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Witch on the Holy Night Visual Novel Debuts in the West on December 8
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Witch on the Holy Night) visual novel in the West on December 8, on the same day as the game's Japanese release date.
The game will Japanese, English, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese text. The new version will be fully voiced and will have HD graphics. The cast includes:
- Haruka Tomatsu as Aoko Aozaki
- Kana Hanazawa as Alice Kuonji
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Sōjūrō Shizuki
- Chika Anzai as Kojika Kumari
- Toshinari Fukamachi as Tobimaru Tsukiji
- Shōhei Kajikawa as Hōsuke Kinomi
The original visual novel's story is set in the late 1980s, and centers on protagonist Aoko Aozaki, one of two sister heirs to a long family line of modern MAGES. Although she is disinterested in magic, she is suddenly declared as the heir of their family's magical art, and reluctantly begins her apprenticeship under Alice Kuonji, a young witch who lives in a lonely manor atop a hill. Aoko balances her duties of learning the arcane, while also serving as her school's student council president. She also makes the acquaintance of Sōjūrō Shizuki, a new transfer student who is unfamiliar with much of the modern world, and contends with the plots of her older sister Tōko Aozaki, who feels that her birthright has been denied.
Mahōtsukai no Yoru was one of the first collaborations between sequels planned.
The game is ufotable.
The story is noted for being one of the few tangible connections in the loosely connected "Nasuverse," the English-speaking fan term for the shared universe and cosmology in Type-Moon's works, including dōjin visual novel game, launched in Japan for PS4 and Switch in August 2021.
Source: PR Newswire UK via Gematsu
