Wonderful Everyday
Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel video game developed by KeroQ. It was released for Microsoft Windows in 2010 in Japan by KeroQ, and in 2017 internationally by Frontwing. It is KeroQ's fourth game after "Tsui no Sora", "Nijūei" and "Moekan"; it shares many characters and plot elements with "Tsui no Sora". Gameplay. The game requires minimal interaction from the player, as the duration of the game is spent on reading the text that appears onscreen; this text represents either dialogue between the various characters, narration, or the inner thoughts of the protagonist. A number of choices  exist, some of which determine the plot branch on which a story continues. Viewing all the branches is necessary to proceed to the next story. The game generally follows adventure game conventions, with the text appearing at the bottom of the screen, but segments exist where it is overlaid on the entire screen. Plot. "Subarashiki Hibi" contains six stories, the titles of which are taken from chapters in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass". Most of the stories take place in the fictional Suginomiya neighborhood of Tokyo and recount the month of July 2012 from different  perspectives. Intertextual references. Wonderful Everyday contains many intertextual references to a variety of philosophical and literary works: including "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand, "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse, "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott Abbott, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa. Besides that, characters sometimes directly refer to many prominent philosophers and their works, such as Leibniz, Alan Musgrave, Nicholas Cusanus, Goethe and many others. Development. SCA-DI was the producer, planner, and scenario writer for  Subarashiki Hibi. He worked on the character designs and graphics alongside Kagome, Motoyon, Suzuri, and Karory. Renowned mangaka Aka Akasaka, creator of "", contributed to the backgrounds assets. Prior to the release of "Subarashiki Hibi", a demo of the game was made available on the official website on January 30, 2010. "Subarashiki Hibi" was originally planned to be released on February 26, 2010 but a release was announced on December 26, 2009, pushing the release date one month back to March 26, 2010. The opening song of "Subarashiki Hibi", , was performed by Hana, who also performed the ending songs and . Monet  performed the other ending songs: , , and . The lyrics for all of the songs were written by SCA-DI. The music was composed by Matsumoto Fuminori under the alias "skaz", ryo from Supercell, Pixelbee, and H.B Studio. Matsumoto was also in charge of composing the opening song and the ending songs "The Final Smile" and "Cursed Life/Blessed Life", while Pixelbee composed the other ending songs. On June 15, 2012, it was made public by TLWiki that a fan translation was in the works. Three years later, it was made public that the translation was complete and it was being edited . The team was later contacted by Frontwing to acquire the translation and release it officially. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, it was released on Steam on August 30, 2017. Due to Valve's prohibition of adult content on the platform and its importance in the narrative of the title, it was decided they would release a censored version of the first chapter on Steam, and a free patch that readers could download to unlock the rest of the content. On July 20, 2018, an updated rerelease suffixed "Full Voice HD Edition" came out in Japanese. This new version added voice  acting for every character, as only one male character was voiced before, and used the higher-resolution assets included in the English release the previous year. It also contained a brand-new short scenario called "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Reception. "Subarashiki Hibi" won the bronze prize in the overall category of the Moe Game Awards 2010, as well as the gold prize in the Scenario category. The game also made a good showing in the 2010 PC game rankings on Getchu.com, a popular online Japanese games shop. It ranked second place overall as well as first place in the  Scenario and Music categories, and 3rd in Graphics. Additionally, Yuki Minakami was voted the 4th best character from games of that year.