In my eyes, phenomenal voice casting and art direction have become synonymous with CLOCKUP’s A-team (aka all titles directed by Akutsu Ryou or Amemiya Mitsuru), and Yourou does not disappoint. I’m deeply impressed yet again by the freedom CLOCKUP seems to give its creators and their willingness to work outside of ‘safe’ eroge conventions, and I’m very satisfied with this title on the whole too. The realism this setting is captured with allows Kurashiki’s scalding hot takes to become so thinly-veiled that it’s remarkable he got away with it at all. A followup to their 2015 “cruel noir” chuuni game Maggot baits, Yourou doubles down on themes of 愛 (furi: love), 暴力 (furi: institutionalized power and corruption), 後付 (furi: the rationalization of violent tendencies), and 綺麗事 (furi: the lies we tell ourselves to sleep at night) while transporting them to a more grounded setting-the real-world pleasure-district and ‘sleepless town’ Kabukichō. In one neat package, Yourou competently embodies a tense political thriller, a hot-blooded yakuza action story, a twisted romance and, somewhat atypically for CLOCKUP, a 和姦もの (“consentge”, please let this catch on in EOP circles) with comparatively sparse shock content. ![]() ![]() ![]() I just finished Kurashiki Tatsuya’s second major work with notorious eroge brand CLOCKUP – their 2017 release 眠れぬ羊と孤独な狼 (Yourou).
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