Yearly top 100 2005

Early summer.

A society which imposes special "Duties" upon everyone who breaks the law.

The individuals who oversee these criminals' rehabilitation are the "Special Elite"ーa rank the protagonist, Kenichi Morita, hopes to attain. To do that, he must pass his final exam, for which he arrives at a certain country town.

At the school Kenichi attends, he encounters girls bound by various “Duties.” Those obligated "to observe a 12-hour day" are forbidden from being awake for more than 12 hours per day, and those obligated "to remain in infancy" cannot grow up. It is meeting Natsumi Hinata, the girl who "cannot fall in love," that throws him out of gear.

Soon, Kenichi makes a series of odd discoveries… his own grave, erected secretly on a clifftop; his patrimony, hidden deep inside a cavern. Kenichi finds that he must search for his own atonement in this dystopian society. What is the truth behind the Land of the Spinning Wheel? Discover for yourself through Kenichi's eyes!

[From Kickstarter]

I am just an average student, living an average life. I study, I work my part-time job, and get through the day just like everyone else, trying not to be beaten down by the pressures of modern Japan. Then suddenly, the winds of change blow into my life, when I encounter three girls who reshape me forever. Three girls who are most definitely not living a normal life like everyone else in Japan, but who seem to float above society, strangely unaffected by it. Instinctively I know I should avoid getting involved with them, and yet before I know it, my destiny is bound with theirs. Where will it all lead?

[From JAST USA]

The anonymous protagonist is diagnosed with a terminal illness shortly after his twentieth birthday, and is admitted to a hospital in Mito, Ibaraki. There he meets Setsumi, a woman a few years older, who is also terminally ill. Finding that they both reject to die either in hospital or at home, they steal a car and run away together.

[Edited from Wikipedia]

Bazett Fraga McRemitz, a member of the Mages' Association and a master in the 5th Holy Grail War, wakes on the fourth day of the 5th Holy Grail war with a new servant, Avenger, and no memory of what happened to her beforehand. She and Avenger set off to fight and win the Holy Grail War.

Meanwhile, Shirou Emiya lives peacefully with all his friends from the 5th Holy Grail War. After her experiment alters the event horizon and changes time and space, Rin Tohsaka leaves for the Mages' Association in England to fix things. The Servants sense a new danger, and dark creatures appear soon afterward. Shirou, as a precaution, sets off to ensure nobody is in danger and instead finds himself frequently meeting a mysterious girl, Caren Hortensia.

[Edited from Wikipedia]

It is a snowing Christmas Eve… Everything seems so peaceful when a huge earthquake occurs. The earthquake causes the city to be in ruin, and the surviving people need to find ways to stay alive. Some go crazy and rob others, some cling onto God, some gather to live together. The six main characters meet at a church while they were trying to find shelter from the snow. What will they see and experience in this extreme situation…?

[From Yandere Translations]

Tomoyo After's story revolves around Okazaki Tomoya and Sakagami Tomoyo. Tomoya has graduated from high school and is now employed as a garbage collector. He and Tomoyo are now seeing each other in a romantic relationship, though Tomoya lives alone in his apartment. One day it is discovered that Tomoyo has a younger half-sister named Mishima Tomo who had been living with her mother, but was recently abandoned. It is eventually decided that Tomo will live in Tomoya's apartment for the time being.

Beside the Adventure part that makes most of the game, Tomoyo After also has RPG elements. In order to complete the game entirely, the player must finish eight of the mini RPGs games called "Dungeons & Takafumis" which are available during certain scenarios as the player continues to play the game.

[Edited from Wikipedia]

Six years after the war's curtains fell in Japan, Takashiro Shuugo found himself on a train bound for Zushi, a world away from his past life at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The headline on the newspaper in his lap reminded him of the path that had led him here:

Ueno Serial Dismemberment Murder Case

This bone-chilling case set the wheels in motion for Shuugo's unexpected journey. His former boss had bitten off more than he could chew with the investigation and, knowing their shared history, reached out with a request — "Could you lend me a hand?" For Shuugo, turning a blind eye wasn't an option. He was roped into a case involving the disappearance of a damsel from a high-flying family.

At the Kouzuki estate, déjà vu hit him like a ton of bricks when he encountered Kouzuki Kazuna, the spitting image of his former flame, Kouzuki Yura. Kazuna, with fire in her eyes, implored him to unearth the whereabouts of her vanished twin. Yet, a man gravely informs Shuugo, "That girl, in truth, is no longer among the living..."

A maze of fiction and reality unravels in Ueno, a town still grappling with the post-war environment. And thus, a new tragedy is set in motion.

[Translated and edited from the official site]

A story of revenge.

Hanachirasu is set in a parallel timeline where nuclear weaponry was never developed. As such, Japan continued to fight through World War II, ending aggressions only when Hokkaido and Kyushu were occupied by Russia and America, respectively.

The game itself takes place in early 21st century Tokyo, which has been transformed into a haven for Japanese culture thanks to the nationalistic ideals of the charismatic Ishima Kaigen. Strict policies are in place in to enforce a ban upon firearms within the city limits. Thus, though terrorism and power struggles run rampant, swordplay, not gunfire, claims the lives of those not powerful to stake out their claims here.

Our protagonist is one Takeda Akane, a swordsman driven by a desire to face his one true rival, Igarasu Yoshia. What will stand in his path to his goal?

1,200 years after the Demon King Arawn was sealed, a priest of the "Holy Empire" conspired to free him, using the young oracle Riannon as a sacrifice.

However, the appearance of Riannon's brother Arthur, striving to save his sister, put his plan in peril. In the ensuing chaos, by a twist of fate, Arawn is unwittingly released by Riannon.

So begins their tale...

In face of human technological advancement during the Meiji Restoration, the youkai of Japan were forced to make a hard decision:
1) To remain as youkai and watch over the land,
2) To return to the netherworld,
3) Or to give up their power and status as youkai and live amongst humans.

While there were some that chose otherwise, the majority of the youkai decided it was best to become human. It was tough, but as time passed these youkai were able to blend in with the human world and live peacefully amongst them.

However, blood is thicker than water. The offspring of these youkai displayed the powerful abilities of their ancestors in times of great anxiety, often manifesting in horrible and dangerous ways, and were labeled by society as monsters.
Officially their condition was named "Acquired Systemic Special Heredity variety Syndrome", or "ASSHS" for short and treated as a non-contagious illness, but the common people began to refer to them as Jinyous (half-youkai) nevertheless.

Of these Jinyous, most were sent to Kamizawa City: an isolated urban area walled off from the rest of Japan to keep all the Jinyous together and away from the human population. However, the ones that were deemed especially dangerous were sent to a medical facility on an uncharted island near the shores of Japan where they would be under constant surveillance.

Takabe Ryouichi was one of those who were sent to said island at the age of five. This is a story about him along with the girl called Suzu, his only friend on the island, escaping to Kamizawa City to live a normal life. What they didn’t expect was that Suzu carried a secret that attracted much unwanted attention…

[Edited from a review by Warum]

After being devastated in the third World War (known as The Third Division), Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, Japan's capital city), where they are holding a battle game known as "Igura". The game's main character, a young man named Akira, is falsely accused of a crime. Once arrested, a mysterious woman appears before him, offering him freedom if he agrees to participate in Igura and defeat Igura's strongest man: the king, or "Il re". The story follows Akira's life in the harsh, lawless Toshima as he fights both to survive and to unravel the mysteries developing around him.

[From Wikipedia]

One day, the heir to the prosperous Kaburagi Corporation, a soft-spoken yet cultured young man, received a visit from his family lawyer. He came to pass on the final wish of the boy's late grandfather: that he attend an all-girls school!

With his childhood friend Mariya - a talented fashionista - to help him with the "transition," Mizuho enrolls in his new school. It's not long before a series of strange misunderstandings leads to him being elected the school's "Elder Sister," the idol of the entire student body!

It's one wild event after another at this all-girls charm school! Can Mizuho make it through the year with his identity - and his dignity - intact?

[Edited From MangaGamer]

An alternate world ruled by swords, magic, and monsters where four moons can be seen in the sky. The dark and chaotic twilight of the “Age of Tower” ended for this world called Stellamund and it entered the prosperous “Age of Crown”. But the wizards who triggered the great war during the Age of Tower no longer hold the power they used to have, and quietly researched the great magics that were lost, in a magical academy called Grimoire.

This is a story expanding three years of an extraordinary great wizard who was born in such age, the girls who become his pupils, a ruin from the old age, “Black Tower” that they live in, and the people that gather around them.

The main character Domino became the 9th great wizard of the Grimoire Academy. It was a very special case for a young wizard to be so successful, but Domino soon grew tired of the Grimoire. The other great wizards were only seeing magic as means for personal success than an important research. The research of magic has been put off and all they were doing was fighting over authority.

Domino left the capital and decided to live by himself in the sealed Black Tower on the frontier, rumored that a great wizard in the Age of Tower lived. But the other great wizards didn’t think well of that and gave him a test.

That test was to “Raise a full fledged wizard within three years”. Normally it would take decades to raise a proper wizard. On top of that, the two students that he was suppose to look after, Aria Vancliff and Kaya Xavier, were two of the most troublesome girls in the academy. Will Domino be able to complete this difficult task...?

[Edited from Akihabara Channel]

The story is set in very distant future, in a time when mankind is just recovering from decades of war fought between Earth and a terraformed Moon. The war was so devastating that it set technological progress back by decades if not centuries, which is why the settings don’t look futuristic. Although the world is now at peace, there continues to be distrust between the Sphere Kingdom (Moon) and the Earth Federation. Travel between the two is restricted for diplomatic purposes and confined to a single spaceport on Earth.

So anyway, one day the lunar princess, Feena fam Earthlight, comes to the protagonist’s house for home stay…

[From Dark Mirage]

Six months ago, Takamura Hitoshi watched Famille, the cafe his deceased brother established, go up in smoke. The employees and the memories they shared might have survived, but without a building there can be no cafe; Hitoshi and co. are left with no choice but to abandon Famille.

But as luck - or perhaps fate - would have it, Hitoshi gets a second chance when he receives a phone call from a new mall asking him to open a branch of Famille inside their building. Hitoshi can't refuse the offer to carry on his brother's will, and after a few twists and turns a new Famille is born with Hitoshi as the manager.

Of course, life never quite goes that smoothly. Things are a mess both in the kitchen and on the floor because two key staff members refused to return. Hitoshi himself had to take a break from college in order to make opening the new cafe a reality. But perhaps the biggest problem of all is staring Famille right in the face - Curio, the popular cafe that Famille was "inspired" by in the first place, happened to open a branch in the same shopping center directly across from Famille...

And thus the new Famille's battle for survival begins.

It is five years since the events of 1999’s “The Silver Case,” set in the new 25th Ward that arose in the bayside area of Kanto. In a room of the “Bayside Tower Land” apartment complex, a woman is found murdered under mysterious circumstances. This sets off a series of seemingly random events throwing together multiple protagonists including The Silver Case’s Tokio Morishima. With all viewpoints assembled, a truly shocking pattern emerges…

Available for the first time outside Japan, The 25th Ward: The Silver Case is presented with new HD assets and additional content not found in the original version.

A SUDA51 Trip – Set in the “Kill the Past” universe, the series continues its bleak look into a semi-futuristic world on the edge of collapse and the misfits and antiheroes that inhabit it.

Brave New World – The return of the signature “Film Window” system is brought to The 25th Ward for the first time! New visuals, sounds and controls capture the game in a fresh perspective.

One Story, Many Sides – Includes all three of the original arcs released for the title, “Correctness”, “Placebo”, and “Matchmaker”.

[From Steam]

This visual novel is a sequel to the adventure game "Flower, Sun, and Rain".

Tsuyokiss is about the lives of a group of high school students and the often comedic events that occur around them.

The protagonist is an ordinary boy named Leo Tsushima. He is secretly in love with the eldest daughter of the Kiriya Corporation, Erika Kiriya, who is also the student council president.

One day, a senior female student, Otome Kurogane, knocks out several of the main characters when they were trying to sneak into school being late. Surprisingly, it turns out that she is Leo’s beloved cousin that he had not seen for years. And she decides to move in to the same house with Leo, whose mediocre life starts to change into something a lot more exciting.

[Edited from Wikipedia]

"I shall give thee all kinds of dark ecstasy..."

Count Georik Zaberisk builds a sterling reputation as the head Royal Physician tending to the King of Hardland. However, the poor health of his frail sister, Lillith, drives him to resign from his post and retire to the countryside where he lives the charmed life of nobility. One day, while Georik is away, Lillith is accused and tried for witchcraft by an angry mob of villagers -- her head is chopped off and her body burned! Somehow Georik manages to secure Lillith’s head and to his amazement finds that she is still alive, and Georik is consumed with a desire to make Lillith whole again. Georik learns of the homunculi, who use alchemy. However, the Kingdom of Hardland had outlawed witchcraft and alchemy long ago. Georik is forced to delve into the banned world of alchemy in order to help his sister.

[From Peach Princess]

Here we have Mizoguchi Haruki, a newly-minted salaryman who is suffering from the freshman blues, and really doesn't care about anyone around him. And over there we have Kamiake Minori, a world-weary young shrine maiden who, despite her giggly conversations with her school "friends", really couldn't care less about any of that. When taken separately, these two individuals are malcontents, square pegs struggling to fit into round holes, adrift and alone in a society where solidarity is all that matters. When taken together, though ... well, suffice it to say that they can be pretty mean to each other.

[Edited from insani]

Set in an alternate universe New York City during the late 1920s. The game's storyline focuses on a naval ensign, Shinjiro Taiga, as he is summoned from Japan to New York to lead a fighting troupe disguised as a musical troupe to defeat an evil warlord and his subordinates from conquering America as its kingdom. The gameplay includes elements from previous games in the series, such as the LIPS system and combat systems.

[From Wikipedia]

This game tells the story of seven long-time friends. How they grew closer or further apart as they got older. The story is presented using a blog-like interface.

The protagonist, Atemiya Shinobu, who was raised at a certain facility since a young age, had no one around him that could be called a "friend". Being that way, the first thing he started doing after leaving the facility with his sister - Chidori - was to find and make friends.

Benio Azusa, a tomboyish girl who lived nearby.

Hondou Sayaka, a quiet yet sharp-tongued girl who was in charge of raising the pets at school just like him.

Tsukamoto Youko and Itsuki, a pair of siblings who belonged to a prestigious family around the area.

Higuchi Shouji, a boy he knew by being attracted to the similarities they both share.

Izuki Fueko, a girl he met by chance.

Together with Shinobu, they were a group of seven. Just like that, each and every one of them, who had never experienced the joy of having friends, was able to meet each other and become companions. The story begins in a quiet town colored by dusk. Around the seven friends, there were understanding, empathy, conflict, and what's more, the fleeting love of adolescence. It was a friendship that could last forever.

Such a simple happiness should have... lasted forever.

That was until the "enemy" appeared.

The "enemy" had disturbed the peaceful relationship of the seven people.
Shinobu could not forgive that. He could not forgive the one that injures his companions, nor could he forgive the one that hurts another one's hearts. And when he realized all that, the world they resided in changed, rather then becoming the new world that it should have... they had arrived at the "sanctuary" instead.

This is a story that describes the heart.

A story that describes the thing located in the farthest end of a heart.

[Edited from White Masq and translated from Getchu]

Cleavage features fantastic art from Sei Shoujo, the creator of the popular Bible Black and Discipline, and takes the protagonist on an adventure of courtship by two assertive women - his stepsister and his teacher. The player must choose how to withstand the onslaught of their affections in this erotic love sim.

[From Source]

Kumon Katsuki feels as if he was born without a heart. Ever since he was young, he's had a hard time reading the mood or empathizing with others; having to resort to using his brain instead of his emotions in order to get by in social situations. Because of this inability to read the atmosphere, the only people he has been able to maintain meaningful relationships with are his Landlady, Hanawa Momiji, and his two friends, Mineyuki Ryou and Makimoto Misae.

One day, Katsuki's younger sister, Megumi, decides to visit him from abroad. What should be a joyous reunion, however, coincides with a series of bizarre incidents occurring around Katsuki.

Among them are a series of strange dreams where he meets a young woman with an umbrella; only to have an encounter with her in the waking world. On top of that, a series of violent murders has begun sweeping the town Katsuki lives in—the victims looking as though they've been mauled by some large animal. However, the strangest of them all is an encounter with an enigmatic woman who claims that Katsuki is something called "The Gate".

Will Katsuki survive the series of event he's now found himself the center of, or will he meet his end?

While his parents are away working overseas our protagonist takes this opportunity to visit his childhood friend (and her twin sister). They live with their mother and are located pretty close to the high school he and the twins go to. So, seeing that he'd be living alone otherwise, they decide to have him live with them in the meantime.

There's also a prestigious all-female school nearby; this being the case, several students/teachers live in the same neighborhood as the protagonist's childhood friend; thus the rarely seen male presence begins a bit of an uproar as awkward, hormone-charged interactions begin.

[Edited from White Masq]

The protagonist, Leopard (Leo) is a disciple of Batch, the genius monster tamer, yet he can't even tame weak monsters yet. One day he meets with a monster girl, Captain Vanilla, who asks for his help and teleports him to a mysterious island.

This island is created by Baron Squid as his personal paradise. He abducted monster girls from all over the world to chose one to be his wife.

These monster girls, unable to defeat Baron Squid themselves, decided to ask Batch for help, but instead they summoned his yet weak disciple Leo.

[Translated from Getchu]

The human kingdom is at war with the kingdom of magical creatures, commonly known as "demons". Human heroine Isabelle puts a stop to war, but disappears. Protagonist, a human soldier, sets out to search for her. 10 years later, when the war between humans and demons is igniting again, he finds her, only for her to pass a little girl into his care, along with a demon servant Cube, and disappear again. The fate of the girl is now in protagonist's hands. And with it - the fate of both kingdoms.

A collection of four short stories produced by Nekonekosoft. Each story describes how two people come to know each other through something meager amounting to 120 yen.

Anjou Sakito is a normal high school student. He is in love with the president of the public morals committee, Kusaka Isami, who is also a classmate. His blood related sister Anjou Marine is in love with him though. One day at school she gets horny while talking to Sakito, and she ends up masturbating in the toilet. Later that day Sakito gets a letter containing a picture of this event and instructions he has to follow if he doesn't want the pictures spread. The first instruction is to take a picture of him kissing his sister in front of the school's gates.

Touya started to live with four tutors during the summer holiday. His father has gone abroad for business and his life has become a paradise with four beautiful women. Erotic lessons by four teachers have begun!!!

[Edited from ErogeShop]

It was something that could happen to anyone — a tale with a tinge of mystery...

One day, a girl I didn't know approached me; she told me she would make true any wish I desired — but only one.

"Really?" I thought to myself. She didn't exactly look dependable.
She started explaining how it would work as I listened on in disbelief.

"Let's see, according to the manual..."

1. Once and but once in your life, one wish shall be granted.
2. This opportunity will be given to all who live in this world.
3. One cannot know when it will be offered ahead of time.
4. The one notifying you of the opportunity shall be known as the Navigator; until the wish is fulfilled, they shall not be freed from their position.
5. The Recipient of the Navigator's aid shall later become another's Navigator.
6. Once their duty is complete, the Navigator shall lose all memory of the event. [or both, unclear]

(1). When a Navigator, you are as insubstantial as mist to anyone but the Recipient.
(2). You will not be able to tell anyone else of this.
(3). If a wish is deemed obviously impossible to grant, it may be disregarded; be careful.
(4). You must decide what to wish for within one week.

Well, that was certainly an explanation.
I wasn't about to believe her based on her testimony alone, but she did strike me as... subtly different, in some way.

[Translated from Getchu]

You start off as Yashiro, one of the two first rank students in a flight combat school maintained by the army. Japan is split into two factions and the situation is tense, with small battles being held here and there.
His father was the one who caused the entire splitting up and tense situation, with the proposal of some yen economic plan.
Life isn’t exactly as easy as normal school life over there, with it’s hardcore training. Still, he still manages to talk with friends and just act like a somewhat normal guy of his age should act.
But things never go right. Rumors have that a war is starting. That means he’ll have to go out to the frontlines as a pilot killing people. Can he save what his father has caused or can he even survive till the end of the war?

[Edited from a review by Accany]

"If only we hadn't rescued him..."

There is a high-speed experimental ship, "Vasilisk." The protagonist, Kouzuki Kyousuke, and his friends happened to be on its trial voyage. It was summer at that time. Because the trial voyage's supervisor was also the mother of the protagonist's childhood friend, Kyousuke and his friends were spending their time as if they were on a cruise.

One day, the ship came across an ocean investigation ship adrift on the high seas. There was only one person on its board: Ishida Youichi, who claimed to be an oceanographer. He was a well-mannered young man, so there were no particular issues with him. However, as soon as they took him abroad, the ship's navigation instruments began to fail one by one.

And when the sun was hidden under the veil of darkness, an incident occurred—there was a sudden blackout. Once the electricity was restored, a cruel scene appeared before the eyes of Kyousuke and his friends. There was a woman tied to a chandelier. She was in terrible shape, as if she had been tormented mercilessly.

That woman was the supervisor, Orihara Shino...

[Translated from the official site]

Happiness! centers around Kohinata Yuuma, who is a high school student attending Mizuhosaka Academy's regular section of the school, along with his close friends Watarase Jun and Takamizo Hachisuke. The other section, aptly named the magic section, was founded in order to train mages in the art of using magic.

The story begins with Valentine's Day coming up in just a few days and there's a rush for all the girls to get the chocolate they want in order to give it to the boys they like, in accordance with Japanese custom. Kamisaka Haruhi, a mage in training, is out with her friend Hiiragi Anri, also a mage in training, in order to do just this. While walking outside in the park, after buying the chocolate she wanted to give to a boy she met when she was a child, Haruhi meets Yuuma, who stops some younger boys bullying a young girl, and Haruhi thinks that he may be the boy she's been searching for all this time. The next day is Valentine's Day and at school, all the girls are giving their gifts to the boys of their choice. Later that day, Anri challenges Haruhi to a magic battle in order to take the chocolate she has by force for the reason that Haruhi wouldn't tell her who she was going to give it to. Before long, Anri loses control of her magic and it is flown outside, almost falling onto Yuuma and his friends. Ultimately, Haruhi gives him the chocolate she had bought, and in turn Anri does the same, which was her plan - to give her chocolate to the same boy as Haruhi and see who would win his favor more. The next day there is a gas explosion at the magic section of the school and all the mages in training must transfer over to the normal section for the time being. Coincidentally, Haruhi and Anri are placed within Yuuma's class.

Now Haruhi and her friends must adjust to the transfer into the normal section of Mizuhosaka Academy.

[Edited from Wikipedia]

Yuu Shirakawa moves in to his stepfathers house and starts to live with three step-sisters. One day he finds a magic bottle and falls victim to a terrible curse. The only way to break the curse is to fill the bottle with love juice. Living together with beautiful girls while trying to break the curse starts an erotic turn of events in his life.

[Edited from ErogeShop]

There is a mysterious ancestral ways in the village. Don't speak loudly at night, Don't fight against others at night, Don't show up at night if you are a woman..... All the people in the village has the same surname.....

[From English DLsite]

Kusaka Yuu is a student that lost his will to live after the death of a dear childhood friend, until the day a mysterious girl, named Yoake Eimu, appears. From that moment on, his life would never be the same again. Hunted by Ayakashi and their hosts, the power within Yuu awakens and a never ending battle begins.

The game stages Masaki Midou, a boy who's been craving for one thing: becoming a hero, the kind who would rescue the world. Apart from that, he's quite your usual guy, not really perverted but still interested in girls.

When he learns of female students being assaulted on the campus precincts, it was no surprise he'd show up and put himself on the front line. What awaits him is a spectacular sight: a giant dragon has appeared! Equally surprising is the girl with magical powers, who has engaged in combat, Klucienne Roussel (Kururu).

In an unexpected turn of events, Masaki confesses to Kururu and they accidently share a kiss during the battle. For some reason, this has the effect of giving him magical powers. The two of them join forces to defeat the monster.

The day after, a transfer student is being admitted in Masaki's classroom...

Welcome to the world of Meishoku no Reiki, Eushully’s conquest SLG title. You take on the role of Ignat, a badder-than-bad dude who’s like a mix between a dragon and some really messed up demon, and who commands a country that’s comprised of orcs, demons, and various other creatures who are definitely not known for their warm-heartedness and willingness to talk problems over. No, these guys are out for blood, and so are you.
While you take on the role of Igaat, the story doesn’t really take on his character for the narrative. Most of it unfolds through the eyes of Silfietta, the elven heroine, who decided to willingly bring herself to Ignat’s castle as part of a treaty between Zerf Grace (Ignat’s kingdom) and Lua Gracemeil (Silfietta’s kingdom where she is known as a princess). That was one of the two choices that Ignat gave Lua Gracemeil: to either surrender and relinquish their kingdom’s full control over to Zerf Grace, or to hand over Silfietta to Ignat. Silfietta, at the start of the game, is shown willingly bringing herself to Ignat’s kingdom, but is then treated as a mere slave by both Ignat and Tilly, Ignat’s second-in-command. It is then revealed that the reason that Ignat wanted Silfietta was for her magical affinity, as with it, he could make himself much, much stronger. Silfietta then makes a plea with Ignat, that while he is free to obtain as much “magic” from her as he wants, she hopes he will let her keep her virginity intact.

[Edited from a review by Hemisphere]

Three girls form an unofficial cosplay club at school. Kazuto gets invited to a villa on a solitary island. To his surprise he is greeted by three cosplay club members in maid clothes who speak very polite language. And they are very eager to serve their new master as diligently as possible.

[From vndbreview]

Shirozaki Takafumi is a security guard at a grocery store who uses his position to frame housewives and then blackmail them for sex. Apparently that works. Kogure Mayumi is his latest victim. On the pretense of her “stealing” a container of pepper Shirozaki begins to associate with her and eventually basically makes her his sex slave.

[From 1000th Summer blog]

Kaito has a normal life until his mother passes away and his father marries a young and beautiful woman named Sayoko. The biggest dream of Sayoko is to have a child but his husband doesn't want to. When Kaito founds that his father cheats Sayoko with a younger woman he decides to make her wish come true by any mean posible.

[From AnimeNewsNetwork]

Haruto Kawai is an aspiring film director, however, upon the death of his best friend, the boy gave up the dream and settled down for a mundane existence until a strange girl pops up in his life.

Life is like a movie, when Mahiro Sendou intrudes into his life, the cameras start moving. With touching storylines and endearing characters, make your own film and experience the climaxes and troughs as well as irreplaceable memories in the newest romantic adventure in the Memories Off series.

[Edited from Play-Asia]

The Atobe group has decided to sponsor a school festival which involves the local schools’ tennis teams. You are a 14 year old heroine who is in charge of managing a team and the festival. Your duties include arranging activities, and organizing people. You’ll have to get in contact with the members of the team so they can lend a hand, get to know one another, chat with them, and maybe even develop an intimate relationship with one of them…

[From English Otome Games]

An evil politician Arimori Kamoshige have been a local governor for 40 years,. Abusing his power, he has gained wealth and women. The protagonist’s father has managed Arimori’s black money as a right hand person, but later, he was expelled being charged false crime. He got discouraged and called his runaway son, Tatsuya. He asked Tatsuya his revenge on Kamoshige. Soon his father died, and Kamoshige hired Tatsuya as the third secretary. However, Kamo also died 3 months later. Just before his death, he changed the pass code of a safebox which hidden black money was in. Then, the power balance of Arimori Family changed. The person who obtains the hidden money will get become the next ruler. While Arimori Family is conflict for the hidden money, Tatsuya begins his revenge.

[From AniDB]

10 years have passed after the episodes of Pastel Chime. Nagihara Yuuki is a transfer student from Private Farneze AS to Kouryou Academy in the Rubens continent. Dramatic encounters and reunions occur as he is transferred. As he spends every day at Kouryou Academy it will help him walk the earnest way of becoming a mature adventurer.

[From AliceSoftWiki]

On his winter vacation away from University, Kusatsu Takuya was travelling around on his motorcycle with his guitar when he lost control outside the rural town of Yunohana and crashed into a small shrine on the side of the road. When he regained consciousness, a strange looking girl was floating in the air above him. With a smile on her face, she introduced herself as Yunoha, the guardian of this area, and told Takuya she has healed his wounds with her powers.

In order to repay Yunoha for "saving his life", Takuya has to take care of the repair fees to fix the shrine - a grand total of about 2,350,000 yen. Now Takuya has no choice but to head towards the town of Yunohana to find a job, where this heart-warming fairy tale of winter unfolds...

The story takes place in a fantasy world where magic is commonplace. The protagonist, a young boy named Tsukasa, gains the power to make women lustful with just a glance after a certain event. Under the guidance of his mentor, an old wizard, Tsukasa studies magic in order to control this troublesome power. One day, he meets a beautiful sorceress named Sylvia, who helps him gain admission to an all-girls magic academy. Tsukasa strives to learn how to control his power while attending the academy.

Otonashi Meimi is walking alone in an empty park when the demon Rococo suddenly appears. Rococo users her Eternal Worm attack on Meimi in order to separate the power of Misty Mei from within her body.
Meanwhile, at Naoto's house, Hikari, Naoto's stepsister who was studying abroad, returns home. She starts going to the same school as Naoto, and it worries Rika, Naoto's lover, a little.
"I love you the most in the world." - With these words, Naoto makes love with Rika in the school's nurse's office. However, Misty Mei appears and spirits Rika away. Then, the angel Loveriel appears saying that Naoto has no choice but to have sex with Hikari so that a new Djibril can be born to save Rika.

[From AnimeNFO]

The main character's mother eloped with someone in the past, and he can't trust women since then. But he longs for mother's love.... One day, his father gets married to Aiko, and his new life starts. But Aiko's younger sister, Kaori, appears in front of them, and their peaceful life changes gradually. Kaori says to him, "You want to shag with your mother, don't you?", and gives him a blowjob. He is confused, and finds out there is a secret desire deep inside his heart. What does he want from his mother...?

[From ErogeShop]

When I went to the game center, I catch sight of "her", playing that game alone.

I wonder when was it that I fell for her.

[From homepage]

Yusuke, the protagonist of the first game who loves big tits, is back.

After a few years, he ended marrying Mitsuki, the mother of the girl he was tutoring.

Besides a beautiful wife with big tits, now he has a new employment opportunity at the company of the cousin of Mitsuki.

A well-endowed wife waiting him in home, and a well-endowed boss waiting him at workplace. His new married life is about to begin...

[Shorty translated from Getchu]

The main character, Kouji, is a medical device salesman who tries to live a fulfilling life, but is overwhelmed by an everyday routine. One day he meets an innocent nurse, Karen, at the hospital he is attached to. Being charmed by her cheerfulness and gentleness, he still can't make one step further, and the distance between them is just increasing.
Holding his feelings towards Karen, one day he goes to a local bookstore and finds an amatuer adult photo magazine. Glancing through it he feels that his hidden desires are awakened...

[Translated from Getchu]

You are Takamura Kyouji, a university undergraduate of archeology (and still in school). By help from Sears Association, you got a temporary teaching intern job at Fuuka Gakuen class 1-3 (Miyu, Natsuki, Mai and Akane's class) teaching History. In reality, you're at Fuuka to research the Hime Legend.

[Edited from Animesuki forums]

In a parallel world, the history takes a different turn at the start of the 20th Century. Black death plague ravages the European Countries, death toll is so high that when the Ottoman Empire strikes from the east they are powerless to resist. In the name of Jihad, Europe burns.

Kuu Klein is the only survivor of black death in his village in Germany and he flees all the way to Beijing to survive the war and the plague. He has the ability to read minds but it brings him only more suffering.

Ten years later, when the World War starts chaos and poverty spreads to Beijing. He decides to go back to his hometown, better to be at home if the war will be everywhere... But there are no trains to Europe except the rumored "Black Train John". He tries to get on that train but the only people with the "Black Ticket" are allowed to board.

Unable to find a way to get abroad he gives himself to alcohol, later that day on the street he meets a girl who offers him a black ticket. Somehow he can't read the thoughts of this particular girl. She can't speak a word either, an another strange thing about her is that she covers her hands with long dark gloves, never taking them off for any reason...

After some difficulty in conversation, he learns that her name is Emma and she would give him a ticket if he agrees to travel to Europe as her companion. They board the train together and take of on a journey that will take them over seven bridges and many ordeals...

[Translated from Getchu]

In the continent of Polyphonica, spirits materialize in the world, surviving on the music that is played by humans, and live together with them. While the spirits don't appear often, some spirits have enough power to materialize in human or animal forms and live together with humans.

Dantists, who play special music called "Commandia," are widely respected in this world. They also usually are in contract with powerful spirits. The story of Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica revolves around the new Dantist, Phoron Tatara, the spirit that he made contract with, Corticarte Apa Lagranges, and their friends, in their daily life and work.

[From Wikipedia]

You're playing as an average schoolboy. He's the usual bright and cheerful fellow, and hangs out with his best friend and fellow classmates. He now lives with his cousin since the death of his parents. Turns out the cousin is some kind of inventive genius...

[From White Masq]

The main protagonist has just married. In the day of the wedding his wife's mother Michiko tells him "why don't you live here", and thus he decide to live with his wife's family which include her Mother, younger sister and elder sister.

A few months have passed and the couple is feeling the pressure of marriage...Michiko and her other 2 daughters Kirara and Sekka decide to help out... a world of immorality is open before the protagonists eyes...

Yasuhiro father suddenly dies leaving his mother unable to take care of family. Having no choice but to move back in with grandfather he didn't know existed. He quickly see's that his grand father is a wealthy successful man. He belittles Yasuhiro mom for not being able to care for child as a parent. Then proceeds to call in three women telling Yasuhiro that over following weeks one of these women will be his new mother and he has to decide.

Takumi Kaizu is a normal high school student enjoying his school life with his friends. Over the years, he has made good memories with these friends of his, most of whom are girls, though apparently still have no overt feelings of attraction towards any of them. When asked by his best male friend Osamu Funada if he likes anyone, Takumi starts to think about it though is still confused on what to do next. Takumi decides to find someone to like while summer vacation enters.

Recently having both of his parents leaving the house in order to take jobs abroad; our hero leads a solitary, invalid existence. Even his stepsister cannot lend him a hand because she’s not living with him either. Thankfully, a neighbor (and fellow classmate) takes it upon herself to help the kid out. Furthermore, a World-Class tennis player (whom our hero idolizes) is injured while touring the globe. She now attends the same class as he, until she gets better. With all these cute women surrounding him--and he having a place for himself--how will he take action?

[Edited from White Masq]

Another year has passed since the integration of male and female students; now for the concluding installment of the Green Green trilogy!

First there was the uproar of the arriving male students at the once all-girl school. Then along came the riotous response to news of the school being closed. However, after that event they have been assured that the school will stay and nothing will change. That is until a small earthquake leaves the girl's dorm in flames! Now co-education becomes co-habitation with both men and women living under the one roof of the remaining boy's dorm. Sure it sounds kind of fun and kinky, but how long will the student body stand one another?!

[From White Masq]

You are Felser, lord of the demons. For a long time, your race lived in peace with the humans. One day, your seneschal Galef announced you the dire news: Humans have started to attack your lands!

While fighting them, you learned that the humans decided to eradicate your race just because they saw it as a threat. Amused by that, you decided that if that is how they see you, you should as well just go back to your old ways and conquer them all!

[Edited from OLF]

Cell's sister, Uracil, suffers from an unknown disease since she was born. Cell became a successful medical doctor but he still can't find a cure for her.

Together with another doctor, who happens to be his ex-girlfriend Fenyl, that works in the same clinic with him, they devise an unconventional method that might save Uracil, where everything else already failed.

The plan is to make changes in her DNA so it can fight the pathogens eating her from inside. To do that, they have to try cultivating different strains in Cell's body and inject them into her body in a way that won't be rejected by her immune system. And the only way to do that is by sex...

You wake up in your room and find a woman, whom you don't know, standing there. She says that you are the reincarnation of her liege. The Demon Lord who was sealed away centuries ago by the goddess of the land.

She tries to give your memories back but fails and gets upset. Then she decides that to awaken you, she must take you to the places where parts of your sealed power should be. Threatened by her, you follow her. In the first dungeon, you save a priestess who thinks you're the Messiah coming to save the lands from evil...

[Edited from a forum post by OLF]

Keigo Kiriyama has been protective towards his younger sister Sakura since their parents passed away. Both were placed in separate families, but Keigo has been living alone since his adoptive mother died a year and a half ago.

As Keigo is close to graduating, he's thinking of putting some distance between the two of them, and open himself to other relationships.

--- In the midst of the chaos of post-war Japanese economy has entered a period of rapid growth, "Toyama Denki" was growing rapidly. It is an electronics manufacturer dealing with all kinds of electric appliances, jumped to #1 in the industry.

The actual leader of the company is Takayoshi Toyama. Kawada (the Hero) was a driver hired by this millionaire Toyama.

Takayoshi Toyama has a beautiful second wife, Shizuko - to whom remarried two years ago. Now is the birthday of Toyama, and he is holding a party at his garden with many celebrities.

A few days later, in the absence of Toyama, a phone call from a woman requesting a meeting with Shizuko. Keiko, her daughter-in-law was kidnapped. Shizuko went to the requested address by car. Of course, the driver of the car carrying Shizuko is Kawada.

They arrived at the scene, but when they were waiting for the culprit to appear, suddenly are confronted by a criminal group of women. They boarded the car, drove the car to the mountain road indicated. They arrived on an architectural mansion in the side of the mountain. Kawada and Shizuko got kicked out of the car with their hands tied, and they walk to the dark inside the house.

"I feel a stagnant air inside -". thought Kawada. "I wonder if we would come ... now".

They were taken to a large room within the house, and there was Keiko unharmed. Keiko was involved with the team of criminals, but was betrayed by them. Seeing what would happen to her, Shizuko decided to become a scapegoat in Keiko's place in a dignified manner.

Kawada wanted to help Shizuko, but the safety of Shizuko can not be guaranteed at that time. As if to ridicule Shizuko who had become desperate to help her daughter, Keiko was do an abrupt about-face, she who has been jealous of the beauty of Shizuko who is a mother-in-law.

In addition, this kidnapping was also involved with the team set for Hazakura Morita from Yakuza. Morita set in the mansion Torture shows and erotic photos. Involved in the incident, Shizuko is the prey of training in this mansion and Kawada will be forced to work as servant. All windows are closed, in this mansion is not clear even the time, if is day or night. The life as a sex slave of Shizuko was going to begin.

[Translated from Getchu.com]

Tatsuya has a wife, Chizuru. They used to love each other, love passionately. But, their love gradually becomes colder and colder.... One day, when he is on his way home, he sees Chizuru walking with a man. He stops them, and asks them what's going on. Another man stops their quarrel, and tells them that he is a boss of a swapping club. He gets interested in it, and visits the club room with Chizuru...

[From Eroge Shop]

There was an island in the middle of beautiful blue waters and this island was really magical.

Takumi came to this island in order to participate in a contest. The contest is about bringing out the true beauty of the girl you have chosen from the island by designing her a dress that will match her perfectly and surpass all the rest.

But to win Takumi also needs to do whatever it takes to increase the girls' natural charm. There are many girls and many designs to chose from, but there is also a lot to do to turn a simple girl into a charming lady...

[Translated from Getchu]

A god called Yatonokami who is worshiped by men is now sleeping. Or is he? Somewhere, somewhat, something arose and its manifestations are possessing people and turning them into 'oni'...

You're Nagamine Yuuma, an ordinary student, the one who is woken up by his cute female neighbor friend every morning...

But in truth Yuuma isn't really a normal guy, his body has the power to produce electricity (that he only has some limited control), which made him considered as freak for most of his life. He moved in a new town 3 years ago though, and now he is enjoying that new life a lot, because at last he found friends who aren't bothered by his 'abnormality' -- in fact, his neighbor Sakurako has an obvious crush on him. But he also has weird dreams about... being someone else...

[Edited from OLF]

Main character starts to perceive unexpected pleasure when his genitals are operated by someone else. But his partner starts to act without following his instructions with her explosive temperament. Two more girls join the fun as they can't accept defeat that easily.

[From vndbreview]

Main character comes from a powerful family and thus has everything he wants. His colorless life gains new palette after meeting a girl who introduces him to the world of sensual pleasures. But one day mansion inhabitants rebel against such life and try to find their own happiness.

[From vndbreview]

When you’re a Shinto monk, one of the more depressing things you have to do is attend funerals and bless the deceased. One way to get over such sadness would be to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh with the deceased’s widow. At least that’s what this new apprentice monk believes, and that it wouldn’t be too bad for the mourning wife either...

[From White Masq]

Saki Akehime is a beautiful girl who has an English mother. She has a secret. She is going out with her teacher, Akito Tsuge, and holding such an immoral secret makes her exited. However there is a figure looking at their acts. One day, Saki receives a phone. Although she is suspicious about the phone, she goes out with Akito not knowing there is a trap full of shame waiting for her...

[From ANN]

White Clarity tells the story of Yuu, who resides in a mansion far from city lights. One day, Yuu discovers a young girl called Rino living in the basement of the mansion....

[Edited from GWN]

Main character lacks contacts with women. He belongs to a certain university circle with a vague purpose. One day, a female student from the same circle asks him about the first kiss, but he does not remember anything like that. Different girls start to approach him with questions about past relations, but he is unaware of that either. So girls decide to have sex with him and awaken those memories. Is it really possible to get memory back this way?

[From vndbreview]

The last descendant of a line of mystical protectors, Yuuya Furusaka has received the twin blessing of Life and Death, and now his touch has the power to save lifes or destroy them, although at the price of, respectively, his own life or his own soul.
But maybe the key for his salvation is hidden in one of the girls around him...

Officially released as a remake of Shinkirou, Ouka is more an alternative version than a real remake. Not only the artwork and the musics are entirely redone, the original story too has been vastly expanded (and often modified), and also includes new routes, new characters and new winnable heroines.

Ryouichiro is a black magician. He disguises himself as a priest and lives in a peaceful town. His mission is to give school girls and teachers sex lessons...

[From Eroge Shop]

Main character is equipment salesman now even though he used to be masked superhero enthusiast as a student. One day he picks up a strange card case full of blank cards. These cards turn out to be "Holga Card", a cosmic treasure that grants humans delusions in the form of reality. Magic Star Cluster Darakuza starts invasion to the Earth to find the cards.
Protagonist meets a masked superhero girl who asks him: "Do you believe in heroes?"

[From vndbreview]

This fandisc includes six stories selected by fan votes.

Before Ren Nanase was ever a night shift nurse, she was a sexy coed at a nursing school. Hearing rumors that one of the faculty is a rapist, she does exactly what any model citizen would do and confronts him about it. Unfortunately, things go downhill from there, and she winds up being his sex slave, getting a crash course in depravity. But in the middle of that perversion, could there be a hint of purity?

[Taken from AniDB]

A sequel of Tristia of the Deep-Blue Sea from Kogado Studio(Kumasan Team). Set in the Neosphere kingdom that fly in the air by ancient E technology. Neosphere kept going to ruin after world union war. And then, Nanoca was called to rebuild the kingdom.

Takeshi starts to work as a caretaker of his relative's apartment. He is warned in advance, "Be careful because there are many women in this apartment." He walks around the apartment to say hello to the residents, and finds out that there are many beautiful women ranging from a married woman to a female office worker. "What a wonderful world!" But he gets the cold shoulder from them. Will he be able to have a wonderful full of sex life with them...?

[From ErogeShop]

Main character lives alone in the apartment after his parents go overseas. He has to take a two week break from his part-time job in the cafe because of forced additional lessons. But as he returns to his part-time job he is amazed to notice that all four waitresses now suddenly have huge breasts thanks to new revolutionary medicine. But the drug has side effect of unstable behavior and milk pouring out unless male semen massage is done. His childhood friend comes to him in tears as she can't return home with such huge breasts. After the shameful procedures her breast shrinks to the normal size. However, part-time job waitresses learn about this efficient cure and demand their share of treatment.

[From vndbreview]

You are a girl who is molested by a group on a daily basis in the train on your way to go to school. One morning, they lock on a sexual tool, with the promise to remove it at the end of the day.

Will you follow the group of molesters to their apartment or will you have the courage to overcome shame and seek help from your father?

The protagonist, Tomoya, was abandoned by his mother at a tender age. He was taken in by Honjou Arisa after a chance meeting. Four girl adoptees who had joined the Honjou family home for similar reasons also lived there.

Though they were not related by blood, Tomoya treated the girls as if they were his siblings. They lived peaceful lives at the Honjou residence... but one day, he encountered a strange woman in town. She was wreathed in something that looked like iron – and upon seeing her figure, he remembered that he, too, had once harbored such a metallic augment.

"Is that... your Anima?"

A right arm turned to metal... A peculiar corpse discovered at school... A transfer student exuding dark mist... And a foreign warrior wreathed in thick steel armor... Tomoya's peaceful life would soon begin to crumble as disaster came to visit him and his sisters. To protect them, he shall have to once again wreathe his right arm in Anima.

Miyashita Kurou is a professional photographer with money problems. When he obtains pendulum that grants him hypnotic powers, he decides to use it to have sex and sell photos for money.

Alternative version of Harutoki 3, contains new endings and new routes for Shirogane and ending for Taira no Tomomori.

Fandisc includes over 15 short Pastel Chime stories and a quiz game among other goodies.

[From vndbreview]

Shin'ya's school days are boring until Akane, a woman whom his brother was to marry due to a family arrangement, started attending Shin'ya's school. Shin'ya remembers meeting Akane when they were younger, and that they made a promise to be together when they were older. In order to make Akane his and his alone, he gets his sister-in-law Sayumi to teach him every way possible to please a woman. After he approaches Akane, and they begin to make love, the gradual distance between the two begins to close and affects everyone around them…

[From ANN]

Main character is a student in a provincial town Fukazawa. His father goes out for some time and mother drops down from accumulated fatigue, so protagonist suddenly finds himself in charge of small hot springs inn which is family business. His childhood friend luckily agrees to do the laundry, but the real surprise comes when he encounters an unfamiliar girl who claims to be his older sister Yuuno.

[From vndbreview]

After graduating from school, the main character starts to operate an underground Internet site. One day he is offered a Jewish book dating from 1000 years ago. He buys the book and tries to translate it. It suggests to search for naughtiness. It looks ridiculous, but everyday life changes little by little. He starts to exchange emails with four women to learn their identities and train them.

[From vndbreview]

Prince lives a carefree life while king is occupied with grand politics. Three princesses are captured after conquering neighboring territories. King gets an idea to pacify nations by arranging a marriage between his son and one of captured princesses. But it's difficult to understand which one to choose without testing them properly.

[From vndbreview]

Main character is a poor student who has to go for part-time job to support himself. His payment gets delayed for a week, so he is on the brink of starvation when he finds a jar with mysterious mushrooms in his room. After he eats such a mushroom, he suddenly feels very horny. Just imagine what effect it would have on the girls he cares about!

[From vndbreview]

Main character gets under restructure and seeks reemployment at Apparel Trading Company “Emission Co., Ltd.”. President puts a special entrance condition - to execute special orders on phone's call. Before being accepted to the sales department there needs to be training period in the administration department, and co-worker girls with lesbian ambitions harass protagonist all the time. Then comes the first task from the president - to get a photo of colleagues lesbian activities at night office.

[From vndbreview]

No description.

Kouya Yamamiya is a second year high school prodigy who excels in almost anything he does. He moves back to his hometown with his family and enrolls in Yukinohara High School. There, he reunites with his childhood friend Shizuru Takiguchi, and also befriends clumsy junior Tsubasa Kakedori and strict senior Kuzuha Takamiya.

Kouya soon becomes the target of all the clubs, who desire to use his expertise as a "specialist" to advance their own agendas for the school festival in one month. Divided over whom he should help, he decides to help as many clubs as he can in time for the festival, which attracts the eyes of 14 other girls in various culture and sports clubs. Pressed for time, Kouya gets to work...

Orishiro Mio is a beautiful woman with a heavenly body, who has a kid. I met her by pure accident....though her children Akari who is one year my junior.
I am now alone with Mio in her home, Akari is away from home attending a crammer....

[From DLsite English]

A year has passed. Cafes around Jangarian start to close one after another. A new battle approaches for the fate of this enterprise.

[From vndbreview]

An explosion happens in the dojo Shou went to before.
Shou, who was taking a break from school, happened to meet the "brother next door" there, Kimura Kaoru, who he had learned kendo together with.
Shou was happy to see "Kaoru-san" again, whom he longed after in olden days. But Kaoru...---

Shou caught a cold.
Is the cold medicine that Kai made for him suddenly making him grow dog ears?!
There is a quarrel between the brothers, a long desired reunion, and a story with a comedic touch unfolds on the stage of Yuusei Academy.
This is an addition to the original story of Angel's Feather.

[From Aarinfantasy Forums]

The protagonist's name is Kaoru — a name typically given to girls. Thanks to that, he one day gets transferred to an all-girls high school by mistake. While he's unhappy with this turn of events at first, he soon grows to like his new school.