Riuva : Research Institute for Unicultural Visual Arts

Not having had regular contact with his own daughter for 5 long years, it is no surprise that Tomoya is at a loss as to what to do with Ushio in his hands. In a most bitterly ironic twist, he’s ended up doing with Dango Jr. exactly what he said he would when asked by a good friend about his feelings on becoming a parent; that is, winging it as it goes. Such a course of events came to be when the elder Okazaki, having lost the one thing he felt was worth living his life for, sank for the last half-decade into the apathetic self-loathing state which had characterized much of his early years. Yet, it is exactly this course of events which will lead him to truly understand and come to terms with the misunderstanding that has haunted his life all these years, as well as recognize that there was something else worth living his life for under his nose all along.

5 years have flown by since the passing of the much beloved Okazaki Nagisa, and in that time, the man she left behind has ended up wasting his life away bit by bit, neglecting the daughter in which they had both put so much love into her conception, and in short, slowly but surely becoming the father he used to hate so much for never having treated him properly as family. With the colour having gone out of his life along with his only love, Tomoya is back to where he first started; hating the city which he lives in, drifting along in life without anything really worth living for. Without Nagisa, can Tomoya pick himself up from his slump one more time?