/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


12Riven- Fully translated, 3/75 scripts edited, editing on hold until tech problems resolved
Air (Project 1)- Through QC, some tech work remains before patch
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1366/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (59.1%)"
Amairo IsleNauts - prologue and common route fully translated, Shirley route 10% TL, Masaki 18.5% TL, Konoka 40% TL, bonus 20% TL, prologue patch out
Amnesia - Being translated
AstralAir - prologue patch released
Bunny Black - In editing
>Clover Day - 100% of the common route + 74/722 KB and 130/711 KB of 2 routes translated
Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai - 29878/69128 (43.2%) lines translated, 25533/69128 (36.9%) lines edited, demo released
>Dot Kareshi - All 3 titles released
Gore Screaming Show - Prologue and day one patch released
Hanahira - fully translated, being finalized
HaraKano - 44% beta patch released
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Hatsukoi 1/1 - Being translated
>Koichoco - 100% translated, 369/397 files edited
Koiken Otome - 95.66% translated, 83.09% edited, prologue patch released
>Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort - 100% translated, 15059/36325 (41.46%) through first editing pass
KoiTate - 34139/38001 (89%) translated
Kurukuru Fanatic - 74.79% translated
Lamune - Nanami route partial patch released, Hikari route 1436/6085 lines translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, now a joint project with Doki. 29712/30163 new lines translated
Lovely Cation- 9.45% of lines translated
>Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, demo patch for items, skills, and gameplay text
Muv-Luv Altered Fable - 65% partial patch released
Muv-Luv TDA 01 - 75% translated

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

>Noble Works - 43,216 / 57,690 (74.9%) lines translated, partial patch released
Nursery Rhyme - 5589/33014 lines translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - 236/268 scripts translated, 130/268 through TLC+Editing, 66/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 42% translated
Princess Maker 5- 86.06% lines translated, 32.91% of lines finalized
Prism Ark - Common route translated
Rance 5D - 40% translated
>Rance VI: 35.1% Translated
>Rance Quest - 26.87% messages and all strings translated, 37/198 quests finished
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 12194/30040 (40.59%) lines translated
Rose Guns Days 3+4 - 100% translated and 60% edited
SakuSaku - Common route + Konami route fully translated, 30292/49257 (62%) lines translated, 22891/49257 (46%) lines finalized, Konami + Mio route released
Sanarara R - 15/124 scripts translated
SonoHana 10 - Being translated
SonoHana 11 - Being translated
>SubaHibi - Down the Rabbit Hole I patch released, 51073/53290 (95.8%) lines translated and 40597/53290 (76.2%) lines edited
Supreme Candy - ~14573/43261 (~33.7%) lines translated
>Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited
To Heart2- 67% translated- "The final product is still years away unless I get more help. ", new alpha patch released
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete - 4282/35056 (12.2%) lines translated
Witch's Garden - 20227/67201 (30.10%) lines translated, prologue patch released
>White Album 2 - Opening chapter fully translated with a "rough patch", Closing Chapter: 4824/35275 (13.67%) lines translated
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 77.13%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Official work

MangaGamer
>Princess Evangile - Released
Amber Breaker - April 16 release
Yome no Imouto to no Inai - Through Beta
>Kara no Shoujo 2 - Fully translated, 49.7% edited
>Bokuten - 64% translated, 13.5% edited
>Da Capo 3 - Prologue + Ch. 0 complete, Common route finished, 40.7% translated
>Higurashi (retranslation) - 14.7% of Watanagashi TL, Onikakushi in QC
Gahkthun - 65.4% translated, 21.5% edited
>OZMAFIA - 25.6% translated
>Euphoria - 93.9% translated, 87.5% edited
>House in Fata Morgana - 40.2% translated
>Free Friends - 97.9% translated, 10% edited
Free Friends 2 - On hold
Supipara - Intend to fund through Eden's sales

JAST
Starless - April 27th release
Shiny Days - Translation finished, in editing/timing, 2015 release
Seinarukana- Fully translated, being tested and edited
Raidy III - TL finished, in insertion
Django - Couple more months of translation
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- translation about half done
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up

Sekai Project
World End Economica- 7 of 11 chapters translated for Chapter 2, Spring release for chapter 2
Grisaia trilogy - 18+ and all ages release planned, editing of the original game ongoing, April/May release for original game
Clannad - 25% translated, 15% edited, 4Q 2015 release
WAS Lepidoptera no Sunadokey - Kickstarter finished
Fault Milestone 2 - Demo in April
Hitomebore - April release
Kokonoe Kokoro - April release
Ame no Marginal - April/May release

Other
Eiyuu Senki - Summer release
Moenovel is working on another title
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - Kickstarter planned
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

>Koichoco - 100% translated, 369/397 files edited
This one can't come fast enough eh.

[Anonymous No.]

Ixrec said on twitter today that Shizuru's route and half of Lucia's route are translated. That's decent progress.

[Anonymous No.]

So doddler said he'd answer questions today and has been silent the whole time.

First thing a lawyer tells you when you're being charged is reveal nothing about your case online.

I hope mangagamer's got a new reverse-engineer-er lined up.

[Anonymous No.]

The most useless thread in this board.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244183
What is this some drama? tell me about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244183
Doddler is a cool dude and I'm worried about his legal troubles (fuck this world if he gets any serious punishment), but let's be honest here, you can't throw a rock without hitting a Unity programmer nowadays.

>>13244245
Customs confiscated some eroge he imported and then he was detained for a day and charged with a crime (he did not disclose which).

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>>13244252
Who the HELL is this doddler dude.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244252
It's not like Doddler is an amazing programmer, but... there's nobody better around who wants to do what he does.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244256
How are you here yet unaware? He gets brought up multiple times every thread.

He's one of the most prolific hackers/programmers in the scene. He used to do a lot of fan projects, and nowadays he's doing official work for MangaGamer, Sekai Project, and JAST. He's practically MangaGamer's (unofficial) mouthpiece, he often talks very candidly about the western eroge industry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244272
i dont read ur shitty twitter drama.

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>>13244252
Considering Canada's obscenity laws it could pretty much be anything, last week I think he was saying how it reads more like a list of features for Euphoria, so I imagine he tried to avoid anything that actually was illegal according to them. Most likely for CP I imagine though, I doubt they played through the eroge but just looked at the cover and googled it or something. For all we know he could have imported Naisho no naisho, but I doubt he would be as stupid to import something like that.

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>>13244282
That was after they had already marked his package. He then went on to say that it should be safe regardless as long as the packaging looks clean. He probably imported something borderline and hoped it would slip through.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244111
>Hatsukoi 1/1 - Being translated
The translator's site has a line count listed, almost 11,000 lines are translated now. However:
>I know next to nothing in Japanese.
Not a great sign...

https://ryuuichikoyukishi.wordpress.com/visual-novels/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244298
It's annoying it's such a grey area when it really shouldn't be, laws shouldn't be decided on feelings. You could even get arrested for having something like Saya or Demonbane imported from the US, guess I'm lucky I'm a Britbong but my packages never get inspected or opened.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244111
>>13244160
Should probably be using the qc instead of the editing progress.

[Anonymous No.]

Another week of Dan88 not checking on projects for updates.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244378
On top of the other stuff mentioned, Bunny Black is also out of editing and the only thing left to be done is patch creation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244439
> patch creation
ETA 2025, when Doddler is out of jail.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244183
I'm guessing he meant he would tell his colleagues about it, so that Mangagamer and the rest would know what's going on. After all, the whole industry is going to be hurt for a while if Doddler disappears to jail.

[Anonymous No.]

Doddler getting vanned for Loli edition.

[Anonymous No.]

Can someone please give a good translation for this:

　公園右下のボウズのイベントを進める。
　　商店街で、じじいの家の下に成年に話しかけ、じじいのイベントを進める。
　　ネオン街にてドゥビドゥバーの店に入ろうとする。
　　スラムで地下教団の教祖に話しかけ、イベントを進める。
　　スラムのあとは自動でネオン街に進み、レンナのシナリオは完了となります。

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244111
fuck you nigger

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244550
I am promoting the park under the direct Bowes events.
In the shopping center, and to promote the old man of the event, talk to adults under the old man of the house.
I am trying to type the stored ~ubido~UBA the neon city.
In order to promote the event, please consult the underground cult guru of slums.
After slum processing proceeds to neon as automatic, required Lena scenario is completed.

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>>13244746
I expected you to make a comment about Doddler being arrested making you wait coldly

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244263
>>13244252
>you can't throw a rock without hitting a Unity programmer nowadays.
>It's not like Doddler is an amazing programmer
Problem is, Doddler IS an amazing programmer. I can program stuff in Unity if necessary (haven't used Unity too much but I've been coding since I was little (I also majored in Software Engineering in college but it didn't teach me much)), but Doddler once showed me an early version of the Unity VN engine he was working on and it blew my mind. I know at least I can't make something like that, and in my experience I seem to be better than the average programmer. I could maintain what Doddler has made, but you really need a Doddler to make stuff like that from scratch.

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>>13244252
There are a lot of Unity programmers but that's because it's in high demand. The trouble is finding one who doesn't have a better job lined up.

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>>13244746

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>>13245125

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>>13245129

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>>13245132

[Anonymous No.]

Is the sluggish title screen animation (and other stuff like this) just a part of the game, or did I pirate a bad copy of Evangile?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13245173
It's a game problem, the same stuff happen in the steam demo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13245173
The former.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/344630/discussions/0/618453594749381032/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13245358
Wow, a VN looks like shit fullscreen. More news at 11.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13245122
>>13245123
>>13245125
>>13245129
>>13245132
>>13245136

That's cool. This made my day.

[Anonymous No.]

I know pic related is not a VN, but is there anyone translating it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13245674
>https://gbatemp.net/threads/in-progress-fate-extra-ccc-translation-project.366533/
The project was cancelled...
Also; / vg /

[Anonymous No.]

>>13245674
>>13245719
Hahaha, always funny when some project raises hopes up and then crashes them.

See also: various attempts to translate Aiyoku no Eustia.

[Anonymous No.]

>>Euphoria - 93.9% translated, 87.5% edited
YES, just a month or 2 more and finally i'll be able to f*cking understand what the hell happened!!

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>>13245728
sounds like a fine idea. maybe is should translate a bit of something people want. than vanish.

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>>13246067
Take a few choice screen shots here and there, edit in a translation and update with a percentage every week or so and act like you're translating it, then drop it at around 80~90%.

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>>13246015
Man, will this be a shitty year with Starless and Euphoria being released later on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244111
does anyone have the latest to heart 2 translation? novelnews.net is down and i can't find the download for it.

I fear the translation might be a dead project but I know he had an alpha release that was 67% done, although some sources said 74%??

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>>13246118
>4% progress between 2011 and 2015
>0% progress since 2013
>All pages relating to it and the group are offline
>I fear the translation might be a dead project

Is this really a puzzle that you cannot solve on your own?

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>>13245495
It looks much worse than it should, but the worst part is the performance. All of the transitions, UI animations, and general game responsiveness feel very slow and sluggish.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13246219
Actually there has been progress this year, even! It's not dead, just very, very slow.

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>>13246485
If its doing less than 30% per year, there's zero chance it will ever finish.

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>>13246490
So if a project does 29% per year it's doomed, but if it's 31% then it's fine? Nice logic there anon

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>>13246511
>but if it's 31% then it's fine?

Not him, but how did you get to that conclusion? Nobody said that, only that if a project does less than 30% per year, it's pretty much screwed which is more or less true. 31% is still a shitty number.

Quit being retarded

[Anonymous No.]

>>13246485
The actual translation completion it was up to before the forum its thread was on was taken down was 73.4%, btw. So that's another missed updated by Dan88.

[Anonymous No.]

New Doddler tweet:
>https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/582280469892308992

[Anonymous No.]

>>13246552
Gombrio, Doddler.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13246552

but when's the court date

[Anonymous No.]

>>13246552
So this happened to him in Canada, right?

Could a similar problem arise for some importing to USA?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244282
How are they gonna google it if it's in Nip?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13246552
大丈夫

[Anonymous No.]

Porn game programmer gets arrested for importing pornographic material...

[Anonymous No.]

So what's the progress on the sister alley and the silver death project /jp/ was going to start when the game was released?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13247678
I've almost finished translating it twice. Expect a release tomorrow.

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>>13247578
It's substantially less likely. Customs is less strict about obscenity in the US and you don't actually hear of Americans getting arrested for importing hentai like you do with Canadians.

>>13247678
Is this game good? It looks appealing and it has some solid talent behind it but I've been burned going only on that before.

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>>13247710
>Is this game good? It looks appealing and it has some solid talent behind it but I've been burned going only on that before.
You can read some egs reviews, which haven't been favorable at all. No one's rated it above the 70's yet, which is pretty telling even at 28 votes.

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>>13247819
It's 100% shit, only 2 characters, the rest are cut out, stupid jokes, you can only exit the game after the forced skit, the effects are bad, the writing is bad, the art is even worse then majikoi (that's saying something).

Basically don't even think about this game, this is the ff13 of eroge.

[Anonymous No.]

So, dovac once again makes a fantastic tweet
https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/582362585430786049
>You know, I wonder what would the industry be like if I never started my company.
Just look at what Clannad and Grisaia kickstarters made him think.

[Ryukito No.]

>>13244313
I was wondering why my blog had hit counts fron 4chan. Welp. I guess I should thank you for making me realize I should rephrase that.
What I should say is that I have no formal education in Japanese. But my translations are still good! I promise! Just check out my videos! My channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7B15VLnxgqQKlJHK2_zvSQ

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>>13248116
Take your mangagaymer fanboyism somewhere else, docac single handedly founded the western VN audience from nothing but blood sweat and tears and we should be grateful. Just because kickstarter has the same abbreviation as Katawa Shoujo doesn't mean you have to hate it as a business model because you're trying to fit in.

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>>13248233
Does defending yourself on /jp/ ever work?
I know the guy who did the updated version of Kikokugai got a lot of support, but it wasn't quite the same thing.
He released it anonymously, and it'd never be otherwise translated due to JAST

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248116
> what would the industry be like if I never started my company
It would be exactly same, except no shitty non-porn money-milker kusoge.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248116
Yeah, thank god SP came through with Nekopara and some shit that fantranslators were already tangled up in anyway, they've revitalized the scene

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>>13247578
>Could a similar problem arise for some importing to USA?

I believe it varies state to state in the US, but overall the odds seem to be in your favor given that there's companies that literally import loliholes for resale in murrikkka and there's also a handful of people that have literally imported copies of comic LO into the country.

I dunno if I'd be brave enough to do either of the above without taking a long hard look at state laws, but just general eroge or stuff with safe covers I wouldn't really give a second thought to.

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>>13248262
Until people realized how shitty a job he did.

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>>13248439
I played the pasted version, it's not bad really aside from some typos and typsetting (mostly likely artifacts).

My bigger problem is that the renewal seems to cut down on the porn scenes compared to the original, no tits, dicks or vags shown.

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>>13248445
That's because those scenes were changed and rewritten, but he pasted the old scenes over top of them.

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>>13248449
Nah, I don't think that's a problem with the translation, because the renewal version is 15+ and not 18+.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248449
He made it sound like those scenes weren't actually rewritten, just pared down. From what I can tell, the CGs match the content of the translation, they were just modified to not show penetration and to cover up the tits.

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>>13246534
>if a project does less than 30% per year
Not him, but how did you get to that conclusion?
30% is still a shitty number. Quit being retarded

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248505
> Quit being retarded
No, you.
"30%" is same as "~3 years to finish". And there's no way something with even more than 3 years ETA is going to be ever finished, not to mention 50 year ETA (2 % per year projects).

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>>13248520
And where did you get the numbers? 3 years is bad, but 2,5 years is good? And not taking a game lengh in consideration just proves that you are retarted.

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>>13248559
> And where did you get the numbers?
From statistics of past completed projects.
>not taking a game lengh in consideration
It doesn't matter. If anything, longer games have bigger chance of being dropped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248577
>>13248577
>asspulled numbers
>durr they are from statistics because I say so
Totally legit.

[Anonymous No.]

Haro seems pretty pretty assblasted that NTY finally got cracked, so I guess sales must have really dropped. Shame that Evangile had to be put up for preorder while it was on sale so that it'd be impossible to guess how well it sold via order numbers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248247
>Just because kickstarter has the same abbreviation as Katawa Shoujo

I know you're baiting but I chuckled.

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>>13248505
>30% is still a shitty number

Why would you assume I thought 30% was fine when I just had said that 31% was also shit? I ask you again, are you retarded?

Why the fuck are you so obsessed with nitpicking the 30% number to the point where you can't get over it like sperging retard? If you still haven't noticed, you're the only one speaking in absolutes here. You seem to believe that because some anon gave 30% as a general indication for measuring a project's progress, that 29.99% is disastrously awful while 30.01% is piece of cake and smooth sailing.

Refer to my previous post:
>Quit being retarded

[Anonymous No.]

Ded

[Anonymous No.]

Scene.

[Anonymous No.]

How to get to this scene?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248265
Uh. You haven't seen Steam, or dlsite, or anything outside of 4chan have you? When he says scene I don't think he means tlwiki irc chan.

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>>13245010
Uh, nothing wrong with sucking Doddler's cock because he's a decent human being but programmers are a dime a dozen.
He was MG's de facto programmer since he worked for practically nothing.

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>>13247600
but it did get better in the end?

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>>13249651
It did, in fact, but not by just waiting and doing nothing.

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>>13249651
In addition to what >>13249664 said, it first got much, much worse, and after that only got better because of...well, there isn't even any proper explanation given, the writers just wanted a happy end and weren't even capable of properly connecting it to the rest of the story. If it weren't for happy ends being mandatory, pic related would be the actual result. Actually it wouldn't, because the world would be destroyed just hours after Karin became blind and deaf, relieving her from her misery. Because someone worked to make that happen. If it weren't for that, she'd be suffering like that for eternity.

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>>13249651
Until what episode did you watch?

I thought YuYuYu was great and really fun. Some people compare it to Madoka, but it's better than Madoka.

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>>13249763
It had the potential to be better than Madoka, particularly in the subtle way the drama was introduced and the way it beelined straight towards an extremely harsh 'everything is fucked' ending. Then it out-bullshitted Madoka towards a happy ending and ruined everything it had going for it in just one episode. Seriously, fuck YuYuYu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13249809
I guess it depends on how you interpret it, but it didn't seem like a happy ending to me. Yuuna was actually still fighting at the end of the show while keeping it a secret from the others.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13249573
>a dime a dozen.
Do you mean a diamond dozen?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13249556
GGN was already selling far before Nekopara did, Dovac didn't do anything that wouldn't have happened naturally by people putting trash OELVNs or budget VNs on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13249821
No, that's bullshit the fans made up to justify the show's shitty ending. The actual episode implies no such thing, it just makes Yuuna go through a mysterious bullshit condition for extra drama which is cured through sheer optimism. Fans took it all as really symbolic and thought up far-fetched interpretations to make the ending (written by the same folks who just earlier in the episode let Yuuna defeat the massive monster army even a god can't defeat in hundreds of years with a single punch infused with the power of friendship and optimism) somehow make sense.

I think it's a far more reasonable assumption that the latter half of the episode is just as retarded as the first half, rather than it being totally deep and symbolic.

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>>13250123
Well whatever, I still enjoyed it a lot. I see Madoka as stupid symbolism I didn't enjoy too though, so what do I know.

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>>13249893
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/dime+a+dozen

[Anonymous No.]

>>13250259
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Diamond%20Dozen

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>>13250103
Pretty much. Sakura Spirit would have passed Greenlight without Sekai Project's involvement. It would have sold just as well without Sekai Project's involvement, too. SP had very little to do with its success, after all, it was all the work of youtubers and streamers.

Now, if some huge wave of kickstarters by translation companies looking to bring major works to the west suddenly happens, I'll concede Sekai Project had an influence. As of right now, though, they've barely had any time to influence anything, they've only had games released for a year now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13246096
that pun

[Anonymous No.]

ANNND I just got blocked from dobaccos twitter

[Anonymous No.]

>>13251137
You were probably being an even bigger faggot than him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244111
>Air (Project 1)
I'm assuming that this is Air by Key. What does "Project 1" mean in this context?

[Anonymous No.]

>Imopara up to number 2 on the mangogamer charts

I can't wait until january where it's revealed that Imopara outsold kns2 despite being last year's title. And then, in a lonely canadian jail cell, a single tear will roll down doddler's cheek and he won't know why.

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>>13251436
There were two projects going on at the same time.

Although really, it was two projects both not making hardly any progress for a long time. Then project one suddenly released a complete game beta patch, the person in charge of project two had a mental breakdown over it on Twitter and then mysteriously began translating ten times faster than they had the last few months and declared themselves finished about a month later while project one has persisted in its 'open beta' for a year and a half.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13251589
I'm not even going to bother typing up a new post for this. Copypaste from my post a couple months ago (>>12488986):

>In about a month, she did more than she had accomplished in a year and a half, and then immediately released it without anybody doing any editing or QC on it.
Once more, bullshit misinformation. Her blog is right fucking there and it contains clear information on the project's progress. In June, after sitting on the project for a long time, she finished translating common route:
>The AIR Common route is now 100% translated!
>“What does this mean!?” I hear you all cry. Why, it means I’ve finally started translating AIR myself! The stats page will now be updated regularly (i.e. whenever I finish a file), and I’ll be tweaking this blog to give it a project page and whatnot later in the week. I’m doing Minagi’s route next, and in an ideal world I’ll release a partial after all of Dream is translated. Here’s hoping everything goes well! My health’s been in good shape recently, and I’ve now finished university forever, so until October I should be free to work on it every day.

Then in August, the other group popped up and drama ensued. A couple days later, Minagi route reached 100%. Early September, Kano route was completed. Half a year later, the patch was finally released (parts translated since September were Misuzu route and Air route by Sheeta, and Summer by Ixrec).

[Anonymous No.]

This is a dumb question, but I remember the translator of Killer Queen saying it was kind of a lead in to Secret Game Code:Revise and Rebellions: Secret Game 2nd Stage.
Is there any plans of translating any of these down the line, by anyone?
That they've said publicly

[Anonymous No.]

>>13252008
Let's look at the timeline again.
>August 2012 - Edgar drops out, Sheeta says she's taking it over
>June 2013 - Sheeta has finished the common route. 15% done in 10 months. She then turns it over to Ixrec to 'help out,' he does another 25%.
>July 2013 - Other group releases their patch. Sheeta has a temper tantrum
>December 2013 - Translation finishes.

So to recap, on her own before the other patch released, Sheeta was translating at about 1.5% a month. After their patch was released, her project, thanks to Ixrec, was at about 60% done. She then proceeded to finish it in the next 5 months, translating more than 5 times faster than she had before.

So which is? Was she a lazy cunt for not putting in any time and effort before the other group released their patch, or is she a lazy cunt for obviously cribbing from their work?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13252902
Japanese announced that you should learn it already.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13252902
The people who did Killer Queen are going to do the rest. Eventually.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13253032
I am a lazy NEET bastard who can't graduate college, let alone learn another language without any discipline

[Anonymous No.]

>>13253044
only the shitty methods actually take discipline

i have 0 discipline and here i am reading untranslated eroge

[Anonymous No.]

>>13253121
That's complete bullshit and you know it. It's been 7 years since I started reading VNs. If learning Japanese didn't require any discipline I wouldn't still be depending on translations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244313
>I try to play VNs already translated, but only a small amount are

He knows next to nothing about English

[Anonymous No.]

>>13252939
You failed to notice
>and I’ve now finished university forever, so until October I should be free to work on it every day.
If Sheeta began to have loads of free time it's completely natural for the translation progress to increase.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13253121
>>13253668
>>13253044

[Anonymous No.]

So how shitty is the fuwa translation of Majikoi?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255069
The new translator does some weird things like changing the terminology that was present in takajun's translation for what seems to be no real reason. "Kri" becomes "Crit," "Mouryou's Gathering" becomes "Goblin Feast," and "the Bridge of Weirdos" becomes "Pervert Bridge." There's a little less polish, but if you're not going to learn Japanese it's good enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13252939
I'm confused why people think there can only be one translation of a VN. A piece of literature can have several different translators and none of them flip shit because someone else tried. It's not a race, it's a journey for understanding and lucidity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255192
So it's at least better than Wairu's lousy attempt? That's weird considering where the project has originated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255216
Translators of literature translate for money. Translators of eroge translate for e-penis.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255216
There's a few reasons, people will accept pretty much shit quality translations just to read something sooner rather than waiting, which means that whichever is the first TL will generally get the most attention. Which also means that whoever translates it first gets the most efame.

The other reason is that because the fan TL scene is so starved for translators and regular content of quality VNs that people would rather see two translators translate different things so that work isn't going to waste as such, which is again only a problem because people are willing to accept subpar translation quality like above.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255274
I haven't read the Majikoi S translation, so I couldn't tell you. Sorry man.

Just to clarify on my previous post the new translator doesn't change anything that was in takajun's translation. It's basically his translation with Fuwa added on at the spots he didn't do. You probably already know this, but that's the reason that the terminology changes are frustrating: the wording you've gotten used to in 10+ hours changes when you start doing side-routes and the like.

>>13255277
True, but I doubt there's a better e-peen generator than completely smashing a previous translation attempt.

>>13255307
It's a real shame man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255320
Yeah, style breaks are always a big no go when resuming the translation of someone else. Almost makes me want to edit the translation. I'm still somewhat surprised. I expected some kind of retarded machine translation fest. Even the uncensored CGs don't look too terrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255192
Changing Kri to Crit makes the joke actually make sense. It made no real sense in english before. Of course, they didn't change TakaJun's script so now it's just a weird inconsistency. Mouryou's Gathering is a bad translation, in that it's not even fully translated and doesn't make any sense to the large majority of readers. Goblin's Banquet is fine and a better translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255069
Extremely shitty.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255846
Extremely extremely shitty.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255852
Doubtful understands Japanese OR English shitty.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255852
>>13255846
>>13255858

I love how everytime someone say the translation is shit he show the youtube video and not the patched VN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255864
The point is that the guy can't translate for shit.

But if Cudder suddenly surprised us by releasing another game, I'm sure you'd say to wait and see because all his past translations mean nothing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255846
It's not that bad. Better than probably the majority of shit listed in the OP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255889
Yes, man, fuwanovel is single guy who is crazy and posts under thousand different nicknames.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13255216
Beyond the whole e-penis thing, the Air project is a bit special.

The 'original' Air project started all the way back in 2004 apparently (pre-2008 is just a matter of what I've heard, only joined the community in 2008). It didn't work out and was passed to a different translation group. That didn't work out either and by 2008 the project was on TLWiki, where a lot of people of varying competence (from good translators to literal machine translations) contributed to it. However, that never reached completion either, and the project was a huge mess at that point (going through two groups AND receiving the early TLWiki treatment). Still, it went through a further two groups (which both did some stuff but never got far enough for a release). The game was almost completely translated at this point, but it was a huge mess.

In that situation, Edger started translating Air from scratch because the old translation was deemed unsalvageable. Edger got a life and quit translating, and the project was passed to Sheeta. This project came to be known as 'project 2'. Edger made good progress and Sheeta made some progress, but Sheeta being Sheeta, it was inconsistent and slow.

Right as Sheeta was starting to make good progress, out of nowhere Gao Gao translations popped up with the announcement they're almost ready to release a beta translation patch for Air based on the 'original' Air project that's been worked on by so many groups. This is 'project 1'. As 'project 2' was started entirely because the 'original' project was deemed unsalvageable, Sheeta lost her shit at suddenly having a group working with that base beating her to releasing a full Air patch.

That's what happened and why Sheeta lost her shit, and it's why >>13252939's slander is such bullshit. Of all the things Sheeta would possibly do, stealing from the 'original' project or its derivative is not one of them. She could've done that AGES ago, but the entire reason for 'project 2' was to avoid that.

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>>13256079
>leaves out Ixrec translating a third of it being the entirety of Sheeta's 'good progress'
>defending Sheeta's public meltdown
>leaves out that Sheeta can't even edit shit as quickly as she suddenly found herself translating Air
>leaves out that Sheeta was learning Japanese during the whole thing from someone whose Japanese is poor to start
>libeling the other project
>still misusing slander

[Anonymous No.]

>>13256194
But anon, the quoted text doesn't appear in the post you're referring to! Can you explain it in a less, how do I say this, 'green' way? I feel it would significantly improve the quality of the discussion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13256236
To be fair there's no real point replying seriously to someone who is out to shill for and defend someone no matter the truth.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13256645
We can make Sheeta relive her meltdown and collapse into another puddle of tears.

Isn't that worth it?

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/583034320568389632

[Anonymous No.]

>>13257107
A bit too obvious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13249116
>>13249163
Nobody cares about you Insem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13257306
No one except you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13248875
Read >>13246490
>If its doing less than 30% per year, there's zero chance it will ever finish.
The number was asspulled with no basics and the anon is mad when somebody says his logic is shit. And even with 30% per year, it would be closer to 3,5 years (3 years 4 months to reach 100%) and if he had any idea how translating a game works, reaching 100% or translation doesn't make everything magically ready.

>Why would you assume I thought 30% was fine when I just had said that 31% was also shit? I ask you again, are you retarded?
You said "less than 30%" so everything above 30% is fine. Or are you making an arbitrary number again? So how much per year is good? 33%? 43%? 50,7%?

>Why the fuck are you so obsessed with nitpicking the 30% number to the point where you can't get over it like sperging retard? If you still haven't noticed, you're the only one speaking in absolutes here.
I told him it's an asspulled number because it is. It's not based on any statiscis and make a little sense.

>You seem to believe that because some anon gave 30% as a general indication for measuring a project's progress, that 29.99% is disastrously awful while 30.01% is piece of cake and smooth sailing.
That's why the 30% per year condition is retarted. You fail to realize this simple fact? You are just as silly as the first 30% anon.

>>13248577
>If anything, longer games have bigger chance of being dropped.
That's obvious.

>It doesn't matter.
You are retarted. Tthe 30% of Rewrite isn't the same as let's say, 30% of A Clockwork Ley Line. If you fail to see a difference when the game has 90k, 40k or 10k lines then there are no help for you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13258134
Ti9, are you that lonely tonight?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13257107

Mangagamer's version of the same joke https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/583164144469176320

[Anonymous No.]

>>13258134
The irony of calling someone "retarded", only to misspell it twice is not lost on me. Good job!

[Anonymous No.]

>>13258234
Mangagamer version is much better.

[Anonymous No.]

I cri evertim

[Anonymous No.]

http://tenka.seiha.org/2015/04/i-despise-april-1st-on-the-internet/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13244183
> Doddler thrown to the wolves.

IT'S THE CURSE OF SEINARUKANA! JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT EVERYTHING WOULD BE DAIJOBU.

Now, what did he import?

[Anonymous No.]

> Bunny Black.

I didn't even know this was being translated, or that Seiha was even still translating thing.

Looks like MGQ lite. I'll stick it on the queue after Evangile.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13259460
>Bunny Black - In editing
Reading OP-posts is for losers, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13259463
Reading posts is for losers too, it seems.

> http://tenka.seiha.org/2015/04/i-despise-april-1st-on-the-internet/
> http://games.seiha.org/patches/BunnyBlack_eng_1.00.rar

[Anonymous No.]

>>13259530
Yes, especially for retards like you.

[Anonymous No.]

Euphoria promotional page is now live
http://www.mangagamer.org/euphoria

[Anonymous No.]

>>13259530
Yaaayy

[Anonymous No.]

>>13262610
That OP always gets me. I like the page.

On another note, eden* is currently with 50% discount on MG site - http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?aflg=18over&product_code=125&af=d91a29c4263691f11a386c55fe349d89
Cho Dengeki Stryker and GGN also are in discount.

[Anonymous No.]

Is the erogedownload version of bunnyblack pre-pacakged or an ISO?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13264042
Ask /vg/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13264042
>>13264357
Or, you know, erogedownload.

[Anonymous No.]

So, tomorrow MG will announce something new related to Higurashi.
We already know that Higurahi Steam release supports english and japanese text, increased resolution and the ability to switch between the new and old sprites. What do you guys think this new announcement will be?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265034
Hopefully the translation of whatever new contents there are.

They have started it, might as well finish the job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265034
MangaGamer has bought Ryukishi07. Not 07th Expansion, Ryukishi07 himself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265034
Probably the release date.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265221

Will they be translating him?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265311
No. In fact, they won't even ever release him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265380
That's imprisonment!

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265380
I hope they never release him after the travesty Umineko's end

[Anonymous No.]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/349300

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265583
https://www.lewdgamer.com/2015/03/25/lewdgamer-needs-your-help-interviewing-peter-payne-of-jast-usaj-list/


Which lewd question would you ask Peter Payne?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265583
>announces a release date 24 hours prior to release

God damnit JAST, are you kidding me with this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13266594

Assuming I'm 31 now, do you suppose my cock will still work by time sumaga is out?

[Anonymous No.]

Guys. Does Gen-san get a route in Majikoi S? I can only find info about the girls' routes.

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone know if there any stream/transcript from today's MG panel?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265034
Music. Doddler teased something about the music on twitter a week or so ago. They're probably getting the full original soundtrack. I'm not sure why they had to use replacements in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13268407
Higurashi is a doujin game with lots of music contributions by different artists, each one owning the rights to their own songs, meaning if you want to get the full soundtrack you need to hunt down all the artists and make individual deals with each of them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13266794
>sumaga
damn you, don't remind me

[Anonymous No.]

>>13265034

I'm more interested in the other surprise (or two) that they claim. There's a lot of possibilities there.

Taking stock of what everyone's working on, the only ones with semi-free schedules for a big title in the next few months are Cafe and Maria. I imagine Maria will probably do flowers, and that will probably be announced at AX. Perhaps we'll see that myth exchange announced for real?

It also seems like it might be a good time to announce their next set of lilith games, which where, even if all translators are occupied, there's no reason they couldn't stop and bang out in a month or two. Of course, it's also been nearly a whole year since we've seen a softhouse seal title, so that's also a possibility. And of course, morningstar/appetite shit.

There's also this thing that they've silently picked up for publishing https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ecchi-mery-and-the-perils-of-the-cosmic-shrine#activity

[Anonymous No.]

>>13268748

Oh, and also, if it's not new game announcements, I suppose it could also be new hardcopies. Cartagra and eden would seem like safe bets if that were to be the case.

Also, extrapolating this information towards the future, I believe DS55 will likely be near enough to done with bokuten that they might announce his next project at Otakon or AX. Beyond that though, I think most of the mangagamer machine is booked up on big titles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13268748
My guess is that the "surprises" will be a nukige announcement or two and the higurashi music thing. They'll definitely save the big announcements for AX. (any new licenses, Flowers, Tsuriotsu, etc)

I wonder if Cafe is actually going to finish Aoire Rinne after euphoria or if that one will be in limbo forever.

[Anonymous No.]

>During their Anime Boston panel earlier today, international visual novel publisher MangaGamer announced that they will be offering a more definitive edition of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni on Steam. Rather than just release the eight arcs (4x Question and 4x Answer) they have previously published, they have acquired Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou, which contains: all four question arcs, all four answer arcs, all three arcs of Higurashi Rei, the original concept story Hinamizawa Teiryuujyo, Higurashi Outbreak and the Kamikanshi Chapter. All fourteen chapters will be released individually via Steam – although it now seems like an extra year or two may have been added to the localization process.
>This acquisition also means that a number of new features will avail themselves to players. >These include:
>Options to switch between the new sprites and the old
>New Higurashi Hou sprites will also be redone in the new sprite style
>The BGM that were replaced in the initial release will be restored to the original versions
>Options to switch between playing in English and Japanese on-the-fly

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269716
Breddy cool, and kinda what I expect.

Go MG!

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269724
Though I prefer it if they sell it just one game instead of individual chapters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269716
BASED MG

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269716

MangaGamer's panel isn't until 9:30 PM EST, that's nine minutes from now. What's the source on that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269793
Yea need source.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269793
Otaku's Study.

I'm guessing they accidentally took the PR live by accident because they took both the page and the tweet down.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269729

Given the sheer volume of text there, I don't think they could afford a reasonably priced bundle. To be honest, I kinda doubt they'll be able to finish it. That's a lot of text to entrust to some translator that isn't a vital cog in the machine like kouryuu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269817
I have faith in them.

Translation might be bad, but I accept it if it's understandable.

MG does nice thing so I'm willingly forgiving for them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269817
Kouryuu's not a vital cog, he's been and will be on DC3 for the next decade...

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269806
Print of the page here

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269828

Kouryuu IS mg, which is why he's on something as long as DC3. It's not like he's a contractor like everyone else that can just back out.

But text volumewise, that higurashi monolith of theirs is a feat even greater than DC3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269806
I'll believe that. MangaGamer is really going to have to step up the translation speed on Higurashi if they want to release the subsequent chapters in a reasonable timeframe. This isn't me being impatient, what are the chances that a lot of the people they hook with ch.1 are going to become completely disinterested by the time they finish if they can't release at least a few chapters a year?

>>13269822
Please do not accept bad translations, especially not commercial translations. You make this hobby worse for everyone involved if you do this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269877
Hmm, I guess I will hold on until buying to see the quality of the translation beforehands.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269877
>I'll believe that. MangaGamer is really going to have to step up the translation speed on Higurashi if they want to release the subsequent chapters in a reasonable timeframe. This isn't me being impatient, what are the chances that a lot of the people they hook with ch.1 are going to become completely disinterested by the time they finish if they can't release at least a few chapters a year?

I suppose it's possible if they assigned different translators to different chapters and put their best editor on it to keep it style-consistent. That seems like a big challenge though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269903
> if they assigned different translators to different chapters
Very unlikely scenario. The reason is because MG is currently understaffed. Just look at doddler last ask.fm response - http://ask.fm/The_Doddler/answer/125509559281
>I think we have enough partners and licenses that we're going to have to start picking and choosing what to localize, cause there's just too much to chose from

[Anonymous No.]

>>13269716
Real shame that nothing aside from Higurashi and Higurashi Kai is worth reading.

[Anonymous No.]

Myth announced, mangagamer got it looks like

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270094

and myth and higurashi was it.

[Anonymous No.]

I really don't understand why people make a big deal out of myth

[Anonymous No.]

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2015/04/03/anime-boston-announcements/

[Anonymous No.]

Do the answer arcs really need a translation overhaul? My Japanese isn't fluent enough to spot the errors, but it seemed much more readable to me for the most part. It's the question arcs that really need the retranslation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270131
That 07th expansion page is pretty neat. It's basic in a good way. I like how it lists the fan patches for the other games too.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

I'm not sure what to think about the overly cutesy art direction they're going with here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270131
thank doddles

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270153
Good news! With this release, you can just jump over to the config menu and switch it back to good ole' RyuuKishi's stumpy handed awfulness at any time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270161
Please don't insult boxing hands!

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270094
Man, my opinion on Cafe increased a lot. He convinced Circletempo to partner with MG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270131
thank doddles

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270161
>implying you don't fantasize about rena's meaty ham-hands wrapping around your cock

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270153
>>13270161
If only Alchemist would be reasonable about the ps2 assets, then this wouldn't even be an issue.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270131
X)

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270179
Who are ye quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270191

The wrong person, obviously. I'm surprised you couldn't infer that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270107
MangaGamer has been getting a number of doujin games lately. They're even going to host the evn Sekaiju - Yggdrasil, in which the protagonist looks like he was drawn by a different artist than the heroines.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270205
Aren't they just going to sell it on there site like they did with Sekai Project titles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270205
Wow that looks terrible. Sasuga OELVN.

>>13270282
Isn't that hosting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270205
>in which the protagonist looks like he was drawn by a different artist than the heroines.
That happens a lot in commercial eroge you know

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270322
In real bad ones, perhaps.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270340
>real bad ones
No? That depends a lot. some artists just do female designs. eden*'s are decent but the male designs are bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270322
No it doesn't. Definitely not to the degree seen in >>13270205

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270401
Well not like that but to the degree of noticing the artists are different, it does.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270411
I never noticed with eden.

[Anonymous No.]

fuwafag asking jew project questions at sakuracon http://forums.fuwanovel.net/index.php?/topic/9484-anybody-have-random-questions-for-sekai-project/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270465
They want to license "light novels" i bet they will have another kickstarter

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270411
This is the pinnacle of cherrypicking. Sengokuhime is an industry joke for its art.

[Anonymous No.]

Whoah, MG managed to snatch MYTH out of dovac's greedy claws. I'm surprised, nice job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270411
Sengoku Hime is real bad, so what's your point?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270799

You act like dovac had a contract all signed up and was just waiting for it to be signed.

More likely what happened was
>ching chong nip nong I want to release my noberu in eigo
>Great, we translate our games via a process called crowdfunding and we'll need you to be willing to autograph a few hundred items, write some personal messages, perhaps have dinner with a backer, and help promote our kickstarter
>...

vs

>Oh golly gee I loved this novel years ago can I translate it
>ching chong do I have to do anything
>Nope

[Anonymous No.]

>>13270823
Very accurate

[Anonymous No.]

Seems like Clover Days partial patch got released. Any comparison screenshots with original Japanese available? Also is it known if it's an actual translation or an edited MT?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13271611
No it didn't. April fool's.

[Anonymous No.]

Doesn't splitting Higurashi into 14 individual releases sound like a terrible idea? Do you think the hype is still gonna be there when they get to the 7th, 8th, 9th etc etc release? I can just imagine sales going way down.
This is pretty much the situation season pass DLC was made for, to cash in on the hype while it's still there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13271737
>Doesn't splitting Higurashi into 14 individual releases sound like a terrible idea?
I don't know. Higurashi is very long so if MG were to release all of the series in a single package we wouldn't see its release in a very long time.
In regards to Higurashi Rei and Hou I think it'd be better to release that additional content in a single package since they're way shorter than the original series.

On another note, I've seen some people talk about Higurashi Sui that will have 19 chapters ported from the other console ports. What kind of content is that? Did Ryukishi even work on them?

[Anonymous No.]

>>13271737
On the other hand your average Steam user rarely buys anything that's over $10, so it might work. A lot more people will purchase a cheap entry point than would drop a significant amount of cash for one or two more expensive packages. The greater initial sales might be enough to make up for any drop off in sales for later releases in the series, which will certainly happen.

And I suspect many people who buy the first release will keep buying them for completion's sake, even if they haven't gotten around to reading any of them. Valve have successfully developed a metagame with Steam where buying games becomes its own game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13271812
I'm glad I never buy any games on Steam and just accepted gifts and free games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13271812
This is true, having a cheap chapter 1 makes the barrier to entry very low and could get a lot more people buying the series.

The problem being that there is actual market attrition when it comes to these things. A lot of the new fans may be pleasantly surprised but stop caring about the series a couple years from now. It may not be too bad if they're able to constantly pepper in new releases, but if it takes more than six months for each chapter, well, I shouldn't have to tell you how that will go. Even with the same customer base with the same tastes encountering the same products, the more the releases are spaced out, the less they'll sell. Even though MG is insisting that future chapters will go quicker, Watanagashi is going slow as balls right now. MG really needs a translator who can crank out a chapter every 3 or so months without compromising on quality. It sounds possible but may not be feasible in practice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13272786
>Watanagashi is going slow as balls right now
As far as I know, the first translator for the new version was fired for incompetency and all his translation was scrapped. Then the new translation had to be modified in certain patterns of speech or the way the characters address each other (don't remember anymore) not to mention technical work as well as the time to work out licensing details.

I'm sure the other chapters will take way less time to be released given that all issues have apparently been resolved.

[Anonymous No.]

The minori fundraiser should go up a good bit because of eden* sale (it has constantly been between the 10th and 12th pages of Steam top sellers since the discount began) and apparently MG sold all ef limited edition hard-copies they brought to anime Boston.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/otakureview/status/584575130166145024

>Big Announcement: @sekaiproject has licensed the visual novel November Boy from Team Anago.

literally what from literally who

[Anonymous No.]

>>13274350
It's not even on vndb holy shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13274350
found it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlGT6vrbMDY

[Anonymous No.]

>>13274372
Ugh, not more Korean shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13274350
apparently the one called 'Machina of the World Tree' I can't find it anywhere even googling it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13274376
Yea and some other unknown title "Third big announcement: @sekaiproject has licensed Machina of the Planet Tree -Planet Ruler- developed by Denneko Yugi."

[Anonymous No.]

the face of /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>13274445
/jp/ wouldn't be caught dead in Sekai Project panel.

[Anonymous No.]

Wow, it's Sunday and we haven't hit the bump limit. Next time we need some drama to happen or for someone to start a stupid argument.

[Anonymous No.]

>>13274462
+1

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>>13274506
...please no.

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>>13274518
Why?

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>>13274445
Is that Fuwanovel on the laptop?

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>>13271737
>This is pretty much the situation season pass DLC was made for, to cash in on the hype while it's still there.

I think that was actually suggested to doddler on his ask.fm before, but he seemed against the idea.

That seems kind of foolish to me, even if it's morally correct.

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Doddler's booty is still pure, right?

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>>13274372
Hahaha
The "big announcement" is some no-name Korean BL VN?

Sekai Project really is localizing the cheapest shit possible. Between this shit and all those gimmicky doujin VN they've actually managed to find something more bottom of the barrel than Jast's and MG's nukige.

If you thought Western perception of VNs was already bad just wait until people think SP's trash is representative of the medium. Hell, people on Steam think eden is a long VN because to them all the cheap 2-hour long VNs on Steam are the norm.

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Here, I give dovac great idea for free - localize russian doujin VNs. There are plenty of them, and ru->en translation can be done even with google translate.

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>>13274979
I support this.

Rather go russian than korean.

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> @sekaiproject has also licensed the visual novel Sunrider Academy from Love In Space
What does this even mean?
Its already in English, it doesn't need translation.
SP doesn't have funds to invest in it.
Did he call clicking "publish" on Steam as "licensing"?

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>>13275030
Sekai is basically grasping at straw now, I hope they translate that shit into jap or something.

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>>13274390
This is typical shitty RPGMaker DLSite "game". Its not even VN.
http://www.dlsite.com/home/work/=/product_id/RJ125414.html

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>>13274376>>13274372
That's clever move. Since jp autists don't know korean, they will not be able to claim that translation is shit.

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>>13275088
Aha! That's clever indeed, dovac.

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>>13275961

Man, I feel sorry for that TL, being stuck with an incompetent and lazy team member. I hope they get better staff for their next project.

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Picked up a Ruriko Daki from a con yesterday! The fabric is amazing, I think it's two-way tricot. Please forgive my faggot face being in the shot.

I only post it here since its best girl in princess evangile.

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>>13277222
Please don't show your faggot face here ever again. Might as well delete and take another.

And don't get conned at a con again either.

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>>13276036
Yeah I don't think I want kirby to translate anything ever again if hes gonna take the approach that he did with Subahibi.

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>>13277222
Nice i want one

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>>13277222
kek, is that a wedding ring on your finger

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does anyone here know how to cheat on bunny black

onegai...

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>>13277675
This is fantastic
>>13277716
No, it's a claddagh

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>>13247625
Now say that 10 times fast.

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>>13277222

Shame she doesn't have a route.

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>>13278024
She does in the fandisc, and given that Evangile seems to be doing well thusfar we may possibly see if translated also.

It's funny, she gets a large amount of romantic development in the common route and it just gets dropped. She should have had a route over Ritsuko, I think.

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>>13278063

Ritsuko's route really does seem to come out of nowhere, given how she does jack-all in the common route. The only reason I can think of for including her is to have a younger-type girl available. But if that's the case, why didn't they go with konomi considering she eats up about two chapters of the common route? What a strange selection.

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>>13278183
It feels a lot like they had intended routes for other characters but had to cut routes as development went on.

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>Muv-Luv TDA 01 - 75% translated
It's 100% translated
https://alternativeprojects.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/updates-for-march-2015/

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>>13269938
Yeah, they are understaffed because they pay slave wages.

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>>13278387
don't all vn companys pay really low

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>>13278458
In the states they do since they can; most people that work in VNs for the English market do it purely for the love of the job.

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>>13278537
You say that like Japan is any different.