u/ebi_hime

Hello everybody, this is ebi. I'm a visual novel developer who's released a few BL VNs in the past.

I thought I'd make a post to say that I've been working on a sparkly BL visual novel for this year's YaoiJam called A Studied Seduction.

The story is about an ex teacher, Arthur, who's just turned 35. Arthur worked as a teacher for almost a decade, but he retires after a traumatic incident and begins to work in his parents' second-hand bookshop instead.

By a stroke of good luck(?), Arthur happens to run into one of his former pupils, Mason, who is now 21 years old. Mason winds up working at the same shop as Arthur and, against Arthur's better judgement, the two begin to bond.

Arthur finds himself enjoying his time with Mason, but the closer they get, the more uneasy he becomes. Is it morally dubious to share so much of himself with a former student, and why is Mason being so pushy in pursuing a relationship with him?

You can find the visual novel on Steam here! It will be released before the end of the month for the jam. I hope you will enjoy it if you do choose to check it out!

Hello everyone! I'm ebi and I make visual novels including Blackberry Honey and Sweetest Monster. I know a lot of people in this sub aren't super into BL, but I wanted to post about my recently released BL visual novel on here regardless, because the art is very pretty and it has some rather high production values.

Anyway! My newest BL VN, Once Upon a Throne of Thorns, has been released! You can find it on Steam and Itchio!

The story centres on an assassin, Tavi, who works for a despotic king, charged with eradicating all traces of the former royal family and the nobles who once supported them.

Tavi doesn’t enjoy his job, but a man has to eat somehow. For years, he has carried out the king’s wishes with ruthless efficiency…

Until one day, that is, when he comes across his country’s runaway prince by happenstance, who has been living in hiding and dressing as a woman to avoid detection.

Tavi knows he should kill the prince, but he can’t bring himself to do it. How is he supposed to murder his own cousin?

This story has optional r18 content and it features a romantic relationship between two cousins. If you think this would make you uncomfortable then please give this story a miss. If you do decide to to check it out then I hope you will enjoy it!

I think this VN has some gorgeous art and a lot of love went into it, so I hope you'll enjoy looking at the pretty screenshots at least 🙏

Hello everyone! I thought I would write a post here to let you know that my dark fantasy BL visual novel, Once Upon a Throne of Thorns, has been released! You can find it on Steam and Itchio!

The story centres around an assassin, Tavi, who works for a despotic king, charged with eradicating all traces of the former royal family and the nobles who once supported them.

Tavi doesn’t enjoy his job, but a man has to eat somehow. For years, he has carried out the king’s wishes with ruthless efficiency…

Until one day, that is, when he comes across his country’s runaway prince by happenstance, who has been living in hiding and dressing as a woman to avoid detection.

Tavi knows he should kill the prince, but he can’t bring himself to do it. How is he supposed to murder his own cousin?

This story has optional r18 content and it features a romantic relationship between two cousins. If you think this would make you uncomfortable then please give this story a miss. If you do decide to to check it out then I hope you will enjoy it! 🙏

Hello everyone,

I'm ebi and I've made a few yuri VNs in the past which were decently well-received, like It gets so lonely here and Her Love, Like Poison. I'm making a quick post to let you know that my historical yuri visual novel, Bittersweet Blossoms, has (finally) been released! You can find it on Steam here and Itchio here!

Bittersweet Blossoms is a sequel (of sorts) to one of my most popular yuri VNs, Blackberry Honey, which was released all the way back in 2017. I'm mostly posting about the sequel here since I think there's a non-zero chance some people in this subreddit might be familiar with BH and they might want to check out the sequel, even if it has a different cast of characters.

Though Bittersweet Blossoms is a sequel to BH, it takes place 50+ years after the events of BH. Bittersweet Blossoms is a maid/mistress romance story set in England in 1919, shortly after WWI. Follow Dot, a working class girl fom Manchester, as she moves to the countryside to work in the stately home of Bly.

Once a wealthy estate, Bly has fallen into ruin after the war, with its master dead and its mistress struggling to survive by firing most of the old servants and selling off the furniture. A shell of its former self, the mansion still persists, and Dot finds herself forming a relationship with her mistress's daughter: the aloof, acerbic Lady Patience. Can romance bloom between two girls from such different social backgrounds?

I hope that you enjoy the visual novel if you do choose to check it out! I've been working on this one for a long time (I wrote the first daft for the story back in 2021 or thereabouts...), so I'm happy I can finally share it with people!

- ebi x

Hello everyone,

This is ebi. I've made a few yuri VNs before including It gets so lonely here and Her Love, Like Poison! I'm making a quick post to let you know that my historical yuri visual novel, Bittersweet Blossoms, has (finally) been released! You can find it on Steam here and Itchio here!

This VN was a WIP for a few long time (I think I wrote the first draft for it all the way back in 2021 sweats...), so I'm very glad I was finally able to finish it up and share it with everybody!

The VN is a sequel of sorts to Blackberry Honey, as it also takes place in Bly and has one recurring character. Bittersweet Blossoms is more or less standalone and you don't need to have read BH to understand the plot, but it might give a bit of context to one of the characters.

I hope that you enjoy the visual novel if you do choose to check it out! I've been working on this one for a long time, and it's a relief to finally be able to share it with the world!

- ebi x

Hello everyone! This is ebi! I've written a few yuri visual novels in the past, including It gets so lonely here and Blackberry Honey!

I don't think I've mentioned this on this Subreddit before, but I've been working on a sequel to Blackberry Honey, Bittersweet Blossoms, for the last 5 years or so (it's been a while hahaha......)

Getting this project across the finish line too a bit of doing, but I'm proud to announce that the VN is finally finished! Yay!

It's quite an odd sequel as far as sequels go, since it's set 50+ years after Blackberry Honey and only one member of the old cast returns, but I think it wraps up some plot threads which were left dangling at the end of BH nicely. This is yet another historical romance with cute maids, this time set shortly after WWI, which features a ~forbidden~ romance between a young maid and her mistress.

I'm also very fond of the contrary young mistress, Patience, as a character. She might be one of my favourite love interests across all of my yuri visual novels I've written. I hope other people will like her too!

The VN is finished, and it has been approved for release by Steam, but I'm going to hold off on releasing it until next month since I literally just released a commercial yuri VN a couple of weeks ago (+ I kind of want to get the wishlist numbers for this VN up a bit haha)

But! Since the VN is fully finished, I figured I'd share early access Steam keys for the VN on my Patreon for my $15 tier backers. The Patreon post can be found here.

Regardless of whether you pledge or not, the VN should be coming out in June (I'm thinking the 26th), and I hope you're looking forward to it!

And I need to get better at marketing my own VNs haha, I bet a lot of people didn't even know this existed because I didn't really talk about it... Well, hopefully you all know now hahaha

Also I apologise for plugging my Patreon so blatantly, I just thought some people might be interested in getting their hands on it early... I hope that isn't an issue!

- ebi