Monthly Summary: March 2026

March was full of doing various things!

Early in the month, I had my second event of the year with Aniaki!

It was really fun meeting with a lot of people, thank you for giving me a table! Looking forward to another events together in the future. ^^

As usual, post-event days were full of me resting. I had a lot of fun but it was very tiring, I need many days to bounce back to my usual working rhythm. A week or two of destressing, chilling, drowning in my writings on my desk. How can these artists hop from one event to another is beyond my comprehension... You are all really powerful.

I didn't have any more events after this, so I went back to drawing commission and Reapers VN... But something unexpected happened.

The Blooming Chimes' plot was unstuck! ✨ It feels like a surprising and satisfying pop in my head. I dug back my older posts to search since when it was stuck, and it was documented on March 2025 – a year ago! This had to happen when I'm in the middle of such a busy month (why brain haha) so I had no choice but to quickly note down everything that was in my mind before moving to other things that are of much higher priority for now.

To help reinvigorating the vibe, I recently went through old screenshots of Blooming Chimes from 2023... and I still love it as much! ^^ I just think my art has changed much since then so I will redraw all these, but everything else is totally on spot: the vibe, the simple colours, the sweetness...

I also wrote more Reapers on Duty and started coding its GUI a little bit, as I tried to pick colour palette to get the vibe too. There is a little romance in it too, so I focused myself in writing it and got all fluffy and warm. (´u `;;) Progress was a bit slower than I wanted in this, but I hope to at least be able to have its Steam page up by May to start collecting wishlist! To have the page up, at least I can do a few screenshots of the most fun-looking scenes and some features I want to implement.

I think I'm kind of slow in this, since the vision is still fleeting. Once I lock down the palette and look, development should be faster and easier.

In the past few months, I've been working with various translators who reached out and kindly offered translation work for my VNs. I merged the files, reached each of them for checks and updates, and after going back and forth I think I can release a few updates some time in April! ✨

My first VN was released almost three years ago, and I'm so thankful that in the past few years there are so many people still giving my projects much love and offering more languages to these. You all have given me courage to keep making things! ❤️

It's been a month full of going around my projects; both published and unpublished. I love all of them, I want to work on all of them aaah. So many fun things to do, so little time...

All of those VN dev-related activities aside, I also drew quite various things this month!

First, commission work update: more progress for Re:Curse! Yay to painting, it's been very fun! I did the main charas' new sprites' lineart and started to colour them. The versions I did for NoveJam was a lot of experimental style of colouring, and now with no time restriction I want to give my best! I used special brush for Re:Curse to achieve its watercolor style, so I needed a while to recall how I draw it. I have the vision in my head, I just need to translate it with my hands...

Second: making many many art gifts! I have the list of some art gifts/trades I want to give to some people: the kind translators whom I work with, some people I started talking regularly with through emails who are just so, so friendly that I want to draw stuff for them, some fanart I really want to draw, etc. I jump between drawing one after other to warm myself up as I mostly draw my characters – so that's a great change of pace. I will show them slowly here for the next few months! ^^

I also drew a lot on my sketchbook again as a break from VN dev + commission, and recently watched some urban sketching videos on YouTube that actually gave me the urge to draw these watercolor doodles. Perhaps I should do painting recording again! Now that the days are brighter, recording should be way easier with decent amount of light. ^^

With a lot of work I've been doing behind the scenes, my social media activity is fading away, I have no doubt the algorithm hates me now. Each time I post – like once or twice a month – none of the posts perform anything at all. Like zero views? XD I never mind about the numbers, but I know it's not helpful for marketing. I figure some game update posts every now and then would help it at least... I hope...?

For now, I'll do my best here. 💪

Also, it came to my attention that the comments section were gone since I migrated to new server, apparently the migration wasn't perfect – and the comments section and field disappeared. I've since fixed it and everything should be good now!

This month's art banner:

Yumi-chan!!!! 💝

Logs:

• Listening to: SONIC BOOM - Maaya Sakamoto (one of my favourite Tsubasa OST)
• Reading: ... I don't remember reading anything???
• Watching: Tomorrow (thinking to enrich myself with some reaper stories with this drama. Some absurdities aside (the dog episode), it was quite good, I can recommend it! Now I want to start reading the webtoon...)
• Playing: CROB. It was a chill month where I didn't grind much. Too busy.