Ikinari Anata ni Koishiteiru

Holy shit Ikikoi shocked me. I'm 15 minutes in and was not prepared at ALL. I figured with the "ikikoi is kamige" and "ikikoi is kusoge" memes that it would obviously be somewhere in between but I did not expect to get so immediately drawn in.

Majikoi was comfy. It set an atmosphere and had attention to detail that made me attached to the characters and setting.
Princess Evangile was engaging. Despite the numerous shenanigans it had a way of telling the story that made it a good, not great, read.
My first impression of Ikikoi is that it's just fucking FUN. Makes no sense and will probably jump around too much to make sense plotwise, but I can't get rid of this wide grin on my face, nor do I want to.

Please tell me that that is the kind of ride I'm in for, because I don't want it to stop. The setting is not as good as Majikoi and the storytelling is not as good as PE, but regardless of that I am thoroughly enjoying myself because of how well it pulls off making utter nonsense seem like a good time.

What's wrong with this slow download?

If, for some reason, you find the game running at 1 frame per second, plugging in an xbox controller while it's on will fix it. Don't even have to leave it plugged in when you're done. No, I'm not sure why this fixes the problem, but there you go.

I have no idea who the author of this particular VN is, but it's pretty apparent that whomever they are, they really hate men.

The common route consists of pretty much nothing but four girls being total assholes to the main character, who rarely - if ever - deserves any of it. Constant accusations of being a pervert, a blockhead, a dumbass, and other negative slights against his personality...funny then, that for all the girls' bitching about how much of a shithead this guy is, he's always shown as being nothing but nice to them.

I think these girls need to clean up their own backyard first, because it's pretty clear that, in this story at least, they are the shitheads, not MC-kun.

I don't know why writers of visual novels (and anime) keep going with this kind of crap, where all males are perverts, and all females are pure, innocent, sexless beings that have absolutely zero interest in sex, boys or dongs. Well guess what, writers of VNs and anime, I've been to high school, and unless Japanese schoolgirls are from another dimension where puberty and hormones don't exist, then you better fucking believe they are every bit as interested in sex as boys are.

I'm so tired of the 'females = superior beings' trope in this kind of media, so I find it ironic that the girls in this story who are presented as being cool, aloof, tsundere's with the MC wrapped around their little fingers, who can do no wrong, are so superior, but they all have the personality of a steaming pile of dogshit.

For those who need the install instructions:
1. Always do this before trying to install any translated VN: Change your system locale to Japanese.
2. Extract and install the Ikikoi game (be sure to know where it installs to, default is your C drive).
3. Extract and copy the English patch and update to the folder that it installed to, and overwrite the one file. Install the font that comes with it as well just to be safe.
4. Put the "No DVD crack" .exe file in the folder as well. Then run it.
5. Use the bootmenu app that is in the folder and select the top most choice (for me, it had the top one grayed out, so I used the second from the top)

I have only got it to run so far and have not tried to play it yet, so I hope there are not any problems later on.

put a Xbox controller in when you play the game and the 1 Frame bug is fixed. Its not a 100% solution but it works

Goddamn, this game is tedious to sit through. I've played nukige with more engaging dialogue and interesting characters than this pile of shit. The music is the only good thing about this game. If you're into anime like Seitokai no Ichizon, with its lazy reference based meta comedy, then this game is for you (but this is much much worse). Hell, even the art is quite similar.
And I've not even gone into the needless violence the protagonist is subjected to, which is something I could've at least tolerated if the writing wasn't so godawful.

I have read the comments, and I too was put off...

AND ... in the common route, yes - it feels like pure unadulterated punishment without any justification (which it is, but... )

*** SPOILER - minor ***

IF you can keep in mind that much of all that is explained later on, especially in Ryuu's route (I think I still remember her name correctly? The cousin)

You find out that the protagonist **SPOILER** is....
pretty much superhuman. The "punishment" is nothing to him...
He is pretty much the baddest-ass badass of virtually any VN I've read - and I include Yuuji from Grisaia. This guy does put up with a ton of abuse, verbal and etc.. but it's because he knows what you don't -- the girls are all twisted up, and express love with totally bogus instults, criticism etc..
*** SPOILER not-so-minor**
He gets in to a rumble with like 30+ guys and kicks all of their asses.... and the truth is - Ryuu? Totally in love with him. Sister Eiki? Totally TOTALLY in love with him, Tsumugu? Same thing... see the pattern? They're all hopelessly in love with the guy, pretty much. I'm not saying it's for everybody - but it's not about masochism, for sure. Just because some folks don't keep an interest in it, I'd say -- I'm not one for witless prattle... and sure, it drags _at times_ a bit, but - not that much really. I ended up liking the story for the most part, _especially_ with Ryuu's route. AFTER I played her route, the other routes were far less annoying because I knew that he was _intentionally_ holding back - because for one thing he could kill somebody quite easily if he flew off, and also - well, he made a promise. SO - factor in cousin and blood-related sister ichaicha, a pretty hot "janitor" girl who's pretty messed up but a nice girl beneath it all.. and - well, I still have the other route to go - Nagi-san or something? She's not mean to him anyway, she's just kind of an airhead.

Try it, get through the punishment by telling yourself - he could care less usually, he could crush anyone in that school if he wanted to... he's pretty much the most popular guy in the school, despite all the (fake) abuse from cousin and sister... and just get through it.

Just saying - if all the talk of total abuse is what deters you - don't let it. It amounts to nothing.

Cheers,
HjM jr.

Was able to bypass all errors by changing the System Local AND Home location to Japan (Control panel/clock and region/change date,time,or number formats/ Location=Japan/Administrative-change system local=Japanese

Applocal doesn’t seem to work on windows 10

Hi and thank you very muck for your great work.
So, I downloaded this game Ikinari Anata ni Koishiteiru but I can't get it to work on Windows 10.
Does anybody know how to set it up properly?
I get error [1200] and [1503] every time I try to launch it.
I copied the No-dvd file to the game folder, tried Locale Emulator and all the patches and updates I found on internet for no use.
Is this game still playable?

How the hell did you people manage to get this to work? I've tried all walkthroughs in the comments and still nada.

For anyone planning to play this, after installing everything MAKE SURE to go to the translators website (you can find it under the english release of this on VNDB) and download the "new update"

If you don't replace that 1 file the text and voice are off at random parts throughout the game.