Tokyo Afterschool Summoners (東京放課後サモナーズ, Tōkyō Hōkago Samonāzu), known also by the blend wordHousamo (放サモ, derived from Tōkyō Hōkago Samonāzu), is an F2Prole-playing video game for Android and iOS. It is developed by Lifewonders [ja], a mobile gaming company operated by the dōjin circle Yojouhan-teki Seikatsu [ja].[1] It is noted as one of the first commercially produced LGBT video games created in Japan,[2] and one of the first commercially produced LGBT games to extensively utilize gay manga ("bara") artwork.[3]
Tokyo Afterschool Summoners is a free-to-play card-based role-playing video game with turn-based battles. Each character card has a weapon type, as well as an elemental attribute that determines its strengths and weaknesses against other cards in rock–paper–scissors-style match-ups. Cards gain levels and abilities by accruing experience through battles; once a card reaches its level cap, special items must be used to uncap the card so it can gain more experience. The game utilizes an affinity system wherein buffs are applied when the cards of characters who have a relationship ("love", "like", "dislike", and "rival") are used in battle together. Cards are obtained through quests, or through the game's gacha system.
Several prominent gay manga artists, including RybiOK, GomTang, and naop, have designed characters for the game,[5] making Tokyo Afterschool Summoners one of the first ever commercially produced video games to feature gay manga artwork.[3]
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The protagonist awakens in a version of Tokyo where "transients" – supernatural beings from fantasy and mythology – live among humans. In this world, both humans and transients utilize mysterious artifacts to fight in duels; duelists organize into guilds, which fight for control of the 23 special wards of Tokyo. The player controls the protagonist as they form a guild of their own, gather companions, and attempt to uncover how they have arrived in this world.
Tokyo Afterschool Summoners features an extensive supporting cast of over one hundred unlockable characters. A partial list of supporting characters who figure heavily into the game's plot, or who are voiced by notable seiyu, are listed below.
A transient and member of the Aoyma guild who specializes in torture.
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^"About the Circle". Yojouhan-teki Seikatsu. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
^"Gender and sexuality in the world of games". IGN. May 24, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
^ abMaru, Shishi (December 6, 2018). "Tokyo School After-Summoners", Full-Fledged Smartphone Game for LGBT (in Japanese)". Buzzap!. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
^"Message from Tokyo Afterschool Summoners staff". housamo.info. May 24, 2018. Archived from the original on July 12, 2018. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
^"CREDIT". Housamo.jp. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
^@4jhapp_lw (December 1, 2017). "[お知らせ]12月上旬に予定している期間限定「秘島探険隊転光召喚その2」開始時メンテナンスにて「ノーマッド」「主人公ボイスタイプ5」「ガンダルヴァ」のキャラクターボイスが、変更となります。 #放サモ" (Tweet) – via Twitter.