The summary below assumes that you’ve read the synopsis. There are crucial monologues that only exist in the Akino route which sets the stage for the Desperation route. If you do find yourself reading HnK, I recommend that you resist the urge to ctrl through the Akino route due to feeling like you’ve already seen everything. Noriaki and Akino routes tell the same story from 2 different perspectives. The game is split into 3 routes with an enforced playing order. With renewed vigor and a conviction seize the second wind he was given, Noriaki makes his soapland debut. While browsing the various establishments, to his disbelief, he finds a girl who looks just like Akino Yukimiya, his crush of 6 years. Uncertain of where to start, he consults his manager at work, Takahashi, who suggests losing his virginity to a soapland girl. Tired of being teased by his friends for being childish and overly dramatic for being unable to let go of his love, Noriaki resolves to overwrite his remorseful love with new love. Having missed his opportunity to confess to his crush of 6 years, he spends his listless days dreaming of the love that could have been. Noriaki Takagi is an average college student quickly approaching his 20th birthday. This report will have an enormous amount of spoilers. I know people are generally opposed to NTR, but HnK is a shining example of what highest of what the NTR genre has to offer. Masaki Shunsuke - a scenario writer who has otherwise only done nukige titles, delivers one of the most gritty, compelling, and believable depictions of a teenaged girl’s deteriorating mental state under the pressures of family, romance, and working in the modern Japanese prostitution industry.
It’s a bit better now though but I still just randomly get sad throughout the day. I had a really bad case of insomnia and depression the first 2 days after reading. This game will obliterate your sex-drive and send you down a pit of despair that will take you some time to get out from. I’ve dropped and restarted reading 4 times since starting.
There’s a reason why this game is infamous even on the /h/ netorare thread. I’m cool with NTR so I thought I could handle it. 6 months ago, I felt really good and wanted to challenge myself so I chose to play Hajimete no Kanojo, a bad-ending exclusive NTR single-heroine game.