"The Men of Yoshiwara" is a popular romance game for women. At the end, to whom is it that you will be talking of love? Vocal opening song/English text
About the story
At this red-light district, a certain young lady buys a night with a man who won't become anybody's. Because she wanted to have a child. Because she desired love. On this island, young men aren't birthed. Consequently, all the women go to Yoshiwara. There wasn't a single day she thought of this as abnormal or strange. However, one day... She decided to venture to "Yoshiwara", a nightless city that emits a dazzling light without pause. For the first time ever in her entire life, she viewed the procession of the beautiful male courtesans. The protagonist, Hidetomi Misawo, becomes captivated by Yoshiwara and its men. "How about it? Why don't we spend the night together?" Misawo decided to step foot into Yoshiwara's highest-class pleasure house, "Kikuya"...
Platforms
Switch PCGenres
Adventure Visual NovelThemes
Drama Historical RomanceLanguages: English and 2 more
| Interface | Audio | Subtitles | |
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| Chinese (Simplified) |
Critic Reviews
By Pilar Díaz Martínez
A romance simultion game with some erotism that is totally innecesary. Some stories are interesting, others are mediocre.
- 19 Mar, 2018
By Oscar TK
There's a serious wealth of content in Kikuya.
- 09 Mar, 2018
By Morgan Sleeper
As the first otome game on Switch, Men Of Yoshiwara: Kikuya is both excellent proof of concept and an enjoyable piece of electronic erotica in its own right. With a memorable cast of courtesans, a generous amount of content split over several discrete routes and sub-scenarios, and affection-based unlockables, there's plenty here to keep you busy and blushing. The backgrounds and music give off a bit of a budget feel, and occasional text encoding issues and some steep (but infrequent) quality drops are blemishes on an otherwise well-written script, but overall, we'd certainly recommend a trip to Kikuya for otome fans.
- 01 Mar, 2018
By Matt Sainsbury
The Men of Yoshiwara is a really interesting little visual novel about the idea of the "floating worlds" of old Japan's night life, the people that participated in them, and what people got up to there. You may well baulk at first at the idea of a game about "dating male prostitutes," but really, this is a strong bit of storytelling that goes a long way to describe the differing understanding that Japan and the west have about what a sex worker is (or, at least, once was in Japan), and that makes it interesting.
- 07 Feb, 2018
