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Clockwise from bottom left: Yuzuki, Noel, Chihaya, Ryoichi, and Mirai

Seduced in the Sleepless City is a Romance Game Visual Novel by Voltage, Inc. for iOS and Android devices. An Americanized adaptation has also been released by Voltage USA as Glass Stilettos in Manhattan.

The heroine is a writer for the women's magazine Cinderella, assigned to cover the grand opening gala of a new casino in Roppongi, the entertainment district of Tokyo. It's a glamorous, star-studded affair attended by A-list celebrities she'd normally only dream of interviewing, but somehow before she knows it, the protagonist is meeting an A-list actor and a bestselling writer, winning a drawing for a trip around the world, having a near miss with a tiger that leads to an encounter with an F1 race car driver, getting swept up to the VIP room by the owner of the casino... and waking up in a celebrity's hotel suite after having too much to drink.

Now her editor wants her to do an extended feature on one of the rich and powerful men she's somehow made the acquaintance of - but none of them are going to make it easy.

In November 2017, Seduced in the Sleepless City was transferred into Voltage's Love 365 app.


Seduced in the Sleepless City features examples of:

  • Alpha Bitch: Yurika Nakasono, a famous and very spoiled actress who appears as a would-be romantic rival to the protagonist in both Yuzuki and Noel's routes.
  • Ambiguous Gender: Marsha is pretty obviously biologically male, but the game is less clear about whether the character identifies as female or is just very Camp.
  • The Beautiful Elite: Almost the entire cast fall into this category.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Yurika once again, particularly in Yuzuki's route.
  • Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: In Glass Stilettos in Manhattan, the re-done artwork bases the character designs for the main cast heavily on real-life celebrities. Romeo Moore (Ryoichi) is modeled after Johnny Depp, and Lucas Busch (Chihaya) looks like Chris Hemsworth.
  • Crossover: The "Thieves vs. Celebrities" and "Celebrities vs. Thieves" side stories cross Seduced in the Sleepless City over with Love Letter from Thief X, telling the same story from the point of view of the protagonist of either game.
  • Dub Name Change: Glass Stilettos in Manhattan changes all of the characters' names as part of its change of the game's setting from Roppongi to Manhattan.
  • The Fashionista: Marsha, a celebrity stylist who appears in several routes and quickly takes a shine to the protagonist.
  • Interclass Romance: Part of the game's premise. How the rest of society reacts depends on which route is chosen, ranging from no reaction at all (Chihaya, Mirai), to unforgiving media scrutiny that directly threatens the relationship (Satsuki).
  • Paparazzi: A media frenzy is more or less inevitable in all routes once the protagonist's relationship with one of the celebrities starts getting serious, and they have to dodge the paparazzi on more than one occasion.
  • Race Lift: Glass Stilettos converts most of the cast from Japanese to American. Noel's counterpart Javier is Latino.
  • Romantic Runner-Up: Satsuki, in Yuzuki's route.
  • Shipper on Deck: Marsha always supports the protagonist in her relationship with the guy of the route. Fuko, the protagonist's roommate, usually does as well.
  • Sibling Triangle: Potentially with the Kitaoji brothers, most noticeably in Yuzuki's route and the "Kitaoji Brothers" side story.
  • True Companions: The VIP suite group are longtime friends, many of whom attended school together in Switzerland.
  • What Did I Do Last Night?: The protagonist blacks out from drinking too much at the casino's opening gala, and wakes up in a celebrity's hotel suite with no memory of how she got there.

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