If you are
one of those who has a messed room and you are still waiting for a beautiful,
perfect and angelic neighbor to come into your house to cook for you and clean
your garbage, we have two pieces of news. The bad news is that this will never
happen in real life. The good news is that the Japanese industry knows how to
monetize your loneliness and has just announced the first official video game
of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten (Otonari no
Tenshi-sama ni Itsu no Ma ni ka Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken).
From an
April Fool's Day joke to your console
Under the
title of Memorial Vacation, the developer MAGES. (experts
in squeezing light novel franchises) will turn this story into a fully
voice-acted adventure. The funniest thing about this whole thing is that this
game was originally born as an April Fools' joke in 2023.
However, otakus begged so much with open wallets that three years later, the
joke became a real commercial product.
True to the
anime industry's most sacred clichés, the story won't take place in the
protagonist's boring apartment, but will instead take you on a summer trip on
the tropical beaches of Okinawa. So get ready for hours and hours
of cheesy dialogue, slow moments, and your daily dose of vision diabetes as
Mahiru Shiina and Amane Fujimiya strengthen their relationship.
Prices to simulate love
Pre-orders
for the game open just today, March 23, 2026, and the title will go on sale on
July 23. It will be available for Nintendo Switch, and as a juicy
extra, the digital Deluxe version will also make the jump to
the imminent Nintendo Switch 2. If you want to know how much this
virtual romantic getaway will cost you, here are the prices:
- Downloadable Version: 6,380 yen (only for the
fortnight).
- Standard
Edition (Physics): 7,480 yen.
- Digital
Deluxe Edition: 9,680 yen.
- Limited Edition (Physical): 12,980 yen (for
true simps with money).
Knowing
that the second season of the anime is already on its way and that you will now
be able to take Mahiru in portable format, are you willing to pay more than 12
thousand yen for the collector's edition of a game where you are literally only
going to read text and see a Chinese monkey blush?
