Furu Anime Panikku

Yes, I am slow. This game has been out since ages ago. And I just played it just 2 days ago. It also happened to be my first visual novel. I fail.

This is basically a rather simple visual novel. The player does not have to make much decisions, so the game feels much like watching an Evangelion OVA instead. Still, the storyline is rather interesting, and it kept me playing this game till the end.

In the game, a new transfer student, Mana Kirishima is introduced in the story. Mana is a character who looks somewhat like Rei, with roughly the same character design, just that she has a different hair and eye colors. Upon appearing, she sticks to Shinji like super glue. And that gets that ego-inflated orange haired tsundere, Asuka, all fired up. Mana’s relationship with Shinji, however, is not as close as we think. Mana has a dark past which she conceals from Shinji, and coincidently happens to be a child pilot of another type of robot, which is somewhat similar to what Shinji is. She was supposed to spy on Shinji and Evangelion Unit 01, but with her other friends who are child pilots running away in the robots from the organisation they were from, she gets into trouble and is hunted down desperately by the organisation. Continue reading ‘Girlfriend of Steel’