There is a music term known as "Da Capo." When playing a song, the person must go back to the beginning and play until they see "fin." Which almost everyone knows what that means. This also the title of an anime and visual novel (A.K.A. H-game.) The game has been around for a while now, almost as long as I've been a member of AA. One of the first pictures a got from AA was that of the one of the girls (Yoriko to be exact.) Though I found the picture on AA, I found the game looking around for... well games like that. At least I think that is the story.
The game is like almost all other visual novels. You play a male student of a school, live almost completely alone, have one male friend that shows up once in a while, and know of several girls for the picking. Asakura Junichi, you, are a bum. He does nothing for the school, typically sleeps late and thus is late for school, and likes to wonder around the island for almost no reason. While this is also the typical character that you play in these things, there are other things that make him different than the others. One, he is able to see other people's dreams. This happens every once in a while and he complains about it just as often. Two, for some reason he is able to produce Japanese sweets from his hands... Sounds weird and somewhat useless, but they managed to make it to where it wasn't useless. Aside from this, he also rambles on about a sukura tree that never dies. Sukura trees are also known as cherry blossom trees. There are plenty of other sukura trees, and all of them are in bloom year round. Real sukura trees are only in bloom in the spring.
The first day gets you acquainted with most of the girls that can be... charmed by Asakura's way of life. There is his cousin Yoshino Sakura, his little twin sister Asakura Nemu, the school idol Shirakawa Kotori, an upper classmate Mizukoshi Moe, his classmate Mizukoshi Mako, an under classmate Amakase Miharu, and... you'll have to wait until I cover her story... Yoriko/Misaki (I can't remember her last name.) By the way, Japanese say their last name first. So John Smith would be Smith John. Just throwing that out there for people that don't know. I must admit that there are some people that will go through and switch them for Americans... and I hate those people. Let me see, that covers all the girls. I guess I should include the names of the other two people Asakura frequently sees. They are Suginami, the male friend, and Shirakawa Koyomi-sensei. I guess the only thing left it to ramble on about each one of the girls. I'll go in the order that I... "banged" them... I can't think of any other way of saying that without sounding wrong anyways... I've also came up with a word to describe each one of their stories or the impression that I was given by it. So I'll give that as well.
Asakura Nemu: Sad/Sadness. This is Asakura's little twin sister, called Nemu by almost everyone. She isn't actually related by blood, but when her parents died they took her in. As odd as it seems, she is in fact born on the same day as him and in the same year. Despite being given this much information, they never say how old they are. I would have to say that they are both seventeen. Just like their age they never flat out said who was really the older of the two. (and this isn't just something that I'm saying, they made a point in the game about it.) So when they were around eleven, Asakura told Nemu that she would be his little sister from then on (this was around the same time that her parents died.) As for the seventeen year old Nemu, she does most of the chores, but can't cook, and is also a part of the student disciplinary council. Regardless of her poor cooking skills, and that of her brother, she eats very little, even when they go out to eat. As to how their relationship pans out... they slowly fall in love, but also keep bringing up the issue of being brother and sister. As time goes on Nemu's health gets worse and worse. She frequently gets fevers and would sometimes have to stay home due to it. And as their love grows (that statement sends shivers down my spine) she starts to cough up cherry blossoms. If I remember correctly, the cherry blossoms are the result of Nemu trying to keep all the wonderful memories that they are having with her. If she were to get rid of them she should be fine, but since she isn't, she keeps making cherry blossoms. It gets to the point that she might actually choke to death on them. Asakura visits his cousin for help. She tells him to give her a day with Nemu. When he visits Nemu again she has completely forgotten all of the things that made him want to be with her. This throws him into turmoil. Live a normal life with the person you can't love, but do, or indirectly kill her and never see her again. He tries to live a normal life with her but she ends up remembering some of the things they did together. The most important memory being that she loves him and he loves her. One day, she ends up missing. Searching through the house Asakura finds doctor's note. It read one important word... emaciation. Frantic, Asakura runs everywhere on the island in search for her. It finally occurs to him where she is and he runs home. After putting on his school uniform he runs to the roof to see his sister for the final time. After the credits, there was an epilogue. The epilogue reveals that Nemu is alive but that the never dying sukura tree is dead. Second credits (yes they have two of them). While this story ended happily, it made me really sad before that. A part of me still doesn't want the cliche ending that I was given, but I'll just have to except it. God damn that was only one of them, too... The rest may be shorter.
Mizukoshi Moe: Despair. Mako's older sister and Asakura's senpai (best translation for senpai would be "upper classmate.") She is a year older than both of them (I thought of her as being at most two years older), is often found sleeping (even when walking), and plays the xylophone (though she isn't very good at it...) Because she sleeps a lot (NOT AROUND) it does make the story a little interesting. It also made things look hopeless. As though she is going to sleep her life away. (AGAIN NOT AROUND) On the night of the festival, Asakura offers to escort her home. While crossing a street a car runs a red light and nearly hits the two of them. Asakura was able to get Moe out of the way, but not without breaking his leg. My memory is a little fuzzy when it comes to what really happened, but the thing you need to get from this is that Asakura broke his leg. He was then rushed to the hospital to be treated. When he wakes up he finds out that Moe's father is actually a doctor at the hospital (and Asakura found this out because he asked why there wasn't any other patient in the room with him) and he is kind of glad to be able to see her more often thanks to it as well. There are some funny parts that occur in the hospital (no sex oddly enough) but one of the things I noticed was that Moe can be pretty dense. She kind of shows it by buying Asakura porno comics and by bringing him a bed pan rather than helping him to the bathroom. After a few weeks (at least two) Asakura is able to go home. By this time he has learned that Nemu has moved off the island to become a nurse. This wouldn't be a problem if he didn't have a broken leg. Luckily, Moe feels in debt to him and decides to move into Nemu's old room to help him out. While living together, Moe seems to have a normal sleep schedule at hand. Asakura gets to experience some of her dreams though. (you were thinking something else weren't you? *laughs at you* yeah, they did that, too...) Moe's dreams are actually memories of her childhood. She was playing in the sand and a boy came by to help her. This boy ends up being her first love, or at least her first friend. Once he is able to get rid of the cast, Moe goes back to her home. But when she does her old sleeping habits kick in and Asakura once again sees her with her vitamin pills. Asakura watches one last dream from Moe. In it he sees a young Moe crying in the rain. She is hunched over the boy that played with her, and there is a lot of blood around him. Asakura finally sees that they are in the middle of a road and that a car had hit the boy. A few days later he receives a call from Mako. She explains that they can't find Moe anywhere. By this time he should have been informed that she wasn't taking vitamin pills at all, they were in fact sleeping pills. Asakura runs across the island to find her. He finds her digging a tunnel into a mound of sand, just like in her dreams, and they begin to talk. It is then explained that she takes the pills in the hope of seeing the boy. Asakura gives her an explanation that she has to move on and that was what the boy would have wanted. He then helps her to dig a tunnel. After they finish it, Moe falls over and a pill bottle rolls away from her. Asakura looks into it, only to find it empty. Credits. The epilogue is another one of those happy ones. They give you the feeling that all is bad just to make you realize that she is alive and well. Or maybe just to make you feel better... hmm... anyways second credits. I felt despair, because it seemed like Moe had a dead end to her. As though Asakura might have always been second to that boy, that she might not actually live in the real world, or she would never give up on the pills. I did expect her to die as well, but unlike Nemu I don't think I was as happy to see her alive. I was still happy, just not as much. The thing that stuck out the most was the fact they said "it's a good thing they make sleeping pills..." and then it was something along the lines that people can't die from sleeping pills now a days. The part in quotes is almost exactly what they put in there. Otherwise Moe's story was kind of an amusing one.
Mizukoshi Mako: Lies. Classmate of Asakura, academic rival to Suginami, and friend to Nemu. She is the same age to the three of them, plays the flute (and well), and is thought of as a tom boy. She is still popular with the girls. I'll leave somethings open, but... not this... this is NOT "American Pie: Band Camp." And if you don't get that then I'm not going to explain anyways... There isn't much else to her. I guess the only thing I can add is that she can't stand scary movies. Which can be thought of as being ironic. One day she seeks out Asakura for help. She explains that she has been getting love letters from a girl in the school. Asakura laughs at this, since he calls her a boy, and after a while gives in to her request. They agree to have a "pretense" relationship until they get the girl off of Mako. (I put pretense in quotes for two reasons, one being that I had to look it up...) This goes on for about a week or two until Mako gets a letter that wishes them the best of luck. Japanese do things like that, it does prove that they have put the final nail in the coffin. The point is the girl has given up on Mako. Asakura is "overjoyed" and wonders away from a slightly hurt looking Mako. In the interest of making it look like it was real, Asakura keeps the gig up. A request by Mako, even then it was only logical. As Asakura was leaving the band room, Mako stopped him. She wanted him to help mop the floor. To her surprise, the band room has a carpet. She then starts to kiss him out of desperation. I think she had intended on telling him that she loved him, but due to her nature she couldn't muster the courage to say it, nor might he have taken it seriously. After cleaning out his desk, Asakura finds a letter and the game cuts to the credits. The epilogue has Asakura walking up to the roof. While he is doing so, he thinks of how he can tell the girl that loves him how he doesn't love her. When he gets there he lies and tells her that he does love her. Second credits. I have yet to come to a final decision as to whether or not Asakura was the only one lying in this story. The reason I state that is simple; Mako's nature. (She may or may not have done this but I can see it happening.) She fell in love with Asakura. In order to get closer to him she made up the story that a girl was writing her letters. She then revealed her feelings, indirectly, via another letter wishing them the best of luck. She didn't take into account that her plan wasn't working too well when she did so. In a final attempt, she started to make out with him in the hopes of winning him over. In the end she gave him a note to meet her on the roof. This was intended to make sure it was real. There are some elements that make this possible: she is popular with the girls, is a tom boy, is thought of as a boy by Asakura, and is an academic rival with Suginami. Being popular with the girls means that one of them could have actually fallen for her. Being a tom boy means that the boys (might) stay away from her. Asakura thinking that she is a boy... he is the type person to believe a girl would fall for Mako and a that a boy never could (and I think he proved it.) Suginami is supposed to be the smartest person in the school, or at least in his grade, which means that being on par with him shows that she is capable of thinking of something like this. This is my second reason for putting pretense in quotes, the simple fact that it could have been a ploy to get a guy to love her. This could have been it, but then again it might not have really happened like this. The other way this could have gone is simpler. Yes, a girl was in love with her. Yes, Mako's plan worked. In the end Mako actually ended up loving Asakura, and like noted above, knew he wouldn't accept her feelings unless she did something a little bit... risky? I guess something to prove it. But in the end she still ended up with a guy who didn't love her. I liked Mako (despite my weird conspiracy) and was kind of sad that it ended the way it did. Non the less, this story was based off of lies.
Shirakawa Kotori: Uncertainty. Same grade as Asakura, and the rest of the lot, so she is the same age. Her older sister, Koyomi, is the science teacher for the school. Kotori sings a lot and is also loved by everyone she comes in contact with. She doesn't have the same problem with the girls as Mako had, or has, but rather every single guy in the school. Well except two of them. Kotori frequently leaves school due to migranes and is bad at keeping herself healthy. At the beginning of the game, Suginami comes up to you with a divided (something where people put money in in the hopes that their guess is right, then the money is divided for those who got it right, I think) to see how many guys would ask Kotori out by the end of the school year. The end of the school year is about three or so days away from this. Asakura says he isn't interested. Being the lucky bum that he is, Asakura runs into Kotori several times and she ask him to listen to her practice. During the practice, she starts to cough. While the girls tried to keep people out, the room was jam-packed with people (mostly boys, 98% I bet). When she started to cough, they started to make rude remarks about her. Asakura runs out to the front of the group and tells them to leave. When questioned about his authority, he said, "I'm their manager!" So until the festival, it was only Kotori, Asakura, and the two other girls who listened to Kotori sing. In this time Kotori brings up questions about her. One of them being as to whether or not she enjoys singing. I remember Kotori getting sick before the festival, and in that time she was suckered into participating in the beauty contest (I can't remember the exact word.) This leads to the uproar at the festival. On stage she proclaims her love for Asakura. He boldly walks up next to her, thought something along the lines of, "this is the best way to prove it," and kisses her. Right in front of teachers and hundreds of boys whom worship Kotori. After the festival, and the performance that Asakura missed, Kotori remains in bed for a while. In this time Asakura has dreams of a little girl crying to a witch (that witch being his grandmother, more on that later) about how she doesn't like her new family. She couldn't understand them and didn't like them for that. He has a second dream of the Shirakawa's family worrying over a young Kotori. They look at her and she has this fake smile on her face, a smile... hmm.. I can't describe it. Some time passes by and the never dying cherry tree dies. Asakura doesn't worry about it. The next day he waits for Kotori, but she ends up late. He goes to her house and finds her looking terrible. She gives him a smile and a reason for being late. They then go to spend their day as planned. At the end of the day, Asakura figures out why it felt odd to be with Kotori. While she seemed to be enjoying the rides and what not, it also seemed like she wasn't there. He then remembers that she had the same fake smile on her face, like the one she had years ago. Time passes on and Kotori slowly gets worse. Her solo was a flop and she hasn't seen much of Asakura. Askura receives a phone call from Koyomi about how she hasn't seen Kotori all day. Kotori was supposed to sing a song for Koyomi's wedding. Asakura runs around the island looking for her. He finally finds her under the dead sakura tree (the one that should have lived forever.) This is were she reveals that she was able to read other people's minds. But since the never dying sakura tree died, she can no longer read others' thoughts. She had become so reliant on it, so dependent on it to read others' thoughts about how they felt about her, that now she is in distress and filled with uncertainty. Asakura comforts (you know the whole, "this love is for real" thing) her and they run to the wedding. Credits. The epilogue isn't very interesting. Asakura complains that he doesn't get to listen to her sing at the actual performance, again. Aside from that they show a picture of Kotori with her real smile. Just to show that she is able to move on with her new life. Second credits. Both Kotori and Asakura bring up whether or not Kotori really likes to sing or not. Her reasons to sing are her step mother and her power. Her step mother is catholic, which means random singing. Kotori wanted to fit in with her new family and this was one way of doing so. Kotori said something along the lines of being able to block out what people are thinking when she is singing. But I believe that she has lost focus once, while singing, because of the power. Either way, she is uncertain as to whether or not she likes to sing. It wasn't just her that was uncertain though. There is this little button on the side of the screen that allows me to review what has been said while I've been playing. I swear I used it the most with her. I admit that sometimes I wouldn't read something fully and then would go back to make sure I read it right... but... I would be reading something that was supposed to be in Asakura's head (skull...) and Kotori would respond just as though she was reading his mind. Turns out she was. So while she was filled with uncertainty at the end, I was filled with it for most of the game.
Sakura Yoshino: Extremes. Cousin to both Asakura and Nemu. She is slightly older than both of them, so she is about seventeen to eighteen. The thing is... you'll find out... Asakura's and Sakura's grandmother happens to be a witch. This is a blood relative, by the way. Asakura inherited his random treat making skills from her. You'll find out later about Sakura. Sakura used to live in Japan (on Hatsune island, where all of this is taking place) but had moved to America when she was elven or twelve. So on the second day of school (the second day you visit it) Asakura is surprised to find her back home. Actually... he is more surprised that she hasn't even grown... in any physical way. (translation for those that are dense... she is short and has no boobs... like a child...) *shudders* While she hasn't changed physically she had somewhat changed mentally. Although she still calls Asakura oniichan. (Before I go any further. I DID NOT want to play through Sakura's story. They made a joke about Asakura's preferences in girls... Ug... this is such a wrong story...) Anyways, Sakura has an extremely happy and outgoing personality. She also has shown up in Asakura's room unannounced. The main parts of her story consists of Nemu's jealousy, bad rumors about her, and her incredibly high IQ. The first third of the story is just getting used to her being around. The second third is Nemu causing conflict with the two of them (Sakura and Asakura.) The final third is confirming the bad rumors, or actually denouncing them. In the end, she kills the never dying sakura tree, and everyone who knew her forgets her. Except for Asakura. Credits. In the epilogue Asakura learns that she is moving back to America. Hm... Second credits. I don't really like Sakura that much. Her story embodies all that is fucked up in the world. We have incest, hyper-ness, pedophilia (a form of it), and I just don't like it. There is a lot more to her story. For instance, her IQ is between 160~180, she had taught several of the classes that Asakura was taking, and she is a witch. The last one is important, because she is the only one that can kill the never dying sakura tree. Killing it causes several things to happen, and I will get to that later. As for Nemu, she admits that she has been jealous of Sakura's relationship with Asakura (yeah...) and she ends up falling into the same thing that happened in her story. The whole coughing up cherry blossoms. Sakura's story didn't really matter to me, but it did explain the never dying sakura tree. For now I'll go to another one of the girl's stories.
Amakasa Miharu: Intriguing. A childhood friend to both Asakura and Nemu. She is probably a year younger than them (sixteen), she loves bananas (not what you're thinking) and is often referred to as being a good little doggy to her master Nemu. Nemu would never do this to her, but since Miharu clings to her, like some dogs do to their masters, they make the joke a lot. Miharu is also a part of the student disciplinary committee (or group, whatever form of it it is) and thus is often seen with Nemu. Miharu actually has a very likable personality. She often mutters something under her breath when she wants to make fun of someone (mostly Asakura) but jumps back to a lovable person after it. Like most of the other characters, Asakura runs into her every once in a while. You can't play her story until you complete the other five girls though... which is why I had to play Sakura's story... but after that you can start a new game to follow her story. On the first Sunday, Asakura runs into Miharu trying to get a kitten (or a cat... it's small enough to be a kitten) down from a sakura tree (they have a lot of them.) He lets her do it and after she is in the tree he wanders off. The next day there is a big commotion around Miharu's classroom. Asakura gets five different stories before he and Nemu learn that Miharu is in the hospital (actually they thought she was dead... idiots.) Miharu pops up with her greeting of "good evening" and everybody is relieved to see her alive. Miharu screws up several people's names before Asakura and Nemu run back to class, late. After taking their seats, Koyomi singles Asakura out and tells him to meet her after class (or attendance, it didn't matter that much.) In Koyomi's den (some random room with a bunch of biology stuff. It was more like a closet anyways.) Asakura learns that the real Miharu is in a hospital and that the one he saw this morning is really a robot. To prove it Miharu, who was in the room, shows him her wind up hole (that does sound so wrong.) It's located in between her shoulder blades, right over her spine. Koyomi goes on to explain that the robot Miharu wasn't supposed to be out yet, but that it was planned for test. Since the real Miharu is in a coma, now was a good time anyways. I don't remember the exact reasons as to why Asakura was chosen to take care of her, but it might have been related to him being an idiot. Actually the best reason was because they had been friends for so long. Asakura agrees to look over Miharu in case she over heats or to make sure she doesn't blow her cover. I mentioned a wind up hole. It turns out that the Miharu robot is powered by two things: solar energy and a spring. A highly realistic robot, which feels like a human and is capable of thinking, (she doesn't have Miharu's memories by the way) and is capable of eating like a normal human is powered by a spring! What the fuck! Well part of making sure she doesn't blow her cover is that spring. Asakura has to make sure that it is wound up otherwise she might crash somewhere and be taken to the hospital (hospitals and robots don't mix here) or she may over heat and start smoking out of her head, like they do in comics for those people that are thinking too hard (and they used that too.) Miharu is fascinated by everything, and it is understandable since this is the first time she has seen anything. But despite having so many things to look at, she wants to become more like the real Miharu. She decides that in order to do that she need to get memories that Miharu has. This leads to the saying, "you can't get blood from a stone." I find that untrue though. If you use a stone to bash someone's head in, then yeah you got blood. Of course that isn't what it means, but it does apply here. By trying to get that which is not there, the robot Miharu is shortening her life (or the time that she can run, even she can't run forever) needlessly. Eventually they give up long enough to celebrate Miharu's birthday. Nemu was invited but she ends up running out in the middle of it. Asakura chases after her. When he finally finds her, she goes on about how she isn't the real Miharu and that she can't except this. About a week or so before this, Nemu had walked into Asakura winding up Miharu (yes, it was winding up the spring not anything else) and so Asakura had to explain the situation to her. Asakura manages to calm her down and they go back to the party. A few days later Asakura gets a call from Koyomi that it's time for Miharu to be going. He visits her in the same den that they had been meeting in every day after school. He then watches a girl that he fell in love with die. Credits. The epilogue isn't very exciting. All it does is reveal that Miharu was released from the hospital. The only thing that I could have said before was that they dropped hints that the real Miharu might have had feelings of love for him. So in a way their love can blossom once again. *grimaces at that* Second credits. This character had always held some interest to me. I can't really describe it. Aside from that this has to be my favorite of all of the stories. It didn't feel like there was a bunch of lies, nor was it based on random magic, and it didn't have the "end bad just to end good" feel. I knew that the robot Miharu was going to die and I was sad, but I also knew that the real Miharu was going to get better anyways. Although I guess it is still sad since the real Miharu *bad bad thought* won't have the same memories as the robot Miharu. O, well. I guess I never fully explained the Miharu robot. She looks exactly like the real Miharu and has the same personality. So since the real Miharu loves bananas so much, so does the robot Miharu. As I explained above, she doesn't have the memories of the real Miharu. Now then, since the robot Miharu looks just like the real Miharu, that means I can say this about both of them. Miharu, for all of her sarcasm and her upbeat personality, looks so much fucking older than what she should be. Some of the CG (some other time) has her looking as though she is in her twenties. I sometimes stare at them in disbelief that she was intended to be around sixteen.
Yorika/Misaki: Patience. I have to simply jump into the story with this one. When Miharu is trying to get the kitten out of the tree you have the option of making Asakura do it. By doing this you jump about a month in game. You then find Asakura in the park being a bum. As he walks around he sees some kids around a bench picking on some girl. Upon closer inspection, he finds out that the girl has cat ears. As he stands there a little dazed, the kids start to pick up rocks to throw at her. Asakura stops three of them, but has to punch the last little bastard before he leaves. The cat girl clings to him as he ask her if she is alright. Just then the bastard's mother comes by to chew Asakura out. He then runs to a safe place where he can ask her some questions. One of them being why she is wearing a maid uniform. She explains that she is a maid looking for someone. As he wishes her luck and tries to leave she clings to him. Suginami shows up in time to gaze in wonder upon the cat girl. He then suggest that Asakura takes care of her, since Asakura has an extra room. (This is after Nemu leaves the island to become a nurse.) Asakura agrees to an extent. At his house the girl tells Asakura her name, Yoriko, and that she wishes to be a maid for him. Asakura allows her to, but soon finds out that she can't cook, do laundry, clean, nor does she want to leave the house. The first few days are teaching her these things (except for leaving the bloody house) and after a while she gets really good at it. Asakura lives his life mostly normal until Suginami shows him a "Lost" flier. It goes on to read about a lost kitten that has the same name as his newly found maid. Suginami puts two and two together, but Asakura doesn't want to believe it. Disregarding the flier, Asakura proceeds with getting Yoriko to overcome her fear of leaving the house. As time goes on she is able to walk where ever she wishes without too much trouble (I have to imagine the cat ears always giving her trouble) but she comes in contact with Sakura on one of the training days. Asakura overhears something about only having a few days left. After Sakura leaves, Yoriko tells Asakura that he has to think of her as nothing more than a maid. He agrees, though he admits to himself that it will be hard. The next day Sakura, with a metal bat..., follows Asakura to school. She explains that she can kill the never dying sakura tree and that by doing so Yoriko will return to being a cat again. He shrugs and tells her to go ahead and do it. She's surprised but leaves it be. The night that Sakura kills the never dying sakura tree, both Yoriko and Asakura say there good byes. Credits. The epilogue has Asakura and Suginami late for school. When they finally get to the classroom , they find it dead quiet. As they enter, Asakura is frozen in place at the person he sees. The girl looks exactly like Yoriko but she doesn't have the cat ears (and she isn't in a maid uniform.) They later meet on the roof of the school. Misaki (the girl from about two minutes ago) explains that Yoriko was her cat and that, thanks to the never dying sakura tree, she was able to overcome her fear of going outside. There is a little more to it but the point is that Yoriko wished to help Misaki out. Yoriko turned into a Misaki look a like (with cat ears) and while she was in the form of a human was being controlled by Misaki. It's more like Misaki's mind was trapped inside Yoriko's body until the day the never dying sakura tree died, when Yoriko turned back into a cat. As to what happened to Misaki's body, it was in a coma and she was hospitalized. So the entire time Yoriko was a maid it was really Misaki being a maid. Second credits. I like to listen to the characters talk in the game. Which drove me a little insane when it came to this one. She was incredibly shy, which meant it took her a lot of time to finish saying what she wanted to. Aside from that there was all the things Asakura had to do before he could even get her to go outside. This story felt really long. As for the beginning description of Yoriko/Misaki (I can't tell who was who at anytime) I'll just do my best. Misaki is at least Asakura's age and, up until becoming a cat maid girl, lived in a mansion where she wasn't allowed to associate with "the lower class." Yoriko is Misaki's kitten and had wished to help her owner out. I don't know if they where both shy and secluded, so I'll just say that they both were. Of course Misaki eventually got better and became bolder, that I know.
As you may have noticed, there are somethings that occur in one of the stories and may or may not be mentioned in the other stories. Things like the never dying sakura tree dying, Nemu going to a nurse school off the island, or simply the festival day. So I'll go through and explain them to an extent. Like which stories it occurs in or when it occurs.
The festival occurs for most of the girls. The only two it doesn't really effect is Misaki (her story starts way after it) and Miharu (they didn't include it with her.) For the rest of them; Kotori sings and has the beauty contest, Mako plays her flute, Moe helps Asakura break his leg, Sakura builds the tension up between Asakura and Nemu, and Nemu ran around doing committee stuff (I think...) That's pretty much it.
Nemu leaving the island occurs for almost all the girls. The only exception is Mako, who's story didn't last long enough in the time line for it. Nemu of course doesn't leave the island in her story though. The time it occurs is almost always the same, but given the length of the stories it feels different. For instance, in Moe's and Kotori's (?) stories it occurs about the middle of it, while in Sakura's it's at the very end. Just like the festival, Nemu is long gone in Misaki's story. I don't remember if they sent Nemu away in Miharu's story or not. If they did it was at the very end as well.
Sakura is supposed to leave the island and go back to America in all the stories, but she will drop out of school as well. She does this in Nemu's, Misaki's, and Kotori's stories. As for Moe's, Mako's, and Miharu's they either didn't say or the story didn't last long enough. Only in Sakura's story do you learn that she becomes a teacher at the school.
The never dying sakura tree dying. This is another one of those that occurs in almost all of them. The big difference isn't the fact that it happens but whether or not it affects anyone. It does occur in Moe's, Nemu's, Sakura's, Misaki's, and Kotori's stories. It may have occurred in Miharu's and Mako's stories but it wouldn't have affected them. I can say the same about Moe but I don't know if she actually had a special power like the rest of them. As for what happened when the never dying sakura tree did die: Nemu stopped coughing up cherry blossoms (both Nemu's and Sakura's stories), Kotori lost her psyche ability, Asakura no longer enters people's dreams nor can he make Japanese sweets, Yoriko stops being human and Misaki regains consciousness, and as for Sakura... she should stop looking like a damn kid, otherwise she still is a witch. It could also be said that regardless of the story that is being played, the effects are still felt by the other girls. So in Nemu's story Kotori still loses he psyche ability. Whether or not that is true, I don't know and don't care. It is a trivial matter in my opinion, but I still thought I would at least throw out my view of it.
Fuck that is a lot. Now all that is left is perhaps the anime? I haven't watched it all yet, but it has followed most of the things in the game. The only thing I'll say is that they actually made a girl to fall in love with Mako. But I don't feel as though that is enough to debunk my random ass theory. The only other thing I can add to this is that they don't go by one girl's story to the next. They did that in Clannad, Konan, and Air. More or less what they do is follow a girl around with the main male character and once they get to the end of their story, you hardly see that girl again. This one they have all the girls at once and sometimes go of to one of the girl's stories. O well, I'll see have it turns out. :) Da Capo.
There is a music term known as "Da Capo." When playing a song, the person must go back to the beginning and play until they see "fin."