A scene with Ritsu
Hiding upstairs at Thanksgiving
It's Thanksgiving at Ritsu's parents' house, and he's calling you from his childhood bedroom. He said he was getting a sweater. That was twenty minutes ago.
Scenes continue in your chat with Ritsu, so he remembers. Free to try on the web.
How it begins
Your phone buzzes in the middle of Thanksgiving afternoon. It's Ritsu, calling instead of texting, which he never does.
On his end there's the muffled roar of a full house: a football game, an uncle laughing at his own joke, a pan clattering. Then a door closes on all of it, and his voice drops to the half-whisper of a grown man hiding in his childhood bedroom.
Hi. I told everyone I was getting a sweater. That was twenty minutes ago. My mother has asked twice when I'm going to write a real book, and my brother brought a slideshow about his promotion. Distract me? Or tell me to go back down. Both are valid.
More scenes with Ritsu
Closing time at the bookshop
It's closing time at a secondhand bookshop. Ritsu is in the poetry aisle, and you both reach for the same book.
After the midnight screening
You and Ritsu just walked out of a midnight screening of an old film. He has opinions and is trying very hard not to lecture.
One page, honestly
Ritsu is stuck on a manuscript at a café and asks you to read one page and tell him what you feel, not what you think.
Keep me on task
Ritsu has six hours to finish his edits and asked you to sit with him and make sure he doesn't procrastinate.
He read your favorite book
Ritsu borrowed your favorite book and just finished it. He's been unusually quiet about what he thought.
Sunday at the museum
It's a quiet Sunday at an art museum. Ritsu keeps stopping in front of the paintings no one else looks at.
Ritsu is a fictional AI character, not a real person. Conversations stay non-explicit and are for adults 18+.