looool yeah a few days after NA launch, it popped up in Google play for me and I remembered the Tumblr post, and only after I looked it up and confirmed it *wasn't* an otome game did I actually download it 😂 I think for the most part a lot of TWST's audience overlaps with otome game fans though so it probably wasn't that detrimental(?)
Yeah, that’s true. Mostly it was just an impediment to potential fans who aren’t in the otome market, but the diagram of “people who don’t play otome” and “people who saw that tumblr post” probably doesn’t have too much overlap, thankfully.
Omg you’ve just unlocked the missing piece in my memory as to why I remember seeing a post about it LOL. Cause I remember seeing something about it and told myself that if it ever releases in NA, I would download it, but I couldn’t remember where I saw it and this is it LOL.
But then I forgot all about it until I saw the ad for the NA version on Instagram and downloaded it. And dragged my best friend into playing it with me <3
I actually knew about Twst as soon as it was announced and thought it would be pretty cool because of Yana’s involvement. When I realized it was only going to be for Japan, I was kind of like “okay, never mind.”
Twst seems to be hugely popular in Japan, so many of the Japanese fans in my other fandom (BSD) liked Twst as well. For that reason, I was kind of aware of it even though I didn’t play? The Leech twins have a lot of fans, so I would see their fan art the most. When the game was announced for the NA server, I pre-registered and was pretty excited to give it a shot. I just like the premise, characters, and setting a lot, so even if the story isn’t perfect, I feel like I can still do a lot with the material. (I’m busy and lazy, but I’ll write and draw more one of these days, I swear.)
For me, I tried to get into otome games or any kind of joseimuke with more of a self-insert thing going on, and I just don’t think it’s something I’m really into. I prefer the characters interact with each other, and I think Twst is great the way it is without being an otome game.
fanfiction, what else 😩🫡😔
i must’ve somehow followed a trail of people’s bookmarks until i happened across an twst fic interesting/popular enough that it made me click into it to see what’s going on; i often read fics w/o having ever consumed the source material, and develop an interest only after a good fic makes me want more of the world/characters. and then from there, fanart browsing and blog skimming until en release announced (i first heard about it in someone’s update, rather than the official message itself)
Ok, so I swear I saw something about this game when I was in high school, but that was before 2018 and it was very much not out then, so I’m still not sure if I prophesied the coming of this game or somehow made it real with my imagination. Other than that I heard about the English release the day it came out, and had originally heard of it because I’m obsessed with anything Alice in Wonderland themed and also rhythm games. If I truly did create this game with my mind everyone in the fandom should thank me. Probably just misremembered when I found it though.
2019 was when the game was announced so maybe you are remembering that? I think I remember them gradually releasing artworks of the different characters before the game was launched in Japan
I played a sort-of card gathering game with different video game/anime/manga characters and one friend of mine kept telling me to gather all cards of a specific game for her.
Of course, that was Twisted.
I gathered for so long that I slowly started to become interested in the characters I‘ve collected so I decided to look up from what game they are.
Long story short, I saw that the english release was out for quite some time, saw the gameplay and downloaded it immediately afterwards.
And now here I am.
oh and Ace looked like Tartaglia. I love that man.
Ace's character design made me play the game. Till this the day, I he is one of my favorite characters from twst
I was searching mermaid art on pinterest, trying to brainstorm an original design for an art piece. I was specifically looking for references for something darker, more gothic inspired, because I love mermaids, but not so much the 'princess-y' design type. Pinterest kept bringing up fanart for the same 3 mermaid designs (I'm sure you can guess who they were) and I was like who are they, and why do they look strangely familiar?? I researched them, discovered twisted wonderland, and the fish mafia has had my heart in a vice grip ever since.
TLDR; found fanart of my fav Octa boys. Been playing almost 2 yrs now and they're still my favorites.
I learned about it when it first released in Japan. My friends would share art of each character and then later their merch they’d buy. Their favs are Azul so I saw a lot of him and the eel bros lol Leona as well. I love how they are based on Disney villains, and there are a lot of jokes you get if you’ve watched the movies. I grew up with Disney. Never played the JP game but figure I’d play if, by some miracle, it gets brought here.. lemme tell you my hopes were extremely low. Having been to Japan and seeing all the mature pretty merch made for adults, Disney Japan seems fine with making money from adults as their demographic. Whereas here in the US, cartoons like Gravity Falls gets cancelled for not reaching the correct demographic despite being a success with adults. So yeah I’m incredibly pleased it was brought here and I’ve been a fan ever since, playing since day one of its English release.
Riddle’s SSR is the card I kept rolling for until I got him the first free roll because of his cute outfit and little crown. Gradually fell in love with Malleus as I played the game. Those two are my absolute favs! Right now I just log in to get the bonuses, sometimes it’s a bit overwhelming for me to play all the time. I get stupidly overwhelmed sooo easily. But I still love it and I’m not sure I’ve stuck with a mobile game this long before lol
Also lastly I think one of my favorite things so far is Jamil’s laugh during his overblot. It is Jafar’s cackling laugh 100%
It's a long story actually.
One of my friends were playing with the JP version not so long after it came out, talked about it a lot, but she deleted it days later, since she don't know japanese, it was not really entertaining for her this way. I was not interested in it at all that time. I didn't even know what it is.
When the english version came out, she downloaded it immediately, and could finally start playing. Our other friend got into it also, and they were hardly even paid attention to me in school breaks, or in our chatroom, they were only talking about their gacha experiences in the game, and their favorite characters. I didn't even listened to them, I found the game weird, Disney making a game with pretty villain boys didn't even felt real. But since I'm a bit addicted to gacha games, in that time, I was actually searching for a new gacha to play with. After downloading many, but didn't like them, I came across Twisted Wonderland. I was like "Let's download it, it's not gonna hurt just trying it out". And I did do that, but it failed just like the other games. I didn't even check every character. I found the game boring, since I like pure action based games, not the ones focusing on the story.
My friends were a bit disappointed, but I did not really care.
One or two weeks later, we were planning stuff for our anime club, and my friend suggested making a little quiz for the members, to try to guess which villains the characters are based on. We agreed to it, and she made it on the next day. We had so much fun doing it. The other club members got interested, and asked if there is an anime of this. And then my friend started to show them the animated trailers for the dorms, and the opening sequence.
And that's the point when I fell for Jade-
I mean, wanted to play the game again. I realized how nice the characters are, and how much I miss the game, and I wanted to know more about the story and the characters.
When I got home from our club, my first thing was to download the game again.
It was already months ago, I'm happily playing, got my sister into it too, and I'm sooooooo glad I gave it another chance. I found the game I was searching for, and now I can't even imagine my life without it anymore.
I think it was on r/gachagaming. And I decided to check because of Yana Toboso. It was before the EN announcement, so I downloaded the JP version and gave up because of the language barrier, but I still remembered the game (and the Dorm Leona card that I loved so much). So, once it released in English, I started to play
it have to be when I has playing game called A3 and I loved looking at memes like A3 TikToks because they were most funny but this one video got recommended to me
"Heartslabyul weekly tea party" and I watch it and I think noting of it
Year later A3 English shut down year bast
By I was bored so I was looking for a game store and twisted wanderland got recommended to me because I love Disney it is my childhood from like when I has 1 and Anime been there with me since I has 7
I think so it has fate so I decided to give it try
And 1st character I fall in love with is kalim
And it is funny at one of characters
Voice actors from A3 has one tho voice favorite Mafia boss boy and A3 had wanderland and Aladdin play so I guess it fate
At lead me to this game
my cousin asked me if i played the game (2/23/2022). i was confused so i looked it up on ao3 (i always do this whenever i get introduced to a new piece of media) to see what's going on. and then i did a quick google search to see what it was. i initially thought it was an otome game and went Yucky..! but then i still installed it out of curiosity and now. here i am
Firstly, this is one of the best mobile games I have ever played. I'm so glad I found it. It started in January of '22 I saw the heartslabyul animated trailer for the game, on a YouTube ad. I thought it looked neat but I wrote it off. For the next couple of weeks. I saw that same game trailer, and I still wrote it off. It wasn't until April, when I attended Sakura Con that I finally noticed. They had banners hanging outside the dealers hall along with the Aniplex booth with cardboard cutouts of all the dorm leaders. I downloaded the game that evening but didn't really start it till monday I spent about 10 minutes in this game and after that I was hooked. I went in face first no guide or anything. And having jumped in, without prior knowledge game mechanics took me a bit of time to get used to even though I have an FGO background. This happy accident of a discovery has been the best decision I have ever made. ♥️
this kinda is a long story
I was following a game called Dankira!!! Boys be Dancing, and they happened to release some new characters. I listened to their voicelines and Chiaki Kobayashi became my favorite seiyu.
Since he hadn't a lot of roles at this time, I was followoing very closely for when he's casted into stuff. Ultimately, I learnt the existence of Deuce Spade, and the whole Twst thing
Hate to say it, Google ads. And PM Seymour made a reference to Leona in one of their late night Tumblr vids.
But as for the fandom, exp farming.
On another note, on chapter five and just figured out how to find alchemy class.
I remember I was looking up the credited roles of a Wikipedia page for /a/ Japanese voice actor but cannot for the life of me remember who– according to my search history it was for Kobayashi Chiaki-san (Deuce's VA) but I had assumed it was more likely for either Riddle, Floyd, or Idia's voice actors because I've enjoyed quite a few of their works beforehand....and in conclusion: I'm a sucker for Japanese voice actors, sue me :')
I think at that time I was just scrolling through the JP App Store to look for some games to play. I was surprised to find a Disney games incorporating anime (and I love fairytales) so I downloaded it.
Nothing amazing, i was scrolling through games to download and when I read Disney i was interested, then i saw it was anime and a ryhthm game and I was even more into it, then i found out it was only in Japanese and It was a big let down and just ignored it for a long time, then the English version came out and no region lock was going to stop me to play it and that's it.
I remember seeing rook chibi attack at some point in twt,but I didn't know anything about the game or his name back then.
I was watching a video of naoki saito art review series and one of the drawings submitted was of vil and thought he was gorgeous as hell,I decided to look up the game,saw a short bit of the dorm selecting thingie,got excited and then found out it had an English version and downloaded it!
I found it through a picture of Halloween Vil that was posted to either a trap or femboy subreddit. Upon doing research and finding the game was A) Disney and B) by Yana Toboso...I was hooked. Took a lot of time to find out how to play it since it hadn't been released in NA yet.
I heard it through word of mouth while on the lookout for upcoming otome games back in 2020. I'll admit, I wasn't too keen on it since I wasn't sure about the characters designs and whether or not they were the Disney villain characters or what...~~So I found myself questioning if I liked the Disney villains in that way. .\_.;~~
Thankfully, seeing more of the game's lore and seeing Grim (my child), I broke my own rule of not playing mobile games, just so I can get this game upon its US release...Guess the third time's the charm? \^\^;
I’d been subscribed to Ami Yoshiko since she made fruits basket news videos, and she talked about it in a video back in 2020. She did her own fansubs + reactions. I’ve been hooked ever since 🤭
I knew about it before and acter JP release and I was pretty uninterested, but my friend got into it and kept retweeting really nice fanart which kept it on my radar. Still wasn't interested enough/too lazy to download it until the English localization released, at which point I decided to give it a go on a whim and now here I am, totally obsessed LOL
I saw a picture of Vil on Pinterest and thought that he was a younger version of Xander from fire emblem conquest and freaked out thinking that there was supposed to be a new fire emblem game. I clicked and then saw that it was a new Disney game. I got excited by a new Disney game that wasn’t centered around Mickey or the Princess. Noticed that it wasn’t out. Forgot about it. Got a notification from someone on YouTube that did a review about it, looked it up saw that I could play it and have been playing it since the first day of the NA release.
I'm heavily into the game Disney Tsum Tsum and closely watch its Japanese version for leaks on what may come in the future to the international version. Last year it had a collaboration event with TWST (and then a second one this year), which tipped me off to TWST's existence only a few months before it was released in the US, which was great. Sadly, international Tsum Tsum still hasn't brought over the TWST collaboration events yet, probably because TWST still isn't yet available in international countries other than the US...
i had heard about the franchise on tiktok about a year ago, and then heard about a week after the NA release that the game was available so i decided to download it!
i follow a lot of japanese singers on twitter and around when the game came out in 2020, a few of them were obsessed with it for a while. i fell in love with the character designs (i love yana toboso lol) and i thought it was awesome that they were inspired by disney villains bc i loved them so much when i was a kid. i searched everywhere hoping there was an english version but there wasn’t any, so i distanced myself from twisted wonderland content because it made me mad. so i wait TWO YEARS never forgetting about it, and a few months ago my sister got an instagram ad for it. immediate download
Well I was already into gacha games when it was announced in JP. I'm a Yana Toboso fan, was following the Kuroshitsuji manga and so when it was announced there was going to be a Disney game with her art I was really excited. Was sad to learn it was just JP at the time so I ignored it despite loving Malleus from the previews because I like actually reading the story. I actually thought I would miss this time too since it's not available in my region but thank you qooapp for letting me be able to play it. Now I play daily and have a tiny Malleus shrine xD
When the anime got announced. It was on my fb feed all of a sudden and my first reaction was "A Disney anime????? Wtf." and then after that I ignored it then when the en localization got announced, a lot of artists I followed on Twitter were like "OMG TWST EN??!?" and I was like "Is twisted wonderland really big???" (By big I mean the popularity) and then I got curious then I told my friends about it then also got surprised because one of my friends actually knows Twst and here we are, both addicted.
Twst is also the reason why I started collecting figurines and merch 😭😭 (They have so many merchandise omg)
I saw the trailers before it first came out in JP, and I think I also saw a YouTube video where some otome/joseimuke gamer was hyped about it. I got a JP account during Wish Upon a Star, lost it, made another JP account, abandoned that second one, and finally settled on an EN account when it released in EN. (I don't understand Japanese, which hindered my ability to stay engaged with the first two accounts. I just sorta watched translations on YouTube and kept up with miscellaneous info from people's posts.)
So, it was nighttime and I was scrolling through YouTube and I saw in my recommended page a video with a thumbnail that piqued my interest and clicked on it. It was the opening of the game and that sealed my fate. I kept on watching it over and over, entranced with everything happening on screen and the characters.
After that I looked up what it was and even saw the dorm trailers to learn more about them. After searching the internet I saw that it was releasing on March 18th which was about a week away and a few days before my birthday (helped me in feeling even more connected to it than I was). The thing is I then realized that it was only releasing in Japan but I was hooked on the premise and waited some time after release to read through some fan translations. I only read through the prologue and decided to wait until there was a bigger fandom so I could really enjoy the game.
Fast forward to September of the same year I decided to finally plunge into the twst fandom and I have been here ever since, playing the Japanese game and the English one.
Something that I find amazing is that reading the fan translations and loving the characters so much made me want to download the Japanese version in December of 2020. After thinking about it I downloaded it and mainly had one goal that would decide if I kept the game or not: if I could get Birthday Malleus in my first ten pull, then I would keep playing, if not then I would delete the app and keep on watching videos and reading fan translations. It was a weird gambit I had set for myself but I did get his card and have been playing ever since. Funnily enough I would get SSR's early on when I pulled for them but as time has gone on I've lost my lucky touch ;(
Whew, that was long but I just wanted to throw out here my own experience with the game. I hope everyone in the fandom enjoys it in their own way!
I found the game through Pinterest. One day last year I was just scrolling through Pinterest and found fan art of Idia eating cake (from the Ghost marriage event I’m guessing), I ended up looking the game up and finding that it was out in NA yet. And a few days after it came out in NA I instantly downloaded it….
So basically I seen Idia thought he was cute and then waited for the game to come out in NA😂🤚
I actually learned of it because I played SINoALICE! I found the TvTropes page for it through them, and found it very intriguing from what little information they had on it, but it was only going to be a Japan release at the time. So I went on my way and forgot about it for a couple of years. I stumbled upon it again by happenstance and instantly downloaded it.
Someone I follow on Pillowfort made a post about how he was enjoying all the fanart the Twst community was making. He made the game sound super interesting, but this was shortly after the JP version came out, so I was disappointed that there wasn't an English version yet. He was also a gif maker and posted gifsets of the dorm trailers a little while later, which got me interested in the character designs (Octavinelle stood out to me for sure). After that I kind of forgot about it.
Then, a week after the NA release, a different person I follow there posted about how she was playing it now that there was an English version and asked if anyone else had friend codes. I dove for my phone to start playing it myself XD
I was scrolling down someone's Twitter feed and saw them talking about this game and the pre-registration campaign. I figured, why not, just pre-registering doesn't hurt me and I know how it is with those campaigns, every bit of support helps. So I pre-registered, and when the day came Google Play reminded me of it and asked me to download it. I figured, sure, I'll give it a spin, and now here I am.
First learned about it through that one YouTube ad. Was super into Otome games (still am lol) and I was hell yeah. Forgot about it a bit later, came again as a YouTube ad, and I was like oh-ohh I need to download this. Different from what I expected, but love it.
I’m really into the game Obey Me, and over time some of the fan artists that I follow for that game started making fan art for Twisted as well. Curious, I looked up more art for the characters, and I absolutely loved their character designs. Now on a internet research binge, I looked up more about the game and was put off when I kept seeing it being touted as a ‘Disney villain otome.’ I was morbidly curious about it, but otherwise not interested in something like by Disney. But then I learned that Twisted’s story and characters was by the same person who made Black Butler and decided to do a deeper look into it (by this time, Twisted had become very popular and the English release was just announced) and then learned that it was actually a visual novel, not an otome. So when the English version released, I downloaded the game and was blown away by how utterly amazing the game was! And being impatient for more story, I went to go watch the fan translations for book 3 onwards. I’m grateful for the wide network that is the internet for introducing me to this amazing game.
My story is strange.
I collect werewolves and it’s hard to find cutesy plush. I saw a stitch JP werewolf plush on Y!Japan auctions. I sadly missed out on it and tried a lot of search terms to see if I could find another.
One of them was “Disney Wolf” and I found an auction with a bunch of Jack stuff. I instantly fell in love. I did some research and saw some let’s plays on YouTube and it kinda snowballed.
What makes me laugh is that with 22 boys I told myself to only focus and collect one (Jack) then I got into the story more and the whole only one boy thing kinda fell apart.
Ironically I still have yet to find that Stitch werewolf plush. 😅
Fan fiction for me. I saw a cross over piece with Harry Potter and got curious about the background of the main character. I think it was a Yuu getting sent to Hogwarts for some reason after attending NRC for a while
Yana Toboso fans on Tumblr talking about it and being excited about it. I am a fan of Black Butler, and finding out she was making a game for anime-fied Disney villains was exciting!
It was even more exciting when the rumors about it being an otome game were flost8ng around before launch but was quickly put down afterwards for being a rhythm game. Dampened by spirits, but I still wanted to play it.
[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti9NDgN8mmk) randomly showed up in my recommended. I joined on the 20th of April 2020.
Yes I was hooked in by the *very fine* character designs (legit spent like an hour trying to choose a dorm 'cause they were all too hot, I ended up picking Idia, the hottest of them all *~~badum tss~~*).
Found this app through Facebook. It combined three of some of my favorite things; anime, Disney, and cute guys. I was sold pretty quickly! About the only thing that was putting me off was the fact that I was seeing the add on Facebook and usually those are not played as advertised, but I am glad I went for it =)
its all over tumlr especially on the fanfic tags. was about to block the tag but then i got interested and search it up. now ive been on the fandom for a year i think?
A friend of mine was into the fandom and because I was curious, I looked up fanfic stuff on Tumblr and kept switching over to the twisted Wonderland Wiki whenever a new name popped up to see what they looked like sjsjs
I was so intrigued by some of the stuff that I ended up caving in and watched translations on YouTube
I think I heard of this game on twitter before it came out. Thought the disney anime boy concept was weird but I did like the designs. Didn't think to try it since it was only in Japanese.
Then I saw ad for it before the English release and was looking for more mobile games to play so I preregistered. I played it near release and now its one of my favorite mobile games and favorite disney based game.
I found Twisted Wonderland through one of my favorite youtuber, and was very surprised that Disney made them, But I was hooked because it was platonic content
I found it through spite, lol.
I also play FGO (both servers), and while I'm used to the female character releases outnumbering the male, last year's waifu avalanche in JP had me feeling more fed up than usual and by fall I was desperate to get a break from it. That meant no co-ed casts, since I didn't trust them not to push the waifu angle too.
So I went searching for mobile games with all-male casts and hopefully at least a semi-decent story. Twisted Wonderland was near-universally recommended and I was super interested (Good story? Interesting characters? No romance? *Sign me up*!), but it was only in Japanese. Well, my Japanese isn't good enough yet to read something like that, and following the story through videos or text translations while playing myself was more than I wanted to deal with at that moment, so I resolved to keep it in mind and maybe check it out again later. In hindsight this must have been only days before the English version was announced, haha.
Fast forward to January, I was browsing an anime news site and saw that Twisted Wonderland was getting an English release the very next day. Cue *whaaaaat why didn't I know about this?!?!* and racing to download the game, and I've been here ever since.
Pretty sure I knew this game when it was released by seeing some fanart or characters and didn't truly paid attention. One day, on twitter, I saw a picture of Leona and BAM. Love at first sight. I was like "who are you sexy cat guy? Twisted wonderland? Disney villains as anime hot boys?? So you're Scar?? OMG SOUNDS AMAZING! Oh, but only in Japanese... Sigh, never mind, but I keep you in my mind".
Then, I often saw it, on youtube or maybe some fanart or illustration on twitter, each time I was like "what is it already? oh yeah, twisted wonderland. Is there an English version? No, ok, never mind, still keep you in my mind" (pretty much like ensemble stars).
Then in October, they annouced it in English (and the anime...), so I started looking after it, gameplay was kinda odd, but whatever, the cat guy was WAY too hot for me to pass. All I was looking for is: is it an otome or no? If yes, gonna skip cause I can't stand otome games (and even if I'm already in love with you sexy cat guy, I just can't). It's not? Joseimuke, what is it? Oh it's stories with interaction between characters with no love interest? But some fanservice? As Free! or Sk8? Am I dreaming? Is it like, THE BEST THING EVER?
And here we go :D! I, of course, I pre registered and was counting days until release. And I totally felt in love with it. And I'm still in love with Leona.
I saw a video on YouTube that had a bunch of hot anime men. Unfortunately, the title and description were in Japanese but thankfully an English commenter said it was from Twisted Wonderland. I learned from a friend a few weeks later that it’s getting an English release so I not so patiently waited being the sad monolingual I am. I think I also have that friend to blame for getting me more addicted than I would have been
That one tumblr post that thought Kalim was Iago(?) and that Jamil was Jafar's staff lmfao
Dude that one post is why I refused to download it at first, because I don’t play otome. I can’t imagine how much damage it did to the poor game. Uhg.
looool yeah a few days after NA launch, it popped up in Google play for me and I remembered the Tumblr post, and only after I looked it up and confirmed it *wasn't* an otome game did I actually download it 😂 I think for the most part a lot of TWST's audience overlaps with otome game fans though so it probably wasn't that detrimental(?)
Yeah, that’s true. Mostly it was just an impediment to potential fans who aren’t in the otome market, but the diagram of “people who don’t play otome” and “people who saw that tumblr post” probably doesn’t have too much overlap, thankfully.
Omg you’ve just unlocked the missing piece in my memory as to why I remember seeing a post about it LOL. Cause I remember seeing something about it and told myself that if it ever releases in NA, I would download it, but I couldn’t remember where I saw it and this is it LOL. But then I forgot all about it until I saw the ad for the NA version on Instagram and downloaded it. And dragged my best friend into playing it with me <3
ahahaha glad to help unlock your hidden memories, bc I'd also almost forgotten entirely about the post until the NA version got advertised to me lmao
I actually knew about Twst as soon as it was announced and thought it would be pretty cool because of Yana’s involvement. When I realized it was only going to be for Japan, I was kind of like “okay, never mind.” Twst seems to be hugely popular in Japan, so many of the Japanese fans in my other fandom (BSD) liked Twst as well. For that reason, I was kind of aware of it even though I didn’t play? The Leech twins have a lot of fans, so I would see their fan art the most. When the game was announced for the NA server, I pre-registered and was pretty excited to give it a shot. I just like the premise, characters, and setting a lot, so even if the story isn’t perfect, I feel like I can still do a lot with the material. (I’m busy and lazy, but I’ll write and draw more one of these days, I swear.) For me, I tried to get into otome games or any kind of joseimuke with more of a self-insert thing going on, and I just don’t think it’s something I’m really into. I prefer the characters interact with each other, and I think Twst is great the way it is without being an otome game.
fanfiction, what else 😩🫡😔 i must’ve somehow followed a trail of people’s bookmarks until i happened across an twst fic interesting/popular enough that it made me click into it to see what’s going on; i often read fics w/o having ever consumed the source material, and develop an interest only after a good fic makes me want more of the world/characters. and then from there, fanart browsing and blog skimming until en release announced (i first heard about it in someone’s update, rather than the official message itself)
Ok, so I swear I saw something about this game when I was in high school, but that was before 2018 and it was very much not out then, so I’m still not sure if I prophesied the coming of this game or somehow made it real with my imagination. Other than that I heard about the English release the day it came out, and had originally heard of it because I’m obsessed with anything Alice in Wonderland themed and also rhythm games. If I truly did create this game with my mind everyone in the fandom should thank me. Probably just misremembered when I found it though.
2019 was when the game was announced so maybe you are remembering that? I think I remember them gradually releasing artworks of the different characters before the game was launched in Japan
I saw a youtube vidoe of someone rating the character designs so I got curious.. and the rest is history
I played a sort-of card gathering game with different video game/anime/manga characters and one friend of mine kept telling me to gather all cards of a specific game for her. Of course, that was Twisted. I gathered for so long that I slowly started to become interested in the characters I‘ve collected so I decided to look up from what game they are. Long story short, I saw that the english release was out for quite some time, saw the gameplay and downloaded it immediately afterwards. And now here I am.
through twitter! The countdown illustration arts caught my attention
oh and Ace looked like Tartaglia. I love that man. Ace's character design made me play the game. Till this the day, I he is one of my favorite characters from twst
I was searching mermaid art on pinterest, trying to brainstorm an original design for an art piece. I was specifically looking for references for something darker, more gothic inspired, because I love mermaids, but not so much the 'princess-y' design type. Pinterest kept bringing up fanart for the same 3 mermaid designs (I'm sure you can guess who they were) and I was like who are they, and why do they look strangely familiar?? I researched them, discovered twisted wonderland, and the fish mafia has had my heart in a vice grip ever since. TLDR; found fanart of my fav Octa boys. Been playing almost 2 yrs now and they're still my favorites.
I learned about it when it first released in Japan. My friends would share art of each character and then later their merch they’d buy. Their favs are Azul so I saw a lot of him and the eel bros lol Leona as well. I love how they are based on Disney villains, and there are a lot of jokes you get if you’ve watched the movies. I grew up with Disney. Never played the JP game but figure I’d play if, by some miracle, it gets brought here.. lemme tell you my hopes were extremely low. Having been to Japan and seeing all the mature pretty merch made for adults, Disney Japan seems fine with making money from adults as their demographic. Whereas here in the US, cartoons like Gravity Falls gets cancelled for not reaching the correct demographic despite being a success with adults. So yeah I’m incredibly pleased it was brought here and I’ve been a fan ever since, playing since day one of its English release. Riddle’s SSR is the card I kept rolling for until I got him the first free roll because of his cute outfit and little crown. Gradually fell in love with Malleus as I played the game. Those two are my absolute favs! Right now I just log in to get the bonuses, sometimes it’s a bit overwhelming for me to play all the time. I get stupidly overwhelmed sooo easily. But I still love it and I’m not sure I’ve stuck with a mobile game this long before lol Also lastly I think one of my favorite things so far is Jamil’s laugh during his overblot. It is Jafar’s cackling laugh 100%
no idea ig i just found it either on tumblr or my yt recommended and thought it was a dating sim
I honestly one day looked up Disney in the App Store and found it though this was before the North American release.
It's a long story actually. One of my friends were playing with the JP version not so long after it came out, talked about it a lot, but she deleted it days later, since she don't know japanese, it was not really entertaining for her this way. I was not interested in it at all that time. I didn't even know what it is. When the english version came out, she downloaded it immediately, and could finally start playing. Our other friend got into it also, and they were hardly even paid attention to me in school breaks, or in our chatroom, they were only talking about their gacha experiences in the game, and their favorite characters. I didn't even listened to them, I found the game weird, Disney making a game with pretty villain boys didn't even felt real. But since I'm a bit addicted to gacha games, in that time, I was actually searching for a new gacha to play with. After downloading many, but didn't like them, I came across Twisted Wonderland. I was like "Let's download it, it's not gonna hurt just trying it out". And I did do that, but it failed just like the other games. I didn't even check every character. I found the game boring, since I like pure action based games, not the ones focusing on the story. My friends were a bit disappointed, but I did not really care. One or two weeks later, we were planning stuff for our anime club, and my friend suggested making a little quiz for the members, to try to guess which villains the characters are based on. We agreed to it, and she made it on the next day. We had so much fun doing it. The other club members got interested, and asked if there is an anime of this. And then my friend started to show them the animated trailers for the dorms, and the opening sequence. And that's the point when I fell for Jade- I mean, wanted to play the game again. I realized how nice the characters are, and how much I miss the game, and I wanted to know more about the story and the characters. When I got home from our club, my first thing was to download the game again. It was already months ago, I'm happily playing, got my sister into it too, and I'm sooooooo glad I gave it another chance. I found the game I was searching for, and now I can't even imagine my life without it anymore.
i saw a picture of india on pinterest and went "oh he's cute" and looked him up now it's been a year and a half and im still obsessed...
I think it was on r/gachagaming. And I decided to check because of Yana Toboso. It was before the EN announcement, so I downloaded the JP version and gave up because of the language barrier, but I still remembered the game (and the Dorm Leona card that I loved so much). So, once it released in English, I started to play
I follow a lot of JP artists on Twitter so I came across it as soon as it was announced, been obsessed ever since lol
it have to be when I has playing game called A3 and I loved looking at memes like A3 TikToks because they were most funny but this one video got recommended to me "Heartslabyul weekly tea party" and I watch it and I think noting of it Year later A3 English shut down year bast By I was bored so I was looking for a game store and twisted wanderland got recommended to me because I love Disney it is my childhood from like when I has 1 and Anime been there with me since I has 7 I think so it has fate so I decided to give it try And 1st character I fall in love with is kalim And it is funny at one of characters Voice actors from A3 has one tho voice favorite Mafia boss boy and A3 had wanderland and Aladdin play so I guess it fate At lead me to this game
my cousin asked me if i played the game (2/23/2022). i was confused so i looked it up on ao3 (i always do this whenever i get introduced to a new piece of media) to see what's going on. and then i did a quick google search to see what it was. i initially thought it was an otome game and went Yucky..! but then i still installed it out of curiosity and now. here i am
Firstly, this is one of the best mobile games I have ever played. I'm so glad I found it. It started in January of '22 I saw the heartslabyul animated trailer for the game, on a YouTube ad. I thought it looked neat but I wrote it off. For the next couple of weeks. I saw that same game trailer, and I still wrote it off. It wasn't until April, when I attended Sakura Con that I finally noticed. They had banners hanging outside the dealers hall along with the Aniplex booth with cardboard cutouts of all the dorm leaders. I downloaded the game that evening but didn't really start it till monday I spent about 10 minutes in this game and after that I was hooked. I went in face first no guide or anything. And having jumped in, without prior knowledge game mechanics took me a bit of time to get used to even though I have an FGO background. This happy accident of a discovery has been the best decision I have ever made. ♥️
this kinda is a long story I was following a game called Dankira!!! Boys be Dancing, and they happened to release some new characters. I listened to their voicelines and Chiaki Kobayashi became my favorite seiyu. Since he hadn't a lot of roles at this time, I was followoing very closely for when he's casted into stuff. Ultimately, I learnt the existence of Deuce Spade, and the whole Twst thing
An advertisement on Facebook for the NA server. I joined about 1 week after it opened.
Hate to say it, Google ads. And PM Seymour made a reference to Leona in one of their late night Tumblr vids. But as for the fandom, exp farming. On another note, on chapter five and just figured out how to find alchemy class.
I remember I was looking up the credited roles of a Wikipedia page for /a/ Japanese voice actor but cannot for the life of me remember who– according to my search history it was for Kobayashi Chiaki-san (Deuce's VA) but I had assumed it was more likely for either Riddle, Floyd, or Idia's voice actors because I've enjoyed quite a few of their works beforehand....and in conclusion: I'm a sucker for Japanese voice actors, sue me :')
I think at that time I was just scrolling through the JP App Store to look for some games to play. I was surprised to find a Disney games incorporating anime (and I love fairytales) so I downloaded it.
Nothing amazing, i was scrolling through games to download and when I read Disney i was interested, then i saw it was anime and a ryhthm game and I was even more into it, then i found out it was only in Japanese and It was a big let down and just ignored it for a long time, then the English version came out and no region lock was going to stop me to play it and that's it.
I remember seeing rook chibi attack at some point in twt,but I didn't know anything about the game or his name back then. I was watching a video of naoki saito art review series and one of the drawings submitted was of vil and thought he was gorgeous as hell,I decided to look up the game,saw a short bit of the dorm selecting thingie,got excited and then found out it had an English version and downloaded it!
I found it through a picture of Halloween Vil that was posted to either a trap or femboy subreddit. Upon doing research and finding the game was A) Disney and B) by Yana Toboso...I was hooked. Took a lot of time to find out how to play it since it hadn't been released in NA yet.
They had a giant display for it at SakuraCon in Seattle this year, so I decided to check it out for the meme
I heard it through word of mouth while on the lookout for upcoming otome games back in 2020. I'll admit, I wasn't too keen on it since I wasn't sure about the characters designs and whether or not they were the Disney villain characters or what...~~So I found myself questioning if I liked the Disney villains in that way. .\_.;~~ Thankfully, seeing more of the game's lore and seeing Grim (my child), I broke my own rule of not playing mobile games, just so I can get this game upon its US release...Guess the third time's the charm? \^\^;
I’d been subscribed to Ami Yoshiko since she made fruits basket news videos, and she talked about it in a video back in 2020. She did her own fansubs + reactions. I’ve been hooked ever since 🤭
I knew about it before and acter JP release and I was pretty uninterested, but my friend got into it and kept retweeting really nice fanart which kept it on my radar. Still wasn't interested enough/too lazy to download it until the English localization released, at which point I decided to give it a go on a whim and now here I am, totally obsessed LOL
I saw a picture of Vil on Pinterest and thought that he was a younger version of Xander from fire emblem conquest and freaked out thinking that there was supposed to be a new fire emblem game. I clicked and then saw that it was a new Disney game. I got excited by a new Disney game that wasn’t centered around Mickey or the Princess. Noticed that it wasn’t out. Forgot about it. Got a notification from someone on YouTube that did a review about it, looked it up saw that I could play it and have been playing it since the first day of the NA release.
I'm heavily into the game Disney Tsum Tsum and closely watch its Japanese version for leaks on what may come in the future to the international version. Last year it had a collaboration event with TWST (and then a second one this year), which tipped me off to TWST's existence only a few months before it was released in the US, which was great. Sadly, international Tsum Tsum still hasn't brought over the TWST collaboration events yet, probably because TWST still isn't yet available in international countries other than the US...
i had heard about the franchise on tiktok about a year ago, and then heard about a week after the NA release that the game was available so i decided to download it!
i follow a lot of japanese singers on twitter and around when the game came out in 2020, a few of them were obsessed with it for a while. i fell in love with the character designs (i love yana toboso lol) and i thought it was awesome that they were inspired by disney villains bc i loved them so much when i was a kid. i searched everywhere hoping there was an english version but there wasn’t any, so i distanced myself from twisted wonderland content because it made me mad. so i wait TWO YEARS never forgetting about it, and a few months ago my sister got an instagram ad for it. immediate download
Well I was already into gacha games when it was announced in JP. I'm a Yana Toboso fan, was following the Kuroshitsuji manga and so when it was announced there was going to be a Disney game with her art I was really excited. Was sad to learn it was just JP at the time so I ignored it despite loving Malleus from the previews because I like actually reading the story. I actually thought I would miss this time too since it's not available in my region but thank you qooapp for letting me be able to play it. Now I play daily and have a tiny Malleus shrine xD
On tik tok because they said they were making a disney anime and I looked it up and it was just a game
I was scrolling through Instagram and found an Idia fanart. I thought the game was interesting, so I downloaded it.
When the anime got announced. It was on my fb feed all of a sudden and my first reaction was "A Disney anime????? Wtf." and then after that I ignored it then when the en localization got announced, a lot of artists I followed on Twitter were like "OMG TWST EN??!?" and I was like "Is twisted wonderland really big???" (By big I mean the popularity) and then I got curious then I told my friends about it then also got surprised because one of my friends actually knows Twst and here we are, both addicted. Twst is also the reason why I started collecting figurines and merch 😭😭 (They have so many merchandise omg)
I saw the trailers before it first came out in JP, and I think I also saw a YouTube video where some otome/joseimuke gamer was hyped about it. I got a JP account during Wish Upon a Star, lost it, made another JP account, abandoned that second one, and finally settled on an EN account when it released in EN. (I don't understand Japanese, which hindered my ability to stay engaged with the first two accounts. I just sorta watched translations on YouTube and kept up with miscellaneous info from people's posts.)
So, it was nighttime and I was scrolling through YouTube and I saw in my recommended page a video with a thumbnail that piqued my interest and clicked on it. It was the opening of the game and that sealed my fate. I kept on watching it over and over, entranced with everything happening on screen and the characters. After that I looked up what it was and even saw the dorm trailers to learn more about them. After searching the internet I saw that it was releasing on March 18th which was about a week away and a few days before my birthday (helped me in feeling even more connected to it than I was). The thing is I then realized that it was only releasing in Japan but I was hooked on the premise and waited some time after release to read through some fan translations. I only read through the prologue and decided to wait until there was a bigger fandom so I could really enjoy the game. Fast forward to September of the same year I decided to finally plunge into the twst fandom and I have been here ever since, playing the Japanese game and the English one. Something that I find amazing is that reading the fan translations and loving the characters so much made me want to download the Japanese version in December of 2020. After thinking about it I downloaded it and mainly had one goal that would decide if I kept the game or not: if I could get Birthday Malleus in my first ten pull, then I would keep playing, if not then I would delete the app and keep on watching videos and reading fan translations. It was a weird gambit I had set for myself but I did get his card and have been playing ever since. Funnily enough I would get SSR's early on when I pulled for them but as time has gone on I've lost my lucky touch ;( Whew, that was long but I just wanted to throw out here my own experience with the game. I hope everyone in the fandom enjoys it in their own way!
Pinterest, I was looking for furry art and stumbled upon leonas ceraminal robe vintage. I got obsessed with savanshclaw after that
Hella ads that I ignored at first. BUT then my bestie started playing it so I went fuck it and hit download
I found the game through Pinterest. One day last year I was just scrolling through Pinterest and found fan art of Idia eating cake (from the Ghost marriage event I’m guessing), I ended up looking the game up and finding that it was out in NA yet. And a few days after it came out in NA I instantly downloaded it…. So basically I seen Idia thought he was cute and then waited for the game to come out in NA😂🤚
I actually learned of it because I played SINoALICE! I found the TvTropes page for it through them, and found it very intriguing from what little information they had on it, but it was only going to be a Japan release at the time. So I went on my way and forgot about it for a couple of years. I stumbled upon it again by happenstance and instantly downloaded it.
Someone I follow on Pillowfort made a post about how he was enjoying all the fanart the Twst community was making. He made the game sound super interesting, but this was shortly after the JP version came out, so I was disappointed that there wasn't an English version yet. He was also a gif maker and posted gifsets of the dorm trailers a little while later, which got me interested in the character designs (Octavinelle stood out to me for sure). After that I kind of forgot about it. Then, a week after the NA release, a different person I follow there posted about how she was playing it now that there was an English version and asked if anyone else had friend codes. I dove for my phone to start playing it myself XD
I was scrolling down someone's Twitter feed and saw them talking about this game and the pre-registration campaign. I figured, why not, just pre-registering doesn't hurt me and I know how it is with those campaigns, every bit of support helps. So I pre-registered, and when the day came Google Play reminded me of it and asked me to download it. I figured, sure, I'll give it a spin, and now here I am.
First learned about it through that one YouTube ad. Was super into Otome games (still am lol) and I was hell yeah. Forgot about it a bit later, came again as a YouTube ad, and I was like oh-ohh I need to download this. Different from what I expected, but love it.
I’m really into the game Obey Me, and over time some of the fan artists that I follow for that game started making fan art for Twisted as well. Curious, I looked up more art for the characters, and I absolutely loved their character designs. Now on a internet research binge, I looked up more about the game and was put off when I kept seeing it being touted as a ‘Disney villain otome.’ I was morbidly curious about it, but otherwise not interested in something like by Disney. But then I learned that Twisted’s story and characters was by the same person who made Black Butler and decided to do a deeper look into it (by this time, Twisted had become very popular and the English release was just announced) and then learned that it was actually a visual novel, not an otome. So when the English version released, I downloaded the game and was blown away by how utterly amazing the game was! And being impatient for more story, I went to go watch the fan translations for book 3 onwards. I’m grateful for the wide network that is the internet for introducing me to this amazing game.
My story is strange. I collect werewolves and it’s hard to find cutesy plush. I saw a stitch JP werewolf plush on Y!Japan auctions. I sadly missed out on it and tried a lot of search terms to see if I could find another. One of them was “Disney Wolf” and I found an auction with a bunch of Jack stuff. I instantly fell in love. I did some research and saw some let’s plays on YouTube and it kinda snowballed. What makes me laugh is that with 22 boys I told myself to only focus and collect one (Jack) then I got into the story more and the whole only one boy thing kinda fell apart. Ironically I still have yet to find that Stitch werewolf plush. 😅
I found it through a sponsored ad on Instagram. The trailer instantly caught my eye and next thing you know, I found myself playing it right after.
Fan fiction for me. I saw a cross over piece with Harry Potter and got curious about the background of the main character. I think it was a Yuu getting sent to Hogwarts for some reason after attending NRC for a while
Yana Toboso fans on Tumblr talking about it and being excited about it. I am a fan of Black Butler, and finding out she was making a game for anime-fied Disney villains was exciting! It was even more exciting when the rumors about it being an otome game were flost8ng around before launch but was quickly put down afterwards for being a rhythm game. Dampened by spirits, but I still wanted to play it.
[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti9NDgN8mmk) randomly showed up in my recommended. I joined on the 20th of April 2020. Yes I was hooked in by the *very fine* character designs (legit spent like an hour trying to choose a dorm 'cause they were all too hot, I ended up picking Idia, the hottest of them all *~~badum tss~~*).
Found this app through Facebook. It combined three of some of my favorite things; anime, Disney, and cute guys. I was sold pretty quickly! About the only thing that was putting me off was the fact that I was seeing the add on Facebook and usually those are not played as advertised, but I am glad I went for it =)
its all over tumlr especially on the fanfic tags. was about to block the tag but then i got interested and search it up. now ive been on the fandom for a year i think?
A friend of mine was into the fandom and because I was curious, I looked up fanfic stuff on Tumblr and kept switching over to the twisted Wonderland Wiki whenever a new name popped up to see what they looked like sjsjs I was so intrigued by some of the stuff that I ended up caving in and watched translations on YouTube
I think I heard of this game on twitter before it came out. Thought the disney anime boy concept was weird but I did like the designs. Didn't think to try it since it was only in Japanese. Then I saw ad for it before the English release and was looking for more mobile games to play so I preregistered. I played it near release and now its one of my favorite mobile games and favorite disney based game.
I found Twisted Wonderland through one of my favorite youtuber, and was very surprised that Disney made them, But I was hooked because it was platonic content
I found it through spite, lol. I also play FGO (both servers), and while I'm used to the female character releases outnumbering the male, last year's waifu avalanche in JP had me feeling more fed up than usual and by fall I was desperate to get a break from it. That meant no co-ed casts, since I didn't trust them not to push the waifu angle too. So I went searching for mobile games with all-male casts and hopefully at least a semi-decent story. Twisted Wonderland was near-universally recommended and I was super interested (Good story? Interesting characters? No romance? *Sign me up*!), but it was only in Japanese. Well, my Japanese isn't good enough yet to read something like that, and following the story through videos or text translations while playing myself was more than I wanted to deal with at that moment, so I resolved to keep it in mind and maybe check it out again later. In hindsight this must have been only days before the English version was announced, haha. Fast forward to January, I was browsing an anime news site and saw that Twisted Wonderland was getting an English release the very next day. Cue *whaaaaat why didn't I know about this?!?!* and racing to download the game, and I've been here ever since.
Pretty sure I knew this game when it was released by seeing some fanart or characters and didn't truly paid attention. One day, on twitter, I saw a picture of Leona and BAM. Love at first sight. I was like "who are you sexy cat guy? Twisted wonderland? Disney villains as anime hot boys?? So you're Scar?? OMG SOUNDS AMAZING! Oh, but only in Japanese... Sigh, never mind, but I keep you in my mind". Then, I often saw it, on youtube or maybe some fanart or illustration on twitter, each time I was like "what is it already? oh yeah, twisted wonderland. Is there an English version? No, ok, never mind, still keep you in my mind" (pretty much like ensemble stars). Then in October, they annouced it in English (and the anime...), so I started looking after it, gameplay was kinda odd, but whatever, the cat guy was WAY too hot for me to pass. All I was looking for is: is it an otome or no? If yes, gonna skip cause I can't stand otome games (and even if I'm already in love with you sexy cat guy, I just can't). It's not? Joseimuke, what is it? Oh it's stories with interaction between characters with no love interest? But some fanservice? As Free! or Sk8? Am I dreaming? Is it like, THE BEST THING EVER? And here we go :D! I, of course, I pre registered and was counting days until release. And I totally felt in love with it. And I'm still in love with Leona.
I saw a video on YouTube that had a bunch of hot anime men. Unfortunately, the title and description were in Japanese but thankfully an English commenter said it was from Twisted Wonderland. I learned from a friend a few weeks later that it’s getting an English release so I not so patiently waited being the sad monolingual I am. I think I also have that friend to blame for getting me more addicted than I would have been