Getting into RGD 101

The visual novels

The lovely people over at Witch Hunt have patched all four seasons of the RGD visual novels, and the patch is available on their website. The section on how to actually install it is slightly outdated on their site, so here's a tutorial.

  1. Buy a copy of RGD -The Best-* (which includes all four seasons) for aprox. $20 USD over here. You should recieve a download link in your email in a few minutes. Be sure to download this before 48hrs have passed, since it does expire.
  2. Download Witch Hunt's English patch over here.
  3. Run the RGD installer (it's all in Japanese, but click the first button on the left when the extraction is done) and extract Witch Hunt's patch to it's own folder.
  4. Inside the patch folder, copy the file that's named "[WH] RGD ENGLISH" and paste it inside your main "RoseGunsDays-the Best-" folder. To recap, that should be located in C:\Program Files\07th_Expansion\RoseGunsDays-the Best- using the default settings.
  5. To launch, go inside the RGD ENGLISH folder and execute the RoseGunsDays Final Season file. Enjoy!

    6. *Witch Hunt's patch was designed for RGD Last Season, instead of RGD -The Best-. However, the only option that is currently available to purchase legally is -The Best-, and it works just fine. -The Best- contains an extra scenario (which I just finished translating, check it out on the gallery page) which Witch Hunt did not translate. The main story is still 100% available.

    The mangas

    Despite what certain visual novel purists would tell you, the mangas are a perfectly good alternative if you don't want to go through that giant process above. Seasons one through three have been licensed in English by Yen Press, and season four has been... I'm guessing in licensing hell or something similar for a few years. We're probably never getting it officially. Season one has four volumes, season two has three, and season three has three. You can probably find the Yen Press releases in your favorite manga store. Here's some Amazon links. Keep in mind that I do suggest buying secondhand - eBay has some really good deals on the manga, and new listings pop up every so often. It's how I got the majority of my collection and I advise that you do the same.

    What about Last Season? Well, I don't know. It hasn't been picked up by a scanlation team yet (if I have a lot of free time in the future, I might attempt it myself...?) There's like half of it up on Mangadex courtesy of lovely French scanlation group MiamMiam-Team. If you can read French and want to experience half of the story, go ahead. The artstyle's pretty nice. Otherwise, your only way to experience the full story is to read the visual novels or watch a playthrough.

    There's also two manga spinoffs/prequels, one focusing on Rose before becoming Madam, and one focusing on Wayne trying to defend his friend who's being framed for murder... or something. These also haven't been licensed in English. If you still feel like owning them, all of the manga that haven't been licensed are available in Japanese.