Respect to authors that shoot for the "whore before a housewife" narratives, but there's a reason the old adage is so popular. Making the heroine a corrupted whore too early in the timeline, when the story's intent is to canonize a true love theme, almost always ensures that the story will be disjointed and unfulfilling. There are only a handful of VNs where that setup has worked for me, and this isn't one of them.
* NTR fans won't get the angsty suffering ending payoff they're looking for. MC/Ryousuke is intensely unlikeable, but (seemingly) wins anyways.
* Vanilla lovers long-ago drowned in an ocean of lies and whoredom around Mai's 9th secret boyfriend. Mai has no self control and is more unlikeable than Ryo, but wins no matter what.
* Share/Swing enthusiasts spend most of the story wondering why Ryo's whore best friend hasn't offered the guy she cares about most a blowie one single time throughout the two years she spent fucking every other man in town. It's a running joke that Ryo springs a hard-on almost every time he sees her... no action.
Ryo is a simpleton wimp, but it's clear to anyone with an IQ over 70 that he's interested in dating Mai from the start. Mai dodges him like a used COVID mask and doesn't let him know she's picked up multiple abusive boyfriends her first two weeks at Uni, which would have let Ryo move on with a Manga club girl and Mai free to go full-corruption. Instead, this story meanders around her meticulously lying to Ryo over the course of several semesters to hide her sluttiness. She then acts like she's always believed sluttiness to be liberating and chastity unimportant when Ryo catches her at a love hotel with Playboy Agent #47. This finally gives her the courage to "tell the truth" about everything (she still lies). Ryo buys it. It's sad clown comedy.
Mai won't convince a soul that she doesn't value chastity or recognize that many of her actions have been heinous. She's drool-reaping virgins and routinely lying to her "true" love to cover up her "true" personality. Why does she take so long to share who she is with Ryo, and never does it willingly? She hates Utsumi and breaks up with him for the unforgivable sin of... not disclosing everyone he was fucking at the time. The exact same thing she spends the entire game doing to Ryo, while building her own harem of playboys, cheaters, and rapists. Mai's primary character traits are selfish and dishonest, the opposite of an ideal partner. Asking why her pussy is described several times as "bumpy inside" will surely put a wart on Ryo's day... she has unprotected creampie sex with, no exaggeration, every single person she fucks in the story. Initially telling Ryo that she always used condoms, she later pretends the creampies happened but were selective. I can't think of one time a creeper in the story (everyone) wanted to creampie her (every interaction) and didn't get to.
Ryo's virginity losing fuck takes place immediately after Mai was creampied by one of her randoms (and he never finds out). She FOMO leverages Ryo's virginity the same way her abusers were doing because she can't let him go. Ryo then spends the rest of the story propping up his rape-induced Stockholm Syndrome childhood friend because he's finally getting laid (and can't any other way on his own). The cute first that some have mentioned Mai giving to Ryo at the end is just another lie... she tells him it's "my first time having sex with a man I love" ... but she was screaming her love for Utsumi throughout multiple encounters while lying about cooking for or even dating him when Ryo asked directly. Mai caps this love(?) story by maintaining the gyaru whore look her last boyfriend forced on her and telling Ryo she'll cheat on him if he ever stops satisfying her... the AV star who's had 20 boyfriends in as many months and doesn't want to spend time participating in hobbies Ryo enjoys. This couple's story has a crystal clear future, if you ask me. Mai ruined the perfect childhood friend love story this universe tee'd up for her and she knows it, but by the power of God in this machine she'll have her cake and eat it too.
Overall it's a VN that triggers more itches than Mai's cooch, but fails to scratch any. Could have been a hot sharing relationship story before Mai curved Ryo. Artwork is top tier, props to 23!
* NTR fans won't get the angsty suffering ending payoff they're looking for. MC/Ryousuke is intensely unlikeable, but (seemingly) wins anyways.
* Vanilla lovers long-ago drowned in an ocean of lies and whoredom around Mai's 9th secret boyfriend. Mai has no self control and is more unlikeable than Ryo, but wins no matter what.
* Share/Swing enthusiasts spend most of the story wondering why Ryo's whore best friend hasn't offered the guy she cares about most a blowie one single time throughout the two years she spent fucking every other man in town. It's a running joke that Ryo springs a hard-on almost every time he sees her... no action.
Ryo is a simpleton wimp, but it's clear to anyone with an IQ over 70 that he's interested in dating Mai from the start. Mai dodges him like a used COVID mask and doesn't let him know she's picked up multiple abusive boyfriends her first two weeks at Uni, which would have let Ryo move on with a Manga club girl and Mai free to go full-corruption. Instead, this story meanders around her meticulously lying to Ryo over the course of several semesters to hide her sluttiness. She then acts like she's always believed sluttiness to be liberating and chastity unimportant when Ryo catches her at a love hotel with Playboy Agent #47. This finally gives her the courage to "tell the truth" about everything (she still lies). Ryo buys it. It's sad clown comedy.
Mai won't convince a soul that she doesn't value chastity or recognize that many of her actions have been heinous. She's drool-reaping virgins and routinely lying to her "true" love to cover up her "true" personality. Why does she take so long to share who she is with Ryo, and never does it willingly? She hates Utsumi and breaks up with him for the unforgivable sin of... not disclosing everyone he was fucking at the time. The exact same thing she spends the entire game doing to Ryo, while building her own harem of playboys, cheaters, and rapists. Mai's primary character traits are selfish and dishonest, the opposite of an ideal partner. Asking why her pussy is described several times as "bumpy inside" will surely put a wart on Ryo's day... she has unprotected creampie sex with, no exaggeration, every single person she fucks in the story. Initially telling Ryo that she always used condoms, she later pretends the creampies happened but were selective. I can't think of one time a creeper in the story (everyone) wanted to creampie her (every interaction) and didn't get to.
Ryo's virginity losing fuck takes place immediately after Mai was creampied by one of her randoms (and he never finds out). She FOMO leverages Ryo's virginity the same way her abusers were doing because she can't let him go. Ryo then spends the rest of the story propping up his rape-induced Stockholm Syndrome childhood friend because he's finally getting laid (and can't any other way on his own). The cute first that some have mentioned Mai giving to Ryo at the end is just another lie... she tells him it's "my first time having sex with a man I love" ... but she was screaming her love for Utsumi throughout multiple encounters while lying about cooking for or even dating him when Ryo asked directly. Mai caps this love(?) story by maintaining the gyaru whore look her last boyfriend forced on her and telling Ryo she'll cheat on him if he ever stops satisfying her... the AV star who's had 20 boyfriends in as many months and doesn't want to spend time participating in hobbies Ryo enjoys. This couple's story has a crystal clear future, if you ask me. Mai ruined the perfect childhood friend love story this universe tee'd up for her and she knows it, but by the power of God in this machine she'll have her cake and eat it too.
Overall it's a VN that triggers more itches than Mai's cooch, but fails to scratch any. Could have been a hot sharing relationship story before Mai curved Ryo. Artwork is top tier, props to 23!