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Thoughts on There Ever Being a Real Life Visual Novel – My Boyfriend is the President MAD

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This is an example of the posts going on my blog – From the Desk of Sam (Alongside posts on science and other random rants). Any posts on anime will most probably be posted here as well.

As I am sure some of you are not regular readers of my site, I thought I should share with you this piece of what I posted last night. A visual novel is generally a means of telling a story through pictures and music, and instead of having them in a novelised form, they usually come in the form of character dialogue, alongside voice-acting, sound effects, CG art… you name it. An example is shown below:

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Deus Machina Demonbane - Released by JAST USA in English and produced by Nitro+.

These are both used as means of presenting a storyline (For example the Umineko no Naku Koro ni series looks at unveiling the murder of 18 people while posing to the reader it was caused by magic), a completely eroge scenario (Such as recent MangaGamer release We Love Master! which focuses on three girls who are “purchased” by their classmate and well…. I won’t go on, and then there are those that have a mix, such as Deus Machina Demonbane which presents a brilliant storyline that may or may not be ruined by such fanservice. For my reviews of We Love Master! and Deus Machina Demonbane, click on the respective titles.

The upcoming 18+ Visual Novel My Girlfriend is the President due for release in English by JAST USA in just a few weekshas a rather interesting plotline behind it, in which I have included it below:

In the not so distant future, in an alternate universe version of Japan… a young man awakes to discover that the house of his childhood friend who lives next door has been changed into the White House. Why? Because she’s the president, of course! The president of New Japan, appointed by an alien who crash-landed on earth and brainwashed humanity to this new world order of bishoujo leadership in which you come to take a vital spot in the new moe administration. Sound like a crazy bishoujo love comedy? That’s because it is – one of the most madcap, romantic, erotic eroge tales ever told puts you in the position of trusted adviser trying to return the world to its original, pre-cute-alien-invasion state. How will you respond to this turn of events?! 

My Girlfriend is the President is a multi-scenario romance simulation game with several endings to explore. Through their actions, players will be able to decide which of four cute and quirky girls Junichiro ends up with. Joining US President Ohama are Russian President Irina Putina (are these names starting to sound familiar?), Chief of Staff Ran Miyoshi, and a mysterious girl called Ell who just happens to be an alien starship in human form!

So, when this game was originally announced for / released in Japan, it seems that some excited Japanese fans took this as an opportunity to produce a MAD titled My Boyfriend is President. This does beg the question…. while most visual novels have remained in the anime style of graphics, would you ever be interested in seeing a company take the plunge and take real life character portraits and do a visual novel with them? Considering the fanbase I believe that if anything this would be a novelty one-off  successful title if anything, however I would be curious to see what a company could put across, considering that Mages recently released what could be considered a novel 8-bit release of Steins;Gate as seen below:

Either way, I end with the article with a comment one of my friends made when I showed him this as well as the original opening sequence…. how many anime-fied people can you figure out?

‎…what..the..fucksickle.

– A Friend

But either way, if you can play this game you actually have an excuse to say you slept with President Obam…. Ohama.

Sam
Sam
Founder of The Otaku's Study. I have been exploring this labyrinth of fandom these last fifteen years, and still nowhere close to the exit yet. Probably searching for a long time to come.

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