quickly that I suspect he knows about my secret vending machine."

ke "I got you one, too. Hope you like grape juice. We're even for the pizza, now."

Not only was he able to quickly find his way to Hisao's secret vending machine and back, but he was able to correctly identify the grape soda button.

And then a little later in the scene, he's sitting across from Hisao while knocking back a can of soda when this happens:

ke "I can't believe this is actually the medium that our ancestors used to look at porn."

"I spit my drink all over the book I'm still holding, damaging it beyond any hope of repair. I quickly check the back and see its suggested retail price is 7900 yen. I think I might have a heart attack."

ke "Wow, destroyed. Shouldn't have done that, though, they take vandalism super seriously here. You're gonna get caned."

How would he know the book was destroyed? Hisao doesn't even mention that he was reading a book, and it's not even implied that he's very close to Hisao.

It gets even harder for me to take his legal blindness claim at face value when I think about how he and Yuuko were once an item. Nervous, neurotic Yuuko, leading a blind boy around when she already has so much to deal with? I'm not buying it. So to all the devs that wrote for Kenji, and especially Silentcook, what is Kenji's condition, really? Was he really conceived as being virtually blind, or was his poor eyesight played up for comic effect?

[cpl_crud]

I just realized something... Kenji's disability makes no sense! If Kenji is blind, how did he get to the roof without guidance? How did he steal books from the library? Locate a good hiding place where he could stash them? Unlike Lilly, he doesn't have a cane or a service animal (RIP Niji), or a Hanako, so how does he find his away around school if he doesn't have a clue where anything is? On the final day of Act 1 he tells Hisao that he's only "legally blind", but then later, at the Manly Picnic, proceeds to brag about how his mom sent him some "expensive Single Malt". So you know, he says some shit. Grains of salt are taken.

There's a scene in Shizune Act 3 that, to me, suggests that he gets along just fine despite (supposedly) only being able to recognize things an inch in front of him

ke "Maybe for you; I go beyond the impossible all the time. Okay, whatever, now I'm thirsty too. I'm going to get my own juice, I'll be right back."

"He does come almost right back, so quickly that I suspect he knows about my secret vending machine."

ke "I got you one, too. Hope you like grape juice. We're even for the pizza, now."

Not only was he able to quickly find his way to Hisao's secret vending machine and back, but he was able to correctly identify the grape soda button.

And then a little later in the scene, he's sitting across from Hisao while knocking back a can of soda when this happens:

ke "I can't believe this is actually the medium that our ancestors used to look at porn."

"I spit my drink all over the book I'm still holding, damaging it beyond any hope of repair. I quickly check the back and see its suggested retail price is 7900 yen. I think I might have a heart attack."

ke "Wow, destroyed. Shouldn't have done that, though, they take vandalism super seriously here. You're gonna get caned."

How would he know the book was destroyed? Hisao doesn't even mention that he was reading a book, and it's not even implied that he's very close to Hisao.

It gets even harder for me to take his legal blindness claim at face value when I think about how he and Yuuko were once an item. Nervous, neurotic Yuuko, leading a blind boy around when she already has so much to deal with? I'm not buying it. So to all the devs that wrote for Kenji, and especially Silentcook, what is Kenji's condition, really? Was he really conceived as being virtually blind, or was his poor eyesight played up for comic effect?

Maybe Kenji is the reason that Yuuko is so nervous? And maybe she is the reason he thinks that there is a conspiracy... There must be a tale behind that break-up.

Also, as others have pointed out, you can still have a degree of vision and be "legally blind", which I think generally refers to not being able to do things like get a driver's licence. He could be incredibly short-sighted, or it could be that everything is blurry for him, but that would be enough for him to navigate without any aids.

[MenMaatSet]

Firstly - I cordially greet everyone!
Second - sorry for my bad japan english.
And immediately I want to ask, albeit an obvious (as part of the branching of the routes), but a very important question for Hisao's health.
Why, why he did stop running in Lilly’s root? Or, rather, why, having started to run, would he have tied for Amy, or Rin? I understand that this is a necessary condition for setting the “flags” of the fork of the roots, but ... What prevented him from doing the physical training, but still falling in love with Lilly, or any other girl?
Running in the mornings, albeit without overstrain, and spending the rest of the day and evening with Lilly would make Hisao much healthier and save Lilly from many sorrows. Not to mention that a second heart attack would not have hit him, while he trying to catch up with her in airport. And maybe, being more courageous and decisive because of the physical training, he would not have led to an attempt to break off relations at all.

Of course, then there would be no such tension and a storm of emotions (I cried all three times all the time from her departure to the very scene after the credits), but believe me - physical training would be better for Hisao and Lilly. After all, we all love them and want happiness and a long life.

[Kathos]

It seems as if every time i find you somewhere, you are always saying you've visited another country, are you bilingual? I have asked this question on the review you had with MacDaddy but i deleted seeing as i could post it here 5 minutes after

Why do you think Shizune's route is the most hated or rather disliked route of them all?

[cpl_crud]

Yesterday, I noticed that there came out a new page domain for shimmie, but it said that the website is still not uploaded.
At approximately what time will it come out, or is the preparation taking long time to finish?

I think ive finally found an answer! Skip to 14:14

Update: I've found out all of these things and now I know what is going on with the website. We can't fix the Shimmie as the code is all dodgy.

But at least I own the domain now.

[cpl_crud]

Firstly - I cordially greet everyone!
Second - sorry for my bad japan english.
And immediately I want to ask, albeit an obvious (as part of the branching of the routes), but a very important question for Hisao's health.
Why, why he did stop running in Lilly’s root? Or, rather, why, having started to run, would he have tied for Amy, or Rin? I understand that this is a necessary condition for setting the “flags” of the fork of the roots, but ... What prevented him from doing the physical training, but still falling in love with Lilly, or any other girl?
Running in the mornings, albeit without overstrain, and spending the rest of the day and evening with Lilly would make Hisao much healthier and save Lilly from many sorrows. Not to mention that a second heart attack would not have hit him, while he trying to catch up with her in airport. And maybe, being more courageous and decisive because of the physical training, he would not have led to an attempt to break off relations at all.

Of course, then there would be no such tension and a storm of emotions (I cried all three times all the time from her departure to the very scene after the credits), but believe me - physical training would be better for Hisao and Lilly. After all, we all love them and want happiness and a long life.

Hi, I think that the main reason was because it didn't really add anything to the story in any path except for Emi's.

We could have put in a whole arc about him staying healthy, but it would have been a pointless "side quest," so it was better to say that he stopped running.

Also, teenage boys aren't really good at maintaining their health.