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Okeyutei (Circle)

Is there anything more blessed in the H scene that a sweet pixel animation?
Don't answer that, I'm probably biased. But god damn, the production effort here is absolutely TIGHT!

I bet most of you never even heard of Okeyutei until now, since they only made one short game long ago.. until this week.
Okeyutei "specializes" in pixel H games. starting with the more known "School Dot Fight" in some circles, which came out in no less than July 2017. 

I wasn't sure if the studio died or what actually happened to them, but here we are in 2022 with another fresh simulation game this time called "Everyone's Service Manager" (rough google translate, no official English name yet), and seems like they might be cooking another gem for us in the future. So it is probably safe to say that they're back in business.

Since both games are short, I'll give you a quick review of each one:

School Dot Fight: A (rare) Beat 'em Up where you control a female student beating up classmates, gang members, and other random perverts on your way to enforce justice.

The game consists of 5 stages with 3 difficulties each. Unlike other games of the genre, you only have one lane, like a platformer without platforms.
Goal of each stage is to reach all the way to the right while dealing with all the enemies until you reach the boss at the end of each stage.

It's such a short but very sweet game, with wonderful pixel animations whenever the character gets knocked out. (the usual enemy grab and left + right to "escape")
For such a small game there are actually over 20 different scenes, not including the opening and ending animations that probably took their own share of time as well.

I can only imagine that the game didn't sell as much relative to the work that was put into it, so Okeyutei decided to take a long hiatus.
Real shame, because I quite liked it, and you definitely will too.

Everyone's Service Manager (みんなのご奉仕マネージャー): I left the Japanese name because there's no official English name yet, but the title does make sense with google translate given how the game works.

I'll start by saying that I can see why the studio decided to move forward with another title, seeing as ESM sold around 70% of the total copies of School Dot's within a WEEK!
If we go 5 years ago, then it's likely due to how evolved social media is, that if you ask me - you can probably reboot a lot of old titles and re-sell them for a lot more copies if you have the means to advertise. (wait a sec...)

But back to the game. ESM is actually one of the most fun idle H games I ever played.
Not that there are that many to begin with, but any game that I boot up and keeps me hooked for "just to see what's next" is clearly doing something right.
And yes, I've ended up 100%ing the whole thing in one sitting.

You're a very dedicated female student who's worried about the school's very demoralized baseball team, and after doing your best to cheer them up in the most socially accepted ways, you come across a certain magazine that teaches you the arts of the dark side.

This is a 100% point and click game.
You start with HP and HP recovery stats and a wide selection of currently locked "actions" to perform on the team members.
Collect trash to increase your points, or food & beverages lying around to recover health for your acts.

Once you hit a threshold to unlock certain actions, you right click on the lock icon and left click again to perform it.
Start small with a cheer, then a kiss, then a steamy kiss, all the way to actions that in a functioning world will suspend your team and your team's grandchildren out of any sports event.

Each action will generate more points, and while they can be upgraded, other than the starter once I couldn't really find any reason to upgrade the others.
If you run out of health you're starting a new day, so invest some points in HP and recovery for the more demanding actions later on.

By the end you'll need to generate interest by using a special "advertise" action until you hit 20 members. Then a special scene will become available at one of the areas you can explore...
Hit 30 members, and you call freely call up as many members as you want with the megaphone icon.

I can't believe I wrote so much about an idle game with less "gameplay" than its previous project, but honestly? this game was great, and has a lot of charm that was real comfy to play and enjoy.

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So yeah, with what seem to be more game(s?) in Okeyutei's pipe, I wholeheartedly recommend checking them and their projects out.
The studio clearly has very talented people who know how to pick a direction and execute it the best way they can with the likely small budget they have.

I should add that they also released two other "education" themed CG & illustrations projects called "Welcome to Mankai Total Nude Academy!!" and "Shiritsu Harami JHS F*ck Lessons!!".
Both of very high quality, so feel free to check them out too!

Okeyutei's titles are all available on DLsite.

❤️ For relevant H content of these titles you may contact me in DM for referrals.