Ten Questions With… Nicole Mejias (Sekai Project)

While the game is indeed a BL game, and BL fans and Otome game fans are the primary audience the game is aimed at, Rosemary House advertises the game for “both ladies and gentlemen”, so anyone can play the game if they feel inclined to!

The Rosemary House team gave us a reply after many backers expressed that same concern:

“From a global perspective, Japan is fairly behind the times when it comes to understanding homosexuality. The country doesn’t allow same-sex marriages, and because society views homosexuality negatively, many continue to keep their lives a secret.

This game in particular is tailored towards fujoshi, and is a fictional work that is not related in any way to these “real world” gender and sexuality issues. Naturally, there will be homosexual or bisexual people among our players, and we have worked to ensure that this game doesn’t include discriminatory remarks or comments. The characters do change bodies from male to female, but their hearts are still very much men; hence, their behaviors and speech patterns don’t change from what they originally were.

Magical Piece’s cast of characters worry about their romantic feelings towards other men, but in the end, realize that what really is important is not “being a man” or “being a woman”, but rather “being yourself”. All in all, this is a boys’ love game, so the romantic elements are primarily between two male characters, however, they do also talk about love between a man and woman, and love between a woman and another woman.”

We’re keeping in mind people’s concerns; they have not gone unheard!

That would be Shiharu! He joined the Magical Pieces squad to find that he doesn’t have enough power to transform into a Witch like the others, so he cross-dresses as he goes into battles along the rest of the crew. He has this severe inferiority complex since he’s the lowest ranking Witch (Alice), and he wishes to become strong enough to become the most powerful Witch (Queen). He’s a truly interesting character, and I can’t wait to see more of him in the game!

It’s definitely become more accepted these days. I remember years ago, people would often balk at the idea of playing a visual novel while asking “but that’s not really game, is it?” Now with popular visual novels like Nekopara available for all to play on Steam, that game genre has become more popular and appealing for people, so I think people have embraced it more than before.

That’s a possibility; however, we want to try and see what can be done to get the game released first before we think on any other possibility to work on.

Here’s Space Ghost sitting at his own desk while accompanied by several owls. I dig figure-collecting, so I have quite the collection. I found Space Ghost at a local comic book shop, and I just HAD to get him for my desk!

The owls are “lucky owls” from Epcot’s Mitsukoshi shop in the Japan pavilion. Each color means something different. I just thought they were cute, so I picked up several of them. If you’re curious as to what the colors of the ones I chose symbolize:

• Yellow Owl: good fortune in wealth
• White Owl: good luck and happiness
• Green Owl: strength in academics
• Black Owl: protection from illness and evil spirits

Thank you all for your support and well wishes. We wish to pave the way for more localized BL games and Otome games available for fans, so we’ll do our best to provide those! Please lend us your support to make this vision a reality in order to give you all some awesome games to play and support!