Does Final Fantasy XIII-2 have a "new game plus" mode?

It's seems pretty clear, between the Live Trigger system (where you can generally only choose one dialogue option), other mutually-exclusive choices, and the talk of monthly DLC that Square-Enix expects people to play through Final Fantasy XIII-2 multiple times.

But it's not clear, at least to me, whether there's a new game plus option, where you can keep some or all of your original progress as you restart the game: an interview (in Japanese) back in December 2011 supposedly mentioned the mode, but neither the manual nor the official strategy guide mention it, and I can't find a confirmation from anyone who actually played the game that the mode was ever implemented.

Is it available, or is it impossible to get 100% completion in any individual play-through due to various decision trees locking certain options out?

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It's kind of irrelevant as you can bounce around between each time period and zone whenever you'd like. From New Game+ for FF XIII-2:

There isn't really a new game+.

You're just able to reverse time so you can replay any section of the story or area once you find a reverse clock item [seal] in the corresponding time period.

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