Gakuen Handsome

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Team YokkyuFuman & Tope

Year of release: 2010

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-20 hours

Genres: Comedy, School, Romance, Parody

Plot: An infamous parody of the BL genre. The main character is an unnamed 17-year-old boy who returns to the city after a seven-year absence and enters a prestigious boys' school that prides itself on being the best in its prefecture. There will be changes in his life, surrounded by both new and old faces.

Miracle No-tone

 Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Tennenouji

Year of release: 2006

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-20 hours

Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Erotica

Plot: The main character Ogata Akira finds a magical living notebook that can fulfill any wish he writes in it. But there's a catch: only cravings work. This is how Akira's days begin, when he writes homoerotic desires...

Zettai Fukujuu Meirei

Review & Guide

Status: Plans 

Developer: Langmaor

Year of release: 2005

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, War, Comedy

Plot: The game takes place in West Germany after The Second World War. The player assumes the role of either Kia Welbehen or Louise Hardwich, one of the two members of the secret agency run by Hardwich. They are both assigned specific goals, which range from KGB members to aspiring football players. Assignments usually involve seducing targets.

Enzai: Falsely Accused

Review & Guide

Status: Plans

Developer: Langmaor

Year of release: 2002

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Gore

Plot: This is the history of France during the reign of Napoleon. Although the Revolution brought with it new laws and some semblance of representative government, there are some places that never change: a dark hole known as a prison. A boy named Gais is sent to this hell. The crime is murder, and the sentence is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. However, Gais is innocent of this crime. He was living his life as he always has, running around the city and stealing to survive when he was caught by a policeman. Before he realized what was happening, he was accused of a crime he knew nothing about, brought before a dishonest judge, and found guilty. But who was killed and for what?

Kintouka

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: GRISEDGE

Release year: 2017

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 40-60 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Psychology

Plot: After the death of his grandmother, the main character, Sota, returned to his hometown, where his father lives. There he was reunited with his childhood friends, but also with a man who had not changed at all, despite the fact that 18 years had passed since then...

Hanamachi Monogatari

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Vivid Color

Year of release: 2005

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Erotica

Plot: The main character Suri has an English father and a Japanese mother, so he has blonde hair and blue eyes, which makes him bullied. After his parents' death, he initially works as a servant in a brothel, where he is beaten, starved, and forced to work overtime. One day, he attracts the attention of Tatsumi, the owner of a notorious male brothel, who buys him. As soon as the main character enters the brothel, he gets a beautiful kimono, his own room and delicious food for the first time in his life.

Hanakage -Ochita Mitsuka-

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Vivid Color

Year of release: 2009

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Erotica

Plot: 7 years have passed since the story of the prequel "Hanamachi Monogatari". Hanakage takes place in the Meiji era in Japan. The main character, Kirishima Iori, is one of the most popular prostitutes in the Hanabishi men's red light district. Iori originally came from a prestigious samurai family. However, his father accumulated a large amount of debts and committed suicide. To protect his mother, Iori chose the path of a prostitute. Although the main character worked as a humble prostitute, he did not lose his pride. He was often rude and impolite to his patrons, which caused him to have problems with Tatsumi's owner.

Galtia

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: GRISEDGE

Year of release: 2015

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Action, Adventure

Plot: A tale of war, intrigue, love and hate, set in four countries on the continent of Alderant. The main character Shin works as a freelance jack-of-all-trades, doing various jobs. After he gets involved in an assassination attempt on one of the kings attending the Meeting of the Four Countries, he eventually gets closer to the mysteries of this world.

Messiah

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: core

Year of release: 2006

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, Supernatural

Plot: The main character is Takuto, who lives with his friend due to the death of his parents. He's working part-time at a local flower shop when one day a strange man arrives and starts buying white roses almost every day. He and Takuto become closer to each other, but Takuto realizes that strange things are happening, such as the disappearance of his colleague. One day, he decides to deliver roses to the mansion of a mysterious buyer, and his friend follows him. And so the mysteries begin to escalate.

Tsumi naru Rasen no Ori

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Spray

Release year: 2016

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 10-30 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance

Plot: The year is 1895. The Kingdom of Cusrutonia. On top of one of the city's hills, located not very far from the capital, the deafening ringing of funeral bells suddenly sounded, announcing the death of an aristocrat once known as the hero of this land.

Bara no Ki ni Bara no Hana Saku

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Cyc Rosé

Year of release: 2003

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, School, Mystery, Romance

Plot: A young teacher named Kaname Hyuga arrives for an internship at a boarding school for boys. Initially, he's not going to stay here for long, but... On the first night, Kaname is the victim of an attack (rape). A few days later, he receives a letter with compromising evidence in the form of a photo from the crime scene. Kaname rushes with a letter to the principal of the school and tells about everything. The director can't leave everything as it is, but he can't make this story public either, so he starts looking for the author of the letter on his own.

NO, THANK YOU!!!

Review & Guide

Status: Plans

Developer: parade

Year of release: 2013

Languages: JPN / ENG (official)

Duration: 30-40 hours

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Everyday life

Plot: 22-year-old Haru saves a stranger from under the wheels of a car, gets hit and, waking up the next morning, realizes that he remembers absolutely nothing about himself. The guy he helped doesn't leave him and offers him a job as a bartender in a bar. However, this place is on the other side of the law.

Gakuen Heaven Boy's Love Scramble!

Review & Guide / Translation

Status: Plans

Developer: Spray

Year of release: 2002

Languages: JPN (official)

Duration: 30-50 hours

Genres: Drama, Romance, School

Plot: Keita Ito received an invitation to the most popular academy for boys. This academy only accepts children with special talents or who have earned the people's preference in some way, which makes Keita unsure of his abilities. He feels that receiving an invitation is a stupid mistake.

Koshotengai no Hashihime

Review & Guide

Status: Doing

Developer: ADELTA
Release year: 2016
Languages: JPN / ENG (official)
Duration: 30-40 hours
Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery, Adventure/Detective, Fantasy

Plot: Tamamori (main) came to Tokyo with the goal of entering the Imperial University. However, he fails the entrance exam and is expelled from the boarding school after two years. By a lucky chance, the protagonist begins living and working at Umebatidou, a used bookstore. There, he spends his time happily and makes friends. But mysterious deaths befall these friends one after another, and realizing that he is repeating the same rainy three days over and over again, Tamamori finds himself running through Jinbochou to save them. 

For those who don't understand: time loop + Japanese culture = Koshotengai no Hashihime.