/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Karakara 3 - 2019 release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - Fully localized, in engine work, 2019 release planned
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work, 2019 release planned
Baldr Sky - Q3/Q4 release date, in Valve review, "waiting on build approval".
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, 2019 release
Rewrite+ - Kickstarter started, 67% translated, 17% edited, November 2020 estimated release
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In progress, 2019 release
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 35% translated, 2019 release
Island Diary - 100% translated
Riajuu Plus - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
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
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
Winter Polaris - 70% translated, Summer 2019 release
Sanarara R - 100% translated, Editing and programming started.
9-nine- Episode 3 - Picked up
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 100% translated, editing ongoing
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - 100% translated and edited, waiting on a build
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
SF - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Nekopara Vol 4 - In development, 2020 release

Sol Press
>Kimi o Aogi Otome wa Hime ni - November 8th release
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - Upcoming release
Nukitashi - 44% translated, 5% edited, November 22nd release
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 54% translated, 22% edited, February 2020 release
Irotoridori no Sekai - 30% translated
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - work starting shortly, 2019 release
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 24% translated, 2% edited
Jinrui Saikyou Seiyoku no Yome Kouguchi Rinko - Picked up
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
Senren Banka - 55% translated, 55% edited, December Release
Aokana Perfect Edition content - Upcoming
Aokana Extra1 - Picked up
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Hello Lady - 90% translated, 80% edited
Making Lovers - 86% translated, 71% edited
Melty Moment - On hold until after a newer Hooksoft title is released
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"
Secret Project #1 - 100% translated and edited, engine work by developers
Secret Project #2 - 35% translated and 30% edited
Secret Project #3 - 15% translated and 5% edited

Cherry Kiss
>Nympho Monster Domination - November release
Nekura Ijimerarekko o Tasuketara Natsukareta - Future release

Fakku
Oral Lessons With Chii-chan - Late 2019 release
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - 2020 release

Aksys
Piofiore no Banshou - 2020 release
Gensou Kissa Enchante - 2020 release
Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - Picked up

Other
>The Tale of the Lewd Kunoichi Sisters - Released
Venus Blood Frontier - December 20th release
Lamunation - Submitted to Steam for review
Ouka Sabaki - Partial "Early Access" release on 9/17
>Dei Gratia no Rashinban - Localization halted after failed Kickstarter
Seven Days - Passed Steam review, preparing gold master
Taimanin Asagi - Steam release had been planned, but has since been removed from Steam
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master - Announced
Utawarerumono Remake - 2020 release
Project Sakura Wars - 2020 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Summer Pockets - 100% translated, plan to release this year
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

>Nukitashi - 44% translated, 5% edited, November 22nd release
Can't wait!

Dead fantranslation scene has more green than ''professional' one. Amazing.

>>22361050
Not relevant to this thread unless you're trying to point out a translation error.

>>22361051
You're right. I forget that you can't discuss translated VNs in any way on /jp/ anymore other than translation autism. So nevermind.

>>22361065
You could make a thread. Novel concept, I know.

>>22361071
Why would I make a thread on modern /jp/? Don't make me laugh.

>>22361076
Why are you even posting then?

Do you think the Rewrite+ Kickstarter will hit its goal? It needs about $62,000 more in 13 days.

>>22361351
Probably. Most kickstarters get a boost at the end.

Doddler tweeting that he only recently started working on Baldr Sky again, and he's doing preliminary interface work.

Sure, Dovac. It was totally going to be a Q3 2019 release.

>>22360989
Because 0.001% progress each week for several years is more important than a consistent 33% each month?

>>22363527
Still all-ages only

>>22363527
>I can't figure out how to not display an image, so I'm setting it to display in invalid display space

No wonder his shit is always so buggy.

>>22364058
Wasn't the source code lost? He probably has to tinker with a ton of crap to get anything working.

How do these American translators survive if they're paid so low? Do y'all still live with your parents?

>>22365739
>How do these American translators survive
They don't. They're actually reanimated corpses bound to their masters for eternity.

>>22365739
i think most of them do other translation work on top of VNs, LNs and manga pay way better

>>22365808
Do LNs sell better than VNs? Manga I can understand.

>>22365824
no idea, probably

>>22365840
That's strange, who even buys LNs when you can read online. Manga at least you can monetize wherever it shows up online.

is giniro haruka another shitty ass moege?

or does it actually have a plot and enjoyable drama?

>>22365920

>>22365846
>LNs when you can read online
Except that unlike manga, where chapters are about 20 pages with a couple lines of dialogue each, Light Novels are 200+ pages of prose and dialogue.
There are very few Light Novels that get GOOD fan translations, given that the majority of them end up using machine translations with the bare minimum of "editing". While some readers (mostly ESLs) are perfectly happy to gobble up shitty MTL, there's a lot also willing to pay for something that's been put through a proper translation and editing process.

>>22365920
It's the same kind of moege they've made before, I don't think it's shitty but you probably won't like it anyways.

>>22366232
this is largely how i feel about VNs, i'm willing to pay for better translation quality. Shame that better TLs don't actually matter when it comes to sales.

>>22365920
It's basically the same thing as Hoshi Ori except it starts in middle school and the MC has a bit more background and some hangups over his parents getting divorced when he was a kid. But the latter aspect doesn't seem to be getting utilized very much, at least as far as I've read into it, which is disappointing. Once you get past the initial romance resolution and the H-scene barrage begins, it gets pretty boring, but that's just my opinion.

I am looking forward to Nukitashi which releases on Nov. 22, as announced by Sol press usa!

>>22363612
>a consistent 33% each month?
A consistent what? Longest and slowest translation projects are ''professional" ones as well. Sumaga, the whole Higurashi, Baldr Sky that was closer to release when it was fan-tl, Dracu Riot, Sharin no Kuni and so on.

>>22365739
>Moogy
>Nobody should fan translate when you can get paid.

>Also Moogy
>The pay is shit so you should just assume you won't get paid anyway.

>>22365739
The competent ones go seriously into professional translation official positions. Legal and commercial documents. And can complement with teaching language classes.
Or they go full academic into language teaching.

>>22365739
The smart ones, or at least the ones that aren't retarded, survive by not living in an overpopulated hellhole that costs triple of what it takes to live literally anywhere else.

>>22365739
It's not really that low. Steiner (of all people) defended it, even. Pic related.
Furthermore, here's a TL doing 181 characters in 3 minutes.
https://files.catbox.moe/4l3xk3.mp4
That's 3,620 characters an hour, or 10860 in 3 hours.
Assuming a rate of 1,75 cents ($0,0175) per character and your average 5-day workweek, you'd be earning $950 a week. Just for working 3-4 hours a day. That's miles better than your average 40-hour workweek wageslave.
Of course, if you live in Commiefornia or other similarly expensive place (like most people whining) that's nowhere near enough.

>>22370233
Still can't believe how many people ate up Arunaru's post.

>>22370233
Which assumes that you do one pass over everything, no self-editing, no time having to communicate or coordinate with anybody else, so on and so forth. It has as much to do with actual translating as writing this post has to do with publishing a book.

>>22370388
>no self-editing, no time having to communicate or coordinate with anybody else, so on and so forth.
Literally none of that happens in this industry.

>>22370266
i laughed heartily every time someone called him brave
Twitterfags are utter sheep

>>22366232
I agree with that. Manga is more simple to be fair unless it's Seinen or some complex tier stuff. But LN from what I hear are so bad that they get sentences and plots wrong. VNs are the middle ground in terms of quality. It's not a lot of money but it's good enough to keep the business going.

>>22370830
Social media is usually filled with them due to herd mentality.

>>22370266
What happened?

>>22370388
You'd have a point if publishers actually did that but it's abundantly clear they don't. The only people to do that are fan-translators from what I've seen.

>>22370830
Well ofcourse they are. To say otherwise would get you blocked and deplatformed. You either conform to the retardation that is their circlejerk or you perish. No dissent allowed. Sister Miriam was right all along. God bless our souls.

>>22370266
Yep. And, of course, all of them were either not involved in translation at all or mere fan translators who have never translated professionally before at all.

>>22370830
It was also pretty funny that a week later hardly anyone one cared again and the drama was over. It was just twitterfags latching onto the latest thing to bandwagon over.

>>22370388
Okay, let's add 2 hours of extra work per day for the things that you mentioned (assuming anyone even does that. So that's $950 a week, working 5 days a week, for 6 hours per day. That's making a salary of $31.67 per hour. Yearly wages of $49400. That's not bad at all. It's definitely more than I make and I do actual work full-time.

>>22372501
I hope your full time job doesn't involve any math.

>>22373307
What part of what I said was wrong?

Taking another look, Aokana is still seeing regular daily concurrent user peaks above 100, and seems destined to be Nekonyan's second long term evergreen seller after Sanoba Witch to complement its particularly strong launch.

Along those lines, one of the things that Sol Press seems to be hurting by is beyond their weak launches, they don't have any VNs bringing in a long term source of revenue, something that most of their competitors have managed to find over the years.

>>22376851
Maybe because Sol Press mostly licenses sub-par VNs

>>22376851
Aokana has chinese support. Most reviews are in chink. It was bound to get more than usual sales.

>>22376952
same as all the others. are you telling me mangagamer, jast, sekai, nekonyan arent mostly licensing mediocrity?

>>22378223
not that anon but Sol Press's titles are significantly lower quality on average than what any other VN publisher does aside from maybe Moenovel and Miel. The only thing they've released thus far that has been good was Onikiss.

>>22378261
>quality
What kind of quality are we even talking about?
When it comes to steam the best perfoming titles of all times are things like Go! Go! Nippon! and Nekopara. Are those the "quality" kamiges? Anythings that tickles ironic weeb senses and has chinese translation will outsell anything else regardless of whatever you meant by ''quality''.

>>22378530
15 year old titles with mosaics and sub-standard translation. Or simply bad titles like newton.

>>22378530
Most Nekopara and Go Go Nippon copycats trying to appeal to that market have crashed and burned during the past few years. The best new Steam sellers in the past couple years have been titles such as Little Busters, Aokana, Sanoba Witch, Evenicle, and Saya no Uta.

>>22377182
It still has a fair number of English reviews though, it would still have been a successful launch even without the Chinese localization, although having that certainly boosted it quite a bit.

>>22378261
To be fair they haven't existed long and released many titles yet. Iroseka will come eventually. I don't know if it's good, but it's generally considered good at least.
I don't see why you'd put them below NekoNyan in terms quality titles. They both focus on Moege.

>>22381000
>Most Nekopara and Go Go Nippon copycats trying to appeal to that market have crashed and burned during the past few years
While that's true, the question is - did they fail because ironic weeb fad is no more or because they were merely clones? And since DDLC succeeded at the same time im guessing its the later.

>>22382553
DDLC caught on with redditors who don't like VNs because they thought it "deconstructed those weeb dating sims"

>>22376851
I liked aokana...

>>22360832
I know we don't like reddit but MeruMeruChan confirmed that Totono is now out of QA and should be releasing 'soon'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/dqzuzu/translation_status_updatediscussion_nov_3/f6l5bkm/

>>22382863
Take a screenshot next time.

>>22382863
>'soon'
More like """"""""""soon""""""""""

Why has this game been cursed to never be translated? Hell, I'd be happy just getting the all-ages version. And I think that could sell well too on Steam, given all the goofy shit in it that ironic weebs would probably like.

>>22383715
It would probably be translated already if Navel didn't part ways with MangaGamer. Hasn't been fan translated because fanTLs are dead.

>>22383734
>if Navel didn't part ways with MangaGamer
Couldn't someone else go after it then?

>>22383745
Don't think they're interested in the west anymore, they tried to do something with another company and put their games on steam but that failed too.

>>22383751
Navel just don't know how to run a business. 18+ market is the big one, but they refused to charge less than 40 dollars. Then on Steam it suddenly cost 20 dollars. How do they explain that price cut? Well, they knew nobody wanted the all-ages version so they had to dump the price to have a chance.

They could have easily sold 1000 or more Shuffle games on MG's store with a 50% discount there. I know I personally was looking for that discount for years, until they suddenly just removed the game instead of lowered the price.

>>22384454
The idea with the Shuffle deal is that Naval was chasing the 6 figure sales that Konosora did for Moenovel on Steam (and did so without an R18 version). They went through Active Gaming Media who had been running Moenovel, and priced it similarly cheap as Konosora.

It obviously did not work out nearly as well as they hoped since the Steam craze was falling off by the time they released it.

>>22382501
>I don't see why you'd put them below NekoNyan in terms quality titles. They both focus on Moege.
Because Nekonyan licenses far better moege?

>>22384454
>>22384662
To expand upon this a bit, Shuffle had 6211 owners listed back during the Steam Achievement leak in the Summer of 2018, and if it has maintained a similar review:owners ratio, it would be in the ballpark of 7800 owners now. These aren't bad in absolute terms for a visual novel, however with the cheap sale price and the consistent 50% off sales, it would be a fair bit less revenue than other titles with a similar amount of sales. Obviously though the parties involved weren't happy with these results considering its 3 years later and there hasn't been any additional titles released through Yumehaven, and the social media account has been dormant for the last year. In short, Navel seems to have decided that they weren't happy with the results that MG was getting them, went with a big publisher trying to hit a home run on Steam, and then wasn't happy with the results there either.

>>22361351
>>22361357
I wonder. 8 days and still needs $50,000.

>>22384662
It was always just a matter of supply and demand. Back then there was very few Japanese games at all.

When supply increased, you had to instead offer what people wanted, or they would just skip your title.

There are still anime games out there that are uncensored that I want to play, but it is too expenisve to buy them all.

https://twitter.com/lovelabjapan/status/1192785673473773569
Lamunation is a November 22nd release

Noratoto 2 looks like another weak performer, as it has peaked at just 13 concurrent users thus far. While there has been several purely all ages releases of R18 titles that have gone on to be successful, the Noratoto releases are likely among the strongest examples of a release hurting quite a bit because of the lack of R18 releases.

Meh even Ninetail is going phone now, they are making Venus Blood phone game. https://venusbloodorbit.ninetail.ga/

>>22394234
Or from the regular "It is a sequel so people buy it after they clear the first game" issues that sequels have.

>>22394511
Phone market is the real gamble. Because you can make more money through micro-transactions there, it also means people get more invested in fewer games. So if you hit it off, profits galore. But you have even less chance of succeeding than in the PC industry.

Speaking of Harukaze, they announced a new VN that's getting a simultaneous English release, but it looks really strange and is being done by the same people who did the English release of Noratoto (although this time the base game is all-ages).
https://uyragnigotocr.am/

>>22394234
I thought the first game didn't sell well, so I was surprised to hear that the sequel got released. Was my impression wrong?

>>22395104
work probably began on it before the title launched on steam given how there's that delay on getting your title approved by steam. Or the person who was contracted to translate it demanded to do both titles or something.

>>22395167
There's also the fact that they're going to release another game in English apparently. That all seems strange is everything is selling poorly.

>>22395167
>Or the person who was contracted to translate it demanded to do both titles or something.
Things don't work this way, anon.

Is it worth playing the all-ages Noratoto release? I don't particularly care about H-scenes, so losing those doesn't matter to me. But some games don't really have much going for themselves outside of that, you know?

>>22395205
It does if you're willing to work cheap as a result since it's a cheaper rate for the publisher and the contractor has secured a job for a longer period of time.

>>22395224
No it's really not. the H is like 75% of the experience in the specific case of noratoto.

>>22395224
The first game's translation is pretty shit and makes a lot of the comedy in the game fall flat. I don't know about the second one but it's done by the same people so it's probably the same.

>>22395236
>>22395240
Guess I'll read something else then. Thanks.

Well. I guess MG and Alicesoft are about the make a shit ton of money.

>>22396122
about to*

>>22396122
>>22396133
?

>>22396122
Why? I know that it's AS's 30th Anniversary and they are having a sale right now on DMM but what does MG have to do with it?

>>22396164
>>22396180
That Sseth guy did a video on Evenicle. He rakes in like a million views on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5s3jGiJOcE

Looks like NN hired another TL for Senren Banka. They might just meet that December release now.

https://twitter.com/merumeruchann/status/1192329289779167232

>>22396749
>Koharu & Roka may be subcharacters, but they are best girls!!
That bodes well for the rest of the cast.

>>22396182
I wonder why VN localization companies don't bribe these popular e-celebs to shill their stuff more.

Evenicle in the top 50 best sellers today on Steam. I have no idea how good that is, but, hey.

>>22396122
>>22396182
One can already see the start of a surge of players on the weekly concurrent user chart, it has jumped quite a bit in the past couple hours.

>>22368673
>>22370233
How do I get into translating?
I unironically am a neet living with my parents, but I took a Japanese degree and want something to do with my life.
I can read pretty much everything, but there are times when I have to dictionary pretty hard during exposition drops and stuff.
It seems like the standard is honestly pretty low though.

>>22398121
Do some fan translations and contact Sol Press, they seem pretty desperate for translators.

>>22398128
Thanks anon I'll look into this.
Would be super neat to be able to do something like this. I spend all fucking day reading random jap news paper articles and sundrie to try and burn vocab into my brain anyway so might as well 一石二鳥

>>22398140
Cherry Kiss is probably another company you can look at for work, that is if you're fine with translating some bottom of the barrel nukige (hell, if you fan translate a Miel/Norn nukige that they haven't done they'll probably buy it off you). It's where Quof and a few other started out. If you're wanting to do this for money though I recommend moving away from VNs after a year or two and moving on to Manga/Light Novels like most other VN translators seem to be doing since it pays much higher rates.
Also if you don't want to bother with fan translations you can probably just reach out to some shitty mobage company and do translation work for them.

>>22398195
Nice, I'm gonna check out both these companies.
Actually at the risk of sounding like an ironic weeb I am not really very attached to VN or anime or anything so I dont have any prejudice about what to work in- itd be cool just to work in whatever field has opportunities. It might sound weird but I just learned Japanese for some personal reasons. So I really wouldn't have any clue where to start fan translating stuff. I'm reading Berserk atm because I'm entry level but obviously that's already been translated. Like I said I mostly just read newspapers and random blogs lol.
Wouldn't mind doing soulless work for mobage. Also gonna look into that.
Thanks kind anon

>>22398264
Go to vndb and look at highest rated vns. Find one that doesnt have a TL and doesn't appear on this thread's wip tl list. Then just pick one seems interesting. Look at technical tags tonsee if it has info dumps, might want to avoid any with that tag for now. Might want to avoid anything that NVL as well.

>>22398264
Do NOT do this: >>22398303 This guy is just a desperate EOP wanting translations for high rated games.
The VN community in general is very aggressive towards games that they actually want translated getting sub-par translations (no offence meant, but I doubt you'll knock the ball out of the park first try). Start off with something that's short, not really popular and not that difficult to translate if you want to be recognized by a company, because showing off a translation that people hate is not a good way to get hired.
To be completely honest VN fan translations are a pain in the ass and you shouldn't bother with it, go translate some doujins instead.

>>22398364
No offense taken, very aware I'll probably shit the bed on my first try.
Thanks for advice!

>>22398390
Softhouse-seal has a lot of really easy, short, and cozy titles. Plus you can try to sell the title to MG when you're done if you think you did a good job.

sol press pays 1 cent per moji for vn translation and is a garbage fire internally, try to work for literally anyone else, even MG, though mg is pretty bad too

definitely try to break into LNs or manga asap

translatiom skill is not = to just understanding 2 lamguages, you need writing ability and transfer ability as well, this might need practice if you're not a natural

>>22398364
Was only suggesting that because it'd be something a western publishing company would be more interested in possibly buying up the tl for. Better to invest your time in something that has a possibility of turning a profit instead of wasting it on some piece of shit nobody cares about just so you can throw it on your resume when you look for paid TL work.

>>22398264
If you do decide to go with vns, make sure you post your translation here so we can make fun of you directly.

>>22365824
From what JNC has revealed, LNs are more consistent sellers over time. For a VN the sales tend to stop after 30 days unless they're specific titles (Rance, Saya, etc). I believe part of this has to do with the pricing which is why the VN companies rely on sales periods.

Sales bumps for LNs and manga also seem to work across different titles. People watching the SAO anime are buying the Infinite Dendrogram LN for example. Also because voice actors are not involved, they're cheaper to license. With less players involved it's easier to turn a profit (and thus they can actually pay somewhat decently). The only titles that go crazy expensive are 'prestige' titles with a big name like Slayers or anything Fate related.

Horror is apparently the only exception to the rules. Horror LNs don't sell.

>>22400624
New thread up with the updates for this week

>>22398650
While you do need a lot of skills, I can also safely say less than 50% of the hired translators have them.

Like basic skills such as "read through the fucking game first and see if honorifics is a central part or not". There is also an extreme lack of reality check where translators think about what will a Japanese beginner notice and what will they not? Because you are screwing up if you mess with content that anyone who has studied Japanese for 1 month know is an incorrect translation. I am looking at you translators who write "Bro" for sexual oniichan from unrelated girlfriends.