This week’s Nook News is a visual novel-only edition as our regular news writer is taking a well-earned break over the Christmas season. Our regularly scheduled news round ups on games and anime will be back soon.
Due to the time of year, this is a slow news week. There are however a few announcements to share.
Visual Novel News:
Shiravune have announced that PacoPaco Soft’s Another Way of Gettin’ Paid (Ochingin wa Karadabarai) is set to be released on January 14th, 2025. This is a title from the same developer as the previously released NYO-NIN-JIMA -My New Life in Charge of a Tropical Island-.
Ever since his college days, Shunji Naruse has been working with the female president of a real estate company, Mizuru Kozuki. He works as her private secretary. One day, Shunji’s pleasant life gets even better when he befriends a girl, Chisato Hinata. Things grow even livelier when a divorced wife and one of Mizuru’s old classmates, Kasumi Tachibana; as well as Chisato’s friend, Hasumi Tachibana—get added to the mix. As his various acquaintances begin to interact in ways they were never supposed to, Shunji finds his social circle expanding farther than he could have ever imagined…
Sekai Project have made an announcement regarding an upcoming release of In the Midst of a Neverending Season (Owaranai Kisetsu no Mannaka de) by Lopt software. They have stated that they will be localizing it, but that the release will initially be only available in Chinese.
No English release has been confirmed, but it has been given an English title, announced on their English X (Twitter) account, and an English webpage has been set up for it. Along with the word ‘initially’, it seems worth watching for any change.
“Don’t you want to experience a love like that some day?” As dreary days roll by, who should appear before Tokiha Sai but Emiya Hanabi, his childhood friend and first love, who he had alienated long ago. That is the start of a day that seems like a dream. Hanging out with former friends like the old days, this time is irreplaceable. “This world is our ideal world – a parallel world.” There’s only one way back to our original world. We have to find the magician that brought us to this world while we’re still on summer break. And then we have to decide between this ideal world and the real one. If you could go back to those days, what would you do?
Another series that Sekai Project work on has announced a milestone. NEKO WORKs has announced that total sales of the Nekopara series have now exceeded 6.5 million in a video promoting their upcoming smartphone/PC game, Nekopara Sekai Connect.
Finally, while there are many visual novel sales on at the moment, including those on Steam and dedicated visual novel platforms, one worth highlighting is that JAST USA have put some of their classic visual novels on sale for the first time in a while.
If you’d like to revisit or experience titles like Do You Like Horny Bunnies?, Crescendo, Tokimeki Check-in!, Yume Miru Kusuri – A Drug That Makes You Dream, Moero Downhill Night, Princess Waltz, or Family Project ~ Kazoku Keikaku, or many others, this would be a great time to pick them up.
A gamer since the days of Amstrad and DOS and someone who has dabbled in a variety of professions. He enjoys a wide variety of genres, but has been focusing on visual novels and virtual reality in recent years. Head Editor of NookGaming. Follow him and the website on @NookSite.
