A beach, a ghost, and a boy who can't move on—this 25-minute gut-punch hides in plain sight.
The first chapter of the Refrain Blue series, tells about the recollection of Yoshihiro's past about various events of summer school, of the fate where encounter and separation are interwoven with each other, as Yoshiro and Matsunaga will pass the Toyo Gakuen and will arrive at summer school at seashore. A mysterious girl smiles as she watches Yoshiro who stands still at the seashore dusk.
Direction
Kajima stretches 25 minutes into an eternity of longing.
Score
Refrain Blue's music does the emotional heavy lifting.
Director
Norio Kajima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a 1997 visual novel by PIL; the game's multi-route structure explains the fractured, memory-fragment storytelling.
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