Reviewed work by Aokumashii · View on DLsite
Somewhere between a beat-’em-up and a cautionary tale, Buchikome ☆ High Kick! is a Flash-era action game about a ponytailed girl who keeps taking the same shady shortcut on her daily walk — right past the park toilet everyone swears is a groper’s hunting ground. If you like your molestation-themed ero delivered through actual gameplay instead of a static gallery, and you don’t mind a title that’s plainly showing its age, this is squarely aimed at you.
What works
The obvious selling point is that this is a game, not a slideshow. It’s built as a 2D fighting-style action piece — the “High Kick” of the title isn’t decoration, and the martial-arts framing means you’re meant to be doing something with your hands, not just clicking “next.” For a corner of the market that’s overwhelmingly point-and-read, having a heroine who moves, strikes, and animates carries a lot of the appeal on its own. The Animation tag isn’t a bluff here; the sprite work is the star, and the erotic content is stitched into the scenario as it plays out rather than bolted on as an afterthought gallery.
The scenario itself is admirably economical. A girl, a route she knows she shouldn’t take, a public toilet with a filthy reputation, and a premonition that pays off exactly as dreaded — that’s the whole hook, and it doesn’t need more. The outdoor, everyday-commute setting does a lot of quiet work: the uniform, the ordinary park, the mundane trudge home are what make the premise land for people into that specific tension. It’s the chikan (secret-fondling) fantasy in a pure, direct form, with no elaborate framing to get in the way of it.
It’s also worth saying plainly: this one earned its audience. Aokumashii has a long back catalogue of compact, scenario-driven action-H titles, and this is one of the entries people actually kept talking about — a strong reputation, a large buyer base, and enough demand that the circle later shipped a separate add-on pack extending the girl’s ordeal into a “man’s room” follow-up. A track record like that is a reasonable proxy for “the core loop works and the art delivers,” even years on.
What doesn’t
The elephant in the room is the technology. This is a Flash-based build from late 2015 (Ver 1.31), and Flash has been formally dead since the end of 2020. Standalone projector packaging usually keeps games like this playable, but you should go in expecting a dated presentation, some possible fiddling to get it running cleanly on a modern machine, and none of the resolution or quality-of-life niceties a current release would offer. If you bounce off old Flash ero-games on principle, nothing here will change your mind.
The content is also narrow by design. It’s essentially one girl and one situation — executed well, but not expansively. The meaningful expansion is a paid add-on rather than something bundled in, so the base package is shorter than its long-tail reputation might lead you to assume. The whole thing is Japanese-only with no English option; the scenario is simple enough that language isn’t a hard wall, but there’s no localization to lean on either. And this is unambiguously a non-consensual molestation fantasy — that’s not a flaw, it’s the entire point, but it does mean the work is only ever going to click for a specific slice of players.
Who should buy this
Players who specifically want action-style H-games — where you’re engaging with a system, not just reading — and who are into the chikan / public-molestation niche. If Flash-era jank is a dealbreaker, or non-consensual scenarios aren’t your thing, skip it without a second thought. If both of those are fine and the premise clicks, this is one of the more fondly remembered entries in exactly that lane.
Verdict
7.5 / 10 — a genuinely well-made, well-loved staple of the animated chikan-action niche whose biggest liabilities are its age and its Flash guts rather than anything it does wrong on the screen.
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