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To Heart is a ren'ai game by Leaf/Aquaplus released in 1997 for the PC. It was later ported to the Playstation and made into a 13-episode TV anime by KSS in 1999. To Heart was an influential ren'ai game with a large cult following; it has been the inspiration for a great deal of fan art in the dōjinshi; community.
To Heart falls into the specific subgenre of ren'ai games known as visual novels. It is text-intensive, text covers the screen rather than sitting in a box at the bottom, and most of the text is first-person narration rather than dialogue.
To Heart is remarkable for the purity of its concept: it represents in many ways a minimalist distillation of the ren'ai game genre. It is almost 100% linear, with on the order of one menu choice per fifteen minutes of gameplay. It is a pure high-school romance, without gimmicks. (This is particularly notable since most of Leaf's other games are high-concept.) Its atmosphere is relentlessly bright, full of sunlight and cute pop music. There is little continuity in the narrative, and nor is there much drama: the game is a succession of short character vignettes. To Heart focuses almost entirely on its writing, quirky characterization, and the dynamic of the relationships between its characters.
One of the game's secondary characters, a green-haired robot maid named "Multi HMX-12", is one of Japan's most popular fictional robot girls. The dakimakura that started the recent fad for them had a picture of Multi on it.
The game has never been translated into English, although the anime has been fansubbed. To Heart 2 is scheduled to be released in 2004. Two styles of its limited edition are to be released, only "Delux Pack" contains Playstation 2 version of To Heart.
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