I have rarely read such a story that explores traumatic/messy relationships this poignantly and hopefully. The writing is a bit rough and cliched esp. in the first 2 chapters, but kicked up in both quality and emotional impact past chapter 3. Many cliches poked fun of in the earlier chapters are deconstructed, lots of messy character facets begin to rear their heads, and I began to burn 5+ hours binge-reading it all.
Just finished both Itsuki and Sakura's routes and the latter's true ending rendered me into a crying mess. It's quite late (about 3:30 am now) for me to start up Hinata's route, but I'm interested to see it unfold all the same. The twists so far have been delightful, and I'm excited to find out more about the underlying mysteries still undiscovered in the first two routes.
I'm honestly upset that this BL VN isn't talked about more in the western fandom, probably because it's not published/translated by a publisher nor is it present in a larger gaming platform like Steam. But goddamn do I want almost everyone to know about this since this is probably one of the best BLs, if not one of the best VNs period, I have read. The art and music are beautiful, too, although some scenes in later chapters tend to not have sprites to indicate who's talking for some reasons (author's time crunch?) Nonetheless, the dialogues and writing are engaging enough to not need the visual aids.
Anyways this game is great. About to shill this to everyone and forcing friends to read it w/me.