You can play online! Honestly, if you have a webcam and a decent internet connection, you can play via google hangouts or roll20. It's very close to playing in person.

Secret Six is one of my absolute favorite comics and shows that in the right hands, every character can be cool. Even Catman.

Oh god, my best friend and I did the cannibal Barbie thing as well. Only with us, the Barbies would kill our lonely Ken doll in a variety of ways (our favorite was throwing him out of the second floor window). We even had a dog toy bone we would substitute for Ken after the Barbies finished with their meal.

And by now, tabletop RPGs are so diverse, there is really something for everyone. You like epic sagas about the people dying at the end of of the world? Try Polaris (man, that game actually sounds like a saga!). You like cutesy Japanese stories about animal spirits helping people? Check out Golden Sky Stories. You…

I would have been severely disappointed if nobody mentioned Hatoful Boyfriend.

3) No, but one with Gilbert Gottfried:

The only thing I'm slightly wary about is the fact that there is no Social Link button in the menu section. Don't take my Social Links from me, Atlus!

In addition, "persona" actually means "mask" in Latin, and refers to the masks used in ancient Greek drama, which signified personality traits of the characters. Which fits your interpretation quite nicely.

The previous Persona games are stand alone (with the exception of the not really canon fighting games), so it's very unlikely you need to play 1-4 to understand what's going on.

Every time I read excerpts of 50 Shades, I really wonder how the meeting with the editor went down:

Aww, they always do this when they make anime out of otome VNs, because they don't dare to feature only one route. I'm mostly okay with it and just imagine my favorite couple end up together ;)

Yeah, I actually try to buy otome games even if they aren't fully what I like, just to support them - only full games, though, I don't like that free-to-play model and won't support it.

Yes please. I'm actually crawling through Arcana Famiglia at the pace of an asthmatic snail because my Japanese isn't particularly good (understatement). There are a lot of cool Otome VN. Also, I'm pretty sure there is a market out there, judging by the many crappy otome games on iTunes, where every character route…

Fun fact: I had a kid's book about the Schmetterling ("schmettern" means "to bang, to clang") and the Lindwurm (wyvern, dragon, "lind" means "soft, delicate"), who wanted to exchange names, because, well, their names fit the other much better.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head would be Diabolic Lovers, an adaptation of an Otome VN. As such, it has a whole group of Bastard Boyfriends falling into the usual categories (glasses guy, twins, deliquent guy, shotacon (shudder)). It's basically Twilight's mentally disturbed, abusive, crack addicted…

Oh, there are tons of manga with VERY rapey girl + boy content (check out the Bastard Boyfriend trope for that).

It's pretty typical for slightly erotic love manga/anime that one of the participants has to be "forced" to enjoy it - which sounds super creepy (and often is), but we should not forget that similar structures are still used in western romance novels (you know, where the sexy count ravages the equally sexy heroine).

I feel myself reminded of Sea Dracula, the tabletop RPG about animal lawyers and fierce dance offs.

Shuuuuuuu! *shakes fist*

I'm torn. As much as I enjoyed Hatoful Boyfriend (and enjoy my Otome visual novels), a lot of the copycats (meat, sushi, bear dating...) did not have the original's charm and originality. This still looks like it could be fun, as it is about more than just weird dating. Murder mystery, yay.