![]() Through the story both find emotional redemption in joining a club that aims to create a glider, so they can soar through the skies and feel complete freedom.Įvery other character within that club is written magnificently, too, and while the bulk of your sympathies and focus is meant to lie with Aoi and Kotori, the “harem” that forms around Aoi are all equally flawed individuals, experiencing their own version of loss, and likewise finding redemption through their social interactions. Kotori’s wheelchair disability causes her to almost quit school entirely. ![]() For Aoi, a knee injury that prevents him from take on serious athletic pursuits causes him to flee back to his childhood home village, and this kicks off the story. The two central characters – Aoi, the protagonist, and Kotori, a wheelchair-bound girl, are both listless in life, with disabilities that they both feel stifle them. If My Heart Had Wings is a story about loss and redemption. It stands out because this is one beautifully sentimental little game, and every time it teeters on the brink of falling into the abyss of stock-standard horny teen fan service and other such tropes of the genre, it pulls things back to remember that it’s got a far more grand story of real substance to share. So it says a lot that If My Heart Had Wings manages to stand out so completely despite belonging to such traditions. In fact, the harem genre is one of the most overloaded of all across anime, manga, and Japanese video games. ![]() Likewise, visual novels that thrust a single male protagonist into a harem filled with a wildly eclectic bunch of girls are hardly infrequent. Japanese culture itself is a deeply nostalgic one (to this day the country struggles to resolve its respect for tradition with its love of progress), and there’s an abiding fixation on youth in Japan which makes the nostalgic a natural go-to theme for storytelling. ![]() Visual novels that are deeply rooted in some kind of bittersweet nostalgia are dime a dozen. ![]()
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