Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms

Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms

Spring is the flowering season, the season of the cherry blossoms. It is the time for first meetings and partings, when the buds start sprouting.

Yuma is a second-year student at Mihaya Academy who listens to love problems from girls at the school and gives them thoughtful advice. This has made him quite popular and loved, resulting in a 21,000 yen (taxes included) ‘love bounty’ placed on him. The girls came to him with problems ranging from jealousy to infidelity. Having heard about so many troubles related to love, Yuma lost any desire he had for it.

One day, a mysterious girl appeared before him. She had never been in love, but she believed that it was a wonderful thing. She asked him if he would like to be in love, and that as a love fairy, she will help his love come true.

A girl who cannot fall in love. A boy who has no interest in love. If they end up falling in love with each other, how will the world change?

161 thoughts on “Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms

  1. I fucking hate when visual novels lock the best girl behind other routes, just let me play the girl I want god damn it

  2. Okay the game loads up fine and I can access all parts of the main screen, but as soon as I hit New Game it goes to a white screen with an error saying that it failed to call Connect filters or something of the sort. Granted I am using a Mac and have to use wine bottler to make the game run but I haven’t had any sort of issues before with it. No idea what to do but I really want to go through this VN because it looks good. Any help would be appreciated.

    1. Okay so I learned that with existing save data I can load it and the game starts up fine. Really confused but if there is anyone who has a save game right at the beginning of each route I could actually use that to play through just fine.

    1. —-Spoiler alert—-
      Tina didn’t consumed the memory she got making a suden great drama soe she died, but wherever her soul were it was a place where her sister also was and she came back just like that in the epiloge scene.

    2. Spoilers:

      According to what Ann said in the epilogue nobody knows what happens after soul reaper, maybe the can even become a god. So apparently Tina’s sister after sacrificing herself became something like a god. She brought Tina back.

  3. Ok, i have already finished the game so i’ll put a complete review. Before i gave some note considering most of one route, but now that i had play the entire game i can give a fairer route.

    The game is, usually good, It has a great idea with all the soul reaper thing and it has some really good romance and events, but it has heavy faults as well,in most routes the routes there is some great drama that finally is resolved just like that in way to plain and disapointing way in order to make a perfect fairy tail end, also in case of certain someone route the romance is way too suden to the point that i was a little unwilling to continue reading, but since i got that far i decided to read until the end which let me see some others great events that managed to compensate…still it has the same final trouble in the very end.

    Apart of that there are times that there are some issues with great potential that weren’t developed properly or are resolved just like that at the end.

    For another side, thought the OST is not bad at all it isn’t great either.

    Some sex H are good enoght, thought others are very plain and short, thought they are not the main feature in the game it’s bothersome that, it most cases, they come one after another instead of put them as the love story goes.

    Conclusion it is generaly a good game recomended to play it once at least once since the game has great heroines, romance with them and drama, it is a game that could be great (thought not perfect) but it unfortunaly ruining some of it’s own greatness.

    Final note: 8 of 10.

    1. Extra: Yuri’s and Konami’s were my favorite routes. Konami’s has the best done story from begining to end, thought it may be a little cliche. Yuri was the most loveable girl for me and her route was great in general but at the end there were some of the mentioned problems most routes and if it werent because of it it would had been one of my favorites routes of all the times.

      1. Yup Konami’s route had the best drama and was overall consistent. I really like the approach they took with the whole incest theme. I’ve really enjoyed the story there. Best route.

    2. Sounds like the sort of game you’d recommend to someone, if they don’t have to pay for it.
      Which is what we’re doing right here, but you get the idea.

      Sounds awfully like recommending a web-comic. :v
      8/10 seems a bit excessive, given the way you wrote your review, though. Gotta appreciate that love-hate relationship.

  4. Am I the only one with weird graphics issues where the only thing you can see is a small square with one of the girls faces in it and nothing else?

  5. Meh story was kinda ok but the main character becomes a complete moron half way through and starts to kill it. Some good comedy and what not but again it over does it on making the main character to clueless and kills the enjoyment.

    1. All you would have had to do is state is it looks great on you Ann.

      yuma: You make it sound like it’s a piece of cake to churn out lines like that…

      Wtf… likw really…just soooooo stupid.

  6. I got around to the first choice in the game but as soon as I closed the game and launched it back up a few days ago all my saves are gone… plus on top of that I cant save anymore. anyone got a possible fix?

  7. So far this is exactly the amount of vanilla that I want for a romantic eroge. Not too overdramatic drama. It gave me vibes that of Princess Evangile.

    So far I’ve finished with Tsukishima Yuri’s route, which I’m now sad because she’s my favourite type of character. But I couldn’t help to play her route first. So now I can’t save the best for last anymore. I especially like how they make a setting where Asaba-kun and Yuri got stuck together. It was inovative and very new to me. I was absolutely loving their circumstances and moments.

    Note to self. Save the best route for last to get the best of ending aftertaste. Here’s to the rest of the routes.

  8. I enjoyed this game overall but once again the thing that puts me off of so many VN is the pointless drama.. Having drama before they get together is fine and normal but this game crams in insert drama after they become a couple in any route and it feels like nothing but to prolong the game for zero reason as the drama is never really taken seriously or resolved seriously at least. I wish more VN had good romance and stories with minimal drama. It just feels like cheap writing.

    Also one thing I hated alot about this one was how the characters in each route had completely different personality just to insert a bit of boring drama to try and break the couple of that route up.

    Spoiler for this part but for example mio in her own route loves yuma. And then in yuris route she loves yuma and it becomes so bad that it tries to make yuri end the couple with yuma but then in ann’s route mio doesn’t love yuma even the smallest amount. She literally giigles and celebrates when they become a couple in ann’s route. Changing a character that loves the MC in half the routes but not in the other half just for a cheap drama point really poor writing. Overall it was better than most VN but still has this problem few VN can seem to fix. SukiSuki is the only one that has done it right recently it seems like

    1. ??? have you ever played an eroge before because that’s what they do to censor the genitals because it’s the FUCKING LAW

  9. Debo decir que sinceramente, este la primera novela visual que veo y me siento muy orgulloso y satisfecho por haberlo visto: ya que que este es el School Days perdido que busque… y no me imagine que lo encontraría en un sitio de NV, ya que es la primera vez, por recomendación de animes vistos en este genero es muy novedoso para mi.
    (^-^) realmente me hizo cambiar la visión de la vida a uno muy maduro y eficaz enlace puedo decirlo claramente, que el sentimiento del AMOR es lo que mueve al mundo. Sin eso uno@ se marchita fácilmente quedando en incógnita (perdida) de lo que era su vida.
    Y ahora veo que no desperdicie mi valioso tiempo, en material convencional que lo encuentro a la vuelta de las paginas, esas no impresionan ya que es lo cotidiano.
    Enlace que elegí (\Mio Ichinose/) Mi Favorita.

  10. Esto solo es el comienzo, no vi todos los enlaces. Por lo que me falta mucho recorrido, tuve mucha tristeza por toda la trauma que me causo la saga de School Days pero esta NV Saku Saku reprimió todo esas malas emociones que tenia sobre este Mundo Descarriado. En fin es solo un alivio de opinión, que debía decir de todas maneras, depende de mi como construiré mi vida no sera como la de Asaba Yuuma (tanto quisiera) XD pero me convertiré en un humilde hombre que pueda hacer las cosas correctamente, ahora en adelante valdrá la pena intentarlo.
    Agradecimientos al Team que subió este Kawai NV y a los creadores de PALETTE un honor y respeto inolvidable, por dar la felicidad que todo ser humano Busca y lo encuentra como un tesoro escondido Gracias…

  11. I’m trying to play this game but every time restart i get this message in a small window:

    “??????????MyDocument?????????”

    After closing it the game starts normally but my settings are reset and previously saved files doesn’t show up in the load section. I tried everything withing my knowledge like changing system local, disabling antivirus, turning off secure boot, run with compatibility settings but nothing works. Please help.

    1. same problem here. everytime i close the game my save never actually saves, & it’s a big problem in this game because if you want to do all routes you have to play for @ least 40 hours. i can’t keep holding the skip bar to get to my next point every freaking time. i’m asking years later but still, did you ever manage to fix it?

  12. I find the sister route really fresh and unique. In most vn, sister routes just feel like any other heroine’s routes and the taboo aspect isn’t taken seriously at all. In the Konami route, the main theme being about “taboo” really make you feel like you have crossed the line this time and have a forbidden relationship with your blood-related sister. The part when Konami cries because of being forced to hide her relationship with her brother made me tear up a bit.

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