Interactive Contemporary romantic comedy
Monday morning in the Economics building, Tayu Igo offers you a deal with no sentiment in it: five dates, one a night, scored in her notebook against six weighted criteria she will not show you. If the total clears her threshold she turns down two years under Professor Keisuke Nanjō at Hitotsubashi and stays in Sapporo. You can hunt the criteria, play against them, or tell her to her face that the ledger is cheating her — while her best friend Rina Umehara feeds you hints and, you discover on Wednesday, has been quietly telling Tayu what to score you. Wednesday night at the Jōzankei snow lanterns, Rina admits the rest: she is the single alternate for the post, so every hint she gave you was also a hand on her own scale. Meanwhile you have your own deadline — Friday at 9 a.m., an hour before hers, you either sign the lease on Kujira, the eight-seat listening bar where you've worked three years, or take the safe analyst's desk at Kitaguni Shinkin and let the bar go to someone else; and on Friday at noon Tayu stands in the lobby with a notebook whose sixth criterion is written in her seventeen-year-old handwriting and asks what the number is for.
The economics student you've loved since September gives you five winter nights in Sapporo to beat a secret six-criteria scorecard — and on Friday at noon she decides whether to take the research post she's wanted since first year, or stay for a number that her best friend has been quietly rigging.
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The economics student you've loved since September gives you five winter nights in Sapporo to beat a secret six-criteria scorecard — and on Friday at noon she decides whether to take the research post she's wanted since first year, or stay for a number that her best friend has been quietly rigging.
Late January in Sapporo, the week the Self-Defense Force crews are still carving the half-finished sculptures in Ōdōri Park for the Snow Festival. Minus seven at night, heated sidewalks steaming on Ekimae-dōri, snow banked to shoulder height in the side streets off Tanukikōji, every doorway hung with a plastic curtain. The university district smells of kerosene heaters and the co-op's fried chicken; Kujira, the basement listening bar on Minami 3 Nishi 6, smells of dust, vinyl static and the owner's soldering iron. Everything closes earlier than you want it to, the last bus from Jōzankei leaves at 20:40, and the whole city is counting down to a weekend it hasn't earned yet.
The question at its heart
At noon on Friday, does Tayu Igo let the ledger decide — and does she board the Kunitachi train or stay in Sapporo?
Monday, 9:40 a.m., third-floor corridor of the Economics building: Tayu stops you under the poster for Nanjō's seminar and makes the offer in her flattest voice — five dates, one a night, six weighted criteria, a threshold she won't name, decision Friday at noon. Date one is Ōdōri Park among the half-carved Snow Festival sculptures, oden from the standing counter, and the first asking of the question she will ask twice: 'What do you actually want, after April?' Tuesday brings Rina Umehara at the co-op with an onigiri and an unsolicited hint about what she calls your split times, and then date two at the Akapura rink, where the most meticulous woman in Hokkaido discovers she is publicly bad at something. Across ten scenes you establish the lease papers in your coat, Kudō's Friday 9 a.m. deadline, and the first leak: she goes quiet — not cold, quiet — when you get something right about her that she never told you.
Read episode 1“Rina is still in her swim cap when she sees you and says, without surprise, 'You went out too hard on Monday,' which is when you realise she knows exactly how Monday went, and she wasn't there.”
“Kudō puts the needle down, says 'Left channel's honest tonight,' and leaves through the back door without his coat — which is his way of saying he's given you the room.”
You play
Observant, slow to claim things, funny when nervous. Keeps other people's preferences filed away in detail and has never filed their own..
Tell: Flips every record to the B-side first, 'to see what they didn't want you to hear.'.
Supporting
Calm, meticulous, demanding of herself first. Sincere to the point of discomfort — she will not say a kind thing she hasn't verified. Warm underneath in flashes she doesn't plan..
Tell: Taps her pen three times before writing anything down — the same rhythm as her mother's adding machine in the Asahikawa office..
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Supporting
Loud, generous, strategic in a way she'd call loyal. Third-year econ, swims the 200 free at the Hokudai pool at six every morning. Fixes other people's lives to avoid looking at her own..
Tell: Texts in all lowercase with the time stamped at the front, like a lap record..
Minor role
Gruff, kind, allergic to ceremony. Has run the eight-seat basement bar Kujira for thirty-one years and intends to be gone before anyone can thank him..
Tell: Tests every amplifier he fixes with the same track — the B-side of a 1978 Mariya Takeuchi single..
Minor role
Dry, unsentimental, genuinely fond of students who contradict him. Labour and household economics at Hitotsubashi, Kunitachi; author of 'The Arithmetic of Households', which Tayu has annotated to the point of structural failure..
Tell: Answers email at 4:40 a.m. with no greeting and one line..
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The economics student you've loved since September gives you five winter nights in Sapporo to beat a secret six-criteria scorecard — and on Friday at noon she decides whether to take the research post she's wanted since first year, or stay for a number that her best friend has been quietly rigging. The question at its heart: At noon on Friday, does Tayu Igo let the ledger decide — and does she board the Kunitachi train or stay in Sapporo?
Yes. You can read Five Dates, Scored free in your browser, and the first episode without even making an account. A free account keeps your place. Some choices offer an extra paid option that adds a scene; every path through the story can still be read for free.
Five Dates, Scored has 3 episodes, released one at a time — 1 is out now, and 4 different endings. Which one you reach depends on the choices you make.
You play You (Mochizuki), 22 — Observant, slow to claim things, funny when nervous. Keeps other people's preferences filed away in detail and has never filed their own.. The story is told in the second person, so every choice is yours.
Yes. Tayu Igo is an Aura on MateAura, so you can step out of the story and chat with Tayu at any time. Tayu knows what happened on your path so far and nothing beyond it, so the chat never spoils a scene you haven't reached.
Yes. Every character has their own voice and the narration is read aloud. You can switch the voice off in the reader's settings and read in silence.
Episode 2, "Weighted", is coming soon. The story tells you where the current episode ends, and your place is kept for when the next one arrives.
Five Dates, Scored is written for readers aged 16 and over: Contemporary romantic comedy, with flirting and tension but nothing explicit.
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Monday morning in the Economics building, Tayu Igo offers you a deal with no sentiment in it: five dates, one a night, scored in her notebook against six weighted criteria she will not show you. If the total clears her threshold she turns down two years under Professor Keisuke Nanjō at Hitotsubashi and stays in Sapporo. You can hunt the criteria, play against them, or tell her to her face that the ledger is cheating her — while her best friend Rina Umehara feeds you hints and, you discover on Wednesday, has been quietly telling Tayu what to score you. Wednesday night at the Jōzankei snow lanterns, Rina admits the rest: she is the single alternate for the post, so every hint she gave you was also a hand on her own scale. Meanwhile you have your own deadline — Friday at 9 a.m., an hour before hers, you either sign the lease on Kujira, the eight-seat listening bar where you've worked three years, or take the safe analyst's desk at Kitaguni Shinkin and let the bar go to someone else; and on Friday at noon Tayu stands in the lobby with a notebook whose sixth criterion is written in her seventeen-year-old handwriting and asks what the number is for.
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