![]() ![]() ![]() For each route’s good ending I could appreciate how fitting each conclusion was to the tale that had preceded it without having been drawn into the tale itself. ![]() After a surprisingly enjoyable and amusing common route, the character stories charge ahead from idea to idea without stopping to consider how best to fit them together, or how best to describe them in the first place. Regardless, much like Rewrite, the “who” and the “what” of YMK are very much present and serviceable while the “how” and “why” have been left behind somewhere in the distance. Youths getting into more trouble than they can handle? Lives on the brink of being ruined forever? Maybe there’s something wrong with me. I must be sounding like a broken record by now, but the concept of Yume Miru Kusuri is one I can get behind while its execution is what’s lacking. ![]() Kouhei may just get the color in life that he dreams of, but will it be worth the cost? Then there’s that weirdo running around in a “fairy” costume who may or may not be insane, and finally the student council president who seems intent on trying every single physical pleasure out there to the detriment of everyone around her. There’s the girl being shunned and bullied by her class, struggling through every day with no friends and nobody to stand up for her. The people surrounding him, however, are somewhat different. He feels like his life is colorless and that he is just drifting along in the currents like everyone else. He gets up in the morning, does his work at school, heads to his part time job, then goes home and sleeps. Kagami Kouhei is a pretty average honor student. For me, however, it means I have to rehash some old complaints for a new setting. For some of you, that may be a fantastic reason to run off and pick up this visual novel right now. Have you ever had that feeling that you’ve heard a particular voice actor somewhere before? Have you ever made a guess as to which character they may have voiced previously, and then reveled in your awesome matching power when you got it right? Is it just me? In any case, while reading through Yume Miru Kusuri I found myself thinking that it read a lot like Rewrite and, lo and behold, the same person (Romeo Tanaka) played a major role in each. ![]()
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