Doki Doki Literature Club! (ドキドキ文学クラブ！) is a twelve-episodeanimetelevision series animated byMadhouse, based on the game of the same name. The anime was released on September 22, 2019, as a way to promote the game. The series is directed by Rintaro and Takashi Watanabe. Salvato is invited by his cheerfulchildhood sweetheart, Sayori, to join their high school's literature. Doki Doki Literature Club. To reach the 'good end' or the Monika staring at you for 45 min straight you HAVE to get all the CGs in one run, including the one. Since its release in the fall of 2017, Doki Doki Literature Club has become pretty famous in the visual novel genre for subverting expectations and delivering an incredibly satisfying (and equally heart-wrenching) horror experience by the end of it all. All four of the main girls are incredibly likable for their own reasons, and each are.

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Pit's please played okie dokie played okie dokie you need to play dunky dunky literature you should play doki doki and later at club I know it looks kind. Of weepy but it gets really ed up after a while wait don't cut open their club already you late I knew about this, game way before your weed's fake Gaius something Christian channel but you know what I'm curious about this game so I will play it thank you, very much and not because you are a complaint bad let's play Doki. Doki literature club this game is not suitable for children, or those who are easily disturbed oh so it's gonna be like one of those cute games that then turn really evil individuals suffering from anxiety or, depression may not have a safe experience playing this game for, cottony morons please visit great by playing Doki Doki learish club you agree that you are at least 13 years of age. Then you can send to your exposure of highly disturbing content maybe I'm being a little too sceptic here right off. The bat with the amount of praise this game as getting it must be good it must be, good the art looks great and it's a free game too then he just said did you say teams Santo st. oh oh I was not ready for this oho I. Am lightly bobbing my head to this you groove you lose and I lost oh ok. Ok ok let's begin a new let's play it's gonna be a daily series it's been a while sexy booty this someone please kill me if anyone would like. To come in and pop one in, the back while I played this that would be great hey I see an annoying girl running towards, me from the distance waving her arms in the air like she's totally oblivious to any attention she. Might draw to herself the girl is sorry my neighbor and good friends since we were children you know the kind of friend you'll never see yourself making today but. It just kind of works out because you've known each other for so long we used to walk to school together on days like this but starting around high. School she would oversleep more and more frequently and I would get tired of waiting it but, if she's going to chase, after me like this I almost feel better off running away wow what a dick move people used to do that when I. Was a kid however I just sigh and idle in front of the crosswalk and let's say I already catch up to me next time I'm not keeping that boy said, maybe but only because I decided to stop and wait for you you're saying that like you were. Thinking about ignoring me that's me beauty pay well if people stare at you for acting weird and I don't want them to. Think we're a couple or something you're not that hot I'm sorry Sayuri but you did wait for me after all I guess. You don't have it in. You to be me even if you want to I hate this character already whatever you say Sayuri hey we cross the street together and make our way to school as we draw near the. Street become increasingly speckled with other student making their daily commute by the way PCP have, you seen it in the clip to join it a club I told you already I'm not interested in, joining any clubs I haven't been looking either that's not true you told me, you would join a club this year did I I'm sure it's possible that I did. In one of our many conversations where I dismissive ly go along with whatever she was going on about say or he. Likes to worry a little too much about me when I'm perfectly content just getting by on average while spending my free time on games an enemy what a life, to live it I was talking about how I'm worried about worried that, you won't learn how to socialize or have any skills before we call it this bitch is telling me how to socialize excuse me your happiness is really important to. Me oh she's way over heads to us damn and I know you're happy now but I die at the thought. Of you becoming a need in a few years, because you're not used to being one you trust me right don't make me keep waiting you baby, all right all right I'll look at a few clubs if it makes you happy no primer system will you please promise me you training okay I guess I'll try with you. Dad yay why do I. Let myself get lectured by a carefree girl more than that I'm surprised I even let my several enter I guess seeing her worry so much about me makes me want to ease her. Mind at least a little bit even, if she does excite dad you rate everything inside her head we're in school hi. Everybody the school day is this ordinary as ever and it's over before I know it but that's not how school works okay it's never over before you know it after I. Pack up my things I start blankly at the wall looking for an ounce of motivation clubs say Ari wants me to check out, some clubs I guess I have no choice but to start with the enemy Club sorry sorry must have, come into the classroom while I was spacing out I look around and realize that I'm the only one left, in the classroom if Ana kid she came in out of the class name but I figured you City. History a through K me and if me you even wait a minute ease any breathe you don't need to wait up. For me our voice, is sucked up okay it's going to make you late to your own club we say you may need to me gives me three taking game you know what we have you can Kingdom eager you say, hurry there's no way I'm. Going to your club savories vice president of the literature Club that sounds really boring not that I was ever aware that she had any interest in literature in fact. I'm 99% sure she only did it because. She thought it would be fun to help start a new club since she was the first one to show interest after the one who proposed a club she inherited the title vice. President that said my interest in literature is, guaranteed to be even less yeah I'm going to the anime club why do you care so much anyway I can't do it clip yesterday I would. Bring in a baby and that's tsukimi cupcake is it everything well she made yeah you have to go now hey don't make promises you can't keep I can't tell if, C or E is. Really that much of an airhead or if she's so cunning I start playing all this app I let alone say hey, Fang I stopped by for a cupcake okay let's go and that's today marks a day I sell my soul for a cupcake. What i DJ glee follow saber across the school in upstairs a section of the school I rarely visit being generally used for third-year classes and activities say already, full of energy swings open the classroom door everyone then a member is here I told, you don't call me a new member hey I glanced around the room welcome to the literary click Church Julia Clare Clare this is why. I don't do reading games Jesus Christ it's a pleasure meeting you Sayuri so who is next says. Old sailor II always says nice things about you oh my god what voice series seriously you brought a, boy wait I'll get it eventually way to kill the atmosphere a pizza bear what a nice surprise welcome to. The clip all words escape me in this situation this.

Club it's full of incredibly cute girls Wow which one is your wife the younger sister the older sister or perhaps dead girl next door type leave a, comment now sorry netsuke the girl with the sour attitude whose name is apparently netsuke is one I don't recognize her. Small figure makes me think she's probably a first-year she is also the one who made cupcakes according to, saiary already says that quietly into my ear then turns back towards the other girls and if it's you read it's maddening you don't say things, like, that Yuri you appears complete compared ibly more mature and timid seems to have a hard time keeping up with people like so Yuri Natsuki oh well it's nice to meet both of you it seems like you already. Know money can say three that's. Right it's great to see you again pizza pay oh wow it's out Monica smiles sweetly we don't know each other well we rarely talk. But we were in the same class last year Monica is that really a Japanese name I never heard it Monica was, probably the most public or in class smart beautiful athletic nice rack basically completely out of. My league so having her smile at me so genuinely feels a little cakes hey I made, them out get up then how about I make some tea as well the girls have a few desk arranged to form a table as Sayuri mentioned it's been, widened so that there is one space next to Monica and one space next to Sayuri NAT so Ian and Yuri walk. Over to the corner of the room we're not see you grabs a rap tray and you're reopens to closet still feel, like awkward I take a seat next to Sayuri maybe this club isn't so bad after all netsuke, proudly marches back to the table train hane okay are you ready that's if you lift the foil of the the trade to. Real adult doesn't white fluffy cupcakes decorated to look like little cats oh my, god that is so cute the whiskers are drawn with icing, and little pieces of chocolate were used to make ears oh my god that is so Ken I had no idea you were so. Good at baking netsuke he will you know just hurry just, hurry up and take what I mean oh it's fine Sayuri grabs one first then Monica I follow Sayuri walk talks. With her mouth full and has already managed to get icing on her face I turned the cupcake around in my fingers looking for the. Best angle to take a pay netsuke is quiet I can't help but notice her sneaking glances in, my direction if she is she waiting for me to take a bite I finally bye damn the icing is sweet and full of flavor I wondered if she made it herself this is, really good Thank You netsuke why do you think he me it's not like hey haven't I heard this somewhere before. Made them for you or anything oh hey I I thought technically you did say or he said well maybe but, not for you you you dummy alright alright I give up, on that Sookie's weird logic and dismissed the conversation URI returns to the table carrying a tea set she carefully places a teacup in front of each of us. Before setting down the tea pot next to the cupcake tray where's the, literature in this club okay so far it's just girls and sweets. You keep a whole tea set in the classroom don't worry the teachers give us permission after all doesn't it hot cup of tea, help you enjoy a good book fair enough I guess uh I guess what Jesus hey hey hey don't let yourself. Get intimidated you're just trying to impress e and that's not it insulted URI, looks away I mean that you know I believe you well tea and reading might not be a past time for me but at least but at least I enjoy tea I'm glad you're, a faintly smiles herself in relief what the hell is happening here Monica raises an eyebrow then, smash at me so what made you consider literature. Clip I was afraid of this question something tells me I shouldn't tell Monica that I was practically dragged here by syuri well I haven't joined any club's yet and she always seemed really happy, here so that's a great reason as any oh, sorry that's okay don't be embarrassed we'll make sure you feel right at home okay as president of, literature club it's my duty to make the club fun and exciting for MPP Monica I'm surprised how come you decided to start your own Club you could probably be a board member for. Any of the major clubs where's. Your leader of the Bay Club last year Hey so you know to be honest I can't stand no the politics around the, major Cape if it's like nothing but arguing about the budget and publicity and. How to prepare for events I much rather take something I personally enjoy and make something special atomy and if it encourage others to get into literature then, I'm fulfilling that tree really great leader Yuri nods in agreement then I'm. Surprised there aren't more people in the club yet it must be hard to start a new club you could put it you could paint it that way not many people are very, interested in putting out. All the effort to start something brand new especially when it's something that doesn't grab your attention like literature you have, to work hard to convince people that you're both fun and worthwhile but it makes cool events like the festival much more important I'm confident that, we can really grow this club before we graduate read every when we'll do our best everyone enthusiastically agrees what a great time. Such different girls all interested in the same goal my dear Monika must have worked really hard just to, find these three maybe that's why they were all so, delighted by the idea of a new member joining though I still don't really know if I can keep up with their level of enthusiasm about literature so pizza pay what kind of things do. You like to read well. Considering how lil I bred these past few years I don't really have a good way of answering that manga I mutter quietly. To myself half joking netsuke ahead Matt Sookie's head suddenly / except it looked like she wants to say something but she keeps quiet not much of a. Reader egg yes well that can change what am I saying. I spoke without thinking after seeing your sad smile anyway what about you jury Yuri well let's see Yuri traces the remembers she kept, with her finger my favourites are usually novice that build deep and complex fantasy worlds the level of creativity and craftsmanship behind them is amazing to me and telling a good story. In such a foreign world is equally impressive Yuri goes on clearly passionate about, her reading she seems so reserved and timid since. The moment I walked in but it's obvious by the way her eyes lit up that she finds her comfort in the world of books not people but you know I. Like a lot of things stories with deep. Psychological m elements usually emerged me as well isn't it amazing how a radicand so deliberately take advantage of your lack of imagination to completely throw you off for a loop foreshadowing everybody anyway I've been reading a lot, harder lately foreshadowing again ah I've read a hard book once I desperately grass something. I can relate to at a minimum level at this rate you might, as well be having a conversation with the rock really I wouldn't have expected that Yuri. For someone as gentle as you I guess you could say that but if a story makes you think or takes me to. Another world then I really can't put it down so real horror is often very successful at shake changing. The way you look at the world if only for a brief moment oh why, is that weird I just that's against I start over to me for a split second this is so strange what is happening what am i doing never mean that's right usually like, to create a pet usually right – right usually like to write about cute things don't you netsuke you left a piece of. Scrap paper behind last Club meeting it looked, like you were working a poem called give it back fine fine your kid cakes new pins everything you do is juices get you I say he already less up, behind that's again puts a hand on. Her shoulder I'm not cute that's the key you write your own poems I get some teams where do you keep I think that's impressive why, did you share them sometime no that's a gear bertrise he waited leaked in ah not a very confident writer yet I understand how Natsuki feels sharing that. Level of writing takes more than just confidence the truest form of writing is writing there one. Writing to oneself you must be willing to open up. To your readers exposing your vulnerabilities and showing even the deepest reaches of your heart do you have a writing experience to URI maybe if you share some of your work. You can set an example and help Natsuki feel more comfortable enough to share her I, guess it's the same for URI we all sit in silence for. A moment okay I have an idea everyone nuts again your liquid quiz galley ad Monica let's all go home, and write a poem of our own then next time we meet we'll all share them with each other that way everyone is even plus now that we have a, new member I think it will help us all get a little more comfortable, with each other and strengthen the bond of the club isn't that rad pizza pay money get smiles warmly at you once again hold. On there's still one problem yeah but it's dad now that we're back to the original topics of me joining the. Club I bluntly came forward with what's been on my mind the entire time I never said I. Would join this club Saori may have convinced me to stop by but I never made any decision I still have, other clubs to look at and I lose my train of thought all four girls. Stare back at me with dejected eyes how can you say no to four I am a wife who's just one maybe to hell no three I'd rather burn in hell for you. Just can't but I'm sorry I thought you were oh I different I'm defenseless again these girls, how am I supposed to make a clear-headed decision when it's like this that's if that is if writing, poems a surprise I need to pay in order to spend every day with these beautiful girls right okay I, decided I'll join the literature Club everybody gay one by one the girl's eyes lit up, Sayuri wraps her arms round me jumping up and down oh hey you really did scare me for a moment if you really just came in for, cupcakes I would be super pissed then that makes it official welcome to the literature Club yay ah thanks I, guess okay everyone I think with that we can officially end today's meeting. On a good note everyone remember tonight's assignment write a poem to bring the next meeting so we can all share mónica looks over at me, once more pizza pie I look forward to, seeing how you express yourself yeah okay can I really impress the class star Monica with my MODY mediocre writing skills I already feel anxiety welling up inside me meanwhile the. Girls continued to teach at at URI and netsuke clean up their food that's right saya and I never walk home together anymore because. She always stayed after school for Cleanse sure might as well with that the two of, us depart the club room and make our way home the whole way my mind wanders back and forth between the four girls Sayuri. Netsuke Yuri and of course Monica well I really will I be will, I really be happy spending every day after school in a literature Club perhaps I'll have the chance to grow closer to one of these girls. All right I'll just need to make the most, of my circumstances and I'll make sure a good fortune will find. Me and I guess that starts with writing a poem tonight wait I actually have to write a poem what pick words you think your favorite club member. Will like something good might happen with whoever likes are pulling the most what okay so I'm gonna go with but there was nuts Akita Yuri and Yuri I think Yuri. Is my Bey step but so extraordinary death Marshman so she like horrors, right that's what I picked up on so let's go. With death and she liked fantasy horror no actually like that one okay adventure maybe all she liked that mention. Love oh my god I'm picking all the wrong agonizing okay she really likes all the bad stuff sadness what kiddies definitely pure this is hard man anger of course that's her. uncanny yes frightening yes easy Reid was our nice gravy our dessert as well melancholies her fantasies what captive Inferno. Fear what oh I don't know, who we impressed here actually hey again Pizza Bay glad to see you didn't run away from us hahaha I took a quick break glad to see you didn't. Run away on us hey man don't worry, this might be a little strange for me but at least keep my word I at least. Keep my word well I'm back at literature Club I was the last to come in so everyone else is already hanging out thanks for keeping your promise pizza pay I hope this, isn't too overwhelming of a commitment for you making you dive headfirst into. Literature when you're not accustomed to it come on Rocky deserves any slack sigh you already told me you didn't even want to join any clips if you and last year too, I don't know if. You plan to just come here and hang out or what hoping to get some ass boy hell yeah I'll join any literature club buddy but if you don't, take us seriously then you won't see the end of it netsuke you You certainly have a big mouth for everyone who keeps. Her manga collection in the club, room oh Singha but dinga that's a good find yourself stuck between saying Monica and manga we swiftly defeated Natsuki perhaps plugs back in her into her seat if you mean, baby we're giving me a pee make it clean Mimi how dependable say alright that's because your room is, so messy it's distracting and you almost set your house on fire once you two are really good friends thank you I, might be a little jealous hey you need pizza kid. Became become Sayuri as usual Sayuri seems oblivious to the weird situation you just put me into oh yeah even sympathy you know wait Sayuri me not really Debbie Shh it's really. Nothing what what is it yeah never made say we made it sound like a big deal when it's really nice what do I do II, I'm sorry Yuri I wasn't thinking I guess that means it's up to me to rescue, this situation hey don't worry about it first of all I wasn't expecting anything in, the first place so any nice gesture from you is a pleasant surprise it'll make me happy no matter what is is, that so yeah I won't make it, a big deal if you don't want it to be alright well here Yuri reaches into her bag and pulls out a book I didn't want you to feel left out so I picked out.

A book that I thought you might enjoy Oh best girl you're a it's a short read so it should keep your. Attention even if you don't usually. Read Oh best girl and we could you know read it together discuss it if you wanted this this is how it's this girl accidentally being so cute she. Even picked out a book she thinks I like despite me not me natural reading like you're a thank you I'll definitely read this try enthusiastically.

Take the book Hey well you can read it at your own pace, I look forward to hearing what you think now that everyone settled in I expect Monica. To kick up some schedule activities for the club but that doesn't seem to be the case Sayuri and Monika are heading having a cheery conversation in the corner you're, his face is already buried in a book I can't help but notice her intense expression like his weight when she was waiting, for, this chance maybe not Sookie is rum rummaging around in the closet man it looks like no one wants to be bothered today i slumped down into the nearest desk how. Am I supposed to occupy myself with something literature related by myself like this I guess I could always read some of the book URI gave me obviously, that's the right. Thing to do right now but I'm feeling a little too tired to believe I could probably fall asleep right now I close my eyes and end up listening, and on your thyroids conversation with Monika could be Julie the clip see hmm well. We can't give up the festival is our chance to show everyone what, there it sure is all about the problem is that the idea of literature Club serves to dense and intellectual, to be fair you have must have extremely high IQ but it's not like that at all you know we just need a way of showing that to everyone something that speaks to their creative minds, they didn't send a bindi what do. You mean even if we commit with the most friending ami-nee busy Willie came in first please lyrics Jeremy they was very important to figure it out you get people to. Show up in the first place no. Limping this and after they came we can do it the thing to speak to that greeted me what is this Saira is taking this really seriously it's rare. To hear her deliberately likely talking deliberate hmm that's a good point in that case do you think food will do the trick you ain't King well I guess we, could good thinking you invited all my friends good thinking oh hi my, nuts hi Monica that's the kid would love to do that that's, a comida base camp geeks that works perfectly that wasn't why you suggested it haha get cake baking cupcakes it is then anyway we still need to. Work out the details of the event itself I find myself smiling in the end Sayuri is still her usual self. By therein lies the unexpected reason I admire her no no you don't like her unlike me was trouble finding any motivation. At all Sayuri can put her mind to things and make them come to life I suppose that's why I. Ended up letting her get on my case about things I can't help but wonder what it would be like to see the world through, her eyes that's too close I opened my eyes to find se or his face filling my, vision I nearly fought out of my chair wait it's Mia material it's your foot. Sleeping like that that's our school really have a napping Club you sting a, blinking itchy never you in a collab you can have this tape for any meanie you know it. Needs to be don't say that so loud I glanced over my shoulder to see if Monica overheard. It's true yeah I know I know you're always looking out for me so Yuri that's the problem what about you you look out for me better than you look out for yourself, you're still over sleeping every day aren't you that's not very convincing how many, days is past week have you gotten up on time I know it meda pretty pretty Tootsie I can't even do that look say. You're a it's written all over you II say a glances around herself baby you were clearly in a rush this money look your hair.

Is sticking out all around here I run my fingertips down the side of sailors say you were here trying. To straighten out oh oh that's a good move that's a good move man you really need to, brush this for this my really educate me I won't fall for that there's more than just your hair look your bow. Isn't straight either and there's two-faced stain in your collar. Right there I try to wipe off the state all that's in it that's in the titov region of course they win nobody's gonna tell you about it because, they don't want you to embarrass you, fortunately I don't care about that and you don't even keep your blazer button up seriously saiary why do you think you don't have a boyfriend yet me sorry but you'll thank me later I'll, start to putting our blazer from the button once you see how much better looks, you'll change your mind what is a Miss just, thinking here we released River friend you did see Kensie hey don't say that you'll make me feel, weird and stupid about it Vicky do in hippie realities ah I guess he be careful the bread you might cut ha why is this one so hard of course I struggle, to fully close the button err a chick does this thing even fit you properly. Did we make Betty Oh if you ever button it you would have noticed sooner that. It doesn't fit you anymore what are you smiling about don't say that out loud anyway you look much better. Now so uh why does it feel strange to see Sayuri's blazer burn up like that but it's so tough this is really strange for me to read I hope you'd realize that, sorry hey something I brought us our blazing ones more syrup it's arms are out and twirls. Around so if I keep eating Peyton Danny won't get away from me what. Kind of logic is that and why are you saying that that's like a good thing because if I hit it. Boyish pretty then he wouldn't make me UDC cookies and you take medicating me than anyone else right anyway so that's why. I keep I'm keeping it unbuttoned stop saying all these impaired things things if, I didn't say anything embarrassing II jeez well anyway just focus on trying to wake up a little. Earlier Oh only if you focus on getting to be really fine fine it's a deal I guess we really are better. Taking care of each other then we are taking care of our teeth. Yeah I guess so huh so maybe you should come wake me up this morning you're doing it, again sorry happy I was joking with you but it's impossible to tell with you sometimes okay everyone thank god someone else hey Monica suddenly calls out why don't we share our poems the. Pose we wrote now this beauty I can't wait to read this yeah the same I fail to sound enthusiastic but, series still trots a way to retrieve her poem by the way do you did you remember to. Write a poem last night yeah my relaxation ends I can't believe I, agreed to do something so embarrassing I couldn't really find much inspirations as I never really, done this before well now that everyone's ready why don't you find someone to share with I can't wait, Sayuri Monica enthusiatic pull out their poems I'm really curious about this poem thing say your is on wrinkle sheet of loose-leaf torn from a spiral notebook on the other hand Monica wrote her sin. Come in a composition notebook I can already see Monica a pristine.

Handwriting from where I sit that's again you reluctantly complies while reaching into their bags I do the same myself um I. Kinda want Sayuri's poem first I'm definitely most compared comfortable sharing it with Sayuri first she's my good friend after all. Oh it's who I share it with no idea which it to get ready Sayuri you must be seriously overreacting I'm not, a good writer at all I honestly have no idea what I'm doing wait maybe they swim either haha, I'm sure your as opinion has to be a little bit more. Constructive than this maybe even otsuki's are you sure you don't like it just because I wrote it yeah I'm sure that's part of me I think I. Understand you better than a lot of people you know so when I read you it's not just it's like. I can feel your spirit Sara hugs the. Sheet against her chest you're so weird Sayuri she clearly wants to you really pretty believe me not to mention the fact that I'm standing in front of you in the club. Room well of course I'm not really into yet. But that doesn't mean I'll break my promise see before HP did then you didn't you know Tran new things for other people but everything only really good for T thanks. A URI I'm not sure if they already sees the full picture of my mode of him then again I can't deny that she's part of. The reason I joined knowing how much this means to her at all I'm gonna make sure you have miss your, finger okay there would be my way of thank you all right I'm going, to hold you to do that then now you remarked on Jamie don't worry I really mean it we'll see about that, it makes me feel like you missed me kissing my forehead you helped me out of. Bed making me rock Judah sleepy from my. Eyes are you asking me to commit him play are you testing me to wish my way araignee tea I look. Up at the sky blue it's a secret but I'd be trusted to if it wasn't for you I would sleep forever oh sorry this is just a guess but did you wait until this morning to, write this. Little B you can't answer just a little bit to a yes-or-no question well at least that makes me feel a little better at myself do you be me I don't. Think it was that bad oh and because she said I won't, break this ice – cream I beat oh yeah I didn't mean to say that it was a bad poem it came out nice or how should I put it it sounds just, like you yeah especially the last line. Even though you were late to school it's bad pinky well I guess there's no point in arguing anyway thanks for showing me Monika's beep oh yeah but next time I won't forget and I'm gonna. Read the big poof ever well I guess I'll I look forward to all right so let's. Go Yuri next hmm Yuri stares at the poem a minute pass is more than enough, time for her to finish reading oh sorry I forgot to start speaking um it's fine don't force yourself I'm not I just need to. Put my thoughts into words hold on, okay this is your first time writing a poem right yeah why do you ask I'm just making sure I guess that he might be after reading through it oh, so it's that bad huh no did I just raise my voice oh I'm, sorry Yuri bears her face in her hands I couldn't help but notice that it it's been several minutes and we really haven't gotten no anyway um I might. Take Yuri and oh it might take your. A while to get used to new people it's fine I didn't really notice what you were saying okay um it's just that there are, specific writing habits that are usually typical of new writers and having been through that myself I kind of learned to pick up on, them I think the most notable thing I recognize in new. Writers is that they try to make their style very deliberate in other words they tend to pick a writing style separate from the topic matter and. They form fit the two together the inner soul is that both the style and the. Expressiveness are weakened once you refines her train of thought it's as if her demeanor totally changes her stammering is completely gone as she, sounds like an expert of course that's not something. You can be blamed for there are so many different skills and techniques that go into writing even a singing poet not just finding them and building them but getting them to work together is probably the, most challenging part it might take you, some time but all comes we practice and learning by example and trying new things I also hope that everyone else in, the club makes you Valley make gives you valuable feedback netsuke can be a be a little biased though by us how well nevermind I shouldn't be talking about people like that, sorry it's okay I'm not sure if your is apologizing to herself to me or not Sookie do you, mind if I read your poem now please do I'd love. To share my thought process behind it here is smiles dreaming Li as if, that's a rare opportunity for her which itself is kind of funny after all isn't this supposed to be. A literature Club ghost under light the tendo's of my hair illuminates beneath the amber glow bathing it must be this one the last remaining street lights to have. Withstood the test of time the last yet to be replaced by the sickening blue green, hue of the future I bathe calm breathing air of the present. By living in the past the light flickers I flick her back that was beautiful I'm I'm sorry I have such terrible handwriting what I wasn't thinking that at all but it took you, so long to read ah well I just don't read scripts very often I actually think your handwriting is pretty, hey that's a relief also I like the poet even though it's short it was really descriptive it. Wasn't too short I usually write longer puns not at all I'm really glad you, like it I'll be honest since it's our first time sharing I wanted to. Write something a little more mild something easy to judge digest I suppose are you into ghosts Yuri Oh Yuri means ghost in Japanese he actually the story or is it you may know I, don't know now I'm, confused actually the story isn't about ghosts at arpita's pay really I must have totally missed the point well I suppose you did up only. Glanced over it after all but remember that poems often express their own thoughts feelings and experience in. Their work they usually do more than tell a simple story or paint a picture in this case perhaps the subject of the poem is only being symbolically compared, to a Gus lingering in our last remaining place of comfort unable to let go over the, past and soon to be left with nothing that's a lot more solemn putting it that way I'd even thought of that that's impressive it's nothing. Really well it makes me happy that you think that just remember that it won't be long before you pick up on these things.

– yeah maybe you're right I guess I'll have, to keep trying I'm counting on you all right we got two more we'll end with Monica I think Oh God well it's about what I experienced from. Someone like you that's a little pun. When excuse me it's not like it's like I said it was bad I just stand there walking emotions so basically it's not cute. Enough for your taste do you want to get smacked I'll pass they'll anyway I need to show. You man I like you like Eagles can fly monkeys can climb crickets can leap horses can race I'll. Skim sweet tea to skim bronde Eagles can fly people can try but that's about it what in the world yeah I told you you weren't gonna, like it I like it what just be on it I am wait why you so, convinced that I wouldn't like it because everyone high school things that running has to be all sophisticated stuff so people don't even take my. Writing seriously but isn't the point of poems -. For people to express himself your writing style of wouldn't it make your message any less valid yes exactly I like when it's easy to read but it's it's, but it hits your hair like in this piece so you never won around they do great things give me really disheartening so I decided to write. A bit yeah I understand but the other nice thing about simple writing, is that it puts more weight on the work I like it's. Set up for a rhyme at the end but then made it all flat on purpose it helps bring out. The feeling in the last layer so you did I guess more went into it than I realized I liked her poem why am i reading poems in a videogame and I'm genuinely. Entertained by it haha. That's what it means to me about I'm glad you learned something didn't expect that from you the youngest one of you did you I guess not you didn't expect that. Burning I decide to humor her with the last comment I don't really care how old, everyone is but if netsuke is feeling proud then I won't take that away from her alright where. Monica left hype it's bang having a good time so far oh yeah good glad to hear it by the way since you're new and everything if you ever have any suggestion. For the club like new activities or things we can do better I'm always listening don't, be afraid to bring things up okay, alright I'll keep that in mind of course I'll be afraid to bring things up I'm much better off just going with the flow and not until I'm more settled in anyway want to share your. Pond with me it's kind of embarrassing but I, guess I have to hey don't worry pizza pan we're all a little embarrassed you know but it's sort, of buried that we all learn to get past soon yeah that's true I had Mona, get my poem hmm I like this one it makes me think of something Sayuri would like is that so you and C are, really good friends right I wouldn't be surprised if you had those sort of things incoming oh well hey we may be good friends but saya and I. Are actually really different hmm well that may be the case but. Maybe there are also similarities that you wouldn't expect the way she talks about you it sounds like you two are really care about each other well B even. If you show it in different ways it ends up, being more similar than you think so I think that's the kind of vibe I get when reading your poem you sure you're not reading into this, too much ha ha ha it could be oh gosh I sound like Yuri, but in any case Sara's writing has a has kind of a gentle feel to it I can tell she likes exploring with emotions like happiness and sadness. Who knew that someone so happy would enjoy it sad things too I wish we had clubs in our schools it seems so great maybe it's, just glorified for obviously well we'll see where he goes yeah that's totally unexpected well each, to our own you shouldn't be afraid to experiment. A little bit either I'm sure I'll end up trying different things in life it could take a while before. I feel comfortable doing this that's ok I love to see you try new things that's the best way to find the kind of style that suits you everyone else might be. A little bit biased towards, their own kind of styles but I always help you find what suits you the most so don't force yourself to write, the way everyone else wants you to write it's not like you have to worry about impressing them or anything ha ha ha ha ha anyway do you want to read. My poem now don't worry it's not very good you sound pretty confident for someone who claims to not be very good well that's because I have, to sound. Confident that doesn't mean I always feel that way you know I sink well let's me hole in the wall it couldn't have been me, see the direction the spackle protrudes a noisy neighbor an angry boyfriend I never know I wasn't home. I peer inside it for a clue no I can't see I real blind like. A film left out of the Sun but it's too late my retinas already scorched with a permanent copy of. The meaningless image it's just a little hole it wasn't too bright it was too deep stretching forever into everything a hole of infinite choices I realized now that I, wasn't looking in I was looking now and he on the other side just looking in I was a glory hole I like that. I was cute so what do you think hmm it's very freedom if that's what you, call it sorry I'm not really the right person to ask for feedback that's okay yeah that kind. Of style has gotten pretty popular nowadays that is a lot of poems I've been putting emphasis on timing between words and lines when performed out loud it can be really powerful, what was the inspiration behind this one well I'm not sure I, know how to put it I guess you could say that I had some kind of. Epiphany recently it's been influencing my palms to be an epiphany yeah something like that I'm kind of nervous to talk, about deep stuff like that because it's kind of coming on strongly maybe, after everyone is better friends with each other anyway here's Monica's writing tip of the day some sometimes when you're writing a poem or a story your brain gets to, fix it could fixated on a specific point if you tried so. Hard to make it perfect then you'll never make any progress just force yourself to get something down on the paper and tied it up later another way to think. About it is this if you keep your pen in the. Same spot for too long they'll get a big dark puddle of ink so just move your hand and go with the flow that's my advice for today thanks for listening. Whoo I guess that's everyone I glanced around the room that was a little more stressful than, I anticipated it's as if everyone is judging me. For my mediocre writing abilities even if they're just being nice there's no way my opponents can stand up to theirs this is a literature club after all I say hey I, guess that's what I ended up getting myself into across the room, so you're in Monica are happily chatting my aunt's land on Uranus Sookie they gingerly exchanged sheets of paper Shang there respective puns as they. Read in tandem I watch each of their expression change, that's Aquis I prefer Oh in frustration meanwhile Yuri smiled sadly did you say something oh it's nothing because they're the complete opposites not to get dismissively returns upon to the, desk with one hand I guess you could say it's PC ah. Thanks your sis here yeah did you complete did he completely miss the symbolism or something it's clearly about feeling mean for giving up how can. I pick you I know that I just meant the language I guess I was trying.

To say something nice hey you mean you have to try that hard to come up with something nice. To say thanks but that really didn't come and ate it home well I do, have a couple of suggestions if I was looking for suggestion I would have asked someone who actually liked it which people date by the. Way that you relate inputs if I dictum sebacean dead I gladly give you some detention of my own pitiful excuse me I appreciate the effort but I spent, a long time inside auditioning my writing staff I don't expect it to change anytime soon unless of course I come across. Something particularly inspiring which I haven't yet in pizza-pie like my poem to you now he even told. Me he was impressed by it that's a oh that's a good, Sunday staying set oh I didn't realize you were so impressed invested in trying to impress any member Yuri hey that's not, what I uh you're just your race ends up as well maybe you're just jealous that pizza pie appreciated my, advice more than he appreciates yours how do you know we didn't appreciate my advice move are you that full of your shoe catfight no if I was full of, myself I would delivery to go out of my way to mix everything I do, overly cutesy oh well you know what I wasn't the, one whose boobs magically grew a size bigger as soon as pity buy started showing up netsuke that's the key that's a little this doesn't evolve you make very suddenly both girls turned towards me. As if they just noticed I was standing there poochy back she's just trying to make me look bad if. She could get. Overhead never learn to proceed but simple writing is more effective then this wouldn't have happened in the present what's the point of making. Your poem all concluded for no reason that the meaning should jump out of that read it not forth enjoy a picnic maybe explain it. To repeats me wait there's a reason we have so many deep and expressive words in our language it's the only way to convey complex feeling and meaning the most. Effectively avoiding them is not only unnecessary limiting yourself it's, also a waste you understand that right pizza pie ah well how did I get ready to this in the first. Place it's not like I know anything about writing but whoever I agree with they'll probably think more highly of me. that's a key net secure glares at me. Drying up any words I had in my mouth so instead I turn to yuri yuri expressions so defenseless that I can't bring myself to say, anything to her sorry yeah everyone is fighting is making Sayuri uncomfortable how can you two keep fighting when you know you're making your friend feel. Like this well that's her that's her problem this isn't about her hey I agree it's unfair for others to interject their own. Feelings into our conflict yeah Lucy Yuri wants to tell you what a stuck-up jerk sheathe be Shh she would never it's your immaturity, that made her upset in the first place excuse me are you live exactly wait everybody who exactly. Where nobody likes hey Vicky Gary I gave it my friend I said you might never went to get along and, be happy my friends and wonderful people it'd be Jamie but if I give him any feelings it's. Okay we made it being a beautiful dignity my hey everybody so dandy the way, everything because well if netiquette cured Nick nothing ray mutated and, you're in babe I missed a meeting early sweet bacon baby face Naomi sour sale rate stands triumphantly Monica stands behind her hit wilderness expression what did I just say, I'll make some tea you're really rush this up. That's a guess it's down with a blank expression on her face staying at nothing so this is why I say, your is vice president I whispered to Monica she nuts in return to be honest I might come off, as a good leader and I can organize things but I'm not very good with people I couldn't even bring myself to interject as president. That's kind of embarrassing to me huh nah it's like I can't blame you I wasn't able to say anything either. Well I guess I mean Sarah is amazing in her own ways isn't she you could say that she. Might be an airhead but sometimes it's weirdly suspicious that she knows exactly what she's doing I see take good care of her. Okay I would hate to see her again herself hurt that makes the two of us you can count on me Monica smiles sweetly at me causing my stomach's to. Not she's such a gent such, a genuine person really does make a good president regardless of what she says if only I could get a chance to talk to her a little bit more okay everyone it's. Just about time for us to leave how did you feel about sharing phones even black poppy well. I I'd say it was worth it he was all. Right but we'll mostly pizza pie how about you yeah I'd say the same it was neat. Thing to talk about with everyone awesome in that case we'll do the same thing tomorrow and maybe you. Learned something from your friends team so your bunks will turn out even better I think to myself I did learn a little bit more about the kind of poems, everyone likes with any luck that means I can at least do a better. Job impressing those I want to I'm out to myself with new found determination baby wiki sure let's go say your e-beam send me it truly has been a wireless, and say alright now spent this much time together I can't really say I'm not enjoying it either sorry about what happened. Earlier what do you mean you know between uranus aki does that thing happen often it's really, the first time it's it really key they primitive when you could be you don't you don't hate no I don't hate them I, just wanted your opinion that's all I can see why they make good friends with you you need to be, it's nice that I got to spend time with. You in the claim but I think so you don't meet everyone it's make me the happy and I. Think everyone likes you to you that's hey every dude going to be famous V sign it looked like Sarah still hasn't caught on to, the counter situation I made sure being friends with Evernote is nice but does it really need to stop here we'll just. Have to see what the future holds saiary iPad so Yuri on the shoulder I said that more to, myself than to her but it's easy to use Saori as. An internal monologue sometime okay yeah let's do this I have to write another poem let's do that in the next episode really enjoying this game it's really well done I'm, really kidding me you know, what plot twist is coming and but I'm just enjoying it for what it is right now surprisingly I hope you. Enjoy it as well if you did I really appreciate leaving it like sharing this watching this and then seeing you tomorrow in another episode squad fam .

Monika, also known as Monika.chr, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the visual novelmetafictionalpsychological horrorvideo gameDoki Doki Literature Club!. The character was created by Dan Salvato and voiced by Jillian Ashcraft. While Monika initially appears as the main tutor and supporting character of the lighthearted dating simulatorDoki Doki Literature Club! that guides the player on their path to romance the three provided love interests, after being revealed to be a computer program that gained sentience, her words, actions and surroundings become increasingly malicious as she makes her intentions clear. She is apparently deleted at the end of the game, but returns to destroy the game itself.

The inspiration for the character's creation extends Salvato's concept of an innocuous romance game that slowly falls apart over time as horrible things begin to happen and one girl takes control. The physical appearance of Monika went through several designs, one of which featured a chibi effect. Discussing the creation of Monika and her abilities, Salvato explained that he was inspired by 'things that are scary because they make you uncomfortable, not because they shove scary-looking things in your face.'^[1] To achieve this, Salvato developed the façade of a cute setting, which would break down over time along with the behavior of the characters, and eventually the role of one evil character (Monika) who had seized control of the game from the player would be revealed.

In creating the game's horror elements, Salvato drew inspiration from Yume Nikki and Eversion, emphasizing to his team that he wanted the market for visual novels to become much more daring and less reliant on the same plot concepts.^[2] The game's other stock characters were based around standard anime archetypes (such as childhood sweetheart, girl next door, tsundere and manic pixie dream girl) and were given Japanese names to emphasize a pseudo-Japanese atmosphere characteristic of Western-produced visual novel, with each character's dialogue being written as though poorly-translated from Japanese; the game's title refers to the colloquial sound of a heartbeat alongside reference to a combination of book club and literature circle. The sole exception to these formats is Monika, who received an English name and speech pattern as a hint to her individual nature compared to the other characters, and the blank slate in-game protagonist 'MC'.^[3]

Monika has been well received by critics and gamers, some of whom called her disarming, passive-aggressive, tragic, sinister and witty.^[4][5] She is considered one of the greatest video game characters, particularly among those created in the 2010s.^[4] On January 1, 2018, Monika and the other main characters of Doki Doki Literature Club! were added to Yandere Simulator as character skins, with Salvato's permission.^[6][7] Later in 2018, a computer avatar based on Monika was released to Gaia Online under the title 'Just Dangerous Me', the addition of which has been criticised by Salvato due to no permission having been sought and the skin being sold as downloadable content.^[8]

Description

Dan Salvato on the reception of Monika.^[9]

For the first quarter of Doki Doki Literature Club!, Monika serves solely as the tutor, guiding the player through the narrative. Over time, after the exaggerated suicides and erasure of the three love interests, the player learns that Monika is in fact a self-aware video game character file who has the ability to manipulate and delete other character files, which she used to alter the behavior of her club-mates in an unsuccessful bid to make them unlikable and prevent their programmed confessions of love to the protagonist. She expresses her loneliness from being relegated to a fruitless supporting role within an empty world where her only company had been 'autonomous personalities' designed only to fall in love with the protagonist, and she confesses her own love not to the male protagonist character 'MC', but directly to the player controlling them, regardless of their gender; having failed to use coding to transfer herself into the player's computer, she instead seeks to trap them with her within the game itself.^[10][5]

Monika will sit and talk to the player indefinitely about various topics until the player manually enters the game's directory and deletes Monika's character file. Monika subsequently begins to break down, initially lashing out at the player, but ultimately forgives them upon realizing her own mistakes, remorsefully repenting by restoring the game and the characters excluding herself. Depending on the course of action taken by the player, the game can come to three possible conclusions. The standard ending sees Sayori introducing herself as the president of the literature club and thanking the player for getting rid of Monika. As she adopts Monika's possessive characteristics, Monika intervenes via text prompt and deletes Sayori to save the player. Monika deletes the game over the course of the credits, and the game concludes with a note from Monika, stating that she has disbanded the literature club because 'no happiness can be found' in it. In the true ending, achieved by the player paying Natsuki, Yuri and Sayori an equal amount of attention prior to the end of Act 1, Monika remains silent as Sayori learns from her mistakes, ending the game on her own.

Appearances

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Monika is a character in the game within a gameDoki Doki Literature Club!, initially serving as the titular literature club's president and the designated nice girl preparing for an upcoming festival, before having an epiphany which leads her to discover that she and all of her 'friends' are characters in a dating simulatorvideo game, drastically changing her attitude towards the other girls upon realizing she was not available to be picked as a romance option, having been written to be a one-dimensional supporting character preparing for a non-existent event, learning that as the president of the Literature Club, she became able to manipulate the script and code of the game and break the fourth wall. Outraged, this led to her using her powers of manipulating the script to do things like emphasizing the negative traits of the other characters Sayori and Yuri (respectively depression and self-harm), in the hope that the player would choose her instead of them, only for the player to turn to the 'worthless' Natsuki for platonic companionship.

After the protagonist 'MC' notices that Sayori (his childhood sweetheart) seems 'down' about something, he informs Monika about it, who expresses interest in having 'a talk with Sayori' later that day. Jealous of the friendship that Sayori and the protagonist have, Monika instead manipulates Sayori's code to have her commit suicide by hanging, breaking the script and deleting Sayori from the game, which makes the entire game restart with Sayori being completely absent. Due to Monika's manipulation of the script, from this point onward there are a variety of 'glitches' in the game, and she manipulates the personality of Yuri, one of the other two main characters, to be more intensive. She often uses the script to make other characters try and get the main protagonist to spend more with Monika; a famous example of this is when she removes Natsuki's face and forces her to repeatedly say 'Just Monika'.Eventually, Yuri's obsessive personality becomes so intense that she kills herself over the protagonist, leaving them trapped in the characters' school for the length of a weekend, leading Natsuki to vomit and Monika to completely delete both remaining character's files, restarting the game with just her. When she is alone with the protagonist, she reveals she is not in love with him, but with the player themselves, drawing them into the game in the character's place. She continues to endlessly talk with the player about various topics as love, vegetarianism and her Twitter account, unless the player completely deletes her from the game by going into the game files. When this is done, she will initially express fury at the player, but then shows regret for her actions towards her former friends and devolution into a villain. In an attempt to repent for her wrongdoings, she brings back the other three girls and seemingly fully removes herself from the game.

If the player attempts to reload or copy her file back in, she sends them a message asking them not to toy with her heart and she no longer wants to come back after her previous actions. However, when the player restarts the game with the other three girls, Sayori gains self-awareness and data manipulation powers like Monika's, having taken her place as the president of the Literature Club. After thanking the player for ridding the game of Monika, she alternatively (depending on the player's actions) also attempts to trap the player in the same classroom Monika did, in the hopes that she will be in a relationship with them forever, or learns from Monika's mistakes and allowed them to leave. In the first ending, Monika, realizing that no one is ever going to find happiness in the game, deletes it entirely, possibly taking her existence and that of her friends with it. In both endings however, before the credits roll, she communicates vocally with the player for the first time and plays and sings 'Your Reality' while playing notes from a piano as she deletes each file in the game, and eventually the script itself. In the first ending, she will additionally leave a goodbye note, serving to explain her final actions.

Other media

Monika is featured in Yandere Simulator as a skin for the titular 'Yandere-chan', accessible via a poem section of the 'Meme Closet'.^[6][7] In February 2018, Random Encounters released music videoJust Monika: A DDLC Song, featuring OR3O as Monika, which was later animated by ZAMination Productions.^[11][12] OR3O had previously voiced Monika in the song Doki Doki Forever, as well as in cover versions of 'Your Reality' and 'Can't Help Falling in Love'.^[13][14][15]

Development history

Because Salvato lacked artistic skill, he used a free online anime-creation program to create the initial character design of Monika and the other characters, and applied these designs in test versions of the game.^[16] Salvato recognized that a product of such quality would not satisfy potential players,^[16] so he made a request to his friend, a translator for Sekai Project, for sketches of school uniforms and hairstyles for the character.^[17] Salvato then handed initial visual development over to Kagefumi, who left the project very early on. After Kagefumi's departure from the project, Salvato contacted the freelance artist Satchely, who would created the final character sprites over the course of the following few months.^[18] The sprites were created in several parts to give the poses more variety.^[19]

In the game's score, the introductory composition, 'Doki Doki Literature Club!', is primarily performed by piano and flute with accompaniment by string instruments, the piano being representative of Monika.^[20] The composition 'Okay, Everyone!' has five different versions, Monika's version again emphasizing the piano. The game's score is generally calm and serene with the exception of two tracks, 'Sayo-nara' and 'Just Monika', which are ominous in tone.^[21] 'Your Reality', a vocal song performed over the end credits as the first time Monika is heard speaking aloud, is sung by Jillian Ashcraft.^[20]

In an interview with Asian Crush, Salvato stated that '[in] writing [Monika] I was seeing more 'reality' in [her] than I had initially planned. In concept, [she was a] generic anime character, [but] I think I really wanted to connect with [her] as a writer, so [she] started expressing insecurities and realistic personality traits behind their stock archetypes – ones I see around me in real life.'^[9]

Doki Doki Literature Club End Credits

An instrumental version of 'Your Reality' is additionally made available in the Doki Doki Literature Club! (Original Soundtrack), made available alongside the original game on its release.^[22]

On 28 September 2017, Dan Salvato posted an additional Doki Doki Literature Club! music soundtrack piece called doki17.mp3 to the unofficial Doki Doki Literature Club!Discord server, referring to it as 'an unfinished track that never made it into the game' which '[while] pretty far from finished [was] still somewhat pleasant'.^[23]

Reception and analysis

Dan Salvato on the motivations of Monika with regards the player(s) of Doki Doki Literature Club!.^[24]

With a Terrible Fate's Kent Vainio described Monika as a 'profound perversion of the boundary between real and fictional[;] like a real person, [yet] incredibly superficial and callous.'^[25]Rock, Paper, Shotgun contributor Darragh Nolan said of Monika: 'The fracture between you as [the] protagonist in the dating sim and Monika as [the] protagonist in her own counter-narrative is what fragments the game and our experience of it. It has both a wall, and a [J]apanese schoolgirl taking that wall apart and [ch]ucking bricks at you to knock down your wall.'^[26] Kotaku describes Monika's writing as 'disarming and sinister'.^[27]

Giant Bomb described Monika as originally depicted to be 'follow[ing] the script of an abusive and controlling partner, [with] her psychotic fixation on you serves as not just a criticism of the lens visual novels give protagonists and players or of the yandere character archetype, but also of the pathological love that dating sims often romanticize[,] the purest distillation of the idea of a person who thinks only about you and who would do anything to be with you, [far from] the height of romance but something akin to a personality disorder', interpreting the character as a criticism of the views taken by educational institutions on schoolchildren's mental health concerns, and on the lack of ethical treatment of female love interests in the format of dating simulators.^[28]

Doki Doki Literature Club Story

Since the release of Doki Doki Literature Club! in September 2017, Monika has become one of its most popular characters, with several memes (such as 'Just Monika') being made about her.^[29]

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1. ^Jackson, Gita (October 20, 2017). 'Doki Doki Literature Club's Horror Was Born From A Love-Hate Relationship With Anime'. Kotaku. Archived from the original on October 21, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
2. ^Salvato, Dan (2017) Doki Doki Literature Club! Concept Art Booklet, p. 3
3. ^Salvato, Dan (2017) Doki Doki Literature Club! Concept Art Booklet, p. 4
4. ^ ^abStaff, Polygon (November 27, 2019). 'The 70 best video game characters of the decade'. Polygon. Retrieved November 27, 2019. Monika wants to be loved, but the dating sim part of Doki Doki doesn’t even include a route for her. What do you do when your favorite NPC isn’t a romance option? Monika takes this into her own hands, self-aware of the limitations of her own genre, and turns into one of the most terrifying video game villains of this decade. She manipulates the game itself and ultimately smashes through the fourth wall. But Monika learns her lesson; she realizes the best way to love the player is to let them be free, which is poetically conveyed in the game’s ending song.
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8. ^Dan Salvato [@dansalvato] (February 23, 2018). 'Dan Salvato on Twitter: '.@gaiaonline I discovered recently that you stole my character design and sold it for money. I don't understand why you felt the need to do this. DDLC is a free game, even.'' (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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13. ^'【Doki Doki Literature Club Song】Doki Doki Forever (by OR3O ft. rachie, Chi-chi, Kathy-chan★)'. OR3O. December 22, 2017. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
14. ^'【Doki Doki Literature Club】Your Reality (COVER)'. OR3O. December 3, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
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17. ^Salvato, Dan (2017) Doki Doki Literature Club! Concept Art Booklet, p. 11
18. ^Satchely [@_Satchely] (June 2, 2019). 'Satchel on Twitter: 'Suddenly the artist credit is being switched around in the article, I don't think it was like that yesterday. Kagefumi didn't draw the final sprites and backgrounds. Her art isn't in the game because she left the project very early on.'' (Tweet) – via Twitter.
19. ^Salvato, Dan (2017) Doki Doki Literature Club! Concept Art Booklet, p. 18
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