"Tea Society of a Witch" is an "AnimePlay" DVD from Hirameki 
International. As they advise, this can be played on a PC, but you may 
be better off with a DVD player (including game consoles like PS2 or 
Xbox) instead. The chief benefit of playing this on a PC is being able 
to use a mouse to enter the password codes that are this product's 
version of a saved game, instead of putting them in by DVD remote. More 
review at the end of this text file.

Apparently this was the first product from Hirameki in the double-wide 
box. That makes it look more professional, and helps it stand out on 
store shelves. For this product, the second half of the box is taken up 
by a boxed art book. This provides some additional background on the 
female characters, and the kind of artwork you'd expect to find in a 
"perfect guide" if you could buy one for this game. The outer box also 
had a colored paper strip that mostly duplicated information on the 
back of the box, but also emphasized how this could be played on 
regular DVD players with no installation or difficult commands.

The Japanese original for Tea Society was from Front Wing. I noticed 
wing symbols on Nee and Drill, but there isn't ever a good enough look 
at Ponica to see if she had one on her hat too. English that is 
assumed to be transliteration of the Japanese on the title screen 
says "Majyo no Otya Kai". There is at least one reference to "Witch's 
Tea Party" within the game, for example the password screen.

The Animetric site (www.animetric.com) says in their review that there 
is a rumor that the Japanese original had more endings, as the English 
version is missing endings for Megumi and Ponica, and there are several 
scenes in the game's introduction that aren't encountered in play. Yes, 
only endings for Nee, Drill & Manamu are available to us. Well, and a 
fourth "non-ending" that you get if you don't fully pursue one of the 
three choices. Also, the review states that the 3-letter password "was 
easy to crack, could predict next one". I'll also agree with the review 
that "Megumi has thighs the size of Texas"; I think even Drill and Nee 
do also in the standard front character overlay view, but not in most 
of the full-screen drawing views.
There's no hentai in this title, just a panty shot of Megumi. If that 
had been left out, this could have been just barely "T" rated.

WALKTHROUGH:

You'll have to start the game over for each of the three girls that 
you want to pursue. I don't think that you can mess up by making 
choices during play except for not consistently picking the same girl 
each day. But if you want to be certain, pick the choices that I did 
and you'll get to the endings.

for Drill:
August 5, chose Drill -> RAA
August 6, chose Drill, then "Call out to her right now." / "Let things 
   be."
   first -> BBA
   Note that Rokusuke speaks about a meeting with Akiwo that didn't 
   occur.
August 7, chose Drill, then "Be the guinea pig." / "Refuse to be the 
   guinea pig."
   second -> RBA
August 8 -> chose Drill, BCA
   Something seems to be missing between when Akiwo says she can 
   reverse Drill's spell, and the next scene where Rokusuke talks to 
   Nee at the end of the day.
August 9 -> chose Drill, RCA
August 10 -> chose Drill, then choice "Return to planet Krypton" / 
   "Return to the Magic Kingdom"
   choice "String rip gate" / "Megumi's used clothes"
   choice "My mom, of course!" / "Akiwo!"
   choice "bad mouth him, and she will appear" / "maybe she's gambling 
   at japanese pinball"
   If you've been following the story at all, the correct answers are 
   obvious. But even if you haven't, the "wrong" ones just give you 
   some silly internal dialogue before jumping back to the correct 
   track.
   After almost 50 minutes more, you reach the Drill ending ("Happy 
   End").
During that scene with melons on August 10 with Drill, the game says 
honeydew melon when it's obviously what's called cantaloupe in the 
USA.

for Nee:
August 5, chose Nee, choose to help with cleaning
 eventually to password CAA
August 6, chose Nee -> DAA
August 7, chose Nee -> EAA
August 8, chose Nee -> FAA
August 9, chose Nee, then "There's no way I can forgive you." / 
   "Alright... I forgive her."
   Second -> GAA
August 10, chose Nee, then "You look kind of like a little kid." / 
   "You look really cute." / "Your figure is..."
   Second -> HAA
August 11, chose Nee, after a really long sequence then "Tell your 
   feelings to her frankly." / "Ask Nee how she feels." / "Say 
   something else"
   Second -> eventually (over 1 hour!) to Nee ending ("Happy End")
   Some of this has inconsistencies between several days passing or 
   only one day passing.
Note that Nee ending explains one of the voice sequences played during 
the game start, by adding a graphic that assigns it to a child Nee and 
a boy that's probably Rokusuke as a child.

for Manamu:
August 5, choose Manamu -> eventually to password BEA
August 6, chose Manamu -> BIA
August 7, chose Manamu then choice of "Oh well. I'll lend a hand" /
   "I'll just cheer her on from here."
   first -> BMA
August 8, chose Manamu -> BQA
August 9, chose Manamu -> BUA (Manamu never showed up that day, just 
   Akiwo and Nana)
August 10, chose Manamu -> BYA (again no Manamu, just Nana)
August 11, chose Manamu, then choice of "I prefer cheerful girls" / 
   "It doesn't really matter". First -> B3A
August 12, chose Manamu -> BAB
August 13, chose Manamu, then choice of "I don't have a girlfriend" / 
   "Well, there is a girl that I like."
   Second choice -> choice of Nee / Manamu / Nana
   Manamu -> BEB
August 14, chose Manamu -> BIB
August 15, chose Manamu -> eventually to Manamu ending. Unlike the Nee 
   or Drill endings, this one doesn't say "Happy End" anywhere that I 
   noticed.

for "nobody":
If you "mix" girls by not picking the same one every day, I expect 
you'll get the "Bad End" with none of them. I found it once by going 
to the last password for Manamu, then picking Nee from then on. I got 
several extra scenes and passwords, but nothing special, and finally 
a "Bad End" screen for a second.


Review:
Graphics in the game, after the title animations, have a border around 
them reminiscent of some Game Boy Color titles, which may help with 
being able to read the subtitles on some TV monitors.
One unique feature of this game is the infrequent use of an isometric 
stage and animated super-deformed characters. They definitely break up 
the stereotypical presentation of figures, slightly changed for 
emotions, pasted over a fixed background that we're so used to seeing 
in Japanese adventures.
Password system isn't set up so you can skip to August 5 and start 
picking the 3 girls. You have to replay from the beginning of the game 
each time you want to see a different ending. The list of passwords 
above should help though.
Music is often too loud, and often covers up the girls' voices.
"Japanese pinball" is in subtitles and one choice, but the voice says 
pachinko - not a bad translation but it patronizes those of us who know 
a little Japanese culture.
Not a bad effort, but the graphic style is too "lolicon" for me. I 
like the animations, and wish they had been used even more. Not 
enough adult content for the "17 Up" rating. And an awful lot of 
waiting, even when played at 2x speed, to get to decision points or 
the endings.

If you have anything to add to this file, let me know.

Peter Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net
http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/p_hgames.htm