Title: 夏色の砂時計　CDドラマ「夏の終わりに・・・」 (Hourglass of Summer Colors, CD Drama, "At the End of Summer...")
Original Creator: Princess Soft
Release Date: 9/19/02
Catalog No.: SCDC-00211
Rating: 3/4

This story takes place a few weeks after the end of the game and provides an little extra episode that deals with Kaho's and Kotaro's relationship (I assuming this is an extension of Kaho's good ending, which is the only one I played). The voice acting is pretty good for a drama CD and is a big improvement over the segmented speech that appears in video games. The romance portion of the story is nice, but the whole premise of them going to the beach house doesn't really make sense.

There's no mention of a first edition, but I got a Y200 phone card with it. The liners features comments from the voice cast.

1. ９月１２日　昼　～あの長い夏休みが終わって・・・～ (9/12 Noon, That Long Summer Has Ended): Kotaro explains that it's been two weeks since saving Kaho and introduces the drama CD.

2. ９月１２日　昼　～補習と旅行、どっちがいい？～ (9/12 Noon, Summer School or Travel, Which is Better?): His teacher Tomo-chan wants him to come with her to her beach house to do some research. If he doesn't come, she'll make him do a report to make up for his poor test. Between those two choices, he chooses the vacation. However, he asks that Kaho be able to come along and she agrees.

3. ９月１３日　夜　～ごめんね、コータロ！～ (9/13 Night, Sorry, Kotaro!): Kotaro is preparing to depart and is quite happy about it. Regen then appears and starts apologizing profusely without explaining too much about why, and then leaves. Kotaro gets a bad feeling thinking something's going to happen.

4. ９月１５日　夜　～耕太郎うんなんか、嫌い～ (9/15 Night, I Hate You Kotaro): After falling asleep, Kotaro wakes up on the beach with Kaho. Kaho tells him to close his eyes and then slaps him, tells him that she hates him, and runs away.

5. ９月１４日　朝　～あいも一緒にいくね！～ (9/14 Morning, I (Ai) Will Come With You Too!): Kotaro thinks that he getting another glimpse of the future. To prevent that future, he thinks he can just ditch the vacation but apparently Tomo-chan is in his room and overhears his plan. She drags him out of bed. As they're leaving, he finds out that Kaho also invited Ai.

6. ９月１４日　昼　〜渡しの手料理、たべて欲しいの～ (9/14 Noon, I Want You To Taste My Home Cooking): Around the beach house, Kotaro meets Mana whose parents live in the area. The three girls now start cooking some lunch of Kotaro. Kotaro tries to figure out why Kaho would hate her and thinks that it's because he's going to comment on her bad cooking. So when the girls present their food, he gives complements despite it tasting terrible. He passes out from eating all that food.

7. ９月１４日　夕　～旅行の真の目的は―――？！～ (9/14 Evening, The Real Reason For This Trip Is...?!): Tomo-chan reveals that it's not really her beach house, but she got to stay there for free because there's rumors that there are ghosts around. Tomo-chan suits up in a mecha suit and goes to research the ghosts.

8. ９月１４日　夜　～酔っ払い教師と温泉の夜～ (9/14 Night, The Drunk Teacher and Hot Spring at Night): The investigation is a failure. The drunk Tomo-chan and Kotaro start talking. Kotaro explains his situation, and Tomo-chan reassures him. Later, the 3 girls are in the hot springs and start talking about what a nice guy Kotaro is.

9. ９月１５日　夕　～全ては未来を変えるために・・・～ (9/15 Evening, In Order to Completely Change the Future...): Kotaro decides to stay in his room all day today so that he won't do anything stupid. However, Kaho is saddened by his staying in his room. Tomo-chan comes in and beats some sense into him by telling him that he's a fool for ignoring Kaho and making her cry. Kotaro meets up with Kaho and the other girls. As they're going to watch the fireworks, Ai recommends that Mana and her leave the lovebirds alone, although she's a bit sad in saying that.

10. ９月１５日　夜　～二人で未来を描いていこう～ (9/15 Night, Let's Create Our Future Together): Kotaro and Kaho are on the beach alone. Kaho tells him to close his eyes, but rather than slapping him, she kisses him. She explains that the only summer homework she could never complete was the summer diary because her summer days were always the same. However, today's entry will be filled with various activities.

11. ９月１５日　夜　～素敵な明日が、待っている～ (9/15 Night, A Wonder Tomorrow Is Waiting): Regen appears at the beach house. Kotaro asks her what that day drop was about and she explains that it was probably a dream because she didn't register any abnormalities in the time-space continuum. She reminds him that the future is something that hasn't been decided yet.

12. キャストロール (Cast Roll): The cast give their names and characters they voice while the ending song to the game is playing in the background.

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