Yumina, tissues, and prices.

So my Yumina The Ethereal physical copy finally came in the mail. Along with it, JAST sent some goodies; A catalog (The Saya No Uta image), a If My Heart Had Wings booklet, some funky anime glasses or some crap thats freakily 4 shades lighter than me (And I'm white as hell), annnnd....A packet of tissues. (The JLIST thing) The tissues look soft as a mofo too.  This is my first physical copy purchase from Jast (I usually buy digital) and like, do they send tissues with every copy? Lol "Thanks for buying from JAST USA!  To say thanks, heres some complimentary tissues for those...sticky situations!"

I pulled out the tissue packet from the mail packaging and I think I laughed for like 5 minutes straight. I don't know.  Maybe it's because of the assumption (and usually right on the money) that if you're buying an eroge, you're probably a guy with intentions to spend some quality time with it and your hand mixed with the fact that uh...my "equipment" doesn't require tissues, but I found this funny as hell.  At least I'll have something to blow my nose with during tear jerking scenes! (Why did I not have you packet when I played Saya No Uta D=)

The catalog included pricing for JAST games planned and in the pipeline along with the tentative cover art, but don't have webpages yet, as well as a STEINS;GATE poster.  See full post for a pic of the poster (It's pretty awesome!) and the pricing with the cover art if you're curious. (I scanned in the catalog page to get the cover art)

Yumina The Ethereal Walkthrough (Work in Progress)

I'll be putting together this walkthrough as I go along the game.  I'm making this public before I finish the game since I've heard that quite a few people (myself included) have been having some issues with getting the optional h-scenes at the end of each chapter. A member on the MG forums stated that to get the optional h-scenes, you need to do a chain of events in each chapter to get a special skill for Ayumu, which unlocks the optional scenes after the chapters debate battle. Another member ended up linking to a Japanese walkthrough for me, and it's pretty understandable. (Thanks Dark_Shiki and RusAnon!) I'm going to be translating the walkthrough as I go along so I can verify I understood the sequences right.

Japanese Walkthrough: http://omoteura2.com/yumina/

Even if you're not interested in the optional h-scenes (Even if you unlock them, you are not forced to watch them), Ayumu's chapter skills tend to be very powerful against the chapter's bosses, so they're very handy to unlock. Theres a bunch of additional supplemental information, but for now I'm just going to translate and post the event sequences to get Ayumu's special chapter skills for the optional scenes.

9/05/13: Added chapter 3 walkthrough, along with an alternate route.

9/06/13: Added chapter 4 walkthrough, along with an alternate route. Notes and testing skill carry over soon.

10/14/13: Added some information given by a commenter on how to use this walkthrough to get a specific girls route. Theres also info on my latest blog post about the future of this walkthrough.