Spike Chunsoft to Release YU-NO Visual Novel on PS4 and PC in 2019

Spike Chunsoft announced during its panel at Anime Expo on Thursday that it will release the MAGES. and 5pb. Games’ game remake of Hiroyuki Kanno’s Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo YU-NO (YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world.) visual novel in the West for the PlayStation 4 and PC via Steam in 2019.

MAGES. and 5pb. Games’ Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo YU-NO remake shipped for the PS4 and PlayStation Vita in Japan in March 2017.

The original, critically acclaimed 1996 game for the PC-98 computer platform inspired the four-part 1998-1999 adult anime YU-NO. 5pb. then released the game for the Sega Saturn in 1997 and for Windows PC in 2000.

The game is getting a new television anime adaptation that will run for 26 episodes for two cours (a quarter of a year). MAGES., production company GENCO, and anime studio feel. are partnering for the anime project. Studio feel. is producing the animation. Tetsuo Hirakawa (Grimoire of Zero) is directing the anime, and Mai Otsuka (This Art Club Has a Problem!, Shakugan no Shana) is designing the characters. The anime will depict all the characters and all the routes from the original game.

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