Want a cult-hit VN that has been largely passed over because there is absolutely zero marketing presence or stream presence? This one's for the weebs, a remake of an early-2000's ADV that wears its inspirations on its sleeves, they do not make them like this anymore:
Off topic but holy shit was I never expecting to see anyone I've ever seen or met in my life bring up Kowloon. I randomly bought it on sale for like 5 bucks and man. I got sad and stalled playing it because I somehow fucked up recruiting the teacher though. Game's weird as Hell but what a fucking gem. Really need to just get back to it.
To be fair, IRyS also ended up giving herself away within like.. 7 hours by replying on the wrong account. Man that was fuckin hilarious. I adore that absolute dork.Lando was the ONLY 100% prediction of Tempus, as he liked a Magni art on his Lando account, but it was screenshotted by 3 other anons before he removed it. It was Axel who people couldn't identify until post debut, as he was a literal who. Can't comment on Vanguard, as I was out of town during the week of their debut.
As for council girls, the only one that was wrongly predicted by a lot of people was Fauna, who most people wanted to be Hana Flores (aka Beryl) but this may have been copium more than anything (Lemonleaf was the 2nd most popular guess). Kronii was like a 90% guess as her Dottovu friends had a Kronii fan art twit like a few minutes after her twitter came up, Sana was about the same prediction strength as we knew that she was connected to Ina, while Mumei was about a 70% prediction strength as her art was VERY similar to Shachimu (plus Shachimu was the highest subbed youtuber that was available at that time AND she didn't become NijiEN's Petra). I forgot exactly how Bae got deduced, but I'm 100% sure the name Marica Bellrose came up before debut and was the lead guess (if I had to guess, it's because Miori was one of the first followers).
IRyS was the hilarious one, as the first guess most people had in vt was Avril Lavigne. Probably just a meme joke, but after that Namirin was the the highest prediction due to being the highest profile anime singer with Vtubing experience, on top of living in Japan (which is probably a requirement due to recording issues and it was the height of Covid restictions).
I also know that Randon was consistently being brought up as potential with Tempus, and @wew was a true believer for pretty much the entire the lead up.