Kusarihime: The Horror Visual Novel That Changed Everything (Patreon Cut)
Added 2024-05-12 19:05:26 +0000 UTCCW: This video makes reference to assault, parental and sibling abuse, trauma, and other sensitive topics.
A Dropbox repository with an uncensored copy can be found here!
As the inspiration for works like Fate/stay night and Saya no Uta, 2002's Kusarihime is the horror visual novel that led to everything changing -- so just how does this ambitious work about rot, memory, and humanity hold up over 20 years later?
Script and sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18z7GoWUtoI5C016I8KKQTbOMdEFj3qKG_jlT1UtzcEY/edit
This month's shoutouts:
https://www.youtube.com/@TechAmbr/videos
https://eyelessdraws.tumblr.com/
00:00:00 Preface
00:01:11 The Rotting Princess
00:03:11 Synopsis
00:05:34 Kurikaesu, Kurikaesu…
00:07:25 A Cast of Outcasts
00:14:38 Meteoric Meteo
00:18:03 Aural & Visual
00:24:08 Patreon Break
00:29:06 Rot
00:45:46 Despair
00:57:20 Hope
01:04:30 Closing the Loop
Music list coming soon!
Comments
i'm finally getting around to watching the video... you never fail to be eye-opening in some way, if that make sense. i feel like i actually learn something with each one you produce, and it's not just learning about the existence of "obscure" visual novels and the like from japan eeing my name scrolling in the patreon section is real awesome to me. i'm glad to be in a place to support my favorite creators, even if only a little... and noticing the typo in my name feels like a genuine badge of honor i want to tape to my wall
mortimer's ghost
2024-05-28 15:58:52 +0000 UTCholy crapp i just subscribed so awesome this is the first thing i see! i was just looking into this vn
cvr
2024-05-26 03:55:22 +0000 UTCI'm really interested in visual novels (and narrative games in general) that have linear stories but use choices to let the reader influence the POV character's perspective. It sounds like there might be an EN fan translation in progress for this title, so I hope I get a chance to play it.
Plasma Ring
2024-05-20 01:44:32 +0000 UTCAnother absolute banger of a video - and GOD I am mourning that this game has never had an English localisation because it sounds so profoundly my jam.
Rae Stevens
2024-05-16 20:42:17 +0000 UTCits very interesting to get to hear details and analysis of something I knew about tertiarily through it inspiring a lot of things I like, and also seeing how it may have done so in ways I'd never have expected. even if there is no intrinsic meaning in anything, that simply means that the meaning we chose to give them is what matters the most, be that feelings or memories :)
Michael Joyce / BeigePaladin
2024-05-16 01:10:42 +0000 UTCthe end section made me think of this quote from Night In The Woods: "At the end of everything, hold on to anything."
PeachTea
2024-05-13 15:28:42 +0000 UTCYurirei mentioned! Ghosts are horror, right? Jokes aside, a great video about what sounds like a great game. Trying not to spend too much money right now, but my finger might just slip and grab this sometime soon.
Mara Gebert
2024-05-13 04:48:43 +0000 UTCOooh, a video from the future! (2025 05 12) ;)
Armchair Archivist
2024-05-12 22:40:42 +0000 UTCJust finished the video! You always do am amazing job with your storytelling and how it personally relates to you. I've had different experiences than what you've told but I feel so seen with your discussions of self. This video definitely produced a few tears and just wanted to say outstanding work.
junopo
2024-05-12 21:54:43 +0000 UTCWow, this is awesome, you just released this video on Mother's Day.
Lael Hochberg
2024-05-12 20:08:11 +0000 UTCI'm a group mom... I'm honored!!!
Noelle Aman
2024-05-12 19:39:47 +0000 UTCIVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE YAYYYY
Victoria Vela
2024-05-12 19:39:07 +0000 UTCSorry, there was a typo in the name that made it show up in the wrong place. Try now ^^
Noelle Aman
2024-05-12 19:34:27 +0000 UTCWe eating good tonight!! Thank you for all your hard work!! I'm super stoked to watch this! Have a great day because you deserve it!!!
junopo
2024-05-12 19:31:16 +0000 UTCi clicked on the dropbox link but the uncensored version wasn't there??
PeachTea
2024-05-12 19:30:20 +0000 UTC2 seconds into the vid and i slammed pause to come to the comments and scream BLUE REFLECTION MUSIC USED!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Yurigasaki
2024-05-12 19:27:21 +0000 UTCOmg this is a gift in particular for us that r motherless <33 happy mother day to you too , you r now our mom too (if that’s ok) sorry don’t make the rules ^^ (so excited to watch this!! What a great way to spend a day that’s normally lowkey crappy lol)
Katrissa Balle
2024-05-12 19:25:38 +0000 UTC
