Menherafflesia

* Overview
* Endings

**Menherafflesia** (メンヘラフレシア *Menherafureshia*) is a psychological thriller game created by Charon. It has a spiritual successor called Dice Psycho.

## Summary

"Open your eyes. You can see the beautiful sky, right?"

As you spend your monotonic days, you unknowingly get lost in a poisonous flower garden. Let's make the colorful flowers bloom here now...

## Plot

This story focuses on different moments in the life of a boy named Itarou. He meets five girls and tries to make their dreams come true.

### Ayume Daffodil

Itarou goes to his favorite bar when he suddenly meets Ayume, who is a famous actress as well as a regular at the bar. Surprisingly, she takes an interest in him and they begin seeing each other. What are her intentions...?

### Matsuri Jasmine

Itarou talks with his friend Yukimaru about having a thing for energetic girls. His cheerful classmate Matsuri overhears this and decides to change herself to better appeal to him. However, as the days pass, it is hinted that Matsuri is not the bright and lively girl she seems to be...

### Mihomi Hydrangea

Itarou is walking home alone when he encounters Mihomi, whom he considers an annoying stalker and who acts like his "little sister." She confesses her feelings for him and he accepts. As Itarou begins learning more about her, he realizes that she has problems at home...

### Moeko Ivy

Itarou works at a factory alongside his gloomy coworker Moeko. She asks him out on a date, but he rejects her due to thinking that she is too plain and awkward. However, on the way home, he meets a beautiful girl in a gothic lolita dress named Kurara, who he falls in love with. This girl turns out to be Moeko in disguise, and she becomes conflicted about Itarou loving her disguised self but hating her real self...

### Nenene Anemone

Itarou meets Nenene, a rich woman who had just lost her ring. While searching for her ring, he becomes entranced by her elegant demeanor as Nenene treats him as thanks for finding her ring. However, he believes he is not suited for her due to being poor as well as her being in an arranged marriage. Will she follow her heart...?

## Trivia

* The game's title is a portmanteau of the words "menhera" (a Japanese slang term for the mentally ill) and "rafflesia" (a type of flower).
* The character Yukimaru from Mikoto Nikki appears as Itarou's best friend; similarly, Misato (the girl from the epilogue) is the protagonist of another game by Charon, Paranoia.
* Similar to the character Honoka in Yanderella, Ayume castrates Itarou before breaking the fourth wall about their situation.
* There are three spinoff games based on characters from Menherafflesia: Mihomi Dream, Nenene Noble, and Matsuri Messiah.

## Endings - Ayume Daffodil

Ayume suddenly stops coming to the bar, which leaves Itarou disheartened. Days later, he finds her in the streets, looking like she had been crying. Comforting her, he takes her to a hotel where, while Ayume is in the bathroom, he has the opportunity to peek inside of her bag...

#### Bad End - The Daffodil Stained With Fresh Blood

If Itarou looks inside her bag, he finds a bloody knife inside. Ayume then appears behind him, revealing that she is a murderer. She then kiils Itarou to keep her secret, all the while mocking him for being "just a kid." She then states that they could've had some "adult fun" if he hadn't found her out.

#### Happy End - Flower of Conceit

If Itarou doesn't look inside her bag, Ayume leaves the bathroom and the two proceed to have their "adult fun." While they are doing this, Ayume suddenly begins tying Itarou to the bed. She then pulls out a scalpel and starts cutting him up, revealing that she is a murderer who kills people for pleasure. As Itarou screams for her to stop, she states that it's his own fault for only being attracted to her beauty without knowing anything else about her.

After the credits, the game cuts to a flashback of Ayume's past. She used to be an average girl with average parents who lived an average life. One day after school, however, she came home to find her entire family had been murdered. Since then, she has taken pleasure in killing others, specifically men.

## Endings - Matsuri Jasmine

One day, Matsuri suddenly shows up at Itarou's house and admits her love for him. She also confesses that she has been watching over him, to the point of listening to him while he masturbated. Itarou is then forced to either accept or reject her feelings...

#### Bad End - A Terribly Cruel and Irrational World

Itarou decides to reject Matsuri's confession. Snapping from this rejection, she begins mutilating herself as she cries that he doesn't feel the same way. As she fantasizes that Itarou is doing it to her, she continues until she eventually dies of blood loss. Itarou then mourns over Matsuri's dead body, realizing that he never really knew her.

#### Happy End - A Thing Without Form

Itarou decides to accept Matsuri's confession and she kisses him in joy/excitement. She then asks him to hug her, before revealing that she is not the energetic girl he thought she was, but instead is full of self-deprecating and suicidal thoughts. Matsuri asks Itarou to kill her, as she believes the greatest form of happiness is "to be broken by the one you love." Itarou agrees and begins choking her to death, with Matsuri dying with a genuine smile on her face.

After the credits, the game cuts to a flashback of Matsuri's past. Having had suicidal thoughts for a long time, she had patiently waited for the right person to "break" her. She also admits her hatred of being called "lively" and how it bothers her when she is praised for it. As she begins to fade out, she thanks Itarou for granting her wish.

## Endings - Mihomi Hydrangea

Mihomi starts becoming more possessive and jealous, to the point of murdering Itarou's best friend, Yukimaru. One night, after having a nightmare of her stepfather abusing her for being the child of her mother's previous marriage, she completely snaps. The next day, Itarou wakes to find that Mihomi had prepared breakfast for him and left a farewell message. Having a bad feeling about this, he rushes out to find her; after struggling to find her, he considers whether he should give up or keep searching...

#### Bad End - Showtime

Itarou decides to give up on his search, returning home to find another note from Mihomi. She admits that she killed Yukimaru out of jealousy and that she promises he won't see her again. At night, he hears more of the strange whispering that has occurred since he started dating Mihomi; it is then revealed that this was Mihomi, who would stand outside and say that Itarou has nobody in the world but her and that all he needs is her. Laughing maniacally, she then lights his home on fire and burning him to death.

#### Happy End - A Rainy Day Event

Itarou decides to continue searching for Mihomi, finding her standing alone on a bridge. She tells him that she wants to die, stating that she knows that Itarou knew about her abuse at home and yet did nothing to help her. She then jumps off the bridge; as Itarou looks on in shock, he feels someone push him off the bridge as well. He then spends his last moments reaching out to Mihomi's corpse.

After the credits, the game cuts to a flashback of Mihomi's past. She hated returning home as she was scared of facing her father's abuse; because of this, she often stood on the bridge and contemplated jumping from it. Noticing her there, a younger Itarou had held her hand and took her away from there. From then on, Mihomi had been in love with him.

## Endings - Moeko Ivy

Moeko slowly becomes more and more conflicted about her identity, with Itarou hating her but loving her alter-ego Kurara. One day, she decides to confess to her, with Itarou deciding whether or not to accept her confession.

#### Bad End - Moeko and Itarou's Lovey-Dovey 365 Days

Itarou rejects Moeko, causing her to snap as she realizes that he only loved her alter-ego. She then pulls out a diary and reveals that she has been in love with Itarou for a long time, writing delusions about dating and later marrying him in said diary. Itarou then pushes her away in disgust and returns home; later that night, he admits that he can't sleep due to feeling a strange presence around him, but refuses to open his eyes to look at it. Days after this, Itarou and Moeko's coworkers talk about how the two had committed a double suicide by hanging themselves. In reality, however, Moeko (disguised as Kurara) entered Itarou's house and murdered him, killing herself immediately afterwards.

#### Happy End - The Birth of a Savior

Itarou accepts Moeko's confession, with her happily changing back into her outfit as "Kurara." She then tells Itarou that she is on a mission to save the world and that they must jump out the window in order to do this. The two then hold hands as they jump out the window.

After the credits, the game cuts to a scene of Moeko reminiscing on her life. She thanks Itarou for being there for her, happily stating that they completed their mission. It is then implied that they jumped from the window to their deaths.

## Endings - Nenene Anemone

Nenene is forced to stop visiting Itarou due to her arranged marriage. However, days later, she visits him one last time and desperately begs him to elope with her so she can escape her controlling father's reach.

#### Bad End - Awakening

Itarou decides to elope with Nenene, with her deciding to embrace him. Nenene then confesses that she murdered the upperclassman who had assaulted Itarou in the past; at first she did it for his sake, but eventually realized that she truly enjoyed murder. Admitting that she has now become addicted to killing, she stabs Itarou in the back.

#### Happy End - Anemone

Itarou decides to refuse Nenene's plea and not elope with her. Nenene then talks about how she felt resigned to her fate after her mother passed away, with Itarou's presence bringing her the joy and hope that she lacked. She then bids him farewell and shoots herself in the head, killing herself.

After the credits, the game cuts to a flashback of Nenene's past. She talks with her mother about anemones and how she hopes that they will continue to stay together forever. Returning to the present, Nenene is bleeding to death from the gunshot. She cries as she thinks about how she will be joining her mother soon.

## "Flowerbed"

#### True End - The Rafflesia of This Mortal Life

The player receives this ending by putting in the password "kazenooto" (*sound of the wind*) in the main menu.

Itarou wakes up in a field of flowers and is greeted by a mysterious girl who calls herself Misato. She tells him that he planted the flowers, with each one representing one of the girls he met. She continues by saying that even if the world is a cruel and horrible place, we must appreticate the good things in life, plant our roots in the ground, and grow into "beautiful yet imperfect flowers."

Ayume, Matsuri, Mihomi, Moeko, and Nenene are then shown lying in the field of flowers, smiling and holding hands.