/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Koikuma - February release
>Tropical Liquor - March 9th release
>Fatal Twelve - In QA, Late March release
2236 A.D. - English version released by the Japanese developer, Sekai release in QA
Her and Her and My 7 Days - Through QA
Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell - Steam page up, through QA
Girls in Glasses - Through QA
Re;Lord ~Herford no Majo to Nuigurumi~ - Through QA
The Bell Chimes For Gold - In QA
Maitetsu - In QA, waiting on a third party
Nanairo Reincarnation - 100% translated, waiting on a third party for engine work
Baldr Sky - 50% translated, Combined release of Dive 1 + Dive 2 in mid 2018
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 100% translated
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - 50% translated
Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - Kickstarter finished
Miko no Kanata - Picked up
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
>Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
CyberRebeat - Picked up
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
Rewrite+ - Picked up
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
>Dracu-Riot - QA and engine work nextPicked up
Senren * Banka - Picked up
Ninja Girl - Announced
Island Diary - Announced
Love Duction - 20% translated
Koi ni, Kanmi o Soete - Picked up
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Creature Romances Series - Listed as "in icebox"

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - April release, Scripting, debugging, and QA remain
>Momoiro Closet - Kickstarter starting the 19th, April 27th release
Island - 100% translated, 40-50% edited, 2018 release
2 upcoming secret announcements

Fruitbat
Seven Days - Picked up
Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Kickstarter finished, demo released, March 2018 release

Sol Press
Sakura Sakura - March release, demo released, Steam page up
>Newton to Ringo no Ki - 76% of common route, 1st and 2nd route translated, 76% of common route and 100% of 1st route edited, demo released

Nekonyan
>Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ - Through TL + TLC + Editing, 80% QC, late March release
Hello,good-bye - 10% translated, 2018 release, Summer 2018 release
Sanoba Witch - 20% translated, Fall 2018 release
Melty Moment - Aiming for a release next Winter
Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - Early 2019 release

Other
Tayutama 2 - Q1 2018 release, delayed to revise scripts, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
>Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms - Spring 2018 release
Hemoimo - Dropped by SakuraGame and no longer being released on Steam, upcoming Fakku release planned within the next couple months
Magical Charming - Release planned
Song of Memories - 2018 release
Tsundere Idol: My Personal M-Pet! - Kickstarter started
Neighbor - 2018 release, Prefundia up, Kickstarter starting March 1st
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Monmusu - 2018 release
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

Dead board. Dead week. Dead scene!

What hrpg kamige should be brought over next

>>18430491
If it's not on vndb, it doesn't belong here.

>>18429958
>Monmusu - 2018 release
Can't wait for the next Nekopara with microtransactions.

>>18431080
Best thing with micro transactions is that they are usually macro. Never surprises me when they sell skins and stuff for half the price of a normal game.

>Code: Realize fandisc - March 30th release
>Kokuchou no Psychedelica - April 20th release
>7'scarlet - May 18th release
>Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms - Spring 2018 release

The survey anon was right, we're being taken over by fujoshits. D3 started porting otome games to the Switch too.

>>18431164
the gay agenda has taken over this scene, it's over

>Django - Waiting on translation.

H-how long has it been?

>>18429957
>SukiSuki - In Beta

Only two more years to go!

>>18431259
Until the West is won.

>>18431080
>petted

fucking hell

>>18431556
What's wrong with petted?

>>18431746
pet is the past tense of the verb pat
petted is an abomination from an esl

Survey results when? sol press one too

>>18431894
Petted sounds kind of wierd when spoken, but it really is the correct past tense of pet

Looks like Imouto Paradise 2 jumped right back on 1st place now that MangaGamer has their Valentines sale.
I do wonder did it ever leave their Top 5 weekly sales since release? I think not.
I did like ImoPara 2 and hopefully they bring us more incest.

>>18431992
Great. Very good game.

>>18431992
Unless another Rance title gets released, it'll probably be #1 for 2018.

>>18432293
I doubt that Sengoku will sell that well.

>>18431957

Unfortunately, we probably won't be publicly releasing the results. If you guys have any specific questions I might be able to answer them though!

>>18432293
Only one that maybe could get close would be Evenicle. If they promote the game right together with the Senran Kagura's artists name it could do well since a bunch of people seem to really like his art style.

>>18431164
>>18431245
>otoge
>fujoshi
You need to have your head examined.

>>18432670
same gayshit. suck me dick, fag.

>>18431245
Unfortunately, it's not the gay agenda I want.

>>18432795
The absolute state of /jp/.

>>18433217
The absolute state of /lgbt/ and /vg/.

>>18432348
Senran Kagura is popular enough that if Evenicle gets even a tiny slice of that pie, it will do extremely well.

Assuming Imopara 2's sales in 2018 are similar to Rance VI's sales in 2017, Evenicle would have to sell similarly to Princess Evanicle Happiness (on the MG site).

>>18432320
Are you actually going to try to reach out to the companies whose games were popular suggestions?

>>18431080
fug, will this game be accessible without paying or will you need to pay through the nose for the scenes?
someone familiar with jap idle games respond

>>18433764
It depends on the specific title (there were a lot of Nukige related titles that were requested, which isn't exactly our focus as a brand).

In general, popular is usually good (if it's reasonable). We had a ton of requests for specific Otome games (they were actually some of the only games which were really able to compete vote-wise with the obvious popular titles) which was interesting.

>>18434998
>We had a ton of requests for specific Otome games (they were actually some of the only games which were really able to compete vote-wise with the obvious popular titles) which was interesting.

Do it man. Otome fandom is thirsty as hell and will spend money on even a mediocre translation as long as there's pretty art.

>>18435080
As if VN fans in general don't shell out the big bucks for mediocre translations as long as the art is good (see: nekopara).

>>18436159
Nekoparafags =/= VN fans

>>18436903
I hope that by Nekoparafags you mean only people whose first VN was Nekopara. Other people who read eroge on a regular basis can still enjoy Nekopara as well.

>>18437360
nekopara is a comforting, short read. All it needs to be really. Looking forward to Nekopara Alternative though!

>>18433380
Yeah if they do something like an interview with the artist on their blog and share it before release it could gather some hype.
I casually showed the game to some of my friends who aren't into visual novels at all and they instantly recognized it and asked me if that isn't the Senran Kagura artist. They also said that they are slightly interested in it after finding out.

>>18432320
wtf is the point of a survey if you won't release the results?

Every forum/board I went to vndb, reddit, /vg/, Fuwanovel, ulmf, hongfire.. the otome fans are always in the minority or non-existent.

>>18437617
Even MG doesn't release most of the results of their survey, just some top information. The point of a survey by any company is to get demographic information and to see what types of titles are being requested, instead of just running a popularity contest of what particular title gets the most votes.

>>18437617
>reddit
>fuwanovel
Stop coming here please

>>18437617
There clearly is a market for both otome and BL titles, judging by the results that MG has found to date. In the results of a survey, it isn't a surprise that individual otome titles will do well though, if only because there is a smaller spread of potentially licensable titles to vote for.

>>18436159
Nekopara performance isn't particularly relevant to any new license, especially now that the Steam craze is over. That said, Nekopara clones such as KaraKara/Nekonin/Corona Blossom have managed to find more success than some comparable genres, even if it is a tiny fraction of what a Nekopara title will do.

when the fuck is evenicle coming out

Sekai released Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell
http://store.steampowered.com/app/753220/Mhakna_Gramura_and_Fairy_Bell/

Although I probably wouldn't expect much out of a title with a $5 retail price.

Muramasa when

>>18438109
jast will announce it this year, screenshot this

>>18438132
Thanks insider anon. Now we'll finally get to read a kamige before 2030!

>>18437649
Well they release the Top 10 or 20 at least and give us licensing hints which is the only reason to be hyped about the survey.

wait till they read subahibi, itll be insufferable

>>18438843
whenever i need motivation to continue learning japanese i just need to look at shit like this

>>18438843
Those kind of people will never read stuff like Subahibi. They only read visual novels ironically and what is currently popular because some random youtuber/twitch streamer made a video about him read and screaming for 20 minutes. That's the only reason why stuff like DDLC and Nekopara are so popular.

>>18437617
You go to wrong places.

>>18438109
Give or take the next 3 to 4 years.

>>18438843
>Dream Daddy and DDLC are the first VNs I have ever played
>They subvert the genre.

Thats what they said when Nekopara came out. Just give this one year and nobody will remember it.

>>18439842
Autists on /vg/ will.

>>18438843

That tweet's funny because you can tell that idiot didn't even skim the article

>>18441379
why would anyone

>>18441379
even if so its still a reasonable prediction of what waypoint was likely to say based on everything they have ever written

just like it doesnt matter if trudeau was joking if its still a very trudeau thing to say

>>18441617

is it really a reasonable prediction when the article says precisely the opposite?

>>18438843
>implying DDLC was the first yandere and 'breaking the fourth wall' game
>implying DDLC is not a ripoff pic related

R-right

>>18441676

ITT: /jp/ can't read

>>18441676
not really. the article implies the waypoint author never read totono and only knows it 2nd hand from some reddit thread synopsis he quotes. otherwise he might say something about shuusaku

Hey Haro, will we be getting the survey results this week?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frontwing/expose-your-inner-otaku-with-visual-novel-momoiro/description

Frontwing's Momoiro Closet Kickstarter started up.

>>18442653
From the FAQ
>Momoiro Closet is a medium-length visual, approximately the same length as our entire Corona Blossom trilogy combined. The average player can expect to spend about 10~15 hours to experience the entire game.

> A free patch to be made available outside of Kickstarter will restore adult content to the game, with no censorship whatsoever.

>Is Momoiro Closet an episodic game?
>No, Momoiro Closet is a standalone title. Currently no sequels are planned, though this may change in the future.

Curious how this will do, effectively being a nukige on Kickstarter though being a full price Frontwing title it should end up with a respectable total. Even if it were to struggle, I can't imagine there is much risk of it failing to reach its $35k goal though, just a question of if it manages to quickly reach its goal or if it takes a while. I would expect that at the very least though Frontwing will get Sekai to advertise it on the original Grisaia Kickstarter while updating the progress on Grisaia, like Frontwing's other crowdfunded projects, to give it a sizable boost somewhere down the road. Regardless of how it does here, it is being sold as a full price eroge in Japan, where the majority of their revenue should come from.

Speaking of nukige on Kickstarter, a quick look and Tsundere Idol is at just 56% of its total with 9 (of 38) days remaining, so it still seems to be struggling. Although being a low profile title by a new company and cheap tiers, seeing it struggle is hardly a surprise. One thing of interest, the initial level tier has both a Steam Key and Fakku Key reward at the same price, and despite being a nukige the former has 125 backers while the Fakku Key has just 17 backers.

>>18442811
>>18442653
Nukige on steam, it's wrong on so many level.
Also, can Frontwing release anything without asking for money beforehand?

>>18442843
if this doesn't meet the goal it will be released in english anyway, and I believe the same was true for Phantom Shitger

>>18442811
>No, Momoiro Closet is a standalone title. Currently no sequels are planned, though this may change in the future.
Uh yeah, no shit. There's only one heroine and a bunch of side girls that look like heroines. If anything, it'll be a bunch of DLC

>>18443084
One heroine with a bunch of side girls that may or may not get a H-scene seems typical of the usual one-heroine nukige.

>>18438843
This reminds me of the anon who went to a 'History Of Visual Novels' panel at some convention. The panel decided to ignore the deeper titles, fan translations and any reference to JAST or its older subsidiary's (Peach Princess, G-Collections, etc). I'd bet the person who wrote that article was on that panel.

>>18442653
Damn not bad. I will give it credit for at least trying something different.

>>18441721
To be fair, I doubt the DDLC devs even now what Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi actually is, so to say that they ripped off the idea is somewhat of an exaggeration. Also, DDLC is just a elaborate trailer for their next game release, so, again, its kind of hard to say they ripped Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi off.

>>18442653
wtf last night it was on $6k now its on $11k after being linked here

>>18445393
Being linked here would have had little to do with it, it only went up 10 hours ago so it is still getting money from its initial surge.

>>18445058
This seems to be making another nukige like Pure Girl or Innocent Girl and happen to be including an English translation rather than designing a title for maximum success on Steam.

>>18442653
>>18442811
Does this game have a female protagonist??? Looks like its Alice according to link

http://operationrainfall.com/2017/07/03/ax-2017-frontwing-panel-announcements/

>>18445381
hello /r/visualnovels

http://store.steampowered.com/app/800120/Lonely_Yuri/

DLsite is putting their localization of Lonely Yuri onto Steam.

Venus Blood is genuinely a kamige. Granted, I've only played 30-40 nukige, but Chimera was far above any of them.The scene variety is absolutely amazing. There are so many fetishes covered in various ways that BBH is a fucking joke in comparison. All the characters grow to be likable as the game progresses and they get developed. There is a steady growth in corruption of both body and mind, which is shown even from the girls' perspectives - something missing in Sansha Mendan. The succubus in Kyonyuu Fantasy looks like an amateur moeblob next to the succubus here. The gameplay also isn't total trash. It's fun to watch the parameters grow as you want them.
It makes me really pissed at myself that I didn't put the Venus Blood series on the MG survey.

>>18446192
Yeah it happens all the time, as soon as the survey ends I remember 2-3 titles which I would love to see getting picked up.
Worst thing is I'll forget it in a year and it will happen again.

>>18445381
Sure Anon. I was born yesterday.

>>18446192
Stop using machine translations and thinking that you're understanding a damn thing.

>>18446604
Implying the translation has anything to do with the original game quality.

>>18446097
Seems reasonable.

>>18446635

If you truly believed that, then why didn't you just play it in the original Japanese when it came out? I mean, the English doesn't matter, right?

Is Denpasoft's 18+ version of Leyline uncensored?

>>18447890
Just about everything they put out still has original mosaics, leyline included.

Good translation and even the images are translated and edited, gotta love MangaGamer.

>>18447080
1. I hadn't known about it when it came out. The translation brought it to my attention.
2. I am not confident enough in my reading skill to read anything other than moege and simple nukige. Note that I said reading. My vocabulary and grammar are up to point. Just because the text is occasionally wrong doesn't mean I can't use my ears (hence I can tell that what is wrong). You could argue that I can't hear the MC's lines and inner monologues. However, those are mainly connected to the background plot, not to the corruption itself. The primary focus of any nukige, in my opinion, are the visuals and the heroines' lines. Both of those are covered without reading any of the text.
The main issue with the translation is not that it was done with the help of a kanji tool, but that the translator has major gaps in basic Japanese grammar and logical thinking in general. Still, the translation is better than many of the other nukige translations I've read. Mainly the older releases of JAST and MG were full of mistranslations and typos. Check out Succubu Soon or the original Boob Wars if you want examples. I doubt you've read either of those, or even Venus Blood itself.
>If you truly believed that
Do YOU not believe that? Do you honestly believe the original work is affected by the translation in any way? The question applies to any translation ever made. The readers' experience may differ, but it is the exact same game in the end.

Hey guys, I've been completely out of loop since new year. Anything interesting hapenned since then apart Evenicle still not being out (geez) and fantl being dead?

>>18447949
I love how Sekai claimed that Purple Soft lost the uncensored CGs for ChronoClock, and then after MG announced their uncensored release of Hapymaher and people rightly started complaining, Purple Soft magically pulled CC's CGs out of thin air.

It's technically possible that Purple didn't properly back up "unneeded" files until after ChronoClock and just happened to stumble upon them later after they told Sekai that they didn't have them, but looking back at Sekai's history with uncensored CGs, it's pretty likely that Sekai just didn't give a shit and didn't bother even asking Purple for them, and then lied about their attempt to get the CGs in order to save face when pressed for info.

Periodic reminder to boycott all Sekai products and to convince everyone you know that reads VNs to do the same. They continually lower the bar for the VN localization industry in just about every conceivable way, and the fact that they still exist after all the shit they've pulled is disgusting.

>>18448264

Yes, the translation absolutely matters. I'm a native English speaker, I want native English, not a MTL or whatever an ESL shits out.

I won't try to defend JAST or MG, but if you hand me a product with typos or dogshit grammar everywhere, I'm gonna end up wasting my time trying to parse the shitty English where a Japanese user playing the Japanese version wouldn't have encountered any weird text at all. If that's the case, I would rather just read it in JP. Hardly the "exact same game" if one version makes me want to claw my eyes out.

And I'd wager a lot of people agree with me if Sekai were forced to embarrass themselves by announcing a reTL of Hoshimemo. Though they brought that on themselves by hiring ESLfags in the first place.

I've had an Oiran Rouge translation project going on for a few years now. I keep chipping away at it in my spare time, but the dialogue can get...weird. Time period stuff.

>>18448520
Yeah, I've been trying to inform as many ''casual'' visual novel reading friends about Sekai as possible and looks like it's slowly starting to work.
Some of them bought the Sekai Humble Bundle but put everything towards charity. Others didn't even want to buy it after I showed them some Hoshimemo untranslated screenshots or Leyline forum posts where people had to manually launch the game from another exe and use an locale emulator to even read it.
The best thing we can do is keep informing people about their shit practices and bad translations.

>>18448258
>吹奏楽部
>wind instruments club
>Not just "band"

>>18448770
"oh, you're a cellist? sorry, fuck off"

>>18448646
I understand that you are 100% reliant on the translation. You should know that you miss out on many things in any release. Comparing Hoshimemo with a nukige is retarded. If you want to miss out on an amazing nukige, that's your problem. Just stop attacking people who talk about the game. You are the one who doesn't understand a damn thing, because you haven't read it. You haven't read similar releases. You can't compare shit. You criticize based on very limited information, most likely from plebbit. I know how the translation reads, I know how numerous are the typos, grammar errors and mistranslations. You don't.

>>18448823
How many cellos does a typical marching band have?

>>18448823
Music clubs in schools are traditionally split up into band and orchestra.

>>18448835
you reek of ESL

>>18448520
There definitely are developers and artists that are opposed to releasing uncensored art. When FAKKU posted an uncensored image from a chapter Sayori drew on twitter, it resulted in a rather messy spat which resulted in FAKKU pulling her works from their site, and to this day no longer offers any chapters with her art. To avoid a re-occurrence with other artists, FAKKU no longer shows uncensored art in any of its twitter posts. Minori's opposition to releasing their games uncensored is pretty widely known as well. Light had to arrange for a 3rd party to host Dies Irae's 18+ patch because they were worried about the consequences of hosting it themselves. So there's... real concerns in the industry over uncensored art.

However, I think it's increasingly apparent that's not what's happening here. Almost all of JAST and MangaGamer's titles end up being released uncensored, with only a small handful remain with mosaics, and even then they are pretty clear at explaining when and why it happens. It's hard to imagine nearly every developer Sekai Project works with is opposed to it or loses the art assets. The Purple Soft situation really exposed what was going on, it's almost certain that they never tried to get uncensored art in the first place and just came up with the excuse later when asked. It's hard to say why they would do that, but the impression I get is that the people at Sekai Project just don't care about uncensored art, so they simply don't try to get or even ask about them. And if they are, then they aren't putting in any effort to address any fears that developers legitimately may have.

>>18448520
good luck they just got $1M for nekopara ova

>>18449115
Sekai seems to have put more emphasis on getting the mosaic free version of newer pickups, such as Neko-nin and Nanairo Reincarnation last year (and going back for Chrono Clock). Though they didn't seem to give a shit until they started putting some emphasis on Denpa early last year, and I would be surprised if they are going back to retroactively look for mosaic free CGs aside from Chrono Clock where it was an embarrassment for them. At the very least though, Yuzusoft seems to be a no go for getting a mosaic free release, as Nekonyan has 3 titles announced without mosaics but will still have mosaics with Sanoba Witch (along with Melty Moment).

Separately, Jast probably isn't the best test, as they historically have actively avoided licensing titles that they couldn't get mosaics for.

>>18448520
Sekai will never die. No matter how much worse their releases continue to be than they are today, there will always be those who fund whatever Sekai asks for anyways.
They could spit on the faces of those who buy their releases and they would gladly eat it up. If it weren't for kickstarter I don't have any doubt that Sekai would have gone under, and what a good thing it would be.
>>18449115
One of dovacs many old tweets mentioned that Sekai wasn't interested in segments of their customer base, (I think it was the "serious" customers or something). It's almost hard to believe that he's, or "was" the CEO of Sekai, but then again a bad company generally has a bad CEO.
If only JAST absorbed Sekai and were faster at releasing things.

>>18449255
Sadly, JAST also released censored adult titles despite going for demosaics. See Eien no Aselia, Shiny Days, Starless. To be fair, it's reasonable to suspect that they also released the restoration patch for the latter two titles themselves...but they never went back to Aselia despite releasing an adult version of the sequel.

>>18449317
Fuck Dovac, he'd probably want Sekai to be like the shithead company MoeNovel if he had his way. There's other ways to milk dumbass Steamfags without fucking over the actual fanbase. I can only hope Sekai actually tries to improve since it looks like they aren't going away soon.

Has anyone been around long enough to remember Hirameki? Probably doesn't matter since they aren't in the business anymore and judging by vndb they didn't bother with adult releases anyway.

>>18449052
At least I understand the concept of nukige. At least I read something before talking about it. At least I know what to expect (and what not to expect) from nukige releases in general, even the official ones. I won't let some newfag tell me what I'm allowed to fap to.

>>18449486
>Has anyone been around long enough to remember Hirameki?
Hearing that name for me is like hearing the name of that annoying classmate from high school who you never liked and forgot about for years until now.

>>18449486
>but they never went back to Aselia
I cry about not being able to read the Evil route every day.

>>18449317
>One of dovacs many old tweets mentioned that Sekai wasn't interested in segments of their customer base

I wish I had saved more old Dovac tweets in case people start to forget Sekia Project's true colors. He made it clear a long time ago he wasn't interested in my money and I've been happy to oblige. It was delightful to watch Sekai Project crawl back to the 18+ market after Steam fell to pieces on them. I can just imagine them gnashing their teeth every time they have to release a title with adult content or removed mosaics. Being forced to cater to those 18+ degenerates must be like purgatory.

>>18449486
shiny days and starless are uncensored

>>18449674
He's made it quite clear that they're not interested in actual visual novel fans.

>>18449486
Jast released patches for both Shiny Days and Starless themselves, they just did it "Off the record" so they wouldn't have to worry about some Canadian pencil pusher trying to do something

>>18449740
Meanwhile Frontwing DMCA'd the dog patch.

>>18449740
Yeah I figured as much.

>>18449674
Pure schadenfreude. As it turns out meme money doesn't last forever.

https://twitter.com/Denpasoft_pr/status/966137929277083650

Friday release for Seven days with the Ghost. I believe this will be Sekai's first exclusively R18 release.

Still no release date on Koikuma?

>>18448725
Keep up the good work, anon. Hopefully they go broke sometime soon, and their good licenses that they haven't gotten around to ruining yet get snapped up by companies that actually care about delivering a quality product.

It's not all that unlikely that they're not doing too hot, either. dovac used to frequently and publicly whine on twitter that Sekai was in the red, they licensed several high-profile titles (like WagaHigh) reportedly at a premium during the Steam bubble, and they apparently couldn't afford to properly QA and test Leyline1 and Hoshimemo (if what dovac said on SP's discord is true), two anticipated releases that were subpar and shit, respectively. They now have to go back and fix both titles or they'll be facing a bunch of angry customers, and if they couldn't afford to release them in an acceptable state in the first place, I doubt that will have changed since then.
Their foray into manga translation seems to have stalled almost entirely, aside from nabbing the rights to the Fata Morgana last year. It's been almost three years and they've only published one volume of GATE since their initial announcement, with the second volume having an extremely tentative release window of Q1 2018 (February is almost over and there hasn't been a peep since last December), and knowing Sekai, it'll be at least another year. A decent amount of the GATE fanbase hates them at this point for essentially sitting on the license and doing nothing with it while they prioritize endless moege, so good luck getting decent sales anymore once they deliver existing pre-orders. I hadn't even realized that they released the first volume of Fata Morgana until I googled it today, so that should say enough about its sales numbers and popularity.
They seemed to have almost entirely abandoned their otome-focused brand Maiden Voyage, since they fired the employee they hired specifically to manage it, and have announced no further titles aside from their first, Kane no Tame ni Kane wa Naru, which is a port of a mobile game and predominantly features, in my opinion, rather ugly and old male leads, and we all know how much the average otomege reader loves grizzled, ugly old men. I'll be amazed if it even gets mediocre sales numbers, considering that the only people that seem to care about it are fangirls that get excited about literally any otomege getting translated.
There's no room in the market for them to pivot into anime and achieve any tangible success, and light novels don't seem to sell all that well unless they have an extremely popular anime adaptations to generate interest in the west before translations hit the shelves, and I doubt the licenses to titles in the same tier as Fate/Zero, Shit Art Online, KonoSuba, Re:Garbage and NGNL are within Sekai's reach, since they won't be cheap and they lack a successful track record in light novel publishing.

The only good things they've got going for them is their backlog of anticipated titles, which are useless if they don't get them out the door before interest wanes, the recent success of the NekoPara OVA Kickstarter (note that they weren't listed as publishers in any capacity, and Sekai's name wasn't listed anywhere in the credits, but two EN translators are Sekai employees and the last is a freelancer Sekai has used in the past), their partnership with NekoWorks/Sayori, their never-ending list of doujin games they dump onto Steam for pennies on the dollar, and their army of Kickstarter backers that will throw money at anything they put on the site. That last one is vital to their survival, and if anything happens to those backers, they'll most likely run out of money and implode. The same could be said for Valve allowing VNs on Steam, since they haven't seriously invested in any non-Steam platform, but I doubt that will happen unless a major mainstream media controversy happens.

Overall, I'd say things aren't looking too good for Sekai, especially in regards to diversification, where they've almost failed entirely. I doubt they'll collapse in the near future, but they've certainly seriously damaged their reputation in the one market they have a foothold in, which doesn't bode well.

>>18448698
Prove it

>>18450225
Even meido hates SP, I see.

>>18449255
Going to be interesting to see how they end up handling baldr sky

>>18450076
They probably need to find success on Nutaku and/or Fakku in order to make much on this, although with the nature of the title they probably got the license for nearly nothing. At the moment, Denpa hasn't exactly built up an audience for nukige as MG has, with their releases to date being just R18 patches for titles that wouldn't bring in a nukige crowd. The upcoming KoiKuma release will probably be their best attempt to jump start that process.

>>18450166
KoiKuma is back to stalled+waiting on third party on their status tracker, so I'm guessing it ran into some type of last minute issue.

>>18450225
One other revenue stream they have coming online is console sales that started with Rabi-Ribi last year, even if they bungled the upcoming Root Double release for their backers. With the lackluster sales VNs get on Steam these days, they probably don't need to do all that remarkable to make a fair bit of profit on a far less crowded platform. They also are likely still bringing in a fair bit still on their initial hits, as while the Steam craze ending made it difficult for new titles to take off, titles that did well during the Steam craze continue to sell well, with Clannad approaching 70k on Steamspy. I would venture to guess that if they released their top 10 list for VNs sold in 2017 on Steam, it would look a lot like MG's list did, the majority being old titles that continue to sell with their couple hits for the year slipping in.

>>18450571
With them going back to get R18 G-Senjou and working on R18 Maitetsu, I imagine that the lack of an R18 Baldr Sky announcement is more on Giga than Sekai. They may have handled Denpasoft poorly for years, but since last year actually getting the R18 version of titles seems to be a priority, with Baldr Sky being the only exception to their current lineup.

>>18450571
Considering that they still refuse to confirm an 18+ version and just keep telling people to wait for an update that never comes, I wouldn't expect anything but an all-ages Steam release. Giga will mostly be to blame for that, but who the fuck doesn't secure the right to say if there will be an 18+ version or not? I heard a rumor back during the Grisaia Kickstarter that Sekai just bent over and said yes to everything Frontwing wanted, and the Baldr situation doesn't exactly help to dispel that.

>>18450225
> I hadn't even realized that they released the first volume of Fata Morgana until I googled it today, so that should say enough about its sales numbers and popularity.
If I recall correctly, it was posted here that SP somehow managed to screw up the digital release and had lots of customers pissed off at them.

>>18450722
I wonder exactly what's happening there. If they did get the 18+ version, there'd be no reason to keep quiet about it, just as there wouldn't be much reason to keep quiet if there was definitely no 18+ version. Leaving it hanging and deferring the answer only hurts them and their reputation. That means that that it's probably in some nebulous third state, where they legitimately don't know. Either they think they can get the rights but don't have it yet, or they're unsure if they can release it under contract. Maybe they are even planning a jast style unofficial patch... it's hard to say. Maitetsu on the other hand seems more obvious, it's likely the issue there is how to sell the game without running into issues.

>>18449115
>There definitely are developers and artists that are opposed to releasing uncensored art. When FAKKU posted an uncensored image from a chapter Sayori drew on twitter,
There is a high possibility the Sayori's "uncensored art" case is just a cover up by Fakku's founder, Jacob, who could with his mindset very well work for Sekai too.
The fact is that Sayori initially complained about having her rights broken by Fakku publishing anything of her chapters at all. She said she never agreed to Fakku publishing them. She said nothing about it being uncensored.
Later when Fakku took down those chapters they made that post saying Sayori didn't like uncensored stuff. Fakku said nothing about Sayori's right there.
Having an artist that completely refuses to publish on Fakku just goes against the image Fakku tried to build up of being the best thing that could happen to artists and the industry.

>>18450837
The fakku/sayori case is weird, because as I understand it fakku has rights to and publishes what they get from wani magazine. Sayori's chapter appeared in their magazine, which is how they got uncensored art to begin with (wani does the censorship usually, not the artists, so fakku get's it uncensored).

It does sound like Sayori initially didn't realize fakku had publishing rights... she was caught completely off guard by fakku showing off her uncensored art, which to her knowledge no one should publicly have had. I can imagine she went to wani, and wani and fakku simply agreed it would be easier for everyone to just pull it. Fakku has a huge amount at stake with wani, their entire business relies on that relationship, so I could see them making a quick decision to avoid issues. That would make the uncensored art more of a catalyst than the actual issue (although it could be the issue, we just don't know... her art has never been uncensored before otherwise.)

For what it's worth, it wasn't bad uncensored, so it's kind of a shame. I wonder if anyone mirrored the chapters before they came down.

>>18450627
>Sekai getting into console releases
They have pretty much no brand recognition outside of Steam and the (mostly PC) VN community, though, and I'm sure the "if it doesn't have gameplay, I won't buy it" crowd will be even larger with consoles other than the Vita. Steins;Gate 0 is a lot more mainstream than most of Sekai's titles due to the wild success of Steins;Gate in general, so I wouldn't expect Sekai to make serious bank off of PS4/Vita ports of VNs.

Speaking of Vita ports, what the fuck is up with Grisaia? That Sekai retard Audi claimed they had news about it for PSX, and all they talked about was WEE, that Project Lux VR crap nobody wants, and Fault. Are they even doing the Vita ports anymore, or has Frontwing pried them out of their incompetent hands?

>>18450957
I think it's called Craving Scolding. Sadpanda doesn't have it but nhentai does.

>>18450957
I was under the impression that all of Sayori's official work is censored and all her unofficial (stuff she does in her freetime for fun) has both a censored and uncensored release.

>>18451021
Everything Grisaia is just a mess. Delayed 18+ releases, delayed physical copies, delayed vita releases. Frontwing wouldn't have the power to stop them though (unless sekai was stupid enough to start work on them without signing contracts). Probably won't be seeing anything for a year or two.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/root-double-before-crime-after-days-xtend-edition/posts/2118962

Sekai managed to get the European rights to Root Double to resolve their previous mess.

>>18451021
Their tracker just says "The Fruit of Grisaia port needs console integration"

>>18451743
Knowing Sekai, they were probably just too lazy to get European rights until they were called out for it, thinking that "everyone should just make a US account" would suffice.

Which is really the major problem with Sekai, they are lazy as fuck.

With it being just over a week since the Sekai bundle went up, here is the peak and average concurrent users of each of their titles in their bundle to see their relative popularity (Steamdb now provides an average concurrent users for the past 7 days). Of the Japanese VNs, SakuSaku clearly is the least popular, indicating that it has problems getting people to play even when people have it in their library, as opposed to other titles like KaraKara or even Root Double where people are more likely to play it if they are aware of it.

Tier 1 (1 dollar)
Machina of the Planet Tree - 134 peak, 56 average
RaidersSphere4th - 164 peak, 66 average
Sunrider Academy - 216 peak, 129 average
KaraKara - 314 peak, 104 average
fault - milestone one - 313 peak, 69 average
fault - milestone two side:above - 114 peak, 47 average

Tier 2 (Average price, at the moment $7.10)
Root Double - 89 peak, 48 average
Sunrider: Liberation Day - 68 peak, 40 average
A Magical High School Girl - 23 peak, 10 average
Just Deserts - 83 peak, 43 average

Tier 3 (12 dollars)
SakuSaku - 21 peak, 11 average
KaraKara 2 - 79 peak, 44 average
Neko-nin exHeart - 78 peak, 41 average

Total wise, the bundle is up to $388k, or just over $250k going back to Sekai at the default share.

>>18451907
I'd put money on them finally talking to their legal rep being responsible for their sudden change of heart. Of all the parts of the world they could have fucked with, they picked Europe, the area with some of the strongest consumer protections laws. I'm almost certain someone would have sued if they hadn't gotten off their asses and done something.

>>18448520
We do not need to do much anymore. Sekai is slowly straining people's patience and giving excuses. They are just prolonging the inevitable.

>>18449179
>1 million

And tell me how fast that will they burn through it. Once that Nekopara license is out of Sekai's hands like it was on the Switch its really over.

>>18449317
>Sekai will never die

I highly deny that. Companies only stay alive long enough through the good will of their consumers. And the lack of competition. Frontwing is the only alternative I can mention that is actually taking Sekai's spot.

>Serious customers

Basically he was trying to say he did not need nude/porn to even exist and that they did not cater to them. This was at the time Sekai was riding high on Nekopara, Grisaia, Clannad and a few Indie titles. But after that initial success it did become a cycle of

>Start a Kickstarter of game here
>Promise a lot of physicals
>Kickstarter succeeds
>2 years later the physicals are waiting, translations not yet even done, excuses pile up when they keep doing more Kickstarters in the year and succeed again only to have more people hate them for it.

It's not surprising that they would be hated after awhile. But after almost 4 to 5 years later I would guess people are going to be angry and just give up. It's just the start of the backlash really.

>>18449714
>You are not my target market

Lol who fucking let's these manchildren in these positions? I can bet he bitched so hard when he did not get the sales he wanted and is forced to make 18+.

>>18450225
>Wagahigh

I remember that. And also to top it all off they are going to have to pay out the nose for those translations which considering how bad Sekai pays and how much they have to do is going to be more than it's worth because it will be much longer than usual.

>Manga translation

Wait Manga translation? But they can barely get into visual novels that much. I did not know they gathered licenses for that.

>Otome

Yes I forgot completely about it. I also remembered the employee you talked about. That was humiliating and really a black eye for Sekai on that front. They paid a female employee who was into translating Otome and once she flew over to California then she was fired not even two months later and did not even offer to get a flight back. So she had to set up a GoFundMe account to fly her back because she was poor and unable to afford it. Fortunately she did get help but it really showed Sekai for what they were. I bet she could have sued them back for not giving a severance package and not giving notice.

>The only good thing they got going for them is their backlog of titles before the interest wanes.

This is the only thing I see with them and the problem with VN announcements as well. I think if something is more highly anticipated or at the least is going to be kickstarted. A rule of thumb should be that it has at least 10-15% translated starting out or higher so fans have interest that its going to be out much sooner than usual. Sekai is just a bad offender. They have so many releases that I do not know how they will be able to complete most of them without going bankrupt in the process.

>Sekai not listed as a publisher of Nekopara OVA

I am surprised but it does make sense that they would not need a publisher if their title is selling like hot cakes.

I would agree their future does not look good and their cons are just filled with no enthusiasm just basically "hey were working on it!" And that is it.

>>18450315
They basically do not need Sekai to succeed really. It's one of those things were if you know your title is popular you can find someone that can do it better.

>>18450571
I predict there will be a huge amount of piracy for the game and a patch will be out for it.

>>18450722
>An update that never comes

More like "were still working on it (not really) but hey we will shill our new Kickstarter which we will update for another Kickstarter" and never get anything done. I noticed more comments being vocal and angry about them stalling.

Sengoku Rance is fully translated, probably gone be a while till release. i imagine it'll need a lot of testing

>>18452771
As if /jp/ represents all of the vn fanbase. Only a minority who are well informed are against Sekai. Everyone else simply don't care.

>>18453586
There is not that huge of a VN fanbase anyways. If you do not get enough people buying the product it still hurts the company.

>>18453586
Sekai's reputation is dirt pretty much everywhere people discuss VNs in English. Maybe randoms on Steam don't know, but they don't buy many VNs either.

That yuri vn is finally getting released tomorrow and hopefully they have something good for pre-order after that.

>>18451743
If I remember the twitter conversations correctly, doddler completed the fruit of grisaia port a long time ago, but has no vita dev kit to finish integration himself. That would explain the message in their tracker.

>>18454890
If Evenicle isn't the next release, it'll probably be a late spring or summer release.

Chinese scene vn vote, how does it compare to ours? also damn the Making＊Lovers looks good.

Group A（VNs sold in 2017）
Making＊Lovers 526pts
Amayui Castle Meister 339pts
Hikari no Umi no Apeiria 322pts
Suisou Ginka no Istoria 309pts
Kin'iro Loveriche 272pts
Aoi Tori 215pts
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou 2.2… 194pts
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou 2.1… 141pts
Shugaten! -Sugarfull Tempering- 129pts
Kizuna Kirameku Koi Iroha 125pts
Trinoline 124pts
Flowers -Le Volume sur Hiver- 117pts
Niizuma Lovely x Cation 113pts
Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm EXTRA1 101pts
Tsukikage no Simulacre 94pts
AstralAir no Shiroki Towa Finale -Shiroki. 93pts
Yoru Meguru, Bokura no Maigo… 91pts
Hoshi Koi ＊ Twinkle 74pts
Venus Blood -Brave- 74pts
9 -Nine- Kokonotsu Kokonoka Kokonoiro 71pts
Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart 2 62pts
Bishoujo Mangekyou -Tsumi to Batsu… 58pts
Newton to Ringo no Ki 57pts
Mono no Aware wa Sai no Koro. 55pts

Group B（VNs translated in 2017）
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou 2 1942pts
Senren ＊ Banka 1789pts
Island 1370pts
Koi x Shin Ai Kanojo 890pts
Tsukikage no Simulacre 402pts
Chaos;Child 371pts
Floral Flowlove 348pts
Hanasaki Work Spring! 325pts
Karenai Sekai to Owaru Hana 272pts
Ikusa Megami Zero 259pts
Miagete Goran, Yozora no Hoshi o 208pts
Flowers -Le Volume sur Automne- 199pts
AstralAir no Shiroki Towa Finale -Shiroki.181pts
Otome ga Tsumugu Koi no Canvas 100pts
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen/Futari no Hakuoro 90pts
9-Nine- Kokonotsu Kokonoka Kokonoiro 80pts
Zanmataisei Demonbane 74pts
Haruru Minamo ni! 57pts
Aikagi 56pts
MinDeaD BlooD ~Shihaisha no Tame… 56pts
Bishoujo Mangekyou -Tsumi to Batsu 55pts
Kyojin-tachi 41pts
Venus Blood -Hypno- 32pts
Seirei Tenshou ~Kowareyuku Sekai… 32pts

>>18455121
I don't know if it's smart to release Evenicle next month. Rance X is out tomorrow and the new Senran Kagura game is coming to PC next month too.
Both groups which they would want to market and sell the game already bought or are going to buy a game this month.
Having Evenicle between them would result in bad sales, that's at least my theory.

>>18455144
>Island 1370pts
Disgusting.

>>18455183
I don't know how many people who buy the Japanese version of Rance X will buy the English version of Evenicle, but I guess there are some. I also think Senran has good art, but I don't really like/buy the normal games. That may just be me though.

>>18455516
I tried one of them, I think it was Estival Versus.
It's pretty much 2-3 button pressing gameplay and 99% fan service.
I like Dynasty Warriors for example but Senran Kagura was really a disappointment.

>>18455144
I hope Nekonyan picks up Making*Lovers.

>>18455742
I think you're gay.

>>18455742
My brother. I can't remember which one I played either, and I've dumped hundreds of hours into just mindlessly slaughtering Asian dudes for pure catharsis in Dynasty/Samurai/Orochi, but I couldn't stomach Senran Kagura for more than about thirty minutes, half of which were an especially awful tutorial that went in one ear and out the other.

>>18457573
I agree with the other anon that the art is good, but I just don't find Senran games that fun. I'm looking forward to Evenicle as an actual rpg though. Being from Alicesoft helps.

>>18453096
It probably still needs to be edited too. By the time it starts scripting, Evenicle will probably be out.

>>18448698
Please be real. I'm in love with Maybe art.

>>18455144
>Flowers -Le Volume sur Hiver-
Holy fuck chinese already have the whole series translated? God i hate JAST.

Maidens of Michael was released, with the next Kyonyuu/Funbag Fantasy going up for preorder with a March 29 release.

>>18460271
My money is safe for another month. Hopefully Kyonyuu does well for MG anyways.

>>18455407
I want /vn/ to leave

>>18462983
Hi Frontwing dev.

>>18460271
REEEE
I WANT EVENICLE

>>18463074
Is that your complaint about the game?

>>18463234
No, my complaint is that Frontwing has gone to shit.

>>18463210
I agree but hopefully you're ready for a late spring/summer release. I think there was another title or two that reached 100% before Evenicle

>>18463348
DameKoi. And, for the looks of it, MG will release a good amount of VN/RPG on April-June.

>>18460271
Another pre-order that I'll pass.
Hopefully it does well so we can get Mankitsu Happening, it would do decently due to the popular H-anime too.

Anyway, I really hope that it's not the only pre-order this month, I can't wait 1+ month for the next one.

>>18463404
It's listed as March 29, so that looks to be the case. If there was another March release, it would be placed around the first half of the month.

>>18456314
He is.

>>18451963
I'm surprised that SakuSaku in the the bundle. So basically, SakuSaku and everything else for only $12.

They also added Highway Blossoms to the $7.10 tier.

>>18463348
>Evenicle
>summer
>then sengoku
Is quest seriously going to be a christmas release at the earliest? Fucking seriously?

>>18463730
I don't think they'd release 3 Alicesoft titles too close together and Sengoku is the prequel to Quest, so it will obviously come first.

Honestly though, just over a year to get Quest out would still be pretty good, since a title that length could normally take 2 or more years to be released.

>>18463750
Yeah but really, how long have they been sitting on a translation? The speed it's going at right now isn't really surprising TL-wise. But they've stacked a bunch of releases on top of it.

rance has to be the most cancerous fanbase in the world. I suppose it's worth it for MG to deal with the sperg fits since they're making more money with it than they could with any other realistic license.

>>18452996
>So she had to set up a GoFundMe account to fly her back because she was poor and unable to afford it. Fortunately she did get help but it really showed Sekai for what they were.
How can a weeb company be so scummy? I thought they would at least respect fellow VN fans.

>>18463813
Are you complaining about people being entitled and then justifying their entitlement in the same post? You're pretty stupid.

>>18463891
see, like this

>>18463813
Autism

>>18463730
I think Quest will be a Spring or Summer 2019 release at the earliest. If you're lucky Sengoku wil be out by winter since MG will only get more titles to 100%, and it'll take 2 months or so for each title for beta testing and such.
>>18463813
If you think the Rance fanbase is the most cancerous you really don't know much, haven't checked any generals. They may be autistic but to say they're cancerous is not true as they don't have shitposting and actually talk about their series.
Also, what are these other realistic licenses? Assuming you mean gameplay titles, Rance IS the most realistic since Eushully unfortunately hates gaijn, and I think Baldr has gameplay, but Sekai has the license to them. The other gameplay titles just aren't that known to the people who want a translation, unless one of them somehow makes the survey results. I hope that there are more gameplay licenses in the future, but for now it's all that EOPs have to talk about. Aside from Kamidori and other translated titles.

>>18460271
DAMEKOI WHEN?

>>18464239
>Also, what are these other realistic licenses?
i literally said that there are no realistic licenses that could make more money than rance. Do not reply to me if you are an esl pls,

Non-moe waifufaggotry cancer when?

>>18464252
Any chance they picked up the e-mote remake?

>>18463813
Are you serious? Have you ever interacted with fans of Rick and Morty, Undertale, LoL, literally any YouTube "star", and Stephen Universe before? I'd argue that what I've seen of the Rance fanbase doesn't even compare to any of the ones I just listed.

>>18464480
I hope so too, wouldn't mind the extra few months waiting for it.

Anyone noticed sekai had a massive drop in followers on Twitter today? Seems like Twitter did a bot purge and sekai was caught up in it. Continued shady things from sekai to the surprise of no one.

Higurashi Ch. 6 is preparing for beta testing.

>>18463750
Maybe they'll bundle 2 of them like they did with 5d/6

>>18466282
No, that was because 5D was short and kind of crap gameplay.

>>18465766
Why do they need beta testing for a game that runs the same as the 5 others they've released? What's with the huge delay?

>>18466459
Testing shit is still needed even if it is the same engine. You gotta check no bugs cropped up from scripting or if there were any glaring issues like random untranslated lines.

>>18466538
Obligatory, testing and QA is needed unless you're Sekai Project.

So this is now on JAST too https://www.jastusa.com/fallen-makina-and-the-city-of-ruins

>>18467347
So they have Futa now?

>>18467347
Holy shit i didn't know there was an english release for this one. I played it with a machinetl and it was god-tier, can't wait to read it again.

>>18467347
>female protagonist
no thanks

>>18448698
MG release when?

If someone were to translate a game, what should they do to make sure it gets into the right hands?

>>18468919
Post a link to it

>>18468919
dovac will take good care of it

I've been waiting for a while now. Give it to me straight, fellas. Are the rest of the Decembers in my life doomed to be Without Angels?

>>18468965
>>18468973
https://mega.nz/#!RsUUGagT!WL2EGdku9nieH9_NJAphdkYlv3rKIn8DK8OAqjEP5JY

>>18468965
>>18468973
https://mega.nz/#!tol0XaTB!n8TQoVTeXCbHIFn60SLtW5rWRUfB0cdrehFN4lPPOJc

>>18469186
>237 lines
Now try doing that for 20000+ lines.

>>18469186
Just wondering, why did you choose to translate an obscure, completely unremarkable-looking 15 year old VN out of the thousands of possible choices?

I mean you can translate whatever you want but something like that won't get much attention.

>>18469572
back to /vn/

>>18469585
You got me, I'm actually a reddit-fuwanovel-/vn/ infiltrator here to ruin /jp/

>>18469572
It really wasn't that obscure at the time, it had an anime too. Maybe he's just an oldfag.

>>18467347
It should be on MG too, based on what the translator said.

>>18469585
Keep posting it, newfriend. It gets funnier every time.
>>18467411
>now
There was futa in Starless too.

>>18463234
My complaint is that ISLAND is more of a boring moege than a plotge. I was tricked thinking it's gonna have some plot but even Steins;Gate:0 does everything better.

>Yosuga no Sora

Is it any good?
thoughts?

>>18470565
Only the Sora route

>>18470565
It's my favorite kinetic novel.

>>18469509
I'll do my best

>>18469572
I like this game and I feel comfortable working with it. If there's another project that desperately needs a translator then I'll consider picking up something else, but this is what I felt like doing on my own.

>>18471616
Go find someone to help you with insertion on Fuwanovel

JAST made a subsidiary company for BL, cleverly named JAST BLUE, and their first announcement is Sweet Pool. https://vndb.org/v1399

https://twitter.com/JASTBLUE/status/967056417650761728

>>18471616
so are you like almost done?

>>18471785
Can't wait to read it in 2022!

>>18471785
>BL
lmao fags ITT thought they were doing a new Empire game.

>>18471785
Aren't they just stealing Alicesoft's naming for their former BL section?

>>18471846
Yes, the word blue is copyrighted.

>>18471763
Isn't there someone here? I'd rather find help from another /jp/sie if I can

>>18471795
No, I don't have any real life obligations though so I could probably work through it pretty quickly if I tried

>>18471785
I'm mad. Nitro+ keeps giving them licences while JAST keeps not releasing them. Just great.

Good for the yaoifags, i guess. They could probably play it in 2025 if they're lucky.

>>18471785
Nitro+Chiral also announced a Japanese Vita version.
https://twitter.com/NitroplusCHiRAL/status/966961340974804992

Considering the timing, I wonder if JAST is planning to port it to Steam.

>>18472923
JAST are too lazy for that.

>>18472096
There was a complete fan translation in works, but apparently JAST bough it up.

>>18469186
>popotan
Based anon. You have no idea how much I wished for this in my youth.
I wish you luck.

>>18469572
>Popotan
>an obscure, completely unremarkable-looking 15 year old VN
Fucking newfags I swear. We still have occasional threads about this game on /jp/.

>>18471785
so JAST is actually working on their nitro games, but only the otome ones? this is the worst timeline

>>18473351
>but only the otome ones?
>otome
It can't be that hard to actually read what you're responding to.
>for BL

>>18473375
Properly distinguishing between the two is giving it more respect than it deserves.

>>18473385
So you're just going out of your way to look like a dumbass who can't read a single line. Got it.

>>18473396
/jp/ was never a quality board. It's basically a safe space for brainlets and autists like him.

>>18473375
>otome
>BL
same disgusting homoshit.
not him though.

>>18473442
>same disgusting homoshit.
One of them is about heterosexual relationships and the other is about guys banging guys, how are they the same at all?

>>18473469
>how are they the same at all
from my perspective both about MC being banged by dudes. Hence both are homoshit.

>>18473415
This thread in particular is especially awful though. I often feel like I'm on another board entirely.

>>18473469
A heterosexual relationship ...in which the character you self insert into dates guys. Gay.

>>18472923
Oh, so that's probably why. Maybe they plan to port it like Seinarukana and Littlewitch Romanesque. Maybe they even went for Dramatical Murder, but it was too expensive at the moment.

So that means Tokyo Necro SOON, right? Right? Since it got an All-ages release not long ago. (I know i'm delusional, but let me have this)

>>18473629
if jast hasnt made any progress on sumaga, a game from 2008, what makes you think they will zip past that to a game from 2016?

>>18474009
They actually seem to have a translator and editor working on Sweet Pool. Is anyone even working on Sumaga still?

Fata Morgana fandisk and sengoku rance are fully translated + edited. if the engine work doesn't take too long, a summer release for SR? though with all the gameplay it might be in testing for quite awhile.

>>18473536
Such autism

>>18474482
It likely depends when they will release Evenicle since releasing 2 gameplay titles close to each other wouldn't be a good idea.

Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask. Can you guys recommend me some comfy VNs? I mean, sad stories are fine, but I want some heartwarming in them.

>>18474191
no idea
who even knows what is going on in peter's company

>>18474482
Evenicle and Sengoku will likely be a season or two apart. If Evenicle somehow comes out before spring (unlikely now with the new pre-order being announced) I'd expect Fall at the earliest for a Sengoku release and so on.

>>18474591
I guess you're looking for moege, stuff like Princess Evangile plus fandisc, Da Capo 3, Dal Segno and maybe Supipara.

>>18473536
>thinks that Otome games are played by women

Is there seriously no .cpz repacker, even though there's a whole bunch of extractors? Even the script extraction works fine, but I have no way to repack it.

>>18474718
Thanks anon

>>18474866
From what I remember some anon learnt how to code and made one for personal use during the whole Chrono Clock mess. Nothing came of the supposed re-edit of the script in the end though and the anon said he didn't want to release the code since it was a hacky mess or something like that.

>>18475018
That's exactly what I wanted to do. Fix Makoto and D.D. + restoration of honorifics. I just couldn't take it anymore and dropped it mid-route. Making it so other people wouldn't be forced to go through this shit would motivate me to finish reading it.

Seven days with the Ghost was released. It is a shame Denpa removed the best selling sort to be able to get an idea of how it ends up doing.

https://twitter.com/Denpasoft_pr/status/967179802879897603

>>18475233
Why are they charging money for a freeware doujin game?

>>18475244
Because it costs money to translate.

>>18475233
Classic Sekai Project quality.
https://twitter.com/NAlogicc/status/967219267581108226

>>18475488
Probably needs JP system.

>>18474591
My Girlfriend Is The President
https://www.jastusa.com/my-girlfriend-is-the-president

>>18475627

>>18475061
Still haven't played the game because of that shit. Would have been nice if someone did fix the mess, even if it should be Sekai's job.

haha rewrite+ will never ever ever ever be released
>sekai
>picked up
how come this vn has so many bad choices behind it, first the anime and now the mystery translation

>>18476942
don't worry, you're not missing out on much

>>18477063
conjurer is working on it

>>18474866
>>18475018
>>18475061

Yo.

>>/vg/206362392

I don't have a repacker, but I have the code to make one. However it will be a super messy shit so I don't want to do it, and instead dumping my methods on pastebin. Wait a sec.

>>18477902
Of course I mess up the cross-board link


>>>/vg/206362392

>>18477902
https://pastebin.com/2A7kBc2U

Here, but seems that the other tool is more functional (AKA actually works), if one were to disregard the fact that it doesn't do stuff like special characters or italic/bold.

>>18474591
Doki Doki Literature Club

>Maidens of Michael is on first while New Generation is third

The yurifags are going all out. I'm mostly surprised by the latter though. I know that prequels of a franchise generally sell when a new title comes out (at least on MG), but I didn't expect it to happen for Sono Hana.

>>18478159
>actually works
Does it really, though? All I did was change the first line, and it fucked up line break forever. With dynamic text box, it makes the text box smaller for the rest of the game, so text spills out of it.

>>18478676
Like so.

>>18478676
>>18478703
>>>/vg/206378714

"Works" in the sense that it inserts text, to make it work properly its another matter entirely.

Anyways, \n is a line break, try to use it on modified lines.

>>18482669
Is this image referring to their use of 'elections'?

One of the twins makes mistakes with words while the other corrects them, it's a recurring joke throughout the game.

Full Mahou Tsukai no Yoru translation when?
TSUKIHIMR REMAKE when, Nasu?

>>18448258
which game?

>>18482669
Not a mistake. Jast did this on purpose.

>>18482669

>>18483499
Libefeetians forgotten once again.

>>18483499
#allcupsmatter

>>18484838
New thread for this week is up

>>18483499
This is why i hate americans.

>>18475244
Didn't stop them before. One of the Winged Cloud's VN was freeware and they ending up charging for it on Steam.