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* ActionSurvivor: The younger kids are not as tough as Rei and Hiroto, but they have helpful abilities in battles. Sayaka won't even participate in a battle unless you select her for the final boss battle.

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* ActionSurvivor: The younger kids are not as tough as Rei and Hiroto, but they have helpful abilities in battles.
** Shunsuke ranks just below Rei in battle skills, but he insists on participating in every adventure. Also, it's up to him to save all of his friends, [[spoiler:except Hiroto]].
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Sayaka won't even participate in a battle unless you select her for the final boss battle.



* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the secret base causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen. Trying to leave the town causes Yuuichi to blow it up.

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* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the secret base causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen. Trying to leave the town causes Yuuichi the author to blow it up.
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* ActionSurvivor: The younger kids are not as tough as Rei and Hiroto, but they have helpful abilities in battles. Sayaka won't even participate in a battle unless you select her for the final boss battle.


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* SlashersPreferBlondes: [[spoiler:Takumi]] is the only blonde character and the only kid who cannot be saved.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: {{Subverted|Trope}}. There's that road by the bus stop that leads out of town. [[spoiler:But if you try to leave that way, a "strange power" prevents you from escaping. You have the option to "ignore the plot and force your way out of town," but that results in the [[NonstandardGameOver author blowing up the town.]]]]



* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Poor Aya]] can get killed this way, though [[spoiler:her]] head doesn't actually fall off right away.

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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Poor Aya]] can get killed this way, though [[spoiler:her]] the head doesn't actually fall off right away.

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* CellphonesAreUseless: Shunsuke first meets Rei while she is trying to call for help on her cell phone. Of course, she can't get a signal.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} when Yuuichi sends Rei a text saying that [[spoiler:Aya]] wandered off while she and Shunsuke were searching the lot with the pipes and that they have to find her.



* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: If [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies, but Rei is still alive, she will insist that it is all her fault, disregarding everything Shunsuke tells her. Soon enough, Shunsuke slaps her and asks her if she is okay.



* NoTimeToExplain: When [[spoiler:Ryou is about to get dragged in the dome]], Shunsuke can either hang on to him or go to Hiroto for help. If he does the latter, he has the option to explain what is going on. This leads to Hiroto getting confused and Shunsuke trying to explain, and [[spoiler:Ryou gets dragged into the dome.]]



* SneakyDeparture: [[spoiler:Aya]] does this twice, because of the desire to disappear, and almost gets killed both times.

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* SneakyDeparture: [[spoiler:Aya]] does this twice, because of the desire to disappear, and almost gets can get killed both times.
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* {{Expy}}: Yuuichi is a red-haired delusional and optimistic boy who is naive and unstable, [[spoiler: indirectly provoked his mother's suicide and the plot starts after he horribly kills a person he blamed upon everything that wronged him?]]. Sounds like Francie Brady from The Butcher Boy to me!

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* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the secret base causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen. Trying to leave the town causes Yuuchi to blow it up.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Poor Aya]] can get killed this way, though their head doesn't actually fall off right away.

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* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the secret base causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen. Trying to leave the town causes Yuuchi Yuuichi to blow it up.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Poor Aya]] can get killed this way, though their [[spoiler:her]] head doesn't actually fall off right away.


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* SneakyDeparture: [[spoiler:Aya]] does this twice, because of the desire to disappear, and almost gets killed both times.
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* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the clubhouse causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen.

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* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the clubhouse secret base causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen.screen. Trying to leave the town causes Yuuchi to blow it up.

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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two characters from a television show Yuuichi enjoyed watching appear with different sprite and character portrait styles than the rest of the cast.

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* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two characters from a television show Yuuichi enjoyed watching appear with different sprite and character portrait styles than the rest of the cast. cast.
* NonStandardGameOver: Jumping from the bed in the clubhouse causes Shunsuke to fall through the floor, after which you immediately are taken back to the title screen.
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* GuideDangIt: The elevator password and the third Princess [[spoiler: when Hiroto is alone]]. The second example is especially obnoxious, as picking up one of two items (one of which ''crumbles'' and is rendered useless after picking it up) renders the battle unwinnable, as does picking up two other items without first gaining everything you need to win.

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* GuideDangIt: The elevator password and the third Princess [[spoiler: when Hiroto is alone]]. The second example is especially obnoxious, as picking up one of two items (one of which ''crumbles'' and is rendered useless after picking it up) renders the battle unwinnable, as does picking up two other items without first gaining everything you need to win. And then you have the item that, without warning or explanation, gives the boss an Insta-Kill attack.

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* AbandonedHospital: There is a cleric in Kowada Town, and of course it's abandoned. But you never actually go in.

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* AbandonedHospital: There is a cleric clinic in Kowada Town, and of course it's abandoned. But you never actually go in.



* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: The time bomb alarm clock wakes Yuuichi from two different dreams.]] Just about every strange element in the game is brought up at least twice, as well. Yuuichi and his dog, for example.

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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: The time bomb alarm clock wakes Yuuichi Shunsuke from two different dreams.]] Just about every strange element in the game is brought up at least twice, as well. Yuuichi and his dog, for example.


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* CharacterSelectForcing: [[spoiler: Didn't bring either Hiroto or Aya to the final battle? Than through brute force alone, you can't win.[[note]] Hiroto can disable the [[TotalPartyKill party wiping]] Flower Ring Rocket, or Aya can lock him down on turns he would use it, and without either of them, the battle simply cannot be won unless you use the Eternal Force Blizzard. [[/note]] ]]


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The entire television and story book motif is one [[spoiler: regarding the potential reality of the situation, and how Yuuichi came to find himself within it.]]


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* UselessUsefulSpell: Rei has the special ability Hysteria, and Shunsuke the ability Pacify. Both are only ever useful (which is to say, functional ''at all'') in one fight, which is incidentally the same fight.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Re:Kinder'', there are points where the player switches to [[spoiler:Yuuichifr] and [[spoiler:Hiroto]], respectively.

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Re:Kinder'', there are points where the player switches to [[spoiler:Yuuichifr] [[spoiler:Yuuichi]] and [[spoiler:Hiroto]], respectively.
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* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: The time bomb alarm clock wakes Yuuichi from two different dreams.]] Just about every strange element in the game is brought up at least twice, as well. Yuuichi and his dog, for example.

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Re:Kinder'', there are points where the player switches to [[spoiler:Takumi]] and [[spoiler:Hiroto]], respectively.

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In ''Re:Kinder'', there are points where the player switches to [[spoiler:Takumi]] [[spoiler:Yuuichifr] and [[spoiler:Hiroto]], respectively.


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** [[spoiler: Yuuichi is also tough enough that the game simply locks you out of fighting him if any of the kids have died and gives you an ending before the final boss.]]


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* DreamWorld: [[spoiler: The storybook world is Yuuichi's. The events of the game as a whole may or may not be a dream world in and of themselves.]]


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** Countless ones pop up elsewhere in the remake as well from Yuuichi, quite intentionally.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Two characters from a television show Yuuichi enjoyed watching appear with different sprite and character portrait styles than the rest of the cast.


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* RealityWarper: Yuuichi.


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* ResetButton: [[spoiler: Only in the False/Killer ending. Though see RetGone regarding the "Friends Game" victims.]]
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: An excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers is used during a few boss battles.
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* TheDevTeamThinkOfEverything: Dialogue constantly changes to reflect the presence of your friends or not. In addition, every boss fight can be won regardless of who is alive and who isn't, albeit with accommodations at times. Shunsuke even gains an ability to compensate for the death of a party member during one sequence.

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* TheDevTeamThinkOfEverything: TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Dialogue constantly changes to reflect the presence of your friends or not. In addition, every boss fight can be won regardless of who is alive and who isn't, albeit with accommodations at times. Shunsuke even gains an ability to compensate for the death of a party member during one sequence.

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* TheDevTeamThinkOfEverything: Dialogue constantly changes to reflect the presence of your friends or not. In addition, every boss fight can be won regardless of who is alive and who isn't, albeit with accommodations at times. Shunsuke even gains an ability to compensate for the death of a party member during one sequence.



-->There is other truth.

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-->There is other truth.]
* GuideDangIt: The elevator password and the third Princess [[spoiler: when Hiroto is alone]]. The second example is especially obnoxious, as picking up one of two items (one of which ''crumbles'' and is rendered useless after picking it up) renders the battle unwinnable, as does picking up two other items without first gaining everything you need to win.


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** This is an interesting example, as the interface spoiler with Yuuichi is clearly intentional - his two abilities are a window into his mindset far earlier than the more blatant examples seen later in the game.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original ''Kinder'' is no longer available for download. And it was never translated either. However, there is one surviving LetsPlay of it on Website/NicoNicoDouga.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The original ''Kinder'' is no longer available for download. And it was never translated either. However, there is one [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5913953 one]] surviving LetsPlay of it on Website/NicoNicoDouga.
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** Trying to escape from the town results in an explosion who kills them all and resulting into a NonStandardGameOver.
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* HairColorDissonance: Mami's sprite has green hair, but her character portrait shows it to have a reddish-brown tone.
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** In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows [[spoiler: Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]

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** *** In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows [[spoiler: Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]
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** In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows [[spoiler: SchrodingersButterfly Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]

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** In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows [[spoiler: SchrodingersButterfly Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]

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** False/[[spoiler:Killer]] End: [[spoiler:Yuuichi abruptly returns all of the survivors of the 'Friends Game' to the 'real world'. However, everyone who was killed got {{Ret Gone}}d. Shunsuke has terrible nightmares about their deaths. In ''Re:Kinder'' this ending is renamed, as a scene was added where Shunsuke sees Yuuichi outside his door later and murders him.]]
** [[EverybodysDeadDave Everybody's Dead, Shunsuke]]: If everyone but Shunsuke gets killed by the 'Friends Game', [[spoiler:Shunsuke kills himself]]. In ''Re:Kinder'', this is replaced by [[spoiler:the Archangel Takumiel intervening before Shunsuke can go through with it and helping him escape, leading to the Ni-chome Mama ending]].
** True End: [[spoiler:Despite all his efforts, Shunsuke can't save Yuuichi, who kills himself in front of them. The children are rescued, but separated from each other and sent to different places. Shunsuke resolves to do his best to be a kinder adult. In the original, it shows the characters reminiscing. In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]

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** False/[[spoiler:Killer]] End: [[DownerEnding False End]]: [[spoiler:Yuuichi abruptly returns all of the survivors of the 'Friends Game' to the 'real world'. However, everyone who was killed got {{Ret Gone}}d. Shunsuke has terrible nightmares about their deaths. In deaths]].
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''Re:Kinder'' this ending is renamed, renamed as [[KickTheSonOfABitch Killer End]] [[spoiler:as a scene was added where Shunsuke sees Yuuichi outside his door later and murders him.]]
** [[EverybodysDeadDave Everybody's Dead, Shunsuke]]: If everyone but Shunsuke gets killed by the 'Friends Game', [[spoiler:Shunsuke kills himself]].
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In ''Re:Kinder'', this is replaced by the [[MoodWhiplash Ni-chome Mama ending]] when [[spoiler:the Archangel Takumiel intervening before Shunsuke can go through with it and helping him escape, leading to the Ni-chome Mama ending]].
escape. We then see that years later, Shunsuke apparently became a cross-dresser or transsexual (since he is called Shunsuke Mama) working in a bar]].
** [[BittersweetEnding True End: End]]: [[spoiler:Despite all his efforts, Shunsuke can't save Yuuichi, who kills himself in front of them. The children are rescued, but separated from each other and sent to different places. Shunsuke resolves to do his best to be a kinder adult. In the original, it shows the characters reminiscing. ]]
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In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows [[spoiler: SchrodingersButterfly Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''Kinder'' refers to the protagonists being children as well as [[spoiler:wanting to become kinder/live in a kinder world]].

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* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''Kinder'' refers to the protagonists being children as well as [[spoiler:wanting to become kinder/live in a kinder world]]. This is {{Woolseyism}}, of course.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with [[OverlyLongName "names" that are quite long, weird and hard to translate]] are now princesses, for some reason.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with [[OverlyLongName "names" that are quite long, weird and hard to translate]] are now princesses, [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses for some reason.reason]].
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies if [[spoiler:he can't figure out the trick to beating the third mistress]] in ''Re:Kinder''.

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How [[spoiler:Hiroto]] dies if [[spoiler:he can't figure out the trick to beating the third mistress]] in ''Re:Kinder''.boss]].
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* TimedMission: At one point, Yuuichi initiates a deadly game of hide and seek where Shunsuke has to find one of his friends. In ''Re:Kinder'', he's only given forty seconds.

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* TimedMission: At one point, Yuuichi initiates a deadly game of hide and seek where Shunsuke has to find one of his friends.friends in a minute and a half. In ''Re:Kinder'', he's only given forty seconds.
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* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth

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* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirthButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Only comes up during ''Re:Kinder''.



** True End: [[spoiler:Despite all his efforts, Shunsuke can't save Yuuichi, who kills himself in front of them. The children are rescued, but seperated from each other and sent to different places. Shunsuke resolves to do his best to be a kinder adult. Then TheStinger shows Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]

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** True End: [[spoiler:Despite all his efforts, Shunsuke can't save Yuuichi, who kills himself in front of them. The children are rescued, but seperated separated from each other and sent to different places. Shunsuke resolves to do his best to be a kinder adult. Then In the original, it shows the characters reminiscing. In ''Re:Kinder'', TheStinger shows Yuuichi with his parents on Dandelion Hill, wondering about a strange daydream...]]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with [[OverlyLongNames "names" that are quite long, weird and hard to translate]] are now princesses, for some reason.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with [[OverlyLongNames [[OverlyLongName "names" that are quite long, weird and hard to translate]] are now princesses, for some reason.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with {{Overly-Long Name}}s are now princesses, for some reason.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with {{Overly-Long Name}}s [[OverlyLongNames "names" that are quite long, weird and hard to translate]] are now princesses, for some reason.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Really goes to extremes with ''Re:Kinder''; the bosses who were originally {{Eldritch Abomination}}s with {{Overly-Long Name}}s are now princesses, for some reason.



* ImprovisedWeapon: During the battle with [[spoiler:Princess Utsuroi Momogi]], you have to temporarily blind the enemy and quickly search the room for anything you can use against them.

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* ImprovisedWeapon: During the battle with [[spoiler:Princess [[spoiler:Crimson Naked-Eye Black Seal-Ink Man (whose design was replaced by Princess Utsuroi Momogi]], Momogi in ''Re:Kinder'')]], you have to temporarily blind the enemy and quickly search the room for anything you can use against them.



** Referenced before the final confrontation with Yuuichi, if [[spoiler:Hiroto]] is still around; they advise Shunsuke that [[spoiler:trying to help Yuuichi]] is a full time commitment.

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** Referenced before the final confrontation with Yuuichi, if Yuuichi; [[spoiler:Hiroto]] is still around; they advise advises Shunsuke that [[spoiler:trying to help Yuuichi]] is a full time commitment.



** False/[[spoiler:Killer]] End: [[spoiler:Yuuichi abruptly returns all of the survivors of the 'Friends Game' to the 'real world'. However, everyone who was killed got {{Ret Gone}}d. Shunsuke has terrible nightmares about their deaths, and when he sees Yuuichi again, ultimately murders him.]]

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** False/[[spoiler:Killer]] End: [[spoiler:Yuuichi abruptly returns all of the survivors of the 'Friends Game' to the 'real world'. However, everyone who was killed got {{Ret Gone}}d. Shunsuke has terrible nightmares about their deaths, and when he deaths. In ''Re:Kinder'' this ending is renamed, as a scene was added where Shunsuke sees Yuuichi again, ultimately outside his door later and murders him.]]



* RetGone: In ''Re:Kinder'''s Killer End, [[spoiler:those who died in Yuuichi's world have been erased from existence, with only Shunsuke remembering them]].

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* RetGone: In ''Re:Kinder'''s Killer the False/[[spoiler:Killer]] End, [[spoiler:those who died in Yuuichi's world have been erased from existence, with only Shunsuke remembering them]].

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