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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese 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...

 developed by Caramel Box

Caramel Box

is a Japanese visual novel studio operated by HOBIBOX. The studio was once under HimeyaSoft.-Caramel Box:*July 26, 2002 Blue*July 25, 2003 Blue *September 26, 2003 Meguri, Hitohira...

 and released on September 26, 2003. The low-priced edition was released on November 29, 2004.

Plot

Tomo Aso is an unpopular painter. He often travels to sketch. One day, he visited the Yukari Shrine in the rural town. Then, he came across a girl who called herself a goddess, his younger sister-in-law who died three years ago, his fiancee, a ghost of woman servant and a taciturn girl.

Characters

(changeable)

The main male protagonist of the story, Tomo, is an unpopular painter. He mainly makes pictures of rural sceneries. He has particular eyes that can see ghosts.

Koma is Tomo's younger sister-in-law. She was brought to life with the shintai

Shintai

In Shinto, , or when the honorific prefix go- is used, are physical objects worshiped at or near Shinto shrines as repositories in which spirits or kami reside...

of the Yukari Shrine, though she died three years ago.

She is the little goddess deified at the Yukari Shrine. Tomo nicknamed her Yue. She refers to Tomo as Gumin meaning ignorant people.

Korisu is rich Kakitsubata's daughter. Tomo was engaged to her by his grandmother and her grandfather.

Jyuhaigikyouka, commonly called Kyouka, is an unidentifiable beauty with black hair.

Chigusa is a ghost of the maidservant. She obsessed Tomo, though she had looked for her master for a long time.

Toshinobu is a general practitioner. He seems to be popular with people in the town.

Zen'ichi is Korisu's valet. Tomo said that he is another childhood friend of Tomo, Koma and Korisu.

A child in the town.

Jun's younger sister.

Adaptations

The soundtrack was released on September 26, 2003 by HOBiRECORDS. This contains the following theme songs:
Opening theme: Kiseki no Kizuna by Yui Sakakibara

Yui Sakakibara

, is a female Japanese choreographer, dancer, singer, songwriter, and voice actress from Hyōgo, Japan. She appeared on Kōhaku Uta Gassen as back ground dancer behind Ami Suzuki in 1999 and 2000. She used to use the name and others in her previous voices...

Ending theme: Piece of Love by Rie Asami

External links

• Official website