---
title: "Yachoukitan"
description: "Having lost his memory, Sera Kaoru stops in the forest and visits a strange Western-style house. Guided by the house's owner, the boy in clothes of black, he de"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/08/908.jpg"
---

# Yachoukitan

![Yachoukitan](https://t.vndb.org/cv/08/908.jpg)

**Alternative Title:** 夜蝶綺譚

**Developer:** ZIGZAG

**Release date:** May 19, 2006

**Platform:** Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, VND

**Language:** English, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Vietnamese

**Rating:** 6.4/10 (345 votes)

## Description
Having lost his memory, Sera Kaoru stops in the forest and visits a strange Western-style house.
Guided by the house's owner, the boy in clothes of black, he descends the long spiral staircase to the basement.
There sits a pure white maiden.Crimson eyes and white skin---a breathtakingly beautiful "girl."
Sera's job is to distract her from her boredom.
He reads a fairytale to her, and upon completing the peaceful job, the boy in black clothes informs him.
She is the "ChouTsuki," and Sera was invited to the mansion to be the ChouTsuki's "sacrifice."

[From [Deja Vu](http://www.mangasos.com/dejavu/vn/projects-butterfly.html)]

## Characters
### Sera Kaoru (世良 薫)
An amnesiac who finds himself at the Mutsuki house.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Сэра Каору
- **Hair:** Black, Shoulder-length, Spiky Bangs, Parted to Side
- **Body:** Reverse-trap, Teen, Slim, Pale
- **Subject of:** Amnesia, Death
- **Eyes:** Tareme
- **Engages in:** Not Sexually Involved

### Chou (チョウ)
- **Gender:** Female
- **Aliases:** 蝶憑き, Chou Tsuki, Tyou, Тёцуки
- **Hair:** White, Shoulder-length
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale, Albino
- **Subject of:** Muteness, Unavoidable Death
- **Eyes:** Tareme
- **Clothes:** Ribbon Tie, Body Ribbon

### Mutsuki Yoru (無月 夜)
- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Yoru Tsuki
- **Hair:** Black
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale
- **Clothes:** Suit, Glasses
- **Personality:** Stoic, Mysterious
- **Role:** Twin Brother
- **Engages in:** Murder, Not Sexually Involved, Mercy Killing, Proxy Murder

## Shops
- [Official Website](http://zigzag-game.sakura.ne.jp/yatho/index.html)

## Releases
### Japanese
- **2006-05-19**: Yachoukitan - [Official website](http://zigzag-game.sakura.ne.jp/yatho/index.html), [ErogameScape](https://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/game.php?game=12778)

### English
- **2007-12-14**: Ballad of an Evening Butterfly - [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20120723183833/http://deja-vu.mangasos.com/projects-butterfly.html)
- **2009-04-09**: Ballad of an Evening Butterfly - [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20130913035602/http://digital-haze.net/ch/vnds/kareha.pl/1239283809/)
- **2014-07-06**: Ballad of an Evening Butterfly - [Official website](https://6ydia.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/6ydia-release-ballad-for-an-evening-butterfly/)

### Vietnamese
- **2009-09-27**: Bản Ballad của Bướm đêm - [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20171220155006/http://hako.re/forum/17-project-visual-novel/1187-yachou-kitan-ban-ballad-cua-buom-dem-tieng-viet-hoan-thanh.html)

### Russian
- **2011-09-04**: Ballada o Nochnyh Babochkah - [Official website](https://anivisual.net/stuff/2-1-0-62)
- **2014-05-08**: Ballada o Nocnyh Babochkah - [Official website](https://vk.com/wall-69564393_343)
- **2019-07-13**: Ballada o Nochnyh Babochkah - [Official website](https://vk.com/wall-122858626_818)

### Spanish
- **2013-11-18**: Yachoukitan - [Official website](http://visualnovelparapc.blogspot.com/2013/11/balada-de-una-mariposa-nocturna.html)

## Tags
Fantasy, Identity Crisis, Mystery, NVL, Romance, Non-human Heroine, Male Protagonist, Multiple Endings, Amnesia, Descriptions of Violence, Mute Heroine, Only a Single Heroine, Western-style Manor, Modern Day Setting in a Fictional World, Photographic Backgrounds, Utsuge, Protagonist with a Face, Death of Heroine, Albino Heroine, Death of Protagonist, Reverse Trap Protagonist, Only Bad Endings, Homicide, Few Choices, Black and White, Unavoidable Heroine Death, Amnesiac Protagonist, Butterflies, No Sexual Content, Heroine Having Sex with Others

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