Shueisha Games and iMel Inc. have announced a new visual novel, Seasons of Books and Keys, which will release at a later date for PC via Steam. It adapts the novel of the same name from Honobu Yonezawa.
Check out the trailer for Seasons of Books and Keys below:
The Steam page describes the game as follows:
The two members of the library committee keep finding requests dropped in their laps. A cheerful upperclassman brings them a safe that will not open. Exam questions vanish. A student who took their own life leaves behind the last book they read.
And then there is the secret that the partner is carrying. What begins as a small favor in an ordinary school day slowly swings open the door onto someone’s secret, or someone’s lie.
“The game adapts ‘Seasons of Books and Keys,’ the author behind ‘Hyouka,’ the “Shoushimin Series,” and ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner,’ and originally published by SHUEISHA.Inc.
Its full scenario is presented with rich color illustration and complete voice acting, and it adds an all-new episode, ‘Vintage Strange Stories,’ written for this release by Yonezawa himself.
The main character leads are drawn by Yoko Tanji, the illustrator who created the original novel’s key visual.”
Players step into the role of Jiro Horikawa, one half of the duo, listening to each request that comes into the library and threading the small inconsistencies together until the door to the truth opens.
The truth behind each client, the secret his partner keeps, and where the friendship between the two boys finally leads: it all waits inside.
