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?

You might remember that back in 2023, Voltage announced three new Nintendo Switch otome games.

Their code names were Project Code Neon Mafia, Project Code Kaleido Tower, and Project Code Vampire Hunter.

The initial schedule got switched around a bit, and the first to come out was actually Project Code Vampire Hunter, under the title Red Bell’s Lament.

Despite Red Bell’s Lament being the one that interested me the most, I ended up not buying it because of the concerns over AI-generated art used for the backgrounds.

There still hasn’t been any clear answer on that either way, which is frustrating.

But now it’s time for the next of the three to be official released, as Voltage (or AmuLit, the brand used for their console games) has announced that Project Code Neon Mafia will be released in Winter 2025 as Neon Clash -Echoes of the Lost-.

The new trailer makes it look pretty intriguing, with a power to give someone else strength by erasing your own existence.

(A different studio is handling the background art, so hopefully this one will be free of AI controversies.)

Of course, I still haven’t played Even if Tempest yet, not to mention all the other otome games still in my backlog. I’m sure I’ll play them all… eventually.

Are you interested in Neon Clash -Echoes of the Lost-?