Getsuei no Kusari -Sakuran Paranoia- is a CERO-C (15+) otome game being released for the PSP tomorrow by Takuyo. Since it has received relatively little exposure, some descriptions and translations are in order.
Koukashi (Crimson Mist City) is the only city on a small island far away from the mainland and was once a booming town that thrived off of tourism, its chief industry. However, perhaps due to insecurity about the Taisho period reaching its end or perhaps because of the disaster that wracked the island, customers gradually stopped coming. Koukashi experienced a crisis of economic collapse, casting its residents into a gloomy shadow.
However, there is a single ray of hope for the citizens: a group of young people that works towards public order and for the future of the town called the Kouka Seinen-dan (Crimson Mist Youth Association). The people have particularly placed their expectations in the leader of the Kouka Seinen-dan, Kagurazaka Hibiki, and his right hand man Mochizuki Satoya.
In addition, to help with the reconstruction after the disaster and restore public order, a solder named Inoguchi Wataru has been dispatched from the mainland. There is also the mysterious young man, Haruna Nozomu, who is a traveller, but seems to have some kind of business on the island nonetheless.
Each one of them carries out their own form of justice upon the problem that is currently plaguing the island.
In the midst of all this, a man summoned by the mayor has proposed a “garrison attraction plan”, an idea which has begun to circulate, plunging the city even more into confusion.
It also comes to pass that Fuyuura Megumi, the proprietress of a small restaurant, is also inevitably caught up in this maelstrom.
—this is the story of people who are desperately fighting to live during a period of great upheaval.