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遊遊茶館へようこそ! - Yuyu Chakan e Youkoso! DEVELOPER: Sunny Sea Blue ARTIST: Ishiyama Nanao (石山 奈尚), sole dev in SSB who did everything PUBLISHED: Original version ~2005, ver 1.2.0 in 2007 (this version that's for download) LANGUAGE: Japanese OFFICIAL WEBSITE: Was sunnyseablue.net, has been defunct. Can find captures from Wayback Machine here for the game page, and here for the general site. STORY (machine translated from an archive of the game's site): 「 During the month-long summer break, Kazuma Nakazato is left in charge of running his family’s teahouse (a shop specializing in Chinese tea) while his parents are away. He plans to take it easy and manage the small teahouse at a relaxed pace… but everything changes when a Chinese-family-style restaurant opens right next door. They demand that he vacate the property so they can expand their parking lot. Insulted by how they looked down on the teahouse, Kazuma angrily accepts their outrageous condition: if he loses a tea performance (tea ceremony art) showdown against the restaurant, he'll give up the shop. This, despite the fact that he’s a complete amateur when it comes to tea arts. There are only three weeks until the showdown. As Kazuma struggles to protect the teahouse, his battle-filled days of preparation begin… 」 CATBOX.MOE - Link! 187.69 MB. iso file. Includes: Save data folder, game files folder, some game files, the installer, an oyomi kudasai txt, and a puchi kouryaku txt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This game is crazy rare (as you can read more about in my post I made of this game). I am most likely the only person in the west, or even the planet, to upload this game and its info online to this extent. As you may have noticed from the title... I purchased this game myself. I literally bought this disk and an external disk drive just to pack these files into an iso. I'm solely sharing these files for archival and preservation reasons. If Ishiyama-san somehow found this post and asked me to take the link down... I would. I genuinely respect the fuck out of that woman for making BL games 20+ years ago while she did a full time job. That's insane dedication. I want to keep her work alive, even though it comes from a completely different era and cultural landscape. I think as a creator who worked crazy hard on her games, she should have her work seen and remembered by more people, especially yaoi fans. I'd tell you to support her in some way, but realistically... she's most likely moved on from BL stuff. And she's, from an educated guess, possibly at the least really late 30's, at most 50's by now. Plus, her works being doujin stuff, limited prints of CD-R's, the SSB website being defunct, not even having an online presence that I could find literally at all... it's just not possible anymore. So, I wanted to do this- as some random yaoi fangirl gaijin- to make sure her work doesn’t disappear completely. For installation... open the iso with WinCDEmu and run the launcher exe. I think you go through it like a normal installer. Go to where you installed it, and run the yuyu exe. Should pop up and run just fine! Thankfully for this game, you don't need to have the iso virtually mounted to run it. Once you've installed it, it's OK. Just a note here. Dunno if this'll happen to anyone else. Buuuut... when I test ran the game with my headphones wirelessly, the menu music (and the other music) notably stuttered. But I plugged them into my speaker... and the music was just fine. I have NO freakin' clue why in the world it did this, but it's probably some compatibility or age related whozeewhatsit. Just... if this happens to you, you're not the only one. If you have a fix... PLEASE tell me. Also, to put some disclaimer stuff here... These files are provided strictly for archival and educational preservation. All rights belong to the original creator, Nanao Ishiyama / Sunny Sea Blue. No commercial use is allowed, and I am not the rights holder. If the creator ever requests removal, I will comply immediately. The game is shared as-is and may not run perfectly on modern systems. If you reupload this elsewhere, please credit me or link back to this post.

Hey bros and sisters! I wanted to share this neat find I managed to snag on Suruga-ya... a pretty obscure seeming doujin-made BL from around 2005, Yuyu Chakan e Youkoso!/遊遊茶館へようこそ! From plugging things into translators and such, it seems to be about the protagonist running a teahouse. He enters into some kind of competition and has to run the teahouse in the meantime, I think. It also categorizes itself as a sort of business simulator/shop management game, which I thought was rather interesting. Definitely don't see those being made into yaoi VNs. I actually first discovered it while compiling my post about raw walkthroughs for BL games. I was trying to romanize the various titles for alphabetizing and noticed that this one had absolutely no information on VNDB or anywhere on the Western internet. I eventually forgot about it... until I saw a listing for the game disk while perusing Suruga-ya. I saw the title and went, "Hey, wait a minute. I know this from somewhere..." Sure enough, it was the same game! I decided to buy it for a whole ¥1,380 (about $8 American freedom dollars). Definitely a steal! After that, I got inspired. I wanted to archive it properly and gather whatever info I could to share with BL/yaoi fans. I checked through the Japanese side of the internet too, but there was only a tiny handful of mentions... but still way more than what there was in English. But what I could find was it was created by a circle called "Sunny Sea Blue". Like the game itself, there was virtually no information about them either. Not to mention, the site is defunct, which is... unfortunately kind of a given. But I did find that it has a bunch of captures on the Wayback Machine, spanning all the way back to 2003! Can't believe that's over 20 years ago at the time of writing this... But I digress- it was a breakthrough to find! I went through some of the captures and found out that SSB is just one lady- Ishiyama Nanao-san*- who handled everything! She did the art, making the game, etc. I also found the character page, which lists the main and side characters, their roles, a little bit about their personalities, and the kanji/hiragana for their names! Top row: Nakazato Kazuma (protag), Shiba Naoyuki, Obinata Chiharu, and Mayama Satoru Middle row: Nakazato Hitoshi (protag's dad), Nakazato Misaki (protag's mom), Hiraishi Kouzou, Liu Wen De (approx. romanization- written only in kanji, most likely a Chinese name), Yang Shang Rui (same deal as Mr. Liu) Bottom character: Izumisawa Keigo (Sorry the text in the picture is so small! That's kinda just how it came out.) Speaking of the characters... seems like Izumisawa is a newer addition, as evidenced by the "new" icon above his name. I did see that in older captures Yang and Izumisawa didn't exist yet, if memory serves right. That said, I did see on Suruga-ya had previous listings of versions 1.0.0 (still mad I missed out on buying this one!), 1.2.0 (what I have), 1.2.1, and 1.3.1, which is the newest version that I've seen overall. In one of the readme text files, there is a changelog saying what was fixed in 1.2.0. I think it was mainly bug fixes. I do wish I had 1.0.0 and 1.3.1 though! I would've loved to seen the differences! There was also a trial disc too. Wish I could've grabbed that as well! I genuinely wonder who has the other copies. Since it's an all ages game, it was up for grabs on Suruga-ya's .com site, which lets foreigners buy everything they have in their stock with the exception of their R18 stuff. So, it could either be in the hands of Japanese yaoi fans or foreign ones. But I know for a fact I'm the only Westerner who's documenting this game! Which... wow, isn't that kinda neat? That makes me pretty happy! It feels incredible to have the privilege to preserve this game all these years later. Ishiyama-san's hard work deserves to be known! Making a whole game, let alone multiple versions, all by yourself has to be quite a lot. A 2005 capture from her “About” section mentioned she was just an average Monday–Friday worker who really loved BL. Doing that during a 9-5 is just plain impressive. Trying to do damn near anything recreational with a 40(+) hour work week feels impossible, so my respect for her is massive. You can tell she put a lot of love in this game! I see it, Ishiyama-san. I do. Fujoshi adult woman to fujoshi adult woman cross-temporal communication. Fujoshi adult woman to fujoshi adult woman cross-temporal conversation. *I'm certain her last name is Ishiyama (石山), but I'm not a million percent sure of her first name (奈尚). I guess the most common reading is apparently Nanao.