Video Game / Towelket: One More Time

The title screen for Towelket One More Time

" Towelket (a portmanteau of "towel" and "blanket") A type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used in Japan to cover oneself in hot weather."

Definition of a Towelket

Towelket: One More Time (タオルケットをもう一度) is a series of doujin RPG games made with RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker MV developed by Kanashimi Hocchikisu (かなしみホッチキス). The series first started in 2008 with the release of Towelket 3 and is still ongoing to this day.

The games are heavily story based, with classic RPG style combat and exploration. Many of the games deal with alien invasions or world threatening events, with the main characters being tasked with trying to survive in wildly different scenarios. Although the series has a large number of games, the vast majority of the games are not directly related to one another and often have completely different stories from one another. Despite the cute art style and characters in the games, all of the games involve blood and/or gore to some degree and often contain sexual themes or disturbing topics.

Note: The order of the games below is not a mistake, as the developer has intentionally named the mainline games in this order despite the numbers being out of order.

Games in the Towelket series

Main games

• Towelket One More Time 3: The main character and their sister Kimiru are shrunken by the mysterious power of a magical book. At that time, the Kisechu, a group of tiny aliens bent on conquering the Earth, appear! The main character's allies must band together and defeat the six fish-hat leaders of the Kisechu to put a stop to their evil ambitions.
• Towelket One More Time 2: A young boy, his talking cow Ushi-chan, and his childhood friend Paripariume. These three lived a perfectly normal life in a small country town. However, that peace wouldn't last... One day, Ushi-chan was abducted by aliens in a flying saucer.
• Towelket One More Time: Mochasu was riding in the back of a moving truck. While he slept inside a cardboard box, an accident flung him into the river. Its currents carried him to a mysterious island where three girls were also stranded. On top of that, they had to walk like robots because they were afflicted with the Curse of Turning Corners...
• Towelket One More Time 6: The Pon aliens have run out of resources and come to destroy Earth. A young girl named Minpo and her friends rise up to restore peace. But the Pon invaders have overwhelmingly powerful technology. What will happen to Earth and its people?
• Towelket One More Time 4: A boy was led by a fairy to a mysterious ocean world. The main character Moka (Mocha?) and a girl set out to search for him. Meanwhile, the fish-hats plotted to take over the world. Can Mocha and his friends find the boy and stop the bad guys?
• Towelket One More Time: Fury: As soon as the main character was born, he was caught up in a terrible fate. And then on the constellation Day, it came to fruition. The result of a love triangle...
• Towelket One more Time 5: In the center of the earth, a pair of robots constantly jump to turn the planet. But one day, thanks to a stupid girl, the world stopped spinning! Elsewhere, a girl named Roppenchu was invited out by a girl from her class... With the world in turmoil, can everything really be put right again?
• Towelket Kemono: The world has already ended. The protagonist, Okappa, wakes up to find her home overrun by killer beasts. She meets Shinshi, a white rabbit who will guide her through this ruined world. Meanwhile the other protagonist, a young Tanuki named Tantanuki begins his new life at Pon Pon school, a cheerful school that specializes in teaching machinery to beasts.

Spinoffs

• Kaiketsu! Nekoashi Otome-chan: Kitty girl Nekoashi Otome-chan is a bundle of energy. In order to save enough money to open a bakery, she decides to enlist in the Kitty Special Forces. As a soldier, she endures harsh training with her companions and superiors. All of a sudden, a group of girls called Otome Bakudan (Maiden Bomb) appear from the sky...
• Warau Wawau: Alsk known as "Laughing Waruwau". A rich little wimp named Warawau is teased by her maid again today and heads to school. But on the way, she becomes lost in the strange and mysterious World of Laughter. There she encounters a young girl claiming to be her guide, and goes on a journey through the World of Laughter. A heartwarming tale of a lady and her protector. A translation project for this game has just begun.
• Yoru no Umi de Otsukisama wo Tsuru: In the stormy ocean, you encounter a mermaid. Then you take a job at an inn with some girls, living with them in a strange village. Who will you choose as your bride? While reeling in the moon, a dog fisherman speaks, a certain legend of the sea.
• Sora Kara Kuru Otome Bakudan: The retelling of Towelket One More Time 5: Gaugau's Bride from a different perspective. A strange man who claims to be an alien, searching for someone out in the universe. A boy who has been reliving the same day for the 103rd time. A reliable detective and her assistant investigating a horrific incident.
• Yorumorukimiri: You transfer to a certain school. But it's a creepy school where none of the students speak. The only word the student say is the enigmatic "Yorumorukimiri". Together with your partner Ketia the journey to solve the mystery of "Yorumorukimiri" begins.
• Yorumorukimiri ~Shippoutachi no Kizuna~: The story of a countryside tanuki named Tantanuki who is personally invited to Deudeu Academy, a special school where students get to acquire and learn how to use beings called Angels. However Tantanuki and their friends are dragged into the academy's fight against the mysterious being that calls himself the Jester Cat.
• Yorumorukimiri -Hajimari no Shoujo-: The finale of the Yorumorukimiri series. The Kisechu empire and a genius human named Agochu team up together to seal the space that is Yorumorukimiri once and for all.
• Dekapari: Your childhood sweetheart died. While putting flowers by her graveside, you turn around and see a gigantic girl looking down at you, blocking the entire sky. The huge girl looks just like your childhood friend who was supposed to rest for eternity.

Although not technically part of the Towelket Series, the developer has also developed several other games, which are often referenced in Towelket games:

Other games made by the author

• Light Magic 1: An enigma of a game, Light Magic 1 is considered Lost Media, as no downloads for the game currently exist online. Its existence is referenced in Light Magic 2, but otherwise very little is known about the game and the developer has no plans to release it again to the public.
• Light Magic 2: On the last day of his school trip the elementary schooler Pucchi oversleeps and gets left behind at an inn. He goes to the police station with a white haired girl who has also been left behind, but the policeman suddenly attacks them...
• Oni Magatsu Toki: A girl wakes up to find the world has been overtaken by God. Being the only human left, Okappa has no choice but to survive in this strange world. Her only companion is a mysterious white fox who strums a guitar.

Downloads for the free games in the series (And English translations) can be found here: https://towelket.fandom.com/wiki/Downloads

The official page to purchase games (And download some of the original free Japanese games) can be found here: https://taoruketto.booth.pm/

The developer is still developing games for the series today, with the latest game in development called "Towelket: Pon". There are also plans to develop a remake for "Laughing Waruwau" in RPG maker MV.

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This series provides examples of:

• Aborted Arc: Towelket 5 was supposed to be a continuation of where 4 left on^note With it's first demo actually continuing the plot with a different protagonist, but the whole arc ended up being scrapped and 5 became it's own thing.
• Anachronic Order: The games are intentionally numbered incorrectly. In order of release, it goes 3-2-1-6-4-5(fury)-5-Kemono.
• And I Must Scream: In Towelket 1, Conchelle’s brain is extracted from her body, and used as the main basis for the Conchelle-Bots (No. 3 series). However, her personality and memories passed down to the robots, changing them so radically that they all had to be applied a memory-dampering screw just so they could act as they should. The moment said screw came out after the main group recovered Conchelle’s original body, the entire series were driven in despair trying to see the main character again. It was so bad that even after finally recovering the original Conchelle in full, all she could do is to hug the protagonist tightly while making incomprehensible noises.
  • In Laughing Warawau, Warawau in the real world is suffering from locked-in syndrome, leaving her unable to move, but completely aware of her situation.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: The Pon leader attempts to invoke this onto Conchelle in Towelket 3. Things do not end well for the pons.
• All Just a Dream: The ending of Laughing Warawau reveals the game's events to be a dream of Warawau, who is suffering from locked-in syndrome.
• Anyone Can Die: Pretty much anybody is not safe from dying, not even the main character. Because of the series’ Negative Continuity, this is bound to happen to the same character several times.
• Ax-Crazy: In Towelket 6, Warawau’s very first meaningful scene is of her killing a stray dog solely for her sexual pleasure, and it’s not long before her Manipulative Bastard tendencies shows up.
• Body Horror: After a certain point in the games, grotesque character designs become the norm. Laughing Warawau in particular is infamous for this
  • In Towelket 1, Paripariume's clones are doomed to mutate into unrecognizable masses of flesh.
• Butt-Monkey: Absolutely nothing goes well for Paripariume (PPU). Best case scenario, she contributes nothing to the plot and is forgotten by it intentionally. Worst case scenario, she suffers a horrible death.
• Cult: Conchelle unknowingly has one which consists of Pons in Towelket 3.
• Cute Bruiser: All the characters, even the villains.
• Cutscene Incompetence: Happens on occasion to the main character. For example, in Towelket 1 after you freeze yourself into the future, you fight a mob-like robot and his minions while wearing a robot suit yourself. Once you defeat him, however, he suffers no damage, but your suit is completely trashed.
• Disguised in Drag: After the starting character is revived from crashing onto earth in towelket 3, the female singing ant dresses up the character in one of her outfits to hide him from the alien invasion.
• Driven to Suicide: In Towelket 6, thanks from her newborn child dying at the hands of Pon Groom, Paripariume’s mental state deteriorated so much that she ended up killing herself in one of her episodes, just right as her other child Minpo decided to leave her alone to follow Warawau outside.
  • However, this is subverted at the end where Warawau reveals that she was the one who killed Paripariume, luring Minpo out of the house to enact her plan, and making it look like it was a suicide.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: If there is a playable male character, there is a good chance that the sprite will still look feminine. Invoked further as the only male sprite in Towelket 1 and onwards is described as very feminine.
• Empty Room Psych: You will often find dead-end rooms with nothing in them, containing common monsters and sometimes an item.
• Extreme Omnivore: Robot dog girl Pucchi in Towelket 3, who will eat many questionable objects, including alien bodies.
• Eye Scream: In Towelket 3: You can come across some “dust town” villagers’ corpses. Checking on them gives you "eyes shown signs of sexual assault."
  • In Yorumorukimiri Uikechuke ends up gouging one of her own eyes out. Her reason? To keep herself awake during her 3-day lifespan.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: Green Tea And So On's most notable feature is her large tail covered in bleeding eyeballs. Yet somehow, its her age that other characters find more off putting
• Flanderization: Robot dog girl Pucchi. In the first game, she suffers from dog-like tics due to a malfunction but is the most capable member of the party. In her next major appearance, her creator constantly berates her for being a stupid dog (Despite still being fairly intelligent). By Towelket 5 she is in fact, a stupid dog girl.
• Gorn: In the torture room at the alien base in Towelket 3, some of the Pons that were captured are mutilated, with missing bodies, chunks of their head missing, or brain dead. Some are just a mush of flesh.
• Heroic Mime: Played straight in the original trilogy and once more in Fury. Subverted in 6 where the protagonist gains the power to talk towards the end.
• Human Popsicle: In Towelket 1, the protagonist hides in a fridge to escape from the robots, but gets frozen, at two different points in the game. Each time, thousands of years pass before he is released and thawed.
• I'm Standing Right Here: In Towelket 3, two of the Pons discuss about the new "Conchelle" model that one was making. They ignore the fact that the real Conchelle was standing right there. Although she does not say anything, her sprite appearance afterwards resembles this trope.
• Improbable Weapon User: The player can equip objects they find in towns as weapons. This includes flowerpots, chairs, lockers, dust, underwear, nude photo albums, daikon, utility poles, trains... At one point, you can use a Pon corpse as an accessory.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Conchelle in Towelket 1 becomes impressed with the main character's strength after defeating several groups of enemies in the cave.
• Interactive Narrator: Done In Towelket 3, when character shrinks and the narrator tells the character to check on self.
• Joke Ending: In some games, obtaining an item called "Just Kidding" leads to a less serious, more comedic ending, sometimes happening right after the normal ending.
• Kill the Cutie: No matter how cute someone might be, they can still die horribly just as everybody else.
• Killer Rabbit: In the start of Towelket Fury, a bird appears in front of the two babies Paripariume was caring for. Said bird decided to kill the baby for no reason and call his friends to murder Paripariume. Only one baby survives, and thus starts the story of the game.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: In some games it is possible to take the following items: leaves, flowerpots, insects, drawers, tables, lockers, and at some point, panties. Said items can be in any home, and you don't have to worry about being chased down. These items can double as weapons and armor.
• Loads and Loads of Races: Being a series centered around aliens and invading, there's tons of races unique to the Towelket series including aliens like Pons, Kisechu, Love-Lips, and also more common creatures like fairies, mermaids, talking animals, and much more.
• Love Triangle: Occurs a lot throughout the series. Whether the player character is aware of it is up to the player to decide.
• Ludicrous Gibs: It’s not uncommon to find these scattered around in detail in the games, how much depends on each game.
• Multiple Endings: In a few of the games, there are multiple endings depending on your choices. Some of the games contain a joke ending bonus scene if the player purchases an item beforehand.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: This is one of the endings in Towelket 6, in which Warwau murders the main protagonist and her friend happily after she sees her kissing her friend.
• Negative Continuity: Although several characters and themes appear throughout the series, there is no continuity between the games. Even a particular character's appearance, personality, and even gender can vary drastically.
• Older Than They Look: Depending on the game, many characters fall under this category. For example Paripariume in Towelket 1, in spite of her young sprite appearance, is a 28 or 35 year old married woman (Depending on the source material) and is the protagonist's mother in Towelket 6 and Fury.
  • Could be the case with other characters due to Negative Continuity.
• Panty Thief: You in several of the games. This culminates in the spinoff Kaiketsu! Nekoashi Otome where nearly every character's panties are available, often being among the best accessories and headgear.
• Pick Your Human Half: Subverted when the curse of the turning corners in Towelket 1 forces the main character and three girls into turning 90 degrees and making their limbs act robotic. They have no choice but to do this, else get flung back to the island. As a result, this makes them a large target of isolation by the class population, especially to the male character.
  • Becomes Cursed with Awesome when said movement helps the main character blend in with the other robots in the future.
• Psycho Lesbian: Warwau becomes this due to her Dark and Troubled Past. On the night she arranged with the main character in Towelket 6, she knocks out the character, confesses to her while she is unconscious, and has sex with her unconscious body, thinking that she loves her back.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: The majority of songs in the mainline series consist of music box renders of classical music.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Conchelle in Towelket 1 acts like this towards the main character. In the future, chips based off her memory makes some robots act like this too.
• Second-Person Narration: Done in Towelket 3 in the beginning before being dropped.
• Sequel Hook: The very last scene of Towelket 6 shows off Barrieland, the location where 4 takes place in, implying that the story of 6 is far from over.
  • Happens yet again in 4, but instead only showing off a title card with Towelket 5 in it. However, said continuation ended up being scrapped and it's plot was left without an end.
• Shout-Out: The games are filled to the brim with references to other games and media, with some of the later games like Kaiketsu! Nekoashi Otome! Throwing American movie references at the player constantly.
• Shrink Ray: The book the player character discovers in Towelket 3 is practically one. The aliens are trying to find it in order to increase their size to take over Earth.
• Spurned into Suicide: Played for laughs in Towelket 5. After a failed confession of love to the main protagonist, Ponpe threatens to jump off the school building and haunt Roppenchu as a ghost. However, she messes up her fall and lands into the water. She can't swim, and shouts that she doesn't want to die...
  • Happens yet again at the end where said scenario happens again, but this time Ponpe doesn't fall into the water...
• Sugar Apocalypse: A game with cute sprites would never have such violence for an alien invasion, right? Boy were we wrong, with ALL of the games.
• Time Skip: Occurs at frequent intervals in all the games, ranging from hours to several years.
  • Exagerated in Towelket 1 where the main character gets frozen twice, with both of them taking millions of years into the future before being thawed back.
• Torture Cellar: Many of the games have these, ranging from experimentation rooms to dungeons to keep prisoners, some of which are quite dangerous...
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Mochasu's parents never make an actual appearance in Towelket 1 after the box he slept in fell off the truck, even after he returns to civilization. Such Parental Neglect...
• Willfully Weak: Conchelle appears to have this ability in cutscenes in Towelket 3. When you start to play as her, some Pons will be enemies. When you check their "corpse," you get the description "Seemed to have held back."
• Yandere Love Triangle: Runs the Towelket: Fury game.