/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
>Wagamama High Spec - July 25th release
Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - In QA, Summer release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, Summer release
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Picked up, Kickstarter finished, Winter 2018 release
>Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
>SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Fall release
>Grisaia no Rakuen - Roughly 1/3rd of the new work on the R18 version is finished
Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated, Kickstarter finished, Fall 2017 release
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - Kickstarter finished
KaraKara 2 - 100% translated, late 2017 release
>Miko no Kanata - 2017 release
>Nanairo Reincarnation - Early 2018 release
>Baldr Sky - Combined release of Dive 1 + Dive 2 in mid 2018
The Bell Chimes For Gold - 62% translated
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
>Maitetsu - In QA, Denpa version announced
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
>Tenshin Ranman - 99.01% translated, Denpa version announced
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
>Koikuma - 74.19% translated, 2017 release
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released, Q4 release
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Fatal Twelve - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, demo released
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 70% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
CyberRebeat - Picked up
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Re;Lord ~Herford no Majo to Nuigurumi~ - 100% translated
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
>Rewrite+ - Picked up
>NarKarma EngineA - Announced
>Dracu-Riot - Picked up
>Senren * Banka - Picked up
>Ninja Girl - Announced
>Island Diary - Announced


Frontwing
>Subahibi - Late August release
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - Vol 3 July 28th release, Indiegogo project ongoing
>Sharin no Kuni - 20% translated
>Island - 100% translated, 40-50% edited, 2018 release
>Momoiro Closet - 2018 release
>2 upcoming secret announcements


Visual Arts
>Little Busters - Late August release
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv Alternative - 2017 release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Collar x Malice - 7/28 release
>Bad Apple Wars - 9/29 release
>Code: Realize fandisc - 2018 release
>7'scarlet - 2018 release
>Kokuchou no Psychedelica - 2018 release
>Haitaka no Psychedelica - 2018 release


Fruitbat
Seven Days - Late 2017 release
SeaBed - 70% translated, Late 2017 release
Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Kickstarter finished, demo released, late 2017 release


Other
Dies irae - Released, uncut patch late July
Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - Sept 5th release
Danganronpa V3 - 9/26 release
>Chaos;Child - September release
Magical Charming - Fall release planned
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Taisho Alice - Volume 1 released
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

i want my slutty cowtitted imouto sluts MG and i want them now

>>17274632
Who translated Damekoi?

>>17274719
Conjueror

>>17274719
Conjueror

Out of the recent announcements, looking forward to Damekoi the most. Glad to hear it's already tl'd and edited; I was worried I'd have to wait a good while for it get released.

So Subashitty is going to be split into parts, censored for steam with a patch, and have content removed even with the patch? Fucking hell I'm glad I don't have to put up with this shit.

>>17274775
And also get a kickstarter, and also have a supposedly unfinished editing job.

>>17274801
>a supposedly unfinished editing job.
Considering it's herkz, that's probably a good thing. He didn't get to add all of his memes.

>>17274801
Why is it getting a Kickstarter when it's already done?

>>17274804
He still did work on it before though and I doubt they bothered redoing the parts he already did. There's also no guarantee that whoever worked on it after wasn't a meme master as well. Considering the types of people that typically get to work on weebshit it certainly wouldn't surprise me anyway.

What's taking so long with Oreimo? It's been stuck on 207 since forever.

>>17274644
Dude, same. But what I've gathered is that they're his nieces or am i wrong?

>>17274775
>have content removed even with the patch

Isn't the only thing cut one bestiality scene?

>>17274819
That's just how it works now I guess. Makes no sense to me either man.

>>17274869
Does it matter? Cut content is cut content.

>>17274869
>>17274886
Cutting the shocking content in a denpa story, what a dick move.

For what it is worth, Dal Segno has peaked on Steam at roughly the same amount of concurrent users as Da Capo III (31 vs 30). That said though MG probably sold less through their own website with the new patching policy that began with Dal Segno (Kouryuu previously commented that the off Steam version was outperforming the Steam release, or at least it was back a few weeks after launch).

>>17274899
I don't understand the steam craze. Isn't the appeal that you can load it up easily? But yet you still have to download a patch and install it. There has to be a better way than this steam workaround shit.

>>17274819
To jew people why else?

>>17274775
https://twitter.com/j0eeyy_p/status/882091382650937344
Someone was live tweeting the frontwing pannel and said that Subahibi will also be distributed through Mangagamer.
Haro, will the MG version be in two parts as well?

>>17274886
I mean when people were calling Himawari censored, that was one thing because it made sense but from what I read, not only is it apparently 10-15 lines, it's not even that relevant to anything.

There has to be a better word than censored in this case. Heck, if anything, why don't we call it "the bestiality scene gets removed"?

>>17275374
Himawari was censored?

>>17274775
>So Subashitty is going to be split into parts
I thought it was just one part would be free and the rest would be DLC like Dies Irae?

>>17275390
No, it's the first chapter that's $30 on Steam and there's a free patch that is the rest of it.

>>17275395
Oh I had it completely reversed.

Wait then, isn't that just the same as the original game?

I agree with Quof though I would have moved MML up one

>>17274819
Is being used as the equivalent of a preorder system just is easier to market for them as it gets more exposure that way. You can get extras at different tiers bundled with it like you usually find as part of a preorder scheme for Ubisoft and it even has elements of the critically panned and hated "augment your preorder" with stretch goals adding new stuff as an incentive for people to put money down.
I don't really get why it is more tolerated than normal preorders when it is the same if not worse.

>>17275415
Pretty accurate, desu.

>>17274632
>Damekoi - 100% translated and edited
Holy shit. I completely lost hope on this title being localized, much less by MG. Completely based

>>17274634
>Maitetsu - In QA, Denpa version announced
Was it said if this version will have any kind of cut content or did they just said there'll be a adult edition?

>>17275374
Or we could just call it cut content, because that's what it is. It doesn't matter if it's 10 lines of something you don't care about, it's still content that's in the original that isn't going to be in the English version.

As far as I'm aware the English version of Himawari is just a port of the Japanese Vita remake. I complained about MG not bringing over the original PC version as well back when it was announced, for what it's worth.

Nanarin had a Denpa version announced as well

>>17275356
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1nAJEBaRyjvxL?t=13
21:00
They didn't mention a MG release.

Here's a order number on MG site:

Order Number - 277166
Order Date - 2017-07-03 00:40:21

>>17274748
MG's scripting and beta testing log is pretty full though. You may have to wait until December or early next year.

>>17275415
I personally would have added Majokoi to B (since Rewrite is on the chart too), and move Sekai's 3 moege and Machine Child to C.

Sekai was definitely quantity over quality though. So many nope and barely buyable (if I wasn't boycotting them) shit.

>>17275483
Pretty sure we knew that

>>17275539
That's Rewrite + though which wasn't translated

>>17275415

Why even have the S SS and SSS categories? None of the companies have done a release that have hit any of those categories or announced something of that sort.

>>17275415
These need to be adjusted for likely translation quality. Which means all of them need to go down one rank, and then Sekai's need to go down two additional ranks.

Fuck. Sekai's doing Harvest Festa?

>>17274632
MG's announcement was called Space Live, not Space Life.

>>17275377
They licensed the Frontwing all-ages remake and not the old doujin 18+ original.

>>17275539
>majishit in 2030
>add to B

>>17274988
>Go to website
>Download and install patch

What is so hard about that?

http://prefundia.com/projects/view/a-wonderful-release-for-wonderfuleveryday/13415/

>>17275722
>What is so hard about that?
Still harder than downloading the adult version and simply extracting it.

Looks like JAST is using the fantl for Majikoi.

>>17275821
How much cleanup does the Fan TL need? I know Miyako's route was meant to be iffy with the translation switch over.

>>17275515
Thank you anon, I wasn't watching the stream.

Personally I don't really get the appeal for eroge on steam to begin with.

Now I absolutely love eroge and porn in general. Nothing against it. Indulge in it frequently. And I have friends who are the same, and just like I frequently discuss it online with others, we semi-frequently discuss porn among each other as well. Porn is cool. And can even be a good topic for discussion. No issues there.
But at the same time I feel no need to see a popup saying that my friend has logged onto steam and is playing porn title X as it is happening. Nor do I feel a need to announce live, whatever porn I am playing to all my acquaintances as I am about to jump in either. I still kind of value the idea of privacy in the moment even if I can be very shameless in other contexts.
Of course, you could say that it's just a matter of playing of setting your profile to private or offline. And yes, you could do that. But then why use Steam to begin with? I really don't get it. But it seems to be what everyone wants these days. And it is pretty cool that Valve appears to be easing up on the whole idea of erotic content. But even so I don't really see the appeal of tying all of that to your Steam account.

Higurashi 6-8 WHEN

>>17275974
They are already available if you are willing to sacrifice the new art

>>17275958
Because Nekopara has over 1 million sales on Steam.

>>17275974
Chapter 6 after Doddler finishes his work on Bokuten.

>>17275415
I really don't get why any Yuzusoft title would get a B. They consistently make D-C titles where the only thing which is any good are their production values. I don't even think they're that great if we strictly talk about them in a moege context.

>>17275845
Isn't it a shitty Takajun TL? The whole thing likely needs to be cleaned up. Then again I haven't read it in years, so I don't remember how bad it was.

>>17274801
Take anything that crybaby says with a grain of salt.

>>17276010
>I really don't get why any Yuzusoft title would get a B.
Super cute girls

>>17276033
Super cute art, you mean. They haven't had a consistently decent cast since Tenshin Ranman. Every Yuzusoft since has only maybe one or two routes even worth bothering with because their main heroine castings are so consistently filled with shitty archetypes.

>>17274632

>>17275374
Because it's still being censored. It's even being removed because they're afraid of breaking laws.

>>17276048
I only played Noble Work and Dracu-riout but I think theit heroines are better than in your average moege. Like PE where all main 4 girls are shit. Also having 2 decent girls in main caste is good for me. Most moege I read I dropped after single girl route. The only moege where I read all routes was OsaDai. My favorite moege ever.

>>17275751
This is barebones.

I thought Harumade, Kururu was going to be announced by Sekai in AX, the JP side seemed to hint at it. Guess they are saving it for Otakon? Or is it going to be a Noratoto thing where it disappears into the ether?

Well, at least SP hasn't announced Amatsutsumi yet, so there's a chance that they won't touch it.

>>17276140
>Amatsutsumi
Really hope they don't touch this either, and I'm optimistic considering they don't seem to touch exclusively 18+ content unless it's a shorter title. Amatsutsumi is very lewd.

Knowing my luck they'll announce Amatsutsumi and Clover's Days at their next con, though, and they'll spend a good 1-2 years on the translation, and another 1 year making an all-ages version of it.

>>17276140
It wasn't Harumade. It was something new Watanabe was working on.

https://vndb.org/v21435

>>17275575
Retranslating the lot too apparently

>>17276174
>they don't seem to touch exclusively 18+ content unless it's a shorter title.
>What is hoshimemo, what is sakusaku

>>17274632
>SukiSuki - In Beta
Come ON

>>17276205
Both are getting all-ages versions
Probably why SakuSaku in particular is taking so long, since they likely took the past year gutting it for the all-ages release
Sekai has their priorities completely assbackwards

>>17276207
Literally never now that ChuableSoft is bankrupt.

>>17275560
Fata Morgana is definitely S. Maybe Dies Irae too.

>>17276245
Chuable didn't go bankrupt, their parent company did
From the tweet the president sent out, they're hoping to transfer to another company

>>17276248
>Fata Morgana is definitely S
Kek. Its time to stop shilling this shitty tranny simulator, BDH.

>>17276300
Fata Morgana was fantastic

>>17276316
Was fantastic garbage, I agree.

>>17275958
Because that is where the money is.

Team Aroduc or Team Dovac?

>>17274804
>>17274829
I know >herkz and everything but it sounds like he has legitimate concerns. Especially the part concerning foreshadowing and subtle hints in the text potentially being lost is what worries me.

>>17276354
I don't really understand his logic for having not included that in the first place, though. Seems retarded.

>>17276323
lol xd good one

>>17276361
He said he didn't read it before editing it, so obviously he missed the foreshadowing.

>>17276384
And, uh, Kirby didn't go, "Hey bro, you missed the foreshadowing" or something? Did they have no coordination between one another?

>>17276390
Would YOU want to have more than the bare minimum of contact with Herkz? He probably never spoke to him outside of the initial handoff of scripts and I really can't blame him.

>>17276390

>>17276402
See, I still don't follow. It's clear that Kirby told him not to fuck with the script too much because he had already included the foreshadowing/double meanings, and obviously he couldn't expect a retarded editor like herkz to know what they actually mean without the appropriate foreknowledge, and, according to herkz, he appropriately kept his editing minimal (i don't really see why Kirby/Herkz couldn't just work through it together, like any other translation/editing team, and if >>17276401 is correct, he should've just chosen a different editor)

So why did they sell off an unfinished translation, then? Especially when it's pretty common for a translation to be kept out of the hands of a team who was already paid for it, and they should have expected nothing less after tossing it to KeroQ, who had no infrastructure to publish it in the West, and, as some of the team admittedly said, would likely not be able to do anything about a Western publication for years.

Really stupid stuff.

Prefundia is up http://prefundia.com/projects/view/a-wonderful-release-for-wonderfuleveryday/13415/

It was the typical japanese power bullying kind of stuff
>sign teh contract now or sue lol
No choice but to sell yourself when that happens, it's terrible

>>17276463
You could always just walk away

See: Aroduc. Not that I expect the moogycrowd or people in general to have that sort of conviction.

>>17276174
>considering they don't seem to touch exclusively 18+ content
Along with what the other guy said, all-ages version of Koikuma anon

>>17276188
Oh, so Harumade is something Sumikko Soft is going to self-publish?

Have a feeling that Frontwing is going to be the one that publish it though. Might be one of their two.

>>17276242
>Both are getting all-ages versions
You mean in Japan? Is there a confirmation of that? I don't see it on VNDB for either

>>17275415
I perosnally would put Rewrite+ as A with Magical Marriage to B and Nanairo Reincarnation to C.

>>17276435
Should be fine then if Kirby was smart enough to do that.

>So why did they sell off an unfinished translation, then
It was either that or leave it in partial patch purgatory forever

>>17276505
Nevermind I was thinking of later Favorite titles

I bought the SP bundle but am I actually going to have to pay for the +18 patch? $10 seems kind of expensive. I'm kind of new to VNs

>>17276519
>Buying VNs
>Buying VNs on Steam
>Buying VNs from Sekai Project on Steam

It's really the third one that gets me

>>17276538
I bought the bundle and gave $0 to Sekai
The only downside is my Steam recs are full of shitty EVNs now since I idled them to get the cards. Not worth the $2 - $3 it made me.

wew

>>17276542
I will never stop finding it hilarious that the girl for An Octave Higher is literally just Zero with the flower and all artistic quality removed.

>>17276555
Retards

Herkz has lost it sempais

I wonder if Noratoto is the title that Frontwing was hinting at when they mentioned a connection to something announced at AX last year, considering they were distributing the flyer for it at AX last year but we haven't heard anything since.

>>17276519
The markup compared to the bundle is significant, but that is in large part because the bundle was exceptionally cheap. Not that the regular mark up of $10 for the game and $10 for the porn is a great deal either for KaraKara or Nekopara, but it is much closer than the $1 for the game and $10 for the patch for people who went with the bundle. Thankfully, the trend seems to be moving towards free patches with the revelation that Steam is fine if you discuss a free patch, they have a bigger problem with a advertising a separate storefront than link to an R18 patch.

>>17276574
He never had it

>>17276334
But the question is why.
The money is only there, because for some reason apparently want their eroge on Steam of all places.

>>17276542
>Purchasing chinese knock-off's
Kill yourself.

>>17276616
I think it's because Steam is so easy to use. Having one place to buy and keep your games is much more convenient than buying them from lots of different places. It's just easier to keep track

Eroge companies seem kind of afraid of testing new stuff and usually just follow the same tried and tested formula
Frontwing came aboard after Sekai taught them the way through Grisaia, Kickstarter and then Steam, and that's how they do their stuff too now
But when the game is like Subahibi... hope they don't attract too many normalfags

>>17276616
See
>>17275990

This all started because of those cute cats and it spiraled from there.

Frontwing really needs to put out a PR tweet BTFOing herkz or else they're going to lose sales if his narrative goes unchallenged. Or maybe he's right and they deserve it

>>17276685
It started with Go Go Nippon's Steam release, which is still the best selling thing MG has ever released. Nekopara is as always an exception and not the rule though. Most VNs don't do anywhere near as well on Steam. Even Nekopara is really only as successful as it is because of how many Chinese buy it for some reason.

>>17276695
>they're going to lose sales
Really doubt it. Most people don't really care about translation quality.

>>17276705
Yeah the normies might not, but if the dominant conversation on reddit/fuwa/here is about the editing being unfinished then it'll definitely have an effect. If Frontwing has worked on it a lot then they should at least mention it

>>17276685
That makes it understandable why publishers might want to mimic Nekopara.
But it doesn't make it understandable why your typical consumer would want their eroge on Steam.

>>17276709
No one on Reddit or Fuwa cares about translation quality either. I doubt most people here who need the translations care honestly.

>>17276729
I'm still going to read it, and might buy it if they do a decent quality translating it.

If it's a mess just gonna not bother paying though

>>17275958
The appeal is world peace. Or at least slowly progressing towards a world that views violence as worse than nudity. Baby steps, but with Steam we will get closer to a world that isn't bizzaro world.

It is also more convenient than having to go to denpasoft, nutaku, mangagamer, jast, dlsite to download a game as they are too spread out.

>>17276748
Well, as herkz said it, it's readable.
But it could be better

>>17276702
Go Go Nippons popularity comes from dual language and chance to practice Japanese. Plenty of other games did the same thing and benefit from it.

If you don't have anything like that though, doing all-ages become much harder.

>>17276775
Just backup everything on your external drive or server yourself after first downloading it. And then you can grab it just as easily as anything else.

>>17276729
>I doubt most people here who need the translations care honestly.
Anyone who needs the translation can only detect certain types of bad translation.

If the story makes no fucking sense, they'll catch on.
If the English is crap, they'll catch on.
If the subtle nuances and important subtext didn't survive translation, they'll never notice.

This is the reason that "translation quality" gets ignored by many EN-only readers, they hear a lot of bitching about something they saw no flaws with.

>>17276207
One major release at a time. W Happiness wasn't given a release date until after Dal Segno went on sale. SukiSuki will probably be announced around August 1st for a release later that month. (Unless MG wants another major title to come out in August).

>>17276791
Yeah, but there's a difference between not being able to detect every kind of problem and not caring in the first place. Most people don't care at all, and even when someone else points out the problems they can't identify they continue to not care or even get angry. It's not the sort of thing someone who cared about quality would do.

>>17276709
>it'll definitely have an effect
It really won't.

>>17276787
Nekopara has dual language too (three technically). They're shit for practicing Japanese, since the translations aren't literal enough to pair up with the Japanese or in Nekopara's case are just wrong a lot of the time. I really think GGN's success stemmed from its low price and meme value though. It was the first "real" VN on steam, and people were buying it ironically just to act like retards on Youtube or Twitch or whatever. What other Steam VNs have multi-language support?

>>17276823
People read a thing, enjoy it, and are then told it was bad in some way. Their ego kicks in and they decide "No, this person saying things I can't refute is wrong, this thing was good because I liked it". They're now in the position where they feel the need to defend something but can't actually defend it.
As a result, they can only fall back on "Well nuh uh it was fine" or "Translation quality doesn't matter anyways (since I liked it)".

Or they're gibbering idiots who wouldn't recognize good English if you gave them another six years to retake the fifth grade. Those people exist too.

Speaking of translation quality, I remember that Inganock's translation frequently gets bashed but not the reason. Anybody here recall?

>>17276870
Or they don't feel the need to get upset at every nitpicked translation or editing error.

>>17276886
That too. They have no way to gauge the scale of the errors, since all they have access to is what's presented to them.
They can't tell if the scathing criticism of a particular line could be made of every third line, or of just that one line in particular.

>>17276878
Haven't read it myself but everyone says it's very stiff and literal.

>>17276892
>>17276886
>>17276870
If I'm reading VNs I don't expect Pevear-tier translation. The stories are usually simple enough that you can understand the story and read between the lines. I read cross-channel and didn't find much wrong with it at the time, and was still excellent. Apparently there was prose or something I missed out on, but I have yet to see a side-by-side comparison or example despite asking MANY times.

If we look at moogy's criticism of Comyu amd what changes he suggested I actually think it would be worse off attempting something flowery instead of literal, and letting me interpret it.

ETA on the uncut patch of Dies Irae?

>>17276985
So you basically prefer something completely different from the original? Just because it's "easier" to read?

>>17277024
I would prefer something just as good as the original, but nobody is skilled enough nor paid enough to do such a thing competently. It would not be close to the original and would probably end up worse.

>>17277036
Moogy's criticism of Comyu is closer to the original, because it attempts to have the same flowery prose. A literal translation, on the other hand, discards tone and prose, and is normally just plain wrong. I don't see where you are coming from.

>>17276999
Late July

>>17276985
Don't try to get through to these disciples. The cult around this clique of people have been convinced that they're professionals on the level of the best real novel translators and that some

The fact of the matter is; if these editors and TLs who need to go on 1000 tweet long tirades begging for work on niche porn VNs were any good, they would be translating shit that mattered for more than $0.001 a character.

>>17277073
He's saying that Moogy's writing sucks and no one working on VNs is good enough to even attempt flowery prose so they should just stick to unoffensive plain text.

>>17277127
Well it's a bit of both I think. Sometimes translations are rushed, and perhaps they don't take the care to polish it despite having a higher skill level due to the shit pay.

Glad you agree though, felt like I was taking crazy pills
>>17277142
Yeah, essentially this.

>>17277142
>no one working on VNs is good enough to even attempt flowery prose
[citation needed]

>>17277127
>if these editors and TLs who need to go on 1000 tweet long tirades begging for work
I've never seen this, do you mind showing some examples?

>>17277142
If you can't translate something well you shouldn't translate it at all.

>>17277127
What the fuck is this slut saying?

>>17277217
Looks like no VNs will ever be translated again then

Who needs faithful translations

>>17277278
Fuck off quof

Don't call us we'll call you

>>17277256
It can't be helped.

Douzo lad

>>17276892
This is why I call "easy errors" the worst ones, as it will be noticed. For example: I'm reading a manga from like 2010 or something and the translator translates "sensei" from a highschool as "professor". And it is a woman aged about 20.

These moments always make me feel like I'm better than the translator, even though I'd never manage to translate the entire manga.

>>17277142
>He's saying that Moogy's writing sucks
Accurate, but who cares? He barely works on anything.

>>17274634
>Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing

https://vndb.org/v18384

http://store.steampowered.com/app/617430/A_Butterfly_in_the_District_of_Dreams/

Not like anybody noticed.

>>17277355
Well, for all that's worth, the translation for DraKoi was pretty funny in my opinion.

Don't bring your memes to Drakoi. It had a good TL, punks

>>17277405
Looked at the store page, looked at the forum, noticed discord sticky.

They should also inform people that they only accept shills in there. Disagreement will result in being gotten rid of.

>>17277449
Yeah, Kirby did a great job on it.

>>17274632
>Majikoi - Announced
As expected of JAST. Never fails to entertain me.

>>17274748
whats so good about it? sounds kinda generic romcom

Who was it that wanted Evenicle anyway? Wheres the Rance

>>17277599
>10 years later
>Majikoi - 30% edited

>>17277666
It's written by Maruto, and it's White Album 2 lite.

>>17277666
Here's the translator's review of it if you want to read it. It doesn't have any spoilers.

https://vnrw.wordpress.com/2015/02/15/vn-sekai-de-ichiban-dame-na-koi/

>>17277666
>sounds kinda generic romcom
Personally, just the fact alone that it has a 28 year old voiced salaryman protag in a 2007 moege was definitely not a generic thing neither then or now

>>17276878
It's because in Japanese, the Steampunk series games are written in a poetic meter form, with each sentence supposedly having a 'musical-like quality' to the prose. So when Ixrec just translated it literally and in regular form, a lot of the feel of the text was lost. Or so I've heard.

>>17277699
To be honest, Conjueror has such awful taste that I don't know how to feel about his opinions. I guess I respect him for being his own man, though. Everyone else in the Twitter JOP clique seem to just copy each other's opinions.

>>17277699
https://goldensneer.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/sekai-de-ichiban-dame-na-koi/
And a more in-depth one, that outlines more of the story and themes.

>>17277715
That's a legitimate way of translating poetry. It's common with longer poems, e.g. Beowulf, Homer. Often if you attempt to translate a poem into another language as poetry, it will entail taking various liberties with the text in order to fit the poetic form. But if you just translate it as prose you can concentrate on retaining the original meaning. There's no ideal when translating poetry, really, as something is going to be lost whatever you do.

>>17277682
1. Senran Kagurafags
2. People who want an gameplay eroge where the protag isn't too rapey.
3. Rancefags who would prefer Rance but know that Evenicle is well regarded among Japanese Alicesoft fans (I'm in this category personally speaking.)

>>17274861
They're his half sisters, except for the pink one which is his full sister.

>>17277943
Half sister cousins and full sister cousin to be more accurate. It's hyper incest.

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>>17275517
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>>17278022
Order Number - 277138
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>>17274632
>Nanairo Reincarnation translation

This has some of the best art I've ever seen in an H-game.

>>17278054
The fact that Sekai Project of all publishers got their hands on Silky's pains me. I'd throw good money at it otherwise. I love Silky's.

But I'd sooner burn my money than give them to Sekai Project.

>>17275415
What's wrong with Momoiro Closet or Machine Child?
And Monster Girls might be a bit niche. But otherwise Princess X seems cool.

The thing I really want from Jast by the end of the day. Remains more Empress titles.

>>17278235
Same. DominancE is my most wanted translation right now

>>17278088
No real info on Momoiro besides the premise. Machine Child may be low because the guy doesn't like raising sims, and Princess X was announced last year.

>>17278054
The best girls get the fewest H-scenes, unfortunately. Also, it's really the coloring that sells it, in my opinion. I believe the same colorist recently worked on Shigeo's new game.

>>17278088
>Princess X
>protag hates and rapes the monster girls
>NTR tag
I'm out

Why does Muv Luv seem to be so popular all of a sudden? Is it because it's Kiminozo's legacy? How popular was it in Japan when the trilogy was released?

>>17278521
>all of a sudden
it has always been popular

>>17277699
>>17277729

He's not exactly an impartial 3rd party here, and I sometimes find that he is far too generous in his reviews.

>>17277864
Why is it well regarded?

>>17278715
Alicesoft was in a slump and lost a lot of customer trust after the disappointment that was Daiteikoku. It wasn't until Rance IX and Evenicle that Alicesoft got that trust back.

Not sure if this is the right thread to ask but, anyone have the most recent Subahibi translation patch they can share?

>>17278735
As a fan of the Dai series, I really want them to come back and fix the reputation of it. Hopefully once they finish IxSeal.

>>17278738
Just wait 2 months for the official release

>>17278521
>all of a sudden
It got a trillion spin off stories. Of course it was well regarded in Japan.

>>17278752
I just wanna read at least up to Insects since I'll be very busy during those 2 months.

>>17278749
They have 4 other games in development right now (not including Rance 10 which will probably be done this year). Maybe in the 2020s.

>>17278702
I have not read much but I always think he appreciates the medium as an art form than most people. Which may explain why his reviews are more on the high end.

>tfw no SukiSuki for at least another few months now
I cri

>>17278478
>NTR tag
I'm intrigued. Does anyone know what it's about?
I thought this was your standard lovey monmusu VN.
If it has NTR I'm not buying it.

>>17277943
You have my attention. Hope it doesn't stutter like the first one

>>17279588
It's more incest-y than the first one at least.

Seeing how his half-sisters' mothers are the sisters of the 1st game's protagonist.

>>17279588
From clearly a script perspective, I found the second game a lot more entertaining. Better humor. I know it's a nukige, but, yeah. Should be better too considering that retard Chris isn't """translating""" this one.

I'm looking forward to see how Doddler's animation fixes look. All the Itou Life Moonstone games have fucking terrible animation, mostly because it's jittery and don't loop properly. And, honestly speaking, the animations aren't that great either. It was really unfortunate with Demon Busters, because sooo many scenes were animated. And there's no option to turn it off. I just sighed and jerked off to Itou's Touhou doujins instead.

>>17275517
>>17278022

>>17277852
Poetry is so different in Japan than English that anybody attempting to copy the poetic prose of the Japanese accurately will be guilty of producing a laughable translation

>>17279644
Yeah, I played a bit of Princess Evangile and it was the same laggy animations.
I'm really looking forward to Imouto Paradise 2, It was my first real VN and it's also my favorite genre of porn. I check the MG blog every day for updates but it takes forever

So did we get any actual information on Maitetsu? I know they said we're getting 18+, but that doesnt mean much to me unless its confirmed no cut content. I would be even more pissed off if they only kept in the older looking girls and cut the loli scenes, than if there were no ero scenes at all.

>>17279634
Oh, really? For an incest nukige I thought it lacked in the incest part. Glad to hear that there is more emphasis on it. Are the sisters from the first game in it too?

>>17279916
>I check the MG blog every day for updates but it takes forever
Some projects are faster than others given staff availability. For example, I'm dying to read Hapymaher but its progress is unfortunately very slow.

MG usually updates 2 times a month on a friday. Given their schedule, you'd usually see a new update this next friday but since they're on AX, you'll be better checking by friday of the next week.

>>17279922
They and the protagonist in the first game left for a vacation and left you and your sister(s) alone in the house, so I doubt so. It's basically the premise of the first game, just more levels of incest.

7 Kamiges to go

>>17280009
If the top 10 kamiges get translated, do we start looking at 11-20?

>>17280062
>>17280009
Top ten where?

>>17280082
I think they're the 10 most highest rated games on EGS so we'd need to look at the next 10

>>17280009
You should remove WA2 from that list. Moogy confirmed it as garbage forever ago.

>>17280133
Asairo is nowhere near the top ten on EGS. Baldr Force has Eustia and Oretsuba beat on EGS too.

>>17280133
Probably just what the English VN community thinks as the Top 10 VNs released.

>>17280193
What you mean that isn't the reason? Then why are they called the untouchable kamiges? Has the kamiges thing been a meme this whole time?

>>17280133
Just search through Akatsuki Works catalogue and you'll find something pretty good. It blows my mind how something from them was not announced yet.

>>17280133
With EGS titles that have at least 100 votes and an 86 or higher median, 28 of those 35 titles are either fan translated, officially translated, or licensed. Granted a couple of those translations are quite lacking (particularly ChuSinGura 46+1 and Phantom of Inferno). That list on the other hand appears to be a view of the top ten titles that were untranslated at the time that person created the list. Though it is quite close to the EGS list, as the only difference between the 7 titles remaining on that list and the 7 titles with an EGS median above an 85 would be to swap out Asairo for Baldr Force.

>>17280202
Any distinction like that will be subject to popular opinion. And it's not like this is a medium with centuries of tradition to guide you. Whether or not it's correct you just have to decide for yourself.

>>17280246
The list can't have been created any earlier than late 2015, since Sakura no Uta wouldn't have been out. But we've known about Subahibi's translation since 2012. Kimi ga Nozomu Eien isn't on the list though, even though it falls between a few of those games on EGS and only recently got a translation announcement. It is a mystery.

>>17280009
These are not really kamige though, you forgot a lot of them.

Learned about Subahibi release date announcement now.

Also saw https://twitter.com/herkzzz/status/882092504300081152

How do you feel about being fucked by Frontwing, EOP pals?

>>17280358
Who would trust herkz in the first place?

>>17280358
yeah herkz is LITERALLY the only person who could edit Subahibi's translation

>>17280374
>>17280380
I dunno. I just want to see you subhumans get fucked over.

>>17280385
Shouldn't you be whining about how Damekoi isn't pure any more or something?

>>17280380
If anything it might be better off without him.
I also don't blame Frontwing cutting him off. Why would they trust the guy who was talking shit about them while working on Grisaia and then tried to pretend otherwise.

>>17280399
It's obvious they just wanted the script from them as soon as possible after the license was negotiated. herkz offered to finish his editing work but that would have taken more time.

>>17280393
I'm not interested in Damekoi.

>>17279918

>I know they said we're getting 18+

Source on this?

>>17280358
Wtf I hate frontwing now!

http://prefundia.com/projects/view/a-wonderful-release-for-wonderful-everyday/13415/
>We do also want to assure everyone that the English release of Wonderful Everyday has gone through the same full translation, editing and QC process as all the titles we publish. Furthermore, the new upscaled English version of the game has been built at KeroQ by the same team that worked on the original Japanese release, to ensure maximum faithfulness to the intended product.
>The Kickstarter campaign for Wonderful Everyday is planned to be launched on July 12. The purpose of the campaign will be to make physical copies of the English version of the game, as well as a wide variety of other goods, available to overseas fans for easy purchase. The base goal of the campaign is planned to be $80,000, and currently two stretch goals delivering new content are planned, and will be announced when the campaign launches.

>>17280358
Good for Frontwing, nobody should be working with that asshole, he has no work ethics

>>17280358
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. We'll see when it's actually released.
I mean, I am not really sure how competent their in-house staff is, but I feel like it wouldn't be fair to just assume they wouldn't be able to do work on Herkz's level.

>>17280778
He tried to make it sound like there were all kinds of technical text displaying issues that only he was aware of.

About that bestiality scene, is it really not important for the plot at all? And can removal of the stuff leading to this scene even be handled well?

>>17281022
Is important because is one of the funniest part of the "plot".

>>17281022
It's a flashback and like 10-15 lines they said
I'm sure someone can make a restoration patch

How am I supposed to read Wagahigh, Happiness W and Dies Irae if they all come out in late July?

>>17281079
You can start reading Dies irae right now though
Wagahigh also has a demo on Steam

>>17281022
How is being fucked by a dog important to the plot at all?

>>17281089
I am not reading pleb versions.

>>17281097
I assume it's part of the extreme bullying that's in the VN and it's supposed to shock the reader. I mean they wouldn't have put that scene in just for fun originally.

>>17281089
>A pleb reading censored/cropped VN's because can't wait for the patch.

>>17281110
It doesn't even make sense as a form of bullying and including things just for shock value is poor writing.

>>17281103
>>17281114

>>17281130
Well it's a good thing you have localization companies deciding what's good writing for you so you don't have to experience things or think for yourself.

>>17281131
What are you talking about? I wouldn't be able to read the 18+ versions if I wasn't at least 18.

>>17281097
If all you care about is the plot I can summarize it for you, save you a few dozen hours.

>>17281130
Bullies having bullied girls raped is a common trope.

>>17281141
They did it for legal reasons because it's illegal in some places.

>>17281153
Not by dogs.

>>17281097
I mean it's main significance in the story is that "it was a thing that happened". It's 19 lines as said so someone will probably just patch it in or something

>>17281213
I think the issue is more that it's one of the most memorable segments, so it's a little hard to imagine that scene without it.

It's fine to want Subahibi completely uncut, but don't try to claim you want dogfucking for its plot importance.

If anybody wants the scene, here you go

https://yande.re/post/show/147292

>>17281201
It an obscenity violation at best. Most eroge could be an obscenity violation if you tried hard enough.

>>17281243
Why are you so hung up on plot?

>>17281267
Look what you did, now I want to read that scene even more.

>>17281270
>It an obscenity violation at best. Most eroge could be an obscenity violation if you tried hard enough.
Yeah, but JAST hadn't any problem to make a patch with bestiality for Starless.

>>17281289
But JAST only sells through their own store. KeroQ trying to put dogfucking in an official patch they release on Steam could get them in trouble with Valve.

>>17281316
Maybe they shouldn't be trying to release eroge on fucking Steam then.

>>17281321
That's where the money is (for them) though.

Also there's the fact that they don't have an in-house way to release it unless they teamed up with Mangagamer or Denpasoft

>>17281321
Steam is too profitable for them to pass up with a famous title like Subahibi.

I don't personally like patch 90% of the game in method myself.

Perro caca

>>17279918
2016 christmas they said they had a solution to all of it. Of course Sekai could be a bunch of liars, but if they speak truth then it is solved. If it isn't solved, then don't really expect to be told that they are trolling you.

>>17281289
It feels more like the extreme content is removed just to sell games to people who wouldn't buy a game with the content.

I for one am not buying Haruka because of extreme content, and there isn't even that much of it.

>>17281411
Faggots don't matter.

>>17281412
Most steam users are faggots.

>>17281423
Faggots who hate cut releases.

>>17281429
Most of them don't download 18+ patches.

>>17281442
But you know the discussion page will be full of it.

>>17279918
some guy claims it will be alright

>>17281481

>>17281481
It this magic? Coul they do the same with Rewrite?

>>17281481
First of all, where is this from
Second, if this is true, it's a step in the right direction sort of

>>17281558
lewdgamer

>>17281558
Looks like the eroge/H-anime news site.

>>17281411
If that was true then Haruka and euphoria wouldn't be 2 of MG's top sellers.

>>17281625
I wonder how many people would have bought Haruka if it weren't for the idea that it was their only hope of getting Rance.

>>17281645
I doubt it would have been that much less. It had a pretty long tail.

>>17281645
Considering the people kept MG afloat by buying nukiges purely for fapping purposes and those that want gameplay with their fapping, even if Rance wasn't on the line, it would have sold decently well.

>>17281625
I don't want to ruin the mood here, but Euphoria and Haruka are probably just like Nekopara high in sales because it is a meme game that you can play and make fun of.

That said it is also possible the biggest market in the world is poop/pee eroge. But I don't bet my money on that.

>>17281778
People seem pretty hyped for Maggot Baits and that's because they actually want to read it, not because they want to make fun of it.

>>17281481
>some guy
This dude seems to be shilling for Sekai 24/7. On Reddit, Youtube, 4chan, Twitter, and misc. sites.

He's probably correct anyway, but he's still a braindead moebuta who spends the vast majority of his time shilling. I never trust retards with such a blatant bias.

>>17281861
Possibly, but the guy he's replying to is an even bigger dumbass, so it's hard not to take his side.

>>17281270
>It an obscenity violation at best. Most eroge could be an obscenity violation if you tried hard enough.

Most VNs wouldn't be found obscene, because for something to be obscene it needs to lack "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." It would be hard to argue that most visual novels lack literary (and probably artistic) value, especially a title such as Subahibi. Frontwing's concern instead would be a local prosecutor causing issues because of what their own state laws consider patently offensive, even if such a work would likely be found non-obscene and thus protected in court against such local laws by the first amendment for its literary value.

>>17281894
>so it's hard not to take his side.
Yes. Well, like I said, he's likely correct. I mean, sure, Sekai tried to back out of Grisaia 18+ forever ago, but that resulted in a PR nightmare and I doubt they'd want a repeat of that with the titles they just announced for Denpa.

>Wagahai July 25th
>W Happiness July 28th
I wonder which one will sell more, both on steam and off?

>>17281903
The same local prosecutor could cause issues for them anyway. The whole thing just feels like a bullshit excuse to me, a lot like NISA blaming the ESRB when they decide to strip shit from their games.

>>17281964
W Happiness probably. Evangile was really popular, while Wagahai is just another moege.

>>17281778
>because it is a meme game that you can play and make fun of.
Where exactly do you even see this at the same level as Nekopara?

>>17281964
Wagahai has literally no hype behind it and I think people forgot it was even coming out until recently. W Happiness is a fandisc to an already popular VN for MG and has the "it's coming out of beta hell" behind it. Also it was getting updated on MG's twitter frequently.

I'm still gonna play both though

>>17281974
Nevertheless, it would be much easier to bring an initial case on a title that has content that clearly violates the local law like the dog scene, even if it would be protected from such a state law thanks to its literary value. At the very least though, either Frontwing or whomever they are working with to distribute the title decided that it was worth removing the scene. Jast in a similar scenario opted to release the content separately and unofficially, while MG has avoided removing such content from their titles.

>>17281481
ALL THE GIRLS GET LEWDED

Aroduc gave access to his scripts and tools to a fan group secretly translating Baldr Force.

>>17281974
I find it more silly that they removed the spanking scene because it broke some weird unknown laws. It seems perfectly valid as a story element.

>>17282374
Are you trying to leak shit again, porntastic? We're gonna ban you from irc for real this time!

>>17282453
It's illegal to spank your kids in many western countries.
Yes, it's retarded.

>>17282457
To my knowledge they haven't banned donald duck comics with spanking in them though. And if Disney can get away with it, it is hard to see why others are afraid.

If Disney did dog rape, I think that would also be fairly safe. Not seeing them doing it though.

>>17282453
They gave "regional regulations" as their reason for needing to censor it, so in that regards it is likely one of the more restrictive non-US game ratings agencies would have been the hold up, as I would be surprised if the ESRB took issue with the scene in question (as it is an M-rated title already).

>>17282534
Oh I don't know, maybe others don't have an army of top dollar lawyers?

>>17282453
Atlus also censored a CG of spanking from Uta 2.
I doubt it's an issue with US laws or ESRB, but probably some European country.

>>17282596
Any I think that they censored that scene because the american feminazis.

>>17282596
spanking is illegal in uk

>>17282596
I don't think any European countries care. It seems more like the MG "steam doesn't allow patches" excuse, as they ran into some person who had an opinion rather than knowledge of how countries follow laws.

>>17282728
Everything is illegal in the UK

>>17281964
>>17281983
Surprisingly, Wagahai is incredibly well-received in Japan. Getting the top prize of the 2016 Moe Game Award.

Pretty sure that SP didn't know it would get this big since they licensed it before it even came out, but it is unexpected.

>>17282742
True. UK is mini-Canada.

>>17282821
hmm not really UK= puritan actions Canada = cuck actions

>>17280380
I don't think anyone is saying that herkz is some editing god or anything. but he is suggesting that given the script handover and release timeline, there wasn't enough time to realistically do a full edit pass, at least by his reckoning. Maybe they worked 24/7 overtime to get it done? Who knows

>>17282915
Herkz is also a known piece of shit who kept getting kicked off projects because he blew off doing any work and then badmouthed the project and the game.

>>17282374
Surprised he just didn't do it himself by now with how much he said he liked it. I know he said he had trouble with the game crashing on modern operating systems, but there do seem to be work arounds for it.

This is how Danganronpa's localization process goes.

http://www.dualshockers.com/danganronpa-v3-localization-anime-expo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

>>17283271
Pretty interesting. Too bad that game is shit. I was actually mad I wasted my time on the first one

>>17282941
Why does anybody hire him?

>>17283102
Probably because he's still mad about Baldr Sky.

>>17282374
Stop it, I'm going to believe you.

>>17283339
Because he's part of the same cartel as Moogy.

>>17283286
The first Danganronpa is enjoyable, but it's obvious that it never was meant to have a sequel. I can't be bothered to play them.

>>17283354
Wasn't the ending *warning SERIOUS spoilers* Just the MC and thicc moca colored chick leaving the vault as a giant cliffhanger?

>>17283391
The survivors were: Hiro, Hina, Byakuya, Kirigiri, Toko, and the MC

>>17283398
Oh ok. But it was still a cliffhanger right? I don't see how that doesn't set it up for a sequel

>>17283400
That's not what a cliffhanger is at all.

>>17283400
>>17283391
So every thriller/horror ever.

>>17283419
The evil bear boy gets re-summoned and they have no idea what kind of world is out there.

I guess it's not a cliffhanger but there's serious room for speculation at least

Why the fuck can't mangagamer just release higurashi? They're 100% done TLing and editing. I'm getting really fucking sick of waiting like 4-6 months between chapters

>>17283391
My issue was that the (admittedly still enjoyable) twist was so bullshit that it could not possibly have been properly elaborated on in a sequel.

>>17283442
Doddler has to port them all to a new engine and he's busy with other projects.

Why do people always forget about programming work and the beta testing period?

>>17283474
He was """"busy"""" with projects for a month, when he was actually playing Persona 5 and tweeting about how much it wastes his time.

>>17281411
To me it does not matter all that much, i mean as long as its not a huge part of the storyline or to the character development what does it matter?

>>17283517
Right now he's busy with Imopara 2 and Bokuten. Programming for VNs is only his side job, so you can't expect a fash pace.

>>17283442
Scripting hell because Doddler is probably their only multipurpose competent programmer.

He'll start on Chapter 6 it after he's done with Bokuten.

MG has Black Dragon Hunt (who isn't nearly as good as Doddler and doubles as a translator anyways), Craig Donson (who only does Sono Hana games and is so dedicated to them, he just released the 1.2 patch for New Generation in June 28, 2017 for minor issues), and SLC (the programmer whom Doddler analyzed to figure out how to fix Prism Ark but only works on Alicesoft games).

>>17281861
lol wait is he on youtube and twitter? Mind giving links. I want to hear him review how a "great classic" game for ChronoClock was translated by a EU Refugee and how diverse that was.

>>17283524
Busy means that he doesn't feel like working on it, not that he's doing other work.

>>17283525
This is what happens with the only skilled programmers have day jobs as programmers and only program for VNs in their spare time as enthusiasts.

<- From the Wagahai Demo, bugs the shit outta me.

>>17282745
Wagahai did have a short anime when it was released; that probably helped a bit.

>>17283286
BDH you are just salty. Get off the board.

>>17283354
>Never meant to have a sequel

A majority of games and anime are made like that. They always end on a certain note but leave the door open for a future sequel if the studio wants them to make another or if they decide to ever go back to it in the future. That is usually common practice in Japanese writing. Which not many here or anywhere else seem to know about and its extremely clever.

Phoenix Wright had an issue with this because the creator wanted the series to be a trilogy but no more than that. But as soon as Capcom kept asking for more games he had to think of a new way to introduce other characters and try to keep it something Phoenix Wright fans would like.

The problem is though Phoenix Wright's future games are nowhere as good as their first 3 because that was not his intention Vs Kadoka who just says "we will leave it as the final part to it but we will leave the door open in case we are asked to do another game" .

>>17283608
Stop triggering my OCD, anon.

>>17283542
Well that and the thing is you do this programming stuff because you are passionate, not because of money. Not saying money is not involved but its one of those things where it does not pay all that much. Programmers make a ton of money and for good reason.

>>17283666
> you do this programming stuff because you are passionate, not because of money
> its one of those things where it does not pay all that much
>Programmers make a ton of money

What the fuck are you saying

>>17283685
To elaborate, you can make a shit ton more money programming for something else. Visual novel localization companies can't pay you much compared to something more legitimate.

If Sona-Nyl and Maggot Baits does well, could a Shinsou Noise localization become a reality? Or is it tied up between too many parties to be possible?

>>17283806
DMM is the biggest issue there. Nutaku is the closest company to them.

>>17283354
It wasn't meant to have a sequel but the second game is the best thing to come out of the franchise.

>>17283354
dr2 is so much better than dr1 in every regard except the atmosphere, imo

>>17283629
>BDH you are just salty. Get off the board.
he loves all the dr games, though

i mean, the dude is a total faggot, but at least be accurate with the insults

>>17283525
they also seem to have some unnamed contractors as well. pretty sure the SukiSuki guy is one of those.

>>17283806
Is it any good? As a mystery, and as an adventure game.

>>17284036
Without going into detail it's a solid B visual novel. Not anything amazing. Not anything mediocre. It's all together competent. Beautiful fucking artwork. Shigeo really outdid herself.

>>17283946
It's a step down from the first game if anything. Danganronpa is a series that has declined with every entry.

>>17284044
any reference point comparing to other mystery adventures? like the ace attorneys, DRs, KnS etc.

>>17284095
not better than KnS

With the Subahibi release, I'm quite interested in what sort of in-game notice Steam allows Frontwing to get away with. Even with titles that have a free patch that gets advertised in things like the forums and reviews, you are still going to have a sizable percentage of people whom never will know that there is a patch. But if this Subahibi style of release is acceptable, and they are allowed to mention the patch in game, then suddenly a fair number of titles become much more Steam viable (and even a title like KoiKuma on Steam no longer seems quite as crazy).

>>17284065
Despair Arc is the best part of the whole story. Fuck you.

>>17276402
Look at all those grammar mistakes. I'm sure glad he isn't the editor.

https://dekirutranslations.wordpress.com/projects/
I wonder if Quof's games for MG will be announced for Otakon or if they will simply be saved until MG needs something to release for the month.

>>17285534
I hate people who can't be assed to capitalize the beginning of their sentences.

>>17285534
He edited the whole thing already though.

>>17284065
How does it feel to have such shit taste?

>>17285553
>needs something to release for the month.
They're nukige, so likely this. Or if they're really short nukige, they might just release it randomly one month or another.

Honestly, I'm glad MG picked him up. He's fairly new to the translation scene, but he's one of few who actually put in some effort into nukige translation. I just hope all the H-scene translations don't break him - I know it's chased off many a nukige translator.

>>17285570
I think he lives for it

>>17285553
I need a reminder, but those MorningStar games were translated by MangaGamer or are they only a distributor?

Cause one of them is super short, with only a three days needed to translate it while the other is moderately short? Could be those MorningStar titles.

The Phantom Trigger Volume 3 IGG project ended up with just over $50k from 753 backers. While the dollar amounts between this and the $183k Kickstarter aren't directly comparable because of the large difference between campaigns, the Volume 3 IGG project was down 950 backers from the 1703 that the Phantom Trigger 1+2 Kickstarter project got. It also had fewer backers than any of the Corona Blossom projects on IGG, although thanks to a higher average pledge it only lost to the first Corona Blossom project in dollar amount.

>>17285835
Translated by MG. Morningstar lets other companies like DLsite sell the games, which is why they're under the Hentai Industries brand.

>>17285839
Already over? I was hoping they would get to the point where they add something interesting to the campaign.

>>17274899
>Dal Segno

>>17286267
They're trying to piss off as many people as possible.

>>17286267
That translator seriously needs to calm down. He's fast as hell, but both Dal Segno and Funbag Fantasy had a lot of issues with the text, whether it be inconsistency in localisation, typos, unicode errors, etc

https://twitter.com/Good_Haro/status/882499001005768704
Thread about Haro talking about logos

>>17286781
I followed her for a while on Twitter but had way too much gay shit on my timeline so I had to unfollow

>>17286781
>sixty one thousand tweets
Good lord

>>17286267
>Dove
Could have used the word jumped instead.

>>17286807
She does PR work on her account on top of personal things. It makes sense there would be that many.

>>17286878
Could have, but dove is also less letters.

>>17274899
Just to update this, Dal Segno has held up decent well on Steam, since peaking at 33 concurrent users and a daily peaked of 31 today. Additionally, it is still on top of the chart on MG's site, despite Princess Evangile W Happiness being up for preorder since MG's panel. It's not going to be a huge seller by any means and it will probably come in under DC3 unless it is selling as well on MG's site as DC3 did, but it seems like it has had at least respectable sales rather than being a flop.

Does MangaGamer have a rule to release only one new thing per month?

>>17287060
No strictly per se, that's just the general trend. We got Rance 6 and Himawari in December for instance.

>>17284750
>Despair Arc is the best part of the whole story.

>LOL DR2's main heroine except she's a boring Mary Sue that everybody loves
>LOL Kuzuryuu's sister's death doesn't matter
>LOL Komaeda gets away with everything
>LOL Kamukura dindu nuffin
>LOL Junko is an incompetent villain that has to use hypno-anime to make people listen to her

>>17287231
T. I didn't watch the anime and I am making shit up out my ass the post.

Someone was reading Wiki's :).

>>17287274
>T.
>anime

>>17287284
Still not a argument.

>>17287231
>Mary sue

Stopped reading right there.

How bad are the old higurashi chapter 6-8 translations? I've heard 1-4 translations were bad but they got better in kai, is that true?

danganronpa is /v/ as fuck

>>17287314
The translations for those won't be as drastically changed as they were for 1-4. Those needed a full retranslation while 5-8 are only getting a TLC and editing.

>>17287583
So it was already retranslated?

>>17288152
No. Chapters 5-8 had a better translation overall.

>>17287060
Not strictly, but if they release too many things close together they risk cannibalizing their sales or running out of things to release monthly if they hit a point of nothing else being done.

If they do more than one release the other is typically a title of a completely different genre, a third party title, or a short nukige.

>>17287291
>HELP ME DADDY HE USED THE BAD WORDS

>>17288833
Is it me or is MG the only VN localization company that even attempts one first party release a month? JAST and Frontwing obviously don't have enough, but I haven't really followed Sekai's release schedule.

>>17289115
Sekai's release schedule just feels really random. They sometimes release several titles in the same month. Other times they release nothing for several months at a time.

>>17274632
Root Letter is out now on Steam.

>>17289115
Sekai just shits out titles whenever, a lot of times without any promotion.

I wonder if the Steam summer sale pushed the minori fundraiser to its Chapter 2 goal. It was just under 6k to the goal a month ago.

http://www.mangagamer.org/minori/

Don't be disappointed if it ends up as one of the Otakon announcements.

>>17289668
>Don't be disappointed if it ends up as one of the Otakon announcements.
Pls no
minori pls, it's obvious barely anyone wants this

>>17289671
They'll still release chapter 2 to act like they achieved some level of success, but I really doubt they'll make any more chapters. It just didn't sell well enough to justify more.

>>17289668
They made it all ages but had all the girls in the VN cocktease you, even your mom at some point.

In any case I'd probably still buy ch2 only for the visuals.

New Sayori thing

http://tentacle.studio/monmusu_en.html

More companies adopting the free 18+ patch model. This will be Sekai Project I'm guessing?

>>17289750
Oh it's "free to play idle simulation game"

>>17289753
>idle
>materialsand

The translation worries me.

>>17289750
>Sayori
>dog girl

https://elitegamer.co/dies-irae-localization-team-talks-about-its-localization-process-and-challenges/

>Gare: I mostly worked on it like I would on any other project. Well, okay, so I was probably more excited than usual, since this was Dies irae, one of my favorite VNs ever.
>Conjurer: I wake up. Listen to an audiobook, preferably with fancy prose for inspiration, as I play a game for a few hours. I translate for a couple of hours. I plan to listen to more audiobooks and play more games, but the translation chat blows up with discussion on how to handle this or that and that goes on until it’s dark outside. I squeeze in some more gaming if I can and work for another few hours until midnight. Then I watch a movie and go to sleep. If I have some extra time, I also eat.
>Steiner: Wake up. Blast the power metal. Work on Dies. Blink. Realize several hours have passed. Look at the group discussion. Discuss things. Cry. Look outside. It turned midnight long ago. You’ve forgotten something. It’s your cats. They’re screaming at you. When did they last eat? When did you last eat? Realize I’ve been living this exact situation for an undetermined amount of time. Foreknowledge. Foreknowledge.

>>17289804
>implying Steiner did any work

>>17289804
steiner should keep the chuuni at work, that was cringeworthy to read.

>>17289804
I think Dies needed another editing pass. The translation is good, but it's riddled with typos and gramatical errors

>>17289830
Conjurer said they didn't really have QA
Hopefully it'll be fixed by the time they do the 18+ patch

>>17289753
Obviously you're supposed to just sit there and stare at it.

>>17289700
It would be funny if they announced part 3 kickstarter with ero patch. They'd probably suddenly gain more money than both episodes combined did.

>>17289217
https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1495410#p1495410
pw: cs.rin.ru

This is just the game as is, so you'll have to add and configure some Steam emulator to run it. I don't know about other emulators, but SmartSteamEmu 1.4.3 works, just add game's .exe name and its appid to SmartSteamEmu.ini
https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=62935

>>17289830
Ellie kept being called Eri at certain points.

Supipara was a mistake.

>>17289850
Well I am the idlemaster

>放置系
Holy shit it really is an idle simulation game.

>>17290085
>we want the Sakura Clicker bux
Idle games can be pretty good though, aside from the obvious cashgrab ones though

>>17289750
>all those samefaces from shitpara
Must be nice to ctr+c faces in every game and make shitload of money.

>>17289812
It was probably one of his multiple personalities.

>>17289812
Cringe is in the eye of the beholder.

>>17289379
That's the way it should be. I've been waiting for higurashi chapters for 2 fucking years now. They're 100% translated and edited but they won't release them because for some reason every other vn they're working on takes priority over it.

>>17289750
>all big tits girls, no loli, not even a non loli flat girl

Sayori please.

>>17289750
Wait, when's Koikuma coming out again?

>>17290340
>all big tits girls
I count four titty monsters, two big tits, one medium tits. That said, some are at bad angles for tit evaluation so I could be off.