Rail Romanesque

is a Japanese visual novel game produced by game developer company, Lose on March 25, 2016. An uncensored version of the game was later ported to Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch by CIRCLE Entertainment. It also has other versions available titled and.

An anime shorts (3 min) adaptation titled premiered on Tokyo MX from October 3, 2020 to December 19, 2020 for 12 episodes. The anime is a spinoff story in the same world with new characters. On December 12, 2020, a second season was announced, but no further news as of October 2022.

Plot
After hearing that an industrial factory is to possibly be built along a landmark river in his hometown of Ohitoyo, Migita Sotetsu returns home to change the minds of those in charge of the factory proposal. Although half of the town's citizens support the building of such a mill, the other half fear the potential for pollution and contamination of their beloved river. Recognizing Ohitoyo's budgetary decline over the last few decades, Sotetsu believes that the town requires a system that allows it to be fiscally independent instead of reliant upon a factory to stimulate its economy, and sets out to identify an alternative method in achieving this goal. It's during this time that Sotetsu comes across an android-like being--a "Raillord" named Hachiroku--while looking through his late adoptive father's belongings. Although inanimate, Hachiroku and Sotetsu forge a deep, unlikely connection, and from this bond, work together in hopes of restoring Ohitoyo to its former glory.