History VisualNovel / ShinyDays

* IllGirl: Inori has a chronic illness, so she'll collapse if she doesn't take her medicine. She's scheduled for surgery but, of course, she had to come see Makoto first.

** The mandatory relationship drama before you get Setsuna's good end could have been quite easily avoided if she had just mentioned that Shun was her father. But no, she just gives vague apologies without clarifying what her relationship with him actually ''is.'' That said, Makoto actively refuses several attempts at communication, though she probably wasn't going to tell him then either.

''Shiny Days'' was released in English by JAST in September of 2015 with certain questionable content removed, though there is a restoration patch for it.

* RealityEnsues: The stripperiffic costumes get Youko in trouble with her superiors because they attract the wrong kind of customers. Further, they cause the reputation of Radish to go down and it wasn't super high to begin with. People think it might work as a brothel after hours.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: The uniforms for the restaurant look more like something that a stripper or porn star might wear than an actual waitress. However, RealityEnsues, and the restaurant's reputation goes down and they start getting sleazy customers.

* AlternateTimeline: Despite the narrative taking place during the summer '''before''' ''School Days'', it still takes place in one to avoid ContinuitySnarl with it's MultipleEndings.

** In one ending, Makoto gets together with both Kotonoha ''and'' Kokoro. Another variant of the same ending has their '''mother in on it too.

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Kokoro insists that she's totally an adult, [[TokenMiniMoe despite looking about eight years old,]] [[ThirdPersonPerson referring to herself in the third person]], and falling asleep inside movies intended for adults.

* ForbiddenFruit: Take tells Makoto to never go to Radish - so the moment Take leaves, he heads right over.

* LoveHurts: A lot more people try to get Makoto than actually get him. Kokoro and Kotonoha, two of the more sympathetic teens, are devastated to realize they're too late. They're less selfish and aggressive than the other girls, generally because they're kinder and more emotional in general, so they take it particularly hard.

* MultipleEndings: There are three main routes, totaling dozens of different endings.Also, unlike the [[VisualNovel/SchoolDays first game]], this game features [[NonStandardGameOver poor endings]] in addition to the standard bad endings. GuideDangIt!

* NeverMyFault: Makoto refuses to accept that his paranoia [[spoiler:drove Setsuna to Paris]], choosing instead to go home and sulk.

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Sekai doesn't really have a proper ending for herself while her ''School Days'' rival has at least three. This may be because while Kotonoha remains a kind and sympathetic character, Sekai is portrayed as a [[ManipulativeBitch backstabbing, selfish little git.]]

** Kokoro is thirteen, but looks like she's maybe eight to ten.

** Second, Setsuna, Kotonoha and Sekai's mothers all work together. Sekai, Niki and Setsuna are childhood friends and Niki hangs out with Hanon as the local GoodBadGirl duo. Hanon is the older sister to Futaba and Kazuha, who are friends with Karen, who is the younger sister of Otome. Otome and Makoto are friends and Inori is his childhood friend and sort of fiancee. Otome bullies Kotonoha and forces Yamagata to help out during the festival preparations to keep her away from Makoto since he used to like her, and they're still somewhat distant friends.

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Otome thinks Setsuna sexually assaulted Inori. Setsuna apologizes for kicking her. It takes several minutes for them to figure out that they aren't talking about the same thing at all.

** In the same scene Otome also mistakes Setsuna for being S&M Queen [[spoiler:which she will actually be one complete with dominatrix costume and whip to punish Makoto for getting his way with Sekai and Youko with her mother's help in one of the bad endings.]]

* CrazyJealousGuy: Makoto gets super jealous of Shun simply because his girlfriend actually talks to other guys on occasion. But of course he can't just ask her or anything, oh no. Nor listen to her when she tries to explain. No, he has to believe that his girlfriend is cheating on him with someone old enough to be her father. Granted, Shun is around early to mid 30s at most along with [[spoiler:Karen's (later confirmed) speculation about Futaba's sexual relationship with Shun]] so it isn't unreasonable to believe in such.
* CringeComedy: It's possible to end up in some ''very'' awkward situations. Like Makoto seducing Setsuna's mom, having them sleep together in her room while she's at Sekai's and then Setsuna coming home early while her mom frantically tries to keep her from noticing Makoto, who has no idea that he's at Setsuna's.

** Kokoro is built around the innocent little kid idea and is very cutesy as a result, even though she's also something of a nosy brat.
** Setsuna also grows increasingly cute as the story goes along, especially if you pick the right dialogue options. Unfortunately, the summer is littered with minefields for her so it's quite easy for her to end up heartbroken, YouBastard.

* EmotionlessGirl: Setsuna's apparent mood never seems to change much and she speaks very quietly.

* ExecutiveMeddling: InUniverse, subverted. Youko wants to have a large, complicated menu with certain items paired together and a skimpy uniform, but management wants to change things back to the usual. Manami points out that the only waitress that has managed to memorize the menu and manual is Setsuna, who is definitely an exception, and that the uniform attracts sleazy customers, meaning she fully intends to support the management.

* ForbiddenFruit: Take tells Makoto to never go to Radish, so the moment Take leaves he heads right over.

* YourCheatingHeart
** Oruha's boyfriend cheated on her with her little sister, leading her to eventually starts having relationship with Ryuuji.
** Makoto will also cheat quite easily, though it's not always his fault.
*** For example, at one point Karen manipulates him into believing that he's been dumped by Youko, but she simply forgot her phone in Japan while she was in Paris and forgot to tell him she was going to be gone.
*** However, if he goes to the festival with Setsuna, Kokoro and Kotonoha he simply assumes the worst without actually trying and begins going out with Setsuna without a second thought.
*** For one ending, Makoto can jump from Youko to Mai to either Kotonoha or Setsuna without a second thought.

* HairDecorations: Kokoro has little beads on either side of her head.

* MythologyGag: The part about the rumor of Radish Restaurant being used for prostitution can be traced back to the original Summer Radish Vacation where in the bad endings Tomaru would use the heroines to prostitute the customers.

* AlternateTimeline: Despite the narrative taking place during the summer '''before''' ''School Days'', it still exists takes place in one to avoid ContinuitySnarl with it's MultipleEndings.

* JerkassFacade: Kotonoha's mother is a demanding and rather rude customer. However, she's actually just testing the restaurant on behalf of the store's HQ. When Inori chews her out she openly says it was probably an appropriate reaction to seeing her friend being harassed. In the other main route, she's amazed that Setsuna managed to memorize the entire manual and menu, which she believed at that point to be impossible. It's simply too complicated for an ordinary restaurant like Radish.

* SpoiledSweet: The one time Kokoro brings up her family's money, she's offering to pay for Makoto's tickets at the movie. Of course, he feels awkward about a kid paying for his ticket.

* MultipleEndings: There are three main routes, totaling dozens of different endings.

* BrotherSisterIncest: If you know the School Days family tree, you know that a large chunk of Makoto's love interests are actually close relatives.

* HiddenDepths: In this game, we learn that Makoto sometimes spends his free time fishing, a hobby that didn't come up in School Days. He's really good at it, too; at one point, he catches enough fish for him, his sister Itaru, and his mother to eat a fish dinner.

* NoCampaignForTheWicked: Sekai doesn't really have a proper ending for herself while her School Days rival has at least three. This may be because while Kotonoha remains a kind and sympathetic character, Sekai is portrayed as a [[ManipulativeBitch backstabbing, selfish little git.]]

* ParentalIncest: Shun is sleeping with Futaba, mostly on [[FilleFatale her insistence.]] He has a large number of other children, but the only one he seems to actually treat like a daughter is Setsuna. Justified in Sekai's case since it is implied in School Days that [[LoveHurts Youko]] has no intention of allowing him to come back into hers and her daughter's life again.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Overall, the characters are significantly more unpleasant than they were in School Days. Sure, [[{{Yandere}} someone might stab someone else to death there]], but they weren't as bad in just day to day interactions.
* TooLongDidntDub: Some puns go untranslated. For example, Karen's ending could be read either Summer with Karen or Lovely Summer. Jast went with the latter.

* BleachedUnderpants: Most of the sexual content remains intact, but the obviously underaged Kokoro and her friend had their sex scenes removed for legal reasons. This caused an outrage and many pre-orders canceled due to JAST bowing down to censorship. However, Jast USA made good on their promise and released an uncensor patch to restore the content.

* BreakoutCharacter: Shiny Days is focused primarily on Setsuna, though there are plenty of endings that don't involve her at all.
* BrickJoke: During the scene that Otome mistakes Setsuna for being PsychoLesbian, the imagination consists of her grabing Inori's boobs while the latter says "Setsuna-oneesama". The fun part?[[spoiler:Setsuna's is actually her half-sister.]]

* TheCameo: For whatever reason, Anime/SuperSonico from [[Creator/NitroPlus nitro+]] appears as a customer of Radish, where she has a going away party that [[HollywoodToneDeaf Inori "sings" at]].

* TheCutie

* DemotedToExtra: Sekai and Kotonoha, the main heroines of School Days, have a very small role in Shiny Days. Sekai gets sick and makes Setsuna take over her waitressing job while Kotonoha has no significant ties to Makoto or anyone else yet. As a result, even Sekai's mother and Kotonoha's little sister actually play larger roles.

* ExtremeDoormat

* GreenEyedMonster: Otome resents Kotonoha for being so popular with boys.

''Shiny Days'' is a spinoff of the famous or possibly infamous visual novel ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' in which most of the yandere murder fun has instead been traded for backstabbing shenanigans and a focus on subheroine Setsuna. At the beginning of the story, Sekai catches a cold that later turns out to be the mumps. She forces Setsuna to take over her waitress job until she recovers, a prospect that Setsuna dreads. However, it's not all bad. Though Sekai wasn't serious about it, it turns out that her workplace ''is'' quite close to where Setsuna's crush lives and after a horrible first day, she meets him on the beach, after which she begins meeting him every day after work.

* MistakenForProstitute: Otome thinks Setsuna is a professional S&M queen for several minutes before Setsuna finally mentions that all she did was kick was kick Inori. At another point, Makoto somehow ends up think Setsuna is a callgirl when she won't tell him where she works after describing her uniform.

* BleachedUnderpants: Most of the sexual content remains intact, but the obviously underaged Kokoro and her friend had their sex scenes removed. This caused an outrage and many pre-orders canceled due to JAST bowing down to censorship. However, Jast USA made good on their promise and released an uncensor patch to restore the content, and it wasn't their fault in the first place but issues with laws in countries like Australia or the UK. See ScapegoatCreator.

* BleachedUnderpants: Most of the sexual content remains intact, but the obviously underaged Kokoro and her friend had their sex scenes removed. This caused an outrage and many pre-orders canceled due to JAST bowing down to censorship...

* ParentalIncest: Shun is sleeping with Futaba, mostly on [[FilleFatale her insistence.]] He has a large number of other children, but the only one he seems to actually treat like a daughter is Setsuna. Justified in Sekai's case since it is implied in School Days that [[LoveHurt Youko]] has no intention of allowing him to come back into hers and her daughter's life again.

* HeelFaceTurns: Ryuuji and Tohma, the two lecherous surfers that cause trouble at Radish, reforms in Inori Route after she beat the shit out of them for harassing Setsuna.

** It's mentioned that Kotonoha has been spending her summer reading a book called [[{{Silmarillion}} "Silmarilli-something"]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Leading up to two Manami endings,, she calls Makoto out on so easily abandoning girlfriends after claiming he loves them, claiming that if he had cared about Youko he wouldn't have started dating Setsuna almost immediately after she left Japan nor would he have given up on Setsuna so quickly either to flirt with her daughters. Unfortunately, the point is undermined when she gets seduced mid conversation.