Saturday, December 11, 2021

WAGAMAMA High Spec - Toa's Route

 

The final route to take based on the information I read was none other than the sister's route or Toa. I admit that I like how they actually stayed true to the concept of Siscon to the extreme here. In many Anime and Manga's the 'sister' figure is usually a half sibling and usually one that marries into the family so are not usually blood relatives. However, that is not the case with this Visual Novel. Based on everything she is a true to honest blood relation to Narumi. 

While to some this may be cringe but as far as taboo's, kinks, and or just all around artistic concept this is one of the best ones I've seen in a while. This route is also the route that you find the most information out about Narumi and Toa's past and their parents.

Toa is a brilliant and smart individual with the tech abilities to back it up. She is of course in return very anti-social and tends to relegate herself to her home more than anything. However, she does have to attend school from time to time in order to graduate. It isn't until Narumi gets inducted into the Student Council that she finally starts to come out of her shell. Thanks to a fishing email opened by the advisor of the Student Council Narumi has to call on her to come and help remove the virus from the school computer network.

Due to her help and I think also because she's Narumi's sister she is asked to join the Student Council as well. At first she is hesitant but after being encouraged by Narumi she decides to join. It is later that you find out that Narumi has a huge inkling that the fishing email was actually created by Toa. Though she really never confirms it you can tell by how she acts that it is probably the case.

The relationship starts after a little bit of back and fourth between the siblings after Narumi's editor has him starting to research how to write a spin off of his main manga that involves the a perspective from the main characters little sister. Due to this he begins getting research material such as manga's and games that have a sister arc (the irony right?)

After his sister discovers this she seeks out advice from Mihiro about what she should do. It is going through this that she realizes that she has had feelings for Narumi for a while, and not just because of them being siblings. Her feelings started soon after the ran away from home.

This is where the story gets sordid, the apparent story is that Narumi and Toa's mother is well known and famous especially on TV. Apparently at some point she and a member of the crew had relations and what came from it was Narumi and later Toa. Because of her fame she hid the fact she was pregnant and as far as people know she has never had children. 

Later, their mother ended up getting with another man and the rumor was she was having another child. Due to their lives being hidden from the world Narumi finally decided to take his sister run away and in doing so they no longer have any contact with their parents. Narumi spent his days doing whatever he could do to help supply Toa with whatever she wanted and needed and it was that along with his will and determination that led her to see him as something more than a brother.


  After some back and fourth coming to terms with how they feel about one another the finally end up together. At first only Mihiro is the only one that knows after Toa basically told her everything that happened between them, and I do mean EVERYTHING (H-Scene included). Their relationship is at first strained however as they work on their feelings and separating the feelings they have for each other as siblings and the feelings they have as lovers. 

It is during all this that Narumi is given a chance of the lifetime by not only working on a spinoff for his manga but also developing a Digital read of it as well as possible making the way for an anime. He pours everything he can into his work and trying to do what he can to support Toa. It is also when he finally burns out and ends up in the hospital due to malnutrition, sleep deprivation, and anemia. Upon returning home Toa takes care of him and helps him get his strength back, it is a rollercoaster ride as his editor decides that she pushed too much on him at one time and because of that he pushed himself almost to death.

Feeling down over causing stress to his sister, his friends, and his editor he slowly slips away into despair and begins to question his own abilities and desire to keep writing. It is during this dark time for him that Toa shines as she reminds him what is really important and that he needs to get back to doing what he loves. It also solidifies their bonds as lovers.

Now I'm not going to ruin the ending so you'll just have to play the game wont you? Overall, I really did enjoy this route and of all of them this is one of my favorite, but I am also bias because a good taboo incest route is kind of my stick. The H-scenes are well done and I think story wise this one was a bit better than the others. Though I think they could have really went further with this story as I fell that compared to the others this story was pretty short, also I feel like they left it hanging for the most part. But despite that I was very impressed with this VN and this particular route and was glad to finally hear the full story of the MC and his sister.



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