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>My opinions on 初めての彼女

Over the past 6 months, I’ve dropped and restarted reading 4 times. This game will obliterate your sex-drive and send you down a pit of despair that will take you some time to get out from. I had a really bad case of insomnia and depression the first 2 days after reading. It’s a bit better now though but I still just randomly get sad throughout the day.

The game is split into 3 routes with an enforced playing order. Noriaki, Akino, and Desperation.
Noriaki and Akino routes tell the same story from 2 different perspectives. If you do find yourself reading HnK, I recommend that you resist the urge to ctrl through the Akino route due to feeling like you’ve already seen everything. There are crucial monologues that only exist in the Akino route which sets the stage for the Desperation route. The summary below assumes that you’ve read the synopsis. It'll provide a decent overview of the main points but I've left a lot of shit out because I just feel some stuff is better experienced yourself.

>Noriaki route

Told from Noriaki’s (MC’s) perspective, following his nomination of Akino at the soapland, the two keep in contact afterwards and quickly become lovers. After losing their virginities to each other the next day, Akino explains that she is working at the soapland in order to pay-off her family’s debts in her mother’s place due to collapsing from overwork . After taking on part-time jobs for the past year and not making any progress on her family’s debts, Akino determined that for someone with no marketable skills, becoming a soaplady was the only option. Having effectively turned into a full-time worker, Akino also begrudgingly dropped out of college where she was pursuing her dream to become a teacher.

Eager to help ease his girlfriend’s load, Noriaki offers to help Akino pay off her debts. Grateful but uneasy, Akino refuses Noriaki’s support because of not wanting him involve him in her family circumstances a central theme in the Akino route. Instead, Noriaki suggests that he indirectly helps her by continuing to visit and nominate Akino at the soapland. Akino gets paid and the two get to act as lovers in a romantic environment. Win-win.

Throughout the route, you get a small handful of glimpses and foreshadowing that Akino is having sex with Takahashi (Noriaki’s manager at work) in the way of the change in Akino’s mannerisms, her clothing choices, and no longer using gifts that Noriaki gave her. The climax of the route is when Noriaki walks in on Takahashi and Akino having sex on Akino’s birthday. The event comes with all the bells and whistles of your typical NTR reveal scene. MC guilt-fapping and cumming to the sight of their lover having sex with someone else, a mental comparison of MC and the bull’s dick sizes, etc.

This route is low in terms of actual NTR content and is more focused on making the reader experience a reunion with a long lost first love. Its true goal is to set you up for Akino route.