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Done with Club Suicide.
It truly was a great game, some shortcomings (being a doujin done by one person, can't be helped much) but I felt the writing absolutely delivered for the most part, the author was actually great at dealing with the topic at hand and it never feels cheap or exploitative or just a "sad scene, cry here" kind of game.
Route-wise, my enjoyment probably went Mitsuki>Shiki>Eba>>Meiyou>Masaya
Mitsuki wasn't my favourite LI but his route was really different from the rest and it did some really interesting stuff for the climax, especially presentation-wise.
Eba and Shiki were both great for really different reasons.
Meiyou was actually pretty complex and his happy ending works great as the last thing you read, but I felt it lacked a punch compared to the other three.
My only issue with Masaya's route was that while it delved in his reasons to commit suicide I don't feel it even bothered to explain where that reason came from and probably has the weakest resolution of them all in his happy end.
LI-wise, it'd go basically Shiki>Eba>Mitsuki>Masaya>Meiyou but it all depends which reason resonates better with you, since it's a super subjective work, emotionally speaking. But honestly, I liked them all, really good kids in shit situations.
I really, really, really didn't expect Shiki to be my favourite at all. He's such a dumb idiot and honestly I find him the most tragic for some reason despite everyone else's circumstances he's just a kid who found his mom dead and decided to tough it up and work his hardest to fit in, become popular, liked and loved. By all means he basically underwent a huge character development, except all
he managed to do was becoming basically an empty puppet as Masaya points in his route. It's depressing he worked so hard and all he managed was cornering himself and suiciding because of it..
Also really liked how deliberate the writing was in his route, since the beginning both him and the author are trying his hardest to make you dislike him by forcing an introverted girl to deal with a super outgoing, pushy guy who annoys her a lot and is super blunt and likes fucking around a lot. But then the more the route goes on the more similar they start becoming and his reactions when he lets his guard down are always great, especially when she sees the purest and most vanilla porn collection ever. Also his suicide scenes, since he goes for poison, are really fucking depressing since he gets a lot of time to talk to Ringo and you can just see the light fade from his eyes.

Also, do the flowers from the menus mean anything? I can't even tell which flowers are beyond Meiyou's (duh).