/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Tokyo Chronos - March 20th release
Karakara 3 - 2019 release
Nanairo Reincarnation - Q1 release, some QA and engine work remains
Majo Koi Nikki - Q1 release, final rounds of QA remains
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
9-nine- Episode 2 - 100% translated and edited, awaiting build from developer
Harumade Kururu - 75% translated, awaiting engine work, 2019 release
Rewrite+ - 35% translated, 17% edited
Baldr Sky - 70% translated, 70% edited
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, needs engine work
Ninja Girl - 100% translated
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - 100% translated and edited, engine work after Ley-Line 2
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In progress, 2019 release
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 35% translated, 2019 release
Island Diary - 13% translated
Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - Picked up
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 2 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
Secret Project 1 - 100% translated and edited, waiting on third party for engine work
Secret Project 2 - 100% translated and edited, 90% through engine work
Secret Project 3 - 40% translated

Frontwing
>Sharin no Kuni - In the last stages of deveopment
Lilitales - Picked up

Sol Press
>Hitotsu Yane no, Tsubasa no Shita de - Released
Yotsunoha - Submitted for Steam approval, demo released
Irotoridori no Sekai - Kickstarter started
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - 2019 release
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 2019 release
>Kimi o Aogi Otome wa Hime ni - 100% translated, 80% edited, 2019 release
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 27% translated, 11% edited
Nukitashi - 2019 release
>OniKiss - 64% translated, 56% edited
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon

Nekonyan
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
>Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - 100% translated, 60% edited, Early 2019 release
Melty Moment - Early/Mid 2019 release
Hello Lady - Early Q2 2019 release
>Aokana - 70% translated, 70% edited, Summer 2019 Release
Senren Banka - Late Summer 2019
Making Lovers - Winter 2019
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"

Cherry Kiss
Nekura Ijimerarekko o Tasuketara Natsukareta - Future release

Fakku
HemoImo - Fakku release planned. No longer waiting on devs; requires additional scripting and UI editing before release.
Love Cubed - 2019 release
Oral Lessons With Chii-chan - Summer 2019 release

PQube
Song of Memories - 2019 release
Our World Is Ended - 2019 release

Other
>If My Heart Had Wings Flight Diary - Released
>Dies irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey - Released
Josou Jinja - March 29th release
Seven Days - 70% through testing, demo released
Lamunation - 100% translated, Q1 2019 release
Date A Live: Rio Reincarnation - 2019 release
Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~ - 2019 release
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master - Release planned
Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart - released planned
A Day in the Life of Maria - 100% translated and edited, August 2019 release
Venus Blood Frontier - Kickstarter succeeded, December 2019 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Tayutama 2 - Future release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Seems like IkaBey bombed.

>>20929896
>Trinoline - Wrapping up, awaiting release materials from the developers
Can they even get any materials now Minori announced they have closed up shop?

>>20929950
Hardly surprising at all.

>>20929950
To the surprise of literally no one.

>>20929950
I like how hitotsuba's numbers are like a plane taking off.

>>20929962
They announced that they let go of their development staff. They have some staff still around for the moment to deal with distribution and customer support.

http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/9275560.html

I think it's safe to say that Supipara chapter 3-5 aren't happening though. And that MG likely can't get any other minori licenses.

>>20930204
Supipara was unironically the only thing I cared about minori, everything after it was a shitty nukige with only generic oppai heroines.
At least they closed their shop instead of making shitty mobile and DMM gacha games like most of them do these days.

>>20930291
I always wondered why they skipped through most of their titles only to release Trinoline instead, since it was made with the west in mind maybe it was less of a nukige than the others.

I was still hoping we'd see Natsuzora no Perseus get translated.

>>20930329
Intensely incestuous yandere imoutos aren't meant for EOP eyes.

>>20929962
>>20930204
It took longer with Chuable, but they did secure everything in the end. Did minori just close or did it go bankrupt? The latter would involve more rights tracking while the former is probably less problematic.

>And that MG likely can't get any other minori licenses.
It's not impossible, but Kouryuu does hint that it's more troublesome.
https://curiouscat.me/Kouryuu/post/190675667?1540000136

>>20930432
>Did minori just close or did it go bankrupt?
I can't read Jap but apparently they just closed.
https://twitter.com/DS55_/status/1101081990718210049

>>20930432
I wonder if it's from a technical perspective since minori let go of their development staff. Or maybe some kind of rights issue. It's also possible that they just don't want to release those cynical vns they made to stay afloat after Supipara bombed. It feels like minori was embarrassed by almost everything they released after Supipara since they basically turned them into nukige.

>>20930457
You can't really do what you want in this industry. Unless what you want to make is generic moe game #14547382, since that's apparently what sells.

>>20930432
>So as for your other question: while it's not impossible to pursue further titles from ChuableSoft's back catalog, any negotiations for those titles would have to go through their creditors, and any royalties we paid for such products would go to said creditors rather than a company that's actively developing and creating new visual novels. (But please keep in mind that we also receive our fair portion as well, so don't let that stop you from showing our company support when SukiSuki and Farther Than the Blue Sky finally see release on our store.)

Well, that seems to imply MG would rather support an active company than a defective one. So I don't really expect any further Chuablesoft titles going forward. Not that I was ever really a fan of their titles to begin with.

>>20930471
That's not really what's selling in Japan. From what the minori post said it's niche fetish tags and unique tags in online stores that move copies. minori's generic moege tags had it lost in a crowd.

>>20930485
True, they have already picked up their best and only good title, Haretaka, so there's no need to pursue the other games in their backlog.

>>20929950
Huh, the plane vn is doing a lot better than I expected. I wonder if they got the plane autism crowd.

>>20930329
They probably had a certain image they wanted to keep for the West and didn't want any official nukige releases to ruin that. Nukige seemed to be a last resort thing for them, and their closure is more for the sake of the "legacy of the brand" rather than outright money issues. They probably would have been fine for a while if they focused on games similar to what sold well, but they just didn't want to make those types of games.

>>20930485
I would still imagine if they got the opportunity of picking up titles on the cheap they would take it even if the company is dead. Not sure how much value licenses really are from dead companies, but it probably will come down to how stubborn the current holders are.

>>20930497
>From what the minori post said it's niche fetish tags and unique tags in online stores that move copies.
If they had any idea what's selling they would not be closing down.

>>20930518
Nothing implies the creditor licenses are cheap. The creditors are trying to make back the money from their defunct loans. They might still be charging market value for the licenses, which they might base the amount on from MG's existing contract with Chuablesoft.

>>20930532
They obviously didn't want to make the shit that sells, so they decided to get out instead. Would you rather see them do pandering shit instead?

>>20930535
Wouldn't making some money be better than no money?

>>20930535
As I said it depends on how stubborn they are. If after a few years they find are sitting on something that isn't getting them their money back then it is as good as a dead weight and worthless and they might do a nice discount to at least get something back even if it isn't market value.

>>20930567
Their goal is to make as much money as possible. They could also auction the license off to the highest bidder.

>>20929950
Hitotsuba is doing better than Newrin, their most popular title until now, and without Kickstarter keys

>>20930567
You'd think, but if that's how creditors functioned then there wouldn't be so many expensive foreclosure houses where I live. I think it's the same here. The creditor likely doesn't want to devalue what they've acquired by selling it for a low ball offer.

>>20930543
>They obviously didn't want to make the shit that sells
Why bother starting a buisiness then?
>Would you rather see them do pandering shit instead?
Thats what they tried to do, after supipara fiasco.

>>20930651
>Why bother starting a buisiness then?
They did well at first, then they lost their existing customer base when they tried to push Supipara.

>Thats what they tried to do, after supipara fiasco.
And they continued to hope that Supipara would be a success in the west. They got sick of pandering, so when they realized Supipara wasn't taking off in the west combined with some financial problems, they decided to move on and close up shop.

>>20930641
And that's how you get neighbourhoods of derelict houses or have periods where some companies write off millions in value at once because they refused to acknowledge their assets were over valued for so long.

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1099825904975560704

>Mark your calendars, everyone! Monday, March 4th is when we'll be launching our annual licensing survey! We hope you're all looking forward to it as much as we are!

Tomorrow it will begin.

>>20930773
Vote for at least one Clochette VN. Please. Preferably https://vndb.org/v4942 or https://vndb.org/v19372..

>>20930773
Wonder if they will do their yearly review at the same time or is it just indefinitely delayed.

>>20930778
Nope. I'm voting for Amakano, MA*KO HUNTER and Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden 2.

>>20930796
You can vote for KF with your wallet, idiot.

>>20930798
I already have. Showing that there's still an interest in them picking up the sequels is something I'll be doing too.

>>20930807
You're like the goddamn hannies.

Someone on r/visualnovels announced they're translating Jisatsu no Tame no 101 no Houhou
https://vndb.org/v6475

Watch a ton of people still vote Rance even though they picked up all the modern games, except for the remakes, which they'll most likely pick up anyway.

I hope Evenicle 2 makes the list, though that one's also a no-brainer.

>>20930811
>r/visualnovels
You should have stayed there.

>>20930810
Better safe than sorry. It's not like I'm exclusively voting for KF, it's just one of my votes because I love the series and want to see more. If anything MA*KO HUNTER is my wasted vote since I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who votes for it every year.

>>20930778
Haruru Minamo ni is shit, EOP.

The only good Clochette eroge is KamiExp. I also like SakiGene myself, but it's just not good.

>>20930778
Been voting for https://vndb.org/v4942 pretty much every year. Speaking of things that get no traction, I'm voting https://vndb.org/v18149 for more trap protagonist games to be localized.

>>20930811
Enjoy your N4 level translation.

>>20930825
Unlikely considering both of the dev companies listed have ties with SP.

>>20930825
>I'm voting https://vndb.org/v18149 for more trap protagonist games to be localized.
You're fucking retarded then. It's made by two companies that Sekai have close relationships with. Palette (SakuSaku, 9-nine-) and Smile (Koikuma). There is no chance MG will secure that license.

For crossdressing MC I've always preferred Ensemble.

>>20930831
>>20930832
It's not like a company hasn't split their licenses to different companies before.

>>20930843
Well that's equally as unlikely since they are a Willplus brand so they have ties to MoeNovel.
>>20930848
Do you think they're just going to drop Sekai when all of the titles they have released from both companies have sold well?

>>20930848
Thing is, when it comes to MG's survey it really feels like they go with genres over a particular title that was actually requested. Like if your suggestion isn't somehow viable they'd go for Otoboku 2 or something since it'd be easier to acquire.

>>20930861
But Otoboku was really shit.

>>20930855
>Well that's equally as unlikely since they are a Willplus brand
MG partnered with Propeller in the past, so Willplus brand wont' necessarily stop them.

If you want a trap protag VN then maybe vote fro CharaBration, since AKBSoft seems to have no loyalty to one specific company.

>>20930861
I don't think you're wrong. I checked out last years results and it looks like only one title was picked out of the 20 as a result of the survey. And it was some AA yurige. MG didn't even attempt to get in contact with Lune until someone tried getting them together on twitter.

>>20930876
Hermit too. But it doesn't really matter, ensemble games are really boring anyway, I don't know how they're still in business.

Strange that https://vndb.org/v20763 isn't in the OP, considering it was announced on /h/ like 3 months ago and both of the translators on it have actually released translations before.
There's also ongoing work on https://vndb.org/v18875 since this week, but I try to remain sceptical about that.

>>20930887
They've admitted to being turned down by some devs in the past due to those companies not being interested in the western market. Steam can help, but it's so unpredictable about what will get removed that it's not a reliable income stream.

>Rance
They announced plenty last year.

>A Kiss for the Petals Series
Most are fan TLed already. Might as well just say more yuri.

>White Album 2
From what I heard very unlikely to be picked up by anyone.

>Fate/Stay Night
If MG had a million dollars maybe.

>Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm
Picked up by another publisher.

>Sakura no Uta
Also unlikely to be picked up by anyone.

>Youkoso! Sukebe Elf no Mori e
Possible, since dev showed interest after the results came out.

>Diabolik Lovers Series
MG doesn't really deal in mobile games. And it's popular so possibly too expensive.

>Soukou Akki Muramasa
JAST USA is more likely.

>Ken ga Kimi
Mobile game and expensive again.

>Kotonoha Amrilato
They picked it up.

>Mahotsukai no Yoru
Tied to maker of Fate, so also unlikely.

>Daiteikoku
Poplular request, but this game has some notoriety when it comes to Alicesoft and some Chinese protestors.

>Aiyoku no Eustia
Also unlikely to be picked up. And ongoing fan TL project.

>Yoshiwara Higanbana
Not sure how possible. At least it's not some super famous otome brand like the others.

>Jooubachi no Oubou
MG has tie to dev via caramelbox or hobibox iirc.

>Bunny Black Series
MG tried to contact dev. Aroduc seemed to say it could take years before anything might come of it.

>Amayui Castle Meister
Eushally has no interest in the west.

>Shin Koihime Musou
Too expensive and resource intensive.

>DRAMAtical Murder
Too enpensive.

>>20930896
Personally I'm sceptical about every English translation. Some are fun to mock, I guess.

>>20930945
>Sakura no Uta
>Also unlikely to be picked up by anyone.
It could still be picked up by FW.
>DRAMAtical Murder
>Too enpensive.
It was picked up by JAST already last AX.

>>20930945
How is Ken ga Kimi a mobile game? It's on PC.

>>20930890
Probably due to the niche of being one of the few if not only developer that regularly puts out trap protagonist games and is known as the trap protagonist VN makers.

>>20930972
It's most famous as a Vita title, but yes, I forgot about its PC release. However, it's by Reject, so it is bound to be very expensive.

>>20930966
JAST has J-list money.

>>20930975
Go to EGS. Every game they put out gets worse and worse reviews.

They survive cause WillPlus is a big maker and can keep the brand up. Once things get too bad, they'll instantly shelf it.

Oh Sol Press...

>>20930996
I'd like to do this, but I'm too lazy to read English shit. Hell, sometimes I'm too lazy to read eroge in Japanese and instead just watch retarded Youtube videos. Really a terrible habit.

>>20930996
When the fuck are they going to scrap their shitty honorific toggle option. They obviously can't handle doing twice the QA.

>>20930996
Why don't you get paid pennies to do this instead of doing it for free on your free time?

>>20930996
Is there such a thing as a flawless release? Or do you really think 44 typos ruin the whole game?

>>20931003
Believe it or not, I don't want to find mistakes in the shit I read. I would like to see better releases, not worse.

>>20931003
It becomes less fun if you do it as a job and you can't point and laugh at them.

>>20931013
Did you send the errors to them already or are you just boasting about finding them?

>>20931023
1, Why should I care whether they get patched after I read it? It's not gonna help me. I already paid to read this. I will post them here once I get bored of screenshotting them.
2. Do you see this? Script file 27 out of 195. That's where I am right now.

>>20931043
Why not become a QA if you're that good? Then you can see how typos slip between the cracks no matter how many passes you do yourself.

>>20931061
>>20931013
He just mentioned he didn't want to read a compromised release. Though, at least he'd play it for free legally instead of wasting money on it.

>>20931061
This is one of the QA whores who don't take their job seriously. KiriyaAoi or SSparks, which one are you?

Are we ever going to get Gekkou no Carnevale?

>>20931084
No.

>>20931078
KiriyaAoi probably. Don't lump my guy SSparks together with that big,fat,round idiot.

>>20931078
>>20931096
>KiriyaAoi

Isn't that that SEA nigger /a/ shitposter previously known as Shin?

>>20931114
No, just some fat redditor who came here during the Maitetsu drama.

DUDE

>>20931114
>SHiN
Blast from the past.

>>20931122
Ugh. That's about as bad.

>>20931084
I wish. It's probably on the same engine as Django and Sumaga so it won't work on Windows 10.

>>20931061
Good thing this has two scripts then. Let's double the cracks for no reason.

>>20930773
I can't remember at all, but MG doesn't bother releasing their survey at midnight, right?

>>20930810
I'm sticking the Rance remakes on the survey, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!

I was thinking about voting for a yuri game, but eh, those things sell well by default, and there were already a shit ton of yuri related announcements this year.

I'll probably vote for Kuroyuri (futa) and maybe that upcoming milf game from Alicesoft this year.

>>20930896
>There's also ongoing work on https://vndb.org/v18875 since this week, but I try to remain sceptical about that.
Where and when was this announced?

>>20931043
Wait, what tools are you using for that? I've been trying to find tools for Kirikiri for a while now.

>>20931290
Are you retarded? Kirikiri is the most common engine out there. Tools are plentiful.

>>20931290
You can look at any kirikiri script with garbro. It's gonna look like shit, but you can search through it.

>>20931284
https://archived.moe/h/thread/5270069/#q5271137
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/245497327/#q245530249

>>20929950
I wonder if light expected this or not

>>20931135
>Django
Wait... don't tell me. We're never getting that either?

>>20931429
they hired steiner, so no they expected this to go well.

>>20931520
So, he tricked yet another group of people by making them think he is some hot shit when in reality he is just shit? Naruhodo.

>>20931520
Well, he said they have 2 year plan so not everything is lost. He also said Ikabey is doing "as expected" but that obviously a PR move.

>>20931552
I doubt it's doing as expected. It's pretty sad that the chuuni market consists of 400~ people.

>>20931429
It's doing like shit even though it has the dies irae name attached to it.

I can't even imagine how shit paradise lost will sell with it's old artwork.

>>20931569
>400~ people.
If all of them bought the game, it wouldn't be a flop

>>20930945
>Bunny Black Series
>MG tried to contact dev. Aroduc seemed to say it could take years before anything might come of it.

>Let me share three short anecdotes about attempts to secure a license with Softhouse Chara all with the same company. The first time I broached it to an industry contract, the response after multiple e-mails was "After giving some thought, I've decided to wait around to see since it's a big business venture to negotiate with a named company who we don't have previous relationship with, for a title that hasn't been started yet at this time." We're not going to try to get a license and the means/support for you to translate a game just because you want to, but come back once you've already done all that and we'll talk. So for the second time, that's what I did. I came back with the tools and work done, at which point I was asked to write up a sales pitch. So I did that too. A week or two later, I got back the response that they sent an e-mail, but SHChara wasn't interested. End of story.

>Fast forward to Bunny Black 2. For that, I was approached by someone asking if I was interested in them trying to secure the license. My response was "Not really, but you're welcome to try." A few weeks later, and I'll remind you that BB2 is a tiny game and start of work to release was like 6 weeks total, I get word that they had a call, and still weren't interested. The person who approached me then asked if I wanted to talk to XXXX to… I guess try to convince them to try harder or something? And if I was willing to sit on the project and not release it. This conversation happened January 18th, after all translation had finished, while minor interface things were being cleaned up. When the answer to both of those was no, he attempted to drag me for my lack of enthusiasm. Because it was directed towards releasing the game instead of the license.

Didn't sound like they actually tried to me.

>>20930773
To be honest, the best thing about their survey are the hints after they publish the results.

>>20931114
Maybe you'll remember him shilling and defending the Maitetsu release on every possible platform.

>>20931865
Now he does it for nekonyan instead.

>>20931903
He defends any official release, because they are "inherently better" than fanTL.

>>20931989
Both are shit, lol EOPs.

>>20932014
What are you doing in the EOP thread Anon?

>>20932072
loling at EOPs, desu

>>20931989
Triplicate_FanTL_vs_Sekai_Project.jpg

>>20931790
>When the answer to both of those was no, he attempted to drag me for my lack of enthusiasm. Because it was directed towards releasing the game instead of the license.
Doddler is such a piece of shit.

>>20932359
Give the guy a break. Being Canadian is lifetime punishment.

>>20930811
coming from a guy who doesn't even know one of the most basic hiragana characters lmao but its okay because he knows "some" kanji

>>20932468
Fucking how?

This must be maximum bait.

>>20932468
haha.

people will eat it up anyway. someone post the mahoyo "translation" images.

>>20932468
Dude ...

>>20932468
https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/aw9uqi/alternate_timeline_alternate_class_3/ehl6gk7/?context=3

AAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

>>20932808
Never ever link to plebbit here again.

>>20932468
Lol, looks like I was too generous with the N4. >>20930827

>>20931429
No one really expected a 5h long spin-off to sell well.

>>20930825
Actually, the fuwa project page for Otome Domain, which was started over a year ago by a hacker looking for a translator, was updated this week. He said he at long last found a translator. The TL's account is completely new, so I have no fucking idea who it is and how good he is.
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/19504-otome-%EF%BC%8A-domain-traslation-project-updated/

>looks back at some old threads
tfw vnts-senpai didn't notice my tl of a 340 line 5/10 all ages yurige

crushed desu

>>20933565
No one cares, faggot.

>>20933300
Fuwanovel projects are a mistake. I'd rather VNTS not list it.

>>20933865
VNTS listed pic related for several years before /tmg/ had an autism fit.

>>20930945
>Eushally has no interest in the west.
Sad but true.

Might be for the best.

This was brought up in a JAST article some time back, but most famous otome titles are too expensive to license. That's why MG will most likely get no-names instead of the ones people mostly ask for.

https://www.siliconera.com/2014/01/13/jast-usa-wont-localizing-starry-sky-due-high-licensing-costs/

>>20934428
> Payne elaborated that the situation extends to most otome games and "voice actor studios looking to profit from any secondary use of their voices [are] unwilling to negotiate." JAST USA may instead release more yaoi titles targeted at female audiences because "anything with sex in it is easier since the voice actors are much easier."

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-12/jast-usa/licensing-starry-sky-games-is-unlikely

>>20934428
I'm not familiar with otome games at all, but Steam Prison didn't seem like too obscure of a title based on the otomefags' reaction to the announcement. Kalmia8 is probably almost certainly obscure though; 18+ otome might just do better overseas than in Japan.

>>20934477
I see Steam Prison as a PC release experiment by HuneX, since they've done their own iOS and android translations before.

https://vndb.org/p763

>>20934477
>>20934577
Oh look, it's the company that Dogenzaka Lab translates games from.

https://vndb.org/v15250

>>20934577
>>20934596
Holy crap. How did they do Steam Prison when most of the stuff they released both before and after it looks like some of the cheapest doujin I've ever seen?

https://vndb.org/v37

Never ever?

>>20934690
I think the dated art style really hurts its chances, since it would be very niche.

>>20934690
Garbage.

Steam Prison is a lesson about launching with major bugs. Sure MG already patched it, but even the reviewers who claimed they would change their reviews when a fix came out haven't, thus lowering its review score.

Man. I remember photoshopping icecream cones onto this image years ago.

https://exhentai.org/s/a7382427a9/587198-152

Memories.

>>20934690
>ancient plotge
Yep.

I liked Dies Irae, but I don't have much interest in the Kaziklu Bey game. Once I finish the main story in a game, I lose interest, so I've never liked fan discs, unless they're a full, substantial story in themselves (e.g. Tomoyo After). If it's just "extra" then I don't care. I didn't even like the Other Stories in Dies Irae for that reason.

>>20935014
And by "full, substantial story" I mean something more than just getting more of someone's backstory. When I was reading Dies Irae I don't recall a point where I thought, "Damn, I wish i knew more about Bey's past!" I felt like Dies Irae already gave me enough information to understand his character. I'd read KKK if they translated it, though. That's the sort of thing that would appeal to me.

Jesus, Ludo is so mad right now.

>>20935153
What happened?

>>20935410
This >>20929950

>>20933865
Fuwanovel fan-translations serve only one purpose and that is to sell them to Sekai Project so that they can sit on them for a couple of years.

>>20934428
To be honest Peyne was always a jew. Back in the TLwiki days he would buy every possible fan-translation from them. Nowadays he buys random fan-translations which were released years ago or picks up decade old titles for a quick buck without any risk.

>>20935615
But the thing about otome voice acting seems to line up with MG being unable to get the rest of the voices for Ozmafia. And things like having to release Koihime Musou and Kara no Shoujo voiceless at first shows that VA work in Japan can be restrictively expensive even if it's not otome.

>We're looking for a beta tester who speaks/reads Esperanto for the Expression Amrilato beta test! Please inquire at support@mangagamer.com if interested.

>>20936637
Well, Amrilato will take a while. The concept of Esperanto is interesting, but in reality, it's a failed experiment of a language.

I wouldn't put it pass a yurifag to learn Esperanto just for this game though.

>>20936637
This pretty much says that steam is still denying Trinoline and Bokuten, so we are releasing a 3rd yuri title within 4-5 months since it's all ages only.

>>20936703
If they are looking for beta-testers now, it probably wouldn't be released by next month. And Steam is also giving shit for Lilycle, if I remember correctly.

Damn, Gaben is so Gaben. He decided to purchase a ticket for possible VN market pie slice by allowing 18+ on steam, but after evaluating it as a meme ( rightfully so ) he then switched to backpedaling indirectly trough steam aproval system.
At the same time he kept other companies from developing their own store because they considered steam as an option.
Well played.

>>20936762
I doubt GabeN gives any thought to such a small market.

>>20936762
Steam is too big to avoid it.
Xev said that without kickstarter and the initial first sales week on steam, it would be not worth it to license bigger licenses since the risk of them flopping is very high.
I'm pretty sure that MangaGamer has a big enough fanbase so that Rance, Moonstone and the average nukige makes profit even without steam, but for everything else they have to put it on steam for those extra sales.
The only one who doesn't give a fuck about steam is JAST, since they are the only ones who haven't even tried to put something on steam ever since they started to allow adult content, but JAST has the J-List money and they are the only ones who can sit on something like the Nitro+ catalogue for a decade without any consequences.

>>20936812
>Steam is too big to avoid it.
Yes, but what the point if they denie your titles or throw them into aproval hell? If steam is your only or main distributor then you are fucked in that case. You can't even subtly guess on what is ok and what isn't.

>>20936885
Doddler better be chugging Red Bulls to get the MG website update ASAP then.

>>20936703
No. It says "none of our staff speak this language and we're looking for people who do".

God damn it Xev, not you too.

>>20937076
It's edited by DxS. What did you expect?

>>20934690
Not meant for EOP eyes.

I'm pissed that all these companies want to turn a profit instead of doing what their slogans and market philosophies say... there are so many smaller licenses which you can get where you don't lose much but they want all these bombshells which soak up 40k in licensing fees or more. It really sucks. All we want are well translated games, and that a lot of them. Not specific titles or titles only for one fanbase

Just already pick up some company like Waffle or Astronauts and bring their older and smaller games here and not what ran best in japan because what sells in japan doesn't necessarily have to sell here.

>>20937125
>Astronauts
No, we want Argonauts.
>>20937076
Somebody posted the original line over at the good general

>>20937125
Waffle is already partnered with MangaGamer if you didn't know. They are releasing the 3rd Funbag Fantasy visual novel.
Both both of them aren't really ''smaller'' developers though, especially Astronauts with their bigger gameplay titles.
But I do agree with you that picking up something released 8 years ago and asking 200k $ for the trilogy was a bad idea.

Waffle has way more than just that. Even their Moege are not atrocious at all.

>>20937125
>Just already pick up some company like Waffle or Astronauts and bring their older and smaller games here
I wouldn't mind a few Astronaut titles, but Waffle's only good old titles are Kyonyuu Fantasy and MG has already picked the series up, the rest are pretty fucking shit. The only other decent oldish game they've released that I can think of is Kyonyuu Majo, other than that they have that new Netori game they released last year which was decent.
>>20937138
Argonauts titles would be cool, and they're related to Moonstone so it probably wouldn't be too hard for MG to get them. And who knows, maybe if they do well it could lead to MG picking up more single heroine nukige like Azarashi Soft and HarmonEy's single heroine games which would then lead to them possibly picking up Amakano or a big Candy Soft game.

>>20937125
>Not specific titles
This doesn't seem true given the fanatical reaction to the licensing survey every year. And there's always someone asking why x title isn't translated yet.

>or titles only for one fanbase
It doesn't seem possible to avoid this. Some people don't want to read moege or nukige. Not everyone likes gameplay titles. And as it turns out, otome, BL, and yuri do sell in their niches.

>>20937076
What, you don't like memelations?

>>20937199
The survey is always overpopularized by /vn/ folk and we see with Sol Press how well that went.

>>20937138
>俺か？　俺が悪いのか？女子に受けそうな、小粋なトークを振ることのできない俺が？
actual TL
>Is it me? Is this all my fault? Is it because I can't hold an actual conversation with a girl?
meme TL which appears in the game
>Is it me? Is this all my fault? Is it because I'm the virgin Junichi, who can't be all slick and act like a real Chad?
Wowee

>>20937213
>The survey is always overpopularized by /vn/ folk
Ah yeah, I'm sure it's /vn/ voting for Yuri, Otome, BL and Alice Soft stuff. Please stop talking about stuff you don't know a single thing about, anon. Last year they couldn't even work together to get Sister Scheme 2 and Onikiss into the top 20.

>>20937213
Our vnoty is not out yet, if you're referring to it. It was very well accepted on social media, though. Actually more than IroSeka.

They managed to meme Irotoridori no Sekai into existence.

>>20937213
They usually get around 8,000 responders. So at least that many people care about what titles they license specifically and certain genres they want to see.

>>20937233
I vote 3000 times every year.

>>20937233
8000 Responders? The hell, they don't even sell that much. Why do so many people come out of the woodworks for this?

>>20937236
Haro says she throws duplicates into the trash. Like the people who kept trying to repeat vote for Eustia.

>>20937185
>the rest are pretty fucking shit
Really? I was hoping for them to pick up at least Mankitsu Happening due to the hentai, maybe Ore o Hoshigaru Futari no Haha and Hentai Elf Shimai to Majime Orc too. Though the last 2 are too new to be picked up anytime soon.

>>20937240
It's almost like typing a name of a VN you want into a survey takes less effort and less money than purchasing a title.

>>20937250
Oh please, she can only guess. She doesn't have access to the IPs. If I select all the other answers and the other 2 games differently, no one will ever notice.

>>20937240
Their MML wallscroll vote had around 2k+ votes last time I checked and I will bet 100$ that not even half of them bought or even read MML.

>>20937267
Voting for a girl is something you can easily pretend caring for.

>>20937264
>IP Tracking
>Collectors can store the IP addresses of respondents in survey results, which you may find useful for tracking respondents.

>>20937275
Where?

>>20929897
REWRITE+ WHEN ???!!!!

I've played Little Busters and Clannad in just two months this year and now I want to try Rewrite but the translation is always at 35%.
Don't know if I should wait for it or just play the unofficial version

>>20937254
>Mankitsu Happening
The hentai OVA is almost actually better than the VN. The only thing that makes the VN better is the fact that there is actually h-scenes with all the side heroines and Sayaka actually gets a dicking instead of just cumming with vibrators.
>Ore o Hoshigaru Futari no Haha
Didn't play it because jesus christ those assholes are fucking gross, there's no way anyone finds that shit attractive right?
>Hentai Elf Shimai to Majime Orc
Now I'm not usually one to care much about mosaics, but these ones are pretty intrusive and low effort. I'll still give it a shot because I think it'll be pretty funny from what I've read of the Manga it was based on, but it's a bummer that it's a problem.
http://www.waffle1999.com/game/82orc/img/cg01-03.jpg
http://www.waffle1999.com/game/82orc/img/cg02-03.jpg
http://www.waffle1999.com/game/82orc/img/cg03-03.jpg

>>20937304
Unless you like ESL translations without honorifics from Conjueror, there's really no reason to not read the fan-translation and then read Rewrite Harvest festa once it's out.

Is this what will save us from eternal damnnation bros?

>>20937304
>>20937316
Key purchased the fan translation and then scrapped it and is paying to have the entire thing retranslated from scratch. Given what that says about the quality of the fan translation, I'd say that's enough reason to wait.
>>20937304
Play Key's other VNs then. They're all good.

>>20937291
They should just use survey monkey. But google can block people from submitting more than once.

https://www.labnol.org/internet/prevent-multiple-form-submissions/28675/

Or
>As an alternative, you may send your clients a pre-filled URL with a unique ID that will identify the client's entry in the response sheet.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22831182/i-need-to-capture-the-ip-address-to-google-spreadsheet-via-google-web-form

>>20937324
Playing without honorifics? Who would ever do that? But seriously, if they're doing both I don't understand why the "English" one isn't the meme TL with shit like >>20937076 and the fucking French lines in the beginning. And then the second one, English with honorifics, can be a normal TL. Can we please get that?

Funny how Xev encourages /vn/ to vote multiple times in his survey, so that he can show bigger numbers to the Japanese developer and maybe get the license easier.

>>20937337
Or, they could just have one script with honorifics and no memes. Wallah, I've just cut Xev's QA team's workload in half.

>>20937316
>read the fan-translation and then read Rewrite Harvest festa once it's out.
Rewrite+ isn't just Rewrite with the fan disc added. It changes things in the normal Rewrite game as well.

>>20937337
I speak some french so it didn't bother me, but i am 100% sure that theres people in this world who lost immersion and thats not a good start for a VN.

>>20937353
>Xev's QA team's workload in half.
So from 2 hours to 1?

>>20937349
But they can't vote multiple times for the same title.

>We had over 9,000 responses this time, up a little from last year.

>Our audience has gotten a little older as well, with over 44% over 25 and only 51% in the 18-24 bracket (55% last year).

>We got fewer responses from women this year down to 25% from almost 30% last year, likely more of a sampling issue than anything considering the fluctuation over the past few years.

>One of our new questions this year was about non-English language usage. Perhaps unsurprisingly the most common non-English language used by our respondents was Japanese with 32% of users reporting some degree of fluency with the language. Spanish, German, and Russian were the most used non-English languages respectively.

>More people have bought over 6 visual novels in the past year now at 37% of respondents (up from 33%), although the proportion bought directly from us was almost identical to last year (spookie!). Steam on the other hand solidify its popularity as a platform for consuming visual novels.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2018/03/27/2018-licensing-survey-results-and-more/

Btw the french was even fucking wrong.
wing =/= ciel
ciel = heaven/sky

>>20937353
>with honorifics and no memes
Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Not a single company does this anymore. That is actually the current state of things.

>>20937327
>>20937355
yeah i think i'll just wait for Rewrite+'s release in 20XX and play something else

>>20937371
It was supposed to be wrong.

>>20937383
Jast doesn't troll. Lilium x Triangle was flawless concerning memes

>>20937383
I think it depends more of the people working on each title than any given company. It's not like Xev can oversee every single damn line.

>>20937391
>with honorifics

>>20937391
That's a bought TL.

>>20937399
It received an editing pass so its not like they just published it in the state it was originally. During that step they could've inserted memes.

>>20937385
If you played Clannad then try Tomoyo After. I thought it was just as good as After Story.

>>20937391
Fuck off, Hata.

>>20937414
yeah i was planning to play it, but i know somheow i'll never read again something like After Story or Refrain.. it makes me want to stop playing VNs

>>20937443
If you are the kind of guy who reads all ages only Key titles and Umineko, try Fata Morgana.

>>20937443
After Story is actually better in the anime, IMO.

>>20937449
actually i'm reading Higurashi (ch3), Fata Morgana is also on my list. But whatever i try to read it always remind me of LB that's why i wanted to play Rewrite

i think i'll just take a little break

Thank you based Xev for making a based meme translation. As a JOP I love sipping on filthy EOP tears. I fully support the removal of honoriffics because it is appropriation of Japanese culture by deluded weebs who think that adding one or two ching chongs brings them closer to their waifu-chans. I do not want the beauty of Japanese phonetics to be mangled by this horrible sound mixing that goes on in the chimpanzee brains of moe weeb tards who will inevitably subvocalize the 'sans' and 'chans' and 'kuns' with guttural English stresses and aspirations. I am glad to see that Sol Press is taking a stand against the EOP scourge.

>>20937443
You can see a lot of the precursors to After Story in Air, if you read through to the end; there are a lot of similar story beats. I found Ef to be similar to a Key game, but it's substantially darker later on.

>>20937454
yeah i was thinking that too back when i was reading it, but the only thing the anime is doing worse is about the orbs of light saving Nagisa and Ushio

>>20937471
>The translations has a line that says chad on one route
Oh, the humanity, it's all utterly ruined. God, how will we ever recover????? No but really, it still has honorifics.

>>20937485
Yeah the anime isn't as clear about the mechanics of what is going on. What it excels at is the emotional presentation of the scenes, which are all choreographed perfectly with the music and just hit much harder than their VN counterparts. It also fixes the VN's pacing issue at the end, and gives you the ending straightaway in the same timeline, so you can get a full emotional catharsis. My "headcannon" is some mixture of both the anime and the VN as they both have their high points. I think it's definitely the best VN adaptation ever done, at the least.

>>20937489
Because it's not a translation, or a localisation, it's now rewriting the original author's work, which is both egotistical and disrespectful.

>>20937489
This is all a part of Xev's subliminal master-stroke. The inclusion of 'chad' in the visual novel is no doubt psychological suggestion to make moefags think of some NTRing jock whenever their precious 'chan' honoriffic appears. A few more meme translations later, and you should expect moefags to be instinctively nauseated towards honoriffics in English.

>>20937532
>rewriting an author's work

That sounds like what a translation is.

I think all of the focus on honorifics, etc. is misplaced. I read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai recently, in Donald Keene's translation. There are no honorifics and everything that wouldn't be somewhat understandable to a mid-20th century English speaker is simply removed from the text (Japanese-only puns, references, etc.). And the translation is fucking fantastic. I read a more "accurate" translation afterwards and it was not nearly as good. Absolutely nothing of significance was lost in Keene's version and it's one my favorite books. I don't think everything should or could go that far in localization choices, but it really showed me how little that shit matters.

>>20937559
No, translation is an attempt to provide the author's original work, and meaning, in another language. Localisation is changing some references to be better understood by the target language. Rewriting, or DxS edition, is where they change parts of the novel from the author's original intention, to insert memes or change dialogue.

>>20937582
It showed how little that shit matters to you. It matters to others. How many people get upset that honorifics are in a VN? 0. How many people get upset that honorifics aren't in a VN? Plenty. So why aren't they targeting the larger group again?

>>20937582
>reading Dazai-sama in translation.

How does it feel being vermin?

>>20937603
How should I know? I'm not trying to make an economic argument. How companies should pander to their customers is unrelated to what I was saying.

Oh sweet, we got a patch to fix:
Class president
Incorrect honorifics
Typos

Now let's see whether any of my error screenshots are outdated. I will prepare a small collage, again of the first 29 (now updated and fixed) script files, which is roughly two thirds of the common route.

>>20937471
this, without any irony intended
except sol press still offers the option so actually they're shit

Wait, what are these ominous Kanji? They don't even explain them bros!

>>20937669
Fuck off, Hata.

>>20937582
1) VN is usually voiced unlike your book. When you hear "oniii-chaaaaaaan", But the text is ''Dude-broskinatosaurus" its gonna irk you at least a bit. And this feeling of disconnection between voice and text will pop multiple times per every conversation.
2) Major apearl of VNs, especialy with ero, comes from fetishism. If you take said ''oni-chan'' from imouto/loli you gonna lose part of apeal. The same goes for "nee-san", ''sensei'' and many other.
3) Anon tend to be pro-honorifics. And it is likely that 4chan is not the only place with said attitude. So why bend to the will of minority?

>>20937676
Heh. Found the traitor!

>>20937683
Sorry, but this doesn't make fucking sense. Do you really need the written text to pander to your fetish when you have a moeblob imouto saying it to you? what the fuck?

>>20937684
>traitor
I have nothing to do with your retarded discord-faggotry, you're just so fucking obvious to spot out because you don't try to fit in at all.

>>20937697
Thats what they all say.

>>20937683
Sorry, I momentarily forgot that VNs have no literary merit and that if you remove the moe fetish quirks then there isn't anything left. My mistake.

At this point I'm convinced Hata is genuinely mentally ill. And wouldn't be able to pass fucking N3.

>>20937706
Cool reply.

>>20937711
>>20937696
Good job ignoring everything i said and presenting a strawman. Fuck off.

>>20937696
>Do you really need the written text to pander to your fetish when you have a moeblob imouto
ntayrt but yes

>>20937652
And here it is. Sasuga desu ne. Amazing patch.

>>20937752
Good work anon
I was surprised that you found god in this mess 20 times, because I lost all hope.

>>20937752
Whoever the editor for that VN is, I hope you're reading this: you suck at your job.

>>20937772
It's DxS.

>>20937777
Not surprised. He's garbage.

>>20937711
Yeah because honorifics are what's preventing you from getting a Pulitzer on your translation effort of "Please Fuck My Wife", dipshit.

>>20937752
You're the Batman of visual novel translation quality anon.

>>20937767
>god
Capital g when you're referring to God, the name of the supreme god. That's the point.

>>20937781
He is also black. See the correlation?

>>20937794
I thought he was a mudslime.

>>20937777
And you'll never guess what else he worked on!
https://twitter.com/Deoto/status/862115351219372032

>https://gematsu.com/2019/03/ps-vita-production-ended-in-japan
At this point Sekai Project is playing the waiting game and by waiting I mean that they are waiting for everybody to forget about all of their promised kickstarter ports or die of old age, so that they don't have to refund them.

>>20937808
You are spoiling their plan, anon.

>>20937752
based batman anon

>>20937304
The fan translation is good enough.

>>20937582
It's fantastic for you, the normalfag target audience who doesn't care about cultural immersion.

>>20937808
They jumped to PS4 and Nintendo Switch now, whoever is still waiting for the PSVita ports without asking for a refund is dumb. It's not going to happen.
https://nintendoeverything.com/my-girlfriend-is-a-mermaid-launches-february-28-on-switch/

>>20937835
The fan translation is actually pretty fucking bad.
But I have a hard time imagining that anything Sekai produces would be any better.

>>20937874
Based Conjueror-sama will deliver us a worthy translation.

>>20937804
People giving Arunaru extra shit when it was him all along.

>>20937714
Why does that dipshit hang around people that obviously hate him? Is he some kind of retarded middle schooler?
>>20937808
>and by waiting I mean that they are waiting for everybody to forget
That's what they do for everything, anon. Baldr Sky, Leyline fixes, Leyline sequels, Kickstarter physical rewards, various ports, G-senjou no Maou 18+, Root Double EU version, every licensed Yuzusoft title, various hardcopies, Rewrite+, GATE, ChronoClock second editing pass...literally the only thing they're even updating people on is the Hoshimeme reTL, and even that's late as fuck.
They're a terrible company and they deserve to go out of business. Shame on the JP devs that whore out their titles to Sekai for a chance at dem SteamBux™ and ignore how awful Sekai is, both to their customers and as a content provider.

>>20937951
I'm 23. I just like VNs and engaging in conversation about them lol.

>>20937752
Don't waste your time, anon. At this point I'm convinced Sol Press is ran by clowns. Better spend your money somewhere else.

>>20937960
Don't you have a discord for that? Why bother talking here when you're clearly not welcome?

>>20937966
You guys are such divas, like 30% of those aren't even errors. I didn't even notice most of these while reading, though they definitely should fix them.

>>20937960
Fuck off back to your Discord circlejerks, social butterfly scum

>>20937988
Why not both. Also who the fuck cares whether they are welcome or not when your supposed to be anon.

@20937997
Won't even bother replying to you. I want a good product, not meme garbage.

>>20938004
>when your
pffahaha
Fuck off

>>20938004
>when your supposed to be anon
Doesn't really work for you though, does it? Maybe try not to suck off JAST every second post and you'll be more anonymous.

>>20937997
No, we actually give a shit about a professional made product and it being treated with the respect and care it deserves. Shouldn't you be busy sucking dicks on Twitter and Discord inbetween work on VNs you clearly don't give a shit about?

>>20938011
But you literally replied. The whole thing in general seems pretty tame with other stuff getting released these days, but maybe that doesn't make for shitposting material?

>>20937966
I don't know if you've noticed, but all the companies are terrible at QA. But yeah, this is worse than usual.

I'm surprised how you guys can actually tell the anons apart. Are their posting habits that evident?

>>20937997
Point out the ones which you think aren't errors.

>>20938044
Obvious shills are obvious

>>20938045
They obviously meant to put dude in and the french in there for example, even if you go out of your way to say it's incorrect.
>>20938035
You could find about this amount of errors in any release if the grammar police combed them all. It's never a problem unless an anon starts picking a game apart.

Well soon JAST will show you all whats good. Lamia is from a fairly trustable translator, so there shouldn't be any problems with that.

>>20938083
I wish Lamia's translator had worked on >>20938074 this shit, because I hate it when people use memes to make up for their lack of translation ability.

>>20938083
No one cares about their shitty 2 hour nukige. Tell me when they release Sumaga, Django and Flowers 3.

>>20937752
Let's have a reasonable discussion here. The Oxford comma: yes, or no?

>>20938045
Okay I'm bored and autistic so here's one:
the one with the marked comma after and not within the single quotes is only wrong if it clashes with the usual choice; both ways are used in different areas / by different publications. I suppose you could argue that it should be be the same as the choice for double quotes and go from there if there aren't enough single-quoted parts to get a sample.

>>20938083
https://jastusa.com/2019/mamono-musume-life-with-a-lamia-coming-summer-of-2019
>She's a stubborn tsundere lamia named Leimia, who is has arrived to bring her husband-to-be back to her tribe.
Hope it's not the same guy who translated the description or did the proofreading. Fucking up a decade old nukige would be just silly, but then again Nympho Sensei Ryoko was buggy and had whole sentences translated as moaning sounds.

Forget the old licenses. They are most likely dead. Just look in the future and see what it may bring. JAST often teases their new releases and one autistic anon will always be able to find out what it is. :)

>>20938132
Yeah just forget about all the good games they have licenced, just look forward to the kusoge they're releasing now! You're doing a horrible job at shilling, Hata.

>>20938074
Say what you will, but saying 助かります to a girl should never ever be translated as "Thanks, dude."
>>20938117
Oxford comma is legit. There's a ton of them in the game.
>>20938120
Too bad that it's a matter of consistency.

>>20938140
I can see "Thanks for the help" being interpreted as "Thanks, dude" pretty easily, no matter if you're talking to a guy or a girl. It's even easier to say.

>>20938138
Can't be helped, man. Whats done is done :(( I want more Nitroplus too, believe me.

>>20938165
Orly, I guess keigo is pointless then.

>>20938172
>:((
This is what I mean about you not fitting in.

>>20938184
I don't think Junichi was meaning to be super uptight and cordial in this instance.

>>20938204
point duly noted.

>>20938172
Sieg heil Hata! Hata ist Ubermensch!

Can't believe their worst release translation wise is their best selling one.
>>>/vg/246054563

>>20938349

>>20938349
Never seen before. This is akin to old eroge from 2002 which have double voicelines because the voice actors tried the line twice.

Hilarious

>>20938204
I came from leddit and I learned to fit in. People haven't accused me of being a redditor since I first started posting; not using dumbass memes, smilies, abbreviations and generally not being a retard goes a long way. This jackass apparently doesn't get the message.

>>20938364
Okay, now go back.

>>20938364
Go back

>>20938349
Why are you surprised? Fureraba has garbage translation yet is popular af.

>>20938364
You have to go back.

A patch just went out that fixes most of what's in that collage and some other stuff. Well the ones that are actual mistakes, other stuff goes through the editor. It would be easier to fix if you just reported issues directly though.

>>20938364
kaere

>>20938383
How about you pull the leash tighter on your shitty editors trying to insert memes, rather than having to do damage-control afterwards. It's already a tainted work now.

>>20938383
It would be easier to do the job right on the first, second, or third pass, Doddler, not whine and wait for us to do it for you.

>>20938004
Everyone can tell it's you, you faggot.

>>20938349

>>20938349
Plane autists stronk. I wonder how well the rocket autism VN will do.

The plane game doesn't have a glossary for all the plane terms. They even messed up an infodump game...

>>20938438
Really? Something like Busterpedia from Little Busters! made the visual novel much more enjoyable to read than not having one at all.

>>20938438
Is that sol press's fault too? Please tell me it is.

>>20938438
Is it the time to hate on Solpress for no reason again?
You guys don't even buy the game.

>>20938377
>>20938379
>>20938382
>>20938385
Why? It's not hard to keep separate online personalities. Just don't be a newfag or spread dead leddit memes and nobody gives a shit.
Also, fuck off, oldfags.

>>20938463
The original had no glossary either.

>>20938463
Of course not. I'm just googling up plane terms now so I can get all the references and information that Hikari drops all the time.

>>20938472
>You guys don't even buy the game.
I'm not in the habit of purchasing pieces of shit, that's why. Maybe if you made a better product it'd move more units.

>>20938383
Doddler, don't you think it's just a tiny bit entitled to be mad at me, a paying customer, for not reporting the dozens of problems in your release? Do you not think this represents the overall quality of the release and the skill of the team who worked on it? You can bet that there will be dozens more in the next few hours.

>>20938474
If you don't understand why you're being told to go back, then you definitely need to go back.

>>20938483
I bought it and then someone sent me the nyaa link. I wanted to refund but I played more than 2 hours already.

>>20938472
Don't quote me on it, but I think the guy who makes the info dumps >>20930996 actually bought it, same as Newrin.

>>20938484
>Dozens
He doesn't sound mad though, what are you reading into?

>>20938484
Wow what the fuck is this rude answer? They should pay you for doing their job lol.

>>20938484
>Don't talk about our fuckups publicly. Report them privately so we can ignore them without being embarrassed.

>>20938509
Obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have the patch.

>>20938104
You could learn Japanese at snail's pace and read Django before it gets translated. Totally worth it.

>>20938492
>expecting a serious reply to an age-old 4chan "leddit" meme and not some dumbass response

>>20938540
Posting it in here for most people to just start shitposting and calling the game shit is more productive how? They seem responsive to fixing stuff, that's more than you can say for sekai.

Okay, to explain it for the dummies who ask why we don't report the mistakes. When we report mistakes that are already patched we basically expose ourself as pirates.

Who is dumb enough to fall for that Doddler?!

>>20938582
If you have a problem with people posting errors, fix them before you release, fuckface. Otherwise, live with the consequences.

>>20938582
It's productive because it exposes bad quality, and forces them to do introspection on their dev processes. If this was all swept under the carpet, nothing would change, and the people calling it out in private would give up. It's productive because lazy meme translators are egotistical fucks and will only change things under overwhelming pressure.

If you don't like it, how about ensuring a quality release? This industry is a joke.

>>20938540
That's a bit of a hasty assumption to make. SolPress might be a bit shit so far, but they're definitely not full-on Sekai. They deserve the flac they get for being gay for Steam, though. Get Hyourin out the door already and get your fucking games on more non-shit non-DRM platforms that don't play morality police.
>>20938586
Oh, no, a company that can't even afford to sue you for IP infringement will know some anon on /jp/ torrented their game! The horror!!1!

>>20938484
You're right, finding mistakes shouldn't be on customers. Admittedly I think it's pretty hard to avoid with games of this length (Under One Wing is 30k lines/359k words), it's pretty easy for a bunch of mistakes to slip past even after a bunch of eyes have been on the project. I'm happy to fix any errors that are sent my way though, but I'm not on the editing team so that's all I can do myself.

>>20938621
Wait they don't spamfilter throwaway mailhosters?

>>20938625
The problem here is that this is not a matter of "a bunch." There's a shitton of them.

>>20938625
Nowhere even close to 30k lines have been read to find all the problems reported so far. Fire your editors.

>>20938636
No there's not a shitton of them anon, there's an ocean of them!

>>20938383
>It would be easier to fix if you just reported issues directly though.
Doddler, I am a respectful person, and unless it's a Sekai Project level of fuckery, I don't get huffy with the VN companies. That said, uh last I checked, don't Sol Press have people you are supposed to PAY to do this? Like, it's great anons want to find this stuff but why are we reporting these issues at all? Why isn't anybody going through the script word for word like the autists on here.

If someone sees a major one like >>20938349, isn't that a failure of the quality checkers?

>>20938625
Fix SukiSuki or I'm not buying Rocket Autism.

>>20938625
Doddler, tell Xev to license Kamikaze Explorers. Do it for MANAMI POWAH!

Thread dead in one day. Nice one.

Sometimes I ask myself why people do this? Is this supposed to be humour? Is it deliberate cringe? The downfall of society?

What drives people to put memes and things that you will never hear out of any native speakers mouth in their TLs?

Or do they just want to piss us off?

>>20938663
Seconded

>>20938625
It's a paid product. "Sorry, we tried our best" isn't excusable for something going to market. In any other industry, this is where heads roll.

Doddler, I respect that you're working hard to keep things professional and grow the VN industry. I say that as being one of the biggest shitposters in this thread. But there needs to be more heat on translators/editors who treat these works as a hobby project, where they happen to collect some booze-money as a bonus. Professionalism needs to be there, top-to-bottom.

>>20938670
That one isn't memes, it's trying (read:trying) to convey Hikari's cute way of talking. Unfortunately it just sounds retarded

>>20938636
Also, you should know that this is not anything against Sol Press. I shit on every company when they deserve it. And unsurprisingly, they often do. Every single one of them.

>>20938669
What's the etiquette? Someone re-create it? Waiting 6 more days seems a bit off.

>>20938634
How would I know? I don't read their VNs because they don't release them outside of Steam, so I have no reason to email them. I might check out NewRin once it goes on sale on JAST's site and is 25-50% off.
>>20938670
wew, that's fucking terrible. I prefer a more liberal approach to translating, but that's just bad.

>>20938693
They actually gave in and Newrin, SakuraSakura is on JAST now.

>>20938693
>because they don't release them outside of Steam
They're on JAST now

>>20938691
Just wait, there's nothing really to discuss anyway since there are no releases or announcements.

You cannot excuse this being a replacement for engrish you cannot portray else.

>>20938645
>isn't that a failure of the quality checkers
It is a failure at multiple levels. It would have gone past the editors, anyone in the QA team, and anyone who played the beta. It isn't a simple typo/ grammar/spelling error either and is a fairly noticeable line.

>>20938732
But there's plenty of discussion to be had, evidenced by this thread maxing out so quickly

>>20938735
Is there anyone who doesn't know what this means? Or figure out what this means?
Also, fuck off, Hata.

>>20938735
Stop, people will think that I'm retarded when it's not me posting this shit. That phrase is actually common in English.

>>20938750
What? Pointing out errors? It can be done over at /vn/. There's no point in making another VNTS thread for it.

>>20938735
Au contraire is not a meme

>>20938770
/vn/ is a shithole

>>20938750
This thread is still on page 2. It will likely still be up for another day unless a big wave of new threads happen in the meantime. Still plenty of time to keep up with most new errors.

Kamikaze Explorer
World Election
Oyako Rankan
Repeat after me.

"Au contraire" is actually legit a loan phrase.

I wonder if any of the autists here have actually done proofreading themselves. It's surprisingly easy to let something slip when you have 30k lines to look at.

That said it's not like laziness or ineptitude doesn't also sometimes mean many more errors slip through than they really should. It's hard to know what level is reasonable without statistics except in egregious cases (11eyes fantl, maybe starless?), really.

>>>/vg/246059916

>>20938804
You don't publish something that is not done when you expect people to pay money for it.

At least we never had a mistranslation on this level: https://legendsoflocalization.com/sword-art-online-hollow-fragment-gallery/

>>20938804
The same guy fucked up SukiSuki. It's obviously that he's not made to be an editor.
>>20938795
I'll replace Oyako with Tsuma 3 and we have a deal.

>>20938804
I do it as my day job. They're shit at it. It's not hard, you're just incompetent.

>>20938830
Tsuma 3 is bad, Oyako is much better.

>>20938830
What the fuck is wrong with you? Oyako Rankan has the best art in any VN, except for maybe Bishoujo Mangekyou.

>>20938837
Hi Kiriya.

>>20938804
But what about three people? Going by >>20938817 that is.

>>20938804
Is this a joke? You know people are actually expected to pay for this, right?

>>20938847
>What the fuck is wrong with you? Oyako Rankan has the best art in any VN, except for maybe Bishoujo Mangekyou.
MIN can't into faces.

>>>/vg/246061752
Xev

>>20938804
But anon, there's apparently 3 QAs as well as editors so that's minimum 5 people. Also, do remember people pay for this

>>20938804
>It's surprisingly easy to let something slip when you have 30k lines to look at.
Listen here, asshole. We haven't needed to look at 30k lines to find dozens of problems. Get it through your fucking skull that it's safe to assume that if the first 1k lines have a shitload of problems, then the next 29k are also going to have a shitload of problems. Stop pretending like this is cherrypicking when it's the fucking opposite.

>>20938804
lol imagine this in any other job.
>Why did you let this bridge fall? Why didn't you build it properly?
>Building bridges is hard work okay guiz? Mistakes happen.

>>20938804
I hope you're not saying this while also being one of those people who shat on Anthem/Fallout 76/Battlefront II/etc. all those other fucked up major releases

>>20938704
>implying I'd ever buy Sakura Sakura, even if it was sold off of Steam
good one, anon.
Also, you literally can't buy it on JAST's site. The button to actually purchase it is just missing. Also, the brief description is actually about DareSora, which isn't even available on JAST's site. Dunno who's fault it is, but someone fucked up.
Xev, wanna get your shit fixed?
>>20938710
Yeah, I know. It still took them ages and multiple releases. I'm not gonna touch NewRin until it's on sale. $40? lol fuck that shit

I hope SolPress realizes that having two scripts is retarded after this.

>>20938931
besides, literally everyone hates a fence sitter. Pick a side and stick with it, you can't please everyone, and this is a good example why.

>>20938935
No, we hate non-honorifics fags even more.

>>20938923
Your post reeks of /vn/. Please take a bath/shower before posting.

>>20938923
Oh interesting. I'll relay this information to someone responsible

>>20938858
There are worse things than typos in this world. Then again I used to get annoyed but now I just take a screenshot mocking it and post it to twitter or something instead, so maybe I've just found a coping method.

>>20938856
How many typos are there? I think like, 12-ish might be acceptable at that point (it's a bit high, but not unreasonably so. Most of the 'errors' I saw in that collage were localization gripes, not QA material.) Also note that they're going to have to check significantly more lines due to the honorific/no honorific toggle. Pick your autism, boys.

>>20938958
>There are worse things than typos in this world
Symptom of a larger problem, worthy of criticism.

>>20938958
>Most of the 'errors' I saw in that collage were localization gripes
You mentioned dude and French. That's 4. If you want to say "most", then point them out.

>>20938958
Even Xev admits it is unacceptable. Why are you trying to defend it still?

>>20938902
Sure if this is literally from 1k lines then that would be bad. A dedicated autist could probably have read the entire thing by now though so I didn't really know.

Stop it friends. You'll make Moogy tweet about us again.

>>20938988
If it has 30k lines, then it's from around 3.3k

>>20938991
What's the mongster doing nowadays anyway? Drakoi?

>>20938951
why the actual fuck would I ever go to /vn/? good one, anon
I'm never buying Sakura Sakura because it looks like utterly boring shit, even by moege standards. If I wanted to experience a love triangle, I'd just cut to the chase and hit myself in the balls.
>>20938952
Cool. By the way, Sol Press' publisher section on JAST USA only lists NewRin. Sakura Sakura isn't even listed.

>>20939010
Supposedly some secret JAST project with Makoto or something like that.

>>20939030
He's been doing that since 2010.

>>20939013
The reason it's not available for purchase right now is because they only have the steam build having a DRM free version on the JAST store requires some extra programming work, they can't just put the steam version on JAST.
Also, in my opinion Sakura Sakura was pretty good and was a breath of fresh air compared to all other recent moege we've gotten lately definitely worth the torrent.

Sakura Sakura could have been better

>>20939049
They should've done a better job of conveying that, then. It looks like they just forgot to insert a purchase button. Even a "Coming Soon!" icon would have been better than what's currently there, which is literally nothing.
>Also, in my opinion Sakura Sakura was pretty good and was a breath of fresh air compared to all other recent moege we've gotten lately
Care to elaborate why? The premise looks utterly generic and uninspired, and the only girl I find even moderately appealing is the black-haired girl, Sakura. The rest of the character designs bore the hell out of me.

>>20939013
I relayed the information about the missing button on the JAST Discord. Let's hope it doesn't take a month to fix.

>>20939133
good goy

>>20938958
I am waiting, anon. Point out the localization gripes for me. You said there's around 30 of them, so it should be very easy for you.

>>20932468
おれの耳が信じられない

>>20939125
What made it fun for me is that the game focuses on the characters and their interactions/development more than the romance, so it has a bunch of funny and memorable moments. There definitely are some bad parts about it though, the main one for me (ironically after just saying that I like how it focuses on the characters more than the romance) is that the two Sakura routes end without much romance happening and most of the romance is locked in the after story which can only be unlocked after clearing the two childhood friend routes (Pic related).

>>20939001
Okay I'll actually take on your pic, (or whoever posted it).
You get a lot of pictures due to listing counterexamples to you first "T... This" stutter versus hyphenated stutters; Personally I like being able to alternate for effect but approximately every editor disagrees with me so I'll concede that your one ellipse'd example is an error.
1
Capitalizing god or not is free variation as far as I'm concerned.
"Class pres" is definitely nonstandard
2
"girl's love" is not really an error unless you mean it not being capitalized which I could see, but then you shouldn't have put the red ring around only the first word. It's another name for the yuri genre.
2
Error messages can be tricky, especially the already running one since it appears before a patch file can replace the string, but I suppose this is an official release so they can mess with data.xp3. Note that this is something that the hacker would probably have to find in the files because translators tend to be very technologically incompetent, but whatever, I'll give you them both.
4
That quote with the long space might not display weird ingame, but fine I'll assume it does.
5
First thing's first, sure 6. AichiB74 idk exactly how it's wrong because I didn't read the game but I'll trust you 'cause it does look wrong, 7.

I'm going to allow the combination of commas and ands because it's a spoken line and it could reasonably be mimicking the cadence of speech.

Comma splices... 8, 9, 10. Errant quote, 11. Going to allow the comma into non capitalized next line because it seems deliberate, but I know this makes some editors extremely distraught. Junich, 12.

Okay so we have 12 errors not counting honorifics goofs. Maybe I missed something but should be ballpark.

The honorifics errors seem to be 17. I have to admit I find myself hard pressed to care because I'd never read in weeb mode, but that's a lot of misses, lol.

I guess all in all if this really is from 3.3k lines then fair enough, the QA job was not very good. Extrapolating from current data we get like 120 errors even without honorifics gaffes. Obviously it could be the process rather than the people at fault if there was a silly time limit or whatever, but that just means the management is to blame instead. Uhh, carry on shitting on sol press qa, I guess...

>>20936762
>Damn, Gaben is so Gaben. He decided to purchase a ticket for possible VN market pie slice by allowing 18+ on steam, but after evaluating it as a meme ( rightfully so ) he then switched to backpedaling indirectly trough steam aproval system.
It's most likely that they are trying to evaluate every game before it heads onto steam. Remember though you can still censor the game on release and still release a decensor patches on Steam itself if things go wrong on approval process.

You know whats the worst about half-assing or blunders with the QC or Editing? Thats just fucking superficial errors. If this already has such glaring mistakes, then what would the results of a thorough analysis of the translation quality itself unravel?

Honestly. You should not underplay these issues. They are a the foreteller of deeper glaring localization issues and inconveniences.

>>20939261
I wouldn't be certain of this until I could actually see the script; the QAs, editors, and translators are all different people. There might be an impression from above that QA is less important (common in some industries as far as I know) or the QA tests might be easier to pass than tl or editor tests. You do have a point, but I wouldn't extend it *too* far. By all means pressure companies for quality though.

>>20939261
Never forget all the sukisuki mistranslations.

>>20931135
Never tried Django but I can confirm Gekkou no Carnivale and Sumaga worked for me on windows 10.