[News] New Kyousei Shihai Previews Draw a Clearer Picture of the Game

Last time I talked about Bishop's upcoming title, I translated and shared my impressions on the official website's character profiles. Over a month later, the Features page of the official site has been updated with lots of new information, and like I promised back then, I'm covering the most relevant and interesting parts of it.

Since this is the first Bishop game I get to cover on the Dorei Cafe, let's start with the basics of the basics: the game flow.

As with most Bishop games, Kyousei Shihai has each in-game day split into several sections (three, in this case) where you choose a heroine to interact with from a map screen, advancing her individual scenario, unlocking her h-scenes.

The game has a limited number of days you can spend training the various heroines, and as you advance their events, you turn them into sex slaves. After they've surrendered you unlock an ending for that girl, or you can train her further with more intense versions of previous h-scenes, commonly called "retraining" scenes by the fanbase. According to the site, by corrupting all heroines and doing their retraining scenes within the time limit, you unlock the harem ending. Pretty straightforward stuff.

A solo ending for each heroine and a harem ending for all of them is a staple of Bishop games

As the story summary explains, the protagonist has the power to control the "lewd chi" inside his targets' bodies and use that to stimulate their erogenous zones and not only enhance the feelings of pleasure during training, but also develop those regions, giving them engorged nipples and clitoris, permanently increasing their libido, and even making their breasts lactate. I was quite surprised to see that lactation seems to be something that every heroine will have, something that Bishop has done before, but that was loudly advertised as a focal point the last time (in 2020's Reijo Kanritou). I really like how Biship handles lactation so I'm pleasantly surprised. I was even more surprised to see stomach inflation making a comeback. As in some past titles of the company, the protagonist can cum large amounts of semen and make the heroines' bellies swell at the climax of a sex scene.

I've seen some backlash to the protagonist having special powers to stimulate the girls sexually, instead of just relying on straightforward mindbreak, but I feel that tying his powers to these small body modifications makes it pretty interesting. It's also something previous Bishop protagonists did with drugs, so there's no real difference narrative-wise.

It's also worth noting that heart pupils, which have been a staple of retraining scenes for a while now, will show up during regular sex scenes as well, as an indicator of when the heroines lose control of themselves to the pleasure induced by the protagonist's lewd chi control, something the game calls "training frenzy". This will be accompanied by pink-colored dialogue. On top of that, ahegao, which is something that had been sadly relegated to optional cut-ins in recent years, is something the art is fully committing to again, much to my delight. Bishop games felt incomplete without properly integrated ahegao.

Honestly, the combination of these elements makes this game feel like a nice callback to those late 2000s/early 2010s Bishop games which had stuff like cumflation, engorged nipples, lactation and ahegao on the forefront. This isn't the first time Bishop returns to any of those things, but I don't remember one that brings it all back at once.

[News] Kyousei Shihai - Character profiles and first CG previews

 A couple weeks ago I reported Bishop announced a new game, Kyousei Shihai, and promised to bring more information soon. Very soon after I made that post new information did came out but I decided to wait a while before reporting to see if more stuff came out. It didn't, so today I bring the translated character profiles and a look at the first scene previews of each one.

As a refresher, Kyousei Shihai is about a health teacher who gets the power to manipulate people's chi energy after a near-death experience and is particularly good at using it for lewd purposes. He played around with his power too much on his previous job and got fired, but luckily for him, the nature of his sexual abuse was kept under wraps. He tried to lay low on his new job, but eventually got a threatening letter saying that if he didn't get the job by the end of the semester, the truth would come out. He tries to guess who is threatening him, uses his powers on the most likely candidate (the first heroine listed below), finds out he guessed wrong, and decides that, since he's fucked anyway, he might as well wing it and try to enjoy things to the fullest before he's busted and possibly jailed.

With that in mind, he turns his sight to these five lovely schoolgirls.

Suou Miyuri

3rd Year
Height: 162cm
B/W/H: 90 (F-cup)/59/88cm
Artist: Mizushima Oonari

A mature-looking beauty who possesses unshakable self-confidence, almost like a queen.

Despite that, she acts with kindness towards others, with elegance to spare. Because her parents are investors in the school, she enjoys a high social standing on campus, being highly respected by teachers and students alike.

However, towards the protagonist alone she doesn't hide her animosity, going as far as leveraging her influence to try to drive him out of school. 

My impressions: I'm always a fan of the haughty, overconfident ones. The preview doesn't go into why she hates the protagonist so much, but I'm guessing it's just because he's a lecherous character. As I mentioned the protagonist thought she was the one threatening him, but it turns out it wasn't. Still, her fate is sealed. The scene preview brings attention to her clitoris size and sensitivity, but it's early to tell if that will be the focus of her route. I personally hope so, would be funny seeing the queen bee of the school brought to her knees through clit teasing.

Kousaka Sarasa

1st Year
Height: 160cm
B/W/H: 91cm (F-cup)/60/90cm
Artist: Kinmedai Pink

A girl with devilish charm who captivates men with voluptuous beauty unbefitting of her age.

Although she is slender as a model, she's also developed in the right places, having a coquettish figure that mixes loveliness and sexiness and makes her very popular with the boys at school.

As she's well aware of her good looks and is used to being pampered by men, she came to see the opposite sex as inferior.

In addition to that, she's a prodigy who can generally do things better than most people, but due to a lack of interest, she puts no effort into things, choosing to live lazily instead.

Conversely, she also has an earnest side that devotes herself entirely to things that she does find interesting.

My impressions: Last part threw me for a curveball. Wasn't expecting the wagamama type girl to also be secretly smart. I guess it plays in that since she has always been catered to due to her good looks, she doesn't feel like she has to put any effort? Often these profiles are weirdly put together (like how it goes "she's slim but also big boobs and ass") so we'll see, I guess. I do like that the heroine with the fullest figure is also the youngest, that's a fun subversion. 

Hard to say what her route will focus on, the preview is a lactation scene, but this isn't unique to her as we will soon see. Since in Bishop games either only one girl has lactation or they all have, I'm assuming that one of the protagonist's chi powers is inducing lactation.

Kanno Iori

3rd Year
Height: 156cm
B/W/H: 88 (E-cup)/57/89cm
Artist: Yoshino Keiko

The Student Council President who is innocent and naive despite her appearance.

She's energetic and pours that energy into everything she does, plus she's courageous and just.

Since she took office, the school regulations have been changed three times due to her putting on pressure.

She is known to rush into problems with a reckless attitude, but due to her good nature and spirit, she manages to get through somehow.

Following her heart for better or worse, while she rushes headfirst into things she decided to do, she can be a pushover when dealing with things she has no interest in.

My impressions: A reckless and immature Student council president isn't something you see every day. I'm interested. And Yoshino Keiko drew some of the best CG for Bishop's previous game (Shinshoku), so I'm looking forward to seeing them working with them again. And with a very different character type. I think this is the girl I'm looking forward to the most. Her preview scene also features lactation, so it's hard to discern whether that will be the main focus or not, but it is worth noting that the text puts more of a focus on it than on Sarasa's scene.

Asatsuki Yuuhi

2nd Year
Height: 152cm
B/W/H: 87 (E-cup)/56/85cm
Artist: Kurono Tomoaki

The star of the track and field club, to which the protagonist serves as the advisor teacher.

Although she appears quiet and emotionless, she just has trouble expressing her feelings and is actually the type who acts before she thinks.

A clumsy meathead of a girl who gets so absorbed by track and field events that neglects nearly everything else.

Due to her intense training, she's always hungry, so she became somewhat attached to the protagonist due to him giving her candy every once in a while. 

My impressions: I'm usually not a fan of expressionless girls in this kind of game, as I prefer a change between two extremes of emotions. But she sounds fun. She strikes me as a character who would be among my favorites if she was in a non-H anime, I just love this kind of gap moe. I think the protagonist's power will help her break the expressionless thing pretty fast, given the preview scene seems to be an early one and she is already showing both fear and pleasure. The scene also features some pissing, which I think Bishop games use well as a tool for humiliation.

I didn't expect to be as interested in Yuuhi as I am, honestly, especially since I'm not a huge fan of Tomoaki's artwork (what is in the previews looks good though). I hope the writing of her route lives up to expectations.

Matsubayashi Rumi

2nd Year
Height: 157cm
B/W/H: 85 (D-cup)/57/88cm
Artist: Mizushima Oonari

A Health Committee member who gives off a frail and meek vibe.

Since she often went to the Nurse's office due to small injuries, she ended up growing closer to the protagonist.

During her repeated treatments, the protagonist continued to shower her in Lewd Chi, and even though it wasn't done through the proper method, it increased the sensitivity of her whole body and made it more susceptible to sexual arousal.

As he starts acting on his desires after the incident with Miyuri, he finds Rumi's almost constant presence in the Nurse's office inconvenient, so instead he rapes her and forces the girl to become his accomplice.

My impressions: An assistant. Sort of. Only time will tell whether she will have a reduced role and shorter route as Bishop assistants tend to do, but the fact she only gets raped after the first girl and is turned into the protagonist's accomplice on the fly is interesting. She's not his slave, but if the preview scene is anything to go by, there's not a lot of resistance in there, as she gets really enthusiastic about sex with the protagonist even though it's her first time, and is left a complete mess mumbling about how good it feels. As usual, pink-haired Bishop girls are lewd.

That said, if any of the girls is the culprit behind the mysterious letter, I think it's gotta be her. Some of the wording in her profile as well as her being the closest to the protagonist and the person in the new school he's been using his powers on the most makes her a prime suspect. Maybe she's not as weak-willed and obedient as she seems at first. However, I doubt any resistance will last past the first few sex scenes, especially if she, as past assistant-type characters, has fewer scenes than the others.

So this is what information we have on Kyousei Shihai as well as some of my thoughts and speculations. Don't expect to see this game again very soon around here, as I plan to update again only when the features page on the official site (which is not open yet) is fully updated, which tends to happen one month or so before release, so sometime in late April. Then I'll be able to bring more detailed info on the game and take a proper guess at its length and content. As well as bring lots more of previews.

[News] Bishop announces their next game, Kyousei Shihai

 

Bishop is one of the big nukige companies dealing in slave training eroge, and they have been around for a long time - over 20 years. As such, they have a formula, an audience, and while from time to time they do try to experiment a bit and throw some curveballs, the often mixed reception from their core fanbase also means their bread and butter is the same as it was 15 years ago when they nailed their success recipe with the original Mesu Kyoushi: mindbreak, sexual training and slavery in a school setting, usually alternating between games where the player goes after teachers and ones where they go after students. The latest game, Kyousei Shihai, is one of the latter.

With an ambiguous title, as "Kyousei" is written in katakana instead of Kanji (as Bishop usually does), the word could have a few meanings like "correction", "compulsion", "coercion" and "sexual stimulation", while "Shihai" (支配) means "control" or "domination". This is fitting with the game's premise, as the main character has special powers that allow him to control the libido and sexual sensitivity of his targets, using that to force them to submit to pleasure, while the protagonist himself is under threat of having his actions exposed by an unknown target. 

The game follows a school nurse who suffered a grave accident that left him between life and death. Upon recovering, he discovered that now he had special powers, being able to perceive and manipulate the flow of chi inside people's bodies, particularly the one related to sexual actions, which he calls Lewd Chi. Using this newfound ability, he indulged in perverted acts until he got caught up and kicked out of his job. The debauched nature of his actions was kept under wraps to avoid a scandal damaging the school's reputation, so the protagonist eventually finds himself a new job, and now mostly stays in his lane, using his powers very occasionally and in small doses, not getting directly involved with any of the girls. However, a threatening letter is sent to him saying that if he doesn't quit his job by the end of the semester, his past will come to light.

At first, the protagonist is suspicious of Suou Miyuri, a third-year student who is always mean-spirited towards him, and after an altercation, he uses his power to drive Miyuri's sexual sensitivity beyond its limits and takes her virginity, making her experience maddening pleasure while getting raped. However, he also discovers that she is not the sender of the mysterious threatening letter. His hunch was wrong. On the other hand, having rediscovered the delight of assaulting women with the full brunt of his powers, he decides that instead of trying to track down the sender, potentially in vain, it's better to spend the time left indulging in pleasure with the girls that caught his eyes in this new school.

The six targets. Or rather, the soon-to-be slaves.

An unapologetic rapist protagonist racing against the clock to turn a bunch of women into his sex slaves before a looming deadline is Bishop's bread and butter, and said protagonist having some kind of special ability so the game has a gimmick going for it is also rather common for the company. That said, I like this premise. Instead of an aphrodisiac or another lust-enhancing drug, there's a supernatural element that, in all fairness, probably will play no different during the sex scenes themselves, but I am curious to see how it will figure in the power play between the main character and the girls. To me, the thing Bishop excels at is showcasing the gap between the girls before and after their enslavement, and their best games also do a good job of sowing the seeds of their change and seeing their newfound fetishes and sexual proclivities grow despite their resistance as their routes progress. With the ability to manipulate the girls' sexual sensations themselves, the protagonist may be able to either mold or bring out perversions in them that they won't be able to deny, and that may lend itself to some pretty fun scenarios. At least that is my hope. As usual, the game has a large team of writers, so the quality and focus may vary from route to route.

Bishop is one of my favorite nukige companies, but in recent years, between lack of free time to commit to such long VNs and some amount of burnout from having played almost their entire catalog over the years, it can be hard to find the motivation to pick up a new release. Still, I do look forward to getting to it eventually. And I still wholeheartedly recommend most of their games (a Bishop recommendations post IS in the plans), and while I don't promise a review, I will cover the lead-up to the release, as Bishop puts a lot of information about their games' content and features on their site as the months go on, and I'll translate and share the more interesting tidbits of that info. See you there.