/jp/ - Otaku Culture

To clear up misunderstandings about MangaGamer and JAST:

First of all, MangaGamer has NEVER censored a game. They briefly considered censoring Higurashi and Soul Link, but due to fan response they decided to not go through with the plans for censorship, and they haven't considered censoring anything since. The only thing that comes anywhere close is that they didn't de-censor Suika as the original CGs were lost, so they had to use the same images that were used in the Japanese version.
Contrast JAST, which has censored multiple games in the past, mostly for loli content, never announcing the changes until after release.

Secondly, the bullshit marketing accusations (such as >>7591382 ) were not MG marketing, but rather JAST marketing. I don't recall MG ever doing JAST-style misleading marketing.

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>For those of you who recall Bamboo's mention of a UStream live to talk to all the Western VN fans, the date for the first one has finally been set to Tuesday, May 24th, 11 AM Japan Standard Time. (This would be Monday, May 23rd, 10 PM Eastern Standard Time, or 7 PM Pacific Standard Time)
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>Evospace, myself, and a couple others will be on hand to serve as translators/interpreters, so we encourage everyone who's available to come watch, listen, and let your voices be heard directly.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mangagamers-from-japan

Anybody going to listen? I'd like to be there myself, but MangaGamer seems to hate Europeans (it starts at 3-4 AM in Europe).

>For those of you who recall Bamboo's mention of a UStream live to talk to all the Western VN fans, the date for the first one has finally been set to Tuesday, May 24th, 11 AM Japan Standard Time. (This would be Monday, May 23rd, 10 PM Eastern Standard Time, or 7 PM Pacific Standard Time)
>
>Evospace, myself, and a couple others will be on hand to serve as translators/interpreters, so we encourage everyone who's available to come watch, listen, and let your voices be heard directly.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mangagamers-from-japan

Anybody going to listen? I'd like to be there myself, but MangaGamer seems to hate Europeans (it starts at 3-4 AM in Europe).

>>3060240
Hey, you got that album by any chance?

[16:28] <VDZ> About Higurashi...you port all games you release to your own engine, right? So Higurashi won't be ONScripter anymore?
[16:29] <EvoSpace> VDZ: I believe so
[16:30] <VDZ> You're not planning to store the game music in the game folder in unarchived format, like 07th Expansion does, are you?
[16:30] <EvoSpace> no idea about that

[16:31] <VDZ> Oh, and EvoSpace, a question just to make sure: You will NOT translate Umineko, right?
[16:31] <EvoSpace> not at the moment, at least
(followed by some discussion about how it would be suicide for MangaGamer to license Umineko)

[16:37] <dan88> EvoSpace, any idea if Shin Koihime Musou is going to be possible with the engine?
[16:38] <dan88> I know encubed mentioned that they said the engine was the issue according to someone at AX
[16:38] <EvoSpace> Nope at the current engine.
[16:38] <dan88> Are they unwilling to use any engine besides BGI?
[16:38] <EvoSpace> But there are actually a lot of options for mangagamer
[16:39] <dan88> so we may be getting that in the future?
[16:39] <EvoSpace> They've talked to couple of other game companies, and they're like sure
[16:39] <gckc> BGI, huh? Would that mean August games in the future?
[16:39] <gckc> Fortune Arterial and the like
[16:40] <dan88> ><EvoSpace> They've talked to couple of other game companies, and they're like sure <--- what do you mean with this?
[16:40] <EvoSpace> nothing that big like August or Type-moon yet thou
[16:40] <EvoSpace> about translating their games into English
[16:40] <VDZ> Type-Moon does not seem very open to releasing their games to FILTHY GAIJINS...and all of their games are getting fan translated anyways
[16:41] <EvoSpace> I think Type-Moon has been traumatic since their first anime adaptation of Tsukihime =P
(discussion about Type-Moon, Nitro+ and 5pb)

[16:49] <EvoSpace> They did hire another proofreader for Higurashi though
[16:49] <EvoSpace> other than sonozaki
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Yay, a music thread.

Anyways, I've been composing for one and a half years, and I recently bought a MIDI Keyboard. Shit's difficult to play, though.