At long last! I couldn’t even enjoy his route any more, because I had to do it twice. Also I don’t really like his scruffy look. When he got the Nobelno Prize and showed up clean-shaven with his hair slicked back I was like “Ooh, I could get into that!” But when it’s time for the confession he shows up with his usual slovenly look again, meh. There should have been a “Go back and shave first, then we’ll talk” option.
To make things worse, his ending says he’s just as cranky as ever even as you’re dating. Come to think of it, does he say he loves you? He doesn’t, does he? He says “I need you”, which is not the same as “I love you.” Just ask Meat Loaf. Gimme Konno-sempai or Kouichi any day of the week.
Anyway, the part you wanted to read, how to actually get Ol’ Crankypants to confess to you. He’s much easier than Taira or Oosako because much of his route is made up of automatic events. If you manage to get the first few triggers to occur and don’t mess up the others, you should be safe. Be very, very careful not to date any other guys on his route, though, otherwise you’ll end up like this.
Now for the actual instructions. These are taken from this Japanese page: Secret Character (Aizawa Shougo) so I don’t take any credit for it, but I have tested it and it does work.
2nd Year
October – December
Check the homepage in October and it will tell you about a book release. Go out to town repeatedly until it triggers an event where you go to the bookstore. Apparently you have to visit at least one of the shops in the shopping district (商店街) to get it to trigger, I’m not sure about that. If you miss this event, say good bye to Aizawa.
When you get the option, choose to buy a book.
December-January
You’ll get an event where you lend the book to Miyo-chan.
February – March
Check the homepage for info about another book release. Go out again until you get the bookstore event to trigger (just like in October). You’ll run into Aizawa again and he’ll ask you to pretend to be his niece.
Automatic event
You’ll run into Aizawa again, and he’ll ask you to pretend to be his niece again.
Choose “Yes”.
The Following Sunday
Make sure you choose to go shopping the next Sunday. If you have club practice, you can go to practice and do it the following Sunday, but I don’t know if that will work if you have a date.
After you choose to go out, you have to choose, in order:
“Go see him”
“Call out to him”
“Don’t be so selfish!!” or “….” (both are fine)
3rd Year
April – June
Do not accept any invitations to walk home with a friend and do not invite anyone to walk home until this event triggers. You’ll run into Aizawa and get an event that takes place in a bar (it involves Himuro, whee!)
The Aizawa Command
After the bar event, you should find an “Aizawa” command next to the Shopping/Date command. Choose that command on weekends to go visit Aizawa. If you don’t choose it for 8 weeks in a row, it will disappear. That means you’ve lost him.
5th time you choose it: CG event
6th time you choose it: Event, command disappears
September
If you can’t read Japanese, you might get worried if you don’t see any Aizwa events for several months, but don’t worry. In September, Miyo-chan will send you an e-mail about “Bitter Chocolate Cake”. Choose to go out, and choose to go to the park. You’ll reminisce about Aizawa.
October
You’ll get an e-mail about an “Autumn Book Fair”. Go shopping, then go to the bookstore. Choose “Get a ticket to the book signing”.
19th November
Book signing takes place. Apparently you can choose either “I still want to see him’ or “I’ll just go home” and still get his ending. However if you choose the latter you won’t get his second CG, so choose to see him to be on the safe side.
28th January
Automatic if you choose the first option in the previous event (not sure, think so)
Miyo-chan finally returns your book (it’s been a whole year!!!). You’ll go to the bookstore and get a CG about Aizawa receiving the Nobelno Book Prize. He cleans up good, doesn’t he? I won’t post it here, see it for yourself.
After this his save icon should show up, and then you’re safe as long as you don’t let any other guys get in the way.
And that’s it! That wasn’t so hard, was it? The hard thing is getting his early events to trigger. When you go out once and twice and nothing happens, it’s easy to get discouraged. Don’t give up, keep going out and you should trigger it eventually. It’s all about patience. Happy Aizawa hunting!
where did u download it??
If you mean the ROM file, you can find it anywhere DS roms can be found, but please buy it if you can.
hey…i use your guidelines to get Aizawa
i did get the ‘bookstore event’ and bought it…
but i can’t trigger the 2nd event where Miyo read the book…
i’ve been repeating this for days..
do you need any requirements with Miyo to get this??
None as far as I know, unless the PSP version changed something. Are you in your second year? If not maybe it will trigger then. But you can try replaying from the start and being friendly to Miyo, see if that helps. You shouldn’t be dating any other guys on Aizawa’s route anyway, so you have lots of time to play with the girls.
Hi, so..
I know it’s not the place to ask that but do you know how to get Tatsuya Hasumi ? ( the secret character for psp version of TMGS3 only ).
I looked in many sites, and they all said that the charm have to be over 200 to meet him in January and over 100 to meet him in March of the second year.
My charm was 245 by december, and I couldn’t meet him in January. T_T
I tried on March, but couldn’t meet him too.
I really want to try his route, cuz he has the same sign as me ( Gemini /sbaff/ )
Please help me if you can !
Okay, I checked a few Japanese sites for you, but they all said what you already know: over 200 Charm by your second year January (not January after the game starts in April but the January after that when you’re in your second year of high school), choose the “Go out” command in the 3rd week, also make sure you choose the “Go out” command again between 1st and 7th March.
To be on the safe side, first make sure you’re a sophomore, not a freshman (２年生 not １年生). Then try going out every single weekend and holiday from the beginning of January till the beginning of April. Make sure you visit at least 1 store each time you’re out. Avoid dating any other guys except to defuse bombs, just to make sure they don’t interfere (unlikely but you can’t be too careful). Good luck!
Hi! No matter what I do, I can’t unlock his first event! this is my second playthrough and I keep going to the mall area from oct-dec, and i can never seem to trigger his first bookstore event. help! 🙁
Are you playing the PSP version or the DS version? The requirements may have changed for the PSP game.
Try not to date or even hang out with anybody else on that route, for starters.
Also make sure MC is in her second year of high school (２年生) not her first. Your second October, not your first.
Are you getting the notification about the bookstore event in the homepage but can’t trigger the event? Or is the homepage notice not even appearing at all? If it’s the former, try visiting other places first when you go out and making the 商店街 the last place you go to. IIRC you can visit 3 places in one outing right? So go somewhere else first and then go to the 商店街 last.
Let me check the Japanese FAQs for a second… Okay, the FAQs are saying that there may be a stat requirement to start triggering him, maybe. Nobody’s sure. Try raising stats like crazy and see if that works.
If all that doesn’t help, then I guess it just wasn’t meant to be between you and Ai-chan.
My issue in the Aizawa route is I am at like 120+ intelligence and I never get the Miyo email in September. Does Miyo need to be closer to me?? Or Something?? Frustration.
Move on to October and see if the Autumn Book Fair event triggers anyway, maybe the Miyo e-mail is optional. I guess you could try getting a bit closer to Miyo as well, but apart from that I’ve got nothing.
For some reason, I am not getting the event in which I lend the book to Miyo? Do you or the Japanese FAQs have any idea why this might be? I’m hoping to get all four secret characters (-Hasumi) in one playthrough (multiple saves closer to the end), but I’m getting stuck at this…
*scratches head* Nope, it should automatically take place a week or two after you buy the book. Let me check the FAQs again… no mention of the Miyo event failing to trigger. One of the other routes might be interfering. What happens if you progress a bit more, do the other events happen?