is a dating sim

Dating sim

Dating sims are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements. They are also sometimes put under the category of neoromance. The most common objective of dating sims is to date, usually choosing from among several characters, and to achieve a romantic...

  developed and published by Konami

Konami

is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

 for the Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

 handheld video game console

Video game console

A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...

. Released on September 3, 2009 only in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Characters

Protagonist (player)

A second year High School student just transferred to Towano High School. Soon after he joins the library committee, the tennis club and a part time job at a family restaurant. He's the only character you can name in the game, and you may choose to refer in first person as or (both are the male form of "I," although "Ore" is considered more masculine). In the Loveplus Rinko Days manga his name is Wataru Aikawa.

Voice - Saori Hayami

Saori Hayami

is a female seiyū and singer.-Anime:2007* Touka Gettan, Momoka Kawakabe, Sei* Clannad, Female student * Ghost Hound, Female elementary school student A 2008* Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed, Sweetheart...

Voice - Sakura Tange

Sakura Tange

Sakura Tange is an idol, seiyū and singer who was born in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan. She is best known for providing the voice of Sakura Kinomoto in the anime series Cardcaptor Sakura....

The character concept was taken from the Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and Jerusalem Prize among others.He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature...

's "Dance, Dance, Dance" character "Yuki"　.

Voice - Yuuko Minaguchi

In an early development setting she was meant to be a college student with light makeup. The latter remained part of her appearance during game release. She also has a mole under her right eye.

Love Plus +

Love Plus + is the same as the original Love Plus, although with new content, including field trips, fitness modes, sick days, and so on. Almost everything from the original game also makes an appearance in Love Plus +, along with many new ways to interact with the girls. Data can also be transferred from the original game to Love Plus +.

Anti-piracy measures have also been upgraded.

The game was released in Japan on June 24, 2010.

Manga

In early 2010 Kodansha

Kodansha

, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

 announced that it would launch Love Plus spinoff manga serials starting in April through early May in five different Kodansha magazines:

• Monthly Shōnen Rival
  Monthly Shonen Rival
  Shōnen Rival is a Japanese monthly shōnen manga magazine by Kodansha that had its first issue on April 4, 2008. It is issued on the 4th of every month....
  
  
• Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
  Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine
  is a Japanese monthly manga magazine published by Kōdansha. The magazine was started in september 2009 as a spin-off of another Kōdansha's magazine, Weekly Shōnen Magazine.- Series :- External links :* Official web site at Kodansha...
  
  
• Monthly Young Magazine
• Magazine E-no
• good! Afternoon
  Good! Afternoon
  is a Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It is a bimonthly anthology, and each issue typically has around twenty-five stories by various artists and runs about 800 pages. It is a sister magazine to Kodansha's successful monthly manga anthology Afternoon, and was first launched on...
  
  

Manaka, Rinko and Nene will each have their own storyline

1. Loveplus Manaka Days by Mikami Akitsu in Rival
2. Loveplus Rinko Days by Kōji Seo in Bessatsu
3. Loveplus Nene Days by Takaki Kugatsu in Young
4. Loveplus Girls Talk by Daisuke Sakura in Magazine E-no
5. Loveplus Kanojo no Kako by Hiroaki Wakamiya in good! Afternoon

External links

• Lovepluss official site