Symphonic Rain (シンフォニック＝レイン, Shinfonikku Rein) is a Japanese musical visual novel developed by Kogado Studio and first released as a limited edition version on March 26, 2004, for Windows as part of a series of "music adventure" games done by its Kuroneko-san Team;[1] the regular edition followed on August 27, 2004.

The game was later published and released in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Mainland China by T-Time Technology.

Players who are not proficient with this "song-playing mode" can switch on the autoplay function in the menu to enable the computer to hit all the notes.

Penning their thoughts on these letters, Chris treasures and keeps her weekly writings, for he had promised her that should his drawer become totally filled with them, he would return to her.

The story begins during Chris's third year as a student, a few months before he has to take the school's final graduation examination: a stage performance.

Symphonic Rain was first released as a limited edition version in Japan on March 26, 2004, as a DVD for Windows, and came bundled with a small figurine of Phorni.

[11] An HD version of Symphonic Rain was released worldwide on June 14, 2017, with English, Japanese and Chinese language support.

[14] A single manga anthology volume entitled The End of Rain (雨の終わりに, Ame no Owari ni) was released by Kogado Studio at Comiket 73 on December 29, 2007, as a limited edition, and thus was not widely distributed.

Nishikawa also wrote a series of short stories for Symphonic Rain's five heroines which is available online at the game's official website.

[16] The songs on the album are sung by the voice actresses of the game's five main heroines, and the late Ritsuko Okazaki.

A cover version of the album entitled For RITZ featuring Okazaki singing all the songs was released posthumously on December 29, 2004, by King Records.