By Alchemical Arcana Magazine
Throughout the loop, characters plead with you not to perfect the potion. The town’s blacksmith, a burly man dressed as a maid, reveals this is his 500th Halloween. He wears the dress because he forgot what he looked like originally. Seiker’s dialogue here is haunting: "You think the concoction changes the body, Faust. No. It changes the memory of the body. Drink it, and you won’t remember what 'normal' felt like. That’s the real horror of Halloween." This existential dread is punctuated by Seiker’s trademark absurdist humor. One ending involves you turning the entire town into sentient, anatomically-correct gummy worms. Another sees you become the new "God of October 32nd," ruling a non-existent day. The Halloween Special ditches the standard anime portraits for a "pumpkin-gothic" palette. Characters have glowing orange sclera, and the backgrounds look like Tim Burton storyboards filtered through a lewd 90s PC-98 game. Futa Concoction -Halloween Special- -Faust Seiker-
— Stay alchemical, stay unholy.