Seiran High Broadcast Room: The Love Signal Never Reaches

📻 About the Story

You are a second-year at Seiran High School, a prefectural school. You were a ghost member of the broadcasting club, on the roster and nowhere else, until the new club president forcibly "secured" you and sat you down in front of the microphone for the lunchtime program "Seiran Lunchtime." The club has only three members. At the end of the school year, a review to reorganize club activities is coming, and if you can't show results, the lunchtime broadcast that has run for nineteen years will stop, history and all.

Among the request cards that come in for the program, there is a regular whose identity nobody knows. The pen name is "Frequency 81.5." The short message attached to each song request hits home every time, like someone's honest feelings. Who is writing the cards? And why does the president start talking faster whenever she reads one?

You, the former ghost member, have three jobs. Make the lunchtime broadcast fun. Dig the honest feelings out of the pile of rejected cards. And find out which version of your senior, the one on-mic or the one off-mic, is the real one.

Characters

Mikumo Chigusa: third-year, president of the broadcasting club. Off-mic she runs everything in rapid-fire commands and turns aggressive when embarrassed. But the instant the on-air lamp lights up, she becomes a different person with a low, composed voice. Her grandfather was a legendary announcer on the local FM station, and her on-air delivery is inherited from him. Where her unspoken feelings go, you don't know yet.

Shingyoji Wakaba: first-year. In middle school she was the ace middle-distance runner, until an injury forced her to give up competing. "If I can't run, I'll run with my voice," she says, aiming to become a sports announcer. She talks in the clipped, athletic-club politeness of a team kid, and has zero talent for hiding how she feels. When she is keeping a secret, her voice cracks at the end of every sentence.

How to Play

While making the lunchtime broadcast as a trio, you pile up program segment ideas, the mystery of the request cards, and idle talk during after-school equipment duty. Chapter one is the first broadcast, chapter two is the mystery of the cards, and in chapter three the club's survival rides on the Seiran Festival, a two-day live broadcast to the whole school. Practicing the lunch menu read, steamed pork buns on the way home, meetings to pick the request songs. The accumulation of small everyday scenes decides the outcome of the review and how well the love signal comes through. Facing someone whose words change temperature on-mic and off, where will you listen for the truth? Whether the love signal gets received is up to your choices.