BODY: Your partner vanishes. The investigation is shut down from above. So you transfer into the one department nobody respects โ and discover it quietly handles everything the government would rather bury.
That's the setup for ใใขในใใฉใคใขใฎ็ฝชๅใ (roughly, Astraea's Sin and Guilt), the debut full-length project from MintLip+, which announced on October 19 that the game will launch for Nintendo Switch on March 25, 2027. Previously teased under the working name PROJECT SIGN: Astraea, it's a women-targeted romance adventure built around criminal investigation rather than the school or fantasy settings that dominate the genre. No price has been announced yet, and the studio says localized versions are planned.
The heroine is a veteran municipal detective reassigned to the Federal Police after her search for a missing partner is abruptly killed. Her new home is "Section 11" โ nicknamed Eleven โ a unit presented internally as a dead-end clerical posting that in reality takes the cases too sensitive to appear on any docket. Her colleagues are the romance targets, and MintLip+ is selling them bluntly as kuse ari danshi: men with issues.
The cast is the headline. Kaito Ishikawa (Haikyu!!) voices Axel Barrett and Nobuhiko Okamoto (My Hero Academia) plays Yuan Raynes, alongside Katsuyuki Konishi, Makoto Furukawa, Ryohei Kimura and Ryota Suzuki. Aika Kuboshima produces and directs, Ren Mikado writes the main scenario, Hachi Uehara handles character design, and Lyn โ the singer known for her Persona 5 songs โ performs the opening theme "SANCTUARY."
The insider take
MintLip+ only launched in October 2025 as Edia's label for women's games, following smaller releases like Star Sign and AD-Fresh, so this is the brand planting a flag. In Tokyo's otome scene, a cast list this expensive is itself the pitch โ publishers here know that Ishikawa and Okamoto headlining will move pre-orders at Animate before a single screenshot circulates. The roughly five-month runway from announcement to release leaves room for the promised localization, which may signal that domestic otome publishers increasingly treat overseas fans as a launch audience rather than an afterthought.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).