Fate/moon archive

we're wandering around a labyrinth this week along with manaka and... is that saber? real saber?? the girl one?! next time, we'll be covering unlimited blade works (2010). that's the movie, not the tv show. and for yuri teatime we're covering the chiaki bad end of white album 2. the whole thing, it's pretty short. featuring co-hosts Benn Ends ( @bennends.itch.io ) and fen ( @fenic.moe ). support t...

it's really unfortunate that both fate/prototype and white album 2 hit their nadirs at the same time. prototype is here to remind us that women make great moms at the exclusion of everything else. over in white album 2, we start the worst route and immediately understand why it has that reputation. next time, we'll be covering the first half-ish of fate/labyrinth. for yuri teatime we're doing the...

they're calling it an episode of the year. koharu has some good stuff for us to dig into but ultimately leaves us disappointed while protofragments has opinions about women that are... disappointing to say the least. next time, we'll be covering the remainder of protoframents volume 4. for yuri teatime, we're covering mari's route of cc through january 16th. featuring co-hosts Benn Ends ( @bennend...

this time on fate/moon archive we enter the route of our second favorite closing chapter girl, koharu. as she and haruki build one of the least firm foundations for a relationship i've ever seen, the ogisou siblings suffer and koharu has her looking glass insects arc at school. also, some stuff happens in protofragments. idk, i don't think volume 3 is very good. next time, we'll be covering protof...

This time, on Fate/moon archive! We begin with the back half of the White Album 2 Closing Chapter common route. Bad dates abound as we prepare to enter the route of Benn's dearest enemy, Koharu! In the main episode, we start on a new book of Prototype Fragments, and pray that the latest ally of justice isn't too annoying! Next time, we'll be covering the rest of Fate/Prototype Fragments volume 3....

we continue our run of short episodes with volume 2 of protofragments which is... more of the same for better and worse. over in white album 2, haruki and setsuna are in hell, trapped in a dance neither of them has been able to stop for the past three years. next time, we'll be covering the first half of protofragments volume 3, acts 1-4. for yuri teatime we're covering white album 2 closing chapt...

A nice short episode this time around as we cover the first half of Prototype Fragment's 2nd volume and meet an.... actually kind of compelling character who will unfortunately be trapped in muppets baby form for the duration of our reading. Over in White Album 2 land, Haruki fucks up! Bad! Get used to that! Next time, we'll be covering Acts 5, 6, & the Special Act of Fate/Prototype: Fragments...

this week: proto fragments continues to baffle but we get to the end of volume one at least. and white album 2 continues to be great as haruki gets himself mired even deeper in relationship drama as the band puts on a show. next time, we'll be covering volume 2 acts 1-4 of fate/proto fragments. and for teatime we're doing the remainder of introductory chapter plus a replay (for some scenes only un...

today, we start two new eras of the pod. on the one hand, for yuri teatime we're starting the acclaimed visual novel white albumn 2. on the other hand we read half of the first volume of fate/proto fragments. the disparity in quality is the fate/moon archive promise. next time, we'll be covering the remainder of volume one of fate prototype (act 6, special acts, and the afterword). for white album...

our time with fate/extra ccc comes to a close as we read emails and forget to do a character ranking. next time, we'll be covering fate/prototype volume 1 through act 5. for yuri teatime we're doing white album 2 introductory chapter through the phone conversation between setsuna and haruki. featuring co-hosts Benn Ends ( @bennends.itch.io ) and fen ( @fenic.moe ). support the show and get access...

The end of CCC has arrived, and we can finally answer the only question that matters: Should everyone have been nicer to Passionlip? Also we talk about Gilgamesh, the extremely surprising final boss, and the problem with endings. Next time, we'll be doing a special questions episode for CCC! For Yuri Teatime we'll be covering the full run of the manga Aishita Bundake Aishite Hoshii! and Throw Away...

go read 週に一度クラスメイトを買う話 /  story about buying my classmate once a week . it's really good. we had fun talking about the first two-ish volumes. next time, we'll be covering fate/extra ccc gil's route & true end. for yuri teatime we're covering mädchen in uniform (1931). featuring co-hosts Benn Ends ( @bennends.itch.io ) and fen ( @fenic.moe ). support the show and get access t...

this week is a blatant fill for time. from our side, that's because we need more time to finish ccc. from zvezda's side... you gotta fill tv slots somehow. better this than generic isekai slop #953, i guess; at least it looks nice. next time, we'll be covering fate/tiger colosseum. for yuri teatime we're covering the first volume (chapters 1-10 or parts 1-34) of  story about buying my classma...

we're buying time for benn and i to get through ccc again so it's a bit of a goofy one this episode: we're covering the 2013 april fools game back alley satsuki. and folks? it's good. next time, we'll be covering all of world conquest zvezda plot. for yuri teatime we're covering something, probably of the devil episode 2. featuring co-hosts Benn Ends ( @bennends.itch.io ) and fen ( @fenic.moe ). s...

It's the most holy time of the year (Arcueid's birthday), and that means a break from our usual programming for something fun! With last year's Legendary Twenty-Four Hour Podcast still fresh in our hearts, your intrepid hosts wander into the woods to discuss a pair of science fiction dystopias. What, may you ask, does the woods have to do with our subject matter? Nothing! Now pull up a seat and pl...

we've reached the end of our time with ccc for now (we're doing gil's route and the true end next year), and it's a rather unsatisfying ending for all involved, but mostly us. some of that was to be expected, since there are as many questions left unanswered as there are sakuras we could have been nicer to, but our issues are more general in nature. at least we got to talk about two fantastic movi...

sorry everyone, this has become an arknights podcast. it wasn't on purpose and we didn't do it intentionally but we and our guests simply have good taste and so there's another long arknights section of the pod this time around, along with references throughout. maybe some day we'll do a structured pod, though at this point we'll have talked about all of arknights before we get there. anyway, the...

after a puppy-play session with bb it's time for a lighthearted chapter with everyone's favorite re-heated lizard, liz! there's not that much to talk about so even though we added a special bonus yuri teatime movie we get through ccc at a relatively fast clip, but make up for it by chatting about arknights and p5x for... a really long time. we're good at podcasting, i've heard. next time, we'll be...

it's a death-focused episode as we tackle first wild strawberries then jinako's chapter of ccc. next time, we'll be covering the interlude and chapter 5 of ccc. for yuri teatime we're covering killer of sheep (1978). featuring co-hosts Benn Ends ( @bennends.itch.io ) and fen ( @fenic.moe ). support the show and get access to bonus episodes:  https://www.patreon.com/cryingrules link to the fat...

After a "brief" interlude of toxic yuri, we return to CCC to find... toxic yuri???? Get ready to meet everyone's favorite babygirl since Takuji as she scrapes and stalks her way every closer to Hakuno. We can talk it out right? Right..? I'll cry if we can't... Next time, we'll be covering Chapter 4 of CCC, as well as Ingmar Bergman's "Wild Strawberries". Featuring co-hosts Benn Ends ( @bennends.it...

this episode marks the end of our journey through the toxic yuri jam, until the next one happens at least. we finish out our discussions of games we both played before getting down to the hard task of picking just 10(+1) games you dear listener should play. and the other 15 games you should also play. also you should play whatever sounds interesting, we're not your moms. thank you for joining us o...

welcome back to crying rules actually, a podcast about taking a short break from our extremely important work talking about bb in order to cover the under-examined world of english language visual novels! this episode is the second in our series of deep dives into the 2025 itch.io-hosted toxic yuri visual novel jam. last episode we talked at length about games only one of us had played, this episo...

Welcome to Crying Rules Actually, a podcast about taking a short break from our extremely important work talking about BB in order to cover the under-examined world of English language visual novels! For the next three Saturdays we'll be releasing a deep dive dive into the 2025 itch.io-hosted Toxic Yuri Visual Novel Jam. Scroll down for a full list of works discussed on this episode, timestamps fo...

rani is back and this time they didn't forget to write her a character! (un)?fortunately her character is even more "wife" than rin was. most of the chapter is still clearly in the mode of setting up for the main focus of the game, and while rani has some funny moments it's far from the best ccc has to offer. oh, and we (the one's who didn't know already, at least) find out the pink lancer's name....

after waking up to an unfamiliar ceiling we chat with sakura for a bit before re-meeting the a cast of characters, new and returning, who are all (except gwain) better than they were in extra, then it's off to fight the boss of the game: tohsaka rin. that's right, finally rin gets her own route and... what's this i'm hearing? ah, it's about as thin as unlimited blade works and it turns out that sa...