

The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf -A Tale of Cutthroat Lovers-
CLOCKUP · 2024 · Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Romance, Anime, Dark
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About The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf -A Tale of Cutthroat Lovers-
Another restless, sleepless night... from the mind of Maggot Baits creator Tatsuya Kurashiki comes a twisted love story!
By night, I suffer from chronic insomnia with just one cure: killing people. So I moonlight as a yakuza bigwig’s pet killer, waiting for him to toss me a bone and order a hit so I can sleep. Might sound like a fine line to walk, but my life’s pretty quiet. Pretty stable.
Until I meet this girl, Azami. Defeating her got me a night of sleep so peaceful, I’ve been mulling over the idea of keeping her around. Thing is, my boss wants her dead, and if I bite the hand that feeds me, there’s my quiet, stable life out the door...
Marie Keda
A mysterious girl who happens to visit the hotel the protagonist lives in. A cheerful and carefree young woman with an ever-present shadow, she ends up being hunted by the yakuza after a client dies on her.
Haruhiko Nire
Netoru Irakusa
An elite detective from Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Detective Division who wanders Kabukicho, seemingly in search of something, even though his beat is actually East Shinjuku. While he may look kind, he’s a shrewd man who knows not just judo and kendo but various other practical martial arts as well.
Sayuki Ugai
Ren Kureno
A detective from East Shinjuku’s Detective Department Section 4 who’s lost any shred of morals or sense of duty. With her propensity for violence and greed, it’s no surprise she’s in the pocket of the Aoike Gathering who rule Kabukicho’s underbelly.
Mirei Bessho
Murasaki Fujino
A brash and intelligent but stubborn young woman. She met the protagonist in Kabukicho and became fast friends with Azami.
Yun Shi Gu
Jimu Kyari
The owner of an illegal business in Kabukicho. When he was young, he was the leader of a group of hot-blooded Shanghainese militants. Now he has been reduced to scraping together a living under the watchful eyes of the yakuza and the police, yet this does nothing to deter him from sticking it out in Kabukicho.
Li Jian Rong
Yukine Takane
The elderly driver for Yun’s illegal business. Being a warm and sincere man who’s well-liked by the ladies he chauffeurs belies the fact that he was once the boss of Yun and a legendary Chinese gang who exercised power over Kabukicho.
Lady Dharma
Mako Ayane
A wheelchair-bound, limbless mass murderer who has weapons stowed within her prosthetic legs. Her modified wheelchair tops out at 50 KPH, allowing her to hunt her prey to the ends of the earth. She’s become something of an urban legend in Tokyo.
Mamoru Tougi
Torowa Ando
The leading subordinate of the Aoike Gathering, the secondary organization under the large-area designated yakuza group known as the S Gathering that rules Kabukicho. A rising star in the organization, he’s one of the candidates to become the leader of the Aoike Gathering. He’s a man of few words and great restraint with the ruthlessness to kill anyone without hesitation should it be required.
Shinsuke Kaieda
Tetsuto Furukawa
A member of the Aoike Gathering and assistant to Mamoru Tougi. He’s a bold and unflappable as well as crafty, modern kind of man. Lacking the usual concern for his reputation and pride of yakuza members, he’s willing to work with anyone and everyone to achieve his goals.
Kazuyoshi Mifune
Tooru Kishiri
The head of the S Gathering’s third faction, the Mifune Group, and second lieutenant of the Aoike Gathering who’s also in the running to be next in line. He’s an old-school yakuza with an appetite for alcohol and a good time on par with his brute strength. Merciless and cruel but compassionate to his people, he’s a hero to his subordinates.
Meng Feng Da
Goro Ide
A suspicious thug who roams Kabukicho, committing fraud, fencing stolen goods, and cleverly navigating the lines between every faction from the yakuza to the Chinese gangs to the police. He’s also corrupt cop Sayuki Ugai’s pet informant.
Onda
Kazuki Nishizaki
Just your regular balding, middle-aged day laborer who gambles away his pay on horse or bike track races most days. With his easygoing smile, he’s pretty approachable.
The Crone
Megumi Nishikiori
The old woman who owns the hotel the protagonist lives in, working him like a dog. She’s a well-informed member of the Kabukicho underworld who has ties to the Aoike Gathering and knows about both the protagonist’s hit man side hustle and Yun’s gang member past.
“Me”
Ryo Sugisaki
A hit man who suffers from insomnia that renders him eternally sleep-deprived. He’s Japanese—and went by Takeo Muraki for a time—but operates under the Hong Konger identity of “Zeng Heixing” and has made a home for himself in one of the rooms in a hotel on the outskirts of Kabukicho. Normally, he spends his days working there apathetically and only kills anyone when a job comes in. After meeting Azami and getting the best sleep of his life, he can’t bring himself to let her go.
FEATURES
- A thrilling visual novel
- Japanese voice acting
- Multiple endings
STORY
Kabukicho, Shinjuku. There’s a hotel here where I work as a live-in cleaner—or at least, that’s my day job.By night, I suffer from chronic insomnia with just one cure: killing people. So I moonlight as a yakuza bigwig’s pet killer, waiting for him to toss me a bone and order a hit so I can sleep. Might sound like a fine line to walk, but my life’s pretty quiet. Pretty stable.
Until I meet this girl, Azami. Defeating her got me a night of sleep so peaceful, I’ve been mulling over the idea of keeping her around. Thing is, my boss wants her dead, and if I bite the hand that feeds me, there’s my quiet, stable life out the door...
CHARACTERS
AzamiMarie Keda
A mysterious girl who happens to visit the hotel the protagonist lives in. A cheerful and carefree young woman with an ever-present shadow, she ends up being hunted by the yakuza after a client dies on her.
Haruhiko Nire
Netoru Irakusa
An elite detective from Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s First Detective Division who wanders Kabukicho, seemingly in search of something, even though his beat is actually East Shinjuku. While he may look kind, he’s a shrewd man who knows not just judo and kendo but various other practical martial arts as well.
Sayuki Ugai
Ren Kureno
A detective from East Shinjuku’s Detective Department Section 4 who’s lost any shred of morals or sense of duty. With her propensity for violence and greed, it’s no surprise she’s in the pocket of the Aoike Gathering who rule Kabukicho’s underbelly.
Mirei Bessho
Murasaki Fujino
A brash and intelligent but stubborn young woman. She met the protagonist in Kabukicho and became fast friends with Azami.
Yun Shi Gu
Jimu Kyari
The owner of an illegal business in Kabukicho. When he was young, he was the leader of a group of hot-blooded Shanghainese militants. Now he has been reduced to scraping together a living under the watchful eyes of the yakuza and the police, yet this does nothing to deter him from sticking it out in Kabukicho.
Li Jian Rong
Yukine Takane
The elderly driver for Yun’s illegal business. Being a warm and sincere man who’s well-liked by the ladies he chauffeurs belies the fact that he was once the boss of Yun and a legendary Chinese gang who exercised power over Kabukicho.
Lady Dharma
Mako Ayane
A wheelchair-bound, limbless mass murderer who has weapons stowed within her prosthetic legs. Her modified wheelchair tops out at 50 KPH, allowing her to hunt her prey to the ends of the earth. She’s become something of an urban legend in Tokyo.
Mamoru Tougi
Torowa Ando
The leading subordinate of the Aoike Gathering, the secondary organization under the large-area designated yakuza group known as the S Gathering that rules Kabukicho. A rising star in the organization, he’s one of the candidates to become the leader of the Aoike Gathering. He’s a man of few words and great restraint with the ruthlessness to kill anyone without hesitation should it be required.
Shinsuke Kaieda
Tetsuto Furukawa
A member of the Aoike Gathering and assistant to Mamoru Tougi. He’s a bold and unflappable as well as crafty, modern kind of man. Lacking the usual concern for his reputation and pride of yakuza members, he’s willing to work with anyone and everyone to achieve his goals.
Kazuyoshi Mifune
Tooru Kishiri
The head of the S Gathering’s third faction, the Mifune Group, and second lieutenant of the Aoike Gathering who’s also in the running to be next in line. He’s an old-school yakuza with an appetite for alcohol and a good time on par with his brute strength. Merciless and cruel but compassionate to his people, he’s a hero to his subordinates.
Meng Feng Da
Goro Ide
A suspicious thug who roams Kabukicho, committing fraud, fencing stolen goods, and cleverly navigating the lines between every faction from the yakuza to the Chinese gangs to the police. He’s also corrupt cop Sayuki Ugai’s pet informant.
Onda
Kazuki Nishizaki
Just your regular balding, middle-aged day laborer who gambles away his pay on horse or bike track races most days. With his easygoing smile, he’s pretty approachable.
The Crone
Megumi Nishikiori
The old woman who owns the hotel the protagonist lives in, working him like a dog. She’s a well-informed member of the Kabukicho underworld who has ties to the Aoike Gathering and knows about both the protagonist’s hit man side hustle and Yun’s gang member past.
“Me”
Ryo Sugisaki
A hit man who suffers from insomnia that renders him eternally sleep-deprived. He’s Japanese—and went by Takeo Muraki for a time—but operates under the Hong Konger identity of “Zeng Heixing” and has made a home for himself in one of the rooms in a hotel on the outskirts of Kabukicho. Normally, he spends his days working there apathetically and only kills anyone when a job comes in. After meeting Azami and getting the best sleep of his life, he can’t bring himself to let her go.
What Steam players say
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Kurashiki Tatsuya cooked4 found this helpful
The Restless Sheep & The Lone Wolf: A Tale of Cutthroat Lovers is a dark and suspenseful visual novel that blends psychological drama, crime thriller elements, romance, and moral ambiguity into a gripping narrative set in the neon-lit underworld of Tokyo's Kabukicho district. Created by Tatsuya Kurashiki, known for crafting stories that explore the darker corners of human nature, the game presents a world where violence, obsession, and longing coexist in uneasy harmony. Featuring full Japanese voice acting, multiple endings, and a large cast of memorable characters, the story delivers an intense experience that constantly blurs the line between love and destruction. The protagonist lives a double life that appears surprisingly ordinary on the surface. By day, he works as a live-in cleaner at a modest hotel located on the outskirts of Kabukicho. To outsiders, he is merely another anonymous resident surviving among the crowded streets and endless nightlife of Tokyo's most infamous entertainment district. Yet beneath this mundane existence lies a far more dangerous reality. He suffers from chronic insomnia so severe that conventional treatments have long ceased to work. The only thin…1 found this helpful
"There is no telling what manner of grotesque darkness brews in the underbelly of the state. After all, authority is, at its essence, violence enacted in the name of the regime."1 found this helpful
Restless Sheep and the Lone Wolf is a title I'm struggling to say if I overall recommend or not. Overall, I'd slightly lean towards yes, but only if you can accept the occasional extreme content and its somewhat fast (and arguably rushed) storytelling. [h1]Premise, Setting, and Themes[/h1] On paper, I quite like the premise of this visual novel, specifically taking place in Kabukicho (and not a renamed "Kamurocho" like in the Yakuza video game series) with mostly adult-age characters. The darker undertone was pretty nice to have, and the tone was mostly serious to match. The English subtitle is A Tale of Love and Cutthroat, and I think that mostly summarizes the themes of the major characters. Restless Sheep kind of goes into the backstories of why some people are killers in the real world, from more tragic backstories to generic “I am evil because killing is fun” to less-explained but more wholesome “kill to protect” kinds of deals. There is some degree of theming around whether there's actually morality in killing. For me, a good comparison is Muramasa by Nitroplus, which goes into a lot more detail on the subject (arguably too much, and a bit too preachy at times). In contra…1 found this helpful
I will preface this by saying that reading this kinda made me sad - not the story itself, but the fact that we probably will barely ever get these cool 6-7/10 Visual Novels as much as we used to, anyone remember Coμ - Kuroi Ryuu to Yasashii Oukoku? This VN feels like one of the last breaths of a dying era. Alicesoft is barely releasing things anymore, Clockups last few releases have been disappointing at best, it makes me sad. Moving on to the actual review. I bought this on Sale on Steam. 1 - The story is decent, it is not one of the best things you will ever read, but it holds up on its own, the worldbuilding is cool, the characters are enjoyable, overall it will keep you occupied and wanting for more. The key thing that brings it down for me is how the routes are structured at the end of the game. I wish they stuck with a singular True Ending instead of splitting it apart Mass-effect Style, it would've had a much greater impact. 2 - Artstyle and H-scenes. I am gonna go on and say that the H-scenes are too many and too spontaneous... like, do not get me wrong, the artist of this is amazing and I really like her work, I'd be interested in seeing more Visual Novels with her ar…
First two thirds are better than last third. Kinda rushed the ending and epilogue if you can even call it one. Art and music is good and voice acting is active throughout a lot of the visual novel. It’s forgettable, but I still enjoyed several hrs of it.
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