Tayutama 2 - After Stories (タユタマ2 - After Stories) Review

Tayutama 2 -you’re the only one- (タユタマ2 -you’re the only one-) came out last year, and honestly I think it’s pretty good.

Why? Because it’s not toxic.

Yeah, the bar is low, but almost nobody clears it. Look around—not just games, even anime—barely anything out there doesn’t try to piss you off. Out of nowhere a love triangle to give you heartburn, or they’ll torture some poor girl to make you feel bad, or pull a time loop or isekai twist that makes you spit your drink. Compared to all that, Tayutama 2—a game so positive it’s practically a PSA about humans and Tayutai living in harmony—is a breath of fresh air.

Sure, it didn’t sell great on Steam, and the price is a quarter of what you’d pay for 2B after the price hike. But that’s reality: bland positive content isn’t stimulating enough to attract the twisted otaku crowd. Only ass sells.

You can chase ass all you want, but at least admit that feel-good white-bread stories deserve a place at the table.

Anyway, Tayutama 2 got a fandisk. And this fandisk is simple and blunt: it’s After Stories, sequel content to the main plot.

What kind of sequel? In the main story’s Kohaku route, humans and Tayutai have already achieved harmony. So in this follow-up, they decide to hold a festival to celebrate eternal peace between humans and Tayutai, called the “Jintaisai.”

Sounds dumb as hell, but maybe Japanese people don’t think so. So they start preparing for the Jintaisai. New character? Maybe an old one I didn’t notice—a black-haired old Tayutai named Nue pops up and says, “For the Jintaisai, we gotta celebrate big! Like, a local idol group or something.”

So the human representative, Hibumi’s dad, agrees (honestly, the old man and Nue talking sounds like a manzai routine), and picks three heroines—everyone except Mashiro—to form a “local idol unit” and perform at the Jintaisai.

The group name takes parts of the three heroines’ names and follows the AKB48 format: YKT3.

So fucking dumb…

Then it’s prep time. First problem: heroine number one, Kohaku, is worried. She asks the protagonist if she should really do this “local idol” thing. He asks why, and she drops a bombshell.

“I’m already married to you. I’m a married woman. Can a married woman be an idol?”

Right! Can fat otaku accept a married idol? No way! Absolutely not!!!

So the protagonist agonizes for a while, but for the sake of the village festival and racial harmony, he bears the burden and chooses to forgive her, letting his wife dress up in embarrassing clothes and go be ogled as an idol…

Then it’s training and prep for YKT3’s stage debut. The day before, trouble hits.

The three idols discover their “panties” have been stolen.

By “panties” I mean safety shorts—idol outfits have short skirts, so of course you’d see something, so they wear safety shorts. And those got stolen.

Honestly? Whoever stole them did a great fucking job! Safety shorts must die, those who know know.

So the protagonist starts investigating. He’s the only guy, so he gets suspected hard, but eventually they find out the thief is that old hag Nue, who did it because she thought they looked nice and for various perverted reasons.

The protagonist bribes her with a chocolate banana, and Nue hands over the safety shorts…

So the outfits are complete, the Jintaisai begins, and YKT3 takes the stage. There’s a little hiccup during the song, but true love conquers all, so it’s a success.

This is a positive-energy game, after all. Everything will be okay.

After the Jintaisai ends, the protagonist bangs Kohaku in her idol outfit a few times, and the game’s over.

The route structure is pretty much what you’d expect: the Jintaisai is the main plot, you can screw after it succeeds, and after clearing all the heroines you unlock Nue’s route.

But I have zero interest in a black-haired loli who talks like an old man—and she’s a perverted old hag on top of that…

Tayutama 2’s fandisk is exactly what a fandisk should be: some after-story, a few HCGs, same sprites, same music. The new HCGs are drawn well, but there are too few. The new OP is decent—the intro sounds like a cheerleading song, but the rest is fine.

I don’t know how much Tayutama 2 -After Stories- costs, but it lives up to its name: it really is “the story after” the main game, nothing more. If it’s cheap, it’s worth a look.

That said, Tayutama 2’s script is wordy as hell. A single scene can go on for half an hour. The dialogue itself isn’t stupid, but the characters are so damn polite… politeness back and forth for half an hour. Then again, the main game was the same style, so at least it’s consistent—that should count as a plus.

Why did I play Tayutama 2 and this after-story, anyway? Maybe because Natsukawa Shinomi’s voice is just that good.

Natsukawa Shinomi voiced the little sister in this season’s anime Eromanga Sensei, and she blew up along with that character. I wonder if she’ll get so big in the mainstream that she stops doing galgame voices…

Without her, the 90s-born galgame CV lineup would be down to just Toda Megumi. I hope not… This industry can’t be ruled by Sendai grandmas forever!