The Language of Love

The Language of Love

Released May 2019

Mitsuki, an aimless young man studying to take his university entrance exams, falls for a young single mother who lives in his apartment complex. A relationship develops between these mismatched social outcasts, and then...

95% positive · 171 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

The Language of Love is a completed visual novel that launched on May 28, 2019 as a self-contained story — approximately 80,000 words with no choices or branches (it is described as a "kinetic" story). Both DLC items (an 18+ patch and the official soundtrack) were released on the same day as the base game, making this a complete package from day one. Post-launch activity has been limited to maintenance: a bug fix shortly after launch in June 2019, another bug fix in September 2020, and a Russian translation with minor bug fixes added in December 2022. None of these constitute new story content. The developer, ebi-hime, has continued to release other visual novels — My Lovey-Dovey Demon in January 2024 and Maid For My Master in June 2025 — and has used The Language of Love's community hub to announce these new titles. However, these announcements are for separate games, not new content for this one. There is no announced or unreleased content for The Language of Love, and the developer has made no statements suggesting further updates are planned for it.
Evidence
Game described as a kinetic visual novel with no choices or branches — a self-contained, linear story of approximately 80,000 words.
description · May 28, 2019 source development ending
high
18+ patch released on the same day as the base game — no unreleased DLC exists.
dlc listing · May 28, 2019 source content shipped
high

Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Released
May 2019

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
ebi-hime
Achievements
14
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

After his mother gets into an accident, Tanimura Mitsuki has to put his life and education on hold. He lives with his parents in the sleepy countryside for five years, helping them run their humble family business — while the rest of his friends leave home, and leave him behind.

When Mitsuki finally leaves the nest, he’s twenty-three years old, and woefully behind with his studies. If he wants to get accepted into university, he’ll need to re-learn everything he was taught during high school, and then some.

Mitsuki moves to Tokyo to attend a rigorous cram school, with the hopes of passing his university entrance exams next spring. He soon finds, however, that his other classmates treat him like a social outcast, being the oldest at his school by far. It proves impossible to make friends, and Mitsuki consigns himself to an isolated, lonely existence...

That is, until he meets the single mother, Himuro Kyouko, who just-so-happens to live in the same apartment complex as him.

Mitsuki offers to help Kyouko babysit her daughter, Tama. Kyouko, in turn, helps Mitsuki study for his upcoming exams. Over the course of a year, the two bond — first, as friends, and then as something more


- Around 80,000 words of text (approx 5-6 hours of reading)
- Detailed background and character art
- A custom OST
- 1080p display
- Daily messages from Kyouko, the story’s heroine
- A kinetic story with no choices or branches
- A cute single mother!

Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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