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Maitetsu

まいてつ

Titles
まいてつ
Maitetsu
爱上火车
Ai Shang Huoche
愛上火車
Ai Shang Huoche
AliasesMaitetu, 我的鐵路
Play timeLong (37h45m from 42 votes)
DeveloperLose
PublishersLose & Sekai Project & HIKARI FIELD & Yeti & Circle Entertainment
Denpasoft & Sekai Project & Circle Entertainment & Lose
HIKARI FIELD & Lose & Circle Entertainment & Chengcai Xueyuan Hanhuazu & Jingyue Lingyin Hanhuazu
HIKARI FIELD & Lose & Circle Entertainment
Team Myskrpatch
Alei Translations
Relations
Alternative version

Maitetsu - Last Run!!

Shares characters

Monobeno -Happy End-

LinksWikipedia (en), Wikipedia (ja), Wikidata, MobyGames, HowLongToBeat, IGDB, PCGamingWiki, Lutris, VNStat
Shopssponsored links» JP¥ 13037 @ DLsite (bundle)
» US$ 26.99 @ JAST USA
» US$ 29.95 @ MangaGamer
Related anime[DB-ANN] Rail Romanesque (TV Series, 2020)
[DB-ANN] Rail Romanesque 2 (TV Series, 2023)

Description

Set in Hinomoto, a fictional version of Japan, where railway travel served as the primary form of transport for a long time. Each locomotive was paired with a humanoid control module, so-called Raillord, that aided the train operator. However, many rail lines had been discontinued due to the rising popularity of ‘aerocrafts,’ a safe and convenient aerial mode of transport. As such, their accompanying Raillords also went into a deep sleep.

Soutetsu had lost his entire family in a rail accident and was adopted into the Migita household, which runs a shochu brewery in Ohitoyo city. He returned to his hometown to save it from the potential water pollution if they accepted the proposal to build an aerocraft factory nearby. He woke up the Raillord Hachiroku by accident and became her owner. They agreed to help find her lost locomotive for different purposes, with the help of his stepsister Hibiki, the town’s mayor and local railway chief, Paulette, and others.

[Translated from Official Site]

Achievements 3.0 Alternate Starting Point 3.0 Detached Sexual Content 3.0 Hero(ine) Selection 3.0 Marriage EndingS 3.0 Protagonist with a Face 3.0 Restart from Chapter Index 3.0 Unlockable Hero(ine) 3.0 More Than Seven Heroines 2.9 Highly Animated Sprites 2.9 Serious Protagonist 2.9 ADV 2.8 Trains 2.8 Politician Heroine 2.8 Pragmatic Protagonist 2.8 Unlockable Routes 2.8 Unlockable Sexual Content 2.8 High Amount of Special Effects 2.8 Infodumping 2.8 Lots of Character Sprites 2.8 Protagonist with Voice Acting 2.8 Varying Ending Songs 2.8 Few Choices 2.7 Late Sexual Content 2.7 Orphan Protagonist 2.7 Close-up CGs 2.7 Other Perspectives 2.7 Politics 2.7 Robot Heroine 2.7 Robots 2.7 Straight Lolicon 2.7 Varied Title Screens 2.7 AI Heroine 2.6 University Student Protagonist 2.6 Lip Sync 2.6 Male Protagonist 2.6 Only Good Endings 2.6 Only Virgin Heroines 2.6 Loli Heroine 2.5 Built-in Encyclopedia 2.5 Deredere Heroine 2.5 Early Branching Plot 2.5 Ending Scene Recollection 2.5 Energetic Heroine 2.5 Half-Japanese Heroine 2.5 Heroine Using Japanese Dialect 2.5 More Than Seven Endings 2.5 Multiple Opening Movies 2.5 Sprite Viewer 2.5 Adult Protagonist 2.4 Gentle Protagonist 2.4 Central Heroine 2.4 Fictional Modern Day Japanese Town 2.4 Flashback 2.4 Homecoming 2.4 Middle School Student Heroine 2.4 Slice of Life Drama 2.4 Bonus Side Stories 2.3 Music Recollection 2.3 Side Portraits 2.3 One True End 2.3 Multiple Endings 2.2 Naked Sprites 2.2 Timid Heroine 2.2 Brocon Heroine 2.2 Enforced Playing Order 2.2 Ojousama Heroine 2.2 Oneesan-type Heroine 2.2 Painter Heroine 2.2 Artificial Intelligence 2.2 Non-blood-related Brother/Sister Incest 2.2 Protagonist's Non-blood-related Sister as a Heroine 2.1 Non-human Heroine 2.1 Adult Heroine 2.0 Bathroom Sex 2.0 Branching Plot 2.0 Elementary School Student Heroine 2.0 Episodic Story 2.0 Family 2.0 Friendship 2.0 Friendship Ending 2.0 Friendship Route 2.0 Group of Friends 2.0 Heroine with Ahoge 2.0 Heroine with Garter Belt 2.0 Heroine with Gothic Look 2.0 Heroine with Small Breasts (Non-Loli) 2.0 Heroine with Swimsuits 2.0 Heroine with Zettai Ryouiki 2.0 Multiple Credit Rolls 2.0 Outdoor Sex 2.0 Pissing 2.0 Ponytail Heroine 2.0 Protagonist's Older Sister as a Heroine 2.0 Scenario Selection 2.0 Sexual Cosplay 2.0 Shy Heroine 2.0 Single Blowjob 2.0 Sounds of Copulation 2.0 Threesome 2.0 Threesome Ending 2.0 Twin Tail Heroine 2.0 Unlockable Harem EndingS 2.0 Vaginal Masturbation 2.0 Tomboy Heroine 1.8 Romance 1.8 Defloration 1.8 Steampunk 1.7 Student Heroine 1.7 Anthropomorphized Inanimate Object 1.7 Loli Support Character 1.7 Psychological TraumaS 1.6 Brother/Sister Romance 1.6 Only Avoidable Sexual Content 1.6 Romancing a Family 1.6 Bokukko Heroine 1.5 Businesswoman Heroine 1.5 Co-worker Heroine 1.5 Genius Heroine 1.5 Panchira 1.5 PolygamyS 1.5 Protagonist's Younger Sister as a Heroine 1.5 Imouto-type Heroine 1.4 Normal Scene Recollection 1.4 Piss Drinking 1.3 Sex Involving Children 1.2 Anal Fingering 1.0 Anal Sex 1.0 Intercrural Sex 1.0 Legwear Footjob 1.0 OyakodonS 1.0 Single Boobjob 1.0 Single Footjob 1.0 Twin Blowjob 1.0 Vaginal Fingering 1.0 Slow-burn Romance 0.9 Spontaneous Sex Scenes 0.8 Father Support Character 0.8 Airplane 0.8

Mini reviews

By r68sagaa on 2023-06-26Vote: 4
<report>this was a very upsetting and unfulfilling read to me. it's themes of collectivism, the journey of achieving "progress" and it's consequences are interesting and that pissed me off since the everything else was just so so.
also i can't not take it seriously because they kept fucking infodumping me. if it's infodumping me, it's because it wants to be understood and taken seriously.
-1 for making all the women look like children.
0 comments 0 points
By neetmillionaire on 2021-10-15r52374Vote: 6
<report>I couldn't care less about trains and I went for the train girl, I was expecting some decent romance to at least make things interesting but nope. The romance is pretty weak if you can even call it romance and the sex scenes are not even shown while you're playing, probably because they barely fit the story. Anyway I hated it, I went through the torture of reading it while dying of boredom because I really liked the art expecting something interesting to happen but it never did.
4 comments 0 points
By Atoragon on 2022-04-02r58283Vote: 6
<report>I feel that, as a train enthusiast, I am well within the niche target demographic of this visual novel, but overall I still am a bit... disappointed? I really enjoyed the Live2D sprites and the train info dump, but the story was a major let down.
0 comments 0 points
By nemorir on 2023-01-03Vote: 7
<report>Trains. Lolis.

Maitetsu is a game that focuses on the themes of community, overcoming the past, and bonding with every loli in eyesight.

It features some decent routes, along with a stellar art and live animation system. The atmosphere, enhanced by the well-drawn landscape art, is quite relaxing and makes the VN a chill one to play.

The characters are fine, but the voice acting here can be quite annoying for some of them.

I commend the choice of not playing h-scenes through the routes, because some of the characters not only look 8 but do act and sound like it, and playing through their route can be even more undesirable
with h-scenes woven through.

I had not played the main route, but from what I played, this is a decent VN for its own audiences.
0 comments 0 points
By Quenton on 2023-01-13Vote: 4
<report>I was pretty bored with this one. There's a severe lack of background art, of character CG, and of music. There's a lot of hyper zoomed in shots on the sparingly little CGs there are to get what seems to be more mileage out of the very few that are there, but held to an ounce of scrutiny it just comes off as cheap and lame every time they do it (and they do it a lot). There was actually a decent amount of music tracks, it's just that there's only 2 or 3 that you'll hear for hours and hours on end, maybe jumping to a new track for a 5 minute break before going back to the same tracks you've started mocking out loud.
0 comments 0 points
By mementomori on 2021-06-17r57710Vote: 5
<report>A nice game for train obsessives, technically advanced with good Live2D animation, some cute heroines, and I strongly regret installing the 18+ patch because the H-scenes are terrible and immoral. They seem to have nothing to do with the plot and whoever wrote them should not be allowed to live near schools.

Anyway, they clearly got rid of him since it's been released as all-ages in other formats and they've gotten a (boring) anime.
2 comments 0 points

Full reviews

By alonesome on 2020-09-09r45598Vote: 8
<report>I don't think I'd be alone at all in describing Maitetsu as if nothing else, an incredibly consistent and pleasant read, but I feel like I probably am fairly alone in terms of how interesting I found it. I can't imagine that this is a work which will truly excite you and inflame your passions unless you're unusually interested in the technical details of locomotive operation or the finer points of municipal governance, but even still, I found a lot to appreciate about Maitetsu's storytelling and the very peculiar genre space that it carves out for itself - being pleasantly and surprisingly different from so many other superficially similar works.

It is actually surprisingly hard to compare... Read more »
0 comments 15 points
By barfboy on 2020-10-09r45598Vote: 10
<report>I adore this game and I only ever played the all ages Steam release. The story is relaxing, which is typical of the brand. It's not supposed to be exciting, it's supposed to be thoughtful. The characters are very well written. Everyone has their own story to tell and how they tell it is as important as why. The motivations are simple. Everyone wants to save the small town they are a part of. How they save that town differs between characters because of their own perception and background. Soutetsu wants to save the Shouchuu plant of the man who raised him and her daughter who runs it now and is worried the car factory will change the flavor of the alcohol. Hibiki works for the bank, which... Read more »
0 comments 7 points
By SomeDude on 2022-09-02r58096Vote: 10
<report>Ah yes, the (in)famous Maitetsu. For those who appreciate loli characters, this might be the best visual novel ever translated into English... as well as a one in a thousand, unlikely to ever happen again type situation. But let me just say that if you don't like loli characters, this game isn't for you.

It is quite difficult to get ahold of the full, uncensored 18+ version of this game, as you need to jump through a lot of hoops and get a fan patch to restore content... but in the case of this VN, it is definitely worth it for any loli appreciator to get the 18+, the restoration, and the demosaic. However, keep in mind that this isn't a nukige... while the sexual content is quite good, it... Read more »
12 comments 4 points
By kuroonehalf on 2022-02-07Vote: 4
<report>As much as I respect the work that was put into this and want to like it, I just can't get past the fact that the story is intensely boring. You strip away the train lore dumps and all you're left with is a bunch of really cliche anime tropes. The protagonist, despite being an adult with a seemingly interesting backstory, plays as just your usual painfully oblivious anime protagonist, and the heroines are always playing the painfully coy and generic part. It's just going through these motions you've seen in a million bad anime with little nuance, and it moves at a snail's pace.

Like, here's some examples of your typical scene in Maitetsu. MC did some shoveling and is going to the public... Read more »
0 comments 4 points
By flat-is-justice on 2022-01-21r57710Vote: 3.5
<report>As a lolige aficionado, I was very excited when I first heard the news that this classic of the genre would finally receive an English translation.

In the end, however, I didn’t even finish the visual novel, since I was bored to death halfway through. If you have a setting that makes no sense, better do something clever with it. But what I got instead was a dry treatise on trains. Make no mistake: This visual novel is about trains, trains, trains! Everything else is secondary, for example writing that doesn’t make the longest-winded scenes of Katawa Shoujo look exciting in contrast. It would have helped a lot if some of the characters had interesting personalities or if there was a slowly... Read more »
3 comments 1 point
By genuineparts on 2023-02-07r58096Vote: 9
<report>I mean... I have to give it a somewhat high review. It's a bit paradoxical to me how the story art and music can be that good, while... well dealing with the main issue here. And I kinda understand that is just how Lose did things? It's weird, it's a bit like the Anime "How to NOT summon a Demon Lord" The Story is entirely great but due to the content you kinda feel conflicted. And the really weird thing is that the Characters have no single reason to be that way. Like if you age everyone up 10 years, at least visually this one could content with the "Big VN's" in ratings.

It's good, actually really good. There is a nice balance between the bitter, bitter Drama and the really soft... Read more »
2 comments 1 point
By pertupango on 2021-03-03r58096Vote: 7
<report>Maitetsu is a tale of marriage between progress and tradition with a speck of science fiction, told in a particularly serious tone and a calm, cozy atmosphere.

It's always good to learn about real life themes in video games, and here you will get to know more about trains, railways, city governance, banking and distilling. Maitetsu doesn't shy away from diving into the technical details without being overwhelming. If it's not your thing you can just ignore the in-game encyclopedia, but you'll miss the most interesting aspect of this game.

The art is excellent: every single sprite and CG is highly animated. This is a prime example of high production value.

On to the bad stuff, the... Read more »
2 comments 0 points