Critical Hit Series!
A fresh new take on dual narrative storytelling, blending awkward high school crush conversations with the thrill of slicing the three heads off a dungeon beast.
Ranjiro Akizora is the fearless samurai who protects villages from goblin hordes, shadow beasts, and crooked bandits. At least... on paper.
In reality? He’s a third-year high school nobody. No friends, no social skills, and a Charisma stat that might as well be negative. His only real strength? A dangerously overdeveloped hyper-imagination and a homebrewed fantasy role-playing game no one’s ever played, because no one’s ever asked.
But it’s his final year. One last chance to roll for initiative in real life. So, he does the unthinkable: starts a club. A tabletop club. Safe, nerdy, low risk.
Until two of the school’s most terrifyingly beautiful girls show up. The kind you’d expect on magazine covers, not sitting at a nerd’s table. One moves like a pop idol in a student council blazer, all charm and confidence, with a presence that turns every hallway into her personal stage. The other is the school’s reigning top student, elegant and unreadable, with a quiet grace that makes teachers pause and classmates sit up straighter. She doesn’t speak often, but when she does, the room listens.
They’re the queens of campus, untouchable and untouching… until they pull up chairs, roll the dice, and crash into Ranjiro’s world like a divine punishment written by the gods of chaos and romance alike.
What started as a simple roleplaying game unravels into something far more dangerous. A shared world where unspoken feelings take shape, hidden truths bleed into fantasy, and every choice reveals more than anyone intended. The characters they play begin to echo the parts of themselves they keep buried: the longing, the fear, the jealousy, the hope. And the deeper the story goes, the harder it becomes to tell where the fantasy ends… and their real selves begin.
Because in this game, it’s not just monsters they’re facing. It’s each other.
And maybe the scariest part isn’t what happens in the world they built… but what it brings out of them when the game ends.
Critical Hit Series! is a genre-bending love letter to both shounen adventure and shoujo romance. A dual narrative that turns the everyday into the epic, and makes you wonder:
When does pretending stop being pretend?
