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{{quote|''"Father... Mother... The sky... Isn't beautiful at all... I want to clean up this sky!"''|'''Sora'''{{spoiler|, ''Accleration of SUGURI'''s ''sora'' teaser}}}}

'''''sora''''' is a [[Prequel]] to the fan-acclaimed [[Suguri]], a horizontally-scrolling doujin [[Shoot Em Up]] by Orange_Juice released during Comiket 78 for Windows PC. Just like its predecessor, it stars a title protagonist, Sora, who must fight her way through waves of [[Mecha-Mooks]] with a boss waiting at end of each stage. ''sora'''s storyline takes place on a once peaceful world being ravaged by an ongoing war between humans and altered humans. It was a war that brought chaos, death, destruction, and the end of any moral values that will ultimately bring an end to all life on Earth. Sora, one of the most powerful altered-humans ever created, is unwilling sent into battle to settle the score. Like Suguri before her, Sora can amass a large arsenal of weapons at her disposal, ranging from [[Ray Gun|beam rifles]], [[Grenade Launcher|bazookas]], [[Laser Blade|energy swords]], and even a pile bunker thrown in for good measure. The game maintains its trademark dashing and lock-on shooting gameplay, but this time Sora's able to three weapons instead of two (generally an energy weapon, a ballistics weapon, and a close-range weapon). The game also improved on its combo-scoring system and adds more emphasis on funneling through enemy fire to restore lost life energy and building up energy for your [[Limit Break|Hyper Attacks]].

'''''sora''''' is a [[Prequel]] to the fan-acclaimed [[Suguri]], a horizontally-scrolling doujin [[Shoot'Em Up]] by Orange_Juice released during Comiket 78 for Windows PC. Just like its predecessor, it stars a title protagonist, Sora, who must fight her way through waves of [[Mecha-Mooks]] with a boss waiting at end of each stage. ''sora'''s storyline takes place on a once peaceful world being ravaged by an ongoing war between humans and altered humans. It was a war that brought chaos, death, destruction, and the end of any moral values that will ultimately bring an end to all life on Earth. Sora, one of the most powerful altered-humans ever created, is unwilling sent into battle to settle the score. Like Suguri before her, Sora can amass a large arsenal of weapons at her disposal, ranging from [[Ray Gun|beam rifles]], [[Grenade Launcher|bazookas]], [[Laser Blade|energy swords]], and even a pile bunker thrown in for good measure. The game maintains its trademark dashing and lock-on shooting gameplay, but this time Sora's able to three weapons instead of two (generally an energy weapon, a ballistics weapon, and a close-range weapon). The game also improved on its combo-scoring system and adds more emphasis on funneling through enemy fire to restore lost life energy and building up energy for your [[Limit Break|Hyper Attacks]].

An English-translated version of ''sora'' has been released on June 1, 2012 and it's currently available through GamersGate. Surprisingly, this was not localized by Rockin' Android, the same translators of ''SUGURI'', but rather by ΩTH as it involves use of such terms as "[[Mega Man X|reploids]]" when the characters were originally referred to as "altered humans," as well as a few [[Dub Name Change|Dub Name Changes]].

Like ''SUGURI'', ''sora'' was followed up with a [[Shoot Em Up]]-[[X Meets Y|meets]]-[[Fighting Game]] with ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' released a year later during Comiket 80 in 2011. The game features both the heroines and boss chacters of their respective game as playable characters, a Story Mode<ref>(which wasn't added until v1.3)</ref>, Arcade Mode, local and online Versus Mode, and notability borrows a few other mechanics from ''[[Senko no Ronde (Video Game)|Senko no Ronde]]''. During it's initial release however, lacked certain key originally planned for the game and suffered from character balance issues. Thankfully, the Orange_Juice took action and fixed many of the game's issues with update patches.

Like ''SUGURI'', ''sora'' was followed up with a [[Shoot'Em Up]]-[[X Meets Y|meets]]-[[Fighting Game]] with ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' released a year later during Comiket 80 in 2011. The game features both the heroines and boss chacters of their respective game as playable characters, a Story Mode<ref>(which wasn't added until v1.3)</ref>, Arcade Mode, local and online Versus Mode, and notability borrows a few other mechanics from ''[[Senko no Ronde (Video Game)|Senko no Ronde]]''. During it's initial release however, lacked certain key originally planned for the game and suffered from character balance issues. Thankfully, the Orange_Juice took action and fixed many of the game's issues with update patches.

''sora'''s official Japanese website can be viewed [http://daidai.moo.jp/sora/soramain.html here] and its English website can be viewed [http://daidai.moo.jp/sora/soramain_english.html here]. Acceleration of SUGURI 2's Japanese website can be viewed [http://daidai.moo.jp/aos2/aos2.html here].

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** {{spoiler|[[Golden Ending]]: During the EX Stage, Sora notices the sky is still black and toxic while descending to Earth, realising her efforts of trying to save the Earth are for naught. She finds Hime and Suguri on Earth and [[Ax Crazy|blames them]] for the fighting that ruined the world then proceeds to attack them. Once the fighting was over, Suguri reveals to Sora that in the end, she saved the world and the sky has returned the beautiful clear blue color she once remembered from her childhood.}}

* [[Dub Name Change]]: In ΩTH's English localization of ''sora'', the names changes as follows: Tsih's name was changed to '''Telos''', Sham was changed to '''Siri''', and Nath was changed to '''Nadius'''.

* [[Frickin Laser Beams]]

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]

* [[Genki Girl]]: Tsih.

* {{spoiler|[[Genre Shift]]: The true final battle with Suguri in ''sora'''s EX Stage is turned into a fight straight out of ''Acceleration of SUGURI''.}}

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* [[Gratuitous English]]: In ''sora'', it features the songs "Le Train," "Grand blue," and ''sora'''s version of "Rendezvous"<ref>Hime's boss theme from the first game</ref>, all of which incorporates English vocals instead of Japanese, although some of songs have mistranslated lyrics.

** ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' has "Swordfish" and "Remember me," both of which are also sung in English. The latter does suffer from mistranslated lyrics; the former on the other hand, not as much.

* [[Highly Visible Ninja]]: Mira.

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Mira.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Nath pilots one.

* [[Improbably Female Cast]]: To a similar extent of ''SUGURI''.

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* [[More Dakka]]: The Machine Gun, but then again, this game is a [[Bullet Hell]] shooter after all.

* [[No Continue Run]]: Required to unlock the secret characters and their respective stages in ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2''.

* {{spoiler|[[One Winged Angel]]: Sumika, the [[Final Boss]] of ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'''s Story Mode scales it up once her Armor gauge hits the 33% mark.}}

* {{spoiler|[[One-Winged Angel]]: Sumika, the [[Final Boss]] of ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'''s Story Mode scales it up once her Armor gauge hits the 33% mark.}}

* [[Peek a Bangs]]: Alte.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Alte.

* [[Playing With Fire]]: {{spoiler|Starbreaker.}}

* [[Rank Inflation]]: ''sora'' and ''Acceleration of SUGURI 2'' does this just as their predecessors did.

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* [[Scoring Points]]

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Alte and Sham uses some electrical attacks.

* [[Shoot Em Up]]: ''sora'', just as ''SUGURI'' before it.

* [[Shoot'Em Up]]: ''sora'', just as ''SUGURI'' before it.

* [[Spread Shot]]: Rifle-S.

* {{spoiler|[[Title Drop]]: After the credits from ''sora'''s EX Stage, it was revealed that the is game is titled as ''SUGURI II''.}}

* [[Token Mini Moe]]: Tsih {{spoiler|and Starbreaker}}.

* [[Token Mini-Moe]]: Tsih {{spoiler|and Starbreaker}}.

* {{spoiler|[[True Final Boss]]: Two in fact, Hime and Suguri in the EX Stage of v1.1EX in ''sora''.}}

* [[Turns Red]]