They also pitched a fit over Mangagamer saying that NTY could appeal to gay men when they were advertising it and complained about how women can't get anything to themselves. They also got into a argument with Good Haro over it.
while, to my knowledge, gay/bi men in the west are a pretty underrepresented crowd when it comes to visual novels outside of some fan translation stuff (main reason why coming out on top was so successful) and they definitely do deserve having more games that appeal to them
i can understand not wanting companies to go "i don't think picking up a game targeted towards women will sell unless it can appeal to this other audience too!" when licensing bl games and otoge because that normally doesn't go as well as people think
though tbf in nty's case, i think mangagamer did get localization requests for it from bl fans and the translator is a huge fan of the game so it's not like the choice to pick it up was out of the blue. it's just that nty happened to appeal to a crowd (gay/bi men) beyond its target audience (straight/bi women).
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while, to my knowledge, gay/bi men in the west are a pretty underrepresented crowd when it comes to visual novels outside of some fan translation stuff (main reason why coming out on top was so successful) and they definitely do deserve having more games that appeal to them
i can understand not wanting companies to go "i don't think picking up a game targeted towards women will sell unless it can appeal to this other audience too!" when licensing bl games and otoge because that normally doesn't go as well as people think
though tbf in nty's case, i think mangagamer did get localization requests for it from bl fans and the translator is a huge fan of the game so it's not like the choice to pick it up was out of the blue. it's just that nty happened to appeal to a crowd (gay/bi men) beyond its target audience (straight/bi women).