Temple of Seven Lucky Gods: New location is accessible from the main navigation menu. The main temple building has 7 individual installations for each Lucky God, and central Takarabune ship installation. In Japan, Seven Lucky Gods are worshipped in numerous temples and shrines, and are believed to bring good luck. Each installation can be examined and provides additional information. There is a…
Chickens: Two chickens are added to the animal enclosure in school. They will roam around school during day, and sleep in nests at night and during rain. You can catch a chicken and hold it in hands for stress relief. Chickens produce free eggs, which can be collected from nests (once per day). Hair customization: Now it's possible to use mirrors (in your home apartment, or in one of school toi…
Cooking class: New cooking class every Wednesday and Saturday. Cooking skill now can be increased only in this class, by making food according to current task, and giving it to teacher (Kuromoto). Each next cooking class will have a new recipe that you didn't get a skill point from. After getting +1 skill from all recipes, they will be set at random. Ingredients required for current recipe can…
Japanese village house: In addition to 2 already existing choices for player's default home, now there is one more location, based on traditional Japanese village house design. The house comes with a small yard that has fruit trees, raspberry, and two planter boxes for growing plants. Other new content: · bell pepper plant now can be grown in the greenhouse, and will produce 3 peppers. · recipe…
Shrine part-time job: New part-time job requires performing purification rituals in areas with ghost activity. Talk to the shrine miko (Sayuri) to get the job. Required tools (gohei and EMF device) can be picked up inside the main shrine building. After purifying 5 spots around school you will get a payment of 2,000 Yen. This job can be done from 8 PM and until 5 AM. Other new content: · one ne…
Takumi now can be asked out for spot conversation events (both by male and female player's characters). Improving your relationship with Takumi will require completing his requests of posing for photos in different outfits. Subsequent conversations are focused on his interests in arts and photography. Other new content: · Christmas baubles (for decorating Christmas tree) - sold in convenience s…
Soccer Every Friday, students are now playing soccer on the sports ground, instead of regular PE activity. You can join the match by interacting with floating "sports" icon on the running track. Secondary action button ("Q" for PC controls layout) = kicking ball. Each scored goal (by you personally, not by other team members) = +1 sports skill (which, in turn, adds 1% to stamina for running). V…
Photography club: New character is introduced instead of "rude" boy. By talking to him, you can join the new photography club and make photos for a school exhibition. Photo camera, 35mm film, and photo paper are sold in convenience store. Photo laboratory is in the art class storage room. Making photos consists of 3 stages: 1. film development. 2. photo exposition. 3. photo development. For bes…
Translations: Chinese language (simplified) and Czech now can be selected in game settings > languages. These translations were done by volunteers. Credits for all translations are displayed at the bottom of language selection menu. Translations for all other languages have various fixes and improvements. New content: When thrushes are scared off from the ground (in the shrine location), they w…
New NPC interactions: Sayuri (shrine office miko) now can be asked out for dating/relationship interactions (both by male and female player's character). Her personality is focused on Shinto concepts of purity and cleanliness. Invitation success will depend on your character's "faith" skill. "Ganzan Daishi Hyakusen" (omikuji encyclopedia book) can be received as a gift from Sayuri after reachin…
Translations: Polish, Thai, and Vietnamese languages now can be selected in game settings > languages. These translations were done by volunteers. Credits for all translations are displayed at the bottom of language selection menu. Due to the game being in Early Access and various texts changing frequently, most translations will be incomplete until full game release (version 1.0), and some tex…
Translations: French language now can be selected in game settings > languages. This translation was done by volunteers. Credits for all translations are displayed at the bottom of language selection menu. Due to the game being in Early Access and various texts changing frequently, most translations will be incomplete until full game release (version 1.0), and some texts will fall back to the g…
Translations: Japanese and Russian languages now can be selected in game settings > languages. Due to the game being in Early Access and various texts changing frequently, most translations will be incomplete until full game release (version 1.0), and some texts will fall back to the game's default language (English). Current translation status for each language is shown in square brackets in t…
Convenience store part-time job. Now it's possible to earn additional money by working part-time in convenience store. The job consists of two tasks: calculating correct amount of change for customers buying goods (x10), and cooking castella cakes and placing them into hot food showcase (x5). The job can be finished any time, and amount of payment will depend on amount of completed tasks. The j…
Nakagin Capsule Tower New home location is modeled after real life Nakagin Capsule Tower. Built in 1972 in Ginza, Tokyo, it consisted of 140 capsules attached around two main towers. The building represented "Japanese Metabolism" concept that incorporated ideas of organic biological growth into architecture. The design implied that over years capsules will be replaced and rearranged, similar to…
Omikuji 1 ~ 100 All omikuji are rewritten from a scratch. Now they contain one block of text, split into four sentences, each, approximately, corresponding to original Chinese verses (quatrains) known as 元三大師百籤 (Ganzan Daishi Hyakusen). My original goal was to recreate authentic omikuji texts used in real Japanese shrines, but this task turned out to be not quite feasible due to great deal of v…
New content: · Food stalls in the shrine map now will change depending on current day of the week: Monday ~ Friday: baked corn stall; Saturday, Sunday: grilled ayu + dango stall. · Drawstring bags (kinchaku) can be bought at the convenience store. They can be attached to randoseru and school bag, and each will add +3 inventory slots (2 bags maximum). · New shoes: Mary Jane shoes (for girls), br…
New content: · "Alice in Wonderland" book is added to the school library, and can be used for drama club activities. · Cucumbers now can be planted in the greenhouse (by members of gardening club), and will produce a cucumber plant (3 days until harvest). · One new rock sample (jasper) can be harvested from excavation site #2 in the shrine map (by members of science club). · New glasses, 2 type…
School drama club Drama club, located on the first floor of school, is fully functional and can be joined by talking with the club president (new NPC). Script books for drama club activities can be obtained in the school library. Each book contains a fragment of text with dialogue between two characters, and can be studied from inventory menu, or from class desk menu. During drama club practice…
New content: · One new mouth shape is available in character creator (both for girl and boy). This mouth is now set as default for Erika and Sayuri. · Glasses (3 colors) and sunglasses (sold in convenience store). All glasses can be equipped in "face" slot. Sunglasses can be additionally equipped in "hat" slot on head. · One new carpet (sold in convenience store). · Added more interior details…
New content: 1. Squirrels will now appear in two spots in front of school in the early morning (3 AM ~ 8 AM). Can be caught and placed on head. Squirrels require one pine cone in inventory per day. If there are no pine cones in inventory when squirrel reaches 100% hunger, it will run away. Caught squirrels have 3 moods, controlled by their current hunger level: idle, sleeping, eating. Squirrels…
I acknowledge I made a mistake by releasing the first version without any tutorial. This, unfortunately, resulted in frustrating experience for many players who tried the first version, and felt confused and thought the game lacks content, because they didn't know where to look for it. I hope that everyone can give the game another chance. New tutorial with 25 tasks now introduces main game mec…
What this game is about? Shoujo City 2D, Shoujo City 3D, and the new game, Anime City, aren't sequels or remakes of each other, but new projects built from a scratch around the same core idea. The main difference between these projects is quality and scope, which are increasing with each iteration. Tokimeki Memorial, one of best known examples of a classic anime dating sim, was my main source o…
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