YMMV / Forest of Drizzling Rain

• Captain Obvious Reveal: Kotarou Suga being Shiori's mysterious childhood friend all grown up is easy to guess since he clearly seems to have some connection to her beforehand and is the most important male character (the friend is established as being a boy even before his identity is revealed) by that point, meaning there is no one else it could be that would have a dramatic impact.
• Complete Monster: While the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit is revealed to be a tragic figure, the same cannot be said for the men responsible for her creation in both versions:
  • Original game and manga: The first Ogami-san, though seen as the hero of old who protected Azakawa Village, is the one behind the Kotori Obake's horrific past. To satisfy his lust, he created a system where criminals' wives and children would be sold into sexual slavery, imprisoning them in a dungeon to hide their suffering. Lusting after an unnamed village woman, he falsely accused her of manipulating men to commit crimes so he could slaughter her husband and son, then imprison her so he and his men could rape and impregnate her. Mocking her all the while, he killed the fetus to make her suffer even more.
  • Remake: The Forest God, a wicked snake who was once the benevolent protector of the forest, now only wants to force Azakawa Village to worship him. In return for the villagers taking rice from his forest in the past, the Forest God threatened to drown them unless they regularly sacrificed young maidens to him. When Tsuyu Kanzaki mistook the Forest God for an ordinary snake and had his physical form killed, he cursed her brother, the forest Stone Guardian, to lust for and hate her, then ordered him to kill her family and make her a Sex Slave. The Forest God's actions caused Tsuyu to become the Taking Spirit who would devour children and condemn their spirits to endless suffering over centuries, to his apathy, while his curse would bring about the deaths of many in the Kanzaki bloodline, including the parents of Shiori Kanzaki and Kotarou Suga. In Ending 6, the Forest God kidnaps Miyako Sakuma, gets Shiori to sacrifice herself to him to ensure her safety, and painfully devours Tsuyu and all the ghost children.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Miyako Sakuma, especially in the remake. She is a cynical girl who acts incredibly rude to the villagers and is always causing trouble, but only acts this way because, despite being the daughter of the Azakawa Village mayor, she gets no respect from the villagers and her classmates bully her.
  • Sure, the Kotori Obake/Taking Spirit has killed scores of kids over the years and is now ruthlessly out to get Shiori for a huge chunk of the game, but her backstory is so damned tragic and unfair that you can't help but feel sorry for her even as she antagonizes you for most of the story.

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