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Kowaku no Toki, a visual novel developed by TinkerBell is something that I personally have some mixed feelings about. The art was alright but I'm not so sure about the story since it was a bit confusing, mainly because there were a lot of plot holes. In terms of the H-scenes, some were alright which included some bondage, but a lot of them were massively inflated which is not really essential to the story and I ended up skipping some of it.

Kyousuke Mibu (Main Protagonist)

The main character for this VN is Kyousuke Mibu who is a private detective. He at first appeared as being lazy but overtime, he had some character development. For some reason, he ends up having these prophetic dreams which reveals what's going to happen in the future. In the beginning he receives and accepts a request to find a missing person which led to him ending up in a western-style mansion in the middle of the forest. There have been various supernatural things occurring in this mansion which has a lot of secrets which Kyousuke intends to find out. There was also this creature that Kyousuke found in the woods which had the body of a cow and the face of a human. According to google translate from Textractor, it is referred to as "The Matter" and it seems to be based on a Japanese mythical creature called "Kudan" which really caught my interest.

Kudan (件)

Just like any other visual novel, the endings you get are based on the choices you make which lead to the main character getting affiliated with one of the three main heroines in this VN (Momoko, Ai and Yukino). Each heroine has multiple endings to them. Out of these three, Yukino's route seems to have the greatest importance on revealing the secrets in this mansion where supernatural things are occurring and why Kyousuke keeps having these prophetic dreams every time he sleeps. I would recommend you to go through the routes of the other heroines as well since they also have compelling stories.

Translation: Looking at the burning mansion, Yukino-san seemed to be thinking of Ruriko-san.

I'm not exactly sure how many endings there are for each character, but once you do get them, you'll unlock a bonus route on the main menu which I don't think is canon. It's mainly just for comedy purposes so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have the time nor courage to get all the endings for Momoko, Ai and Yukino. I still recommend this visual novel to be translated for a wider audience to experience it. It is available for purchase on DLsite.

[Ouka] “Kudan, he’s cute…”

By the way, one thing that seems to be inconsistent in this visual novel was that when you choose Yukino's route, Ai never shows up in the mansion and the same thing applies the other way around. Also, if you choose Momoko's route, neither Yukino nor Ai shows up in the mansion. Since they are sisters and they are the daughters of Ruriko who lives in the mansion, it would make sense that they both show up in the mansion no matter what route you take. Seems a bit odd and I assume that TinkerBell was being lazy on constructing the different routes for each heroine. Maybe I'm being a bit too nitpicky but whatever. I still enjoyed the visual novel.