/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Koikuma - Awaiting on Steam content and Chinese script integration, 2018 release
Dracu-Riot - Through 1st round of QA, fixes from QA next before more QA
>Maitetsu - Back to QA
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 - 33% translated
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 - QA done, need fixes
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
Rewrite+ - Picked up
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Senren * Banka - Picked up
Ninja Girl - Announced
Island Diary - Announced
Love Duction - 100% translated, needs engine work
Koi ni, Kanmi o Soete - 70% translated
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
Secret Project 1 - In QA
Secret Project 2 - 100% translated, 99% edited, needs engine work
Secret Project 4 - 30% translated, needs engine work

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - Targeting a May release
Island - 100% translated, 40-50% edited, 2018 release
>Loca-Love - Fall release
2 upcoming secret announcements

Sol Press
Newton to Ringo no Ki - 100% translated/edited, Aiming for an early June release, awaiting approval from Steam, demo released
Sakura Sakura - Released delayed to beyond April, demo released, remain work includes finishing the increase in resolution
Yotsunoha - July 27th release, 75% translated, 70% edited

Nekonyan
>Hello,good-bye - 50% translated, Auguest release
>Sanoba Witch - 70% translated, 25% edited, October release
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Mini Fandisc - Fall release
Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - Early 2019 release
Melty Moment - Aiming for a release next Winter

Cherry Kiss
Tsundere Idol - May 28th release
Harem Guild - Upcoming release

Other
Tayutama 2 - May release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
Hemoimo - Dropped by SakuraGame and no longer being released on Steam, upcoming Fakku release planned. Currently waiting on beta build
Punchline - Summer 2018 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Song of Memories - 2018 release
Neighbor - 2018 release, 45% translated
E-Gene - 1st entry planned for Fall 2018
Venus Blood Frontier - Kickstarter planned
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Seven Days - 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

>>19107451
>Dive 1 + Dive 2 in mid 2018
>mid 2018
Hilarious

>>19107521
Has Sekai ever made their estimates? I think the only one I can recall in recent memory is maybe Nekopara Vol. 2?

Maitetsu has been "In QA" since June of 2017. Do you think they'll beat their year long Leyline QA record?

>Nursery Rhyme - 100% translated, 50% edited
Oh, it moved.

>>19107532
QA sure didn't help Leyline from what I've seen.

>>19107531
I think they made their Ne No Kami deadline, well for the first one anyway. They missed the second one because someone goofed and never sent it to steam so instead of just releasing the denpa version alone they delayed it for 2 weeks for the simultaneous all-ages and +18 double release.

In this thread we also discuss how to take away the Fortissimo license from SakuraGame. Or a way to fix this shit.

>>19100416
>>19100754
>>19100773
>>19101956
>>19102523
>>19102719
>>19102994
>>19103480
>>19103673

My plan:
La'cryma has a twitter. A concentrated flooding of tweets warning them about SakuraGame shitty practices could in theory work.

>>19109337
https://twitter.com/lacryma2014

>>19109337
If the contract is already signed, then it's hopeless.

>>19110088
wtf who is this galaxy brain

>>19110088
Amazing.

>Evenicle - Through testing, back to editing

Holy fuck, sometime this century please.

>>19110158
It's been less than a year since announcement, faggot. I've been waiting for SukiSuki for almost two years now, I'm sure you can wait for another few months. Bitch.

>>19110169
>SukiSuki

There's literally 5000 identical, generic weebshit VNs you could play instead. Go take your Pajeet taste elsewhere.

>>19110211
back to your containment thread please

>>19110211
t. Braindead EOP who has played <10 VNs.

>>19109866
Not really, CherryKiss took Wild Romance's license from Zoo corporation, And SP took MuvLuv from Degica.
Of course, both of these happened well after the games was translated. Meaning it's not impossible, but one needs to prove to the original Devs. that the game was so horribly handed to warrant a license transfer.

JAST update https://twitter.com/SneakyGun1/status/1000806591594188802

>>19111246
>We're finishing up the TLC and going into the final rounds of testing.
So fucking slow. Can we hope 2019?

>>19110878
The Muv Luv contract expired, it was broken.

>>19111772
*wasn't broken

>>19111571
is jast fixvable?

>>19110211
This but unironically

idk where to ask but can you guys rec me some modern VNs? with new cutting edge tech, or just something thats made fairly recently? I was was looking at pic related and I theres actual character movement in it, ive never seen that before. But then again i dont really read VNs, but now im interested in whats in the game nowadays.

>>19113185
Gakuen Handsome

>>19113185
>theres actual character movement in it
That's not super uncommon nor a recent development

>>19113221
well its pretty damn clean looking, and the art and layout overall is bright with clear colors, everything feels crisp and fluid. I said i dont delve into VNs but im looking for some modern recommendations basically. Unless thats a problem for ya.

>>19113185
Boku no Pico

>>19113185
YariMesu

>>19113185
Most VNs don't get translated for years after they're released, if at all, so you might want to try the untranslated VN thread if that's what you're looking for.

>>19113246
https://vndb.org/g2038?fil=date_after-20109999.tag_inc-2038.tagspoil-0;m=0;o=d;s=rel

>>19112490
Yeah they need more staff.
Other then the Nitro+ stuff translation time generally isn't their problem. Its the stages afterwards.

They start to slow down in editing, then they offload the programming to the Japanese side who treat it as low priority (rarely it goes to Doddler instead such as Schatten). Then they get bogged down in testing/QC + organizing with the Japanese side to fix bugs.

They need to start with their own programmer. Get that done inhouse instead of offloading it to the Japanese who treat it as a side project.

What is moogy-kamisama working on right now? Any hints yet?

>>19113914
no one cares about Moogy, ask him yourself

>>19113957
How dare you

>>19113914
I'm sure it's Tokyo Necro

>>19110158
Mangagamer did mention that they are back to editing it at the con. They did kind of hint that they are back on schedule after Higurashi and a few bug loops in the other games. Bug loops are huge in VN as if they do not fix it the whole game is fucked.

>>19113341
Second this. Everyone needs to play it at least once.

>>19114231
based jap coding

>>19113185
>Expecting a recent game to be out at this time.

The only one i know of is Steins;Gate Elite(which is a huge remake adding 3 new routes, new graphics, and also promising redone anime scenes by White Fox that did original Steins;Gate), Trinoline(2017) are more recent games. I just dont know anything with CUTTING EDGE tech lol. Then again it depends what you played recently and what you consider recent.

>>19113696
>They need to start with their own programmer. Get that done inhouse instead of offloading it to the Japanese who treat it as a side project.

Its going to be difficult to find more programmers. Unless there is some willing to do it as a side project to build their skills.

>>19113185
"Cutting edge" in a VN would probably just be something that was in normal video games 20 years ago. Who fucking cares.

>>19114262
lol you know it. Its not that they dont know how to code, its that they are taught code yet dont know how to implement it in real life examples. It messes with some games they do.

>>19114273
He's just talking about emote. I'm not sure what the appeal is personally, but he's got four Nekopara games he can go through that have jiggly sprites in English.

>>19114357
Its most likely the Live2D stuff with the Visual Novel. That is kind of it really. I can not blame him if he likes it. But still its not used a lot just because its too much effort for little money. Then again it can be ignored if the art is high end and the story is solid.

>>19114311
Yep, the scene is so short on programmers, that even have a minimum required level of knowledge, that most companies are forced to to gangbang Doddler and he can only do so much alone. There are still others out there, but it has lead to mass delays across the scene that have stemmed from programming issues.

>>19114273
>which is a huge remake adding 3 new routes
No it isn't. It's just the visual novel but animated, reusing the anime and pachinko animation. It doesn't even have an option to change the graphics to the visual novel's, and the movement in Steins;Gate Elite tends to feel weird and clunky as fuck.

>>19113341
Wait, since when it's translated to french?

MangaGamer's Top 5 Weekly Chart:

1. The Tower of Five Hearts
2. Magical Marriage Lunatics
3. Fallen ~Makina and the City of Ruins~
4. Mutiny!!
5. Kuroinu Ch.3

A vanilla yuri title with harem setting finally took the 1st place from Magical Marriage Lunatics after good 2 months. Meanwhile Kuroinu Ch.3 struggles to keep the 5th place, it will most likely jump to the top on release week but I doubt it will sell much just by looking how lackluster the interest was in the pre-order month.

On another note, seeing that some yuri OELVN with 39 patreon members and 189 $ per month (https://www.patreon.com/TsukiWare)) can take away the 1st place so easily, it makes you wonder how low MangaGamer's sold copies count must be these days/months.

>>19115504
So it is true after all MG is done for.

>>19115553
Yes, we all need to support nekonyan instead.

>>19115556
Bazinga!

>>19115504
They sold ~10 076 VNs between Jan 13th and April 27th

>>19115582
say it ain't so

>>19115582
How tragic. The game really deserved better.

>>19115587
Does this include steam sales?

>>19115720
I'm not Valve, no

>>19115587
How many of those were third party titles? Third party titles are selling more then MG so Circus decided to fuck them over and join up with SakuraGame. MG is done for.

>All this shitposting.
Please return to your containment thread.

>>19115822
Who are you quoting?

>>19115553
It really depends on how much MangaGamer paid for their current and upcoming licenses.
I doubt MangaGamer is dumb enough and paid for license X expecting 5k-10k copies sold just like Sekai Project did a few years ago with some of their titles. Sorcery Jokers for example sold less than 1k copies on steam and it's a guaranteed flop since it sold even less on their site just because it couldn't stay even 2 weeks in their Top 5 Weekly Chart disappearing completely after that from it, but I doubt MangaGamer paid for it expecting Fate/Stay tier of copies sold.

Getting the rights to a visual novel can be quite complicated (it took JAST 5 years to get Majikoi). A huge amount of money goes to the companies who own the rights to the voice actors (that's why we will never see another BaseSon visual novel from MangaGamer).
They most likely paid lots of money for the voice actors in Da Capo 3. Seeing that it still didn't receive a physical release despite doing well means that the voice actors were quite expensive.
Even Doddler said something about it but he didn't specify which visual novel: https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/994696782478163968 but it's most likely Da Capo 3.

Unlike Sekai Project who does a kickstarter every time they need money and JAST who has J-List and most of their programming work is done by the Japanese developers side which reduces cost of a visual novel localization even more but takes years of delays to release it, MangaGamer only has nukige which seems to be doing decently for them.
Nukige and some certain steam titles are what keeps MangaGamer afloat.

>>19115875
Realistically what would be easy money for MG? Besides Rance.

>>19115947
Imopara 3

>>19115947
Monobeno 18+.

>>19115947
Like half of their backlog of games they haven't released yet.

>>19113914
I want to believe its muramasa, he said he working on a vn with makoto and that he consideres it a 10th anniversary thing and also a major contribution. Both of them is one their fav game and its already been partially translated so would make sense.

>>19116032
Muramasa never yo

>>19116041
forever japanese

>>19115947
Rance is the easiest because its absurdly popular AND it's unvoiced other than 03. Everything else that would sell easy like Imopara 3, Funbag Fantasy, or some random Alicesoft game would have some voice fuckery. Alicesoft in general would sell well because gameplay even the shitty ones. Even though Evenicle would have the most potential for sales because Senran Kagura artist, pretty much anything in their catalog would more than break even. That's assuming that MG's deals with Alicesoft aren't particularly unusual, and 1k is more than enough to break even.

>>19115947
I'm sure that if they would get rose gun days, would be good money, even more if they get a hold of the fantranslation

>>19114452
Absolutely. It may be worth it to pool money together to hire more programmer's.

>>19115792
>Circus decided to fuck them over
The one they are doing doesn't have circus listed as a developer.
https://vndb.org/v7595
Circus worked on https://vndb.org/v4021 though.

>>19116300
True looks like Doddler isn't even working on a MangaGamer visual novel since most of the time he posts screenshots or coding on stuff that he works on for them.
>https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1000099472506961920

>>19115947
Clockup titles like Maggot Baits, sleeping Sheep and Isolated Wolf.

>>19116331
He's probably talking about the Yuzusoft VNs he's doing for Sekai.

>>19116347
Or Baldr Sky.

>>19116032
It's most likely Tokyo Necro.

>>19115822
This is a containment thread.

>>19116364
Any reasons why?

>>19113914
It doesn't matter because it won't be finished

>>19116032
Can you link the source to what you said? It would be much appreciated.

>>19116876
just search "moogy0 project" on twitter and scroll down somewhat

https://eltranslationsdot.wordpress.com/

>>19117119
Thanks anon, I tried searching on Twitter but not the right term.

I believe Moogy might be rather translating Django if it's any major project. It's one of if not the oldest JAST license, almost 10 years old by now which means it's likely to expire soon. It's also a project on which only Makoto would work.

>>19117174
https://s.vndb.org/sf/76/2676.jpg
Okay, I gotta try out this TL and see if it's any good.

Moogy is translating Cross Channel

>>19117378
>>19117174
Nope.

>>19117349
He dropped direct hints it could be Tokyo Necro a while back but it seems he either got rid of his curiouscat account or it got hacked.
>>/jp/thread/S16594006#p16624106

>>19118076
Softhouse Chara deserves better than this.

>>19117174
>>19118076
>You can support development of this project on Patreon or using PayPal.
This faggot is actually asking for donations for 'translating' this.

>>19118162
Surprised it isn't more common really. The LN scene is full of people who have moved onto that model.

>>19118200
You saw the tantrum the entire translation community threw when Aroduc tried something similar.

>>19118222
>entire translation community
There isn't exactly much of a community left to complain any more.

>>19118089
Oh cool, and yeah he deleted his account when everyone went head over heels by a false rumor about information being compromised once CuriousCat got bought, it's a shame.

>>19118089
Oh cool, and yeah he deleted his account when everyone went crazy by a false rumor about information being compromised once CuriousCat got bought, it's a shame.

https://solpress.co/product/10/newton-and-the-apple-tree
Did this webpage always have Editing and QA progress? I don't remember it being there last time i checked.

>>19118260
Yes.

>>19118229
Sure there is.

>>19118392
Nearly everyone of the old fan translation community sold out or is dead. TLWiki is a ghost and the people revolving around ixrec aren't really around or sold out.

>>19118457
Selling out doesn't mean they've gone away. If anything, they've dug into the position that you have to sign up with an official project or you're doing it wrong.

>>19118518
They aren't part of the fan translation community any more though. So it is far easier for other fan translators to not give a shit.

chaos;child to be released next month
https://twitter.com/CommitteeOf0/status/1001268059682811904

>>19118703
Ah nice, I've been wanting to play this. How bad is the version PQube released?

>>19115947
Eushully titles is "easy money". Or even more Alicesoft. I think Yuzusoft and Purple Software titles are really fucking popular so it might be a good choice.

>>19118793
It's unacceptable for a professional release, considering the in-house team was aiming for a proper, high-quality release. It's littered with typos, translation errors, unsubbed voice-only lines and machine translated and untranslated CGs. Even worse, one of the untranslated CGs is a puzzle that requires a translation so it can be solved without looking up a guide. Fortunately, Committee of Zero are taking care of all of that.

>>19118793
Like S;G0 they put in minimal effort to translate any images. This results in a few webpages where the plot-important stuff is written in coherent English but the ads and related videos are clearly run through machine translation. There's a part in C;C where you need to pick out specific locations in Shibuya with the map entirely in untranslated Japanese. There's a few spoken lines that aren't meant to show up in a text box that PQube simply didn't have a solution for, yet weirdly enough the lines still show up in the backlog (which doesn't help when the lines are the last thing in the route).

>>19118818
Eushully doesn't want to work with baka gaijin though.

>>19118857
hopefully, thats fixed in this release...

>>19118861
People keep saying this, but it was Littlewitch that told Aroduc to fuck off, not Eushully.

>>19118076
You could already tell from his blogpost that his English comprehension is shit tier already. This just seals it.

>>19118818
I'd laugh if MG got a Yuzusoft license as well. it's been almost 3 fucking years since SP announced Tenshin Ranman.
Eushully licenses would definitely be very popular but I'm trying to learn moonrune because I have very little faith that we'll ever get their stuff in English. Even if someone manages to get a license from them, I doubt it'll be released any time soon.

>>19119194
I'm sure Aroduc would be thrilled to work with any of them for Kamidori!

>>19119194
>You could already tell from his blogpost that his English comprehension is shit tier already. This just seals it.
It's just some filthy ESL from Romania, i doubt he even knows an ounce of Japanese either.

>>19115875
>I doubt MangaGamer is dumb enough and paid for license X expecting 5k-10k copies sold just like Sekai Project did a few years ago with some of their titles. Sorcery Jokers for example sold less than 1k copies on steam and it's a guaranteed flop since it sold even less on their site just because it couldn't stay even 2 weeks in their Top 5 Weekly Chart disappearing completely after that from it, but I doubt MangaGamer paid for it expecting Fate/Stay tier of copies sold.

We know that MG overpaid for the Propeller titles, with Tokyo Babel failing to make money despite relatively strong sales compared to their releases before Steam. The Propeller titles were part of their 2015 announcements as the year when they focused heavily on Steam, however of those announcements the only other title which they may have paid a premium for and then saw it disappoint would have been Himawari. Myth also was a disaster, but it seems unlikely they paid much for that.

I would agree that Sorcery Jokers would have been a disappointment (to add to its MG performance, as it has just 13 reviews on Steam and peaked at 24 concurrent users, and saw a rapid drop off in activity not long after release, with it getting just 2-3 peak daily concurrent users now a few months after launch. However they didn't announce Sorcery Jokers until 2016 after Steam had begun to fade, and it was announced in Summer 2016 along side bigger titles from new partners without a Steam release planned such as MML, Hapymaher, Suki Suki. It is always possible they licensed it not long after their 2015 announcements when they were willing to pay at least some premium, so it is one of the more difficult titles to judge what they may have licensed it for.

Although even if they had overpaid for some titles, MG has released nearly all of their titles that they would have picked up prior to the Steam boom, so anything licensed more recently would have been budgeted for a market closer to what it is now.

>They most likely paid lots of money for the voice actors in Da Capo 3.

Da Capo 3 is an odd title because of the mess between the all ages and later R18 releases in Japan which may complicate things, but Circus should have at least had voice royalties for foreign distribution in mind during the development stage seeing that they were heavily involved with MG, unlike some other titles where such contracts needed to be negotiated later as no release outside of Japan was ever envisioned.

>>19120808
>but Circus should have at least had voice royalties for foreign distribution in mind during the development stage
Why should Circus pay it? Even if they are involved, there's no reason for a company to pay for something they themselves don't need. Divisions within one company fuck each other over for better financial results of their own division. And the same thing happens on a lower level.

Each time I open Subahibi, I have to change my configuration since it seems the game doesn't save it. Same with the character icons on the option menu. Did anyone else have this poroblem?

>>19121276
No.

>>19121276
Your config file is in a read-only folder, most likely.

>>19118089
>He's in the process of moving back to Japan atm, so hopefully things can get going again with various N+ projects Soon

It looks like it is Tokyo Necro and more than likely Sweet Pol. I do not see Maramusa happening for a long while just because it would take them long.

>>19118222
It's always hypocritical. I think at the time it was that "people sold out instead of caring about the community" but confused that with those that get paid but never did anything or gave bad quality.

>>19118857
If I remember Spike Chunsoft has the SG0 Steam version right?

>Moogy
>translating anything

>>19121453
That was it. Thanks a lot.

>>19115720
No, because there's no way for us to track those.

>>19118941
Then why is no one working with them? Are they too expensive?

>>19122501
Maybe JAST is already negotiating with Eushully, it will just take them 5 years of negotiations just like with Majikoi.

Jokes aside, unless MangaGamer gets the Eushully license you won't see a official release in the next 3-4+ years from any other publisher considering that most of them are struggling to translate and release some average moege.

>>19122501
Why aren't a bunch of companies working with English localizers? There's a ton of possible reasons; skepticism that it'll be worth it, don't have the manpower available to work with foreign companies, don't want to expose themselves to a Rapelay type fiasco. Hell, from what I've seen of Japanese coding and practices, I wouldn't be surprised if they literally COULDN'T, because they've misplaced or lost the files and tools that would be needed, or they would need a massive overhaul to work in a non-Japanese environment. Every company's struggled with that for just basic VNs. Rebuilding something with actual gameplay from scratch would quickly become a huge money sink, if not impossible.

https://www.jastusa.com/games/tsundere-idol-my-personal-m-pet

>>19124879
Now if only Sol Press would do the same. It's absolutely retarded to rely on Steam to sell your VNs, not to mention a slap in the face to actual VN fans.

>>19125035
I wonder if Yotsunoha will be allowed on steam.

>>19125035
its not retarded because it increases the sales by a lot, works even better if you dont have ero content

>>19125070
I have nothing against putting VNs on Steam. Problem is they refuse to sell them anywhere else.

>>19125054
I don't see why it wouldn't, but who knows what Valve's policy will be in six months or a year from now.

>>19115947
Well, considering they have fucking Lilith's license, anything involved Taimanin and Prison Battleship would be a very good start. Or atleast it would if they hired Rattanman to translate their titles and then release them in their store instead of letting him fan translate all of Lilith's stuff.

>>19125391
Pretty sure they didn't stop translating Lilith VNs because they were making too much money.

>>19125412
Tell me who wanted any of the Lilith titles they did translate? Space Pirate Sara is pretty much the only one even I care about among the ones they did grab from the bin. They could have even grabbed Tentacle and Witches, a relatively old title with consensual tentacles, and done better.

>>19125430
Even if MG wanted better Lilith titles, Lilith never let them have those titles and dropped the partnership because the bad titles they gave sold poorly by their (probably unreasonable) personal standards.

Personally speaking, I think that the good Lilith soft titles would only do about as well as Funbag Fantasy or maybe a Clockup title.

>>19125460
>would only do about as well as Funbag Fantasy or maybe a Clockup title.

That doesn't seem so bad for a nukige, honestly. I mean it's literally porn, I don't expect it to sell like an all-ages product. I guess Japanese have different standards, though, which is why they have those huge ass ad campaigns that even have huge ads downtown an in market places half the time. None of that shit would even fly in NA.

>>19125081
Yotsunoha has an elementary schooler heroine iirc?

>>19125741
I haven't read it but there's a three year timeskip, and I'm pretty sure she's a first year high school student, since she's wearing the same uniform as the other girls.

>>19125760
I don't see it getting on steam, especially now that they're doing checks on VNs before letting them on their platform.
It was shown by Maidens of Micheal getting removed that they don't care about what age the characters are portrayed as, if it looks even the slightest bit bad for their platform they will most likely not allow it.

>>19125809
Because they haven’t put it on steam yet. There’s still two months until release. And I’m pretty sure you don’t need approval to put up a steam page, only to actually release the game.

If that was true they wouldn’t have let Newton on either since it has one (arguably two) characters with a loli body type. The problem with Maidens of Micheal was that the loli character had nude CGs, or at least that’s the theory given that Valve hasn’t said anything about it at all.

>>19125885
Newton also takes place in a university and over half of the characters are over 20, so that's at least a tiny point in its favor.

It's so bad that this is even a conversation.
Fuck censorship.

The Jast standalone version of Momoiro Closet is up. Frontwing also put up what they are calling a "fully uncensored" standalone version of Subahibi as well.

>>19126594
As expected the new release still has the dog CG removed.
https://twitter.com/FrontwingInt/status/1001742332461383680

Can a master VN enthusiast explain the DRM... ソフト電池(soft-denchi)... and how to bypass it? I probably just messed up and forgot to download the crack when I dl'd the game. I think it's like 110% irrelevant but the game in question is 催眠学園2年生.

Someone should finish daiteikoku or those other steampunk games with gameplay

>>19126938
Sure, just commission it and they'll be done in no time

>>19126949
Can I get a small loan of a million dollars?

>>19126594
And not a single attempt to give uploads of the DRM-free version to the Kickstarter backers. Just an email recommending that the superior JAST version that should have existed from the start is 10% off.

>>19127303
They gave people what they advertised in the backer rewards. If you didn't want that then you shouldn't have backed it.

>>19127303
Honestly though most people who backed it probably consider the steam version superior.

>>19115947
Get good licenses with EVN titles.

>>19128871
>EVN titles.
Gross.

>>19126701
Looks like some people aren't happy about it
>https://twitter.com/Amber_terasu/status/1001779247990571008
>https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1001732700410036224
But I doubt 99% of the other visual novel fanbase gives a shit, everyone who wanted to read SubaHibi already did.

On another note, Kuroinu Ch.3 is coming out tomorrow, that means new pre-order should be out too.
Your predictions for the next pre-order guys?

>>19129365
People are just salty that publishers are moving on from Steam.

>>19129530
He does have a valid point. they are literally saying and I quote "Fully uncensored" when it actually does have a CG cut for political reasons. Yes it's "Just one CG" but that means it's not "Fully uncensored".

>>19129710
But he isn't looking at the big picture, trading one CG for ending the Steam era of censorship.

>>19129710
its just one cg of a dog fucking a girl, most people don't care about that and its not like the text was removed, its so minor really. Cant understand why people get triggered

>>19130133
Because censorship is censorship and despite Frontwing's claims to the contrary they only removed it because they're pussies.

>>19130133
I'm not arguing the value of the removed content, but you cannot remove content from a release while still calling it the 'Fully uncensored' release. Like it's actually a crime to say a product contains something that it very clearly does not. It's literally no different than a company making a skin cream which advertises both in marketing and on the bottle that it cures all forms of skin cancer, but then actually doesn't cure any cancer.

Interesting to see that Fakku has the rights to sell and stream the Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo H-anime. The question is now: who will get the visual novel license?

>>19130348
No one. Way too expensive.

>>19130552
Isn't the company who made it dead?

>>19129365
Evenicle if it got out of debugging hell or Hapymaher.

Damekoi is a choice too, but maybe it might be up for preorder nearer to Anime Expo.

>>19131072
https://vndb.org/p1008

>>19131116
I fucking love Happoubi Jin's artwork. I hope that spurdo releases Biman soon.

>>19131139
Might as well just machine tl it since it's going to be a garbage non-translation anyway

>>19130348
SakuraGame

>>19130348
/jp/

>>19129365
MG releases at midnight EST, so the next release will be announced in about 3.5 hours, assuming that they are releasing something in 4 weeks. They probably are since that is right before Anime Expo. It's been a while since the last big VN release, so it's likely that it's Hapymaher, Damekoi, or Evenicle (from most to least likely in my opinion). Of course, there's the miniscule chance that Suki Suki could conveniently have had its legal issues resolved by now.

>>19132098
If bugs have delayed Evenicle for a half year already, December doesn't seem to be out of the question. Especially since non gameplay VNs generally dont have many bugs. I think Damekoi is more likely than Hapymaher, but its just a guess.

>>19132133
December 2017, remember?

>>19132232
It'll almost be funny if bugs/scripting take over a year, after being fully translated.

>>19130154
The real pussies here are probably KeroQ and not Frontwing. Looking at how they hand things with their own titles now make me believe the dog would have stayed if it was something FW created themselves.

Wtf is sekai games https://ec.nintendo.com/JP/ja/titles/70010000003632

>>19132434
I would think just another Japanese brand of Sekai to go along with calme and code:jp

MG put Evenicle up for June 28th.

>>19132817
Thank the Lord.

>>19132817
Kinda surprised, honestly. But it's a pleasant surprise.

>>19132826
It isn't all that surprising, it has been nearing release and it benefits more from convention attention than most other titles MG could release for AX.

>>19132842
It also fits well, as they aren't exactly going to do a Steam release during the Summer Steam sale.

Evenicle
Order Number - 307910
Order Date - 2018-05-31 14:08:53

I know we don't have order tracker anon anymore, but I thought I would post this anyway in case anyone else feels like sharing. Screenshot is the last image he left behind for the sake of comparison.

cant wait for ax announcements

>>19133010
Well, i expected more sales after almost 6 months.

>>19132817
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

https://twitter.com/Intl_Ninetail/status/1002122774024896512

They posted a fairly large update on Venus Blood. In short, they'll be releasing it on Steam + Jast (and distributing a free Steam patch through Jast) as well as removing the mosaics. Aside from that they have a Prefundia scheduled to go up around the 26th.

>>19133663
I'm glad they were able to do it. Now hopefully the kickstarter has a staff stretch goal so they can get an editor or another translator because as things stand now the translation is gonna be compromised by the parts they outsource.

>>19133663
Pretty much the exact same approach as Frontwing is now from the Jast partnership to removing mosaics to running a Kickstarter.

>>19133741
I wonder, why are they all flocking to Jast instead of mangagamer? Is it because mangagamer doesn't want to compete on its own platform? That would make sense to me since Jast doesn't release anything most of the time. I wonder if mangagamer charges 3rd parties more.

>>19133763
Probably because the mg store looks like it's from the early 2000s.

>>19133770
Lol. While it's ugly, I never had issues navigating and getting to what I want at least.

>>19133763
Probably because with JAST you get J-list marketing too.

>>19134327
JAST is also okay with "unofficial' restoration patches in the event they can't legally sell the cut content on their platform (Starless and Shiny Days for example)

When I think about it MG is going to have far more releases in these next 4 months than usual.

>>19134416
One per month like usual, no? It's just that they will be actually relevant titles.

>>19134327
Good point, I forgot about that.

>>19134381
I think MG has the unofficial patches on their site with their steam versions as well.

>>19134443
Those are official patches. You misunderstand.

>>19134453
You're right I did, sorry.

>>19133010
>>19132817
Quite interesting to see how long Evenicle can stay in the Top 5 chart and if it can outdo the 4+ months from Imouto Paradise 2.

>>19134327
It's kind of funny that JAST is probably a more viable third party store than Nutaku. I'm not sure how J-List marketing compares to Fakku's reach, but I wouldn't be surprised if regional pricing made JAST look even better than them.

MG's store probably has a loyal enough audience, though MG probably does need to improve the store if they want to gain more partners.

>>19135152
MG should just move to JAST as well and then we would finally have the one general store for eroge. Well I mean no matter what you think of JAST and their own releases one must admit that those guys do know how to run a store. J-list got as big as it is for a reason.

>>19135160
>wanting Peter Payne to be at the head of a store which all major eroge publishers resort to
No thanks.

>>19125885
Word is that Maidens of Micheal had one visible nipple on one CG, so it was labeled child porn in oppressive countries. And Steam obviously wants to cater to the least developed countries by following their standards.

>>19134423
For some months, they release every two weeks (not counting non first party titles). That's probably what that anon was referring to. That's the case for April, May, and now June (even if most of those titles were fan disks and partials). I wouldn't be surprised if July and August were the same since Damekoi and Hapymaher are on the verge of releasing, there are numerous small titles that are practically done, and they are announcing new titles soon.

As for new titles, I think that there will be at least one BL title. I don't think there will be an otome or yuri title since they were already announced, but we'll see. Maybe Maidens of Michael did well enough to warrant another Sono Hana game already despite the Steam fiasco. Sakura Mori Dreamers is probably an announcement because of the Sakura hint, the less hints are less blatant. I personally think that if the Otome hint wasn't referring to Steam Prison, it may be referring to a cross dressing game like Otoboku or Otome Domain.

Between Min naraken being an AX guest and Evenicle being released right before Anime Expo, there will probably be a new non-Rance Alicesoft title announced during AX. Which one they announce depends if MG wants to focus solely on Alicesoft gameplay titles or dabble into their nukige. Based on what games Min-naraken was the primary artist for, that makes it so that the title is probably either Galzoo Island or Oyako Rankan, but I'm leaning Galzoo since the gal monsters were advertised during Anime Central. That said, he was also the side artist for many projects like Daiteikoku and Rance, so that is far from certain. He could also just be there because he was a minor artist for Evenicle or maybe to gauge interest in Alicesoft's upcoming loli milf game. As for Rance, I don't think an announcement of Rance is likely this year even with Sengoku probably coming out in winter. If 01 were announced, I wouldn't be surprised if it came out before Rance Quest due to it being relatively short and linear.

>>19135247
>Peter Payne
*Nanking denial intensifies*

>>19135247
Peter Payne basically started the western eroge market, it would make for a nice story if he was the one who reforms it too.

>>19135160
>J-list got as big as it is for a reason.
Because they charge triple what it costs everywhere else for a pair of striped panties?

>>19135283
I agree that would be nice, but the reality is that nothing good will come from having Peter Payne at the top of the market. He's a fully-fledged businessman who cares for nothing but his own profit, and by using his store other companies will be at his mercy. And he's the one who sets the terms for his store. It would be better if publishers used MangaGamer's store instead, I don't know why they aren't doing it more rather than resorting to only JAST. The last one I want working with JAST is MangaGamer though, they publish so many good titles and their releases are good, I would rather have them set their own rules rather than Peter Payne.

>>19135160
One general store is convenient, but it will cause problems down the line if that store ends up as all consuming as Steam. Remember that J-list doesn't like loli or certain fetishes, and there may come a point where they won't be able to allow uncensor patches for such.

MG is a better basis for the store since they can sell pretty much anything except maybe toddlercon games, but any issues that may arise when a monopoly is created is still relevant.

>>19135319
I fully agree with you anon, JAST has too many flaws to be the general big eroge store.
MangaGamer would also need to cut out all the bestiality, scat, loli and ''hardcore'' scenes from their titles just to be able to sell on JAST's store.

I also dislike JAST as a publisher, they have so many fantastic licenses on which they are sitting for years without doing barely anything because Peter Payne is a jew who prioritizes J-List first and visual novel as a nice side business due to J-List making a shitload of money compared to visual novels and I don't want someone like that to run the ''general'' western eroge store.
But that's just my personal feelings about it.

>>19135323
It wouldn't really be a monopoly, I doubt Fakku and Nutaku would just give up even if everyone moved to JAST.

>>19135380
It's also quite likely that they aren't releasing the localization of their major Nitroplus licenses because then they can keep Makoto for as long as those licenses don't expire. Muramasa is exclusively Makoto's title, it's something he and only he must translate, and it's likely he still cares about other titles such as Django and Tokyo Necro.

>>19135473
i hope they dont keep the license just for them forever, if it expires lets say in 2020. I would hope something like mangagamer licenses nitro plus games and actually releases them

>>19135969
It's a tricky situation because Makoto is virtually the only translator in the scene capable of doing justice to Muramasa, but if JAST's license expires it's likely another translator would do it, with a high chance of the translation being garbage or way worse than it should be. I just hope their licenses expire soon enough so that they must put out those titles before losing them.

>>19136063
yeah wel at least, seems like they are going to release nitro chiral games faster, jastblue staff seems more enthuasiatic about releasing stuff

>>19136063
So what has Makoto been doing in recent years? Django? Sumaga?

>>19136187
moogy's project(not announced)

>>19136187
We don't know, but for the last 1-2 years he's been working on what the other anon said, some project Moogy talked about on his Twitter account but obviously has said nothing about yet.

Chances of Sekai actually releasing a title someone cares about before AX?

>>19136488
Releasing? No. Announcing the release date? Yeah, Baldr Sky.

>>19135969
Who says that its expiring or that they wont renew it if it is?

>>19135253
Prioritizing Galzoo over more Rance makes little sense.

>>19136828
The point is that Min-naraken is a special guest, that's why he said Galzoo or Oyako Rankan have a chance of being announced.

>>19136718
its just speculation

>>19134423
I am saying that now MG does not have to worry about infinite boot issues they can finally get the games out that have been done for awhile. That 4 months of waiting ended up holding a lot of games back. Also I wonder if Damekoi is an 18+ game.

>>19138332
Damekoi does have an 18+ version. It also says it got a PSP release as well, so I wonder if MG plans to release a Steam version too.

>>19136548
2020

>>19115504
Fata Morgana out of the top 5 already. Isn't it sad?

>>19138576
IIRC someone asked Conjueror if the extra content from the PSP version would be translated, and he said it wouldn't because the company had lost the files or something. So I doubt there will be a port of that.

>>19136828
The main reason that I think that a Rance game won't be announced this year is there will be 2 Rance games still in the MG backlog by the time Otakon rolls around. It's not because MG prioritized non-Rance games all of a sudden. I personally would have assumed no Alicesoft games were going to be announced if it weren't for the guest. This isn't absolutely certain because maybe MG figures that it will be fine to announce a Rance game this year so long as the ones currently in the backlog finish by Otakon 2019. It certainly helps that Rance 01 is comparatively short, and doing localization work for that will probably take less time than either Sengoku or Quest even if they decide to bundle in 02. They could announce IX instead, but there's no reason to deviate from production order.

>>19140053
I agree, Rance 01 is really fun and it's better that they don't release Rance IX first, then all three remakes and then Rance 10. There would be a huge time frame between the release of IX and 10. Unless they don't plan to localize the remakes, but I doubt they won't since both 01 and 03 are extremely entertaining and quite interesting to play as a fan of the Rance series.

>>19139002
At least it sold better than the original game on launch and most people seem to have gotten it on steam. Just like Higurashi or most of MangaGamer's otome/yuri titles most of their buyers are casual steam users.

>>19140053
Even if they don't announce a Rance game this year, knowing MangaGamer, chances are really high that Arunaru is already slowly translating the next Rance or some other Alicesoft title.
Bad end should be done with the Rance Quest Magnum translation this month too, so that opens even more possibilities.

>>19140271
Arunaru is a pretty big lore fan, so I doubt they are going to skip even the smaller Rance games due to certain characters appearing there for the first time which return later in IX and X.

>>19140636
Yeah, I'd even say that not translating 02 is a bad idea because there are so many recurring characters from there. The main story is almost entirely self contained, but it begins a quite a few character arcs that are resolved in later games.

>>19140694
>>19140636
Why the fuck would you think they care what Aru or any of the fanboys wants as the deciding factor for what gets licensed and worked on? And Aru especially has been shown to be purely mercenary and will work on literally anything MG tells him to work on.

>>19141084
>Why the fuck would you think they care what Aru or any of the fanboys wants as the deciding factor for what gets licensed and worked on?
aren't those people the ones actually buying the games?

https://twitter.com/Conjueror/status/1002598259578298368
>Are you working on some bigger projects right now aside from Rewrite?
>I'm working on one bigger project for MG, but it's not really Dies irae or Rewrite tier.

>>19141352
Confirmed kusoge

>>19141352
Another VN ruined by localization.

>>19141352
So, another chuunige I guess?

>>19140053
>>19140271

Would the release schedule be better if one translator started on IX to X and the other started on 1-3? I don't know how big the games are, but 1+2 would come out being presumable shorter than IX, then IX comes after those two, then 3 then 10? I wonder how many years that'll take lol... There may even be a 4 remake in the middle of it too.

>>19133010
I'll buy my copy when the preorder period is almost over.

>>19142750
Evenicle reached first already, beating Five Hearts, and Kuroinu is now in 3rd. It'll be interesting so see how long it manages to hold its lead, but than again i don't know how many copies it takes to make it on the top 5, or 1st.
For just being 2 days since preorders started, its definitely a strong start though.

>>19133152
It's an expected number. Generally, MG sells about 2k vns in a month, but bundles increase the order numbers by an abnormal amount due to how they are.

>>19142828
First place probably only takes a dozen copies a day on average. Since MG generally sells about 2k per month, that means that the average daily sales are about 60-70. Note that the weekly sales are based on the past seven days, so assuming that the required average for first was 12 copies a day, Evenicle already sold 84 copies. That's assuming a lot. Maybe my assumptions for how many copies are needed for 1st place are completely off, or perhaps Evenicle is selling way more than what is needed for first place.

https://denpasoft.com/blogs/news/announcing-a-new-upcoming-title

Denpa picked up Zombie no Afureta Sekai de Ore Dake ga Osowarenai

>>19143008
https://twitter.com/Denpasoft_pr/status/1002674927231741958
They also seem to be getting back into physical goods, they put up some expensive Nekopara figure and answered a reply saying that they are looking to gradually expand their physical selection.

>>19143008
Art looks pretty good. Shame i can't say the same for the plot.

>>19143575
look, at least it's not in a japanese high school

>>19141352
Riddle Joiker confirmed!

>>19144369
I will eat my shit if it happens.

Juicy news, everyone. Biman1 translation got picked up.
Don't ask where I got this info, nor who picked it up (it should be fairly obvious anyway).

>>19145046
Anon, please don't play with my emotions.

>>19145046
the idea of a 2 language machine translation getting officially picked up is truly hilarious

>>19145046
There is no way Sekai could do it.

>>19145046
Unless it's from scratch that's pretty terrible news, really.

>>19145046
I realize I don't even remember what Biman 1 was about. Vampire loli?

>>19145416
No it's about a pervert that steals silverware from a nun.

>>19145046
first official finnish VN release

https://divinitycure.tumblr.com/
This guy wants to fuck up a bunch of good nukige, including KKK, with MTL. He already released the prologue for BakuAne.

>>19145441
someone find out who this guy is and email the japs

>>19145459
I can tell you who he is. He has a thread on fuwa (with a bunch people defending the decision to use MTL):
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/20446-baku-ane-ill-squeeze-it-out-little-brother-translation-project-18-prologue-patch-released/?tab=comments#comment-484381

>>19145467
And this is his "editor".

>>19145467
is this enough info for a C&D though

>>19145467
Oh man I shouldn't have looked at his twitter.

>>19145441
At least he could rewrite it with his own story and interpretation. MTL is lazy, but rewrites would be impressive, even if terrible.

MLA director's cut patch this month apparently

>>19145931
Why do people even want this? You can just go look at the different CGs online if you want to see them.

>>19145984
Degica stated that the alternative patch would give us the option to restore original voices as well since some were redubbed for the western release.

>>19146048
Still not seeing why you'd want that, given how awful the Engrish is.

>>19146066
MLA is shit in the first place, so I'm not sure why you'd want to read it at all in any form.

>>19146075
Honestly, though, here's a comparison of the original voice acting and the redub. The original is laughable.
https://twitter.com/enjoievan/status/900443216536784896

>>19146066
because I love shitty engrish? Probably half the reason I enjoyed Panty and Stocking as much as I did.

>>19145046
Been part of speculation ever since it went silent with no real news after saying it was nearly done 6+ months ago. So would be hardly surprising if true.

>>19146075
It is highly rated by both the Japs and in the west. That is enough for most people to give it a look.
For myself I would say that it is certainly over rated, but it isn't exactly bad either.

>>19146092
Well, enjoy your Engrish. Maybe when they get done restoring the dogshit audio for you, they can get moving on Photonmelodies.

Do we even know if they are doing a 18+ patch for Photonflowers and Photonmelodies.

>>19146157
They were PS3 games they don't have any 18+ content.

>>19146167
Then why care about them?

>>19146175
I don't.

>>19146157
they said they "Might" port over the parts of it that had +18 content in the original releases. I don't expect them to though given how much they hate eroge nowadays.

>>19146196
Who is "they"?

>>19146234
The jews.

>>19146243
I was seriously asking who he was referring to, as the parties involved have changed since the beginning.

>>19107448
Muv Luv Alternative patch to be released in June. Also, public will get Vita port before backers do.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/2203246

>>19145046
Pretty old news, it's been known for months now, same goes for Clover Days.

>>19145046
japanese > finnish > english is about what i expected from sp

>>19147188
I heard they had a proper Japanese > English TLC from the guy who was translating Tsundere Idol.

>>19147239
How was Tsundere Idol's TL?

>>19146975
In this case of Clover Days its been known for years.

Maitetsu was moved to Upcoming Releases.

>>19147314
Good luck with that.

>>19147251
This is the screenshot they uploaded to their Steam store page, so we can assume this is the level of quality Cherry Kiss wants to showcase.

>>19147353
Even if they opted to go with the console release, getting it onto Steam at the time of heighten scrutiny probably will be an uphill battle.

>>19147535
Looks like someone got one of those amazing translators who re-arrange MTLs.

>>19147251
I'm reading it and nothing is jumping out at me as particularly awful

>>19144995
You better Livestream it.

>>19147353
Going to be pretty funny if they put so much effort into making a Steam release and then they deny it.
We still haven't seen the result of the re-examination of the titles Valve wanted to take down yet, so it is far more of a possibility than it was 6 months ago where they were letting any old thing on.

>>19141352
Please let it be some good art with some plotge.

>>19149130
They can submit an updated build if the first is rejected. Other publishers have already had this happen.

>>19149190
If the problem ends up revolving around loli content then that is hard to really update your way out of.

>>19149205
True, if Valve takes issue with the very concept, then it's screwed.

>>19149124
I will.
That is, if it even happens.
>Implying it will happen
I'll gladly eat my shit if it happens.

>>19149280
Abusing the quote and spoiler function in one post. Amazing.

>>19145046
I hope it's not who I think it is.

>>19145441
>3,500 lines
>Get it done by November

I would avoid this guy at all costs simply because of that statement alone.

>>19147353
is it bad that i want to autistically report it out of spite

>>19149130
Maybe they could sell the censored version somewhere else?

I hope they at least don't halt the R18 version any further just because Steam denies it. It's infuriating that they don't care about their audience.

>>19149504
No.
If you're going to do it, at least make it sound as authentic as possible. If you live in Canada, UK or Australia then that works in your favor.
There are a lot of risky stuff in the common route alone. Throw as many examples as possible at them but don't overdo it, screenshots>words.
There's also the possibility that Steam reviewers get bored of the train autism infodump and just ctlr past a lot of stuff, so you can try to pass stuff from the +18 version as being in the Steam version and it may work.

Who knows, with enough effort it may get pulled and cause dovac to go on an autistic tirade on twitter, pop a vein and die. Same chances of it being taken down after being approved during this current steam drama.

>>19149851
Can you at least wait for the the R18 torrent to be up before trying this? I want to see Sekai fucked as much as the next person, but I still prioritize getting to read Maitetsu

So, what's bigger?
AnimeExpo or Otakon?

>>19150080
forgot to add PAX and ACen.

>>19150080
Last year Anime Expo got 465k people while Otakon got 25k.

>>19150080
Sekai and JAST don't announce on Otakon. AX is bigger overall. Generally though, MG titles announced on AX and Otakon are about the same tier. The titles they focus on in AX tend to have more widespread appeal while Otakon titles are geared toward existing fan bases, but this isn't an ironclad rule or anything.

>>19149851
I’m pretty sure no one at steam actually plays all the games that are submitted. If I had to guess they probably just look at the assets and the store page, maybe test it to make sure it launches and give it a pass based off that.

Also I don’t think supporting censorship out of spite for a single company is a wise idea in the long-term.

>>19150418
I'll only report it after it sells well enough for them to have incentive to translate Monobeno, or if they really fuck up the localization.

preggololianon just released the Hajimete no Okaa-san translation.
>>/vg/216790570
>>/vg/216794631

preggololianon just released the Hajimete no Okaa-san translation.
>>>/vg/216790570
>>>/vg/216794631

>>19149851
Don't get me wrong, I'd love for Sekai to be fucked over, but this could affect more than just Sekai. Screwing over Sekai isn't worth possibly hurting other companies in the long term.

>>19151391
Is it MTL?

>>19151393
If they greatly butchered the game, then I think the sacrifice will be worth it

>>19151687
New thread up with this week's updates

>>19146300
'They' being Age. Age "Might" be doing a +18 photons patch for the content inside it that originally had a +18 release.

>>19151547
No.

>>19151547
Considering for how long he's been working on this and giving it multiple editing passes It's probably not. Probably better than lolinukige deserves.