Or in some games like MahoYaku (Promise of the Wizard), they allow the players to choose between being a female or male protagonist. Sometimes they don't even have proper dialogues when they are conversing with the game characters. They can be genderless so the players can create their own version of the protagonist. If there is a protagonist, the gender does not necessarily need to be male or female. Since "joshimuke" is not otome games, the games does not necessarily needs a protagonist. So romance can either be present or absent in a joshimuke game but logically speaking, a hint of romance will always appeal to a large majority of the ladies. ![]() Joshimuke is like a very huge category and is not specific enough.įor example BL games can be considered as joshimuke games since the main target audience are the female community. Which means any game that has a female audience target in mind can be considered joshimuke. Joshimuke is a very very very general term for female targeted games. Yay! Well, you can call it joshimuke if you’re very adamant about it. So we can now call joshimuke games, otome genre games. Everything that is a “joshimuke” genre is labeled as “otome”. This is why lot’s of people don’t understand the difference. So let’s just call it a otome (sounds weeb and it sounds cool so why not). I have no idea why but maybe calling it a “female targeted” game doesn’t sound very nice. ![]() Which is the start of a new genre called otome. I don’t know where it started but the English community just calls it otome. Joshimuke is a general term for games targeted at female audiences. From here on, it’ll take some time but I’m here to ease that confusion.įirst off, the term “joshimuke”.
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