Destiny Star girlfriend is a visual novel developed by mirai and translated by Shiravune. The original draw for me was the fact that we for once have a moege romcom around a magical girl universe especially since many times magical girls and visual novels are only used in nukige, especially dark ones. But the real thing that got me hooked into reading Destiny Star Girlfriend immediately was the fact that the developer mirai is apparently a sister company of Minatosoft aka the developer of my favorite visual novel Majikoi. To quote Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction: “Sheeett (N-Word) that’s all you had to say!”
And in a way I suppose it is similar ish to Majikoi. Destiny Star Girlfriend is very much a light-hearted slice of life comedy first and a magical girl action story second. This is low-key an episodic series with this particular release starring a blonde egotistical magical girl: Yurii Kamiizumi. As in many magical girl anime and manga all the magical girls in this series have to keep the fact that they are magical girls a secret to the public. Though in Yuri's case she goes a step further and fabricates this super nice caring girl personality that ends up becoming quite popular in school.
This causes our protagonist Seiji Takasugi to develop a crush on her, but he considers this crush a lost cause as he considers himself just an average guy. But through an amusing set of circumstances, he creates a literal connection to Yuri. After an injury causes both him and Yuri to be wounded at the way beginning of the story, a magical girl society representative masquerading as a school nurse has to use a technique that sews a red thread between the two characters that slowly heals them over 3 months so they don't not die.
However, it turns out this red string connection if the two characters attempt to distance themselves over 1 meter from each other, they start to feel intense pain, which I assume is because of what should be fatal injuries still healing. This causes a situation where the two characters are forced to live together for the next 3 months until their wounds finally heal.
Throughout this 3-month ordeal, he finds out his supposed perfect ideal girl he had a crush on is nothing like how she acts at school. She is extremely full of herself, letting the fact that she's one of the top rated magical girls of the area get to her head to the point where she's even gotten a little sloppy which is what originally led to their injury.
Most of the first half of the visual novels is pure slice of life interactions between Seiji and Yuuri and how they have to pretend to be a couple since that's basically the only way they can hide their forced red string connection. The two are forced to figure out all the little things they have to deal with in terms of being forced to constantly be one meter from each other including wearing a helmet playing really loud music while the other is using the bathroom. And then of course there's the typical eroge shenanigans with the main guy finds the main girl changing with fanservice CGs multiple times.
So right off the bat a good amount of your enjoyment of Destiny star girlfriend is going to be how much you actually like Yuuri's incredibly arrogant personality. I had mixed feelings at first. On one hand, it is pretty refreshing to have a main girl who actually is legitimately confident and full of herself and not just a boring tsundere with fake confidence. On the other hand, it was getting kind of grating dealing with all of Yuuri's comments about how she's the best and how she was trying to originally force Seiji to become her servant of sorts.
Thankfully this egotistical personality trait of hers was balanced by three things. 1) Seiji The main protagonist is surprisingly not a pushover. He has a lot of snark and is definitely willing to roast Yuri when she's getting way too full herself, especially since she's incredibly simple-minded. 2) Yuri's occasional use of amusing Engrish. 3) Yuri actually does get character development which I was actually not expecting to see. I won't spoil how exactly she develops, but let's just say by the time she and Seiji develop their relationship she's become a far more likeable person with some occasional wholesome moments while still having the same core personality at heart.
I haven't touched too much on the magical girl stuff yet and that's mostly because besides the forced red string thing keeping Yuuri and Seiji together, I'd say the magical girl stuff maybe accounts for 1/3 of the story. I'll let the game itself go into more detail if you're really interested. But the general idea is the magical girls are called stars (kind of reminded me of resident evil when I first heard it), they are employed by a “Starry Sky Council” to defeat demons equivalent of the monster of the week premise usually seen in your average magical girl anime or manga.
This whole magical girl employment thing gets surprisingly real where characters have salaries and contracts and have to negotiate based on How well they are doing in terms of doing their job. Whether it's defeating or capturing demons and making sure civilians are safe. While the magical girl stuff does seem to be more of an occasional backdrop for Yuuri to show at the beginning, there is a plot that eventually develops into something interesting enough to drive entertainment later on.
While Yuri is the main girl of this episode, we get introduced to a whole bunch of side characters, some who will be the stars of future sequels. For example, there's Maya (spelled Maja for some reason) the character that attacks Yuuri and Seiji at the way beginning of the game that will be the star of episode 2. And then there's Yuri's kouhai junior magical girl Kanoko, someone who incredibly idolizes Yuri and is low key yandere towards her making jokes about how she wants Yuri to be incredibly dependent on her good cooking skills. She will be the star of Episode 3. And then there's the teacher Fujiko who has a short fan disc, is a representative of the magical girl council as well as an acting school teacher and nurse. While these characters get less screentime than lead character Yuuri, they appear enough for their personalities and jokes to be pretty memorable.
That's about all I'll give about story details since there's a surprisingly decent amount of twists and developments that I think are better left experiencing for yourself.
I said towards the beginning that Destiny Star Girlfriend is a light-hearted over the top comedic style visual novel that basically sticks throughout the rest of the story, so if you like this style of storytelling I think that alone should make you interested in this visual novel. That said, one thing I was surprised by is how surprisingly good the romantic development was. I was first scared this story was going to be a sex heavy nukige given the box art and the whole main couple having to stick together for 3 months. The romance actually development in a slow and steady way including how it introduces sex into the relationship, which is a pleasant surprise given how many modern eroge has a couple get into the fucking almost immediately after confessing. That said this IS still an eroge and there will be many perverted jokes, including undressing Yuuri, and lots of fake out make out sessions that dont actually lead to an H-scenes.
The magical girl action scenes are passable. They are mostly done within like a few minutes, mostly just used as a way to pivot some plot and character developments but as said earlier eventually develop into something interesting enough to drive the plot and development forward. They are still fun to look at though, especially when Yuuri excitedly shouts her attack names.
Overall I had a fun time with Destiny Star Girlfriend. As said earlier, it did take a bit of time to get over Yuri's hit or miss attitude related to how overly arrogant and egotistical she was and the visual novels’ slight overuse on the ‘protgaonist being perverted’ humor.. But once the main couple really got together, Yuuri became more likeable and the humor became more diverse. So I enjoyed the visual novel more as time went on. I don't think Destiny Star Girlfriend is going to blow anyone's minds unless you have been dying for a magical girl romcom. I would only recommend this visual novel if you really want to see that or you just like over-the-top goofy comedic style visual novel writing. If you’re curious about the length of Destiny Star Girlfriend it has around 13 in-game chapters, and the average read length on VNDB is about 8-9 hours, though I took about 16 hours on full auto-read. Overall, I would give Destiny star girlfriend a 7.5 out of 10.
And in a way I suppose it is similar ish to Majikoi. Destiny Star Girlfriend is very much a light-hearted slice of life comedy first and a magical girl action story second. This is low-key an episodic series with this particular release starring a blonde egotistical magical girl: Yurii Kamiizumi. As in many magical girl anime and manga all the magical girls in this series have to keep the fact that they are magical girls a secret to the public. Though in Yuri's case she goes a step further and fabricates this super nice caring girl personality that ends up becoming quite popular in school.
This causes our protagonist Seiji Takasugi to develop a crush on her, but he considers this crush a lost cause as he considers himself just an average guy. But through an amusing set of circumstances, he creates a literal connection to Yuri. After an injury causes both him and Yuri to be wounded at the way beginning of the story, a magical girl society representative masquerading as a school nurse has to use a technique that sews a red thread between the two characters that slowly heals them over 3 months so they don't not die.
However, it turns out this red string connection if the two characters attempt to distance themselves over 1 meter from each other, they start to feel intense pain, which I assume is because of what should be fatal injuries still healing. This causes a situation where the two characters are forced to live together for the next 3 months until their wounds finally heal.
Throughout this 3-month ordeal, he finds out his supposed perfect ideal girl he had a crush on is nothing like how she acts at school. She is extremely full of herself, letting the fact that she's one of the top rated magical girls of the area get to her head to the point where she's even gotten a little sloppy which is what originally led to their injury.
Most of the first half of the visual novels is pure slice of life interactions between Seiji and Yuuri and how they have to pretend to be a couple since that's basically the only way they can hide their forced red string connection. The two are forced to figure out all the little things they have to deal with in terms of being forced to constantly be one meter from each other including wearing a helmet playing really loud music while the other is using the bathroom. And then of course there's the typical eroge shenanigans with the main guy finds the main girl changing with fanservice CGs multiple times.
So right off the bat a good amount of your enjoyment of Destiny star girlfriend is going to be how much you actually like Yuuri's incredibly arrogant personality. I had mixed feelings at first. On one hand, it is pretty refreshing to have a main girl who actually is legitimately confident and full of herself and not just a boring tsundere with fake confidence. On the other hand, it was getting kind of grating dealing with all of Yuuri's comments about how she's the best and how she was trying to originally force Seiji to become her servant of sorts.
Thankfully this egotistical personality trait of hers was balanced by three things. 1) Seiji The main protagonist is surprisingly not a pushover. He has a lot of snark and is definitely willing to roast Yuri when she's getting way too full herself, especially since she's incredibly simple-minded. 2) Yuri's occasional use of amusing Engrish. 3) Yuri actually does get character development which I was actually not expecting to see. I won't spoil how exactly she develops, but let's just say by the time she and Seiji develop their relationship she's become a far more likeable person with some occasional wholesome moments while still having the same core personality at heart.
I haven't touched too much on the magical girl stuff yet and that's mostly because besides the forced red string thing keeping Yuuri and Seiji together, I'd say the magical girl stuff maybe accounts for 1/3 of the story. I'll let the game itself go into more detail if you're really interested. But the general idea is the magical girls are called stars (kind of reminded me of resident evil when I first heard it), they are employed by a “Starry Sky Council” to defeat demons equivalent of the monster of the week premise usually seen in your average magical girl anime or manga.
This whole magical girl employment thing gets surprisingly real where characters have salaries and contracts and have to negotiate based on How well they are doing in terms of doing their job. Whether it's defeating or capturing demons and making sure civilians are safe. While the magical girl stuff does seem to be more of an occasional backdrop for Yuuri to show at the beginning, there is a plot that eventually develops into something interesting enough to drive entertainment later on.
While Yuri is the main girl of this episode, we get introduced to a whole bunch of side characters, some who will be the stars of future sequels. For example, there's Maya (spelled Maja for some reason) the character that attacks Yuuri and Seiji at the way beginning of the game that will be the star of episode 2. And then there's Yuri's kouhai junior magical girl Kanoko, someone who incredibly idolizes Yuri and is low key yandere towards her making jokes about how she wants Yuri to be incredibly dependent on her good cooking skills. She will be the star of Episode 3. And then there's the teacher Fujiko who has a short fan disc, is a representative of the magical girl council as well as an acting school teacher and nurse. While these characters get less screentime than lead character Yuuri, they appear enough for their personalities and jokes to be pretty memorable.
That's about all I'll give about story details since there's a surprisingly decent amount of twists and developments that I think are better left experiencing for yourself.
I said towards the beginning that Destiny Star Girlfriend is a light-hearted over the top comedic style visual novel that basically sticks throughout the rest of the story, so if you like this style of storytelling I think that alone should make you interested in this visual novel. That said, one thing I was surprised by is how surprisingly good the romantic development was. I was first scared this story was going to be a sex heavy nukige given the box art and the whole main couple having to stick together for 3 months. The romance actually development in a slow and steady way including how it introduces sex into the relationship, which is a pleasant surprise given how many modern eroge has a couple get into the fucking almost immediately after confessing. That said this IS still an eroge and there will be many perverted jokes, including undressing Yuuri, and lots of fake out make out sessions that dont actually lead to an H-scenes.
The magical girl action scenes are passable. They are mostly done within like a few minutes, mostly just used as a way to pivot some plot and character developments but as said earlier eventually develop into something interesting enough to drive the plot and development forward. They are still fun to look at though, especially when Yuuri excitedly shouts her attack names.
Overall I had a fun time with Destiny Star Girlfriend. As said earlier, it did take a bit of time to get over Yuri's hit or miss attitude related to how overly arrogant and egotistical she was and the visual novels’ slight overuse on the ‘protgaonist being perverted’ humor.. But once the main couple really got together, Yuuri became more likeable and the humor became more diverse. So I enjoyed the visual novel more as time went on. I don't think Destiny Star Girlfriend is going to blow anyone's minds unless you have been dying for a magical girl romcom. I would only recommend this visual novel if you really want to see that or you just like over-the-top goofy comedic style visual novel writing. If you’re curious about the length of Destiny Star Girlfriend it has around 13 in-game chapters, and the average read length on VNDB is about 8-9 hours, though I took about 16 hours on full auto-read. Overall, I would give Destiny star girlfriend a 7.5 out of 10.