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Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation Is Here

April 24, 2018 - Fruitbat Factory is happy to announce that Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation: Time After Time is now available on Steam and other stores! The localization of the critically acclaimed, colorful visual novel was successfully funded on Kickstarter, and is now available to play with a new opening movie and new CGs not present in the original Japanese release.

Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation: Time After Time is a the latest all-ages visual novel by Studio Beast. It was released in Japan in August 2016 as a HD wide-screen release.

Chuusotsu is a fun, colorful story of three girls brought by their individual circumstances to live under the same roof and being forced to tackle existential questions to win their place in society. Fruitbat Factory is bringing Chuusotsu to fans all over the world in dual language (English and Japanese text, characters fully voiced in Japanese).

Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation is available on Steam for $19.99, with a -10% release discount. Also available is the game's soundtrack, “Sound Correction”, for $9.99. They can be purchased together in the “Graduation Bundle” on Steam with an extra -10% discount. The game includes Steam achievements, Cloud support and Steam Trading Cards.

A demo version of Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation is also available on Steam and the game's homepage. The demo allows you to meet most of the cast of the game, and get a good feel for its strange and wonderful story.

The game's opening video, “Philosophic Escape” and a 12-minute gameplay demo video can be seen on the Fruitbat Factory YouTube channel.

Synopsis
Under the P3 law enacted under the Global People's Federation, citizens are ranked according to the Authorization Seals issued by the world government.
As spring arrives, the manga lover Marisugawa Arue, set back by a long-lasting illness, finds herself having to live her life as a "chuusotsu" - a person with no education beyond middle school.

The chuusotsu are not in possession of any Seals, and are considered to be failures at life. As such, their Authorized Power level is only 5 - young Arue's future is already looking mighty bleak.

"How will I be able to accomplish my goals now..."

In order to break free of her grim situation, and reach her true goal in life, Arue applies for a government relief program where she will...

Share a room with other chuusotsu!?

Her two roommates are overwhelmingly unique: a taciturn girl in a souvenir jacket and a crazy chuuni girl.

And then the three girls are given group challenges to clear.

What makes a wonderful life?

Synchronize your minds and philosophize on this proposition.

"There's no way incompetents like us can do philosophy..."

Their time is limited, and failure means that they will immediately get kicked out of the apartment!

Will Arue manage to successfully complete the philosophical challenges and achieve a happy, steady-going life...!?

This is a philosophical story of how the three girls considered lame ducks by the society spend their unusual youth in a world where Authorization Seals decide the lives of all people

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