It was unveiled to the public during September 2013, a few weeks before Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star had been officially announced to be in development, and its release was done at the same time a "mysterious hacking" took place in the Surge Concerto Social official website the Ciel nosurge: Ushinawareta Hoshi e Sasagu Uta players used to access the game's website and the PC consoles to it. If they tried accessing to it during the time the "hacking" took place, the players would find themselves unable to use the website at all and instead would be redirected to genomirai.com, in which the novel would start playing automatically.