History VisualNovel / Doukyusei

* InformingTheFourthWall: Pretty much everything in the game can be examined, upon which Takurou will prompted to give the player some of his own thoughts about said object. His tendency to do this even gets some occasional LampshadeHanging; one memorable instance comes up if Takurou is asked to repeatedly examine Miho's watering can while he meets on her shift at the flower shop. Miho will eventually express confusion and even a bit concern at why Takurou is suddenly so intensely and weirdly interested in her watering can. In other instances, it turns out some characters can hear his supposed InnerMonologue and comments on it.

Not to be confused with [[{{Manga/Classmates}} the manga of the same name]].

Not to be confused with [[{{Manga/Doukyusei}} the manga of the same name]].

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''Dōkyūsei'' (同級生, lit. ''Classmates'') is an [[HGame Eroge]] DatingSim of the ''nanpa'' subgenre developed and published by Creator/ELFCorporation, where the protagonist prowls the town in search of eligible bachelorettes (or, in some cases, [[OtomeGame bachelors]]). With its release for the UsefulNotes/PC98, the UsefulNotes/SharpX68000, and the UsefulNotes/FMTowns in 1992, ''Dōkyūsei'' stands out as one of the grandaddies of the whole DatingSim genre. It eventually got ported to the [[UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 TurboGrafx CD]] in 1995 and the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn in 1996 (the latter [[VersionExclusiveContent featuring some minor additions]]), and got a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in 1999, which featured redrawn graphics and some slight script changes to be more "era-appropriate", but it remained a [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] game until April 2022, when a fully translated remake (based on the 1999 remake) named ''Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer'' was released on both Steam and the Japanese platform Johren.

* VersionExclusiveContent: The UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn version of the game, ''Dōkyūsei: if'', features three new characters, and thereby three new storylines, unique that version.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: During Prof. Serizawa's introductory event, she is busy grading papers. Takurou tries asking about his grade, to which Serizawa reminds him that he didn't hand in this particular test because he took that day due to his uncle having died. She then dryly adds that it was the eighteenth of his uncles to die this year.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:When studying the neighborhood that Sakimake Academy is placed in, Takurou will mention in passing that that he has heard rumors of a sex offender operating in the area during night time. True enough, Prof. Serizawa is subjected to AttemptedRape at the hands of said guy when she is on her way home in the evening during her route.]]

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler:When studying the neighborhood that Sakimake Academy is placed in, Takurou will mention in passing that that he has heard rumors of a sex offender operating in the area during night time. True enough, Prof. Serizawa is subjected to AttemptedRape at the hands of said guy when she is on her way home in the evening during her route.]]

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Prof. Serizawa's attempted rapist is portrayed in an unequivocally negative light.

''Dōkyūsei'' (同級生, lit. ''Classmates'') is an [[HGame Eroge]] DatingSim of the ''nanpa'' subgenre developed and published by Creator/ELFCorporation, where the protagonist prowls the town in search of eligible bachelorettes (or, in some cases, [[OtomeGame bachelors]]). With its release for the UsefulNotes/PC98, the UsefulNotes/SharpX68000, and the UsefulNotes/FMTowns in 1992, ''Dōkyūsei'' stands out as one of the grandaddies of the whole DatingSim genre. It eventually got ported to the [[UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 TurboGrafx CD]] in 1995 and the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn in 1996, and got a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in 1999, which featured redrawn graphics and some slight script changes to be more "era-appropriate", but it remained a [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] game until April 2022, when a fully translated remake (based on the 1999 remake) named ''Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer'' was released on both Steam and the Japanese platform Johren.

''Dōkyūsei'' (同級生, lit. ''Classmates'') is an [[HGame Eroge]] DatingSim of the ''nanpa'' subgenre developed and published by ELF Corporation, where the protagonist prowls the town in search of eligible bachelorettes (or, in some cases, [[OtomeGame bachelors]]). With its release for the UsefulNotes/PC98, the UsefulNotes/SharpX68000, and the UsefulNotes/FMTowns in 1992, ''Dōkyūsei'' stands out as one of the grandaddies of the whole DatingSim genre. It eventually got ported to the [[UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16 TurboGrafx CD]] in 1995 and the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn in 1996, and got a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in 1999, which featured redrawn graphics and some slight script changes to be more "era-appropriate", but it remained a [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] game until April 2022, when a fully translated remake (based on the 1999 remake) named ''Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer'' was released on both Steam and the Japanese platform Johren.

* InformingTheFourthWall: Pretty much everything in the game can be examined, upon which Takurou will prompted to give the player some of his own thoughts about said object. His tendency to do this even gets some occasional LampshadeHanging; one memorable instance comes up if Takurou is asked to repeatedly examine Miho's watering can while he meets on her shift at the flower shop. Miho will eventually express confusion and even a bit concern at why Takurou is suddenly so intensely and weirdly interested in her watering can.
* InUniverseGameClock: The game was one of the very first {{Dating Sim}}s to employ this extensively, using it for timed story events, making it the TropeCodifier, if not outright the TropeMaker for the genre's use of this. A visit to any location (including separate rooms of a building, etc.) "costs" some where between 10-20 minutes of the game time. In other instances, it turns out some characters can hear his supposed InnerMonologue.

* InUniverseGameClock: The game was one of the very first {{Dating Sim}}s to employ this extensively, using it for timed story events, making it the TropeCodifier, if not outright the TropeMaker for the genre's use of this. A visit to any location (including separate rooms of a building, etc.) "costs" twenty minutes of the game time.

* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: The main plot of Mai's route, with Kenji being the Rich Suitor and Takurou being the Poor Suitor. True to form of the trope, Kenji is quite an arrogant jerk who is unfaithful to Mai to boot, but because Mai's family prefer him due to his own family's high status they are effectively in an ArrangeMarriage in all but name, meanwhile, Takurou, a working class guy with aspirations of being a writer, is the one who Mai ends up falling in real love with, due to the fact that he accepts and treats her as a person.

The game went on to spawn the sequel, ''Dōkyūsei 2'', which was released in 1995. It further spawned a SpinOff series, ''Kakyūsei'' (下級生, lit. ''Underclassmates''), of which the first game was released in 1996, with a sequel released in 2004. It also got an AnimatedAdaptation, courtesy of the studio Pink Pineapple, in the form of a 4 episodes [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]], titled ''Dōkyūsei: End of Summer'', which even saw a translated release on the western market by ''Creator/ADVFilms'', simply called ''End of Summer''.

The game went on to spawn two sequels. The first, ''Dōkyūsei 2'', was released in 1995. The second, ''Kakyūsei'' (下級生, lit. ''Underclassmates''), released in 1996, was somewhat more of pseudo-sequel. It also got an AnimatedAdaptation, courtesy of the studio Pink Pineapple, in the form of a 4 episodes [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]], titled ''Dōkyūsei: End of Summer'', which even saw a translated release on the western market by ''Creator/ADVFilms'', simply called ''End of Summer''.

''Dōkyūsei'' (同級生, lit. ''Classmates'') is an [[HGame Eroge]] DatingSim of the ''nanpa'' subgenre developed and published by ELF Corporation, where the protagonist prowls the town in search of eligible bachelorettes (or, in some cases, [[OtomeGame bachelors]]). With its release for the UsefulNotes/PC98, the UsefulNotes/SharpX68000, and the UsefulNotes/FMTowns in 1992, ''Dōkyūsei'' stands out as one of the grandaddies of the whole DatingSim genre. It eventually got ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn in 1996, and got [[VideoGame remake]] for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in 1999, which featured redrawn graphics and some slight script changes to be more "era-appropriate", but it remained a [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] game until April 2022, when a fully translated remake (based on the 1999 remake) named ''Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer'' was released on both Steam and the Japanese platform Johren.

The game went on to spawn two sequels. The first, ''Dōkyūsei 2'', was released in 1995. The second, ''Kakyūsei'' (下級生, lit. ''Underclassmates''), released in 1996, was somewhat more of pseudo-sequel.

''Dōkyūsei'' (同級生, lit. ''Classmates'') is an [[HGame Eroge]] DatingSim of the ''nanpa'' subgenre developed and published by ELF Corporation, where the protagonist prowls the town in search of eligible bachelorettes (or, in some cases, [[OtomeGame bachelors]]). With its release for the UsefulNotes/PC98, the UsefulNotes/SharpX68000, and the UsefulNotes/FMTowns in 1992, ''Dōkyūsei'' stands out as one of the grandaddies of the whole DatingSim genre. It eventually got ported to the Creator/SEGASaturn in 1996, and got [[VideoGame remake]] for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in 1999, which featured redrawn graphics and some slight script changes to be more "era-appropriate", but it remained a [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] game until April 2022, when a fully translated remake (based on the 1999 remake) named ''Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer'' was released on both Steam and the Japanese platform Johren.

''Dōkyūsei'' (同級生, lit. ''Classmates'') is an [[HGame Eroge]] DatingSim of the ''nanpa'' subgenre developed and published by ELF Corporation, where the protagonist prowls the town in search of eligible bachelorettes (or, in some cases, [[OtomeGame bachelors]]). With its release for the UsefulNotes/PC98, the UsefulNotes/SharpX68000, and the UsefulNotes/FMTowns in 1992, ''Dōkyūsei'' stands out as one of the grandaddies of the whole DatingSim genre. It eventually got a remake for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows in 1999, which featured redrawn graphics and some slight script changes to be more "era-appropriate", but it remained a [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] game until April 2022, when a fully translated remake named ''Dōkyūsei: Bangin' Summer'' was released on both Steam and the Japanese platform Johren.

* ChivalrousPervert: Takurou is not above coping a feel every now and then, but he draws the line at taking advantage of a distressed girl. There is also a moment where he, without initially realizing it, goes too far with Miho when she asks him for a kiss. When he realizes that he inadvertently violated Miho's boundaries after Mai chews him out for making Miho upset, he feels extremely bad about it.

* AmIJustAToyToYou: One of the more dramatic parts of [[spoiler:Mako]]'s route, sees [[spoiler:Takurou admitting to her, with his pants down, that he is faking his groin pain to have an excuse to visit her in her office and having her look at his genitals. Mako is understandably quite displeased and calls him out on this, telling him point blank that he has abused her trust as a medical professional. Takurou grows desperate, puts a hand on her shoulder, while he still has his pants down, and confesses to his crush on her. Mako sternly tells him to take his hand off her and says that what he is doing is no way to treat a woman. She sits down on a chair and while to speak to him in a cold and domineering voice, and orders him to watch her undress, while she accuses him of only seeing women as tools to gratify himself, even telling him if that is how he thinks he can go ahead and use her right here, right now. Takurou becomes downright scared at her sudden change in demeanor and extremely ashamed at her accusations, and repeatedly begs her to stop, even breaking down crying in the process, apologizing to her and telling her that he of course doesn't think of her as a tool. Mako responds with relief and drops her cold demeanor, and goes on to embrace him, as she gently scolds him, telling him that he is still a young man and has a lot to learn about women and love, but no woman will ever feel happy about being treated as just a tool, and she hopes this whole experience has at least has taught him that much]].