LP: Ichiro Shounen Kitan - this is why you shouldn't annoy spirits

Oh no, Ichiro. "WELL, I DON'T HATE YOU, PER SE." Poor, awkward, ghostloving Ichiro. Wonder what Tooko'a photo was of (a snap shot of Ichiro?).

And so the strange, mysterious story I experienced at the end of spring comes to an end.


Now it seems that, along with the early summer sunlight, I'll be embarking on another, more pleasant experience.


The cursed school that used to exist here is no more.


Now, this school is full of hope --

... If Kiyomaru's a third year, shouldn't he be graduating in the spring? ... Maybe he just doesn't care.

Anyway, credits! Proper ones, this time.


Ichiro Shounen Kitan


Music: Rengoku-teien

They provided some of the music for Hatoful Boyfriend, too. :D b








Sound effects: The Matchmakers




Planning and production: Nekofuroshiki




The End

Aaand that's a wrap! \(o)/

Thanks to everyone who followed this LP and left comments/likes; I really appreciate it! I've said this before, but I really wasn't sure how much people would like this. It probably couldn't be said to have the twists or character development that the The Witch's House and Ib have, for example. Still, I think it's a fun game, and I'm glad if everyone else enjoyed it too. :D I know I had fun playing it.

I might post a scene I missed right at the beginning (which is the earliest point you can meet Tsukiko at, I think), but other than that I don't think there are any missing scenes other than the multitude of ways you can die. Poor Ichiro.

Ah, I'll also try to upload the music used in the game somewhere tomorrow! It's all available on Rengoku-teien's site, but still. It might be easier than going to look for it. |D;

EDIT: Also, I think Tooko's photo was the one shown in the credits (the one of Ichirou and Tsukiko's hands)? ... Which then begs the question of when did she take that photo.

It was a fun game to read about!

I'm honestly surprised that it had a happy end with nobody dying. And haha... If you wanted a table-turning buddy, why didn't you join the occult club earlier, Ichiro...? Silly.

It was a good game! Did the creators of this game make any others?

Yay hugs! \o/ Thank you for playing this, Shirato. I didn't even know this game existed before you made this lp.

>Wants friends interested in table turning.
>Refuses to join the occult club.
Ichiro, look at your life, look at your choices.

It was a fun game! I enjoyed how you didn't freak out at the scary things~~ Even if this game wasn't too scary.
The work they put on the seven mysteries stories was really nice.

I was really surprised, too! |D; I find it pretty refreshing, though, as quite a few of the recent well-known RPGmaker horror games seem to have had downer endings at worst

or bittersweet endings at best

. Sometimes it's nice to get a happy ending, I guess.

And yes- you could have just joined the Occult club if you wanted friends with similar interests, Ichiro. :'D It seems logical. (Although, I have to wonder how many members that club actually has...).

As far as I can see, Nekofuroshiki has done three other RPGmaker games: Obakeyashiki Tankentai (Haunted House Expedition), which I'm pretty sure is horror; Killer Bear, which also seems to be horror (albeit rather short and based on American horror); and Anny, which is an RPG intended to mimic the style of the Mother series. I'm not sure to what extent they've had input on the projects of the other member of their team.

(I really like the Mother series (and like the look of Anny), so I was thinking of doing an LP of Anny sometime, but as it's a 'traditional RPG' it would involve levelling up, and as such would probably take more time to complete/time between updates. Might wait until I have a bit more time to do that; then again, maybe it's best to start when I don't have reports to worry about. :D; At least it's quite a simple story, like Ichiro Shounen Kitan)

In any case, here's the music used in this game! (If Mediafire doesn't work, please say). I... think I've mostly managed to figure out which pieces go where. :'D
bokukao_gm ('I have no face'): the music that plays when you're walking around the school.
natuki_gm ('the forest illuminated by the summer moon'): the opening (Ichiro doing table-turning) and the explanation in the library
n-riyuu_org ('the reason for my tears'): Tsukiko and Ichirou's scene
ruru_gm ('gem'): good end credits music
saigo-n ('the tears I could finally show you'): the music that plays over the good end
sg3_gm ('the scene of the murder was room 3'): encounter/'battle' music
sinone ('death tone'): title music
water05: bathroom 'music' (a water sound effect on a loop)
yokan ('premonition'): ... I'm not actually sure where this is from. It sounds very similar to the encounter music, though.

Killer Bear!
I wanna see Killer Bear!
I can only imagine it to be a murderous teddybear and a whole game dedicated to that and it sounds adorable!
Well a real bear would be fine too I guess.

I'M RIGHT HERE! Experience me! xD

Still having compy issues, so I'll comment on full ending stuff I've missed when that clears up.

Shirato, thank you so much again for playing this for us! I've become a fan of yours, so if you ever do Anny or anything really, let me know. I'd love to read.

Yeah, Anny sounds cool. I would read it as well.

I keep trying to find a website for Nekofuroshiki and failing miserably. And, considering it would probably it would be in Japanese, it wouldn't help me much.

I'm not actually entirely sure what Killer Bear is about. :D; It seems to involve a rumour about the 'killer bear', though; I'm guessing as it's based on an American horror movie, it shows up at some point. (And I guess we can assume it's some sort of bear. Which kills people). I think it's kind of short, though, so maybe I should check it out sometime! For now, we have Teddybear of Death to do the whole killer bear thing for us. b

Here's the site for the team they're now a part of, Ebifuro. |D Nekofuroshiki's work is on the right (from left to right, it's Obakeyashiki Tankentai, Killer Bear, Anny, and Ichiro Shounen Kitan). There are also links to playthroughs of their stuff on Nico.

EDIT: Ah, I found a full version of the panning shot of Ichirou and Tsukiko in the credits! Useful.

What's the difference between Ichiro and Ichirou?

The ending to this game was actually pretty touching. I also like that ending pixel art a lot.

Thanks for LPing this game, Shirato!

Ichirou's name has a longer sound at the end than 'Ichiro', and his name is given in kanji as 一郎. Ichiro's name is written in hiragana (いちろ); assuming that it hasn't been shortened from 'Ichirou' it probably wouldn't use the same kanji if written in it, as I think the 郎 part is normally pronounced 'rou'? (His name could also just be written in hiragana). I think 'Ichirou' often becomes 'Ichiro' in Western media and the like (for example, the baseball player Ichiro Suzuki's name is 一朗, also technically 'Ichirou'), but they're different if you write them out in kana.

I'm to lazy to go back and quote everything I wanted to comment on when my compy was dying the last couple of days. Frankly, I'm pretty pissed with how the end was written. Leaving that hanging, unsatisfying Kiyomaru bullshit gets on my nerves. And they're all just way too casual about this.

But it doesn't make me like the game any less. I agree with DreadCop the pixel art is beautiful, particularly in the end. And I'm super happy the ghosts and Ichiro and Tooko all got together. I do like the game. And again, super thankful you brought it to us, especially those of us who can't ever hope to read the Japanese to play for ourselves.

Yeah, if you play ANYTHING else, make some noise so we can follow! You did a great job and I enjoyed this a lot! I'm a little sad it's over, I look forward to these updates every day! : )

This was a nice LP. I thought that ending would have a twist about Ichiro's face since it was hidden the whole time.
Thanks, for dropping that link for the website. I'm going to play Anny. I would be happy to see another LP from you.

Certainly, if there's one thing I would have changed about the game, I think it would have been Kiyomaru's role. |D; There are a lot of possibilities there, after all! I like the idea of him being a spirit, whether one like Tsukiko (it somehow seems that it would be in character for him to just not care that he's dead and continue lurking around the school) or one of the Seven Mysteries; one of the Seven Mysteries even seems to live in his class. I guess if you wanted him to play a more malevolent role in the story, given that most of the Mysteries are sympathetic, he could be the spirit that cursed Ichiro in the first place? Anyway, even though I think I'm okay with the way things turned out in the end, I agree that more stuff could have been done there. :D

I'm glad to hear you still enjoyed it regardless, though! And I'm glad to hear I handled it alright, given that it was my first time LP-ing anything, haha.

I was thinking that it would be great if I could plug the translation into the game somehow, but as I have no skill in coding or RPGmaker whatsoever I imagine that would be a problem. :'D Darn.

Remind me to look up the forum I found the LoveRevo translationg on. They do a lo tof translation/localization projects, usuallyf or commercial games. But I bet you could find some people who could help there. Especially since I think a lot of people would enjoy this game, if they could read it.

Oh, that's a good idea! I'd appreciate that, then. :D Hopefully it wouldn't be too much to ask (although having no skills there myself, again, I wouldn't know).

I certainly wouldn't mind translating the text I didn't end up doing in my playthrough, in any case.

OHMYADAJKFHDASJGKAHEIAGHAG AKDGNAIGKDANS

WHY DID THAT SCARE ME MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS LP

ABORT MISSION

Also, I really liked this LP, if you couldn't tell by my serial-liking.

I have to go hug my cat now. Oh God why did I click that link I didn't think it would move Jesus I tried to scroll up but it wouldn't let me IT WOULDN'T LET ME

Ughh I know, I didn't think it would move either/mess with the scrolling. D: Or make sounds, for that matter. Or... fly at you. I've got to learn to listen when someone says that something's disturbing; you'd think I'd have learnt that by now, but no.

Bah, dammit. The site I was going to direct you to was this one, but it seems they mostly deal in translating console systems. It still might be worthiwhile to try asking in the computer or how-to sections for help or guidance with a translation project. Someone has to know how to crack RPG Maker files.

Oh, the guy who translated Ib might also know something...

Ah, yeah- come to think, they did The Witch's House, too. It definitely might be worth asking them about it, if it isn't too much trouble for them. And asking on that site is still a possibility, as you say.

Thanks for your help, in any case! :D

No problem! Sorry I'm not more helpful, but I'd love to see this translated and I bet a lot of people would enjoy it. And you've already put a lot of work into translations, so it'd be cool to see it all come to fruition. : )

An easy way to tag people, courtesy of Elyscape: just put an @ symbol in front of the person's username, no space in between. I think you can only do this in a post when you first post it. If you edit to include a tag, the instructions are a bit different. Unfortunately, I don't remember them.

I would do it in this post, but BF is telling me I don't have permission to tag people. Oh, well. Guess it means it would work if I could.

Thanks for the LP, I didn't know this game existed. :D