White Wings

White Wings is a wintertime love story set at Shoba Senior Middle School in Shizuoka Prefecture, during the final winter before entrance examinations. Its students face the prospect of being separated: some may meet again, while others may never see one another again. The story follows Year 3 Group A student Fujiwara Hiro as he is drawn to two girls, Miyazawa Moe and Fukihara Reika, while they and the other students navigate love, loss, bullying and family troubles.

Hiro and the two girls

Miyazawa Moe transfers to Shoba after taking a year away from school. Pretty, academically accomplished and reserved, she struggles to trust others after being bullied at her previous school. Her parents work in another city and do not understand why she had to transfer. She keeps her loneliness behind a determined, distant exterior, works towards her goal of entering Tokyo University, and finds it difficult to get close to Hiro despite being drawn to him.

Fukihara Reika is outgoing, warm and unconventional. Though she hides the sadness of growing up in a reconstituted family, she cares deeply about her family and attends cram school to please her mother and stepfather, even though she finds it hard to focus on her studies. Reika initially encourages Hiro to give up on girls who do not appreciate him, but when she learns that he loves her friend Moe, she becomes caught in a painful conflict. She ultimately chooses Hiro and struggles with the consequences of their relationship.

Hiro is an athletic but academically unmotivated student who has grown wary of emotional relationships since his parents’ divorce. He lives with his mother and avoids conflict and responsibility, even as he tries to be considerate of others. His only true friend is Tenjin Tatsuhiko. As Hiro’s feelings pull him between Moe and Reika, he has to face a choice he finds difficult to make.

The students around them

The story also includes classmates whose loyalties and feelings shape the tensions at school:

• Ozasa Megumi: A firm, impulsive student who is loyal to Naito Amane and Nakiri Sayori. She dislikes Moe and works to slander and humiliate her after learning about her relationship with Hiro. Since smoking is prohibited at school, Megumi sucks on lollipops and pretends to smoke.
• Naito Amane: Insecure and envious, she allies herself with Megumi and Sayori because she fears being bullied. She falls for Hiro, but later learns that he and Moe share a past others cannot intrude on and gives up her feelings for him.
• Nakiri Sayori: A popular campus beauty and former class leader who likes Tenjin Tatsuhiko but is afraid to confess. Moe’s arrival makes Sayori feel threatened; although she does not act against Moe herself, she has Megumi and Amane cause trouble for her.
• Tenjin Tatsuhiko: Hiro’s only true friend. Sayori has feelings for him.

Presentation and music

The game uses Japanese E-mote animation, with more than 40 animated CGs, and is fully voiced in Japanese. It includes a CG gallery and a music gallery, and supports bilingual subtitles. Chata sings the opening theme, “Pure White,” composed by Meis Clauson with lyrics by Chata. Akira Ouse sings the ending theme, “Guilty Snow,” which she also composed and wrote; Kyo-ya Fujigami arranged it. The BGM is produced by a Japanese production team.