[hyl]

Finished Amairo Islenauts a few days ago. While I did like it , but didn't exceed my expectations.

It's overall a nice moege with good characters, but none of the routes had a real good story (imo Airi having the weakest and Yune have the best) which is normally not a huge problem for a moege. However I think that some routes (Yune and Masaki) had a little too much drama for my taste but more on that later.

The music is imo not as catchy or good as the 2 other Yuzusoft titles that i have played (Dracu-Riot and Natsuzora Kanata), but still ok. I did like the ending song(s) Amairo sung by the various main heroines

While the main character Tohru is a teacher and all of the main heroines are his pupils, the problem of a teacher-student relationship was only an issue in 1 route (and that wasn't even the direct problem).

Route impressions

Spoiler for Shirley:

Decent route , eventhough Shirley's problem / minor trauma with "wanderers" at the end of the common route and beginning of her route ended being almost a nonissue for the rest of her route.
Her route was the only one that explained the backstory of main character but my problem was that this issue made me feel that Shirley's route focused less on the heroine than the other routes
It had a pretty satisfying conclusion with Shirley's "global warming" plan though

Shirley's delusionional side was funny and "Kitami Rikka" did a great job voicing those

Spoiler for Yune:

Probably the best written route. I did like how the story turned out because Yune felt pretty generic in the common route (seemed like the typical nice and obedient character , but with a ドS flavour ) but she was a far more complex character. While her route has a fair amount of drama I didn't think most of it was bad because it added more depth to her character.
The conclusion of her story was very good and touching, but the epilogue was a little cliche
However i still have no idea why she wanted to have a master, but whatever.

Also I liked every moment of her fake crying , "よよよ"

Spoiler for Airi:

I really didn't like her route, her character and personality. It's quite a shame because i usually like characters voiced by "Natsuno Koori".
I didn't like Airi moping and complaining so many times about minor things (wanting to be treated as an adult, having a small chestsize, getting angry after she lost her mobile phone etc.)

Even the issue at the end of her route was Airi's own fault. Because she almost had to leave the school because of her average grades and her lack of motivation why she wanted to transfer in the first place.......
It doesn't help that Airi probably had the shortest route of the main heroines.

One of the things that i like in her route was her epilogue chapter, because it skips forward to the graduation and it was a nice conclusion to the story

Spoiler for Masaki and a rushed summary of her route:

The route for my favorite heroine and it's also the longest route in the game.

Because of the trial i expected a lighthearted story for her, but i got treated by more drama and angst than any other route.

The route began to start after Masaki's father Owen got hospitalized and he had to go to japan to undergo a surgery. While the surgery was a succes Owen did not go home yet for unknown reasons, which made Masaki worry (she tried to hard to act cheerfull at school)
As an attempt to cheer up Masaki Tohru asked Owen permission to temporary reopen the bar/inn. However he know that he can't prepare the same meals as Owen can, so he decides to make curry (with the tail meat of some kind animal) because the people in Lyserg aren't familiar with japanese food. The reopening was a huge succes and it even had more customers than it did before.

Slowly Masaki fell in love Tohru during all of this, but she can't confess to him because of the complications of a teacher-student relationship . So she decides to become his pet ................

Eventually she yearns to be more than his pet (despite that i can't exactly call it a pet-master relation , but it's closer to a lovers relationship except with a collar). However she knows that she can't, as it will cause problems for him (Tohru could get fired and if that happens, he has to leave Lyserg because he has no job or residence permit for the island)

While all the previous things were happening, Tohru also stumbles on book with a research on therianthropes (Masaki is an half human-therianthrope) , which is rather conveniently written by Masaki's mother (a researcher on therianthropes) in japan and he reads more on it during the route. Tohru later buys followup research book and reads that if a therianthrope decides to hold back on their mating/love instincts on their first love, then the therianthrope will forever lose the ability to love someone ...................

Masaki ran away after having a fight with her father. After some phone calls (including one to Masaki's mother asking for a solution for the whole Therianthrope instincts issue and her answer was that breaking Masaki's heart was a solution ) Tohru, Masaki's friends and some teachers including the head teacher went looking for Masaki and they find her at the lake.

There Tohru finds out that Masaki was already aware of the consequences of supressing her instincts because she accidently read the book before he did.
Masaki is fine with that as she doesn't want to cause any problems for Tohru and she can still stay as his pet.
However Tohru doesn't want that and persuades Masaki out of that by confessing to her and with a kiss, while knowing (and probably not caring) that the head teacher was nearby.

But the head teacher was sent away in time by the 2 teachers and Masaki's dad, who already knew about the relationship
So the two finally became a real couple without the problem of the school knowing about their relationship (except for their friends Airi, Shirley, Yune and Fran and the teachers Kogura and Tia )

I skipped alot in the mini summary , but i probably have most of the important things covered.
Despite being a little too dramatic, I did like her route and it was still very well written. Masaki still has very moe moments in her own route (like her date) plus Kiritani Hana's voice was perfect.
わふ!

The subheroine routes were as expected very short, imo probably too short. Konoka's route was far better than Tia's ,because Konoka's route had some mystery and answers, while Tia's route almost had no plot

Spoiler for Konoka route spoilers:

It turns out she was a Japanese girl who apparently drowned 30 years ago in Japan, while helping some people during a flood. Because she didn't want to die and wanted to live, her wish was heard by the island and she got magically transported to the future (or something like that).
While it's not directly mentioned, i think it is implied that Lyserg appeared near japan because of Konoka because both things seemed to have happened 30 years ago.

While the sub characters were likable, none of them appeared that much in the game. My favorite of them would be Francesca Palamidi (Fran) , the pink drill haired otaku from Italy, but too bad she didn't have her own route. Her craziness is atleast on par with Shirley and perhaps even worse