Richard Eisenbeis writes: "My recent forays into Japan-only anime tie-in games have been a little less than fruitful. Regardless of the quality of the source material, they have either been interesting in concept (but failed in the execution) or have just been mediocre at what they were trying to do.
But despite my recent frustration at finding good ones in recent releases, this generation has had more than a few great Japan-only anime tie-in games, spread across several genres."
The dating sim genre as a whole could've been mentioned since outside of Persona I don't think many have been released in the West.