And, worst of all, he mostly gets away with it. He remarks early on that everyone in his class has black hair, before adding “but of course they do!” He wholly buys into the myth that “gaijin” (Japanese for “foreigner”) are considered irresistible by Japanese women, and gets pissed off when the female characters don’t jump on his dick on first sight. This isn’t exactly an unusual turn of events for a dating sim involving a Westerner heading to Japan, but I still felt decidedly uncomfortable about attaching my name to an openly racist and sexist lead character that you know for a fact will end up bedding one of these poor women. And within a few hours, he manages to accidentally grope one girl, spill tea over another, and then find out he’ll be sharing a dorm with both these girls along with another who he keeps referring to as the “perfect Japanese woman”, because she is pretty and slightly subservient. You can name the character after yourself, which is great if you don’t mind role-playing as a creepy otaku who, five minutes after setting foot in Japan, decides he can’t wait to meet cute Asian girls who’ll fall hopelessly in love with him. Tokyo School Life puts you in the shoes of a male American high-school student who, through hard work and diligence, earns a trip to Japan to study at a Japanese high school for two weeks. And the game I regret so much? Tokyo School Life. But only a few hours later, a copy of the game popped up in my inventory. I was half-joking, as I so regularly am, and never expected our own Adam B to go through with it. I asked the world if someone might buy me a game I had just noticed on Steam. My life is filled with these moments, but the one preying on my mind most recently is the result of a tweet I sent out not too long ago. Or it could be something more serious, like dropping a used cigarette butt on the floor after a brief smoke, and suddenly causing a retirement home to blow up with your own parents inside. It could be as harmless as eating a slice of bread that went out-of-date a few days ago, before finding yourself curled up around a toilet bowl for a few hours. There are some things we do in life that don’t entirely work out, but which seem like a really great idea at the time.
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