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Hey It's That Guy
Jun. 15th, 2012 11:25 pmI was browsing TV Tropes this evening, and somehow I ended up getting quite absorbed reading the page for Saya No Uta, a Lovecraftian H-game whose storyline impressed me by being completely fucking terrifying. SPOILERS will follow.
The game is about a med student guy who gets in a car crash and survives thanks to some experimental brain surgery. Unfortunately, the surgery has the side effect of screwing up his perceptions, making the whole world look like a Silent-Hill-flavored fever dream — everything looks like it's made out of flesh, blood, and guts, and his fellow humans look like grotesque monsters. (Yes, it's like that one story from Osamu Tezuka's "Pheonix.") Just as he's about to off himself while still in the hospital, the guy meets a cute loli in a white dress, whom he latches onto as a lone shred of normalcy and sanity in his fucked-up world. Of course, she only looks like a cute loli because of his brain being screwed up; in reality, she's a horrifying Cthulhu-looking monstrosity from beyond the stars who has come to Earth in order to assimilate us. She likes to eat people.
The plot gets even more delightfully horrifying from there, if you can believe that, and all three possible endings are major nightmare fuel. I have a pretty big soft spot for horror — I love Higurashi and most of Junji Ito's work — but Saya No Uta sounds like it's beyond my tolerance level. Alas, I must admire from afar.
It was after I'd read all the gory details of the plot that I finally saw who the writer was: Gen Urobuchi, the same guy who wrote Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
HA!
I have two reactions: a) this explains a lot about why PMMM is the way that it is, and b) it also explains why Urobuchi promised that PMMM would be "a heart-warming, happy story" — compared to the other stuff he's written, PMMM is heart-warming and happy!
Edit: Also it just occurred to me that Saya No Uta is like what would happen if somebody wrote an H-game starring Riful. That is both hilarious and terrifying.
The game is about a med student guy who gets in a car crash and survives thanks to some experimental brain surgery. Unfortunately, the surgery has the side effect of screwing up his perceptions, making the whole world look like a Silent-Hill-flavored fever dream — everything looks like it's made out of flesh, blood, and guts, and his fellow humans look like grotesque monsters. (Yes, it's like that one story from Osamu Tezuka's "Pheonix.") Just as he's about to off himself while still in the hospital, the guy meets a cute loli in a white dress, whom he latches onto as a lone shred of normalcy and sanity in his fucked-up world. Of course, she only looks like a cute loli because of his brain being screwed up; in reality, she's a horrifying Cthulhu-looking monstrosity from beyond the stars who has come to Earth in order to assimilate us. She likes to eat people.
The plot gets even more delightfully horrifying from there, if you can believe that, and all three possible endings are major nightmare fuel. I have a pretty big soft spot for horror — I love Higurashi and most of Junji Ito's work — but Saya No Uta sounds like it's beyond my tolerance level. Alas, I must admire from afar.
It was after I'd read all the gory details of the plot that I finally saw who the writer was: Gen Urobuchi, the same guy who wrote Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
HA!
I have two reactions: a) this explains a lot about why PMMM is the way that it is, and b) it also explains why Urobuchi promised that PMMM would be "a heart-warming, happy story" — compared to the other stuff he's written, PMMM is heart-warming and happy!
Edit: Also it just occurred to me that Saya No Uta is like what would happen if somebody wrote an H-game starring Riful. That is both hilarious and terrifying.
