The success of Square Enix’s 2023 visual novel Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo spawned the 2025 spin-off direct sequel manga Paranormasight File 25: Encounter with the Psychic Girl Kurozuru Miwo and a standalone sequel, this year’s Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse. While all three works are set in the Showa era (December 25, 1926 – January 7, 1989), a Famitsu interview with series director Takanari Ishiyama reveals that future entries could take on a more “modern twist”.
When asked about Paranormasight’s future, Ishiyama said that he would like to keep it pretty loose. So long as the associated work involves supernatural phenomena and the Storyteller appears, he thinks that it can be considered a title worthy of the name.
That said, while all of the previous works are set in the 1980s, Ishiyama thinks it would be fine to have an entry set in the Heisei (January 8, 1989 – April 30, 2019) or Reiwa (May 1, 2019 – present day) eras. Producer Kazuma Oushu followed up Ishiyama’s statement by saying that Paranormasight could even be set in the distant past or future, likening it to Osamu Tezuka’s multi-timeline manga series, Phoenix.
Though neither of the developers confirmed any future releases, they are appreciative of the franchise’s episodic nature. Ishiyama designed the Paranormasight games so that players can experience them without prior knowledge of the franchise. While most people play them according to the order of their release, he is particularly interested in the impressions of those who started with The Mermaid’s Curse.
Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse is available for Windows (Steam), Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, and Android.
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