is a Japanese visual novel

Visual novel

A is an interactive fiction game featuring mostly static graphics, usually with anime-style art, or occasionally live-action stills or video footage...

 released on July 26, 1996 by Japan's Leaf

Leaf (company)

Leaf is a Japanese visual novel studio under the publisher Aquaplus, and has offices in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, and Tokyo. It and its competitor Key are the most popular and successful dedicated visual novel studios operating today. It was launched out of obscurity by its early release ToHeart...

studio.

Story

Koichi Kashiwagi (柏木 耕一), a college student, goes to his cousins' for his father's funeral. After the ceremony, as he is on summer vacation, he stays with them. He experiences recurring nightmares and must hold down a strong homicidal impulse surfacing from deep within himself.

One day, in his dream, Koichi finally succumbs to the homicidal impulse and slaughters a person violently. The next day, the news reports the event of a violent homicide in the park where Koichi committed the murder in his dream...

Characters

• Kashiwagi, Koichi（柏木 耕一）
• Kashiwagi, Chizuru（柏木 千鶴）
• Kashiwagi, Azusa（柏木 梓）
• Kashiwagi, Kaede （柏木 楓）
• Kashiwagi, Hatsune（柏木 初音）
• Gensabrou Nagase（長瀬 源三郎）
• Yanagawa, Yuya（柳川 裕也）
• Hiyoshi, Kaori （日吉 かおり）
• Aida, Kyoko（相田 響子）
• Koide, Yumiko（小出 由美子）

External links

• Kizuato official website