Heavily Biased VN Reviews: Jack Jeanne

Tokyo Ghoul has ended and Ishida Sui is finally free to create the work of art he was truly meant to make... an otome game. Kiss kiss and fall in love with a plethora of hot studs drawn and written by the master artist himself.

start screen ft. miss Kisa

Jack Jeanne
creator: Broccoli (and Ishida Sui)
released in 2021

Kisa is about to abandon her childhood dream of standing on the stage when she suddenly receives an offer to enter the legendary Univeil All-Boys Theater School. Keyword 'All Boys'. This is a school where men both perform as female and male roles, so can Kisa get away with pretending to be a boy pretending to be a girl without anyone getting suspicious? And will she snag a handsome boyfriend along the way!?

Full game description + relatively spoiler free review + summary under the cut~

[As of right now, I've only completed 2 routes out of 7. Replaying the game is low-key a huge pain so I'll update this post in the future. Hopefully]

Synopsis

Univeil is one of the most renowned and oldest standing theater academies in Japan, although it is also quite well known for being an all boys school. Those who play a male role are called 'Jack', while those who play female roles are called 'Jeanne'.

Tachibana Kisa longs to enter into theater, especially after seeing her older brother Tsuki become renowned as a legendary performer at Univeil. Alas, her dreams are cut short as she's trapped in a difficult lack of money related situation, forcing her to give up on ever standing on the stage... until the principal of Univeil appears and grants her the amazing offer to enter Univeil, free of charge. However, letting a girl in goes against everything the school's sponsors believe in, so he gives Kisa a few rules in exchange for her admittance. She must be selected as the lead actor in the final performance of the year. She must form deep and powerful bro-bonds with her classmates. And last but not least, she must not let anyone figure out she's a girl, much less that she's the famous Tachibana Tsuki's sister. It's the opportunity of a lifetime, and Kisa takes this one chance she has left to make her dream come true...

General Setting

Univeil Theater Academy (or as the random English on the box says, Univeil Revue School though that doesn't sound very cool) is a prestigious and esteemed school dedicated to theater located in the city of Tamasaka. Singing and dancing and everything in between, as long as it goes on stage it's gonna be taught at this school. It's been an all boys school due to tradition for the past 78 years, and things don't look like they'll change any time soon. The highest reward many of the more ambitious students aim for is to receive an invitation to join the Tamasakaza theater group after graduation. Tamasakaza consists of only the best of the best from Univeil, and so is known as one of the most epic and awesome theater groups ever. Though again, it's a boys club. No girls allowed!!!!!

The school itself is divided into four houses like H*rry P*tter. Quartz, the general grab bag class full of varying and budding talents, Rhodonite, the femboy house that focuses on singing, Onyx, the jock house that focuses on dance, and Amber, the eccentric and elitist super house full of the crazy talented kids. Students are generally sorted into one upon entry based on their entrance exam results, although transferring to another class is always an option.

Our homies in Quartz

Rhodonite

Onyx

Amber

The school itself has multiple central public performance tournaments throughout the year, like the summer performance, winter performance, etc etc where each class is ranked against each other, and medals are granted to the students who performed most spectacularly. The school highly promotes 'pursuing victory' and healthy competition amongst the 4 classes. Generally its a very happy environment full of theater nerds who just wanna out sing and dance each other.

Within the school there's the 'Jack' roles and 'Jeanne' roles, and while its not set in stone what a student will be performing as, most students usually stick with one till they graduate. The lead Jack and Jeanne within a performance are referred to as the 'Jack-ace' and 'Aljeanne' respectively. The top Jack and Jeanne within a class are referred to as the Jack-ace and Aljeanne of that class too.

Univeil itself is located in the city of Tamasaka, which yeah has a connection to Tamasakaza and thus Univeil. Very historical all around, and the city thrives due to the popularity of Univeil, Tamasakaza, and their performances.

Main Characters

Tachibana Kisa

Kisa pretending to be a knight when she was like 10. There are not many CGs of her by herself

Our heroine. Kisa is a very responsible and level-headed girl who over analyses almost anything and everything that happens to her. A nosey and kind individual, she doesn't let anyone around her get away from her altruistic need to help them when they're feeling down. The type who looks out too much for others while forgetting to look after herself, she probably needs a good senpai or two to make sure she doesn't self destruct while overworking. She has complete tunnel vision when it comes to practicing the performing arts, and has no self awareness when it comes to self-care. Romance is the furthest thing from her mind and she currently is not looking for a boyfriend.

Orimaki Suzu

Suzu being asleep when he shouldn't be

Suzu is a shounen protagonist. His defining trait is that he's loud as hell and acts before thinking. While coming across as a bit of a himbo, he can be surprisingly intuitive at times. Very hard working and straight forward, Suzu attempts to not let anything get him down during his pursuit to becoming the top Jack-ace of Univeil!!! Keyword attempts to. Even if he's empty headed, himbos have feelings too.

Yonaga Soushiro

Sou-chan wondering if it's normal to see your female childhood best friend at an all-boys school orientation

Sou-chan is Kisa's childhood friend who she used to play acting with along with her brother. He moved away during middle school however, and they never saw each other again... until now that is. Sou-chan is still as shy and kind-hearted as ever. On top of that, he's still blatantly infatuated with Kisa, albeit at a respectable distance. While he gives a sort of gloomy impression, he's just an awkward boy who may or may not be in love with his childhood best friend. Besides all that though, he's still very much passionate about theater and longs to become a star performer.

Shirota Mitsuki

Mitsuki in his natural habitat of being beautiful

Mitsuki is a 2nd year who is extremely beautiful and extremely aloof. Lazy and uninterested, he doesn't want to get involved in anything unless if it has to do with perfecting his singing. Singing is his main talent, so that's what he's gonna focus on okay!? Why should he practice things he's not meant to do, sounds like a waste of energy... Mitsuki has a rather cold and off-putting exterior, but underneath all that could it be that he secretly harbors doting feelings towards his silly kouhai...!?

Mutsumi Kai

Kai minding his own damn business as usual

Kai is a 3rd year who's respected by a majority of the student body for his position as Quartz's current Jack-ace. Tall dark and handsome, he is basically the quiet protector of their class. The silent dad who attends all your soccer matches and quietly takes you to McDonald's as a present after. Kai is the type who would play a healer in an MMO. If it's helping his kouhais, he will go to any length. Kai also enjoys the hobby of frequently disappearing off campus, although most of this time is actually spent enjoying nature deep in the mountains. He is not just the dad-friend, but also the D*sney princess friend. Please treat him with care.

Takashina Sarafumi

Fumi-san sexily stretching sexily

Fumi is a 3rd year who embodies what it means to be sexy and hot. Quartz's Aljeanne, he stands as one of the best and most reliable students in the class. Not only is he skilled, but he's also a loving senpai who likes to look after and help all his kouhai. He used to be partnered with Tachibana Tsuki, and they shined gloriously on stage together until Tsuki graduated. Either way, he's good at everything, sexy as hell, and also an amazing dancer. He's passionate about dancing the most, and it may or may not have to do with how he comes from a family dedicated to traditional Mai dancing.

Neji Kokuto

Neji-senpai engaging in his regular day to day activities

Neji is the eccentric and wild mysterious director of Quartz class. He writes all their performance plays, does all the directing, assigns all the roles, and generally overlooks absolutely everything about everything. No one knows what's going through his mind (except Fumi and Kai who seem to usually have a good idea), and generally he craves chaos in his everyday life. Underneath his crazy guy exterior though, he is actually somewhat thoughtful (relatively) and does what he does for the sake of helping his kouhais' talents bloom.

General Review

STORY: B| The story is simple enough, and the premise is very straight-forward as well. However even if it's simple, it's written well. The many going-ons and theater adventures in Kisa's day to day life during her year at Univeil is quite engaging, and even with the monotonous stat grinding segments, you can really feel and experience the energy of students rushing to practice and put together their performances for the next big play. Simplicity at its finest. There's nothing overly convoluted to distract from the story's central focus of Kisa trying to become top student, though on the other-hand basically that's all you're going to get from the story. Either way, at least it was enjoyable.

There were some points that I wish were clarified and some questions that I wish were answered, but I haven't gotten the true ending as of writing this right now so I can't make a decisive comment on this. Someday though. xD

CHARACTERS: A+| The cast in this game is outstanding. I love everyone. The few faces we meet from the other classes are very memorable, even if they don't appear often. Though I definitely cared for some a LOT more than I cared for others. Either way, the supporting cast makes the school feel more full, even if it is just a handful of characters who get faces. Of course what's important though, is the main cast, and they definitely meet the bar for otome game love interests. Even if you don't want to date anyone, the cast feels lively with how they interact with Kisa and with each other, and the bonds they form throughout the school year is a joy to read. Watching each of these kids grow throughout the game made me feel like a proud mother. Relatively.

ART: A++| With Ishida Sui at the helm, what more could you ask for? The character art and CGs are all illustrated by him, though the equally excellent background art is done by someone else. I know the concept art on the official website was also by another dude who is exceptionally talented, though I don't know the names. Either way, the game oozes style, aesthetic, and symbolism everywhere you look. The art is wonderful and the CGs are all absolute visual bangers. What more could you ask for?

DOKIS: B| The dokis are satisfactory. The hetero in this game is not too cringe, and is quite enjoyable at least in my personal opinion. The relationships in this game primarily focus on friendship turning to romantic love, since of course with Kisa pretending she's a man no one's falling in love at first sight... or are they? Either way these dudes aren't saying anything until they've formed a close and platonic bond with Kisa. Though yeah after that it's sappy mush-ville. It's important to note though that the romance in this game is quite chaste, and that for an otome game it really takes leaving room for Jesus to the next level.

MUSIC: A| While the BGM is pretty basic and unassuming for the most part, I give it an A for the insert songs. The tracks that play during the performances are absolute bops (except for a select few that I don't care much about cough fortune is crystal cough), and I've had a few of them stuck repeating in my head for a week.

GAMEPLAY: B-| The rhythm game portions aren't impressive but they aren't terrible. They're definitely just kind of little insert things to do to make the game not just a VN, and also your score affects the story so be careful when playing. The stat raiser segments are very simple, and they basically tell you from the get go to just grind whatever stat your future boyfriend needs so...yeah, it's simple enough but kind of pointless. Nothing to write home about, but it's an interesting addition to make the game feel more interactive I guess. The only real con is when you have to do all this over and over again on subsequent playthroughs most of the charm is lost.

Extra note: I wish the game had an auto save function though. The number of times I accidentally pressed quickload instead of quicksave and lost hours of progress is painful to say the least.

FUJO BAIT: C-| While the dudes are all very well developed, even with my fujo goggles on I found it difficult to find any fodder that could be used to hallucinate something. But they are all cute and loveable, so room for reaching is always there if you don't mind a good stretch. With the setting you'd think there'd be something to rile up those with fujo tastes, but overall the game is pretty solidly and heavily platonic. [This score obviously does not factor into my final score]

OVERALL SATISFACTION: A| This game was awesome. I quite enjoyed it, and especially enjoyed reading Kisa's journey towards pursuing her dreams. If you like otome games with a protagonist with goals and thoughts of her own, then this game is for you. The game is very much focused on the theater aspects, and the romance parts definitely spend most of their time on the back burner, but for me personally that's just how I like it. It's definitely not a mushy gushy otome with guys sweeping you off your feet, but it it is an excellent story about forming powerful life lasting borderline cheesy bonds with friends (and boyfriend potentials) while working together to achieve greater heights. Very inspiring and positive.

Ishida Sui really said fuck angst. This game is a huge slap of positive energy, and is filled with positive messages of trying hard and doing your best. The grind never stops, and Kisa's gonna become top student or flunk trying.

Oh yeah another point I found quite endearing that I don't kno where to fit in so I'll just put here is how like some choices you make the game will make nods to it like way later.... Your actions... have consequences... lol. Also there are so many tiny little scenes and variations so everyone's playthrough will be a little different. I found that quite nice.

Anyways only complaints I have is that getting new endings after your first one is way too much work. You're stuck going through the whole common route (which is really long) over and over... but I'll update with whether I felt it's worth it or not... in the future. Yay. Peace!

JP Reading difficulty of the game: I'd say you'd need basic to moderate reading ability for this game. The vocabulary is not particularly difficult, and all the important scenes are voiced. However the extra optional scenes all are not so they can be harder to parse for people who learned by ear. Some scenes can be more nuanced than others too, but overall even if you're not pro you should be able to get the gist of it at least... Anyways for me I felt it was a smooth read.

OBLIGITORY CONTENT WARNINGS:

Surprise! There's absolutely nothing to warn anyone about in this game. It's 100% bonafide wholesome.

Spoiler filled plot dump beyond this point~!

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[Some scenes might be out of order because my memory is bad, but it's probably not a big deal.]

Note: as of right now I only have done Fumi and Mitsuki's routes so only up to those are covered.

Extra note: I wanna upload a video of the insert songs later but I'm too lazy rn so I'll get to it eventually... hopefully.

Common Route
(AKA 90% of the game)

Tachibana Tsuki back when he was ~~alive~~ around

Kisa was left star struck after attending the final act of her brother, Tachibana Tsuki, who held the esteemed leading role as Jack-Ace in Univeil's Quartz class' end of the year performance. The show was absolutely shookening, and she'd love for nothing more than to join him there in that world so far from her own... but too bad. A year has passed (from what I gather) and things are not looking so good for the Tachibana residence, so Kisa decides to go straight into the workforce after graduating middle school instead of going to high school. Kisa's best galpal Aoi is like "You're not going to high school!? Huh!? What about theater!?" But of course Kisa just says, "I don't need any of that. It can stay a dream... I'll just appreciate it from afar..."

And what became of Tsuki you ask? Well... after graduating, Tsuki moved on to Tamasakaza apparently and just went AWOL at some point? He might be dead actually, but either way he's like legitimately gone gone. My guess is he's dead since he might as well be.

Anyways, Kisa goes home to wallow in her dead-insideness, when a random-ass weasel suddenly breaks into her home, causing a string of events which leads to Kisa deciding to return to this old shrine where she used to play pretend acting with Tsuki alongside her childhood friend Sou-chan (who moved away after grade school). How fun it was back then, being able to act... too bad she is never going to be an actor and is just going to work minimum wage jobs to support her home now since she's not going to high school.

Before leaving, a random suspicious man appears and is all like "hold it right there, Tachibana Kisa, younger sister of Tachibana Tsuki legendary student who just graduated from Univeil." After a brief exposition dump, he offers Kisa the chance to enter Univeil, as he foresees her as being able to bring great change to the school which now feels stale due to its strict adhesion to ancient traditions. Such as still not being co-ed even though it's already 2021. However of course in order to get past the eyes of potential neigh-sayers, Kisa would have to attend while pretending to be a boy. The sponsors would be pissed if the principal just suddenly made the school co-ed after all...I guess. Also in order to insure his investment in her is worth it, she must follow a few conditons. First, she must be selected for the lead role in the final performance of the year! 2nd, don't get outted as a girl, and of course 3rd become accepted by her class as a true nakama. Anyways besides all that it's not like he can just stick her in right away without being accused of nepotism, so he promises her entry and full tuition coverage and support etc only if she can actually pass the entrance exam on her own. Also, if she does manage to pass,

At the entrance exam, she encounters Orimaki Suzu, who immediately is like OMFG YOU LOOK JUST LIKE A REAL GIRL THE PEOPLE AT THIS SCHOOL ARE SO TALENTED :) SOME ARE SOO REAL GIRL-LIKE YOU ARE SO AMAZING NEW BESTIE :) And Kisa is like okay cool. Anyways there're some cool senpai who are involved in the entrance exam, such as one Takashina Sarafumi who observes their dance skills. Kisa also passes by Mutsumi Kai on her way out. Cool.

Anyways obviously she passes and is now a Univeil student. The only people who know her true identity is the principle and her homeroom teacher, Enishi-sensei, who is basically a reliable sensei figure that is always around to support her and give advice. Kyaaa kakkoi~ Anyways, on the first day of school she encounters Suzu again, along with randomly running into her long lost childhood friend, Sou-chan, who immediately recognizes her. "Kisa-chan...!? Is that you.. it can't be... this is an all boys school." But yes it is Kisa. Anyways she explains her situation to him and he promises to be her faithful ally in supporting her and keeping her secret since he's a good boy, bringing the number of people who know about her up to a good 3 now.

Anyways the three of them are accepted into the Quartz class, and they soon meet their wonderful Quartz senpai AKA the other boyfriend potentials, including Sarafumi and Kai. New faces include the beautiful Shirota Mitsuki and the eccentric Neji Kokuto who has the role of the class president, director, scriptwriter, coach, everything all in one. Kai is the Jack-Ace of Quartz, Fumi is the Aljeanne, and Mitsuki is the Tresor (what they call the best singer in a team). They're the only non-freshmen students in all of Quarz that matter apparently so I'm assuming the school either doesn't have many students in general, or if most of the school is just mediocre compared to named characters. Anyways, besides the 3 freshmen trio who we know and love, there's also another blonde bitch named Kyouji who's a prickly pompous rude guy, but he grows on you with his endearing straight forwardness. These are the friendly (excluding Kyouji) faces who will be going through thick and thin with Kisa until the end of the school year.

From what I can tell, each class has their own building and rooms for focusing on performances in, and academic regular classes-wise that's where the kids will be ushered into more normal school like classroom settings. That's left to gameplay though, as we only really see Quartz Class time where all the 1st 2nd and 3rd years are together practicing performances.

THE NEWCOMER PERFORMANCE

The first assignment of the school year is the Newcomer Performance, where each class will hold a performance featuring 1st years in the leading roles. The senpai aces will only hold supporting roles, and overall it'll be meant to let some of the new kids shine and get a taste of being center-stage. But who will be selected to perform...!?

After a few weeks of shenanigans and Neji putting the 1st years on the spot now and then, he's struck with inspiration and pens the script for the performance. Being completely crazy, he makes a completely new script for every performance he's directed while in school, while most of the other classes just re-use existing ones as people would normally do. Anyways, he finally makes the announcement about what they're doing during the passing out of roles.

The play they will be performing is titled "The Sleepless King", and the starring roles will be Suzu as the Jack-ace, performing as The King, and Kisa as the Aljeanne, performing as Girl. In supporting roles will be the rest of the characters with names, acting as The King's subjects. Sou-chan is a little disappointed at getting a Jeanne role as a maid though, since he wants to be manly, but either way he celebrates with Suzu and Kisa about their leading roles.

About 1.5 or so months pass of the squad training diligently for the big day, and things go relatively smoothly. Kyouji causes problems by being a bitch at Suzu and Kisa, since he thinks he deserves a leading part more than them, but Kisa uses the power of positivity and friendship to deter bullying. She practices alongside Sou-chan and Suzu, and the three of them make a lot of progress by helping each other. She also of course reaches out to the senpai for advice, who are all very happy to help. She may or may not spend extra time with boyfriend of your choice, but either way nothing particularly crazy happens.

The day of the big performance comes along and there's a few hijinks with how Suzu fell asleep and doesn't show up, but Kisa drags him back so they manage to start on time.

The Sleepless King

This poster is pretty pale colored lol

CAST

Once upon a time, there was the King who can't sleep, and he's been awake for god knows how long in a continuous painful tired insomniac existence. Out of desperation, he puts up a reward for anyone that could get him to pass the fuck out, promising to grant them anything that was within his power to give.

One day, local village peasant Girl breaks in and insists on being given a chance, claiming that she's been in love with the King forever and wants to become the Queen in exchange if she succeeds. The King is somewhat bewildered at her daring claim, so he decides to allow her to loiter around the premises while she attempts to make him sleep. She tries singing him lullabies and the like, but nothing seems to work. However she doesn't let any of that get her down, and continues to help around the castle as she infects the place with wholesome cheer. She learns more about the King through the servants, such as a maid who tells her stories from the King's youth and the chef who teaches Girl a lullaby the King used to like. The head maid and butler watch over her and comment how Girl is truly bringing a wave of change to this stale and sleeping castle. They all soon become fond of Girl, except for the knight who keeps being a little bitch at her.

[At one point in the middle of the performance, Kyouji forgets his lines, but the squad quickly assist in adlibbing and covering for him. His pride is shattered but this character development moment makes him slightly less bitchy in the future. Slightly.]

The peasant girl and her man-to-be

Anyways, Girl uses the power of love and song to get through to the King who obviously falls for her. He then suddenly remembers that the reason why he can't fucking sleep is because one time a loooong ass time ago, his parents both died in a freak accident overnight while he was asleep. Ever since he was TOO SCARED to sleep... because what if he loses someone again while he's not watching! What if he loses... Girl... but of course Girl is like bruh... freak accidents don't happen that often. I'll still be alive after you wake up. So he sleeps. After waking up they celebrate by having a musical dance number. Everyone lives happily ever after, The End.

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The squad being applauded by their adoring fans

The crowd goes wild! Yaaay!!! I think how well the class does depends on how well you ace the rhythm mini-game, but I always get SS score because I'm epic like that, so Quartz class wins best class rewards. Anyways the team watches the other class performances and we get a taste of how different each class's style is (see the example pics all the way at the top describing the different classes). The other classes are full of super talented freshmen too! Notably there's Kasai-kun who played the Jack-ace for Onyx, who Sou-chan apparently went to middle school with. There's also Mare-chan from Rhodonite who played the Aljeanne for their performance. He's the younger bro of the current Aljeanne of Rhodonite, Tsukasa, and probably has a bright career ahead of him. Also there's the Amber class that is just epic and awesome or whatever which has these two goth boys as their up-and-coming talented 1st years. The squad is inspired watching how cool their fellow freshmen are.

After all the performances are over, rewards get dished out. Kisa wins gold in the 1st years ranking with Suzu as silver I think. Absolutely epic. Everyone cheers (except Kyouji who's tsundere about Kisa and Suzu being better than him).

Anyways with that all cleared up with, life continues and everyone returns to a peaceful school life... Just kidding! It's time for...

THE SUMMER PERFORMANCE

Get back to work kids because it's time to hit the grind for the next act. Basically its the same pattern as before. Grind stats, hang out with bros, grind stats, cozy up with boyfriend potentials, yada yada.

Neji reveals the script for this performance as an office rom-dram titled "Weekend Lesson", and of course selects Kai and Fumi to play as the leads. It isn't the newcomers performance anymore after all! Time for the big kids to shine. Anyways, all the named and faced characters get a role so it's still quite a bit of freshmen in their performance roster. And shockingly enough, this time Kisa has been assigned the role of a JACK! She's gonna play as Kai's character's kouhai who is an upstanding, popular, and successful office-worker man. Can she do it...!?

Also, after her stellar performance as Aljeanne during the Newcomer Performance, Kisa catches the eye of the other classes!!! Boss of Onyx, Kaidou, and boss of Rhodonite, Tsukasa, end up busting in to scout out Kisa, and happen to come across the fact that she is now going to be a JACK!? What on earth. Kaidou believes that being a Jack will waste all of Kisa's potential to become the ultimate Jeanne. Meanwhile Tsukasa thinks that Kisa could be the perfect Jack for Rhodonite, who literally only has one Jack right now (poor Minorikawa senpai who I love and treasure in my heart). They immediately end up making a bet with Neji, in that if Kisa doesn't win the gold award for 1st year performers, she will be transferred to the class that wins best class for the Summer Performance. Uh oh.

the girls are fighting

There's some drama where Kisa thinks Neji doesn't value her, and Suzu and Sou-chan get all pissed for her sake of course, but obviously it turns out Neji just believes in Kisa that much. He believes putting her in a tricky situation like this will only help her grow!! Awesome. Anyways, Kisa struggles quite a bit in abandoning her natural feminine mannerisms in order to adopt the gait, aura, and general impression of an awe-inspiring Sigma Male.

Also I can't remember if it was around this chapter or last chapter, but Kisa at some point makes eye contact with a rather intimidating very tall lanky strange senpai who has his own creepy BGM that plays whenever he's around. Think Midousuji from YowaPeda except with a handsome face and proper manners. This guy is the infamous Tanakamigi-senpai, a 2nd year from the Amber class, but we'll get to him in the future. Just know he exists. Anyways the Amber class turns out to not be participating in this year's Summer Performance because they got an opportunity to participate in this event abroad so they're gone until later. Bye.

So while studying up and working hard, Kisa learns more about the roles of being a 'Flower', or a 'Vessel'... This is something that is brought up a ton throughout the story. When two people act together, the Vessel will act as the vase that will bring out the Flower's true beauty. Kai's acting style is that he believes the Jack-ace should be the Vessel that helps the Aljeanne shine as bright as they can on stage. Every mannerism and movement he makes, he does to help the audience better see Fumi's glorious beauty. However there are of course also many who believe the Aljeanne should act as Vessel to the Jack-ace, which is how they do things in Onyx. It's flexible depending on the actors' interpretations and preferences basically.

Thinking about all this, Kisa realizes that her role as Kai's kouhai could also be one where she acts as a vessel to help Kai shine... Since Kai is always someone else's vessel, who can be HIS vessel!???!?!?!? ? ONLY KISA CAN DO IT! So she consults with Neji literally the day before the big performance, and he's like that's an epic idea. They rework Kisa's role together overnight, and Neji makes her promise to not tell anyone about the big change. It's gonna be a surprise on stage... since if they mentioned it beforehand there would be a 100% chance Kai would give them the big No. But whatever. YOLO.

Weekend Lesson

Romcom energy

CAST

Andou | Takashina Sarafumi (Aljeanne)
Hasekura | Mutsumi Kai (Jack-ace)

Once upon a time there was this big boat shaped fucking corporate office building or something called the SBJ Great Garion or something like that. I dunno, there's an insert song all about it but it's not important. Basically there's this guy named Hasekura who's super shy and keeps to himself. He's quiet and completely gutless, and just mindlessly does his office work all day before going straight home. The company prides itself on not having overtime, but Hasekura doesn't like it because he has nothing to go home to anyways... His kouhai Mukai used to be his friend back from their school days, though at the company he definitely doesn't treat Hasekura like the senpai he's supposed to be. There's also the charismatic Luis who's showy and generally annoying. In general Hasekura doesn't wanna be involved in anything... he just wants to disappear into the background.

[Of note is how originally while practicing for this performance, Kisa portrayed Mukai as a friend to Hasekura. Mukai was aggressively defensive of him and generally supportive every step of the way, clearly trying to push Hasekura to be more sure of himself. However after deciding to portray Mukai as a vessel, Kisa decides to completely change the tone of his lines. Instead, Mukai's lines seem more like they look down on Hasekura, rather than teasingly being friendly with him. Doing so makes Hasekura seem more isolated in the company so the audience becomes more sympathetic towards him I guess. It also prevents Mukai from stealing the spotlight or something like that. While watching Mare-chan is continuously saying things like OMG Kisa-chan's character is SUCH A BITCH!! STOP BULLYING HASEKURA!! And stuff. So I guess she's doing a good job.]

One day while loitering around after work, he spots the most popular OL in the office, Shiroma-san entering a building advertising ballroom dancing classes. Curious, he tries to get a closer look, only to be approached by the owner of the class, Andou-sensei. She lures him in and convinces him to give ballroom dancing a try... He has no absolutely 0 confidence in himself, and attempts to leave right away. It definitely doesn't help that when Shiroma recognizes him, her friend Kanna is all like OMG did he STALK YOU HERE!? Makes him feel bad... but Andou-sensei is all like naw c'mon lets make him give it a try. You'll never know if you'll be bad or good until you try! And so begins Hasekura's dance journey.

As he dances with Andou, Hasekura finds it... fun. He's never had FUN before... wow! With each class, he becomes more and more passionate about dancing, and it starts infecting his everyday behavior as well, making him better at telling people No and generally not being a spineless wimp. Mukai notices the change right away and figures out whats going on, but watches over him silently and supports him in a kind of ambiguous and hard to read tsundere way. However Luis is different, and immediately tries to get to the bottom of things. Mukai accidentally lets it slip that Hasekura's learning dance, and Luis immediately attempts to crash class in order to bother Hasekura.

At this scene, Mukai gets absolutely pissed as all fuck. Because he's just been tsundere towards Hasekura all this time and truly was happy for his positive change, but he didn't know what to do about it. Now that Luis is ruining everything, he feels like its his own fault for accidentally telling him about the dance class. Regardless, Luis challenges Hasekura to a dance off that weekend. Hasekura's bubble of safety is shattered after Luis intruded into it, and his confidence once again collapses.

Hasekura getting down with sensei

That night, Andou takes him to a dance pub where they have a tender moment. Hasekura had learned from Kanna that Andou-sensei was once a famous dancer, but as she ranked higher and higher dancing started to become less and less fun to her. She became afraid of losing everything, so she ran away from competition....and now just casually teaches dancing here at her own pace. Hasekura tells Andou that he wants to see Andou dance. He's learned to love to dance, and he loves how Andou dances... That's gay. I mean het. Anyways after talking, Andou once again reminds Hasekura that he if there's something he that makes him happy, he should do it... so it doesn't matter that Luis is being an annoying bitch. He should just do what he loves... DANCE!!! Or something like that. Later at work, Mukai tells Hasekura that he'll convince Luis to stop with the whole dance-off stuff, but Hasekura says that its okay. He doesn't give a rat's ass anymore! Fuck having no confidence... he wants to show off Andou-sensei to the world.

At the dance-off, Luis partners with Kanna and Hasekura partners with Andou. But of course, while Luis is dancing in order to make himself look good, Hasekura puts his all into making Andou beautiful... To support Andou as a dancer... Kyaa. Anyways we learn that Luis was actually jealous of Hasekura, since he could work so well and diligently and is generally a bright and capable fellow, albeit shy and awkward. He had something Luis didn't. And now it's clear he has a lot more than that too, like a hot dancer girlfriend. Mukai also makes up with Hasekura and it becomes clear that he was on his side the whole time and was just tsundere.

Fumi being the sexy queen he is

Everything ends happy. The end.

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Only CG we gonna get of Kisa in a suit

The crowd goes wild! Yaay!! Mare-chan while watching is like OMGG MUKAI WAS A GOOD GUY AFTERALL OMGG TT_TT GYAA KISA-CHAN YOU GO GIRL GYAAA etc. Everyone is super impressed at how well Kisa performed as a vessel to Kai... especially since this is Kai we're talking about! Most of the upperclassmen know full well that Kai is not one to let people act as his vessel, but Kisa filled that role perfectly.

Anyways, obviously Quartz wins best show, and Kisa of course wins gold for 1st year performances. The bet has been defeated. She doesn't have to transfer anywhere. Onyx and Rhodonite are disappointed, but they are also excited for and proud of Kisa's awesome talent.

With all that over, everyone can chill now since the next best thing is summer vacation. More grinding and hanging out with whomstever and chilling and whatnot. Life is at peace. Until... summer training camp.

In preparation for the serious Fall Performance, Quartz is having a training camp at the super fancy ass Kaidou Hotel. Owned and ran by Kaidou-senpai's family who were generous to allow Quartz to come because we're all friends here. The squad engages in shenanigans and acting practice, doing some silly performance exercises and the like, also assisting in doing random shit to help inspire Neji so he can write their next performance since he hasn't made it up yet.

some of neji's stupid t-shirts

Shenanigans ensue, and there's one point where Neji makes Kisa say "good morning" over and over and over again, so she attempts various different types of "good morning"s while acting as different kinds of people to the point that she starts to have an identity crisis. All like huh... how do I usually say it... who am I acting as... who is 'me'... Am I really 'me' or am I just pretending to be someone who is attending this school... eh... anyways, the guy closest to Kisa will then stop this farce and Neji realizes he pushed Kisa too hard so he ends things here.

I wasted minutes of my life splicing this together so praise me

There's also an epic beach party day where everyone hits the beach and has fun! Yay! The rest of Onyx and Rhodonite are here too~ Yay~! Kisa gets to spend time with either boy of her choice, or call her galpal Aoi over to chill together. Basically it's a beach-side date.

Aoi's behemoth bongoes

Later on Kisa also gets to hit up the onsen, and tries to go in late at night when no one else is around... but of course, boy with highest affection with her comes in... Wow. There's more etc shenanigans like that, like a test of courage with partner of your choice, and more hanging out with boy of your choice etc etc, though there's also the choice to skip some of these entirely if you don't want Kisa to get a boyfriend. Either or.

Anyways summer vacation eventually comes to a happy close. When school starts back up for the next term, it turns out Amber class has also returned from their trip abroad! They hold a celebratory performance where they perform the show they did on their trip. A lot of the senpais are just like "oof I don't really wanna go" but of course the young'uns are like... what's the big deal. Anyways the big deal is that the Jack-ace of Amber, Tanakamigi-senpai, is so fucking good at acting that watching his performance makes you lose ALL motivation. He is SO good most people are like o m f g... I will never be as good as him. Like it turns out he's so fucking good almost all the 2nd years just gave up. Mitsuki also kinda hung up about this but he's more stubborn than he looks so he's more pissed than any other feeling.

Utsuri (left) and Kakuto (right)

Outside of all that, Kisa encounters the legendary Tanakamigi himself who is being accompanied by his posse, goth boy A and goth boy B. The two are the up and coming top talented 1st years from Amber and they are basically the mean girls. Boy A, Utsuri, just bitches at Kisa all like YOU WILL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS TANAKAMIGI-SENPAI >:) ALSO YOU SUCK. SKINNY BITCH >:) while boy B, Kakuto, just kind of looks high all the time but all he says is stuff like "Haha don't mind him, he's just being honest. ^^" and then Tanakamigi-senpai closes it off just like <_< Hmmm Tachibana huh... you are very interesting... I'm interested in you... you should join Amber and be my partner... which of course causes the mean girls (aka just Utsuri) to bitch and moan at Kisa even more. Jealousy's a disease... Anyways that's what Kisa now has to put up with since Ambers back in town.

Since Amber's gonna participate in the Fall Performance, the stakes are up... nobody really wants to lose to Tanakamigi, but just look at how flexible he is. Can they really beat him?

THE FALL PERFORMANCE

Neji divvies up the new roles for their new play! A spooky ghost filled story titled "Mary Jane"!!!! As usual, Kai and Fumi are the lead Jack-ace and Jeanne! Suzu and Kisa are cast as the antagonist duo, while Neji, Kyouji, and Mitsuki fill supporting roles! That's it. Yes, that's right, Sou-chan has been cut from a named role. He is devastated, but what can anyone do about it. Kisa and Suzu try to comfort him, but it only makes him feel worse. Their trio bond is shattered.

Their class has to be at their best in order to compete with Amber, so there's no time to take pity on people who didn't make the cut like Sou-chan. He also doesn't want to drag down Suzu or Kisa with his weakness so he just starts avoiding them, since talking to them is too painful for him and he doesn't want his emo-ness to get them down and ruin their practice too... Which of course causes Suzu and Kisa to start worrying a lot about Sou-chan. Suzu also starts struggling with the role he was assigned, since his character is supposed to be a clever liar, and he acts like too much of an honest guy by nature. The children are struggling... The senpai try to help in their own way, but what can be done about this...

As things continue to sour between the 1st year drew, Suzu finally blows up at Sou-chan, causing Sou-chan to blow up in return. They have a cat fight in the hallway and Sou-chan of course screams about how shitty he feels and how he can't keep up with everyone and how bla blabla bla and is basically an absolute mess before running away. Most of the class is like oof.. dang... we should help somehow... but Neji-senpai is just impressed by Sou-chan's screaming voice. Well obviously in the following weeks, the senpais generally intervene and try to smooth things out, though external help can only go so far. Sou-chan knows this, and decides to change from within... From there things are still awkward between Sou-chan and Suzu, but it's clear Sou-chan is trying to make progress, and Suzu wants to respect that as well, in turn wanting to master his role in order to match the energy Sou-chan is putting into practice.

Anyways, Suzu will have a sword fighting scene in the play, so he shows off skills he learned in kendo back in the day. He really wants to push himself in order to deliver a perfect performance, especially since he's less confident in his ability to portray a bad guy, but of course worst comes to worst and he ends up spraining his ankle one day during rehearsal. The doctor's like "okay yeah you shouldn't be doing any stunts for a while, it's over." so Suzu is completely heart-broken. However, his last words are... "If I have to be replaced, please cast Yonaga... he can do it... He's memorized all the lines after all.. I believe in him..." Very dramatic. Sou-chan is shookened, moved, devastated, and elated all at once. Can he handle such a position? Can he handle the guilt of taking Suzu's role? The pressure of such an important part? Bla bla bla!?!?? Of course he can.

So Sou-chan has a huge chara development moment and begins throwing himself into practice, especially after the cast really got it through to him that he shouldn't push his friends away because of his insecurities. They should keep working together to uplift each other! Nakama friendship power! He wants to do his best not just to support his friends, but to be worthy rivals to them as well!! Fighting~~! Anyways, Sou-chan and Kisa of course work together quite well, and they throw acting ideas at each other while practicing their roles as dual villains with the same energy as two girls gossiping their favorite ships at a collab-cafe.

They end up discussing ways to interpret their roles to make it suit Sou-chan more since the role was originally designed for Suzu, and eventually Neji is inspired by their ideas and changes things up. While the the villain duo was originally the cold callous boss Suzu with his wild subordinate who he doesn't value as much as completing his mission, the position is changed into Kisa's character's older twin brother! Now, they value each other over completing the mission, and their banter is tweaked to reflect their being twins. The leading villain, Suzu's character who is now Sou-chan's, is still cold and callous but now has a brocon aspect to him which is nice. Neji also tosses in a new dog guy for Suzu to play as so that he can still be on stage even though all he does is woof and roll on the ground. Now everyone's happy!

During all this time Bitchy and Bitchier from Amber randomly appear at times to gossip in front of Kisa about how shitty Quartz is compared to Amber, but Kisa doesn't let it get her down for the most part.

There's also a side plot about how Fumi supports everyone and the class through the entire game, but working to be what's perfect for drawing out the best in everyone, he limits himself. Fumi restricts his own freedom... because if he let loose on stage he'd out-shine everyone else and make them look bad since he's too damn OP. The squad decides to work together to 'free' Fumi kinda. They don't need Fumi supporting them anymore... they are... equals... fighting. So Kisa and Sou-chan plan to be so epic on stage that it inspires Fumi to go full epic as well.

Mary Jane

This poster looks pretty epic

CAST

Mary Jane | Takashina Sarafumi (Aljeanne)
Jacob Jane | Mutsumi Kai (Jack-ace)

Once upon a time there was this little island with a little town on it. A boat gets caught in a storm and a lotta people fall over board and die and end up floating down through the water onto the island... In a cottage away from the town lives a young lass named Mary Jane. She's a bit of a weirdo and just makes dolls, which she attempts to sell to the townspeople. Everyone finds her weird though and so no one really bothers with her. This island is also inhabited by GHOSTS, which live deeper in the woods. Mary loves ghosts and has always longed to make friends with them, but as a human she felt like there was no opening for her to get in...

kyaaaa kisa and souchan being evil

One day, a strange duo arrive in town named Figaro and Sharuru. They mock Mary Jane before approaching her with fake smiles, bringing up how there's rumors spread of how Mary makes dolls out of corpses and the like. Mary says that she's done no such thing, but if they want her to she could always give it a try. Mary kind of lacks any sense of common sense, probably since she's grown up all alone on an island infested with ghosts? The duo mock her further but Mary doesn't realize and believes them to be her new friends. Figaro is kinda sarcastic and cold but doting towards his brother, while Sharuru is super rude and wild, but in a playful way. They are cute... though very obviously evil. It's unfortunate that Mary is too oblivious to notice.

[Here Sou-chan and Kisa start ad-libbing and generally putting their all into their performance, enabling Fumi to do the same and let loose. Activating Operation: Free Fumi.]

Later on, Mary finds all sorts of corpses on the island that weren't there before! Wonder where they came from? Inspired by what the odd duo mentioned earlier, she decides to make a ghost of her own out of these free resources in order to become her friend. After putting together usable parts she salvages, she does an insert song and dance segment and ends up re-animating the Frankenstein-esque creature as a GHOST!! She names him Jacob Jane, and he's her new friend. Jacob is like "Omg... mama... You're my Mama :)" And Mary's like KYAA THAT'S RIGHT I'M YOUR MAMA!!!! With her new ghost boy, she takes him to the abandoned chapel where the local ghosts chill out and joins in on their party. Even though she's human, the ghost gang leader, Ushinoko, is like okay you seem chill! Sure join our ghost party :) Everyone chills and has party fun. Hachipochi is a ghost who thinks he's a dog by the way and he just woofs and rolls on the floor.

As time passes, Figaro and Sharuru snoop around more and engage in more ambiguously chaotic behavior. It's apparent that they are apparently exorcists who are now stranded here after their boat was caught in a storm. They absolutely HATE ghosts more than anything, having even murdered their teacher who had become a ghost, and they came here with the intention to exterminate ghosts but are now stuck waiting for backup... though of course being the go-getting exorcists they are, they are eager to just start business instead of waiting. They intend to befriend Mary to get her to leave with them, since she is human after all, but her bizarre hobbies do kind of disgust them, so they continue to brutally make fun of her though Mary doesn't catch any of it.

Mary becomes quite attached to her new human friends, since she's never had human friends before... She even starts going to the town more often. The townspeople also start warming up towards her, and for whatever reason her dolls start to sell like hotcakes. Jacob starts getting jealous however, since Mary doesn't have the time or energy to go to the chapel ghost parties anymore... Clearly she doesn't need him anymore. Jacob is all like "Mama... mary... you're not my friend... you're not my friend anymore..." And runs away in tears. Mary takes this very badly, and is just shookened all like omg... did Jacob never think of me as a friend wtf. :'( I'm sad. But even though she's sad, she still doesn't really want to leave the island with Figaro and Sharuru... Hmm what to do.

figaro and sharuru committing mass murder for funsies! xD

Sick of Mary, Figaro and Sharuru decide to commit mass genocide. When Mary rushes to town and catches them murdering everyone she's just like wtf why are you doin this o_O;;; And of course Figaro and Sharuru are like what do you think, IDIOT?? Did you not notice. EVERYONE ON THIS ISLAND IS A GHOST!! This island is mega cursed and anyone who dies on it instantly becomes a ghost. You're the only not ghost. Idiot. So we're exorcising everyone. Come back with us to human territory or die with your little ghost friends stupid. :) Though they then admit that they really don't WANT to save Mary. Since she actually had put Jacob together out of the mutilated body parts of Figaro and Sharuru's exorcist co-workers. Apparently just looking at him, they can recognize who's eyes ears bla bla belongs to and it disgusts them. It'd be best if Mary just dies here...

I think Mary ends up getting incapacitated by them or something, but then after waking up, rushes to try to save her ghost friends. She finds them getting cornered at the abandoned chapel by Figaro and Sharuru, who have surrounded the church with holy water or something which ghosts are allergic to. Mary starts dumping mud on the premises to un-holify it and help the ghosts escape. There's a scuffle with Figaro and Sharuru, and Sharuru ends up getting yeeted off a cliff by a ghost where he screeches YAMMEEROOOOOOOOOOooooOooOoOOOooo. Figaro then goes balls to the walls absolutely BATshit all like YOU KILLED MY BROTHER... MY SHARURU... YOU KILLED SHARURU SDJHKGALGJAHKGJSHDKJAHGkjALDghkdjhGALKJHAG ILL KILL EVERYONE FUCK GHOSTS JGHLAKDJHAG. Like seriously full on brocon revenge batshit. However he ends up getting dragged down by more undead ghosts, presumably to his death.

[Sou-chan puts on an absolutely bewildering performance, so the audience is shookened. He is a real screamer.]

The ghosts hijack the exorcist's boat by the harbor, and Mary proceeds to throw all the holy equipment overboard so the ghosts can be more comfortable. They then set sail to god knows where and have a song insert. At the end, Figaro and Sharuru appear again, having been left on the island, and they now are trapped here to patiently wait for their backup to finally arrive. I think it's also implied that they're undead ghosts now and just haven't realized it yet.

ok fine i post a cg of the others. as a treat

THE END

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The crowd goes wild. It was SOOO epic. Even the mean girls from Amber are impressed, though small dog Utsuri is of course extremely tsun-tsun about admitting it. Well Tanakamigi-senpai being the polite one admits they were pretty good, and Amber accepts their defeat since QUARTZ WINS THE CLASS PRIZE!!!!!!111!

Kisa of course wins gold for the 1st years, and Sou-chan wins bronze! This is Sou-chan's first time getting into the top rankers so he's happy. Everything is happy and now all is well.... or is it?

Anyways, there's no time to lose. Now that the Fall Performance is over with, it's time to rush straight into the next one!

THE WINTER PERFORMANCE

New chapter new character arcs. Mitsuki is becoming progressively more lost and stressed as time progresses. In the past he was the type who just went with the flow and relied on others to fulfill their roles, while all he did was focus on singing, since that's his only talent. With everyone supporting each other and going higher and higher however, Mitsuki is starting to feel... some type of way. And not a good way. He wants to do better, but at the same time he knows his limits. There's so much he wanted to do before, but thought he couldn't. But after Kisa brought in this new wave of change and everything's changing, he feels so useless. He just can't. Its confusing, and generally he just becomes more upset.

Neji has his next script all set up, and this time he's making a real shitshow of a mess of one. Rather than try to make something that can compete with Amber, this time he's designing a script that will challenge the cast as much as possible to force character development. You know what that means. A play featuring DOUBLE ALJEANNES as the protagonists. It will be a low-key gay Galpal story between a girl who has a career whhih is basically a PG version of a sex worker titled a Mugwort Seller, and her best friend over who hates mugwort sellers more than anything. Starring KISA AND MTISUKI!!!

Mitsuki of course is like how the hell am I supposed to be Aljeanne. I can only handle being Tresor.. I can't do this.. I can't... but it's not like he's one to say no so instead he bottles it up and collapses from the inside. Also Fumi gets cast as a JACK for the first time in his entire Univeil career, so that's shookening. Kai also gets a rather odd roll as a side character with the least lines, so he's also shookened. Kai takes this as a message saying he's not needed anymore. With Fumi free to be a jack now, clearly this is a sign he can be the Jack-ace in the future. Kai isn't needed anymore...

As you can see, this chapter will feature a lot of... problems. Neji is hoping everyone will develop positively, though he can be a little ... bad at managing people's feelings.

Another issue that surprisingly comes up is Kisa's inability to act full as a woman. She's become so good at acting that she now subconsciously does a lot to act more like a 'man' in her everyday life to sell the lie that she's male which is now affecting her ability to be as womanly as possible. She's a ~~sex worker~~ mugwort seller after all. She needs to be erotic, sexy, womanly, and sexy.

Basically a lot of drama breaks out about literally all of this. Tanakamigi-senpai shows up and even starts man-handling Kisa because he wants to give her physical tips on how to become more Jeanne like, since she's clearly restraining herself. Due to their interaction however, he starts to suspect that she's a girl... oops! Meanwhile Mitsuki's seriously going through it, and even has an outburst during class at one point about how he can't do everything. Then you learn there's actually more drama going on with Kai. Apparently Kai Fumi and Neji all received invitations to enter the Tamasakaza troupe after graduating, but Kai turned it down because he doesn't believe he can keep up with the others. Mitsuki blames Neji for lowering Kai's confidence by giving him such a lackluster role... Man.

Kisa getting manhandled

Even though Mitsuki is mentally all over the place, there's still one thing he's great at besides hating himself. He is great at seeing what's going on with others and helping them. He gives Sou-chan perfect tips in regards to his role problems. He helps Suzu-kun with his problems. He saw through what Kai was goin through. He even saw what Fumi was going through in the past but he didn't do anything before. He is very perceptive... but he's so hard on himself!!

There's more drama elsewhere but I can't summarize everything can I... this is already getting too long. TL;DR Everything works out sort of. Mitsuki picks himself back up as he realizes he doesn't have to take everything on himself. If something's too hard, he can get support from others!! He doesn't have to only rely on himself. The squad even requests Neji to cut some of his more active dance parts because Mitsuki's stamina is too low to do too much haha. For the first time Mitsuki truly realizes that he can share his burden with his teammates... maybe he really can do it. With the support of his NAKAMA! FRIENDSHIP POWER!

Oh yeah on even more specific notes on people's problems, Kisa's character focuses heavily on how she's afraid of her LIES being exposed and ruining her relationship with her bestest friend. Kisa sympathizes with this a lot since she's lying to her friends right now about being a girl... It hurts... Pain. Mitsuki's chara wants to escape, but can't... Kai's character only has 3 lines and is complicated. Suzu's character is extremely pathetic so he has a hard time relating to the guy. Sou-chan's character is a man-whore who gets intimate with Kisa's character so he has difficulty getting over his embarrassment of being ecchi with his childhood best friend.

But regardless of all that they overcome it all with power of friendship last minute and overturning all the problems. Also Kai decides to go to Tamasakaza after all. The roles Neji concocted wasn't just to make everyone suffer but also to make them grow... as usual. Even Neji himself gets told off by Mitsuki at some point for not putting his all into making his character completely well rounded, so he puts some effort into not disappointing his kouhais as well.

Mitsuki also gives Kisa a pep talk how no matter what even tho she lying to everyone they still gonna support her cuz they love her. Friendship power. Kisa shouldn't worry too much about her secret getting exposed... she should TRUST IN HER NAKAMA and just yolo it.

Oh Rama Havenna!

This poster is pretty mysterious

CAST

Chichi (Chikachina) | Tachibana Kisa (Aljeanne)
Lukiora | Shirota Mitsuki (Aljeanne)

Once upon a time there was a city called Havenna, known as the most depraved and wild city ever... In Havenna you can do anything. Anything goes in this city full of pleasure and ecstasy. The opening scene has a young girl named Chichi riding a boat into Havenna, where the priest asks her if she knows where she's going. Chichi answers that she knows exactly what she's doing, and that she longs to become a denizen of Havenna...

Chichi lives in Havenna and works as a Mugwort Seller for a living. It's a low-class job that's quite popular in this city where one helps men fall asleep... Apparently many men in Havenna are plagued with insomnia that only a mugwort seller can cure. These women are called that because they like light some kind of mugwort incense of some sort to relax the man... before physically smacking him into unconsciousness with a crack. So these women smell strongly of mugwort, and so do the men who visit them. However, while living as a mugwort seller, one day Chichi hears the singing of a girl at a bar, and is so moved she's brought to tears... Or something like that. Anyways tha girl was named Lukiora, and they became fast friends.

But there's one problem. Lukiora HAATES mugwort dealers more than anyone. She can't stand the SMELL of mugwort. She can't stand the men who visit them. She hates it all. And she wants to leave Havenna more than anything so that she can see the world! However, Chichi doesn't seem to want to leave at all. Wonder why that is? Either way, in order to protect their friendship, Chichi keeps avoiding the truth. She avoids telling her beloved platonic best galpal Lukiora that she's actually a mugworter...

chichi and miguel being saucy at eachother

They also have a friend at the bar named Miguel who's sexy as hell. He also isn't a Havenna native, just like Chichi, and also came here for unknown reasons. Either way, he's clever and tends to give Chichi advice when he can, though he also seeks her night time services as well on occasion... In truth, Miguel is in love with Lukiora, but he doesn't have the balls to do anything about it.

Meanwhile, Chichi has her own share of trouble. One night while out with Lukiora, she spots a man who's being chased by his flock of fangirls and pulls him into the shadows. This man is the most popular guy in town and is like the top... host sort of. Either way he's like Havenna's #1 most eligible bachelor, and Lukiora is OBSESSED with him. She's like OMG KYAA FUGIO. And Fugio's like oh... Chikachina... :) And Chichi's like... bitch don't call me that. Lukiora doesn't understand, so Fugio tells her that Chikachina is a way to say thank you in his part of town. :) But that's a lie. Chikachina is Chichi's nightlife name. Fugio's really toeing the line with this one. We also learn that Fugio is very very very evidently in love with Chichi, but Chichi doesn't give a shit about that. She'll still get intimate with him for her job though, but only when she's on the clock.

Chichi works at this specific ~~brothel~~ mugwort house owned by this dude named Fakkio. His lover is the huge titted Domina, who is kind of a bitch who resents Chichi for being the most beautiful and talented girl here. Jire is like the bouncer that works here, and he is also passionately in love with Chichi, but he feels powerless to do anything about it. Whenever he tries, Fugio picks a fight with him and is all like heh what can a poor ugly bouncer like you do. Bounce? :) Even a ball can do that. Gtfo loser I'm Chichi's man. And Chichi's like I can't stand men sometimes.

Moving on basically there's a lot of drama going on here. Jire is so driven by his love for Chichi that he does stupid things, and Domina really wants to get Chichi out of here. It doesn't help that Fakkio wants to take Chichi as his next lover... like excuse me. We also learn that Fakkio is actually Lukiora's father, and that he changed after hooking up with Domina after mommy died. Domina goes to harass Lukiora sometimes and Lukiora gets pissed as all fuck. Either way, she hates it here and she hates mugwort because of its relation to her dad's workplace. She wants out...

don't remember when this happened, but fugio purchasing chikachina's services

Jire and Domina collaborate to basically expose Chichi. Lukiora gets told by Domina that Fugio buys mugwort services and she doesn't want to believe it, but ends up approaching the notbrothel where she unfortunately learns that he really does come here. When she barges in to make a scene however, she finds Chichi here as well... The cat is out of the bag. Lukiora is SO upset, so shookened, and so horrified that she can't even be arsed about Fugio anymore. Fugio tries to de-escalate the situation but Lukiora basically is just like STFU YOU VAPID EMPTY MANSLUT PIECE OF SHIT GTFO and Fugio's like eh.... omg.. Anyways Lukiora runs off and Chichi has a break down from losing everything. Fugio tries to take Chichi with him to elope and escape Havenna with his private yacht, but Jire stops them. He brandishes a knife and is all like you wanna escape Havenna with him? Or go back with me? And of course Chichi's just like ummm I don't wanna fucking do either fuck both of you idiots. Bye. And she leaves. Fugio and Jire are just left there like :( Damn... and they comfort each other on their failure to win Chichi's heart.

Miguel finds Lukiora at the church, where Lukiora is desperately praying for the higher powers to grant her to ability to forgive her best friend. She wants to forgive her, but she can't get rid of the anger and sadness in her heart. Miguel confesses that he's in love with her and that he's been saving up cash all this time. He can take her with him back to his hometown... however Lukiora says no. She's always wanted to leave Havenna but there's something she cares about more than that.

Chichi, after wandering away from the silly men, finds that the mugwort house is now surrounded by cops. Apparently the business got found out from all the hubbub that went on and an investigations happening now or whatever... this kind of business is illegal after all. What can Chichi possibly do with herself now...? What can she do... She has nothing. So she just bawls after losing it all. However Lukiora appears and tells her that she still has her. She doesn't care about all the bullshit anymore... she cares about Chichi. Who gives a flying fuck if she a mugwort seller or whatever, none of that ever really mattered and having it destroy their bromance would be stupid. And Chichi's like TT_TT omg Lukiora...

lesbianism

[Throughout the play, the squad is generally shaken by how real Kisa's sadness is during the scenes where Chichi is suffering from the remorse of keeping lies. At this scene Mitsuki whispers to her out of character that he and the others all don't care what she's hiding from them, and that they understand.... She has them to rely on... so she doesn't have to hold everything inside... or something like that. Basically Kisa is very emotionally shookened in a positive way. Power of friendship is real.]

Chichi and Lukiora decide to continue living together in Havenna and sort things out from there. Though she of course has to ask... Chichi... why did you come to Havenna and become a mugwort seller? What could you have wanted so much to do all this? Chichi then confesses that this is something she's never told anyone, but that she can tell Lukiora and her alone (because she platonically loves her as her ttly not gay galpal). In truth, she only came here because she just wanted to see what being a mugwort seller was like. That's it.

The final scene shows Chichi celebrating Havenna in the streets at night, where she then finds the priest who's suffering from insomnia... and invites him to engage in some... mugworting. Damn.

THE END

unrelated to anything but look at neji-senpai's behemoth tits

The play is over and it's an absolutely huge success. However, Kisa can't help but wonder if everyone knows she's actually a girl now. She went all out on stage after all, going full girl... Mare-chan and Kasai bust into the dressing room to say hi, and Mare is like OMGGG KISA YOu WERE SOOO GIRL!! SOOOO EPIC! But not as girl as Mitsuki-senpai. :) He is the most beautiful woman of all I love him. Kisa's just like... oh. Kinda anti-climactic, but clearly she was worrying for nothing. Literally everyone just thinks she's really good at pretending to be a girl.

Also it turns out Tanakamigi-senpai backed out of participating last minute?? For some reason. He wanted to watch Kisa's performance, and he apparently seemed to like it. Anyways thanks to not participating, he doesn't steal the gold for 2nd years, so MITSUKI WINS HIS FIRST GOLD. Kisa also gets gold for 1st years of course. Mitsuki's never won a medal his entire career at Univeil though, so he's quite shooked. He's shooked... but satisfied. For the first time he really tried so hard, together with Kisa. Yay! And of course Quartz wins best class as well. Yay.

So the Winter Performance comes to a peaceful end with Christmas just around the corner...

This is where Kisa can now either enter a route with whatever boy she's closet to, OR go the solo singles route.

Anyways I only did two routes so far so I'll just put those and you can compare the differences.

Fumi Route

Fumi being sexy even when doing nothing

Throughout Fumi's route, Kisa hangs out a shit ton with him and learns quite a bit about him... Within the first few months of the game you learn how Fumi actually came to this school without his family's permission. The Takashina family has been practicing professional super fancy mai dancing for like generations, but to Fumi they're just getting staler and staler as they fall behind on modern trends. He came here to be able to dance freely and learn more about other forms of dance etc. However his older bro tries to come into contact with him again... but why? Apparently Dad has been ill so they want Fumi to come back and drop outta Univeil. Since out of everyone Fumi is the most epic dancer and is best suited to become the next head. But ofc he's just like ummm I'm not dropping outta school my kouhais need me? Anyways nothing that eventful happens.

TL;DR None of that really affects Fumi though he does kinda wonder what he should do, since he does care about his family deep down. Life continues and Fumi is a super nice and chill senpai, though his antics progressively evolve into dropping hints that he's interested in Kisa. Anyways, his fam apparently came and watched his performance of Mary Jane and realized he's really fucking good at what he does and is clearly having a blast at school so his bro is like it's okay we'll give up on forcing you to come home. But by this point Fumi's like naw bro I will take over the fam, but only after I learn everything I can about dancing in the outside world before bringing it back home :) Give me my freedom a lil longer and I'll bring it all back to the fam. And so balance is attained. Fumi gets everything he wants and his fam does too yay the end.

hey girl im whispering in ur ear

Anyways back to Christmas. Throughout Fumi's route he drops a LOT of hints that he likes Kisa, and Kisa is always like "huh what's this guy getting at" like a dumbass. They spend Xmas together and he professes his legit undying love to her and also reveals he knew she was a girl ever since the entrance exam. Apparently in the dance test or whatever, he could tell just by the way she carried herself that she was a girl... like damn. But he admits that she's really mastered pretending to be a boy during her time at school though so if he first met her at this point then things probably would have been different. Anyways ya besides all that he's in love with her and will do anything to support her. Yay!

Fumi pries more info out of Kisa about the conditions for her enrollment, and learns that she must be a lead player in the final play. Of course he's confident that he's gonna be the Jack-ace and that Kisa will be his Aljeanne... it's already written in the stars. :) Kisa is like damn you are so smooth... I'll believe you... xD They also talk about Tachibana Tsuki a bit, since that topic is now free game since Fumi's in on this now. Fumi mentions how back when he was partnered with Tsuki it was awesome. But after he left it really left a hole behind... it was like he was chasing after his shadow. (Oh yeah also the dude who Tsuki is dancing with in that CG from the prologue was actually 1st year Fumi. Damn he really glowed up since then.) Luckily all that character development that happened in the common route went down, so everything's chill now. He knows that Kisa can become great, because he knows she's a genius actor just like Tsuki was.

And of course... that's exactly what happens. In order to have Quartz be in their absolute best shape to compete with Amber in the Final Performance, Neji reveals the roles with Kisa as Aljeanne and Fumi as Jack-ace! Wow sooo surprised. Amazing. Of course the rest of the roles are filled by the named classmates. This time they playing as a circus troupe of sorts with an overly complicated backstory setting that kind of made me glaze over but we'll get to that later.

Meanwhile Tanakamigi apparently is having Amber reperform the play they did abroad over the summer.... the infamous "Ware Shi Nari"... dun dun dun. That basically translates to 'to be/become death' or something like that. Edgy af. It was apparently scripted by Neji back when he was in Amber to demonstrate Amber at its absolute peak form, with Tanakamigi as the Jack-ace, 'Gashadokuro' and Neji as this angsty af princess named "Taki-hime". The story is basically about how Takihime's dad got murdered by this one country or something so she summons the crazy monster god Gashadokuro to help her get revenge, and he agrees at the price of becoming his bride. The two then basically commit mass genocide at the behest of Takihime and her growing madness. Edgy. Anyways in order to compete with the performance done when Neji was still around, Amber this time is splitting the role of Takihime into that of a double Aljeanne twin Takihimes played by the mean girls freshmen duo. Awesome.

Tanakamigi and the Boys

Also valentines day happens at some point and they have a mushy moment of lying around and probably swearing their eternal love to each other.

Honestly I don't remember very well much about what happens anymore because I left this post too long... but anyways, Fumi puts in his all as his first Jack-ace role and ends up catching a COLD!?!? He's bedridden up until like the day before the performance... and Kisa goes to check on him and sees him looking erotic and sexily ill. Typical anime sexy sick... nothing like real life. Kisa starts to think more and more about how they're gonna be separated after graduation, and this is the last time they can have together as classmates. With Fumi joining Tamasakaza after, he's gonna be super busy and they will probably like never see each other except special occasions. The longing long-distance pain is already setting in... and ofc Fumi reveals he's feeling it too. But they still want to make the best performance ever together so gotta just focus on the play.

Fumi being sick but like in a sexy way

At some point I think, Kisa snoops in on Amber and checks out their super epic practicing of a scene from ware emo nari and they are like super good. The not twins try to aggravate her as usual but of course Kisa's just like wow I could learn from this. She steals inspiration from them and absorbs it like a sponge, much to the shorter mean girl's dismay.

Well putting all that behind us, they get to the day of the Final Performance... dun dun dun...Amber goes right before Quartz and of course they are like super awesome and epic. It'll be tough to compete with, but Quartz will probably manage since they always do.

Shishia of the Central Country (Fumi ver.)

(Honestly I'm not sure if this is what I should TL the title too but whatever I'm not a professional)

don't perceive the cast text on this pic its from a different route

CAST

Shishia | Tachibana Kisa (Aljeanne)
Adora | Takashina Sarafumi (Jack-ace)

Adora's Dad | Ootori Kyouji (Jack)
Other Circus Bros | Everyone else

Once upon a time there was a glorious military empire called Albain. Next to it was the less glorious Republic of Quator. One day Albain decided to invade Quator and decimate the fuck out of it, stealing its name and reducing it to the Nameless Country, forcing the people there to either live in poverty or to become slaves in Albain. All the people were even branded with a horse tattoo to show how they are basically slaves to Albain. Awful. Albain also built a huge wall to keep the poor people out and to keep them trapped in the ravaged Quator... any of the people from the Nameless Country found in Albain get deported immediately... Sounds familiar right. Anyways, Albain has a circus troupe called Central Country Kirtzé that is known for being super awesome and also kind of eccentric, full of only the most talented and rebellious people. They held a cross-country performance right on top of the wall illegally one time, and it stole the hearts of many from both Albain and the other side. One of those people... was the young lass named Shishia, from the Nameless Country.

epic swag troupe Kirtze

Shishia ends up illegally entering Albain in order to pursue her dream of joining Kirtze and to hold another such performance some day. She sings to them and they hire her on the spot, with the group's leader sensing that Shishia will be the 'gear' that will bring change to Kirtze. While in the troupe, Shishia becomes close to the acrobat, Adora. Adora is actually the son of a powerful high ranked general, but because he didn't believe in his dad's backwards conservative worldview he ended up running away from home to join Kirtze. Here he can be free... Shishia accidentally drops hints that she's from Quator because she is kind of silly like that, but Adora of course doesn't care where she's from... He starts to fall for her... omg.

feet people come get ya toes

While in town, they end up rescuing an old man from getting deported by ~~ICE~~ the local pigs, though Adora's dad shows up and starts being a little bitch to them, accusing Shishia of being an illegal immigrant. Kirtze collectively raises a fuss in an attempt to help the old guy, but it's revealed that he actually illegally entered the country after being inspired by Kirtze's performance... and he would love to see their cross country performance one last time... The cops end up taking the guy away and there's really not much the troupe can do about it. Except one thing. To maybe hold another cross country performance!?

Adora and Shishia chilling in front of irl photograph bg

They immediately get to work to set up another illegal performance on top of the wall, and decide that for the performance they'll hold an act about star crossed lovers from opposing countries! A very on the nose metaphor for... Albain and Quator. Meanwhile Adora's dad is all like oh we know what they're up to, so they bust into the circus to make a mess and confiscate their scripts. Luckily Shishia is a sneaky girl and while distracting the cops by dancing around she swipes a copy of the script off of one of them. After they leave, work on the act can still continue since they still have this one copy!! Yay!

Anyways they hold the epic performance on the wall, but meanwhile Adora's daddy shows up again a ways away with an evil plot up his sleeve. He's all like, "we'll shoot down the immigrant rat while they're messing around up there. It's what they deserve. :) My stupid son will see the light someday and I'm doing this to help him wake up from these stupid antics." So the performance begins and in the middle, Adora notices that they are literally getting shot at. He then takes a bullet for Shishia and is all like... Sing, Shishia... I love you... Sing for me... or something like that before dying. The people on both sides of the wall are super moved and get way too worked up, deciding to smash the wall down. Adora's dad is also super shooked up by having hit the wrong target and losing his son and has a complete emotional breakdown, realizing that he's been a fool all along focusing on stupid shit like killing immigrants and that it's cost him his son. I think he then throws himself off the wall or something but I don't really remember. Anyways, Shishia sings her final tragic ballad and also dies when the wall collapses with her still on it.

After the incident, the two countries end up merging and the Quator people get to become citizens. The new formed country is then named the Central Country Shishia-Adora in honor of the two who were lost.

THE END

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The crowd goes wild. Obviously Quartz's performance was so epic that they knocked Amber completely out of the water. Quartz wins gold with Kisa and Fumi both winning golds for the 1st year and 3rd year prizes. Absolutely and completely epic.

After everything's over, everyone talks about going forward into a new year of awesome acting. It's clear that Mitsuki will probably take over as class leader, and Sou-chan claims how he wants to inherit the directing portion of Neji's previous job. Kisa will continue to do her best to support everyone, and Suzu will be Suzu. They defeated the shadow of Amber and the illusion that with Amber around, everyone else is destined to be 2nd best... now the 3rd years can feel proud knowing their underclassmen will continue to shine after they're gone.

Kisa and Fumi spend their last moments in school together back in the classroom and dance together. They promise to keep spending holiday together in the future even though now they will be... separated. But the power of love will carry them through... The end. Yay.

Honestly I feel kind of bad how vague this summary was but it's my bad for taking a month break after finishing his route instead of writing it down. The memories... they leave quickly.

Fumi n Kisa dance the night away in their final moments together... (b4 becoming long-distance)

Mitsuki Route

the girls chillin

So in Mitsuki's route, Kisa snoops up a lot more on our local favorite songstress. Kisa immediately accidentally witnesses a moment between Mitsuki and his shitty mom, where it becomes clear that he hates his home life and that he came to this school mostly to escape living with his mom. His mom only wants him to sing for her convience and to sing for free at her friend's birthday party etc etc and of course Mitsuki's like ummm I don't care about your friend? Leave me alone I have class... and of course his mom pulls the typical "WHY DID I GIVE BIRTH TO YOU IF YOU'RE GONNA BE DIFFICULT LIKE THIS >:( can't you at least repay me by doing free labor for me??? Like excuse me?? Ungrateful! What did I raise you for!" Hits way too close to home... pain. Anyways she tries to hit him so Kisa does a barrel roll and dives in the way, taking the smack for him. Mitsuki is so pissed he tells off his mom before escaping in order to give Kisa first aid... He tells Kisa off for being stupid and taking the hit for him.

The rest of Mitsuki's route does not bring up his family again at all. Instead it's about how much he likes to keep to himself and hates how people look at him. Apparently most peoples' gazes he can feel their expectations of him and it pisses him off. However, Kisa's gaze doesn't bother him too much for whatever reason. He begins to spend more and more time with Kisa and actively dragging her with him to teashops and stuff because he likes her company. This level of friendship and trust becomes more and more attached... to the point where as he opens up to her he begins increasingly pissed that Kisa won't open up to him. Because of the whole keeping it secret that she's a girl thing. But he doesn't know that. He's just like "omg.. something's bothering you but you can't even tell me? Am I even your friend. TT_TT" /runs off pissed off. He has these super neurotic moments but then 10 minutes later will come back like "omfg Kisa I am so sorry I am wrong. I should never have expected any of these things from you... your burdens are yours and if you don't want to share them with me that's your decision and I respect that." And then 5 minutes later he's like "but clearly you don't like me as much as I like you maybe... I think I hate myself". Basically he has a really hard time. Mitsuki clearly also has a lot of difficulty managing stress and easily lashes out at others, but every time he does it just makes him hate himself more.

mitsuki: if u really trusted me you'd get naked with me

One time he even aggressively strips in front of Kisa and demand she strips too to prove she trusts him. (this might sound random but it was fitting for the specific situation) That goes very badly of course and he tries to unfriend her because of how guilty he feels about putting her in such an awkward situation. Luckily Kisa doesn't mind most things. I also forgive him because I know he is truly a good boy underneath his... moments. After the Havenna play or whatever things start going up. There's also a funny(?) moment where the other 2 2nd year senpais who exist are praising Kisa for her performance and Mitsuki's just like GET UR HANDS OFF!!!!11 lol.. put them off... but it really shows how Mitsuki has changed a lot this past year. Anyways, he puts together Kisa's secret and of course is like damn I was a bitch for trying to force these kinda things out of you... but he doesn't say that out loud. You can just kind of tell from his vibes.

Christmas comes and Kisa of course spends Xmas with her favorite partner~ Mitsuki <3 She also gets the courage to tell Mitsuki her secret. She feels like it's something she should share with him because he's the one who's become closest to her... and she wants him to know. After telling him, Mitsuki thanks her and is like omg to have told me your biggest secret... I am so thankful for your trust in me even after all my crazy moments. Anyways he obviously had no idea she was a girl until recently, but none of it really phases him. Regardless of her gender, Kisa is still Kisa. It doesn't matter. He will continue to support her and LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!! Kisa's like omg... doki. Thanks senpai >///<

mitsuki: u r my #1 homie aint nothing gonna change that

When hearing about her enrollment conditions, Mitsuki's confident that Kisa will be selected as the Aljeanne with Kai or Fumi as the Jack-ace. So it's shookening when Neji dishes out the roles and reveals that the Aljeanne will be Mitsuki!?? But relief when Kisa is the Jack-ace... wait what!?? Then what about Kai? Or Fumi!? Mitsuki is hit by a lot of mixed feelings all at once when the answers quickly dawn on him. The 3rd years have given up on winning the Final Performance and intend to use it as an opportunity to help the 1st and 2nd years grow. They want to raise Kisa into the next ace, and Mitsuki as the next class leader. All this information passes through his head all at once and he is devastated.

This month is mostly filled with drama revolving around how Mitsuki wanted to win the class prize with his beloved senpai. But he also understands the sacrifices the senpai are making in order to help the kouhais. Because as long as Ambers around... well... they need to do something or else Amber is gonna turn all the other students into washed up nobodies. So Neji and the others made the difficult situation to sacrifice starring in the final play... Oh no. Of course Mitsuki being stressed in turn influences Kisa into being worried about Mitsuki. Tanakamigi also shows up again all like see how Quartz is ruining you? You're busy being stressed when you could be the perfect Aljeanne and not worry about a thing with me. You are the ideal Takihime for me... (Yes just like Fumi route they doin Ware Shi Nari) Anyways of course Mitsuki's like fuck off Tanakamigi. Bitch. But being psychic Tanakamigi also can immediately tell that Mitsuki is wavering as well. He wants to sacrifice being the Tresor in order to listen to his senpai to support the class as class leader. But he doesn't want to!?

Anyways after all that, of course Mitsuki admits that regardless of what the senpai wants, he still wants to be Tresor. He loves to sing. Before he used to sing because he just felt it's what he's best at, but its become more and more clear that he sings because he loves to. He wants to win the class prize. He and Kisa decide to team up to make this play the absolute best it can be in order to defeat Amber. If it's them... they can do it!!!!! So they go into training hyperdrive, and their fervor affects the rest of the class too. The senpai are shocked and moved to see Mitsuki putting in so much effort to cover all his weaknesses... TT

Shishia of the Central Country (Mitsuki ver.)

CAST

Shishia | Tachibana Kisa (Jack-Ace)
Carlo | Shirota Mitsuki (Aljeanne)

Lieutenant Azul | Ootori Kyouji (Jack)
Other Circus Bros | Everyone else

[Yes it's as you guessed... or more like as I guessed. Shishia's role is supposed to be gender ambiguous.. I thought she was a little too flat af...and of course it's because in this route she is a JACK!!!! Besides that though everything is literally the same.]

So there's the country of Albain and Quator blablabla the same exact thing as before except instead of Shishia getting close to Adoru, he is now getting close to the aloof Carlo. Carlo is the troupe's main singer and generally felt like Kirtze being accused of rebellious actions was a hassel, not giving a rat's ass about the politic state of things. However after getting close to Shishia and seeing how the cross-country performance had changed Shishia's life so much and was what brought him to their troupe, Carlo begins to see things a little differently. After punching a cop, she declares that she wants to hold another cross-country act!! For the people of Quator.. and for Shishia!!! ! ! !! The troupe is shookened but they're like damn Carlo we gotchu.

[At this point the squad starts to ad-lib in order to make suggestions at how they all here to support Mitsuki in becoming the class leader. They all like ohh Carlo we here for you and we will support you. You can carry all of us homie. And Mitsuki's like aw man u guys... >w<]

So the cops raid the circus and Shishia pickpockets them for a copy of the script back, they hold the performance, Lt. Azul starts shooting at em, but ofc Carlo pushes Shishia out of the way and takes the bullet. Everyone wanna stop the performance but Carlo's like "sing bitch I didn't put in all this work to quit here sing for my sake since I can't anymore. Also btw I love you. You taught me how it feels to be loved." So Shishia belts an absolute bop about tearing doing walls before the wall collapses from the angry mob who got inspired by it.

Carlo dying in Shishia's arms and lookin good while doing it

After all the chaos the two countries then become one and rename it as the Central Country of Shishia-Carlo in memory of the two who died.

THE END

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So the crowd goes wild. Tanakamigi admits that Mitsuki brought something out of Kisa's talent that he wouldn't have been able to do himself and praises the performance. Wow! Also Mitsuki defeats Tanakamigi and gets the gold medal for the 2nd years!!!! WOW!!!

Honestly I'm like how though. This play like wasn't even that solid imo the story is just kind of loose... probably because it's scripted to be able to change who Kisa's partner will be... but whatever I guess. Also the Lt. Azul is just a meanie baka in this version while in Fumi version he sorta had more depth goin on lol but ya. The songs are bangers though so I guess those made up for it lololo.

Anyways Kisa just got a silver... like excuse me? Did I fuck up somewhere... I still aced all the rhythm game portions so idk what that was about but whatever moving on.

So besides all that everyone's happy yay blalbalbalblalba end of the schol year blablab asjdkhlgas.

Kisa and Mitsuki are gonna be partners for another year and the others all see it... how they are meant 4 each other teehee. Anyways the two work hard to make the preperations for the entrance of the new batch of freshmen, and Mitsuki makes Kisa promise not to get too invested in helping them and forgetting about him... -_- He needs attention too! The end.

they rly look like either a pair of butch lesbians or gay twinks

[Other routes... tbd? Maybe? God each route take stoo long to finish tho I'm tired.]

FINAL THOUGHTS

Where the FUCK is Tsuki. I honest to god think he's the ferret mascot that appears sometimes. He must have accidentally turned into an animal before entering Takasakaza because his hubris was cursed by a passing witch. Or something. I mean how many times has he called home? Well I guess I wouldn't know because the story takes place after he's already gone AWOL. Where the fuck are you stupid bro... wtf.

Anyways I think the Havenna play is my favorite. It had the most drama and was kind of gay. I also liked Suzu playing a more serious role. I actually am quite fond of Sou-chan and think he's an excellent actor. He always plays those weird kind of roles with a lot going on in the character's head... probably. I wish Neji took his roles more seriously but I guess that's what you get since he's the silly one. Fumi is sexy as hell but the 3d models don't do him justice at all. Anyways Mitsuki is always hot in every play... cutie. Kai I feel gets the short end of the stick a lot, and he shined the most in Weekend Lesson... ofc. Hearing him say mommy mommy in Mary Jane was funny though. He's also a great actor but a lot of his roles are so passive that he never really stands out much.

Anyways I got spoiled from the artbook that you can get CGs with the side characters... I'm guessing if you get close to them and then do single route? I will investigate further in the future. Maybe. I wish you could date Tanakamigi... he's kind of a bitchass hoe but he's kinda sexy in a way... I can see why his shortie kouhai simps for him so much. Also ya out of side characters Minorikawa is my favorite... love you man. I glazed over supporting cast in the summary cuz I ain't got time for that but just trust me.

Okay thats it. Might touch this section up in the future if I update this but I'm tired... Goobie.

8 comments:

CTSMay 13, 2021 at 2:49 AM
Just found this blog, love your write-up so far and glad that I get to see Ishida Sui's gorgeous art again! Keep up the good work!
ACHOctober 2, 2021 at 7:17 PM
Not me refreshing your page every few days hoping for a new game lmaooo Love the content!
AllaFebruary 17, 2022 at 7:21 PM
Sorry for such a late comment but this cracked me up so much, thanks for a good read! After reading this, I reeeeeeally wish you do a Neji sempai route because...!!! Smth tells me you won't regret it! (Oh but it might make you put a TW up there). Oh and you CAN date Tanakamigi ;) But SHOULD you? That's the question hahahaha
Booped My SnakeJuly 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM
I agree, the art is super gorgeous! I cannot believe that this was created by the creator of Tokyo Ghoul, truly a man of many talents.

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