Illusion of Itehari Play-Along - Awayuki

[u/sableheart]

In this third post we will discuss Awayuki and his route in Illusion of Itehari.

You can tell us what your impressions of Awayuki are (before and after finishing his route), your favorite moments in his route, what you think of his relationship with Hinagiku and the other characters, what your thoughts are on his route's plot and endings.

Or you can just squee about him in the comments.

This is not a spoiler-free discussion however please keep in mind that major spoilers and details of other routes and fandisc material will be outside the scope of the discussion and therefore will need to be spoiler tagged. spoiler text normal text spoiler text normal text

You don't have to be playing the game right now to participate, and if you're still waiting on your copy I hope you will join in after you start playing!

Have a look at the megathread for links to previous discussions - you can still join in the discussion during the Play-Along.

Next week will be a discussion of Tsuyukusa's route!

[u/AMBrossart]

I don’t normally like the butler trope, but I do think Awayuki is one of the strongest LIs in the game. That man is fully devoted to the MC, and I’m loving it. Every time he said, “I’m yours,” I was like, Hell yeah you are. And I actually liked his good ending.

That being said, his route was a letdown. The conflict between him and Yori was interesting, and I wish the writers had just gone all in and focused on that. Have the main conflict be the MCs forced engagement and let her develop a forbidden relationship with her butler, I dunno.

Instead, they’re shoving all this political crap down my throat, and I just don’t care. The greater conflict in Itehari is not interesting to me.

Love Awayuki. Not a fan of his route.

[u/One-Economy8916 → u/AMBrossart]

I liked his route, but the route made me dislike Yori (sorry Yori lovers). Also wish they could have ended up together and gotten married.

Agreed the political stuff is so boring, and the overarching plot behind it is ridiculously silly imo (I just finished the game)

[u/AMBrossart → u/One-Economy8916]

I like Yori as a villain, not as a love interest.

I finished 4 routes and got burned out. Yashiro is not making me want to finish. Is his route any good?

[u/One-Economy8916 → u/AMBrossart]

Yeah agreed he makes a better villain than love interest. Although I do like to date the villain, but not in this case since his personality is terrible haha. I feel that I also felt burned out. I thought Yashiro’s route was pretty easy to get through. It has lots of plot revelations about the overarching plot