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Originally Posted by LyricalAura

Here's some bullet points.

Higanbana news:

• Ryuukishi is currently doing final editing on the seventh and last short story for the first Higanbana release.
• He totally underestimated how much character art there was going to be. The main cast is around the same size as the first episode of Umineko, and he's using more varied expressions this time.
• After he finishes editing, he wants to do a "Class Meeting" segment for the collection which would be like the "Otsukaresama-kai" segments in Higurashi. However, that might not be possible if editing takes too long.
• The first part of Higanbana is rather cruel and grotesque, but the rest of the stories have all sorts of different atmospheres, so there are pleasant stories included too.

Ougon Musou Kyoku:

• A trial version of Ougon Musou Kyoku (the original) was just made available.
• There will be a major patch released around next weekend.

Ougon Musou Kyoku 2:

• The target date for the game is Winter Comiket.
• He wanted to have both changes to the system and a bunch of new characters, but there's only really enough time for one or the other, and it seemed like everyone (including himself) was more interested in the new characters.
• He speculates that Dlanor would be a good throw-type character.
• If they'd gone the system update route, he was interested in doing a Jojo-style tandem combo system where two characters would be participating in combos at once, but apparently a big restructuring would have been needed to support that.
• There are some smaller system changes that might be considered on a case-by-case basis.
• The name will probably end up being something more append-discy like "Ougon Musou Kyoku +".

looking forward to winter comiket then=D