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April 25, 2024

Cupid Parasite: Sweet and Spicy Darling – Sweets for my Sweetheart Contest -!

Otome fans rejoice!

In celebration of live preorders for the divine romantic comedy, Cupid Parasite: Sweet and Spicy Darling, we will be running a special contest where fans will have a chance to win 1 of 7 signed shikishi boards of one of the Cupid Parasite: Sweet and Spicy Darling love interests! These shikishi boards will be signed by each character’s respective Japanese voice actor!

The rules for this contest are simple.

  • First, pick any of the 7 love interests from Cupid Parasite: Sweet and Spicy Darling.*
  • Next, create a dessert, pastry, candy, or any other kind of sweets for your favorite love interest.
  • Get creative! You can bake cookies, melt chocolate on fruit, paint a cake, you can even sculpt a brownie for fudge sake!
  • Take pictures of your delicious creations and post them on X using the hashtag #CupidParasiteSweetheartNA

*One person can submit an entry for multiple characters, but each entrant is only eligible for one prize.

We’ll leave the rest to y’all!

Check out the characters and Japanese voice cast below:

Character Japanese Voice Actor
Gill Lovecraft Ryohei Kimura
Shelby Snail KENN
Raul Aconite Taku Yashiro
Ryuki F. Keisaiin Junya Enoki
Allan Melville Makoto Furukawa
Peter Flage Nobuhiko Okamoto
Merenice Levin Yuto Uemura

The IFI Staff will then select 1 winner per character, so there will be 7 winners total. Check out a breakdown of the contest schedule below:

  • April 25 – Contest begins today!
  • May 27 – Entries close the day before the game launches.
  • May 28 – Winners will be selected once the game launches
  • Starting June 4 – Shipping of prizes begins.

We’re so excited to see all of your beautiful pastry art! Can’t wait to see who takes the cake!

Best,

Team IFI

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