I have heard of GatoRon before through the major crossover fanfic he did, which included one of my characters, so I was very curious about what kinda VN he’d be making for this jam. This is very different from what I was expecting, but in a good way. This is a VN I very much enjoyed. I’ll start with the main issue. There were a bunch of typos in the VN, especially around the middle. Thankfully, the prose itself is good and expressive, but some of the grammatical issues can lessen some of the more important parts of the VN. Now this is a very hard VN to describe, but I’ll try my best. It’s basically xenofiction, focusing on an anglerfish. And wow, does it show the horror of being far deep into the ocean. The atmosphere is immaculate. There were several times when I felt dread over how vast the ocean felt. The VN could be split into two parts. The first focuses on the xenofiction part of the VN and what it’s like living in the deep sea. The second part focuses on the conversation between Otsoa and the Anglerfish. Interestingly enough, the first part appears at both the beginning and the end, while the second part sits right in the middle. Both were good for different reasons. The part where the Anglerfish enters the crystal cave for the first time is visually stunning, has vivid prose, and is so different from the rest of the VN. The conversation is interesting. It is quite risky to have the majority of the VN be one long conversation with an almost black screen, but the VN executes it quite well. I do find the worldbuilding and the ideas it discusses to be pretty fascinating, and it just barely manages not to be pretentious. Whenever it was starting to get boring, something would happen to break up the pace, though I will say that it was on the border of dragging on for too long. And I will say one thing about the ending. Peak. I’d highly recommend you read this if you want to read xenofiction or feel the immense dread of being thousands of meters deep into the ocean. Looking forward to what you cook up next!