Free to play枝江畔之梦
A fan-made visual novel about virtual idol group A-SOUL, with over 100,000 words of main story plus side stories and more than 60 CGs. You walk beside five girls in the city of Zhijiang as they push toward a shining stage, and you help piece their broken memories back together between chapters.
Is 枝江畔之梦 worth it?
枝江畔之梦 is worth it if…
- you already follow A-SOUL and want a long tribute to the five members
- you like story-first visual novels about idols, dreams, and friendship
- you enjoy collecting CGs, notes, and behind-the-scenes extras
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A long fan story about five idols
You are not just watching A-SOUL, you are the companion who keeps them moving forward. The main plot runs past 100,000 words, with smaller stories around it, set in a busy Zhijiang that feels lifeless without its idols.
The five each carry something different: a proud young singer who keeps embarrassing herself in public, a dance teacher holding onto her form, a popular singer caught between dream and reality, a wandering painter with a small frame and a large dream, and a law graduate with idol-level singing and dancing. You follow their doubts, reunions, and choices, and the writing stays with identity, friendship, and what a stage means when the future feels false.
Chapter games and extras to find
As the story moves on, short chapter games open up. You play them to help the leads recover shattered memories, with each game tied to a character's own traits.
The package around the story is generous: detailed character art, more than sixty story CGs and illustrations, plus camp features, collections, notes, and behind-the-scenes talk. Finish the whole main story and the team has a larger surprise waiting for further exploring, a reason to keep clicking after the last big performance.
What else should you know?
Do you need to know the real A-SOUL members first?
It helps a lot. This is a fan doujin work, and its world and character setups do not claim to show the real members as they are now. Knowing the five girls and their in-jokes makes the plot and side stories land better.
How do the chapter games work?
They appear between story chapters and ask you to use your own input to restore the leads' broken memories. They are short detours from reading, each linked to one girl's story.
What is waiting after the main story?
The team points to a bigger surprise once you have seen the full main plot. Extras such as side stories, collections, and production notes give you more to open up along the way.
