Overview
Things you may or may not realize in Shoujo City:IncludingHow to make 5k+ Yen per dayFood Storage & PreperationHow to become worth less than broke
Introduction: What Happened to this Guide?
For those of you who know the previous guide “How to end up with negative Yen” this guide has been completely rewritten to actually be USEFUL now that there is enough in the game to justify a helping hand. Note that the instructions for the Negative Yen can still be found in the bottom of the guide – however they have been condensed.
How to Make 5k+ Yen per day easily.
This is a simple task you should try to do daily if your stamina allows.
Goto the Shouji Shrine, and make a 1 time purchase of a Shiko Shrine Maiden Top, and grab the broom next to the shop sign. Then Equip Both, activate said sign and start sweeping leaves from around the shrine. The leaves usually fall around trees (duh) but the controls may confuse you your first few times, basically click the “hand” button to “Ready” the broom and left click anywhere on screen that’s NOT a GUI element to sweep. Note that if it is raining you will likely need to have your Girlfriend wear an umbrella to keep her quiet enough for you to complete the event.
The task is to sweep 50 leaves – but they generally clustered together and it should not take very long to complete. This task rewards you with 5k Yen on completion.
Additionally you can obtain funds by selling off collectibles like squirrels, pinecones, and seashells for a bit of extra cash. These items are often found just lying around on the ground. They tend to spawn in the same general areas each day.
Food Prep & Storage
First since the latest patch the cooking system has been updated to include a form of “Food Rotting” – when you sleep and there’s food not inside a fridge it takes quality damage to the tune of 30%. Therefore you should ALWAYS store your food in a fridge when it’s not being used actively. This prevents mistakes if you make a habit of it.
As for cooking itself; it’s rather simple open the cookbook by placing it in YOUR hand slot (not your girlfriends) and a book will open that has a list of recipes. Choose the Recipe your girlfriend is asking for and it’ll give you a list of ingredients, tools, and times required. Note that some recipes require cooking a DIFFERENT FOOD first to be used in the current food, a good example is cooked rice, which usually has to be cooked in a cooking pot, for 20 minutes to prepare it for use in other foods (e.g. Onigiri). If you can’t find the recipe in the cookbook it’s likely that the item is bought from a store or vending machine.
Drinks cannnot be prepared by the player (atleast currently) and must be purchased from a vendor of some kind.
There two ways you may feed your girlfriend – the first is simply to put the food in HER hand slot. If this does not work you will need to head to the dining table in your apartment to eat the food with her.
Note that if you can’t be bothered to cook or figure out – there is the VERY expensive option of going to the cafe. However this is not something you generally want to do, both because of the cost, and because it doesn’t give you any cooking skill.
How to Obtain of less than 0 Yen
This is a simple if time consuming and rather stupid process.
First go shopping – buy everything you can until your under 1k Yen. Then goto the school map and remove your shorts/skirt, and walk around for a while; Eventually you will be fined for 1k Yen for “nudity”. Note this works even if you are wearing stockings or pantyhose. In the school map you must always wear an “outer” bottom (ie not panties, not socks) or get fined 1k Yen randomly. It may take a while running around “nude” to get the fine…