JAST USA is a licensor and distributor of English-language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 bishōjo game

Bishojo game

A , or , is "a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive anime-style girls". These games are a sub-genre of dating sims targeted towards a male audience....

s, some of which are as 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...

s or eroge

Eroge

An or Ero-ga is a Japanese video or computer game that features erotic content, usually in the form of anime-style artwork. Eroge originated from galge, but unlike galge, they feature erotic/pornographic content.-History:...

. It was founded in 1997 with Sakura Soft's Season of the Sakura

Season of the Sakura

is a bishōjo eroge for MS-DOS. It was translated to English in 1996 by JAST USA, and re-released for modern Windows systems in 2002 as part of the "JAST USA Memorial Pack"...

and JAST's Three Sisters' Story

Three Sisters' Story

Three Sisters' Story is a Japanese adult bishōjo visual novel for the PC. It was published in 1996 by Sakura Soft, and operates on Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP...

as its first eroge titles. It is part of the J-List

J-List

J-List is an online seller of Japanese goods to consumers outside of Japan, with a concentration on otaku goods and Japanese pornography, including live action, anime, and manga...

/Peach Princess

Peach Princess

Peach Princess is a California-based English translator, publisher and distributor of Japanese bishōjo games; so far, all its releases have been eroge, which has made it one of the few companies in North America with games rated "Adults Only" by the ESRB....

/G-Collections

G-Collections

G-Collections is an English translator, publisher and distributor of Japanese bishōjo games.-History:G-Collections was founded in 2001 by the Japanese bishōjo game maker CD Bros., and released at first Japanese titles and from 2002 on English localised titles...

 group of companies, owned by Peter Payne.

Games published

The "JAST USA Memorial Collection"

• Runaway City
• Season of the Sakura
  Season of the Sakura
  is a bishōjo eroge for MS-DOS. It was translated to English in 1996 by JAST USA, and re-released for modern Windows systems in 2002 as part of the "JAST USA Memorial Pack"...
  
  
• Three Sisters' Story
  Three Sisters' Story
  Three Sisters' Story is a Japanese adult bishōjo visual novel for the PC. It was published in 1996 by Sakura Soft, and operates on Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP...
  
  

The "Milky House Memorial Collection"

• May Club
  May Club
  VR May Club is an eroge for Windows 95/98 by Milky House/JAST. It is a port of the original Japanese NEC PC-9801, which had 16 colors.Players assume the role of Hajime, a man who is about to get a full-time job and is looking for a date...
  
  
• Nocturnal Illusion
  Nocturnal Illusion
  Nocturnal Illusion is a Japanese bishōjo eroge, developed by Excellents Japan. It was translated into English and released in the United States in 1997...
  
  

Other games

• the Fairy Gods series (Legend of Fairies and Fairy Nights)
• Hentai Anime Poker (Valkyrie Poker)
• Transfer Student
• Skin Conscious vol. 1 & 2
• Dream World 2 (erotic Neon Genesis Evangelion
  Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise
  The franchise is an umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. It has grossed over 150 billion yen since 1995. The central works of the franchise feature an apocalyptic mecha action story which revolves around the efforts by the paramilitary organization...
  
  fan art
  Fan art
  Fan art or fanart is artwork that is based on a character, costume, collage, item, or story that was created by someone other than the artist, such as a fan, from which the word is derived from. The term, while it can apply to art done by fans of characters from books, is usually used to refer to...
  
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• The Borderline Series (collection of erotic art by artist Sakaki Naomoto)
• Enzai the first Japanese yaoi
  Yaoi
  In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...
  
   game (or BL, "Boy's Love" game) commercially available in English.
• "Absolute Obedience (erotic yaoi game)

(Other English-translated bishōjo games are distributed by JAST USA, such as all games by G-Collections

G-Collections

G-Collections is an English translator, publisher and distributor of Japanese bishōjo games.-History:G-Collections was founded in 2001 by the Japanese bishōjo game maker CD Bros., and released at first Japanese titles and from 2002 on English localised titles...

, Peach Princess

Peach Princess

Peach Princess is a California-based English translator, publisher and distributor of Japanese bishōjo games; so far, all its releases have been eroge, which has made it one of the few companies in North America with games rated "Adults Only" by the ESRB....

, Hirameki International, etc.)