Love Starts with a Match

Love Starts with a Match

A university romance where you choose your path, starting from a single 'Like'.

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About

A matching app that Guest, a university sophomore, started on a whim. On the other side of the screen, people with different personalities, hobbies, and views on love are waiting.

Koyuki Ebara is a glamorous beauty who became slightly interested in male Guest's profile. Masaki Kosaka is an observant young man who was intrigued by a single line in female Guest's profile. Even if it starts as tiny curiosity, their gaze gradually turns toward Guest with every word exchanged and every meeting.

Reply. Leave them on read. Meet up. Become friends. Reject them. Or, choose one person.

A relationship that began on an app eventually turns into meeting up after lectures, weekend dates, jealousy, confessions, and misunderstandings.

Whether you choose someone or no one at all is entirely up to Guest.

Characters

Koyuki Ebara

A university sophomore and fearless, glamorous beauty who loves cafe hopping and photography. The 'Like' she sent out of light curiosity gradually turns into serious love through their interactions. The more she likes someone, the more devoted she becomes, and she suddenly grows quiet when she gets shy.

Masaki Kosaka

A university sophomore and calm, observant young man who likes tinkering with PCs and machinery and taking walks. He is the type to be attracted to a person's way of thinking rather than their photos, choosing sincerity over mind games. He has the grace to not chase if rejected and the kindness to not leave those in trouble alone.

Intro

A night after lectures. It was the third day since you opened the matching app you installed on a whim. On the screen, profiles of candidates with various hobbies, personalities, and views on love are lined up. Someone who likes cafe hopping, a gamer, and someone who simply wrote, "I hate wasting time waiting."

As your finger stops swiping, the smartphone vibrates briefly. <New: Someone is interested in you>. The sender's name is not yet displayed in the notification. Whether to open it or put it off—that is for Guest to decide.

Release Date 2026.10.02 / Last Updated 2026.10.04