up: collections_of_mirages

core themes of this franchise:
delulu
conspiracy theory
paranolia
move-on from traumas/sins by relying others
trust and friendship
twisted way to cope -> bad decisions

question -> answer(question from other people’s perspectives)
similar to blazblue? but more mysterious vibe

rena

• on 2026-03-30 midnight till morning, I spend 5-6 hours skimming higurashi wiki pages, listen some parts of the tsumihoroboshi-hen (confront rika and keichi, vs the keichi) to learn more about her psyche
• quite charming in weird way tho, not because of her yandere vibe but rather her mysteriousness and quirkiness.
  • interesting combo of some gap moe tropes
    • trope-cloudcuckoolander(weird/quirky person): pinkiepie, falin from dungeon meshi, mumei
    • trope-conspiracy_theorist: uuuu from umineko,
      • I like how she delulu but also smart enough to doubt herself many times
    • trope-beware_the_nice_one: fluttershy, how she was boom 3 bois and all mirrors of her old school, nanashi mumei
    • trope-badass_adorable: mumei
    • trope-determinator: willing to do some impossible goal
    • trope-dissonant_serenity:
    • trope-sherlock_scan, trope-hyper_awareness: smart, lie detector with 95% acc, exceptional investigator, autism
    • trope-obfuscating_stupidity: terrifying
    • trope-tragic_girl:
    • wise beyond her year trope
  • some tropes that seems interesting
    • foil: contrast with keichi (the male protagonist)
    • macgyvering: asspull
    • trope-nightmare_fetishist: interesting trope
• I like her laugh but not her iconic maniac laugh, because the first gives me mid delusional/denial vibe while the other is a plain sadistic laugh.
• I like her hat, it gives an art student vibe idk.

created on: Tue Mar 31 2026