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Otome
An , is a story-based video game that is targeted towards women. Generally one of the goals, besides the main idea/goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player/main character and one of the second-lead male characters. History The first ''otome'' game is generally acknowledged to be ''Angelique (video game series)#Angelique, Angelique'', released in 1994 by Koei in Japan for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom, and created by an all-woman team. The game was originally designed for pre-teen and younger teenage girls, but became unexpectedly popular with older teenagers and women in their 20s. In 2021, the series continues with ''Angelique Luminarise'', in which the protagonist is a 25-year-old office worker. ''Angelique'' is credited with "set[ting] up the specifics and conventions of women's games: a focus on romance, easy controls and utilizing other multimedia." After Angelique came in 1997 the second otome game, :ja:アルバレアの ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelique (video Game Series)
is a Japanese otome game series and media franchise. There are various OVAs, Drama CDs, Music CDs and Anime series, developed along with the base game, or broadcast on TV channels, etc. The series began in 1994 and has continued since. The latest version of the series is ''Angelique Luminarise'' released in 2021. The first game was released in 1994 on Super Famicom. This is the first otome game (dating sim for women) known in the world.(jaFamitsu-news 190914/ref> ''Angelique series'' is also the first otome game series of the ''Neo Romance series'' by Ruby Party. Currently, the games in this series are only published in Japanese. Plot The basic lore of the series is built around a Queen who fairly and wisely rules a Universe. By balancing elemental forces with the help of nine Guardians, she keeps the various planets in her domain stable and her people content. However, the powers of the Queen and the Guardians fade over time, and successors must be appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo Angelique
is a Japanese otome game series and media franchise. There are various OVAs, Drama CDs, Music CDs and Anime series, developed along with the base game, or broadcast on TV channels, etc. The series began in 1994 and has continued since. The latest version of the series is ''Angelique Luminarise'' released in 2021. The first game was released in 1994 on Super Famicom. This is the first otome game (dating sim for women) known in the world.(jaFamitsu-news 190914/ref> ''Angelique series'' is also the first otome game series of the ''Neo Romance series'' by Ruby Party. Currently, the games in this series are only published in Japanese. Plot The basic lore of the series is built around a Queen who fairly and wisely rules a Universe. By balancing elemental forces with the help of nine Guardians, she keeps the various planets in her domain stable and her people content. However, the powers of the Queen and the Guardians fade over time, and successors must be appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norn9
is a 2013 otome game for PlayStation Portable. It was developed by Otomate and published by Idea Factory. A PlayStation Vita port, entitled ''Norn9: Var Commons'', was released on December 11, 2014. A fandisk titled ''Norn9: Last Era'' has been announced and was released on April 2, 2015. On March 2, 2014, it was announced that an anime adaptation was in the works. The anime ran from January 7 to March 31, 2016. Plot Guided by a strange, haunting song, elementary-schooler Sorata Suzuhara from the Heisei Era is warped back in time to 1919, in a high-tech ship called Norn9. This ship, flying above towns resembling that of the Meiji or Taishō period, harbours The Gifted, a group of three girls and eight boys with special abilities. As he tries to find a way to return to his time, he discovers incredible secrets about the world and spacetime itself. Anime On March 2, 2014, Idea Factory announced that ''Norn9: Norn + Nonette'' has an anime in the works during the "N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side
is a dating sim video game targeted towards women and girls (an ''Otome'' game) released by Konami for the PlayStation 2 game console on June 20, 2002. It was also re-released with enhancements for the Nintendo DS as ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 1st Love'' on February 15, 2007. It has three sequels: '' Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 2nd Kiss'', '' Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 3rd Story'', and ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side: 4th Heart''. ''Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side'' is part of the ''Tokimeki Memorial'' series, which originated in 1994 as a male-oriented dating sim. Game features Although the ''Tokimeki Memorial'' series was originally male-oriented, this game is directed toward the female market and involves a female protagonist looking for love amongst a cast of male characters. Some modifications in game-play were also made to make the game more appealing to female gamers. The player is able to go shopping on her free days to buy clothes and is able to change her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yo-Jin-Bo
is a Japanese visual novel produced by Two-Five. In October 2006, Hirameki International released an English edition of the Windows version in the United States. It is part of their AnimePlay PC line, and as such is a Windows game (as opposed to the DVD games in that line, which have limited features). There is also a version for the PlayStation 2 titled ''Yo-Jin-Bo: Unmei no Freude'' and a manga adaptation of the game. The explanation for this name is a bit of a pun, as "yojinbo" itself means "bodyguards" in English, and three of the main characters have nicknames that make up this phrase (Yo, Jin, and Bo). Incidentally, these three characters are the ones that seem to be naturally grouped by themselves, and the reader sees them all at a festival together at the introduction of the story. Plot The story focuses on the main character Sayori, who is a modern high school girl. She finds a mysterious pendant while out helping with an archeological dig (she's in the high school histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelique Luminarise
''Angelique Luminarise'' is an otome game, part of the ''Angelique'' series and the first for Nintendo Switch. It was released on May 20, 2021. A special box set version containing drama CDs, titled ''Angelique Luminarise Treasure Box'', was released on the same day as the standard physical and download versions. It is the first new entry in the main Angelique series in 18 years. Publications, as well as KOEI Tecmo, have referred to the title as ' for short. A trial version was published on the Nintendo e-shop on May 6, 2021. The main character is Ange (name can be changed), a 25-year-old single office worker who is beginning to feel at her limits in her third year of working life when she is chosen to become a queen candidate and taken to another world. Her rival is Reina, also a 25 year old worker from the same city. Similar to the original ''Angelique'' game (as well as the remake Angelique Retour), there are 9 guardians who can be petitioned for assistance, talked with, or i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Novel
A , often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with and used in the medium of video games, but are not always labeled as such themselves. They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustrations and a varying degree of interactivity. The format is more rarely referred to as novel game, a retranscription of the '' wasei-eigo'' term , which is more often used in Japanese. Visual novels originated in and are especially prevalent in Japan, where they made up nearly 70% of the PC game titles released in 2006. In Japanese, a distinction is often made between visual novels (NVL, from "novel"), which consist primarily of narration and have very few interactive elements, and adventure games (AVG or ADV, from "adventure"), which incorporate problem-solving and other types of gameplay. This distinction is normally lost outside Japan, as both visual novels and adventure games are commonly referred to as "visua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaoi
''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the '' wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for women and is distinct from homoerotic media marketed to gay men, but it does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. It spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. "Boys' love" and "BL" are the generic terms for this kind of media in Japan and much of Asia; though the terms are used by some fans and commentators in the West, ''yaoi'' remains more generally prevalent in English. The genre originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of ''shōjo'' manga, or comics for girls. Several terms were used for the new genre, including , , and . The term ''yaoi'' emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of culture as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BL Game
''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the ''wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for women and is distinct from homoerotic media marketed to gay men, but it does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. It spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. "Boys' love" and "BL" are the generic terms for this kind of media in Japan and much of Asia; though the terms are used by some fans and commentators in the West, ''yaoi'' remains more generally prevalent in English. The genre originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of ''shōjo'' manga, or comics for girls. Several terms were used for the new genre, including , , and . The term ''yaoi'' emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of culture as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koei
Koei Co., Ltd. was a Japanese video game publisher, developer, and distributor founded in 1978. The company is known for its ''Dynasty Warriors'' games based on the novel ''Romance of the Three Kingdoms'', as well as simulation games based on pseudo-historical events. The company has also found mainstream success in a series of loosely historical action games, the flagship titles of which are the ''Dynasty Warriors'' and '' Samurai Warriors'' series, also known as the ''Musō'' series. Koei also owns a division known as Ruby Party, which focuses on otome games. On April 1, 2009, Koei merged with Tecmo to form the Tecmo Koei Holdings holding company. Koei changed its name to Tecmo Koei Games on April 1, 2010 by absorbing Tecmo, and again on July 1, 2014, to Koei Tecmo Games. History Koei was established in July 1978 by Yōichi Erikawa (also known as Kou Shibusawa) and Keiko Erikawa. Yoichi was a student at Keio University, and when his family's rural dyestuffs business fai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dengeki PlayStation
is a Japanese video gaming publication by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks). It primarily features information pertaining to the PlayStation brand. Dengeki was originally founded as a magazine in 1994 and ran until 2020, when it ceased production and went fully digital as ''Dengeki Online''. History The magazine first went on sale in December 1994 as a special edition version of '' Dengeki G's Magazine''. It ceased publication on March 28, 2020, with issue No. 686, its cover featuring Cloud Strife on covering ''Final Fantasy VII Remake''. The decision was made due to changes "surrounding media such as magazines, as well as changes in the delivery of game information." The publication still exists digitally through the ''Dengeki Online'' website. Special edition versions ;''Dengeki PS2'' :''Dengeki PS2'' was a special edition version of ''Dengeki PlayStation'' that was published about three or four times a year in irregular intervals. It was first published on January 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meine Liebe
is a series of dating sims by Konami for the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation 2. ''Meine Liebe'' has been adapted into an anime series produced in 2004 by the studio Bee Train, which was broadcast across Japan by the anime television network, Animax. In 2006 a sequel was produced by the name of , which was also broadcast across Japan by Animax. The story follows the lives of students at an elite academy of the fictional European country of Kuchen in 1937. Other adaptations consist of a four volume ''Meine Liebe'' manga and a novel; as well, several drama CDs have been released. Settings The entire story takes place in a country called Kuchen, a fictional country located in the Atlantic Ocean, to the coasts of France and south of Britannia.Meine Leibe Season 1, episode 1 The word "kuchen" is the German word for "cake", and most of the places and people are also German-based. Other notable cities are Kirsche ("cherry"), Erdbeere ("strawberry") and Mürbe (" shortcrus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
