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She joins a company in a corporate women\u0026#39;s league, the team disbands, and she heads to a mixed-gender tryout chasing a place with the Kawasaki Brave Thunders. The five romance options include a provocative talker, a cheerful supporter, a cool type who likes curry, the captain, and an assistant coach voiced by Tomokazu Sugita.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story\u0026#39;s rule bans romance inside the team, so the relationships build on shared practice and games. A glossary function and match mini-games cover basketball terms for players new to the sport. Otomate ships the game for Nintendo Switch on November 26, 2026.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"MIX DUNK's romance ban is what makes the five teammates legible as characters: Otomate built the plot around a rule that keeps the heroine and the men on the same court without pairing them off.","twitterPost":"Otomate's MIX DUNK bans team romance, so the five teammates stay characters before they become love interests.","threadsPost":"MIX DUNK runs on a rule that usually ends a romance game in the first hour. Otomate keeps the heroine and five men on one mixed-gender team and forbids romance between them, which pushes the story to work as a basketball team before it works as a romance.","newsletterBlurb":"Otomate's MIX DUNK -KING OF BASKETBALL- comes to Nintendo Switch on November 26, 2026, supervised by the Kawasaki Brave Thunders and AKB48. The heroine pursues a playing career through a team disbandment and a mixed-gender tryout. 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