/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Karakara 3 - Upcoming release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - "More programming"
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, upcoming release
Rewrite+ - Main game 60% translated, Harvest Fiesta 50% translated, November 2020 estimated release
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In QA
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 60% translated
Island Diary - 100% translated, Editing started
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
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
Sanarara R - 100% translated, 25% edited
9-nine- Episode 3 - 15% translated
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 100% translated, editing ongoing, waiting on build from dev
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Back into QA"
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Nekopara Vol 4 - 20% translated and 20% edited, 2020 release
Amairo Chocolate - 100% translated, 45% edited
Kimagure Temptation - Translation starting soon
Secret Project 3 - 37% translated

Sol Press/Panty Press
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 30% translated, 10% edited
Nukitashi - 100% translated, 25% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 68% translated, 68% edited
>Irotoridori no Sekai - 92% translated, 66% edited
>Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - dropped
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 99% translated, 61% edited
Jinrui Saikyou Seiyoku no Yome Kouguchi Rinko - Picked up
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - Main game 100% translated and edited, fan disc fully translated and editing to finish by the end of June, tentative Summer release
Dracu Riot - 100% translated and edited, engine porting starting shortly
Riddle Joker - 85% translated and 75% edited
Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche - 65% translated and 20% edited
Clover Days - 100% translated and TLC, editing and engine porting starting shortly
IxShe Tell - 75% translated and 60% edited
Aokana Extra1 - 25% translated, 10% edited
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
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 - 23% translated

Fakku
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - 2020 release

Visual Arts/Key
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated

Aksys
Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - August 21st release
Piofiore no Banshou - September 10th
Gensou Kissa Enchante - November 13th release

Aniplex.exe
ATRI -My Dear Moments- - Demo out, June release
Adabana Itan - Demo Out, June release

Other
Ouka Sabaki - June 12th release
Aristocunts - Awaiting Steam approval
Wanko no Yomeiri - Upcoming release
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
The Humbling of a Holy Maiden - Announced
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

To idiot janitor:
This is not a general. It is a weekly update thread. We make a new thread each week to show up-to-date information about VN translations. If you want to delete one, delete the old one once the new thread has been created.

>>/vg/294945415
>>/vg/294944689
Something that might be of interest to this thread is that somebody in the visual novel thread on /vg/ is claiming to represent pin-point and is looking for a translator for Oujo & Onna Kishi W Do Gehin Roshutsu ~Chijoku no Misemono Dorei~ (and possibly future games if its successful), claiming that pin-point is upset with the poor quality of the current TLs.

>>>/vg/294945415
>>>/vg/294944689
Something that might be of interest to this thread is that somebody in the visual novel thread on /vg/ is claiming to represent pin-point and is looking for a translator for Oujo & Onna Kishi W Do Gehin Roshutsu ~Chijoku no Misemono Dorei~ (and possibly future games if its successful), claiming that pin-point is upset with the poor quality of the current TLs.
fucked up the links like a dumbass the first time

>>24141575
Need three arrows for cross-board links. >>>

>>24141485
>Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
This was announced nearly 4 years ago now without a single update. Has Mangagamer finally got their own Django/Sumaga?

>>24141493
>Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - dropped
Jesus christ xev

>Jinrui Saikyou Seiyoku no Yome Kouguchi Rinko - Picked up
Isn't this also dropped?

Wait what happened? At first I thought like 90% of the posts were deleted somehow. But this isn't even the same thread anymore.

>>24145916
That one guy necrobumped the old thread again and instead of deleting the old thread the janny deleted both.

>>24145916
Janitor deleted the thread and left the old one up. Normally the old one doesn't even get deleted so I assume we recently got a new janitor since they had applications recently. He probably thought this was a general and deleted the one with less posts. I was under the impression that janitors were supposed to have some sort of knowledge about the board they're monitoring but I guess no one gives a fuck anymore.

Wanko yomeri when....

>>24146094
Why don't you do it then
...For free....

>>24146481
I remade the thread for free. You want any more you gotta pay me.

>>24141600
>Oujo & Onna Kishi W Do Gehin Roshutsu ~Chijoku no Misemono Dorei~
Ooh. That's Neromashin's game. It's actually going to get translated?
I never thought that'd happen.

>>24141600
>Assuming the translation for this goes well, we might decide to get Netorare Jukubo Natsuko translated too.
Holy fuck that would be huge. That one is very popular on vndb and among the nukige fans.

https://theoxfordcommaissuperiorsubs.com/2020/06/07/what-happened-to-boku-to-nurse/

What the fuck is Xev doing?

>>24149394
He's mentioned before that he's turned down projects due to a fan translation existing. Even went so far as to say that one of them was fairly popular on /vn/ and the Japanese company wanted it over officially but he turned them down. So it could be the case that once he figured out a fan translation came out and the patch was already out in the wild he lost all interest and the talks fell through.
With how many licenses he ended up with in so short a time while also doing the same for LNs and manga it looks like he took another page out of the Sekai playbook of trying to get as many licenses as possible as quick as possible with no respect to how long it'd take to get through their backlog of preexisting licenses.

>>24149394
Nothing, and that was the big issue. If they hadn't of fucked up their PR so badly(or at least tried to fix it instead of going silent) they probably wouldn't have had to give up on the scene.

>>24149944
I think it's more of Xev picking up random unmarketable titles which may be partly the JP side's fault for not having a great selection in the first place but it just further shows his incompetence.

>>24141600
Some guy in that thread claimed to have translated Kedamono no Ie and offered it to them for free. Huh. Interesting if true.

>>24150922
>Some guy

>>24151012
He didn't use a name in the post or a trip or anything.

>>24143772
I'm pretty sure. It is a Laplacian project.

>>24147760
Where are they going to sell it though? DLsite? I guess if they want the titles on Steam; they can butcher it badly and provide a patch like Cherry Kiss or Kagura games.

>>24149550
That strategy is probably okay for LNs or manga since the company is just releasing one light novel or volume at a time anyways, but doing the same for visual novels just clogs up the backlog. Mangagamer, JAST, and Sekai all have major titles stuck in their backlog partially because of the pressure to announce new titles every year. Arguably Nekonyan too if you count the one Hooksoft game they delayed.

>>24149944
It astounds me that company can fuck up that badly to the point of leaving the scene when other companies can survive with all their controversies.

Sekai has Dovac, shit translations, shit programming, a backlog so bad that a company left them and unfulfilled Kickstarters.

MG has a rough start with shit selections and shit translations (these two still occur, I guess), voice patches, expensive licenses that no one buys, shit pay and the heat for taking so long on games like Higuarashi or Rance.

But Sol Press managed to combine the problems from both side into one company. Although, I guess the real reason is probably the VN Steam market being dead?

>>24152093
>shit pay and the heat for taking so long on games like Higuarashi or Rance.
That's true for Sekai and JAST too. If anything, Mangagamer has the least delay related crimes. Higurashi taking so long and Rance 10 not likely coming out in the next 3 years are really bad, but that is nothing compared to Sekai delaying multiple big titles that were already paid for by kickstarter backers or JAST having Sumaga stuck in their backlog for what I'm pretty sure is a decade. At least no one has to do voice patches anymore (though Sekai trying that with G-Senjou so long after MG stopped using them was kind of funny)

>>24152291
Sharin no Kuni still isn't released by frontwing despite the kickstarter ending 4 years ago. It took Degica 3 years to get all of the muv-luv trilogy out, 4 years if you count the wait for the partial restoration patches.

>>24152093
The Steam VN market isn't dead, but their weirdness in what they allow or not makes it less reliable than before. Blaming this all on Steam though is an excuse and an easy way out.
I think he fell into the trap of thinking that any VN no matter the quality would sell if it made it on to Steam when he started his company then went crazy with trying to get everything on Steam at the expense of everything else. They went so hard in their single minded focus on Steam they'd delay the standard 18+ versions by months after a Steam release and do a slow drip release of them way later after nobody cared for them anymore after bad word of mouth or even worse no word of mouth because their licenses were so uninteresting people weren't even bothering to pirate them. That's a misreading the market and selecting the wrong licenses problem and a big reason why none of their games were selling.

>>24152093
>shit pay
The pay is bad. But unlike what Arunaru would have you believe, it's the standard. So it's not as if they're worse than the others.
Exceptions naturally do exists with everything, but they remain exceptions. And typically exceptions for specific jobs too. It's not as one of the competitors have a notably better standard fee than everyone else does.
It's kind of standard. For better or worse.

>>24152008
DLsite isn't that popular in the west so i think the best option is to sell it on third party store like j-list, mangagamer shop, fakku...
Of course Steam version will be butchered with an adult patch like they did for most of eroge on Steam.

>>24152482
I know it's not that far from the competition, but isn't a fact that MG pays the least out of the big companies? Except for Sol Press anyway.

I remember Dovac bragging about it or something in one of his twitter rants.

>>24152638
Yes, but they also have very lax deadlines and their staff gets to choose titles they want to work on.

>>24152638
it's true that Sekai did at first pay their translators a large sum of cash, but from what i heard they later backtracked on that sometime around 2017

>>24152638
Less pay more flexibility.

Eroge Japan will take over.

>>24152742
Yeah everyone coming into the industry says they'll make things right, be it sol press, frontwing, sekai project, etc, they all started off talking great things and sweet talking translators and such and bragging about their 4-5c/moji rates, but once they see the reality of things they quickly back away and they all end up around the 1-2c rate where things sort of hit a break even point.

>>24154307
it's just not sustainable unless you make huge gains on kickstarters and every single one of your titles is a success, which is far from the reality of the VN industry atm

i mean i guess Chinese translations could probably demand that kind of payment, since they're usually so successful, but i wonder how long that will last with Steam making a segregated client for them.

>>24141485
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

>>24152638
What I don't understand is how MG isn't bankrolling their other projects (and pay) off the success of Alicesoft titles. Am I just overestimating how successful they are?

>>24161832
Possibly. Although, I'm not sure what you mean by bankrolling in this case. Just give the people involved more money to work faster or something? Or using it to hire more people? Or get more license?

>>24162598
Literally anything

dovac has no excuse for his company's backlog. Everything was already pre-paid for by kickstarter. Also, I wouldn't give them anything in the future. Apparently, dipshits at Sekai have all the money in the world for their "causes".

>>24162868
They also apparently don't want your money if you disagree with their political sentiments.

>>24163125
I'm sure the 4 black people who play VNs will now buy his products.

>>24162630
In that case, it's probably rainy day funds like how they survived months long without a payment processor and only on Steam sales.

>>24163125
You know, I've never been that hard on Sekai. I've never backed their Kickstarters, the things they've fucked up were things I didn't really care about, and the handful of games from them that I've been interested in were things they happened to do a decent job with (e.g. Clannad). The stuff that's wrong with them has been building up in the back of my mind for a long time, though, and I think this is the last nail in the coffin for me. If you want to release a statement supporting the protests, whatever, I don't really care. But if you want to turn and say that if I *disagree* with it (not if I harass you over it, but if I simply disagree), then I should fuck off, then I will. You won't get another cent from me.

>>24163327
>they happened to do a decent job with (e.g. Clannad)
lol?

>>24163342
I don't care to get in an argument with you about it, but I didn't see anything particularly wrong with it when I read it.

>>24163368
Well it's easy to be ignorant.

>>24163433
Okay, thanks for your input.

>>24163451
No problem. Next time you probably shouldn't comment on shit you have no clue about.

>>24163470
I'll continue commenting on anything I choose to.

>>24161832
My guess is that the funds are partially used for translating and localizing future Alicesoft titles while the rest are kept as back up funds for when experimental titles flop. An example of the former is them spending extra resources on Rance Quest while an example of the latter is how Luckydog1 being a horrible mistake isn't an issue since even Alicesoft titles not expected to do well like Sengoku Rance still have a long tail. Mangagamer has always used consistently selling titles to help bankroll their passion projects: an example earlier in their lifetime is how cheap nukige funded the translation of Overdrive titles that never seemed to sell well. They definitely wouldn't have licensed Rance 10 so early or even take time in their Anime Central video to genuflect for being slow if Rance wasn't selling extremely well.

>>24163490
Ok.

http://mangagamer.org/escalayer/images/gal/6.jpg
I wish companies would just include a mosaic toggle, or at least a separate download link to the mosaiced version.

>>24176933
Well you have the mosaic'd assets. If you wanted to you can just put it back in yourself.

>>24177419
Which is a pain in the ass most of the time, and I'm pretty confident that the ui elements and images will be present in the CG folder so I'd most likely have to do it manually per H-scene.

>>24176933
Didn't doddler have a proof of concept a few years back that showed it is possible but it can bloat up the filesize dramatically in some cases?

>>24161832
>Am I just overestimating how successful they are?
You are since it was leaked that even the more successful titles(ignoring the outliers like Evenicle that did extremely well on steam) like Sengoku was only selling around 2k on their store. It might be a bit more now but it still isn't exactly the runaway success a lot of people expected either.
Also it isn't like a lot of their other titles have been big sellers recently so they already are kinda using the money from Alicesoft titles to offset that.

>>24180347
Judging by the weekly top selling charts, kagura games is earning more money for mangagamer than mangagamer titles. I'm not surprised considering MG has slowed down on shovelware nukige releases which were what kept them afloat in the first place. The shitty website design also doesnt help.

Just finished pic related and God do i feel aggravated by how the plot and characters were handled. I can't believe they charge people 20 bucks for this abomination. The only good thing were the animated H scenes (honestly, it felt like an actual nukige trying to pass as a normal eroge)
I hear the following episodes are better, but after playing noratoto 1 and 2 i stopped believing people's excuses.

>>24180876
https://twitter.com/info_palette/status/1270659133000175616?s=19
It's one of the best selling eroge series in recent years.
Noratoto was also very well received, if you disliked all of these so much might as well drop the medium, probably nothing coming out in the future is going to satisfy you.

>>24180545
>The shitty website design also doesnt help.
How long are they going to take updating this?

>>24180876
>>24180930
It's true, if you don't like shitty moege and nukige then you should stop reading VNs, as that's the entire point of the medium.
t. moebutas of /vg/

>>24180876
Time to become a liar-soft chad.

>>24181163
9-nine is neither a moege nor a nukige but the latest episode is considered one of the best releases of this year, I'm just saying if he considers on the few good story focused eroge of recent years to be shit then he's expecting too much out of the medium.

>>24182136
Doesn't it basically become a chuunige by the third or fourth episode? Although, like has been said, the latter episodes are better but if you already can't stand the characters now, chances aren't good that the rest will hold up for you.

>>24180545
This is probably true for most titles, though chances are, Escalayer preorder sales probably made MG more money than whatever Kagura titles sold at the same time, if only because Escalayer is more expensive and MG presumably gets a bigger chunk of the money. SR still somehow being on the weekly chart means that its overall sales are probably significantly higher than 2k (which is already way more than the average title, assuming the average is a few hundred) by this point. I doubt the overall sales number is too ridiculous though; 3k is a pretty optimistic estimate.

why do retards here keep saying "Sengoku Rance only sold 2k" when Arunaru said that almost a year ago now and it's been topping the charts pretty much every week since

it's likely well over 2k by now

>>24183016
Being at the top of the charts doesn't mean it is selling thousands and thousands every week. It is maybe at 3 or even 4k now but that isn't exactly in the same league as some of the more successful titles on Steam.

>>24183314
>Being at the top of the charts doesn't mean it is selling thousands and thousands every week.
no shit

>>24183016
Wasn't the 2k thing like opening week sales or something too? Aru definitely didn't account for tail-length. Which can be seen from ImoPara from way back, can be a pretty big factor.

>>24180930
>>24181163
>They sell a lot so if you don't like it just stop playing VNs altogether
What kind of argument is that even? So if i don't like One Piece i may as well just stop reading manga? Did you guys even play the game?
>>24182136
>the latest episode is considered one of the best releases of this year
I guess the pic may not have been clear enough, but i'm talking about the FIRST episode, and again, you sound like you haven't even played it. I could make a list of what i didn't like in the FIRST episode (and thus make me have doubts about playing through the rest, specially if we're talking about paying 20 bucks for each) or name VNs that i actually liked to try and refute the "he's expecting too much of the medium" part but i feel both would be pointless if all i'm gonna hear is "muh sales" or "just stop playing VNs".

>>24183545
Regardless of whether or entrance sells well I'm surprised MG still hasn't moved lightning speed on getting Evenicle 2 considering Evenicle 1 probably allowed them to live during the payment processor debacle after selling 20k+ due to steam.

>>24180876
>>24184240
Wow! The first entry in an episodic series is lacklustre, colour me surprised.
Also why the fuck are you paying for VNs? Are you retarded?

>>24184271
*Rance, not entrance. Fuck.

>>24184271
I can see a few reasons why they aren't hurrying it with the first being that they already have a big backlog of Alicesoft titles they have been sitting on for a while now. Another blow for it is that they lost Arunaru so they don't have him to plow through the translation at super speed any more.
They also probably realised that just because they have the original on Steam they are still very unlikely to get the second approved nowadays.

>>24141485
>Majikoi - "Suffering some unforeseen delays
Where do I keep up with this?
I was an idiot who bought the special edition...

>>24184614
I'd ask for a refund and just play the fan translation if I were you. The JAST version isn't fully voiced because they didn't want to pay the seiyuu fees.

>>24184664
>I'd ask for a refund
Do they even offer refunds?

>>24184675
I'm pretty sure JAST is good when it comes to refunds.

>>24184409
Maybe they should try the magic spell that Kagura uses to get games on Steam.

>>24185077
censor and rewrite their titles with no way to uncensor it?

>>24185132
They have a website where its entire purpose is to provide offsite patches.

>>24185696
You mean the offsite patches that are still censored with rewrites and replaced content that differs from the japanese original release and they never told anyone they rewrote some of the content and removed certain things and replaced it with other stuff found in the title? The offsite patches where the only reason we know they pulled a Sekai Project Maitetsu with it is because some JOP read the original and then reread the english version and pointed out all the shit they censored? These same patches that are included baseline in the Mangagamer releases of those titles where MG had to refund customers who bought it because it was actually censored despite the developer saying it wasn't until someone took screenshots of the uncensored jap release and the censored western release and then the developer backpedaling hard on it going
>w-well it's illegal content of course we can't provide a patch to restore THAT

Yeah I know that website and those patches.

Unsurprisingly, Nyan Cafe got announced for July 9th.

MG should've used that lull due to payment processor to fix their damn website. I mean it was as good a chance as any.

>>24188070

Nice. The artstyle looks pretty good and it might be a fun read once it's out. Looking forward to it.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1270996848631668736?s=20
What did he mean by this?

>>24190663
Basically, he made it so the gameplay stats of people who playing the MG version of Escalayer don't mix up with the stats of people playing the Japanese version. Escalayer can track how many times you lost to a certain boss, beat a certain amount of enemies, and so on and send that data to a server. I didn't opt in because I'm paranoid, but it should be a harmless enough feature.

>>24188070
I was 99% sure they would put that BL title which came out of beta testing not long ago for pre-order since they haven't released any BL title in a long time.
Hope Nyan Cafe does well, they sniped it and that other license from SakuraGame' s hands.

Damn. Escalayer is a good fap.

The script seems better than BBH, too. The protag has some actual personality this time. I kinda laughed that the game has options to make his sprite a translucent blue man, though. Muh self insertion

>>24141600
>looking for a translator
Why do people do this? It's the most important role on the project.

>>24191778
Because they don't know a better way of asking for a translator on 4chan of all places.

>>24163161
Didn't Thad get out of prison recently?

>>24191854
I bet he'll be back before the year is over.

>>24191854
I see, so Dovac's "target audience" was pedophiles.

Don't forget that Doddler is sort of a sex offender himself.

Hey MangaGamer lurkers I noticed that you now have an all ages site section, any chance to get a better payment processor or paypal for only that ''safe'' site from which I could buy MangaGamer points and then use them to buy shit from your adult section?. Dunno if that would be legal.

>>24191155
I think that BL game will come out soon, but Nyan Cafe was past beta phase for much longer. Since Escalayer is a nukige, they'll be a bit more inclined to release Room No9 than Eternal Torment (a different nukige), and I really doubt that they are releasing Wan Nyan immediately after Nyan Cafe.

>>24192584
It's hard to take the position of sex offender seriously when you can get it by having onaholes with pictures of lolis on them. Sure it's degenerate, but not any more so than having any other sex toy.

>>24194843
>It's hard to take the position of sex offender seriously when you can get it by having onaholes with pictures of lolis on them. Sure it's degenerate, but not any more so than having any other sex toy.

It's still creepy as hell by progressive twitter tranny standards. I have no idea why people like herkz and haro still talk to the guy despite knowing what he got in trouble for. I guess he's so untouchable he wouldn't get fired from MG even if he diddled a real minor because he's the only good hacker available.

Nevermind the tranny reponsible for the "fragile male ego" line was okay with working on Escalayer which has rape and other "problematic" shit. Those people are hypocritical and fucked in the head.

>>24199094
Sadly, hypocrisy is nothing new with those type of people. Doddler being that unfireable is hilariously plausible though. He's the very example of a big fish in a small pond.

>>24199094
>>24200398
Helps that he quit his job to full-time on VNs (I think?). The other programmers are all part-timers, aren't they?

>>24192584
A sex offender by what the crown refers to it. And you know Canadian laws are even more retarded than American laws.

>>24200705
Possibly. Doddler is the only full time programmer well known in the VN scene. The other companies might have a full time in house programmer too, but if they exist, they don't stand out as much as Doddler. The lack of full time programmers isn't quite the end of the world as some titles are sent back to the parent company who do the programming instead of the localization company. Of the top of my head, I think that's how it works for Clock up, Waffle, and Nitro Plus titles, though it's probably negotiated on a per title basis. That isn't always the case though, and the fact that MG has a full time in house programmer might be one reason they can release titles monthly.

>>24191778
I think he was specifically trying to recruit NTRanon, given that he mentioned he knew the guy who translated kedamono lurks /vg/. At least, that's what I assume, I can't imagine any official TL company would be interested in rando 4channellers to work for them

just imagine what those cowardly cunts say about him behind his back

>>24192584
>>24201400
No, he isn't. He signed a peace bond, he wrote a full description of it himself. No charges or criminal record.

>>24204209
>Trusting the crown. Ever.
I'm sure the RCMP keep a watchman on him.

>>24204533
Probably to find out how to order one for themselves.

Will EOPs get the true Muramasa experience when they have to read it with a horizontal textbox?

>>24209737
No, the vertical textboxes add an extra layer of kino.
https://files.catbox.moe/qr9cwj.webm

Most of the updates are relatively minor, but MG announced a 5th secret project that's also 100% translated and edited. I guess we're getting at least 4 titles announced this year. Rance 02 is also in beta and since that title is really short, it shouldn't take too long, but due to the number of titles that were out of beta before Rance 02 (Room no 9, Eternal Torment, and Wan Nyan), I wouldn't expect it until fall. Even if MG does decide to prioritize it, I'm guessing that MG wants to leave at least a 3 month gap between it and Escalayer. The audience for both isn't exactly the same, but there's probably a good deal of overlap.

>The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Back into QA"
This showed up on the list of titles rejected by Steam.

>>24215150

So I take it we won't be seeing this title anytime soon? I was kind of looking forward to it, honestly.

>>24184664
>>I'd ask for a refund and just play the fan translation if I were you. The JAST version isn't fully voiced because they didn't want to pay the seiyuu fees.

What decade is it?

>>24180876
The first episode is as bland as the heroine, to say the least. It ends at a cliffhanger, with nothing resolved. The heroine acts like an annoying clingy jew. The chuuni is bad. The fights are bad. But the other side heroines, specially the sister, showed promise.

When it released, there were two opinions around it. The kind who saw this episodic title as what it was, a total failure that shows the worst of the nature of episodic releases, and gave up after ep1. And then the people who saw some hope in the rest of the heroines, specially the sister (2nd ep). The plot could be corrected if they polished the story and got better direction. And basically everything else, except adding some more tachies and CGIs, was already done. Those people gave up on the plot, and continued reading it as a charage.

>>24217450
It's a shame that the artist's works seem to be attached to titles with really awful writing. I really like the way they design their characters.

So like, I'm new af. Just rewatched clannad and was like,
" damb I would have picked the tensei with the big ass not the terminally I'll chick... I should play one of those games where I can pick the girl."

And so yeah, I'm here. Is this the right thread? I'm so fucking filthy casual i- I just need to know what games are worth, and where to find them. Help, senpai!

not even worth validating

Why do people hate it so much?

>>24220317
all-ages ecchi title.

>>24218980
You can get the Clannad VN on Steam. Little Busters (also on Steam) is another good VN by the same company.

>>24218980
Key VNs are so brutally long that I wouldn't recommend starting with them. Then again people seem to be fine with Clannad or Fate Stay Night being their first VN, so feel free to ignore me. Still, I would recommend a shorter VN before Clannad first like Kira Kira or Yume Miru Kusuri.

>>24218980
>where to find them
Nyaa and Sukebei

>>24214595
What's gonna happen to MG when all the Alicesoft titles gets translated?

>>24231905
They existed before their partnership with Alicesoft. And also that's never going to happen.

>>24231905
I'm sure by the time 2030 comes around the market will look very different and they likely would have picked up a few additional cash cow partners.

>>24231905
Not likely at all. After the titles Mangagamer has already announced, there is still Rance 03, Evenicle 2, and Beat Valkyrie Ixseal as far as near guaranteed pick ups go. Then there are the milf titles, which could theoretically catch on and sell well if they establish their own type of fan base. If anyone doesn't think that Ixseal isn't a near guaranteed pick up, Escalayer seems to be selling well enough despite being $10 more expensive than Haruka and honestly being really similar other than the lack of castle raiding mechanics. Escalayer is better in my opinion, but not drastically so.

>>24233395
>Escalayer is better in my opinion, but not drastically so.
Even a lot of the scenes are retreads of the ones in BBH. Though the art is much better and thanks to there only being one main heroine it seems like there's more scenes overall this time.

>>24234273
Should it be the reverse in that BBH is the one that retreads Escalayer?

>>24234292
Oh right, I keep forgetting that Escalayer was a remake. Then, yeah, maybe that's the case.

>>24234273
I loved BBH's scenes but I don't care for any of the scenes in Escalayer. Nothing really tickled my fancy unlike BBH which had a bunch of great scenes that I still go back to.

>>24234315
I definitely think BBH is overall hotter, but mostly because of voice acting. Sakurai Harumi and Aoba Ringo both nail the rapebait thing far better than Taguchi Hiroko. At least in my opinion.

>>24234333
Maybe it's because seeing the same character get railed in roughly the same way 40 times by slightly different characters is boring? Haruka had 2 major characters 1 not-quite-major character, and some one-off side character scenes with each heroine having similar scenes to each other but presented entirely differently. Escalayer has like 40 scenes for the main heroine and then 2 or 3 for a side character + 1 or 2 combined scenes.

>>24236523
New thread up with the updates for this week

>>24220705
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>>24224136
Thank you for the insightful responses and for helping me get my foot in the door

week

>>24220317
Because it is a blatant Cashgrab that uses the Grisaia name to even be relevant.

>Retard

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