Take the plunge into a little town enveloped by the ocean or visit a mystical realm of illustrated books in the land of Adabana Source: AniplexUSA press release Special Thanks to Aiko Makino

Aniplex’s newly established visual novel brand, ANIPLEX.EXE, is thrilled to confirm the North American release of its two highly anticipated inaugural projects: ATRI -My Dear Moments-, developed by the creators of The Fruit of Grisaia, Frontwing and Makura; and Adabana Odd Tales, developed by Liar-soft, the makers of Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning and Kindred Spirits on the Roof. ATRI -My Dear Moments-, written by Asuta Konno, one of the authors of If My Heart Had Wings, transports players to the near future in which a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. After losing his mother and his leg in an accident while he was very young, Ikaruga Natsuki finds himself returning to a tiny coastal town his oceanographer grandmother once called home. In order to pay off his grandmother’s massive debt, he agrees to search the sunken ruins of her laboratory to seek a treasure she is rumored to have left there. Instead, he finds a beautiful, mysterious girl named Atri. She is a robot with both the appearance and emotions of a living, breathing human being. Grateful to Natsuki for salvaging her, Atri promises to aid Natsuki as they spend an unforgettable summer together.

Adabana Odd Tales invites players into the fantastic land of Adabana, a realm of illustrated books, where players traverse various storybook realms to find and correct distortions within classic Japanese fairy tales. At the center of the story are Shirohime, a beautiful girl clad in a pure white kimono, who has lost all her memories, and Kurofude, a young man wielding a brush used to restore lost text to illustrated books, and occasionally as a weapon to cut down his enemies. He explains that Adabana is a name given to flowers that will never bear fruit. Their journey begins with a dilapidated illustrated book titled Hanasaka Jiisan. Both games are suitable for all ages and will be available in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese via Steam with a release in 2020. To view the ANIPLEX.EXE introduction video, please visit YouTube.

ATRI -My Dear Moments- “As the world sank, I found you.” 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…

Genre: Adventure, Visual Novel Developer: Frontwing, Makura Publisher: ANIPLEX.EXE Language: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese Release Date: 2020 Official Website: atri-mdm.com Steam Store: store.steampowered.com/ATRI_My_Dear_Moments SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS OS: Microsoft® Windows® 10 / Windows 8.1 *Not compatible with Windows RT/Mobile Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO or above Memory: 1GB RAM Graphics: 1280 x 720 *VRAM: 320MB Direct X: Version 9.0c Storage: (Minimum) 2GB available space (Recommended) 3GB or above STAFF Planning/Scenario: Asuta Konno (Frontwing) Art/Character Design: Yusano/Moto4 Music: Fuminori Matsumoto Art Direction: SCA-ji Animation: Yow Background Art: y.ish Development: Frontwing / Makura Production: ANIPLEX.EXE CAST Atri?Hikaru Akao Kamishiro Minamo: Minami Takahashi Nojima Ryuuji: Yoshimasa Hosoya Catherine: Yoko Hikasa Nanami Ririka: Anzu Haruno Copyright: © Aniplex Inc. All rights reserved.

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Adabana Odd Tales “This is a tale of ‘flowers’ that never bloom…” 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... Genre: Adventure, Visual Novel Developer: Liar-soft Publisher: ANIPLEX.EXE Language: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese Release Date: 2020 Official Website: adabanaitan.com Steam Store: store.steampowered.com/__Adabana_Odd_Tales SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS OS: Microsoft® Windows® 10 / Windows 8.1 Processor: Intel® Pentium®4 1.4GHz or above Memory: 1GB RAM Graphics: 1280 x 720 *VRAM: 256MB Direct X: Version 9.0c Storage: (Minimum) 2GB available space (Recommended) 3GB or above STAFF Planning/Scenario: Nozomu Umihara Art/Character Design: Ryuko Ooishi System Collaboration: Silky`s Plus Music: Momoko Sapporo, Shinichiro Matsumoto Developed by: Liar-soft Produced by: ANIPLEX.EXE CAST Kurofude: Wataru Kato Shirohime: Saki Minami Hanasaka Jiisan: Yuki Tamai Otohime: Yuki Kuwahara Urikohime: Natsumi Takamori Momotaro: Haruki Ishiya Copyright: © Aniplex Inc. All rights reserved.

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About ANIPLEX.EXE

ANIPLEX.EXE is a new brand established in 2019 by Aniplex, Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), specializing in the planning, production, and publication of visual novels. Utilizing the powerful and unique entertainment experience only a visual novel can provide, ANIPLEX.EXE’s goal is to bring the world a novel way to play.

About Aniplex of America Inc.

Aniplex of America, Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex, Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo, Japan), a division of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Inc., and a leading provider of anime content and music production and distribution in Japan. The company`s ever-growing lineup of shows includes SWORD ART ONLINE, FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD, FATE/STAY NIGHT [UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS], FATE/ZERO, PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA, March comes in like a lion, BLUE EXORCIST, KILL la KILL, Gurren Lagann, MONOGATARI series, anohana -The Flower We Saw That Day-, CELLS AT WORK!, THE PROMISED NEVERLAND, and DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA. In 2017, the company released the English version of the popular mobile game, FATE/GRAND ORDER, followed by the release of mobile game, MAGIA RECORD: PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA SIDE STORY’s English version in the U.S. and Canada in June of 2019.