Our stroll through the erogamescape was a bit delayed this month due to the big releases being split across two weekends (Thursday the 22nd and last Friday, the 30th), but better late than never here we are with our habitual dive into the seamier side of bishoujo gaming. It’s been a pretty big release month with some hot new titles now on the market – check below for an annotated list of arbitrarily chosen games that seemed interesting at the time (KIRA KIRA!!!).

Black Package’s
Hitozuma Harem
Wendy Bell’s
Zoku: Kairaku
Izonshou
Black Lilith’s
Kanagi
Distortion
Interactive’s
Rental Kanojo
Kiss’s Batsu
Batsu na Kanojo
no Tsukurikata
Etude’s Soshite
Ashita no Sekai
Yori
Siesta’s Pastel
Circus’s
Eternal
Fantasy
Overdrive’s
Kira Kira
Liar Soft’s
Kakuen no
Inganock
Colors’ Mahou
Shoujo Ai Full
Set Box
TinkerBell’s
Harame
Overdose’s
Asenure Shoujo
Misaki
Illusion’s
Jinkou Shoujo 3
November 9th releases
- Black Package’s Hitozuma Harem
The game’s title (“Hitozuma” translates as “housewife”) pretty much says it all. This is the game with the famous (?) do-it-yourself oppai pop instructions on its official site, which unfortunately seems like it might be the most interesting thing about it; ardent fans of the housewife persuasion might want to give it a second look. [Erogamescape]
- Wendy Bell’s Zoku: Kairaku Izonshou
Cyberworks’ recently launched budget brand Wendy Bell presents the sequel to TinkerBell Nanigashi-gumi’s Kairaku Izonshou, the G-kilobyte illustrated tale of a nymphomaniac secretary and her pursuit of sexual pleasure. This sequel focuses on her relationship with a shota character, not the sort I would’ve chosen (they had a perfectly good futanari college student in the original) but still a nicely priced addition full of more great art. [Erogamescape]
November 16th releases
- Lilith Mist’s Kanagi
The third title in Lilith’s Mist brand lineup, having not received my copy yet I can’t say much about it other than that art is from Senbata-Roh and it looks rather dark hot. As of this posting it has sold 1,762 copies at Japanese DLsite, a performance on the low side for a Lilith release but given time I’m guessing it’ll rise to the 3,000+ mark along with the rest. [Erogamescape] [English DLsite]
- Distortion Interactive’s Rental Kanojo
A new brand makes an entry to the recently growing ranks of interactive polygon-based games, and not a very sophisticated one at that. From the looks of it Distortion has succumbed to the typical eroge developer mentality of building an engine from the ground up when perfectly licensable (though expensive) ones already exist; I’ll be curious to see some sales numbers on this, as I can’t imagine anyone buying it when the more technologically advanced fare from Illusion is available. [Erogamescape]
November 22th releases
We first reported on this back in August as the world’s first combination Sim City / eroge. In a fusion of Kiss‘s Custom Reido series with the venerable city planning simulation you have the chance to design both the game’s heroines and the city you inhabit with them, populating it with date spots and suspicious shops galore. A landmark the world of ero-gaming? Erogamescape doesn’t seem to think so.
- etude’s Soshite Ashita no Sekai Yori
A big, popular title I don’t know anything about. Erogamescape really likes it.
- Siesta’s Pastel
- Circus’s Eternal Fantasy
Circus’s latest magnum opus. The fact that it’s not a Da Capo title should be encouraging to us all. [Erogamescape]
- Overdrive’s Kira Kira
You portray an average Catholic (?) academy student, drafted into a punk band by a bizarre girl at your part time job. You wind up as the band’s crossdressing bass player in a story that Japanese fans like – they really like it! I’m digging the concept for this game, and HOLY SHIT I JUST DOWNLOADED THE SAMPLE TRACKS AND THE MUSIC FUCKING ROCKS. Sample [1] [2]
…wow, just wow. I had no idea they were going to go this far with this game. Suddenly I want to play it, really, really badly. The opening movie is awesome, too. If you’ve ever had fantasies of being in a rock band this looks like the game for you (and me). Man, unexpected discoveries like this remind me why I’m doing this otaku thing every day…
- Liar Soft’s Kakuen no Inganock
We scooped this title back when the official site opened, and it seems our predictions were correct (according to Erogamescape); Liar Soft has another hit on their hands. As I enthused back when the site opened the music for this one is really good, too…
A rerelease of G.J?’s 2005 title Shichinin no Online Gamers with some crappy animated sequences added. As we noted early last month when the game was unveiled it seems this is an attempt to milk a bit of cash from an earlier Sano title while the next one is in production; here’s hoping for news of the next G.J? game soon!
- Hermit’s Sekai de Ichiban Dame na Koi
[Erogamescape] Seems like this is a good one.
- Colors’ Mahou Shoujo Ai Set Box
Contains the two complete Mahou Shoujo Ai games (1+ and 2+), plus soundtracks and a mini-artbook with rough illustrations for the upcoming third game, all for a bargain price. I picked this one up and am glad I did, though I haven’t had a chance to install either game yet; seems like a great opportunity to get in to the franchise for those of us who missed the boat when they first came out.
- TinkerBell’s Harame
This one didn’t quite click with me; I think it’s the designs and the generally rapey-looking theme. [Erogamescape]
- Norn’s Ane Ane
A budget title. [Erogamescape]
November 30th releases
- Whirlpool’s MagusTale
- Guilty’s Helter Skelter
- Atelier Kaguya’s Ore to Kanojo wa Shuujuu no Kankei
[Erogamescape]
- Overdose’s Asenure Shoujo Misaki
The deviant in me demanded that I pick this up, and having played through the first two encounters it seems to be exactly what is advertised – a fetish game based around… “glow”, I guess, as we all know that women don’t really perspire. Will play more when time allows. [Erogamescape]
- Touchable’s Shinshoku 2
Another of this month’s titles I picked up and have been working through the past two nights; the lone review currently on Erogamescape sums up my feelings about it pretty well (95th percentile, can be used as “snack” fodder). Oh Japan and your euphemisms for masturbation! Like most other games in the Touchable lineup this is a great title for fans of an immediate collapse into delirious pleasure without any of the messy “plot” or “character development” or “psychological breakdown” that can accompany similar tentaclefests; highly recommended if you’re into that sort of thing.
- Illusion’s Jinkou Shoujo 3
The elephant in the room when it comes to pirated titles of the month (or year, perhaps), this is the first Illusion game I’ve purchased in quite a while, and I’ve only started exploring its many nooks and crannies. This was a title I’ve anticipated since I reviewed its predecessor, and the announcement in August that a third game was coming put me in high anticipation mode for the past three months (most recently here)… I haven’t had much time to mess around with it yet, but I’ll try to post some impressions once I’m a bit further in. [Erogamescape]
- Purple Software’s Ashita no Kimi to Au Tame ni
- C-side’s Akasen Gairo
Apologies for yet another shift in format here, it seems I can’t settle on one solid mechanism for presenting eroge news. This time around I didn’t try to list every single release title and didn’t cover the budget titles and doujin releases as well as I should have; I’ll try to remedy this in a future post along with a list of recently announced upcoming items that are looking promising – my goal is at least one more solid eroge post before Comiket at the end of the month.
Your efforts are appreciated!
That Kira Kira looks like anime material.
Is it just me, or does the artwork from Kira Kira and Edelweiss look like the artwork from Green Green 1/2/3?
Green Green is by the same artist I think.
Did you hear the songs in Kira Kira that are remix of Little Busters! OP and Lucky Star coupling song?
Dig the new format.
Artist Katakura Shinji is responsible for Kira Kira, Edelweiss, Green Green, and several other titles dating back to FrontWing’s Kanaria in 2000. Oh EGS, what would I do without you…
>>Nemo_N
My one misgiving about Kira Kira as an anime (or any other story about musicians becoming an anime) is that it’s so damn hard to animate music being played without it looking terrible, unless you have a huge budget. That’s one of the things that Haruhi did so very, very well that a lot of other shows haven’t…. I’d be glad to see Kira Kira from Kyoani, but that doesn’t seem at all likely. :(
>>EvoSpace
I’ve only heard what’s on the official site so far, I didn’t know covers were included in the soundtrack. That’s pretty sweet!
P.S. I hope Eternal Fantasy is doing really well for you. 応æ´ã—ã¦ã¾ã™ã‚ˆãƒ¼ï¼
Black Package’s Hitozuma Harem is nice diversion from their normal stuff. I have a a copy on the way so I’m looking forward to it. And yes, I do have a MILF fetish . . .
Nice selection – especially Hitozuma Harem. Still hoping for an uncensored release of some of their titles…maybe after 2010.
After all, way back in the 80s and 90s, Japanese anime and manga were more badly censored (cough…black patch…cough) than today…
Maybe the uncensored Mandarin version will be out first. Who knows. 8)
p.s. 500 million horny middle class Chinese is no joking matter. We’ve a 3000 year history of multiple partners and legalised brothels. 50 years of Communist rule doesn’t change the fact or the urge. Just look at Shanghai or the bigger cities today. 8)
And if I’m not wrong, tonnes of Japanese ero stuff (e.g. cast-off figures) are made in China. And I believe some animation company in Shanghai is the outsourced firm for Milky (known for their big boobed MILFs)
does anyone know the name of the song for “rental kanojo demo?” its on gametrailers.com and my girlfriend wont stop asking about it
>>Anonymous
The Rental Kanojo theme song is called:
æ„›ã®ãƒ–リッツクリーク~電撃作戦~
Ai no Blitz-Click ~Dengeki Sakusen~
Translated: “Blitz-Click of Love ~Blitzkrieg Tactics~”
Lyrics are by Tadano Kanae (åªé‡Žã‚«ãƒŠã‚¨), composition is from Shousui Radio (憔悴ラジオ), and vocals are from Toromi (ã¨ã‚美).
You can find the lyrics (in Japanese) here.
Hope that helps, let me know if there’s any other information you’re looking for.