History VisualNovel / TheSongOfSaya

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[[caption-width-right:200:[[LightIsNotGood Looks can be deceiving]].]]

* AdultFear: Pretty much all characters in the Visual Novel meet horrible endings, but for this trope in particular, [[spoiler:Yousuke]] is the primary example and arguably the only one worthy of feeling sorry for. A doting family man has his life suddenly thrown into hell after [[spoiler:Saya gives him a "new" way to see things]], from there on the otherwise upstanding citizen goes [[spoiler:apeshit insane brutaly killing his wife and daughter out of pure horror ''everything'' in the world has become in his mind, and even ''enjoys'' it in a very twisted way]], and as if this wasn't ''excruciating painful'' enough [[spoiler:Yousuke's]] mind deranges so much that after [[spoiler:he meets Saya again]], with she now being the only person [[spoiler:he can see in human form]], the first thing in his agenda is [[spoiler:to viciously rape her]]. A true ''nightmare'' - no, better yet - a ''night terror'' to any decent family man out there.

* PantyShot: As seen in the page image, Saya's short little skirt does little to actually cover her.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair:
** Everyone has a fairly normal hair color... save Dr. Tanbo, whose hair is green.
** As is Saya's. Fuminori admits that this is probably because of his warped perception of reality. [[spoiler:He's right.]]

%%* StuffedIntoTheFridge

* ShoutOut: To a part of Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''{{Phoenix}}'' that had a similar storyline.

A VisualNovel / HGame by Creator/{{Nitroplus}}, ''Saya no Uta'' ("Song of Saya") revolves around a medical school student, Fuminori Sakisaka. Before the main plot, he was involved in a car accident which killed both his parents. He was saved, however, by an experimental brain surgery... which just happened to drastically alter his perception of the world. Everything now appears to him as if it were made from guts, slime, and gore.

%%* GrotesqueGallery

* MonsterSobStory: It's ''hard'' not to feel for Saya and Fumitori at times, even ''after'' the latter's MoralEventHorizon.

One night while still in the hospital, a [[WomanInWhite girl dressed in white]] appears before him. To him she appears completely normal, and above that, downright beautiful. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Rather than consider the why of this]], he latches onto her as his reason to keep living, and convinces her to move in with him once he's released from the hospital.

%%* WomanInWhite: Saya

%%* AnyoneCanDie

%%* BreakTheCutie: Yoh.

* [[spoiler: TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]: One of the endings.

* [[spoiler: FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Saya is on Earth to study the dominant species (i.e. humans) then convert them to the same thing as her via spores.]]

* {{Gorn}}: ''Which Fuminori gets to see on a 24/7, world level scale!''

* NighInvulnerability: [[spoiler: Saya and those she transforms.]]
* NonStandardGameOver: [[spoiler:The best ending, oddly enough.]]

%%* SceneryGorn: Literally.

%%* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow

* ActionGirl: Saya and Dr. Tanbo in different ways.

* AlienInvasion: Of a sort.

* AnyoneCanDie
* ArtisticLicenseBiology - Admitted, at least: A disclaimer at the beginning notes that this is in effect.
* BadassLabcoat: Ryoko Tanbo.
* BattleCouple: Fuminori and Saya in two of the endings.

* BizarreAlienBiology

* BreakTheCutie: Yoh.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Brutal deconstruction.
* DarkWorld: Fuminori sees the world as this.

* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu

* FinalBattle

* TheGrotesque: [[spoiler: Saya.]]
* GrotesqueCute
* GrotesqueGallery
* HeroAntagonist: Dr. Tanbo & Kouji
* HiddenDepths: Dr. Tanbo, namely.
* HospitalHottie: Dr. Tanbo.

* InterspeciesRomance: Saya and Fuminori.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy

* [[spoiler:KillTheCutie]]
* LonersAreFreaks

* LoveHurts
* LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil and Evil]]: Fuminori and Saya
* LoveTriangle: Fuminori, Saya, and Yoh.
* MadScientist: [[spoiler: Professor Ougai]]
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Like the CuteMonsterGirl above, Brutal Deconstruction.

* MultipleEndings: Three, to be precise.

* OccultDetective: [[spoiler: Ryoko Tanbo.]]

* PainfulTransformation: [[spoiler: Yoh again.]]

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Happens to Saya and Yoh. Saya gets over it fairly quickly while Yoh becomes a [[EmptyShell mindless sex doll]].

* RoadCone

* SawedOffShotgun

* SceneryGorn: Literally.

* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Ryouko]].

* StuffedIntoTheFridge

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Saya and Fuminori.]]

* TragicVillain: Fuminori
* UnholyMatrimony: Fuminori and Saya.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Poor Yoh.

* {{Utsuge}}

* ViralTransformation

* WomanInWhite: Saya

* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo

* BlackSpeech: Fuminori's hearing sense, along with all his other senses, is also warped: all voices but Saya's sound to him distorted, with weird frequency changes and other sounds hard to describe. This visual novel is dubbed, so we sometimes get to hear those voices as he hears them.
** A different example we can also hear, later in the story: [[spoiler:when Oumi breaks into Fuminori house, how do you think she hears Saya's "Welcome home!"]]

** [[spoiler:KillTheCutie]]

*** Speaking about Fuminori, his point of view alone '''will''' drive you insane and if he never met Saya he would have committed suicide a long time ago.

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Happens to Saya and Yoh, though both get over it fairly quickly.]]
** ...As long as you consider [[spoiler:becoming a [[EmptyShell mindless sex doll]] "getting over it", in Yoh's case]].

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: All you ever see of Saya's true form is a few heavily shadowed tentacles.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Everyone has a fairly normal hair color... save Dr. Tanbo, whose hair is green.

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* CthulhuMythos: A heavy influence on the story, and Saya's background. ''It shows.''

* {{Badass}}: Kouji. It takes some serious balls to do the things he has to.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Fuminori is [[HikaruMidorikawa Tamahome]].

* ShoutOut: To a part of OsamuTezuka's ''{{Phoenix}}'' that had a similar storyline.

A VisualNovel / {{H-Game}} by {{Nitroplus}}, ''Saya no Uta'' ("Song of Saya") revolves around a medical school student, Fuminori Sakisaka. Before the main plot, he was involved in a car accident which killed both his parents. He was saved, however, by an experimental brain surgery... which just happened to drastically alter his perception of the world. Everything now appears to him as if it were made from guts, slime, and gore.

* MoralMyopia - Saya, for all of her CompleteMonster level activities, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality is not actually all that inherently and purposely evil]], and in fact does not understand most human moral standards, she does not even seem to comprehend any of her actions as malevolent. In fact, it's [[spoiler:Fuminori]] who shows more concrete, straightforward evil, since he knows damn well what he's doing and why it's wrong.

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: Saya is hypothesized to be one of these.]] Somewhere between StarfishAliens and BlobMonster in form. With [[NaughtyTentacles tentacles]]. Also applied to [[spoiler:transformed Yoh and one of the endings]].

* NaughtyTentacles: [[spoiler: Saya uses these on Yoh. [[FridgeLogic Technically, every scene in which Saya is having sex involves them; we simply see it from Fuminori's distorted perspective.]]]]

* HGamePOVCharacter: Fuminori initially seems like a Type II B, but depending on route can wind up remaining this way, or descend all the way to a Type VI A or B, depending on your perspective.

* AdaptationDecay: The American comic book of Saya no Uta takes some... "creative" directions with the plot. Fuminori is changed to a more "American" name (Josh), Saya is no longer [[spoiler:Cthulhu]], but rather [[spoiler:the result of secret government experiments]]. We are shown [[spoiler:Saya's true form at the end of the first comic, despite never actually seeing it in the original story-- which is arguably scarier than actually knowing.]] Saya is also "aged up" to a less controversial body in Josh's eyes. While she was almost a child in the H-game, she's now about 18 physically.

* GenreSavvy: Dr. Tanbo, to the point where she seems more like an experienced {{Call of Cthulhu}} player than a doctor.

* {{Pixellation}}: Par for the course for a Japanese H-game. Also, given the horrifying levels of {{Gorn}} and HighOctaneNightmareFuel, the ''player'' is given the option to censor some of the worst parts via a filter before the game starts.
* PoliceAreUseless: reason given by Ryoko for not calling police (beside her own crimes).

--> Each night, I went to sleep wishing that this would turn out to be a nightmare.\\
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-> Each night, I went to sleep wishing that this would turn out to be a nightmare.\\

A VisualNovel / {{H-Game}} by {{Nitroplus}}, ''Saya no Uta'' ("Song of Saya") revolves around a medical school student, Fuminori Sakisaka. Before the main plot, he was involved in a car accident which killed both his parents. He was saved, however, by an experimental brain surgery... which just happened to drastically alter his perception of the world. Everything now appears to him as if it were made from guts, slime, and gore.

* AdultFear: Pretty much all characters in the Visual Novel meet horrible endings, but for this trope in particular, [[spoiler:Yousuke]] is the primary example and arguably the only one worthy of feeling sorry for. A doting family man has his life suddenly thrown into hell after [[spoiler:Saya gives him a "new" way to see things]], from there on the otherwise upstanding citizen goes [[spoiler:apeshit insane brutaly killing his wife and daughter out of pure horror ''everything'' in the world has become in his mind, and even ''enjoys'' it in a very twisted way]], and as if this wasn't ''excruciating painful'' enough [[spoiler:Yousuke's]] mind deranges so much that after [[spoiler:he meets Saya again]], with she now being the only person [[spoiler:he can see in human form]], the first thing in his agenda is [[spoiler:to viciously rape her]]. A true ''nightmare'' - no, better yet - a ''night terror'' to any decent family man out there.
* AdaptationDecay: The American comic book of Saya no Uta takes some... "creative" directions with the plot. Fuminori is changed to a more "American" name (Josh), Saya is no longer [[spoiler:Cthulhu]], but rather [[spoiler:the result of secret government experiments]]. We are shown [[spoiler:Saya's true form at the end of the first comic, despite never actually seeing it in the original story-- which is arguably scarier than actually knowing.]] Saya is also "aged up" to a less controversial body in Josh's eyes. While she was almost a child in the H-game, she's now about 18 physically.

** A different example we can also hear, later in the story: [[spoiler:when Oumi breaks into Fuminori house, how do you think she hears Saya's "Welcome home!"]]

* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler: In one ending, Dr. Tanbo & Kouji manage to kill Saya and Fuminori subsequently commits suicide after delivering a mortal blow to Tanbo. Kouji, the sole survivor, becomes a paranoid schizophrenic cross between Tanbo & Fuminori, knowing he's permanently psychologically damaged from what he's witnessed, spends the rest of his life with a revolver with one bullet hidden in his bathroom, in case he ever reaches the point he can no longer stand live with the insanity and kills himself.]]

** Dr. Tanbo in [[spoiler: ending 2, where Saya "blooms" and every human in the planet changes into her type of life form, but Dr. Tanbo, being high up in the mountains where the spores have trouble reaching, transforms agonizingly slowly over the course of weeks as she completes transcribing Dr. Ougai's research on Saya for her own personal pride. At one point she even chops off one of her arms that had undergone the transformation while the rest of her was still human.]]

* HeroAntagonist: Dr. Tanbo & Kouji

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The latter two endings, one in which Saya "blooms" and her spores transform every human on the planet into what she is, and the other ending where every remaining major character except Kouji dies in the FinalBattle and even then he is DrivenToSuicide.]]

* NotQuiteTheRightThing: The game's first branching off point is [[spoiler: the option whether or not Fuminori wants Saya to fix the broken part of his brain and go back to seeing, hearing, feeling, and tasting things as he did before.]] Accepting [[spoiler:her offer gets him thrown in a sanitarium for the murders of Oumi & his neighbors as he and Saya say their goodbyes and he spends the rest of his days waiting for her to return as she sets out to find her missing father.]] Refusing [[spoiler:her offer causes Fuminori to leapfrog the MoralEventHorizon into VillainProtagonist territory, by engaging in cannibalism, rape, and murder for the rest of the game.]] Ironically, while the [[spoiler:acceptance]] ending is objectively [[spoiler: the happiest ending with the fewest number of people dying]] it's almost treated as a NonStandardGameOver.

** ...As long as you consider [[spoiler:becoming a [[EmptyShell mindless sex doll]] "getting over it", in Yoh's case]].

* SanitySlippage: Anyone who sees Saya's true form or is suddenly exposed to the "guroverse" is prone to at least some, if they don't snap immediately. [[spoiler:Saya also has some subtle SanitySlippage after she's raped.]]

* SayMyName: ''"Sakisaka... Fuminori...!"''

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Fuminori & Saya don't get to live HappilyEverAfter in any of the game's three endings.]]

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