The class mascot Tamase ‘Tama’ Miki, a tiny girl with hair approaching being bigger than herself, possessing an eternally cheerful attitude and a school uniform accentuated with cat accessories (Tama being a common cat name in Japan), she dislikes serious conflict and tries to smooth over arguments between her classmates, notably between Kei and Chizuru (with Kei actually listening to her), and rarely stands up for her own opinion because of this. Possibly the route with the most depth to it, at least until Kei decides to troll that too… Not nearly so much unemotional as unemo tive, her route sees Takeru accidentally stumble across elements of her past that shed light on her disregard for authority figures (like Chizuru) and why she maintains such distance between herself and others (No explanation for quite how she is so freakishly strong is ever given though). Outside of that, she spends her time picking fights with Sakaki due to their personality differences (or similarities, depending on perspective) and otherwise existing solely for yakisoba bread (fried noodles and sauce in a bun. Is a good friend of Suzumiya Akane, a primary character from some of âge’s other projects.Īyamine Kei, seemingly your typical Ayanami Rei expy (just look at the name) right up until she starts trolling the living shit out of whatever she can (including the game occasionally). Her route is arguably the grimmest of the five, covering why she takes everything quite so seriously and why she is so aggressively averse to accepting help from others. Possessing a quick temper and a surprising competitive streak given her otherwise-strict compliance with regulations, she tries her best to maintain order in the class but is somewhat doomed given not only who her classmates are but also the teachers themselves. Sakaki Chizuru, the Class Representative who manages to stop short of totalitarianism, if only just (though given who she has to try and run herd on…) and your run-of-the-mill tsundere. With these two being the main heroines of the story with much of their respective routes being shared, the secondary cast meanwhile consists of: The main crux of the game consists of the love triangle between Takeru and his childhood friend (and neighbour) Kagami Sumika something of an idiot with a propensity for violence, at least as far as Takeru is concerned (though he gives almost as good as he gets) whose predominant characterisation is her desire to be with Takeru, and a girl who appears one day in Takeru’s life (and bed!), leading Sumika to effectively punch Takeru into the title sequence. This girl, Mitsurugi Meiya, turns out to be heiress to a multinational conglomerate (capitalist nobility), and as a result has a rather skewed idea of normal behaviour, especially contrasted to Takeru and Sumika who are given as being of rather more average means (though Meiya solves problems via methodology that’s insane to anyone who has ever encountered any type of regular society, regardless of their background). We also meet the main cast of brightly (and extravagantly) haired girls who all embody well-worn tropes themselves and by way of the typical branching story choices a girl’s route is selected and hijinks occur. Viewed from the perspective of the main character, Shirogane Takeru (following Japanese surname-first conventions), the story follows the common trope of the protagonist-candidate who possesses reasonable talent across the board but lacks in motivation to apply himself as he chills through life being reasonably happy with how things are, never sparing much thought for much of anything beyond his main hobby a robot battle simulation game (and I really mean never sparing much thought guy is freaking dense, only on occasion deliberately so). You can probably feel your critical thinking slowing down already.Įxtra is your standard, dare I say cliché (not to mention trite) school-romance slice-of-life visual novel. Look at the brightly-haired pretty anime girls.