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narcissu

narcissu
7.51/ 107,086 votes
Developer
Regista Co.,Ltd., Stage-nana
Released
Aug 2, 2005
Length
Short(2-10 hours)
Platforms
AndroidGBAiOSLinuxmacOS
Languages
deenesfrhuiditja
Links

Official Website, Wikipedia (ja), ErogameScape, Wikipedia, MobyGames

Shops

Steam, Getchu, App Store, Play-Asia

Updated today

The anonymous protagonist is diagnosed with a terminal illness shortly after his twentieth birthday, and is admitted to a hospital in Mito, Ibaraki. There he meets Setsumi, a woman a few years older, who is also terminally ill. Finding that they both reject to die either in hospital or at home, they steal a car and run away together.

[Edited from Wikipedia]

Flowing Japanese

Easy · 1.5/5

Narration-driven with approachable language, measured at 1.5 out of 5 for reading difficulty across 119K characters, 5.2K unique words, 18.1 words per sentence, 28% dialogue.

Measurements by jiten.moe↗

Tags

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Clinical DepressionKinetic NovelOnly a Single HeroineSingle EndingHealth IssuesSickly ProtagonistSickly HeroineLinear PlotADVNo Sexual ContentCentral HeroineMale ProtagonistNo GalleryPhotographic BackgroundsNo Character SpritesUnnamed ProtagonistMusic RecollectionAdult ProtagonistModern Day JapanAdult HeroineDriver ProtagonistLaid-back HeroineAchievementsPhilosophySerious ProtagonistProtagonist as the Only Male
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Cast and credits

The people behind narcissu, each linking to what else they have worked on.

Main cast

Voiced by
  • Atou YuuUnvoiced
  • Sakura Setsumi
    • Ayakawa Rino

Staff

Scenario
  • Kataoka Tomo
Director
  • Kataoka Tomo
Art
  • MITAONSYA
  • ·Tsukasa Yuuki
Music
  • Barbarian On The Groove
  • ·Dreaming Rabbit
  • ·KIYO
  • ·SENTIVE
  • ·ebi
  • ·onoken
  • ·Agematsu Noriyasu
  • ·Unatomi Hajime
  • ·Nekono Comet
  • ·Ishibashi Hiroshi
  • ·Fujima Hitoshi
  • ·Tateuchi Akira
Songs
  • KIRIKO
  • ·Mizuta Mari
QA
  • Asphodel
  • ·AstCd2
  • ·Chris St. Louis
  • ·Irene Ying
  • ·Jeff Chang
  • ·Vince Diamante
Other staff
  • Edward Keyes

24 of 33 credited people.

Contains data from VNDB, available under the Open Database License. Reading difficulty and script measurements come from jiten.moe. Statistics are based on daily data dumps and may not reflect real-time changes.