This is the audio-only version of our Let's Play of Maid Madness by BoldZone Games and Reicheru Ketsuekineko-Oni! For the version with video, check it out on Bloom Plays, or follow the link below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUuwr_qeIpg

Chapters 29-30 of Blood Raining Night. We’ve finally made it to the end! But there’s still a lot left to talk about; the final two chapters are no less weird than the rest of the story, and we have some Theories on what might be being implied if this fic is, indeed, secret genius. After having finished the fanime last week, we decided to take a look at the other videos on the creator’s YouTube account this week in our final segment.

Content warnings: remember the sex scene we had to warn for in a previous chapter between two characters with a concerning age gap? Yeah, that’s relevant again. Also there’s child abduction. Again. Also in the closing segment, we talk about another "story" Rachel wrote which includes mentions of self-harm and suicide.

Chapters 22-24 of Blood Raining Night. We have a wedding — sorry, I mean a “weeding” to attend! After that, the fic hits us with some extreme mood whiplash that we don’t want to spoil, but there’s a reason why this is our longest episode yet. Episode 8 of the fanime also contains a… surprisingly good scene that doesn’t matter to the story at all, and we spend a while unpacking how bizarre it is. 

Content warnings: some pretty extreme violence this episode (torture, gore, dismemberment), and while it’s less of a focal point this time, we do spend some time discussing the weird teacher/student interactions and uncomfortable age gap relationships in this story.

(Additional music credits for this episode: “Judai’s Theme” by Yutaka Minobe, “Lilium (Music Box)” by Manga Star.)

Chapters 15-18 of Blood Raining Night. Our reading this week covers such topics as anime-induced amnesia, more singing competitions, wedding invitations… and a surprising reveal about Reicheru’s father. We also watched episode 6 of the fanime.

Content warnings: more weird student/teacher interactions, violence, gore, cannibalism, and another ludicrously unsexy sex scene, this time between two characters with a concerning age gap.

Chapters 10-14 of Blood Raining Night. This time we’re faced with an unsolvable math problem, another high school singing contest, a Japanese-Mexican fusion restaurant, God appearing in the form of a newborn catgirl, and more! We wrap things up by talking about episode 5 of the fanime.

Content warnings: inappropriate teacher/student interactions, a scene where a character is given a nonconsensual magical abortion (which apparently has no effect), in-universe racism (also some out-of-universe racism, as the author still thinks Korra is Mexican), and childbirth.

Chapters 5-9 of Blood Raining Night. This week we have a HENTAI WARNING, take a look at some unique baby name ideas, learn all about the trouble with angles, and more! We also watched episode 4 of the fanime; the episodes are getting longer and the fanime’s plot isn’t 1:1 with the fanfic, so from here on out we’ll be tackling one episode at a time.

Content warnings: did we mention the HENTAI WARNING? Also, in the same chapter there’s a scene where a character abuses drugs and self-harms. Later chapters include some less-than-consensual sex, violence, incest (though we're not sure if the author remembers they're related), torture (including sexual torture), and also an instance where a character’s brown skin is described in a fetishistic manner.

It’s time for us to start a new fanfic! We’re reading Blood Raining Night, an anime crossover fic about a demon catgirl who is in a relationship with the entire country of Denmark. It even comes with its own fanime! This week we read chapters 1-4 and watched episodes 1-3.

Future episodes covering this fic will require stronger content warnings, but this week there isn’t anything to warn for other than some (gross, unsexy) suggestive language and descriptions of violence.

We’re starting a new fanfic this week! We read chapters 1-3 of Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen. This is a personal favorite for both of us and we’re excited to discuss what makes it such a good trollfic. As a point of comparison, this week we also take a look at the first three chapters of Twila, The Girl Who Waz In Luv With A Vampyre (another Twilight badfic with very clear My Immortal influences).

Content warnings: chapter 3 of Forbiden Fruit contains a rape scene, and the entire story merits a warning for consent issues as the protagonist being sexually assaulted is a plot point and thus something we can’t avoid discussing. We give a more in-depth warning for this fic’s content before beginning the chapter reading. There is also an instance of homophobic language in the fic we read for the closing segment.

This week’s episode covers chapters 6-11 of My Immortal. We meet our  tritagonist Vampire Potter (and a few more new characters), try to solve   the mystery of whether or not Voldemort has a nose, and learn about  what cut of meat is required to kill a vampire. To close things out we  talk about the Todd G. authorship claims.

Content warnings for  this episode: mentions of self-harm/suicide, a scene in which two adults  spy on a (technically of age) teenager in the bathroom, and a couple  brief instances of ableist & homophobic language.

Welcome to Literary Demerit, where we examine works of questionable literary merit. In our inaugural episode, we begin to cover My Immortal, the infamous Harry Potter fic considered by many to be the worst fanfiction of all time. This week we're covering the first five chapters of the story, in which we meet our protagonist Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and accompany her to a Good Charlotte concert with Draco Malfoy. Then we talk about the elephant in the room - the Rose Christo fiasco.

Content warnings for this episode include a hilariously vague sex scene, as well as a very brief and flippant mention of self-harm.