Winter’s Wish Spirits of Edo Kinji Walkthrough

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Route Notes

Kinji’s path is accessible by choosing Entertainment District as your assigned area. His route is not locked and can be played at any time.
This route has three endings (Affection End, Sorrow End, and Bad End). The Affection and Sorrow ends have finale CGs, while the Bad end is a game over end.
After completing any Affection end, Extras will unlock from the Exhibits menu. There you can view character bios and voiced lines. There is also an additional image that does not appear in the gallery.
- You can view this image by clicking the book in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Affection choices raise the affection of that route’s love interest, these are color coded to match the guys’ accent color.
Falling Snow choices are plot relevant decisions that guide the course of the story. These are depicted as light blue falling snow accents.

Recommended Play Order: Genjuro → Yoichi → Kinji → Kunitaka → Tomonari → Ohtaro

Kinji Best End Walkthrough

Common Route

Chapter 1

5 Common CGs Unlocked (x1 Tomonari, x1 Kunitaka, x1 Genjuro, x1 Yoichi, x1 Kinji)

1. Study (Tomonari)

2. Veranda (Kunitaka)

3. Theater House (Kinji)

4. Main Street (Ohtaro)

Common CG Unlocked (x1 Ohtaro)

5. Stores (Yoichi)

6. Row house (Genjuro)

Note: You can’t save from the location selection screen, so be sure to save when Suzuno says, “I want to work in–“ for the common save for every path.

Common All Save

7. Entertainment District (Kinji and Ohtaro)

Entertainment District Path

Chapter 2

Please be mindful of the following content warnings: Sex Work | References to Sexually Transmitted Illness

Common CG Unlocked (Group)

Save for Kinji and Ohtaro Routes

8. Take another card (Kinji Affection Up)

Common CG Unlocked (Kinji)

9. Look at Kinji (Kinji Affection Up)

Common CG Unlocked (Ohtaro)

10. Circle around (Kinji Affection Up)

Common CG Unlocked (Kinji)

Chapter 3

Common CG Unlocked (Ohtaro)

11. Stay like this for a while

12. Reason with the Nekomata Boy (Kinji Affection Up)

Common CG Unlocked (Group)

Kinji’s Route

Chapter 4

Kinji CG Unlocked

13. Point out it’s a joke (Kinji Affection Up)

Chapter 5

Kinji CG Unlocked

Save 1

14. Keep silent (Kinji Affection Up)

Kinji CG Unlocked

Chapter 6

Kinji CG Unlocked

15. Purposefully copy Kinji (Kinji Affection Up)

16. Call out to Kinji (Kinji Affection Up)

<<Kinji Affection Max>>

Kinji CG Unlocked

Chapter 7

Kinji CG Unlocked

Save 2

17. Distract her

Kinji CG Unlocked

Final Chapter

No choice

Kinji Affection End

Kinji CG Unlocked

Kinji Sorrow End Walkthrough

This ending does come with a new unlockable CG.
Because this is a bad ending, there may be some potentially uncomfortable situations. For content warnings, click the red bar below:

Content Warnings (Minor Spoilers)

Please be mindful of the following content warnings: Major Character Death

Shortcut for Kinji Sorrow End: Select Retrace Footsteps from the menu > Select Kinji > Select Kinji Chapter 7 > Set Affection to High > Skip to next choice and pick “Pray harder”

Save 2

Chapter 7

1. Pray harder (Falling Snow Choice)

Kinji Sorrow End

Kinji CG Unlocked

Bad End Walkthrough

This ending does not come with a new unlockable CG.
Because this is a bad ending, there may be some potentially uncomfortable situations. For content warnings, click the red bar below:

Content Warnings (Minor Spoilers)

Please be mindful of the following content warnings: Major Character Death

Shortcut for Kinji Bad End: Select Retrace Footsteps from the menu > Select Kinji > Select Kinji Chapter 7 > Set Affection to Low > Skip to next choice and pick “Pray harder”

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