Tagebuch: Love Plus+: Moonstone's Notes: Hotel Ohnoya

31 May 2016

Moonstone's Notes: Hotel Ohnoya - 2

So I was searching around for information about Hotel Ohnoya and also found some information about the city and its connection with Love Plus.

What I found out from these sources (TechEye, The Week, Mashable, phys.org, HuffPo):

Atami was a popular vacationing spot in the 70s, which explains why Manaka mentioned that her father used to bring her mother there for their honeymoon. It gradually declined in number of visitors which prompted the city to partner up with Love Plus so as to stem the loss of visitors.
Hotel Ohnoya was posted as among the world's least romantic places due to the influence of Love Plus.
Journalists don't bother checking facts before writing: High school in Japan is between the ages of 15 and 18, not the 13 to 15 that they claim the cast are. It doesn't make it much less creepy, but it is still less creepy than they claim it is.

Then again, considering the outlet that posted this patently false fact, TechEye, came out in support of Gawker regarding the Hulk Hogan debacle, I am definitely sure there is a bias towards sensationalism over reporting.
More shame bells for The Week for repeating this shit. 🔔 SHAME SHAME SHAME

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Event Calendar 2016

Italicised dates are special dates that don't have any specific in-game effects, but are added due to cultural or personal significance

1 January:

New Years’ Day – 初詣

11 January:

Coming of Age Day – 成人の日

25 – 30 January:

Volunteer Evaluation – Requires SENSE stat

8 – 9 February:

Lunar New Year (Singapore)

11 February:

National Foundation Day (Japan)

14 February:

Valentine’s Day

15 February:

Total Defence Day (Singapore)

21 – 27 February:

Inter-school Tennis Competition – Requires FIT stat

3 March:

Hinamatsuri – ひな祭り

7 – 12 March:

Term test (1st Quarter) – Requires INT stat

14 March:

White Day

20 March:

Vernal Equinox (scheduled school holiday on 21 March)

27 March – 6 April:

Spring break

28 March – 31 March:

Spring tuition

1 April:

April Fools’ Day

11 – 16 April:

Musical Evaluation – Requires SENSE stat

29 April:

Shōwa Day – 昭和の日

1 May:

Labour Day (Singapore)

3 May:

Constitution Memorial Day – 憲法記念日

4 May:

Greenery Day – みどりの日

5 May:

Children’s Day (Japan) – 子供の日

15 – 20 May:

Term test (Mid-2nd Quarter) – Requires INT stat

13 June:

School pool opening

13 – 18 June:

Art evaluation – Requires CHA stat

27 June – 2 July:

Term test (End 2nd Quarter) – Requires INT stat

3 July:

Youth Day (Singapore)

7 July:

Tanabata – 七夕

12, 14 July:

Sports Festival – Preparation

18 July:

Marine Day – 海の日

19 July – 31 August:

Summer break

17 – 23 July:

Tennis tournament – Requires FIT stat

25 – 29 July:

Summer tuition

1 August:

Start of 2016/2017 term

9 August:

National Day (Singapore)

15 August:

登校日

24 – 28 August:

Summer tuition

2 September:

Teachers' Day (Singapore)

1, 6, 8, 13, 15 September:

Sports Festival – Preparation

18 September:

Sports Festival – Event – Requires FIT stat

19 September:

Respect-for-the-Aged Day – 敬老の日

22 September:

Autumnal Equinox Day

26, 30 September:

Culture Festival – Preparation

█ October:

Moonstone’s Birthday

5 October:

Manaka’s Birthday

7 October:

Children’s Day (Singapore)

?, ?, ?, 12, 16, 26, 30 of October:

Culture Festival – Preparation

12 October:

Health and Sports Day – 体育の日

14 October:

Anniversary – 付き合い始めた日

19 – 24 October:

Term Test (Mid-4th Quarter) – Requires INT stat

24 October:

Kenji’s Birthday

31 October:

Halloween

1 November:

Culture Festival – Requires CHA stat

3 November:

Culture Day – 文化の日

23 November:

Labour Thanksgiving Day – 勤労感謝の日

7 – 12 December:

Term Test (End 4th Quarter) – Requires INT stat

23 December – 6 January:

Winter break

20 – 26 December:

Employee of the Year award – Requires CHA stat

23 December:

Emperor Heisei’s Birthday – 天皇誕生日

24 December:

Christmas Eve – School event at evening

25 December:

Christmas Day

28 – 31 December:

Winter tuition

31 December:

New Year’s Eve – 大晦日

Presents Given

14 October 2016 - Rose Cologne - Success

5 October 2016 - Pink Hairpin - Success

24 April 2016 - Citrus cologne - Success

23 March 2016 - Blue armband - Failure

14 March 2016 - Black-rimmed spectacles - Failure

3 February 2016 - Heart Bear - Success

24 December 2015 - Blue watch - Failure

14 October 2015 - Active Pouch - Success

5 October 2015 - Orange half-framed spectacles - Success

26 June 2015 - Lavender Aroma pack - Success

9 June 2015 - Pink earrings - Success

27 May 2015 - Blue hairpin - Failure

1 May 2015 - Pink bracelet - Success

8 March 2015 - Green Qipao - Failure

16 March 2015 - Sweet Bear - Success

14 March 2015 - Rose cologne - Success

1 February 2015 - Feminine top - Success

24 December 2014 - Pink watch - Success

17 November 2014 - Lace cut-sew - Success

Success rating: 11/17 - 64.7%

Characters

Kojima Kenji (小島健二):

A second-year transfer student. He arrives in Towano City and joins the tennis club, volunteers in the library and works in a family restaurant. While intelligent and articulate, he is impulsive and slightly rebellious. He is a clumsy person, as shown by the times he either broke items during his part-time job, crashed into people or slipped and fell. He is a bit forceful and physical in his actions. Kenji’s preferred greeting method is with a karate chop, which usually earns him a comment of “What are you, a grade schooler?”, mostly from Kobayakawa, a fellow library committee member. His girlfriend is Takane Manaka. His birthday is on 24 October.

Takane Manaka (高嶺愛花):

Kenji's girlfriend. A second-year student, like Kenji, she is the school's tennis ace. She is the only child in her family. A high achiever, she is good at academics, tennis, and piano. Her formal attitude, privileged background and perfectionism create distance between she and her classmates. Her nickname is 高嶺の花 (lit. flower on a high peak, meaning an unobtainable goal), a pun on her name. Her birthday is on 5 October.

Moonstone:

Author of this blog and Kenji's wingman. His name is classified; this is just his callsign. Older than Kenji, he was assigned due to their similarities in personality, though communication problems do exist due to his relatively poor command of Japanese (he is working on it though). Though he gives good advice, Kenji has been known to not follow it sometimes.

Despite being a competent wingman, he does not have a girlfriend. It could be because of his relatively cold and detached attitude towards people in general. That being said, he has a huge sense of duty towards the people who he has sworn to protect and assist.

He has a rank that is dependent on Kenji's relationship progress. Right now his rank is Class 10: Honour Guard 1st Class.

His capabilities include:

- Chronosphere: With appropriate set up, Moonstone is able to induce a time lag to prevent Kenji from being late for his dates or other special events. With further set up, he is also able to reset entire days to allow Kenji to recover from bad decisions.

- PAS-A (Portable Automated Somnacin - Aerosol) device: With this device, Moonstone is able to view Kenji's dreams. However, since the device is an experimental non-contact device, he has limited range of actions within Kenji's dreams.

- Time belt: Highly experimental device. Moonstone needs to define a return point before he can use it. With this device, Moonstone is able to jump back to allow Kenji to recover from minor bad decisions.

He is the only character in this group who exists in meatspace.

His birthday is somewhere in October, like the other two. The actual date is classified. A hint to his age and real birthday have been given somewhere in the log.

One of his known hated food is sweet potato.

(Disclaimer: Wingman rank names not based on level names in Love Plus)