#hakkenden musical

[hohsalle]

GOU ON STAGE: SHINPEN SATOMI HAKKENDEN ENGLISH SUBTITLES

oh man. hi everyone, here’s a sub i did for the newest installment of the touken ranbu musical, gou on stage: shinpen satomi hakkenden! these subs are timed for the vod from 12/11, but may have a slight delay at some parts because of a few milliseconds of buffering. note that this is only the subtitle file, not the full video file

download here (link updated 4/15)! thanks for supporting cute gouchans and happy gouchan new year!!!!!!

[misakibun]

[DDL] Hakkenden Touhou Hakken Ibun Musicals 1 & 2

Hi there! Misaki here! I decided to start fresh again and dedicate a blog just to stage plays and musicals hehe (〃∀〃)ゞ. I shared these files awhile back on my previous account, but I wanted re-upload and share in higher quality. If you're interested in watching the musicals please check out links below. ☆～（ゝ。∂）

[Rules]

Please don’t repost the link on other public forums/public sites (obvs feel free to share link with friends/fans in Discords/etc)

Please don’t upload the musical or clips to public streaming services.

Feel free to gif/screenshot to your heart’s content.

If there are any issues to the link, please shoot me a message!

[Video Files ]

Hakkenden Touhou Hakken Ibun Musical (2016)

Hakkenden Touhou Hakken Ibun Musical Chapter 2 (2017)

For subtitles for the musicals, please check out the amazing Kana and their posts below. Please do consider buying them a coffee here for all their hardwork!

[Subtitles]

Hakkenden Touhou Hakken Ibun Musical 1 Subs

Hakkenden Touhou Hakken Ibun Musical Chapter 2 Subs

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Years later, I still love this series so much! I hope you all enjoy!

[otaku-mama73]

Musical Touken Ranbu ~ Gou on Steji: Shinpen Satomi Hakkenden

Countdown

December 11 - 23, 2022 in Tokyo January 13 - 22, 2023 in Osaka Livestreams on DMM TV: Purchase link HERE (VPN required) December 11, 2022 18:30 JPT January 22, 2023 13:00, 18:00 JPT

[gloriuspandablog]

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』 Gou On Stage ～Shinpen Satomi Hakkenden～1st week sale statistic

Hello everyone!

Sorry again for the late news but Oricon has released the 1st week sale statistic of Musical 『Touken Ranbu』 Gou On Stage ～Shinpen Satomi Hakkenden～BD/DVD already

Here's the sale number!

On the DVD side, this production sold a total of

3,452 copies! Ranked as the 3rd best selling DVD of the week!

as for the BD side, the production sold a total of

13,146 copies! Also ranked as the 3rd best selling BD of the week!

in total this production sold a total of 16,598 BD/DVD copies in its first week of sale!

This is seriously such a big number especially for a stage play ♥ ♥ ♥

Thank you so much to everyone who purchased a copy!

Good luck on the Zepp Tour!

Source : BD/DVD

[luciano6254]

Art made on Colored pencils, POSCA White pen & Eraser DO NOT RE-POST MY ART WITHOUT MY PERMITION!!! Idol Hakkenden © by Natsume./Towa Chiki.

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Gou on Stage ~ Satomi Hakkenden; New Edition english sub

At long long last I am able to present you the subtitles for the senshuuraku of Goumyu! After a very turbulent year, I'm glad to be lowkey picking up subtitling again. For this performance, though, I won't be able to do a tl notes file. If I were fair to myself, I'd allow myself to write my grievances with what Goumyu's plot does to what had been established for Kogitsunemaru and Mikazuki when those are relevant, but if I were fair to you all, I wouldn't give you a file that's 90% complaining and 10% actual notes or background.

Don't let my grievances distract from the performance though, it's still genuinely fantastic even if the theming choices may be painful to me. Especially Oodenta is fantastic. Goodness gracious.

Keep in mind that this is only the subtitle file, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.

Download the subs for Goumyu here!

[yuurei20]

Seiyuu Birthday: Rook's Itokawa Yojiro

Happy birthday to Rook’s voice actor Itokawa Yojiro!

Rook is Itokawa’s only voice acting role in a video game and only his second-ever voice acting role overall (outside of two drama CDs, one in 2017 and one 2018).

He is best known for his performances in the stage musical adaptations of Touken Ranbu, Ace of Diamond and Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle-.  

From October to November he performed in musical MAHOROBAKANATA, was lead character Otori Akira in the action stage show HELIOS: Rising Heroes in December, performed in Musical “Tamakagiru: new theory Hakkenden” in February of this year and was Abel in the musical WIDERSTAND in March.

On May 10th (just over two weeks ago) he established his own official website, https://yojiro-itokawa.com/

His schedule lists his recent performance in “the Nippon Broadcasting Murder Case” (with Azul’s VA Tamaru Atsushi), the upcoming “ACTORS☆LEAGUE in Baseball 2023”...

...and “Disney Wonderland Fes,” about which he cryptically tweeted, “Ever since Twst was released I often see people asking if I am really the voice of Rook Hunt, since we sound so different. You’ll finally be able to judge for yourself…👀”

More here

[canmom]

Animation Night 137: Jidaigeki the Second

Hi everyone. Hope you’re enjoying any winter holidays that take your fancy. (Hanukkah sameach!) According to Annex 3 of Animation Night Policy we do not observe “christmas” - instead, let me tell you a tale of the past...

Mukashi mukashi... back in the distant misty era of 2020, an era of bloodshed and plague and impending social change (we hope), I wrote the longest Animation Night ever.

Which mostly wasn’t actually about animation at all, but an excuse to infodump about samurai. Armed with a book with the exciting title of Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History, I wrote at great length about everyone’s favourite feudal landlord-administrator-soldier class, and the genres of fiction that portray them...

^ me, relating information to passing tumblr users

Japanese revision time! 時代劇 jidaigeki basically just means ‘period drama’, and it needn’t have anything to do with samurai at all. Indeed, just a couple of weeks ago we watched Rintaro’s adaptation of Teito Monogatari, which qualifies as a jidaigeki despite taking place entirely in the 20th century. チャンバラ (chanbara) is a little narrower, referring to samurai films with an emphasis on the swordfighting.

Animation Night revision time! On AN 24, we watched oldschool films like Namakura Gatana [1917] and Benkei tai Ushiwaka [1939] along with Sword of the Stranger and Afro Samurai, and a small sampling of Seirei no Moribito, Samurai Champloo. Elsewhen, on AN 100 we watched The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Winter Days and Mononoke-hime, on AN 91 we marathoned Naoko Yamada’s incredible adaptation of Heike Monogatari, and on AN 122 we did the same for animation milestone The Hakkenden.

So are we out of animated films about samurai? Ha! No we ain’t.

The occasion this time? I’m itching to show you all Inu-Oh, but Science Saru are holding it tight to their chest at the moment. But there is something else!

Nahoko Uehashi is an ethnologist turned fantasy author, known for her works like Seirei no Moribito (Guardian of the Sacred Spirit) and Kemono no Sōja (The Beast Player), both of which have been adapted to anime by Production IG. In the first, Balsa, a bodyguard atoning for seven deaths, is entrusted with a young prince marked for death by his father - a prince who is, unknown to all, incubating a strange force of spiritual renewal. In the second, Erin, a girl from a culture being genocided, inherits the skill to control animals through her music and thus finds herself drawn into feudal politics.

Neither is exactly set in historical Japan, but that’s in the same way that most Western fantasy isn’t exactly set in medieval Europe. Both have a kind of thoughtful, slightly oldschool tone - highly attentive to nature, and avoiding simple heroes and villains. And Production I.G. - despite being a studio known primarily for scifi - turned out to be a perfect match.

Well, earlier this year, Production IG released their latest adaptation of Uehashi’s works in the form of 鹿の王 Shika no Ō (The Deer King). Co-director Masashi Andō has been a key animator for many many years, and in that time managed to work with just about anyone you’ve ever heard of. He drew for Ghibli under both Miyazaki and Takahata on nearly everything, for Satoshi Kon on Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent and Paprika, for 4C on Tekkonkinkreet, for Makoto Shinkai on Your Name, for Mitsuo Iso on Dennō Coil, for Mamoru Oshii on GitS 2: Innocence, for Anno on Eva 3.0... A glance over his sakugabooru page will show you why: he’s an expert in the realist tradition, not quite as flashy as some of his peers like Ohira or Inoue, but with a fantastic sense of naturalistic motion and an ease at drawing all sorts of weird angles.

^ this guy’s in a lot of gifs, he seems important

The Deer King was Andō’s first time directing, so he was joined by Masayuki Miyaji, who worked himself up from being a production assistant at Ghibli to storyboarding on a whole long list of TV anime, and acting as one of two ‘assistant directors’ (not entirely sure what that entails) on Spirited Away, before hopping into the director’s chair with Xam’d at Bones in 2008-09. Miyaji is of the school that situations animation within film at large, taking inspiration mostly from live action - or at least he was at the time of Xam’d.

So what’s it about? In a feudal setting cut up by war and plague, a slave and a young girl survive an attack by plague-carrying dogs and make their escape, hoping for a peaceful life - a classic Uehashi adoptive parent situation. But with the plague running rampant, prejudice everywhere, and the empire’s doctors searching for a cure, they won’t get it. It’s a lot of novel to pack into one film, and I’m warned that it struggles a little to contain it all, but Ando’s enormous experience shines through to give a film full of subtle and expressive animation.

Anyway, it’s one I’ve had my eye on for ages, so I’m really eager to watch it with you.

Now, let’s roll back the clock a bit. No, not quite to the sengoku jidai - 2012 will do. The Annecy International Film Festival is weighing up a massive slate, including a couple you may remember like Wrinkles (AN 87) and Children who Chase Lost Voices (AN 132). But there’s an odd little one tucked in there: a film by Toei, adapting the 70s manga Asura by George Akiyama. It’s a story set at the beginning of the sengoku period, where drought and famine wrack Kyoto, following a feral child who survives an attempted cannibalistic infanticide as he grows up amid all the war and devastation. Buddhas will be carved, symbolically. It’s that kinda thing.

George Akiyama was controversial in his day for his depictions of suicide, self-mutilation and cannibalism; ComiPress called him the ‘unstoppable king of trauma manga’. After making a serious impact with a bleak apocalyptic sci-fi story inspired by the infamous Maoist cult the Japanese Red Army, and even more so with an autobiography in which he revealed he had mixed Japanese-Korean parents (inspiring Big Racisms in those days), he surprised everyone by retiring. It didn’t stick. He moved from scandalising Shōnen Jump readers to adult manga, then back, uncannily anticipating the Aum terrorist attacks. He sounds like a fascinating guy and I’d like to read him some of that. Maybe it will be a Comics Comints one day. Hehe.

The most curious thing about Toei’s adaptation is the animation method. It’s very common now to place 2D animation in 3D scenes, but here we see the opposite: traditionally painted backgrounds populated by stylised 3D characters. Viewed with modern eyes, it has an interesting, uncanny look - certainly videogamey, but I’m curious to see how it works in a larger film. This CG approach may seem less odd when we consider director Keiichi Sato had the year before directed Tiger & Bunny at Sunrise, whose story of corporate-funded superheroes needed CG to plaster logos across the suits. Sato would actually later go on to mostly work in live-action film, notably the adaptation of Gantz we watched on Toku Tuesday 40.

I can’t guess what we’ll all make of Asura. It could be really great, a neglected classic like Birdboy - or it could end up being so exaggeratedly grimdark as to end up kind of goofy. We’ll find out! Animation Night would be no fun if we stuck to the well-known roads. At a brief 75 minutes, Asura is a pretty digestible size like an OVA episode.

After all that war and death, we probably want a breather. 百日紅 Sarusuberi (Miss Hokusai) looks at a different aspect of history - the renowned ukiyo-e painter Hokusai, best known for that one wave you might have seen here and there. Hokusai, it turned out, had a daughter called Katsushika Ōi, who followed her dad’s footsteps into ukiyo-e. Her story caught the eye of mangaka Hinako Sugiura.

Sugiura is another one I’ve got to have a look into. A manga artist with a deep interest in history, particularly the Edo period, she learned manga from Murasaki Yamada - not just a regular in the pages of Garo magazine, the fascinating alternative manga magazine, but a feminist essayist and a poet. Sugiura also debuted in Garo, drawing on ukiyo-e to great effect for her historical manga. She retired from manga in 1993 to focus on her research, and became something of a TV personality, supplying NHK with information on the Edo period for a comedy program.

The film intercuts Ōi’s life with her dad’s, a series of episodic stories in which we meet other painters from the period and watch Ōi growing up in the Edo period, working uncredited and trying to figure out sexuality. The animation comes from a studio called... Production I.G.... hmm I think I’ve heard of those guys?

So this time, the director was Keiichi Hara. While Masashi Andō was enjoying that wide-ranging career with all the big name directors, Hara was doing one thing, and that was directing Doraemon and Crayon Shin-Chan for Shin-ei. Two of the absolutely largest anime franchises in Japan, they don’t get a lot of play abroad - but then one is a kids’ series and the other leans heavily on Japanese wordplay so it’s not entirely surprising. From 1984 to 2005, Hara directed a movie for one of these two franchises nearly every year...

...I’m not kidding!

Anyway, it seems that in 2005 he decided he’d had enough (I can only assume) and from that point on he started directing non-franchise films. Quite a few of them actually - something for a future Animation Night, perhaps.

With Miss Hokusai, Hara could call on Production I.G. legends like Toshiyuki Inoue and Norio Matsumoto to realise a detailed, grounded Edo Period in exquisite detail. The clips I’ve seen look beautiful - I’ll try and have more than that to say later, but I am absolutely categorically out of time at this point.

So! Two Production I.G.s doing what Production I.G. do best, and a little oddity of Toei’s. If you’re willing to indulge me, please head over to -> twitch.tv/canmom <- for some mobies!

We may be up a bit late by UK standards, but I hope you can hop in for a bit, as suits! Movies will start in about 20 minutes (~21:20 UK time), modulo audience. See you theeerrreeeeeee!

[namelessexistence]

Part 3 of 10 of my 100 favorite characters

80 - Elphaba (Wicked) Defying Gravity is a song that will forever be dear to my heart 79 - Electra Heart (Marina and the Diamonds) Yes, I'm talking about the music album. It may be a weird inclusion, but the songs, together, create a greater picture that is fascinating to me 78 - Parvana (Breadwinner and it's sequels) I read at first in School, I don't even remeber wich class. She's smart, hopeful, resilient and sweet 77 - Tom Houston (Black Friday) A father trying to conect with his son after his wife's death. He blames himself for his death (because he was driving when the accident happened) and fears that his son may blame him as well. The songs What Tim Wants and If I Fail You always touch me 76 - Hawkgirl (Justice League Animated Series (2001-2004)) Even tought my mom is a great DC fan, my first contact with the superheroes genre as a child was that cartoon. Hawkgirl was a character I overlooked on the first watch, but my love for her only grew. Her arc and divided loyalty really got me 75 - Tahani Al-Jamil (The Good Place) A concept I really like in fiction is that character that tries so hard to be perfect, an endeavor always bound to fail, that end up losing themselves in that projected perfection. That's one of the reasons why Tahani was my favorite. Also because she's absurdly gorgeous. 74 - Inuzuka Shino (Hakkenden) I watched years ago, and I confess I don't remember a lot. I always plan to rewatch, but I never find the time. Anyway, the protagonist, Shino, as a character I loved dearly, and I remember very well this feeling, tough I can't remember too much of the reason why. 73 - Mikulia Greeonio (Evillious Chronicles) Tough is true that Eve, Mikulia, Margarita and the Doll all have kinda the same vibe (justified in-universe) I still have a weak spot for Mikulia. Used as a vessel for the Demon of Sloth since even before she was born, Mikulia didn't have the chance of develop away from Eve's influence. She was mistreated for showing signs of not being neurotypical and found confort in the fantasy of a Prince taking her away. She was childish, cheerful and wanted friends. Her interactions with Lukana were so precious. 72 - Gallerian Marlon (Evillious Chronicles). Back then, when I didn't even know that story went beyong the songs, I was Young and still tought you coudn't like the bad characters. Trust me, I tried not to like this corrupted judge, but there was something about the way he would willingly walk straight to hell, with no fear ir regret, I simply coudn't resist 71 - Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Disney, 1996) I am aware of the many flaws of Disney, and I never idealized It that much any way, even as a child. Even so, it's almost impossible to grow up without watching some of the movies. Esmeralda is great, she stand up for justice, she's smart and bold, and she's kind. .

[dominika-riko]

AMV - AnimeMix

[teodorawitchblade]

Rio and Hugue || Revolver

Decided to make a short AMV for my two dear priests. ♥ Enjoy!

Watch it here.

[faith-gigliorosa]

ao & shino - [running up that hill]

And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God.

[kanasmusings]

[DL] Musical Hakkenden 2 - English Subs

I finally finished subbing Hakkenden! It’s very heart wrenching and funny at the same time XD There are some parts of the songs (specially Hamaji’s) that I’m not confident with because I couldn’t hear some parts properly but other than that, it’s all good~

Again, thank you to @misaki01 for sharing with us her video file! Remember to thank them, too and to follow their rules if you’re downloading the video!

Without further ado, here’re the subs ^^  Usual rules apply. Enjoy~

https://mega.nz/#!2hwzTZrb!EuAUj7AdDtzib3Tugof280BPbdJ5E7EkOlo5RRBy96A

If you like what I’m doing, please consider buying me a coffee here. Though you don’t have to if you don’t want to! It’s totally optional (o^▽^o) 

If there are problems with the link or if there are any mistakes, please message me so I can edit ^^

I’m now off to work on UtaPri~ 

[gloriuspandablog]

TouMyu yearly ranking 2023

So late last month Oricon has released a total sales statistic of every BD/DVD/Single/Album sales that they keep a record of and here's the TouMyu related ranking.

Single

I believe TouMyu didn't release any new physical single last year.

Album

From a glance I think TouMyu released 2 albums this year

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』～Kosui Sanka no Yuki～album by Touken Danshi formation of Kosui Sanka no Yuki sold a total of 26,596 copies in 2023. Ranked as the 141th best selling album of 2023 and 11th best selling album from a non-major label.

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』 Tsurumaru Kuninaga Ookurikara Souki Shutsujin ～Shunpu Touri no Sakazuki～sold a total of 19,550 copies in 2023. Ranked as the 189th best selling album of 2023 and 14th best selling album from a non-major label.

DVD

TouMyu released a lot of new DVD this year.

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』～Shinken Ranbusai 2022～Limited Edition DVD sold a total of 10,592 copies in 2023. Ranked as the 78th best selling DVD in 2023. As for the regular edition it's not in the top 100. Probably sold about 800-1K Copies.

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』 Tsurumaru Kuninaga Ookurikara Souki Shutsujin ～Shunpu Touri no Sakazuki～DVD, not ranked in the top 100. Sold about 4k copies in 2023.

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』 Gou On Stage ～Shinpen Satomi Hakkenden～, not ranked in the top 100. Sold about 4k copies in 2023.

BD

As for the BD side.

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』～Shinken Ranbusai 2022～BD Limited edition sold a total of 43,220 copies in 2023. Ranked as the 30th best selling BD of 2023! The regular edition is not in the top 100, they sold about 1k copies of this one.

Musical 『Touken Ranbu』 Gou On Stage ～Shinpen Satomi Hakkenden～BD sold a total of around 14,000 copies in 2023. Not ranked in the top 100.

Musical『Touken Ranbu』Tsurumaru Kuninaga Ookurikara Souki Shutsujin ～Shunpu Touri no Sakazuki～BD sold a total of 11,000 copies in 2023. Not ranked in the top 100.

As for the overall Touken Ranbu franchise it is estimate that the total of BD+DVD+Single+Album+Manga made about 1.7 Billion yen, ranked as the 25th most profitable pop culture related franchise in 2023!

Congratulations on a continuous success! That sales number is really good and at a glance TouMyu is still the biggest 2.5D show there is in term of sales! On par with a mainstream idol group/artist.

Thank you to everyone who purchased a copy and support the boys throughout the year *cry*

Hoping for a successful 2024 as well!

Thank you for making mine 2023 a super enjoyable one TouMyu!

Source BD/DVD/Total, Single/Album

[meisekimiu]

5 of My Favorite Games I Played in 2021

This is my third year reflecting on the games I’ve played! Compared to last year (full of unemployment) I didn’t put as many hours into gaming, but I still enjoyed playing plenty of video grames.

Honorable Mention: Super Bogus World 2 (by hubol + Oddwarg)

I listed Super Bogus World 2 as one of my favorites last year, but I didn’t actually beat it until 2021. And damn... it gets even better. This grame is truly fantastic and I appreciate it even more now that I’ve actually completed it. There is something about this grame’s fascination with The Residents’ live version of “Loser≅Weed” from their 2013 “Wonder of Weird” tour that is so specifically relatable to me. Like what the hell... that is my obsession song what the fuck is it doing in this game being a central motif??? Yet there’s also so much other shit going on in this game that is bizarre and different it’s fascinating. It feels so intimately relatable and yet distant at the same time that it is truly a pleasure to explore this video grame.

Also I feel like to some degree all the games I put out this year were at least a bit inspired by this grame (even using Borgus Shop Pro to make a graphic for one).

5. Project Kat (by Leef 6010)

Project Kat is an RPG Maker Horror game. If you know what that specific micro-genre is then you already know exactly what this game is like. This game is still under development and I honestly don’t know what’s happening with it right now… but I enjoyed playing the initial prologue demo! I’m looking forward to more some day. It’s both cute and spooky and has that classic RPG maker game vibe to it. I also liked the music even though I think most of it was royalty free lol.

4. Yuru Camp VR Games

I love Yuru Camp so much and I loved watching Season 2 this year even if none of my friends watched it for some reason. Even though I played it in what is objectively the shittiest way possible (Nintendo Labo) the charm of the game still came through! These games really feel like little mini episodes of the show, but the game also lets you stop and just… look around and take in the atmosphere of the campsite. The games are honestly pretty short but the added details like showing text messages between characters and having little cooking cutaways with the narrator from the show really bring it together. They were both fun interactive OVA type experiences.

(also you can pet the dog and like I do think that the one “can you pet the dog” account on twitter is like poisoning all games so now everyone’s putting dog petting in games because it’s like a meme and I kinda hate that but the dog in this game is really cute and voiced by meshiya lol so it’s actually very good)

3. Famicom Detective Club Games (Missing Heir / Girl Who Stands Behind)

There’s this very specific micro-genre of “Famicom First Person Adventure Games” that’s always fascinated me. The genre is essentially the concept of a text adventure game but ported to the more limited Famicom/NES hardware, acting as primitive predecessors to the point-and-click visual novel format that we enjoy today. A few examples of this specific genre are games like Shadowgate, Princess Tomato and the Salad Kingdom, Idol Hakkenden, and of course Famicom Detective Club. The takeaway here is that if Danganronpa was made for the Famicom it’d probably look more like Famicom Detective Club than anything else. (Except Famicom Detective Club would be better lmao)

Anyway, all that is to say that when the fancy HD remakes of the Famicom Detective Club games dropped on Switch localized in english, I was really excited to play one of these games! And with actual graphics too! I have to say that both Famicom Detective Club games can get pretty infuriating at times; they’re incredibly linear and if you don’t know exactly what to do to progress you basically just have to bang your head against the wall and brute force every option multiple times until you select the exact right option the game wants you to pick to progress. But damn these games are pretty good. They’re just very high quality visual novels (at least compared to the indie ren’py stuff I usually play) and I really really really hope they make a third one that really takes advantage of the new modern visual novel engine they’re using.

2. ARCHANGEL:NEMESIS [S1E1] (by team★cpu)

I played this game in January and I knew before even finishing it that it would be going on this list. Honestly, I was anticipating it would be my game of the year (stay tuned for what that is... it will [won’t] shock you!). Everything about Archangel:Nemesis is incredible. The mood, the art style, the music, the story… even the weird spiritual word salad shit is amazing and I love it so much. Literally from the very first words of the game I knew it was going to be great.

Earlier I mentioned that Super Bogus World 2 has this blend of both specifically relatable things and yet distantly fascinating things at the same time and this game has that too. I feel strangely connected to this world and to Twigs’s story in particular but I don’t even fully know why and I’m so fascinated to see where the story could go. Immediately after playing this game my most anticipated game of the year became… well, the next game I’m going to talk about.

1. ARCHANGEL:NEMESIS [S1E2] ::: FRIDAY (by team★cpu)

I cheated a little here. For the other games on this list split into multiple installments, I counted each collection as one singular game. But honestly, that’s because with Famicom Detective Club or Yuru Camp, each new episode is just another game that’s roughly interchangable with the previous one (in other words, they’re totally fungible). When ARCHANGEL:NEMESIS Episode 2 was still in development… I honestly assumed it was going to follow a similar trend. It’d be more of what we saw in Episode 1, and hey, I thought Episode 1 was my game of the year back in January so I was totally hyped for just more of the same.

When I finally played A:N Ep2… I was floored. I had pretty high expectations and Episode 2 completely exceeded them. Episode 2 takes everything I loved about A:N Ep1 and goes completely fucking crazy with it. It is unbelievably good and without a doubt my most anticipated game now is A:N Ep3 (which looking at dev progress of that game it seems like it’s going to be even more ambitious!).

The two episodes of ARCHANGEL:NEMESIS were my favorite games this year and they won that honor by a large margin. I had to put both of them down in this list because they’re just that good. Honestly, I struggled a bit coming up with this year’s list because A:N just blew everything out of the water. I love these games. Please buy them and play them. And don’t forget to also buy emamouse’s album.