{"id":72215,"date":"2023-10-25T21:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=72215"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T22:38:34","slug":"minato-aqua-visual-novel-now-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2023\/10\/25\/minato-aqua-visual-novel-now-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Minato Aqua Visual Novel Now on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The 2022 visual novel <em>AQUARIUM<\/em>, which stars hololive&#8217;s gamer maid VTuber <strong>Minato Aqua<\/strong>, is now available on Steam with English interface and subtitle options.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>AQUARIUM<\/em>, which was originally released for PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan, is a romance visual novel developed by <strong>ENTERGRAM<\/strong> that casts players as the partially amnesiac young Master of the Francois family. In the story, Minato is a new maid who is assigned to the Master so that he can train his leadership skills, with love blossoming in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Below is the game&#8217;s full synopsis:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This is the summer story of Aqua &#8211; a beginning maid carrying a secret &#8211; and her master (the player) who lost part of his memory.<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The young Master, heir to the Francois family, has the same nightmare every night.<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In it, he meets a girl, but they always end up quarreling and parting ways with the words &#8220;I hate you&#8221; ringing in his ears.<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">But just who is this girl&#8230;?<\/span><\/em><br \/><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">One summer&#8217;s day, the young Master&#8217;s elder sister tells him that in order to prepare for succeeding to the Francois family estate, he is to practice his leadership abilities.<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">To do that, his sister wishes for him to take a new maid under his wing so that he can guide and help her grow.<\/span><\/em><br \/><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8220;I am the new maid, Aqua. From today, I will be responsible for your well-being, Master.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><br \/><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The young Master immediately finds his heart drawn to Aqua, the new, clumsy maid who is burdened by a certain &#8220;secret&#8221; she cannot speak of. However, the two are separated from one another by an insurmountable wall\u2014their social strata.<\/span><\/em><br \/><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">What shadow looms over the two as they face challenges and the opposition of society itself?<\/span><\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This is the pure summer love story of two individuals from completely different walks of life.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Aside from Minato, <em>AQUARIUM<\/em>\u00a0stars her fellow Hololive colleagues <strong>Houshou Marine<\/strong> and<strong> Shirakami Fubuki <\/strong>as the Master&#8217;s other maid and older sister, respectively. Minato, who also produced the visual novel, won Best Actor at the Famitsu\/Dengeki Game Awards 2022 for her role.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>AQUARIUM<\/em>&#8216;s Steam version is priced at US$20.46 in the US. Earlier this year, there were pre-orders for special made-to-order physical Windows editions in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2515070\/AQUARIUM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 visual novel AQUARIUM, which stars hololive&#8217;s gamer maid VTuber Minato Aqua, is now available on Steam with English interface and subtitle options.&nbsp; AQUARIUM, which was originally released for PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan, is a romance visual novel developed by ENTERGRAM that casts players as the partially amnesiac young Master of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":72231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1249,10,1248],"tags":[553,1250,7953,5067,2133,1252],"class_list":["post-72215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hololive","category-anime","category-vtuber","tag-games","tag-hololive","tag-hololive-production","tag-minato-aqua","tag-visual-novel","tag-vtuber"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aquarium_steamscreenshot1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-iML","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72258,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions\/72258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}