/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
>Maitetsu - June 29th release
I Walk Among Zombies - 100% translated and edited, waiting on a third party for engine work, Summer 2018 release
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
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 - In QA, needs testing
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
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 - QA of the last route, Aiming for an early June release, awaiting approval from Steam, demo released
Sakura Sakura - Demo released, remain work includes finishing the increase in resolution
>Yotsunoha - July 27th release, 93% translated, 84% 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
Harem Guild - Upcoming release

Other
>Nakadashi Banzai 4 - Released
Tayutama 2 - June 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, 100% translated, editing to start soon
E-Gene - 1st entry planned for Fall 2018
Venus Blood Frontier - Prefundia going up around June 26th
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
---
>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>19192016
Hurry up Damekoi.

>Baldr Sky - 50% translated, Combined release of Dive 1 + Dive 2 in mid 2018
>mid 2018

>>19192209
Mid 2018 is early 2019 in Sekai time.

>>19192218
>early 2019
Radically optimistic, I see.

>>19192016
>JAST has an update
>Mangagamer does not

I haven't seen that happen for a while.

So with the new Steam terms, can we expect Key to Home to be put back up?

>>19192016
>Trample on Schatten- Up for preorder

https://www.jlist.com/catalog/product/view/id/28652/s/jast017/
For anyone that needs the preorder link.

>>19192287
Is the game at least semi-decent?

>>19192301
Lots of rape, decent well-paced story, great action scenes. A solid 7 (±1).

>>19192322
Literally everything I could want from a Chuunige.

>>19192322
I'll probably pick it up after release then, seeing how Sweet Home had quite a few bugs on launch.

>>19192301
Reviews seem to really like it. Apparently it hits all the same beats as a shonen manga but does them right. Seems like it should be a solid 7 or 8.

https://accany.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/trample-on%E2%80%9Cschatten%E2%80%9D%EF%BD%9E%E3%81%8B%E3%81%92%E3%81%B5%E3%81%BF%E3%81%AE%E3%81%86%E3%81%9F%EF%BD%9E-review/
https://whatistomato.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/trample-on-schatten-review/

The main issue seems to be that it only has 1 real route. The side heroines are just an excuse for more H. Also it has lots of rape and tentacle stuff.

It has a unique system in that you can jump around a flow chart and see certain scenes from another characters point of view or see what they were doing at that time. Grey beads are already seen. Pink beads are H-scenes and cubed are not yet viewed.

>>19192218
2021.

>>19192380
>It has a unique system in that you can jump around a flow chart and see certain scenes from another characters point of view or see what they were doing at that time
Sounds a bit like Sorcery Jokers.

>>19192272
They won't even tell MG if Maidens of Michael can go back up, so It is anyone's guess at what is going to happen on that end.
https://twitter.com/Kouryuu_/status/1004463506132013056
The new filter system is going to take a month or so to impmenet as well.
https://twitter.com/Lupiesoft/status/1005548029330407424

>>19192460
>Sorcery Jokers.
Is this good?

>>19192770
It's pretty mediocre. I would have liked it more if Haruto was never a character.

>>19192770
If you are into chuuni it is pretty alright until the meh ending. Though you may find Haruto grating at the start as a character, but he does get better after chapter two. Also the main H scenes come as a kinda epilogue thing you can choose for each character though you do get a BJ from each of the main girls during the main story.

>>19192770
it's Ayakashibito but shittier in almost every way aside from arguably art. Not a bad title just overshadowed by other translated titles that do everything it does, but better.

>>19192017
>Newton to Ringo no Ki - QA of the last route, Aiming for an early June release
Today is the last day of early June.

>>19193033
Blame steam

>>19193033
I wish Steam didn't take this long to accept games. I wonder if the current situation will cause them to take even longer than usual.

>>19192380
looks like 11eyes.

>>19192209
>>19192218
Sekai promised Giga that it would be out in 2018 because they had an already nearly finished translation.

>>19192209
>>19192218
Sekai promised Giga that it would be out in 2018 because they had an already nearly finished translation.

The release date is for lying to Giga.

>>19193047
>>19193053
Why not release 18+ version first? Like with Fureraba.

>>19193584
If i remember correctly they are only releasing it on steam, same with all their other releases.

>>19192380
Sounds like the perfect replacement for the hole left from when I finished Dengeki Stryker

>The main issue seems to be that it only has 1 real route. The side heroines are just an excuse for more H.
Shit

>>19193584
They don't have their own store unlike NN. They should just release it through Fakku honestly

>>19193632
Not only Fakku, they should release it on all possible store fronts.
Some people just prefer storefront X instead of Y and limiting yourself to 1 is just lost money for your product no matter how good it is.

On another note, out of the 3 pre-order this month, did you guys buy anything?

>>19193975
I'll be pre-ordering Evenicle as soon as i get paid.

>>19193983
Same, I'm not really the biggest fan of the Senran Kagura art but it's a gameplay title and that's enough reason for me to pre-order.

>>19193591
They had a 18+ demo so I don't see why they wouldn't make a 18+ release, especially when they got many members including part of the original staff on board for decensoring.

>>19194100
It will have an 18+ patch. He means they're only releasing it on Steam as in the only place of distribution as opposed to anywhere else

Now that I think about Newton, does anyone know who's translating that?

>>19194236
New company called Sol Press. They've had some serious scheduling issues though. Their first release was supposed to be Sakura Sakura and then Newton kept getting pushed back to "early June"

>>19193628
IIRC, I could swear it was announced the year after the original Dengeki Stryker came out.

>>19193975
I'll preorder Evenicle on the 27th for that one guy who's interested in the order number. I'll try to do it 11:59 EST or something, but chances are, I'll buy it a few hours earlier.

>>19194277
Yeah yeah, I meant more the translator and stuff.

>>19194236
They add comments from all the Translators, Editors and Testers in each of their kickstarter updates, you can probably just go through a few of them and find the whole team.

>>19194298
Found the guy https://twitter.com/Bango_the_Go
Seems ok I guess

>>19193033
This games art looks very hit and miss.

>>19194236
I can personally vouch for the translator, and while I don't know the rest of the team, they seem pretty competent going by the demo.

>>19192016
>Nakadashi Banzai
Could they be more tongue-in-cheek with what the game is about?

>>19194444
It's already shorter than the original title, which was Nanpa Nama Hame Nakadashi Banzai. Very direct and has alliteration to boot. If you want a nukige where you experience picking up chicks for a one-night stand, it definitely does it well enough. CG is pretty good.

>>19192017
>Maitetsu - June 29th release
So how long do you think it will take for someone to hack the porn back in and translate it?

>>19195347
it's getting an 18+ release already so it won't take any time at all

>>19195347
The 18+ version is coming out on the 29th, the all age version will come out much later because of steam autism.

>>19195394
>>19195358
I think he means the loli scenes being cut or some other thing. Sekai and Fakku hating loli and all, it doesnt matter which of them releases it.

>>19195511
Well, they SAID that there were no cut scenes. Only thing we can do is wait until release to confirm this as true or not.

>>19195511
The screenshots on Fakku's website have one of Suzu's fat loli ass, so I assume the loli scenes are still there.

>>19195528
yeah and Frontwing? said the full uncut version of Subahibi would be available for download on JAST. They lied.

>>19195587
oh you're the bestiality cg autist

>>19195604
Hi Frontwing employee.

>>19195587
If you thought they meant anything other than the mosaics being removed you're retarded.

>>19195699
Cut means cut content. It has nothing to do with mosaics.

>>19195511
Pretty sure they're not cutting any scenes m8. They even confirmed the appends were getting released

>>19195587
Okay what exactly do you fucking want? The damn thing isn't out yet and all we can go on is them saying there's no cuts and the CGs we have. We can't predict the fucking future shit

Remember when Chaos Child was supposed to be released before Christmas?

>>19196218
Good thing that no one cares about all-ages.

>>19196218
Just an estimate, not a deadline. A lot of stuff can get in the way of fangroups. Fortunately there's a deadline now.

>>19196356
Two years later.

>>19195616
Look, I don’t like censorship either, but you need a lot of ‘tism to get this assblasted over the removal of one picture that shows for like 30 seconds at most anyway. If not seeing a girl get raped by a dog gets you this upset, go look at your bestiality porn. Nothing significant is lost by not having the single CG in the game. For fuck’s sake, even the text is still there. You doggofags need to stop complaining and just get over it.

>>19196433
When it's something you like instead I hope you get over it so easily too, fag.

>>19196433
I don't see how that has anything to do with the false advertisement.

>>19192016
Is that Kazami Yuuka ?

Is the gameplay in Evenicle any good? Similar to Rance?

>>19196560
You know every Rance game is completely different, right?

>>19196560
From what I hear, it's a lot like a typical old school RPG like Final Fantasy IV

>>19196442
unlike you, i can actually look up the fucking cg if i want to jerk off to it

>>19196453
According to Front Wing's definition, the "full and uncut" version is the version without the bestiality CG. I admit that I don't understand why they're so insistent on keeping that one scene out, but they've made it obvious that they're not going to change their mind. If you care so much, just download the fan patch; don't start bitching on your Polynesian cave painting board.

>>19196433
>>19196693
That scene is just dumb shock value anyway. By the time you get to it you've already read all the scenes of Zakuro being bullied, so when the other girls say they were bullied too, you already get it.

>Fakku
I'm still kinda disappointed, this is like some monkey's paw thing. I'm not even sure what I should hope for at this moment.

>>19196880
huh?

>>19196894
He's talking about 18+ Maitetsu on Fakku. I don't know why everybody's expecting some kind of shitshow honestly

>>19196693
>I admit that I don't understand why they're so insistent on keeping that one scene out
International beastiality laws

>>19196915
>He's talking about 18+ Maitetsu on Fakku. I don't know why everybody's expecting some kind of shitshow honestly
I know, and that's what I mean. Fakku is just about the best case scenario for Maitetsu.

>>19196923
>Those fuckers being good in any way shape or form

>>19192016
>SukiSuki - In Beta

Only two more years to go!

>>19196923
>Fakku is just about the best case scenario for Maitetsu
No, that would be MG or JAST (in terms of distributing it). Fakku is only better than Nutaku

>>19197316
MG and JAST can be ruled out since they'd never touch it. Fakku is the best case out of the available options.

>>19197320
Stop with the meme that MG doesn't deal with loli stuff. Just because a person who loves BL works at MG doesn't mean they as a whole are averse to it. I would agree that only doing small titles is lame though, but they also have the least money out of the companies.
By your logic Sekai, and normally Fakku, can be ruled out too because dovac hates loli, and his customers in general. Fakku and Jacob was also on record saying he despised loli and those who liked it. or maybe it was a different staff member. Either way them getting the 18+ version is interesting if nothing else. They aren't a best case by any means, but as long as they deliver it without butchering it, it'll be the important thing. Aside from Maitetsu not having an amazing story in the first place.

>>19197401
About MG, I don't have a source but I know they've said stuff like Monobeno is out of the question in the past. The only stuff they have that is even close to loli is the Ammolite titles, and even then they're borderline (older looking girls) and low profile enough not to be an issue.

Fakku on the other hand actively sells loli manga, so it's never been an issue for them.

Loli isn't an issue for MG, they're just faggots about it

>>19197401
>Fakku and Jacob was also on record saying he despised loli and those who liked it.
As far as I know that never happened. There was a time when they removed the loli tag on the site back when it was still just a scanlation site but that was due to pressure from advertisers and nothing else. Ever since they went legit they've published every single loli chapter that's been in the magazines they do, they've published more than a few books (including physical releases) with loli and shota content and their latest magazine pickup is Comic Koh too. Fakku has without a doubt released the vast majority of (if not practically all of) legally available loli content in English.

none of the localizers would ever touch a real lolige anyway, so it's kind of a silly argument

>>19196799
Wow, shock value in a denpa game, what an outrageous idea.

>>19197896
I mean that's the intention. It's not really shocking though because you've already read so many bullying scenes. Not to mention it's with some side character that doesn't really matter.

>>19197919
>It's not really shocking though because you've already read so many bullying scenes.
I felt this way throughout most of Euphoria, but I'd still think it was shit if they'd removed scenes for any reason.

>>19197936
I haven't played Euphoria, but those are all actual H-scenes, though, right? The scene in Subahibi is only like 15 lines of text.

>>19195727
They confirmed in a later directed tweet that it would not include the cut cg after someone asked about it.

>>19195604
one of them.

>>19195699
They could've said no mosaics or said uncensored like they used to. They literally said uncut. There's literally no way to interpret "uncut" as anything other than "not cut".

>>19197504
The only issues that MG has in terms of content are drugs and hypnotism/slavery, weirdly enough.

>>19197946
Imagine the scene was 200 lines of text. would that make it less acceptable?

>>19197991
Depends on what the text was. But it would still be, "Oh look at this thing that happened to this side character you don't give a fuck about."

>>19198008
How is you not giving a fuck about the character relevant?

>>19196560
If you put on your imagination hat Anon it can be Rance but in VR.

>>19198012
It's like the H-scene with the teacher that just keeps going and going and going. The game actually has a plot that you're interested in and want to get back to.

>>19198016
You're talking about yourself, and I'm glad you weren't in control of what SCA-JI put in his own game, I'm also glad you're not in control of what gets censored, since it sounds like you want to censor everything that "gets in the way of muh plot".
fucking plotfags, i swear.

>>19198038
Editing out pointless crap isn't censorship.

>>19198038
Also we aren't talking about some random moege that I'm supposed to use for escapism and fap material for 50 hours or something. Subahibi is indeed a game with an actual plot. So complaining about the dumb bloated parts, some of which Sca-ji didn't even write, is legitimate.

>>19198043
Are you the one who decides what's "pointless"?

>>19198052
Then complain about them. Good on you for having an opinion. Don't censor them.

>>19198061
No? What point are you trying to make? Are people not allowed to have opinions on VNs that they read?
>>19198066
I never advocated censoring anything.

>>19198043
And who has the right to decide what is pointless crap and what isn't? The author or random nobody from 4chin?
>>19198052
Bible has tons of different authors. What things should be cut from it? Don't be shy tell us what the point of content of any given creation and we cut it accordingly to your personal testes. Or how about no?
Did you hear the godvoice that told you are the chosen one to decide for others what shoud be in their vietnamese porn cartoon slideshows and whats not.

>>19198090
>And who has the right to decide what is pointless crap and what isn't? The author or random nobody from 4chin?
Anyone who reads it. Have you never heard a person complain about editing before?
>Bible has tons of different authors. What things should be cut from it? Don't be shy tell us what the point of content of any given creation and we cut it accordingly to your personal testes. Or how about no?
>Did you hear the godvoice that told you are the chosen one to decide for others what shoud be in their vietnamese porn cartoon slideshows and whats not.
Lol. If someone wants to let me edit their work I'll do it. Otherwise, I'm not in a position to alter the work, so it's just my opinion. But I'm going to have an opinion and I'll voice it if I choose to. If you don't like what I have to say, tough shit.

>>19197989
Wait what? What's wrong with hypnotism?

>>19197989
>Hypnotism

What?

>>19198144
I can't see how they would have a problem with it if they don't have a problem with licensing games with rape. Seems like a strange thing to have a problem with, especially if they go by their survey results and partner up with Lune, a company with a vast number of Saimin titles.

>>19198123
Your complaints about what you personally didn't like in a work are completely irrelevant in this case, since it isn't the translator's job to edit the source material and Frontwing only removed it in the first place because they were worried about backlash hurting their bottom line.

>>19198163
I do not see why not. Hypnotism in terms of Doujins is usually tame in certain regards. But I unironically like the titles with cult stuff as its interesting and can make good plots.

>>19198144
>>19198153
That anon is just retarded, I'm pretty sure they have no problems with drugs/hypnosis/slavery as all three of which were in Choukou Sennin Haruka.

>>19197980
>They confirmed in a later directed tweet that it would not include the cut cg after someone asked about it.
I was talking about Maitetsu there since you were comparing the situation to Frontwing and I was trying to say they said no cut scenes, we'll just have to see if they follow up but doomsaying with "BUT FRONTWING DID THIS" isn't getting anybody anywhere

>>19196528
Blue eyes, you schizo. The possibility that it's an inspired design is also quite low.

>>19197420
I know Kouryuu has said something like randoseru is too much for MG. Monobeno is probably too far because it has elementary schoolers though maybe they don't want to stir up controversy by selling a big loli focused game.

>>19198630
I think Kouryuu also shot down Crayon Tulip once with the idea that if they have the choice between a title that could cause legal problems and one that doesn't they go with the one that doesn't.

Totally not loli.

>>19198709
She isn't. She's a petite adult woman, that's the plot twist of the story.

>>19198248
Mangagamer released a title that was literally called Hypno-Training My Mother and Sister. Anon is indeed retarded.

,,,it's awful, in case anyone was wondering.

>>19198709
Who?

>>19198733
I've misspelled an ellipses. I am the greatest retard.

>>19198727
Most lolige have the heroines as being 18+, or at least neglecting to mention their age entirely.

>>19198740
You've misspelled the word too.

>>19198752
What is wrong with me? How did I become such a loser?

>>19196915
>International beastiality laws
Didn't stop JAST doing an unofficial patch for Starless. While with Frontwing, when someone came in to actually rectify the issue with a fan patch they even DMCAed it showing they were really unwilling to have it out there.

>>19198853
JAST is not Frontwing
>Didn't stop JAST doing an unofficial patch for Starless.
But it was unofficial

>>19198872
Then why didn't Frontwing do one? Why did they DMCA the fan patch?

>>19198879
>Then why didn't Frontwing do one?
Why the fuck should I know? That's why I said "JAST is not Frontwing"

Lets wait till after Maitetsu comes out to have this discussion, shall we?

>>19198956
That's what I've been saying this whole time. People just want to doomsay for (You)s

>>19198956
Wait until Maitetsu comes out to complain about Frontwing removing a cg from Subahibi?

>>19199165
It's amazing how this conversation started again

>"What if Maitetsu is cut"
>"Well we should wait to see what happens"
>"BUT FRONTWING

Seriously you guys

>>19196433
Not seeing it takes away from the shock value desu senpai.

>>19199253
It's not a VNTS thread if we don't derail as soon as Sekai Project is mentioned.

>>19198727
I don't even know what game this is but did you just spoil it?

>>19199253
You clearly was not around long enough to see things we seen. The bathtowels added to cgs for moral purposes. The dolphin patches. The nukige that was cut to pices and placed on steam. The entire routes cut from official releases and so on. Lets see how trusting you will be in a few years.

>>19199267
It's not really a twist, since the girl is one the adult MC knew during his childhood. It's obvious she couldn't still be a young girl.

>>19199267
Honestly, yeah he did

>>19199274
>You clearly was not around long enough to see things we seen
I've been through all those things you mentioned but that has nothing to do with my post
>Lets see how trusting you will be in a few years.
I'm not trusting, I only express judgement when the actual product is out

MangaGamer's Top 5 Weekly Chart:

1. Evenicle
2. Kuroinu Ch.3
3. Magical Marriage Lunatics
4. Nakadashi Banzai 4
5. Fallen ~Makina and the City of Ruins~

I swear these fuckos acting as if fukko is their goddamn friend have mental problems.

>>19199285
>I swear these fuckos acting as if fukko is their goddamn friend
Who is doing this? People are just waiting until it's actually out to say anything. If you mean the people saying Fakku is the best option, that's because given the circumstances, it more or less is

Did anyone here buy Evenicle in the past few days? If so post your order number please, i'm curious to see how well it's been selling.

A lot of talk about censored beastiality when the real issue is that they censored the cross-dresser in Tenioha.

But yes, that is Nutaku and we all know they should just drop dead, sooner rather than later.

>>19199436
They werent a part of the discussion though. If they got Maitetsu, that would actually be a big cause for alarm, since they wouldnt just censor the loli. They are completely horrible though.

>>19199314
Nobody buys or reads visual novels here, we just rant about them.

>Limited Run Games announced its first localization project with visual novel The House in Fata Morgana for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita during its E3 2018 press conference. It will be released both digitally and physically, presumably via the Limited Run Games online store, in Q1 2019.
MG most likely got fucked like how Steins;Gate was with Jast.

>>19200143
No wonder when they had like 2 year delay.

>>19199436
Everybody knows Nutaku is shit, they're not relevant here (they censored defloration blood and changed dialogue in some scenes too)

>>19200143
MG as far as we know isn't interested in console market yet

>>19200233
Console market is meaningless. You could go for the VR market soon, as it will be really big with otaku being able to "live" with anime girls.

The handheld VNs are just the replacements while we wait for the future to arrive.

>>19200268
Subtitles on your VR will be great for immersion, I'm sure.

>>19200143
Wow

>>19200268
VR is dead

>>19192380
>Also it has lots of rape and tentacle stuff.
Damn, that already motivated me to buy it.

>>19198144
>>19198153
>>19198248
>>19198733
They can have content tucked away inside of Haruka but they can't actually have a title with that as the main focus. It's because of their new payment processor. If you checked, Hypno-Training My Mother and Sister is not on the site anymore.

>>19199314
I haven't had an interest in it, but how can you figure out how well a title is doing? Don't the order numbers count all titles sold on the site?

>>19200496
Huh that's weird, they haven't even commented on the removal of it either.

>>19200143
>its first localization project
What, they're retranslating it? Or is this just shitty reporting?

https://twitter.com/Novectacle_EN/status/1006273006027456512
It's Collected Edition. Voices included.

>>19200496
I thought they had a Japanese payment processor that allowed basically everything.

>>19200993
That might have been their original one, but after they changed payment processors, it's not everything.

>>19200233
>>19200160
>>19200934
They've licensed MG's translation and the new CE chapter is also being translated by yukino and rito.

>>19200990
>finally able to hear that perfect casting
my dick

>>19201123
>perfect casting
I dunno man, a lot of the voices didn't match how I imagined them at all.

>>19201132
Who?

>>19201134
Morgana, mostly. Her voice is a lot deeper than I expected.

Sage because only marginally related to the thread, but Sekai is apparently trying to focus more on Switch releases based on a couple of ports and some new (non-VN) titles they announced at E3. At the very least, that's what an automatic e-mail from Sekai Project said. Or rather, their new brand Sekai Games, I suppose.

I hope they fail catastrophically.

>>19201431
>I hope they fail catastrophically.
I've been hoping for this for Sekai Project for years.

>>19200143
>like how Steins;Gate was with Jast
Is the translation actually different?
I still have Jast's.

>>19201467
the only thing different about the translation were the cell phone messages, and also they were very badly done compared to JAST's iirc, a bunch of typos and stuff.

>>19199314
I'm the anon who said he would buy Evenicle on the 27th. Since MG just started a sale, I decided to buy it now to minimize noise from other purchases. This is an order number from about 24 minutes into the sale, so hopefully, it isn't too unrepresentative of Evenicle's sales.

Order Number - 309318
Order Date - 2018-06-12 13:23:02

>>19202582
Not the anon curious about the Evenicle sales, but here's the order number he put.
Order Number - 307910
Order Date - 2018-05-31 14:08:53

If you compare that to the other order number (309318-307910), there have been 1409 total sales from 5-31 to 6-12 (including the original anon's purchase). The average amount of sales per month for MG (assuming it is the same as last year) is about 2k give or take. Let's underestimate Evenicle's sales by subtracting the average amount of VNs sold in half a month or 1k. That's still 409 sales that are most likely attributed to Evenicle, unless titles like Kuroinu or the various third party titles are selling way more than average. Note that this is a vast underestimate; it's possible Evenicle has already sold 1k, though I would guess about 700.

So did Haro drop her projects or what?

Start reporting this

https://store.steampowered.com/app/714800/Maitetsu/

>>19202950
For what?

>>19202950
>Available: 30 June
A little over two weeks away and SP still refuse to confirm that nothing will be cut or how any uncensor patch will be handled.

>>19200496
That sucks. Decentralized payment processors when?

>>19203033
There's no news about it because there will be no uncensor patch. That'd just be setting themselves up for controversy.

And I doubt there'll be any notable cuts given that they kept in the scene where MC strips Hachiroku down to her panties according to the screenshots. Maybe some small edits to hide nipples in bath scenes.

>>19203050
>And I doubt there'll be any notable cuts given that they kept in the scene where MC strips Hachiroku down to her panties according to the screenshots. Maybe some small edits to hide nipples in bath scenes.
And what about the parts where you give them the dick?

>>19203056
Fakku already confirmed there will be no cut content.

For what it is worth, Valve announced that they are working with a local Chinese company to create some type of official/curated(and inevitably censored) version of Steam for Chinese market at some future point (almost certainly after pressure from the Chinese government as a local partnership only works out worse for them compared to the current arrangement). Odds are once that is up and running the main Steam platform will end up getting cut off in China, which would mean a cut in revenue for the VN localization companies if they lose access to that market. That said, such a move should have been long in the works when Valve made their previous comments to allow anything that isn't "illegal or straight up trolling," and if their future plans include a separate Chinese version of Steam out of necessity, that would be one less liability in implementing that policy elsewhere.

>>19202950
With the more stringent regulations that Steam has been imposing on VN developers recently, if Maitetsu managed to make it through it would have been after considerable review, (not to mention, Sekai listed it as waiting for Valve's approval some time ago). Valve also seems unlikely to repeat the type of knee-jerk reaction that took down Maidens of Michael as the removal of any title would be under the spotlight at the moment thanks to recent controversies. Sekai would be more likely to run into problems with needing to re-edit older titles that include nudity and had little review than a new release that was done under a watchful eye, especially if Valve comes back and tells them they still need to censor Re:Lord.

>>19203033
Sekai doesn't even seem to be publishing the R18 version, as the Fakku release doesn't list Denpasoft as a publisher and it lists Fakku as the exclusive seller of the 18+ version. That said, if Sekai won't release it on their own R18 storefront, they aren't going to do a patch. Although for what it is worth, Fakku does say that no content will be removed from their release.

>>19203061
>>19203068
>FAKKU is proud to be the exclusive seller for the 18+ version of Maitetsu by game developer Lose.
>100% DRM free and completely uncut with no scenes removed.
Well, I guess I wasn't wrong when I said there was no way SP would release it uncensored. But that's good to hear.

>>19192272
https://steamcommunity.com/app/710370/discussions/0/1696049513763062461/#c1696049513764320891
I doubt it'll happen. Valve will probably just ignore them.

>>19203068
>With the more stringent regulations that Steam has been imposing on VN developers recently, if Maitetsu managed to make it through it would have been after considerable review
The store page going up isn't indicative of the game itself passing review though. There are separate approval processes for the store page and game build. Like with Fureraba for example, the store page was approved but the game itself got rejected which was the cause of the big delay for the steam release.

That said I do think it's retarded to be encouraging censorship of any kind just because you don't like Sekai. Especially since VNs as a whole are so often attacked by pro-censorship types.

>>19203104
I'm sure that >>19202950 was only joking.

>>19196915
>International beastiality laws
International loli laws aren't stopping Fakku with Maitetsu.

>>19203127
Well there was someone going on about trying to get Maitetsu taken down last thread.

i unironically hope the censors get maitetsu so it doesn't become the next big meme thing among eops

>Nanairo Reincarnation moved to QA
About fucking time. I can't wait for 2020 release.

>>19203146
Everyone getting bored of it is a far more likely outcome. The content of the game -- especially the way it's explored -- is extremely dull. Everything about the visual novel aside from the production values is average as fuck. I found Paulette's route to probably be the worst of the main heroine's (the Mine Treasure shit and negotiations with Mototada was an absolute sleeper), but I suppose it really depends on how you react to the content -- for example, Hibiki's route is compartively more about politics whilst Hachiroku is (obviously) filled with trains. There's a lot of memes going around about the game being nothing but train infodumps, and while I wouldn't go that far it's somewhat indicative of the problems that Maitetsu has; sure, the content is interesting at points, and you really have to commend the writer for his knowledge surrounding that niche (he even went as far as organizing two train rides events for fans), but the way it's told -- in this dry, academic-esque tone and going on for incredibly long intervals -- leads one to sigh and beg the game to get on with the point. The common route is perhaps the worse about this, but the game's tendency to ramble is quite a large issue even in the main routes. Will most Western readers actually trudge through this game in its entirety, especially when one considers that the romance doesn't even occur for quite a long time in the main routes? I'm not really sure. As far as I understand in regards to the Western audience (and it's true of the Eastern audience as well) a lot of people read these visual novels for the girls and the romantic content with them therein. Well, I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of folk are going to find Maitetsu incredibly disappointing in that regard, if they aren't horrendously bored by the game by the time that they actually get to the romances (or even the routes, since the common route is an onslaught of exposition and infodumping that would make even Nasu blush in embarassment). Ironically the mini routes -- which are far, far shorter than the main ones -- are actually a bit more satisfying and enjoyable thanks to their truncated content and the tendency to actually get to the point.

There's a reason that Maitetsu, which had quite the marketing campaign in Japan, has seen an almost universal middling reception in Japan in spite of its many unique topics. It is, sadly, an incredibly average title overall.

>>19203213
Honestly I don't think there's any longer VN that couldn't be significantly improved by severe editing.

>>19203213
>There's a reason that Maitetsu, which had quite the marketing campaign in Japan, has seen an almost universal middling reception in Japan
I'm sure that's the case.

>>19203529
http://moe-gameaward.com/annual/2016.html
There's this too. I'm not sure where anon got the information that it was average in nipland from.

>>19203529
that's not really too unusual, you know? a lot of mediocre games get a lot of releases and reprints in Japan

>>19203546
moe game awards has nothing to do with the actual quality of the title lol

>>19203575
>moe game awards has nothing to do with the actual quality of the title lol
We're talking about the reception, not the quality, dumbass.

>>19203577
yes, and?? this year's moe awards winner was hardly received fantastically, Nora Princess is and is referred to as a kusoge in the community lmao, people just like the art and girls

>>19203595
>people just like the art and girls
I wonder what the important aspects of moege are.

>>19203608
and Maitetsu isn't a moege so i dont get your argument, or did you think that the moe game awards is exclusively for moege? fucking Dies irae won the moe game awards years ago you baka

>>19203529
Well, it is in my experience browsing 2ch/bbspink/twitter. Most people seem to give it a C, and that's on the back of pretty fantastic production values. For a plotge/charage title, that's pretty bad. Doubly so in the face of so much shilling.

Anyway, I'm just giving my opinion, and it's hardly an unusual one, at that.

>>19203595
Speaking of Noratoto, is it confirmed that they scrapped the English release?

>>19203632
dont know anything about that, sorry. i dont keep up with Western releases unless it's something that interests me

>>19203632
Honestly it might've been for the best considering the, uh, "english," they had on display.

>>19203546
Yikes. It lost out to something as mediocre as Wagamama? The art in Wagamama isn't even good, how the fuck do you lose to it?

>>19203670
wagamama was straight out bad, i'll chalk this up to nips having bad taste as usual but this doesn't inspire confidence

>>19203213
>>19203529
>>19203613
I should probably stress that I don't think Maitetsu is outright horrible and I don't want to sully the hopes of anyone hyped for the game, but maybe my perspective will help others keep more a more realistic perspective and they might be able to enjoy it more. For me, I was extremely hyped for Maitetsu all the way to the release and reality left me wanting quite a bit. I probably wouldn't have been so disappointed had my expectations not been so high.

>>19203639
Yeah it's probably for the best. I was just wondering because I checked the VNDB page and everything about the English release was removed, so I thought I missed something.

>>19203546
>no Baldr heart, Tokyo necro
Holy shit, what a shit ranking.

>>19183326
Hey, please tell me, what tools did you use to extract and decode scripts?
Did you have to edit the scripts in Ethornell Editor or did you manage to get it to txt form?

>>19203672
>wagamama was straight out bad
Wrong.

>>19203780
see: >>19195184

MangaGamer is having a summer sale:
>http://mangagamer.org/summer/

>>19203766
>Baldr heart, Tokyo necro
>moe
retard

>>19204277
>>19203610

>>19204277

>>19204277
Moege means something other than what you think it means.

>>19202659
I expected it to sell more, though it's still 2 weeks before it's actually released but 700 copies sold seem kinda low considering it's a gameplay title with Senran Kagura art.

>>19204277
the moege awards are not actually awards for moege

>>19204317
Visual novel sales seem to be overall going down a bit, it's no wonder that companies like Sekai Project are tapping into the console and handheld market and depending on their initial sales I wouldn't be surprised if they shift even more considering how profit driven they are.
Once all the ''kamige'' or highly regarded visual novels get translated I expect the overall sales to fall even more and with the steam storefront being a mess now it's impossible to get some traction or advertisement for your titles outside of your already established fan base due to dozens of releases daily.

>>19204431
Not really, it depends on the company. MG and Sekai are on a decline but others are starting to do well.

>>19204442
MG I can understand (sadly), but is Sekai really on a decline? Especially with all of the kicksrarter money they get, I think you would mean their steam sales.

>>19204489
Sekai's on a decline but with all the dirt cheap fan translations that they pick up and with optional kickstarters for them, which all still get funded, I doubt they are in any kind of trouble.

Them making another division which focuses on console only releases and getting your games on consoles isn't cheap too, which shows that Sekai Project is far from being in real financial trouble.

>>19204569
True but if their console releases start flopping its game over.

>>19204632
On the console front. They'll always have saps who give their kickstarters massive amounts of money on PC.

>>19203146
>so it doesn't become the next big meme thing among eops
Why are people actually like this?

>>19203672
>wagamama was straight out bad
I enjoyed it

>>19204317
Eh, it's doing fine by MG standards. Note that quadruple digits is usually above breaking even for any MG deal, and that debut sales tend to be a lot more than preorder sales for one reason than another. If it is selling less than Rance VI, that's because of the significantly higher price point. As far as how much it sold, it sold well enough to be 4th on the overall ranking of the year from preorder and first few days sales alone, so take from that as you qell.

>>19204431
Unless said kamige has an anime adaptation, they don't really sell well, which lessens the useful pool of the so called "kamige" category. I'd say that companies like Sol Press which rely on no name moege have a better chance of staying afloat in the long run than Visual Arts or MAGES.

>>19204489
I'd say that MG is on the decline when it comes to the Steam side of sales, but considering how well their main store is doing compared to back in the day, I doubt they are in any risk of bankruptcy.

>>19203766
Tokyo Necro is 34th on the list.

>>19204805
While MangaGamer's is far from bankruptcy, their upcoming license announcements for the next year will suffer, due to less sales = less money for newer, good or expensive licenses.

They already announced some pretty decent titles this year and I'm quite curious to see what they will announce next month on Anime Expo and how it will do sales wise.
If sales rapidly decline next year too, the worst case scenario would be MangaGamer turning into NukigeGamer again, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon.

>>19204929
>Will suffer

More Rance,Maggot Baits, finishing Higurashi and Hapymaher will suffer less sales? Can you explain how that would be possible?

>>19203724
It was removed as there has been nothing but radio silence about the translation since the thing was announced two years ago. I guess that they couldn't find anyone to translate it or didn't care enough.

>>19203639
I agree.
>Yuki
Yuuki
>Yuri
Yuuri

>>19197989
>drugs and hypnotism
Only that? Does that mean MangaGamer can finally pick up and gives us a mosaic free version with all appends of Monobeno Happy End?

>>19205100
No, the staff themselves still hate lolis.

>>19205100
iirc Kouryuu or whatever was all down for Monobeno until he read it and saw that it's quite explicit about the age of the main heroine, so i doubt it. he's a Prismafag, though, which is a show only dirty lolicons would ever like, so i doubt he has any personal problems with it and is more afraid of the grey legality surrounding it.

Monobeno would be an absolute nightmare of a localization regardless, however, and i doubt any translation group would want to get bogged down with such a headache

>>19205100
I still can't fathom how they can be fine with rape but disallow hypnotism.

>>19203136
Neither of those laws exist internationally.

>>19205151
I can't figure out how to interpret this in a way that isn't you being wrong.

>>19205123
I certainly wouldn't envy the person who got stuck translating something like Tsumi's chapter. Then there's the other 4.45 MB of text you'd have to go through. These are much more convincing reasons not to translate it than because it has lolis, so I'm not sure why that's the go-to excuse.

>>19205135
Their payment process is in Japan and we all know that rape and tentacles assaulting school girls on trains are part of their culture.
Jokes aside, it really is kinda silly that hypnotism is fine while they publish something like Maggot Baits.

Guess I'll buy a few copies of Sweet Sweat in Summer and Sweet Young Bride now that they are on sale to get more ''lolige'' in the future.

>>19205135
Didn't they do Oyako Saiin Chiiku ~ Konna Ore ni Uzuite Modaero! ? I wonder what caused them to change on that front.

>>19205226
I'd only get the first one, honestly. Second one sucks ass by comparison even if the voice actor in both is "meh"

Something about tanned girls is pure sex

>>19205162
You may be right. I'm not sure my sentence ended up saying what I intended it to say.

Point is, there isn't one shared unified global law shared by the world. But there can obviously be a law in each country that is similar.

>>19205232
>Point is, there isn't one shared unified global law shared by the world. But there can obviously be a law in each country that is similar.
No shit. What a pointless statement.

>>19205231
I liked the second one better.

>>19205231
Tanned girls is better than sex.

what do you guys think will get announced this ax

>>19205462
The easy ones to guess are Clover Day's and Biman1 from Sekai.

>>19205007
I would say that he might be overestimating Steam's contribution to MG profits (at least for 2016 or 2017). At most, the licenses affected will be all ages licenses like Propeller, not any nukige licenses. You could argue licenses for moege that can be released in Steam might suffer, but MG's relationship with Circus seems airtight while Moonstone also seems like a safe bet. The weakening of Steam could prevent MG from licensing moege from other companies or could affect their otome game sales (since a bulk of them are from Steam), but I wouldn't worry about it until they run out of Rance and Funbag Fantasy money to prevent experimental licensing.

>>19205231
I bought both. I must support lolige translations.

>>19205462
>Mangagamer
Galzoo Island
Sakura Mori Dreamers
Two or three other titles

>JAST USA
Maybe a BL game for their Blue section
Muramasa (I wish)
A Black Cyc game (Gore Screaming Show?)

>Sekai Project
Some Muv Luv spinoff or Kiminozo
Low tier gameplay eroge
Random doujin and indie games
Fate/Stay Night just to piss off the internet

What did they mean by this? Surely it isn't going to be license annoucements, right? Expo is still off.

>>19205226
From what I heard, it is slavery that is the bigger no-no. It's just that hypnotism is considered under that umbrella as well. Guess it is just a weird quirk of a Japanese processor that can accept foreign transcations?

>>19206153
Considering the replies to that tweet, probably a combination of updates, a nukige going up on sale after Higurashi is out, maybe Maidens of Michael going back up on Steam and maybe Supipara actually got to the Episode 3 funding or Trinoline is out next.

>>19206153
SukiSuki release date

>>19204248
Please MG, make this your new tagging system.

Yuri, BL, Gameplay, Nukige, Story-Focused

>>19206191
>Supipara actually got to the Episode 3 funding
Nope.
>$234,582.66
>Last updated: 6/4/2018
Still over $115,000 away.

Most likely Hapymaher going up for preorder, since it's done with its beta phase.

Sekai put up AX plans for both them and Denpa. The Denpa panel will be 10PM Friday, and the Sekai panel 3PM Saturday. Aside from the panels, they have three illistrators as guests (hoshi, PICPICGRAM and Kätzchen), and Sekai says they'll have 2 games available to demo at their booth for Sekai, as well as one of their non-VN porn titles for Denpa.

>>19206153
The most obvious thing is that they'll probably be putting up another title with the Higurashi release later this week (perhaps another big title to be able to promote preorders during their AX panel). Aside from that, they could still put up a hard copy to be ready for release at AX, and they'll likely have their AX preview up sooner or later. Along those lines, it is also always possible they could add another AX guest in addition to MIN-NARAKEN from Alicesoft.

>>19206153
They finally updated their store

>>19205109
I think you mean Sekai. Because MG has done this a few times in the past.

>>19205123
Could you just edit the age of the character and say she is childlike?

>>19206620
Natsuha's age is never outright stated, but due to PLOT and some rough math you can easily estimate her age is around 10 or so. Sumi on the other hand says that she is at least as old as the protagonist (20-something) despite being smaller than Natsuha.

>>19205682
>Overestimating
Don't you mean Underestimating?

>The weakening of Steam could prevent MG from licensing moege from other companies or could affect their otome game sales (since a bulk of them are from Steam), but I wouldn't worry about it until they run out of Rance and Funbag Fantasy money to prevent experimental licensing.

I would argue that it's more or less getting greater and solid titles. I know what you mean by the licenses there has been a few misses throughout the years and had to be made up through constant sales. As some were just overpaid for, or there just was not the excitement because some felt it was generic and has been done before.

But I will say MG has been capitalizing on Otome games rather well in their recent licenses I even have to admit they seem really high end. Which one would hope translates into good sales. It's mostly going to have to rely on highly rated older titles that people have wanted, keeping with success, and finally new titles that can potentially attract new audiences.

>>19206191
How is Supipara anyways? I did look at the trailer and it does feel like a normal slice of life romcom.

>>19205109
>>19197401
I know 2 MG staff who like loli, 1 who doesn't, and 1 who tries not to comment about it. The whole staff of MG has never hated loli.

>>19206620
Likely depends on the title. IIRC Marble Candy Soft, or something soft, has the ages of the lolis in the OP. Aside from only being comprised of lolis in the first place

>>19206636
That makes sense. I wonder if there is ever a way around that stuff. Possibly writing an older age then patching the real age?

>>19206675
Good point.

>>19206675
Give me HamHamSoft or riot.

>>19206702
Plotwise it wouldn't make sense to do that. Basically his loli imouto gets cursed early in the game, which causes her to age and get cowtits, upon which she has her first period. You can't really go, "she was 18" and still have that plot point make sense.

>>19206704
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NX36IwVrxSU
This shouldnt have been as amusing as it was to me. And damn is it a good OP.
>>19206702
That may work for some titles, but at the same time if the effort to change the ages in the VN would be worth it. It almost wouldnt make sense to go through with the effort if people could patch it

>>19206743
>And damn is it a good OP
I know. That's why I want it.

>>19206153
It could just be announcement slots or perhaps it will be an announcement of a long overdue title like Suki Suki or Bokuten.

>>19206153
I am pulling for more Rance and another two pickups.

>>19206743
>Watches video

I feel like I am in the CIA's most wanted list.

>>19206925
It'll be too soon for more rance. The 2 announced games won't come out until late 2019 or early 2020, considering MGs other priorities. Especially with beta testing and scripting for gameplay titles. If you mean another Alicesodt game, than I could see it

>>19206997
You do drive a good point it does seem like Rance has high priority but it's not going to finish up that early.

My bet is they are preparing for the next batch of releases.

>>19206925
If Rance is going to be announced this year, it will likely be announced at Otakon if only because all of the previous Rance games were announced at Otakon. It's the same with Funbag Fantasy and Anime Central.

>>19206997
I also find it unlikely because of how both Sengoku Rance and Rance Quest are stuck in the pipeline. MG might be willing to announce Rance 01 since Sengoku is likely enough to release near the beginning of next year anyways, and Rance 01 is a short enough Rance game even if you bundle it with 02, but I would still find it unusual. It would be great if 01 was announced this year and completed by next year (leaving only IX, 03, and X to be translated), but I don't think that's realistic.

Incidentally, if the AX announcement is Galzoo Island, Pastel Chum (Translator of Please Bang My Wife) might be the one translating it since he's been promoting it, so who knows what Arunaru is doing right now. inb4 Escalayer.

>>19204222
Thanks.

>>19205462
>JAST
Another Nitro+Chiral title
Another Empress title (DominancE?)
Sexfriend
Flowers Volume 3

why Fakku just refunded me 10 bucks for Maitetsu? have they put the wrong price?

>>19208335
Looks like they did, It's now $29.99 on their website.

>>19208340
I still won't buy it because of SP and Fakku, but I actually think it's too cheap.

>>19209104
>but I actually think it's too cheap.
Yeah, I was thinking that as well. Quite weird when one considers that it supposedly comes with all the appends. And it isn't like it's a short title either. Bizarre.

>>19209104
>>19208340
Maybe it wasn't selling to expectations?

>>19209156
Its way too early to make such drastic measures or even judge if they are needed in the first place.

>>19209112
I suspect it's because Sekai won't be offering a patch for the Steam version, so they want the 18+ version to be seen as a good price so people will want to buy both versions.

>>19206153
Please gods let it be Bokuten or even SukiSuki.
With my luck it will end up as Sweet Switch or Bitter Exclusion, since both have finished beta testing.

>>19209804
Could also be Hapymaher.

>>19206997
>early 2020
What?

>>19206153
>Actually surprising things they might do
- Evenicle hard copy announcement
- Announce a release date for a title they planned to announce at Anime Expo but somehow completed early
- Bokuten or Suki Suki release announcement
- Kuroinu complete edition announcement or something like that
- Website update

>More likely, but still interesting scenarios
- A hard copy announcement that they will sell at AX
- Another AX guest
- Maidens of Michael back on Steam
- Damekoi or Hapymaher announcement
- Announcement slots

>It's fucking nothing
- Some small nukige
- A Hentai Industries game
- A third party game or OELVN

>>19210100
They said a 'couple' so i'm willing to bet one of them is Announcement slots.

>https://twitter.com/bunnycartoon/status/1006763246936784896
I didn't know Peter Payne was this shady, since he's the one running the social media accounts.

Visual novel wise, I knew that he refuses to hire additional staff and that he pushes most the programing aspects to the Japanese developers directly which ends up in years of delays due to them treating it as low priority on their list just to save money, but I didn't know he does this too.

>>19210217
It's not even the first time. Tuxedo already told J-List to delete a tweet with her art last month, but of course J-List acted like assholes until many thousands of retweets and tweets later, when they finally deleted it. And now they've done it with the same artist yet again, except they believe they're in the right despite Tuxedo telling them to never post her art again.

J-List stealing art is commonplace, and Peter Payne is a fucking scumbag of a person. He cares for nothing but money and doesn't give a shit how his decisions affect others.

>>19210306
Well, the artist is korean, so who cares.

>>19210306
It's not stealing, its fair use. If you dont want your art shared then don't post it publicly on social media sites. Apparently that artist doesn't even know how those sites function and even considers re tweeting her own tweets as offensive.

>>19210502
>its fair use
No, it isn't. They're using her complete work to make money for their business. AX removes stolen artworks that thieves took off fanart sites, since they didn't have permission to make prints of them.

>>19210502
They weren't retweeting her work. They created original tweets and used her artwork as free publicity for themselves with no permission from the artist.

Imagine thinking that saying something like this won't make people angrier, especially when there are tools to find the source of said pictures in a couple of seconds. https://twitter.com/JListPeter/status/1006788407673094144

caring about "stealing art" is reddit as fuck

>>19210799
Hi Peter.

You're fishing for RTs and every tweet you make with some artist's picture contains a link to your store. So you are in a way monetizing that artist's work with no permission or compensation, which is stealing. If it were me I'd have already contacted my lawyer.

>>19210816
let me contact my lawyer too see u in internet court

https://www.jlist.com/blog/your-friend-in-japan/we-are-very-sorry/
Looks like he won't steal art anymore

>>19210799
>reddit as fuck
What does that even mean in this context? Also we are talking about supposedly professional companies and their representatives not fan groups here. If this was Sekai/Dovac being scummy (as usual) then you would probably be all over it.

>>19210827
It's called DMCA and it works. The Mutiny artist had to DMCA Payne, since he stole his Saber fanart recently.

>>19206636
Technically, isn't it enough to just add a text stating "All characters in this VN are robots". Because last I checked there were no laws around robot ages.

Looks like people on Steam are still hoping for/expecting a patch for Maitetsu, which I don't think is going to happen given what the deal seems to be with fakku. Not only that, I doubt Sekai/Denpa want tied to the 18+ version in any way given that they're Switch developers now.

>>19205109
Isn't haro the only one that hates them

>>19205123
>Monobeno would be an absolute nightmare of a localization
Why?

>>19210900
Nice, cant wait for those Steam fags to buy and and then realize there wont be a patch.

>>19210502
What makes it not fair use is the fact that he's using the art as advertisement, not that I particularly care. Copyright law is a pain as is.

>>19210912

>>19206675
No idea who the last person is supposed to be though.

>>19210912
>mentally ill fujo
>hates lolis
Every time.

Do you guys think that the ones behind the Steins;Gate steam patches will translate the rest of the Science Adventure series when they are done with the Chaos; series?

>>19210502
It's not fair use when you're taking artwork and using it without permission to advertise your product you dumb fuck. It certainly doesn't help that their response in that conversation with the artist was to say "but other sites are doing it too!" and "what's the problem, we give you exposure :^)" instead of what should've been an instant "yeah sorry about that, we'll take it down right away".

>>19210900
SP locked the only thread on the forums asking if there would be a patch, so I guess that's that. I don't know why they refuse to give a straight answer, though.

>>19211258
Isn't it still against Steam rules for now to bring up 18+ patches anyway? But yeah, most likely no patch.

>>19211286
It's against the rules for the developer to advertise the patch on their forums. There's nothing stopping users from talking about it on the forums. If SP were going to release a patch there'd be nothing stopping them from making a blog post or tweet about it. If they weren't making a patch, there'd be nothing stopping them from replying to that thread with "no, there won't be a patch" before locking it. I would think that they don't want people talking about the adult content at all on Steam, but in that case it's odd that they just locked the thread and left it up instead of deleting it entirely.
So I would speculate that they're not going to release a patch, but they specifically want to keep people in the dark in hopes that they'll buy the Steam version regardless. Maybe SP isn't getting a cut from the sales on Fakku, or their cut from Fakku is less than what they're getting from Steam?

>>19211190
We currently have no plans for that. That said, nothing is set in stone. There's still quite a while before we finish NoAH though, we'll see once we're done.

>>19211323
Deleting threads causes alot more outrage from Steam users than just locking it does. Either way they wanted that discussion about the adult version and whether denpa will release a patch to stop.

Does anyone know what's going with Newton?

>>19211538
Waiting on Steam approval. Stricter vetting process is making VNs take longer to release.

>>19211538
The posted their weekly roundup yesterday, and it looks like they are just waiting on Steam Approval. However they did say 'early june' in the same post so i'd expect it sooner rather than later.

>>19211551
>>19211555
> Our final internal QA is wrapping up, and QA implementation and build mastering should only take a few days extra. After that, we’ll quickly check the game one last time for any major bugs before releasing it to all of you!

>>19211551
I don't think they are stricter. But hopefully they actually log their reviews now so that next fake report event will just have them say "Nope, this game is not containing porn. We already reviewed it."

>>19210217
>Someone uses someone else's art and advertises them.

The horror. Lol. I understand if it was someone who says the art is theirs and they made it. But whatever. Outrage culture is the new thing now.

>>19211670
>Someone uses someone else's art to advertise their product without the artist's permission and uses exposure as an excuse.
Fixed that for you, Peter.

>>19210799
It really is. If he said the art was his and it wasn't or runs money off it with Patreon which I have seen happen then i understand. But being this upset is really just getting annoying.

>>19210835
It's the moralfag thing. That is what they are known for.

>>19211694
They do advertise it back to the artist I have watched them do that. Besides if this really makes you mad so much you can always go back to Fuwanovel forum.

>>19211697
He was making money with the stolen art. He posted links to games on JAST and used the artwork from fanart as a draw to get people to retweet the store links.

>>19211577
Valve has clearly been vetting VNs much more thoroughly for a few months now, something that all the main VN localization companies have regularly stated. As there are no clear guidelines as to what Steam allows, a stricter review process and more developers needing to create new builds after Valve objects to a particular build means that in practice there are more stringent restrictions even if there wasn't any other policy change.

Beyond that, a couple of the titles such as Kindred Spirits and Hunniepop which were caught up in the recent content controversy had previously been thoroughly reviewed since they were titles that initially pushed the boundaries on Steam to begin with.

>>19211723
Peter, just because you linked back to the artist does not mean that it's ok for you to take an artist's work and use it to promote your product without their permission, and then get pissy with the artist when they contact you to tell you to stop doing that with their art. If you want to use art to promote the product, either commission some official art, use some official art you have permission to use, or contact the artist and ask for their permission first. You're running a fucking business here, act like it.

>>19211746
See >>19210831, you dumb fuck. Not only is it off-topic, but it's also already irrelevant. Stop this at once.

>>19211761
I've already seen Peter's really shitty apology, that doesn't change that there are idiots in this thread defending the actions he just apologised for.

>>19211761
It was >>19211670 that started up the discussion again after it stopped the first time.

Will we get Sengoku this year?

>>19211774
It was getting ready to go into beta testing not too long ago, so most likely.

>>19211774
No.

>>19211774
Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. February 2019 is more like it.

>>19211744
I suspect they just swapped to doing the MangaGamer review process where they check out all the nude CGs and give approval on them. So for other VNs it may take longer, but I don't think it takes longer than each game MG pushed to Steam.

That said, since the amount of VNs have increased, so has the amount of reviewing they need to do. So unless they increased their "Looking at VN CG" staff, things are slower.

Even worse now with the fake reports that make them have to do the same process AGAIN for dozens of games.

>>19210923
it's just not feasible to actually localize unless you were to put in a huge amount of effort, and you would need quite the talented team to actually do it proper justice. here's the thing about Monobeno, it's actually not too hard to read, but it would be very difficult for most Western readers (and even some Japanese readers) to actually understand it -- you would need an enormous appendix just to explain all the cultutal references which are deeply seated in Japanese rural mythos and folklore. that aside, even if you were to hack in an appendix just for Western readers, you would still be left with a huge headache, many of the characters have thick country dialects, which would be quite difficult to accurately localize; i imagine most would probably try to make them sound like stereotypical American country bumpkins (think of Sekai's version of DD from CC and you will understand how easily this can become a nightmarish Frankenstein of editing, and would likely piss of a lot of English readers no matter which localization direction one took). then there's the puns, oh god the puns. so, yeah, consider all of that, and then put it on a long fucking title like Monobeno. it's a horrible, dirty job and i wouldn't envy anyone who had to work on it. maybe Makoto could do it, after all, he's a native, isn't he? maybe he has enough intimate knowledge of rural Japanese history. but even still it would take a lot of effort even for the most talented of translators.

>>19211879
There wasn't some gradual shift indicating that Valve was gradually falling behind, but a distinct shift where it went from being unseen to a distinct problem regularly causing delays. Someone from Jast noted that an upcoming title that had been approved suddenly needed to get re-reviewed around the time this became a issue. It isn't easy to determine what Valve's review process had consisted of and what it consists of now, but they certainly have changed their approach and it has in effect caused more titles to need to make more changes. That said, a few months of this new approach may in part lead to a longer queue for many titles since reviewers are spending more time on each title.

>>19212137
Doesn't Maitetsu have similar problems? I'm an EOP and haven't read either mind you, this is just what I've heard.

>>19212315
not as bad, but yes. Monobeno spends less time explaining itself (is there even a glossary in the original game? I actually don't remember), whereas Maitetsu will bang you over the head numerous times with why things are the way they are in scenes which many consider to be over-indulgent. also, a lot of the concepts in Maitetsu are pretty Western-friendly so it isn't like you'd have to culturally inform people what the fuck is happening as much. dialect-wise Maitetsu still has similar issues to Monobeno, what with its Kumamoto-ben dialect, which is approximately similar to a hick accent. however i don't think it's as thick as the ones in Monobeno, could be my memory remembering incorrectly, though. i honestly kind of doubt Sekai did a good job with the translation

>>19212357
>i honestly kind of doubt Sekai did a good job with the translation
It's not like you'd have any reason to expect otherwise.

>>19212357
I'm expecting the translation to be the usual trainwreck (no pun intended) but that's so commonplace in this industry that it doesn't really phase me. Unless it's like, Crosschannel level.

>>19203068
China ruins everything again.

>>19212357
>>19212518
This is honestly making me fear another Chrono Clock. God, that maid was obnoxious.

>>19211771
It's simple don't respond. Move this topic somewhere else.

>>19211774
Didn't you already get it nine years ago?

>>19213517
official translation

>>19213574
Doubt it'll come out awfully different.

Hapymaher up for preorder for July 12th.

>>19213595
Halfway into the year and finally a decent release from MG

>>19213595
Big title mid month is unusual. Looks like they might announce the release date of another full length title at AX now.

>>19213595
The hardcopy for the second half of Umineko is also coming out the 12th, though they will have it on hand for AX.

>>19213602
None of Purple Soft's games are any good aside from their artwork.

>>19213609
You say that but Chrono Clock would have been much better if not for the detached h-scenes and routes ending on confession. Hapymaher doesn't have these issues so I can't imagine it being nearly as bad.

Jast Blue announced they’ll be at AX talking Nitro+Chiral. Sounds like another Chiral announcement is likely.

>>19211774
Probably not. They take an age to beta test gameplay titles

A rather busy week it seems. Thread reached bump limit and it's only Wednesday.

>>19213991
Dramatical murder I hope because I still haevnt played it. It would be too hopefull for slow damages.

>>19213595
Looks like there will be no steam release.

>>19214304
That was expected, it was originally listed as a MG only title back when it was announced.

>>19211708
So caring if a company is acting scummy makes you a moralfag? Everyone who shat on Sekai is also a moralfag and also "reddit as fuck" then by that logic.

>>19214304
Makes sense and I am glad they aren't wasting time and effort trying to butcher it for an all ages version. Not as simple to chop out the H-scenes like Chrono Clock which were basically in a menu that you can just simply remove.

>>19213604
Probably Damekoi if that really is the case, but Suki Suki or Bokuten are both plausible enough. It could just be something more minor though like the voiced edition for Kindred Spirits.

If nothing else, we'll probably get progress updates. Quest will likely be 100% translated and edited soon. Sengoku's beta and scripting could theoretically take less time than Evenicle's because it's an older game of which people know the in and outs of, but I wouldn't bet on it. Fall 2018 is a very optimistic if still plausible date if it started beta already. A more likely date is early 2019. As for Quest, half a year after Sengoku is most likely. It'll probably release before next year Otakon unless something causes a major delay. It's hard to tell what else will release by the end of the year other than Damekoi at this point, but a general guideline is that a long VN that starts beta by October will likely release by December. Small titles generally have a quick and painless scripting and beta, so when those release depends mostly on when MG feels like prioritizing it.

>>19200993
Again Brazil fucks it for everyone.

>>19214304
The further they get from Steam the better I say

Should I believe this guy?

>>19213623

Well, another reason to buy Hapymaher is that they cucked Sekai and caught Sekai lying about the CGs being "lost".

>>19215724
>I realize this translation is completely done by one person, so may you should find some more people next time
We all know that multiple people translating one visual novel is a good idea, right?

>>19215724
There were some typos and grammar errors, but the "tone of speech" complaint feels pulled out of his ass, since I played the game and the characters dialogue never felt odd to me.

>>19215724
He doesn't sound like he knows Japanese, so outside of spotting typos, his only complaint was that the way the characters talked didn't match what he pictured in his head.

>>19215724
I wouldn't trust someone who doesn't know the difference between an editor and a translator. The only criticism I can agree with is the typos, but there weren't 'a lot' of them like he was suggesting. Not relative to the size of the script anyway.

>>19214631
Not the same thing. Here nobody gives a fuck they have their reasons to go and buy Sekai stuff if they want to. Sekai's scummy behavior is different because it actually hurts people who purchase a game or have helped their Kickstarter. This art thing combined with what is left of Twitter is just a bunch of activists that try to harm a company and bring it out of business over something petty. They linked back and they never covered up and lied. This is why I consider moralfagging to be the biggest issue of our lives.

>>19214304
Oh well. Here's hoping for a few new games on Steam soon.

>>19215913
>Twitter is just a bunch of activists that try to harm a company and bring it out of business over something petty.
Dude, JAST could easily commission promo artwork for J-List or even ask permission to use fanworks. Instead they just snatch things off social media to promote their business.

>>19215724
I finished Rance VI including all events and post content and I can say that part from Arunaru changing Demon King to Archfiend the translation was fine.

Kinda strange that he still gave it 5 stars despite the rant about the translation. For me the biggest factor if I'm going to enjoy a visual novel or not is the translation. Chrono Clock for example made me insane and I skipped half of the DD route because of the ''translation'' choice, hell even the H-scenes were unedited and full of typos.

>>19215734
Hopefully it won't sell as mediocre as Sorcery Jokers.
If I remember correctly it sold around 700 copies on steam and it ranked 3rd for 1 week on their Top 5 chart.

>>19215947
>he still gave it 5 stars despite the rant about the translation
He really liked the gameplay, but despite ranting about the TL and editing, apparently he didn't even care about them that much.

>>19215724
No. Most likely he thought they sounded a certain way when they do not.

http://mangagamer.org/announcements/

Are they really only announcing 3 projects at AX? Two are from new partners.

>>19216086
There were 5 last year, right?

>>19216086
dead medium means less announcements, next year only gayge and ntr will be licensed

>>19216109
Yes, but two were Space Live and their recent awful-looking kickstarter project. They announced 5 projects the year before that as well.

Hopefully they'll add 1 or 2 more, but if not hopefully the 3 titles they have are solid.

>>19216127
Last year two of their AX announcements were all ages filler, with only 3 real announcements.

>>19215724
As someone who just recently finished it, I couldn't say I found very much wrong with the translation at all. And this dude sounds like an ESL so I doubt he knows what he's talking about. Arunaru is retarded when it comes to nameshit but he's a perfectly good translator otherwise.

>>19216086
>http://mangagamer.org/announcements/
Galzoo Island and Luckydog1, don't know who could be the 2nd new partner.
If I had to randomly guess, I would say Lune.

>>19216252
I really hope it is Lune, but I also think it's way too soon for that.

>>19216252
>>19216275
Yeah, even if that Lune Twitter thing led to them discussing partnership, I kinda doubt we would hear about it so soon. I suppose it's possible, though.

>>19214126
Unlikely. It has a full fan translation. Why would they bother?

>>19216206
I noticed this on Steam as well. Non-native speakers calling regular English phrases "bad grammar". One couldn't even recognize a basic generlization. Red haired character is X, so red heads are X.

>>19216359
To sell a ton of hard copies of it.

Sekai seems to be having a difficult time getting Shining Star Songnova through Valve's vetting process, as they tweeted out saying they've been waiting for more than a month. The probably likely stems from there being nudity in it, as Fureraba needed to get rid of the nudity before Valve allowed it onto Steam as well, and that also took a more than a month to get through the Steam approval process and only did so once the nudity was removed.

If Valve is objecting to anime style nudity, typically there isn't any reason to care since the R18 version will be available off site (although it may cause delays of the non-R18 version). However, it could cause more headaches for Baldr Sky if Valve's new policies were to require Sekai to censor it farther than they would have thought they needed to, since Giga doesn't want there to be an R18 release of Baldr Sky.

>>19216983
There was some dev tweeting that it is going to take a month or so for Valve to introduce their new filter system. I imagine that will be when they start their anything goes as long as it isn't illegal approach.

For the curious, it looks like denpasoft's site is leaking sales numbers. Not sure if someone wants to go through and record them before they fix it.

>>19217104
Better than I expected. But the new link system for downloads might cause lower numbers on newer titles.

>>19216359
they are doing sweet pool and it has a fan translation, same thing for majikoi so I dont see whats weird about it. Most chiral titles have a fan translaiton

>>19216983
Sounds counter-productive to do a witch hunt for nudity when it was acceptable before. Just means you have to go back and re-review a ton of games again. Not to mention you have to suddenly start explaining why The Witcher got through their nudity etc.

But I can also understand that they would highly suggest all publishers remove nudity, because the mass report trolls target those games and keeping the nudity will just mean you will be reported and put under investigation.

(Now if Steam could just build their OWN system where they can filter out fake reports of already accepted games.)

>>19217104
Skimming through all the data, a couple quick takeaways

1.) The Bell Chimes for Gold is their best seller with 4239 copies
2.) Nekopara DLC and Grisaia make up the remainder of their 2000+ sellers, with all the Nekopara DLC and Grisaia being above 2000 copies
3.) Their porn titles actually are doing better than I would have expected, with Seven days with the Ghost + Girls in Glasses being in their top 10 with more than 1600 each. Re:Lord actually did much better off Steam with just a bit over 1400 copies, compared to just shy of 350 for the DLC
4.) Moege varies from 732 (Chrono Clock) to 1840 (Wagahigh).
5.) Cosmillica titles do horribly, neither reached 200
6.) 2236 A.D being above 700 is higher than I would have guessed with its abysmal showing on Steam. As mentioned above it would also explain the bad showing of Re:Lord on Steam as well
6.) Just a broad sense, but there seems to be general growth in what is selling through Denpa, rather than a decline.

>>19217304
It's hard to say if the numbers are accurate. Some are in the same ballpack I'd expect, maybe a bit high, but some seem quite unusual. Bell Chimes for Gold is the most unusual one, it feels like that's an inaccurate number.

>>19216359
>Why would they bother?
Despite having a full fan translation people supposedly still ask JAST for it at conventions. It used to place highly on Mangagamers licensing surveys too (11th in 2016 and 20th in 2017).

Between JAST giving us N+C and Mangagamer giving us Parade and (likely) Tennenouji we'll have a majority of the higher ranking BL titles officially in English. We're just missing Taishou Mebiusline and Shingakkou.

>>19217304
I believe Chrono Clock was a title released through kickstarter with nutaku downloads. So each person from that got their copy by downloading at nutaku.

Nekopara DLC being at 2000+ isn't really amazing when they sold 100 000 copies. Probably high on piracy as people HATE paying porn tax.

I also suspect that if you order them by price, the cheapest games are among the bigger sellers.

>>19217323
If there is some "bloat" factor, it probably only affects titles since the Shopify switch over as the older titles are very much where one expect them. There doesn't seem to be anything like a constant multiplier affecting newer titles, and certainly not some base number being added with the Seven Days with the Ghost OST having just 6. The one thing that might be reasonable is if it somehow adds each download attempt which could disproportionately affect one title like Bell Chimes for Gold.

>>19217391
The Nekopara Volume 1 DLC is at 3550 on here, but yes that point holds. Although I would not attribute that to people making an informed decision not to pay for porn, but rather most people who play Nekopara not knowing Denpa exists.

>>19217391
>I also suspect that if you order them by price, the cheapest games are among the bigger sellers.
No way.

>>19217391
Not really, there doesn't seem to be all that much much correlation between sales and price for Denpa.

>>19217104
The Bell Chimes for Gold - 4239
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 - 18+ DLC - 3550
The Fruit of Grisaia ~Unrated Version~ - 3258
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 - 18+ DLC - 3162
The Eden of Grisaia ~Unrated Version~ - 3020
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 - 18+ DLC - 2618
The Labyrinth of Grisaia ~Unrated Version~ - 2400
Wagamama High Spec - 1840
Seven days with the Ghost - 1653
Girls in Glasses - 1608
Re;Lord 1 ~The witch of Herfort and stuffed animals~ - 1408
A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - 1323
NEKO-NIN exHeart - 18+ DLC - 1263
Muv-Luv Director’s Cut 18+ DLC - 1243
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 Digital edition - 1080
KARAKARA - 18+ DLC - 1012
KARAKARA2 - 18+ DLC - 1005
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 Digital edition - 947
Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- - 941
Saku Saku: Love Blooms with the Cherry Blossoms - 927
NEKO-NIN exHeart +PLUS Nachi - 785
NEKO-NIN exHeart 2 - 18+ DLC - 750
ChronoClock- 732
NEKO-NIN exHeart 2 - 722
2236 A.D. - 713
NEKOPARA Vol. 2 Digital edition - 711
NEKO-NIN exHeart +PLUS Saiha - 692
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto Extra Story - 655
Sunrider Academy - 640
NEKO-NIN exHeart - 520
KARAKARA2 - 472
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto Part 2 - 18+ DLC - 464
KARAKARA - 364
A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - 18+ DLC - 363
Re;Lord 1 ~The witch of Herfort and stuffed animals~ - 18+ DLC - 349
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto Part 1 - 346
Ne No Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto Part 2 - 308
Blackberry Honey - 287
Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- 18+ DLC - 261
Sunrider: Liberation Day - 258
Sacrament of the Zodiac: The Confused Sheep and the Tamed Wolf - 250
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto Part 1 - 18+ DLC - 247
Shining Song Starnova - 18+ DLC - 219
Highway Blossoms: Remastered - 186
Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline - 167
ATOM GRRRL!! - 138
Seven days with the Ghost OST - 6

>>19217104
Why would they do this?

>>19217778
a bug

They say the data is incorrect and a result of the API changing, resulting in an incorrect result being read as stock. Who knows though.

>>19217974
At the very least though, they had a very high correlation between the sales numbers one would expect, with the potential exception of some recent titles, and we know that sales data is something that they historically tracked as their data used to be sortable by long term sales.

>>19217974
Even if it is they are obviously not going to say the data was correct as it would validate that some stuff has been selling pretty poorly on the store. Most private companies want to keep sales data close to hand and away from the public eye.

>>19218051
If the numbers are accurate though, I would actually feel better about them continuing to support R18 releases, as some of the titles, especially the newer ones, had a bigger fraction of their sales go through Denpa than I would expect.

The Bell Chimes for Gold though is a strong indication that they weren't direct sales (although those numbers were likely somehow correlated, especially for the older titles). The Steam version only hit 11 concurrent users, and more people have been playing Maidens of Michael on Steam this week than The Bell Chimes for Gold. It is hard to imagine any scenario where The Bell Chimes for Gold is at 4200 copies sold on Denpasoft.

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi just released an hour ago.

400+ posts. Page 10. Last thread on Page 10.
See you next Sunday.

IKIKOI