English publisher NekoNyan hosted a panel during Otakon on August 2nd, in which they announced their progress updates and even more projects.
Here’s the complete list of everything that was talked about during this panel.
New Announcements
Koikari: Love for Hire – After Hours
This announcement features the two fandiscs for the heroines of Koikari – Love For Hire, which will be made into a single release.The game tells the after story of all heroines with a whole new scenario.
Renai:Royale: Love’s a Battle – “Victory Parade”
This announcement is also a 2-in-1 edition of the Re’nai X Royale – Love’s a Battle fandiscs, titled Renai:Royale: Love’s a Battle – “Victory Parade”. The game follows the after story of all heroines with a new scenario.
Futamata Ren’ai: Two Times the Trouble
The first new title announcement is a romcom by the first team as the previous announcements, ASa Project: Futamata Ren’ai: Two Times the Trouble. The game is now available on Steam to pre-order, though the release date is still unknown.
Nao Koga has been hopelessly in love with Yua Nobuta for months, but it seems that she doesn’t share his feelings.
To help forget about it, he agrees to go to a mixer where he hits it off with a woman named Kirame Toiro.
But as soon as he thinks he may have found himself a girlfriend, Yua finally shows interest in dating him.
Never did Nao imagine he’d find himself in such a situation! Can he navigate these treacherous waters of love?
HajiLove – Making * Lovers: First Blush
Next comes SMEE with slice of life romcom Making * Lovers: First Blush! The game follows the same setting of Making * Lovers, but this time with new heroines.
“Dating someone that’s not your soul mate is a waste of time.
The only kind relationship I’m interested in is one that’s sure to have a happy ending.
If you’re going to fall in love, fall in love once.
Find your ideal partner, a person that you love so much that it feels like you’re burning up inside.”
My beliefs about love were abnormal, clearly. My classmates certainly seemed willing to hookup with anything that walked, and they appeared happy enough.
But I realized something in my 2nd year of high school. My soul mate wasn’t going to just fall out of the sky into my lap. I wanted to experience a real, flesh and blood love, not some made up fairly tale version of it that only existed in my head.
… The childhood friend that wants to spend her life at your side…
… The classmate that dreams of meeting her knight in shining armor…
… The underclassman that wants to become an expert at romance…
… The upperclassman that longs to bring happiness to the family she holds dear…
My meeting these girls was nothing but a series of coincidences.
But if what happens next is up to me, then maybe I can decide it starts right here, right now.
I won’t know if I’m making the right moves or not until this is all over.
All I know is that the only one that can turn a chance encounter into true love is me.
Happiness Sakura Celebration1
If you watched the 2006 anime series Happiness! you may recognize this title. It is, in fact, by the same developers as the original Happiness! visual novel—only sharing the same setting, as its own title. Happiness! Sakura Celebration! is a magic-themed romcom by Windmill Oasis.
Let my feelings be conveyed!
The story is set during the year of Sakura.
During this time, cherry blossoms bloom for a very long time. What’s more surprising about this is that this only happens once out of every ten years, which means the festivals around this time will be a little more poppin’.
Throughout the town, various characters have different feelings about the bloom, which mostly revolve around finding romance, but not just any romance.
“Seeing my big brother’s smiling face for the first time in two years… This is where I belong after all.”
“I know the truth… That’s not his true self. This year for sure, I’ll….”
“I wonder if I can really do it… No, I must do it. I have to regain that relationship.”
“My preparations should be more than enough. There’s no way I’ll let it go that way again…”
And…
“It’s been 10 years since I last came to this town, hasn’t it? Perhaps I’ll be able to see that person. I hope I see him…”
The story’s main protagonist is Ichijou Kazuki, who is otherwise pretty normal save for being a magician.
There just so happens to be plenty of girls in his life who want to take this moment to spend more time with him and hopefully get closer.
All of these feelings entangle like cherry blossom petals dancing in the wind.
And so begin the many stories…
Hacking the Moon to Find My Goddess
Interested in (moe) sci-fi? Well then, NekoNyan has got you covered! Among the many moege announced, there’s Hacking the Moon to Find My Goddess by CUBE.
This is the Extended Edition, which adds:
- Sonomura Hazuki’s route from the console version to the PC version with 4 H-Scenes;
- New episodes for Tsukuyomi, Asakura Kirika and Kokuhou Rein;
- New harem route from console version to PC for Rana Liddell-Hart and Sophia Liddell-Hart with new H-Scenes;
- New event CGs.
Our time together, now,
Continues onward, towards tomorrow.
Shiromae Kaito, a young man gifted with a talent for hacking.
Despite being merely a student, Kaito broke through the most advanced security system and gained administrative privileges to the C-AI (Central AI) that governs countless AI. In this day and age, the majority of the infrastructure essential to humanity’s daily living has been optimized with AI. Kaito, who now had the power to do anything, issued his command:
“I want to meet a girl who loves me, Shiromae Kaito! She has to have large, cute eyes, be kind and will spoil me, oh, and have big boobs!”
However, the reply came back, “No qualified persons found. Displaying results: 0 out of 0.”
Kaito was dejected when his search got no hits, but the AI activated a late-night robot factory and built a robot according to his specifications.
Some days later, a girl who looked exactly as he described showed up at his door—Tsukuyomi. She had superhuman physical abilities and loved Kaito immensely. However, being an AI, she lacked all common sense. Having determined that she still fell short of being his ideal, she decided that she had to express her “love” for him in the most perfect way possible.
-You, who are like a God-
What future waits for Kaito and his ideal (albeit robot) girl?
Hold Me Tight All Night, Onii-chan!
Back in 2019, NekoNyan released Onii♥Kiss: Onii-chan, Where’s My Kiss? and now, 5 years later, comes the awaited title of the same series, Hold Me Tight All Night, Onii-chan! This VN also got an anime adaptation with 4 episodes.
The Onami girls’ endlessly loving brother.
From a young age, he suffered from asthma, which left him bedridden for much of his early life. Now that his health has improved, he does his best to catch up on lost school time through online learning.
His medical research parents have used the unique opportunity his illness provides to gather data about his condition, which has contributed greatly to medical science. As a result, they have encouraged him to sleep well and lead a calm, relaxing life, so that he’ll make a better research subject, and in turn help people all over the world with his data.
However, those same parents throw a wrench into his peaceful life when they come up with a plan to boost immunity through hugging. Now, every night he has to choose one of his sisters to hug and spend the night with! What will Onii-chan do when faced with this sudden and weighty responsibility?
“Hug a little sister affectionately for 10 seconds every day before going to bed ♪”
Hatsuyuki Sakura: White Graduation
The final announcement is a big (and unexpected) one—Hatsuyuki Sakura: White Graduation, a winter slice of life romance by SAGA PLANETS! This game is using the 10th Anniversary Edition, which updates the VN to the modern Windows environment.
This title turned out to be NekoNyan’s Secret Project #2 that was not announced during Otakon 2022. According to TBAC, the translator for this game, he redid the translation as the game to fit with the modern Windows port.
Kawano Hatsuyuki is a third-year student at Shirosaki Academy. Given the school is designed to help prepare students for higher education, Hatsuyuki is one of the rare few troublemakers. He begrudgingly comes to school day after day since he’s in danger of not being able to graduate.
The month is December when the first snow of the year falls. While wandering around the older parts of town, Hatsuyuki stumbles upon a beautiful girl adorned in a white dress, who seems to be looking for a rabbit amidst the snow. A few days after that peculiar nighttime encounter, the girl, Sakura, transfers to Hatsuyuki’s school–to take Hatsuyuki along for his final winter.
The seasons change, and those 1,095 long days finally come to an end. Winter has faded, and spring is in the air. Looking back fondly on those snowy memories, the boy stands tall as he’s about to graduate.
From the first snow (Hatsuyuki) to cherry blossoms (Sakura), congratulations on your graduation.
Partnership with Kagura Games
After those announcements, NekoNyan stated that they are now in a partnership with publisher Kagura Games, a localizer that releases their games in English and Chinese. NekoNyan is working with them to help bring more titles to Steam in multiple languages including Chinese, as well as co-publishing a number of titles from now on forward.
Now, Kagura Games is translating Futamata Ren’ai: Two Times the Trouble, Making*Lovers: First Blush, Hold Me Tight All Night Onii-chan and Hacking the Moon to Find My Goddess.
Project Status
What follows is the project status for most of the upcoming titles.
- DRACU-RIOT! is 100% translated and edited, and is set to release during either Summer or Fall. The game has been approved by Steam, although there isn’t store page yet.
This is something they’re planning to have released by the end of the year, so a Fall release is more probable;
- Ready or Not: The Deadline is Coming! is 100% translated and edited, and is now in QA2;
- Floral Flowlove is 100% translated and 75% edited. The engine port is in progress;
- Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration is 100% translated and edited, and is now in QA;
- Hatsuyuki Sakura: White Graduation is 100% translated and edited; its engine work is on queue;
- Hold Me Tight All Night Onii-chan! is 65% translated and 50% edited;
- Kakenuke★Seishun Sparking! is 85% translated and 70% edited, and its QA is now in progress; it is set to release during either Summer or Fall;
- Hacking the Moon to Find My Goddess is 100% translated and edited. The game is now progressing in its engine work and image editing.
- Koichoco: Love, Elections, & Chocolate is 100% translated and edited, and is now going through QA.
- Mysteries of the Heart: The Psychic Detective Case Files is 100% translated and edited, and its engine work is now in progress.
- Angelic☆Chaos RE-BOOT! unfortunately got banned by Steam. The game is expected to release around 2025; for further details, please read our article here.
There were other project status updates for other upcoming projects that were not shown on their social media, such as:
- Futamata Ren’ai by ASa Project is 100% translated, although editing progress has not been tracked.
- HajiLove -Making * Lovers- by SMEE is 100% translated and 5% edited.
- Love Love Love, Burning in my Heart! is 100% translated and edited; waiting for a QA build.
- MeltyMoment by HOOKSOFT is 75% translated.
That’s every news from Otakon 2024 announcement by NekoNyan!
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