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Happy 15th Anniversary to the Rune Factory series!

In celebration, the Rune Factory Twitter has several special events going on. Please see the previous post to see a link to the official 15th Anniversary website!

Celebrations include a Rune Factory art contest, a questionnaire filled with a bunch of Rune Factory questions, a special 15th anniversary trailer, a Twitter giveaway, and special sales for the Japanese versions of RF4, RF4S, and RF5!

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Six Part One

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Seven

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Six Part Two

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New Rune Factory merchandise is up on Cocollabo! Products  include charms, buttons, a t-shirt, and other merchandise based on Rune Factory 1, Rune Factory 2, Rune Factory 3, Rune Factory 4, and Rune Factory 4 Special! 

Featured characters are the protagonists, the main love interests of 1-3, and Ventuswill’s human form. 

The link to purchase these goods will be included in a reblog, so please check the notes. Please note that you will need to use a proxy service to purchase these items.

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[ Rune Factory Gaiden: Another Day ]

A member of the Rune Factory Discord server unearthed a few more images from one of the lost Rune Factory visual novels released way back in 2007. These visual novels were only available in Japan on a now-defunct service for flip phones. 

More information about this visual novel can be found in the #RFGaiden tag on the archive. 

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Five

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Four

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Three, Part One of Two

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[ Rune Factory 4 Special Memorial Box - Memorial Book ]

The Memorial Book is a collection of artwork of the entire series up until the release of Rune Factory 4 Special. It collects a majority of the art and even contains harder to find character designs as well (namely the full body designs of several Rune Factory 3 characters). 

Unfortunately, it is also missing several pieces of artwork, such as some Rune Factory Frontier artwork and a lot of bonus artwork of Rune Factory Oceans. However, it is still a very nice artbook to have as a companion to Rune Factory Memoirs, if you have a copy of that. 

Most if not all artwork in this book has already been added to the archive from a different source, so I will not be scanning the contents of this artbook. However, if you want to ask if certain pieces of art are in this, I’ll be happy to answer!

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Three, Part Two of Two

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic Two

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic One, Part One of Two

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[ Rune Factory Comic Anthology ]

Comic One, Part Two of Two

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[ Rune Factory - 10th Anniversary 3DS Theme ]

This was a theme made for sale for Japanese 3DS systems in 2016 as a celebration of the series’ 10th anniversary. Unfortunately, this is the clearest picture I was able to find of the theme. 

If anyone has a high quality image of either the top or bottom screen art, please do not hesitate to send it my way!

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[ Rune Factory - Prologue Guide ]

This is the Rune Factory Prologue Book! Like the Rune Factory 2 and Rune Factory: Oceans pre-order booklets, this book contains a bunch of character art! Instead of bonus art, however, there is a cute little comic in the back! I know I’ve seen the actual comic in raws on Tumblr before, so I’m going to try to find those to reblog as well as a translation because I think I remember also seeing that too.

If the currently posted raws ever go down via a blog deletion or something else, then please don’t hesitate to reach out to me so I can provide a new scan!

This guide has also been my mortal enemy ever since I got it, because my scanner absolutely does not like this book. I think it’s because the book is made from this weird shiny paper that the other books I own don’t have. So basically, whenever I tried scanning this, half the images turned out washed-out or completely unsalvageable. Thankfully, I’ve managed to salvage the good stuff!