Green Green takes place in Japan’s countryside, in a non-descript region with forests and an isolated boarding school known as Kanenone Gakuen. The academy boasts of an entirely male population, and prides itself of the tradition of men growing amongst other men without any external influences to disturb them. The protagonist is named Yuusuke Takasaki, a second year student that is indifferent to the lonely, girl-deprived atmosphere that surrounds the school. His three friends, Tadatomo “Bacchiguu” Ijuuin, Hikaru Ichibanboshi and Taizou Tenjin, however, feel as if they are being denied their youth by having no females to interact with. As the summer session at Kanenone begins, Yuusuke and friends wonder what the change of season will bring to them, when Bacchiguu brings news that a bus full of girls has arrived on school grounds. As luck would have it, Kanenone's current administration is considering making the academyco-ed, and in order to see how the change would affect the student body, first and second year girls have been brought to live on school grounds for one month. Though Yuusuke takes the change in stride, his three hormone-driven friends see this as the true beginning of their youth.
The game takes place over the period of one month, from June 23 to the end of July. As such, game progression is daily, in which there are preset interactions in the early morning and late at night, with a block of time in the middle of the day that grants Yuusuke the opportunity to directly interact with one of the five lead heroines. Some pre-set interactions are influenced by which girl Yuusuke last talked to and what choices the player made for him recently. Should Yuusuke fail to win the heart of one of the five heroines by the end of July, the player is defaulted to a "common" ending. Because Green Green falls into the novel genre of H-games, the player cannot change the protagonist's name, and instead assumes the role of Yuusuke.
Game Engine
The game engine uses common elements found in dating simulation games, and as such is viewed in. Backgrounds are used to display the current location, with images of characters in Yuusuke's line of sight appearing on the screen. Characters that are not speaking will blink their eyes, and those that are speaking will move their lips accordingly. The current day is displayed on the upper left-hand corner of the screen. A panel at the bottom of the screen is used to display text. At the sides of the panel are shortcut buttons to Load and Save games, toggle the current day display, access the game's Configuration menu, skip already-seen dialogue and have the game run on automatic. Unlike most visual novel games, Green Green does not have a text log for dialogue.
Music
Green Green's music was composed by the two-man rock band known as, and falls under the instrumental rock and alternative rock genres. Though the "common" ending uses the game's theme song, Green Green, each heroine has a song that is used during the closing credits:
The DVD rerelease of Green Green contained features not available in the original CD-ROM release. Most of these features are accessible by browsing the DVD. These included:
The two PlayStation 2 releases of Green Green were direct ports from the original CD-ROM version of the game. However, both Kanenone Romantic and Kanenone Dynamic featured two new female characters in addition to the original five. As such, there were a total of four new girls exclusive to the PlayStation 2, each with their own closing song and ending:
Eri Yamazaki
Kozue Tsukimori
Kaori Kusunoki
Mina Ibuki
In addition, new artwork, new closing songs for the original five girls and a CG gallery were included. Because these were released on a video game console, all H-scenes were removed.
Staff
Character Designs - Shinji Katakura
Scenario - Noboru Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu Kuwashima
Music -
Character Voices:
*Sara Nakayama
*Eriko Fujimaki
*Yukiko Mannaka
*Saori Sugimoto
*Mariko Suzuki
*Noriko Yoshitake
*Kazunari Tanaka
*Jin Domon
*Kenji Hamada
Adaptations
Anime
Green Green was adapted into a 13-episode anime series.
Bacchiguu & Ichibanboshi: These names are derived from the names of the two members of , who composed the music for Green Green. Bamboo became Bacchiguu, and Ichibanboshi Hikaru became a character name. Bamboo is also listed as Green Green's producer. Character Names: The five lead girls are named after plants or things connected to plants. Midori means "green", Kutsuki Futaba means "twin leaves on a decayed tree", Kutsuki Wakaba means "new leaves on a decayed tree", Minami Sanae means "southern rice seedlings" and Iino Chigusa means "field of a thousand seeds". Kutsuki vs. Kuchiki: The pronunciation of Futaba and Wakaba's last name has been the subject of debate since the release of the game. The game itself seems to have trouble deciding how to pronounce 朽木, often shifting between Kutsuki and Kuchiki. Most of the voice actors stick to Kutsuki when talking about Futaba, while they use Kuchiki when talking about Wakaba.
