Hiroshi Iuchi's end-of-year Ubusana update is pretty much what it has been for the last few years (& as expressed in the recent stream) but he does go into general detail about the parts he's able to plug away at on his own: music, plot, etc vgmaterials.com🇯🇵
icymi, here's the statement he gave on M2's stream a few months ago
more context for those who haven't been following at all: Ubusana's been content/design-complete for a while but still hasn't entered full production due to budget, lack of personnel, indecision about how much to outsource vs. attempt to do him/themselves, etc and so...
...it's something Iuchi's just plugging away with as best as he can on his own until there's a clear path forward

one would have to hope Aleste Branch and other games might help pave the way for Ubusana to finally be finished, but who knows... expectations are high, after all

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