Every year Type-Moon rolls out some special little treat for the fans on April Fools’ day since 2005 when they jokingly announced the Neco-Arc: The Movie. Some years the joke is more complex than others. Last year’s event seemed pretty simple as they were working hard on getting out Mahou Tsukai no Yoru which had been delayed several times. So they just had a poster for a Koha-Ace: Chemical Maid Kohaku movie and some accompanying Koha-Ace comics. But this year they went all out almost as if making up for the simple project they did last year. 2013 gave us a whole mini-visual novel around the most unlikely of heroines.

No. Not Bazett Fraga McRemitz. Lets not talk crazy talk. I mean a story surrounding the adventures of Satsuki Yumizuka aka Sacchin.

This was fairly complex as there was an intro page, a back story page, a cast page, and then 13 episodes of a visual novel that were released one episode at a time over the course of April Fools’ day. Most of the story is a Saint Seiya parody with a bit of Madoka thrown in the mix. There were a few chapters were you had to fight Pokemon style battles. (Thankfully you don’t need to do any EV training.) They took most of it down but people have saved it all if you know where to look. You can find the 13 raw episodes here if you missed them.

Rojiura SATSUKI Chapter Heroine Sanctuary is a story about 3 main members of the Back Alley Alliance Sacchin, Sion, and Riesbyfe (because Len was probably too good for this) trying to become gold ranked heroines. To do this they must fight their way up the ladder of popularity by defeating all the heroines above them in rank. They easily take out all the silver heroines but then their mentor Shiro is taken out in turn. So they vow to defeat the 12 Gold Heroines before the end of April 1. The 12 Gold Heroines are of course the “most popular” Type-Moon characters and therefore some tough customers. During the last leg of this journey they are joined by Ciel and Mysterious Heroine X who help them in their battle.

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