It's a new semester at Akahane Academy, but eeeeh what's this? All of your classmates seem to have mysteriously gone missing, leaving only you, your rival, your teacher and three extremely handsome boys. Odd... Anyway! Which of these three boys would make the best boyfriend?
AKAHANE ACADEMY is a parody Dating Sim / Horror Visual Novel, with art by Scratchitone and music by MusMus. The game is available for free on it's itch.io
page.
Due to the game's extremely short runtime, it's basically impossible to talk about it without spoiling anything. Therefor, all spoilers on this page will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
Contains examples of the following sugoi tropes:
- Affectionate Parody: Of Visual Novel dating sims, specifically the kind that starts out harmless but then gradually reveal themselves as horror games. It intentionally leans very heavily into many of the clichés, like the love interests being obsessed with you, unnerving background events and heavy gore in one ending.
- Artificial Human: Hiro, Yuusei and Masaki were created by Yukina, specifically to be unnerving and obsessive so she could ruin the protagonist's love life.
- Apathetic Teacher: Sensei really couldn't care less what his students do. In fact, he cares so little he flat-out forgets that the protagonist has been in his class for years and when she points it out to him his answer boils down to "Whatever, don't care, don't get paid enough for this".
- Blatant Lies: Yuusei's ending has you frozen in place while he proceeds to stare at you.. forever. The ending card proclaims this the "good end".
- Disproportionate Retribution: The protagonist's project was chosen over Yukina's at a science fair. So Yukina created three handsome homunculi with obsessive, needy personalities, two of which are willing to commit murder to keep her all to themselves, and then sics them on her in their next semester to torment her for the rest of her life.
- Interface Screw: Parodied in Yuusei’s route, where choosing to talk to him will cause the screen to glitch and the word “Finally” to take up the screen. Minor glitches occur throughout his route.
- Foreshadowing:
- When the protagonist enters the academy, she notices a suspicious red stain on the Cooking Club room's door. She brushes it off, thinking that it's probably spilled ketchup. It's not. Hiro's route reveals that the splatters are what remains of the protagonist's classmates after he murdered them all and cooked them into a pie, so the protagonist wouldn't leave him for them.
- At the start of the game, Yukina mentions that the protagonist once beat her at a science fair and that she's been viewing her as a rival ever since. The secret ending reveals that the entire game was part of her elaborate revenge scheme against the protagonist. She genetically engineered all three love interests to be needy and overbearing to torment the protagonist for all eternity.
- Stylistic Suck: The art looks like something a thirteen-year-old anime mega-fan would scribble in their notebook. The character designs are painfully cliché, the models lack any depths or shading and the environments are flat and lifeless.
- Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Sensei disappears at the start of the game after making the protagonist introduce herself to the class and is never seen again.
- Yandere: All three love interests were designed to be this toward the protagonist, with each one representing a different type of yandere.
- Hiro is the most classic example: He appears to be a sweet young man with cutes-y hobbies like reading manga and cooking. And then you follow him to the kitchen, where he reveals that he killed all of your friends and baked them into a pie. Why did he do this? Because even though he met you only a few minutes ago, he's convinced you're the love of his life and can't bear to share you with anybody.
- Masaki is a loner with a Dark and Troubled Past who at first tries to push the protagonist away. However, as soon as she refuses to leave, he becomes obsessed with her, determines that she and him were meant to be and makes a Declaration of Protection then and there, which he proceeds to enforce with a gun.
- Yuusei is a parody of the more modern Fourth Wall-breaking yandere, causing Interface Screw as soon as he's selected. He also doesn't want to do anything but stare at you, with a heavy implication that the one he's really interested in isn't the player character but the actual player controlling her. His ending is also the only one that gets a positive closing card, which suggests he might have done something to manipulate the world and be acknowledged as the only good option.
