Shuumatsu no Sugoshikata ~The world is drawing to an W/end.~

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All useful information and websites on Shuumatsu no Sugoshikata ~The world is drawing to an W/end.~ (終末の過ごし方 ～The world is drawing to an W/end.～), a 1999 visual novel.

General Links

• VNDB Page
• Japanese Wikipedia Page
• Original Official Website Archived
• Second Official Website Archived
• DVDPG Release Website

Useful Links

• 1999 Release
• 2003 Release
• MSX Release
• DVDPG Release
• Demo (not actually a demo, it's a non-interactive looping trailer)
• Trailer
• The World is drawing to an W/end. Official Art Works
• MSX Release Info
• Erika/Sadaji Koike's Page Archived
• 2000 Article on The World is drawing to an W/end.
• Pixiv art tag

Technical

Music and images can be extracted with GARBro. I don't know what the translators use to interpret and modify script files, but rest assured there seems to be a script for it out there.

• .adp = audio
• .dsk = game archive
• .pft = filenames of files inside the game archive
• GAMEFLG.dat = save file
• SCNDAT.TBL = ???

Facts

• There is a novelization of The World is drawing to an W/end. I don't have it.
• According to its Japanese Wikipedia page, the CD release (unclear which) lists all of the character's ages, which had curiously been omitted from the other official releases; this release also states that the characters are attending a high school, a detail also omitted from other releases.
• The demo also lists the character's ages.
• Characters are only voiced in the DVDPG release for some reason.
• Official Art Works was released in July 1999 by Shinseisha, which filed for bankruptcy two months later in September. According to the Japanese Wikipedia page, Abogado Powers never received any royalties from the book as a result. The book was republished by Enterbrain in 2003.
• While the above linked page on Erika/Sadaji Koike pages are missing its images, the 1999 DVD release of The world is drawing to an W/end. includes a full mirror of those pages, and includes art from other development staff.
• The 2003 CD release of The world is drawing to an W/end. includes an Enterbrain-published re-release of Official Art Works
• Erika/Sadaji Koike's page is the only official source that lists the character's height, weight, blood type, and measurements (not even the guidebook). Though some of the details are marked with a "probably" from him (you made the characters man)
• According to Erika/Sadaji Koike, "W/end" means either "world end" or "weekend" (he wasn't clear which one it meant).