The protagonist, Izumo Hiroki, is a university student who is tired of living in the city. He returns home to the countryside during the summer holidays. His parents have left the countryside and only his grandmother remains at home.
Incidentally, Hiroki’s presence always seems to bring rain. Today, too, the skies were overcast from the moment he got off the train. He headed for his parents’ house as fast as he could and barely evaded the evening showers. When he returned home, he met his soaking wet childhood friend, Inaba Usaki.
“Welcome home, Hiroki! We’ll be seeing each other again from today onwards!”
For one summer, the two are under one roof.
The companionship of a bright and lively childhood friend inspires affection in Hiroki’s heart. And the fondness turns into love…
Objectively, this VN is good. The art is clean and nice, the girl is hot and cute, the voice work is top tier. The voice actress really nails the energetic tomboyishness in most lines, but also is really sultry when she whispers. Really, the only reason I subtract a star is because the translation has some issues (some spelling and grammar mistakes, also some stuff is translated very loosely). Now, the real reason im writing this review is not because it is objectively good or bad, but because I pretty much instantly dropped it when the story had the gall to pull this "twist". It's not NTR, but it is something that bothered me so much it instantly pulled me out of the story and made me unwilling to continue. Spoiler The story starts of normally, and before you know it MC is balls deep in his childhood friend. The next day they're on a date, and he wants to kiss her. But then she pushes him away. "because kisses are more important and you should only kiss someone you truly love". I already felt what was coming. I opened a CG rip and saw the kiss only happened at the end of the story. The author wanted to keep something for the climax of the story, sex was obviously out (people want more than 1 scene) so his only other option was keeping the first kiss hostage. The result is that you have a romantic story, but with zero kissing till the end. I dont want that kind of garbage.
Yolomon2024-03-29★★★★★
A simple yet heart-warming little visual novel. I would rate it a 9/10. The story is incredibly simple and linear, following a kinetic storyline. There are no plot twists and no weird third-character introductions. Just a simple heartwarming romance between two lovers destined to be. The sex scenes are also plentiful providing a good narrative to the story. It's a must-play for people who want to follow a simple romance storyline without using too much brain power. I sincerely hope someone translates the second part as well.
Ultralazuli2024-02-07★★★★★
Boring as shit, with the added negative that the font is terrible, and cannot be changed, and doesn't mesh well with the textbox opacity. Hard to read, hard to enjoy, but keeps me from getting hard. The art at least looks good, but there's not much of it.
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