/jp/ - Otaku Culture

We were needing a thread about this.

I gave up thinking about MG announcements given their hints. Too many titles fit the bill. Anyway, I'm expecting at least one nukige (possibly ImoPara 2).

SP said they have an even bigger announcement than Hoshimeno so who knows what that means. I'm also expecting from them some OELVN shit.

I'm a bit disappointed that Sekai who claims all-ages is the future, never really seem to go for the huge anime title novels. I'd actually appreciate them if they brought over a Hayate no Gotoku VN, or perhaps a Ah My Goddess or something else classic.

Instead it seems to be exclusively the most hyped up eroge, with ero removed.

>>14975257
Because those are the ones that already have fan translations.

I'm not expecting anything major since I just assume the biggest stuff will be saved for Otakon and AX. Still looking forward to it though; it's fun to get hyped for these panels.

>>14975257
Why would you want Sekai to get anything good? They'll just fuck it up and blame the devs.

Just in case.
Fuck off dovac.

>>14975414
You won't be saying that after I announce Dies Irea

>>14975472
kita!

What's that site that types it all out as the people talk?

>>14975633
bayoab

>>14975649

He doesn't do Anime Boston, so you'll have to keep an eye on twitter instead. Or hope some faggot there will liveblog it for us.

>Just over an hour until our @AnimeBoston panel! Hope to see you there~ http://mangagamer.org/announcements/
Is it going to be shit?

>>14975203
Whaaaaat there was an ImoPara2? Jesus Christ.

>>14975817
We're announcing hard copies and BL, so not if you like those.

I don't even know what to expect. But I would gladly trade whatever is announced for JAST to do another Sei Shoujo game.

>>14975844
I want MG to steal all Sei Shoujo games from JAST. It'll be nice payback and we might get them in a timely manner. They'll even come out without the need for a uncensored patch.

So, any jpsie at the con?

>>14975818
https://vndb.org/v11920

>>14975826
I hope you are not the real good haro. Even if BL have hardcopies, doesn't need any big announcement.

>>14975972
>I hope you are not the real good haro

are you stupid or something anonymous?

Also
>hardcopies, doesn't need any big announcement.
buckle up, because while there's probably not any BL(else I imagine haro would be there announcing it), the over/under for a yurirei hardcopy announcement is basically certain.

Announcements were leaked due to flaws in their website.

>>>/vg/136486163

Maggot baits, Amekoi and Monobeno.

>>14976017

That's some nice bait, but I'm afraid I'm used to the premium stuff already.

>>14976017
> Monobeno
No way this could happen, fake.

>>14976017
I would actually cry from happiness.

>>14976017
I could believe everything except Monobeno.

get to twitter stalking, because it's on.

I wish MG would finally find solution to video stream their cons. They are doing this con stuff for many years and still can't do something even amateur game streamers could.

>>14976079

Do you have any idea how shitty and unreliable con internet is?

Sekai's panel is about to make announcements

Taiwan doujin shit.
Sasuga Sekai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqMdqqnN28&feature=youtu.be

New Taiwan VN from Sekai

>>14976106
No one cares about OELVNs.

>>14976114
Jesus christ Dovac. Once Grisaia is out, nobody is going to be paying attention to these guys anymore.

Taiwan? How about korea

https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/713548577247604736

Taiwan VN, Korea VN.
Seems like sekai got tired of JOPs making fun of them and now they are licensing games JOPs cant read.

>>14976114
The heroine is literally called Yingp Ying.
Now even gookshit and chinkshit. Anyone wants to talk about Sekai, they should go to /co/ instead.

Sakura Spirit manga lol

Anyone on the mangagamer news mailing list? Apparently PR with the announcement has been sent

Jesus christ, Dovac.

>>14976144
Is it the BIG THING dovac was trying to hype up? lol.

>>14976114
>>14976135
Seems like Dovac meant what he said. We aren't his audience.

>>14976146
I didn't get anything and I'm definitely on the list.

oh shit

you better not have dovac

>>14976146
I don't see anything.

incoming rage firestorm

Sekai Project is over.
>>14976150
His audience is no one. No one wants this tripe.

>>14976159
>Maitetsu
More censored VNs

I can't believe dovac ruined best VN of 2016 for the west forever.
/jp/ should crowdsource hitman, this madness must end.

Well, can't see how you can confuse the a and e on this one, but this should probably be the game they were talking about.

Also, Monobeno confirmed for never happening until the heat death of the universe.

Maitetsu is 1000% pedo game. We should tip off tumblr/twitter crowd about blatant sexualization of children on steam, they will force Valve to cancel partnership with sekai.

>>14976172
Please, the emote in that game is pretty bad from what I've seen. Not only that, but they chose a bad seiyuu for the best girl - 124cm.

>>14976179
Kill yourself.

meanwhile mangagamer's announcements are imopara 2, kindred spirits drama cds, and a free friends hardcopy.

>>14976192
It's going to be dies irae, muramasa and baldr sky
SS this post.

Were they competing to see who could suck the most?

Bokuten for steam

Probably needs it to be honest

Bokuten will be coming to Steam. This is legit.
https://twitter.com/FattyJanai39/status/713551272281042944

>>14976197

No those are literally the announcements.

>>14976206
>we will never put censored VNs on steam
Well then.

>>14976212
What are you talking about, they already put Chou Dengeki Stryker on it a long time ago.

>>14976210

Like they've even got the hardcopy up for preorder on their site.

But seriously, how the fuck did Dovac manage to trick Lose into the SP fold? Does he seriously believe that the lolicon audience won't care about his blatant censorship?

>>14976217
But now it's TWICE.

>>14976221
Princess Evangile?

>>14976227
THRICE

>>14976219
Its cute and emote, so it will sell, no question.

I'm more surprised he would risk licensing with fuckable heroines looking like this. This shit is extreme even by lolicon standards.

>>14976212
As long as a uncut version is available I don't see any problem. Steam is a censored platform to begin with.

>>14976206
Well, they have to make the money somewhere.

>>14976234
One could make a case that eden* was "censored" as well. Although PLUS+MOSAIC was an add-on.

>>14975203
>(possibly ImoPara 2).
FUCKING CONFIRMED

I wonder how the heck freefriends sold enough to be worth doing a hardcopy run. It didn't seem to chart particularly well

>>14976236
It probably won't happen. I don't see SP wanting anything to do with people making patches to make their Steam release into a game where you can fuck a bunch of really young girls.

>>14976235
There won't be adult content, so I don't see how it could be an issue. There's no way they will touch the 18+ version.

>>14976252
They probably see it as a good title to sell at cons.

>>14976255
Hopefully a nice pirate will patch the 18+ content into their butchered "release".

>>14976249
Nah, I wouldn't count that. Not canon.

>>14976192
There you have it guys. This anon got it right.
http://mangagamer.org/announcements/

>>14976192
so this nigga was right

http://www.strawpoll.me/7186641

>>14976265
Will they fix the atrocious translation too?

Drama CDs are just audio, right? How are they going to do them? Just a text translation to read alongside or something?

>>14976255
Its "sexualization" either way.
For example, Hachiroku is molested by protag, showing nipple and her undies, in first hour of the game. And all the bath scenes. And other stuff.

When it comes to not-VN stuff, Kindred Spirits Drama CDs are pretty nice. Certainly better than the Taiwanese and Korean VNs.

>>14976269
>>14976270
What a coincidence. One might think he was even there.

>>14976277
The easiest way is to just have a few random illustrations in a video file and sub it as you would sub any anime episode.

>>14976278
Yeah they'll just release it on steam with nudity, that's a thing that will happen.

>>14976277
Release it as DLC for the Steam version. Put some still images and art behind the subtitled text.

>>14976278
I am hot and bothered just from reading this.

>>14976252
I wish MG could start doing day 1 hardcopies, at least for even just some of their titles.

>>14976278
They'll just remove any and all offending scenes until nothing suggestive is left. Anything that could be seem as sexualization is gonna go. And all we'll be left with is a poor imitation of a bland moege. Hopefully it bombs so hard that Lose won't touch SP ever again.

>>14976269
Anime Central has New Partner listed.

Considering it's Anime Central, it's probably some nukige publisher right? Doubt they'll announce something big there.

Nice to anons on /vn/ getting butthurt about these announcements.
It's not like MG usually makes big announcements at this time of the year...

>>14976311
Sekai has been somewhat liberal in when they make announcements (announcing Hoshimeno not too long ago), but MG has historically really made sure they hold off big titles until AX/Otakon.

>>14976311
One announcement wasn't even a VN and another announcement was a hardcopy release. Hard copy releases usually aren't singled out as a major announcement. None of the announcements were new properties. None of the announcements could be called unexpected. None of the announcements were for anything that could be called a narrative driven VN.

This was a new low for mangagamer, no other way to shake it. They shouldn't have announced anything, and announced these three things in addition with other announcements they're sitting on at AX Otakon. There's no reason they need to make every single convention into an event, especially when they have nothing to show in the first place.

>>14976311
Who cares, nobody in /vn/ buys things anyway

>>14976311

I'm pretty sure more people are upset about maitetsu than mangagamer.

I know I'm pretty buttblasted about it

>>14976305
Don't kid yourself, it'll be released on Steam and be massively popular, probably just as if not more popular than Nekopara. You can expect PewDiePie to play it.

>>14976328

Yes, because doing absolutely fucking nothing is such a great way to build publicity.

>>14976328
>This was a new low for mangagamer, no other way to shake it. They shouldn't have announced anything, and announced these three things in addition with other announcements they're sitting on at AX Otakon. There's no reason they need to make every single convention into an event, especially when they have nothing to show in the first place.
lol son, you better get your history straight

>>14976332
Why?
It's pretty good by all account

Mangagamer can you please stop adding hardcopy to your list of announcements

>>14976339
Pissing off your audience damages publicity. Just announce it over twitter instead of trying to turn it into an event.

>>14976343

Getting an all ages version is utter bullshit.

>>14976343
>all ages

>>14976343
Because it will be thoroughly censored and with shit "translation".

>>14976343
Because SP will be turning it into a different product with how much they will have to cut out before they even slap their crappy translation on top of it.

>>14976341
I'm talking about the Kouryuu era.

>>14976328
Wow, they really have short-termed memory huh? Last year, hard copies were an announcement-worthy item too.

>>14976349
>>14976350
>>14976352
Let's be real, one of the main heroine is 1m10
There is no fucking way you could sell the ero version in the west

>>14976328
Their convention panels aren't just there for announcements, they are also there to try to get new customers. There is a reason the first 2/3rds of any of their panels is talking about what they have released recently.

I'm sure there's someone in Sekai's roster that actually knows Japanese, let's just hope he gets put on the thing

Restoring cut content is likely easier than fixing a shit translation

>>14976345

How is it pissing off their audience? ImoPara was great so getting the sequel is good, and those who enjoyed Yuri Ghosts will be pleased to get the drama CDs. The only people getting pissed are idiots like you think they announce their good stuff at Boston.

>>14976358
It's a Lose game bru
How can you sell a Lose without the porn?

>spending time arguing about how shitty these releases are that you could be spending learning Japanese and actually playing decent games for once

>>14976363
>ImoPara was great
Now, now, I know you Mangagamer apologists who are so quick to defend them even when they fuck up can go to crazy lengths to defend them, but let's not get absolutely ridiculous now.

>>14976354
This was still MUCH better than the constant Softhouse-Seal announcements MG made long ago to get money.

>>14976369
I'm slowly learning while I'm
studying laws so I can't dedicate that much time to it

>>14976373
There's nothing to "defend". ImoPara is their all-time bestseller.

>>14976362
Well, the cut content is going to be most of the game. And having a shit translation is a given since they strive for lowest common denominator "as long as it sells" quality. SP is a cancer encroaching upon healthy titles and distorting them into an unrecognizable fleshy mass of gore, which is them marketed to idiots gullible enough to eat it up like it's candy. I swear to god I can't wait for them to go bankrupt.

>>14976373
Sasuga Kuronekofags.

>Raillords
Sasuga SP. Hachiroku even goes off in lenghty explanation about what "railroid" mean and why any "lord" associations are absolutely wrong, but why would any SP staff bother reading trial before writing up promotion material, rite?

>>14976493
What else do you expect

>>14976369
I'm trying.

>>14976278
Lose already made a Vita version of Monobeno happy end. It wouldn't be surprising for them to make an all-ages version of train lolis.

https://twitter.com/puffketeer/status/713564948824072193
https://twitter.com/sin_kou_hyou/status/713568548824567810
So this is how they are fooling these poor fellas. "We translated Grisaia no Kajitsu, its best TL on the market! You can totally trust us with your product."
Second link is maitetsu scenario writer saying he cannot read english, btw, so they cannot check shit dovac says or judge tl quality.

>>14976277
Not even a hardcopy, just the drama CDs? Well, I'm sure they'll announce one eventually. I've heard some of what the drama CDs contain, and they follow the characters a year or 2 after the game is over. I've heard they're really good.

>>14976579
Well, someone tell them in Japanese that Grisaia was only good because of the fan translator they picked up and not because of SP and there's no guarantee of quality.

>>14976579
Sekai Project got a partnership with Lose? I am so fucking angry right now.

>>14976593
So you finally reveal your true colours, dovac.

>>14976598
Monobeno soon.

>>14975852
That would be good also.

>>14976608
Censored monobeno translated by fuwanovel you mean?

>>14976623
Yes, but soon.

>>14976235
Not at all, some people who jack off to 14 years old-looking girls and call themselve slolicons might be offended but small lolis have never been a problem for anyone who isn't on that level.
And what the fuck, I'd rather have this on the same level of translations never than getting a butchered and censored translation by Sekai Project. Bullying normalfags because they bought a loli eroge might be fun but it will never make up for everything that is lost.

how badly will they butcher it.

>>14976358
It's simple, by not touching it in first place. If you need to remove everything that makes a game interesting for its target public in order to sell it to the general population then you're selling a cheap knock-off, not the original game at all. And while you're doing that you're also attracting a completely different kind of public to it.
>>14976636
I suggest not having any hopes at all.

>>14976654
Then why would Lose do this?

As usual of VN ports, it sold like shit though. Charted at 2500 first week

>>14976666
Who knows? Seeing those terrible sales should have told him something about making all-age ports of his works, he himself should know better than anyone else that his target public wants to see 2D children getting penises inserted into their tiny vaginas.
Did an all-ages version of Maitetsu come out in Japan?

>>14976679
>Did an all-ages version of Maitetsu come out in Japan?
No.

>>14976679
it came out literally today

ISLAND english version when?

Monobeno will never be localised they said. It would kill the company they said.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/713585106112282625

That's pretty neat.

>>14976724
if they did translate it, it have almost everything removed.
probably wouldnt even have the extras the all ages psvita version has.

>>14976715
Never. Himawari will bomb because MangaGamer, and after that Island will never be licensed.

Good job SP twitter

>>14976746

At the rate things are going I expect Island's translation to be announced before frontwing can finish the english version of himawari

Shin Koihime Musou fan TL team is thinking of releasing a version without ero and without MG being involved.

>>14976761
>without ero
Why?

>>14976761
>Fan tl
>without ero
why

>>14976766
It's the only thing left to translate and there's alot of it, and no one likes translating those scenes.They might do a version with ero scenes later though.

>>14976750
>Even Sayuri awkwardly called them out
This is terrible. I bet someone used a monkey paw to wish for a version of Maitetsu they can understand.

>>14976773
They cared enough about an eroge to want to translate it for free, but they don't like the h scenes. That's fine, but then why cut them out? Just leave them in jp

>>14976773
Isn't fucking genderbent Dynasty warriors characters the main draw though?

>>14976782
Someone will restore them like Eiyuu*Senki. I read that one and my JP skills were enough for the H.

>>14976636
They translated レイルロオド as "rail lord" despite game explicitly stating this is wrong. So, better not have any hopes for it.

>>14976828
Maybe it has a deeper meaning later on though.

>>14976828
Maybe they will translate it to gaylord.

>>14976828
Is this by another translator that was fired from MG?

>>14976867

No now they're just hiring from people who failed the MG TL test

>>14976839
You are the gaylord, dovac.

>>14976977
He's just a crossdresser.

>>14976943
Half the machine translating fuwatards?

>>14976254
Bokuten is a MG title not SP. Don't worry even if there is a steam version there is also a 18+ version on MG website.

https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/712849248555896833

Looks like we should have paid more attention to dovac's hinting

meitetsu (the real railroad corporation) and maitetsu is indeed pretty easily confused

>>14977539
I can't believe that SP made a deal with Lose. How can we stop this madness ? I don't want this all-ages era.

>>14977843
When you score big titles like Grisaia and Clannad it makes you seem quite reputable.

I feel for you EOP friends, I know you wanted Lose's games, but surely not like this :-(

>>14976777
Looks like you're right.

>>14976828
So what does it mean? Railroad?

>>14978052
Yes.
Could call it something neutral like "railroid" if RailRoad is too weird for English.

>>14978052
Yes, Railroad is correct. Hachiroku states she's no lord, she's just something that makes road for the train. She compares herself to the tracks on the ground.

>>14977902
Remember, we're not the intended audience for Sekai Project.

>>14978105
Shitty streamers and clueless fags from Steam are :-(

5 hours left until Sekai announces Dies Irea.

>>14978242
LMAO

>>14977902
pretty sure all the pedos can just download CGs if they want

It would be nice if Sekai were true to their words and priced things accordingly. That way 18+ games that are so called "unsellable" would be discounted majority of the time to help sales, and all-ages would be full priced since that is what you do with your main target, you full price them.

After all, Sekai themselves promise that an all-ages game at 50 dollars will vastly outsell an 18+ game for 30 dollars on account of 18+ customers never buying anything and nobody wants porn.

>>14978242
It would be the end of /jp/

>>14978350
>nobody buys porn.
FTFY

Dovac is a faggot, too prude for porn in a fucking EROge.

>>14975901
hello

>>14978429
Dovac is a faggot but I don't want to translate sex scenes either.

>>14977051
Crossdressers are homos. SLAY THE GAY

>>14978494
Nobody want to translate sex scene anon.

>>14978564
What about the dude that translated Haruka?

>>14978578
He didn't like having to translate a nukige, especially one so long. He said he was out if he kept having to translate those kinds of titles.

Sekai picked up Ley-Line

I suppose those technical problems with the fan translation involved waiting on a paycheck.

>>14978961
So, the fan TL team sold their translation?

MG getting BTFO

>>14978997
You have to wait until the end of the con season before saying anything like that.

MG just picked up Monobeno, what the hell?!

>Another announcement from Anime Boston is Just Deserts VN from Indonesia!
Corean "VN" - check
Chinese "VN" - check
Indonesian "VN" - check

Thank you, dovac, for killing your kuso company

More crowdsourcing of doujin shit too:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/monstrous-lovers-a-boy-s-love-visual-novel#/

Sekai Project's pattern is to announce 1 or 2 good vns on top of a ton of doujin crap per con, while MG waits and just gives all their good announcements at AX and Otakon, with more lackluster announcements before then.

>>14979050

>more lackluster
>imouto paradise 2

says you

>>14978961
I'm kinda bummed, I've been reading my way through the Ley-Line trilogy lately and I was personally hoping to see MG pick it up. I'm glad I don't have to settle for Sekai's release, but it still feels bad to see something I like being handled by a company that doesn't do good work.

Will be annoying to sit and wait for the imouto paradise 2 hard copy, and the evangile extra hard copy.

You'd think MG could afford to at least print hard copies of sequels to hard copies on the simple concept that people would keep buying the hard copies if they started with them.

>>14979057
I meant in general, but yeah Imopara 2 is one I'm hyped for myself.


Sekai Project just made a call to fantranslators to sell out to them.

>>14979129

It's probably upper management policy or something. MG's localization staff get a lot of say in what they want to work on (because they work for practically nothing and if it's not something they want to work on, they'd just quit) but the people who do the actual bookkeeping and resources management are probably Japanese corporate culture to the core. "No making hardcopies of something until it's proven it sells, even if it's in a series we know sells," or something.

It's a really conservative tack, but it works out for them well enough for them to stick with it. That, and delayed HC release means that a lot of customers will end up willing to pay twice for the same product, so you can't blame them for wanting a better bottom line.

Sekai is involved with Schwarzesmarken.

Now Sekai Project announced they already localized Leyline.

>>14979183
They're not.

>>14979187
They just bought the fantranslation. They admitted so on twitter.

Root Double still coming out on time? Seems odd that no release date was mentioned at either panel for a big game scheduled to be out this week.

>>14979209
It's Sekai Project, they don't announce release dates until like 36 hours before launch.

>>14979209
They'll either stealth release it or it's been stealthily delayed. They release almost all of their kickstarters late.

>>14979164
When it comes to sequels I think it instead just increase piracy. Everyone and their grandmother thinks it is OK to pirate digital copies while they wait for the hard copies.

After all, it is not the pirates fault there was no product to buy yet. It is entirely the fault of marketing and their responsibility.

Probably a terrible question, but Has anyone found the /h code for Maitetsu yet? For ITH?

Some of the terms are little to hard for me yet.

>>14979209

It's delayed

>>14979236
Source?

>>14978961
>>14978982
I just started reading leyline 1 too, wondering if I should shelve it and read something else. Was Kohaku's shinikiss translation any good?

>>14979235
Just wait for Sekai's brilliant TL.

>>14979236
>>14979256
Well either Delayed, or Dovac thinks it's a good idea not to mention "by the way, we have this awesome title about to be released" when he is talking to a room of potential customers.

>>14979302
It could very well be the latter.

>>14976943
Herkz?

>>14979302
The latter is true regardless as even if its delayed it'll come out in April. Sekai Project is just terrible at making and promoting release dates.

>>14979365
Heh, I'd believe that.

>>14979365
Didn't he fail editing though? I mean I could understand if you failed a foreign language but your own language? loooooooooools.

>>14979256

>>14979376
He likely failed to get hired because Kouryuu cares about perception of TL quality above all else, and bringing in a polarizing, loud mouth asshole of an editor probably doesn't help with that goal.

>>14979383
>backup loss :^)

>>14979383
Fucking Google.

>>14979383
That's not 140 characters

>>14979383
Yeah, I can't find it on their twitter. Are you sure you don't fuck with me?

>>14979383
Should've split it in several tweets or made it as ks pledgers-only announcement.

>>14979420
>>14979408
Uh-oh, we got twitter nerds here.

>>14979383
lemnisca is not that incompetent.

>>14979015
If only it was just these crappy asian "VN".
Now they have a partnership with Lose and they bought Ley Line translation from Kohaku Translations. Now we know why they were sitting on the fan patch for so long. The fantl scene is fucking dead, it's a bit sad.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4c1nrt/sekai_project_announces_a_clockwork_leyline_the/

>no negative SP comments
Looks like they've won the PR war.

>>14979556
Wait until the kickstarter is announced. It will be Root Double all over again.

>>14979556
>reddit badmouthing something
>ever

>>14979556

it'll wear off when people stop being delusional about 18+ maitetsu

>>14979603
I don't think people are actually expecting anything though.

>>14979612

you sure about that?

>>14979603
I like how the response from the panel about it is "Can't say anything at this time", which means either they haven't ruled it out, or they are lying through their teeth.

>>14979630
dovac tweeted that they've already made a decision, but that they can't talk about it just yet.

>>14979630
Did they say anything about G-senjou 18+ yet?

>>14979556
Thanks for the reddit link, jani.

>>14979641
So basically it's a no

>>14979651
They said it's up to AkabeiSoft , which is code for never.

>>14979630

More like they're just saying that because they know giving vague non-answers fuels the delusional hopes of people for an 18+ version

Well, I'm eagerly awaiting people to fan translate Sekai titles so I can play them. Because apparently Sekai has no plans to sell games they have translations for.

One thing that seems clear though is if you want to get paid to translate a particular visual novel, then just start translating and you probably can.

>>14979966
Except for Shin Koihime Musouwww

>>14979641
Somehow I'm fully expecting them to announce that they will, indeed, release a 18+ version, but with h-scenes only for the adult characters and all loli content cut.

>>14979966
I am sure the new Tokyo Necro project is not thinking that at all.

>>14980076
4600 downloads of the Shiny Days restoration torrent says at least 4600 customers want their lolis intact.

Not like Dovac cares. He hasn't released a single title for the sake of the community but only for his wallet.

>>14980133
>4600 customers
4600 pirates*

>>14979966
unless the quality of your work is too shit to be used

>>14980119
Is it just me, or does the announcement post read a bit like an ESL wrote it?

>>14980392
It probably did, I doubt the guy know japanese.
It's annoying since Tokyo Necro is actually good

>>14979556
Everytime somebody says anything negative (and by negative, I mean questions like why SP does so many Kickstarters), they get downvoted to hell. Apparently, those fuckers like getting screwed and is paying dovac for the privileged.

>>14980487
Because there's nothing to talk about. They haven't announced the sequels, even though the story isn't complete without them. They haven't announced a kickstarter even though it is extremely likely they will, especially for a trilogy commitment, and given the fact that they have always done kickstarters.

If there's something to complain about, its that their last kickstarter was supposed to be delivered this month, and there's not a lot of month left.

>>14980549
They have never delivered their promised kickstarters on time. Besides fan translations, their own in-house translators are shit. Ignoring the translation issue, they are prefer the VNs with cut content. Why would anybody be happy SP has gotten a big title is beyond me.

I still wonder why Sekai hasn't jumped on Battle Moon Wars since it is a great game. I guess he can't find the translation team and convince them to sell the scripts. Or he can't find the doujin group.

>>14980616
>Battle Moon Wars
Licensing nightmare.

>>14980616
Or a doujin game featuring Type Moon characters has rights issues that would make it hell, if not impossible, to license.

>>14979383
Tokyo Babel won

Poor BDH, first Flowers and now Ley-Line. His dream TL projects keep getting grabbed by other companies.

>>14980669
>by other companies.
>what is Sumaga

>>14980669
Source? I thought BDH only cared about romeo

>>14980629
Though every title they grab seem like a licensing nightmare solved with kickstarter money.

>>14980669
Or wait, was it Maria who had her heart set on getting Flowers, or was it both of them? Can't remember now.

>>14980687
https://ask.fm/BlackDragonHunt/answers/134663586964

>>14980669
Its not too late to start shitting on the kohaku script and get an in that way.

>>14980770
Maria was supposed to be the translator for Flowers. She even started making the Steam cards.

Eustia when?

>>14980794
Soon as Sekai can prepare a kickstarter for it.

>>14980794
You could always read it over 4 months and hate it.

So this leaked

>>14980957
From where?

>>14980957
Is this Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma?
https://vndb.org/v17515

https://twitter.com/CosmillicaJP/status/711190068279398400

MG better get to it.

>>14981145
Sekai already works with that group. They made Atom Grrrl.

>>14981145
SP can have that garbage.

Does MG still have some announcement left today?

>>14981479
Their next announcements aren't until Anime Central in May.

http://mangagamer.org/announcements/

>>14980770
Most translators are freelance though right? He might get the chance.

All junk from MG.

SP won that con pretty convincingly.

>>14981643
Ley-Line's using the fan TL.

>>14981695
It's Anime Boston, so that's not surprising. How have people not learned that they only do the major announcements at AX and Otakon?

>>14981721
You expect too much from /vg/

>>14981721
Not just a fan TL, an abominably bad fan TL.

>>14981731
I'm not familiar with that group. Is their work that bad?

>>14981721

I wouldn't expect too much from MG at AX and Otakon. Quite a few of their other translators are booked, and most importantly their high profile story titles are bombing. I can't see many wow announcements coming from them, except maybe something from Alicesoft.

>>14981695
This is a masterpiece though.

>>14981743
They're going for story titles they can put on Steam now.

And most of their existing projects are nearly done with translation, so many of the current translators are free or will be free by then.

you guys sure are hype for a butchered loli game license and a questionable fantl pickup

>>14981795

Beats being one of those hyped for a sequel to a crap incest simulator.

>>14981830
We're getting KnS3?

>>14981777
Expect them to get less KnS type titles though, and be more likely to make a Steam version of a title like Gahkthun going forward.

>>14981795
>hype

Are we in the same thread?

>>14981494
What about Sakuracon?

>>14982229
They had a booth to sell stuff, but no panel

>>14981731
Was their shinikiss translation really that bad?

>>14982200
Like they're doing with Bokuten?

>>14984668
Yeah, Bokuten isn't exactly a title that would be a prime candidate for a Steam version just judging by content, but it really needs it sales wise. It is encouraging though that it seems like they want to find the minimum censorship needed for Steam as opposed to cutting down to what a CERO D title would need.

>>14984774
I wouldn't be surprised if all the OVERDRIVE titles get this treatment eventually. DEARDROPS seems like a very likely candidate too.

>>14984774
How much ero does Bokuten have, and how important to the plot is the ero?

>>14984774
I think people overexaggerate how helpful Steam is. Just check out Cho Dengeki Stryker for example, which has a total of about 3000 sales for 1 year.

If you want to talk about increased sales, something more important than Steam is price and art. Sakura Angels for example sold 80 000 copies, because it cost 10 dollars and not 30 dollars.

I.e. Sakura Angels brought in 800 000 dollars (sans tax and steam fee) while Cho brought in 90 000 dollars. That is the difference something simple as pricing does. (And the difference in preview pics of girls vs preview pics of men on store page).

If I were going to sell Bokuten, I would set it around 12-15 dollars, and plaster the previews with girl scenes. And I would probably make about 130 000 sales. Well, depending on how upsetting the Steam censorship would be of course.

I could also be wrong and the ideal pricing is 9.99. But I think 12-15 is still within the selling range.

>>14986319
I can agree that these prices are a little to hight for the western market; if they were in 30€/$ range they could sell better and the promotion in Steam it's a little sloppy (like providing external links for the demo of Tokyo Babel) but... you can compare the development costs of producing a VN with a shitty OELVN, these 12-15€/$ could barely cover the cost of the voice cast.

Who here is in this photo?

>>14986568
I'm in the front row sitting with my Mom

>>14986568
MG fans are much more handsome and kawaii.

>>14986568
/jp/

>>14986511

Don't need a voice cast in the first place. The golden rule for developing games for a niche market is strict budget control.

>>14986646
If you want "strict budget control" you have Oelvn´s like Sakura series or that Pain Simulator from the proviou post, don't mix VN's with that shit; no one want to read a butchered game ala SP (G-senjou no Maou)

>>14986816
*Paint Simulator

>>14986816
Already reminder that the Japanese devs actually wanted to sell Maou for $9 but dovac convinced them otherwise.

>>14986822
Yeah, but if the developers wanted to sell the voice pack apart and "improve" the aspect ratio of that game then what is the cach for a 9$ dolars game, no soundtrack, episodic/2parts release, without the opening? I'm not a SP fan but I know that a company like AKABEiSOFT2 can be pretty greddy and they don'd will give you anything for free.

>>14986816

Talk for yourself, a voice cast adds little to a VN. In fact, the biggest thing it adds isn't 'emotion' but rather 'cost.'

If you think the VN industry in Japan is big enough that it doesn't need 'strict budget control', you're kidding yourself.

>>14986862
>voice cast adds little to a VN
That's your opinion, but I dubt that there will be to many japanese companies that desesperate that wants to sell their games butchered/striped of content to the western market for some pennies and receive a bad reputation from the western marked as a cheap brand company.

>>14986319
The Sakura series are bought by impulsive buyers because of boobs.

Making the game cheaper indeed drives more sales but it'll never reach the nunbers that the Sakura series and Nekopara got. Also, making the versions of Steam so cheap would be just calling for trouble because of the price the companies use on the uncut products. To avoid a abysmal difference (which would obviously cause a lot of complaining) the companies would be forced to reduce the price of the uncut version. By extension, they'd probably be forced to reduce the price of all similar games (if you use different pricing methods for very similar games (I'm considering length, voices, production values and other stuff) you're just asking for trouble with customers.

>>14986908

That's fine. They can go extinct like most of them, instead.

>>14986943
Isn't the Sakura series selling fewer and fewer for each game? Its initial popularity was because people were buying it as a joke.

>>14986568
man the harpoons

>>14975157
whats this fancy ass sci fi dove

>>14985593
Not a huge amount, but not that limited either. It is plot relevant though.

>>14987111
As crazy as it is, it actually differs 70 000 copies between Dec 2015 and Jan 2016, with Jan being the higher seller. So they are not dropping with time, they are dropping based on fetishes and themes.

Which shouldn't really be a surprise. If you find the best selling theme (like catgirls), you'll simply make a million more dollars than if you try selling something obscure (like traingirls).