Black Cyc is back?

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#1

Hmm... I leave for a while, and I discover the new forum suck hardcore. Then I see MangaGamer has no forum at all. What happened to our eroge community?


Anyways... a bit of possible good news: it appears that Cyc has smoothed over relations with DenKare. There's an Extravaganza Complete in the works for release in May, that features a new song from them:


http://cyc-soft.com/b-cyc-pro/musi_last/index.html


The newer Cyclet branch, which has been releasing some guro-tastic dark ero titles, once hired Izumi Ban'ya for Ayakami Shizume. And of course, he's once again credited for the upcoming Extravaganza director cut release. Shiizaki Hinaki was hired by Cyclet for Kasshoku no Sei Senshi Aisha.


That's 75% of the original Black Cyc right there. All that's left is Ueda Metawo to work on a Cyc title. If he's cool with that, then it's not too far off a chance of all four of them to work together again.


What does that mean? BLACK CYC is back, in spirit, if not in name. Cross your fingers, bitches. The glorious dark age of eroge may once again smother our hentai collections once again!

#2

Welcome back, Narg! I thought we lost you forever when they got rid of the old forums.


I can't read Japanese, so I can't comment much on the news, but it's good news that there will be more dark eroge out there. At least we got Euphoria in English.

#3

Yea. I took an overseas job in a country where possession of porn was a criminal offense, so I had to leave the eroge community. Great pay, zero fun.


Glad to see Euphoria became a reality. That game is epic stuff. I hope the dark eroge fans united and made sales for it outstanding. It's success should be the gateway for even more "violent but thought proving" titles in English.


The possible resurrection of Black Cyc is sudden news in Japan too. No one was really expecting it.


My understanding of the situation, is that a company called Ranba Amuse are the new owners of the IP's, and responsible for the Cyclet brand making dark eroge titles. The previous owners, B-Eye Communications, were the ones who caved into the controversy that help propel the widespread censorship and cancellation of violent eroge in Japan (and thus killed BCyc's bread and butter of releases). Now that the new owners are more friendly to the "golden age" of BCyc, it's been able to slowly reestablish the members.


I'm very, very, VERY interested that if the Extravaganza Complete is a commercial success, it might cause something like a Cthulhu Complete release. As fans of that series know: the story seems disjointed... like the game was released unfinished. Perhaps because everyone left BCyc around it's production. Maybe we'll get the true version we should have?


Or perhaps we'll just get a whole new epic dark eroge saga!


I'm good for either. ^_^

#4

Oh... speaking of DenKare, they released a new album a few months ago:


http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/WSCB-19


They also released a "Best of" album at the same time:


http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/WSCB-20


iTunes also carries the latest Yousei Teikoku album on their English site:


https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shadow-corps-e/id1024018569


Because we totally know that Karen isn't Fairy Yui. Yup. Totally not her at all. Everything is just pure coincidence. ^_-

#5

I remember you talking about that job on the old forums. Well, it's good to have you back. I hope you made tons of money and that Japan turns out more great dark games for you to spend it on.


Euphoria was awesome. I hope it's sales were good, but I have no idea, to be honest. Between the Mangagamer boards disappearing and the JAST boards being practically moribund, it's hard to get much of a sense of the community.


Anyway, good to hear that there may be a resurrection of dark eroge in Japan. Hopefully some of it will find its way to the West eventually.

#6

This board, which has been widely criticized by users, will soon disappear and be replaced by a new forum system. The new system has similar functionality to Fuwanovel's. I have no idea what's holding back the launch, but it seems ready for public deployment.


As for MangaGamer's forums, no one knows what happened. MangaGamer has had a leak of customer info (to a clueless "hackivist") and a massive data loss event in the past that erased years of posts, so maybe something new happened and they decided that maintaining forums was no longer worth the upkeep cost.