Rewrite (visual novel)



""Could it possibly be rewritten, that fate of hers?""

Rewrite is a visual novel from Key Visual Arts, makers of Kanon, AIR, Clannad, Angel Beats! and Little Busters. The scenarios are written by Yuto Tonokawa, Ryukishi 07 and Romeo Tanaka.

Kotarou Tennouji is a second year high school student who lives a carefree lifestyle with his friend Kotori Kanbe. After experiencing some supernatural occurrences, he consults with the "school witch" Akane Senri who asks him to join the occult research society. He recruits some members and they work together to have fun. He will later discover some of the deeper secrets of Kazamatsuri city.

Don't read below if you don't want heavy spoilers.


 * Action Girl:
 * Ancient Conspiracy:
 * Animal Eye Spy: There is a kind of surveillance bird that demon users can use.
 * Another Dimension: There is small dimension that closely resembles Kazamatsuri City except for having almost no human life in it.
 * Apocalypse How: Class 6 Total Extinction
 * April Fools' Day: A Real Life example where Key first announced the project on April 1, 2008.
 * Attack Of The 50 Foot Demon: Several demons are huge but the largest is
 * Badass Adorable:
 * Battle Butler: Sakuya
 * Big Bad:
 * Big Fun: Sakuya's substitute, "Sakuya HB".
 * Bittersweet Ending
 * Blank White Eyes:
 * Chihaya has these whenever she is shocked.
 * Sakuya has these complete with black screen and cold wind when Chihaya makes a comment that hurts him.
 * Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Lucia loves these.
 * Bloody Handprint: What Kotarou sees all over his room when he tries to confront the "spirit".
 * Break His Heart to Save Him:
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the Joke Ending, Kagari mentions that if she is popular enough, she might get a Magical Girl spinoff.
 * But Thou Must!: Almost all important choices in true route only have one option. The only one exception results in a Nonstandard Game Over that leads to the other heroines' routes.
 * Cell Phone: Kotarou uses one with the application "Mappie" to keep track of his location.
 * Childhood Friends: Kotarou is one to Kotori.
 * Class Representative: Lucia
 * Club President: Akane is president of the occult research society.
 * Combat Medic:
 * Convenient Coma:
 * Cool Pet: Chibi-Moth
 * Copy Protection: The game will only run on Japanese copies of Windows Vista and 7.
 * Cruel to Be Kind:
 * Demonic Possession: A ghost possesses Lucia in her route.
 * Disappears Into Light:
 * Doorstopper: The script of this visual novel is currently Key Visual Arts' longest one ever, beating even Clannad and Little Busters!
 * Downer Ending:
 * The Dragon
 * Dramatic Shattering: In Lucia's Route, windows and light-bulbs break to show the presence of the ghost.
 * Druid:
 * Dwindling Party:
 * Eating Contest: Lucia and Chihaya enter one where they have to work together to eat a giant parfait within a time limit or else they pay the cost. Unknown to them, the parfait is spicy hot.
 * Emotionless Girl: Kagari.
 * The End of the World as We Know It
 * Endless Corridor: Kotarou and Yoshino are temporarily trapped in one at school.
 * Energy Weapon:
 * Ethereal Choir: There is one song in the story
 * Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Demon dinosaurs.
 * The Exile:
 * Falling Chandelier of Doom:
 * Fission Mailed: Occurs in Kotori's Route, where the player is given only one choice to select from. Selecting that choice gives the appearance of a bad end, but the game just continues on.
 * Flower Motifs: All the heroine's theme songs are named after flowers.
 * Kotori- Windflower
 * Chihaya- Morning Glory
 * Sizuru- Carnation
 * Akane- Anthurium
 * Lucia- Sunbright (Sunflower)
 * Kagari- Daisy
 * Sakuya also have a flower motif of Cherry Blossoms.
 * Flower in Her Hair: Kotori has two of them, fitting since.
 * Forceful Kiss:
 * Fossil Revival: A method to create demons.
 * Friendless Background:
 * Freudian Excuse:
 * Gamer Chick: Akane, usually playing on her laptop.
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Comedically used by Kotori. She usually punches Kotarou out of his aggressive "dark side".
 * Girlish Pigtails: Sizuru. Chihaya sports the tsundere-tails variation of the trope.
 * A God Am I: Played for Laughs when Kotarou is conducting a simulation of Earth from creation to present times and gets the feeling of omnipotence. Kotori knocks him out of it.
 * Goes Mad From the Revelation:
 * Gratuitous English: Yoshino is fond of making these.
 * Hair Decorations: Except for Sizuru, there is:
 * Kotori, who wears two flowers on the sides of her head.
 * Chihaya, who sports those little wing ornaments.
 * Akane, who has her black ribbon.
 * Lucia, who wears yet another ribbon.
 * And Kagari, who wears her cross-shaped hairclips.
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Hope Spot:
 * Hope Sprouts Eternal:
 * Hot Teacher: Nishikujou Touka
 * Human Popsicle: Used in  route.
 * I Will Wait for You:
 * Improbable Weapon User:
 * The Infiltration:
 * Invisible to Normals:
 * Jerkass Facade: Yoshino acts completely different in his own home.
 * Katanas Are Just Better: Lucia and  use them.
 * Knife Nut:
 * Knight Templar: The organization Guardian's main goal is the destruction of demons and everything related to them.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia:
 * Last Kiss:
 * The Lost Woods
 * Love Confession: Kotarou made one to Kotori before high school, but she rejected him.
 * MacGuffin: All organizations are searching for the "Key"
 * Mad Scientist: Brenda
 * That Man Is Dead:
 * Megaton Punch: Lucia delivers this to Kotarou whenever he does something perverted like eating her food.
 * Meido: Lucia wears a maid outfit in her route. Kotarou has an Imagine Spot of Sizuru wearing one in Sizuru's Route.
 * Mentor Occupational Hazard:
 * Mismatched Eyes: Sizuru
 * Momma's Boy: Yoshino
 * Mood Whiplash: The visual novel shifts from everyday comedy to darker story arc around the beginning of November.
 * Mugging the Monster: Deliberately invoked by Kotarou when he takes Kotori and Chibi-moth into the slums of the city. When anyone tries to approach and mug them, Kotori orders Chibi-moth to beat them down. Kotarou then proceeds to take the mugger's money.
 * Multiple Endings: There are endings for Kotori, Chihaya, Lucia, Sizuru, and Akane. If you fail to enter any of the five heroine's routes, you will get a Nonstandard Game Over where
 * After completing the five heroine routes, there is a  followed by the true ending.
 * Finally, there is Joke Ending that occurs after getting all the other endings and fulfilling certain conditions.
 * My Greatest Failure:
 * Mysterious Waif: Kagari
 * Naked People Are Funny: One scene had Kotarou and Yoshino running around school naked, while trying to hide their faces.
 * Neat Freak: Lucia
 * Never Got to Say Goodbye: A Tear Jerker moment in
 * New Transfer Student: Chihaya
 * No Body Left Behind: Demons turn into dust after being killed.
 * No Sense of Direction: Chihaya
 * Official Couple: Kotori appears to be the main heroine in the advertisements
 * Older Than They Look:
 * Ominous Pipe Organ: The song "Finale"
 * Our Fairies Are Different: There two tiny Winged Humanoid demons that appear in Chihaya's and Sizuru's routes. They were created from an experiment.
 * Outdoor Bath Peeping: Unintentional case where Kotarou is searching for Kotori in the forest and finds her bathing.
 * Out of Focus:
 * Kotori does not appear in front of Kotarou in the other four main heroines' route, but there is a reason for this.
 * Lucia only appears in Sizuru's and her own route.
 * Out of Time, Out of Mind:
 * Panty Shot:
 * While the visual novel mentions it in the text, the manga explicitly shows Chihaya's cherry panty in her introduction.
 * Akane gets one when trying to overclock her own computer.
 * Parental Abandonment:
 * Kotarou's parents are never around in the story due to work.
 * Place of Power: the power spots in
 * Playing with Fire: Midow.
 * Power At a Price
 * Powered by a Forsaken Child: Demon contracts slowly drains the energy of the user. So in some experiments, Gaia decides to force children into contracts to support larger demons.
 * Reality Warper: Minor case where
 * Really 700 Years Old:
 * Replacement Goldfish:
 * Replacement Sibling:
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: Chibi-Moth
 * The Rival:
 * Yoshino considers Kotarou one.
 * Kotarou and Inoue can be considered rivals since they are both reporters that are trying to get news scoops.
 * Say My Name:
 * Lucia screams "TENNOUJI KOTAROU!!" whenever Kotarou makes her mad enough to attack him.
 * School Newspaper Newshound: Inoue
 * Senseless Sacrifice:
 * The Seven Mysteries: There is actually an eighth one. Finding it is one of the conditions for the Joke Ending.
 * Sheathe Your Sword:
 * Shoot the Bullet:
 * Shrinking Violet: Sizuru
 * Sinister Minister: There is one in Lucia's route.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": So is it Sizuru or Shizuru?
 * Summon Magic: Some demon users can use this type of magic.
 * Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Lucia is associated with sunflowers in that she loves them,
 * Super-Powered Evil Side:
 * Super Strength: Chihaya
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: Sakuya
 * That's No Moon:
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill: Kotarou's policy in life.
 * Time Skip: Several short ones in different routes.
 * Tragic Dream:
 * Transfer Student Uniforms: Chihaya wears her old uniform.
 * Trauma Conga Line: In the true route,  suffers from this.
 * Trickster Archetype: Kotarou, but many of his pranks tend to backfire, especially against Lucia.
 * Tsundere: Lucia
 * Unreliable Narrator: Used in 's Route.
 * Utsuge: It's a Key Visual Arts game so this is expected.
 * Vicious Cycle:
 * Video Game Tropes: Kotarou makes multiple references to them, including Character Level, "______ joins the party" when he is recruiting members for the club and how Lucia's punch does 9999 damage.
 * Walking Wasteland:
 * War Is Hell
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Kagari
 * Why Did It Have to Be Cats: Sakuya is so afraid of cats that he completely freezes up.
 * Kotarou is terrified of ghosts and spirits. It is the reason why he asks Akane for help in the first place.
 * World Tree:
 * Would Hurt a Child:
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Used by Akane's secretary in a prank against Kotarou. She steals Kotarou's money and takes a taxi to escape. When Kotarou catches up to her, she screams in front of the crowd and a policeman takes Kotarou into custody for sexual harassment.
 * You Are Too Late:
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Nishikujou Touka.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: All the female school uniforms are these (including Chihaya's)
 * Akane, however, simply wears knee-socks.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": So is it Sizuru or Shizuru?
 * Summon Magic: Some demon users can use this type of magic.
 * Sunny Sunflower Disposition: Lucia is associated with sunflowers in that she loves them,
 * Super-Powered Evil Side:
 * Super Strength: Chihaya
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: Sakuya
 * That's No Moon:
 * Thou Shalt Not Kill: Kotarou's policy in life.
 * Time Skip: Several short ones in different routes.
 * Tragic Dream:
 * Transfer Student Uniforms: Chihaya wears her old uniform.
 * Trauma Conga Line: In the true route,  suffers from this.
 * Trickster Archetype: Kotarou, but many of his pranks tend to backfire, especially against Lucia.
 * Tsundere: Lucia
 * Unreliable Narrator: Used in 's Route.
 * Utsuge: It's a Key Visual Arts game so this is expected.
 * Vicious Cycle:
 * Video Game Tropes: Kotarou makes multiple references to them, including Character Level, "______ joins the party" when he is recruiting members for the club and how Lucia's punch does 9999 damage.
 * Walking Wasteland:
 * War Is Hell
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Kagari
 * Why Did It Have to Be Cats: Sakuya is so afraid of cats that he completely freezes up.
 * Kotarou is terrified of ghosts and spirits. It is the reason why he asks Akane for help in the first place.
 * World Tree:
 * Would Hurt a Child:
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Used by Akane's secretary in a prank against Kotarou. She steals Kotarou's money and takes a taxi to escape. When Kotarou catches up to her, she screams in front of the crowd and a policeman takes Kotarou into custody for sexual harassment.
 * You Are Too Late:
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Nishikujou Touka.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: All the female school uniforms are these (including Chihaya's)
 * Akane, however, simply wears knee-socks.
 * World Tree:
 * Would Hurt a Child:
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Used by Akane's secretary in a prank against Kotarou. She steals Kotarou's money and takes a taxi to escape. When Kotarou catches up to her, she screams in front of the crowd and a policeman takes Kotarou into custody for sexual harassment.
 * You Are Too Late:
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Nishikujou Touka.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: All the female school uniforms are these (including Chihaya's)
 * Akane, however, simply wears knee-socks.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Nishikujou Touka.
 * Zettai Ryouiki: All the female school uniforms are these (including Chihaya's)
 * Akane, however, simply wears knee-socks.
 * Akane, however, simply wears knee-socks.