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[ A-Station - Rune Factory 2 Comic and Cover ]

A promotional copy of A-Station, a free and now defunct magazine, which features Rune Factory 2 on the cover. This magazine features original artwork of Mana from Rune Factory 2 on the cover, as well as a one-page promotional comic featuring Mana and Alicia. 

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Dengeki Maoh Manga - Chapter Three ]

Published: November 2007 Issue of Dengeki Maoh

A rare manga that is only found in very specific volumes of Dengeki Maoh. Please note that Chapters 2 and 5 have yet to be located, since the volumes containing them have not been available for purchase for a very long time.

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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 2 - Dengeki Maoh Manga - Chapter Four ]

Published: December 2007 Issue of Dengeki Maoh

A rare manga that is only found in very specific volumes of Dengeki Maoh. Please note that Chapters 2 and 5 have yet to be located, since the volumes containing them have not been available for purchase for a very long time.

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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 2 - Dengeki Maoh Manga - Chapter One ]

Published: September 2007 Issue (which was published July 25, 2007)

So back in the day, several different manga based off of RF1, RF2, and RFF were serialized in several different magazines. Most of them were not lucky enough to be combined into a separate manga. This means that the only way to read any of them is to gather up all of the different magazines each chapter was published in.

Which, well, is what I’m doing right now.

The Dengeki Maoh Rune Factory 2 manga focuses primarily on Dorothy and Barrett. It is illustrated by the same mangaka who drew the Rune Factory 1 Preorder Bonus comic. Each chapter is roughly 8-10 pages each, and we’re currently predicting that there are five chapters of the manga spread across five issues of Dengeki Maoh. 

I’m currently on the hunt for the rest of this manga! I already have what I think is chapter four of the manga, though I will not be posting it until i have chapters two and three. Currently, the Dengeki Maoh October 2007 issue, which chapter two is in, is not for sale anywhere and has not been for sale since I started keeping track of it half a year ago. If you have any leads on where to purchase this volume, please contact me ASAP!

A huge thank you to @sharance-maze for initially posting the masterlist of lost RF manga and to @alvarna for essentially hunting down every issue the manga could possibly be in! Can’t thank you guys enough for your hard work!

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Light Novel ]

Novel Artwork

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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 2 - Pre-Order Booklet ]

Bonus Art (4/6)

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Pre-Order Booklet ]

Bonus Art (6/6)

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Light Novel ]

Art Insert

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Pre-Order Booklet ]

Bonus Art (3/6)

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Light Novel ]

This is the light novel made for Rune Factory 2, which has yet to receive any translation whatsoever! While there’s no translation, I do know that the plot revolves primarily about the romance of Kyle and Cecilia (sorry Mana, better luck next time). 

Several of the in-novel pictures do show some interesting things, like Cecilia standing over some sort of grave, so I’m wondering if this light novel delves into Cecilia’s past, which was only briefly touched upon in the original Rune Factory, where she appeared as a child. 

Also I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Kyle and Mana artwork used for the front cover of the light novel. I don’t know if this is the only place it’s used, but it’s the only time I’ve personally seen either one of them.

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Pre-Order Booklet ]

Bonus Art (2/6)

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Pre-Order Booklet ]

Hello! Next up on the scanning docket is the Rune Factory 2 Pre-Order Booklet! This is a small booklet with character designs, exclusive artwork, and some other neat little things! I will be posting my other scans next up in the queue!

This booklet also comes with a CD containing mostly regular songs from the original soundtrack as well as some Drama tracks featuring the cast of Rune Factory 2! Please let me know if you’d also like me to upload the tracks themselves!

Also, there’s a pretty interesting thing I noticed. So the booklet has art for protagonists and most of the marriageable candidates, including the kids from the second generation. However...Sera, Serena, and Leonel are not included at all...even though you can fake marry them in the second generation. I’m thinking that maybe the makers of the booklet couldn’t fit in those three with the allotted pages, so maybe they had to be cut. But dang, those three got the short end of the stick with this one!

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[ Rune Factory 2 - Light Novel ]

Included Promotional Material + Bookmark