Good Smile Company and Frontwing Set August 27 Release for Novel Game COCORO
COCORO is the second novel game from the Good Smile Company and Frontwing partnership, following ATRI -My Dear Moments-, and its August release date and staff continuity signal an effort to build a recurring visual novel line.
Reporting from 4 sources: 4Gamer.net, GAME Watch (Impress), Automaton, Denfaminicogamer.
Good Smile Company and Frontwing announced on June 19 that their new visual novel COCORO will launch on August 27, 2026. The game is set in a world where robots run rampant and follows a boy's first love with a girl named Kokoro, who hides the fact that she is a robot. The heroine Kokoro is voiced by Hina Yomiya, who also performs the game's ending theme. Yomiya is known for roles including Anna Yamada in The Dangers in My Heart and Tomori Takamatsu in BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!. Planning and scenario are by Asta Konno, who worked on the studio's previous novel game ATRI -My Dear Moments-. Character design is by Akio Watanabe, known for the Monogatari series anime. COCORO will be sold on Steam and other digital download platforms, supporting Japanese, English, and Chinese. To mark the sixth anniversary of ATRI -My Dear Moments-, which has surpassed 500,000 downloads worldwide, a giveaway campaign is running through July 3 on the official COCORO X account. Three winners will receive a collaborative acrylic stand featuring both games.
The release date for COCORO was set alongside a full staff and cast list. Planning and scenario writer Asta Konno previously worked on ATRI -My Dear Moments, while character designer Akio Watanabe is best known for the Monogatari series anime. The supporting cast includes Hikaru Tohno as Kazane Ryuzaki, Yasuaki Takumi as Daichi Amagoromo, Riona Imaizumi as Kosame Amagoromo, Maaya Uchida as Kirika Kigetsuki, and Shuta Morishima as Kotaro Kumogakure. The opening theme Signal is sung by Runa Mizutani (NanosizeMir), with composition and arrangement by Fuminori Matsumoto and lyrics by Yuichi Kuwashima. The game is rated All Ages and will be available on Steam, DMM GAMES, and DLsite. The ATRI -My Dear Moments- anniversary campaign requires participants to screenshot their COCORO Steam wishlist registration and post it while following the official COCORO X account. ATRI -My Dear Moments, originally released in 2020 by ANIPLEX.EXE, has been adapted into an anime and is available on PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 4 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- 4Gamer.net 「COCORO」，8月27日に発売決定。少年と，ロボットであることを隠して生きる少女「ココロ」の初恋を描くノベルゲーム
- GAME Watch (Impress) ノベルゲーム「COCORO」の発売日が8月27日に決定！
- Automaton 羊宮妃那さん主演・ロボ少女ADV『COCORO』8月27日発売へ。廃墟で“フィアンセ”を待つ少女ヒューマノイドと過ごす、かけがえのない夏
- Denfaminicogamer 羊宮妃那さん主演の新作ビジュアルノベルゲーム『COCORO』が8月27日に発売決定。グッドスマイルカンパニー×フロントウイングが贈るノベルゲームの第2弾。企画・シナリオは紺野アスタ氏が担当