If everything you love is destined to be swallowed by the tide of time, would you still choose to fight for it?
Akiba of time is a science-fiction visual novel centered on Akihabara, an AI idol, and the butterfly effects of time.
The year is 2036. Akihabara.
Shu Hoshino is an ordinary otaku who loves “Kotoha Akiba,” an AI girl idol who has long since faded from the spotlight. He also loves Akihabara itself — a town that is slowly losing the colors of anime, games, and otaku culture.
An assassination attempt on the Prime Minister suddenly drags him into a time-spanning operation from the future. The future of war is rewritten, but Akihabara is pushed toward another kind of destruction.
The streets once filled with anime, games, figures, maid cafés, and otaku culture are about to be swallowed by the unstoppable tide known as “progress.”
This is a story about protecting what you love.
Shu Hoshino has no extraordinary intelligence, no outstanding physical ability, and none of the qualities needed to become a hero.
He is simply a socially awkward and timid otaku, swept up by the currents of the era.
All he can rely on is his obsession with Akihabara — and the AI girl idol who has always been by his side.
And when everyone believes that change is inevitable, he must make a choice:
To weep alone, or to reclaim the glory that was lost.
Game Features:
・A science-fiction ADV centered on the cultural transformation of Akihabara
・A story built around an AI idol, time-related butterfly effects, and rewritten futures
・A look at the struggles of subculture communities through the decline of otaku culture
・A story exploring whether the bond between humans and AI can be real
・Extensive first-person narration, psychological description, and visual novel-style presentation
・The demo tells a complete short episode while introducing the main conflict of the full version
About the Demo:
The demo contains a complete early-game short episode.
Players will experience Shu Hoshino and Kotoha Akiba’s everyday life, the assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, a time-spanning operation from the future, and the true crisis that emerges after Akihabara’s fate is rewritten.
This is not simply a story about saving the world.
It is a story about an ordinary person rebelling against an unavoidable future in order to protect what he loves.
