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Mad, or in denial? I like that glare...it makes him look more dangerous than the fluffy plushie bunny he is.

Tsun harder, Seiji. Nobody is fooled.

I think he's just one of those people who only eats one food at a time. Most of my family is like that, where they'll only have one type of food on their plate and they'll finish that before moving on to the next thing. I'm sure he wouldn't mind having cooked or roasted pineapple, as long as it wasn't mixed in with the sweet-and-sour pork. I can see you'll have to cook everything separately for him when you're married and then you'll mix it together for yourself before you eat it.

Oh, Tamao-kun. <3 You can push all my buttons. <3

So I listened to the Ievan Polka with Seiji, and then I found the one for Junpei.

And then it hit me: I had found that video three years ago and it was my favourite for the longest time.

My love for Junpei was meant to be.

Meanwhile, my love of Devil-chan!P-sama just keeps growing. My God, best protag ever.

Fixed it for you~

THANK YOU! it's nice to know I'm not alone in my love for the adorable kouhai. ^^

Karen waited for us again, so we take her out to the cafe and ask her to tell us about her middle-school self! She says she was smaller, cuter, and more girly; her biggest regret about having shot up in height since is that she can't wear cuter things...


Karen: "So. Wear cute clothes on my behalf?"
P-chan: "Ehh?!"
Karen: "You can do that, right? Please? Miyo refuses to do it. You're my last ray of hope!"
P-chan: (W-what should I do...)

Just go along with it, who's the fashion expert/manager/model here?!


P-chan: (Phew, that's the trash done. Now then... Hm?)

While our P-chan is throwing out the trash (again, how many times is this, why does their duty roster not rotate), there's a commotion among the first-years, prompting a "the first-years sure have a lot of energy" from her. You're not that much older yourself! Of course, since these are first-years we're talking about...


Girl A: "Guys, stop that and sweep properly!"
Niina: "Pff... Do not presume to give instructions to the great Musashi-sama!"
Guy A: "Kyaa, Musashi-sama's so cool~"
Niina: "An opening!"


Guy A: "Ack! Damn, I was unprepared!"
Niina: "Hahahahaha, who's next!"
Guy B: "That would be me!"
Niina: "Come at me!"


Girl A: "Hey, get back here!"
Niina: "Hahaha, retreat!"
Guy A: "Yeah!"
Guy B: "Retreat~!"


Niina: "Retrea..."




Niina: "Uwah! What are you doing here!!"
P-chan: "Throwing out the trash. You sure look like you're having fun."



Guy A: "Oi, she's going to catch up if you don't hurry!"
Guy B: "Hm? Niina, who's this?"


Niina: "Ahhyeahwell it's that kind of thing! Retreat!"
Guy A: "What thing is that supposed to be, oi!"
Guy B: "Ah, please excuse us~"
Girl A: "Wait up!"
P-chan: (...He's gone. So Niina-kun's like that in class, huh.)

Self-conscious kouhai = adorable.

This is amazing. He's acting his age in an entirely believable way, self-consciousness and everything. Konami has come a long way, and it's nice to see.

Niina, I find your name stupidly funny but I like you.

But what's the point, then D: You have to cook them together!

I'm never going to like Tamao at this rate XD

I find "Niina" amusingly awkward as well, and would actually prefer to use Junpei, his first name, but I've been captioning all the previous screencaps with "Shitara" instead of Seiji, "Konno" instead of Tamao, etc because that's what it states ingame. Only Ruka and Kou's lines are labeled with their first names, and I don't know if it'll change for the rest of them.

Maybe I can standardise them all to a first-name basis..? Hmm.

If the nickname system works the same way, you can always change that later.

Meanwhile, I'm going to sit here and giggle over Junpei's behaviour. He is the best kohai.

P-chan's already addressing Piano-sempai as "Seiji-sempai", which I'd hoped would change the label, but no go. Oh well!

Augh, that's annoying. D: Ah well, I say just call them by whatever she's addressing them by in the LP? Or you can be horribly impolite and overly familiar like the rest of us when it comes to addressing them.

Piano-sempai invites us out to the live house this time, and we take advantage of the crush to glom onto him as much as possible - which results in an Episode, yay! It starts off with Seiji staring at us, like so:


P-chan: (He's... staring at me fixedly?) "Hehe, is something the matter?"
Seiji: "Your face..."
P-chan: (My face? I wonder what's up...)

We smile and poke at him a bit, but he says it's nothing. Time for drastic action!


P-chan: "Do you want to see more? Here."

She's not actually flashing him or anything - it's more of a playful "you want to keep looking?" along with clinging onto him, but I rather like how that translation came out. <.<


Seiji: "Wha-"


Seiji: "Y-you surprised me. Don't move close to me so suddenly, idiot."
P-chan: "...I'll move away, then..."


Seiji: "Ahh, geez... My heart's racing because of you..."



Climax mode~ We've covered this though, so I'll spare (withhold?) blushy-bunny Seiji. Managed to hit 96%! Same "he looks really happy" white screen at the end like the first one.

Then it's Ex-Approach again, so we molest Piano-sempai all the way home as well. This time, I did my best to stop exactly at 100% and left him alone after that, but...


Seiji: "...You."
P-chan: "Eh?"


Seiji: "That's enough, geez. Clinging all over someone like that..."
P-chan: "S-sorry! Um... You didn't like it?"


Seiji: "That's not the problem. I'd just like to know your motives for doing so."
P-chan: "Eh, that's..."


Seiji: "I get it, it's that, right? The aliens did something to you."
P-chan: "Uh, aliens?"

...Um, excuse me, what?!?!


Seiji: "Something like this, messing around with minds so as to produce strange feelings..."
P-chan: "Er... Strange feelings, you say?"

Did someone slip something into your drink at the live house, Piano-sempai...? I'd also like to note that he's been speaking really fast ever since he mentioned the aliens.


Seiji: "................Haaa."

He heaves a huge sigh, perhaps needing the air after rushing through his whole spiel about extraterrestrials.


Seiji: "I'm going. If I linger overlong, the aliens might find me."


P-chan: "Ah, Seiji-sempai." (...I wonder what's gotten into him?)

Then he runs away.

Either I missed the 100% mark or I should just keep mashing them buttons next time.

tl;dr Piano-sempai concludes that strange feelings are part and parcel of the alien conspiracy

Be back later. Can't breathe. Aliens.

Seiji, marry me.

Whoops, I mistranslated some of it. Hopefully fixed (and not made worse)!

Yes, Seiji. It's because of ALIENS that your having those 'strange feelings'.
pffftahahaahhhaahaha

ALIENS.

HECK YES.
Piano-sempai, that wasn't the best otome-guy flailing I've ever seen, but it's the only conspiracy-theory-fueled flailing I've ever seen. A+ for effort

I

I think I'm in love.

I've been saying that a lot since I joined this forum, huh.

Finally caught up!!

Junpei is just so asdfghjk ❤ ❤ ❤

DO WANT

Yeah, I really wish for want need this game to be translated. Or to learn Japanese so that I can play it.

I mean, dayumn. All the characters... well, most of the characters (a bigger percent of them in comparison to earlier games) are so damn romanceable. Even the token "shota".

The sports festival rolls around again! We did the three-legged race the first time round, so let's pick something different this time.



The ball-toss game is the other collaborative event - the last one (first in the list above) is an individual one where you roll a huge ball all by your lonesome self. Maybe next year, but for now, time to find a partner to lob some balls with!


P-chan: "Um, if you please, would you be my partner for the ball-toss game?"


Seiji: "The way you ask is a little.. lacking."
P-chan: "Eh? Hmmm... Pretty please, sempai? ♥"



P-chan: "Not good enough?"


Seiji: "...Well, I suppose that'll do. I'll partner you."


Karen: "Ciao, Bambi! Whether win or lose, I have no regrets!"



There are four screens of instructions, but the gist is that you tap O to pick up balls, tap O to throw them into the basket, or hold O to throw your spherical missile at the opposing team. The goal is to get as many balls of your own colour into your basket as possible.

As a note, this version is MUCH easier than the DS one. ;-;



Aaaand it's go time!



Our team's so dour and focused, while Karen/Tamao are having fun. I'm too distracted taking screenshots and watching Piano-sempai run.

oh hey it rhymes



We manage to scrape a win despite Karen and Tamao's heroic last-ditch efforts to make it a draw.


Seiji: "...What is it."
P-chan: "Eh? Nothing in particular..."
Seiji: "Then give me your hand, quickly now. I'll lead."

Whatever you say~


Tamao: "Oh, it's you. Please treat me well."

Tamao shows up before Ruka does, a somewhat promising order of events! And there's the end of our second sports festival.

The next week, we find Seiji waiting for us after school. He asks if we'd like to head home together <3


P-chan: "Eh? But isn't your ride coming...?"
Seiji: "No, I didn't call for it today."

I didn't show it at the time, but when he rejects your offer to walk home/go to the cafe together, he always says that he can't because his chauffeur's coming soon.


Seiji: "Tea, huh... I don't mind doing that for you."
P-sama: "I don't mind going for your sake, either?"

There's a little verbal sparring going on here that's a little hard to translate. Basically, he's implying that he's doing her a favour by going (the やって auxiliary verb is usually used towards someone of a lower status), but she sasses him a little by saying that she doesn't mind doing him the favour as well (using あげて, which implies that she thinks she's also doing something nice for him).


Seiji: "Fine fine. How would you like to have some tea?"
P-sama: "I'd be glad to. ♥"

He laughs and relents by using polite language with her, eeee~


Seiji: "Yaranai."

He did just say that.

...Okay, fine, we asked if he does sports. He doesn't. P-chan rubs it in by saying that she expected it, since he gave her that impression.


Seiji: "...What did?"
P-chan: "Eh?"
Seiji: "What gave you that impression?"
P-chan: "Well, you didn't seem the sort to be good at sports-"
Seiji: "Did I say I wasn't good at sports? I didn't. I just said that I don't do them."
P-chan: "Eh?! Are you good at sports, then?"
Seiji: "I didn't say I was good at them, either."
P-chan: "Which is it..."

...I could get used to defensive flailing Piano-sempai.


Seiji: "Does a guy necessarily have to be good at sports? Then, as a girl, cooking should be your forte, right?"
P-chan: (...I guess he's bad at sports after all.)

You know you're being obvious when even P-chan sees through your hasty equivocation.

AHAHAHAHAHAaaaaaaah, oh dear. That was fun.

Oh Seiji. You amuse me so. :3

CANNOT. BREATHE. SEND HELP. MY GOD.

P-chan: (Now then, time for band practice... What's with all that noise in the music room...?)


Seiji: "I can't play if you don't get off my lap."

???



P-chan: "Eh?"
Kid A: "Hey, play the Seven Rangers theme neeext!"
Seiji: "How would I know how to play that? Sing it for me, loud and clear."
Kid B: "Ehhh, I want to hear Chaccha Man next!"


Seiji: "Wait your turn. I've been saying that all this while, right?"
P-chan: (...W-what the heck is this...)


Nursery teacher: "Time to go, everyone! You're all bothering onii-chan, you know?!"
Kids: "Ehhhhhhhhhhh!"


Seiji: "Ouch, stop pulling my hair! I'll remember this the next time I see you!"
Kids: "Ahahaha!"


Seiji: "...What an awful experience."
P-chan: "It looked like they really liked you, though?"



P-chan: (...Looks like he doesn't even have the energy to respond to that.) "Anyway, what was that about?"


Seiji: "...Like I'd know. I was just playing the piano when they flooded in all of a sudden."
P-chan: "The kids?"


Seiji: "Yeah. I don't know if they were here on a field trip or just happened to be out on a walk, though... They were coming down from the rooftop for whatever reason, and were probably heading home. They must have heard the piano on the way down the stairs..."
P-chan: "...I guess that's when they came in."
Seiji: "Good grief, children really have no sense of restraint or tact. The moment I get a note wrong, they start booing right away."


Seiji: "...Still, I can understand why they throw themselves so wholeheartedly into having fun. That bit wasn't so bad, at least."

I don't think I can comment coherently on this, because the urge to keyboard-smash in utter delight is overwhelming. So uh, enjoy?



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Seiji is going to be the most hilarious and adorable father. Tamao's just going to be the adorable and perfect father, but Seiji will also be HILARIOUS.

Poor Piano-sempai XD Kids can be rather evil little things.

Between the Climax mode and the fact it's more like ❋Ex Approach when it's on screen, i can't help but think the devs were just coy with their naming, there...

I think coy naming is another Tokimemo thing like formerly always have a nine year old looking shota.

I have to wonder if it's coy naming or if they just didn't get that it gave that sort of impression in English. I mean, climax does have a nonsexual meaning as well, the point of highest action in a novel or story before the falling action and the resolution. So it's possible that they were just thinking it's the climax of the date and not the more racy version of climax? You have to remember that this is a game that was written in Japanese by Japanese people, so they aren't going to understand all the intricacies of the English language. I mean, we don't understand all the intricacies of Japanese either and I know that even words that come from English sometimes have very different meanings when used in Japanese. (Fun fact: The lone word グラマー or "guramaa" comes from the English word glamour, but if you use it to describe a girl in Japanese, you won't be saying she's glamorous, you'll be saying she has big boobs!)

But whether or not they knew what they were doing when they named it Climax Mode, it's still pretty darn funny.

This is Konami we're talking about. They knew damn well what they were doing.

ALL MY LIKES

June is more or less over, but no 3P invitations yet... Trying to get into Tamao's good books is hard when Piano-sempai keeps asking us out. But then we get more scenes like this:


Seiji: "Ahh geez!"
P-chan: "Kya?!"


Seiji: "I get it, it's that, right? A Nordic ritual?"

I don't even know what to say anymore. Do go on, Seiji.


Seiji: "Touching places that are unhealthy so as to banish the evil spirits within..."
P-chan: "...Evil spirits?"
Seiji: "However, I would have you know that I'm in perfectly good health. There's no need for such rituals."


Seiji: "Or rather, it backfired instead. Now I feel strange. ...Oi, I have nothing to do with whatever happens next!"

...Then he flees again.
...I'm way more amused by this than I thought I would be.

Anyway, Ruka's birthday comes by and we buy a Red Ranger Suit just to be nice.


Ruka: "Of course I'll treasure it. I treasure everything I get from you."

This tipped him over to :) despite me not doing anything but giving him birthday presents so far, all because of the little crown that carried over from my first file. Oops. At least they don't bomb you if you've never asked them out! And Ruka can accompany us in all the weekly activities that Piano-sempai never shows up for. <3



Exams~ We're definitely moving on up!


Tamao: "Yeah. It's something our seniors started."

We find Tamao at the school gates one morning, greeting everyone in sight because of a Student Council initiative started by their seniors. Sounds a little familiar...


Tamao: "Ahh, sorry about that. I was a little mesmerised..."
P-chan: "Hmm..."
Tamao: "Ah! Your outfit is just too close to my ideal, no, I mean, not that my ideal matters that much... Anyway, it suits you. Even though I didn't really express it well."

Tamao's favourite combined style is Cute + Chic, which makes Onee-kei - that is, the older-sister type. Hmmmmm.


Seiji: "This place isn't too shabby. Plenty of flower varieties, the assistants know what they're doing..."
P-chan: "Thank you very much!"


Seiji: "I'm not praising you. I'm praising the shop's assistants."

There is no difference, Piano-sempai. Unless you're telling me you're praising Ruka. Who keeps scolding me for things like forgetting to water the plants. ;-; It may have been deserved but I think he was trying to tell me something. He never scolded P-chan as much when I was actually after him...

Anyway, it's 4 in the morning and I should sleep, so here're some quick screencaps of our current standings:




While we haven't triggered 3P yet, there should still be plenty of leeway left, especially since Tamao's heart is the same size as Ruka's at the moment. In any case, that gives me more opportunities to trigger further wacky post-Ex-Approach dialogue ohohohohoho.

...Seiji what is wrong with your brain. XD

My guess is he's internally flailing trying to think of anything, ANYTHING that can explain this strange new phenomenon to him. I am at a loss as to how it went from aliens to Vikings, though.

I love Seiji's bizarre combination of trying to act the part of the sempai, trying to act the part of cultured rich kid, actually being a pushover, and stammerblushing about aliens and the Norse. He's not even tsundere so much as the fantastic lovechild of Mizuki and Harry.

I wonder what will be next. Alien Vikings? The Mayans?

Pigeons with mutant hands.

Baro!