Season of the Sakura

Season of the Sakura is a 1996 dating sim for MS-DOS and Windows. The game involves the student Shuji Yamagami who meets eight different women and tries to have sex with one before the school year is over. The game as a bishōjo game which are games that feature a male protagonist meeting attractive anime-styled women and an eroge, a term for Japanese erotic games where incorporate various amounts of sexual content into either the narrative or gameplay. The player tries to connect with a potential woman by choosing various menu-based options through the year.

Season of the Sakura was developed by the company Tiara and was among the first games released by JAST USA, who were among the first Western distributors to release eroge games from Japan in English. Academics Mark Kretzschmar and Sara Raffel described Season of the Sakura as "the first big push" to release eroge to Western audiences. The game received positive reviews for its writing and replay value in Animeco and by Kretzschmar and Raffel respectively, while both viewers commented the game for being strictly for adults or problematic due to some of its adult themes.