Wagamama High Spec (ワガママハイスペック) did pretty well for itself last year. It even got a short-form anime, and a way better one than that princess stray cat got — word is the latter ran out of money entirely. And when a game sells, a sequel is inevitable. So Madsoft sat on it for nearly a year and put out Wagamama High Spec OC. At first I assumed it was a sequel, and Madsoft’s own copy sort of implies that. In this “sequel,” the class rep who wasn’t a route before, April 1st Kanade, the protagonist’s editor-in-charge Takatsukasa Chitose, and his homeroom teacher Iwakuma Yukari all get promoted to heroines — while the original cast stays available too. No trial version. Straight to the full release. Which made me wonder — is this just a fandisk? Then I saw the price. Nearly 10,000 yen. You can’t be that brazen. Booted it up. Holy shit. It’s a fandisk.

Ever since I cooled off on audio gear, I switched to buying CDs. Buying CDs is actually pretty nice too—you focus on the music itself instead of using earbuds to listen to the same few crappy songs on repeat. I picked up a bunch of CDs recently, so here are some quick thoughts.

So I played a shitload of Japanese adult games again this year, but compared to last year there’s actually some progress. Last year I think I played 80. This year I counted… 77. See, fewer than last year. That proves I’m one step closer to becoming a normie, right??

There was a weird new show in the April anime lineup called Wagamama High Spec. I forget how they translated the title into Chinese — something like “Selfish High-Spec.” Barely any content, insanely short episodes, and it made basically no sense at all. Turns out it’s an eroge adaptation, and the game hadn’t even shipped yet when the anime started airing, so the whole thing was just a promo ad for the game. Whether it’s a short or not doesn’t really matter. In the end, how good this thing is depends on the game. A while back I saw someone saying DOOM was going for a retro route, and I don’t buy it. DOOM just went back to what games fundamentally are; that’s not retro, that’s how games should be. Speaking of retro, I’d argue Wagamama High Spec is more of a retro thing — retro for eroge.