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Chinese Rice Girl Game Gets Japanese Release
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Chinese developers Storia and SimonCreative's Dong-Jin Rice-hime game is getting a Japanese release starring voice actress Ai Kayano. SimonCreative's official Japanese Twitter account began streaming a promotional video for the game last Friday.
お米育成ADVゲーム「東津萌米-穂姫PLUS」日本語版(CV:茅野愛衣)試聴動画。都市生活に飽きた主人公が実家に帰って田植え仕事を引き受け!?違う個性の稲の精霊「穂姫」の育成を体験!11/25、26高雄FFK10にて追加ディスクの発売、11/22夜10時STEAMにて先行発売! pic.twitter.com/Flm7mEk8Uo
— SimonCreative@アニ玉祭 (@SimonCreativeTW) September 29, 2017
The game's Steam page describes the story:
After studying away from your hometown, you return back home. Hoping to be able to rest, but instead brought to the endless farmland."Take good care of her"
After hearing these stunning words from father, And with the "NO WORK, NO EAT" tradition, The daily life of rookie farmer and rice-hime begins.
energetic, gentle, tsundere, cynical?! Your choices will determine the characteristics of your rice-hime.
Raise yourself your one and only rice-hime now!
Cheng-Heng provided the game's script, and 3R2 composed the music. Setsunann is performing the Japanese version of the theme song, and Gyūniku wrote the lyrics.
The rice-growing simulation will launch in Japanese for PC via Steam on November 22. SimonCreative will also offer discs at the Kaohsiung FFK 10 event on November 25-26.
SimonCreative released the original Chinese version of the game in June 2016. The game launched on Steam in Chinese on April 28. Although the Steam page includes a description in English, the game currently has no English release.
Lovers of rice may also want to check out the card-based smartphone game Yui no Shinobi, which features anthropomorphized ninja rice ball characters. The second season of the Love Rice (Love Kome -We Love Rice-) original television anime series, which reimagines rice as schoolboys, also premiered on Friday.
