Delivering a new all-ages friendly visual novel for fans of the format, western publisher MangaGamer have announced that Himawari: The Sunflower is now available for purchase through both their online store and Steam. Priced at $34.95 USD, this is a remake of Blank Note’s original sci-fi romance VN, and tells a tale of love, tragedy, and sacrifice played out both on Earth and in outer space.
Himawari: The Sunflower centres on the experiences of Hinata Youichi, a young high school student and sole survivor of a tragic spaceplane crash that robbed him of both his family and memories roughly two years prior. Amnesiac but steady in his new life, Youichi manages to find solace in surrounding himself with friends: Amamiya Ginga, the eccentric son of a world-famous astronaut, as well as the tomboyish, yet ultimately kind-hearted quasi-childhood friend, Saionji Asuka. Everything changes, however, when an unidentified object crash-lands in Youichi’s hometown and he meets Aries, a mysterious – and similarly amnesiac – young girl from outer space.
Who is Aries? What happened on that fateful day? and what secrets lurk behind the incident? According to MangaGamer, this title starts out as “a young man’s light-hearted high-school adventure”, but soon turns into something which sees the reader “face a sobering revelation: that not everything is as it seems at first glance”.
Himawari: The Sunflower was first released in 2007, and later ported over to the PlayStation Portable in 2010. This edition uses the PSP version as a base, and does not include some of the 18+ content found in the original.
Developed by FrontWing and Blank Note, Himawari: The Sunflower is now available for purchase digitally.
