Well... this was quite the trip of a VN... With the way I go into these things, and my own mindset, means that I missed out on getting emotionally gut punched... not that I care for that sort of thing to begin with... However, it's definitely not something I'd recommend to anyone sensitive or who self-inserts a lot unless they're an emotional masochist.
It's interesting how this thing basically has everything. Netorare, Netorase... and even Netori via Aida's perspective. Normally, trying to mix up all of these up in one single package is a good way to make a disaster... However, this VN paces itself carefully enough and takes enough time to develop the characters to ensure that it works well.
It's not perfect, but even so, I can understand why some people call it a masterpiece of the genre.
For me, it doesn't hit quite that hard even ignoring my personal mindset when it comes to hentai. I have to detract points for the fact that it ran through the usual cliches of the genre, which were already cliches when it originally came out:
-wishy-washy MC with about as much willpower as a tissue paper? Mostly check, though they gave him some good moments where he grows a spine, but they're few and far in between and they don't last long.
-smaller than average dick? Check.
-premature ejaculator? Check.
-Completely unable to make his partner cum over literal years of being together? Check.
-Absurdly blind to things around him most of the time? Yep.
Then for the partner:
-Unreasonably attractive but somehow absolutely completely inexperienced with anything about men? Check.
-Total slut once she gets awakened to the pleasures of sex? Check.
-About as much willpower as a wet tissue paper? Mostly check. She has like, a couple of moments where that's different.
-About as smart a brainless chicken? Yeeeeeeeeeeep. She's so stupid it literally hurts if you stop to think about it too much.
Then for the ones that cuck the MC:
-All of them have bigger dicks and on top of that, bigger than average in general? Check.
-All of them are skilled at sex, to a ridiculous degree? Check.
-All of them figure out the wife's weakpoints like they can read her mind? Mostly. Not clear with some of them.
I can't say for sure how tired the cliches were back when the VN originally came out, but these were already well known cliches of the genre at the time. It even has the "Cucked impotence" as I like to call it, aka the situation where the guy can't get hard unless he sees his partner with another person... but surprisingly, it only shows up briefly for the MC and only for a relatively short time, and on top of that, it gets mostly cured... unlike what usually happens.
In fact, they avoid actually having that in any ending at all, which is unexpected tbh.
Still, the biggest flaw, in my opinion, is the fact that basically nooooooone of the bad things would have happened if Misaki and McCuck-kun had a bit more willpower. Then later, after one particular bad thing happened that neither knew about at the time, nothing ELSE would have happened if Misaki wasn't literally dumb as a brick. Like. Seriously. She was so stupid. The whole blackmail set-up made absolutely no sense and her reasons for giving in made even less sense tbh. If she had even two brain-cells to rub together, she'd have taken that pic from Aida, showed it to her husband, and then talked about what to do like reasonable adults would. It wasn't even particularly bad and it wasn't anywhere near the typical situation for that sort of thing that might have a girl worry about social deat in Japanese society.
That detracts from things because it makes Aida look less like a capable manipulator and more like someone who got stupidly lucky to find the dumbest girl in the universe who's brains were reduced to compensate for the size of her rack...
Still, the way Misaki was handled over all was interesting. Stupidity aside... they made her perversion more complex than just being super sensitive and having a thing for big dicks. While big dicks clearly make it easier to make her cum her brains out, what seems to really be her button is a combination of shame, humiliation and masochism. This is interesting because in at least one of the endings, this nature of hers gets back in the hands of her husband, and that actually lets him please his wife. On top of that, she learns how to use her own body to take pleasure even from his smaller than average dick, and learns how to help him with his stamina problems.
This is very rare in netorare stories. The nympho partner being able to find sexual satisfaction with the guy she was originally cucked from doesn't happen often, as these stories generally don't acknowledge the complexity of pleasure, and generally have the girl simply have a thing for huge dick that can't be overcome.
Another interesting facet, which is also fairly rare in these stories, and possibly more rare when this VN came out originally... is the fact that Misaki never quite falls completely. While she's too stupid to avoid falling into the hole and can't figure out how to do anything except to keep digging, she genuinely seems to love the MC to the end no matter what. Her body and nature betray her and cause her to seek pleasure, but she never reaches the point where she intentionally does stuff like sends a tape of her getting fucked by another man to her husband as a farewell present as she forgets all about him. In fact, they entirely subvert this particular trope by having her go berzerk on the guy that was trying to steal her away for trying to pull such a thing off when she finds out about. Indeed, none of the bad-endings actually involve her staying with the guy that started the mess. Even in the ridiculous divorce endings, there's no mention of her marrying Aida, and in fact, it seems like she runs away from him and hides out with the Owner guy, and doesn't let him touch her either. Quite frankly, the bad endings are miserable for both her and the MC, leaning more into outright tragedy for the pair rather than kink fuel as you usually get for these types of stories.
It's an interesting choice that likely intensifies the emotional gut punch for the people that get attached to the characters, but which is likely unsatisfying for those that want a good wank/schlick and hoped for some kinky complete fall type stuff.
One thing that originally annoyed me but which later had me thinking in general, was the son, Masaki, who's father is either the MC or Aida. The VN, in all of its routes, never actually addresses who's son he actually is, leaving it to the reader's discretion to decide. It seemed odd that they didn't commit to it anywhere, because it certainly would have helped to further the emotional gut punch if he was Aida's son and it was 100% confirmed... Yet the VN never goes there in all its multitude of endings. On top of that, there's an interesting detail afloat. The MC is confirmed to have had some amount of sex with Misaki after that fateful trip, but the amount steadily declined as Aida played his game until it stopped entirely. On the other hand, Aida kept cumming inside her over and over... for years.
And Misaki didn't end up pregnant even though she was filled up repeatedly. In another VN, I might have thought that it was just typical porn logic... but it seems like too big of a thing to miss when the writing was otherwise quite meticulous about the details. It made me wonder if perhaps the writer(s) were intentionally saying that Aida's virility was extremely low, no matter how huge his dick was and how thick his loads were, so he was never able to impregnate Misaki. On top of that, the other guys that are after her don't get to cum inside her until one specific ending, and there's not enough time spent on said ending to know if any of them got her pregnant or not. One other guy was even forced to wear a condom. Indeed, only Aida is confirmed to have fucked Misaki without protection a LOT and intentionally risked impregnating her repeatedly.
Guess we'll never know unless there's some sequel or spin-off somewhere that covers that.
Beyond all that, the H-content is pretty vanilla if you ignore the context in which it happens. Simple positions, doesn't even touch anal aside from one instance of rimming. Only one group sex scene that isn't even shown on screen and which is mostly spit-roasting... The art is gorgeous though, and the majority of the scenes are animated, so that gives it points in that aspect.
However, the biggest crime of this VN, as far as I'm concerned, is that it didn't directly show us the scene where Misaki is bouncing on Kurosawa's dick while sucking the other guy who's name I forget. I don't care that McCuck-kun didn't want to see it. I wanted to see it dammit. -_-"
ANYway. All in all, a pretty good read, in spite of its flaws that made me want to groan and facepalm at times. It's not an outright masterpiece for me, but it was a decent story with decent hot elements to it. That's honestly not something I can say often about netorare focused stories. It could have been better, but that's really a matter of subjective preferences.