/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
>Slobbish Dragon Princess 2 - Released
>Rewrite+ - Released
>Amatsutsumi - Rejected by Steam, looking at alternative platforms
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Planning release", appears to have been rejected by Steam
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - Q1 2022 release planned, ongoing QA
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in QA
Harumade Kururu - Waiting on build
Rewrite+ Harvest Festa - 50% translated, 20% edited
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - Going through QA
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 100% translated and edited, programming work to begin soon
Island Diary - 90% through QA
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"
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - 50% translated
Sumire - Picked up
Sanarara R - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Karakara 3 - 100% translated and edited
Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru - 35% translated
Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita - Announced
Gakkou no Seiiki - Announced
Imouto no Seiiki - 40% translated
Kanojo no Seiiki - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Chiisana Kanojo no Serenade - Announced
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi - Announced
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi AA - Announced
Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka - 50% translated
QUALIA ~The Path of Promise~ - 100% translated and edited
Re;Lord 3 - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Amairo Chocolate 2 - 100% translated, in editing
Kemonomichi Girlish Square - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Secret Project 1 - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - End of January release
>Kin'iro Loveriche -Golden Time- - 75% translated and TLC, 5% edited
Dracu Riot - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting starting shortly, HD release planned
Clover Days - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting ongoing, 5% QC, 2021 release
Melty Moment - 75% translated and TLC
Cafe Stella - 95% translated, edited, and TLC
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting 50% complete
?Aoi Tori - 90% translated and TLC, 70% edited, engine porting in progress
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
>Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - 100% translated and TLC, 50% edited
Secret Project 1 - 100% translated and TLC, 75% edited
Secret Project 2 - 60% translated and TLC
Secret Project 3 - 100% translated and TLC, 50% edited

Visual Arts/Key
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated
Loopers - English release planned

LoveLab
Chinkamo Twins! - English version nearing completion

Aksys
Variable Barricade - February 24th release
Lover Pretend - 2022 release
Piofiore no Banshou -Episodio 1926- 2022 release
Kimi wa Yukima ni Koinegau - 2022 release
Paradigm Paradox - 2022 release

Shiravune
>Kagura Reimeiki ~Hatsuka no Shou~ - Released
>Kagura Reimeiki ~Keika no Shou~ - Released
>Kagura Reimeiki ~Natsu no Shou~ - Released
Doukyuusei Remake - Announced
The Voluptuous DEMON QUEEN and our Shoebox Apartment Life - Announced

Moonchime
Tokyo Onmyouji - December release

Other
Hakuchuumu no Aojashin - December release
Kawaime M Maid-san no Oshigoto SM Lesson - December release
Venus Blood -Frontier- fandiscs - Ongoing Kickstarter successful
Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-3 released
Monkeys! - English release planned
Evenicle 2 - Demo released, approaching new platforms after being rejected by Steam
Venus Blood -AfterDays- - Kickstarter planned
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Below - 2021 release
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>37792814
>Amagami - "Script translation and editing done 100%. Working on syncing up any missing text across versions."

>>37792814
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

>>37792873
The OP forgot to update it but it was pretty minor and we don't update often so it is We updated it to:

>Script translation and editing done 100%. Text synced, patches created, undergoing testing.

But yeah to repeat what I said in /a/, I have been doing some soul searching on whether it is ready for release or not. But at this time, there are too many things missing across versions and some egregious bugs like the PS2 versions hanging on saving, the PSP needs ports of QOL changes the PS2 version has, and etc. I can't really in good conscience do it. I don't have time to do a last minute rush to fix these things before Christmas so I can only risk the anger and disappointment of people here and hope they understand. Will have a blog post out shortly elaborating a bit on this. I'm sorry we weren't able to release it this year to people who were looking forward to it.

>>37793351
Aw, no Christmas present this time I guess.

>>37793351
I appreciate the work you guys put in for this

>>37793370
Sorry, Have some blushing Haruka as an apology of sorts.

>>37793412
Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.

>>37793484
its ok anon we can wait longer

>>37793351
No problemo as long as it's real bugs and not the, "I'm going to say they're bugs just so I can hold out and can sell my translation".

>>37792814
>Sumaga- Upcoming release
Still waiting.

>>37793920
Use your brain, anon. The game is like 15 years old at this point and stuck on dead consoles and handhelds. I really doubt any company would invest in licensing it and porting it.

It would be like if someone licensed and ported Idolmaster 1. It just isn't going to happen.

Hmmm so no new releases until the next year. Unless there will be some surprise Christmas release.

>>37795103
There's a few nukiges planned for before the end ot this year and Cuda (most likely will be delayed), but that's it... unless wo got a stealth release for christmas

>>37788513
>>37790795
he just stopped being on the internet, either he got a new nickname or got a normalfag life and can't be bothered anymore.

>>37795447
good riddance

>ixrec haters

>>37795447
No wonder, after all Moogy and friend loved to hunt him like a witch even when most of tlwiki project had way worse translations.

>>37795723
Ixrec wasn't a bitch. He was a bad translator but he also had a pretty thick skin and being bullied by Moogydrones wouldn't have upset him.

It's far more likely he just abandoned his e-identity from being burnt out on translating or simply not wanting to translate anything else. Kinda like how Takajun just disappeared one day.

>>37795661
Still better than most of people in this thread who doesn't know japanese at all.

>>37796932
It turns out that people who actually have the discipline to translate long ass VNs can usually find more rewarding work in other fields.

>>37796982
Not that anon but it would depend if he is talented enough to do it and to keep up the pace. As for other fields i do think there is a LN boom recently and a lot of money is being thrown around by Kadokawa to try and push LN anime with Mushoku Tensei, Re;Zero, Shield Hero etc. Sad to say but i do not even think Eromanga Sensei will ever be translated fully.

Is there any new conventions within the next few months for new VN announcements?

we are now more than halfway through december, and there are no angels in sight

maybe we'll have a christmas miracle this year...

>Aiyoku No Eustia - 100% Translated and edited and TLC
why those fags aren't releasing it?

>>37797695
Just another prank

>>37797695
The TL is bad and they thought they could fix it in editing, but the script is still shit.
somebody here called the project out like 2 years ago and the response from the lead translator was "oh yeah somebody else did those chapters and I was totally gonna check and update them"

>>37793351
>>37793484
Ahhh, it's getting close, I can taste it! Ganbatte anon

>>37767677
>>37768373
>>37768613
>>37780475
>>37782336
>>37785563
Your expectations are too high. Give Sekai a break.

>>37797695
They want to sell it to someone, but August don't care about gaijins money, so yeah... very unlikely that they'll find a buyer.

>>37797695
"Is gonna be released next week, please understand, and be patient!"...
...Is what they said a couple of weeks ago, before changing it to "don't expect this until Spring 2023 lol" last week.
What an absolute joke, kek.

>>37799500
The first thing a company should worry about is delivering a worthy product if they want to make a profit.

>>37799618
The retard who said that admit he wss not apart of the project. Still doesn't change the fact they went silent and haven't said shit, they even stopped updating their progress page and it stills says the TLC's not done

>>37793351
Hey, I know you're probably sick of hearing this but, any chance we could get a video of the game from one of the routes? Or even a full route playthrough if possible. I think it's a good way of showing off your work and dispelling shitposters and naysayers. Other in-progess projects have done this sort of thing too as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ylSiYb3Go

>>37799500
I miss Dovac's tard rage on Twitter

>>37797553
Anon, for some reason that game is called December "WITHOUT" Angels. Perish your hopes.

>>37799500
Removing honorific, butchering the order names, make stuff up instead of translating properly, announced the censorship only 24h before release...
Yes, my expectation of having a quality release of such big licence from Sekai were to high.

>>37799500
>shareholders

>>37794700
I was actually alluding to another project for shits and giggles.

>>37801414
Don't bully the Eustia fags

>>37799500
Wasn't Ludo responsible for this one?

>>37799697
>worthy product
People should lower their standards. You aren't entitled to high quality product. You get whatever the fuck is possible within the current market conditions. You should support if you want the market or a market player to become big.

>>37803407
Not him but there's a patch with a questionable better translation. Fuck sekai with their burgerlocalizations.

>>37803447
Only ESLs can tolerate ixreclation

>>37803484
Only eops who love fanfics and stiff/awkward sentences would deffend SP "localization"

>>37803540
Yeah no jop needs to beg for honorifics.

>>37803540
Hope you did your Scottish reps.

>>37803695
We aren't talking about the typos most likely editor fault but about the translation.
Even in VNDB after comparing them with the raw script most of them agreed in the same point. Pick your shit; cherry or peach flavoured. But if you want the best experience eat it raw.

>>37804331
>typos
Those aren't typos.

>>37804361
Din't read it, so what? Any content without both translations and the original text is useless to claim which is better.
check the old thread, the Shake Up video was only the tip of the iceberg

>>37803695
I'm Scottish, we have a lot of different accents and yet that corresponds with none of them. it's gibberish written by someone who hasn't a clue what they are doing. par for the course with Sekai I guess.

>>37804505
Me too, anon. That last line is especially painful to read.

>>37804535
As someone that is Welsh I have to agree. I could not understand anything that was written. It looks more like a parody of our accents than an accurate portrayal.

>>37792814
I noticed that MG has really knocked out most of their backlog. While JAST has been on a roll recently with getting titles out quicker than once per year. Can not wait to see what will happen next year.

>>37803407
Dovac-sama told me not to buy the game though.
What a great salesman he is.

>>37806430
that's what happens when you sit on a bunch of nekopara money i guess

>>37806430
Steam's content "policy" actually is a bunch of horseshit, though. I have tentacle porn on my Steam homepage and they still feel the need to remove VNs for the tiniest hint that high schoolers might think about sex before turning 18.

>>37806430
I am surprised not many of the companies pull their licenses from Dovac and give it to other companies. Probably waiting on the expiration of the contracts.

>>37806549
18 is a magical number that changes your whole worldview, you have to understand.

>>37806430
Those two other guys have to be shills right? I hope people like that don't post here.

>>37807634
The last one is either a corporate shill or just being ironic I guess. no VN fan that bothers to sign up on a porn website truly thinks "pirates should burn in hell". if "pirates should burn in hell" there wouldn't really be a fanbase for VNs, the most you'd get is the group of people too stupid to pirate (steam users)

>>37796932
>Kinda like how Takajun just disappeared one day.

Is this him: https://www.instagram.com/takajun3 ?

Remember when Mahoutsukai no Yoru had three translation projects going for it?

>>37808581
>>37796932
>Moogy survived the Axis Shock but TakaJun didn't

>>37808661
Moogy survived, but he's a shell of his former self.

MG did a status update.

>>37811244
39% for Rance X and they are still inserting scripts in IX. And Erovoice in beta. This is good news right now. But sadly due to how massive the text is and all of the other things that need to be done with X I would give it two years tops.

>>37808639
Yeah I do actually. Are they all dead?

Who's the translator for Hello Lady?

>>37818051
Ludo.

>>37818113
That's good, I think. He did Raging Loop

>>37792822
>Loopers - English release planned
When? Why did this VN flop hard?

>>37818912
Ludo is a good translator on the whole, but occasionally he makes some absolutely clowny decisions and tends to be very fast and loose with certain kinds of localization.

He's at his worst when he's trying to be funny or memey.

>>37816761
Seems like it. Is there a curse on that project or something?

>>37820479
Seems like most fan TLs are cursed nowadays.

>>37792814
Wait, what's being translated by Debonosu?

>>37822179
https://vndb.org/v29733
https://vndb.org/v30209
https://vndb.org/v29006
All already released.

>>37822118
It's usually always cursed in the VN scene. It's like this because groups always pop up saying that they know the language or they are learning it but they swear it's not JLPT5 and will be officially translating a project. They then realize how difficult certain words are to translate or hardly know the structure of Japanese and use MTL. But by that point everyone in the group reaches the epiphany that MTL is hardly even that good to base a translation off of and the project becomes dead because they spent more time trying to hide the fact they do not know how to do anything than to learn the language itself. The failure rate is extremely high for this reason alone historically. I hardly know any groups that exist nowadays that do a decent job of translation and selling it off to a company to get the license. If I remember most who know how to do anything are freelance usually.

>>37822379
Oh wow. I'll probably buy all 3

After the Humbling Of The Holy Maiden I hope there is more nice art style Lolli VN in the pipeline. Also the SRPG licensed VN's lately are pretty interesting definitely having a blast with Venusblood. I never knew there was much gameplay VN's out there besides Rance and a few others that can have complex mechanics while maintaining the eroge feel. Hopefully there is more Dungeon Crawlers and SRPG stuff that exist that there can be pickups for license wise. Maybe a few of them can sneak onto Steam.

>>37823622
Oiran Rouge when?

https://twitter.com/shiravune/status/1473465791932555266

>>37824290
Hopefully when Django gets translated.

>>37816761
>>37820479
There were 4.
>the first one was from some random guy that translated the demo before offical release or something, as far as I can tell he quit because TM fans got really mad he wasn't using "mystic eyes" and Commie called him shit
>Commie. Had a guy translate the entire game, said guy was a japanese transfer student and really fucking bad at english. Talked in IRC about how they'd have to redo the entire script in 2012. Project still isn't offically cancelled.
>Mcjon. Some weeb from beast lair, a Type-moon fan website. did 6 chapters and then progress halted for several years. Project offically died when an anon from /tmg/ wanted to start his own translation project and checked the chapter 1 script to see if there was a need to redo the already translated chapters, got really fucking mad at how absolutely nobody ever checked if this script was any good in like 5 years and began posting screenshots, began saying you could run the french translation through google translate and it would be more accurate. Screenshots reach Mcjon, he says he started the translation after taking japanese classes for a year back when he was depressed or something and that he wants to crawl into a hole and die for ever making those mistakes, announces project is dead. /tmg/ anon gets bored and goes back to jerking off to cunny or something.
>Hollow moon. Bunch of discord/twitter weebs who took the anon maybe a bit too literal, they want to translate the french script to english. Except they're also checking the mcjon script to see how much of it they can use. Except they hire "JP-checkers" who can make sure whatever they release is accurate to the japanese script. Except then they got some actual japanese translators? maybe? Stopped posting actual patch updates after some anon pointed out several errors in a chapter (which they fixed? then why did you stop?). Announce on twitter they'll translate tsukihime remake the moment the trailer dropped or some shit.

>>37801330
Okay, so it wasn't just me lmao.

>>37806319
It's funny how almost all of JAST's releases this year were announced only a couple of months before release at most while Katahane and Django have been stuck in the backlog for years. The Dead Aegis release might be a sign that JAST may keep it up for a while, though I'm not sure where they are getting the manpower from. It's good for Mangagamer that their backlog is getting cleared up though Luckydog1 and Rance X will be there for a while. Both companies are still doing better than Sekai Project, even if JAST's backlog is older than the Sekai Project itself. Not counting the feng titles, Sekai's backlog includes Ley-Line, Harumade Kururu, Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart, Sanarara R, and a good number of short doujin titles that don't seem like they'll release any time soon. Nekonyan's backlog might be getting kind of lengthy, but they'll probably speed up on releases before their backlog gets too unmanageable. Maybe.

>>37825522
Yeah that is the weird part isn't it? I mean you had Murumasa and a few others quickly out of the gate out of nowhere style surprises. For the manpower I have to think they have an all star team of translators internally that can get anything out a year later but there might be issues with debugging and Programming. I keep hearing that this is a huge bottleneck currently due the weird programs and how they run, with some issues due to there being no hardware scaling for monitors that have 2k screens or 4k at times. And that is hard to account for sadly with companies slowly going to full hd. Dead Aegis looks solid as well JAST is getting into the Gameplay Market very well I noticed to try and combat Rance supremacy lol. As for Mangagamer I can agree Rance X is a huge title and IX is another one. I do not think people understand how huge those games are that I think Mangagamer has had to put all hands on deck just to even get it as far as they have with Rance 1,2 Kai and Sengoku Rance. Hopefully Alicesoft announces a 4th game remake down the line. I can agree Sekai Project is doing poorly even though they have short moege doujins which should be the easiest ones to translate and bring over. Nekonyan I have more faith in because I can tell they at least are releasing VN's but the only thing I do not know is if their translation quality is better than Sekai itself. Great news for MG and JAST overall though is that they are clearing out their library and seem to know the direction they need to go in to keep relevant in the VN scene. When in the past it looked like Mangagamer was falling apart not releasing anything and making a ton of announcements and barely any movement was going on, JAST was very slow to the point of one release a year and very uninspired to do anything. It's just a huge turnaround.

Looks like WA2 fanTL is out and it's apparently good this time

>>37826843
>WA2 fanTL
>good
Need I remind you that the guy who thought English was lacking as a language is credited as a translator?

>>37827652
Is he wrong though? English is the most basic bitch language, that's why it will remain the global language and we will never speak Mandarin or whatever the bugmen speak nowadays.

>>37827652
That's not coda's translators and he's right about how impoverished and inflexible English is. But he's wrong in thinking Chinese and Japanese are any similar in terms of grammar. Chinese is a barebones language just like English.

>>37827652
I mean English certainly can't tolerate moe/cute dialogues

Clover days "update"

>I have the entire script ported to our engine at this point; we are currently removing mosaics and fixing HCG animation bugs

>>37826843
Well that's one cursed project finally done. Hope people will stop asking for it now in surveys.

>>37825522
>Sekai's backlog includes Ley-Line, Harumade Kururu, Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart, Sanarara R, and a good number of short doujin titles that don't seem like they'll release any time soon. Nekonyan's backlog might be getting kind of lengthy, but they'll probably speed up on releases before their backlog gets too unmanageable. Maybe.
Let's not forget that Chrono Clock, The original Hoshimemo, and Clockwork Ley Line were supposed to get updated translations / engine updates to save their horribly botched English releases which STILL haven't happened despite Dovac promising it like 3-4 years ago.

You think there's even 1% chance that we will get Rance 03 or another Alicesoft title from MangaGamer after they release Rance IX? I really doubt MangaGamer or anyone else can compete with Shiravune, they even seem to got their claws on Nexton. Apart from Ninetail and Eushully are there any other active gameplay developers worth partnering up with?

>>37832139
>You think there's even 1% chance that we will get Rance 03 or another Alicesoft title from MangaGamer
Rance 03, maybe. But it probably costs quite a bit since there will be seiyuu royalties to pay, so it might depend on IX's sales.
As for other Alicesoft titles, I think they made it clear that MG has Rance and the other titles are free pickings. I wouldn't be surprised if Shiravune already had one or two of their MILF games. What I can see is Evenicle 2 ending up on the MG store (as well as JAST/FAKKU/Johren).

>>37832139
Maybe? It's possible they have it but just haven't announced it yet. Part of me wonders if they would even bother wanting to license it, though. Although enjoyable, it's not necessary. Whereas you could argue 01 and 02 were at least kinda important for establishing origins of a lot of crucial characters. If I was in MG's shoes I would just try to get 9 and 10 over with as soon as I could.

>>37832175
I would kill for Heartful Maman. It's like the ultimate mommyfag game.

>>37832191
It's alright, and the h-scenes are top tier but the choice system is retarded as fuck. For some reason they made it RNG for the correct choices to appear so you have to save/load until the correct choice appears (one time it took me 13 tries) and if you're not using a walkthrough you won't even know that the choice exists if it doesn't appear.

>>37832139
>Apart from Ninetail and Eushully are there any other active gameplay developers worth partnering up with?
Well you have SofthouseChara but their licenses are in the hands of DMM/Shira. Other than that not really. I think only Astronauts Sirius still release decent sized gameplay VNs: https://vndb.org/p2693..
>>37832175
>>37832191
I think AS wanted to do their other licenses by themselves after releasing Evenicle 2. It would be odd they would go solo just for one title. But considering how it went and the release of DD, I would assume they will partner up with Shira in the future for their remaining titles. They might also start bringing over their gacha as well. Wonder if they will give an update after their popularity contest.

>>37832294
What would you say is the best mom game, then? Just curious.

>>37832510
Tsumamigui 3, but I never did finish Oyako Rankan and I dropped Haha Ranman.

>>37832139
MG got really lucky by licensing Rance IX and X early before TADA left. I'm pretty sure that current Alicesoft and whoever is in charge with the overseas communications would have never sold it to them.
I'm quite curious to see where Eve2 will end up. They can redeem themselves by releasing it on GOG and MG uncut and mosaic free or will they take a big paycheck and release it on Shira just like DD.

On another note, I think this is a new low for Sekai Project where dovac is arguing with random users on vndb.

>>37832139
Yes I believe we will get the rest. Rance sells always to warrant it and AS mentioned in the past even if they could sell Evenicle 2 on the Steam store the series would stay with MG. After this debacle on Steam I have to agree with many here and say we may see Evenicle on multiple storefronts like JAST, MG etc. As for Gameplay Developers I have no clue but I wish there was more of it. It's easier to sell to the masses because they usually think that never exists in the eroge market besides barebones basic stuff and it gives alternatives.

>>37824894
As no one cares about it and it's a low priority in the JAST list my estimated date would be; in 10-15 years.

>>37832139
It would be awkward, but I see Rance 03 being done by either Alicesoft themselves or whomever they partner with as opposed to Mangagamer. Alicesoft did try to release Eve 2 by themselves after all.

>>37832685
It won't be so bad if Alicesoft releases with Shiravune if the only problem is that a non-mosaic release is impossible and all other content is untouched like with Dohna Dohna. Well, not bad for the pirates anyways, legitimate buyers will have to deal with Denuvo unless I'm mistaken.

>>37833468
>It won't be so bad if Alicesoft releases with Shiravune
There's no way they'd do that for more than 2-3 releases because the entire point of Alicesoft going solo was so that they could get ALL of the recurring sales themselves. Shiravune releases move obscenely few units because the storefront is complete fucking shit and everything is censored. There's no long-term gain to working with them, all you get is whatever immediate payout they give you for licensing your titles and clearly Alicesoft doesn't care for that otherwise they'd have continued working with mangagamer.

>>37834383
>Alicesoft going solo was so that they could get ALL of the recurring sales themselves
That was on the assumption they could get it on Steam, which obviously isn't happening any more even with cutting content. It becomes far less worth it for them if they can't since that is where the big sales numbers come from.

What's Moogy's "upcoming title"?

>>37828158
They should just get rid of the shitty animations in the first place.

>>37834710
Probably some lesbian shit

So how is WA2?

>>37834710
Probably another Nitroplus Game. Maybe he got put on Django?

>>37833154
That's the joke.

>>37834696
Also keep in mind AS would not want to compromise what makes their games great by having everyone's first impression be butchered versions out in the open.

>>37836079
>AS would not want to compromise what makes their games great by having everyone's first impression be butchered versions out in the open
Well they already did something like that since it was Alicesoft themselves who butchered the Evenicle 2 demo to get it on Steam and planned to do more of it for the full game. So they are perfectly fine with cutting content if need be.

>>37828229
You really think because of crappy MTL we will stop asking for a good pro translation of this kamige?

>>37835945
Can't invest time in it yet. In a day or two.

>>37834710
Minikui Otokonopicopico.

>>37835945
Translation still sucks.
>>>/a/232019110

>>37839342
>Touma...!
>Thank you

>>37836473
Be careful or you might get the Rewrite treatment.

>>37832435
Looking at some of these titles by Astronauts Sirius some of these titles are solid and as is the Art and music. It's surprising that it's middling and balanced in the right ways.

kek whoever got hired to do melty blood read 貌 as 狼

>>37839574
That's some of the few lines they couldn't possibly have mistranslated.
>>37836473
The thing is though, even MTL gets the point better than whatever they did.
>空に浮かび上がる月も星も、
>大して綺麗でもない訳でも、
>いつも通りの夜空な訳でもなかった。
The passage was meant to imply that the even though the night sky didn't particularly look beautiful, it still had something special about it tonight. From what they did, it looks like they just feed each line into a dictionary and still end up with terrible results.

>>37839972
Yeah I personally like the art a lot. Gameplay is a bit mixed from what I've seen, but there have been worse titles that did get a translation.

Smart Elves 2 when?

That's pretty bad. I mean, the meaning of the sentences was largely translated, but they didn't address quirks of Japanese prose that are unnatural in English, which impairs readability and makes it hard to discern the meaning.
>stock phrases like "If that's the case..."
>formatting like "my sense that 'Touma is a good person deep down' didn't"
>overuse of ellipses
>incohesion like in "It sure is. If not for me."
>a general sense of lines not following each other
>stiff repetition (not an offender here but seeing their approach it's bound to happen elsewhere)
None of those issues would be too bad on their own if they're sporadic, but together I found myself getting confused and having to reread the lines several times to ensure I understood them right.

>>37839342
That's pretty bad. I mean, the meaning of the sentences was largely translated, but they didn't address quirks of Japanese prose that are unnatural in English, which impairs readability.
>stock phrases like "If that's the case..."
>formatting like "my sense that 'Touma is a good person deep down' didn't"
>overuse of ellipses
>incohesion like in "It sure is. If not for me."
>a general sense of lines not following each other
>stiff repetition (not an offender here but seeing their approach it's bound to happen elsewhere)
None of those issues would be too bad on their own if they're sporadic, but together I found myself getting confused and having to reread the lines several times to ensure I understood them right.

>>37839342
I can't read Japanese, but the English reads pretty horribly.

>>37841907
>formatting like "my sense that 'Touma is a good person deep down' didn't"
It's not just the formatting for that specific part. It left out the idea that Haruki has this memory of a good-natured Kazusa that only he knows (connected to From When The Snow Melts, To When It Falls Again). This is even touched upon later when he says that other people (his teacher, Kazusa herself) are trying to overwrite his memory of her with their own whenever it happens.
tl;dr Screw this "translation"

Too bad. I loved Damekoi. Hopefully WA2 will get a good translation some day.

>>37840020
How the fuck.

>>37839883
For some reason that VN was named "rewrite" and they addet to it the "plus" part, kek.

>>37845501
How would do it?

Visual novels are a cursed medium.

Will there be any suprises for Christmas I wonder.

Face it, MTL is only the hope for VN translations.

>>37856663
I agree<span class="fortune" style="color:#01d0aa">

Your fortune: You're on the Elf Watchlist.</span>

>>37856663
I mean if the human translation is already worse...

Merry Christmas, stinky eops. I wish you get the courage to learn JP already.

>>37859521
I'm too stupid.

>>37859521
Merry Christmas JOP friend, let's hope for more butchered kamige next year.

>>37859521
Thanks. Here is something for your Steam library: ZY2IK-D8MN5-MX34A

>>37861924
Thanks for the 1$ game!

>>37861523
A Merry Christmas to you as well. I sure hope it stops though. This crappy WA2 translation seems to be the coal everybody got this year but most EOPs are treating it like the second coming.

>>37863047
It's always bothered me how you can get almost everyone to agree that shitty memes are terrible, or that over-localizing can lead to a lot of issues, but almost all of the EOP communities will hand wave translations with garbage English. Nevermind the errors of translation -- I can't read Japanese -- but WA2's translation is fundamentally broken when it comes to the English alone. How anyone can read that trash for more than a few minutes without dropping it is beyond me.

>>37861924
Steam Keys?! I have those.
8Q2ZM-TC58H-BEW6Q, FQ637-462H2-C8RIN, 3X24T-HVFX3-WKFML, FX47V-FEZW9-PVQ27, 3W7VA-YLLQG-3MB9A, 64WHF-DXV68-TBQKR, 3KEKP-Y6TYI-FXHER, FHT3K-05Q4X-ZL635, PNGII-R7NG9-Z0AW4, YX2MZ-V0FX7-ZJMHZ, NVV89-7H5KR-A5GN9, 3V6NY-X6IRL-V9CF0

>>37864118
Thanks! I choose a random one and got Bunny Bounce!

>>37864118
I got Beach Bounce, It looks awfull but thanks for the free gift. Merry xmas ...another december without angels

>>37864118
>FQ637-462H2-C8RIN
I took a second key, it's something called:
Divine Slice of Life, thank You very much.
Merry Christmas!

>>37864118
Thank you very much, anon. I got Go! Go! Nippon!
Merry Christmas!

Will Sumaga be released in the nexxt year?<span class="fortune" style="color:#117eec">

Your fortune: The poster above you has been very very naughty!</span>

>>37866581
Huh? How do you get your fortune on here?

>>37867978
Write "fortune" in options.<span class="fortune" style="color:#fc2d53">

Your fortune: Happy Hanukkah!</span>

>>37868547
Neato! Hoping it's something good.<span class="fortune" style="color:#aad001">

Your fortune: You're on the naughty list!</span>

>The Global version of Steam has been banned in China
>https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/ro1rg9/breaking_news_steam_has_been_banned_in_china_the/

Good luck to all the faggot who insist to suck steam dick for china bucks like Dovac

>>37871312
Fucking finally. Now we wait and see what the chinese focused companies like Nekonyan and Sekai Project do.

>>37871312
>>37871594
Its not so bad for SP and NN ( sadly ). Steam launched chink branch this february wich is heavily policed by Pooh goverment. And to get your VN here only need to be partnered with existing company within China. Its just an extra step for them.

>>37871747
Technically yes you do. But the rules will be much more stricter. China was only loose with rules because most of the country complained about shutting Steam down because they have products that they liked etc. But now that China has approved certain games for their market and they have shifted most of their users over slowly the last year and a half before shutting the gates. It's their domain now. You could be right with Nekopara but with the way China has been with media recently I am going to guess the Black Market is the only way they will get sells.

>>37871312
I hope this means that the rejection process is less than it use to be and 18+ will more allowed now because Chinese users do not have to interact much with Japanese media anymore.

>>37871747
>Steam launched chink branch this february wich is heavily policed by Pooh goverment
Doesn't it have like 50 approved games?

>>37871312
They have their own version with shit-all games. Pandering to China is so tiresome. Due to their thin skin, they will ban and be offended by everything.

>>37871312
Is better if they have a separate store by wall. That way we'll get rid of these retards who love massive bomb reviews when a new game (or developer) isn't pollitical correct from the chink view.

>>37875156
Its around 100 by now, but yeah it doesn't look too hot. Also, if chink credit can get through VPN ( pretty unlikely knowing Pooh ) then no more chink pondering.

>>37877444
Did review bombing ever happen to VNs though?

>>37881203
Yes, wagamama high spec got review bombed when sekai stole the chinese translation.

>>37871312
Traditional chinese language market still exist.

>>37881220
With its 20 million speakers. They might as well translate to German instead.

Another disappointing year for translations

>>37881836
B-but Muramasa...

>>37881836
I will take one disappointing year in order for China to no longer be on the International Steam store any day.

SUMAGA FOR 2022!

So will we finally see these released in 2022?
>Eustia
>Fate/Extra CCC
>Chaos;Head Noah
>Mahoyo
>Rance IX

>>37883085
Anon, there's a typo in your comment. That VN was planned for 2032 and the rest of Nitro+ catalogue with a 5 years of margin from that date.

>>37883297
Rance IX for summer next year is my prediction. The rest i do not even know.

>>37883297
Rance IX is definitely releasing in 2022, going by how long beta testing took for other titles in the series and IX apparently being more linear than most. Question is how soon or late into the year. I'd bet fall.
There's no way Eustia isn't releasing next year unless the entire group up and dies at once. I'm sure they want it to be over as soon as possible too.
Mahoyo has been moving consistently, so I guess it depends on how much effort is left, but it seems like it'd be too tight so fingers crossed.
Noah's editing is going too slow to be finished next year if they don't get faster.

>>37883297
With fanTL you can never say when.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0MbI0fc97ZFzzu_G9f5h1ELAR-p9CHZnqc_Sz9dwD2JQsLBdt1fesCfpM&v=NHIgc-seeSo&feature=youtu.be

Now Mahoyo get its new movie adaptation. Time to drop the VN

>>37894060
New thread up with the updates for this week

>>37894081
>making a thread with WA2 as OP
Come back when it gets an actual translation, shill.

>>37890416
Fortune Arterial, Shield 9, Snow, Walkure Romanze, Koihime Mosou, etc..