Almost Finished...

I almost finished Yanagi's route today, but I didn't because his route has an extra chapter over the others, meaning that it's going to take me longer to complete. I was going to wait until I had completed it but I was scared that my brain would forget stuff if I waited an extra day between writing. So here it is, what will probably be my second last post on Collar X Malice.

Beware of spoilers!!!




This route has way more plot over romance in it! But at least all of the plot stuff''s being resolved, so that's good. It's probably why this route has seven chapters instead of six. At least I think it has seven chapters. That's the chapter I'm on now, but there might be more.

A lot of the things that are going on happened in the other routes too, like Sasazuka joining the police for a bit, Akito getting caught and giving information to the police, that weird bunny girl Hana getting caught, some of the stuff with Kazuki and a lot more. But there's still a lot of original stuff too. It's just a bit like Lupin's route in the first Code: Realize game, where all of the characters still go through the stuff that happened in their routes, but without Cardia instead.

I do like Yanagi quite a bit. He's probably my third favourite out of all the love interests. He seems like a really good guy, but as a teenager he was a bit of a delinquent. At the beginning of the route, when he seemed to have known Ichika in the past, I thought that he either might've attacked her in the past or was just her childhood friend, but he was neither of those things. Around twelve years before the plot started, Ichika got abducted by some creep and Yanagi tried to save her, beating the man into a coma. This made feel really guilty right until the present, even though he never got arrested or nothing because it was self defense. Ichika doesn't remember the incident as vividly, that's why she never recognised Yanagi and would never've known who he was if he had never told her. He just keeps quiet about in all of the other routes, and I had no idea that he had any past connection to Ichika whatsoever. I thought that they had just literally met for the first time in the prologue.

Even though there is loads of plot stuff here, Yanagi still gets a few fluffy moments with Ichika. He does try to push her away (because of his past and all that), but not for very long, since our MC won't tolerate any of that stuff. It feels like he really does care about Ichika though. They have quite a nice friendship without many issues because they get along so well. The other love interests actually have bigger roles than they usually do in other people's routes, like you actually see Okazaki quite a bit, when he's usually just in the background if Ichika doesn't choose to date him. In the sixth chapter they all team up to rescue the heroine from Adonis' headquarters, and poor Okazaki gets hurt super badly, but of course he doesn't care because he's like "I'm glad I died protecting you :)". I don't know what happens next though because I haven't read that far, I just really hope that they don't kill my boy off. I don't think they will, but there's still a possibility...

Finally, I got to find out who Zero/"the person who put the collar on Ichika" really was. Well, the game actually made me guess. I wasn't really sure so I just guessed Yanagi (I thought they were gonna pull of a crazy plot twist like that) but he seemed offended so I rewound it back and tried to guess. At first I was gonna say Mochida, but I thought no, so I just decided to guess Saeki, even though I didn't think that it would actually be true. Turns out that my guess was correct! Oh dear, I actually liked Saeki. I didn't expect him to be the main villain, he just felt like a background character instead. It kind of felt like Sweet Fuse when I found out who Count Hogstein was.... But really, Saeki?? I thought it was gonna be some dark, mysterious person, not Ichika's sweet young coworker... What a great plot twist. Saeki's like the least likely person to be a terrorist leader!

They managed to get into Adonis' headquarters thanks to information provided by Akito, whilst Ichika had been kidnapped by Zero. I think he might actually be a romance option in the fan-disc... But Yanagi and the others manage to save her and get her collar off, with a bit of help from Rei Mikuni, who's part of Adonis as well but decided to help anyway, because he's annoyed with what Saeki did with the group or something. Not long after is when Okazaki gets hurt as the building's blowing up. Mikuni turns himself in, but they still haven't found Saeki, yet...

I'm right at the beginning of Chapter Seven. I don't know how long it's going to be, but I think it's going to be the final chapter. They're probably just gonna clean stuff up and track Saeki down now. I also think that Yanagi and Ichika are going to kiss too, if they don't do it in the after credits scene. The kiss CGs probably going to look really good, because this route has had such wonderful artwork so far. Hanamura Mai (the artist for this game) really drew Yanagi to look super attractive in these CGs. She's really good at designing characters and stuff. If you didn't know, she also did the artwork for Amnesia, another otome that where everything looks absolutely fabulous.

Tomorrow, once I complete this game, I'll write down my final thoughts on Collar X Malice. I'm probably gonna end up giving it a 10/10 or something because I always do that for the stuff I really like, I just treat them as perfect when they probably do have some flaws. Then I get to finally play Diabolik Lovers! It's going to feel a bit strange playing my PSP this time when I'm so used to the Vita. I'll get used to it.

Anyways, I hope you all had a nice day～! I'm super happy that Spring is here and we get to eat Easter chocolate and stuff. Plus, it's almost time for the weekend again!

I'm going to end this post now. Goodbye!