/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, 20% edited
Kimagure Temptation - Translation starting soon
Secret Project 3 - Listed

Sol Press/Panty Press
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 30% translated, 10% edited
Nukitashi - 98% translated, 7% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 74% translated, 68% edited
Irotoridori no Sekai - 70% translated, 46% edited
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - work starting shortly, upcoming release
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 48% translated, 38% edited
Jinrui Saikyou Seiyoku no Yome Kouguchi Rinko - Picked up
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - Main game 100% translated and edited, "Fandisc content translation nearly complete - Editing in progress", tentative Summer release
Dracu Riot - 100% translated and edited, engine porting starting shortly
Riddle Joker - 85% translated and 85% edited
Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche - 55% translated and 16% edited
Clover Days - 100% translated and TLC, editing and engine porting to begin shortly
IxShe Tell - 65% translated and 60% edited
Aokana Extra1 - Translation started
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 - 15% 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
Utawarerumono Remake - May 26th release
Wanko no Yomeiri - May 28th release
Ouka Sabaki - June 12th release
Aristocunts - Awaiting Steam approval
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

>Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - 2020 release

I just want an update already...

Continuing from the last thread: I hate the krauts. They had a lot of trouble with different publishers and just think of the venus blood drama they caused. Don't forget the shit that Sacred called them out on. They should be destroyed by now. Yet they have a foothold in the industry now spamming their shit reviews and articles left and right. Why are other websites like fuwanovel inactive? Visual novels are fucking dead if Germany is outclassing us.

>>23938617
Shut the fuck up

>>23938617
Whats your problem? Noone cares. Talk about VNs not ecelebs faggot.

>>23938617
Is Krauts kill your family and friends or what?

>about 6 weeks until "Anime Expo" announcements
>Still no survey results
I don't really care about hints or lack thereof. I'm just curious how this year's results vary from last year's.

>>23938895
The poster is clearly a Jew. Or maybe Western European.

>>23938617
Sacred is a massive faggot, so who cares?

>>23941923
He is one of the last moogy drones in existence.

>>23940815
He's not but I am a Jew.
Watch out! I'm under your bed right now.

>>23940815
Guys, do you remember that site which offered transcription for the announcements mangagamer, jast, etc. had on conventions?

Been away for a while and wanted to see how the last announcements

>>23937220
>Taimanin Yukikaze 2 - Yukikaze route patch released

>>23944235
Mangagamer still has the announcements for the past few years on its announcements website. I'm not sure about the other companies though you can look on both Sekai's and JAST's twitter accounts. The easiest way to find out what's new is vndb which lists all upcoming titles on the company pages, even if it doesn't mention when the titles were announced.

>>23944235
http://bayoab.info/live/live2.php

https://mobile.twitter.com/ProjektMelody/status/1264660860825481218

>>23946259
Why do they have pluepet as their picture? They shill rance?

>>23946259
From the stream
>Thanks so much to JAST for sponsoring this stream and giving me an early release copy of You and Me and Her!!
I am not fully clear on advertising rules but shouldn't the twitter message also mention that it is sponsored?

>>23946385
They did shill Rance the other day.

>>23945383
Thank you great man. Too bad the transcriptions have stopped after 2017

>>23945259
Nice! I was also interested on reading the actual event taking place, but this will have to do

>>23946410
I was wondering why Sengoku Rance was on the weekly chart recently. I kind of just assumed Escalayer, even if the titles are dissimilar.

>>23946595
I'm not sure how long you've been gone, but Nekonyan is a new company that has started releasing sizable moege if you like that genre. I think they're about 2 years old.

>>23937220
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

Nekonyan is another fucking kraut company. Fuck these cunts. Krauts are the worst that ever joined the american VN scene. They should fuck off.

Call me Krautkun for what I care, but fuck these niggers.

Krauts here.

We'll make an eroge-reich that lasts 1000 years!

>>23951663
Considering the fact that you got bored after like 3 months last time I find that hard to believe.

>>23952695

Yeah. I shouldn't have, but all the dumb shit that happened out of pure misconceptions was a lesson to do better.

https://win.gg/news/4554/valve-quietly-releases-censored-steam-china-client-to-alpha
The decline of companies piggybacking the Chinese VN market on Steam may be closer than we think if the client is now in alpha.

>>23954238
Can't wait. This might mean we get less censorship due to China's policies.

>>23951663
Please come back.

>>23955064
Samefag.

>>23954238
This seems likely to affect Nekonyan and Sekai the most since they are the most Steam reliant. Sekai even has a game which only has a Chinese translation while Nekonyan is partnered with Hikari Field (a Chinese localization company). Both JAST and Mangagamer have the occasional Steam game with a Chinese translation, but the Chinese market has never been the highest priority for either. IIRC, Mangagamer only provides Chinese translations for their all ages titles or whatever Chinese fan translators give them instead of titles like Kyonyuu Fantasy or Evenicle. I know the latter is even region blocked in China, but I don't know about the former.

I miss dovac's rants and blowups. There's not enough drama these days

>>23963140
Join the kraut discord. They talk shit about localizers every other day. Just screenshot them lol

>>23946259
>the hentai DDLC
Make it stop please

>>23955079
Moralfag.

>>23937220

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

Key is translating AB? Since when?

>>23967263
They announced it several years ago and haven't given a progress update in forever, so they probably dropped it. Not like it matters anyway -- there's a completed fan translation that released a few weeks ago if you want to read it.

>>23954238
And why they cannot keep releasing vns on this chink client instead?

>>23954238
>>23955336
Don't see how this would really affect them. Surely, they can just create a Chinese brand and sell their games there and get the same profits, can't they? Or in Nekonyan's case, Hikari Field would share their profits (possibly).

>>23968270
>Surely, they can just create a Chinese brand and sell their games there and get the same profits, can't they?
Oh anon. You have zero clue. Over there it's 15 layers of CCP regulations in order to even have a company built there.

>>23968270
Nekonyan are fucking krauts. Why would they share with the chinese. Krauts are always greedy self-important jerks.

>>23968270
Good luck trying to get an authoritarian government to approve foreign porn games. If you think America is prudish, try a government that doesn't even try to pretend that they have the principle of free speech.

>>23968270
Good luck trying to get an authoritarian government to approve foreign porn games. If you think America is prudish, try a government that doesn't even try to pretend that they have the principle of free speech.

>>23968161
Because on top of getting Valve's approval you then also have to go through the Chinese regulator which isn't known for being very tolerant. With what we have seen it is already hard enough to get some titles approved as it is and now it will reach a new level.

no more VNs from Sol Press according to new blog post

>>23977948
A big loss for the EOP community.

>>23977948
Not surprising. At least they announced that they would stop before their backlog of VNs became too long like Sekai's. They still seem interested in finishing their backlog, though I'd imagine that it'll be pretty low priority for at least the next couple of years.

>>23977948
lmao

>>23977948
>Daresora
>My Fair Princess
>SakuraSakura
>Yotsunoha
>Iroseka
And nothing of value was lost.

So can we add ChronoBox to the list of "Never ever" now too, or what?

Krauts shilling Totono Patch lol while JAST doesn't even post it. Do they think they are working for JAST now or what?

https://twitter.com/BishoujoNEWS/status/1265564760860495877?s=20

>>23977948
Great news.

>>23981591
>now
Also stop shilling your own shit, retard. No one cares.

>>23977948
Funny how Sol Press started dying after they picked a fight with the Krauts. Don't mess with the Krauts guys if you want to be profitable.

>>23982786
Fuck off

>>23977948
Kinda of a pity. I mean at least they were better than SP.

>>23977948
NekoNyan pretty much killed Sol Press.
Both of them have a huge chunk of moege licenses, but NekoNyan has better licenses and they actually managed to get their titles on steam, unlike Sol Press.
Another dumb thing that Sol Press did was stall titles and prioritize steam releases first instead of releasing their titles on other eroge stores, releasing them only weeks later on JAST's store for example once all the hype died down. Meanwhile NekoNyan releases their titles on JAST, Denpasoft, MangaGamer, Fakku, Nutaku, etc.
Xev pissing off half of the cartel with his 70% pay cut contracts didn't help either or months of silence for the Iroseka backerKit, thank God I managed to get a refund.
>>23981580
ChronoBox was always a never ever for Sol Press. If you didn't know Xev somehow convinced the ChronoBox staff to make an all ages episodic title for steam instead of picking up ChronoBox, but to be honest most publishers would skip it since it has rape, only MangaGamer still releases titles with rape and gore these days since steam isn't their priority most of the time.

>>23987828
>ChronoBox was always a never ever for Sol Press.
I think he was talking about the fan translation an anon started working on a bit ago since he hasn't put out any updates (so far as I know) since he complained about h-scenes being annoying to translate a few weeks ago.

>>23987828
I'll save you a giant post but Sol Press' incompetence killed Sol Press. The worst part of it all was Xev used to hang out in /vn/ for years and shitpost there all the time so he was aware of all their issues being pointed out to him, but always ignored every criticism or way they could improve that was told to him, and deflected by shitposting or changing the subject.

>>23987974
i remember when Oniikiss came out broken and Xev tried to pass it off as an intentional thing they did to piss of pirates, until he realized that legitimate copies also had the issue and he just stopped posting altogether

>>23988218
He did the same with Sakura Sakura.

>>23987974
They did start out well with decent PR and frequenting the VN community making it seem like they were listening, but they then blew all that good will away with the messy launch of Oniikiss (which they had been hyped up as part of a meme making things even worse) where they lashed out at everyone when criticised and then went silent allowing for the hate to fester. They never really recovered from that, but on top of that it turned out they were paying some of the worse wages possible even for the usual standards in the VN space which killed people wanting to work with them.

>>23989809
I'd say that opinion of them on the VN front started going sour from the moment the Iroseka Kickstarter launched and it was a misguided mess of vague statements, confusing clarifications, and unanswered questions. That should have been a wake up call to Sol Press that they were doing something wrong, but once it barely scraped by with funding they completely dropped all mention of that project and moved on to the next thing, leaving everyone in the dust with no news and no updates. Onikiss' mess on release was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

>>23989809
Yeah, Sol Press started out great (relatively speaking) and then just went to shit in such a short time. I guess it was too good to be true. It also doesn't help that there's just not enough customers outside of Steam, so there's really only so much they can do (of course, I'm not excusing all the bullshit)

>>23990413
They started up because of the Steam boom and payed the price for depending too heavily on it. Then to make matters worse, they burnt bridges with both the fans and the translators so they really got nothing left on the VN front.

They had the potential to be a great company, but they made too many mistakes. That and trying to follow the SP model of Kickstarter after Kickstarter.

>>23990669
Nekonyan seems a lot better off, but they still are very Steam reliant despite efforts to sell their games in various other marketplaces. It honestly doesn't seem like the moege niche is viable without Steam, and Steam China could be impactful enough to make Steam VNs nonviable, depending on exactly how much of that market relied on China specifically. It's always possible that Chinese speakers outside of China will be enough to support the VN market or that the Chinese government will be lax when it comes to Steam China though.

>>23991360
>it doesn't seem like the moege niche is viable without steam
Some people seem to forget that western releases of VN's have been around since 1994? '96? and have been turning a profit because companies are still releasing titles to this day. There's money to be made without steam, most companies just don't want to put in the effort required in their titles to make that money though.

>>23991577
The reason I specify that the moege niche is unviable without Steam because companies couldn't specialize on moege before Steam came around. There's a reason why JAST and Mangagamer are generalist localization companies instead of moege focused like Nekonyan. It's not like moege were guaranteed flops (Shuffle was popular, and Da Capo broke even from what I remember), but they couldn't hold up a company like nukige or gameplay titles could. To be fair, maybe there's now enough of an established audience of moege willing to migrate out of Steam that moege sales will still flourish without Steam (thus leaving Nekonyan viable even if Steam becomes an unviable marketplace). Still, outside of Steam, the most consistently selling titles are nukige or gameplay titles, and that hasn't changed too much.

>>23991577
JAST started as a VN company and J-list was Peter's side job. Funny how everything turned out.

>>23999303
is JAST the only vn publisher to have bought out other VN publishers? I can't think of any other western VN publishing company that has.

>>23999349
It's more likely that the VN publishers will be bought out by bigger companies with how niche the VN market has always been. Though, there would have to be massive cultural shifts for something like Tencent buying Sekai Project and Denpasoft to occur.

>>23977948
Aspiring freelance translator here. Think they'd be looking for help to get through their backlog?

Also what online translation agencies might take someone just starting out? I want to turn my translation hobby into a career since my spinal problem is making it hard to keep doing physical labor jobs.

I'd be fine with low rates as long as the payments would come in consistently. I'd be willing to translate pretty much any type of content.

>>24004174
Sol Press hired a bunch of beginner translators like a year ago, I'd imagine they're still in need since their backlog is pretty large. Although some people have called them out for being shady.
Cherry Kiss Games also hires pretty much anyone I'm pretty sure, although all they licence is Norn/Miel nukige.
Your ideal path as a freelance translator, assuming you're doing it for the money and not passion for the VN inidustry, is Cherry Kiss or Sol Press > MG/Nekonyan/Sekai/JAST > LNs/Manga.
You can skip the first step if you do some fan translation instead.

>>24004240
Thanks. I'll look into the highest paying ones then. I'd like to transition gradually by translating on my days off, then if all goes well I'd resign from my day job.

>>24004280
That's a good idea. Practically all VN translators only do it part time because it doesn't pay enough to be full time work unless the country you live in has a really low price of living. Once you get to the point of doing LNs or manga professionally, you might be able to do it full time, though I'm not sure how much TL jobs in those fields pay.

>>24004946
>Practically all VN translators only do it part time because it doesn't pay enough to be full time work unless the country you live in has a really low price of living.
Lazy VN translators only do it part time*. It's not a salaried job, you get paid for how much work you put in.

>>24004946
I'm US based, but from a very poor city. I could definitely live on full time translating provided I put in 8 hour days 4-5 days a week.

>>24005438
That's good. You should be fine once you get established enough to continously get translation work.

>>23993640
Wasn't G-Collections mostly moege?

>>24006256
Most of those are closer to nukige than moege.

>>24005011
It also depends on your speed. If you're fast you can make good money even if you don't work that much. But increased speed often leads to decreased quality, since if you rush through a translation you can make alot of careless mistakes. Unfortunately, if someone's goal is to make as much money as they can translating, they will likely rush to make more money for less hours of work.

https://twitter.com/alkatranslation/status/1266289474629058561

What's a EOP? I just got called one in other thread.

>>24010957
Me too, no idea what that is, I think the guy is just a troll

I came to ask whether Teito Hiten Daisakusen ever got that fan translation started that I saw being talked about at one point. Did they even start at all?

>>24010957
>>24010997
Google exists.

>>24010957
Estrogen Optimized (trans)Person

>>24011034
I know, I googled it and couldn't find anything on whether it got made or not, hence why I came to ask here.

>>24011261
Then you already had your answer.

>>24010957
>>24010997
English Only Pleb - in other words people who don't know Japanese. It's been used here for years, you fucking newfags.

And if you weren't a clueless tranny from Reddit, you'd just open VNDB and see there's no translation. So don't be surprised others call you stupid.

Why has no one jumped on Bishoujo Mangekyou?

>>24011605
You mean the series that has a translation for the first part and also has two ongoing translations for part 1.5 and 4? I have no idea!

>>24011682
I meant officially. Seems like something that would sell quite well.

>>24011707
Probably costs too much for a nukige. Or it could be that FAKKU already have ties with Omegastar since they licenced the anime for Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo. Maybe it's one of their "10 unannounced licences" they talked about a year or two ago.

Did Novectacle do anything before Fata Morgana?

>>24012401
See: >>24011034

>>24012541
So no?

>>24010657
Is this Django's new translator?

>>24012893
Is Django a secret project?

>>24012910
If they're actually doing any work on it they're certainly being secretive about it.

>>24012893
>JAST project
Perhaps it will be released sometime this decade.

>>24012941
kek

>>24012958
Seems hopelessly optimistic of you.

>>24013724
The really sad part is that JAST USA somehow has fewer stalled projects than Sekai Project at this point.

>>24018958
I'm still half-convinced that NN is just a rebranded SP and one day they will take all of SP's remaining projects.

>>24019100
I thought that was a joke until SP sold NN their Dracu-Riot translation then I realized it was true because no company is going to sell their direct competitor a translation, especially when their previous releases from the same developer sold extremely well.
>Well SP can't do anything with it so of course they're going to sell it to a company that can!
Logically yes, but we've seen SP intentionally sit on completely finished products to the point they lose the license and they still do nothing with it (Teaching Feeling). There's absolutely no fucking way they're selling a translation of a title from a highly profitable developer to a direct competitor unless they're A: The same company or B: The CEO's are the best of friends and plan to absorb the least financially successful company into the other.

>>24019163
Teaching Feeling is different because there was nobody new that had the license to sell to, plus a newer version came out that they didn't have the license to anyway leaving them with nothing. If Sekai burned money on a license, then burned money on buying the fan translation, then burned more money on a TL check and re-edit and were stuck with being unable to release it then it makes perfect sense to sell it if given the opportunity by someone else picking up the license after them. If they were smart they would negotiate some sort of percentage deal instead of a lump sum.
The biggest give away that that NN aren't secretly sekai is dovac hasn't made a self felating twitter rant at his success yet and that he hasn't fucked it up yet.

>>24019163
It's definitely suspicious. Generally, the tactic of a localization company of a license or translation they can't use is to simply sit on it so competitors can't profit. I lean a bit more on the "really chummy" theory than the "same company" theory though.

>>24018958
Fun fact, in 2019 NekoNyan released 4 games. While JAST did 5. In 2020 so far Neko released 2 games while JAST did 3.

>>24019100
NN comes across as quite competent though.

>>24019163
>>24019479
TF had them sitting on it because they kept wanting to release the newest version instead of just releasing a version that's actually ready and then updating it over time, and then they also held off on releasing it because they wanted to release it with Fakku as part of their partnership. In the end they took too long to release it so Ray got fed up with them and cut things off.

>>24021502
Wasn't it also because he was a dick and somehow "lost" the images?

>>24021724
Ray didn't keep the uncensored assets which SP wanted from them, that's it. It bothered SP because they wanted to release it uncensored (which seemed weird for them but I guess makes sense once Fakku gets added to the picture) but it didn't do anything to hold up the release.

>>24021400
To be fair, nearly all Nekonyan releases are medium or long moege except for any fandisks they translate while most of the JAST releases in the past couple of years were pretty short. Though it's still kind of funny.

Assuming Nekonyan continues focusing on longer titles like they have so far, the ideal release schedule would be once every quarter with maybe even bi-monthly releases once they become big or organized enough. Mangagamer is able to release monthly, but that's partially because they license a few short titles here or there to patch up the months when they can't release a longer title.

>>24021400
Well the fun fact is JAST has released titles more in 2019 and 2020 than they have at almost any other point.

Has a Martian Succesor Nedesico VN ever been fully or even partially translated?

>>24023902
Maybe the day when we'll stop claiming that JAST USA is slower than molasses will come soon enough. Probably not though at least so long as Sumaga and Django is in their backlog.

>>24024541
If a translation hasn't been recorded on vndb.org, it hasn't been fan/officially translated. If vndb omits a fan translation, that's because it was a proven machine translation. vndb is generally very accurate when it comes to this type of thing.

>>24023902
The other fun fact is that 4/5 of the games they released in 2019 were short nukige that no one really cared for.

>>24028038
>Probably not though at least so long as Sumaga and Django is in their backlog.
I imagine Sumaga will get released sometime soon given that they made that announcement about it last year. They probably planned to release it after Totono and when Totono got delayed it pushed Sumaga back as well. As for Django, lol.

>>24028077
Eh, monstergirl fags will probably buy whatever. Why do you think that RPG maker title also had its sequel released? I wouldn't be surprised if that short yuri nukige also managed to break even because yurifags.

>>24028077
I cared for 3 out of 5 games.

>>24028038
Thank you. There doesn't seem to be any sort of translation, official, machine or fan made listed. Shame, all things considered.

Would it be feasible to use a on screen phone translator? Are they acurate? Sorry for all the questions, I just really want more Nadesico.

>>24037942
New thread up with the updates for this week

translation

>>23937220

>>23937220

taka taka

where can i get the patches?

>>23937220

>>23937220

>>23937220
cutie

>>23937220

>>24037957
>deleted

Hey fucking idiot janitor, this is the old thread. You should have deleted this one and not the other one.

This week's thread reposted >>24141485
Delete this thread

>>24141502
I can't

>>23937220

Are all these empty OP replies by some kind of bot? Tons of threads across the board have them. Some even several in a row.

>>24154309
>>/jp/thread/S19225639#p19260646
>>/jp/thread/24063944#p24064635

>>24154620
Wow. That's something I wouldn't have expected.
But it's also nigh completely pointless. If it'll still take days for the thread to die then that just means you've still got days to use the thread properly and discuss stuff in it.

>>23937220
novels

Hello, it me, MoeNovel Mike. You don't like our game??? Waaaahh boohoo fuck yourself :))

>>23937220
translate

status

>>24154730
I think they do it because they want to be the one to make the new thread featuring their favorite idol.

why don't you learn japanese?

>>24204949
んな無理に決まってるだろう

>>23937220