The surprises keep coming.

While it feels in some ways like there’s been a slowdown of otome localizations compared to the last couple of years, that doesn’t stop us from getting some pretty unexpected announcements.

A couple days ago, Konami announced The Prince of Tennis: Sweet School Festival 0-40 and more… and The Prince of Tennis: Doki Doki Survival eternal passion Tie Break Game, remasters of three PlayStation 2 otome games (the second one includes two games), for the Switch, Switch 2, and PC. At the time, it was assumed they would only be available in Japanese.

But today, an English version of the website appeared (along with a Chinese version), and a Konami press release came out listing Japanese, English, and Chinese as the supported languages.

That’s pretty unexpected, and it came out of nowhere. I’m not familiar with the Prince of Tennis games, but I’m all for older otome games being translated.

(Now let’s hope it’ll be a proper translation and not an awkward machine translation. The English website looks like a promising sign.)

These games weren’t even on my radar, but we can add them to the list of unexpected localizations. These games are originally from 2005-2007 respectively, so it just goes to show it’s never too late.

On top of that, we got a release date for Hakuoki SSL ~Sweet School Life~, which Eastasiasoft announced back in April. It will be out on February 12, 2026.

Every now and then we get a sudden rush of otome game news, and this looks like one of those times. Are you interested in the Prince of Tennis games?

Just when we got used to Idea Factory announcing otome localizations through live streams, yesterday morning they suddenly announced one on Twitter.

Homura: The Crimson Warriors, which first released on the PS Vita in Japan as Kurenai no Homura Sanada Ninpou Chou and received a Switch port last year, will be coming to the west in 2026.

That means it’ll join Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights in IFI’s 2026 otome lineup, after the latter was delayed from its intended release this year.

Homura is another historical otome, and while I can’t help but wish they had announced the Birushana fandisc instead (why haven’t they yet??), it looks great. I love the looks of the characters, so I’m looking forward to this one a lot.

My only true disappointment is that it’s not clear if this one will get a Limited Edition.

IFI had been giving all of their Switch otome games Limited Editions, always mentioned on the website at the same time as the announcement, but then this year’s Battlefield Waltz localization got a smaller-scope special edition rather than a full Limited Edition, and only a standard edition has been announced for Homura so far.

I love their Limited Editions, and I especially loved that every release got one, so it’s a shame if they’ve started to cut back. Nevertheless, I’m looking forward to Homura: The Crimson Warriors next year.

(In non-otome game news, RGG Studio accidentally leaked their upcoming announcement this morning. Oops?)

Are you planning to get Homura: The Crimson Warriors?