Seems the suspected Ibara 2 will indeed be appearing this year as the company's next shooting masterpiece. Under the name 'Pink Sweets ~Ibara Sorekara~', AMI (Cave recent arcade publisher, meaning that this game won't be using Taito's Type-X) has announced a 'massively-destructive system-based, pink-colored shooting game' for February's AOU 2006. They're also announcing now officially the pre-order campaign of Ibara: Black Label, as we mentioned last weekend. Chou ero kawaii no love promised this time. Get ready!
Update: You may have noticed that the Pink Sweets flyer is now down on AMI's frontpage. There has been some speculation about Pink Sweets actually being Ibara: Black Label, since they both got announced at the same time. Our guess: They're not the same thing. AMI may have realized that it's not good for sales to announce a revision and a sequel to the same game the very same day, so they took the flyer down (hi-res version here, if you need it). They clearly state, on the other hand, that Black Label will get a very limited production, something not really proper for a true sequel, which, by the way, has been in the developer's mind since past July.
