(the) Road to the Deep East

( continues from Part3. Part2 Part1)

Now you spent 365 days as an idol otaku. You may reproach yourself for the wasteful days in your 20s, but don't look back in anger. It's just a game. Maybe 24 hours in your life are just required to complete this game. Must be shorter than the time you waste your youth for Final Fantasy.

How was your life as an otaku in this game? And how will your future become?

The status of your alter-ego and idols in this game will determine everything. First of all, I'd like to introduce Normal Ending, which many players play this game first will see.
(spoiler warning)

Normal Ending 'Good bye otaku world..'
Requirements(player)
Love < 70(max=100)
(And All parameters except for love < 65)
Requirements(idol)
Fame < 70

Regardless of your support, your idol couldn't become famous in one year after their debut. Ruthlessly, the agency ordered them to disband the group. You were shocked, but you also think, you have already enjoyed the idol culture and you are already enough old to graduate from this creepy idol otaku world. Then you decide to make this idol group the last idol group you love. On the last day, you and your favorite idol group attend the last kaisan concert. After the party, with a little regret, you leave from the idol world.


There are some variations differ along with the status of 'Fame.' When the fame is lower than 30, the kaisan concert is held at an electric appliance shop in Akihabara, but you can shake hands with idol girls in the last moment and say good bye, directly. (Normal Ending #1.1)

When the fame is higher than 30, the kaisan concert will be held at a small live house. (Normal Ending #1.2). But when the fame is higer than 50, there won't be handshakes.(Normal Ending #1.3). And some words they say in this concert will change according to how much they love you.

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If you play this game with the guidance for beginners, it won't so be difficult to reach at this ending. As you can see, in a sense, this result is also a good one. You enjoyed your life as an otaku, and you simply retire with the girls you love.

But when you choose improper action too much in this game, you have to see some painful results. Bad Endings. (click read more)

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Bad Ending #1 'Idol Addictive'
Requirements(player)
70 =< Love
( And All parameters except for love < 65)
Requirements(idol)
Fame < 70 Love < 30

It's very similar to Normal Ending, but it seems you are too addicted to idol business. You loved idol too much, although you are not loved by the idol so much. Idols become an indispensable part of your life, so you can't live without idols, no matter who they are.


Even after your favorite group disbanded, you can not give up idols. Searching for a new casualty, you haunt around Akihabara again. And even during the kaisan concert, You are just thinking about the idol concert you go next. He doesn't know that he is not loving a human being. He is just addicted to the weird system called idol.

Bad Ending#2 'Bankrupt'
Requirements(player)
Money = 0
Requirements(idol)
none


It seems you spent too much on idols. You went bankrupt, and become a homeless. Sitting down on the the aisle in Tokyo Station, watching people passing by, you regret yourself and curse the idol agency plundered everything from you, but you can't travel back in time...You will see this ending as soon as your money runs out.

Bad Ending#3 'It's too sudden...'
Requirements(player)
none
Requirements(idol)
Fame=0

One day, you received a letter from idol agency which notifies you the kaisan of the group. Without saying anything to you, without giving you any chances to say good bye , your favorite kaisans leaving you alone. You just keep standing till the end... (*the fame starts from 10, so if you don't do anything to decrease their fame, you don't have to see this bad ending For example, onanie at concert hall.)


Bad Ending#4 'Idol Runaway'
Requirements(player)
none
Requirements(idol)
Stress=100(max)


Although your idols looked happy on the stage, they were actually burn out. Suddenly, the member the idol you love disappears from you. The agency annouced that it's an 'educational problem', but the Internet rumors say she just runs away with her boyfriend. And after her leave, the group also had to kaisans. Your game ends here. All you can do is imagining what they are doing now, and console yourself...

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Of course, they are not the goal of this game. These one normal and four bad endings are very realisitc final chapters of JPOP idol groups, but remember, it's a video game. We can have a dream. We can have a fantasy!!

Then, we also prepare unrealistic, but hopeful 'Happy Endings.' But it'll be difficult to reach at those without hints. In the next entry, I'd like to intoduce them with actual actions you have to choose in one year in this game.

(continues to Part5)