Well to be fair, they have a way better chance than Masa…
You must hate 4chan…
Yeah, playing a female ronin, I definitely felt like Hatch had a type. Like in book 2 with the comparison of the ronin and Momoko. I had high hopes my ronin could be the exception, but alas. 
And with Hatch falling for Kuniko, I felt like that was all but confirmed.
I guess I just really liked the whole allure of Hatch being the complete opposite of Jun? (who, btw, is number 1 on my RO list, haha) You know: warm, gentle, thoughtful, like? Sign me the eff up please? I really wanted a pure and wholesome romance with Hatch for my ronin. (or, you know, as ‘pure’ as it gets with a perverted ronin, lol) Full of fluff, funny, light-hearted moments; with the ronin discovering for the first time what it’s like to experience a full fledged romance. (not to mention, I’m a sucker for a best friends to lovers trope) A romanced Hatch acting like a love-struck school boy around our MC, a̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶v̶e̶r̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶M̶C̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶w̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶H̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶’̶r̶o̶p̶e̶s̶’ 
Hatch being an overprotective boyfriend, Hatch-like marriage proposals, the works. Can you imagine? An epilogue I thought up for them since book 2 is where they move into a new and improved Ken Raijingu-Ryū dojo together, and have tons of little Hatch’s and MC’s running around their dojo. Ahhh my heart. 
Ah, that’s so true! I definitely felt a little sad/frustrated beforehand at the lack of Hatch (romance-wise) options since book 2 but your post definitely helped me to have a better understanding as to why that could be. Book 3 definitely made that abundantly clear as well, lol. (waterfall scene, I’m looking at you 
) Also, as @Flaine1996 stated before, about RO’s being attracted to the MC like flies, and Hatch being immune…it definitely makes sense.You can’t win them all, unfortunately. 
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I was hoping for a hatch romance actually XD was pretty sure we would get it but yeah ever since that kuniko came it got crushed… painfully hatch was my go to romance actually if i wanted someone without the baggage and angst… but i guess ronin wasn’t built for happiness :’(
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I keep getting the slave ending with the fox anything to know about the endings?. Is ige really going to die no matter what the choices are?
err as far as i remember the slave ending happens no matter what? cuz i had 100 attunement and 100 deduction and observation and still get it and unfortunately yes 
no matter what you do ige is dead… sorry…
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Poor Ige, although I have to say the kid got scary when he started to go full bloodlust (if you teach him how to kill instead of how to live)
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Holy shit seriously? never got around to doing that seeing as my ronins the protective type but goddamn ige… wtf… still cool to know though
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Yeah it’s brutal and sad an insight into how Ronin’s sensei trained them. How to create monsters.
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Yep. I felt it was for the best though, and that teaching him how to defend himself and fight back would pay off. But it didn’t prevent his death, if anything, That probably made his death the more upsetting… 
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I kinda like to keep Ige innocent for that reason but I thought it was more insight into our ronin and how they can’t seem to help be just like their sensei no matter how hard they try not to be. I also felt it was a good display of how even the most sweetest and innocent people can become cold blooded killers with the right conditioning.
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It was heartbreaking when he die when you teach him how to live as well. It was crushing for my protective Ronin.
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Well, I finally got around to finishing this. I think I got through the first like 20 or so chapters by the second day of release and then I just stopped. I don’t think I wanted to end and I was really worried about how it would end.
And damn you never seem to disappoint.
`I’m glad we’re finally of that damn island. And the scenes we got of interacting with our companions were great, especially with Masami. can we please get to spend time with Masami teaching us to read and write and like for real no ulterior motives I just want to spend time with her. And on that note please don’t separate us for too long please I’m begging you. Hatch’s whole ark was pretty good. Toshie is well still Toshie. Momoko I will get Junko for what she did. Uh, who else is there? Poor Ige he just wanted to help. Nishi is a cool addition to the team. So is samurai lady (forget her name sorry)
I didn’t mind a bit of a sad ending it isn’t the end of the series. I’m more upset that I have to wait another year for the next one😭. Dam I am too invested in this series. Well done @MultipleChoice well done. You better let the last book have a happy ending where we can live a happy life with Masami and the rest of the gang. And I don’t want any bitter-sweet crap, I want a real unrealistic happy ending you hear me. It’s the least you can do after dragging us onto this roller-coaster. But now I’m just getting emotional do what you want you’re the genius behind this. But idk maybe try and not break my heart, please?
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I felt extra bad for having hit him at the Kabuki theater back in book 2 and then him reminding the ronin of Masashi
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(Sorry, I deleted my first post cause I realized I hadn’t checked whether there were any major spoilers. My bad! Let’s hope I manage those damn spoiler tags on my phone.)
Man, discussions about who does and doesn’t ‘deserve’ redemption always habe a tendency to get so heated. (I’m side-eying tumblr here.)
As far as I’m concerned, I’d like there to be an option to maybe help Junko get herself away from the bloodlust and the damn demon technice stuff. Will she accept or even want help? Sure as hell not in the state she’s in. Am I gonna try anyway? Yep.
I don’t think she is entirely lost - I think a spark of the person Junko has to have been once is still in there, but I’m only going off that small moment in Book 1 (or was it 2?) where her eyes return to being brown for a split-second as a response to something the MC said.
As for whether she even deserves redemption: I don’t care. I like her as a character, her relationship and fixation on the MC is interesting as hell, and I like myself the murderous type in fiction.
Everyone is welcome to think differently and I definitely do not want to start up that argument again. Kill her or don’t, I would personally like the option to help her. Whether that involves love or a couple knocks upside the head we’ll see.
Now, on the topic of Kohaku: Am I the only one who really really didn’t feel much of anything for her besides a bit of annoyance? First she was a bit of a dick, then suddenly she starts trying to marry my MC. I simply feel like I haven’t known her long enough and like she wasn’t an interesting enough character personality-wise for me to be invested enough to want to romance her. (Which I almost think was intentional. I don’t think she’s supposed to be an RO, mostly because her view of MC was incredibly skewered and the way I saw it, as soon as MC got back some of their old self and went off the rails at the end of Book 3, Kohaku pretty much wrote them off. Ignored them, at least.)
And last but not least: Yes I am still firmly hoping/praying for Masami as an RO. She’s already got a crush on the MC like hell (which makes me all squishy and squeely inside) and even though it’s still arguable just what age she is, she doesn’t seem to be so young as to be regarded as a child. (MC does, but they also mention that thinking of Masa as ‘the kid’ is intentional to preserve the relationship they have. Which, to me, means the capability to see her as a woman is there.)
Regardless, I don’t care one way or the other. I am absolutely fine with them dancing around each other and the MC being oblivious to Masa’s crush until after a lengthy timeskip.
And speaking of timeskips, there’s gotta be one after Book 3. At least that seems inevitable to me. Now that might give the MC a chance to reevaluate how they see Masami if a couple months or even a year passes until they see each other again - or at least that would make sense to me from a story perspective.
And yes, y’all will have to pry the hope that Masa will be an RO someday in the future from my cold dead hands. I can’t help it, my MC is so damn protective. She’d burn down the entire country and then some if it meant keeping Masami safe. (In fact, I believe MC mentions just that somewhere on Book 3.)
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Gotta agree with you on all that Masami stuff and yes our Ronin does say that. I’ve been saying from the start that there’s no way Masami is as young as our Ronin suggests and this book gave us a few hints towards that being the case especially during the scene where she tries teaching us.
I’d like there to be a an option to save junko too but I just don’t really see that happening. My Ronin did say that everyone deserves a second chance so I feel like we should try.
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A lengthy time skip is probably off the table seeing how we basically have a time limit of one year from the day that Satsuma gets married. As for Masami being a RO, that’s a big iffy right there because of her age being around 13-14 at the most from the descriptions given so far in the series. I don’t think a late 20s-early 30s ronin romancing a 14 years old would go over well with Google, Apple and Steam play stores.
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When I say ‘lengthy timeskip’, I mean I’d be fine if any explicit (as in, calling it what it is) romance between MC and Masami was an epilogue sort of thing.
If Masami really is 13 or 14, though I don’t think the story really hints at such a specific age (mostly cause the signals can be rather mixed there, although it might also seem different depending on whether it’s Masami or Masashi - plus I’m not actually disagreeing with that estimate), I’m not saying I want explicit romance the likes of which we have with Tosh. No ‘happy ending’ needed.
A romantic arc for me doesn’t just mean the actual romantic interactions. It’s also about growing closer and such and as far as I’m concerned, my Ronin’s been ‘romancing’ Masami from the start. (Or perhaps it’s more the other way around.) I think that’s why I like to view it as a build-up to something possibly romantic - if it is, it’s a loong slow-burn and that’s my thing.
Point is, even if their relationship stays exactly the same all through the game (aka never going beyond Masa crushing hard and MC being oblivious), I’d be fine with it. There are lots of hints to fuel a future possibility, even if it’s never explored.
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“Well, you are a girl, after all. It’s a nice smell.”
I could tell by the harumph that I’d made a mistake. I didn’t think too hard on it, because I knew Masami would be happy to explain.
“The term ‘young woman’ is more accurate."
“How come Momoko gets to be the older sister and not me? Don’t tell me I’m too old!”
I chuckled because I wasn’t being serious. But I did feel left out and a little jealous—why didn’t Masami ever confide in me? Sure, Momoko was more girly and I didn’t exactly carry shampoo around, but I could be sensitive. Just not very often.
“Age has naught to do with it!” Masami went from a shout to a whisper. “And this talk of being old is a poor delusion. So I forbid that as well.”
Yeah I’m thinking she’s older than you people are assuming.
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Better blur some parts there just to be safe. I know it’s already more than a week but some people haven’t play it yet.