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Game License Wishlist

Although publishers are starting to meet demands for translated otome games, there are some I would like to see make its way to the West. Some of these aren’t likely to be publish any time soon, but a girl can dream.

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Steam Prison (PC)
Summary: People are divided into those who rule, and those who are ruled over.
The great floods divided the world in two: The beautiful heavenly paradise, the Upper World, and the sullied Steam City, the Underworld.
The people of the Upper World, who were favoured and allowed to escape from calamity, scorn those who live in the underworld, who were not chosen to survive.
The protagonist, Cyrus, born and raised in the upper world, dislikes the underworld too. To the people of the Upper World, the Underworld is the far end prison criminals get sent to, the place where only the vulgar live. Cyrus spends her life away from the Underworld, maintaining public order and protecting the people of the Upper World as an officer, believing in her own justice.
One day, as part of her duty, Cyrus is sent to inspect the Underworld, and along with her partner, Fin, descends to a district full of criminals.
As she comes into contact with this unknown world, her cogwheels of fate begin to turn…

Why I want it to be licensed: I love PC-based otome games. They don’t come out nearly as often as otome games on the PS Vita. To be honest, my interest in this one is purely cosmetic. The art and story line look good, and I’m interested in the megane character!

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Diabolik Lovers: Haunted Dark Bridal (Vita)
Summary: The protagonist Komori Yui is an average high school student.
However, when she was young, different things happened around her. Things like being able to see someone’s ghost, or poltergeist phenomena taking place…

With her motto to be be positive, she passed her days paying it no mind.

When she became a second year high school student, she moved to a school in another town due to her father’s transfer.

“Ryoutei High School” is a nighttime high school for performers and celebrities. Behind the apparent splendor, it was a school in which sinister rumors were constantly whispered. Among the rumors was also one that a a student had been attacked by a vampire…

Paying no attention to the rumors, the protagonist agrees to transfer and live with relatives her father told her about.
However, even in the town are rumors about the “Haunted House” where six horrible brothers live…

Suddenly, she’s living with six attractive brothers that have awful personalities. Moreover, they’re not human…

Almost as if she’s being pulled in, with feelings of uneasiness and fear she tries to begin her new life.
Why I want it to be licensed: Anime based on otome games leave out a lot of backstory, making it somewhat difficult to follow along. If you can suspend belief and just go with what you are given, it’s more enjoyable. After all, there’s only so much you can shove into 12 episodes.  Anybody who wants to know more about each character and their history will need to play the game. Licensing otome-based anime is like teasing because if you don’t have access to the game, you’ll be left with many questions.  Diabolik Lovers is dark and sexy if vampires are your thing. I would like it if someone fulfilled my wish to bring this series to the West.

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Dance with the Devils (Vita)
Summary: Humans or devils?

One day, Tachibana Ritsuka, a student attending Shikou Academy, gets attacked by a group of mysterious men. From then on, Ritsuka gets targeted as she is the last key to locating the “Forbidden Grimoire”.

Getting allured and tempted by devils, her days change little by little.

The plot takes the same direction as the anime’s, with numerous endings awaiting this captivating tale.

Who will you choose?
Humans or devils?

Why I want it to be licensed: I enjoyed the anime (for the most part, the ending was anticlimactic), and so I’m interested in getting to know the characters one-on-one. The downside to otome-based anime, is you get the character’s personality, but the heroine doesn’t always choose one and it’s not very romantic. It’s like watching a movie based on a book, but the movie doesn’t do the book justice. You are intrigued enough, however, to want to know more. Similar to Diabolik Lovers, I want to know more than is given in the anime.

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Gakuen Heaven 2 Double Scramble (Vita)
Summary: “Please, protect this school–”

Bell Liberty School, known as BL School. A near-legendary boarding school attended by elite students chosen from all over the country.

By some stroke of luck, I, Yuki Asahina, am among those chosen to attend this school. But on my first day, I was suddenly given a mysterious armband. Of all things, this armband is apparently the symbol of the ace of the school, the Student Body President.

Wait–does that mean I’m now the Student Body President?!

But there’s no time to celebrate. Because the Student Body President has been reduced into nothing but a powerless servant….
Why I want it to be licensed: I was first introduced to the Gakuen Heaven franchise through the anime, which is now available to watch on Crunchyroll. This is a beloved series to me, and would like to see it licensed for BL fans. This is an older franchise, but it will always be one of my favorites. I think enough years have passed to bring it over!

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Omega Vampire (PC)
Summary: A world in which humans and vampires share a bare minimum coexistence.

The year is 20XX in Yokohama.

The Aoi Research Firm has shone light onto the medical world, developing an artificial source of blood called EX-BLOOD, putting an end to the shortage of blood.

At the same time, the vampires who had hidden themselves in the shadows emerge and declare that they will now coexist with humanity. They gradually began show themselves out in society.

But by nature, vampires prefer human blood. Some of them continued to assault humans. Even as those vampires that wish for a peaceful coexistence with humans try to keep the others in check, “vampire hunts” are also widespread, carried out by some humans due to a drug-like high a human experiences when drinking a vampire’s blood.

Even so, at least on the surface, peace appeared to be maintained…

The protagonist, Moriya Keiichi, sustains life-threatening injuries in an accident. His best friend, Aoi Setsuna, saves his life with a brand new drug which utilizes a vampire’s extraordinary healing capabilities. As a side effect, Keiichi’s attribute ends up transforming from Beta into Omega.

Keiichi’s newly Omega pheromones attract the vampires to him.

One day, Keiichi finds himself saved from a dire attack by an Alpha vampire, Ooizumi Genma.

As someone who hates vampires, Keiichi refuses Genma’s help. However, he himself had become a half-vampire desiring blood…

“Dammit…..just what the hell have I become?!”
Why I want it to be licensed: This steamy, dark game sounds rights up my alley. This is another BL game that is more explicit than the other choices on this list. I would like for MangaGamer to pick this one up, although I know the chances are slim.

What would you like to see licensed?

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  • Sweet school life will always be my number one game that I wish would be released in English. The Hakuoki boys are all so endearing (and hot!).

  • Look, I played DL with an open mind and I honestly was appalled to think that they were “love interests.” Granted, Shu and the white-haired tsundere were alright, but I didn’t like the game at all. The fans translated the entire script online so if you have the game you can already play it. This is my opinion and it’s alright to disagree so please don’t hate me because I didn’t like it.
    Other than that, I’d love to see these other games come over. Steam Prison, however, might be a disappointment. Ozmafia! started off alright but tanked so fast I was really disappointed.
    I’d love to see Kenka Bancho Otome, Beast Master and Prince, Binary Star, Haitaka and Kokuchou no Psychedelica, and the Haruka no toki series come over.

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