Mabino×Style, a 2005 magical-school romance from Kid, has been fully translated into English thanks to a new fan patch. If your idea of a good time is juggling a calendar, chasing route flags, and trying to remember which witch likes which spell, this one is basically catnip.
You play Kei Mikagura, a regular human yanked into Mabonigi Magic Academy, where your life quickly becomes 50% spell study and 50% “accidentally” bumping into cute classmates in between classes. Structurally it’s classic PS2-era VN: pick where to spend your time on a daily planner, raise magic skills, and hope you don’t whiff the key event that locks in your preferred ending.
The translation dropped on January 16th and is the work of Brazilian ROM hacker / translator / reviewer Gopicolo, with Monnekey and Nanaboshi Hoshikawa handling cutscene and image editing. Text, images, and videos are all reportedly 100%, so you’re not getting half-localized menus glued to raw Japanese FMVs this time.
Kid originally wanted Mabino×Style to kick off a whole multimedia push, and while that never really materialized, it did manage to spawn a manga in Monthly Gangan Wing and a novel that digs into more of the game’s secrets. So this isn’t just some throwaway budget romance; it’s one of those “oh, there was supposed to be a whole thing here” projects that got quietly left behind.
The patch is up on romhack.ing, and there’s already a trailer showing the English script and the (very mid-2000s) vocal theme by Riya with subtitles. If you’ve been in the mood for a magic academy VN that feels ripped from a lost late-night PS2 TV slot, this is your weekend sorted.
Source: romhack.ing via Time Extension
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