Please Be Happy News

[p]The first Fall in Love Visual Novel festival has started! Enjoy 200+ romance-themed visual novels from over 100 visual novel developers, hosted by us![/p][p][/p][p]Please Be Happy and its DLC are on sale for the festival~[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Our other yuri games are also in the festival, with some being on sale! Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery, our very next yuri visual novel, releases on September 30th and has a demo you can try now![/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p]

[h3]Find unexpected love in the depths of grief...[/h3][p][/p][p]Our next yuri visual novel, A Tithe in Blood, is out now on Steam![/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p][/p][p]As a reserved and unassuming university student in snow-bitten Hokkaido, the personal tragedy which visited Honoka Asakawa leads her to experimenting in a magical art thought long-lost — blood magic. Unexpectedly able to visit the sealed world of Meiji-era Sapporo, Honoka's quickly taken under the wing of the cheerful and bright Lady Yasue, a powerful mage who's remained in this gilded cage for a century.[/p][p]As their feelings for each other develop, the true repercussions of Honoka's first steps into the secret world of magic and mages are only just starting to play out, eventually leading to catastrophic consequences.[/p][p][/p][h3]Features:[/h3]

• [p]Original story of approximately 70,000 words[/p]
• [p]Concept and writing by Suriko[/p]
• [p]Character designs and art by Kobuta[/p]
• [p]Fully original soundtrack by Claire DeLuca[/p]
• [p]Fully voice acted in Japanese[/p]
• [p]Story written in English with Japanese and Simplified Chinese translations[/p]

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Hello, everyone!

Thank you everyone so much for the love and support for our game over the years.

We're so happy to announce that there are now Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean translations for the demo of Please Be Happy — that's the entirety of the first chapter!

We are looking into options to bring the full game into these languages as well, but due to various circumstances, there are no current active plans to do so. We haven't given up though, and we wanted to bring a little bit of PBH into these languages, especially to see if there is interest in these and if we should pursue this further via crowdfunding.

An incredible thank you to all of our translators who have worked hard and waited patiently for these translations.

Simplified Chinese Translation
Provided by Hakui Team
Translation: Yuan, Rena, DF, Rain, X, Alwaysmadowl, Hanasaki
Testing: Alwaysmadowl, Yuan, KuromitsuDango, Litha

Korean Translation by KyleHeren

Additionally, while the contents of the game are identical to previous versions, the game engine itself has undergone massive (over 662!) technical changes, with most of the internals almost fully rewritten in order to better support translations going forward, as well as fixing quite a large number of issues.

The full changelog for this update will be made available in a few hours.

As always, thank you for continuing to support Studio Élan!

〜 adirosa and Karen/あけみ (akemin_dayo)

P.S. Our next games are available for wishlisting - if you want a thrilling dark tale by many of the staff behind Please Be Happy, please consider checking out and wishlisting A Tithe in Blood! If you want a heartwarming tale of adventure and love, please check out Upwards, Rain! Both releasing this summer!!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2989270/A_Tithe_in_Blood/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3449030/Upwards_Rain_The_Post_Office_of_Farewells/

The Storyteller's Festival is happening now! This is a week-long Steam festival focused on visual novels and other story-driven games. There's over 400 games in the event—including a few of ours!



Here's a few of our other LGBT+ yuri titles that are in the festival—give them a wishlist or check out their demos if you'd like to support us!

Summer at the Edge of the Universe is an LGBT+ yuri solarpunk adventure about the trip of a lifetime through the cosmos.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2641720/Summer_at_the_Edge_of_the_Universe/

A Tithe in Blood is a dark yuri romance story about modern magic mixing with old mysteries.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2989270/A_Tithe_in_Blood/

Lock & Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is a mystery yuri visual novel about magical girls solving one last crime before their powers go away for good.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1803850/Lock__Key_A_Magical_Girl_Mystery/

Our Home, My Keeper is a slice-of-life yuri romance about a burnt out writer and a fairy who might just help her out.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3092190/Our_Home_My_Keeper/

Twofold is an LGBT+ romance about a struggling nonbinary college student and the women who help them pass—but need help of their own.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1749770/Twofold/

We're also teaming up with several other visual novel developers to share the wide world of visual novels in the festival!

• Of Sense and Soul by Forsythia Productions
  
• Asphodelium by Crystal Game Works
  
• Imperial Grace by Synstoria
  
• Summer at the Edge of the Universe by Studio Élan
  
• A Tithe in Blood by Studio Élan
  
• Reanimation Scheme by Wind Chimes Games
  
• Emberfate by Wind Chimes Games
  

• Fearbonding by Night Asobu
  
• Reanimation Scheme by Wind Chimes Games
  
• Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery by Studio Élan
  
• Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon by Crystal Game Works
  

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Today, 2 years ago, we welcomed everyone to our fantasy version of Wellington, New Zealand. It's hard to believe it's already been 2 whole years since then, but here we are!

First off, here's a new illustration of Aspen by adirosa, to fit with the Miho she drew last year!



As previously announced, Please Be Happy is coming to consoles!

The console ports are going well, with a few having recently passed some critical checks. It takes a long time to make sure they're all working properly, so we still don't have a release date locked down, but the console ports for Please Be Happy should be ready sometime early next year.

You can see a few more updates (and artworks) for Please Be Happy in our anniversary post!

Thank you for all the continued support!

p.s. if you want some Please Be Happy merch, we'll be having a Black Friday sale next week~ follow our newsletter or Discord to see when it goes live!

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