15.12.10 / Japanese, Konami, Nintendo DS, Otome game, Romance game, Tokimeki Memorial, Video game / Author: Kina / Comments: (0)
Tags: girl's side 3rd story, konno, kouichi, tokimeki memorial
Kouichi’s on my desktop!
See?
Heh heh heh.
I’ve got a Konno-sempai wallpaper as well. I switch them in and out every week. I can’t take any credit for making them, though. I downloaded them from this particular page on Zerochan. Scroll down a bit and you’ll see them. The other guys have wallpapers as well, but who cares about them? :-p
In other news, I’m close to finishing Radiant Historia and I just got through a second playthrough of Shepherd’s Crossing 2. Details to follow, eventually.
07.12.10 / Japanese, Konami, Nintendo DS, Otome game, Romance game, Tokimeki Memorial, Video game / Author: Kina / Comments: (0)
Tags: aizawa shougo, girl's side 3rd story, konno, kouichi, novelist, tokimeki memorial
At long last! I couldn’t even enjoy his route any more, because I had to do it twice. Also I don’t really like his scruffy look. When he got the Nobelno Prize and showed up clean-shaven with his hair slicked back I was like “Ooh, I could get into that!” But when it’s time for the confession he shows up with his usual slovenly look again, meh. There should have been a “Go back and shave first, then we’ll talk” option. To make things worse, his ending says he’s jsut as cranky as ever even as you’re dating. Come to think of it, does he say he loves you? He doesn’t, does he? He says “I need you”, which is not the same as “I love you.” Just ask Meat Loaf. Gimme Konno-sempai or Kouichi any day of the week.
Anyway, the part you wanted to read, how to actually get Ol’ Crankypants to confess to you. He’s actually much easier than Taira or Oosako, because much of his route is made up of automatic events. If you manage to get the first few triggers to occur and don’t mess up the others, you should be safe. Be very, very careful not to date any other guys on his route, though, otherwise you’ll end up like this.
Now for the actual instructions. These are taken from this Japanese page: Secret Character (Aizawa Shougo) so I don’t take any credit for it, but I have tested it and it does work.
2nd Year
October – December
Check the homepage in October and it will tell you about a book release. Go out to town repeatedly until it triggers an event where you go to the bookstore. Apparently you have to visit at least one of the shops in the shopping district (商店街) to get it to trigger, I’m not sure about that. If you miss this event, say good bye to Aizawa.
When you get the option, choose to buy a book.
December-January
You’ll get an event where you lend the book to Miyo-chan.
February – March
Check the homepage for info about another book release. Go out again until you get the bookstore event to trigger (just like in October). You’ll run into Aizawa again and he’ll ask you to pretend to be his niece.
Automatic event
You’ll run into Aizawa again, and he’ll ask you to pretend to be his niece again.
Choose “Yes”.
The Following Sunday
Make sure you choose to go shopping the next Sunday. If you have club practice, you can go to practice and do it the following Sunday, but I don’t know if that’ll work if you have a date.
After you choose to go out, you have to choose, in order:
“Go see him”
“Call out to him”
“Don’t be so selfish!!” or “….” (both are fine)
3rd Year
April – June
Do not accept any invitations to walk home with a friend and do not invite anyone to walk home until this event triggers. You’ll run into Aizawa and get an event that takes place in a bar (it involves Himuro, whee!)
The Aizawa Command
After the bar event, you should find an “Aizawa” command next to the Shopping/Date command. Choose that command on weekends to go visit Aizawa. If you don’t choose it for 8 weeks in a row, it will disappear. That means you’ve lost him.
5th time you choose it: CG event
6th time you choose it: Event, command disappears
September
If you can’t read Japanese, you might get worried if you don’t see any Aizwa events for several months, but don’t worry. In September, Miyo-chan will send you an e-mail about “Bitter Chocolate Cake”. Choose to go out, and choose to go to the park. You’ll reminisce about Aizawa.
October
You’ll get an e-mail about an “Autumn Book Fair”. Go shopping, then go to the bookstore. Choose “Get a ticket to the book signing”.
19th November
Book signing takes place. Apparently you can choose either “I still want to see him’ or “I’ll just go home” and still get his ending. However if you choose the latter you won’t get his second CG, so choose to see him to be on the safe side.
28th January
Automatic if you choose the first option in the previous event (not sure, think so)
Miyo-chan finally returns your book (it’s been a whole year!!!). You’ll go to the bookstore and get a CG about Aizawa receiving the Nobelno Book Prize. He cleans up good, doesn’t he? I won’t post it here, see it for yourself.
After this his save icon should show up, and then you’re safe as long as you don’t let any other guys get in the way.
And that’s it! That wasn’t so hard, was it? The hard thing is getting his early events to trigger. When you go out once and twice and nothing happens, it’s easy to get discouraged. Don’t give up, keep going out and you should trigger it eventually. It’s all about patience. Happy Aizawa hunting!
08.11.10 / Japanese, Konami, Nintendo DS, Otome game, Romance game, Tokimeki Memorial, Video game / Author: Kina / Comments: (12)
Tags: aizawa shougo, GameFAQs, girl's side 3rd story, hazuki, kenta, konno, kouichi, oosako, ruka, taira, tokimeki memorial
Ta-daa! Secret character No.1, Taira Kenta! Taira is a rather shy, awkward boy in your class whose confession you can only get by following a very specific series of events. Miss one and it’s good-bye to love.
Fortunately enough the steps are easy enough to follow and several of them are automatic so you know you’re on the right track. I got my info from Gamefaqs, but GF threads are known to disappear, so I’ll just reproduce the steps here so you can get him if you want. Remember, you can’t get him on your first playthrough, only subsequent ones.
1st Year
April 4th (04/04) – First Day of School
Before you meet Mr Oosako, the teacher, you need to touch him in class once. He’s the one with the “x” on his back on 
the far right hand side of the touch screen. See picture on the right. After you meet Mr Oosako, you need to touch him again. He’ll then introduce himself…and get teased by his friends.
June 13th (06/13), Sports Day
During the folk dance, after you’re done dancing with all 3 or so of the main characters, he is the guy in the background dancing with the other girl. Touch him.
December 7th (12/07), Exams
Automatic Event.
December 12th (12/12)
Automatic Event, follow up from Dec 7th.
February 13th (02/13), Valentine’s Day
As you’re leaving school, you will hear Taira being teased by his friends about Valentine’s Day. He’s the guy in front of the shoe box near the center of the touchscreen. Touch him.
2nd Year
April 5th (04/05), First Day of School
Automatic event.
June 12th (06/12), Sports Day
Just like in the first year, you need to touch him after you’re done dancing with all the main characters.
September 13th, School Trip to Hokkaido
The bus scene, on the very first day. You need to touch the guy in front of the bus near the center of the touch screen.
October 1st
December 1st
January 8th
On the first two dates above, he will ask you to walk home with him after school. Say yes. On the third date, you can choose to ask him to walk home with you. You have to choose to, otherwise you’ll miss him.
February
Automatic event. You may need Rose Queen parameters (130 or more in everything) to trigger this, not sure.
3rd Year
April 4th (04/04), First Day of School
Automatic event.
June 11th (06/11), Sports Day
Touch him after you’re done dancing with the main characters.
October 30th (10/30), Preparation for Culture Festival
You need to have Rose Queen parameters going INTO this period to trigger Taira’s Culture festival event. 
Prepare with him for the play. Choose the Culture Festival event every single day, then enjoy the cute CG! Btw, you have to get chosen as Rose Queen to get his ending, so stay on top of your stats and make sure no guys detest you.
December 1st
After Mr Oosako’s little speech, you will see the same background as you did first year Valentine’s Day (in front of shoe boxes, leaving school). He’s the same guy in front of the shoe box. Touch him and there is a conversation event.
If you complete all of the above, you should get Taira’s save icon, and you should be in the clear.
The jury’s still out on whether getting any of the main guys to Tokimeki mode will override Taira’s ending, but just to be on the safe side, try to avoid going on too many dates with the other guys. It might be a bit hard because once your stats start to rise, the other guys start to like you even without you doing anything. To worsen matters, I was aiming for Rose Queen so I decided to be nice to everyone – buying them birthday presents, walking them home after school, etc.
After a while Ruka suddenly decided he was in love with me and started asking me out on dates. Geez, Ruka, haven’t you had enough? If it was Konno or Kou asking me out I’d have been in real trouble, but Ruka was easy enough to turn down. Oh, but I finally figured out why his grades are so skewed. It turns out he read all the textbooks cover to cover because he was bored in class. That makes exams easy for him. Math, he’s just good at math, but reading the textbook doesn’t help him in Japanese, which is why he always gets terrible grades in that. Well, that’s better than Hazuki randomly falling asleep, I guess.
I spent all of yesterday working on the Taira ending instead of playing more Radiant Historia. I don’t know about that game…wait, mustn’t make another of my snap judgments. Anyway, since I wasn’t dating and rarely went shopping on the Taira route, I had many more days to work on my stats, so they were ridiculously high by the end. Over 200 for everything! Naturally I decided to go to a 1st-class university at the end, only to find out that Taira only got into a 2nd-class uni. Oh no, poor Taira. With him in another school and me and Konno together in one place…tut tut, it’s all over for you, dear boy. 
I also took the chance and started the route for another secret character, the novelist Aizawa Shougo. But this time I’m really going to play Radiant Historia, so the report on cranky old Aizawa will have to wait till later. See ya!
06.11.10 / Japanese, Konami, Nintendo DS, Otome game, Romance game, RPG, Tokimeki Memorial, Video game / Author: Kina / Comments: (0)
Tags: arashi, girl's side 3rd story, junpei, konno, kouichi, oosako, ruka, shitara, taira, tokimeki memorial
Finally! I’ve gone through all the standard guys in the game and gotten their ending! I’m feeling very satisfied now, I’m not sure why.
Well well, Sakurai Ruka huh? I believe I’ve referred to him as a slimebag and a borderline criminal in the past, but I take those words back now. He’s not such a bad guy at all. The Sakurai brothers just act tough to begin with but when you get to know them they’re really very sweet.
Ruka’s route was far less boring than, say Arashi’s or Shitara’s, but the boy himself didn’t move me. As befitting the main character, though, all his CGs were great. I only wish I’d gotten more of them, but what’s why these kinds of games have so much replay value. You get some fun events on his route too, like the school trip where you and Ruka and Kou sneak out to eat crabs and get caught by Himurocchi, and so on.
Ruka himself…well, he’s a decent kid. He starts out friendly to begin with, but it’s a friendly flirtatiousness designed to prevent anyone from coming too close. Once you get under his skin and he falls in love with you, he’s much more honest and forthcoming and I like that Ruka much better. I’ll put him third behind Kou and Konno because while I like him, in general those sensitive “boo hoo, I’m afraid to love because I’ve already lost so much boo hoo” guys always piss me off. Give me Konno or Kou any day.
And you know, the game did give me Kou! For no reason at all! I don’t know what I did but by third year Kou was in love with me and asking me out on dates and stuff! Okay, okay, maybe I did give him handmade chocolate that one time, and I did give him birthday presents twice, but that was it! Honest!
He’s a bad brother, seriously. How dare you fall in love with your little brother’s girlfriend! And how dare she accept your dates and go out with— *gulp* So! Anyway! Thanks to that, I got a three-way relationship by accident! You’ve heard of those, right? If you raise Ruka-Kou/Konno-Shitara/Arashi-Junpei’s affection to similar levels, you start being able to hang out with them together! Go on dates together, walk home together, and there are plenty of joint CGs you can’t get unless you do the triangle relationship. Because I was doing a three-way at a time, I got a joint CG for the school play, which was Romeo and Juliet with a twist and sooooo funny! I’m grinning just remembering it .
Eventually I felt a little guilty, so I turned Kou down a few times and before I knew it the three-way option was gone. After that I just had to work on my stats for the next few months and then get the Ruka ending! Yay! I’d like to go back and do a three-way sometime, but there’s still a couple of character endings to get, starting with Oosako’s…I really don’t want to do him. Starting with Taira then, but not just yet.
Up next, Radiant Historia is out! It sounds like a cross between Chrono Trigger/Cross (travel to the past to change the present) with hints of Stella Deus (world being swallowed up) and people say it looks like Radiata Stories, which I’ve never played.
I’m a sucker for lovely dreamy cover art like that, so I’ve been waiting a long time for this to come out! Plus I watched the trailers and the battle system looks like it’s turn-based (I hate Action RPGs), but not a bland “just mash X” kind of system, so it’ll keep me on my toes. Not to mention the promise of multiple endings means there’ll be lots of replay value,I hope! Time to play!
02.11.10 / Japanese, Konami, Nintendo DS, Otome game, Romance game, RPG, Tokimeki Memorial, Video game / Author: Kina / Comments: (0)
Tags: girl's side 3rd story, junpei, konno, kouichi, niina, oosako chikara, taira, tokimeki memorial
Get, but do not want. What do I do with him now, throw him away? Anyone want a free Junpei? Anyone?
His route was really bland. His CGs were bland. His activities were bland. His Christmas CG…wait, I don’t even remember what CG you get for his Christmas, is there even one? Plus since he’s a junior you don’t get to go on the school trip together. The school play with him was hilarious though, I actually laughed out loud at that bit.
All in all he’s a nice enough guy, but he seems really shallow to me. And the sad thing is, you can tell he’s ‘acting’ shallow to try and seem ‘cool’, but that the real Junpei is probably a very interesting and sensitive guy. For example when you ask him about his hobbies, he says “fishing” then he takes it back and he’s like…I forget what he said, but what’s wrong with liking “fishing”? Why can’t he be true to himself? My hope for his route would be to steadily peel away the layers and see the “real” Junpei beneath but no dice. He has a lot of growing up to do before I’ll ever consider him a serious romantic prospect.
Of course, part of the reason is that I just didn’t like his looks. Especially his weird sleepy-eyed face, those cheap-looking ear studs and that spiky hairdo. His voice grated on me after a while too. It got so bad after a while that whenever I’d run into him at school I’d be like *grooaaan* not you again… “Wanna walk home with me?” “Ugh, oh very well…I guess.” Whereas whenever I ran into Kou (which was often, I dunno why he seems to like me), I’d be like *yaaay, Kou!* “Wanna wa–” “Yes yes yes yes!”
The only plus to Junpei’s route – apart from the school play I mentioned earlier – is his straightforward confession. Most of the other guys come out and tell this loooooong story for like 5 minutes before they finally get to the “I love you” part, but Junpei comes right out and says it. Then he goes into the long story part, but at least he got to the point right away. Massive props for that.
This game really does have a lot of replay value. I’m on my 6th replay now, going through Ruka’s route. What I really want to be doing is dating Kou again (forgive me, Konno-sempai!!) but fair’s fair, I’ll give each of the characters a shot and then we’ll see.
I’ve still got the Oosako-sensei save I made long ago before I decided I didn’t really want to do his route yet. So Ruka -> Oosako -> Taira (secret character).
02.11.10 / Japanese, Konami, Nintendo DS, Otome game, Romance game, Tokimeki Memorial, Video game / Author: Kina / Comments: (0)
Tags: girl's side 3rd story, girls’ side, junpei, karen, konno, kouichi, miyo, ruka, tokimeki memorial
Konno-sempai is mine at last, tra la la la! I thought he would be harder than that, but I just used my usual method and it worked out fine. I identified Academics as his most important stat and raised it like crazy, and then I raised all the other stats normally and got him in the end. I had something like Ac – 238, Sp – 160, Soc – 260 etc, etc by the end, but since I didn’t raise my Charm that high, I wasn’t elected Rose Queen. Doesn’t matter though, ‘cos I got to be in the school play twice, first with Konno as my prince and then with Miyo and Karen (who looks spiffy as a prince, TMGS4 really needs a girl-girl option).
My verdict on Konno? His route actually blew me away. The guy himself is on the dull side, but he’s a kind, decent, hardworking and respectful character without being a complete milquetoast like Sakuya in GS1. Even on the worst of dates he never gets nasty or snippy with you or tries to order you around. I mean, this is a guy who spends his Christmas Eve playing Santa for little kids in hospital! He’s like the model boyfriend, right?
Even better, his route appeals to the overachiever in me because even in games I hate getting bad results in exams. On Konno’s route you can study like crazy and get praised for it. Remember how Madoka in GS1 would get all cool towards you if you were too smart? I hated that. Konno’s end is good too: you both go to a first class university and keep dating, and with a stable guy like that, you might as well vote this “Ending most likely to end in a Wedding and Four Kids.” It’s an ending with a future, catch my drift?
More importantly, for some reason all his CGs are really easy to unlock. I mean, really easy, you just walk around town, bump into someone and bam, new CG. Or you go on a date, pick a certain store and bam, new CG. For most other guys you often need a FAQ: “Spring, Year 2, Affection must be XYZ, Go to store X and do YYY while holding ZZZ and singing AAA”, obscure stuff like that. I got all his school CGs except one, all his love CGs except one and all his (that other one) CGs, again except one. And I love getting CGs, so Konno’s path was the most satisfying for me so far.
On the minus side, he really is a bit of a bore. I mean, just a bit. They went a little overboard on the Mr. Perfect Guy thing (did I mention he’s totally hot without the glasses?), so even his attempts at angst and depth – the whole “nobody really sees me for who I really am” bit – come across as a bit shallow and empty. And since he’s your senior you don’t get to compete with him on grades and you don’t get to go on the school trip with him, which is a bit sad. But he’s still a breath of fresh air from gruff old Kouichi or weird Ruka or playboy Junpei so I’ll take him any day.
What’s next? I’m trying to find some detailed FAQs or walkthroughs because I want those secret characters! I ran into one at the bookstore, some old-looking guy, I’m sure there’s at least one or two others. And I hear you can date your teacher, which I do NOT want to do. I mean, that’s just wrong on so many levels! And he’s not even cute. Anyway, the search continues!
02.11.10 / Japanese, Konami, Nintendo DS, Otome game, Romance game, Tokimeki Memorial, Video game / Author: Kina / Comments: (2)
Tags: girl's side 3rd story, konno, kouichi, tokimeki memorial
Nyeheheheh! Dum-dum-dum, another one bites the dust! I must say about Kouichi, if he wasn’t supposed to be one of the ‘main’ guys, he might be one of my favorites. It’s just that I have higher expectations of the “face of the game”, so to speak, so the idea that the game developers thought a rude, ugly, brusque, lazy, violent underachiever is enough to set my heart on fire really gets my goat.
Having said all that, Kouichi isn’t that bad. I mean, he stops being mean to you pretty quickly, and he doesn’t hit you like Saeki used to. The last few months of his game are really sweet, especially the part where he thanks you for making his three years of high school so wonderful, d’awww!
He’s really easy to get, too. I used a second-year save left over from when I dated Fujiyama. Digression: there seems to be a bug in this game. You know the picture frame on your desk? It looks like once a guy’s picture goes in there, it never goes out again, so I had to deal with Fujiyama’s mug staring at me all day even after I’d friendzoned him, and even now that I’ve started a brand new game to go after Konno-senpai (ZOMG, he’s such a bore), he’s still on my desk even though I haven’t even met him yet! Weird.
Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah, Kouichi. His requirements are really low. He likes the planetarium, the vintage motorbikes exhibition, go-carts at the amusement park, the Tongari Boys event at the Event Hall, the bowling alley, the medal games at the arcade, etc etc. Nothing you wouldn’t expect. For stats, I went overboard and had all my stats high enough to get elected Rose Queen by the end of 3rd year (all you get is a spiffy red robe), but later I checked some sites and someone’s stats for getting him: 【学力】137【美術】135【運動】128【気配り】206【流行】163【魅力】137
I want to play something else to keep the game fresh a little longer while tiding me over until Harvest Moon: Twin Villages comes out, but I keep coming to this again and again and again. Heeeelp!
Heh heh heh.
