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New Otome Game Licenses – Anime Expo 2016

Save your pennies because 2017 will be an exciting time for otome game fans with FOUR PS Vita games being released by Aksys. Mangagamer is also releasing two new games, and one is a BL game! Both companies made their announcements this past weekend at Anime Expo 2016.

I’m excited about the selection, although it would be great to see Diabolik Lovers come to the West. Some of these games are new or not released in Japan yet. This is great and I would love to see releases on par with Japan releases in the future (as well as some older titles licensed).

 

Mangagamer releases:

Hadaka Shitsuji

Hadaka Shitsuji

Hadaka Shitsuji – Naked Butlers: One day, our protagonist suddenly loses his job and when he’s at his wit’s end, he happens upon a mysterious flyer. “30,000 yen a day. A simple job that anyone can do! You can just sit around all day if you want. Interested parties, please come to the following address.” Dubious, but without a lot of other options, he makes his way to the location where he finds a palatial estate with chalk-white walls and dazzling butlers.
According to the butlers, the owner of the estate is out of town and the butlers must continue to perform their duties even in his absence, so they are searching for a “master” to give them orders. The protagonist’s sadistic side begins to awaken as he continues to give them increasingly preposterous orders…

This game will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux. It’s rated 18+.

Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome (Bocchimusume x Produce Keikaku): When two handsome young men spot the perfect girl to be their first model and help make a name for themselves, they’re determined to go for broke and make her shine—but first they’ll have to get her out of her house! Can these two really give such an anti-social recluse the makeover she needs to be a star? Or will she be the one to change them in this off-beat romantic comedy?

This game will be available on PC and is rated 18+ if you purchase it from Mangagamer. There is an all ages version that will be available on Steam

Aksys:

Everything mentioned below will be available on the PS Vita and will release next year in 2017. These games were originally developed and released by Idea Factory’s Otomate. There isn’t any information  on whether any games will be available on Steam. You can watch the video trailers on ANN.

Code-Realize game

Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth cover (no picture available for Future Blessing)

Code: Realize ~Future Blessing~ fan disc According to Siliconera, this is a fan disc with routes that take place after the original game. There’s not too much information about this at the moment as it’s not released in Japan yet.

Period Cube

Period Cube

Period Cube ~Torikago no Amadeus~
This Otomate release came out in Japan on May 19, 2016. According to Anime News Network, the game is is about a protagonist who “joins a childhood friend in playing an online RPG in order to find her missing older brother. In order to escape the dangerous fantasy world she wakes up in, she must clear the game.”

Collar x Malice

Collar x Malice

Collar x Malice
This game will be released in Japan on August 18, 2016. According to ANN, “the protagonist of the game is a police officer in Shinjuku, which has become more dangerous since a series of consecutive brutal incidents. One night she is attacked and fitted with a collar containing poison. In order to remove the collar and save Shinjuku, she teams with a mysterious group of men who also claim to be investigating the case.”

Bad Apple Wars

Bad Apple Wars

Bad Apple Wars
According to ANN, “the game follows a protagonist who winds up at a strange school after an accident at the school entrance ceremony. This school is NEVAEH, an academy for the souls of bad students. Graduating from this school earns the students a second chance at life.” The game already came out in Japan, November 2015.

What would you like to see licensed?

 

 

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