/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>38292782
While Dohna Dohna contains a lot of loli, it is not pure lolige. In fact, the gameplay is similar to that of Darkest Dungeon, which is what helped it attain notoriety outside of the usual places.

Your fault is expecting a good job from an industry that keeps overworking and underpaying its translators.

>>22518716
>>22518752
I recommend not adding it to the tracker until he actually delivers, anonymous Tlers tend to just disappear.

>>22518716
>>22518752
>>22514322
I recommend not adding it to the tracker until he actually delivers, anonymous Tlers tend to just disappear.

>>19452290
The VN market is far too niche for a survey to only last half a month.
Extend it by another month or two to see some proper results.

Please keep the pointless arguing to a minimum so the thread doesn't die early and actually reaches next Sunday.

>>19261679
While this is true, you should also consider that some Japanese concepts can't truly be translated into English, and honorifics are among the hardest thing to translate without losing much of the relationship nuances.

There's also the fact that the industry's main customer base are weaboos. The type that watches ecchi seasonal anime subbed, wear stuff like cats ears and naruto headbands and are not ashamed to display the stuff publicly. NOT saying that the customer is always right (which is a garbage mentality), but they are the ones that buy the stuff so pandering to them is a logical thing to do, at least from the business standpoint.

So for stuff like moege and eroge that use "Modern Japan" (or that has a lot of Japanese cultural elements anyway) as their setting, honorifics are more of a necessity if not an outright requirement.
While that VNs that use "Western Fantasy", "Sci-Fi" and the like as their setting, honorifics are really not necessary and may even feel out of place.
"Western Fantasy" is also special in that it allows for the usage of Ye Olde English, which makes the translation of honorifics easier and may even add flavour to it, provided you have a good translator/editor or else you end with stuff like >>19261795 happening, in which case its just better to leave them in.
So yeah, you can do without honorifics, but you or your editor also need a good command of English to translate them successfully and also know when NOT to remove them.

But what do I know. This industry has rather low standards, with abundant ESL that are comfortable with edited MTL garbage. There's also the fact that most of the good translators moved up and went to do something else that pays more or quit altogether, so there's not a lot of talent within the industry. You gotta make do with what you have.

>>18825102
BiMan is also a possibility. Haven't heard anything from the TL team in a while either.