The first fight scene caught me off guard. Not because it was good, it's actually pretty janky, but because I forgot this was supposed to have combat at all. I was too busy staring at Ms. Hayashi's chest. Listen, I know how that sounds, but the game knows exactly what it's doing with those camera angles during the tutoring sessions. She leans over to check your homework and suddenly the entire screen becomes physics simulation territory. Classic shonen setup, the bullied kid who lost his family, discovers hidden power, trains to become strongest. You've seen this anime. We've all seen this anime. But nobody was watching Kenichi for the fight choreography, were they?
The 3DCG models have that slightly stiff quality where mouths don't quite sync and hands sometimes clip through desks, but the lighting on skin textures is surprisingly decent. There's this one scene in the nurse's office where the protagonist gets patched up after getting beaten by the usual delinquents, and the way the afternoon sun hits the nurse's legs through the window blinds. I spent way too long on that frame. The teasing is relentless though. Every female character seems to exist in this quantum state of being both maternal and intensely aware of what their low-cut tops are doing to a teenage boy. The school nurse adjusts her glasses while explaining your injuries and her breasts just... exist there, taking up forty percent of the screen.
The romance paths feel like they're built on handjob milestones, which is a sentence I never thought I'd type. You build relationship points through dialogue choices that all boil down to "be vulnerable but determined" and then get rewarded with increasingly intimate encounters. The oral scenes have this weird pacing issue where the audio cues don't match the visual rhythm, but the expressions are where the game actually shines. That moment when the protagonist finally stops being passive and takes initiative, the shift in power dynamics is genuinely hot even if the animation itself could use more frames. The MILF characters especially have this knowing look that makes you feel like they've been waiting for you to figure things out. I just wish the mobile interface didn't keep throwing button prompts over the good parts.