[News] Tentacles and Magical Girls in New Valkyria Game

Tentacle rape and Valkyria go like peanut butter and jelly, it's one of their main staples. So, it's really no surprise that their newly announced title, Denma Zecchou☆Mahou Shoujo Suzuha ~Kagaku to Mahou to Shokushu Inshun~ goes back to that familiar well.

Literally, the title translates to Lightning Demonic Orgasm☆Magical Girl Suzuha ~Magical Girl of Science and the Crawling Tentacles~, but as one would expect, there's a double meaning with "Denma" being a made-up word that also implies a mix of technology and magic. Not sure if Zecchou can also have a double meaning here. I digress.

The game premise is simple: Earth is invaded by an alien lifeform known as Barbaroi, a mass of tentacles that is impervious to all conventional weaponry. With mankind driven to the brink of extinction, the Earth's essence (in the form of a condescending fairy-like creature called Kyupii) chooses a girl called Sono to be a Magical Girl and fight them off. Two years pass, and life returns to a semblance of normalcy while the magical girl imbued with divine powers fights off the invaders. A sense of apathy sets in and people treat Sono's life-and-death battles like a spectacle, much to her dismay.

That's when a girl called Suzuha witnesses her weeping and, deciding the way people are treating her is wrong, decides she wants to help. This is when she meets a scientist who gives a hi-tech battle suit called Magical Dress that can mimic the powers of a Magical Girl through science. And thus, the Magical Girls of Divinity and Science stand together against the alien menace. Which of course means they'll get raped over and over again by endless hordes of tentacles.

One interesting thing is that the character profiles highlight Kyupii's sense of self-preservation a lot, which makes me think the little slimeball will sell out the magical girls to the invaders in at least one ending.

On top of that, there's also a mysterious shadowy figure that appears to be the leader of the Barbaroi. A tentacle girl, of course.

I'm usually not that big into tentacles and have not played many of Valkyria's tentacle games, but this one caught my attention. First, magical girls with rocket boosters are my religion, and second, the setup and dynamic between the two heroines, with Suzuha wanting to help Sono and Sono pushing her away, thinking of her as a fake magical girl while herself is cracking under the pressure of defending the ungrateful masses, sounds interesting, I want to see them broken and twisted.

Art is done by C.R, an artist I'm not familiar with, but I like what I see in the previews.

There's not much else to say, really, just wanted to highlight this game. Mahou Shoujo Suzuha is scheduled to be released on July 26.

[News] Upcoming Eroge from Valkyria, Tsurumiku, Orcsoft and more!

 A new year brings with it a slew of new games for us to enjoy, both of the regular and naughty varieties. I already have my wishlist of regular games I'll be picking up in the month of February, but that's not what we're here for. There are already a number of dark eroge slated for release between the January and March, and I want to take a closer look at some of them.

January Releases

The month is almost over, but the last week still holds some interesting releases.

Injuu Kunoichi ~Chuugi o Koeru Reizoku~

Developer: Tsurumiku ~Another~

Release date: January 26th, 2024

Focus: Rape, Bondage, Mindbreak

Official Site

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The Tsurumiku ~Another~ label was created to make shorter games and experiment with games that wouldn't fit Tsurumiku's usual brand. That said, aside from length and the time period, Injuu Kunoichi seems to feel right at home in their lineup. 

The plot is quite simple: a feudal lord and his subordinate suspect a spy is among their servants and decide to lay down a trap. Of course, the spies are beautiful women, a princess of the Shogunate worried about the unsavory things done by the feudal lord in question and her attendant, a ninja.

The game seems largely focused on bondage and torture, and while Another's games are known to not be as bleak as Tsurumiku's main branch it seems the girls will be put through a very rough time until they break. As per Tsurumiku tradition, it seems there are also scenes with one of the girls, broken, helping torture the other one. Classic stuff.

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Shinshokukan

Developer: GENDAI

Release date: January 26th, 2024

Focus: Tentacles, NTR, Corruption

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The third game from a company I never heard of, and it also seems pretty different from their previous work. Regardless, it sounds pretty interesting: the protagonist's brother, a biologist, just returned from overseas with a beautiful half-Japanese girlfriend called Sayama Milano, and they're conducting research together at a new company. They have a very active sex live and Milano's liberated lifestyle ends up making the protagonist grow a spine and finally get together with his childhood friend Hiroya Konatsu. Life seems pretty good, but soon weird shit starts to happen. His brother who had a timid personality starts being aggressive and even his appearance starts changing - something that started after Milano started giving him some suspicious drug. Konatsu, who works at his brother's company, is also acting differently all of a sudden. So he goes to investigate, and discovers something beyond imagination - a bizarre tentacle lifeform, that assaults Milano and Konatsu, breeding them like animals and reducing them to their base femslr instincts. The protagonist is certain that everything weird going on in his life is this things fault, yet he hesitates. He has two choices - either save the girls from whatever the fuck that is or maybe let himself be taken in by the curious pleasure of watching the monster degrade women into mere breeding sows.

It's been a minute since I played something with tentacles and the idea of the protagonist choosing to abandon his girlfriend and sister-in-law for the sheer pleasure of seeing them degraded sounds interesting, as long as it plays like it's being sold and not in the "pleasure of having it stolen from me" Netorare way. Because that's not what's being implied in the marketing at all, though the game does have Netorare elements in it and scenes with other human males. Like I said, as long as it doesn't lean too strongly into it instead of the whole "protagonist gets corrupted into watching the girls get broken over and over" it's fine. Looking forward to it but with some reservations.

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February

Isekai Choroine wa, Itomo Kantan ni Otosareru ~Are, Boku no Kanojo... Netorarechaimashita?~

Developer: Appetite

Release date: February 09th, 2024 (DL version), February 22, 2024 (Physical version)

Focus: Corruption, NTR

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Appetite is one of the Nukige companies of all time. I have made snide comments about them in the past, but they really are one of those companies that just lack an identity: they do everything, and it almost always feel half-assed. But every once in a while they get a good artist and setting and a decent game to waste a few hours comes out.

That's what I'm expecting from Isekai Choroine, a game with Inoue Nanaki art, which is a love-it-or-hate-it artist to begin with but I personally like his stuff, but he's paired with a really good colorist this time that makes his work pop, so I think even people who usually aren't into his style might want to check it out.

The idea behind this game is that an Isekai protagonist just got back from saving the world, and the princess came back with him. However, back on Earth without any of his cheat skills, the former hero is just a worthless NEET again. Meanwhile, the princess is an innocent, sheltered maiden who is eager to learn more about the world, but is also extremely naive and easily tricked.

So, this is the most overly Netorare title on the list. Though it seems to play out from the girl's perspective. However it comes with a very interesting twist: depending on what types of men the princess gets involved with, this causes different physical transformations in her. Inoue Nanaki IS known for bitch-ka (bimbofication, turning girls into vulgar sluts), but the few previews the game has suggest demonic forms and other magical things that may come from the Princess' innate power as someone from another world. That's not something I've played before. I mean, there are NTR games where the guys who get with the heroine influence her, but not to this extent. And I'm a sucker for innocent little princesses becoming deranged perverts and literal demons

That said, this is appetite, I wouldn't be surprised if instead of choices it's a linear progression of guys or something. Still, art and concept alone have me sold.

Consider me cautiously optimistic.

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Mahou Shoujo Sora - Saikyou Mahou Shoujo • Aku Ochiru

Developer: ZION

Release Date: February 22nd, 2024

Focus: Tentacles, Corruption

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Tentacles are going strong in this early 2024. From ZION, a company specialized in monster sex and corruption, comes a game with a rather simple premise: Sora, the strongest of the magical girls fending off a demonic invasion, is captured by the Demon King and subjected to all sorts of torments. And when I say all sorts I mean mostly tentacles, but the previews show some breast expansion, petrification, and of course, the corruption into an evil form.

I have never played a ZION game before, and that's something I have to correct someday, and this may be the one since it looks more beginner friendly than some others that are more interconnected or just more complex with more kinds of monster stuff that may not be my cup of tea. ZION fans, sorry if I'm speaking nonsense, like I said, I never played their stuff, only know them from an outside view. 

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Kan'in Tokkyuu Yotaka ~Juuyoku Rensa, Manatsu no Hanabi Taikai~

Developer: Tsurumiku

Release date: February 22nd, 2024

Focus: Rape, Sexual Slavery, Choukyou

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Tsurumiku has another release on the list, this time from their main brand. More than that, it's their most prestigious series. Kan'in Tokkyuu is a series about a train (and its cruel conductor) that collects women and trains them (no pun intended) as sex slaves to be sold. Despite its renown, being the series that put Tsurumiku on the map and what they're most known for, they've been cautious with it, and it has only 2 mainline games, though it has several spin-offs. This is the third mainline game, so hopefully, it will live up to its legacy.

Now I have the embarrassing confession to make that I have never played this series. It's one of those I have been aware of the content and the impact but never got to play it myself When I saw a new one was coming I even downloaded the first one but haven't gotten around to playing it yet.

This game takes place in summer, while the others were in autumn and winter, as the new luxury liner is meant to make the rounds through fireworks festivals around Japan, that are being revived for the first time since a global pandemic forced things to close. Yes I shit you not, there's a Covid reference here. 

Between staff and passengers, the game features 10 different heroines. Visually, everything seems to be very similar - lots of chains, anal training, the enslaved girls and staff helping break in the fools who are still resisting, and animal tags with the girls' names attached to their collars. All stuff I've seen in the previous games' CG. 

I intend to play the series in order so this is one I won't be touching for a long time, but it's easily the biggest release on the list.

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March

Kagachi-sama Onagusame Tatematsurimasu Kai ~Netorare Mura In'yabanashi~

Developer: Orcsoft team Zombie

Release date: Marth 8th, 2024 (DL version), TBA (Physical version)

Focus: NTR

Official Site

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A remake of an Orcsoft game from over 10 years ago. The story is pretty simple: the main character's marriage has gone cold, and as a way to spice things up, he remembers a ritual/festival that happens in the village he was born, related to a local fertility deity. He ran away in disgust when he was young, but now it might just be what he needs. Said festival involves people wearing masks and fucking women to appease the emponymous Kagachi-sama. While the game is classified as NTR, what flavor really depends on how you play. The protagonist may be engaging in full cuckoldry having fun watching his wife be thrown to the wolves, or he may be joining in the fun seeing it as an opportunity to fuck his step-mother he's always had a crush on. He may rekindle his love for his wife, he may keep both women, or he might lose everything. It really is Netori, Netorare and Netorase all rolled into one.

I really like this kind of "fertility god festival" setting and wish it was more common in eroge, so I will definitely be checking it out, especially since it's been many years since I played the original, and I think the new art style (done by Minamoto instead of Sumeragi Kohaku) looks gorgeous.

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Kusozako Maou Shoujo Akari ~Ishukandaru e Youkoso!~

Developer: Valkyrie

Release date: March 29th, 2024

Focus: Rape, Monster Sex

Official Site

VNDB Page

And for the last game we'll cover today, Valkyria's newest offering. It's an isekai where loser otaku girl Akari is summoned... As Demon King. All the demons are confused and arguing with each other because obviously, something went wrong with the resurrection ritual.

Thrown into the dungeon, the one who summoned Akari, the dark elf... Elfie (really creative day at the Valkyria office huh) explains that if she doesn't want to die, she will have to step up and become a suitable demon queen to the world.

It's not super clear why (the game has been announced just a while ago after all), but that entails a lot of interspecies sex not only for Akari but also for Elife and the oger girl Almea. Maybe she needs to rally the demon races to her cause? Or maybe she's just so pathetically weak she just keps getting fucked, who knows. With the release quite far still, this game will surely appear again in the blog once we have more details.

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And with that it's over. That was a big amount of news, I didn't expect so many games coming out so soon. And usually, April and May are big months for releases, turn of the fiscal year and all that, so maybe even more stuff in our ballpark will be announced shortly. I'll be here to report it if you'll be here to read it.

Preview: "Sanbiki no Mesubuta ~Kangoku no Nejiro~" by Valkyria

With release due on November 24th, Valkyria's newest game is a tried and tested concept: an evil empire invades three peaceful kingdoms and takes their princesses as prisoners. Now they will endure hellish sexual training and humiliation at the hands of their captors. Will the princesses endure the madness and restore the hope of their nations? Or will they be reduced to mere breeding sows? I think we all know the answer.

Nerdy Ramblings about the Title

But first, some etymology. Because I'm a huge fucking dweeb. Feel free to skip to the next section if you find talking about Japanese wordplay boring.

Sanbiki no Mesubuta ~Kangoku no Nejiro~ is a pretty fun title. It's one of those titles where the furigana (reading) has one simpler meaning, but the kanji gives a more complete idea by playing around with swapping some of its components for others that are sound the same but are different words altogether. In this case, the title reads as something like "Three Sows ~Prison Fortress~". Sanbiki (written as 三匹) means "Three" using the form of counting appropriate for animals, but the kanji is 三美姫, which also reads sanbiki but translates to "three beautiful princesses". Moreover, 三匹の子豚 (Sanbiki no Kobuta) is the Japanese name of the Three Little Pigs fairy tale, a title this game's title is clearly meant to invoke.  In "Kangoku", the word for prison would usually be 監獄, but the title swaps 監 for 姦, which can mean rape or sexual assault (姦獄 isn't an actual word). So, the Kanji title would roughly translate to something like "Three Beautiful Sow Princesses ~Rape Prison Caslte~". Gets the idea across more clearly but is less elegant as a title, which is why puns like these are usually employed.

Synopsis

Well, the premise is pretty self-explanatory, but it doesn't hurt to go into more detail and bring information about the actual story and setting translated from the game's promotional campaign.

The three allied Kingdoms of Brattenhardt, Duchâteau, and Flores enjoyed a long period of peace, but that quickly crumbled when the evil Altersia Empire, the strongest military power of the era, invaded and quickly occupied the Kingdoms, taking the royal families, including the three Royal Princesses Aries Brattenhardt, Charlene Duchâteau and Mireia Flores as prisoners.

The commander of the military invasion, Felix, is ordered by the Altersian Emperor himself to defile and humiliate the princesses, who are the symbols of hope for the future of their respective Kingdoms, and make them swear complete loyalty to the Empire so that they nip in the bud any burgeoning desire the population might have to revolt and overthrow imperial rule for their Kingdoms.

Felix has vast experience in corrupting women and starts planning in how to destroy their pure and noble hearts so that they abandon their pride and rationality and become obedient sows that live only to fuck.

"Thoroughly defile the bodies and hearts of the three lovely princesses!"

Characters

Aries Brattenhardt

Height: 165cm
Bust-Waist-Hips: 95-57-87cm
Voice: Hano Natsuka (VNDB)

The Princess of Brattenhardt. With a noble and dignified appearance, she excels at both scholastic and military matters. Passionate and patriotic, she believes it's her duty to protect her beloved subjects.

Despite being a Royal, she is involved in a wide range of activities as a Knight, from disaster relief to actual combat, and has earned numerous military accolades.

Due to her rigorous training as a swordswoman, Aries' body is healthy of body and spirit and her feminine side shines through her outstanding proportions. She receives numerous marriage propositions from other countries, but she continues to decline, for she believes that until fate brings her ideal partner who's stronger than her, her love is her country.

She has known the allied princesses Charlene and Mireia from childhood, and they are close friends, almost like sisters. Aries is the eldest among them.

The valiant Aries will have her pride and patriotism stomped out as she's humiliated for the whole nation to see.

Charlene Duchâteau

Height: 158cm
Bust-Waist-Hips: 89-55-84cm
Voice: Umemiya Koko (VNDB)

The princess of the Kingdom of Duchâteau, which thrives on commerce and trade.

She's a stylish beauty who turns heads wherever she goes with her charm, which helps her work of promoting her nation.

On the other hand, she's very prideful and has a selfish and whimsical side due to her pampered upbringing. Compared to her close friends Aries and Mireia, she's a lot more bratty. The people gossip that due to her personality, she'll be a handful to whoever she ends up marrying in the future.

Close friends and family call her Charle.

Cheeky Charlene's rebellious nature will be curbed by one-sided hardcore domination.

Mireia Flores

Height: 161cm

Bust-Waist-Hips: 98-59-19cm
Voice: Kirishima Haruna (VNDB)

Princess of the Kingdom of Flores, blessed with vegetal and mineral resources.

Mireia has a graceful personality befitting of a Kingdom with such a rich natural environment. A pure-hearted maiden who is known as a "Princess among Princesses" due to her elegance, politeness, and compassion.

Her benevolent face and regal aura bear a resemblance to her mother the Queen consort, and she enjoys strong support from the people.

She has a glamourous figure, with her breasts in particular attracting a lot of attention, with some people going as far as to jokingly call them "the Blessed Peaks of Flores"

She has a beloved to whom she is promised to and they'll soon be engaged. That man is Aries' older brother and Second Prince of Brattenhardt, Wolff.

The twisted pleasure of desecrating her voluptuous body and betraying those she loves will be instilled into pure Mireia.

My Expectations

This game was on my radar the moment it got announced due to similarities with two of Valkyria's previous titles, Kangokujou and Zettai Fukujuu Princess, both centered around training royals into sex slaves with several possible outcomes. Sanbiki no Mesubuta even shares the same scenario writer as Zettai Fukujuu Princess, so I'm expecting a similar experience. Some endings where the girls are turned into broken public toilets, others where they become personal sex slaves, and some in-between. 

In that previous eroge, the writer was pretty creative (and cruel) with how the princesses interacted with their father in some endings (not sexually, just cruelty in general against the old King), so I'm looking forward to that in at least some routes. Besides the Netori with Mireia, there are mentions of fathers and brothers and whatnot for the other princesses, and I don't think they'd include that in the character bios if the game wasn't going to make use of that. Also, one of the preview CG shows Charlene getting railed alongside another blonde, which I'm hoping is her mother, and that there are more scenes like this. The game's official description does make a point to mention all members of the Royal Families were captured, after all.

Artist Ogin Bara is not one I'm super fond of, but to be fair every new work I see from them looks better than the previous one, and this one looks fantastic. In no small part thanks to the excellent coloring, too.

For a game that releases in one week and a half, there is not a lot of information about it in the sense of not knowing if the game will focus on the heroines separately or have more of a "using one to get to the others" focus like Kangokujou and Zettai Fukujuu Princess had, because that's a big plus in my book. I guess we'll find out soon enough.