Happy Six-Month Anniversary!

Today marked another significant milestone in my LovePlus history - my six month anniversary (in the current game) with Rinko. Because I know this will probably be my last anniversary with Rinko in New LovePlus (before I switch over to NLP+ hopefully in early April), I wanted to make it a memorable day. And it was.

No breakfast this morning, but Rin-chan was waiting with her umbrella to walk me to school.

Despite acting tough sometimes, she is really a very kind girl. As soon as we arrived at school, I called Rinko to meet me so I could give her my anniversary gift.

I gave her a new pair of shoes, which she was delighted with...

...and she gave me, for the sixth month running, the matching boy-girl sweatbands. Not that I don't appreciate a gift - ANY gift - but I really hope this self-repeating bug is fixed in NLP+. It didn't happen in my first game, but it's happened a lot in this one. As your relationship with a girl progresses, you want something more than sweatbands. Anyway, we kissed briefly and stopped for a chat before going back to class.

Rinko had lunch ready for us...

I don't know if it was to make up for giving me a recycled anniversary gift, but Rinko met me in the Library this afternoon and produced a second gift.

It's the gift you don't actually get to open - so you just have to use your imagination. So let's imagine that it wasn't sweatbands. We finished up the day by walking home from school together.

Monday

Just two weeks to go before the release of the new game, and tension is definitely building! I really hope things go alright with my order. Anyway, I have my six month anniversary coming up on Wednesday, too - probably my last one with Rinko in the current game. Today started off with the usual breakfast at my place...

And then the usual, happy walk to school...

And then the usual delicious bento lunch...

And the slightly less usual sight of my Rinko waiting with her umbrella to see that I get home safely in the rain.

It was still raining in the evening, so I asked Rinko to meet me at the Convenience Store (where at least we can eat...and buy some snack food...).

And we squeezed in one more late-night meet up at the Coffee Shop.

Rino felt like talking, apparently. Her white jacket with all the military-style badges is so cute.

Wednesday: Big Photo Flood Day!

OK, conscious of the fact that I haven't posted a lot of photos over the past few days, I decided to have a big photo day today. It didn't turn out quite the way I expected - but I'll save that story for later. Rinko was there again to show her support after I sat for the next midterm exam.

And she supported me again by coming out with this scrumptious-looking bento for lunch. Rinko really does know how to spoil me...

I'm still chasing that perfect pigtail shot. This one turned out pretty good (but I only managed to get close to one of Rinko's pigtails.

Unfortunately, the rest of the day was raining. Rinko was waiting patiently to walk me home from school with her trusty umbrella.

Rinko seemed VERY surprised that it was still raining when I met her at Dixies later, for a bite to eat...

And it was raining AGAIN when we met up at night to visit the Convenience Store. Man. Let's hope for some fine weather in Towano tomorrow.

Twin-Tail Lunch

Today was the first day of midterms. I think I did well (with the help of the New LovePlus Guide Book) - which is good, because I already bragged to Rinko that I would be the number one student again. She met me after the exam and encouraged me to do well tomorrow.

Speaking of the Guide Book, I've just placed an order on the Guide Book for the new game, which is available through Amazon Japan. It's a pre-order, so it probably won't ship until the new game is released. But I've certainly found the Guide Book for NLP to be an indispensable help!

Rinko had another yummy bento to share with me at lunch time.

And for all my fellow twin-tails fans out there, I managed to grab this close-up shot of Rinko's hairstyle in action!

It was raining after school, and Rinko waited with her trusty umbrella to walk me home. (I always seem to forget mine!) I haven't seen rain in NLP for a while now in winter - mostly just snow - so this was something different.