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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Majikoi A-5 full clear:

Sadly that's the end of A-5.  Not quite the end of Majikoi, but certainly the largest missing segment of the series.  The Takae route is decent, it's cool how you slowly improve her fortune and circumstances until she's well enough off to start helping others in turn.  But the Margit route is amazing.  I had no idea what I was getting myself into.  It introduces five new girls, all coworkers of Margit in the German army, who are all quite pretty, and eventually they all fall for Yamato and he ends up in a six girl harem.  It also involves moving to Germany to start working with them.  But man, I did not expect that, at the very last fifth of the last game of the series for five new characters to be introduced and all of them to become love interests.  That's fan service to the max.  The game maker really knows what readers want, and served up a grand finale like a fireworks show on the 4th of July.

I still think the Yoshitsune route was the best, I feel like it was more serious and I love her personality, but the Margit After Story certainly held its own.  What a great game.  A-5 was great, but the earlier A-1 and A-2 that focused on Sayaka and Cookie IS were even better.  A-3 was fine, and A-4 let you interact with dozens of relatively new characters so it too was impressive.  Sadly it took so long for this game to be fully translated that I've largely forgotten everything that occurred in the other games, all that remains is a smoldering fondness for everyone and everything in this franchise.  Over 100 fully developed characters with their own sprites and voice actors and everything.  Tons of potential romances with girls from all over the world and all walks of life, but also lots of male characters to chat with, play with, work with, learn from and defeat.  There's no visual novel like it, not even close.

It's like an erotic Dynasty Warriors.  The same sheer size and spectacle and cast list, the same intense fights, but this time the girls undress.  What could possibly be better than this?

I suppose it's impossible for something this unboundedly ecchi to get a faithful anime adaption, so the adaption we got is as good as it will ever get.  But man, if an anime actually covered the real, super long series, it would have been so epic beyond belief.

It's a shame the game wasn't long enough to escort me to the start of the fall anime season, but at least it got me half of the way there.  I suppose there's always FF 16 for the rest of the way.

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