Liberation Maiden

• Developer — Grasshopper Manufacture • Publisher — Level-5 • Series — Guild • Platforms — Nintendo 3DS, iOS • Released — * Nintendo 3DS • Guild01Nintendo eShopiOSMarch 7, 2013 • Genre — Shoot 'em up • Modes — Single-player • Director — * Makoto Chida • Goichi Suda • Artist — * Yūsuke Kozaki • Mahiro Maeda • Shigetu Koyama • Writer — Masahiro Yuki • Composer — Akira Yamaoka

The player flies Kamui into the map and the Touch Screen is used to fire missiles or lasers at enemies. At the end of each stage is a Spike boss which can be revealed by firing missiles or lasers around its location. The Spike's thick armor can be pierced using a special technique of rapidly drawing circles on the Touch Screen.

An invading country is stealing all of Japan's energy. The player controls Shoko (voiced by Kana Hanazawa), a high school girl who became President of New Japan after her father's assassination, as she enters the mecha Kamui to fight back.

Liberation Maiden was result of its creative director Goichi Suda's interest in developing for the Nintendo 3DS, which dates back to before the release of the console. It features animated cutscenes created by Studio BONES and the main theme song, "Day of Liberation", performed by Marina. Liberation Maiden shares stylistic traits with other material from Grasshopper Manufacture's repertoire, particularly Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly, an in-game anime within the No More Heroes universe. The game was released in Europe on October 4, 2012, in North America on October 25, 2012, and individually in Japan on November 14, 2012. A later high-definition version was released internationally for the iOS systems on March 7, 2013.

A visual novel sequel to the game, titled Liberation Maiden SIN, was developed by 5pb. for the PlayStation 3 on December 5, 2013. A PlayStation Vita version was later released on July 31, 2014. Both versions have not been released outside of Japan. It was written by Goichi Suda and composed by Yasutaka Nakamura and Takeshi Abo.