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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A Japanese visual novel genre characterized by tragic plots and pervasively bleak tones..
The related genre “utsuge” (“depressing game”), unlike “nakige”, does not typically achieve a happy ending.
Nitroplus, the company behind Saya no uta, specializes in utsuge containing body horror, gore, rape, and depression—in short, as scholar Clarisse Thorn puts it, games that are “not ‘fun’ in the way most people think about ‘fun,’ that’s for sure.”
Utsuge, on the other hand, stands for pretty much the opposite of nakige, aiming to be as depressing an experience as possible.
Use utsuge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Utsuge means A Japanese visual novel genre characterized by tragic plots and pervasively bleak tones..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The related genre “utsuge” (“depressing game”), unlike “nakige”, does not typically achieve a happy ending.
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