Hikari, Yukine, Kanehana, Akemi, and Iroha's Offchapters

Public only post, no news here for paying supporters. It came to me that "OVA" stands for Original Video Animation, we do have video animations, but we really can't classify the offchapters as such. I guess our brain defined the bonus/extra chapters as OVAs since that's what they are usually called. So now I will call this "Offchapters" since it's away from the by-chapter storytelling, or "Offscreen" since it's events that happen... you know, off-screen.

Technical Update

432 renders, 34 animations - Yeah it's a rather small update although I have stated that this is more like the extra content which we can't accommodate in the main chapters for it breaks pacing and cohesion. This offchapter is currently separate and/or a stand-alone release, and you can see it by the file size. It will be integrated into the public version of Chapter 25 upon release. It feels so good to work with a smaller file size in the meantime. The main menu music may not match the main menu wallpaper due to the reasons above, I just wanted to let you guys hear the music for Book 4's Main Menu, I had it since more than a year ago.

Chapter Update

It's a little short, around 20-30 minutes for all of them. Apologies to FMC, PinkYumi, and Chitose fans, they will not have an Offchapter in Book 2. It's too soon for them. These offchapters don't have by-chapter locks on them and we assume that you have played the latest update since to implement those, you will be forced to replay the chapters they are connected with, so we took a pass on that.   You may play the offchapters in any order, but here's a suggested play order, it's chronological: 1. Iroha 2. Hikari 3. Yukine 4. Kanehana 5. Akemi Choices don't matter much, or at least it only influences the offchapter, it's more on communicating with the cast. Your Italian might be tested a little.

Dev Comment/Rant/Plans

This below needs to be taken as if it's still Dec. 12 

I have fully left my job, got my holiday bonus, and then packed it. I moved back to my old room for now to lessen expenses and will be looking for options at least, but I don't expect to have anything til at least March. I've already set up a roadmap for the first half of Book 3, so fingers crossed. Now it's up to me to make Chapter 25 in record time(spoiler it is record time), without devaluating anything due to haste, of course. I've written most of it already, Chapter 25 is a culmination of the recent chapters, after all so I'll be able to start with renders in less than a week. I think I have said all that I needed to, thank you! Happy Holidays!