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Weekly Update #634: The Blossoming Of SHINRAI Saku – Part II

Since I’m (sadly) back from my trip now and have a bit more time on my hands, today, we can finally continue where we left off a couple of weeks ago when I started talking about the inception of our latest visual novel release SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair.

So, if you haven’t checked out the previous post yet, or you simply gotta refresh your memory a bit, be sure to check it out here!
But with that out of the way, let’s delve deeper into how Saku grew into something bigger and more complex than originally intended…

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Weekly Update #633: A Visit To The Real Tenrinto

Since I’m currently still in Japan, which makes progressing on VN development a little tricky, we’re gonna do something similar again to last week when I reported on my visit to Shirakawa-go, the real life reference for Higurashi no Naku koro ni‘s village of Hinamizawa.

And this time, we can even tie things directly to our latest release SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair, given that I’m in Kyouto now, which served as the real life reference for Tenrinto, the city Raiko‘s entire grade travelled to for their school trip!

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Weekly Update #632: A Visit To The Real Hinamizawa

As I already suggested in last week’s blog post, we’re going to do something a little different this time. If you follow any of my private social medias, you might have already seen that I’m currently on a trip to Japan. And because of that, there hasn’t really been too much time to do any real VN work that I could report on. Though this is supposed to be a proper vacation… like, the first one I’ve taken in five years, in fact, so I hope you can cut me some slack here!

Anyway, in lieu of a project update, I thought I’d just share with you today’s experience as I finally made a long-held dream a reality by visiting Shirakawa-go, the real life reference for the village of Hinamizawa in Higurashi no Naku koro ni! And with Higurashi being a mystery story as well as a huge influence on my own works… it’s still kinda on topic, right??

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Weekly Update #631: GENBA Day, Trainer Terano & Trip

Originally, I was planning to continue talking about our latest release, SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair, continuing on from where I left off in last week’s blog post, which focused on the project’s inception. I kinda overestimated how much time I’d have this week, however, so we unfortunately have to save “Part II” for another time and keep things on the shorter side again.

So, since today is September 12, the very day the events of GENBA no Kizuna take place, I figured I’d leave you with a fitting artwork, which some of you may have already seen me post on social media during the anniversary celebrations, but which I hadn’t shared here yet: this amazing Pokémon trainer rendition of Terano with his partners Lexy and Mega Aerodactyl, drawn by the incredible JulyMarte:

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Weekly Update #630: The Blossoming Of SHINRAI Saku – Part I

It’s already been a little over a week now since the release of our latest visual novel SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair.
And with it finally out, I can also, at long last, start delving much deeper into the project, particularly how it even came to be.

So let’s get right into that, shall we?

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Weekly Update #629: 10th Anniversary Music Track (+Video)

As you might have already seen, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our very first VN release a couple of days ago on August 26.
The celebrations aren’t quite over yet, however! We’ll keep them going for an entire week and today, we’re excited to do so by sharing a special music track we asked our composer Crescendo to whip up for the occasion! She even went the extra mile and made an amazing accompanying video, so please check it out! We hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we do:

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Anniversary Sale 2026

This year, too, we’re running a sale as part of our anniversary celebrations. It will last until September 2, 10:00 AM PST, so you have a full week to grab both of our previous visual novels at a discount! A great opportunity to catch up with the series and fully prep yourself for our newest release SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair, which deals with the aftermath of the original SHINRAI!

The soundtracks for both VNs are currently discounted as well (50% for GENBA‘s and 75% for SHINRAI‘s). Also, don’t forget that we’re offering Soundtrack Bundles for both games, which let you save an additional 10%!

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10th Anniversary & SHINRAI Saku Released!

On this day, exactly ten years ago, we released our very first visual novel, the murder mystery SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair.
And now, in celebration of that, we’re excited to share our latest project with you… SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair!

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Weekly Update #628: Final Release Preparations

Only a few more days until August 26 when we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of our first VN SHINRAI – Broken Beyond Despair. And, of course, when we plan to publish our latest project, its direct follow-up SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair!

In case this should be the first time you’re hearing of it, you can learn all you need to know in the Saku section on this website, or on the store pages over on itch.io and Steam (where you could also add it to your wishlist, so you’ll be notified the moment it’s out)!

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Weekly Update #627: Road To Release

A couple of days ago, we unveiled a gameplay video of our upcoming project SHINRAI Saku – Blooming Beyond Despair on our social medias, offering a quick glimpse at its very first scene and the newly designed notebook menu! So, in case you haven’t seen it yet, let me start off today’s post with sharing it here as well:

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Weekly Update #634: The Blossoming Of SHINRAI Saku – Part II

Weekly Update #633: A Visit To The Real Tenrinto

Weekly Update #632: A Visit To The Real Hinamizawa

Weekly Update #631: GENBA Day, Trainer Terano & Trip

Weekly Update #630: The Blossoming Of SHINRAI Saku – Part I

Weekly Update #629: 10th Anniversary Music Track (+Video)

Anniversary Sale 2026

10th Anniversary & SHINRAI Saku Released!

Weekly Update #628: Final Release Preparations

Weekly Update #627: Road To Release

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