Blow ~Michita Tsuki, Kaketa Tsuki~

I'm like the moon. Sometimes empty, sometimes full. But I will never ever go away.

—Yuka Kizuki.

A 1999 H-game Visual Novel by RockClimber, Blow ~Michita Tsuki, Kaketa Tsuki~ is a story about students preparing a coffee shop for the culture festival of their school...and serial rape.

Hiroaki Kudo is your average high school delinquent. Which means his crimes and bad reputation mostly come out of skipping classes and making the richest girl on the school, Saki Mikimoto, cry while dismissing her romantic confession (which he actually didn't know it was happening). But this year most of his delinquent friends began to act mostly straight thanks to having reached a very critical point on Japanese life where they have to choose their careers. Also, the student president of his class, Nagi Agasa, wants his help in the school culture festival.

But as the culture festival approaches, rapes begin to happen inside the school building, and paranoic hysteria spreads as the victims are unable to identify the culprit (which blows them in the head at the end of every rape, causing temporary memory loss). Nagi grows increasingly worried about it and tries to push the protagonist along to help her.

Whether Hiroaki gets ever closer to the truth or not is up to the player.

Tropes used in Blow ~Michita Tsuki, Kaketa Tsuki~ include:

Attempted Rape: In the path to ending 03, Nagi will go through this between Maki and Saki rapes. The protagonist manages to rescue her before, but she is left temporarily traumatized.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In the true ending, Yuka is revealed to have beaten and then ordered Megumi to be raped two times simply for liking Kudo, while keeping a façade of nice girl to students not part of her clique.
Bittersweet Ending: Ending 03. Nagi healed mentally of her attempted rape, Chiaki and Hiroaki are on a happy relationship, but the rapist has escaped completely, and Saki will move abroad, their parents terrified by what happened to her. This is one of the best outcomes, specially once you discover how nasty most of the victims of the rapist are on the true ending.
Big Bad: The unseen rapist. During some paths, Nagi suspects it's Megumi ordering someone around, but in the true ending it's really her brother.
Brains and Brawn: The protagonist and Nagi, with the protagonist having the physical force and Nagi the wits.
Brainwashed and Crazy: A likely explanation for what happens to Hiroaki in the true ending. Ryouchi said he wanted to ruin his life; Hiroaki was weirdly hearing strange noises the whole time, and the only target left for Megumi's brother to ruin is him on that route.
Chick Magnet: Hiroaki has a lot of girls magnetized around him, most notable Chiharu and Nagi. In the true ending, that is deconstructed: one of them turns out to have gone to the extreme of ordering the rape of another girl two times to make her give up on him. In fact, the only endings with romantic resolutions involve Yuka being raped and driven away from Hiroaki, probably so readers who access the true ending will rest easy knowing that in those outcomes Yuka will not be around to try to hurt his girlfriend.
Driven to Suicide:
- In the path to ending 03, Hiroaki speculates Nagi will go through it after witnessing the aftermath of Mikimoto's rape and not appearing at school. Averted, as actually the opposite happens, and she actually grows motivated to live and her depression mostly dissipates.
- In the true ending, Megumi turns out to have killed herself a few months ago, but only Ryouchi is aware.
Downer Ending: The true ending. Hiroaki was apparently driven crazy by the noises he heard and had raped both Nagi and Chiharu, Ryouchi has raped everyone who he thought had hurt Megumi, and now Hiroaki is going to prison.
Fan Disservice: Burubera draws beautiful female bodies. Those bodies being horribly violated is not pretty.
Fanservice: The maids' uniforms Endo comes up with, though the protagonist is only informed of it at first and only in the very end you see them.
Fiery Redhead: Chiaki is very energetic and has hair red like blood.
Forced Into Evil: Maki and Kahori weren't exactly the most upstanding people, but Yuka's threatening aura and combat abilities make them obey without question her orders to rape Megumi.
Hello, Insert Name Here: Every time a new playthrough starts, the protagonist can be renamed. By default, his name is Hiroaki Kudo.
Hot for Teacher: Hiroaki can have sex with Kyoko, though it's more of a fling than romance.
Hot Teacher: Kyoko is impressively curvy, though officially she not a teacher yet and is only doing internship.
I'm a Humanitarian: Ending 08. Hiroaki is killed and his body eaten by Yuka.
In-Series Nickname: Endosuke is often called Erosuke, even by Hiroaki's own internal dialogue.
Karma Houdini: In all endings, Ryouchi gets away with several rapes.
Kick the Son of a Bitch: In the true ending, it's revealed most of Ryouchi's victims took part or ordered to, or did the deed, of raping his sister Megumi two times.
Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Ending 02. Kyoko and Hiroaki engage on sex on the broadcast room in the school. It is deconstructed as this get them caught by a furious Kuruma after they accidently press a button who broadcast their acts to the whole school.
Mind Screw: Good luck trying to figure out why Hiroaki goes crazy talking about loving Chiharu and Nagi and rapes both of them in the true ending. Ryouchi's dialogue implies he did play a part on it, but what he did it's not properly explained.
Misplaced Retribution: Ryouchi goes after everyone which hurt Megumi. Including Hiroaki, which did nothing except reciting some stupid poem which attracted both Megumi and Yuka's attention and led to Megumi's tragedy.
Parental Incest: Chiharu off-handily mentions her stepfather may be creeping on her, but nothing comes out of it.
Posthumous Character: Megumi has committed suicide months ago, and our characters never ask for information about her from people who know she is dead like their homeroom teacher, so this revelation comes out of nowhere in the true ending.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: Saki Mikimoto's uniform features these.
Red Herring:
- The construction worker which Nagi suspects of for being a drug user and Maki's ex-boyfriend. Nagi admits after interviewing a colleague of him he has a good alibi. He is related, but not as a perpetrator.
- The third-year students who attack Nagi/Moeka. Kuruma speculates after Mikimoto's rape that it was copycat.
Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Nagi is taken aback by the sexy maid outfit Endo created for her for the culture festival but goes along since it's now too late to back down. It doesn't help everyone praises it as beautiful.
Situational Sexuality: It's not explained what happened to Isamu, but the second-hand description of his supervisor in the true ending involving him appearing for work distressed with bruises and pulling his pants up implies Ryouchi also raped him.
Smart People Wear Glasses: Nagi is pretty smart and four-eyed. How much she plays it straight depends on player's choices, though not of fault of her own.
Sudden Downer Ending: Ending 08. It seems like a romantic resolution like most other good endings. Then Yuka kills the protagonist while he is asleep and put his parts on a fridge to eat.
The Stoic: Saki doesn't emote a lot. It's considered an impressive feat Hiroaki made her cry by rejecting her.
Teacher-Student Romance: Ending 2. Kyoko and Hiroaki are heavily implied to engage on this in the future.
The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Ending 09
Token Good Teammate: Saki is the only student of Yuka's group that did not torture or beat Megumi. Sadly, the fact she also has a crush on Kudo makes her deny any kind of help to her.
Token Loli: Moeka, clearly more on the caring side. She is smaller, one year younger than the main cast, and has loneliness problems thanks to her parents constantly moving.
Walking Spoiler:
- Yuka's character is mostly hidden from view until the true ending.
- It's pretty much impossible to talk about Megumi Hikawa since her entire character is tied to the investigation and she only begins to be mentioned in later parts of the game.
Yandere: The true ending reveals Yuka is crazy about Hiroaki. Violently..
Zettai Ryouiki: Moeka wears a class B.