u/jaroniscaring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNUKy2ymKiI

It has been a little over eleven days since this premiered at Fantasia Fest, and I STILL can’t stop thinking about it.

On paper, it’s a movie about an eromanga artist who has never had sex and an illustrator who has never had a boyfriend. They go on a date. They talk. They have sex. That’s more or less the entire plot.

But rather than something like Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! or Look Back, it feels closer to the Before Sunrise trilogy: two artists speaking frankly and vulnerably about their work, their insecurities, and the strange paths that led them to become the people they are.

We experience each of their stories through their own eyes—and through their own distinct styles of animation. The film quickly becomes esoteric, intimate, and overflowing with wonderful visual touches. You don’t need to be an anime obsessive who catches every reference. What matters is how vividly it shows you the world as artists see it: every memory, feeling, and half-spoken thought transformed into an image.

If you’ve seen Fleabag, imagine the second-season moments when the fourth wall begins to fall apart because the Priest can see straight through it—except it happens again and again, with two people gradually learning to see through each other’s defenses.

If you’ve read Asterios Polyp, this is almost the first-date version of that: two radically different inner worlds colliding, revealing themselves through the very forms used to depict them.

It is funny, erotic, vulnerable, formally inventive, painfully human, and genuinely has the best sex scene I've ever seen. I couldn't stop crying.

10/10. It comes out in 2027. Please go see it.

So I keep getting ads for those palm sized eReaders for the back of the phone, but I wasn't sure if I would actually use it, so I made a widget that's about the same size as one! The widget can be resized to any size and is custom homescreen friendly, and accepts any epub or txt file you put into it.

Kind of extra, but I also built in a sticker system that awards you for reading progress, with either default stickers or pictures directly from the books you read. There's also a full screen mode, multiple fonts and themes, and tapping options.

The only real problem is that I can't get swipe to work for turning the page, this isn't supported for homescreen widgets unfortunately.

If you want to sign up for testing, please fill out this email form! I'm open to any suggestions. I need at least 12 testers to use it regularly before I'm allowed to put it on the Play Store for everyone.

(If anyone wants to know, I've read on this for 2 and half hours in a week. Not much, but it's better than nothing)