My Prince Hunt

Here’s a special announcement that was posted tonight on Otomate World’s facebook page. If you’re an otome fan interested in localized games, the news announcing a future Kickstarter project below might appeal to you.

-Mocha

My Angel Romance (天空のロザリオ)

Release dates (iPhone, Android) Japanese: January 12th, 2016 English: January 18th, 2016

“One day while you are walking through town, you happen to spot a curious power stone in the window of a random goods shop. You are brought to a mysterious world on your way home after getting a hold of it. Handsome angels appear in front of you in this strange world where your life is being targeted! They tell you that they want your help to defeat the traitor Arch Angel Lucifer! You choose one of the four angels to be your bodyguard on your journey. Will you be able to defeat the Arch Angel Lucifer and safely return to your own world?”

This is a free game by Genius LLC! You can get the Android version here, or the iPhone version here.

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It took me quite a while to find his wife’s name. It’s not mentioned in most sources, only that she was the daughter of the Sugimura family, who adopted Nagakura into the family via this marriage. Finally, found a personal name to go with that: Yone. 

Like a bunch of Edo period women’s names, it’s written down in kana, not kanji, so I don’t have to worry I misread the kanji here. 

Poking around Japanese Shinsengumi fansites, I found the following information.

Yone was born in 1849, and married Shinpachi in 1870. Her father was a Matsumae-clan physician. (Remember that Nagakura Shinpachi was born a Matsumae retainer as well, so he went back to his old connections to create a new life after the war.) She died in 1921.

Their son Yoshitaro was born February 24, 1873, and as far as I can find, was their only child. Through Yoshitaro, Nagakura Shinpachi has a bunch of descendants. I’m not sure when Yoshitaro died but he outlived his father, who died in 1915.

Old Nagakura, holding the hand of one of his grandsons, was walking along somewhere, cane in the other hand and back bent. Along the way they ran into some yakuza, who tried to pick a fight with the old man.

Nagakura dropped his cane, straightened his back, and glared at the yakuza so terrifyingly and murderously that they ran away.

Apricotsushi:

To celebrate the Dating Sim Community Game-Along this January, I’ve teamed up with Aksys Games to offer not one, but two awesome otome games to one lucky winner! For a chance to win digital PS Vita copies of both Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ and Norn9: Var Commons, enter using the widget below by midnight, January 20th Pacific Time. Entering is easy, and you can exponentially increase your chances the more actions you complete, so go crazy!

Giveaway is open worldwide, and the winner will have their choice of NA or EU PSN codes.

Hi there! Actually at the event “Otomate Party 2015″ back in August it was announced that “Code: Realize” is getting an anime!As of right now we don’t know when it will come out other that it’s slated for sometime in 2016. We also don’t know if it’ll be a TV anime or possibly an OVA. Personally I think given that Norn9 is airing on TV in Japan so will Code: Realize (I’m sure Otomate wants to give the franchise even more exposure to attract new fans).

As a disclaimer, I’m adding this all just my personal opinion and only theoretical and ultimately time will tell:

Looking around at some release schedules & dates of special events, I’m thinking the Code: Realize anime will come out in the Fall of 2016. Otomate likes to stretch things out to entice fans & sell as much merchandise during the waiting period. Yes, Otomate will milk a franchise for all it can. Consider the following:1. The Norn9 anime was announced back in March of 2014 but didn’t premier until January of 2016.

2. Norn9 is considered a Winter anime. I have not  been able to find out the number of episodes but if it’s at least 12, it will last at least until Spring. I’m sure Otomate doesn’t want any of their anime competing against each other, so it’s highly unlikely we’ll see Code: Realize in anime form in the spring.

3. Code: Realize Character CDs: A total of 5 character CD’s (one per character) are schedule to be released consecutively starting in March and ending in July. I wouldn’t put it past me Otomate wants you to buy the CD’s and focus on getting those. Code: Realize fans will be getting “something” from the franchise so no need to have the anime out yet.

4. Otomate Summer Market: Another merchandise special event that takes place in June-July so again, more Code: Realize items you can get while playing the waiting game for news.5. Otomate Party 2016: I believe this usually takes place in August (as it did last year), so here’s the perfect spot to FINALLY release some information about the anime (if we’ve not heard anything during the summer) and of course, the upcoming Code: Realize Fan Disk game.

6. I looked at the Code: Realize Twitter account and it goes far back as May of 2014 but the game did not come out until November of 2014, so that’s SIX months of marketing/promotion to get people into the game, further proving how much they’ll stretch it out in order to sell big.

The TL;DR: This is all a marketing strategy from Otomate to get you to buy buy buy until they feel it’s enough, fans are getting tired of waiting and moving on. Then it’ll be time to release the anime. Believe me, I do hope we hear something about both the Code: Realize anime AND the Fan Disk around summer time, but I wouldn’t be surprised either if all this is held back until the 2016 Otomate Party or even that the CR anime is a 2017 Winter anime. I get the feeling they will want to have the CR Fan Disk game out first.

Tsundere’s are so nice, I love them…♥ Or to the you who thinks that, you might love this guy! Give him a try.

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Apricotsushi: 

The first Community Game-Along theme of 2016 is the return of an old personal favorite, dating sims! For this month’s theme, any games where pursuing romance is an integral part of the experience are eligible. That means whether you want to play Dragon Age or Amnesia: Memories, it counts for the Game-Along!

If you’re new to Community Game-Alongs, simply play any game that fits the theme and share your experiences on your own blog, YouTube channel, social media, or wherever else you’d like to talk about it. Just be sure to tag it with #DatingSimonth so everyone else can see it! If you don’t know what to play, check out the suggestions I gave the first time I ran the dating sim Community Game-Along, or try one of these:

Amnesia: Memories is currently on sale for $9 and Hatoful Boyfriend is $5.  The sale ends on Dec. 1 at 1 pm.

PS Store is offering a limited-time storewide coupon to help you save even more. Redeem code FH24P5BDR6 at checkout to receive a 10% discount on one total cart purchase.

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