/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
>Amatsutsumi - July 29th release
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in QA
Harumade Kururu - Waiting on build
Rewrite+ Harvest Festa - 100% translated, 20% edited
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - Going through QA
>Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 100% translated and edited, in QA
Island Diary - 90% through QA
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
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 - 50% translated, 20% edited
Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita - Announced
Gakkou no Seiiki - 100% translated, in editing
Imouto no Seiiki - 100% translated, in editing
Kanojo no Seiiki - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Chiisana Kanojo no Serenade - 15% translated
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, 50% edited
Kemonomichi Girlish Square - In QA
Marshmallow Imouto Succubus - 2022 release
>Hamidashi Creative - Announced
>Happy Saint Sheol - 5% translated
>Inupara - Announced
>Nekopara After La Vraie Familie - Announced
>Nie no Hakoniwa - Announced
>Parfait Remake - Announced
>Raspberry Cube - Announced
>Watamari A Match Made in Heaven Part 1 - 100% translated and edited

Nekonyan
>Kin'iro Loveriche -Golden Time- - July 15th release
Clover Days - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, QC in progress, rejected by Steam, Summer or Fall release
Dracu Riot - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting starting shortly, HD release planned
Melty Moment - 75% translated and TLC
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, ready for QA
Aoi Tori - 100% translated and 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 edited, ready for QA
Secret Agent of the Knight Academy - 100% translated and edited
Floral Flowlove - 84% translated, 10% edited
Kakenuke Seishun Sparking - 10% translated
Ren'ai x Royale - 100% translated, 5% edited
Irotoridori no Sekai - 100% translated and edited


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

LoveLab
>Chinkamo Twins! - Released
>Sugar Sweet Temptation - 100% translated, aiming for a September release
Maid for Loving You - 85% translated, 2022 release

Aksys
Piofiore no Banshou -Episodio 1926- September 22nd release
Lover Pretend - 2022 release
Paradigm Paradox - 2022 release
Jack Jeanne - 2023 release
Kimi wa Yukima ni Koinegau - 2023 release
>Shuuen no Virche -ErroR:salvation- - 2023 release
>Norn9 ~Norn + Nonette~ Last Era - 2023 release
>Radiant Tale - 2023 release
>Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II - 2023 release

Shiravune
>Great Deceiver - August 5th release
>Revenge of the Orcs: Flag of Conquest - August release
Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten - September 9th release
>Tamakagura: Tales of Turmoil - Auguest release
>Dawn of Kagura: Maika's Story The Dragon's Wrath - 2022 release
>HimeYoku: A Sacrifice of Lust and Grace - 2022 release

Spike Chunsoft
>Chaos;Head Noah - October 7th release
>Anonymous;Code - 2023 release

Other
>Iku Iku Succubus - July 19th release
Aristocunts II Re:Erection - July 22nd release
Mahoutsukai no Yoru - December release
Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-3 released
Monkeys! - English release planned
Venus Blood -Gaia- - Kickstarter planned for July
Taisho x Alice: Heads & Tails - Upcoming release
Haunted Obachestra Vol.1 Awaking - Upcoming release
NarKarma EngineA - Announced, in development
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Below - Upcoming release
>Sei Yariman Gakuen - Picked up

>>40401485
>>Anonymous;Code - 2023 release
The only announcement worth celebrating this AX.

>>40401587
Spike is cringe and SciADV series went to shit when Nitro stopped working on it.

>>40401480
>>Django - Not actively making progress
I guess the translator wasn't okay.

>>40401595
>Spike is cringe
Committee of Zero can fix that
>and SciADV series went to shit when Nitro stopped working on it.
Saying it went to shit is exaggerating, it’s just not as good as the early entries but by no means it’s shit.

>>40401480
>>Django - Not actively making progress
Finally an update and it’s the worst thing imaginable.

If beta testing and post beta bug fixing go really smoothly, then Rance IX could release this year. I have a lot of doubts about the latter though. Hopefully, Rance 03 happens to be far along in translation and editing, but I don't think Mangagamer will mention the progress percentage of either of its newly announced titles for at least a month or so.

>>40401587
I'm more interested in the Takeshi Abo soundtrack

Wow, I don't care about any of these.

>>40401480
>>Sumaga- Slow progress ongoing
Are we alive again?...

>>40402647
>slow
Probably not. They probably just didn't want to look bad by saying both Django and Sumaga were dead.

>>40401480
>>Sumaga- Slow progress ongoing

So we're on track for a 2025 release?

>>40402714
That's a bit too hopeful.

https://twitter.com/tulipgoddess/status/1543946148767043584
Maria is translating it.
https://twitter.com/tulipgoddess/status/1543946241691865093
Voices confirmed.

>>40402609
Have you come to terms with the fact that very little is left in this medium that's worth translating?

>>40403966
Well that's good. I wish she was doing X too, but at least she's there for editing.

Her Quest translation was just fantastic.

>>40401480
How is Gears of Dragoon 2 compared to Gears of Dragoon 1? Visually it looks quite different but I love dungeon crawlers.

>>40403966
>>40404262
Is Maria the most underrated translator in the scene?

>>40404242
There's plenty of things I'd like translated.

>>40404825
Such as?
Hard mode: anything made in the last 5 years

>>40402714
I am noticing JAST has been doing a huge release almost every 2 years lately. So perhaps 2024.

>>40403966
That's a big man.

>>40403966
Seems like she just started translation, which is fine. I could see the beta for Rance X being formed before Rance 03 finished translation, but Rance 03 still releasing beforehand due to beta testing hell

>>40405136
Tsuki:Re
HenPri (Nukitashi to a lesser extent)
Sakura Moyu
Shin Koihime
Monkeys (+ Noratoto restoration patches)
Aokana EXTRA 2
Amakano (all of them)
Akeiro Kaikitan
Lupercalia
Cation series
Senmomo
Apeiria
Sakuretto + Amazing Grace

etc.
Also a shit ton of nukige, some other specific moege and a lot more titles from more than 5 years ago.

Where is Kara no Shoujo: The Last Episode you fucking cowards?

>>40405258
Try buying the first two next time.

>>40405258
MG will announce it when they finish translating Ciconia When They Cry PHASE 2

>>40405269
I bought Cartagra, Kara no Shoujo 1 and Kara no Shoujo 2, am I supposed to buy them again for my MG overlords to throw me a bone?
>>40405274
That’s not funny, asshole.

>>40405328
Post your games tab on MG.

>>40401595
The one who does most of translation work on SciADV is (sadly) MAGES. themselves. They were always the ones who hired translators. Though it seems like Steiner is working on Anonymous;Code so I have a bit hope for that one.
As for the other thing, Nitroplus didn't do much work when it came to SciADV. Chaos;Head was soloed by 5pb. writer Hayashi Naotaka and the technical part was done by N+. Rest of the games were developed internally at 5pb. Games and N+ did just some minor roles (Suzuha route in Steins;Gate and mecha designs in Robotics;Notes). After that they stopped working on SciADV.

>>40405269
Bullshit, Uchikoshi and Kodaka works still much more popular than any of all ages moege and gayshit.

Not mention JAST and MG's sales rank which pretty much lean toward plotge too.

>>40405404
What reason would Doddler have to lie about that?

>>40405404
Wow, companies that barely release moege (and when they do it's either unknown shit or something that already had a translation) don't have many moege sales?! Color me surprised.

>>40405404
Uchikoshi’s works are aimed more at the general audience, KnS is obscure compared to his works.

>>40401480
I forgot Mangagamer announced Chinkamo Twins for Siscon a few days before their panel. I will now purchase their game as soon as payday comes.

>>40405524
That's a third party work. I think that was by Lovelab

>>40405524
>MangaGamer
Check the OP.

>>40405252
learn jap, lazy retard

>>40405610
I am.

>>40405550
>>40405549
I see now my bad.

>>40401480
>Chusingura 46+1 - 5282/82770 (6.38%) lines translated, Yuzuki route 9/37 Translated
I think that's supposed to be Ginharu.

>>40405269
I can agree with Doddler on that statement. Steam users as well and a lot of users tend to like full games and not episodic content unless it's something special like Higurashi. Or densely packed content mega sagas like Grisaia and Umineko.

>>40401480
>Jast saved the day
Big surprise, though SP announcments weren't half bad.

>>40406782
>though SP announcments weren't half bad.
You faggots never learn, do you? SP announcements literally don't matter as they are all at 0% translated.

>>40406805
Possibility is better than a never ever. You obviously haven't been in the scene long enough if you aren't prepared to wait a few years for something to be released, newfag-kun.

>>40406805
By that rule we shouldn't care about NN, Jast, SP or MG. After all these companies have they share of VNs stuck in an eternal limbo (tl/ed/qc/porting)

>>40406847
The fact that I've been in the scene long enough is exactly why I'm not getting excited for the Sekai Project announcements. That icebox is just waiting for more VNs to jump inside it.
>>40406880
>SP or MG
Correct
>NN, JAST
At least JAST is starting to announce things when they're actually close to release these past few years and we're not waiting 8 fucking years for a single nukige (sweet home) only for it to be released buggy as fuck.
NN are a wildcard on whether they'll release something in a timely manner or take years like they're doing with the Fureraba vita CGs and Melty Moment.

But yes, you should only care about titles that are close to being released or ones that actually have a trustable release date/release window. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment and frustration otherwise, take it from me, a Sona-Nyl fag.

>>40406782
While there are exceptions, it seems overall that, Jast and Shiravune are using a "nearly finished" standard for making new announcements, NekoNyan and MangaGamer are using a "substantial progress" standard, and Sekai Project is using a "we have licensed it" standard.

>>40406948
I wouldn't put NN or JAST free of this shit unless the former do some progress with DracuRiot and the later with Sumaga/Django.
But yes, these days SP and MG are like walking corpses.

>>40407001
NN had an update for DracuRiot in their panel last month, but I don't really give a shit about it since I already played the Insem/Oxford Comma translation when it got leaked years ago.
Sumaga and Django I gave up on many years ago. I don't even consider them licenced anymore. If they do end up releasing I'll be delighted, but I don't expect it any time soon. I'm mostly talking about their new acquisitions.

>>40401635
Lmaoooooooooooooooo

>>40406847
There are plenty of titles where getting licensed actually put them into never-ever tier.

I wonder if MG will have announcements for Otakon, otherwise I can't see them releasing a title once a month until the next con season. Or they are going to follow the JAST route now and announce a title on Twitter, then release it soon after.

>>40407827
They added a new announcement box to their page https://mangagamer.org/announcements/

>>40407827
They will. I have a feeling that's where most of their stuff will be at.

>>40404511
Probably. She's a good girl.

>>40407843
That better be KnS3.

>>40409073
If I were a betting man, I would go with Funbag Fantasy 4. I forgot what hints we have left though.

>>40409143
I think we only have Healthy/Happy left, it could be either since Haro said Kenzen 2 was the Happy hint, but if that's the case then I have no idea what the Healthy hint could refer to.

>>40409232
What if it was two in one? Would that even be possible?

>>40409548
Maybe.

>>40409143
We still have number left I believe.

>>40412010
That could have been 03

I knew Tokyo Necro and Gore Screaming Show were big deals, but I didn't realize how big until recently.
To put it in perspective, the first official announcement of Full Metal Daemon Muramasa, another long-awaited title, has 1200 likes on Twitter nearly a year after being posted, while Gore Screaming Show got 1400 likes and Tokyo Necro got 2200 likes within a few days.
Here's my prediction that may or may not be considered a hot take (and I accurately predicted that both of these games would be announced at Anime Expo so I'm decent at guessing lol):
Tokyo Necro and Gore Screaming Show will outsell Muramasa and become JAST's best selling games so far.

>>40407843
Where is MG HQ? If it's not KnS3 i'm ready to take the plane to bomb it.

>>40415520
>to put it in perspective, the first official announcement of Full Metal Daemon Muramasa, another long-awaited title, has 1200 likes on Twitter nearly a year after being posted, while Gore Screaming Show got 1400 likes and Tokyo Necro got 2200 likes within a few days.
That comparison is very biased. The Muramasa announcement wasn't as big because it was somewhat leaked and there was rumors and even memes about it for years . Jast themselves teased it for a few days.
TN and especially GSS announcement were much less expected.

Also, did they changed fucking captcha again?

>>40415520
>Tokyo Necro and Gore Screaming Show will outsell Muramasa and become JAST's best selling games so far.
Muramasa is NOT JAST's top selling game. They specifically said it was their "best launch on their store", which doesn't mean much. Muramasa did not sell on the same level as their top sellers on steam, it's probably nowhere close. I doubt it's even that close to their top seller on their website with Saya no Uta being there for 10+ years.

There are still so many great untranslated Nitro+ and Light Plotge:
>Phantom INTEGRATION
>Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia
>"Hello, world."
>Tenshi no Nichou Kenjuu -Angelos Armas-
>Jingai Makyou
>Kishin Hishou Demonbane
>Gekkou no Carnevale (bad Fantl?)
>Axanael
>Muramasa fandisk + Side Story
>Kaigen Seito
>Magatsu Barai
>Silverio series
>Soushuu Senshinkan Gakuen
>KKK

Not to mention a lot of Eushully's works too

>>40415939
>Muramasa fandisk
> great

>>40415939
>Side Story
You do realize that this is fanfiction, right?

>>40415939
How do you know they're great? Actually I know you don't know that since you listed fucking Axanael as a "great plotge".

>>40415760
Damn, that's a pretty huge drop for Flowers. No wonder MG doesn't want to pick up KnS3. Probably would only sell like 200 copies.

>>40415939
the demonbane sequel and all muramasa content that isn't the original game suck major fucking penis. Nitroplus is fucking dead as a company now too, they have released exactly one game since tokyo necro in 2015 unless you count their gacha games.

>>40416273
Well, Flower is a bit special in that a lot of people just didn't want to pick up a sequel anymore. It's not JUST the big delays between releases, though of course that didn't help.

>>40416454
>is a bit special in that a lot of people just didn't want to pick up a sequel anymore
That's the case with any sequel.

>>40416273
KnS2 getting banned from steam probably didn't help much either since the first game seemed to do pretty well on there.

>>40415939
>>Phantom INTEGRATION
>>Vampirdzhija Vjedogonia
>>"Hello, world."
The only titles worth a damn in your list.

>>40415939
Calling Kaigen Seito great, pffft ya no. It's a barely functioning rpg with shitty rock-paper-scissors battle mechanics.

>>40416987
Not to mention it has a translation.

>>40415520
The thing is Muramasa was a niche within a niche. It was highly rated because of it's complex usage of Japanese and some of the characters are cool. Other than that I do not think it was ever going to be a home run seller due to it's setting and storyline hook not being interesting like Tokyo Necro and a few other untranslated Nitro+ works.

>>40416689
They should probably just use Kickstarter for KnS3. It just doesn't seem profitable unless you throw it to Peter Payne who has J-list as a buffer.

>>40417859
Peter Payne already delivered with all the fucking episodes of Flowers. I can't believe JAST became the greatest loc company in this timeline. They were so annoying before with the never ever meme around them taking so long to release something.

>>40415520
Dramatical Murder release Tweet had 3k likes.

>>40418504
Yeah I don't judge anything by Twitter numbers.

>>40418002
Something that strikes me odd is how they are turning everything around as well and know the market of what people are asking for. It helps to have Nitro+ as your main base but the fact they have been trying to get into various Video Game Style VN's like SRPG or even get Flowers like you mentioned does wonders. All it truly takes is a few great releases and everything else falls into place.

>>40419282
>>40418504
>>40417710
>>40415760
silly sweeties got baited by reposting shit from discord yet again, holy shit
you guys never gonna learn huh

>>40418002
In my opinion, JAST stopped being as slow as molasses about the time Sekai's backlog started piling up and complaints about SP being slow started to become more noteworthy. JAST is still slow but slow in a way that makes them comparable to Mangagamer or Nekonyan. At least JAST stopped announcing release dates and delaying them at the last second in the past few years or so, and they've been managing a release every two months or so for a while now.
On a side note, I wonder if Nekonyan is able to speed up to accomodate their larger backlog.

>>40407827
Out of their current backlog, only 2 titles are almost certain to release this year (Kenzen 2 and Railore) out of the 6 they would need to maintain a monthly release. Rance IX is likely to release this year, but it being a gameplay title makes it hard to be certain, and Sona-nyl has been in dev hell for so long that it's hard to predict any sort of date. MG has been silent on Higurashi progress, so it's impossible to say when the last 3 chapters of Hou will be done, but they probably won't be done this year since the Rei chapters recently released. Maybe Lkyt is already almost done and could release this year. Even if that's the case for Lkyt, I doubt Rance 03 is in the same boat.

>>40422290
IX is much more straightforward than other rance games, so should be somewhat fast to do beta test imo
same for 03
beta-testing X sounds like a nightmare tho

>>>/vg/390788139
Chicchakunai Mon update

>>40422290
>More rance and sona
So it's fucking nothing, as always. (Yes, for MG Rance games are like gold eggs, but MG will run out of it soon. And then what?)

>>40425566
>And then what?
Back to kusoge. Fading to obscurity until their next big hit.

Why removing mosaics from h-scenes in eroge is a bad and problematic practice?
First, because mosaics are a part of japanese culture, japanese values and japanese morale, so demanding mosaic removal means you're being japanophobic and a cultural colonization apologist.
That's why you aren't allowed to impose your american culture and americanized anti-censorship-politically-charged propaganda upon Japanese-origin piece of fiction aka visual novel. Hence why eroge needs to keep mosaic.
Second, if you can't get off to h-scenes with genitals covered by mosaic, then you might be a genital fetishist. And genital fetishism means transphobia. That's right, you wouldn't date a non-op trans person just because of the wrong(in your opinion) set of genitals(for example gay dude with a vagina), because all you care about is genitals. Which is why demanding no mosaic is like branding yourself a transophobe and a bigot.
Not even going to forget about retaining the original Japanese experience, most of the people want to preserve so much. Experience is simply not the same anymore. One of meta jokes in Totono english version was ruined by unmosaic, ruined so much JAST had to change one text line completely for the sake of uncensored art, turning it into a literal fan fiction. You shouldn't even vote on vndb for totono if you read english version. You have no moral right to do so. It just evokes the same emotional response from me when I see people thoughtlessly engaging in art.
Muramasa unmosaic english edition? Ruined. The whole game is coomerfied, because kageaki sausage dick takes your attention from plot away, making important bits of philosophy and characterization combined with themes to fly over unmosaiced edition reader head. While Japanese people read version with mosaic, they are never distracted by the gross and unnatural kageaki sausage.
Kimaten? Mosaic is gone, but Anne nipples are also gone in sekai unmosaiced english edition.
Clover day's? Uncensoring alone kept game away from release for the past few years. Is it really worth it? Ruined. No one cares about clover day's anymore. Hype is long dead.
Musicus? Muramasa issue all over again. Ruined.
Subahibi? Muramasa issue yet again. Ruined. The reader's head is literally full of uncensored dicks instead of Wittgenstein philosophy. Unmosaiced readers don't even get "end sky II" ending because of unmosaic, because of lack of blood in their head, because all the blood went to their lower head instead.
Majikoi? Ruined, ruined and ruined. Half of the voices are missing for the sake of official uncensoring, while fan uncens existed for years. Worse translation, lacking it's very soul.
Dead end aegis? Muramsa issue. Ruined.
You should never ever vote on vndb for uncensored version of said Eroge. To be fair, just english version with mosaic patched back into game is fine in my opinion.

>>40425737
>back up to kusoges
I would love to see more Circus, Moonstone, Navel or Caramel Box games. But most likely they will keep pumping doing cheap nukiges and gayshit until one day they pull the SolPress move (run with the money).

>>40426145
Not reading that shit. But I agree mosaics are good.

>>40426145
Not reading thas shit. But I agree masaics ara cancer.

>>40426174
Cheap nukige and gayshit actually sell compare to what Sol Press was peddling. Just look at Cherry Kiss games. All they sell is Miel/Norn kusoge, and they're doing dandy.

>>40426472
Let's me correct you; "cheap" VNs on Steam always (or almost) sell decently. I bet that even Semen Inferno would be a big success.

>>40426874
Even before Steam, that was the case.

>>40402714
2087

>>40427246
JAST needs to port it to Windows 17, please undersand.

>>40425566
I think as long as they have the AS partnership they will do well. They have a lot of solid gameplay licenses that are untranslated. The only issue is MG has currently is they do not have much dark fetish stuff outside of Maggot Baits a few years back and they kind of have nothing interesting for Steam that would be a great 30 hour long title that would be standalone. Bokuten was a good step in that direction even if it was not the highest selling.

>>40425566
They'll do fine without Rance.
>>40427896
MG don't have the AS partnership anymore, they only have a Rance partnership.
Also, may I interest you in checking out Mugen Renkan if you like dark VNs, it's extremely underrated in the west.

>>40428035
>They'll do fine without Rance
Nah, most of that stuff is from 2015-16 when Steam wasn't as draconian as now with the bans, Alicesoft doesn't work with them anymore MG (aside Rance) and Chrsistmas Tina was a partial sucess; sold like hootcackes on Steam (chinesse only) but like shit on the MG store (din't last long on the 5th top list).

>>40428035
I do think you are right about them being able to do well without Rance as those titles can easily extend them for the decade. But if the whole AS deciding to self publish is true still even with the Evenicle 2 debacle then that will make me question AS as a whole. It also means MG may have to find new partnerships for Gameplay style VN's even if they are small. As for Mugen Renkan it does seem good for a title and I will put it on my list to check out honestly.

>>40401480
I'm happy to see Gore Screaming Show and Tokyo Necro (maybe) coming out this year. I'm not sure about the other titles announced, but I'll give them a try.

>>40429289
They could partner up with this one, a smaller company: https://vndb.org/p2693
Don't think there are other companies left aside from Eushully of course, but that's very unlikely.

>>40426145
No one cares lol, but here is a (you)

>>40430007
It's been a while since I've heard about it, but yeah, I remember Eushully having a huge hateboner for gaijin and blaming them for piracy. We do pirate, but the original pirated copy was probably from some Japanese guy, not from out of the country.

>>40430207
I've heard so many variations on the Eushully story that I'm sure the truth will never be fully known. The alternative to this story I've seen shared is that Eushully reps at ck only gave a gaijin "strange looks" when he approached their booth and wanted to buy something, whatever that could mean. I'm sure every localizer in the scene has tried to convince them at some point, and I believe I'd seen a since deleted discord message from someone in the scene that claimed Eushully said they weren't interested when contacted- you'd think if it was purely gaijin hate they'd just ignore you, but who knows?

>>40430787
>you'd think if it was purely gaijin hate they'd just ignore you
Saying "no" directly tells them to stop asking, otherwise the gaijin could keep constantly trying.

>>40405387
>one of the top 3 worst translators
>I have a bit hope for that one.
???

>>40421836
They never stopped being slow as molasses. They ignore all their old licenses and only work on new shovelware.
>At least JAST stopped announcing release dates and delaying them at the last second in the past few years
Instead they forget release days and have their tech guy on a coffee run for hours.
>On a side note, I wonder if Nekonyan is able to speed up to accomodate their larger backlog.
What JAST gained in speed Nekonyan lost. They're slow as fuck.

>>40430007
That is sadly the current state of the VN industry right now. It's a small pond with few fish left on partnership stuff. But There is still a lot of plotge left though that they could pickup. I did try recommending one title a few years back someone was reading through it was about some Lolli in the mansion and something about a blimp. I can not remember the details too well sadly.

Moege is better than plotge anyway, more profitable too.

I fucking LOVE moege and I wish Nekonyan took finally over in the scene

>>40435575
Your wish has been granted

>>40430207
> I remember Eushully having a huge hateboner for gaijin and blaming them for piracy.
Sounds like a meme. At least Eushully have never blocked their site for oversea users unlike Alicesoft

>>40439471
At least we had more educated companies like Minori who invited you to travel to Japan if you wish to play their games.

>>40439471
Then why have we never seen any indication of interest in localizing their titles? I expected the success of Venus Blood and Rance/Evenicle to turn their heads even for a little but nothing is happening.

does anyone have the webm of the rance trumpet

>>40435575
You would think with how their moege have been doing on Steam that Nekonyan would have the money to hire more resources to release more often.
>>40440701
Yeah, regardless of the actual reason, it's obvious Eushully doesn't have any interest in the overseas market. The success of the Venus Blood series makes it pretty obvious that if Eushully brought over some of their notable titles and the localization wasn't overly botched, they would almost certainly profit. Maybe the Venus Blood titles are only doing well because of kickstarter though. The MG published Alicesoft games have all done well (by the standards of MG), but Alicesoft has been pretty silent on whether or not its self-published titles are actually selling well. Maybe the GOG release will help out Eve 2 sales.
>>40441008
I would ask the Alicesoft general on /vg/

>>40429289
Oiran Rouge when?

>Chaos;Head Noah - 100% translated, 50.15% TLC, 49.29% edited
>Spike Chunsoft
>Chaos;Head Noah - October 7th release
y tho

>>40446815
Think their version will be better.

>>40429289
too bad BaseSon titles are expensive

>>40446815
Even if Chaos;Head is not that well translated at least it can have fan patch mods like the other game did.

>>40446815
the offical translations are always complete trash that they then need to code patches for to fix, and not just when it comes to the actual text, it's faster to just do this

>>40449508
That's because of VA costs isn't it?

>>40446815
Shoddy TL work aside neither Chaos;Child nor Steins;Gate 0 translated the images or the non-textbox audio even when they were relevant and necessary to progress. Despite their Steins;Gate release having the same TL as the JAST one they still managed to fuck it up because they didn't bother formatting anything to look nice or even easily legible. The fan patches made those games actually playable.

>>40454608
Damn that's just lazy not translating everything.

>>40454608
I thought it was because Steins;Gate 0 was bad as a whole. Did not know it was bad translation.

>>40458770
The notes from the patch:
>Corrects over 3000 mistranslations, continuity errors and other translation flaws. These range from simple punctuation mistakes to huge errors that could impact one’s understanding of the game, such as a reference to the wrong character.
The worst part is 0's translation still wasn't as bad as Child's.

>>40446815
I never realized (but should have) how bad and butchery Spike Chunsoft's Sci;ADV's releases were. I'm planning to replay the whole series again using the patches once they finish Noah.

and yet c0z actually gets shit gone while 4channers keep crying and seething itt without ever doing anything more than broski patches
pathetic

>>40459288
>fucking /vn/, how they dare to patch my games
Broski patches are enough. Without them VNs like 9-nine brotato edition would be unreadable.

>>40406955
It feels weird how all 5 of the JAST USA announcements could come out this year. I expect Gears of Dragoon and Tokyo Hero Project to be stalled until next year, but 3/5 coming out the same year isn't bad at all with the other two probably coming out at 2023 at the latest. Mangagamer is similar with its 2022 announcements with most of them probably releasing by 2023 at the latest (with one of them already being released) though something could stall Rance 03 like how Rance Quest, Evenicle, and Rance IX were all stalled one way or another (Rance 01 wasn't stalled all that much IIRC). Nekonyan seems to be doing well with TL progress, but programming seems to be a major chokehold with them. I don't think half of their announcements are releasing this year.

>>40466281
NekoNyan's "programmer" is from Finland and uses the excuse that he's fearing for his life and safety every day so progress is slow. Previously he used the excuse of Corona and before that it was either him doing every Unity port solo or having to wait for Yuzusoft. In the end he didn't do shit on Dracu Riot and Yuzusoft's doing the HD. And because NN stands with their employees in crises everyone slows down too in fear of their lives.

>>40469093
>Dracu Riot and Yuzusoft's doing the HD
based, no one should cater to retarded yuzubuta trash subhuman
no need for NN to release this fantled trash in the first place buyfag gtfo

>>40469750
Yuzubuta is what keeps them afloat, newfag. Not their fault plotcucks and everyone else pirates their shit and just leeches off the scene.

>>40469852
>Yuzubuta is what keeps them afloat, newfag
i don't give a fuck, fucking faggot
there is nothing good about keeping fucking moege capitalism afloat
off yourself, retard

SO how is Amagami running now? Safe to patch? PS2 Ebikore

https://twitter.com/LoeQuality/status/1546136211105861632?s=20&t=9eXR5jNHRKqROxx6r5jejQ

Patch file for Junketsu Megami was updated.

I take L-arginine, zinc, horny goat weed, viagra, 2 joints, poppers bottle, adderall
And how do you enhance your reading experience?

>>40473749
cum

>>40473787
>>40473787
>eating cum to better self insert into the girl
why are you like this?

>>40474045
It tastes good and it is immersive

>>40473115
I thought this died ages ago.

>>40474308
It's coming along, slowly. The bigger issue is the font, though. He needs better tools that can get the game to produce English text that isn't as screwed.

>>40475689
New thread up with the updates for this week