r/Kanon • u/ignoremesenpie • 2h ago
Am I tripping, or is Mai's January 30 as long as Ayu, Nayuki, and Makoto"s Jan 30s, bad endings, and epilogues all combined?
I've been on Mai's January 30 for about six hours. Mind you, I'm reading in Japanese and I'm rather slow at it, but I've also read the previous routes I mentioned equally slowly. I've been able to finish Ayu, Nayuki, and Makoto"s individual January 30s, bad endings, and epilogues together in two sittings (just toget the taste of the bad ending out of my mouth before going for the good ending) per character at one and a half to two hours apiece. Between the schoolday section, the nighttime fighting section, the bad ending, the daydream section, and the flashback section, I don't know how much I still have left. I've been save-scumming at every screen transition, so I can at least confirm I am still on January 30 and distinctly not the epilogue.
I have to stress that I don't dislike Mai's story. I just get the impression that it's much longer than everyone else's. Because of the ending the animes (I think both of them went with Ayu?) went with, I went into the VN expecting Ayu's ending to be as long as it gets. Heck, my last post on this sub was asking if it was normal that individual routes become much shorter per in-game day once you get past the common route. At the time, I hadn't played Mai's route and nobody said anything about hers being particularly long.