When you press the Hajime-whatever button the first thing you see is a flashback through a dream Kazuhiko's having. It's in his past, and he's on the beach, a particular spot of rocks he likes to frequent. Sitting there is a young girl doodling on a sketchpad. He asks her what she's doing and clearly she's drawing, and she claims she likes doing it from time to time. When asked whether she lives in Miyoshi she replies that she's only here to visit. She asks him his name and he tells her "Kazuhiko," so she's now calling him Kazuhiko-kun. When he asks her for hers she's about to tell him when the flashback conveniently ends for the sake of story. But it's probably just cause Kazuhiko doesn't remember. Maybe that
Niyari~ girl has something to do with it. Hnn hmmm....
But whatever. He's having a hard time waking up so his loving sister comes him to do it for him. When he's proving uncooperative, she decides to take measures and tells him that this is all his fault.
Kazuhiko starts hearing sucking and slurping noises and starts to stir from his sleep. Wha..no..can't be.. it can't be, not this early in the story, not before the
"let's take a bath together oniichan" scene, and the "let's have a date" scene, and the ring, the genokiller references, the t-shirt sniffing, that time and place in space and time when one's sister looks different than usual and not in the manner that's safe for a Sunday church gathering although Nanano's a pettanko but that's probably even worse, and the oniichan, the oniichan! THE ONIIIIIICCHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!
Yeah. Turns out she wants to stir him awake by eating a priceless and treasured piece of mango melon bread. Which I don't think Kazuhiko's really into even, but Nanano is. And yes I did think all those thoughts above when I encountered this scene, although in a more subliminal and less verbal fashion.
Nanano almost ends up cooking Kameshiro in her stew but all's safe afterwards and the turtle's still kicking and happy. I forgot to mention that this little reptilian seems to posses the capacity of understanding human speech. Perhaps Nanano's ancestor was a lizardman because she looks like she can also grasp what Kameshiro's saying in return. So perhaps the two are distantly related, and a long, long time ago, in the age after the dinosaurs but before man, a monkey and an iguana fell in love and.... but that's a different story, and we want this review about an EROGE trial to be safe for work, right?
The two, after having a normal, non-turtle stew, set out for school. Along the way they pass the Kuroda Inn, where Yui is tending her own little banana republic in front of the inn.
They say hi and are about to leave when Yui's mom comes out.
"Aren't you forgetting something?"
"Don't worry, I've got today's banana harvest with me right here for today's lunch! Yaay!"
"No you dunce of a daughter you forgot your schoolbag."
"O__O. -___-. XD"
Yui then retorts why her mom didn't come out with her bag and the latter replies with some reason I'm sure only parents can understand, and even then probably only those who live in small, idyllic Japanese towns who have a daughter who's an osanajimi to a future harem pimp that can almost rival the likes of Hemi. I say almost, because the said harem pimp is imaginary, as are his harem. But so are Hemi's waifus. So yeah.
Along the way some bastard of a truck nearly clips Kazuhiko. Inside is a blue-haired girl looking down at him in the same way one would look at an interesting patch of dirt.
Kazuhiko launches a tirade, and in return,
"Niyari~"
And drives off.
Moving on. If you meet the osanajimi, clearly you have to meet the sempai as well along the way.
Kazuhiko Body Brake in action, Formula 1 style!!
They say hi and stuff. Now somewhere in the above Nanano does her first instance of the whole find vacant corner and carve egg-nests out of the pavement thing. Along with mention of something about Kazuhiko only really smiling when he's teasing someone or watching a comedy of some sort.
Following the intro of these characters, we get a bunch of generic events, along with a few special ones, like Midori attempting to escalator down a flight of stairs on her wheelchair. She paid for Kazuhiko carbon-ceramic brakes but got Kazuhiko sport seats instead:
We're also enlightened to how Kazuhiko's grandmother took care of the Suoh siblings in the past and how much he wanted to repay that debt. We also get introduced to Kazuhiko's male best friend and Arisa, a female classmate of his who teases Yui a lot, who's also in the same class. There's the super-hot homeroom teacher too:
There's Kameshiro
callistenics, some more grandmother flashbacks, and this, where Kazuhiko gets called into the inn for some extra work and afterwards he has a furious table tennis match with Yui.
Yui's clothes get aboved in the process. Clearly she's ecchi in the inside, exhibitionist, and wants to iccha iccha Kazuhiko or maybe that appetizing tennis paddle. Haha, I see what your little banana republic is for now, you scoundrel of a female!
Also rumors have been flying around of a strange girl who plays pranks on people and steals people's stuff. Nanano had one such encounter when said girl told her to close her eyes, and then pressed a cold soda can onto the back of Nanano's neck, going "
Niyari~" after the deed's done.
The interesting part of the trial happens near the end, when Kazuhiko has to go out on a scooter to deliver some stuff. He spots that blue-haired girl who almost ran him over swindle another shopkeeper of some of his goods with a healthy
Niyari~.
She spots Kazuhiko staring at her and she makes off with a "Hmph!" Clearly this is one of those tsundere things in the works.
He runs into a maid who can go from meido mode to scary I'm-gonna-eat-your-heart-in-front-of-you-while-you-watch mode with a single phonecall.
Afterwards he gets a delivery job and is going around town on his scooter when he spots a girl he hasn't seen around town before:
He asks her if she's looking for anything and she asks him if there used to be a particular store here. Kazuhiko tells her that the storeowner died about five years ago, and the girl remarks to herself that indeed time has flowed. She then thanks him and apologizes for taking up his time, and leaves. Kazuhiko goes back on his delivery route.
In the afternoon he goes to the beach with Yui but she has to go to the bathroom so leaves early. Convenient too because Kazuhiko spots someone on the rocks he used to frequently visit in the past. It's that girl from earlier:
He introduces himself as that guy from earlier. The girl's confused at first but then realizes who he is, since earlier he had some headgear on, obscuring some of his face. She starts a formal show of thanks but,
She finishes her thanks and apologies and says that these particular rocks are very nostalgic for her, leading Kazuhiko to note that this girl's must've been to Miyoshi before. She continues to stare at Kazuhiko's face. He wonders what's going on and unconsciously starts picking his nose. The girl recognizes that habit and asks him if he is "Kazuhiko-kun."
Our guy wonders how she knows his name and admits. Girl is shocked.
"No way. To meet him again...in this place...."