Depending on what seemingly irrelevant choices he makes, a high school boy finds his one true love with one of three different girls.
This is pretty much the spiritual successor to Amagami, with the same character designer working on it, as well as being set in the same school and town. Not to mention the protagonist’s best friend being the younger brother of one of Amagami‘s heroines. it also shares the omnibus format, having the protagonist fall in love with and woo each girl in separate arcs resetting the timeline each time, rather than as a harem with multiple heroines. In some ways it’s a more cynical approach: true love exists, but who cares which girl you end up with.
Kamita Shōichi, the protagonist is somewhat less developed than Amagami‘s Tachibana Junichi, who at least had good reasons to be an indecisive dweeb. Kamita on the other hand is your usual meandering harem lead, nice enough but without much personality so far. To be honest, his best friend Nanasaki Ikuo is much more interesting, considering he’s the little brother of Amagami Nanasaki Ai and has some of her sarkiness. Also, so far they make a better pair than Kamita with any of the possible love interests introduced so far.
The first heroine is Tsuneki Hikari, whose flirting through teasing Kamita interprets as bullying. I like her, she isn’t a cookie cutter tsundere or pointlessly mean to Kamita (though there is a bit of homophobia slung around in one scene). She actually feels like a real person. The same goes for Kamita’s sister, who Tsuneki has a rivalry with, the former having won the Santa contest the year before. Popular and refined in school, somewhat crude in front of her little brother, she feels like a real sibling — though she’s of course no patch on Miya.
One last thing Seiren seems to have inherited from Amagami: weird fetishes. In case it isn’t clear, that’s the camera focusing on the butt print Tsuneki left on Kamita’s desk having sat on it chatting to her friends.
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