Shuusaku

I'm...still exist. Yes, I can disappear just like that. Even if it's at the expense of others, I'm...

—Words flashing at the screen during the start of the game.

A 1997 H Game by elf, the creators of Words Worth.

Shuusaku Itou is a low-life criminal. He meets an elder having a lucky streak on the local pachinko parlour. While doing amicable small talk with him, however, Shuusaku discovers the old man, named Kato, has an incoming job interview for dormitory manager at the Shukusei Music Academy, a prestigious music school for girls of rich families. With the old man affirming he is going to spend the next month playing pachinko, an opportunity appears for our protagonist. Shuusaku pretends to be the old man and gets his job. After one month, during a certain Saturday, Ayaka Minami, the girls' homeroom teacher, tells Shuusaku they will have a pretty important reunion with the dean and a "very special" person by Monday.

Feeling the "special person" is Kato and that he is doomed to lose his job regardless, Shuusaku decides to hurry to the endgame of his plan that he was just slowly working until now: blackmailing as most as girls as possible (Ayaka included), to have sex with him.

Shuusaku is a Simulation Game. As you can see by the premise above, our Villain Protagonist only have thirty-six hours, sleep not included, to have sex with all pretty girls of the Academy. The player must do it by observing the girl's habits and planting cameras in their rooms. Not any photo will do and obviously he must pay attention to the girls' habits, after all, nobody will let you put a camera when they are into their rooms. You also must watch their behaviour to see any other weakness than compromising photos, or even to know what you can do to catch them on a compromising position. After all, you're still the dormitory manager. Multiple playthroughs are encouraged.

Of course, by the words flashing on the screen at the start of the game, you can easily deduce there is something more to this than just being a "stalking simulator".

The game was adapted in two OVA series, named Shusaku and Shusaku: Replay. Released only in Japan, it received a fan-translation for South Korea in 2000.

Tropes used in Shuusaku include:

Animal Motifs: For Shuusaku is the fly. Flies are associated with annoyance and harassing, which certainly fit Shuusaku's behaviour towards his victims. They're also associated with persistence and force of will, which Shuusaku also have. But you will only discover what this persistence is only when the fourth wall is broken and is revealed Shuusaku has been living through those multiple playthroughs so, in a meta sense, he was getting better at stalking, harassing and blackmailing until he got Eri cornered.
Baby Got Back: Shuusaku mentions one of the reasons that he desires Asami is because of her large glutes.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Shuusaku often talks directly to the player.
But Thou Must: Subverted. The very first choice has the options for you to tell Shuusaku to screw off and that you're gonna return the game to the store and buy a "pure love"(that is, a hentai VN whose main plot most of the time involves sweet romance between two people) game instead. Shuusaku at first will shrug off your choice, but if you keep pressing the same choice, he grows increasingly annoyed, insults you and the game automatically closes.
Death Seeker: Shiho feels so overly violated she asks Shuusaku to kill her in some of her dialogue.
Even Evil Has Standards: Shuusaku will not put more than two doses of aphrodisiacs on a girl's food because he's not a necrophiliac (apparently, in this setting aphrodisiacs may be lethal).
Fiery Redhead: Asami is hot-blooded and has red hair.
Foreshadowing:
- The real Kato talking about the "risk" of one of the girls falling for him. Eri falls for Mr. Kato, that is, the player, in the game's Golden Ending.
- Shuusaku mentions early how he never seems to photograph Eri on a bad position. Because she knew all along the camera is there.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Your number of saves is restricted to the number of diaries Shuusaku keeps, initially only one.
Girlish Pigtails: Chiaki's hairstyle can be defined as mega twin drill pigtails.
Golden Ending: Played with. In the best possible ending, you corner Eri on the manager's office, and no one comes to her help, as you have raped and blackmailed everyone which could help her. But instead of Shuusaku killing Eri and getting away with his crimes, the game's plot entirely changes as we discover Eri has fourth-wall awareness and Shuusaku changes places with the player. Eri however defeats Shuusaku by confessing her love for the player and making the villain fade away from existence, initiating a loop where he doesn't exist, and the girls live happy lives. It is the best ending for the good-natured characters but certainly not for the Villain Protagonist.
Halfway Plot Switch: The game starts as crime story, only to progress into a horror/romance one in the best ending. Of course, if you don't achieve that ending it stays a crime story.
Hello, Insert Name Here: A very creepy one. Before the game properly starts, the player must write his name. The sound of falling drops can be heard, and Shuusaku is seen spying on you through a hole on the wall.
Hot Teacher: Ayaka Minami is pretty and curvaceous. This also makes her one of Shuusaku's targets.
The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: You can never get a photo good for blackmail for Eri, and she is the only girl staring at the camera.
Lolicon: Shuusaku affirms he is not one, before humiliating and raping Chiaki.
Meganekko: Shiho Minazuki is shy and wears large glasses.
Mega Twintails: Chiaki's twin tails are slightly bigger than her head.
Necessarily Evil: During the second part of the game, Shuusaku tries to convince the player in going along with his plans by saying that if he does rape/blackmail all the girls he will be able to change spots with him again. The player of course refuses.
Noodle Incident: Shuusaku refers to an incident where he had to carry a dead body while carrying Minami's unconscious body without giving other details.
Nouveau Riche: Fujima's father is said to have made a lot of money from the japanese real state bubble of the eighties/nineties, and one of the first thing we learn about her is that she smokes cigarettes and has no fear of being caught half-naked while yawning to an open window.
Ojou: Everyone on the dormitory is rich but the one walking around with an air of nobility and superiority is Kaori.
Overused Running Gag: Shuusaku calling Ayaka by phone to talk about dormitory matters. It goes on and on and on, until he finally drugs and rapes her.
Panty Shot: Frequently, either in scenes or in photos/videos Shuusaku takes.
Pink Is Girly: Chiaki is girly to the point of childishness and has light pink hair.
Princess Curls:
- Though longer than most examples, Kaori's hair is curled, and she is pretty wealthy.
- Chiaki's pigtails are in spiral.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: Shuusaku's reaction to the player and Eri's growing romance on the second part.
Spiritual Antithesis: To elf's own Dating Sim's Doukyuusei. If in that game you have to keep track of the girls' behaviour through multiple playthroughs to date them and the plot is pretty light-hearted and comedic, here you do to violate them, and the game has at best elements of Black Comedy.
Token Loli: Technically, Eri is one year younger, and Chiaki must be 16/17 by the grade she is in, but the girl with pink hair has several elements of one like the extremely childish way of talking, her hairstyle, clothes, and a room filled with stuffed toys. Shuusaku even says he is not a lolicon before blackmailing her.
Tomboy: Asami has short hair and talks using Japanese masculine speech patterns.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Chiaki and Asami are often seen hanging around together.
Third Person Person: Chiaki talks in such pattern, befitting her immature behaviour.
Unreliable Narrator: Shuusaku describes the women around the dorm in derogatory ways and says they are constantly abusing him and don't appreciate his efforts, in a way of further justifying his criminal actions. Of course, any player paying attention will notice he is very lazy and complain about doing his job constantly and takes way too little time doing fundamental things like cooking to those students.
Villain Protagonist: You play as criminal who impersonates a person to get a job solely to rape human females.