History VisualNovel / SpiritHunterNG

Experience announced a sequel, ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'', as a crowdfunded game. It was released on December 1, 2022 on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia with a worldwide release on February 15, 2024.

** The rabbit motif from ''Death Mark'' shows up in a few, subtle ways; the bathmat in Akira's apartment has a bunny design, his aunt's bar is called The Black Rabbit, and Kakuya, despite her fox-like appearance, is an explicit reference to ''The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', which is loosely connected to the MoonRabbit myth.

''Spirit Hunter: NG'' (エヌジー ''Enujii'') is a supernatural horror adventure game developed by Experience, Inc. for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. It is the second game in ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunter'' series and the sequel to ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMark'', but features a different cast and setting.

Experience announced a sequel, ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'', as a crowdfunded sequel. It was released on December 1, 2022 on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia with a worldwide release on February 15, 2024.

Experience announced a sequel, ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'' , as a crowdfunded sequel. It was released on December 1, 2022 on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia with a worldwide release on February 15, 2024.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It was released on December 1, 2022 on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia with a worldwide release on February 15, 2024.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It's set for a December 1, 2022 release on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia and a worldwide release on February 15, 2024.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It's set for a December 1, 2022 release on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia and a worldwide release in 2024.

** PlayedForLaughs when Ooe exposits that the Momoi Department fire happened ten years ago - [[AgentMulder Kaoru]] also claims to have seen a tsuchinoko ten years ago, and believes the two incidents are tied by a karmic fate. Akira immediately puts her down.

** One of the jumpscare ghosts in the Killer Peach case bears a strong resemblance to ''WebOriginal/JeffTheKiller''.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It's set for a December 1, 2022 release on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia and a worldwide release in 2023.

''Spirit Hunter: NG'' (エヌジー) is a supernatural horror adventure game developed by Experience, Inc. for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. It is the second game in ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunter'' series and the sequel to ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMark'', but features a different cast and setting.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It's set for a December 1, 2022 release on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''[[VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII Shinigami: Shibito Magire]]'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It's set for a December 1, 2022 release on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''[[VisualNovel/ShinigamiShibitoMagire Shinigami: Shibito Magire]]'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It's set for a September 15, 2022 release on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: The mirror world [[spoiler:that Kakuya drags Akira into]] is marked with a distinctive purple tint, making it seem all the more otherworldly.

* GirlySkirtTwirl: Upon finding a magical girl stick in a department store, Kaoru takes it up and starts twirling around in imitation of the character it belongs to. Doing so causes [[PantyShot her skirt to fly up]], and she threatens Akira with a curse if he ended up peeking (Akira being [[ChasteHero Akira]], he didn't see and had no intention of peeking).

[[caption-width-right:350: Will you play [[VisualNovel/DeathMark again?]][[labelnote:characters]]left to right: [[IntrepidReporter Naomasa]] [[TheGamblingAddict Ban]], [[IdolSinger Momo Kuruse/]][[AgentMulder Kaoru Hazuki]], [[PlayerCharacter Akira]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kijima]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Seiji]] [[TheSocialExpert Amanome]], [[FemmeFatale Rosé]] [[StageMagician Mulan]]. In the background: [[StringyHairedGhostGirl The Urashima Woman]][[/labelnote]]]]

''Spirit Hunter: NG'' (エヌジー) is a supernatural horror adventure game developed by Experience, Inc. for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. It is the second game in ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunter'' series and the sequel to ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'', but features a different cast and setting.

* BloodierAndGorier: While ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'' was no slouch when it came to BodyHorror, NG really turns up the amount of {{gor|n}}e and blood. The Kubitarou case has on-screen decapitations, to name just one example, and children and animals aren't safe from death either.

** While the game has many [[CallBack notable ties]] to its prequel ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'', there's also a few inconsequential references put in for fun:
*** Momo's [[FanserviceModel gravure]] photo has her made up like a doll and posing on a red couch, with it being based on an urban legend about 'a doll in a mysterious mansion'. This is all a reference to Mary, the protagonist's advisor from ''VisualNovel/DeathMark''.

* SelfDeprecation: When Rosé is describing the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'' to Akira, specifically the time he used a broken umbrella to protect himself against Hanahiko:

''Spirit Hunter: NG'' (エヌジー) is a supernatural horror adventure game developed by Experience, Inc. for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita. It is the sequel to ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'', but features a different cast and setting.

Experience announced that the Spirit Hunter series will have another game as a spiritual sequel, known as ''[[VisualNovel/ShinigamiShibitoMagire Shinigami: Shibito Magire]]'', already crowdfunded under 15 million yen as of January 2020. It's set for a March 24, 2022 release on the [=PS4=] and the Nintendo Switch in Japan/Asia.

* {{Diary}}: When investigating Yuri Takamura's death, Seiji and Akira discover that she had an online diary that accounted the last few days before the hit-and-run that killed her.

* PoliceAreUseless: The police and security in the game only serve two roles - an inconvenience to the characters when they're trying to investigate after-hours (until Seiji or Ooe use their connections to get rid of them), or as [[RedShirt fodder]] for the murderous ghosts. On a more serious note, Killer Peach also laments how useless the police are, [[spoiler:even killing Ooe if the latter insists that Peach leave the case she is pursuing to the police.]]

** The Killer Peach's victims were all part of a club that was embezzling money out of their company, and one of them was a peeping tom with photos taken non-consensually of his female co-workers. Moreover, when she discovered that their president [[spoiler:was responsible for covering up a department store fire, they brutally murdered her and hid the body.]] Suffice to say, Akira has no sympathy for what they went through at her hands.

Set five years after the events of ''Death Mark'', the story follows [[CanonName Akira Kijima]], a teenage delinquent, as he finds himself embroiled in the supernatural. A friend of his younger cousin was supposedly killed in a hit-and-run, but he discovers the truth after a mysterious black postcard bearing a riddle is left at his apartment. Solving the riddle leads to an encounter with [[BigBad Kakuya]], a fox-like spirit who kidnaps his cousin Ami and inflicts him with a curse, forcing him to investigate and pacify {{vengeful ghost}}s if he wants to continue living and rescue his cousin.

Helped along by his childhood friend and an idol who was close to the first victim, alongside a variety of other colorful characters, Akira is forced to play Kakuya's twisted game.