
The story takes place on a small remote island called Zangetsutou in a town called Koukashi, a town with relaxing onsen springs and beautiful flowers. But that was in the past. One year ago disaster fell upon the town. The villagers fell into despair. Their last hope was a group of young people who gathered to help, called the Kouka Youth League. Especially the group’s head, Kagurazaka Hibiki and his right hand man, Mochizuki Satoya, they are a ray of light for the villagers. Also involved is a soldier dispatched from the mainland, Inoguchi Wataru and a mysterious traveler who has some business on the island, Haruna Nozomu. The villagers are pulled into these men’s actions, and the protagonist Fuyuura Megumi is not an exception. This is a story of people desperately fighting to survive in harsh times.
Getsuei no Kusari -Sakuran Paranoia- is a Japanese visual novel of 688,014 characters, with 14,960 unique words and 2,275 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 14,960 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.