5th issue
>FUWAMOCOの爆誕☆BAUBAU だいあり~!
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>PROFILE:
>Fuwawa Abyssgard
The Demon Guard Dogs' facilitator, from the first twin vtubers in Hololive Productions. Always eager to tease her younger sister Mococo, she's a mischievous onee-chan.
>Mococo Abyssgard
The Demon Guard Dogs' rambunctious child, from the first twin vtubers in Hololive Productions. Although she's free-spirited and may fall asleep during streams, she's a very dependable person.
>FIFTH ISSUE: Dagashi, Higanbana, and the Guard Dogs' Screams
BAU BAUー!! From Hololive English -Advent-, the twin demon guard dog sisters, together we're FUWAMOCO! Active mainly on YouTube, we're Vtubers. We stream a variety of games, including visual novels and retro games on original hardware! We also host a morning show, and sing nostalgic japanese songs in karaoke. We really do lots of different things! Fuwawa is a dependable older sister who is good at retorts, and Mococo is a younger sister who loves being tricky and getting spoiled!
We grew up as Demon Dogs in the Northwest Passage, in the Makai, so japanese isn't our native language, but we're currently living in Japan!
On September 25th, the latest release in the Silent Hill series, "SILENT HILL f" (hereafter "サイレントヒルf") has finally come out, and we were so very lucky to get to play it!! Although we're Demon Guard Dogs, the truth is that we're very easily scared… pretty much like puppies… But, by playing horror games together with the ruffians, we've been overcoming our fears, little by little! We're doing our best! So this time we've opened the forbidden doors and started our very first Silent Hill playthrough with this new release!!
Since we've heard that "Silent Hill is pretty gory!", we were already scared to begin with! Then many warnings kept showing up, and we kept getting more scared…! But since this time it takes place in Japan, we were also excited, and at first we were having a lot of fun walking around and exploring the small town of Ebisugaoka, in the 1960s! But suddenly, everything was shrouded by fog, and the atmosphere suddenly changed, we were immediately scared.
The monsters are all so terrifying, but their designs made quite an impression. Each of them has their own lore, and it gets added to your journal as you encounter them. It was so much fun to read them, that we kept being drawn to the world of Silent Hill f!
But you know, the way the monsters clatter and sway around.. we just can't handle it! It's like they know when you're most scared and so they time their attacks right at that moment! It took such a long time to get used to it! As for our favorite monster, it's the huge Ara-abare! He's so big and looks so scary, but he shows a bit of a cowardly side at times too, and with the Higanbana growing on him, it's very pretty! He looks kind of fluffy too, if we had to hug a monster, it would definitely be the Ara-abare!
Unlike other works in the series, this time for Silent Hill f Ryukishi07-sensei, of "Higurashi When They Cry" and "Umineko When They Cry" fame, was in charge of the script! We also love the Higurashi series, so we were really looking forward to seeing how Ryukishi07-sensei would express his style of worldbuilding in this story, and it exceeded our expectations! Buuut, there's one thing we want to say! We want more DLC outfits! We're waiting! We have the cute pink bunny ears outfit, but next we want to dress up Hinako-chan in sukumizu! Or Angel Mort's (*A Family Restaurant featured in Higurashi) waitress outfit! Don't you think that would be amazing?
Also, when the mysterious fox-masked man appeared, we immediately thought "This is definitely the kind of guy Shiori (Novella), Hololive English -Advent-'s archiver would like!" And sure enough, he's now become Shiori's new "Oshi Husband", after Dimitri from "Fire Emblem Three Houses"! Sure, he is cool, but falling for him even after getting told "Do not trust this guy!" so many times throughout the game… And even after all the shocking and gory events that unfolded, her heart still beats fast for him! May the gentleman Dimitri not the monster, live on in Shiori's heart!
The monsters were so terrifying and we were really scared, but we still wanted to explore every nook and cranny, so it probably took us twice as long as normal players, but… we were able to clear it in our own fastest time(?)! But what really surprised us though was that the ending wasn't a full conclusion to the story! Silent Hill f is a multi-ending game!
In other words, you have to play through the game a number of times to reach the full conclusion to the story! In further playthroughs you unlock new information and get to watch new scenes, and even whole new endings become available…! For us, who love Bishoujo Games and Visual Novels, this completely flipped our switch! We definitely want to conquer every route, and uncover all of the secrets of Ebisugaoka!
One day, we may even uncover the truth behind the fox-masked man's secrets…? There are still many secrets left to be uncovered in Ebisugaoka, so we want to reach the other endings too! We're now also really curious about the past releases in the Silent Hill series, we wonder if we can complete the entire series in our lifetime…? If we become the strongest Demon Guard Dogs, we should be able to do it! One day, we'll show you proof!
>RECENTLY LEARNED JAPANESE: 干菓子
In Silent Hill f, there's a special candy store the protagonist and her friends go to, called "Chizuruya General Store"! We love dagashi, so being able to collect arare, youkan and higashi in the game made us very happy~! At first, we weren't very familiar with higashi, but we have actually tried rakugan before! When we came to Japan for the first time to do Demon Guard Dog training, we found some really pretty rakugan in a store and tried it… but it was so hard, and extremely sweet!! We were shocked! What we would find out later is that it actually wasn't meant to be eaten, but offered at a buddhist altar…!
But you know, rakugan with matcha is really delicious! We've also seen really beautiful antique rakugan wooden molds, one day we want to make rakugan molds shaped like Pero! (*Editor's Note: FUWAMOCO's pet. For some reason, it sounds like Mococo)
There are so many delicious sweets in Japan, so we were happy to be able to find them even in the world of Silent Hill f! We want to learn lots about japanese sweets and dagashi from now on too! BAU BAU!