This is truly a work of art and after playing though the update I decided to replay from the beginning and I want to talk about it. Since i have no one irl to discuss this with I am going to use this review as a way to get my thoughts out.

First of all this is one of the best VNs I've played. If it were a book or tv show I would be obsessed.

1. The characters are all amazing. 
   1. The Girls are each very unique and well written. Each one feels like a real character rather than a plain old stereotype. They all do a great job at joining the group at their own pace without things feeling too rushed(outside the fact that the entire story is very rushed). Girls like Hannah who we have not really done anything with and is far from officially becoming a GF still feels like they're interested but have their reasons for being hesitant. Catherine is another where shes not apart of the GFs yet but she's clearly interested but has her own motivations. 
   2. The side characters are all well written as well. Brian is the exact type of rich, inbred-looking asshole that you'd expect. Mika though irrelevant feels like the type of desperate groupie that would follow Brian around. Mr. Takamura though an ass has understandable motivations and doesn't feel like a villain. The main thing about the side characters that I liked was they feel like they belong. The founding family members don't all feel the same yet they are clearly from the same club and the randoms that know about the founding families act like the families are important and are sucks ups because of it. 
2. The plot is Good
   1. The Cafe is our main goal. Run a Cafe and become a famous chef both amazing goals that I think are great aspects to the plot.
   2. Following the Cafe we have the Founding Family relations. As the MC we clearly want nothing to do with this but we understand that we have no choice so we accept it and its now a big part of our life. Obviously this is the main thing to push the plot forward as they will continue to do things that require us to react to continue with the plot. Along with that we now have ties to several girls in the founding families that we are growing to love. Alice, Hannah, and Catherine are all relying/helping us in order to achieve their own goals. Obviously Alice more than anything is trying to help us because of her sister, Hannah though she won't admit it wants us to save her, but refuses to get her hopes up, and Catherine is in a similar boat she needs us to help her and her family.
   3. The girls are far from a side plot as each is extremely important to moving the story along. As the harem grows we get days where we focus on a few different girls and develop our relationships with them eventually leading to big date nights like the first time with Lucy, or most recently the photoshoot with Sarah. Each girl is inherently a side plot of their own that joins into the bigger story. As our character takes time to slowly learn about the girls we end up falling in love and growing our harem. 
3. General things I like
   1. The relationships between the girls and how our character handles everything.  I like that when Hannah and Catherine argue we step in and handle it. We don't just sit there and let the girls fight each other we punish both of them and in turn we learn about their dynamic. I like how Lucy has come so far in a short time and how her and Victorias relationship has grown. Overall the dynamics within the harem feel much more realistic than many other games.
   2. The music isn't too much. Some games the music is so obnoxious I just turn it off completely outside of major confrontations the music blends into the background really well.

I do have some critiques but thankfully not many and nothing too serious.

1. As of this update we are 27 days in. A lot has happened in those 27 days and I'm assuming a lot will happen. My biggest problem is that our character has got a harem so quickly. A lot of this story feels like it could happen and its a bit nitpicky but for us to gain a harem almost days after meeting characters feels fast. Lucy said "i love you" within a week or two, we had three girls do sexual favors for us within days of meeting them. Overall it just feels like so much happens so quickly at times. 
   1. Along with the pace. Every update has given us about 2.25 days of in game time. We also get updates once every 2-4 months. I'm not sure how long with game will be but it feels fairly early as of now and our character has talked about going to college and marriage in a few years. At the pace we're going just to reach one year in-game time it would take roughly 162 updates which would be 40 years real time if the average time for an update is 3 months.  I mention this mostly because I am not sure about the pace that this game is going at. I think an update every three months is plenty. Some will obviously take more time than that, but in-game time feels like its moving fairly slow even if a lot is happening so I'm just curious if the game is going to speed up or if the entire plot is going to end up happening within a span of two months.
2. I think this game would be better with no options. We have very few already and they're really not important. I think if the game was just streamlined instead it might be for the best. Or we need more choices because the game is kind of at a place where theres too little and its usually just a skip scene button or maybe change the punishment. 

I am curious now that we have a limit on the amount of girls I'm curious who the remaining two will be. The current cast seems to be Lucy, Victoria, Akatsuki, Sarah, Alice, Hannah, Catherine, and Misaki. It feels like we could end up adding Akari some day which is funny since our MC seems to collect sisters. I also think its funny that we will have Three members of the Takamura family which makes me wonder if thats too many. The other girl I assume will be Annabelle though it was hinted at less than Akaris blatant flirting I feel as if thats the direction the game might be going. Which makes me want to add that I'm glad we're not going after anyones mothers. I thought at one point that might happen, but if the girls I listed end up being the final cast I would be glad since it feels outright wrong to sleep with Sarahs mom and id imagine it would feel the same if it were anyone elses mom regardless if they're hot or not.

Once again this game is amazing its easily the best VN i've played and I am genuinely enjoying every aspect and am looking forward to the next update. I hope you're doing well if you read this.