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Hoshiuta (ほしうた
?, lit."star song") is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Front Wing which was
released on December 26, 2008 playable on the PC as a DVD.
Hoshiuta is Front Wing's twenty-first title and the
third title of Uta series along with their previous titles
Yukiuta and Sorauta.
A manga adaptation
illustrated by Fumio began
serialization in the May 2009 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Comp Ace magazine.
A spin-off sequel to the visual novel entitled
Hoshiuta: Starlight Serenade was released
on December 25, 2009.
Setting
Hoshiuta is set in the fictional town Mihoshi (美星
?, lit."beautiful star") in Shizuoka
Prefecture, Japan. The town is in a quiet, rural area on the
west of the Izu
Peninsula and borders the Suruga Bay. There is a high school named
Mihoshi Academy (美星学園, Mihoshi
Gakuen
?) in the town. The protagonist Kazuhiko
Suoh and his friends are students of the school.
Characters
Main
characters
- Kazuhiko Suoh (周防 和彦, Suō
Kazuhiko
?)
- Kazuhiko is a second-year male student of Mihoshi Academy and
is the protagonist of the story. He was left an orphan in his
childhood, and was adopted by an old woman named Hina Suoh.
The girls of
Hoshiuta (from left to right): Kurara, Renge,
Midori, Yui, and Nanano.
- Yui Kuroda (黒田 結衣, Kuroda
Yui
?)
- Voiced by:Ayaka Kimura
- Yui is a second-year female student. She is Kazuhiko's
childhood friend and his classmate. She and her parents moved from
Tokyo to Mihoshi nine years ago. She has an positive personality,
but she is not good at studying and cooking. Her parents run a
Japanese-style hotel named Kuroda Ryokan. Kazuhiko and Yui work
together at Kuroda Ryokan.
- Nanano Suoh (周防 ななの, Suō
Nanano
?)
- Voiced by:Tomoe Tamiyasu
- Nanano is Kazuhiko's younger sister-in-law and a first-year student.
She is Hina Suoh's granddaughter. Her parents died in her childhood
the same as Kazuhiko's parents. She has an innocent personality and
loves Kazuhiko very much.
- Kurara Amamiya (雨宮 くらら, Amamiya
Kurara
?)
- Voiced by:Kaname Yuzuki
- Kurara is a second-year female student. Her father Masaki
Amamiya (雨宮 雅樹, Amamiya
Masaki
?) is the president of Amamiya Zaibatsu which is one of the
largest companys in Japan, but she does not boast of that. She
moved from Tokyo to Mihoshi before the summer vacation begins, and
became a classmate of Kazuhiko and Yui. She is good at cooking and
painting pictures.
- Midori Kinoshita (木ノ下 翠, Kinoshita
Midori
?)
- Voiced by:Yukari Aoyama
- Midori is a third-year female student and good friend of
Kazuhiko, Yui, and Nanano. She has used a wheelchair since four years ago when she
lost the use of her left leg in a traffic accident. She and her
friends call her wheelchair "Hayate" (ハヤテ号, Hayate-gō
?, lit"gale"). She is very spirited and
good at swimming.
- Renge Yamabuki (山吹 れんげ, Yamabuki
Renge
?)
- Voiced by:Karen Aozora
- Renge is a mysterious girl living in a Western-style house
built nearby the sea. Kazuhiko met her in his way to the school on
a morning. She likes playing tricks and often fibs. Unlike other
main characters, she is not Mihoshi Academy's student.
Supporting
characters
- Yousuke Kasai (笠井 洋介, Kasai
Yōsuke
?)
- Voiced by:Mikado Sumeragi
- Yousuke is a second-year male student and a classmate of
Kazuhiko. Kazuhiko and Yousuke became friends after they had
entered Mihoshi Academy. He is not good at studying.
- Arisa Houjou (北条 亜里砂, Hōjō
Arisa
?)
- Voiced by:Rina Misaki
- Arisa is a second-year female student and a classmate of
Kazuhiko. She moved from Tokyo to Mihoshi last year. Her father
Tetsuo Houjou (北条 哲夫, Hōjō
Tetsuo
?) manages a large company named Houjou
Group, and she is proud of that. She is smart and good at
studying.
- Koume Hirose (広瀬 小梅, Hirose
Koume
?)
- Voiced by:Hazuki Sakura
- Koume is a maid working under
Amamiya family. She has looked after Kurara since about ten years
ago.
- Kayo Kuroda (黒田 香代, Kuroda
Kayo
?)
- Voiced by:Kū Iida
- Kayo is Yui's mother and the landlady of Kuroda Ryokan.
- Hina Suoh (周防 ヒナ, Suō
Hina
?)
- Voiced by:Eiko Matsu
- Hina is Nanano's grandmother and Kazuhiko's grandmother-in-law.
She took charge of Kazuhiko and Nanano and brought them up, but she
passed away at age seventy-two last year. She worked at Kuroda
Ryokan as a waitress during her lifetime.
- Seiko Morishita (森下 聖子, Morishita
Seiko
?)
- Voiced by:Ayumu Kawase
- Seiko is a young female teacher working at Mihoshi Academy. She
is in charge of Japanese history
lessons and is the homeroom teacher of Kazuhiko's class.
- Kamejirou (カメ次郎,
Kamejirō
?)
- Voiced by:Kanade Amano
- Kamejirou is a turtle
which Kazuhiko and Nanano have as their pet. Kame means
"turtle" in Japanese, and Jirou is one of Japanese male
names. Nanano likes Kamejirou very much.
- Yurika Amamiya (雨宮 百合香, Amamiya
Yurika
?)
- Voiced by:Izumi Maki
- Yurika is Kurara's mother and Masaki Amamiya's former wife. She
died of an illness about ten years ago. She was very kind to
Kurara.
- Tamaki Amamiya (雨宮 環, Amamiya
Tamaki
?)
- Voiced by:Kanai Nirai
- Tamaki is Kurara's stepmother and Masaki Amamiya's present
wife. She used to be an able secretary to Masaki. She married
Masaki after Yurika had died. She is not kind to Kurara.
- Teppei Kinoshita (木ノ下 鉄平, Kinoshita
Teppei
?)
- Voiced by:Ajisai
- Teppei is Midori's father and a fisherman. He dotes upon his
daughter. His wife died of an illness when Midori was a child.
- Kaori Mutou (武藤 カオリ, Mutō
Kaori
?)
- Voiced by:Mirin Yamada
- Mutou is a housekeeper living with Renge. She is very kind and
thinks as if Renge were her daughter.
- Kyousuke Kashimura (柏村 恭介, Kashimura
Kyōsuke
?)
- Voiced by:Jimudaisya
- Kashimura is Renge's father. He divorced Renge's mother when
Renge was a child.
Development
Direction and planning for Hoshiuta and Hoshiuta:
Starlight Serenade was done by Ryūichirō Yamakawa. Characters
were designed by Fumio. Scenario
was written by Noboru Yamaguchi, Takeyuki
Kuzumi, and Katsuya. Music in the game was composed by Elements
Garden.[1]
Music and
audio CDs
Hoshiuta's opening theme is "Missing Person" (尋ねビト, Tazunebito
?) sung by Lia, the insert song is "Cradle Song"
(揺籃歌-ヨウランカ-,
Yōranka
?) by Kaori Ōmura, and the ending theme
is "At the End of Summer" (夏の終わりに, Natsu no
Owari ni
?) by Hiromi Satō. Before the game's release, a
maxi-single "Tazunebito" was released by Front Wing on November 28,
2008 and contained "Missing Person" and "Cradle Song".[2]
Hoshiuta: Starlight Serenade's opening theme is
"Stardust Bonds" (星屑のキズナ, Hoshikuzu
no Kizuna
?) by Lia, and the ending theme is
"Twilight Sky" (たそがれ空,
Tasogare-zora
?) by Chata. Before the game's release, a maxi-single
"Hoshikuzu no Kizuna" was released by Front Wing on October 2, 2009
and contained "Stardust Bonds" and "Twilight Sky".[3]
Music of the five songs was composed by Hitoshi Fujima, who is a
member of Elements Garden.
Hoshiuta's original soundtrack was released by Front
Wing on January 30, 2009 and contained twenty-seven tracks.[4]
Manga
Hoshiuta was adapted into a manga series drawn by Japanese illustrator Fumio. The manga began its
serialization in the manga magazine Comp Ace's May 2009 issue, first
published on March 26, 2009 by Kadokawa Shoten.[5]
Book
An art book entitled
Fumio ArtWorks Hoshiuta was released on Comiket 76 held in August 2009.[6]
References
- ^
http://frontwing.jp/product/hoshiuta/spec.html(Japanese)
- ^
http://frontwing.jp/product/hoshiuta/optheme.html(Japanese)
- ^
http://frontwing.jp/product/hoshiutass/special_opcd.html(Japanese)
- ^
http://frontwing.jp/product/hoshiuta/soundtrack.html(Japanese)
- ^
http://www.comptiq.com/ace/index.php?%CB%DC%BB%EF%2F2009%C7%AF%2FVOL.37(Japanese)
- ^
http://frontwing.jp/event_c76_vfb.html(Japanese)
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