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''Love Plus'' is a [[Dating Sim]] by [[Konami]] for the Nintendo DS, and a [[Spiritual Successor]] of the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series. The game is split into two parts. The first part consists of fairly standard dating sims fare: the player attempts to woo the affection of one of the three datable girls. If the player is successful in this endeavor (and yes failure is an option), the second part of the game begins.
 
After successfully courting the girl, the player can text her, call her (via the mic), initiate skinship or kiss her when appropriate (via the DS touchscreen), and essentially continue dating her. This part of the game can be played in "real time mode," which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: the game (and by extension the girl) become "aware" of the real date and time. Thus, if a player decides to date a girl on next Sunday at a pre-arranged time at the zoo, the player needs to "be there" on Sunday, or she will get mad. "Real time mode" also enables certain special events, including date-based events, such as Valentine's Day, birthdays, and Christmas.
 
The game spawned several [[Derivative Works]] due to its immense popularity:
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[[Love Plus (Video Game)/Characters|Character Page]] is on the way.
 
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** Girls Talk - By Sakura Tasuke (of Kedama Biyori). Will apparently be about the three girls living together under on roof.
** Her Past - By Wakiyama Hiroaki (of Shuukyuu Shoujo). The silhouette features a girl with long, straight hair, but apparently it's a side story about Rinko.
* [[Copy Protection]]: Apart from the usual Anti-Piracy mechanisms that prevent it from loading on some flash cards, the updated rerelease also ignores the affection levels of the heroines. Meaning there's no way to date them in the first part of the game. This means it's [[Unwinnable Byby Design]] if you're playing it on a flash card. Of course, pirates being as resourceful as they are, they have managed to get past this by patching the AP away.
** The girls would also tell you that they aren't into pirates.
* [[Dating Sim]]: With a twist, the game was only made to increase Japan's very low birth rate, and it worked wonders, that and aiming it at high schoolers who are having issues picking up girls and said high schoolers using it as a tool to pick up said girl in real life.
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* [[High School]] - The game's main setting.
* [[Hot Mom]] - Rinko's mom (implied by Rinko's prequel manga).
* [[How to Become Aa Love Interest]] - The main point of the first part of the game. If you fail to get one of the three girls to like you within 100 game days, you get the "bad ending" and cannot continue to the second part of the game.
* [[In Universe Game Clock]] - When you play in Real-Time Mode. Otherwise, there's no real clock to speak of.
* [[Jerkass Facade]] - In Rinko Days, the protagonist became [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/loveplus_rinko_days/c007/7.html this] so Rinko will reveal her true feelings about her little brother.
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* [[Leitmotif]] - Each of the three heroines has her own theme song.
* [[Love Interests]] - Unlike most dating sims, there are only three datable girls, though this game arguably offers far more depth in these three girls. For example, the personality of a girl may change, depending on the actions you choose.
* [[Names to Know In Anime]] - Rinko is voiced by [[Sakura Tange]], who was and still is best known for her role as Sakura Kinomoto in [[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]; and she also gave her voice to Minori Akiho, one of the main characters of Konami's ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] Drama Series''.
** Nene is voiced by [[Yuko Minaguchi]], who was also the voice of Nadeshiko Kinomoto, the mother of Sakura Kinomoto in [[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]. She too gave her voice to a Konami character, Sarah Pixis of ''Tokimemo'' 's [[Spiritual Successor]] series ''[[Mitsumete Knight (Video Game)|Mitsumete Knight]]''.
* [[New Transfer Student]] - The protagonist that you play, dubbed Wataru Aikawa in the manga.
** We learn in the manga that Wataru used to constantly move due to parents' jobs. By the start of high school though, he's living on his own instead of with his parents to avoid the need to constantly relocate.
* [[No Export for You]] For the first and second games, this is confirmed (due to western markets having a better birth rate then Japan). Whether or not this will continue into the 3DS version as rumored, is unknown (due to the rumors that Konami is doing "Market Research" for what is presumably a US release for the 3DS sequel)
* [[No, You Hang Up First]] - Manaka tells the protagonist she doesn't want to hang up on him, so he tells her to hang up first. She says she really doesn't want to... [[Defied Trope|but then does anyway.]] The protagonist is...[[Crowning Moment of Funny|surprised.]]
* [[Older Than They Look]] - Rinko used to keep her hair long in middle school but got frustrated with people mistaking her for an elementary school student.
* [[Ojou]] - Manaka is so sheltered that she has apparently never even been to a fast food restaurant.
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** However, depending on your specific hardware, it is possible to genuinely savescum the game without it knowing. Then again, most of the people who do this [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|probably didn't buy the actual game]].
* [[Sempai-Kohai]] - Protagonist/Rinko, Nene/Protagonist
* [[Shout -Out]] - One of Manaka's dream sequences is designed with the classic ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]: Forever with you'' game engine and character artstyle.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]- Subverted. A Japanese dating sim references ''[[The Catcher in The Rye (Literature)|The Catcher in The Rye]]''. Specifically, Rinko Kobayakawa quotes from the book at one point, referring to the relationship between Holden Caulfield and his sister Phoebe.
** It is noteworthy that Kobayakawa herself initally resembles Holden Caulfield in her contemptuous attitude towards society and those around her. Although, she mellows out quite a bit after meeting the protagonist.
* [[The Parody]] - An [[H Game-game]] entitled ''Debu Plus'' (roughly "Fatty Plus") parodies ''[[Love Plus]]''. It features a female character who resembles all three ''[[Love Plus]]'' heroines combined into one [[Fat Girl]].
* [[Third Person Person]] - Rinko tends to do this, though not always.
* [[Tomboy]] - Rinko's been accused of this by her father.
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