Gekkou no Carnevale

released on Jan 26, 2007

The story is set in Belmonte Calabro in Italy. Belmonte is the city of filled with Automatas and boasts the biggest number of Automatas produced a year. Automatas are androids. Mechanical beings created from nothing. Most Automatas can be easily distinguished from humans due to their robotic faces but there are the Antique Dolls, which looks exactly the same as humans with only their eyes giving away who they really are. You start off as Romeo, a slack taxi driver who absolutely stinks at going around the city with his taxi. Or that’s what he looks like from the outside. But the truth is, he’s a runaway werewolf from the Orma Rossa, the only remaining werewolf clan. He lives together with Anna, an Antique doll he picked up from the dump after he left the Orma Rossa. She doesn’t have any memory of the past. So she’s living happily with Romeo. But pleasant times never continue for long. Orma Rossa do not feel like ignoring Romeo any longer and the group called Luparia (the archnemesis of the werewolves), is moving behind in the shadows. Romeo will find himself surrounded by both new and old foes. This time, their target may not only be him…


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i really wanna finish it but it's such a long vn and it was really struggling with it

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Flawed but entertaining story. It's one of those which moves at a fast pace but the connective tissue for all the events or the in universe logic for all the characters is so poor and artificial that almost all conflict in a story boils down to characters not acting like they would normally act or a character just getting flustered and running out of the room to keeping the conflict going longer.

If you just appreciate the story on a superficial level there's a lot to like. The conflict is fun to watch. It features stylish third person narration that reminiscent of a traditional novel, great presentation, lovely setting, and has plenty of well written fight scenes. Though the best of all these traits is the slice of life sections. Vio has a knack for being quite funny and writing good dialogue. I just wish it had more detail to it. It's a shame that certain charcater dynamics, particularly Noel and Romeo didn't have more screentime.

If I were to place the best routes in order, they would be Anna, Lunaria, Noel, Rebecca.

It also reccomend that you read it in this order too. The information introduced in the routes do build off of each other.

Route thoughts.

Anna 's Route

The reason Anna's is the best is that the characters act for the most part consistent with what they're established as being like. That and she has some of the best fight scenes. It makes the rest of the routes feel like an afterthought or at least rushed.

Lunaria's Route
Even though Lunaria's route has the problem mentioned previously, the story is at least less tedious and artificial then others with a pretty compelling conflict. Plus, it has an epic conclusion featuring my favorite fight in the whole vn.

Noel's Route
Noel's route was the most disapointing, so disapointing that I dropped the vn for a good time out of frustration. This is because she has my favorite dynamic in the game with Romeo. Sad thing is you barely have any screentime with them together. Most of the route is just her angry at Romeo for killing her parents. This doesn't lead to anything interesting occuring, at the end she gets back with Romeo and we're never given any reason for her change of heart.

Rebecca's Route
Rebecca route is by far the worst of all of them as it builds off of the same problems with Noel's route. Its unique issue is just about everything with this route is boring, the conflict, the fight scenes, her character. All unremakable.



Gekkou no Carnevale is one of those vns that is all the more tragic for how mixed the story is. In better hands or just in better direction, I feel that a lot of the issues with the routes could have been less bad then they are now.