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My name is Emmeline, or Emma for short, but you can call me Cyto if you want. Retired TV Tropes veteran (despite creating this account in June 2022, I've been around a lot longer since 2014 under a different handle), anime fan, writer, and former gamer. Transwoman, Bisexual, and prefers She/Her pronouns. I'm also into the Yuri Genre.

I used to be a regular at Trope Launch Pad, and my specialty was adopting abandoned drafts and improving them for launch.

Since I'm retired and no longer active, this page is a leftover footnote of my former activity here. It should go without saying that please do not send me any PMs because I'm no longer around to reply to them.

Primary Interest

Tropes I've Launched:


Tropes launched under my previous handle:

Tropes launched by other tropers that I've directly contributed to:

  • Pineapple Ruins Pizza (Adopted from Nelson And Murdock and launched by Chloe Jessica. I tweaked the description a bit, added most of the on-page examples and voted the page image via Image Pickin', but my uncertainty over whether the draft was in good shape to launch combined with my overlapping university studies adding a lot of stress ultimately lead me to put it Up for Grabs.)

Touhou Doujin Music Circle Pages I've Launched:

"What's a Music Circle?"
— BackSet1, Comment on the above troper's contributer page thread.

Ah, right. I should probably explain this to the uninitiated folks here (Fan Myopia, whoops). A music circle is a Doujinshi music band of sorts that specializes in creating music arrangements or remixes of tunes from existing works. Most of them consist of a group of people, but there are also single-person music circles as well (think of them as like indie video game developers for comparison). As for how this relates to Touhou? Well, Touhou has the LARGEST doujin music industry in existence, mainly because of how lenient ZUN (the creator of Touhou) is with letting fans create stuff from his works (such a nice guy). The diversity of Touhou music circles is also quite large, covering a wide assortment of music genres. Hopefully this is a satisfactory explanation because, if I were to cover every single detail about this, we would be here all day. Anyway, back to the topic at hand.

Shout outs to tropers I consider good people (You're awesome!):

In parentheses are nicknames for tropers I came up with to make it easier to remember them.

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    Top 10 Favorite Touhou Music Circles 
  1. ZYTOKINE
  2. Alstroemeria Records
  3. DiGiTAL WiNG
  4. Yonder Voice
  5. SOUND HOLIC
  6. Shibayan Records
  7. Akatsuki Records
  8. DDBY
  9. EastNewSound
  10. Violet Delta

    Other good Touhou Music Circles I listen to: 
  • A-One
  • BUTAOTOME
  • FELT
  • flap+frog
  • Frozen Starfall
  • Halozy
  • Hatsunetsumiko's
  • IOSYS (Mostly for the memes, but they do have some good non-meme bangers.)
  • Komeiji Records
  • Kuroneko Lounge
  • Murder Ground
  • ORANGE★JAM
  • Riverside
  • Rolling Contact
  • ShinRa-Bansho
  • SoundOnline
  • Syrufit
  • Tamaonsen
  • Tokyo Active NEETs
  • TUMENECO
  • Yuuhei Satellite

    Least Favorite Touhou Music Circles 
  • Most hard Heavy Metal circles in general since I'm not into that genre. Some circles include...
    • Crow's Claw
    • Demetori
    • UNDEAD CORPORATION
    • Unlucky Morpheus
  • FALSE&TRUES (I find their music to be incredibly off-key and their vocals so heavily drowned out by Auto-Tune that it's jarring to listen to.)
  • RichaadEB (No disrespect to the guy because his general rock arranges are really good. It's just his Touhou arranges leave something to be desired when compared to other circles, being just 1-to-1 remixes that hardly stand out from the original themes aside from genre change. I'll admit that his cover of Alstroemeria Record's "Bad Apple!!" remix with vocals by Cristina Valenzuela of all people is the only exception. It's so freakin' good!)
  • TAMusic (Specifically their orchestral compositions which are far too sad and depressing for me to relax to, so they're not really something that clicks with me. Their works on other genres are fine though.)

    Favorite Anime, Manga, and Light Novels 

    Favorite Games 

    Favorite Western Cartoons 

    Media I have since fallen out of: 
  • Atelier (I tried getting into this series because of its Moe cast, but the overly-complex Item Crafting systems turned me off. I just couldn't figure them out to play the games properly.)
  • Black Bullet (The only LN series to date that I vehemently dropped because it entered Too Bleak, Stopped Caring territory. It tried way too hard to be the next Gen Urobuchi.)
  • DEATH BATTLE! (Fatigue followed by growing resentment of VS debates as a whole eventually lead me to stop watching the show altogether.)
  • Genshin Impact (I used to play this game extensively between 2021 to early-mid 2022, but unfortunately the game took an emotional toll on me to the point that I made an irrational move to sell off my PS4 just to keep its gacha system from taking over my life. It wasn't until Sumeru released in Version 3.0 that the realization of me not being able to play it again for the foreseeable future finally hit me hard, and not even keeping up with the story through other indirect methods helped. So, in a Know When to Fold 'Em move, I've decided to accept my circumstance and put Genshin behind me for good.)
  • Neptunia (No amount of Moe Anthropomorphism can salvage just how grindy, monotonous and boring the actual games are. Makes me really wish they were Visual Novels instead.)
  • Senran Kagura (Gratuitous Fanservice aside — although that's part of the reason why I'm no longer motivated to play the games anymore —, its Spectacle Fighter gameplay doesn't hold up well in my eyes and is way too repetitive and samey to keep me engaged for long periods of time. That, and the series' inconsistent continuity between games with its penchant to Retcon itself frequently has made it difficult for me to take the story seriously.)
  • Most Shonen Jump works (A lot of them fall into the same Shōnen pitfalls of repetitive story formulas that get stale really fast and fail to capture my attention, and even works that I used to enjoy in the past like Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and One Piece I dropped purely because of their absurd length. Even I have my limits when it comes to Long-Runners. Spy X Family is the only exception.)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (Even before the series' Audience-Alienating Era kicked in, I was never really into most of the games that much since each of them had caveats that made it difficult for me to go back to. Sonic Unleashed and Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed are exceptions.)
  • Sword Art Online (Now I didn't drop this series because of the Hype Backlash it received at the time. In fact, I quite enjoyed the Aincrad Arc for playing the Deadly Game aspect very well. It's just after that, I felt the series suffered from Seasonal Rot with poor narrative decisions and shoehorned cliches like harems bogging it down in order to stay relevant, and later arcs downplayed many of the aspects that made the initial plot of the Aincrad Arc so great. I guess that's a price to pay for becoming Dengeki Bunko's Cash-Cow Franchise and kickstarting the modern Isekai genre.)
  • Tales Series (This used to be my gateway JRPG series back in the day, but aside from Tales of Vesperia and Tales of Berseria, most of the games don't bring me much enjoyment anymore and I find them to be way too antiquated by Action RPG standards.)
  • Team Fortress 2 (My inability to keep up with the high skill ceiling in the main game modes has discouraged me from ever returning to this, and most custom game servers that I used to frequent are now dead.)
  • Trails Series (I find its Worldbuilding aspect to be way too ambitious for its own good and requires a lot of time investment that I simply can't afford nowadays due to my limited free time.)

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