Psychedelic BL Murder-Mystery Hashime of the Old Book Town is On Sale Now!

The highly-acclaimed, psychedelic BL murder-mystery from indie developer ADELTA is now available on Steam!

A wonderful delight for bibliophiles and fans of BL, this intricate story of death and the occult is set in the Taisho era of Japan when the push for modernization threatens the very identity of the nation.

Through a stroke of luck, Tamamori begins to live and work at Umebachidou, a used book store. There, he enjoys whiling away his time as a roninsei—a student preparing for entrance exams—and taking advantage of friends who came to Tokyo with him. But...

One right after the other, mysterious deaths befall those friends, and Tamamori, realizing he's been repeating the same rainy three days over and over again, finds himself racing throughout Jinbouchou to save them.

In this pop-occult mystery that surrounds the deaths of his friends...

What is real, and what is a hallucination?