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UPDATE: This game got an update patch. Check out what’s new below to see if the translation is any better than the original.

Uh-oh, it’s another otome game on the Nintendo Switch! And it’s by the same people who released Kitty Love, so you can probably guess what the translation quality is like.

This one is called Ayakashi Koi Gikyoku -Forbidden Romance with Mysterious Spirit-. The title is too long and weird, so I personally call this game “FOX EAR”. I also named the player character Vessel Avatar again.

You’re the new assistant manager for a visual kei band called FOX EAR, and the members have a secret – they’re all mythical fox creatures! They really want that magatama necklace you wear because their powerful foxy ancestor is sealed inside. But the only way they can get that necklace off of you is to get romantically close to you. *wiggles eyebrows*

Just like Kitty Love , nearly every single line in the game has a spelling or grammar issue. I’ve chosen the funniest mistakes for the gallery below. Enjoy!

The characters in this game have weird names like U/ki and K-suke. That’s fine because it fits with the visual kei style they’re going for. But sometimes the game forgets their names entirely and calls the characters something else. FOX EAR was sometimes FOX YEAR, Kasumi became Kazumi quite often, and K-suke was Kesume once. But the worst was Akito. The game did whatever it wanted with his name – Akatsuki, Akihito, Akiho, Akinin, and Anita.

A few weeks after posting this article, the game’s translation was updated. Is it any better? Here’s the first line in the game again:

Old Translation

Aside from that new line being too wordy, the new translation does make a lot more sense. The player character was rewritten to sound like a real human person and a lot of the grammar errors were fixed.



Many lines were rewritten to sound more natural:

On the flip side, some lines were inexplicably left as-is:

So the updated translation is definitely better, but it still needs work.

These are just a tiny percent of the strange translations in Ayakashi Koi Gikyoku , so if you want to see more, definitely check out the game for yourself. And if you discover any other Switch games with bad translations, share them in the comments or on Twitter so we can take a detailed look at them here!