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** A few times where Kotaro (or the player) is an asshole, [[spoiler: Lee Jane resets the scene, giving him another chance]].
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** A few times where Kotaro (or the player) is an asshole, behaves badly, [[spoiler: Lee Jane resets the scene, giving him another chance]].
**If In such a case, if he persists a second time, [[spoiler: Lee Jane resets him to the beginning of the game]].
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* ShoutOut: In his opening narration, Kotaro recalls a scene from a book where a cat is looking for a [[Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer door into summer]].
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* TrainingFromHell: Takeshi puts Kotaro through a [[DownplayedTrope light]] version of this [[spoiler: in preparation for the boxing match Kotaro promised that he would win for Mana.]]
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* TrainingFromHell: Takeshi puts Kotaro through a [[DownplayedTrope light]] version of this [[spoiler: in preparation for the his boxing match Kotaro promised that he would win for Mana.match.]]
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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Kaho. Kotaro says that flat-out, pondering over Kaho to the player.
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* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Averted with Kotaro, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who is just that]] - an ordinary high school student with no special powers.
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* PiggybackCute: Ai, any time Kotaro carries her on his back or on his bike. Also [[Spoiler: when Kotaro carries Kaho on his bike]].
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* PiggybackCute: Ai, any time Kotaro carries her on his back or on his bike. Also [[Spoiler: when [[spoiler:when Kotaro carries Kaho on his bike]].
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* EarCleaning: One of three choices of compensation for doing Ai afavor.favor, should Kotaro demand such.
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Their school is a magnet for students from far-away homes. Although the school skimps on [[SarcasmMode luxuries]] such as air conditioning.
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* TrainingFromHell: Takeshi puts Kotaro through a light version of this [[spoiler: in preparation for the boxing match Kotaro promised that he would win for Mana.]]
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* TrainingFromHell: Takeshi puts Kotaro through a light [[DownplayedTrope light]] version of this [[spoiler: in preparation for the boxing match Kotaro promised that he would win for Mana.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: A couple of the "Bad Endings" are this.
* {{Irony}}: Mana's route (and probably Tomomi's) are the only routes where you ''can't'' save Mana from her injury.
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* MissingMom: Ai's mom died when she was very young. Kaho's mom is also gone.
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* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: [[spoiler:In Mana's route she breaks her leg and can no longer competitively swim, when ask about it by some children at the end she calls it, her reminder from God that she is human.]]
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* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: [[spoiler:In Mana's route she breaks her leg and can no longer competitively swim, when ask swim. When asked about it by some children at the end end, she calls it, it her reminder from God that she is human.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Kotaro's first day jump sends him to the first day of school in the fall, when he learns of Kaho's death. This sets the entire plot in motion, to avert her death.
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* CassandraTruth: The girls don't believe you when you try to tell them about future tragedies you've witnessed.
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** [[spoiler:Tomomi's route.]]]]
** A few times where Kotaro (or the player) is an asshole, [[spoiler: Lee Jane resets the scene, giving him another chance]].
** If he persists a second time, [[spoiler: Lee Jane resets him to the beginning of the game]].
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** A few times where Kotaro (or the player) is an asshole, [[spoiler: Lee Jane resets the scene, giving him another chance]].
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A VisualNovel released in Japan in 2002, ''Hourglass of Summer'' is unusual in that it (a) [[NoExportForYou was released in America]], (b) [[BleachedUnderpants contains no hentai]], and (c) can be played on a DVD player. It was later adapted into a two-episode OVA that was released [[NoExportForYou exclusively]] in Japan. While it never received the amount of success as other visual novels like ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' or ''{{Tsukihime}}'', it is still [[CultClassic fondly remembered]] by Western audiences as their first foray into the visual novel genre.
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A VisualNovel released in Japan in 2002, ''Hourglass of Summer'' is unusual in that it (a) [[NoExportForYou was released in America]], (b) [[BleachedUnderpants contains no hentai]], and (c) can be played on a DVD player. It was later adapted into a two-episode OVA that was released [[NoExportForYou exclusively]] in Japan. While it never received the amount of success as other visual novels like ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' or ''{{Tsukihime}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', it is still [[CultClassic fondly remembered]] by Western audiences as their first foray into the visual novel genre.
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At the end of the school year, [[TheHero Kotaro Makimura]] resolves to confess his love to his crush, Kaho Serizawa, and plans to become her boyfriend by the end of summer vacation. On the way home from school, he runs into a cloaked stranger and accidentally gets covered with a mysterious powder. When he wakes up the next morning, he is shocked to find that [[TimeSkip it is the first day of September]]. As he returns to school, his friends tell him that his girlfriend Kaho has died in a traffic accident. But wait! He hasn't even spoken to her yet! And why is the second trimester suddenly started up when summer break was supposedly just around the corner?
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At the end of the school year, [[TheHero Kotaro Makimura]] resolves to confess his love to his crush, Kaho Serizawa, and plans to become her boyfriend by the end of summer vacation. On the way home from school, he runs into a cloaked stranger and accidentally gets covered with a mysterious powder. When he wakes up the next morning, he is shocked to find that [[TimeSkip it is the first day of September]]. As he returns to school, his friends tell him that his girlfriend Kaho has died in a traffic accident. But wait! He hasn't even spoken to her yet! And why is the second trimester term suddenly started up when summer break was supposedly just around the corner?
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Hirameki International, the company that localized ''Hourglass of Summer'' and released it in English, ceased production and distribution of its game library, which included this and many other titles (such as ''{{VisualNovel/Ever17}}'', the ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' game and the original ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' game). As such, it and all others are very much out-of-print, and the only way to play the game in English is through torrenting .ISO's and purchasing used copies.
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->''[[LoveAtFirstSight From that first moment]] [[DeclarationOfProtection I wanted to protect you...]]''
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At the end of the school year, [[TheHero Kotaro Makimura]] resolves to confess his love to his crush, Kaho Serizawa, and plans to become her boyfriend by the end of summer vacation. On the way home from school, he runs into a cloaked stranger and accidentally gets covered with a mysterious powder. When he wakes up the next morning, he is shocked to find that [[TimeSkip it is the first day of September]]. As he returns to school, his friends tell him that his girlfriend Kaho has died in a traffic accident. But wait! He hasn't even spoken to her yet! And why is the second trimester suddenly started up when summer break was supposedly just around the corner?
A VisualNovel released in Japan in 2002, ''Hourglass of Summer'' is unusual in that it (a) [[NoExportForYou was released in America]], (b) [[BleachedUnderpants contains no hentai]], and (c) can be played on a DVD player. It was later adapted into a two-episode OVA that was released [[NoExportForYou exclusively]] in Japan. While it never received the amount of success as other visual novels like ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' or ''{{Tsukihime}}'', it is still [[CultClassic fondly remembered]] by Western audiences as their first foray into the visual novel genre.
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* BadExportForYou: America got the DVD player version of the game, which is by no means bad, but nowhere near as visually impressive as the Japanese PS2 and PC versions.
* BeautifulDreamer: Mana watches you sleep [[spoiler: after you rescue her from her suicide attempt.]]
* BleachedUnderpants: Inverted. The original release was clean, but the Japanese PC rerelease added H-scenes into it.
* {{Bokukko}}: Mana.
* CassandraTruth: The girls don't believe you when you try to tell them about future tragedies you've witnessed.
* [[spoiler:ChildhoodFriendRomance/]]GirlNextDoor[[spoiler:/PatientChildhoodLoveInterest]]: Ai.
* CompressedAdaptation: The game had a two-episode OriginalVideoAnimation released in 2004, around the same time the title hit store shelves in the United States. It tried to squeeze a ten-hour character route (Kaho's true ending route, to be precise) into a 45-minute anime, and general consensus is that it did not do a good job. There's a distinct lack of explanation of many major plot points (the time-traveling aspect, most notably), some things no longer make sense (again, time-traveling), and the pacing seems to suffer due to being so tightly crammed into such a short runtime
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Tomomi, Mana, and Kaho.
* CuteLittleFangs: Ai.
* EarCleaning: One of three choices of compensation for doing Ai a favor.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Kaho.
* FestivalEpisode
* FrozenFlower: Mana is very cold on the outset, but her route shows she can be very girly and stubborn when the occasion calls for it.
* GirlishPigTails: Lee Jane.
* GoodGuyBar: Paradise Cafe is about as close to this trope as you can get in a high school setting.
* HairDecorations: Ai and Lee Jane.
* HiddenDepths: One of the major draws of the story, ''everyone'' has more to them than one would expect.
* HotLibrarian: Tomomi. Kotaro constantly talks about how beautiful she is with her glasses off. [[NerdsAreSexy Not that she]] [[HotTeacher doesn't look just as beautiful]] [[{{Meganekko}} with them on...]]
* [[spoiler:InterruptedSuicide]]: Mana
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Hirameki International, the company that localized ''Hourglass of Summer'' and released it in English, ceased production and distribution of its game library, which included this and many other titles (such as ''{{VisualNovel/Ever17}}'', the ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' game and the original ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' game). As such, it and all others are very much out-of-print, and the only way to play the game in English is through torrenting .ISO's and purchasing used copies.
* NakedFirstImpression: How Kotaro is introduced to Mana. [[spoiler:[[TimeTravelTenseTrouble Chronologically, anyway...]]]]
* OffModel: Not the game itself, which is amazingly beautiful, but rather the 2004 OVA.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kotaro.
* OutOfFocus / DemotedToExtra: Mana, [[spoiler:after preventing her accident]] in every route but her own. Especially in Tomomi's route, which can be beaten without encountering Mana at all.
** She also has precisely zero screentime in the second OVA episode.
* OverProtectiveDad: Kaho's.
* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: [[spoiler:In Mana's route she breaks her leg and can no longer competitively swim, when ask about it by some children at the end she calls it, her reminder from God that she is human.]]
* PiggybackCute: Ai
* [[spoiler:ResetButtonEnding]]: [[spoiler:Tomomi's route.]]
* RoadCone: Generally in use throughout, but one choice is an extremely obvious fork in the road between Kaho and Ai. (Though Lee Jane's ending may also be a possibility at the time.)
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Ligene or Lee Jane?
* StableTimeLoop: Plenty of them.
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:Tomomi's ex-boyfriend, Oonuma.]]
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Oh, yes.
* TrainingFromHell: Takeshi puts Kotaro through a light version of this [[spoiler: in preparation for the boxing match Kotaro promised that he would win for Mana.]]
* [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Unlucky]] or VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Ai, depending on how you play your cards.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Kotaro and Takeshi. Mana even comments on it, comparing them to a [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai]] duo.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Kaho. [[HiddenDepths On the surface anyway]]. Once you are invested in her route she shows her true self.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or green, or orange, or purplish-brown. The only heroine with a realistic hair color is Ai, and even then, blonde hair is pretty unusual for a native Japanese girl.
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At the end of the school year, [[TheHero Kotaro Makimura]] resolves to confess his love to his crush, Kaho Serizawa, and plans to become her boyfriend by the end of summer vacation. On the way home from school, he runs into a cloaked stranger and accidentally gets covered with a mysterious powder. When he wakes up the next morning, he is shocked to find that [[TimeSkip it is the first day of September]]. As he returns to school, his friends tell him that his girlfriend Kaho has died in a traffic accident. But wait! He hasn't even spoken to her yet! And why is the second trimester suddenly started up when summer break was supposedly just around the corner?
A VisualNovel released in Japan in 2002, ''Hourglass of Summer'' is unusual in that it (a) [[NoExportForYou was released in America]], (b) [[BleachedUnderpants contains no hentai]], and (c) can be played on a DVD player. It was later adapted into a two-episode OVA that was released [[NoExportForYou exclusively]] in Japan. While it never received the amount of success as other visual novels like ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' or ''{{Tsukihime}}'', it is still [[CultClassic fondly remembered]] by Western audiences as their first foray into the visual novel genre.
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!!Provides examples of:
* BadExportForYou: America got the DVD player version of the game, which is by no means bad, but nowhere near as visually impressive as the Japanese PS2 and PC versions.
* BeautifulDreamer: Mana watches you sleep [[spoiler: after you rescue her from her suicide attempt.]]
* BleachedUnderpants: Inverted. The original release was clean, but the Japanese PC rerelease added H-scenes into it.
* {{Bokukko}}: Mana.
* CassandraTruth: The girls don't believe you when you try to tell them about future tragedies you've witnessed.
* [[spoiler:ChildhoodFriendRomance/]]GirlNextDoor[[spoiler:/PatientChildhoodLoveInterest]]: Ai.
* CompressedAdaptation: The game had a two-episode OriginalVideoAnimation released in 2004, around the same time the title hit store shelves in the United States. It tried to squeeze a ten-hour character route (Kaho's true ending route, to be precise) into a 45-minute anime, and general consensus is that it did not do a good job. There's a distinct lack of explanation of many major plot points (the time-traveling aspect, most notably), some things no longer make sense (again, time-traveling), and the pacing seems to suffer due to being so tightly crammed into such a short runtime
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Tomomi, Mana, and Kaho.
* CuteLittleFangs: Ai.
* EarCleaning: One of three choices of compensation for doing Ai a favor.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Kaho.
* FestivalEpisode
* FrozenFlower: Mana is very cold on the outset, but her route shows she can be very girly and stubborn when the occasion calls for it.
* GirlishPigTails: Lee Jane.
* GoodGuyBar: Paradise Cafe is about as close to this trope as you can get in a high school setting.
* HairDecorations: Ai and Lee Jane.
* HiddenDepths: One of the major draws of the story, ''everyone'' has more to them than one would expect.
* HotLibrarian: Tomomi. Kotaro constantly talks about how beautiful she is with her glasses off. [[NerdsAreSexy Not that she]] [[HotTeacher doesn't look just as beautiful]] [[{{Meganekko}} with them on...]]
* [[spoiler:InterruptedSuicide]]: Mana
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Hirameki International, the company that localized ''Hourglass of Summer'' and released it in English, ceased production and distribution of its game library, which included this and many other titles (such as ''{{VisualNovel/Ever17}}'', the ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' game and the original ''VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno'' game). As such, it and all others are very much out-of-print, and the only way to play the game in English is through torrenting .ISO's and purchasing used copies.
* NakedFirstImpression: How Kotaro is introduced to Mana. [[spoiler:[[TimeTravelTenseTrouble Chronologically, anyway...]]]]
* OffModel: Not the game itself, which is amazingly beautiful, but rather the 2004 OVA.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kotaro.
* OutOfFocus / DemotedToExtra: Mana, [[spoiler:after preventing her accident]] in every route but her own. Especially in Tomomi's route, which can be beaten without encountering Mana at all.
** She also has precisely zero screentime in the second OVA episode.
* OverProtectiveDad: Kaho's.
* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: [[spoiler:In Mana's route she breaks her leg and can no longer competitively swim, when ask about it by some children at the end she calls it, her reminder from God that she is human.]]
* PiggybackCute: Ai
* [[spoiler:ResetButtonEnding]]: [[spoiler:Tomomi's route.]]
* RoadCone: Generally in use throughout, but one choice is an extremely obvious fork in the road between Kaho and Ai. (Though Lee Jane's ending may also be a possibility at the time.)
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Ligene or Lee Jane?
* StableTimeLoop: Plenty of them.
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:Tomomi's ex-boyfriend, Oonuma.]]
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Oh, yes.
* TrainingFromHell: Takeshi puts Kotaro through a light version of this [[spoiler: in preparation for the boxing match Kotaro promised that he would win for Mana.]]
* [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Unlucky]] or VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Ai, depending on how you play your cards.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Kotaro and Takeshi. Mana even comments on it, comparing them to a [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai]] duo.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Kaho. [[HiddenDepths On the surface anyway]]. Once you are invested in her route she shows her true self.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or green, or orange, or purplish-brown. The only heroine with a realistic hair color is Ai, and even then, blonde hair is pretty unusual for a native Japanese girl.
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