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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 [[Nitroplus CHIRALNitro+|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 unbelieveableunbelievable 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.
 
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 heightedweighted with a [[Crowning Music of Awesome|brilliantly creepy soundtrack]], this is definitely not a game for the faint-hearted.
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 has beenwas licensed in English by SuBLime (to be released in digital format and available worldwide), scheduledpublished foron earlyJuly 2012.
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 Withwith 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
* [[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 Byby Sex]]/ [[Death Byby Childbirth]]}}: A literal example in Youji's and Tetsuo's true end.
* [[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 (Visual Novel)|though the influence is clear...]]
* [[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 of the Nice Ones|Usually]]''.
* [[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}}
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: Prime example will be Zenya {{spoiler|picking up a lump of living slug-sized flesh Youji had just given birth to from the boys' toilet floor and opening his mouth as if to swallow it.}} Fortunately, he ends up squishing it instead.
* [[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 Asas Drama]]
* [[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 Withwith a Crush]]: Makoto
* [[Stalker Withwith a Test Tube]]: {{spoiler|Kamiya and co.}} ships Tetsuo/Youji, for nefarious purposes.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Youji and Tetsuo
* [[The Stoic]]: Tetsuo's expression never changes. Youji himself to a lesser extent
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Where to start? There's {{spoiler|Youji's backstory, Zenya's death, Youji and Tetsuo's death in ''both'' of their endings and Tetsuo's childhood. Last one is particularly bad since you only get to hear it after Kitani had killed both of them.}}.
* [[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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