Rose Guns Days (07th Expansion)
 

Ryukishi07 has announced today the name of his next VN installment by 07th Expansion: Rose Guns Days.

Little is known about its setting, aside it is set on 1947, with this cryptic sub title: "1947年、暗黒街。求む用心棒。" (1947, the underworld. Looking for a bodyguard.)

As of now, there is no confirmation if this serie will be part of the Naku Koro ni (When They Cry) installment, or a stand alone like Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni.


Website: http://07th-expansion.net/rose/Main.htm

Roses Guns Days (Next 07th Expansion Visual Novel)
 

Uuuh I hope I'm not going too off-topic, don't know where else to post.
It seems the new 07th Expansion vn will be called 「ローズガンズデイズ」. How would that be romanized? Rose... guns... days...? :confused:

edit: nvm, I'm dumb. There's a splash screen already. http://07th-expansion.net/rose/Main.htm

Is he moving away from the "naku koro ni" series now, or is he going to come back to them at some point?

edit - Anyone know what this will be about?

The subtitle reads '1947, the underworld. Looking for a bodyguard'. But I can't figure out if 暗黒街 means underworld as in the realm of the dead or mafia-like stuff. I suppose it's the latter though, as iirc the Hades would be 冥界.

Yes, probably mafia. Although if it were a setting like Grim Fandango, that would be pretty awesome.

1947 was during the post-war occupation of Japan, so I imagine that will be a big theme.

Unless this will be set in another country for a change. Roses and Guns don't really make me think about Japan, but anything is possible.

You know, after a detective setting with Umineko, maybe he's following the genre as it historically gave way to hard boiled detective or film noir fiction. Maybe that's what this is. I'm calling it! :heh:

It's here!!!!!
Ryukishi07 just released the logo for his new series, Rose Guns Days!!! :D
http://07th-expansion.net/rose/Main.htm

The main page has a little blurb about it too.http://07th-expansion.net/Main.htm

All I can say is, YES! YES! YES!!! :)

I'm curious, can anyone please translate what the words are underneath the main logo text? I can't read Japanese unfortunately. Anyways, I'm so happy! Let the speculation begin!

Ya know, considering "暗黒街" does mean "underworld" and it pops up in the Japanese titles of movies like Scarface...

For some reason, that teaser webpage is giving me a bit of a cowboy/western vibe. Interested to see exactly what this is.

It says: "1947, the underworld. Looking for a bodyguard." I wonder if it's going to be a noir/hard-boiled detective story. That would be really great. Somehow the title also makes me think of a western, which might be great too. Or perhaps this underworld is not what we believe it to be...

I'm excited about this as well, though the title sounded a bit weird. After all, 07th Expansion previous titles were all in Japanese, and had about the same structure. This new English name with three words not making a sentence makes me think of Fate Stay Night. :D

I think Ryukishi said this was going to be a series at least, and not a single sound novel, though we can't be sure.

Actually, did 07th Expansion use ノベルゲーム (Novel Game) instead of サウンドノベル (Sound Novel) for the first time?

>continuing from the Umineko translation thread
I guess I did post in the wrong place after all. Sorry, Klashikari.

Good point. I wonder if he intends to expand the interactivity he tested with Umineko EP8, or at least have a multi-ending game.

So we have conspicuous use of the English language, the words "rose" and "guns", bricks, worn paper, a metallic gleam to the title, 1947, the (criminal) underworld, and someone looking for a bodyguard.

I don't find it hard to imagine that Rose Guns Days will be set in a country like America or Britain, especially considering the Western influence in Umineko's setting.

And of course, when it comes to bodyguards, I can't help but be reminded of
and so I find myself thinking the "rose" (notably in the singular form compared to "guns") could be a young lady. Although the plot of a bishoujo in need of a bodyguard has been done before in anime and manga, with Ryuukishi the writer perceived cliches need not be feared.

I look forward to more information.

Huh. I was under the impression the second part of the subtitle said "a city by night", not "the underworld", but I guess either-or makes sense if you think about it. There is the term "criminal underground" after all.

But yeah. I can easily see the setting from the info we have here as something like L.A. Noire, with it's 1940's film noir detective cases, except only in a visual novel form and with Ryukishi07's personal artstyle. In that case the setting most likely isn't in Japan, which is cool.

Interested in seeing more.~

Well, I looked up ノベルゲーム on the Japanese Wikipedia, and it redirected to ビジュアルノベル (visual novel), meaning the term, similar to "sound novel", is at least related to a visual novel. However, I wouldn't know if or how it will be different from the format of Higurashi, Umineko, and Higanbana. Maybe it will play out more like a game than the previous games by requiring more interaction from the player besides scrolling to text? Of course, this is merely pure speculation with a weak basis.

This will be pretty interesting, can't wait :3

By the way, 1947 = Black Dahlia Murder??

The first that came up to my mind was : Guns and Roses w

I also think that the setting won't be in Japan too.

So, what, is he going to tackle American detective fiction after attempting the British tradition? Awesome. :heh:

If he plans detective film noir style post WW2... well lets see how he fares.

If he wants to keep a supernatural or "supernatural" element then 1947 happens to be the year of the Roswell UFO Incident.

It will probably be set in New Mexico. Sounds pretty western-ish and that's when the Roswell incident happened.


DAMN YOU

ALL OF MY MONEY.
When the aliens cry, no anus is left unprobed.

S. S. Van Dine and Philo Vance were American.

And SSVD wrote in the British tradition, yes.

Rosa Guns Days
http://i.imgur.com/6yCux.png
The dame waltzed in, confident and assured, like a snake tightening on its next juicy meal. She gave off an air of trouble.
"I have a proposition for you, Mr. Ushiromiya," she said, getting straight to the matter as she poked her fan at me. She smelled of something nice, but not the kind you get at the local Stern's Department Store. It was the smell of money.

http://i.imgur.com/tc7V6.png
I didn't call her for a make-out; she wasn't like that. She knew how to throw lead and she was soft on the eyes. That, and she owed me a favor.



By the way, I wonder if it's any coincidence that there WAS a 1948 film noir movie called Bodyguard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpR5bjPKIM

If that turns out to be the case, I'm sold. :heh:

Ryukishi just posted on his blog that he will give every Friday some additional details about the new setting! Here's the first character concept art

I'm not sure about the every Friday thing because he has already posted another one.

Yeah, I only translated what he wrote :heh: looks like there's yet another artwork.

if will shows up, I'm buying it without knowing what the story is.

It looks like he is going back to umineko style? Didn't really like the Higanbana style when I first saw it. Even less than the Umineko style.

New concept art!

http://07th-expansion.net/Cgi/clip/Up_cg/569.jpg
Nice

http://07th-expansion.net/Cgi/clip/clip.cgi

I think that confirms our speculations about Rose Guns Days being mafia-themed.

Ronove's translation of Ryuukishi07's latest blog post:

I'm on the same boat :heh:.

Left hand drawing FTW!

The guy on the right... looks gay, maybe because the open shirt makes him look fabulous? :heh:.



February 26th, here we gooo!!

Ooh... it does look like a noir type game. I find it pretty neat that he tries so different styles and genres. Now I have something to look forward to once I finish Umineko.

Is Higanbana being placed on hold for this, or will he try to finish Higanbana before releasing this?

By the way:


She did it. Look at her hair, that's Takano's hair, it gotta be her.

Be funny if they put in elements of the other games backstories into this.

Higanbana is finished. It's not a long series like Higurashi and Umineko.

This story takes place in an entirely different universe, so that's unlikely.

Ryuukishi07 isn't planning on writing any more Higanbana. The series should be considered 'finished'.