Enzai

Enzai
Cover art for the American Release
冤罪
Genre	Historical fiction, Psychological, Romance, Eroge
Game
Developer	Langmaor
Publisher	JP: Langmaor NA: JAST USA
Genre	Visual novel
Platform	PC
Released	JP: September 13, 2002 NA: January 25, 2006
Original video animation
Directed by	Toshiyuki Sakurai Kinomi Noguchi
Produced by	Koichi Murakami Okabo Doji
Written by	Hikaru Takeuchi
Studio	Adonis Japan Home Video
Released	April 23, 2004 – October 22, 2004
Runtime	30 minutes per episode
Episodes	2

Enzai (冤罪^?, lit. "False charge") is a yaoi game made by the Japanese software house Langmaor, which was later translated to English under the title Enzai – Falsely Accused. It was the first yaoi game released commercially in the United States. The game is also the first that Langmaor developed.

The story is set in post-revolutionary France in early 19th-century. Although the specific date is never given, Napoleon Bonaparte is still in power. One character remarks that it is several years before the 20th anniversary of the French Revolution, placing the game's events in the years before 1809.

The protagonist is Guys, a young boy from a poor family, who gets caught stealing candy from a Paris store. However, after being railroaded by a city detective named Guildias, Guys finds himself accused, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a man he never met.

From that point on, most of Enzai takes place inside a dark, claustrophobic, dirty prison. In there, Guys experiences humiliation and torture of various kinds, much of it involving nonconsensual sexual acts.

The primary goal of the game is for the player (as Guys) to locate evidence and witnesses that can exonerate him of the murder, unveil the true killer, and get him released from prison. Secondary goals include learning the killer's true motives, finding out the backstory of the murder, keeping Guys both physically and psychologically healthy, and forming a romantic bond with other male NPCs in the prison.