Gakuto newest dengeki series
The more Ishikawa I read the more I think he's one of the most skillful and interesting writers in the LN sphere, this book is a perfect example of how I feel about him, it's a bit of an oddball since the book kinds of keeps changing genres being all over the place, and also told in a odd way. I had my doubts in the middle but he managed to make it work and hit all the right spots by the end...
The plot follows Hikaru as the protagonist that until now his live has been some kind of hell with his parents dying when he was 5, been bullied in school and by his aunt too until one day she ditches him sending him to a small island in Okinawa with his grandfather who has been missing for god knows when. He finds himself homeless in the island...
Akai ito is one of the most famous yuri VN released in the 00s, probably due to shortage more than anything, but also has some fame by its high quality writing and elaborated 伝奇 setting...
Yuri LN Republished from the defunct Fujimi Mystery Bunko label
Criss Cross was released in 94 originally, and rerelased as a Bunko version in 97. It is famous for being the first trapped in a VR RPG, and also winning the gold prize in the first iteration of the Dengeki contest in 95. It starts with a few manga pages of our protagonist ゲイル(Gale?) getting into the world of Dungeon Trial and walking for a bit until he faces a skeleton monster...
Short doujin VN focused around the struggles of facing the exams to enter university. The protagonist doesn't have any dreams about what he wants to do with his life but since everyone says going to college and getting a job is the most likely way to achieve happiness in life, he's determined to follow that path. Close to his house there's a rooftop where he goes on Sundays at sunset (hence the game's name), where he regularly meets two girls that seem the polar opposite of each other, Manami and Ren, both of them are also in his last year of school with the exams coming up soon...
