6 Tokimeki Restaurant hotties to choose from! Not difficult to guess who my favourite is XD Actually, it was love at first sight when I first saw him in this mobile game a couple of years back ^^;; I have 3 top favs out of the 6.
Quick intro of what Tokimeki Restaurant is about in case you decide to “invest” in cloth posters (3000 Yen each o_O) for your room lol~
Title: Tokimeki Restaurant ときめきレストラン☆☆☆
Price: FREE
Available: 14 March 2013
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/tokimekiresutoran-tokiresu/id575084792?mt=8
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.konami.tokimekirestaurant
Region-locked for Japan only, so google for ways to get around it :)
Official site: http://www.konami.jp/tokires/
Producer: Konami
Voice: Full-voice only during introduction.
Game objectives: Run your own restaurant, gain new recipes, furniture, CGs, scenarios, etc, by completing quests (seriously endless cooking orz;;), feed the boys and be romanced by them.
The game was first published in 2013. For some reason, I didn’t get round to publishing a review then even though I took all those screen caps. They ended up useless since quite a number of changes to the app has been implemented since then, such as layouts of menus, etc. I guess I’ll leave it to you to give it a try yourself :) In general, most of the functions remain the same.
You play the protagonist 主人公. As in most otome games, your character doesn’t have a face in all the CG artworks. But your chibi version does. Otherwise it’ll be quite inconvenient lol~ The protagonist is recommended by a relative and started working at the restaurant. You stay with the restaurant owner and get to meet the boys since their company has appointed the restaurant as the official caterer. And as all otome games go, all of them have an interest in you after getting to know you. But true to Konami’s otome game tradition, you’re a little dull/insensitive to such things and doesn’t get it most of the time.
To be honest, I didn’t expect to continue playing it till now. The game is VERY repetitive. You pretty much have to cook non-stop in order to complete quests. After the initial excitement dies down (yes, there is a entertaining feature where you get to touch the characters and they respond with sexy moans lol~), the new CGs and scenarios that you can get from new events and missions are the only things keeping me going on now. Which leads to even more mindless cooking orz;;; Why did I fall in love with you Kento!? orz;;; (And Tooru and Kaito… erm… yeah I have a huge capacity for bishie love lol~) Anyway…
Poke me… Here there and everywhere…
Main characters from 2 idol groups are: 3 Majesty and X.I.P
Leaders of the groups were voted by fans before the app was launched.
1) 3 Majesty: The princely-type group.
Kirishima Tsukasa 霧島 司（きりしま つかさ）Voice actor: Namikawa Daisuke 浪川大輔
Megane-kun! He is the “proper” and serious type. Health-conscious too, so he goes for the salads and stuff.
Leader of 3 Majesty.
Birthday: 1 August, Height 185cm, Blood type: A
Otowa Shinnosuke 音羽 慎之介（おとわ しんのすけ）Voice actor: Kishio Daisuke 岸尾だいすけ
The dessert-loving prince but he has a dark side to him haa… Haraguro 腹黒い-type.
Birthday: 18 March (previous setting was 11 March), Height 178cm, Blood type: AB
Tsuji Kaito 辻 魁斗（つじ かいと） Voice actor: Kakihara Tetsuya 柿原徹也
One of my favourite boys. He is CUTE! Hard worker and tries his best :3 Similar type as Kurusu Sho from Uta no Prince-sama
Birthday: 25 November, Height 175cm, Blood type: B
2) X.I.P.: The sexy idol group.
Date Kyouya 伊達 京也（だて きょうや） Voice actor: Toriumi Kousuke 鳥海浩輔
The typical suave and “host”-type guy XD His lines are peppered with English phrases here and there. Best reference template would be Jinguji Ren from Uta no Prince-sama.
Leader of X.I.P.
Birthday: 16 January, Height 183cm, Blood type: A
Fuwa Kento 不破 剣人（ふわ けんと）Voice actor: Hino Satoshi 日野聡
He was love at first sight. My favourite when I started playing the game. Nope, its not just the body ok… he is so MANLY that his favourite food is MEAT. HAHAHAHA. And he gets to fan-service us most often. Look at that face and bod!!! <3 Yeah. Kento is my fav.
Birthday: 26 June, Height 190cm, Blood type: O
Kanzaki Tooru 神崎 透（かんざき とおる） Voice actor: Eguchi Takuya 江口拓也
He is the little-devil 小悪魔 type :) I LOVE him… right after Kento :D Loves spicy food and hates the sweet stuff. Hates to be called chibi (shorty) since he is the shortest of the 6. Teases you a lot.
Birthday: 23 October, Height 170cm (previous setting was 169cm), Blood type: O
More official screen shots of the game. In the beginning intro, the game is full-voiced. After that, you only hear them utter sounds like, ah~, hahaha, erm, oh, and a few short phrases like “da-ka-ra”, etc…
You get new furniture and items to decorate your restaurant with each mission completed.
And interact with the characters when they pop by. The scenarios are repeated once you completed all of them. They add new scenarios periodically.
Hopefully they release full-length hugging pillow of Kento in the future :P (old habits die hard) And now back to more virtual cooking =_=;;
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Hi! I hope it’s okay to ask you about something because I haven’t seen the English speaking fandom comment about this but, do you know about the drama about the illustrator change and whatnot? I somehow stumbled upon the original illustrator Senzaki Makoto’s tweet about another otome game and decided to check out her twitter etc. It seems recently (last month) she posted a tweet about her comeback as Tokires’ illustrator. I knew after Konami handed the game over to Koei Techmo games the CGs have become really crappy. But recenty it doesn’t look so bad but still something is off. And there are times where it looks like the real thing (polaroids). If I’m reading her tweets correctly, she will not be in charge of CGs but instead publicities and polaroids, “今後スチルは担当外なのでパブリシティやポラ等のご提供になる予定です”? I only managed to find one Japanese blog rejoicing over Senzaki’s return as the illustrator but not the back story. It has been a year or so hasn’t it (can’t remember)? And in the end the in game CGs are still done by a tracer? T_T
Ok, so I haven’t visited your site for a while so I apologize for commenting so late. This game is way too complicated/time-consuming for me, I just want the visuals and screencaps of the guys. I’m glad to hear that its not full-voice because now I feel like I’m missing less. But the merch for this series I have been investing a lot of $ in over the past few years since I first saw it, because the charas are gorgeous! I can’t seem to pick a favorite (but I lean towards Kento..) It was quite hard for me to not buy some of these posters, but I couldn’t figure out what I would do with them other than stare and drool.
they’re all so hot but I like the X.I.P guys more I wish they would release this in the west even if we had to pay for it I still would lol. I already play ‘I love coffee’ and ‘I love pasta’ on my phone so the repetitive dishes thing wouldn’t bother me at least if anything this would be better cos at least they’d be sexy bishies to interact with to make it worthwhile XD.