Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~

released on Jun 28, 2013

Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~

released on Jun 28, 2013

Springtime. The season of the cherry blossoms, and a time of new beginnings, new encounters, and new people. For Aoba Kyousuke, this new season marks the start of his second year in high school, and also the year he resolved himself to finally fulfill his long-cherished dream: finding a girlfriend.


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I don't read "shallow" moege often but I like what I read here for the most part. The choice system was neat since it had fun small talk but sometimes it felt the characters personalities was slightly inconsistent with what was happening in the common route. Sometimes it did make me wonder why the girls would want to date MC with how he acted outside choices but hey self inserting I understand.

The route structure and events were structured VERY similarly I noticed, for better or worse. It did keep things consistent with how light hearted and cute the routes were. Usually the last chapter had the most memorable development/depth to each character or something interesting happening while the rest was mostly fluff and sex. Not terrible but I did wish a little more development/depth was spread out throughout the route instead of being saved for the end.

Humor was one of the more consistently good thigns about the VN. Protag himself acted like a super over the top goofball which made him funny usually though a little dumb sometimes. That said his trolling of Yuzuyu was consistently hliarious and Sawatari had some pretty memorable silly moments as well.

Himari, was likable enough but honestly I thought she was by far the least memorable of the 4 which sucks since I'm generally for childhood friends and pleasant/nice girls but outside her carrot phobia it's hard for me to think of traits that stuck out about her. Not a bad character but I'm glad I did her first.

Yuzuyu was honestly likable for a tsundere (which I'm not super into usually). Though it helps once again her reactions to MC trolling her was great and she did go down the more classical tsundere route of staying in bitch mode in the beginning, mellowing out, then pretty much almost 100% dere by the end. She had some super sweet moments in her route with the swim team so I liked that.

Rina is probably my overall favorite but her personality was the most appealing to me from the getgo. Hard to beat outgoing chillax girls who likes games but also good at sports. She probably got the least development though I guess it helps she was closest to MC from the beginning I guess. Also her smug face is pretty great.

Sawatari was certainly entertaining. I know this is a moege where there's no true route, but with the build up it takes to get her route compared to the other 3 it did feel the most true route-ish so I can understand if people consider it as such. She had funny/cute moments though I do wish she did develop a tad more too. Even the last chapter which tends to be an even that gives heroine more depth ended up not being so much about her.