New Title Reveal! NTR! NTR!
Hello everyone!! I hope you've all had a wonderful summer! I can tell you we've sure had a good summer as we got everything rolling on production of our newest eroge, which I'm revealing to you right now...!
I'm proud to introduce you to... The Mask of our Hearts ~In which that IMMORAL desire floods our PSYCHE~
We started planning this title just a month after putting out Manor of Amnesia, and we've been diligently working on it all summer! And yes, it's NTR! Netorare~!
Oh yeah, the key visual's done too, please take a look~:
And a plot summary below:
Yuuta Matsuzaki had led a troubled, lonely life. He never quite fit in with his peers and was often bullied. Thinking he had no place in the world, Yuuta was just about ready to give up on everything, until she appeared. Kaede Kawashima brought true happiness into Yuuta's life. He enjoyed spending time with her every day, and for the first time in his life, he felt truly happy. Time passed in the blink of an eye, and now, Yuuta and Kaede are newlyweds, fresh out of university, and they've both started to find their place in the world. Yuuta's future was looking as happy as could be. However, something was strange. Something was changing... One day, a mysterious masked kid suddenly appears before Yuuta... He chuckles, and his haunting laughter causes Yuuta to freeze up instantly. "You do realize... Kaede's ****** *** with someone else, don't you?" His words pierce Yuuta's heart like a bullet. There's no way that the cheerful, kind, and loving Kaede would do something like that... right? When Yuuta's confronted with the truth, what will he feel? Where will his choices lead...? This is a story about those hidden feelings locked deep within our heart, the feelings we don't understand... the feelings that, if released, will consume us... Betrayal, Heartbreak, Voyeurism, Obsession... Lust, Indulgence, Humiliation, Immorality... These dark, twisted, yet undeniably human feelings, hidden behind our mask of self... This is a story about what happens when that mask on our heart begins to crack, and those taboo feelings overflow within us, flooding our psyche.
So there ya go! I hope it's caught your interest!
I know NTR can be a touchy subject with some people, but if you're wondering why we decided to theme our next eroge around that topic, really, I can only say it's because we wanted to, since we thought it would be a fun theme to explore. We really want to portray the dirtiest kind of lust and have our characters face a true inner struggle before giving in to their carnal desires, with little to no hope of going back. The idea of NTR lends itself to exploring these themes fairly well, so we decided to go for it!
(For those who don't know, NTR, or Netorare, is basically a subgenre of hentai that explores that concept of having a girl who's important to the protagonist, such as a girlfriend or wife, being "stolen" away from them by someone else. Basically, a subgenre revolving around things like cuckoldry, betrayal, and cheating, etc.)
Additionally, from what we've observed at least, we just don't see a lot of English visual novel makers pursuing a concept like this. It's kind of a niche interest, so it's understandable, but we really hope those who do have an interest in this genre will give our eroge a chance, and hopefully we'll impress! And if not, well, at least we had fun making it, and so life goes on...
Moving on to other info, here's the staff we'll have working on the title!:
Scenario: Akimi Balmus Illustrations: bal-anime Original Soundtrack: Qualita Theme Song Performance: Kitty-tama
So yes, basically the same lot of us who worked on Manor of Amnesia, hehe. Though we have a new singer on board for the Theme Song! Please welcome Kitty-tama! She's a wonderful friend of ours who we feel is an amazing vocalist! She'll be working together with Qualita to create a wonderful opening song for the title, so please look forward to it!
Oh yeah, and balanime put together a little treat for those of you who've followed us since Manor of Amnesia, please take a look at this cute image!
Shiori is passing the baton to Kaede-chan... It's time for a new heroine to take center stage! ( ˃̣̣̥ω˂̣̣̥ )
On the topic of these two lovely heroines though, I can also confirm that f-ko, who voiced Shiori in Manor of Amnesia, will be playing the role of Kaede in The Mask of our Hearts! What she's recorded so far has been amazing, and we hope you all will enjoy it too~!
But yes, we're super excited to finally reveal this new project to everyone! We'll continue to diligently work on it through the rest of the year, and keep you all updated! If you have any questions, definitely feel free to hit us up on our twitter or Facebook!
Til next time~! <3
