You may be familiar with the Flowers Yuri Visual Novel franchise, with it’s classic girl’s school setting. We’ve had several reviews here on Okazu of the VNs, Jye’s discussion of the VN in Japanese and mine in English.

Last year, as I was perusing one thing or another, I encountered a suggestion for something a little different – an Original Drama CD from Innocent Grey. Kara no Shoujo Tenni Musubuyume  (虚ノ少女-天に結ぶ夢-) is a two-disk Drama CD set from the same team that brought you Flowers. The first disk immediately recalls the tone of Flowers – gothic depression meets ‘S’-informed school.

Yukiko is a girl with a dark past. People she cared about have died, several of her friends among them. But these have all been classified as “accidents.” She is surprised and pleased when Mie wants to be her friend. The two of them become close and then very close. Yukiko feels a bit bad this time, one hopes, when she kills Mie. But at least it allows the police to finally arrest her.

The second drama CD is obscure and vaguely Dante-ish. A wooden doll finds herself in the afterlife with no memory of her life. She is first met by an angel who brings her to Purgatory, where she is handed over to a goat-man who acts as a guide. He pushes her to remember her sins in life and, when at last she does, she recalls that she had been a rabbit. 

The vocal tones of the series are grim and gothic, the music tends towards atmospheric and angelic.  The voice acting was done well enough. I’m not entirely sure if I enjoyed either story, but I am deeply disappointed that Mie did not kill Yukiko first, and that the goat-man’s name was not Baphomet. These were missed opportunities in the story-telling and the whole gets points off for blowing both. 

Ratings:

Overall – 6

Like the VN authored by this team, the intentions were good, but they needed some help in execution. I think I would make a fine Drama CD and/or VN editor, if overly an overly critical one. ^_^