Thank you for playing! Hahah I assure you Akechi's Moon path starts off strong but the MC survive! .... as long as you choose the right answers that is :)
Akira's route is by far my most favorite too, but I'm probably biased and there's also the fact that the other routes aren't as fleshed out yet as of now lol
That's an interesting idea, but I don't know how it would affect the game necessarily, since the Velvet Room doesn't really appear after character selection. We'll see!
The sprites and a lot of the art assets are actually taken from a certain sprites resources website! They have almost everything there, it's crazy haha
I can't say for sure how long the game will be in total in the final version. It depends on each writers, the players' reading speed, the amount of branching storylines, and a lot of other factors that comes into play when it comes to a VN. The aim is 1 hour for each route, but I can't say that for sure 100%!