It starts with Aoba on the phone with someone where he explains that he works selling spare parts at a shop called hum drum junk and that customers are always infatuated with his voice over the phone so he starts using that to sell parts by pretending to flirt with customers and then just getting them to buy expensive parts. His allmate Ren is introduced, he’s an older model shaped like a small blue dog with blue fur. He also introduces his coil which is basically like a phone it’s just a wrist watch. Aoba lives with his grandmother, Tae (important fact). He lives on an island called Midorimjima which was overrun by a man named Toue and his resort that he runs called platinum jail. Aoba and his grandmother were given a chance to leave but they didn’t because it’s where they always lived and also because Tae wanted to keep an eye on Toue. So now they live in the old residential district which is kind of run down and he explains that the police and yakuza are all sleeping together and pretty much the same thing witch then he introduces his friend kind of Akushima who is a paranoid like conspiracy theorist of a cop but he’s nice to Aoba so that’s cool. He introduces his old friends Virus and Trip who are yakuza. He also introduces Rhyme which is an online video game existing only in Midorijima and it’s a fighting game that incorporates allmate kind of like pokemon and it’s run by Toue’s allmate Usui who makes sure everything is fair and also that no one gets hurt but you can play games without the Usui where people can die. Aoba doesn’t play Rhyme. He also explains Rib which is a group of gangs in the Midorima area and they have fights as far as I can tell (tbh i dont understand Rib very well) and people who in Rib are called Ribstees some of them are nice some of them mug children (like bug bomb(they make fun of young Aoba for looking like a girl)) Then there is Morphine which is a gang who is working for the government. Rhyme also has gangs like Noiz’s team Ruff rabbits. Aoba’s childhood friend Koujaku is in the Rib team Ben Shigure and his friend Mizuki formed the biggest Rib team called Dry juice. Aoba goes to see Mizuki and he talks about getting a tattoo from an artist he really admires and also how people from Dry Juice have been going missing. He also is bad at locking the door.
Then he’s talking to Koujaku on his balcony and Koujaku is smoking and he’s like you know I don’t really like smoking but it’s all chill guys, also he tells Aoba to keep an eye on Mizuki
He goes to work and has to deliver a part to someone because they live in Midorijima also. Aoba ends up getting sucked into a Rhyme battle which is called getting ganked and I don’t know why. Either way the person is wearing a rabbit head and starts attacking him and he starts losing because he doesn’t know how to fight back and keeps defending but then he blacks out and is not dead. He locks in and gets home and Virus and Trip find him also. On the way back Aoba starts getting messages asking for help and he refuses to click on them because he thinks they are spam. Then Ren is like ok man, maybe this guy needs help and so he opens one and it’s a gameplay footage that is like a rpg style and it shows him a path into Platinum Jail. He also gets another one that is an old woman getting kidnapped so he starts being afraid of his grandmother getting kidnapped. So then when he’s at work one time he gets a call from Yoshida and she is like oh god Aoba something happened to your grandmother and then he goes there all panicked and then she’s fine and she just threw out her back and so Aoba carries her home and is like pretty please go to the hospital and is also like she’s so thin oh no my grandmother is gonna die but then she kicks him so like it’s chill he knows she’s good.
Aoba is walking home and then a guy wearing a gas mask and a white trench coat and silly gloves, that guy is Clear and he jumped off of a building to meet Aoba and he keeps calling Aoba master and then Aoba kicks him and makes him go away
Ok then another time he comes home from work and all the lights are off and he’s like oh noooooooo oh nooooo Tae got kidnapped but then he checks in her room and she’s asleep and it’s ok chill and his headaches have been getting worse. But then he goes upstairs and there's a guy in his room and that guy is Noiz. Noiz is trying to steal his data because he says he wants to know how he beat him at Rhyme but he doesn’t remember beating Noiz at Rhyme ever. Then Koujaku sees Noiz in Aoba's room and thinks he’s attacking him which tbh he kind of is so it’s justified and they are about to have a battle over Aoba but they they hear sounds on the room and it’s Clear so now Clear is there also. But they were being too loud so Tae makes them all come downstairs and they eat doughnuts. We get a hint to everyone's stereotypes when they eat doughnuts, like how Noiz is a tsundere and refuses to admit he likes sweet things, Koujaku is his childhood friend and has had tae’s doughnuts a lot, and Clear is a robot with mind control powers when he teleports the doughnut under his gas mask. Either way they are sent home but now at least Aoba knows most of the main guys.
Ok then another day Aoba is at work and Noiz walks in and is like hey man Rhyme is coming to you right freak now bro and then kisses Aoba and Noiz is like no man it’s chill I do that with all my friends and then Aoba was like ok chill whatevs as long as it’s not gay. He goes to see the Usui and talks to Virus and Trip again.
Ok next day Aoba comes home looking for his grandmother and all the lights are off and he’s figured out that his grandmother has been kidnapped. so he wants to set out to go find her
Ok then Aoba goes to this club where they use Photonarcotics which is a fictional drug which works through music and light pulsing which makes Aoba pass out and then Mink kidnaps him.
Aoba wakes up to meet Mink who is an awful person who threatens to rape him (I HATE MINK DUDE I DON’T CARE ABOUT HIS ROUTE IN RE: CONNECT I HATE MINK). Ok and then Aoba stays in Minks stronghold for a bit and eventually convinces him to help go find his grandmother. (I don’t remember a lot of what happens there I need to lock in again and rewatch the route) They go to Aoba's basement and make a plan Koujaku and Noiz have more evil yaoi together. They go break into the Morphine stronghold based on what happens in the rpg game that Aoba got sent. They fight a lot of Dry Juice members who aren’t acting like themselves and have white rolled back eyes and so they have to fight them all.
Aoba and co go outside and they find Tae and a possessed Mizuki. Mizuki threatens to kill Tae unless Aoba joins Morphine and Aoba refuses then right as Mizuki is about to slit Tae’s throat Aoba is sucked into his mind and he’s at the alleyway where there used to be a Dry Juice tag and it’s changed to a Morphine tag and then farther down the alleyway he sees Mizuki but like regular unpossessed Mizuki. Mizuki tells Aoba about how he only agreed to join with Morphine because he felt like Dry Juice was dying out and he was afraid because of how much Dry Juice meant to him. Then Aoba sees Mizuki's flashback to another Morphine facility where they were chaining up Mizuki and were like all your Dry Juice guys are possessed and now you will be too >:]. Then Aoba is like what did they do to you and Mizuki starts screaming and covering his ears and then Aoba is forced out of his mind and Mizuki (real life Mizuki) is in a coma but Tae is saved and they take Mizuki to the hospital.
Now the whole gang (Aoba, Noiz, Mink, Koujaku, Clear, and Tae) is at Aoba’s house and Tae explains Aoba’s mind control powers to him (called scrap) and how he was made by Toue. Then she talks about how what happened to Dry Juice was probably Toue testing his mind control powers and that he’s gonna mind control everyone on the island at the huge anniversary celebration Toue is holding in like a few days.
Then Akushima, previously nice guy, starts using his megaphones to be like hey guys you are terrorists so he’s mind controlled and they are like oh no and so Aoba and Clear go to platinum jail using the rpg game Aoba was emailed and the invitation he got and their evil plan is to take down Toue. And Aoba is like ick ew ur super weird to clear the whole time cause he hates joy and whimsey.
Clear makes Aoba breakfast and there is nothing weird about what he's wearing ok anyway Aoba is mad and so Clear is like I'm sorry I don't understand what you want and also he keeps calling Aoba master and then he pretends to go to sleep but he's still sitting up and Aoba is like huh maybe this guy is a robot and then he's like no, it couldn't be (Aoba is so stupid this is a common theme). And then Aoba's headaches start getting worse and then they turn on the tv and Aoba gets a really awful headache and Clear is like this is called dye music (what was playing on the tv) and dye music is called that cause it dyes your mind (its mind control lol) and then Clear is like could I pretty please sing for you master and then Aoba is like yeah sure whatever I refuse to have cute moments with my lovers I'm a bitch and then Clear talks about how his grandpa was super nice and he would always sing with him but then his grandpa died and that's why he's scared when Aoba sleeps. And Aoba is like guys I think dying is what makes of human and Clear is like aughghggh
Ok and then Aoba is like ok lock in guys we have to go to ovel tower and Clear is like ok I got this diva and so he goes to this restraunt that is also called ovel tower and Aoba is so freaking angry at him and is mean. But then Clear is getting mugged by this guy Yuzawa and he pours sulfuric acid on Clears head while Clear was trying to protect Aoba and Aoba is like noooooo bbg I actually cared about you, and Clear is like I'm ok it's chill and Aoba is like dudebro take off your mask and wash the sulfuric acid off your face right now and Clear is like no grandpa said not to and Aoba is like I DON'T CARE MAN. So then clear takes of his mask and Aoba is like no homo but u rlly prrty lwk and they are by a fountain so the yaoi level is increased by one billion and also Clear is like no one ever has told me that my face is normal even though he has a very regular face but he has two moles
Ok then they real go to Ovel Tower and they get to Toue and he's like oh Clear is my mind control robot I built that broke apart and is like rouge now cause his chip or wtv disabled and also his "grandpa" was someone who worked for Toue who ran naway with Clear and then Toue is like >;3 Clear was desighned by me so he can't his brothers and then he brings out the The alphas which are robots that are desighned exactly like humans and they are meant to blend in perfectly which is why
Clear kills the alphas and they run from Ovel Tower and back to the glitter, at the glitter Aoba is like omg Clear ur dying and I SWEAR TO GOD INSTEAD OF GETTING CLEAR HELP HES LIKE TOUCH ME LIKE A HUMAN WOULD and they get freaky for like ten minutes INSTEAD OF LIKE GOING TO A MACANIC ok but wtv after they are done being yoaiful Clear dies and then Aoba tries to fix him but he can't so he's like Tae help me I'm so useless. So Tae has he friend fix Clear and Aoba finds him singing on the rooftop and they are like yay gay people yay. Also the whole fandom has just decided it was Noiz who fixed Clear
Toue takes Clear and reprograms him so he's evil again and Aoba get experimented on like his brother and they are like ok we don't need him anymore so they give him to Clear and Clear is eating? his limbs (either that or cutting them off) and Aobas like yeah sure I love this as long as it's Clear and also this route is super funny cause how they reveal his legs are cut off is like a two sentence horror story and he's like "Clears touch was so gentle, where my legs USED TO BE" and it's legiteratly the most funniest thing ever and I was watching it on the bus and I almost started crying.