/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Amatsutsumi - July 29th release
>Kemonomichi Girlish Square - Waiting on approvals
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, 30% through 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
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 - 65% translated, 20% edited
Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita - In translation
Gakkou no Seiiki - 100% translated, in editing
Imouto no Seiiki - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
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 - 10% translated
QUALIA ~The Path of Promise~ - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
>Re;Lord 3 - In QA
>Amairo Chocolate 2 - 100% translate and edited, waiting on build
>Marshmallow Imouto Succubus - Waiting on build
>Hamidashi Creative - Announced, R18 version announced
>Happy Saint Sheol - 5% translated, R18 version announced
Inupara - In Development
>Nekopara After La Vraie Familie - In Development, R18 version announced
>Nie no Hakoniwa - 20% translated, R18 version announced
Parfait Remake - Announced
>Raspberry Cube - Announced, R18 version announced
Watamari A Match Made in Heaven Part 1 - 100% translated and edited

Nekonyan
>Kin'iro Loveriche -Golden Time- - Released
>Clover Days - 5% QA, rejected by Steam, "Waiting on fixed animation assets from the developer"
>Dracu Riot - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, engine porting ongoing
Melty Moment - 75% translated and TLC
>Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - 100% translated, TLC, and edited, "Developer and programming team working on porting images"
>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 - In QA
>Secret Agent of the Knight Academy - 100% translated and edited, "Programming work ongoing with developer"
>Floral Flowlove - 93% translated, 21% edited
>Kakenuke Seishun Sparking - 15% translated
>Ren'ai x Royale - 100% translated, 90% edited
>Irotoridori no Sekai - 100% translated and edited, in programming

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

LoveLab
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
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>40560864
>Shiravune
I guess they won't announce it prior to the Japanese release. But they will announce an English release of Sakusei Byoutou Complete later in the year, right? Right?

>>40561177
The og manga ended with a somewhat happy ending right?
Or so I've heard.
Can't wait to get all of it in VN form.

>>40561209
It does have a manga adaptation in much the same style as the anime adaptation.
But I wonder if the original image sets would qualify as manga. I guess they're still pages of a comic much the same so I suppose so.

Then again the official product page doesn't classify them as manga and I don't think it's standard to refer to cg sets in that manner even though they are often indistinguishable from webcomics or webseries. Anyhow, the official manga is in itself an adaptation.

https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ240341.html

After all those 18+ confirmations it seems Parfait Remake still remains butchered all age stub for good. Shame.

>>40561606
With the release being based on a Japanese all ages release, and being a lower profile title, it is hard to think that it will get the same kind of "technically unofficial patch" that Baldr Sky did if Giga insists for the release to be all ages. Though on the off chance that were to happen again, it would indicate that there is a quiet agreement to handle R18 content like that.

>>40562153
Looking at its announcement, it's a somewhat high profile title though. But Sekai gonna Sekai.

Is the Golden Time release decent on a technical level? I remember the original had a ton of sprite bugs even after the first patch.
>>40562153
Rewrite+ was censored without them saying so or doing anything about it even once people found out so even though there's a precedent with Giga I'm not optimistic.

>>40563743
I haven't run into any yet, but I'm still on the first route.

I think some of the problems in the original were only with the pirated copies. I'm pretty sure I had an upgraded pirated copy, but had that infamous Elle issue. It went away with a legit copy.

>>40563800
I wasn't using a pirated copy though and I got one during Reina plus a background error (don't remember which route). This was a year ago though.

>>40563743
They didn't port this one since it's Kirikiri so it shouldn't have the bugs the first one did.

>>40563800
Seems more like you just need to pirate a patched version.

Reminder that Hamidashi already has a perfectly good patch and only an idiot would wait around for Sekai

>>40567799
I would rather do the fan translation patch than Sekai.

>Leave for half a year to learn a bit of Japanese
>Come back
>Pretty much no new progress on any translations
Lmao

>>40570204
how's your japanese?
surely you learned enough and even read some vns already?

>Tokyo Necro soon maybe august?
Is it good? Not expecting it to be Muramasa like but maybe more generic Nitro action like Demonbane?

>>40573057
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crCEJiZbbdQ

>>40573081
Fug dont spoil me anon

>>40563743
Rewrite+ and Hakuchuumu no Aojashin show the awkward spot that purely all ages releases can end up in with Steam's current policies making publishers cautious about what they submit, and the lack of an R18 patch making any content patch less likely. Parfait could end up in the same boat if there is no type of content patch (official or otherwise), where edits may be needed even to the all ages build if Sekai and/or Giga opts to be cautious.

>>40567799
>Reminder that Hamidashi already has a perfectly good patch

what? where?

>>40574807
https://files.catbox.moe/tsvswx.zip

>>40573057
Im expecting it to be actually good, so nothing like Muramasa. More like Demonbane, yeah.

>>40574807
It's an unedited MTL patch an anon made for shitposting purposes, feel free to completely ignore it.

>>40575749
There is literally nothing wrong with using MTL

>>40575008
I'm reading Muramasa and having a shit ton of fun. Masamune's great.

>Clover Days - 5% QA, rejected by Steam, "Waiting on fixed animation assets from the developer"
They submitted it with no QA done and animation issues?
>Kakenuke Seishun Sparking - 15% translated
I can't wait to see how they meme every character mentioning "seishun" all the time.

>>40579979
>They submitted it with no QA done and animation issues?
I mean considering how unpredictable Valve can be it makes sense to get it approved as quickly as possible. You can always update the build later and I doubt a bit of janky animations are going to factor into the decision either way

>>40579979
most bugs are gathered around h scenes and uncensored assets (because retarded westoids wants their uncensored pussy), so steam build with no h scenes doesn't really have that much glitches in it

>>40577415
You can't read her name.

>>40560864
>Clover Days - 5% QA, rejected by Steam, "Waiting on fixed animation assets from the developer"
I wonder if they're trying to release it as a hybrid version where you can opt to play it with the original art or with the the animated (not my cup of tea) characters.

>>40587346
Sounds like a lot of work, don't know if NN is capable of that.

>>40574509
>Parfait could end up in the same boat if there is no type of content patch (official or otherwise), where edits may be needed even to the all ages build

Well, there was Doukyuusei case also where all ages steam verrsion was basically remade-rewritten to the level of completely new vn, with another MC's personality -compared to already censored 18+ version. If there are companies willing to do so much amount of work rewriting the whole script in addition to providing 18+ patch on the side restoring original script (i.e. there were probably two teams - one was translating the original and other was rewriting it) - for other companies it wouldn't be so hard to use the same approach, right? In other words if you are going to translate original text anyway - before making edits - it wouldn't be hard to make patch keeping that translated text before beginning butchering it. It all depends on the goodwill and principles of localizers - it wouldn't be possible to restore Doukyuusei to its 18+ glory by fans efforts after all - if DMM decided to release only butchered all ages version - since amount of edits there is on the level of writing new vn from the scratch. And I am not talking here about old 1992 year Doukyuusei or even 1999 year Doukyuusei remake. It's just difference between two versions of 2022 year Doukyuusei.

I'm an oppai/paizuri lover. What are some good (translated) VNs with lots of this content?

I already played Funbag Fantasy to hell and back, and since 4 isn't getting localized any time soon, I want to know what else fits this niche.

Thanks in advance.

>>40589987
Not really a thread for recommendations, but you should play EroMahou https://vndb.org/v21529 if you haven't.

How does the current fan translation community work? Do they all do it for free or are there successful Patreons and such? Does everyone just use texthookers and DeepL for reading untranslated eroge nowadays? Or is there still demand for handmade fantranslations?
Wondering if making a Patreon for this is viable but a quick google search doesn't give many good results.

>>40590393
>How does the current fan translation community work?
It barely does.

>>40589347
>Well, there was Doukyuusei case also where all ages steam verrsion was basically remade-rewritten to the level of completely new vn, with another MC's personality
Wow, was it that major? I had no idea.

>>40590393
Most do it for free. There is one patreon that can think of off the top of my head (Capu Translations). That said, you'll probably make more money for less effort handtranslating some web/light novel series, though I suppose that's a crowded field. If you can actually handtranslate, you're probably good enough for an official VN company (all of which are pretty desperate for competent translators willing to work for very low wages though they'll probably slap a few nukige on you at first).

>>40591215
Don't want to become a pro translator or anything, just wanted some NEET income for like a year. Guess I'll stick to doujinshi. Didn't think about LNs/web novels though, I'll have to look into that area.

>>40591261
Did you already have titles or were you going to do requests?

>>40591901
Did a few commissions over a year ago, was just going to resume that. No editing/typesetting this time though.

>>40591901
Oh, if you were talking about eroge, I was just going to wing it. I assume there's always titles/makers with some niche that really wants translations so I figured it's a matter of looking into what are the most hyped ones (within the realm of like 10-30hr games and not monster kamige). Didn't think about requests since I don't expect any individual to pay for an entire eroge translation which would be like thousands of dollars.

>>40592021
A bit off-topic but you could try some RPG maker games. They are easier to translate than VNs and there are only one or 2 companies translating them officially. There seems to be a market for these on Patreon too.

Anyone know how to repack cg files into .med files (lusterise games in particular)? Garbro could open and convert the prs files into png but I can't find a way to get the edited files back in. I found some chinese tool that's supposed to work for med files but it only works for the script.

How come Atelier Kaguya Bare&Bunny titles have 0 official translations?
From what I can see they seem to mostly be very well received high quality nukiges, is it a situation like Eushully where they just irrationally hate gaijins?
How many other VN companies like that are there anyway?

>>40595176
3 of them are getting translated right now. Speaking of which the guy doing Baku Ane 2 just released another partial patch, but he put it behind a paywall.

>>40595176
Not a lot of companies license nukige or they already have other partners.

>>40591048
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1689910/discussions/0/3272437487142912518/
it was

>>40599587
>>40591048
Wasn't this remake/rewrite already made a while back in Japan and they just licensed the remade version?

>>40599684
Oh nevermind just checked the linked post, guess they went a step beyond that.

Well, personally I don't care that much how butchered the censored version is as long as the company makes the intended version available somewhere. It's a bit annoying but Valve being what they are I can see how many companies want to err on the side of caution here.

Should we take NekoNyan out of the list from now on?

>>40600958
go back

https://vndb.org/v20089

Meh.

>>40567799
>>40574807
>>40574947
>>40575749
>>40577415
I downloaded this shit patch just to see if it was even barely intelligible but what the FUCK man this is just gibberish, total and utter gibberish, #40574947 why did you even bother.

>>40600958
Why?

>>40606295
it's not that bad

>>40606507
Don't want to offend gambs-dono

>>40607817
it is un-edited machine translated nonsense, I'm sorry but that's what it is

>>40608472
There is literally nothing wrong with using MTL

MLA Total Eclipse, sadly they removed Teito Moyu sub-story.

>>40608994
*...was just released
(deleted it by accident with the spacebar)

>>40608994
>Teito Moyu sub-story
Tell me if i'm wrong but that sub story is supposed to be the fucking prologue of TE no?
Also i heard that the TL of TDA, Photomelodies and Photoflowers were fucking terrible. Is it the same for TE? Who is behind the translation? aNCHOR?

>>40609056
It's not that the translation was bad, it's that the localization was bad. The trilogy had a few questionable localization decisions but was translated well enough. They have an entirely different team editing everything after the trilogy which is why it more or less went to shit.

>>40609056
Yes, it's a short story about Yui past in which explain things about her previous team and why she like her mecha model.
You can watch the first two episodes for a short recap.

>>40609083
I already watched the terrible anime adaptation of TE. I don't really understand why they skipped it when it's so short.

>>40609074
What's the name of this fucking piece of shit editor who butchered the translation then? Because if he "worked" on TE too i don't want to waste my time.
Was it koestl who translated Extra, Unlimited and Alternative for aNCHOR? The translation was really good, i wish he worked on TDA too because i can't read that shit...

>>40609140
>I don't really understand why they skipped it when it's so short.
Add a new language, update the engine, add "remastered" to the tittle and... call the day.
As you can see it's faster and cheaper to re-release it this way. And now that they can't milk more from KS, why bother?

>>40609140
>Was it koestl who translated Extra, Unlimited and Alternative for aNCHOR?
It was Evan.

>>40609140
>I don't really understand why they skipped it when it's so short
The VN version is entirely rewritten and expanded and has like 8-10 hours of playtime.
Creator of the franchise said it's not in the steam release because the translation team couldn't handle doing the main game and it at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28i4-m_N6Q&t=8044s

>>40609140
>What's the name of this fucking piece of shit editor who butchered the translation then? Because if he "worked" on TE too i don't want to waste my time.
The entire team is randon nobodies being managed by some guy who worked for crunchyroll, and the guy Avex put in charge of everything muv-luv, overseas or not, is a literal crypto bro who was so ashamed of the last two games they put out that he removed muv luv from his twitter bio and started limiting who can view his tweets.

>>40609305
Really? Always thought it was Koestl who translated the official version and Ixrec the fantrad. Don't know who is this Evan guy though.

>>40610010
>the translation team couldn't handle doing the main game and it at the same time
For real? Who the fuck are these clowns? I know that in the japanese side Kouki gave up the franchise but at least i had hope for the english side who seemed to be real fans of the franchise.

>>40610114
I can't believe it. It's so sad that a big and important licence such as Muv-Luv is managed by a bunch of cunts. Can someone screen the credits of TDA and TE please?

>>40610562
officially TDA was done by the same team that created the patches for the chronicles versions of it back in the day (they got bought up), but if you compare the patch with the offical release they are very different and they did "funny" shit like give characters accents and constantly bringing up fucking memes, so I have no idea what happened. I assume most people who were around back in the day left

>>40590393
Patreon/commissions/crowdfunding are the only way to make real money with VNs. They make more in a month or on 1 project than official translators do in several years. LNs and manga are even better. I've seen hentai commissions 1 page translation = 50 bucks and people pay that. Many pages only have moans on them and sfx that don't even get translated and that's still 50 bucks lol. VN commissions you'd have to ask a lot of money to make it worth it, say 5-10k per project more for long VNs.

>>40592021
Dunno if he's still around but an anon was willing to shell out 30 grand USD for a Monobeno translation. Sounds fake but I can imagine a lolicon actually being serious. Crowdfunding would be much easier and safer but desu I'd be wary of taking money for VN translations. The cartel is everywhere.

>>40610562
>Always thought it was Koestl who translated the official version
Wasn't it koestl who made that long blogpost about why Evan's TL was superior and explaining why Guiding Light > Noble Confidant, both of which are factually incorrect.
Evan's the guy who's been running all the official Muvluv translation. I thought he quit a few years ago when anchor came to be and fucked things up.
>>40609140
>What's the name of this fucking piece of shit editor who butchered the translation then?
Wasn't that herkz?

>>40575749
What MTL tools are people using?

>>40613260
>Wasn't that herkz?
Impossible. If it was him the tl would be even worse.

>>40577415
>>40608543
Kill yourself.

Does anyone have any knowledge about Siglus Engine? I'd love to make a Rewrite patch which backports the new translation into the unfucked version of the game but it seems like literally nobody in the community has the tools to modify Siglus in a meaningful way, nor any clues as to how one could be made. Ixrec and such are long dead and I have no idea how they translated Rewrite originally, and it doesn't seem like anyone else knows either.

>>40618409
https://github.com/marcussacana/SiglusSceneManager
https://github.com/xmoeproject/SiglusExtract
You could also try asking in /vn/ since the guy translating Chicchakunai Mon posts there.

>>40618728
hmm

>>40619076
Welcome to every tool ever. Even krkrextract gets flagged by antiviruses.
Show the actual antivirus part of that image, I bet the majority are generic/heuristic

>>40618728
Yeah I've seen both developers of these tools asked about it, they unfortunately don't have the ability to actually modify the scene code itself, only single strings. Which, in the context of Rewrite+ with its many many cut lines and scenes, isn't enough to make an actually meaningful patch unfortunately. The Angel Beats fan translators also weren't able to do this either. Dunno about the Chicchakunai Mon guy, but I'm not optimistic at this point.

>>40613260
Evan quit because he had been working on a kiminozo script even before going offical and when it came to talks about actually using said script for some fucking reason both parties decided to part ways instead. Neither side ever stated why it was but the main ideas are that anchor/avex wanted to do the all ages version of the game and not provide a patch which would be a gigantic loss in both writing quality and content, or that anchor/avex were being kikes and was refusing to pay decent money for the script. This idea mostly comes from the fact his girlfriend would later state on social media that she won't be supporting whatever kiminozo translation ends up releasing because she's opposed to cheap labor rushjob translations

>>40620318
VN translators get paid criminally low rates in general, and he probably didn't have a strong bargaining position if he had already translated some or all of it before negotiating the pay. Shit sucks but the industry is kind of bullshit if you're not living in a third world country where you can afford to work for dimes.

>>40620840
Pretty sure MG are the only company left that pay like shit.
Everyone else pays above 2 cents per character and I remember Steiner saying that he translates 8000-12000 characters a day which would mean they get $160-$240 a day at minimum, assuming they did a full days worth of work. Even at their low rates of 1.5-1.75 cents per character translators are still getting paid a decent amount.
It's anime translators that get paid in peanuts, pretty sure they get like $50 per episode or something like that.

>>40621082
No offense, but you have no idea what you are talking about.

>>40621336
>Source: trust me bro

>>40621336
Care to explain where I'm wrong? Arunaru's twitlonger was quite clear in that he was getting 1.5c per character which was too low for him compared to other companies.

>>40560862
Is it true Fakku translations are shit? I read JAST tends to be more accurate, is this true?

>>40621622
I don't think they're shit, but they add a lot of curse words where there isn't any in the original and they are a tad too liberal.

>>40621501
I'm sure you're making a killing working for 2 whole cents a character. Keep up the good work, mate.

>>40621709
I mean it depends entirely on how many characters you can translate per hour. I'm sure a quick translator can do quite well.

>>40621709
You can plug the numbers from pic related >>40621589 yourself if you don't believe me.

>>40621589
>>40621736
I'm glad that Steiner is motivated enough to churn through that many characters, but frankly, he should get paid more if he's that productive. 2 cents per character is a shitty rate for JP->EN translation, even for a VN.

>>40621755
Maybe if translators treated their job as, uh, a job they could match those numbers. And if they can't match that amount then they should perhaps look to hone their skills as a translator since they obviously aren't that great.
But freelance workers are all lazy and like Steiner said in that image don't treat it like a real job.

>>40621633
Gotcha, I'm pretty anal about that so I'll skip anything they touch. Or pirate it I guess.

>>40621790
Just because he can translate a lot of characters doesn't mean he should get a shitty rate. It sounds to me like he is outperforming the vast majority of his peers and making less money than an assistant manager at Walmart. But if he wants to work for pennies then more power to him.

>>40622057
>and making less money than an assistant manager at Walmart
Walmart employees make $240 a day? Sign me the fuck up.

>>40622185
I'm sure that your local Walmart is hiring, but you won't make it as an assistant manager if you can't do math. Glassdoor says the average assistant manager in the USA is making $56,873 per year. That is substantially more than Steiner would make if he works 4 days a week, 52 weeks a year, translating 10,000 characters per working day at a rate of 2 cents per character. Frankly, I feel bad for anyone that accepts a rate like 1.5 cents. I mean I understand that some people just enjoy working on weeb shit but that is borderline exploitation.

>>40622413
Here's what it says for me, and that's most likely working 6 days a week instead of 4 and longer hours too. Also it's a job that requires you to work around people and is probably harder than translating porn slide shows.
And by the way Steiner would be making $49,920 a year at 4 days a week which is 10k more than that.

>>40622540
Read >>40621589 again and see if you can figure out why your numbers are wrong. While you're at it, you might also discover more evidence that the pay for VN translators is indeed "shit pay", which was my original argument before we got sidetracked by some random guy pontificating about how easy it is to translate VNs. For the record, I don't disagree with Steiner. It's just you that has no idea what you're talking about.

The Denpa page for Amatsutsumi lists "uncensored" rather than "with mosaics". Not too surprising after the Chrono Clock reversal and Hapymaher not having them, but I don't believe they had said one way or the other before.

>>40618728
I will try this later

>>40623560
Okay, sorry. He could be making anywhere from 33k - 49k which depending on how productive he is. Which is still amazing pay for only working 208 in a year. Maybe you should try getting a job yourself and you'd realize that.
Conjueror would literally work for 6 months a year and take the other 6 off to travel and chill, something very few jobs in the world would let you do.

>>40623763
it's not hard to spend half of the year not working when you are literally planning to kill yourself

>>40623792
He was a translator for years before he killed himself.

>>40623629
Why don't you ask them on Twitter, I am sure they will answer

how much do programmer make for VN company?

>>40623947
Not enough for what they have to do, but I think they're paid an okay amount.

>>40623763
Yeah, man. Second easiest job in the states, right after teaching K-12. You should give it a try in five or ten years, you know, after you've acquired the requisite skills.

>>40623967
I've thought about applying in the past though I don't know shit about the assembly hacking/reverse engineering stuff that I assume they need to be proficient in, not sure if it's something I could pick up on the job or expected to know beforehand.

>>40560862
>Monkeys! - English release planned
This is incorrect. The title of the game is Monkeys¡ with two exclamation points, one inverted. Please correct this error at the next opportunity. Thank you.

>>40626954
xD!¡

>>40626954
Do they want the Spanish speaking audience?

>>40621790
Anon, that JP>EN rate is pure shit. Professional workers who avoid low pay entertainment content (anime, manga, games) charge 10-50c per character.

>>40621790
Anon, that JP>EN rate is pure shit. Professional workers who avoid low pay entertainment content (anime, manga, games) charge 5-50c per character.

>>40629739
Yeah, no shit. But translating VNs, anime, manga LNs and games is much easier than whatever you're suggesting especially considering most of the translators in this industry have no formal degree in translation or Japanese and are are mostly just self-taught weebs. LNs, games and VNs are also much more dense and easier to translate than something like a newspaper or official documents so it's going to be a constant stream of money (the average VN is somewhere around 700-800k moji) unless you somehow think translating legal documents and such is on the same level as a Yuzusoft game.

>>40621589
What kind of psychopath would translate up to 1500 characters per hour working 8 hours a day regularly? Without MTL?

>>40629994
I imagine actually knowing the language helps. I remember watching Trip's livestreams of him translating and he was doing around those numbers with no monetary incentive.
Most eroge lines are extremely simple to translate and with enough experience you can probably translate most lines with little thought so it becomes a case of how fast you can type. Editors also exist which means the wording of your translation doesn't really matter much.

>>40621589
>claims to be a translator
>can't even read english
He said that 4k a day was normal for other translation works (not VNs) and that he shat out 14-15k on his first project.
>>40630097
If translations are so simple that the wording doesn't matter, why doesn't MG just go ahead and use MTPE?

>>40630529
>He said that 4k a day was normal for other translation works (not VNs)
Steiner isn't just talking about VNs in that post though, Steiner mostly works on LNs which would qualify as "more ordinary fiction translation" would it not?
>why doesn't MG just go ahead and use MTPE?
Because JP->EN MTL is still awful and it would be almost the same workload checking over the output and fixing all the mistakes, I remember NTRanon saying something similar when DeepL first came out. Wording obviously does matter to some extent which is why I included "much" in my post. You obviously have to accurately translate the text, but that translation can have grammatical mistakes, typos, strange wording and even a few accidental mistranslations because your TLC/editor will clean all that up.

2c/character is definitely on the low side in 2022, but VN translators can't expect 10c/character like legal translators.

sage

>>40573057
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO4ceqVUNUg
worth

>>40629904
>unless you somehow think translating legal documents and such is on the same level as a Yuzusoft game
maybe it isn't, but it should be.

nothing will change as long as there are translators who accept shit pay just to translate stuff they like

>>40621807
If you were actually anal about it you would learn Japanese. Instead you're just a whiny faggot.

https://twitter.com/TheLunarCastle/status/1550986453521416193

>>40637880
>Translation is already 80% done
Nice.

>>40637880
Lolige?

>>40640182
Yes

>>40618409
>I'd love to make a Rewrite patch which backports the new translation into the unfucked version of the game
Are you referring to the bugs that the game had? I'm pretty sure those are fixed now.

>>40618409
Also there are some differences between the original Rewrite and Rewrite+, textual and otherwise, so I don't know how porting the Rewrite+ translation into the original would even work.

>>40647821
New thread up with the updates for this week

how do I get a cute girl translator gf

>>40636918
What's the alternative? Just fan translate it instead?