Harutoki 5: Ryouma's Route

I really wanted to go for Ryouma first and I almost got it a few times but I kept making the same mistake over and over. I eventually had to follow a guide and it was one stupid mistake that could have been fixed easily. I feel such shame looking up a guide in order to get him. I was so determined. After finding what it was that I was doing wrong (after defeating the scary dog tree monster, you have to go back to the future and fight it in the library there before you do anything else. I know some one out there needs to see this) Here is the guide I used, it's super simple and all you need to do is watch for when you get to choose answers and see if any of the answers match.  The answers are in [ these boxes] and will say how many points you get after them. Go down to キャラ別攻略 and click on the character you want.
So, for Ryouma's story. It's interesting when you read up on the real Sakamoto Ryouma, you get kind kinda get the idea of what side each person is on in game. Koei is known for it's historical games so I figured that there was real stuff going on in here. However, when you think about a famous person from the past as a dating sim canidate it just feels... what's the word? Sacreligious? Somewhere around that feeling.  It'd be like if there were a dating based game where you could go back to the american revolution and date George Washington as a young attractive anime dude with a really spunky personality.
The whole time you're trying to get this hot piece of man flesh and fate is all like

Every chance it gets, it's trying to kill the dude screaming YOU CAN'T FIGHT FATE and eventually you're like SCREW YOU FATE but it ends up breaking your time turner.  I love time travel stories so this story line is one I see all the time.
As a romantic interest, I was always really distracted by his (accent? rough way of talking?) and the fact that he never blushed over or felt embarrassed about anything that by the end I didn't feel the romance but he is a real sweetie.  I was just trying to keep his sorry butt alive.  However, there is one scene after you come back from another time travel adventure where you find him in the past. (creating a Temporal Paradox with him calling her "Young Lady.") I'm not sure about the other Harutoki games but I know from the anime that no one kisses but this... this scene was really romantic and I'm pretty sure there was a kiss... I'm pretty sure.  The picture sort of stops right before he gets to her mouth.
So, his voice is distracting sometimes with his really rough way of talking but other than that he's a nice route.  The relationship feels really natural but maybe a it's a bit boring compaired to the others.

I'm starting to hate Chapters 8 and 9...