[Shall We Date?: Ninja Love +] Prologue
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Prologue
[draft version to post in my own blog]
I... I apologize for the months-long delay. First, my laptop crashed horribly and it took the repairman a while to fix the thing and while making sure none of the files/important documents are ruined or removed. Then the laptop seemed to not have recovered properly because while I was working on this, it suddenly shut off without warning, and whatever progress I made couldn't be recovered. The last saved draft was a very short rough start that I saved to my personal LiveJournal and it barely had anything on it. I've changed a lot, added plenty of new things, and those are all gone. It really made me want to cry and I just... can't bring myself to work on it again for so long because I keep on fearing that I might miss something, or forget some good stuff that I already did write and... ugh... let's just move on. I apologize again.
For some unknown reason, the + version's prologue is nothing but a rushed few lines of dialogue. The ninja leader says "Hi princess, these are awesome ninjas. Choose one to be your bodyguard", and the ninjas introduce themselves. So we're missing the non-ninja love interests. I have no idea why they did that, because not everyone has played the old version. I will be presenting you guys with the original prologue from the old version instead, so pardon the interface change later. The old version has a different UI design than the + version.
This Prologue is technically not part of Ninja Love +. However, I think that this prologue is indeed necessary because it gives us a sensible setup for the plot, so I'm reviewing this anyway. Also because this old version of Ninja Love is still available to purchase for those who aren't willing to put up with the waiting time in the free online version. I will later put up the character profiles too. I originally wanted to skip the profiles, but since in Ninja Love + the profiles are the ONLY "sneak preview" of the ninjas we ever get... well... I have to.
WARNING: Image-heavy. I try my best to summarize things and size down the pictures, but it's still image-heavy.
So before we start playing the game wants us to name the heroine. A pretty common feature in Visual Novels.
I named my heroine "Tomotoyo" when I played, so let's just roll with that. It doesn't matter jack squat to the plot. Like, I could name my heroine "Nobunaga" and noboody would react. Fer shame, but meh.
Now we have a time and place. This is the heroine's hometown. Kawachi-no-kuni translates into "Kawachi Province", actually, but... oh well. I'm fine with using Japanese naming like that. My problem with this is... wasn't this province part of the Oda clan territory? Why would the Oda army attack this place, as the intro said? There's no rebellion as far as I can tell, and the Kawachi troops were still serving Nobunaga just fine and dandy in 1582.
Chronicles of WTF: 1
Because I see no reason for the person who said "my village" in the intro to be anyone other than the heroine. Even if we take into account that the intro was added in later in the + version, the premise and plot did not change, and the heroine's "home village" is STILL Kawachi.
Also:
Demon King of 666th Heaven: 2
We have to be sure everyone knows the villain is evil by telling everyone he attacks the heroine's home village, even though IT DID NOT HAPPEN. Lying is not cool.
So we see the heroine chatting with some villagers as she was on her way to deliver some snacks to the temple disciples/acolytes. We find out that she was an orphan, and had been adopted by the temple's chief priest as his granddaughter. In a very forced expository conversation, might I add.
... Yeah... awkward...
Anyways, the first bachelor shows up! He asks for some of the snacks the heroine was carrying and then introduced himself:
Ah yes, the famous swordsman... Is he even supposed to be here? *runs to check* Miyamoto Musashi was born in 1584. EPIC Fail!!
Chronicles of WTF: 2
I can understand the game wanting to just stuff it full with big-name historical figures, but seriously... WHY. He has no reason to be here! I could be wrong, but I remember reading that he initially was just a mook/spacefiller character and was upgraded into one of the bachelors because of popular demand. Spoilers from the future, he later shows up in some of the routes as an assassin/mercenary hired by the Oda clan to counter the ninjas' attack. Why? If you want a spacefiller bodyguard it doesn't have to be him.
The heroine gives Musashi her name and asks what he's up to in the village. He says he's going to meet someone and then wanders off. Oooh, mysterious! Will we hear back from him later?
So then Tomotoyo return to the temple and one of the monks was upset at her for wandering off because there has been bandits lurking around lately. Okay, fine, but you never told us where she went to get the snacks, game! If she just went down to the village teahouse to buy stuff, why would it matter? Were the bandits ransacking the village regularly? If that's the case, why didn't the villagers from earlier say anything about bandits? They didn't seem to be that worried to me.
*sigh* Explanation time. What translated into "snacks" was originally "forest/wild nuts" in Japanese, implying that she went off to the forests to gather them. That would've made the monk's worrying more sensible.
The Art of Words: 3
NO! NO! NO!
Nobunaga doesn't send bandits to put down rebellions or ninjas. He sends his troops. Bandits are no better at hunting ninjas than regular samurai are, so there's no reason for him to be sending bandits. Also, Nobunaga doesn't care about ninjas. He's more concerned about the other warlords, like the Mouri to the west and the Chosokabe in Shikoku. As a refresher, the big war with Iga started in 1579 because Nobunaga's son went to attack there without Nobunaga's permission. Nobunaga's angry letter is a bit too lengthy to reproduce here (it's gotta be the nicest angry letter I've ever seen), but the tone I'm getting from it is more like "Why did you do that? It was useless. You had better things to do, you dumbass!"
And in regards to the rather-overkill follow-up in 1581... Wellllll, the good ol' overlord overkills EVERYTHING by that point, so it's not just Iga in particular.
Chronicles of WTF: 3
Because it didn't happen. Heck, it didn't even seem like it was a big deal because I don't see any focus being given to it unless you're reading stories or watching movies with the ninjas as the protags. I mean, the lack of fucks given about this incident is such that I can't seem to find a good explanation as to why Nobukatsu attacked Iga in the first place. There's the Wiki explanation linked above, and there's the "commonly believed view" that Nobukatsu wanted to do that just to look awesome. There's also something about rebelling retainers wanting to tag the Iga people and then head to the Mouri clan and join forces, which could potentially lead to a big, BIG problem later.
Demon King of 666th Heaven: 3
Because bandits are dangerous to the villagers, but HE DO WHAT HE WANT BECAUSE HE EVULZ AMIRITE? I mean, again with Kawachi being part of Oda clan territory. There's no need for Nobunaga to be hiring bandits to do searches. The local authorities could do that for him under the supervision of the Oda ministers or something or the other.
And then there was some blah about how Nobunaga was terrified of ninjas and wants to get rid of them because they're in the way of his goal to conquer the nation. There was also a throwaway line saying that he used to hire Koga ninjas to attack Iga, but then changed his mind and wants to just destroy all ninjas.
BULLSHIT!! Koga surrendered to Nobunaga much earlier, and was in fact part of the Oda clan grand parade in Kyoto in the second month of 1581, an elite parade that was attended BY THE FUCKING EMPEROR HIMSELF. You don't get to be there unless Nobunaga likes you. Also, the Koga were actually part of the Oda army when they attacked Iga in the ninth month of the same year. Some articles say that there were a few Koga fellas who wanted to be like all ninja solidarity and joined Iga, but the majority of the Koga were with the Oda army. Even the people of Koga today would say that, yep, they joined up with Nobunaga and they were fine with it.
Demon King of 666th Heaven: 3
Chronicles of WTF: 4
But let's go with the game for a sec and say that Nobunaga does, in fact, wants to wreck Koga too. Well, I'm surprised the Koga ninjas didn't go assassinate him already. For reference:
Koga is region 4 (its traditional name is Koka). Nobunaga's castle is somewhere around region 9 or 10. It's THAT close. Maybe Nobunaga has his own super powerful ninja bodyguards, I don't know. It's too soon to be remarking much.
Then out of the blue they started discussing the other contenders of conquering the nation because this isn't just a one-man race. Well, thank you for acknowledging that other warlords exist off-screen somewhere. Apparently one of the contenders is someone "serving under Tokugawa". Wait, doesn't that mean that the contender is Tokugawa because he's the lord? Why would the supposed "rival" be a retainer? Why not Hojo? Later on in history, the Hojo clan's Odawara castle was the last independent stronghold that stands in the way of unification. Or maybe the Mouri? One of the routes actually acknowledged that they ARE troublesome.
I will not give a WTF point for this because even though at this time Oda and Tokugawa were allied, many speculated that Ieyasu had always been plotting to take over somehow. I give this a pass.
As it were, they had to say that because they want to introduce yet another one of the bachelors:
But... Munenori had a big scuffle with shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, Ieyasu's GRANDSON. Would he even be old enough to be around at this point? And I thought the Tokugawa didn't start hiring the Yagyuu as minions until Ieyasu became shogun. Hmm, maybe I'm the one who got it wrong because all of those I heard from movies and manga. Let me go check...
After some scuffle between Matsunaga Hisahide and the Oda, Yagyu Sekishusai and his family left the scene of battle and refused to participate in wars anymore. Seskishusai is Munenori's dad. Munenori was apparently born in 1571, so he should be about 10 by the game's timeline, and he didn't enter Tokugawa's service until 1590s. Also, he never became the leader of the Yagyu clan. He wanted to, but his father said NO. Again. And again. And again. And again.
Chronicles of WTF: 7
One for time-warping his age, one for saying that he's the Yagyu clan leader, and one for saying that he serves Tokugawa in the time when his family is still uninvolved in politics and war. I do sort of understand the logic behind the choice. Of all the well-known Yagyu members, Munenori is the only one to have something remotely to do with ninjas. He runs a secret underground gang kind of thing, known as the Ura-Yagyu, and they supposedly do ninja-like "dirty tricks" like spying and assassination. But... come on, WHY do you even need this? So you can have an "insider help" from among the samurai family? Why don't you just use Akechi Mitsuhide, who was famous for his Honnouji rebellion? Or, heck, take it a step further and have Nobukatsu do that?
Among the bajillions of conspiracy theories surrounding Nobunaga's death, some said that Nobukatsu was in cahoots with Akechi in the rebellion. You could make a pretty darn solid (and historically sensible) plot out of that, you know. After the Honnouji incident, Nobunaga's son Nobutaka and a number of his upper-rank generals chased down Akechi to avenge their lord. Nobukatsu... didn't do anything. He went out, reached Koga, then turned back home without doing anything. And if Luis Frois's accounts were to be believed, all he did was burn down Azuchi castle for no particular reason either.
Back to the plot. Tomotoyo was like "Eh, who cares about war, it's got nothing to do with us" and remembers she needs to feed the cats and runs off. The monk tried to tell her that the head priest has ordered that the main temple building is off-limits, but she's already too far away to hear. Um... unless the kitties live in the main temple building, I don't think there's anything to worry about. Also, monk, you can walk, right? Chase after her and make her stay away! Is she really THAT fast?
It's... it's that Sebastian guy from Kuroshitsuji!!!
Not.
Well, there you go! That's why our heroine needs to reach the main hall despite being forbidden to. It's because the plot says so! New count time:
The Plot Hath Decreed: 1
I get the feeling that "because the plot says so" will show up a lot more later.
AND THIS GUY IS THE MOST POPULAR GUY OF THE BUNCH. Why am I not surprised? It's the classic Jerk With a Heart of Gold. Too soon to make judgements, but I don't like him already. Tomotoyo's reaction was to think, "You can't say that to someone's face!" I wish she'd say that out loud and not just think, but eeeh... culture and such. I understand full well the pressure to "behave appropriately". This is Japan, after all.
And then another guy shows up:
OH MY FLYING BANANAS, NOW IT'S NARUTO!!!!!!!!
Or... not... but I really doubt it's a coincidence. By the time this game is released, Naruto was already famous. I wouldn't be surprised if he was designed like this on purpose.
Also, our heroine's reaction? "Wait... that was a guy?" What, are we meant to believe that she originally thought Saizo was a girl? She seems to identify him as a dude properly earlier. Ugh, baaaad bad translation, then.
The Art of Words: 4
Still, all the guys look more or less the same. If not-Naruto looks like a guy, then so does Saizo. If Saizo looks like a girl, so does everybody else. Even Musashi from earlier. The only people who don't look girly are the villains because they're aren't supposed to be attractive, so they look like burly men. Pictures later. Unless you already Googled stuff back when I posted the intro and other things, I'm saving Nobunaga because his design is utterly hilarious.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, NOT-NARUTO'S NAME IS SASUKE, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!
Okay, okay, in all of seriousness, let me identify them for you. Kirigakure Saizo and Sarutobi Sasuke, ninjas famous for being part of Sanada Yukimura's 10 Braves. They're about as real as Robin Hood was, in the sense that they might be real but the majority of their stories are dramatized and/or fiction. Wikipedia says that there were some documents recording the existence of Saizo, so maybe he was real after all. I have to say I'm doubtful, because the sources cited are books that have been decried by some people as being inaccurate. Japanese sources say that Sasuke may be based off one Toyotomi Hideyoshi's men, whose name was Sarutobi Nisuke. However, that claim is too being seen as doubtful.
Oh, fine, I don't blame the character designer. They're just following the "traditional" interpretations of their characters. Saizo is usually depicted as a cold or solemn individual and Sasuke as wild and energetic due to their names (Kirigakure means "hidden in the fog", Sarutobi means "monkey jump"). Certain character tropes tend to look similar across different anime, so incidental similarity can't be avoided.
They keep on saying the the heroine is "that girl" all mysteriously, and then Sasuke excitedly glomps her.
I... uh... what??? Is... is that innuendo? Or do they just mean that he's tall? I mean, you can't see it here because the sprites are not cropped in proportion, but Sasuke there is actually taller than everyone else. Well, except maybe Nobunaga, I can't tell because they didn't list Nobu's height, but if I lined up the full-body pics in the profile, it looks like Nobu is a bit taller than Sasuke. I dunno.
The Art of Words: 5
Tomotoyo asks them who they are and Saizo snottily asked if she can't tell from their clothes. I'm not entirely sure if I'm meant to. I wouldn't have known they were ninjas if the text didn't tell me. I mean, I know that the artist has a tendency to go crazy with patterns and textures and looooves to design super-fancy, overdecorated clothes, so it could be just her style, but if you ask me they look more like kabukimono to me:
Kabukimono is the ye olde Japanese equivalent of punks, not "Kabuki actor". They're famous for wearing flamboyant and gaudy clothes and wear weird hairstyles.
Anyways, as it turns out, the heroine can actually identify them as ninjas just before the two poof'd away. She was just wondering why they were there when someone asked her if she's okay, because she was apparently staring off into space.
He has a face! And he's pretty! He must be one of the bachelors!
Dayum, he looks even girlier than Saizo. Not sure why Doc is there if head priest told everyone to clear off. Was he in the acolytes' quarters? In which case, why was the monk freaking out earlier when Tomotoyo wants to feed the kitties? We are still inside the temple compound. If Doc can go in here, so can she. Oh, that's right.
The Plot Hath Decreed: 2
Because this is the only time we ever see Doc ever. Well, that is, if we didn't choose to play his route anyway. We see nearly all the other characters in each others' routes, so it can serve as more "previews" to the characters' personality and maybe catch our interest. Not Doc. He doesn't ever appear in anyone's route ever. This is all we see of him, and even so, it's not much. He just asked if the heroine is okay, introduced himself, and disappears. Even if Musashi and Munenori don't show up all that much, at least they DO show up in the ninja routes. This guy just appears right out of nowhere and doesn't even do anything! He must have been a much later addition, because the developer did something like this with one of their other ninja games. In the initial prologue we're only introduced to 3 ninjas and their boss. Then out of the blue, they released 3 extra characters that we never ever see ever in the other guys' routes. The only thing we know of them is what was written in their profiles.
It's kind of irritating for me because I feel like going on a blind date, but I guess your mileage may vary on this.
Tomotoyo heads off to see grandpa to ask about all the ninjas, and she overhears grandpa having a conversation with someone about Nobunaga and ninjas. She hears her name being mentioned and when she tries to listen in more, she accidentally broke the paper screen of the door. Grandpa's guest, the elder of Iga village, starts saying stuff about her being the hope of ninja survival and naturally, she got all confused. She says she's just the granddaughter of the chief priest.
The Art of Words: 6
The word you're looking for is "descendant". The word for "descendant" in Japanese can also mean "offspring". Even if the "offspring" meaning may not be commonly commonly applied to the word, I still can see how the translation mistake occurs. The count still apllies, though.
Um... surely there are OTHER descendants too? Kusunoki Masashige lived in the 1300s! There's been 200 years and at least 5 generations in between. Hello?
Princess... huh? I... wasn't aware there was such a thing as ninja kingdoms. Even if that only meant she was the daughter of the clan leader, still. Are we gonna hear about whatever happened to everyone else? 200 years, man! There's gotta be more than 50 of 'em? Unless the Kusunoki has a history of impotency? I'm still not sure why they need her help either. What, does her magic ninja blood gives her special powers?
The elder then introduces his son.
Hattori Hanzo, probably one of the most famous ninja ever. He's probably the only one who actually legit has something to do with this event, being the Hattori clan leader and one of the most prominent figures in Iga. Also interesting to note is that "Hattori Hanzo" is the hereditary name of the Hattori clan leaders, so technically there's a lot of Hanzos and you have to specify which one with a third name. Since this particular Hanzo is the most famous one you can probably still find him with just "Hattori Hanzo", but if we want to be precise, his name is actually Hattori Hanzo Masanari.
Hanzo tries to reassure Tomotoyo that they will protect her...
... until some other annoying dude interrupted us. *sigh* I know it's a common trope in shoujo manga where the guy says stuff like "You aren't all that and I'm not interested", but then falls for her hard and it's supposed to be sweet and everything. However, it's been so overdone that I'm just annoyed at this kind of greeting.
His name is Ishikawa Goemon, a ninja from Iga. He was famous for being something like the Japanese version of Robin Hood, i.e a thief who steals money from the rich and gives it to the poor. He was also famous for being executed by being boiled in a pot:
Woop woop!
They explain that the three great clans of ninja; Iga, Koga, and Fuuma; have joined up to oppose Nobunaga and they want her to be the symbol of that unity. So... kind of like Katniss being the Mockingjay, then. They have decided to make Iga their HQ and they want her to come down there to be educated in the way of ninja so that she can support their cause more properly... or something. Okay. Except you just said that the three clans already agreed to ally anyway and I don't see any reason for the "princess" to be needed.
The Plot Hath Decreed: 4
Goemon is a perv and says that in exchange for taking care of her maybe she can let him have some "fun". Thankfully Tomotoyo was just about as creeped out about this as I am, and I'm not keen on seeing her fall for him later on.
Okay, that's it, I've had enough. While Kusunoki Masashige was often cited to be the "first ninja" due to his guerilla tactics in warfare, there's no real singular source of "ninjutsu". They come from various other teachings, including interpretations of Zen Buddhism and the espionage chapters in Sun Tzu's Art of War. Masashige himself was lauded as a courageous and exemplary SAMURAI.
Sure, ninja, sure...
Everyone should know by now that all the magic ninja skills are utter crock. They have skills ordinary men don't, maybe, but that's akin to the FBI or the Secret Service or military spies having special skills that ordinary men don't. That's what the ninjas are: the samurai equivalent of military spies and special agents. Look, even Hanzo, whose name is probably the first name everyone thinks of when someone says "ninja", is considered a samurai retainer in his time:
Chronicles of WTF: 12
I'm slapping it with five counts and I'll be done. If I keep on counting every single time magic-ninjutsu-mumbo-jumbo gets mentioned this count will probably hit the thousands.
... I think this is as good time as any to mention that the developers probably took a lot of material from Banshenshuukai, the "ninja directory" book. That book listed the Kusunoki as one of the many ninja groups around Japan... alongside a ninja group supposedly created and led by Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Which... probably explains the existence of their prequel game, translated to English as "Destiny Ninja", which is about Yoshitsune and his ninjas, but I digress. The book is generally considered an unreliable source, but... yeah, as with many other Japanese records, it's kind of difficult to tell.
At least now I know what's up with Kawachi. Masashige Kusunoki was buried in the temple he once studied in, Kanshin temple in Kawachi. You know, the very temple our heroine is living in. Talk about hiding in plain sight! The Oda clan didn't think of checking that very obvious and suspicious temple... because?
Little Villains Grind Their Teeth: 1
This is public knowledge. It's not like this is something we only knew just recently. As far as I can tell, everyone knows this since forever.
You know, sometimes I can't tell what's supposed to be going on here. They bring up obscure historical points that checks out to be true, and then toss big fat obvious lies my way. A lot of these stuff are unknown to even the majority of Japanese people, and I've seen many manga authors who make historical manga admit that they know zippity-doo-dah about the historical characters they write about. They toss us into this universe, and leave out a lot of details. Since I know the history, I fill in the "blanks" of the narration with real history, but then it ruins the entire plot. However, if I just leave it blank, the plot makes no sense either. I'm just... am I nitpicking too much? I... I... HELP!!!
Anyways, back to the story. More ninjas show up. We've met Saizo and Sasuke earlier, and they were supposedly from Koga. Um, the traditional accounts says that Saizo hails from IGA, not Koga.
Chronicles of WTF: 13
Oh, save me, now it's Kakashi!
Fuuma Kotaro, the hereditary name of the Fuuma ninjas' clan leader. Incidentally, this Kotaro is Kotaro the fifth. Also, they're not free ninjas. They're the ninjas of the Hojo clan. They have an overlord and they can't go out tromping about as they please!
Chronicles of WTF: 14
Parents. Not the entire damn clan. Excuse me, can I ask whatever happened to the other Kusunoki people? Did they all die? Did they hide themselves?
Enter Kusunoki Chouan Masatora, Nobunaga's administrative clerk.
Let me tell you what happened to Kusunoki Masashige. He defended the emperor's authority against the Ashikaga family, who eventually won and became shogun and rendered the emperor useless. For his actions, the Kusunoki was decreed a traitor to the government and the family name was tarnished for many generations. Then, in the mid-1500s one of Masashige's descendants, Masatora, received an official pardon from the emperor with the help of either Nobunaga or Matsunaga Hisahide, and eventually came to serve under Nobunaga.
Oh, sure, like I said before, Masashige had more than one descendants. There's one other Kusunoki living in this era that is known in history, Kusunoki Masatomo. This one was hostile to Nobunaga. He served the house of Kitabatake, who Nobunaga subjugated in 1569 and later handed to his son Nobukatsu. Masatomo refused to accept Nobunaga or Nobukatsu as his new overlord, ran off to join one of Nobunaga's other enemies, and eventually got killed in battle. If we want to say that this guy or his relatives were the heroine's parents, sure, we can do that. However, dying in battle is not "murder", unless you want to say that Nobunaga waging war is bad... but then Nobunaga isn't the only person waging war in this era. Warlords were massacreing people right and left everywhere, so either way you go, this makes no sense.
Incidentally, Masatomo's son, Masamori, didn't join his father in rebellion and remained serving Nobukatsu loyally. So there's two Kusunoki serving Nobunaga just fine, and then there's one who rebelled because of personal dislike. It has nothing to do with Nobunaga being bad or anything.
Demon King of 666th Heaven: 5
Chronicles of WTF: 16
Hanzo apologized to Tomotoyo for making her go through all this, and she replies:
Yes, everyone's dying. ButI thought Nobunaga's fighting this war of unification to STOP all the meaningless fighting. So maybe you should actually help him out!
Really, if the problem is that Nobunaga doesn't like ninjas and he thinks they're in his way, so he wants to kill them all... the easiest solution is maybe to not fight Nobunaga? Or... stop being ninjas? Or... look to the other warlords for protection? We just established earlier that there are, in fact, other warlords aside from Nobunaga. Ask them for help, and then if Nobunaga has beef with you ninjas still, then his business will be with the other overlord. Problem solved!
Diplomacy! It's a good thing! Why aren't YOU doing it if you're supposed to be the good guys? Hello?
The Plot Hath Decreed: 5
This is ridiculous. They should've just stuck with fluffy sparkly fantasy romances in sparkly fairyland or something, not try to apply sparkly romances in a tough political chaos that is the Sengoku.
Or at least just not name names, like what they did in one of their older games called "Heian Love" (the game has since been removed from app stores). It was, quite interestingly, loosely based off the story of Kusunoki Masashige's heroic deeds. Except they don't name real names and just set it in a vague time period. The Masashige expy, for example, was named "Sugawara Masakuni" instead. It's more than obvious who he is, if you know history, but I get less bitchy about history fail because his name is different and I can pretend it's an original character.
Anyways, Hanzo tells us that they can't all go to Iga together because them travelling in a huge group would attract attention. Also because our heroine can't do magic ninja things and can't hide in trees and such. Therefore, we should pick one "bodyguard" to accompany her to Iga. The rest of the scene are just the guys squabbling about who gets to be bodyguard. Sasuke and Goemon makes perverted jokes about staying together even while bathing, and Saizo makes scathing remarks about being uninterested in her nakedness (bleh), and Kotaro being the only decent one and saying that he's willing to die to fulfill his duties.
And then the "character select" screen shows up and that's the end of the prologue.
Chronicles of WTF: 16
Demon King of 666th Heaven: 5
The Art of Words: 6
The Plot Hath Decreed: 5
Little Villains Grind Their Teeth: 1
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