>>372918Thank you for the input! I'm almost definitely not going to buy it, then. It's not worth the money if I'm just going to regret it, and I have a massive backlog as-is. I love horror, and I saw where Virche was tagged as gothic romance (I really like classic gothic literature), which was why I was so tempted. I probably would've ended up disappointed again. If it ends up being really great, you should definitely post about it in this thread because I'd be interested to know. It's probably just more of the same with an edgy coat of paint, though. I feel like their titles rarely capitalize on the setting or themes; a huge issue I had with CollarxMalice was that it barely felt like a police story or mystery, for example.
>>372993My favorites were Shiba and Hideo, but as I said before, I didn't dislike any of them. I keep an ongoing tierlist of otome LIs, and basically everyone except Mizuhito made the top 2 tiers. It's pretty rare for me to put ONE LI there, much less 4/5ths of the cast.
>YoshikiYoshiki is a super good choice (actually, he might be at the same level as Shiba and Hideo… I'm indecisive kek), and he had the most interesting story (unsurprisingly).
>HitoshiI was actually super shocked by Hitoshi because I'm not usually into the stoic type, but I really liked him.