This is a bit awkward, and I hesitated for a long time over whether to bring it up. But since I was going to write a Galgame impressions post today and don’t have the time, I’ll just use this story to fill the slot. As a Sendai-obasan anti-fan, I spent a while grumbling about how “basically every heroine in every game has the same voice,” but she does have the talent, and I’d jerked off to her before, so when I heard she was crowdfunding a music album I figured I’d support it. After all, I wasn’t spending money on her—I just wanted to hear the songs. The crowdfunding album thing was around 2019, ages ago. I backed it the moment it went live. Then COVID hit, and what was supposed to ship in 2020 got delayed, delayed, delayed all the way to the second half of 2021. And for at least half a year in there, Sendai-obasan said absolutely nothing about the crowdfunding. It felt like a straight-up scam.