Summary

• A Natsume's Book of Friends game, titled Natsume's Book of Friends: Hazuki's Chronicle, launches on Nintendo Switch and Steam next month, but you'll need to know Japanese or Chinese to play it.
• The game is set to be a slice-of-life visual novel, where you interact with Natsume's friends, both human and Yokai.
• If we all watch the latest season of the Natsume's Book of Friends anime, maybe we'll get an English translation.

I don’t have much time to watch anime anymore, but my favourite will always be Natsume’s Book of Friends. I love its interpretation of Japanese yokai, Natsume’s gradual but satisfying character progression, and of cours༒e, its chubby cat mascot, Nyanko Sensei. I have an entire collection of plushies to prove it.

I’ve always thought its blend of the slice-of-life genre and monster-of-the-week style episodes would translate well to a game, so much so that I considered pitching an article on that exact topic. When I went to look into this further, I discovered that there is in fact a Natsume’s Book of Friends game, and it’s coming next month🍰.

As I hurriedly and began following updates on the game, I discovered that it was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:only releasing in Japanese and Chinese. Neit♏her of which are languagesꦛ I know.

My heart shattered. My dream game, ℱbut no way for me to play it. Time to start learning Japanese, I guess?

What We Know About The Natsume’s Book Of Friends Game

There’s no official English translation for the information we’ve been given about the game, so all I’ve got to go on is Google Translate. ไIt’s called Natsume's Book of Friends: Hazuki's Chronicle, and will launch on Nintendo Switch and Steam, according to .

From , it looks like it’s going to 🉐be a slice-of-life visual novel-esque game where you play as Natsume and walk around the town, interacting with the Yokai and Natsume’s human friends and family.

Players become Natsume Takashi and can move freely through the world of ♍‘Nat♏sume's Book of Friends.’ [...]

Join Nyanko Sense♒i and enjoy the summer with your fri𓆏ends to the fullest.

Screenshots immediately reminded me of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Shin🥂-Chan games, which I also love for their laid-back gameplay and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Japanese countryside setting. If tඣhe Natsume game is anything like Shin-Chan, it’ll be an instant winner in my books.

Please Watch The Natsume Book Of Friends Anime So I Can Play The Game

At the moment, the only way for me to plඣay❀ a game I know I’m going to love is to import a Japanese copy and use Google Translate on my phone to translate the text. Not exactly the ideal experience, to say the least.

If I have to, I absolu💙tely will, though. The limited edition with exclusive merch looks particularly tempting…

Natsume’s Book of Friends is never going to reach the same heights of popularity as anime like My Hero Academia or Jujutsu Kaisen in the West, but the anime did recently have a seventh series (a grea🍃t one, in fact), so now is the perfect time to watch it and give it a boost so the team can consider a Western launch. Please, I’m begging you.

Shin-Chan: 🔥Shiro and the Coal Town got an English version half a year after the Japanese launch, so here’s hoping Natsume's Book of Friends: Hazuki's Chronicle can get one too.