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Idea Factory International announced one of its 2026 otome games will be Birushana: Winds of Fate, the fan disc and sequel to Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei. This comes four years after its March 2022 Japanese release. Digital and physical copies will be available, and a Plus limited edition is confirmed.
This acts both as a continuation to the original Birushana and an extension of it. That’s because the five love interests from the previous games now get additional chapters to their stories that act as an epilogue showing what happens after they get together with Shanao, and the four new routes feature additional love interests who we now romance during the original storyline.
Here are the returning characters with epilogues:
- Benkei Musashibo
- Noritsune Taira
- Shungen
- Tomomori Taira
- Yoritomo Minamoto
The four new routes, which feature new love stories with characters who previously weren’t romanceable in the original game, involve the following bachelors:
- Shigehira Taira
- Tadanobu Sato
- Takatsuna Sasaki
- Tsugunobu Sato
Here’s the trailer for the game:
There will be an Idea Factory International otome game released before the Birushana fan disc, however. Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights will debut on January 13, 2026. That’s also a Switch release.
Birushana: Winds of Fate will appear on the Switch outside of Japan in 2026.