Earlier this year, Aniplex of America confirmed they were launching the ANIPLEX.EXE publishing label. Following numerous other publishers popping up in the growing all-ages and adult-oriented visual novel spaces, this would be their own attempt at entering the VN localisation and publishing markets. Marking their inaugural releases, ANIPLEX.EXE has today made both Frontwing / Makura’s ‘ATRI -My Dear Moments-‘ and Liar-Soft’s ‘Adabana Odd Tales‘ available to purchase through Steam.
From today until 25 June 2020, both visual novels will be listed at 10% off as part of a launch sale. Purchasing both as part of a bundle will net you an additional 10% off the launch price. You can read more about each of the visual novels below:
ATRI -My Dear Moments-
Developer: Frontwing, Makura
Language: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Price: $20.99
Copyright: © Aniplex Inc. All rights reserved.
Steam Store Page: HERE
In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater.
Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and his leg in an accident some years earlier, returns disillusioned from a harsh life in the big city to find his old countryside home half-swallowed by the sea. Left without a family, all he has to his name is the ship and submarine left to him by his oceanologist grandmother, and her debts.
His only hope to restore the dreams for the future that he has lost is to take up an opportunity presented to him by the suspicious debt collector Catherine. They set sail to search the sunken ruins of his grandmother’s laboratory in order to find a treasure rumor says she left there. But what they find is not riches or jewels; it is a strange girl lying asleep in a coffin at the bottom of the sea.
Atri.
Atri is a robot, but her appearance and her wealth of emotions would fool anyone into think she’s a living, breathing human being. In gratitude for being salvaged, she makes a declaration to Natsuki.
“I want to fulfil my master’s final order. Until I do, I’ll be your leg!”
In a little town slowly being enveloped by the ocean, an unforgettable summer is about to begin for this boy and this mysterious robot girl…
Adabana Odd Tales
Developer: Liar-soft
Language: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Price: $17.99
Copyright: © Aniplex Inc. All rights reserved.
Steam Store Page: HERE
A girl finds herself in a dark and unfamiliar forest when a monster appears out of nowhere and attacks. A mysterious boy, wielding a brush like it was a sword, appears just in time to cut down the monster. He calls himself Kurofude, and he addresses the girl in familiar tones as Shirohime. Yet she does not recognize him or the name he calls her.
She has lost all of her memories.
According to Kurofude, they are in the land of Adabana, a realm of illustrated books. Their tales are like dreams; no matter how deeply one immerses oneself in them, once one wakes up, they are gone. Thus the name Adabana—a name given to flowers that will never bear fruit. Their duty is to travel through story realms and look for signs of distortions in the tales.
Shirohime, a girl with seemingly all the agency of a doll, accepts this explanation and opens a book handed to her. The title: Hanasaka Jiisan. As she opens the dilapidated illustrated book with its pages riddled with worm-eaten holes, the pages glow brightly and whisk the girl and boy away to a fairy tale realm…
