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Review of Sekai de Ichiban Dame na Koi

SubjectSekai de Ichiban Dame na Koi
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aurelia on 2021-08-30
ReviewThis had the potential to be an amazing psychological commentary but Japan just had to go and be Japan didn't it?

The dynamic between Mitoko and Osamu is initially excellent with the two feeding off each other's loneliness/poor mental states to create a confusing relationship in a morally ambiguous place. The problem is that every route other than Asami's shouldn't exist - it's the only route that's emotionally satisfying and deals with all the morally ambiguous issues in ways they should be dealt with. The others are either excuses for extra porn or child sexual assault, and while the latter can be a worthwhile topic to explore in this case it doesn't really make a meaningful effort to, preferring to somehow make it seem normal instead.

Even Asami's route has a crap ending. God damn it.
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#1 by Mrkew
2021-08-30 at 22:24
< report >Dumb woman making a terrible life decision and making her husband suffer without any explanation hardly makes for psychological commentary.
#2 by wildbreed
2021-08-30 at 23:04
< report >Child Sexual Assault ?
Looks like another set of people who like to associate drawn fictional media to IRL. Also how does Assault fit into all this when both sides are consenting ?

They are going to give what the audience wants. if you dont fancy romantic relationship with ( High school girls ) then read the tags and stay away. And Why would a Japanese Company not be Japan like lol
#3 by CrazyMage
2021-08-31 at 05:16
< report >Freaks/sick ppl from twitter actually playing VN lol
>Child sexual assault in fictional storyLast modified on 2021-08-31 at 05:17
#4 by AyanaPOV
2023-01-09 at 01:33
< report >LOL I kinda understand the feeling. I.e I hated Sakuuta and Grisaia for personal reasons, more than nothing.

This review it's the epitome of "I don't like so it's crap". Sadly, that only serves to people with your taste and that's a big strech.

Any male would love a girl to protect, jealousy and possessiveness are an acquired taste, and the protagonist it's a nice guy. Comedy was peak in some parts.

Anyway; review=/=rant
#5 by being
2023-01-09 at 19:43
< report >It's interesting how some people can read something and see things that weren't there.
Osamu never sexually assaulted Toko, he didn't even groom her, nothing remotely like this happened. Calling what happens between them sexual assault is a huge disservice to the story, and either the product of extreme stupidity, or straight up madness.
To use statutory rape IRL, is one thing, because it acts as a deterrent against predators.
But when you read a story and can clearly see everything yourself, you can't use such logic that clearly goes against everything you've read. In this story you can read yourself everything the characters go through, how they think, how they act, everything. You can see the purity and innocence of Osamu, and his good intentions, and how and why they arrive at love. If you can see all of that, you simply cannot call it sexual assault.
Furthermore their forbidden love wasn't normalized, unlike what OP says. It was not treated as anything normal and there's a lot of emotions explored within that topic. This was actually a game that treated age gap love with some dignity, which most VNs wouldn't care about doing.Last modified on 2023-01-09 at 19:55
#6 by norwegianboyee
2023-01-10 at 02:52
< report >>Child sexual assault
This is what happens when Japanese VN get’s translated. Cue the Western outrage crowd. Makes me think that Japanese companies had the right idea with the whole "Only in Japan" policy.
#7 by sevenhens
2023-03-20 at 07:15
< report >Look at all the salty commentators in this thread. The relationship was shit and the VN had a chance to comment on the taboo nature of the main character's relationship. But no, it shit the bed in the last 15% of the story and all of the other heroines and side characters lost their backbone for calling out the bullshit.

I should remind everyone that this is the same writer who wrote White Album 2 next. You know the one whose story is all about the taboo of cheating and how we got to sympathize with the main character despite that. In fact the writer showed how there were VERY severe consequences to the WA2 protagonist's actions for choosing his true love. ALL of his friends and family brought the hammer down on Haruki, unlike the morons who lived with Osamu. We can only be thankful this VN was used as a test bed of ideas that would culminate in an actual masterpiece.
#8 by AyanaPOV
2023-03-22 at 15:14
< report >Haha talking about salty comments, meanwhile being an edgelord. Peak VN enjoyer