Hakuouki: SSL (Game)

Hakuōki: SSL ~Sweet School Life~ (薄桜鬼 SSL) is a 2014 game for PlayStation Vita that features well-known characters from games and anime but in modern High School setting. They have a new design, jobs and the storyline. The game got released for Nintendo Switch on June 15, 2023.
A new site opened for Hakuouki: Sweet School Life on 26th April 2013 with much undetermined information. Hakuouki: SSL is a "dōjinshi" or official fan-published spin-off of the SSL that was featured in the Zuisouroku fandisc. Rather than being a clip-note like it was in Zuisouroku, SSL became its own game, where a change of settings, from the end of a Shogunate period to a modern academic theme, takes stage. Although the design of the characters is different, their personalities remain the same.
==Story==
The fluttering Sakura. Spring - a season of blessing for new encounters. Chizuru Yukimura knocks on the gates of a private academy, which has always been a boys' school. However, as of this year, Hakuou Academy opens its gates to co-education and Chizuru is the only female student enrolled. Thus begins her first year.
Note: This story is a spin-off work of Hakuouki.
==Gameplay==
Similar to other games in the franchise, Sweet School Life has the reading format where very little interaction is necessary. The player can still make choices that affect the storyline and pick one of the routes to follow. 
There are 12 routes in total, and each one of them consists of 6 chapters + a prologue. Each route has 3 endings: good, normal and bad. Most of the scenes from chapters 1 through 4 are common for all routes, and there is a couple of individual scenes for each route that may show up depending on the player's choices.
The routes are: Okita, Heisuke, Saitou, Kazama, Hijikata, Harada, Sannan, Nagakura, Yamazaki, Kaoru, Friends (the route with Sen and Kosuzu). 
==Characters==
Yukimura Chizuru（雪村千鶴）
A First Year Form One (1-1) student and the main character of the setting. A first year and the only female student of Hakuou Academy. With an invitation from childhood friend Toudou, she resolves to enroll in the institution. She lost her parents at an early age and has since been living with Yukimura Koudou, a distant relative. She has a twin brother called Nagumo Kaoru, who lives separately in another family. Their relationship has been estranged.	
Hijikata Toshizou（土方歳三）
The Vice Principal of the Hakuo Academy, the homeroom teacher of Second Year Form One (2-1), who teaches Classic Literature and is also a Disciplinarian Adviser. He acts on behalf of Kondou as an Assistant Principal presiding over most of the school management and is childhood friends with Kondou. In his varsity years, he was Kazama's college classmate, and even now is still at loggerheads with him. Hijikata currently lives alone in a apartment near the school.	
Okita Souji（沖田総司）
A Second Year Form One (2-1) student from the Kendo Club who loves making fun of people. Due to his weak constitution since he was young, he took up kendo to train himself. Another reason was due to guidance from Kondou, whom he looks up to as an elder brother. Adversely, he is sworn enemies with Hijikata, which is why he does not attend his literature classes. His latest obsession is smartphone photography and image editting.	
Saitou Hajime（斎藤　一）
A Second Year Form Two (2-2) student and a member of the Discipline Committee. Has a quiet nature and holds respect for Hijikata. Together with Okita and Toudou, he belongs to the Kendo Club where he is one of the best members who often wins tournaments. After school Saitou is often found in the science laboratory, which serves as the club room of the Discipline Committee, where he often works on tallying up the points lost by each student.	
Toudou Heisuke（藤堂平助）
A Second Year Form One (2-1) student who belongs to the Kendo Club. He is a next-door neighbor of the Yukimuras and grew up with Chizuru as a childhood friend. He is a modern kid who likes games, food and staying up all night. Chizuru often warns him about his lifestyle but nothing has improved so far. Ever since Heisuke learned kendo, he has loved it more than anything.	
Harada Sanosuke（原田左之助）
The Health & Physical Education teacher and the homeroom teacher for First Year Form one (1-1) where Chizuru ends up. Harada's frank personality has won him high popularity among students, and he is also trusted by the teachers, as he counsels Hijikata, who has a lot of hardships, and scolds Nagakura, who wastes his money thoughtlessly. He and Nagakura were groupmates in college, and they are still close friends who currently live in the same apartment.	
Kazama Chikage (風間千景) 
A mysterious Third Year Form Three (3-3) student and the president of the student council. In spite of being a university graduate, he has enrolled in Hakuou Academy. He is a former university groupmate of Hijikata and is not on good terms with him. He makes full use of his authority in the student council, owning most of the property in the student council's room and wears a custom-made uniform. He comes from an established family dealing with tea ceremonies.	
Kyuujyu Amagiri (天霧九寿) 
A Third Year Form Three (3-3) student of the Student Council affiliation, who always appears to tag behind Kazama and is one of his escorts. Although he is mentioned to be a high school student, his age does not define that, but he entered the school alongside Kazama. Amagiri has a calm and collected personality.	
Shiranui Kyou (不知火匡) 
A Third Year Form Three (3-3) student and member of the student council who always appears to tag behind Kazama and is another one of his escorts. Compared to Amagiri, his attitude to Kazama is relatively careless. Although he appears to be a high school student, his age is undefined, but he entered the school alongside Kazama.	
Nagakura Shinpachi（永倉新八）
The Mathematics teacher at Hakuou Academy who is often confused to be a a PE teacher due to his tracksuit attire. He is just as vivacious and boisterous as is his Edo period counterpart. He loves horse racing and drinking and wastes his money thoughtlessly, however, he is still a passionate person who is deeply knowledgeable and cares about his students. He used to go to the same university as Harada, and now the two live in the same apartment.	
Kondou Isami（近藤勇）
The founder, head principal, and Kendo coach of Hakuou Academy. He has an easygoing personality and is kind, thoughtful, and very passionate about the well-being of his students. However, he seems to have a bad habit of training in the halls. Kondou is not very good at management which is why he relies on Hijikata and Sannan. He lives in a deserted dojo as his home.	
Ibuki Ryunosuke（井吹龍之介）
A First Year Form One (1-1) student, the adoptive son of PTA Chairman Serizawa Kamo and classmate of Chizuru who always eats anpan and milk. Due to being cash-strapped, he makes a small earning by being a jack-of-all-trades in school. He has his own shop at the entrance of the rooftop.	
Serizawa Kamo（芹沢鴨）
The Chairman of the PTA at Hakuo Academy. He was one of the financial contributors during the founding of the academy and he is also the adoptive father of Ryunosuke. Kondou owes him but does not have much respect for him. There are various rumors surrounding Serizawa which is why Hijikata and others also do not have a high opinion of him.	
Inoue Genzaburou (井上源三郎) 
Known as President Inoue or otherwise the "Uncle of the School Cafeteria", he is also the school's nutritionist. He has known Kondou for a long time and has helped the school since its establishment.	
Shimada Kai (島田魁) 
The highly trusted school janitor, who does not mind troublesome things and is in nature a very kind-hearted person. He loves foods that are sweet.	
Sannan Keisuke（山南敬助）
A powerful person behind the scenes at Hakuo Academy who also serves as a school doctor and an accountant. He has a calm demeanor and many people rely on him, both teachers and students, but there are also dark rumors surrounding him.	
Yamazaki Susumu（山崎烝）
A Second Year Form Two (2-2) student who works under Sannan in the Health Committee. Seemed previously to be at loggerheads with Ryunosuke but now considers him a younger brother. Yamazaki respects Hijikata for all his hard work.	
Nagumo Kaoru（南雲薫）
A First Year Form Two (1-2) student who is part of the Discipline Committee. He is Chizuru's twin brother who lost his parents when he was young and was taken in by another family. He was forbidden to meet Chizuru, who was entrusted to Koudou, but after he entered middle school, he started secretly going to see her on his own and now he is overly protective of his little sister. Kaoru has a bad habit of writing down the names of people he does not like in his "elimination notebook".	
Suzuka Sen (鈴鹿千) 
A Second Year student at Shimabara Girls' High School. a sister school of Hakuo Academy. Sen is an old friend of Chizuru who is worried about her ever since her enrollment in an all-boys academy. She comes from an established family dealing with tea ceremonies.	
Suzuka Kosuzu (鈴鹿小鈴) 
A First Year student of Shimabara Girls' High and Sen's foster sister who has lived with the Suzuka family since a young age after having been picked up by them.	
==Trivia==
*There is a Live Action based on this game.
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