Cheers and thanks for the kind words, editing the quote down to the nitty gritty for brevity.
Not showing the MC is a deliberate choice, that's true. Not all VNs do it, but this one does and that does result in some trade-offs when showing intimacy as you point out. Some like it, some, as yourself, don't, but I'm really happy that the game contains enough good context for you to overlook those trade-offs.
Wrt the extra frames, it falls into a strange category really as I don't do animations, it's just two alternating frames for two individually posed images. The idea is to give a still image some life while falling short of actual animation.
As of yet, I've been too strapped for time just keeping up with the current content to delve too deeply into figuring out actual animating (which is quite a bit more complex). Maybe at some point in the future.
