Makiba Rika -> Aoi Natsuki -> Byakuya Rinne -> Manaka Nemu -> Hokari Kanae -> Brute\Devil End (True Bad End) -> Good\True End (Main End) For my reading, I used this one ( ), which helped me optimize my experience tremendously, but my personal recommended routes order is: The final reveal and True Endings are what makes this Visual Novel truly great, but you can easily miss them if you don't know what the VN expects of you as a reader. I genuinely believe that she hadn't actually read the whole VN, and finished it at the start of the climax, while thinking that this is the actual end of the story, which ruins the whole experience tremendously. Let's go back to Sydsnap's Euphoria review. If you got interested, I will now go into the details of how to experience the Euphoria VN technically since its narrative structure is a bit confusing for new Visual Novel readers. Experiencing the character development both Keisuke and Nemu go through is a very unique experience, which is something that could only be done in the Visual Novel media and the Ero-Guro genre. Remember the feeling you got from the prologue I just described as the Visual Novel will reconstruct it in a way I found incredibly masterful and unexpected. The similarities between the VN and the Anime also end here. That pretty much sums up the prologue for the VN and the first episode of the Anime adaptation. Nemu, one of the other 5 girls, rather suggestively points that fact to Keisuke and later blackmails him for getting erect at the sight of a girl being executed. Keisuke witnesses it with disgust, however, finds himself with a massive erection. At this point, one of the girls refuses to accept it and tries to escape, but is not able to since she gets captured and brutally executed via an electric chair. Then, the announcer lady says they will have to perform different sex activities to escape. The protagonist of Euphoria, Keisuke, wakes up in a suspicious white facility, where he finds himself and 6 girls trapped. *Minor spoilers for the Euphoria Visual novel* The whole reason the vast majority of people watch the Euphoria Anime is to later say: "Look at what messed up shit I jerked off to!", which is similar to saying "I watched the Monogatari Series for fanservice, I wasn't really paying attention to the dialogue." Unfortunately, the Euphoria Anime can be watched only as a weird jerk off session, but the VN provides so much more than that. In the VN, sex scenes act as a tool for character development, but in the Anime, they become the whole purpose of the show, which is, unfortunately, how most people view works depicting sex and fetishes. All the worldbuilding, character development, plot, etc., are completely stripped in the anime adaptation, only retaining the superficial elements - the sex scenes. Reading it takes about 30-35 hours for all routes, while the anime is only 2 hours. This superficial understanding of the Euphoria VN does a huge disservice to the actual story, which is the reason I wanted to share my experience with this work.įirst of all, the general outline of the Euphoria VN. It boils down to "It's disgusting with its depiction of sex and fetishes and, therefore, a terrible and traumatizing experience", which is how the creators of the anime adaptation likely felt as well. If you go to Youtube and search 'Euphoria visual novel review', the most popular video (at the moment of writing) is "This Visual Novel Traumatized me" by Sydsnap, which is so blatantly disingenuous that it's kind of appalling to watch it. *This is adapted from my Euphoria Anime review*
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