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An omnibus edition of all three games, ''Narcissu -moshimo ashita ga aru nara-'', has been released for the PSP.

 

 

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* [[April Fools' Day]]: The English version of ''Narcissu -side 2nd-'' was allegedly planned to be released on this day, but was instead uploaded a few hours before. Regardless, it took a few moments for some people who caught wind of it to realize it wasn't a joke.

* [[Author Appeal]]: Cars

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Related with the [[Foregone Conclusion]]. {{spoiler|The first novel begins by giving us the suicide statistics on Japan. You don't understand what to do with that information until the end, ''just before'' those statistics are repeated again...}}

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Setsumi.

* [[Determinator]]: The protagonist, while suffering lack of medication and fatigue, is able to drive the car for a whole week with only small rest and not so healthy diet.

** Though according to one of the translators, this may just be a case of the author taking some creative liberties as to what a person with untreated terminal lung cancer is able to accomplish. See below.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Himeko

* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: Setsumi.

* [[Ill Girl|Ill People]]: All protagonists and heroines will become this.

* [[The Ishmael]]: The protagonist, arguably.

* {{spoiler|[[Let Them Die Happy]]}}: {{spoiler|Both the protagonist and Setsumi discovers several things along the way, and both of them will die with happy memories that they share.}}

* [[Light Novel]]: A light novel adaption was written by the original author with its story modified to incorporate elements from Narcissu 2.

* [[Morality Pet]]: {{spoiler|The girl in Himeko's flashback. Her sudden change of behavior caused Himeko to turn cynical and abandon her faith in God as a Roman Catholic. Himeko spends time with Setsumi to relive her days as a hospice nurse with the girl.}}

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|Himeko unable to advise the girl she is in charge with to stop starving to death, after the girl learns that her parents abandoned her and she would eventually die. This event causes Himeko to stop believing in God.}}

** It is, in part, a translator thing since in the voice-over Himeko only stated that the car passing her is a "Hachiroku", and neither the original text or the translated text make any description of the headlights that could be used to identify the variant. A well-informed fan, of course, knows that a Toyota AE-86 comes in two forms, both available as a 2-door notchback coupe or a 3-door hatchback: the Corolla Levin (as the text said), and the more famous Sprinter Trueno. The translators made it a bit more funny, since there are actually two Levins in [[Initial D]]: the ''AE86'' Levin owned by Wataru Akiyama, and the ''AE85'' Levin owned by [[Butt Monkey|Itsuki Takeuchi]].

* [[Soap Opera Disease]]: The first game and prequel have a total of four terminally ill characters; not one of their ailments is ever specified, although one of the translators [http://narcissu.insani.org/med.html#4.1 has done some speculation.] At any rate, none of them seems to be sick enough to prevent them from traveling all over the country and subsisting on junk food.

** That said, [[Truth in Television|it's fairly common]] in [[Real Life]] for terminal patients to intentionally starve (or more commonly, dehydrate) themselves in order to hasten death, even in places where physician-assisted suicide is legal. Some end-of-life care professionals even recommend it outright.

* [[Utsuge]]: Many have admitted to crying over the original game. However, this is a unique case, as this was not the intentional on the part of Kataoka; according to his notes for the second game, he was surprised that so many have reacted in such away. As such, in ''side 2nd'', he attempted to downplay the deteriorating health and death of the characters in order to have his messages and themes stand out more over the "tear-jerker" elements that would have his audience empathize with the characters.

 

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