Kugayama Shiori’s Death Diary (Kugayama Shiori no Shinizama Techou) by Laplacian is a mystery visual novel with a striking visual style. This was overseen by Pellet, the art director and lead illustrator on this title. Pellet has worked on quite a few Laplacian titles and has been with the developer since their earliest title, Kimi […]
Visual novel developer Laplacian recently released Kugayama Shiori’s Death Diary (Kugayama Shiori no Shinizama Techou). The project was directed by Hayashi Ryousuke, who has worked in various capacities on titles for Laplacian titles such as Cyanotype Daydream and The Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons, along with titles from other developers including Chronobox and Waning […]
Kagami Games has recently made a significant splash in the global visual novel industry. Following the mid-2025 release of their first localized title, Putrika 1st.cut: The Reason She Must Perish, the publisher added two more titles to its catalog by the end of the year. Their most recent launch, Lovepical-Poppy by the popular developer SMEE, combined with several exciting […]
Etrange Overlord brings together the man known for creating the Disgaea series (Sohei Niikawa), the character artist from Re:Zero (Shinichiro Otsuka), and a wide range of other talent to create an upcoming action RPG with musical themes. We had the chance to play the opening hour of the game and shared our thoughts, but we […]
Visual novel developer Laplacian recently announced the retranslation of Harmonic Reflections (Kioku no Kenban) following strong negative feedback regarding the initial translation by DMM Game Translate, which utilizes AI machine translation (MTL) with human supervision. At the time of writing, the majority of the Steam reviews regarding the English version are negative, with most citing […]
FuRyu Corporation is a Japanese game developer who is perhaps best known in the West for developing and/or publishing various JRPGs such as The Alliance Alive and Crymachina. With the English release of FuRyu’s newest game REYNATIS coming out soon, we had the opportunity to interview several of the creators who worked on REYNATIS regarding […]
Tristan K. Hill (also known as Ojive) is a Japanese-to-English translator who has worked on light novels, manga, visual novels, and other games. You’ll find his work on When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace (light novel), Tearmoon Empire (manga), Gears Of Dragoon: Fragments Of A New Era (visual novel/DRPG), and more. Having worked for J-Novel Club, […]
Mighty Jaxx produces physical and digital collectibles in collaboration with a number of brands from One Piece to Garfield, along with some unique pieces. With many of our readers having an interest in anime and gaming figures, we thought we’d take a look at what they do. We’ve given our thoughts on some of their […]
Reef Entertainment kindly invited NookGaming and some other outlets to London to check out some upcoming NIS America titles as part of their press tour. Alongside that, we had the chance to chat with some key staff from NIS America, one of whom graciously granted us the opportunity for an interview. Interview with Nicholas Odmark […]
Monogatari Novels is an established Spain-based publisher, planning to move into the light novel and Chinese novel market. They have just announced their first license, which will be released in English and Spanish. Anhk and Vlad from Monogatari Novels kindly agreed to an interview to tell me about their company. Could you tell us a […]