Monthly Summary: July 2025

This month was a low-activity one:

It's half-filled!

I worked on a really fun illustration commission! I'll share it here once the commissioner put it publicly! ^^

I also updated Kitty icons on my website! Posts are up here and here.

I started dropping sketch concept of a story outline I just recently finished (here, here, here, and here). It will be called Reapers on Duty (tentative title). I'm hoping to start writing soon and make some mock scenes of it, so I can create a Steam page as a landing page for people to look at! 🤞

The outline of Reapers on Duty is at 99% complete with only some extra details to add here and there, but I think I can do it when I start writing the actual script next. As its first form of the story is done, I can foresee it will finish first before Blooming Chimes. I will work on both stories in tandem, but Reapers on Duty is way shorter, so it will certainly finish first.

Then, suddenly and unexpectedly I have so many things I want to do; these are art and merch related so I'm hoping to share a lot of it here! :D That's why I'm now working in full speed, trying to work on my long overdue wall calendar! I'll write more about this soon.

I return to working on the maintenance of my VNs, checking the recently installed translations for Tuna Rice and Mrs Peregrine (hopefully I can get them all up by August or September) alongside planned art books I want to make for them! I'm considering to test-print the art books, just to at least have a hard copy in my bookshelf hehe... I want to finish these art books at the same time as wall calendars so I can send them all to print at the same time, so that's another thing to work on next. 💪

And in the middle of all of these things I'm working, the internet exploded. o_O Mass delisting/removal of Steam and itch.io games and other digital contents, censorship, and age-verification system implemented in social media sites... What insanity!

I wrote a two-thousand-plus word post about my thoughts of it here. It probably sounds quite biased, and I'm a little bit nervous to be so opinionated when usually I always try to remain open to everything... but it just feels right to do this time. 🙏 I'll say what I believe is the right thing to do.

This month's banner is Hai and his kitty cat Fei:

I wanted to release Tuna Rice on Steam on July 27th because it's the second anniversary of the VN, but I want to also release an art book at the same time as releasing Steam page... So, that has to wait for a little bit more. x_x;;

Things get a bit messy in front of me but I'm working to tidy everything now 💪 jiayou!

Thanks for reading!
- Konayachi