My First Otaku Box

So something I may start doing is doing live revels of the Otaku Box I am finally starting to get after wait almost 2 months I got my first box and I enjoyed what I got. Now that said I did pay extra for the ecchi and adult options...but they were well worth it. So here are the items I got this go around.

Waifu decal set

Plushie

Rem Figurine

Ahri LoL Adult TC

Big Titty Anime Pin

Nasuko Tshirts

Nasuko Wall Scroll

Senren Banka Yahino's Route

 

Senren Banka like many other visual novels has multiple paths you can choose to go down dealing with romance. As the protag, you usually make a few choices that ultimately decide who's romantic path you go down and what ending you will get. One of these paths is Yashino the Shrine Priestess. 

Yashino's past, which is revealed as you play down her path, is filled with a great deal of heartache, depression, and longing to break the curse that has destroyed her family for generations. Growing as the Shrine Priestess was nothing odd for the Shinto religion, but to do so as a cursed Priestess was a different story.  The curse ensured that only girls were born to the family and that their lifespan was greatly reduced.

Yashino grew up with a mother who rarely smiled, and when she did she forced herself to do so, mostly her mother cried and seemed to put a wall between them. While Yashino isn't frail and weak she is very standoffish and tends to hold others at arm's length. 

The protag ends up living with Shrine Priestess and her father as part of their 'engagement' which was done due to him removing the sword from a boulder. The engagement at first is just a lie to ensure that people don't ask too many questions while the protag and the group look at removing the curse. 

Eventually, though the two do start to have true feelings for one another, this will lead you down Yashino's romantic path.

It is hard for Yashino at first to convey her feelings and even more so for her to accept that the protag has feelings for her. Though she can be a bit standoffish thanks to the protag, she can eventually get past this. It is during their time together that they paint a picture of Yashino as living with the turmoil of not just the curse itself but the aftereffects of it.

Her mother hated the fact that she had to pass on the curse to her and wished more than anything that Yashino would be able to live a normal life without fear of the curse. It was because of this sense of guilt for having birth Yashino to the curse that she never smiled unless it was forced or why she cried as much as she did.

As the protag and Yashino's relationship expands and grows she opens more and more about her own feelings and thoughts about her mother and her father and how they handled her life and dealing with the curse. Despite the fear that she would resent her mother for how she was she actually just wanted her to be more honest with herself prior to her death.

It is during this time as the protag and Yashino's grows closer together does it come out that the curse is a two-fold curse and that while they have sated one of the curses the other still is around. So they continue to figure out what is that they must do to end both curses.

During this period of time, the protag and Yashino's relationship blossoms into something much more, and the two eventually decide that they will not void their engagement and instead will continue to remain together as they have fallen in love. Because of their love and the continued growing relationship they are able to eventually remove the final curse.

The story ends with discussing how the two eventually graduate from High School and the protag to follow in the footsteps of all the men prior to him when marrying into the Shrine Princess's family and he heads out to a Shinto school to learn how to be a Priest. It would take a couple of years for him to get his license and become a full-fledge Shinto Priest but soon after he does he moves back to Hoori and he and Yashino is married.

Soon after they are married they have a child, and for the first time since the curse started, they have a boy. The story ends with them discussing having more children though with a little dirty talk involved.

In the end, I felt that Yashino was designated as 'best girl' in this story so I decided to play through her story first. Yashino's story is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster but is well planned out and with her personality type, she does things that will make you laugh. I think that in the grand scheme of things this story is a good one to get your feet wet into this Visual Novel. 

Review: Senren Banka

 

SenRen Banka is a visual novel developed by Yuzusoft and published by NekoNyan. You can get it either from the Steam Game store or from NekoNyan's storefront. There is an 18+ patch that you can also purchase with this game for the obvious H-Scenes and none pixelated artwork. 

SenRen Banka puts you as the protag named Arichi Masaomi, a city kid who has been forced to help his grandfather with the family Inn out in the mountainside of a small town called Hoori. The inn is a big-time tourist attraction during certain times of the year and because of that they are needing help, with that in mind our protag arrives in time to get ready to help with after the end of a special event in town.

The festival is one that draws in large amounts of people from around Japan and the world due to an attraction of a sword named Murasamemaru that has been logged into a rock for centuries and every year they hold a lottery and allow so many to attempt to remove it from the stone. In all the times that Masaomi has visited he's never once tried so his grandfather waits until every else has tried and then makes the arrangements with the other town elders to let him give it a shot.

He tries to remove the sword only for the blade to break. Nothing has happened like this before and with that one incident, Masaomi has turned his life upside down. Now his life is filled with training with the newly restored Murasamemaru and his grandfather to slay cursed spirits while protecting the Shrine Maiden all the while trying to go to school and deal with the usual Highschool life of love, girls, and life.

This particular VN has multiple endings based on one of the protag's love interests. Currently, I have only played through one of the romance characters so it may take me a bit to get through all 5 to 6 of them. I say possibly 6 because the way they have a path shown it may end up involving two girls at once...which I'm fine with. But of the main romance characters, I see 4.  

The VN's graphics are pretty well done and on par with NekoPara and other titles by NekoNyan, it's the soundtrack is also very well done and one that has quite a few tracks but each track really pulls the story together. The story is well written with a few moments of embellishment of certain content and situations, despite that though I am not overly concerned with that aspect. 

I will discuss more when I do each of the romance endings, as well as the afterstories.