<br> The translators made it a bit more funny, since there are actually two Levins in Initial D: the AE86 Levin owned by Wataru Akiyama, and the AE85 Levin owned by Itsuki Takeuchi. Soap Opera Disease: The first game and prequel have a total of four terminally ill characters; not one of their ailments is ever specified, although one of the translators has done some speculation. Four Is Death: A common mantra among those who inhabit the seventh floor is that no one returns a fourth time. Take a Third Option: On your third time admitted to the 7th floor, you can either choose to die at home or on the 7th floor. Utsuge: Many have admitted to crying over the original game. However, she would surely have been light years more convincing in the role than Mickey Rooney’s infamous performance in a later Hepburn vehicle, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. However, her attitude was remote and sadly enough his love couldn’t be fulfilled.<br>

<br> However, this is a unique case, as this was not intentional on the part of Kataoka; according to his notes for the second game, he was surprised that so many have reacted in such away. Author Tract: The author’s view on medical care system, maybe (this is speculation on part of the translator). Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films. Though according to one of the translators, this may just be a case of the author taking some creative liberties as to what a person with untreated terminal lung cancer is able to accomplish. The protagonist, suffering from a terminal disease (identified by the official English site as lung carcinoma), was moved into hospice in the 7th floor of a hospital, where he will be cured, supposedly. Until he met Setsumi, a girl also suffering from an unknown terminal disease, who told him otherwise: this is the place where you are left to live and die. Determinator: The protagonist, while suffering lack of medication and fatigue, is able to drive the car for a whole week with only small rest and not so healthy diet.<br>

<br> Shout-Out: There’s a small one in the second game, where in one scene Himeko remarks that she doesn’t take it kindly to be overtaken by a Levin. The latter’s death is instead implied to be near in the second game’s hidden epilogue sequence that takes place nearly half a year after the first as he passes his “rules” onto Chihiro, which she took heart. Award-Bait Song: Eufonius’ Narcissus from the second game. Older Than They Look: Setsumi looks like a teenager, but she’s 22. Possibly justified by her illness, if it’s the kind that stunts her development, but the game isn’t clear about what, exactly, she suffers from. Narcissu is a freeware doujinshi Visual Novel by Tomo Kataoka, former head writer of Nekonekosoft and officially translated by insani (at least for the first game), and even though the original company he worked on produced free nurse hentai visual novels, this piece is clean. There is also a prequel called Narcissu -side 2nd- set about six to seven years before Narcissu, which tells the story of Himeko, a cheerful former 7th floor helper who unexpectedly becomes a patient at the same floor she volunteered to help. April Fools’ Day: The English version of Narcissu -side 2nd- was allegedly planned to be released on this day, but was instead uploaded a few hours before.<br>

<br> An omnibus edition of all three games, Narcissu -moshimo ashita ga aru nara-, has been released for the PSP, containing extra content. Along with the first two games, it contains three new stories set in the same universe, along with the one story from Die Dritte Welt that Kataoka himself penned (the rest being written by guest authors and are currently unable to brought on due to licensing reasons). Actually, there’s a point to this reference – in later life, Camille suffered from mental health problems, and spent her last three decades in an asylum. So why then did I skip a review of the other Higurashi arcs, all the way to the 8th and last of the “original” arcs, and why did I wait 4 years to do another review? If you think my gushing of the Higurashi manga is enough to draw you into this series, then you -need- to check out the Umineko series of VNs as well. The problem is that the creators and fans alike forget that the really strong works of horror, the ones that stick out in your mind for years to come, are the ones that do more than just scare the audience.<br>