Otome Game Review: Hakuoki ~Zuisouroku~

This is the Hakuoki fandisk. Basically it gives you the opportunity to see some “extra scenes” inserted into some parts of the previous game. You also get extra CGs with your man of choice. Additionally you get a chance to get with guys you couldn’t get with in the original game XD. Each route was fairly short and as a completion reward you’d get a deredere letter from the guy to you telling about how much he loves you etc XD

Hijikata Toshizo – Hijikata’s route there was a lol scene where Chizuru was dressed up in Geisha clothes and made all the guys go (;ﾟ∀ﾟ)=3ﾊｧﾊｧ over her. When attempting to take her home Hijikata was stopped and told to pay money for the Geisha he was taking home. Hijikata’s like WTF LAY OFF MAH WOMAN 😆 Additionally there was a scene of him getting completely ass drunk and toppling all over Chizuru because apparently he is weak to alcohol? At the end where he was injured and bleeding Chizuru offered her blood but he refused saying he’d heal on his own. She was like “STFU AND DRINK” and she made him drink it via kiss 😉 And finally there was an extra scene in the epilogue where Chizuru and Hijikata finally had a REAL KISS under the cherry blossoms (〃ﾉωﾉ)。　Hijikata seemed really tsundere the entire time, I mean a blushing Hijikata? You’d never believe it till you see it 😆

Okita Souji – Souji’s route really helped backup the fact that he was falling in love with Chizuru. I swear in the original game he was so yandere and then suddenly OMG CHIZURU I LUVV YOU 😯 I also loved the scene where he lifted up some kid and went into yandere mode when the kid made fun of the Shinsengumi. This route also provided more support that Souji is a Kondo fanboy since he said he does his hair secretly to be like Kondo. I guess he didn’t care that much after he cut it >_> There’s some additional cute raburabu scenes (and extra kiss one) in between and at the end he asks Chizuru to be his waifu. She agrees but since they’re both kinda poor rasetsu rejects, all he can do is make her a little flower ring and head band thing lol. The spoon feeding kayu scene was probably my favorite deredere Souji scene out of all of them though. I feel kinda meh about the ending but I guess I’m not really a fan of Souji or yandere characters. I do feel this route definitely added a lot to him overall in comparison to the original game.

Saito Hajime – Saito was featured cooking at the beginning of the game. Then during the geisha scene he was staring and drooling at Chizuru while simultaneously punching some drunk idiot behind him 😆 There was also a cute scene of him and Chizuru making snow rabbits as well as him nursing her back to health (which she thought was all a dream sigh….) One of the later game scenes he hugs her in the forest and then while they talk about not having a place other than the Shinsengumi, Chizuru boldly proclaims her love for Saito. I always thought it was weird how she’s like “I’ve always liked you Saito-san” Wait you have? Well anyway she then steals a kiss from him x3. In the final epilogue he has to get extra drunk just to ask her to say his first name multiple times. xDD It was really cute and silly. Most of Hajime’s extra scenes were rather silly…especially the part where he’s talking to the cat telling to shoo because he can’t adopt it lol.

Toudou Heisuke – Heisuke’s story starts out when he brings tea for Hijikata with Chizuru in order to distract him. Additionally Chizuru gets in trouble because she makes onigiri for Heisuke and sneaks into his room. Overall Heisuke’s route felt like the entire time he’s like “Oh Chizuru you should be more feminine…but only for me!” So of course he was pissed when all these erojijis were gawking at her geisha outfit. It’s ironic since he’s telling her to be more feminine while at the same time he looks like a chick with that stupid hair (until he finally cuts it.) Sad that most of the extra scenes were BEFORE the hair cut but the epilogue scene was really cute. Also him and Chikage arguing and saying the same thing was really cute XD. We actually got to see the scene of the two of them leaving the Shinsengumi and everyone saying their farewells. In the epilogue he makes a little flower ornament for Chizuru’s hair and he is happy that she can look for feminine.

Kazama Chikage – Well I was supposed to do Sano next but I completely forgot about him because I had Chikage on my mind ＼( ^o^)／ Basically during the bar scene he’s all like “serve me woman” and she’s like “give me info and stop those dudes from assaulting the Shinsengumi and I’ll serve you”. “…..Fine (　´_ゝ`)” XD So yea it was good to see more scenes between these two since the first game cut most of them out. Chikage also took her to the place where the Yukimura family home was that got destroyed by humans. He asks her why she doesn’t hate them but she says it’s just saddening that’s all. He also breaks the sad news to her about the Shinsengumi dying and in the epilogue she’s kinda living on her own 5 months later. She starts complaining how he said for her to come to him but he didn’t exactly give her contact information! As she starts thinking about him he magically appears in front of her! 😆 And he’s not taking NO for an answer this time (;ﾟ∀ﾟ)=3ﾊｧﾊｧ　He makes sure she gets the picture with a really hot kisu but at this point I don’t think Chizuru has any complaints XD.

Harada Sanosuke – Sano had additional cute raburabu scenes added to his route. During the geisha scene he was fixing Chizuru’s lipstick and sending shivers down her spine 😉 Also at one point he made it really obvious to Shinpachi that he had “found a woman” but the bloke didn’t seem to get it. When Shinpachi went out to get drunk it was raburabu time for Sano and Chizuru x3. After they did it, Chizuru was feeling a little sick I guess cause Sano knocked her up? XD So then they kissed in the forest again. I swear this was the most raburabu route of them all. The epilogue scene was actually slightly before Chizuru had their baby. Sano was all like “OMG IS IT MINE?” Yea who else’s is it you dork xDD. The final CG was kinda disappointing though just showing their backs. Also turns out they were no longer in Japan but I guess somewhere in Vladivostok? I never realized that in the original game.

Shinpachi & Kondo – Eh there were side character routes but since they aren’t the main ones the routes weren’t really even “routes”. It was just extra scenes of like Kondo teaching Chizuru some sword skills (which obviously didn’t do anything since she still had to get her butt saved during the Geisha scene.) In Shinpachi’s scenes he just became a drunk ossan and ended up rolling into Chizuru’s lap when she was a geisha. The next day he didn’t even remember whose lap he rolled into and when he found out it was hers he ran away 😆 He acts like he’s Chizuru’s older brother and wants her to call him “Aniue-sama” and she’s like “uh..no?” XD He also babbles about how he misses the good old days when it wasn’t about winning or losing. It was just about being this one big happy Shinsengumi family.

Sannan & Yamazaki – Well Sannan was as creepy mofo from beginning to end and none of his bonus scenes could save his character for me. In fact the fact that he’s a creepy pedorapist in my head any scenes where I guess he was supposed to be “sweet” looked like this to me. So yea I was glad to finish with his route and move on to ninja-kun Yamazaki (￣ー￣)ﾆﾔﾘ。 Along with Saito’s super back hand punch, Yamazaki had a special flip-tatami move on to the drunk guy to protect Chizuru 😆 Also he went on cleanup duty with her and scolded her for poking into Souji’s stuff. (Apparently Souji steals Hijikata’s poetry what? XDXD) And finally at the end Yamazaki was angsting about Chizuru not going to Osaka with everyone but there was a sweet scene of him telling her to trust him and go. So yea Yamazaki was at least worth doing.

The bonus omake was sweet sweet school life which will soon be turned into an anime ＼( ^o^)／ There was also a CG of Sano sucking blood from Chizuru since not like we’d ever get the opportunity to actually see this XD; (Obviously Sano had the hottest version too….(;ﾟ∀ﾟ)=3ﾊｧﾊｧ)

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Final Thoughts: Well it was a nice short fandisk. Some scenes definitely added to the characters but others like Sannan were unnecessary and pointless (；´Д｀A ｀｀｀Seeing more silly and happy stuff for once was nice. I can’t even describe how sick I was of all the deaths in the original game so this was refreshing. I totally loved the school life thing so I can’t wait for the animated version to come out. There were some extra non-Chizuru scenes but they kinda bored me so I didn’t get too far. There was an unlocking of a bonus scene if you did all the endings and basically it was that scene of all the Shinsengumi guys from the normal end of the first game – but this time they were saying stuff to Chizuru. Unfortunately Otomate thought it was a great idea to record this as a video so it lagged horribly and everyone sounded like they were drunk (　´_ゝ`)。　I think any kind of sadness I was supposed to feel in that scene was replaced with lulz. Sigh too bad lol. The geisha scenarios were probably my favorite, even more than the silly cat scene. Anyway definitely a good fandisk to play but only after you finished the first game. Otherwise none of it will make sense to you XD.