FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EARLY 2010 SUMMER SALE AT MANGAGAMER.COM
Limited Time Sale starting from May 15th

May 7, 2010 MangaGamer.com is pleased to announce an Early Summer Sale!
The following titles, perfect to play during the hot summer season will go on sale starting May 15!

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Early Summer Sale Date & Time　
5/15　10:00（CET）～ 5/25　10:00（CET）

“Suika A.S+”
49.95 Euros -> 24.95 Euros (Approximately US$32)

“Suck my Dick or Die!”
29.95 Euros -> 19.95 Euros (Approximately US$25)

“Shera, My Witch”
36.95 Euros -> 19.95 Euros
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Title: Suika A.S+
Manufacturer: CIRCUS
Genre: Adventure
OS: Windows XP(32bit), Windows Vista(32bit)
Text Language: English
Voice Language: Japanese
Age Rating: 18 and over

STORY:
In a place surrounded by mountains and the ocean lies Tokiwa Village, the “unchanging” village. Yet summer still comes, even to this “unchanging” village. Then one day, a nameless girl ran through the village, ringing the little bells that hung from her hat, and the red strings of fate became entangled……

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Title: Suck my Dick or Die!
Manufacturer: Liquid
Genre: Adventure
OS: Windows XP(32bit), Windows Vista(32bit)
Text Language: English
Voice Language: Japanese
Age Rating: 18 and over

STORY:
The anti-government guerrillas were fighting agaist the government in the country which was politically unrest.
There was an incident that a little girl was raped and murdered by the guerrillas in a small village.
Mr. Prosper, who is the commander of the military, advanced his men to this small village to hunt the guerrillas.

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Title: Shera, My Witch
Manufacturer: SCORE
Genre: Adventure
OS: Windows XP(32bit), Windows Vista(32bit)
Text Language: English
Voice Language: Japanese
Age Rating: 18 and over

STORY:
One day, a sexy witch, Shera, showed up in the life of a desperate horny high-school boy, Satoru.
Thanks to her sex appetite, Satoru’s luck has turned around!
“Look out girls!!”
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MangaGamer.com is the world’s first online download site of English translated bishojo games that opened in July 2008. Since its launch, it has offered services where fans can download and enjoy popular bishojo games such as CIRCUS’s “Da Capo” and OVERDRIVE’s “Kira Kira” right from their home.

According to a trusted source, MangaGamer is working on fixing the character spacing problems in LCSE, the game engine used for their releases of games from NEXTON. As reported previously, there have been spacing issues in My sex slave is a classmate, resulting from an incorrect font being used by the game engine. Fixing this may require further playtesting to make sure the text lines break at correct places.

Shera, My Witch and Tasty Shafts, originally scheduled for an August 10 release, have been pushed back to September 15. For the other games originally scheduled for an August 10 release: Suck my dick or die! is pushed back to October 1 and Sandwiched by my wife and her sister is pushed back to November 1. Da Capo was originally scheduled for an August 30 release is now coming out on October 15. Suika A.S+, originally scheduled for September 30, is now going to be available starting December 1. Lastly, originally the last game in the lineup, The Queen and Princess as your rewards is now coming out on November 15.

Both games are fairly popular titles released by Circus in Japan. What is interesting is that the launch will occur just as Anime Expo 2008 starts, and Circus will be conducting a panel at Anime Expo. We will provide you with the latest information as soon as we can.

A look into the registration information reveals that an entity by the name of “Manga International” located in the Netherlands is the owner of the domain for the website. The MangaGamer website describes itself as “the world first on line shopping site to download English localized Hentai games. You can buy games from many Hentai game manufacturers in Japan.” While this statement is technically true for releases from commercial game companies, it is not the case with doujin game releases, as DLSite English does offer a few officially translated doujin games for sale, contracting out to CuriousFactory, a company based in the US, for localization work.

UPDATE:

Furthermore, after random url poking, it seems that part of their site is live, but not linked from the main page. The title picture is of Edelweiss, a game produced by OVERDRIVE. Overlaid on the title image are the words “English Translated Japanese Dating Sim Game are becoming available in Europe!” In their news updates, they say they will be present at Japan Expo 2008 (Paris), Anime Expo 2008 (Los Angeles) and Comic-Con 2008 (San Diego).

The following are the titles currently on the page:

• (Avail Jul 27, 2008) The Queen and Princess as your rewards / 魔将の贄 (Liquid)
• (Avail Aug 30, 2008) Da Capo / D.C. ～ダ・カーポ～ (CIRCUS)
• (Avail Sep 30, 2008) Suika A.S+ / 水夏A.S+ (CIRCUS)
• Edelweiss / エーデルワイス (OVERDRIVE)
• My sex slave is a classmate / 僕の牝秘書は同級生 (Liquid)
• Sandwiched by my wife and her sister / 姉妹丼～汁だくで～ (PSYCHO)
• Shera, My Witch / さっきゅば☆ＳＯＯＮ！ (SCORE)
• Suck my dick or die! / 凌辱ゲリラ狩り (Liquid)
• Tasty Shafts / 美味しい棒が2本 (PSYCHO)
• Which girl should I choose? / ひなたぼっこ (Tarte)

From their news updates, it looks like they signed a deal with OVERDRIVE, NEXTON and Circus. What’s odd is that Tarte’s parent company Deal went bankrupt as of early 2007 after Tarte released their last game, Katahane. Does this mean NEXTON has rights to Tarte’s catalog? Does this also mean a commercial release of ONE ~to the radiant season~ is possible in the foreseeable future?

Thanks to our gemot goons for the heads up.

UPDATE 2:
One of our readers has courageously purchased and downloaded a game from MangaGamer and thus we now have screenshots from one of the games: HinataBokko. Strangely enough, the game is called “Which girl should I choose?” on the website, but is referred to as “HinataBokko” during installation and gameplay.

UPDATE 3:
We also have screenshots from Edelweiss, now.

UPDATE 4:
All previously available titles are now available on July 10, 2008, instead.