I think this is a matter of personal preferences, not Tanaka’s fault. You didn’t like Lucia, but until now she is the girl I most loved in any Eastern media. From her first appearance, I just fell in love with her. But for me, Kotori was the worst girl. I found her simply boring and uninteresting.
Going by the book-club rules, the common route would be from start to 31st of October as that is when it ends if you’re not invested in a heroine.
Most important part of a fantasy is to create a hook so the reader wants to learn more about the world. That definitely worked on me. Kotarou’s ability to “accelerate” is pretty normal(super strength/speed) on paper but it was presented really well with the analogy of drawing power from some magic fuel. Since it’s a galge we also need to be interested in the characters, especially the heroines, and Rewrite has a lot of my favorite individual characters so good remarks on that one. The common route is quite long and they most certainly don’t spoil you with the super natural. The ratio between SoL and fantasy is probably like 5:1 if not more skewed towards SoL. Personally I never felt bored while reading though. I’ve spent a lot of time on just the common route but I’m not tired of it, I can still jump in for a laugh now and then.
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Yes I totally agree. I like Lucia and Akane more than the other three. And I can’t stand Chihaya at all. At first I thougt she will be funny but later she was annoying. And Sakuya did his best to make it even worse.
Chihaya Route Spoiler I liked him in her Route, though. But Chihaya was still annoying all the time.
Yep the part where the Leaf Dragon attacks was a big WTF moment for me. Suddenly everything changes and you don’t know whats going on at all.
Lucia Route Spoiler I played Lucias route first and I thougt that the common route ends where her part beginns. But then I go for Kotori and the common route goes on and on and on and then a goddamn DRAGON attacks me?!
Oh, and edit because I forgot to say something.
Amiiiiiiiiiigo!
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Same thing for me. On her first appearance, I liked her. But then as time passed, she became more and more annoying. But still, I think Rewrite cast was well chosen, and the characters work well (all of them, despite some of them not being that good) as a group.
I also played Lucia’s route first. And yeah, that shocked me too. But another problem I had was that Lucia’s route was SO good that none of the others could surpass it.
Also, if anyone’s interested, here’s a link for @Aspirety-sama’s review of the Common Route. It summarizes the common routes events pretty well: https://kakeracomplex.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/rewrite-common-route-reflection/
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But for me, Kotori was the worst girl. I found her simply boring and uninteresting.
[/quote] I found Chihaya to be the least interesting during my runthrough. She does next to nothing to keep herself interesting, and she seems to quickly forget her grudge against Koutarou. Her butler is more interesting than her. I actually want to know more about Kotori from the little time I spend alone with her in-game.
Personally I liked Shizuru, Akane and Kotori were okay, Lucia was annoying, and Chihaya was… there.
Lucia somehow went on to be my favorite, and Shizuru quietly fell into a “she’s a good character, but nothing standout” position.
Best moment in the VN for me. I knew it was coming, and it still worked amazingly well. The atmosphere of fear and confusion is so perfectly handled. You slowly unravel strange thing after strange thing, and then everything goes crazy.
Despite how long the common route was, I don’t remember being that bored or much else about the route. I skipped a few things (such as the moments where you pick a mystery for the club to follow) but aside from that, I read most things. I think the mappy segments really helped break it up. Interaction the savior.
That bike scene… I was like “whoa, I didn’t think I’d like this character!”
Then they kept her in the VN, and they brought Sakuya in too… Ugh.
I think that’s meant to be a running gag - just not a very good one.
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Beat me to it 
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Okay so I’m always alone in this opinion but I’ll try again here. Did anyone else actually like Sakuya from just the common route? I mean, I get why everyone tended to dislike his antagonist stance, but since it was very obvious he knew something, I was very intrigued to know what that was. I was actually of the opinion that Kotarou was being too dense and immature in his response and just furthering the antagonism instead of considering what Sakuya had to say, but to be clear, this was more just my first impressions. Rather than being upset with Sakuya, I was constantly hoping he would eventually spill the beans and reveal his (what I assumed to be) good intentions.
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As I stated I liked all the characters in common and Sakuya of course too.
Yay! I also liked everyone in common. No doubt one of the reasons why I love Rewrite so much, since normally there’s at least one heroine that I’ll dislike. Chihaya was arguably close but I never really disliked her. She just didn’t manage to do anything I cared about D:
I DID!
I knew hes gonna be fkin epic and stuff in others route. I was just waiting for that moment when Im get to know everything about him and then scream “YEa I KNEW ITTT”.
But I did actually like him cuz he seemed mysterious and interesting.
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Did anyone else actually like Sakuya from just the common route?
[/quote]I like Sakuya about as much as I like Yoshino. He actually reminds me of a character from an RPG I used to play, except nicer. 
ok, can we now talk about the best part of Common Route? I mean, we all know nothing beats the YO-SHI-NO part. I died laughing at that part.
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It was amusing, but not overtly hilarious. I laughed more at ‘SEISHUU DE! NANIYAAAA?!’ than the YO-SHI-NO song.
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It’s been a while since I played Rewrite but there was one thing I remember about common route quite clearly: Everybody kept saying it was soooo long and dragged out but, honestly, I didn’t feel it. The entire time of the common route, I was thoroughly entertained. Entertained to the point of not even realizing it was long at all. The comedy was just so fun, the relationships between the characters were perfect: Kotarou and Kotori’s duet, Kotarou trolling Chihaya, Chihaya’s rivalry with Lucia, Kotarou abusing Shizuru’s good nature, Shizuru becoming Yoshino’s only weakness, and Akane scoffing at everything happening around her. In other words, I absolutely adored the common route, and I think it was one of the winning points of Rewrite, in my book.
Another thing I loved about the common route is the sheer amount of interaction you get to do. This was such a small thing, but I loved Kotori’s sidequest: The planting as much seeds as you can. It really speaks to my inner adventure gamer by forcing me to try and experiment all sorts of different choices and try to achieve the mini-goal. It actually felt like a game! And then there was Mappie! Mappie was awesome! Amigooooo! I even adored the BGM of mappie!
tl;dr Rewrite Common was super fun, should totally play again
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Yeah Say it with Flowers is really funny. Erohim’s Blessing or whatever it’s called, the porn book collecting, is also a good one; I managed to get that one on my first playthrough ever. I thought Mappie was a bit clunky but it allows for great comedy; the events where you walk around with one of the heroines are all awesome.
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I think the worst part about it was that I was a completionist, so whenever I got to a Mappie I spent so much time moving my mouse everywhere just so I don’t miss anything.
It was worth it.
Common route is really ling but really funny. My favorite scene would be Kotori’s “shake it now baby now”
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Indeed. And also, there are some interesting references in Mappie segment, Doraemon for example. There’s a Giant’s recital, the empty lot, and breaking a person’s window (Old man Kaminari’s).
I also remember the one where there’s a group of boys are talking about Gaki no Tsukai lol. ^^
thiiiis!! w w w w w
aaaah I thought I’m the only one. I absolutely bear no hatred towards the heroines, man. I feel like, every one of them have a side that I can’t hate even though there’s also a downside to their characters.
he’s always really fun to watch. Especially when he starts laughing and belittling Kotarou. And there’s more like to him if the common route also scope the Occult Club’s visit to the Ohtoris’ residence.
I’ve been avoiding all the Rewrite topics since I dont want to be spoiled in any way at all more than I already have. But I just wanna pop in here and say something while its on my mind.
I love the metaphor with the cats. It’s like, they try to be subtle about it, but at the same time its not subtle at all if you know anything about how galge work. Really nice piece of foreshadowing to plop in there right at the beginning when nothing has happened yet, but I also like how they keep bringing the cats back. Neat implications. Nice parallel.
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I’m sorry, but I have no idea what you’re talking about
