

Riho is watching a Kirari/Shoichi concert, and being a singer herself, becomes jealous of Kiara playing music with her boyfriend while she’s stuck in Japan. DearDrops is still together, minus Shoichi, who is traveling Europe playing alongside none other than Kirari. The Second Literature club has disbanded, with Kirari becoming an international superstar on her own, and the rest of the group splitting up. Set ten years after KiraKira and three years after DearDrops, the two bands find themselves in different directions. Given their success, and their similar settings, a crossover seemed obvious.Įnter d2b vs. Without a doubt these are Overdrive’s two most popular visual novels.

He returned to Japan where he got a job as a handyman at a rock house, and formed a new band, learning to play guitar before switching back to violin and falling in love with Riho. This time around, Suganuma Shoichi, a prolific violinist training in Germany, encountered an incident that forced him to quit playing. In 2010 they released DearDrops, another music focused game.

Its central protagonists, Kirari and Shikanosuke, fall in love and together with the rest of d2b tour Japan. It centered on a group of students at a Christian school who started a punk rock band, the Second Literature Club (Daini Bungeibu Bando, hence d2b). KiraKira was the first such game, released in 2007. Sure, they’ve released other non-music games but that defeats the point I’m trying to make. Overdrive is a company that specializes in music based narratives. Is this powerhouse crossover a beautiful duet, or nails on a chalkboard?
