Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shōjo
| Sharin no Kuni: The Girl Among the Sunflowers | |
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Japanese cover art
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| Developer(s) | Akabeisoft2 |
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| Distributor(s) | Limited Run Games (PS Vita) |
| Artist(s) | Alpha |
| Writer(s) | Loose Boy |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita |
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Microsoft Windows
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| Genre(s) | Visual novel |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Publication | Score |
| Famitsu | 32/40 |
Sharin no Kuni: The Girl Among the Sunflowers is a visual novel video game, developed by Akabeisoft2 for Microsoft Windows in November 2005 in Japan; it was later released by 5pb. for Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 in Japan, and is planned for release in the West by Front Wing in 2017 for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Vita. The player takes the role of Kenichi Morita, a young man who has been training for seven years to become a "Special High Class Individual" – an elite class of people possessing complete legal authority – and travels to a farming town to rehabilitate three students and prepare them to re-enter society.
The game was written by Loose Boy, with character art by Alpha. They also created the fan disc Sharin no Kuni, Yūkyū no Shōnenshōjo (2007), and a manga adaptation by Usami Wataru was published from 2008 to 2011.
Sharin no Kuni is a visual novel set in an isolated farming town in an unnamed country, referred to as the "wheel country", and was prior to the events of the story the origin of a civil uprising, which was suppressed by the government. Although nominally democratic, all aspects of society in this country are influenced by an elite stratum of people known as "Special High Class Individuals" (SHCI). These individuals possess complete legal authority, using this to confer "obligations" – rules which if disobeyed result in confinement in a forced-labor camp – upon those whose actions are deemed detrimental to society. The wheel country borders the poverty-stricken and war-torn "southern country", whose inhabitants often are discriminated against in the north.
The player takes the role of Kenichi Morita, a young man who has been training for the past seven years to become an SHCI. For his final examination, he has been dispatched to the same town in which he lived as a child, with the objective to pose as a student in the town's school and rehabilitate three students who possess "obligations" to prepare them to re-enter society.
The game was developed by Akabeisoft2 and written by Loose Boy, and features character art by Alpha. Akabeisoft2 originally released the game for Microsoft Windows on November 25, 2005 in Japan, and it was later released by 5pb. for other systems: Xbox 360 on October 28, 2010,PlayStation Portable on February 23, 2012, and PlayStation 3 on February 28, 2013. A Western release is planned for August 2017 on Microsoft Windows and later in 2017 on PlayStation Vita, by the video game developer Front Wing; they will also make a patch available for the Microsoft Windows version that adds "18+" content to the game. The PlayStation Vita version will be distributed physically by Limited Run Games and digitally through the PlayStation Store.
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