From what I can dig up, the earliest galgame goes back to 1982 — roughly 30-odd years of history at this point. Over that long haul, under the core premise of “attract male players with cute girls,” the art and styles have changed again and again, and the elements have piled up, but one thing has never changed: the big-breasted character always shows up. You could say that for today’s eroge, “no CV? Fine. No OP? Fine. No systems? Fine. But no big breasts? Unthinkable.” Big breasts have become the last-resort trump card for plenty of galgame makers on the verge of going under, as if whipping out the big-breast element alone will bring them back from the dead. So what exactly is the appeal of big breasts? Why must a galgame have a big-breasted character? Today let’s grab a recently released game and spend 7-plus-7 minutes figuring out why.