There’s this weird feeling when you boot this one up, like opening the wrong chat in Discord and realizing “oh shit, that’s the horny channel” but you just keep scrolling anyway. At first it tricks you with that comfy anime slice of life mood, all soft lighting and school corridors and the classic “tired office worker gets yeeted back to his hometown” setup. You’re this guy Sora, suddenly thrown into being a teacher at an all-girls academy in Itsuten-ku, and yeah, it sounds like every generic eroge ever written. Then the game starts talking about parasites on your back, ghosts of your past, and you’re like, alright, this isn’t just about picking which cute girl brings you lunch. The town looks nice, the school looks normal, everyone is a little too friendly, and the whole thing feels like the Calm app right before someone rips open a body bag in a horror movie. The girls are hot, but they’re also… off, in that “smiling a bit too long” way. One second you’re choosing between tutoring the shy bookworm alone in the library or staying after class with the smug honor student who clearly wants you to notice her thighs, and the next the dialogue takes a hard left into trauma, self-loathing, and shit you’d usually try to forget with a Pornhub tab and some music on Spotify.
What I really liked, and hated, and liked again, is how horny and uncomfortable it is at the same time. You get all the classic eroge stuff: accidental boob grabs, panties framed a little too perfectly when someone trips, that one girl who leans in too close during “private lessons” and pretends it’s innocent. There’s a scene where you finally get a moment of peace in your tiny apartment, smelling that lavender thing they keep talking about, petting your mystery dog that shows up like some emotional support mascot, and the whole atmosphere goes quiet. Then a phone call from home drops in and drags you straight back into this heavy psychological shit about your sister and the town and what you ran away from. It hits weirdly hard for a game where you can, ten minutes later, be stuck in the nurse’s office while a flirty student sits on the edge of the bed a little too close, asking why you’re trembling. Sometimes the erotic scenes feel like they’re trying to smother the horror, and sometimes the horror crawls right back under the sex and makes it feel way too intimate, like you’re not just fucking, you’re peeling people open. The routes push you to pick favorites, to romance these girls, but half the time you’re not even sure if you’re helping them or just digging deeper into their broken parts because it turns you on. It’s kind of messy, kind of brilliant, kind of trashy, and the game absolutely knows it. You go in for the cute schoolgirls, you stay because the city itself feels like an ex that still knows how to choke you by just saying your name.