A Profile

A Profile

Beneath the scorching sun of midsummer, a pampered, aloof sort of girl declared that there are four windows through which to view a person.

She was not the only one by his side, for he had had a wounded girl thrust upon him – a wounded girl who could not help but depend upon him, as the girl he had known for so long once had.

Now, however, that old friend of his vanishes in the dead of night to prowl where an ordinary girl should not.

The blue sky of the stadium and the filth of the city streets spread out before him; unsustainable aspirations and an unsustainable love beset him.

What in the world is he thinking as he gazes at their profiles?

243 thoughts on “A Profile

  1. I have not a clue what to really expect from this. But, considering it is Akebei Soft, I’m sure it is good.

  2. Surprisingly enough, more NTR… one of the heroines is a prostitute so I’m guessing that’s where the NTR comes into play. I’m surprisingly fine with it though… maybe because I know what to expect… or at least think I do. Once more it’s just a friendly warning.

    Thanks for this Admin. Also thanks to the Amaterasu translation team.

    Oh, also… If anyone else has been following Yandere’s ‘Maji de Watashi ni Koishinasai!’ translation they released Momoyo’s route patch.

      1. How so? The description says “Now, however, that old friend of his vanishes in the dead of night to prowl where an ordinary girl should not.” so it’s not exactly hiding the fact… I guess you’d assume she’s fighting demons but this is a drama not a supernatural story. Plus it’s only one route. A real spoiler would be saying how everything gets resolved.

      2. *Cough* I’m assuming it’s one route. Plus I have no clue which of the girls it is… It could be one or all of them for all I know.

  3. i seem to be unable to get this working have downloaded all the zip files and the patch i have tried to install the game however it seems to been in Japanese i install it then add the English patch and i get critical error message and fails to load.

      1. so admin that mean i cant get any girls? and all the girl going to be take by someone else? also did this game all story without click something out of 3,something like that,sory hard to explain it,lol,sory again

        1. I think thats only for the so called ‘Prostitute’ they were talking about in the earlier post. Just downloaded but not installed yet. Gonna do it later since I’m busy. Lol

    1. Huh… it was there but apparently somebody voted against it so it’s not displayed anymore. If you click the ‘Modify Tags’ tab you can see one person had put up the NTR tag (and his history of edits make him look dependable) but someone else got rid of it (and he also has a seemingly good track record…). I may have been wrong and if so greatly apologize for my fake warning… I guess I’ll play through it to make sure.

      1. No, the NTR tag should be there, it is major to the plot.

        But what extent should “it be determined as NTR” depends on how much you emphases with the characters in the VN.

        I guess the person who took away the NTR either sees that NTR is as a subset of prostitution, or the NTR is basically overwhelmed by other more serious interactions between the characters.

        Anything more will be considered spoilers.

  4. Well this one was a surprise. And yes the visual novel database doesn’t label this with the netorare tag and while the database isn’t foolproof I don’t see a reason to assume it’s there. Unless of course you’ve played it.

    1. The NTR is there, but NTR (typical non-graphical NTR) is overwhelmed by other more serious themes and interactions.

      Most people who hate NTR (like me) should not be getting butt-hurt over this.

  5. currently debating whether to get this visual novel or not…
    seeing from what earlier posted, it supposedly has ntr stuff, and i really dislike that (family project has that somewhat, for an arc, and i stopped reading it when it happened lol)

    so…i think ill most likely get a profile,but it’ll be on my to read list i guess

  6. Crescendo had a similar sounding situation for one girl and as far as I know that wasn’t labelled NTR. In fact it was my favourite route and ending, so don’t write it off just yet.

    Thanks admin.

    1. Hey, that’s odd… Didn’t that Crescendo girl engage in group sex while she was technically dating the protagonist? It was forced but I think she got paid in the end… maybe that cancels out the NTR effect?

      I’ll play through real quick to see if there are any actual NTR scenes… I kinda feel bad about saying it has NTR without actual proof. If there really is no NTR I’ll commit seppuku for having made the mistake about eroge. Most mistakes are tolerable but not ones involving eroge…

      1. Not really…
        SPOILER
        In Crescendo case the girl was selling herself before she met the protagonist. Once she started going out with him, she stopped, but one of old “clients” didn’t take “no” for an answer, abducted her and gang-raped, throwing the money she usually charged on her after they were done.
        This scene (and her whole arc) was very strong, but without it the game would have much more impact – it’s arguably the most remembered scene in the game.

        1. Wouldn’t that count as NTR? Maybe I’m just using NTR and heroine’s being raped by other people interchangeably… Sometimes I fail to see the difference (if there actually is any)… Strange it wasn’t labelled so in vndb… Oh, but this is really off-track. 😛

          1. Its kind of a “Mileage varies” And i have already gone past my personal event horison when it comes to stories…. Its going to be a seriously bitter story, with a happy or somewhat happy ending…..

  7. I’m having trouble installing the 1.01 Patch. I try to install it in the game directory/where i installed “a profile”, but it always comes up with a message with a bunch of Japanese and then “prof.patch.xp3” in it so im guessing im doing something wrong with the 1.01 patch.. i copy prof.patch.xp3 to the game directory then install the patch but it always comes with this message. help would really be appreciated !

    1. Don’t copy anything, just install the game, then run the patch and select the directory (the first one with the japanese name, not the second in which most of the files are). Then run the english patch. It should be OK but you must use japanese locale.

  8. For some reason I can’t get this to insteall. What am I doing wrong? =( I unpacked it and mounted the image, and it’s in Japanese, so I try to just click the ones I think would install it, and it goes through the installation process, but at the end it comes up with a blue screen and says “Syntax Error”.

    1. You need to change locale to japanese before you start installation (no, applocale won’t work acording to translators)

  9. just wanted to ask, what happens if i install english patch without the 1.01 update, will there b any problem? cos i installed englisd patch b4 updating n it works.

  10. Yeah what shinn said.. and admin can you tell me how you installed 1.01 patch exactly? i have windows 7 x64 too so i don’t get it. i know how to install patches so idk,,,

    1. x64 has two “Program Files” folders – one for 64bit apps and one for 32bit – patcher by default selects the x64 one, while the game installs to 32bit one by default.

  11. Yes i choose the x86 one, the 32 bit, i know all you need to know to install it, it simply won’t but can i install the English patch without the 1.01 patch ?

  12. Just saw the reply to my post. okay i understood the reason to the patch and thanks to jeff for continuing my question and thanks to admin for answering. Good Job XD

  13. I cant say NTR is fit for this novel
    the word in my mind is tragedy
    it’s not an act out of jealousy but just to release/forget their guilt and pain

    1. The plots are short but well done, I mean not everything are as simple as they first seem.

      People would just lump the genre into “Tragedy”, but I think Jealousy, Revenge, “Self-destroy” are similar good themes that can be associated with that specific NTR context.

      1. Although the storyline was short, I believe it was well worth the play.(I love playing games for their storylines)* Gotta love Miku’s route. Took me 3hrs to complete the first run. Other than that, Skipped all the way XD

  14. Alrighty! I ve been waiting to read this VN for a while. Thx for upload! I guess I am also curious about the NTR content in this game 😛

  15. wow from the debate so far i’m kinda leaning toward no but i’m interested to but i hate NTR so i think i’ll heck back later on this

  16. wait how did u guys install the patch again? I straight up dragged the patch and prof_patch.xp3 file to the game directory but the text is still in japanese. Everything else is fine; the voices are there and I can play the game. Did I mess up somewhere?

  17. i can’t seem to install the patch still, keep seeing the word fail in kaiji, any help? i installed the game with Japanese locale soo

  18. I just came on in a boredom streak to find that this had just been uploaded. Needless to say, I fanboyed like hell.

  19. im willin to try it aslong as it has 2 things one of their is NTR in the end the hero get the girl and brutaly kicks some ass who ever is the people that raped/forces his chick into fucking them and 2 aslong as it ant mindfuck ntr like that hentai manga “behind the mirror” that shit fucked me up for a week

  20. hey jess, honestly i think you throwing out the word netorare much too casually, if it only happens once or twice or the situation is one that is part of a bigger conflict the netorare feeling of rage and betrayal just isnt strong enough compared to the feeling of savage rape or other emotions that take place in such scenes.

    Like a classic ntr situation is finding a random guy with no redeming qualities is having sex with your woman.
    “am i not better than him?! am i worse than garbage!?”
    “how dare she betray me, but i cant live without her, but she is no longer mine, she is gone and now another person altogether..”
    these are staple feelings of a despair NTR. in my opinion, if the end result of the rape or cheating doesnt evoke strong emotions its not worthy of being called NTR. to give a reference lets say there a sex scene between sex friends, they are having sex but in this case they dont love eachother so the word love plays no part in this situation,in NTR lets say your girlfriend has sex with differnt partners, but at the end of the day shes still with you (this happens in RL anyway) so less NTR effect gets generated.

    sorry i am very wordy arent i

  21. Thanks for this one! But I just cannot install that patch. The game installs ok but the patch always gives me some error message…

    Any help would be nice…

  22. Damnit.. I really stayed up all night and now it’s 1 p.m. Just because I HAD TO read Mikus story. My eyes hurt. x.x But it was worth it, I like the storys. But I’ll leave the third heroine, I don’t like her.

    1. Yea it’s definitely worth playing. Not a bad storline but it’s a short one at that. I didn’t get the NTR thing though. I got to the end with Miku’s ending and the Rizu’s ending without any problems. Rizu’s path did sorta show that Miao (I forgot her name) was sorta a prostitute though. Other than that, nothing else.

    1. No, that’s simply cheating.
      NTR is more like a frustration of being played with your feelings (in love relationship) of having your lover or potential lover stolen.
      Netorare does not have to be consensual that’s why we have the Netorare Types of A, B and C – they are ranked by the level of consensus.

      But the center of focus is still a frustration of being cheated, it doesn’t mean that you had to be cheated, just feel like it.
      So cheating/adultery its still a word going hand in hand with Netorare its just that netorare stretches further than that meaning.

  23. Well after having gone through that route the NTR bit really isn’t that bad and I’m saying that as someone who’s normally very turned off by NTR crap. I won’t say any more beyond that cause I don’t want to spoil it but if your not trying it because your concerned about the NTR bit then I’d advise you not to let that stop you.

    It’s only in Miou’s route too so there’s two other routes without any at all.

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