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[[File:Sweetpool_5538.jpg|frame|[[Ordinary High School Student]]? You [[Body Horror|wish]].]]
{{quote|''"It's not romance, it's not even love. It's something much much deeper..."''|[http://www.nitrochiral.com/pc/software/sweetpool/ "The official game website"]}}
The third [[Boys Love Game]] by [[
Sounds like your typical school boys love setting right? Except that this being a [[Nitroplus|Nitro+]] production means that the story is also infused with horror of the most potent kind. Filled to the brim with [[Primal Fear]] and [[Body Horror]], all
▲The third [[Boys Love Game]] by [[Nitroplus CHIRAL|Nitro+CHIRAL]] of [[Togainu no Chi]] fame, Sweet Pool begins with the return of Sakiyama Youji to his Catholic High School after a long absence due to illness. Suddenly he finds his life changing in unbelieveable ways as his fate becomes entangled with his [[The Stoic|stoic]] classmate Shironuma Tetsuo, [[Cloudcuckoolander|eccentric]] upper-classman Okinaga Zenya and [[Keet|friend]] Mita Makoto.
The manga adaptation
▲Sounds like your typical school boys love setting right? Except that this being a [[Nitroplus|Nitro+]] production means that the story is also infused with horror of the most potent kind. Filled to the brim with [[Primal Fear]] and [[Body Horror]], all heighted with a [[Crowning Music of Awesome|brilliantly creepy soundtrack]], this is definitely not a game for the faint-hearted.
▲The manga adaptation has been licensed in English by SuBLime (to be released in digital format and available worldwide), scheduled for early 2012.
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* [[A Date
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: The game starts with God's command for humans to multiply from the Old Testament▼
▲* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Youji, several times. [[Body Horror|It makes bad things happen]]
▲* [[As the Good Book Says]]: The game starts with God's command for humans to multiply from the Old Testament
* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]}}: Youji and Tetsuo's [[Multiple Endings|true ending]]. Part [[Bittersweet Ending]], part [[Fridge Horror]] considering the premise.
* [[Big Eater]]: Makoto
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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The BGM manages to make afterschool clean up sound like a ''murder scene''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Zenya
* {{spoiler|[[Death
* [[Eye Scream]]: There's a reason why Zenya's right eye is always covered by an eyepatch.
* [[Face of a Thug]]: Kitani.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: In Zenya's ending {{spoiler|Youji gets captured and raped by Zenya. Timeskip a few weeks or months and Youji is still imprisoned in a dark room, treated as a sex pet, vomiting up almost everything he eats and wondering when he will die. Oh, and when he's finally too [[Deadly Euphemism|tired]]? Zenya plans to [[Mummies At the Dinner Table|stuff him]] so that he'll stay by his side forever.}} [[Nitroplus|Nitro+]] doesn't do half-assed bad ends.
* [[Forgets to Eat]]: Youji, though it's almost an active choice.
* [[Gen Urobuchi]]: Only in a consultant role, [[Saya no Uta
* [[Gorn]]
* {{spoiler|[[Homosexual Reproduction]]: The parasites only choose human males for reproduction, as women's womb is an obstacle for them since intestines are their habitat. The baby is [[Body Horror|"born"]] from [[Mister Seahorse|both partners]]. [[Mind Screw|Don't ask]].}}
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Apart from [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] as Zenya, all the voice actors uses pseudonyms. But you might still recognize [[Wataru Hatano]] as Youji, [[Daisuke Kishio]] as Makoto and [[Koji Yusa]] as Kamiya, their teacher.
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: Youji feels this way towards {{spoiler|Tetsuo}}
* [[Ill Girl|Ill boy]]: Youji, to the point that he had to stay behind a year.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Youji
* [[Keet]]: Makoto is usually cheerful and friendly. ''[[Beware
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Or pheromones in Makoto's case.}}
* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Any animal that eats {{spoiler|the "seed meat" born from the parasites}} explodes into this.
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Not in the game but after finishing any one of the [[Tear Jerker|depressing]] and usually downright scary endings the website containing the Dev team's production notes is unlocked and amongst them, horrors of horrors, is {{spoiler|a chibi picture of all the characters relaxing around a kotatsu, including Onnushi-sama <ref>basically a giant slab of living meat covered in pulsating veins</ref> in a Santa suit.}}. Finishing all the endings will grant you a CG of {{spoiler|the cast engaging in a pillow fight}}.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Notable for there being {{spoiler|no happy ones}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Kitani in the Okinaga household.
* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: Youji literally oozes blood whenever {{spoiler|Tetsuo is concerned}}.
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* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Youji's sister
* [[Primal Fear]]: Of the bloody, squicky kind
* [[Rape
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: {{spoiler|Since this game has no happy endings ''every single choice'' you make basically just decides how Youji will meet his end}}.
* [[Scare Chord]]: Occasionally.
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* [[Smells Sexy]]: Played completely straight since Youji, Tetsuo and Zenya all release pheromones.
* [[Squick]]: Comes with the [[Body Horror|territory]].
* [[Stalker
* [[Stalker
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Youji and Tetsuo
* [[The Stoic]]: Tetsuo's expression never changes. Youji himself to a lesser extent
* [[Utsuge]]: The game is infamous for its dark-as-hell and sometimes downright depressing atmosphere, resulting in it being a major [[Tear Jerker]] for some players.
* [[Visual Novel]]
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