Kawakami City is famous for its strong dedication to its samurai ancestors. A strong fighting spirit is always valued and it's even an important factor in succeeding in school there. Yamato, a second year student from Kawakami Highchool is always with his close friends (4 boys and 3 girls). They have known each other since they were young and have done loads of things together. They have many other friends, but these seven people are a close-knit group, they even have a secret base where they meet... With the new semester, they welcome two girls into their group and shortly after things start to change...
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Uma vn que sabe usar muito bem a comédia, com personagens cativantes e o melhor grupo de amigos que eu já vi nesse tipo de obra. Não me arrependo de ter escolhido majikoi como minha porta de entrada para o mundo das vn's.
literally the best comedy VN there is, and probably one of my favorites
Unexpectedly enjoyable!
My playthrough is based on JAST's official translations by the way.
I didn't know what to expect from this to be honest, once as I started to dive in, the game greets me with the martial art, the school life, the comedy, and a lot of things are fun to sit through and read.
Not only the characters, but the stories are done well. Whether serious, comedy, emotional, drama, or romantic, they may not be able to mix together that well sometimes, but you could forget that part easily once the better part comes in and covers the flaws.
Despite disliking two main routes (Miyako and Christiane), the story is still decent in showing an aspect of "what if" too, so it MAY be too cringy or too stressful (for you, at least) sometimes.
Not to mention, I dislike "harem" type but this game actually does it right, may be not all the time but I can still enjoy the rest of it.
Overall, if you're looking for some funny lighthearted, yet intense VN game, then this may be for you. Truly recommended.
My playthrough is based on JAST's official translations by the way.
I didn't know what to expect from this to be honest, once as I started to dive in, the game greets me with the martial art, the school life, the comedy, and a lot of things are fun to sit through and read.
Not only the characters, but the stories are done well. Whether serious, comedy, emotional, drama, or romantic, they may not be able to mix together that well sometimes, but you could forget that part easily once the better part comes in and covers the flaws.
Despite disliking two main routes (Miyako and Christiane), the story is still decent in showing an aspect of "what if" too, so it MAY be too cringy or too stressful (for you, at least) sometimes.
Not to mention, I dislike "harem" type but this game actually does it right, may be not all the time but I can still enjoy the rest of it.
Overall, if you're looking for some funny lighthearted, yet intense VN game, then this may be for you. Truly recommended.
The ultimate goofy, yet heartwarming slice of life action comedy visual novel.
(Note this is review is based on MajiTL's fan-translation and not JAST's official version.)
This visual novel is mostly a light-hearted slice of life comedy, but it also has a lot of well-done badass and funny action scenes and some emotional scenes. The setting takes place in a high school that promotes a healthy fighting spirit and encourages official fights between characters as a way of settling conflict. Most of the strong members of the school are female but there are a bunch of strong male characters as well.
Its concept may not be entirely unique. Hell, I'm sure the writer stole the "group of 8-10 friends hang out and do silly things" concept from Little Busters. However, I think the execution of just about everything was done so well that it didn't matter.
Comedy is the name of the game in this visual novel. That said, its humor style is quite a bit different from many other slice of life romances. Its tone is very over the top. Characters will have extremely exaggerated actions (for example one girl is incessantly in love and horny for the main character and will always make sexual comments around him to seduce him) but their quirks are just so ridiculous and weird that you can't help be entertained. This over the top comedy even extends to the action scenes, and it feels like each fight is just building up to some crazy power that solves everything, or a punchline to a joke related to the characters' personalities and interactions.
While the visual novel is mostly light-hearted, the routes still have a decent amount of drama and romantic development and you can actually take the characters somewhat seriously at times. There are some heartfelt moments related to the friendship of the main characters, there is some occasional melodrama related to some of the characters' pasts, and the true route actually has a kinda serious, darkish plot relative to the rest of the story.
There is quite a lot of content packed in this visual novel. There are 5 main heroine routes, and a true route which are standard for a visual novel. There's a few shorter routes for the side heroines. But more interestingly, there's also a few shorter "bromance" routes where it's just some nice scenes with the guys in the friend group. No romance. There are a lot of choices but they tend to just be for fun and do not factor if you get into a route. In addition, there are a lot of named and voiced recurring characters. Just the main cast has 9 characters, MC included. But then you have various students from the MC's class, his rival class, various parents, teachers, and other potential people outside school. Even the H-scenes themselves are some of the longest I've seen in an English translated visual novel. Each one on auto-read at a medium pace could take at least 20-30 minutes.
The presentation is also very well done. There are quite a lot of UI options in the main menu. Just about every named character has voice acting. While most of the voice actors are ones who stick to eroge you may recognize ones that tend to only be in anime like Shizuka Itou, Yuu Asakawa, Yuuko Gotou and even Norio Wakamoto. The music is decent enough, sets the tone for scenes while having a few that are catchy on their own.
On a more personal note, Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai is pretty easily my favorite single visual novel and nothing has really come close. It has so many things I like: great main character interactions, really unique funny comedy that isn't your typical harem/moege stuff, a surprising amount of heartfelt moments, action that's entertaining and doesn't overstay its welcome, actually having a big cast of characters and making them memorable and appear often, a main character that has actual personality and does cool/funny things, and having a fairly unique setting. This visual novel does have flaws (the way the drama is "solved" in one of the main routes is pretty dumb) but the positives outweigh the negatives by that much for me.
MajiKoi may sound like a weird visual novel upon reading this review, but it's worth trying for any fan of comedy and slice of life that doesn't mind something a little over the top and unique.
(Note this is review is based on MajiTL's fan-translation and not JAST's official version.)
This visual novel is mostly a light-hearted slice of life comedy, but it also has a lot of well-done badass and funny action scenes and some emotional scenes. The setting takes place in a high school that promotes a healthy fighting spirit and encourages official fights between characters as a way of settling conflict. Most of the strong members of the school are female but there are a bunch of strong male characters as well.
Its concept may not be entirely unique. Hell, I'm sure the writer stole the "group of 8-10 friends hang out and do silly things" concept from Little Busters. However, I think the execution of just about everything was done so well that it didn't matter.
Comedy is the name of the game in this visual novel. That said, its humor style is quite a bit different from many other slice of life romances. Its tone is very over the top. Characters will have extremely exaggerated actions (for example one girl is incessantly in love and horny for the main character and will always make sexual comments around him to seduce him) but their quirks are just so ridiculous and weird that you can't help be entertained. This over the top comedy even extends to the action scenes, and it feels like each fight is just building up to some crazy power that solves everything, or a punchline to a joke related to the characters' personalities and interactions.
While the visual novel is mostly light-hearted, the routes still have a decent amount of drama and romantic development and you can actually take the characters somewhat seriously at times. There are some heartfelt moments related to the friendship of the main characters, there is some occasional melodrama related to some of the characters' pasts, and the true route actually has a kinda serious, darkish plot relative to the rest of the story.
There is quite a lot of content packed in this visual novel. There are 5 main heroine routes, and a true route which are standard for a visual novel. There's a few shorter routes for the side heroines. But more interestingly, there's also a few shorter "bromance" routes where it's just some nice scenes with the guys in the friend group. No romance. There are a lot of choices but they tend to just be for fun and do not factor if you get into a route. In addition, there are a lot of named and voiced recurring characters. Just the main cast has 9 characters, MC included. But then you have various students from the MC's class, his rival class, various parents, teachers, and other potential people outside school. Even the H-scenes themselves are some of the longest I've seen in an English translated visual novel. Each one on auto-read at a medium pace could take at least 20-30 minutes.
The presentation is also very well done. There are quite a lot of UI options in the main menu. Just about every named character has voice acting. While most of the voice actors are ones who stick to eroge you may recognize ones that tend to only be in anime like Shizuka Itou, Yuu Asakawa, Yuuko Gotou and even Norio Wakamoto. The music is decent enough, sets the tone for scenes while having a few that are catchy on their own.
On a more personal note, Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai is pretty easily my favorite single visual novel and nothing has really come close. It has so many things I like: great main character interactions, really unique funny comedy that isn't your typical harem/moege stuff, a surprising amount of heartfelt moments, action that's entertaining and doesn't overstay its welcome, actually having a big cast of characters and making them memorable and appear often, a main character that has actual personality and does cool/funny things, and having a fairly unique setting. This visual novel does have flaws (the way the drama is "solved" in one of the main routes is pretty dumb) but the positives outweigh the negatives by that much for me.
MajiKoi may sound like a weird visual novel upon reading this review, but it's worth trying for any fan of comedy and slice of life that doesn't mind something a little over the top and unique.
Has arguably one of the best group of friends and cast of characters ever created in fiction.
I definitely see why people regard this as one of the GOAT slice-of-life/comedy VNs. Every character is multifaceted and bursting with fun personality and even the male characters got decent aromantic routes. However, a few specific aspects and moments really soured the experience for me, like /that/ awful moment on Chris' route. That's not even mentioning Chris claiming her German grandfather "fought bravely for a just cause" in the Battle of Stalingrad lmao (and that was in the common route too). There was a general vibe throughout the VN that Takahiro (the writer) loves the old Japan to an uncomfortable degree, felt like I was reading ultranationalist propaganda sometimes. Besides that, it often felt like the battle scenes in all the routes would drag on a lot longer than necessary [All routes read/100% CGs acquired]