''Angelique Luminarise'' is an

otome game An is a story-based romance video game targeted towards women with a female protagonist as the player character. Generally one of the goals, besides the main story goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female main player char ...

, part of the ''Angelique'' series and the first for

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. It was released on May 20, 2021. A special box set version containing drama CDs, titled ''Angelique Luminarise Treasure Box'', was released on the same day as the standard physical and download versions. It is the first new entry in the main Angelique series in 18 years. Publications, as well as KOEI Tecmo, have referred to the title as ' for short. A trial version was published on the

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on May 6, 2021. The main character is Ange (name can be changed), a 25-year-old single office worker who is beginning to feel at her limits in her third year of working life when she is chosen to become a queen candidate and taken to another world. Her rival is Reina, also a 25 year old worker from the same city. Similar to the original ''Angelique'' game (as well as the remake Angelique Retour), there are 9 guardians who can be petitioned for assistance, talked with, or invited or asked on dates. However, the game was updated to better reflect women of today. An event based on the game, titled ''Angelique Luminarise: 1st Floating Stage'' and featuring the voice cast of the 9 guardians (including Hiroki Nanami, Shimba Tsuchiya, Takeo Ōtsuka, Takuya Satō,

Yūto Uemura is a Japanese actor, voice actor and singer. He is affiliated with Himawari Theatre Group. Personal life On March 16, 2024, Yūto announced that he had gotten married. Filmography Television drama *'' Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger'' (2003), Lad * ...

, and

Yūki Ono is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He was represented by Atomic Monkey and is now a freelancer. His major roles are Josuke Higashikata in '' JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable'', Taiga Kagami in '' Kuroko's Basketball'', Zenki ...

) is scheduled to be held on July 24, 2021, at the Fuchu no Mori Geijutsu Gekijou Dream Hall.

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