Stretch Goals
over 7 years ago – Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 06:34:50 AM

Greetings!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season! We know you have been patiently waiting for the Stretch Goal announcement, so let’s get right to it!

Once this Stretch Goal is unlocked, backers pledging for the $50 “Physical game.” tier or higher will also receive the Dies irae Booklet filled with color illustrations and more.

And yes, Dies irae will be coming to PS Vita once this Stretch Goal is met! The PS Vita version will be a digital release, and will be available with the $100 “Badge set.” reward tier and up. Please note that the option for the PS Vita will start from the $100 Badge set reward, so for those of you who want Dies irae on PS Vita, be sure to pledge accordingly because the option will not be available for reward tiers below that.

The Visual Fan Book will be activated at $300,000. It will be A4 size, loaded with 200 pages of color illustrations. Backers who pledge for the $400 “Replica shikishis. (Full set)” reward tier or higher will receive the Visual Fan Book.

The Booklet and the Visual Fan Book have been added as Stretch Goals because we really want to do them the justice they deserve! And to do it right, will we will need your support to make sure that will happen. Thank you!

Collaboration!!

Dies irae and MangaGamer collaboration confirmed! After the successful funding of the project, Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~ will be made available on the MangaGamer Store.   

*Depending on your region, access to the MangerGamer website may be restricted.

**Please note that backers of this Kickstarter will have the game distributed to them through Steam.

There are more updates down the road, so please hang in there!

Reward Add-ons
over 7 years ago – Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 06:33:46 AM

Greetings!

Thank you all for your generous support throughout the campaign, and a special thank you for your patience while we have been attending to the requests for the additional rewards. So without any further wait, here we go!

*Backers of the $170 reward tier and up will be able to choose one tapestry from all four designs. Separately, all four tapestry designs will be available as add-ons.

These add-on items will be available only to this Kickstarter and post-Kickstarter pre-orders upon funding until spring 2017.

The campaign is now in its last week, looking to push on past the goal! Let’s take it home!

Added tiers, Story review, Character intros & More
over 7 years ago – Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 06:33:22 AM

Season’s Greetings Everyone!

First up today, two tiers have just been added. If you are a Dies irae fan or newcomer to the series looking for some more tier options, or for those of you who have previously backed the anime crowdfunding project in Japan, these tiers offer a different variety of currently offered rewards.

The first is the “Gotta have it bundle 1.” This reward tier is the $200 “T-shirt + tapestry.” tier without the rubber straps included.

The second is the “Gotta have it bundle 2.” which is the $400 “Replica shikishis. (Full set)" tier minus the rubber straps and LDO member tapestry.

Updates for additional new rewards and for the Stretch Goals are still on the way, so please stay on the lookout!

Kickstarter exclusive tapestry.

The Kickstarter exclusive tapestry image that has been used on the project page is, as some of you may have noticed, a design from a previous tapestry. Because that design is already available, there will be an all-new tapestry design just for this Kickstarter. Once the campaign is funded, all backers who have pledged for a reward tier with the KS exclusive tapestry will be able to choose either the previous design or the Kickstarter exclusive one.

We sincerely apologize for not catching this sooner, and for any confusion it may have caused.

Please note that the KS exclusive tapestry is an option for backers of this Kickstarter only, so will not be available after the Kickstarter ends. 

Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~ review 

To help get everyone more acquainted with the story, we would like to share this review by Dies irae editor GareJei. No major spoilers here, so please enjoy!

gareblogs:  [Review] Dies irae – Amantes amentes

Meet the characters!

The all-star Dies irae World Emanation Project localization team has done some wonderful work putting together these character introductions. The team members' Twitter accounts are linked below, so please give them some love for all of their tireless efforts!

Ren Fujii by ReadingSteiner

First up is our protagonist, Ren Fujii. Ren is a very laid-back and carefree kind of guy who values the mundane things in life. The arrival of the LDO in Suwahara city casts him into a world of madness beyond his comprehension, leaving him with no choice but to adapt to his new and difficult situation.

 

In battle, he wields the fearsome guillotine "Marguerite Breuilh", allowing him to take the head of anyone he slices across the neck. More than anything, Ren simply wants for time to halt, for the insanity that has fallen upon him to end, and for his peaceful days to last forever.

Reinhard Heydrich by GareJei

Here is one of the Dies irae's memorable villains: Reinhard Heydrich, the man standing at the top of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden. Once an agent of Germany, he is now transcended: Reinhard is the Golden Beast, the Monarch of Destruction, the Harbinger of Beguiling Light. Though he was present at the fall of Berlin, he soon vanished amidst the flames of the burning capital, never to be seen again.

Reinhard fears no man or gods, his destructive hunger driven by a simple desire: to lay waste upon all that crosses his path. He is like a radiant flame, his followers the moths unable to resist it; to call him a "male femme fatale" would be no exaggeration at all. Exactly why he wishes ruination upon all the cosmos is a mystery for readers to solve, but one thing remains certain: Reinhard will return. ...And on that Day of Wrath, the skies shall rain fire, with heaven and earth in ashes ending -- as foretold by David and the Sibyls.

Mercurius by Conjueror

Now let's introduce one of the central villains of Dies irae: Karl Ernst Krafft, Number XIII of the Obsidian Round Table, also known as Mercurius. He was the one who approached Reinhard Heydrich in 1939, and introduced him to the path of sorcery, leading to his transcendence.

A man of uncertain origins, he has lived through countless lives, experiencing everything there was to the world, exhausting its unknowns. All members of the LDO view Mercurius with scorn, as his hermitic disposition represents everything that their esteemed leader is not. It is through his machination that the city of Suwahara descends into madness in 2006, although he himself refuses to take the stage. For there is but one predetermined finale to any play he would ever decide to take a role in...

Also on the team is the translator GundamAce and the editor Qaenyin, they will be presenting character introductions in future updates!

And...!

Dies irae Progress update
over 7 years ago – Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 06:33:01 AM

Holidays Greetings Everyone!

A whole-heated thank you to all! Your backing has brought us to over 1,000 backers strong, reaching half-way to our goal in just a few short days! We are humbled and grateful for the full-on support you have shown for Dies irae. You are simply wonderful!

We must also thank you for all of your comments and suggestions! Sincere apologies if we have not answered all of your questions yet, but are doing our absolute best to get back to you, and kindly ask for your patience while we do.

So where are we going from here? One of the big questions everyone is asking on that front is, “are there going to be Stretch Goals?” The answer to that is a resounding yes! We hope to unveil the Stretch Goals next week, so please stay tuned.

One of the Stretch Goals will be for an art book. We want to make this art book just as gorgeous as the one made for the Japanese project!

Another big question has been if there will be new rewards added. We have been diligently listening to your requests for additional rewards as well as for the Stretch Goals, and are currently in the process of due diligence and checking them all out. 

There have been lots of up votes for the Rusalka route. We are in the process of looking into it and will have another update about this coming soon.

Many of you have also been asking about the possibility of post-Kickstarter sales for the items included in the rewards. If and when the Kickstarter is successfully funded, we do hope to make them available. However, our main priority is to all of you who have backed this project, so it is possible that prices and items may be different from those offered during the campaign. 

And speaking of post-Kickstarter, questions about where the game will available have also come up. When the Kickstarter is successfully funded, MangaGamer is planning to carry the game. Sales on ManngaGamer will be separate from the Kickstarter. Backers of the Kickstarter project will be receiving the digital version from Steam as stated.

On a related topic, Steam digital and boxed physical details are still forthcoming, but there will be an announcement once confirmed.

Your requests are highly appreciated as they will take the project to the next level, so we please ask that you keep it up!

There is much left to our journey and we have only just started. We cannot thank you enough for embarking on it with us! –All of us here at the Dies irae World Emanation Project

Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter Cross Promotion

Visual Novel Localization Project has 43 hours left on Kickstarter! 

 

A visual novel that is famous in Japan for leaving you tears. This is Sharin no Kuni’s first official localization project, and is in its last few hours. The project has already reached their Stretch Goal for PS Vita, and are looking to hit the Bonus Fandisc Chapters. They have a number of unique and limited rewards available, so be sure to check them out HERE!

Stretch Goal Rework
over 7 years ago – Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 12:06:59 AM

New Years Greetings,

Hope everyone is having a wonderful start to their year.

First up on the agenda for this year is the adjustment of the Stretch Goals. 

In response to the requests in support for the PS Vita, the PS Vita Stretch Goal has been moved ahead and set for $200,000. Once the Stretch Goal has been reached, backers who have pledged for the $100 reward tier and up will have the PS Vita release included. For other pledges after the Stretch Goal is met, the PS Vita digital release will be available as an add-on for $35.

The next adjustment is to the Booklet Stretch Goal. The Booklet will now be added at the $240,000 mark.

18+ Patch and Screen Ratios

The screen ratio for the all-ages version of the Steam release will be 16:9. The 18+ patch that will be made available to backers later on will be 4:3. At game start-up, you will be able to choose either the all-ages version or the 18+ version with the patch installed.

When the all-ages version was produced, new images were needed. Had the images just been inserted into the 18+ version, the consistency of story would have been interrupted. Because of this, the patch will be available to play the games separately in their respective age versions. With the large number of requests to be able to play the game with the 4:3 screen size, the 18+ version will feature the 4:3 ratio.

*Please note, that due to adult content restrictions on the PS Vita, only the all-ages version will be offered for the PS Vita. The 18+ uncensored patch will not be available.

PS Vita Physical Release

We understand that there have been many requests to add a physical release for the PS Vita, and are again looking into the matter. There will be further information in coming updates.

New Add-ons

New add-ons are currently being prepared and will be up tomorrow. We will have another update with the announcement when the add-ons are up.