Creator / Studio Élan

Studio Élan is an indie game company found by Josh Kaplan, one of the writers for Highway Blossoms, in 2017. They mainly focus on making Yuri Visual Novels. They have a publishing arm called Bellhouse, which releases other companies' visual novels that also contain Yuri.

In 2022, Studio Élan announced they would be merging with fellow company Studio Coattails, releasing all games in production under their brand.

Website and Twitter.

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Created Works:

• Highway Blossoms (2016)^note as Alienworks, with Studio Coattails
  • Highway Blossoms: Remastered (2018)
  • Highway Blossoms: Next Exit (2020)
• The Waters Above: Prelude (2018)^note A prequel to Starkeeper: The Waters Above before it was cancelled. The prequel remains available.
• Heart of the Woods (2019)
  • TARANORMAL/I Told You So! (2018)
• National Park Girls (2019-2023)^note Studio Coattails developed episodes 1-4, and the 5th was developed by Studio Élan after both companies merged
  • National Park Girls: Love Our Parks Edition (TBA)
• Please Be Happy (2022)

Upcoming Works:

• Summer At The Edge Of The Universe (2025)
• Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery (N/A)
• Our Home, My Keeper (N/A)^note In collaboration with Ebi-Hime.

Cancelled projects:

• Starkeeper: The Waters Above - An episodic Kinetic Novel. Cancelled in 2019.
• Same as it Ever Was^note developed by Studio Coattails - A Surreal Horror Kinetic Novel. Cancelled in 2019.

Games published under Bellhouse:

• Without a Voice (2020)
  • Without a Voice: Blooming Edition (TBA)
• First Snow (2020)
• Who is the Red Queen? (2022 Steam release)
• Twofold (2023)
• Love in a Bottle (2024)

Works people from the company have worked on, or credited in:

• The Human Reignition Project - Syon Santeria and Josh Kaplan, the writers for Highway Blossoms and Heart of the Woods, wrote for Setsuna and Yukino's routes respectively

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