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VN of the Month April 2025


Having excluded detective, vtuber, otome games, there's still nothing really complex left.
 
1. Nekura na Classmate ga Ore no Ibukuro o Tsukande Hanashite Kurenai 根暗なクラスメイトが俺の胃袋を掴んで放してくれない [Nexon & Yostar Games] 
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Now a sophomore, the protagonist Narita Hinata, is delighted to be in the same class as his familiar buddies. While chatting with his friends, he loses his balance and falls, desperately grabbing on to something......he feels, something soft. And then, what he sees, in white, a girl's underwear.
The girl's name is Kurano Kokage. Her bangs hide most of her face, gloomy vibes, a completely plain girl.
No matter how many times Hinata apologizes, Kokage never says a word. Feeling guilty, "I want to do something to make amends," and in respond, Kokage opens her lips "Come to my house, now."
In this title, with the encounter of Hinata and Kokage, marks the beginning of a bittersweet love story.
Single heroine 
 
2. Memories Off Sousou: ~Not always true~ メモリーズオフ 双想 ~Not always true~ [MAGES.] 
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Kusumegi Itsuki, a second-year student at Fujikawa High School attached to Keiyo University, has a fiancee whose face and name he does not know.
Because of her presence, Itsuki has never been interested in romance.
His 17th birthday, when he would find out who his fiancee was, was approaching in about a month.
One day, in order to hold a meeting to comfort a classmate who had lost her heart, Itsuki goes to Fujikawa's family restaurant "Russac'', but ends up getting into trouble with a part-time female clerk there.
The clerk, Sunomiya Sae, was a third-year senior at the same high school.
Although the way they met was the worst, Itsuki soon began to admire and respect Sae after seeing her mature demeanor.
His childhood friend Amaha Nene sees Itsuki and begins supporting his relationship with Sae with all her might.
The season is autumn. Itsuki's peaceful high school life is about to change little by little.
Console franchise sequel that's decent as charage, but crumbles upon touching serious topics or presenting a satisfying ending.  
 
3. HUNDRED LINE -Saishuu Bouei Gakuen- HUNDRED LINE -最終防衛学園-  [Media.Vision & Tookyo Games] 
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Takumi Sumino is a totally average teenager living in the Tokyo Residential Complex, a place where every day is much like the last and nothing bad ever happens. All that changes when freakish monsters attack the town and start wreaking havoc. A strange creature calling himself Sirei appears and offers Takumi the power to protect those he holds dear... All he has to do is stab himself in the chest!
The next thing he knows, Takumi is in Last Defense Academy, a school in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a wall of otherworldly flames. He and 14 other students have been drafted into the Special Defense Unit, a team tasked with keeping the school safe for the next 100 days. How much are they willing to sacrifice to take back their normal lives and save the world from the grotesque school invaders?
The curtain rises on 100 days of war and despair...
SRPG.  
 
4. Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Doukoukai: Tokimeki no Mirai Chizu ラブライブ!虹ヶ咲学園スクールアイドル同好会 トキメキの未来地図 [HuneX] 
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The TOKIMEKI-filled days that you spent with the 12 members of the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.
You loved and cherished all of those sparkling moments, each of which shone like a rainbow.
But then, all of those irreplaceable memories suddenly slip away from your mind, lost.
"They were so bright and warm, truly irreplaceable... But now, I doubt that I'll ever hold them again..."
The members do all they can for you to regain your lost memories.
The curtain rises on the story of you and the 12 members searching for the missing pieces of that TOKIMEKI!
"That TOKIMEKI, once more. And forevermore."
Anime spin-off.  
 
5. Noble ♡ Butler のーぶる♡バトラー [ensemble SWEET] 
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This is the free nation of Liberalciora. The protagonist, Faye Fleur Renissphere, lost his parents at a young age and was taken in by his childhood friend family where he grew up like siblings with three girls. Previous butler decides to retire, and MC asks to let him repay for family's kindness by performing such duties.
Light, simple, moege-ish. 

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Out of five listed releases, only Noble Butler did resemble the usual VN, although I'm not sure to have it as VN of the Month for April 2025. Anyway, let's see what I can comment in regard of this month releases.

Hundred Lines - This is definitely the most popular and well received releases VNs in April 2025, and it help by word of mouth which mention that it has a bunch of endings with those endings are distinctive enough, so obviously people interested to find out if said word is true or not. Hype buildup aside, Hundred Lines is worked on together by Danganronpa writer and Uchikoshi, although Danganronpa influence is very clear in this with one of it being there are 15 casts who unlike in Danganronpa was instead tasked to protect the school by the Monokuma equivalent (Sirei). For the game, I can only say that you can try it to see if the game is really good or just overrated.

Memories Off Sousou - My first impression on the art is it resemble Chaos Child which make sense given the artist, and like usual Memories Off this is more or less a lighthearted charage that has been made since 1999. Or at least it seems to be if one didn't look at the spoiler, which prove that the writer (Hayashi Naotaka) still has some knack to write it like that even when he didn't write Science Adventure VNs. Note that this is available on Steam, although it only has Chinese language. Also the VN itself prove to be quite popular, so much they also make the fandisc of it which will be released on some times later at this year.

Love Live Nijigasaki Tokimeki - I can only say that at least the staffs didn't make the MC as male, something that Gust surprisingly fumbled at that when they made Blue Reflection Sun. That said, I'm not sure if the MC being genderless is the good thing either, seeing the original Love Live School Idol Festival mobile game (Which is the sources of Nijigasaki series) MC was locked into female. MC gender aside, this is more or less telling us the story about Nijigasaki cast that somehow lost their memories and it's up to the MC to retrieve it.

In the end, the VN of the Month for April 2025 is very obviously Hundred Lines, and that's all for what I can comment in regard of this month releases.

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