On April 4th, HuneX announced Hashihime of the Old Book Town Append Fullscreen, a collection and fan book for the main title. They will be available in a digital version with added content sometime this year.
Enjoy digital graphics and controls tailored to this game, with detailed profiles of each character, explanations of all the routes, illustrations, Q&A, and much more.
For further details, you can visit the official product page.
Special Edition
The contents of the preliminary setting materials for “Hashihime in the Old Bookstore Town” and the supplementary book “Tenkyu” in one volume!
In addition to the main visuals newly drawn by the original author “Rinko KUROSAWA,” additional elements, such as a short conversation play, are also included!
Added a collection of digital illustrations.
Supported Languages: Japanese, English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
The Story
Jinbochou, Tokyo
June 1922, Taisho Era
The Rainy Season
Tamamori came to Tokyo with his sights set on getting accepted to the Imperial University. However, he doesn’t pass the entrance exam, and is so undisciplined and wrapped up in endless fantasies that he’s kicked out of his boarding house after only two years. Through a stroke of luck, Tamamori begins to live and work at Umebachidou, a used book store.
There, he enjoys whiling away his time as a “student preparing for entrance exams” and taking advantage of friends who are also from his hometown. But one right after the other, mysterious deaths befall those friends and, realizing he’s been repeating the same rainy three days over and over again, Tamamori finds himself racing throughout Jinbochou to save them.
In this pop-occult mystery that surrounds the deaths of his friends…
What is real, and what is a hallucination?
The Cast
Tamamori
VA: Fujikiri Haru
Hometown: Aizu
Age: 20
The stingy, pathetic bookworm.
Pretentious enough to wear fake glasses, Tamamori is only good at looking like he’s serious and intelligent. He came to the capital with his childhood friends, Minakami and Kawase, but he’s driven out of his boarding house after failing in his own endeavors. He currently lives and works at the used book store Umebachidou, in Jinbochou, 1-chome.
Even though Tamamori is aiming towards acceptance into the Imperial University, he’s preoccupied with reading fantasy novels, watching movies, and writing his own short stories. According to Kawase, he’s ”a genius at producing pieces of trash at amazing speeds.” Perhaps because Tamamori is a writer, he has a habit of suddenly getting lost in his own world.
Minakami
VA: Kanzaki Tomoya
Hometown: Aizu
Age: 21
The eldest son of a sake brewer.
A student of the Imperial University’s Literature Department, Minakami is currently under the care of a philanthropist in Koishikawa, 1-chome. He is a sensible man who has a calm personality and dislikes confrontation; on the other hand, he has a somewhat careless side and is quick to lose his wallet or uniform hat. Minakami is an exceptional bibliophile. Always carrying around a novel, once he starts reading, he can’t take his eyes off the page.
Kawase
VA: Marx
Hometown: Aizu
Age: 20
The germaphobe.
Kawase is childhood friends with Tamamori and Minakami, who are from his hometown. While he gets points for being handsome enough to have groupies, Kawase’s biggest flaw is how irritable he can be. A genius student, he lives alone in the western-style Ikeda Mansion in Hongou, 3-chome while studying medicine at the Imperial University. Kawase’s daily routine includes harassing Tamamori, and he hangs around Umebachidou in his spare time. However, he has no interest in art or antiques and can’t stand the dusty smell of Jinbochou. Even though he has some personality problems, neither Tamamori nor Minakami think he’s a bad guy…
Hanazawa
VA: Ouka Tayu
Hometown: Aizu
Age: 23
The son of a doctor.
A true man of Japan. Blunt, but righteous and passionate.
After graduating from middle school, Hanazawa attended a military academy far from Fukushima and is currently a second lieutenant in the military. He got along with Tamamori and the others but eventually grew distant, becoming estranged from them for eight years. He’s recently been making frequent appearances in the capital’s Hongou and Jinbochou districts.
Hanazawa is always frowning, but long ago he used show Tamamori alone his smile, spoiling and treating him like a younger brother. However, traces of that are long gone.
Originally in the artillery, Hanazawa’s love of fantasy caused him to drift into working in a military research lab. He seems to be friends with the Lieutenant of Military Technology.
Hikawa
VA: Touno Makoto
Age: 24
An eye-patched man who wanders into Umebachidou in the evening.
Hikawa has a polite and formal way of speaking and suspiciously timid behavior. Always nervous, he seems to make an effort to smile but is rather tense. No one knows where he came from, but he became a regular customer at Umebachidou when Tamamori began working there. He asks to be called ”Professor,” even though it’s unclear what, exactly, he’s researching. Hikawa seems to know Tamamori somehow and is an avid fan of his, coming across as creepy. He gives Tamamori tin goldfish watering cans as proof of their friendship.
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