Goodbye Rune
I’m not sure how many people reading this have actually heard of Rune, but they were a middle sized eroge maker which has been around since 1999 when they released Fifth and has been semi-popular among certain groups of people.
A large number of their staff including their CG editors and their scenario writers have been quitting since early May. And most recently the two artists that Rune has always been known for, Nonohara Miki and Akamaru, who have been in the company since the beginning, have revealed on their blogs that they too, have quit.
An ex-staff(?) from Rune had appeared on 2ch last night saying that they had quit because they weren’t receiving their pay, and that most of the staff had gone their separate ways instead going as a team and forming a new brand under a different company. However, their upcoming game 8665^3 was already mostly completed when the staff left the company, so chances are that it’ll somehow still get released.
Nonohara and Akamaru are apparently still working together in their new job, though it’s unknown where they’ve moved to yet.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
RICOTTE MOTHERFUCKER. THAT IS ALL.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
OH, AND WHEN I SAY RICOTTE, I MEAN 中北音楽研究所.
THE STORY WAS OK, BUT THE MUSIC, HOLY FUCK.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I enjoyed Purely, and the memories of the retro text adventure demo they released for it…
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I guess this is the end for their subsidiaries too. Sad.
June 24th, 2008 at 1:20 am
I’l be missing them big time for sure >
June 24th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Anyone know if this will affect Cage as well?
June 24th, 2008 at 2:34 am
“Certain grous of people”, yeah. Musume Shimai was brilliantly fetishistic.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:49 am
In times like that, only one time can be say.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(Read Pedro-style)
June 24th, 2008 at 6:26 am
>Anyone know if this will affect Cage as well?
I’m not sure if Cage will be going down with Rune actually, their usual artist and writer had already quit, but that was late 2007 after they made Purely under Rune (the main staff that got involved in Purely quit soon after release)
They’ve already got one of the CG colouring guys to do the art for the newer games and there’s no news on his current status yet. They might be able to survive on just outsourcing everything.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
“semi-popular among certain groups of people” Ha ha.
Rune was to me, Hatsukoi and Little Monica Story. Hatsukoi actually made it to a PlayStation 2 release (subtitle: “First Kiss” yeah right), and Hiromi Sato of Mizuiro opening theme fame also did the OP. I also got Ricotte and Shushinki but I haven’t played them yet. I think I’m an illustrator Miki Nonohara fan. Here’s a site with some telephone cards of Nonohara works:
http://www.na.rim.or.jp/~autumn/teleca/a_nonohara/
June 24th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Say, would anyone have the name(s) of the old Cage artist(s)?
June 24th, 2008 at 9:30 am
One of the old and most famus from Cage is Munyuu / むにゅう
http://munyu.neko.ne.jp/