/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1410/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (61.1%)"
Amairo IsleNauts - prologue and common route fully translated, Shirley route 10% TL, Masaki 18.5% TL, Konoka 55% TL, bonus 20% TL, prologue patch out
Aokana - Common route + 2 character routes translation done
>AstralAir - prologue patch released, 32,765 / 63,940 (51.24%) lines translated
Ayakashi Gohan - 49% complete
Black Wolves Saga: 55/65 scripts translated, 51/65 scripts edited
Bunny Black 2 - To be translated
Clover Day's - 100% of the common route + 348/711 KB, 119/743 KB, 92/764, 338/846 and 74/722 KB of 5 routes translated
Flight Diary - 14.8% translated
Gore Screaming Show - Prologue and day one patch released
>HaraKano - Ayana Seno's route patch released
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Hatsukoi 1/1 - 11409 lines translated
Hoka no Onna - 48.68% translated
Irotoridori no Sekai - New project started, prologue mostly translated
Ken ga Kimi: 112/122 scripts translated, 93/122 scripts edited
Kiminozo - Common route translation complete
Koichoco - 100% translated and edited, 340/397 files QC
Koiken Otome - 96.55% translated, 83.93% edited, prologue patch released
Kurukuru Fanatic - 87.5% translated
Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, now a joint project with Doki. 29712/30163 new lines translated
Lovely Cation- 26% of lines completed
Lover Able - 6.84% translated
Majikoi A-1 - 11.4%
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Commie project actively in editing
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, new demo patch for items, skills, and gameplay text, etc

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>Muv Luv Aspiration - Released
Muv Luv Total Eclipse - 25% translated
Noble Works - 53,589 / 57,690 (92.9%) lines translated, partial patch released
>Oreimo Tsuzuku - 266/268 scripts translated, 196/268 through TLC+Editing, 121/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 44% translated
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 22583/30040 (75.18%) lines translated
SakuSaku - 100% translated, 31858/49257 (65%) lines finalized
Starry Sky In Summer - All scripts translated, 165/177 scripts edited
SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - 12/323 scripts translated
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete - 4282/35056 (15.7%) lines translated
White Album 2 - 10218/35275 (28.96%) lines of closing chapter translated
>Witch's Garden - 40000/67201 (59.52%) lines translated, 2221/67201 (3.31%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited


Official work

MangaGamer
Kara no Shoujo 2 - 10/30 release
>Euphoria - demo released, 11/27 release
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
Higurashi Hou -Onikakushi released, Watanagashi in scripting
Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
>Da Capo 3 - 61.4% translated, 23.47% edited
>Gahkthun - 100% translated and edited
>OZMAFIA - 89% translated
>House in Fata Morgana - 85% translated
>Myth - 57.12% translated, 45.8% edited
My Boss Wife is My Ex - 100% translated and edited
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 100% translated and edited
>Yurirei - 72% translated, 63% edited
Himawari - TL and editing finished
>Beat Blades Haruka - 73.7% Translated
Umineko - Picked up
>Tokyo Babel - 56% translated
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up

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JAST
Sonicomi - Fully translated, building launcher
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- main scenerio 100% translated and edited, extra content 33% done
Flowers - Fall release planned, 100% translated, preparing to port
Seinarukana- Waiting on LE materials. QA checking.
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumeragi Ryoko - 100% translated, waiting on test build
Sweet Home - 10% translated


Sekai/Denpa
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title in TL through end of Nov
Clannad - 2 of 3 QC passes done, 4Q 2015 release
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Atom Grrrl - 100% translated
>Narcissu 3rd - 62.11% translated
>Narcissu 0 - 10.03% translated
WEE 3 - 7.39% translated
>Nenokami - 37.79% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
G-Senjou - Q4 release
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Root Double - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
>Witch Boy - Kickstarter failed
Darekoi - Picked up
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - Picked up


Other
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter Started
>Harmonia - On Steam GL
Eiyuu Senki - Delayed a few months from Summer
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 - 2367/10293 (23%) lines translated
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
>Norn9 - November 3rd release
>Code Realize - Released
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - English released planned
Magical Eyes - Winter release planned

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

[Anonymous No.]

Truly a glorious week for machine translations.

[Anonymous No.]

>Subahibi patch will be released on the same day as Sakura no Uta
they said.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14267623
It'll be released the same day as Seinarukana.

Never.

[Anonymous No.]

Although kns2 seems to be struggling, it appears Euphoria is charting fairly well. Can't say I'd have predicted that.

Also something of note. Despite the fact that every other mangagamer hardcopy has shown up on jlist for preorder about the same time as on mangagamer(or before even), princess evangile has not. Given that it's been some time since mangagamer last even announced a hardcopy, I wonder it they might not be using pcr/jlist to print evangile?

As always, if you have order numbers, post em'.

[Anonymous No.]

Harmonia hit Steam Greenlight on Friday and its translation is looking just as promising as expected.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14267959
They put up an English PV too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balUTchhAW0

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[Anonymous No.]

>>14267959
*sigh*

[Anonymous No.]

>>14267615
>Da Capo 3 - 61.4% translated, 23.47% edited

Only 2 more years to go.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14267959
>>14267966

Huh. For an in-house translation it's a lot better than I'd expect.

[Anonymous No.]

Koestl is predicting that Gahkthun can still make a 2015 release date. Sounds pretty optimistic to me.

[Anonymous No.]

White Album 2 IC has been edited and is now around TakaJun-tier passable.

https://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=White_Album_2%2FScript%2F1012&diff=457790&oldid=311300

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268102
It seems they at least got someone who knows how to speak some English. Still, I certainly hope this is in a pre-edited state, as that writing reads pretty badly.

Also, "shed tears"? Really? -_-

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268125
I don't understand meaning of these "edits". Crappy mistranslated text was changed into crappy even more mistranslated text.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268134
Post some examples of mistranslations and how they should be translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268141
Pretty much every line. Like, for example
「いや、最近は後腐れのないコばっかり選んでたから、<br>付き合ってたコの８割がここでお別れなんだよ。
|"Well, recently I've only been with girls that would bring me trouble in the future, so I cut my ties with 8 of them here... \k


後腐れのないコばっかり he somehow translated as "girls that would bring me trouble in the future" when it clearly says otherwise. You can't seriously claim to know Japanese if you cannot even understand what ない means.

And then he "translates" ８割 as "with 8 of them". What the hell, its worse than that famous MLTDA line.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268141
Just look at how they completely missed the point of that 峠は越 part, despite it being very common japanese expression.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268126
>shed tears

What's wrong with this? This phrase is common as hell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268152
Because it's obvious that the phrase used in that scene is 涙目 or something like that. She teared up, but she didn't start weeping, obviously.

Whoever's translated that either doesn't think about the scenes he translates whatsoever, or doesn't know what the English words he uses mean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268141

[Anonymous No.]

>>14267623
No, you misunderstood. It will take as long to release the patch as Sakura no Uta took. See you in 2024.

[Anonymous No.]

So Mangagamer want to do oyako rankan after haruka?
Paranoid rancefags were right

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268221
What crazy conspiracy dust sniffing moron brought you to this conclusion?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268222
Poll at the mangagamer forum

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268221
They will do the reboot of Escalayer. Don't expect a Rance title or another title from Alicesoft before 2017.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268238
Mangagamer forum doesn't have any effect on licensing decisions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268151
Is it that common? I tested it on my phrase search engine and it gave me a single example. "Be through the worst".

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268239
2017?
That is years before what can rationally be expected

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268246
Quickly looking through VN scripts, I found tons of matches from AIR to Venus Blood Abyss.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268238
When has any poll at Mangagamer's forum ever influence their licensing decisions?

If it were so, we would have gotten Otoboku 2, ImoPara 2, Oretsuba or Tsuriotsu already.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268250
Speaking of AIR, even ixrec got it right,
SEEN0505.utf://<0101> \{Priest}「峠は越えたな。じきに熱も下がろう」
SEEN0505.utf-<0101> \{Priest}"The danger has passed. Her fever should die down shortly."

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268148
Why are they wasting their time ? Editing a bad translation won't change the fact that it's a machine tl to begin with. So what's the point ? The translators need to stop this mess and master the language before starting a project as big as WA2 which is apparently one of the best works available.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268250
Maybe I should think of the lack of examples as a sign that it usually never mean anything else, rather than it being uncommon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268253
Why wouldn't they go for oyako rankan next?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268248
If they release Haruka in 2016 and Escalayer at the end of the year then we can expect a Rance for 2017 because they are already translated and edited.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268259
Funny thing is, Maruto writing itself is very easy to understand, out of "famous" VN writers he's most easy to read one. You don't need to be Japanese expert.
Of course, recreating this writing in English is completely different question, and requires appropriate mastery of English.

[Anonymous No.]

Well shit, KnS2 is out of the weekly ranking of MG.
But Euphoria took the 2nd place as soon as the pre-orders started. It was stupid of MG to worry about the success of Euphoria because the anime adaptation is really popular in the west, maybe the most popular one with kuroinu. I hope that one day they will bring Oretsuma, Kuro Ai or Mako hunter from Clockup catalog.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268274
> Mako hunter
Its maNko hunter, jeez. Manko means pussy, very easy to remember title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268277
Oh right. I didn't realize that the it was "pussy hunter" if you remove the of the title. As expected from a eroge dev, they are creative.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268290
that it was* if you remove the star from the title*

fuck i'm tired

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268274
Wait, you can make anime out of scat these days? Now nothing surprise me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268297
Yeah and it works pretty well since there are making the 5th episode.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268293
For some dumb reason you can say 膣 and 肉棒 but not manko and chincin, so they have to censor them with random symbols everywhere, including in-game text, so it looks like this:
こうして触れているだけなのに、おち●ちん熱くなって……はぁ、わたしの膣内に入りたいって……んっ、伝えてくるんだよ

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268304
Probably fall under those ridiculous obscene laws. It is obscene to show the entire genitals, or the words, while just covering a little makes it OK.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268264
>>14268264
If they go for Escalyer before Rance VI why not Oyako Rankan?

They don't intend to release Rance 5D or Rance VI

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268325
They intend to release which Rance then ? Pretty sure they will start with VI.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268392
Why?

Quest or 01 makes a lot more sense

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268398
Because Quest is not fully translated and is full of references to the older episodes.
Of course 01 is the best choice to start but it's too short and nobody worked on the translation for now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268424
Its not really short compared to other games MG releases. Shorter than 03 or big stuff like 6 and on, but still pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268424
By 2017 Quest will be near fully translated.

And VI doesn't have references to previous games?

Yes. VI is the best starting point. But it's old. And people have fucking shit taste where they will go for the new and shiny game

And if they do escalayer from scratch why not Rance 01?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268111
It would be the December release if that's the case. The translation and editing are done and most of the programming work was done while it was still being translated. It being ready to release 2 months from now seems possible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268238
They aren't the ones who posted the poll. It was someone that they temp banned from their forum.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268244
Shh. You don't want the people posting there finding out about that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268616
Even ant would figure that if not even single requested there game was ever licensed during all these years, its pointless to post there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268274
The hardcopy of KnS is still in the hardcopy weekly ranking, but hard to say how many hardcopies they sell while not in con season.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268621
It's really more coincidence when what people there request actually gets licensed. I think euphoria and W Happiness were such titles, but those acquisitions are more likely due to the fact that the previous games from those companies sold so well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268221
Good. Anything is better than shitty Rance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268647
Well, it seems they are able to get licenses when their translators request them though, like Yurirei or Himawari.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268908
They were able to get those. They usually can't get the licenses people want, but you don't hear about that.

[Anonymous No.]

I just found out that Euphoria OP is actually pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWx_PuYuHlE

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268953
OreTsuba they can't get because of who owns the rights to the all-ages version, because without a Steam release they'd lose money due to its high costs.

Shin Koihime Musou is also too expensive, unless they can license the all-ages version of that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268999
There are a lot more licenses they haven't gotten than just those.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268304

It depends on the company and which regulatory board they're under (there are a few different groups). Some require more censorship than others.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268621
>Even ant would figure that if not even single requested there game was ever licensed during all these years, its pointless to post there.

The fujos got two of their request-spam titles licensed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269038
Most of it is self-censoring anyway to avoid even having to deal with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269044
All BL/otome titles were decided by GH based on her own tastes, forums were not relevant.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269044
Those were easier to acquire, since MG already had relationships they could use to get them (CLOCKUP for NTY and hobibox or something for Ozmafia).

[Anonymous No.]

KnS is not so bad actually. Wonder, why Cartagra is such a garbage?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269079
The translators have recently had more say in what gets licensed. I'm okay with this, since my taste aligns with that of several of MG's translators most of the time.

However, if the titles a particular translator wants to work on continually sell like shit, then they'll likely have less chance to work on such games in the future. As such, I think that Gahkthun's best chance is to get on Steam and appeal to the anime crowd. As long as the 18+ version is available on MG's site, then I don't see the problem, since it's not a sex-heavy vn anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269110

I think Gahkthun will do fine. It consistently gets more attention than most of their other stuff on twitter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269114
Kara no Shoujo 2 has been promoted quite a bit and it's struggling saleswise compared to many other titles. 18+ story games are always risky, so Gahkthun actually has an unhill battle unless it turns out to be the next Koihime Musou. Most of MG's bestselling games are nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269114
Look at all KNS2 attention and how poorly its sell. I bet Gahkthun would be MG biggest failure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269128
I'll buy it so that's at least one sale. I don't plan on buying KNS2 anytime soon because I never finished the first one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269147
> Idon't plan on buying KNS2 anytime soon because I never finished the first one.
And people wonder why MG doesn't license more sequels.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269124
> Most of MG's bestselling games are nukige.
That's bullshit.
http://ask.fm/MangaGamerStaff/answer/119151901170
Out of 10 games they listed, only 4 are nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269150
> MG doesn't license more sequels.
Maybe they should license sequels to a successful games? Like ImoPara2 maybe?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269162
1) Kohime Musou, not nukige, but sex heavy if you play the entire game.
2) Shuffle, not nukige
3) Huniepop, practically a nukige
4) Demon Master Chris, little dialog and multiple sex scenes
5) Boob Wars, nukige
6) Kara no Shojo, not nukige
7) Imouto Paradise, nukige
8) Eroge, nukige
9) Bukkake Ranch, nukige
10) Harem Party, nukige

Half the list is nukige, more if you count games with high amounts of sexual content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269229
> 3) Huniepop, practically a nukige
Are you crazy?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269162
Doddler mentioned that Haruka was likely going to sell due to 3 of it's attributes that have proven to make games sell well for them: anime adaptation, gameplay, and high amount of sexual content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269238
Mindless story full of sexual innuendo all about hooking up with girls, and reaching the sex scenes at the end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269250
Of course the story is mindless, it's a match 3 puzzle game with some dating sim elements. It doesn't actually depict the sex scenes either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269114
More attention from pirates, yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269242
Gameplay is the most important part here, you can be sure that it'll sell if the gameplay is entertaining.
Plus the nips like to say that Haruka is the kamige of nukige so the sexual content must be really awesome.

High amount of great sexual content + funny gameplay. There is no way that Haruka will bomb. And you can be sure that the Rance fanbase will buy it because they want to show Alicesoft that they want to read their works (yeah mostly Rance).

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269162
You could also check hard copies. Since they never make hard copies of anything but the best selling games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269436
When we've been over this before, the old hard copy quotas must've been lower, since Guilty got one.

>they never make hard copies of anything but the best selling games
-Valkyrie Svia
-Armored Warrior Iris
-Ultimate Boob Wars

And it was mentioned that Harem Party sold way more copies than Da Capo, since Harem Party had to be reprinted several times due to it selling out through wholesales.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269110
Even if a translator wants to work on a game that'll sell like gangbusters, there's very little chance they'll get to because MG has very little say in what they license or pull with Japanese companies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269466
I'd love to think that, since I think those games are utter trash.

But that just makes it more annoying that good games wouldn't get hard copies these days.

[Anonymous No.]

>Guilty the sin got a hardcopy

People really bought this shit ? It's hard to believe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269477
Wasn't it mentioned that BlackDragonHunt got MG to go after Pygmalion instead of one of the other Propeller games since he was a fan of it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269485
I hope he is also a fan of Evolimit then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269494
Gare and Conjurer will be handling Higashide's works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268239
>They will do the reboot of Escalayer.
To be honest, I rather have Escalayer remake than Rance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269511
Did i miss something ? Spit on Rance is a new meme ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269519
Yes, any time anybody has a different opinion from you, it's a shitposting meme.

[Anonymous No.]

Ded scene

[Anonymous No.]

Do you think that Alice Soft will pass up the existing fan TL of AliveZ? It is the next game in Alice Soft's catalog after Haruka.

I want to see Drapeko! ~Onedari Dragon to Oppai Yuusha~ be translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>Myth - 57.12% translated, 45.8% edited
Hype is real.

Does anyone know what's up with vndb being down?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269706
It's up for me.

>Somewhere in the next few minutes to hours, I will be pushing out a major update to the internal database structrure and code. I expect that VNDB will be down for 15 minutes or so.
>
>This is an internal rewrite that I have been wanting to do for several years now. It should provide a good performance improvement to the page loading times and allow us to scale the database to many more entries without overloading the server.
>
>Since this update touches a lot of core code, I expect that, despite my attempts to test everything, some functionality might be broken after the update. In the worst scenario, I might have to do a rollback of the complete database to the point before I pushed the update, but I hope that won't be necessary.
>
>UPDATE: And it's live. Let the mayhem begin!
>
>If you notice anything that seems to be different than before, please let me know asap so I can fix it. Except if that difference is "the site seems faster", of course.
https://vndb.org/t7060

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269706
It's working for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269735
>>14269739
Thanks for the heads-up. I can access it on FF and Midori now that I've checked, but not on Chrome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269759
You should report that change in behavior to vndb's mod so that it can be fixed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269781
I was planning to, but it has started to work again a minute ago, so all's fine now.

[Anonymous No.]

Don't forget to vote for Harmonia in Steam Greenlight guys!

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270053
Yes, show Japanese publishers that Sekai Project isn't necessary!

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270053
The main writer seems to be Kai, who wrote all the bad parts of Clannad (Kyou route, second half of Yukine route, Kappei route). I'm not sure if I even want to waste time reading it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270130
Just hoping they haven't been tainted by "suggestions" from the west, since it tends to be "You have to remove all nudity because it is illegal".

[Anonymous No.]

>>14267726
I wonder if KnS II gets any better, the trial kind of sucked.

[Anonymous No.]

A game called Kagura Douchuuki has been uploaded to erogedownload.

Is it any good?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270395
That depends, is it the cut down Steam version?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270411
I think so yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269108
Because the story was plagiarized.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270395
No.

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>>14269485
>Pygmalion
No one is going to buy that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270429
It has some yuri, so some people will buy that. Plus, it's a Propeller game with HD graphics.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270436
And I forgot to add the Steam audience will, because it's all-ages.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>14270436
>HD graphics
Doesn't mean much if the art itself is shit.

[Anonymous No.]

look at the kickstarter money sekai is wasting on https://twitter.com/RadioOverCoat/status/658405672875245568

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270476
Cute burds

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270476
Damn that chair looks comfy. No wonder Dovac's not particularly worried about his company falling apart.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14267959
That looks alright. The only sentence I'd change is the "Hands together as if in prayer" one.

[Anonymous No.]

I think Sonicomi really has the potential to become JAST's GGN/Nekopara. Cheap game, cute anime breasts, legendary sales. That's if JAST isn't retarded with the price and keeps it at $10, though I can see them being greedy and going higher.

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>>14270944
Almost every sentence has "was" in it. It reads more like a fact list than a piece of prose.

The way "the singer" and "the girl" are introduced make it almost sound like they're supposed to be different people.

The main problem is that all those are just disjointed literally translated Japanese sentences with no effort shown to put them into the form of proper English writing. But yeah, at least it's readable and understandable, I guess.

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>>14271184
Yeah, I hope they have a native English speaker doing the editing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271184
Question 2 is whether or not it's accurate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269095
If I recall correctly, the Ozmafia staff was already in support of getting their game translated into English, so MG probably had an easy in for the license.

>>14270476
We had those chairs at my uni. They're comfy as fuck. I wanted to steal one.

>>14267959
That's awful. I've seen OELVNs with better prose than that--in terms of sentence structure and styling--and that's saying a hell of a lot given the average quality of their writing. If they get a decent editor, it'll be a godsend for them even if the source material turns out to be trash.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271510
>We had those chairs at my uni. They're comfy as fuck. I wanted to steal one.
Just pretend you're a repair person and go to Sekai's office, say the chair needs its leg readjusted and just load it into you vehicle. By the time they figure out what happened you'll be long gone.

[Anonymous No.]

sekai qualitty http://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3q7ssc/grisaia_no_kajitsu_an_unsolicited_qa_pass/

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>>14271605
Those are pretty minor, and the original fan translation was pretty damn good already. Just some minor editing issues.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271689
Most of those aren't even mistakes though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14269477
> because MG has very little say in what they license or pull with Japanese companies
lolwhat? Of course ultimately its MG who decide what to license or not. How do you even imagine negotiations? Jap devs forcing evospace to sign contracts at gun point?
If devs don't want to give particular license, there's nothing MG can do, but there's also nothing forcing them to pick stuff they don't want, and some devs are much more accommodating than others.

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>>14271605
If that was sekai quality it'd be the best localizer of them all by far, given how few actually significant problems are listed there.

That's koestl's quality.

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>>14271720
It's hard to imagine them picking some of the titles unless it was all they could get.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271764
Sometimes MG is offered very good conditions for picking crap titles like those MorningStar games. Nobody hates free money.

[Anonymous No.]

Is KNS2 even considered to be good?

I'm debating on reading it, I really liked KNS1 though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271780
I think it was mentioned that they had access to the softhouse-seal catalog for super cheap too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271785
KNS isn't considered 'good', but that didn't stop you enjoying it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271785
You should read it, if only to continue the story where it left off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271591
Sounds brilliant. I'll get right on that.

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>>14271793
>KNS isn't considered 'good'
Only if your name is fuji and you are faggot sucking off hobos or your name is Katan and you can enjoy only ancient trash.
Rest of world quite liked it, 中央値 81

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>>14271785
KnS2 got better ratings than KnS1
虚ノ少女 2013-02-08 85

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>>14271823
But wouldn't most people who voted have played and liked the original? That would likely skew the score higher.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271785
If you liked KnS 1 then you'll like the sequel. It's also long as fuck apparently, 2-3x the length of the original. That means it does have pacing problems though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271785
The trial sucked. It might get more interesting but nothing really caught my interest.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271857
Yes, which is why basically all fandisks have ridiculously inflated ratings.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271815
Yeah, Mouryuu no Hako is really good.
Come say hi on IRC sometime, Anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271605
senpai noticed me :3

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271857
There are plenty of sequels which are worse than original, with worse ratings. Look at Grisaia for example 1st — 85, 2nd — 83, 3rd — 80.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271934
If people complain about it, why not fix it?

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>>14271940
Because there's no reason to fix what is not broken.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14271940
If the worst flaw a TL has is a bit of repetition you should count yourself lucky.

[Anonymous No.]

Apparently Aroduc's translating Code Arcana.

[Anonymous No.]

Anybody know where i can torrent a full version of "If my heart had wings"?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272153
Google.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272162
I can only find a couple that have like 5 or 6 seeders. I was wondering if you guys knew of a torrent that's not on nyaa or kickass

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272153
steam
it's probably on mofumoe or something

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272170
they only have the patch

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272166
> couple that have like 5 or 6 seeders
Thats more than enough, wtf.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272166
Cry me a fucking river, you little shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272192
Well, one of them has no description on wheather or not it is the steam translation or not, and the other one was translated by moeNovel and the uploader said it had a bunch of errors
http://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=278366

>>14272194
having a bad day?

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>>14272200
There are no other translations than MoeNovel.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272210
I guess i'll go with that one then, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272200
>I don't know what I'm looking for
>I don't know what to expect when I find it
>What I've found might not be good enough for me
>Someone help me

Eat a dick.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272218
Wow seems like it's pretty hostile today. I was hoping someone who had already downloaded it would provide me with a quick link and that'd be the end of it. The only reason why you're upset is because I recieved 2 uninformative and snarky answers, and bothered to reply to them. Do you have nothing better to do than bad mouth people participating in the thread?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272230
>participating
This isn't kindergarten, you don't get a medal just for existing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272230
How about you look for the right thread then, assblaster?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272236
When did I say that I deserved a medal?
>>14272239
It's clear that anything I say is just going to cause more ruckus, so i'll stop replying. Thanks to the people who gave me info.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272230
Fuck off and die.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272230
>I should be able to go into any thread I want and everyone will be nice to me and help me, no matter how irrelevant or stupid my shit is

Literally go back to Tumblr.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272210
cudder wins again

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272267
Sorry, I don't understand your memespeak.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272267
you really showed em, anon

[Anonymous No.]

>>14268148
I guess I need context for this line to make sense.

>Recently, I have been choosing girls that wouldn't give me trouble in the future, so I would break up with 80% of them by this point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272324
Or you need good dictionary which actually explains meaning of phrases instead that "no trouble in future" crap.
http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%BE%8C%E8%85%90%E3%82%8C%E3%81%8C%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84

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>>14272324
He was choosing girls that would be easy to break up with because he didn't want a serious relationship. He broke 80% of his relationships before they could reach the point that he is apparently commenting on (I imagine he's giving dating advice to someone).

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>>14269128
>>14269147
I'll buy it too. I've never played a WAB game before, but this one sounds like something I'd like.

I may finally start reading this series.

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>>14272367
Not that guy, but would a better interpretation would then be:
>Recently, I've been choosing girls that wouldn't give me trouble when we ended things, so I would break up with 80% of them by this point.

Aside from some off sentence structure.

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>>14272324>>14272376
In ここでお別れ ここ means "after graduation from school", which is happening very soon. Its not like he's intentionally breaking up with them, its just their relations were from the start that shallow that they aren't going to bother continuing once they lost thing that kept them connected (school).

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>>14271940
I'd be surprised if it wasn't.

>>14271934
Now I almost feel bad for pointing it out soon after it was released. I hope koestl takes it as a joke, as it's just a minor oversight (by the editors) to an otherwise great translation.

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>>14272367
That does help with the expression, but the translation doesn't actually change much.

A much better translation (now that I know the context) would be:

>Well, I usually picked up girls that wouldn't be troublesome, so for about 80% of them this would be time to break up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272498
Wow that is really bad english.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14270476
>>14271591
You guys taking this seriously, last I checked Sekai has no 'office'. That's probably some Sekai employee's (dovac's?) home.

>>14271720
It's kind of like shareholders forcing a company to do something. Actually, it's exactly like that. MangaGamer is owned by a group of eroge companies (does anyone have the complete list?), and if they tell MangaGamer to license something then MangaGamer has no choice but to do so.

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>>14272914
> MangaGamer is owned by a group of eroge companies
Your information is outdated by many years.
> if they tell MangaGamer to license something then MangaGamer has no choice but to do so.
Even back then its not how it worked for MG or actually anywhere in the world.
Shareholders have no authority over such decisions. They only decide on CEO and share premium.

[Anonymous No.]

http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/126706403020

Read this interesting post on VN translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273149
Shitty jprgs are not VNs, you dumb vgtard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273183
So Seinarukana counts as a VN but this doesn't? Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273192
> So Seinarukana counts as a VN but this doesn't?
Yes, exactly, as many times explained to dumb fucktards like you on VNDB. VN narration is completely different thing from JRPG dialogues.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273210
Your posts read like a dudebro trying to criticize Shakespeare. A hilarious and pathetic sight.

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>>14273210
What kind of EOP retard thinks VNDB means anything?

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>>14273221
Not that guy but Romeo and Juliet was shitty.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273228
Muv-Luv devs on Kickstarter thought it meant something.

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>>14273229
One flop (and even that's debatable) among dozens of successes.

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>>14273236
Right, the devs that are reusing Ixrec's abysmal translation and charging people a million dollars for it. They're surely a reliable source.

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>>14273239
They can't help it if people are stupid enough to pay for the best rated VN on VNDB.

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>>14273244
This doesn't change the fact that VNDB is stupid and only an EOP would trust anything it says. AS INDICATED BY ALL THE EOP RETARDS FUNDING MUV-LUV.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273281
Muv-Luv devs are actual Japanese people not EOPs. :^) That said, I was just shitting with you. I don't like Muv-Luv. So mediocre.

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>>14273281
Yes, vndb is stupid for saying that JRPGs are not VNs. Have a nice day playing some Mario VN, after all it has letters on screen too, so it must be VN according to illiterate morons like you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273288
You are an idiot and it is amazingly ironic that you just tried to call someone illiterate.

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>>14273287
The obvious implication was that the Muv-Luv devs don't trust VNDB either and are just using it because they know that EOP dumbasses are easily convinced because they think it's the Gospel or some shit. VNDB and EGS, throw these names at an EOP and they'll eat it up like a steak dinner without questioning it.

[Anonymous No.]

Are people really as to dumb as to argue that JRPGs are VNs now, just because they have a lot of text? What about subtitled anime? It has a lot of text too.

You can't have a novel without prose, retards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273350
This faggot shitposts with his kuso trails series quite regularly here, just ignore him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273350
>>14273355
Did you seriously just reply to yourself? Hahahahaha. That's some mega salt.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273350
And here we have an idiot who has literally never played a Trails game and thinks he knows what he's talking about. Once again, the Shakespeare dudebro comparison is apt, it's like you just wandered in with no idea what to say so you started shitposting.

[Anonymous No.]

the visual novel subreddit is censoring criticism when it is related to sekai project, both of my posts have been shadow banned: http://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3q8cje/reporting_sekai_project_to_ftc_for_deceptive/

http://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3qad1u/narcissu_10th_anniversary_anthology_project_live/cwdfbu0

this is unacceptable

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273426
Stop going to reddit then you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.]

Sekai Project cut their initial funding goal for the Narcissu Kickstarter from 150k to 75k. I wonder if they got cold feet after Witch Boy and realized it was smarter to make sure they can still milk their supporters even if they don't reach 150k.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273426
The VN subreddit has an odd amount of detail put into those banners. It's weird.

Also, that's not what shadowbanned means. They simply deleted your posts.

ALSO, why do you talk in lowercase here but type like an intelligent human being on Reddit? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

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>>14273426
Fuck off, redditors.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273479
Good. It's progress. Finally they're understanding that there's a limit and not being complete shitbags. Maybe they're not entirely stupid. We'll see how long they can keep this up.

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>>14273519
We're all over this site now. Deal with it.

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>>14273479
They got a LOT of negative feedback about the 150k kickstarter goal. Mostly, it stemmed from the wild confusion about why in the world they would actually need 150k. They've been disingenuous about costs, and there's a lot of skepticism about the amount they've claimed to have invested and the amount they need to complete the project. The fact that they can just drop 75k from the target says a bit about how much they're massaging the numbers and calls into question just how necessary the kickstarter really is...

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273530
That explain the lower quality of these threads lately. I mean lower than normal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273546
Shut up ESL retard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273566
It's just a typo, demeteloaf.

[Anonymous No.]

Herkz literally just machine TLs closed captions as a way of "editing" bad subs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273577
I wouldn't put time into editing bad subs either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273570
...who? Who? WHO? WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO????

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273602
He's the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273602
Some retard that copypastas this thread every week for upvotes while thinking he's too good for 4chan. Funny really.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273597
The problem is that he presents them as "good" subs and pretends he just offered a good translation to the world. The man is a complete idiot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273617
Such a lust for upvotes.

[Anonymous No.]

Sometimes I send questions to people on ask.fm and don't even bother looking at their answers.

Also sometimes I just say some bullshit in this thread that I know Herkz is going to whine about on Twitter and, lo and behold, he does it moments later. It has literally never failed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273714
Well, he definitely looks like the kind of faggot that runs automated searches for his name.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14272562
Care to elaborate? Other than possibly misplacing commas (very probable, as I'm not exactly sure about English rules for their placement), I don't think I've made any mistakes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273727
He's basically the Anita Sarkeesian of the VN scene.

[Anonymous No.]

If you start up Majikoi today, you get a congratulatory message about some characters birthday. I like it when VNs have little things like that. Do you guys know of any others?

[Anonymous No.]

What will Sekai Project do if the Narcissu kickstarter stalls at $50,000 or so? People are likely still wiped out from backing Muv Luv, and with the holidays coming up that will also put a strain on people's wallets.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273888
Blame it on "the community".

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273888
They'll put out more sob stories about how their lead translator is working for free. They've already begun it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273888
It is already stalling

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273942
It's literally only been a few hours. Wait a day or two before making judgements.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273883
There was one I saw the other day that apparently has a Halloween thing but I forget what it was.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273888
> Narcissu kickstarter
Why someone even want to pay for this shitty rip-off?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273956
Ripoff of WHAT exactly? Shit on Sekai Project, but don't shit on Narcissu, you fucking bitch.

[Anonymous No.]

They already spent 60k on Narcissu? Doing what exactly?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273965
First, they needed to buy an apartment for the artist. Then they needed to buy him a computer. Then, he needed a car to go out and pick up his hookers. The hookers needed to be paid too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273965
They spent 60k on it, but apparently their main translator who has done the work already finished is slaving away for free. Please give them money so he can eat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273959
> Ripoff of WHAT exactly?
Knockin' on Heaven's Door.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273976
Remember when $5,000 for an entire team to translate a full game caused an outcry?

[Anonymous No.]

The $1800 tier sounds worse than the $1000 tier.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273982
What the FUCK?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274025
What game was this about?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273965
According to Wikipedia, Sumire chapter is a collab between Nekoneko Soft and Stage Nana, and has been in development for a while. Given Agi's massive hardon for both, it's actually possible that Sekai has been funding one or both directly. Sekai is definitely trying to sell it as if they're funding the whole thing themselves, with Nekoneko not mentioned at all in the KS. That comes off a bit disingenuous.

Further, there's a lot of other glaring inconsistencies, or at least confusing matters. Sumire is the only chapter that isn't currently released in Japan, everything else has been released in some format. Most of the new content is from the PSP version of the game.

The funding breakdown raises more questions than answers. If Sumire chapter is the only 'new' content, why are costs for 'art' and such listed for games that aren't seeing any development? If there is new development on those games, exactly what is it that they plan to do? The games are short, maybe ~100k characters in length. Will it really cost... $10k ~ $20k per game for each of the four games for things like 'programming? Grisaia only asked for ~$60k for ALL localization for all three games, including programming, and that series totals to over 2m-3m characters in length. For that matter, why is localization cost itself not cited? Isn't that the main thing we're funding? And where did the $60k go that was already spent?

They're asking us to give them $75000. We really should have some answers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274087
The answer is "fuck you, fans will pay for it."

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274087
One of the most important rules of business is to never answer a question that very few people are asking. SP's in a good place because most people are highly defensive of them for no real reason so they don't have to answer stuff and people won't think there's anything amiss.

They are just really loving that easy money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274087
>If Sumire chapter is the only 'new' content, why are costs for 'art' and such listed for games that aren't seeing any development? If there is new development on those games, exactly what is it that they plan to do?
According to the kickstarter,
>With your help we will be remaking the older games with new art, re-recorded voices,and we will also be creating an entirely new scenario!

>>14273942
They haven't even mailed their fans yet. I found out the kickstarter is live from this thread. Naturally, I have backed it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274087
Seems like their setting the goal lower so they can get back what they already spent. They are actually hoping for the full $200k. I can see VAs asking that much for using their voices though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274087
Seems like they're setting the goal lower so they can get back what they've already spent. They are actually hoping for the full $200k. I can see VAs asking that much for using their voices though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274148
The high goal put it at risk of failing... I think it would be devastating to sekai's negotiating position to have two failed kickstarters.

[Anonymous No.]

Two words: Dystopian steampunk mini golf.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274157
I hope they're prepared to be devastated when they do the Root Double Kickstarter then, because nobody is going to pay for that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273965
Too bad they'll never do Kataoka's masterpiece, Giniro.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274253
I already watched the adaptation, Kiniro Mosaic. It was pretty great, dess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274311
>>14274253
Wait, something like that exists? Awesome, time to pirate the fuck out of it.

[Anonymous No.]

Doddler asked SP to explain the Narcissu KS costs on Twitter. They responded by saying to try e-mailing them instead.

Professional.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274399
Can't expose the fuzzy math to the plebes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274399
What he asked was pretty reasonable -- what are the costs for the new stuff and what are the costs for the localization.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274399

Only haters ask questions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274348

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274399
They've got to be careful about what they say on Twitter. It's a lot easier to fuck up a tweet than it is an e-mail, and once you say it, it's out there.

Also, I have never heard of David Bruno until today.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274448
Hasn't stopped Dovac yet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274460
>>14274448
Speaking of Twitter, I notice that Sheeta got sick of people e-bullying her for sucking and rage quit everything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274448
>Also, I have never heard of David Bruno until today.

he's sekai's new pr guy and he's an obnoxious fuckhead

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274495
Obviously. He works for SP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274495
He'll fit right in then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274495
His avatar is literally a picture of a fedora.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/jlist/status/653505214251577344

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274495
Still a better PR guy than Dovac, I'm sure. Dovac is one of the worst PR guys I have EVER seen, so thank God they picked up a new one.

[Anonymous No.]

Meanwhile, Arunaru is having the time of his life translating Haruka. It's already 75% translated
https://twitter.com/Aru_Naru/status/658730033083650048
>BEAT BLADES HARUKA 75% YO GET DUNKED MOTHERFUCK IT'S HAPPENING

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274590
Oh god.
https://davidbruno.carbonmade.com/

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274603
At least he appears to not be another one of Dovac's hand puppets, unlike that Trantez/YukkuriS/Batman thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274603
When is the Girls Fashion Shoot Kickstarter launching?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274639
Sadly, it was released two years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazz-vTkMm0

But look at how professional it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273883

If you count Melty Blood Act Cadenza, you get a special menu screen on Christmas and New Years. Not sure if it's in Actress Again and Current Code, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274602
>BEAT BLADES HARUKA 75% YO GET DUNKED MOTHERFUCK IT'S HAPPENING

Boy, I sure have faith in this translator.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274651
Well this actually looks pretty cute.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274602
>those Undertale references

[Anonymous No.]

I have a spare steam key for Sakura Spirit from the humble bundle.
First one to post a nice pic of Magical Amber can have it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274749
Mecha Hisui is better anyway.
also
>Sakura game
No.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274749
Eat a dick.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274753
Its a magical girl that throws moletovs. whats not to like?

and why did you think i didn't redeem that key? Just figured someone might like that crap here.

>>14274755
I would eat my own if i could.

[Anonymous No.]

So, Ritsuko is the one that will end up in the Princess Evangile wallscroll. I wasn't expecting this. I'll get the limited edition without wallscroll.
Also, posting pic because Rise is extremely sexy in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274749
Did you move the slider for Sakura all the way down to zero? If not, fug you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274772
Because best girl + mecha = the best turkeyhandle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274790
Shes not even a real mecha musume and shes also not best girl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274749
How about you give me that key anyways

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274781
Aw shit i forgot. But i did move the slider to 0 with vanguard princess for the previous bundle so please forgive me this time.

>>14274825
Thats not Magical Amber.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274857
ugh, who cares

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274824
Even Takeuchi knows who is best girl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274779
Stop giving doddler fap material

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274865
I do.
I can post it here and you can try your luck F5'ing this thread or i can IM it through Steam. Your call.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274779
>So, Ritsuko is the one that will end up in the Princess Evangile wallscroll

Kind of surprised they didn't have a followup poll for which art piece to use.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274882

Given that they're all literally images sitting on a company ftp he has access to right now, I doubt he needs to sulk so low and sitting on 4chan.

Not to mention didn't he have hardon for ruriko anyway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274909
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/656514548560625665
>Even though Ruriko is definitely best girl, I voted for Rise because she has the best sample... and is so far behind she needs the love.
Based doddler

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274857
>But i did move the slider to 0 with vanguard princess for the previous bundle

What. Why? It's a good game? Though it was given out for free anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274909
Ruriko's voice is so obnoxious. I don't get the hype.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274897
I'm sure I can trust jp

I actually have the game but want to give it to a friend of mine who won't be online for a while so it would be a while before the key is even used. You're welcome to give it away before then but if you still have it I'll take it from you

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274960
Because the English publisher eigoManga are crooks.

First they censor the game on XBLA.
Then they roll their eyes at people asking for an uncensored version on Greenlight.
The game is a buggy mess at release.
Cranking out DLC characters even though the original dev has been missing since the Earthquake in Japan.
Oh... and you can legitimately play the game for free since it was free in the first place.

Seriously fuck eigoManga

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274981
I was going to offer to take it instead of you since you didn't seem very eager but if it's a gift for a friend it's probably better if you got it. I wouldn't play it all that soon anyway, I've got pic indirectly related to play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274986
Oh. That's pretty shitty, I hadn't paid attention to their version and assumed it was fine since the original game is pretty good. Well damn, good thing I've never paid them a cent.

Is that true that he actually went missing though? That would be especially scummy if they're abusing a possibly dead guy's game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274981
Your call TKEGG-ER00H-69LW9
>>14275001
i... actually mained her in ToH R instead of the that dorky MC. Dem kicks.

Bonus code: 4IN3X-XKVVP-YB74Y

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274779
Really weird-looking butt though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275015
As far as i know hes still missing. He was working on a followup of VP but ever since the quake his blog went unupdated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275023
Hm, I woulda played that bonus game. Hope whoever got it enjoys it.

[Anonymous No.]

Is there ANY Romeo Tanaka work with a remotely decent translation?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274135
>With your help we will be remaking the older games with new art
They're using the PSP versions of those games, so unless they're adding even more to them, then that's a lie. they're just porting them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275119
They really think their fans are complete idiots. Sad thing is, they are. They don't do any fucking research so they're tricked into thinking they're getting new art.

[Anonymous No.]

Do you believe that Sekai Project paid the WEE translator this much?
>Typical market rates for translation of games from Japanese to English is 10 cents a character, WEE ep2 and 3 totals roughly half a million characters. So at normal market rates it would cost $50,000 to translate. Editing rates is usually half of the cost of translation so that would equal $25,000 to do the editing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274603
>>14274495
never trust a man with two first names

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275150
I don't believe they paid him anything. Google is free, after all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14273426
Someone in the Narcissu subreddit is going to blame Sekai Project if Muv Luv doesn't reach it's last stretch goal.

>This has already started cannibalizing some of the Muv-Luv kickstarter's momentum, but the overlap has to be hurting Narcissu more. Horrible timing. I'd have gladly backed this if they'd timed it properly, but instead they're not only drastically reducing their own potential total, they might cost us the final muv-luv stretch goal. A little annoying.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275046
Sorry you couldn't grab it. I didn't post about it before since its not from a Japanese dev and i didn't want to incur the wrath of the meido.

>>14275128
As long as they have high res versions of the PSP assets i dont mind. Though i dont see the point really. Anyone who wanted to play Narcissu pretty much did by now and the story wraps up pretty nicely anyway.

What i do mind is that is SP are flooding the market with VN's now which cant be good in the long run. Quality above Quantity and all that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275150

Not a chance. Sekai's rates are better than most of their competition but that's easily double or triple their usual rate.

[Anonymous No.]

why do so many peole that know Japanese even come to these threads.

I dont mean this as criticism, but if you know Japanese why do you care if some translator is a hack and did a bad job? I do thank those of you that keep bad translations in check, as rampant as it is, but why do you do it?

Is it love?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275150
I was under the impression it's more like 1-2 cents a character for VNs. 10 cents a character means someone who translates 100 lines of 10 characters each in an hour makes $100... I'd gladly learn another language and translate all day long for that money.

[Arunaru !!DwJrPrzAV2M No.]

>>14274703

He's a huge hack IMO.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275214
>I didn't post about it before since its not from a Japanese dev and i didn't want to incur the wrath of the meido.

Psh dude, I just post whatever I want to, the meido doesn't give a fuck. YOU GUYS READY TO TALK ABOUT SOME FOOTBALL?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275275
Im so hyped for the Dolphins after man campbell took over, I think we really have a solid chance at beating the patriots this Thursday.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275150
Wait, where in the world were those values cited?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275255
Boredom.

Also because I started a translation of my own, but God knows if I'll ever finish it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275275
The meido once punished me for only posting patchy's ass. I'm scared.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275300
From the WEE kickstarter page.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275264
Seeing Arunaru post here fills me with DETERMINATION.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275255
Personally I don't know Japanese but like to pretend that I do because it makes arguing with people more fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275320
I can't believe I missed this gem. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275150

It only says that's what they should be paid or something. Later on they say something like "Though since we're a small group we can't pay that much, but everyone makes sacrifices for the greater good." or something dumb like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275332
I have been learning and have reached about N2 level, recently I have gotten into a slump because I can read well enough to read most moege that I have stop studying. Anytime i read outside of moege Im reminded of how bad my Japanese really is. Maybe I should go back to hardcore studing and finish N1 materials.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275335
All this talk about sacrifices and they can't do a single translation that doesn't completely fucking suck. If they really cared the translations would actually be good but it's such blatant bullshit that it disgusts me that he can post this without wanting to kill himself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275355
>All this talk about sacrifices
Clearly what they're willing to sacrifice is quality.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275319
Well it really depends on the image. This is a "work safe" board so it is certainly possible to get nailed if you go too far but they don't really seem to care about text. So I've just posted about pretty much anything for years and felt no fear. There are a few boards where they really punish you for veering off topic but this doesn't seem to be one of them.

>>14275295
Did not expect someone to actually respond with a football post though. This place is great.

[Anonymous No.]

Looks like MG is less famous than itch.io.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275428
Well, yes. itch.io is relatively well-known in the indie community, whereas MG is only known in the VN community. One is exponentially larger than the other.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275428
Will itch.io let you sell hardcore pornographic games? I have a feeling they won't. And even if they did, I bet payment processors wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/updates/503649142/1442466596

Pity this never made it to Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14276168
It was pretty much the most blatant attempt to sell an adult game ever. It makes sense that it didn't, at least until Steam stops being such prudes.

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone else find it funny that despite Dovac being in close contact with Kataoka he hasn't even touched on the idea of bringing his Neko Neko Soft games over?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14276508
What? He openly stated that he's dreaming about ravaging Scarlett several times.

[Anonymous No.]

I miss when you guys talked about me instead of the shitfaces at Sekai every single thread.

[Anonymous No.]

Narcissu at $26k currently. They'll probably make their kickstarter goal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14276538
What he means is that he hasn't attempted to negotiate it. He's kind of like a "beta orbiter" around Kataoka, just awkwardly pretending they're friends and giving him lots of money but always being too scared to take it further.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14276549

Go away, Insem. You're irrelevant now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14276549
We still talk about you every so often, but you obviously haven't done anything worth talking about lately, so why would we bother? We bring up people who are actually doing things, even if they are bad things.

[Anonymous No.]

That guy's existence depresses me. He must live such a sad life sitting in this thread insulting everyone for everything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277263
Kickstarters tend to slow down considerably after the first day or 2, then have a massive rush at the end. The average amount per backer at the moment is ~$69, which means they'd need over 1,000 backers to reach their goal, when they currently only have 400. They still have a long way to go, but it's still possible they can make it.

[Anonymous No.]

Russian trash stealing assets from A popular Yuri series and then trying to get their game on steam.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=537976814

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277380
If NekoNeko Soft refuses to license their games to Sekai Project, then dovac just wasted thousands of dollars that could've gone toward licensing other games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277609
Those character designs are straight up lifted from the SonoHana series. It looks like they just redrew over their faces to try to mask it. The faces don't match up to the rest of the designs. None of the English comments have even shown that they've noticed this all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277609>>14277637
Someone should inform steam, sonohana developer and mangagamer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277653
I have to get ready for work, you do it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277609
>>14277637
Those don't look like the assets to me, but they are definitely the character designs. What the heck were they even thinking...

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277615
Yes, Dovac is an idiot. He pretty much lucked into getting Clannad and since then has only been hanging on by the skin of his teeth. The man has more luck than any one person ever deserves to have.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277700
Everything but face is exactly same. They didn't even bother changing colors for school uniform.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277703
Well, I fired off a message to Doddler on ask.fm to let him know. No idea why I sent it to Doddler, but I'm sure he'll handle things.

Other people will probably send the message where it needs to go but I need to feel like they have been made aware so I'm doing it too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277710
A number of MG people visit this thread too, so I'm sure they'll see it one way or the other.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277712
That's true, but the sooner the better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277710
MG's support email would likely be the quickest way to tell them. Doddler might be at his other job or might not check ask.fm every day.

[Anonymous No.]

Looks like mikandi changed their kickstarter plans.

https://mikandi.jp/libra-of-the-vampire-princess/
>Q: When will the campaign launch on Kickstarter?
>A: Originally we planned to launch on Kickstarter before the Oct. 30th release of the game in Japan. However, after listening to the visual novel community we have decided to start with a pre-launch on Prefundia (LINK COMING SOON). We are looking for feedback on rewards and stretch goals. This move also gives us more time to grow the “Vampire Princess Army” so that when we do launch on Kickstarter, we have the best chance for success!
>We need around 1800 backers to reach our Kickstarter goal. We will launch the campaign once the “Vampire Princess Army” has grown large enough to fight! Sign up here and ask your friends to join us!…
>Sign up for the launch announcement and chance to win a prize!

Probably a smart move to not be caught up against the muv luv kickstarter's end.

>Q: Once funded on Kickstarter, how long will it take to translate the game?
>A: We estimate 8 months for translation plus 2 additional months of building and testing. The game is over 2.5 million characters and 60 hours of game play. Libra should release in the fall of 2016.

That's somewhat worrying. While theoretically feasible, a translation of that magnitude should take double that timeframe. Multiple translators? You'd think they'd include some editing time to clean it up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277898
Vampire Princess Army sounds silly. I wonder if this game will be good. I hope so. That's surprisingly long.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277898
1hr~ of machine translation
8 months of touchups

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277898

Interesting. If that page is anything to go by it seems they have someone with a decent degree of fluency in English, so that's promising.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277925

I dunno if I'd go so fast as throw around that accusation. I think it's also possible that they just don't yet understand the scope of what they're getting into, which they wouldn't be the first company to fall into.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone know what's on these cups? Is it like, poetry or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278390
Why don't you translate it yourself, weeblord? It's clearly readable and seems to be the same on all mugs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278401
It's rather complicated Japanese so I'm having some trouble.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278456
Furthermore, there may be a cultural reference that I'm missing so this seems like a good place to ask about that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277898
>2.5 million characters

That's obscene if accurate. That's like close to 5mbs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278540
Wouldn't that make it one of the longest VNs out there, up there with France Shoujo? I guess nobody knows for sure since it's not out yet but I wonder if they have a reputation for long stories. Because holy crap, where did this massive game come from? And it's even getting translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278572
It would be still a fair bit off from the longest, but yeah, it would be well up there. I'd guess they're mistaking script size in mb vs character count, since the former seems most common, even if it's not a consistent measure, since people screw up all kinds of file encoding.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277898
>Partnering with an appstore for a huge VN

Why?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278601
They're almost certainly doing their counting strangely, like including speaker tags and script commands, or their scripts are configured extremely inefficiently. There's no way that the game's script is actually that long.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278643
But what if it is?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278691
Then their translation is not going to take the 8 months they think it will.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278702
Or will it?

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlF46tZiQo

Forgot my link.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14277609
>>14277637
>>14277653
>>14277656
>>14277703
>>14277710
>>14277712
>>14277780

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278762
I'm sure that russian has copyrighted his modifications so you can't steal it like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278762
I wonder if they like, just switched SonoHana characters' faces around and that's why the faces look normal but out of place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14274185
Dark Chronicle 2: Electric Boogaloo?

I wish Level-5 would stop being shady cunts about when the next DC game is going to be. It was supposed to enter production when they finished White Knight Chronicles.

>>14277609
They didn't even try.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14278977
I was actually talking about http://store.steampowered.com/app/272890/ which was free yesterday, but that's good too.

I figure DC is dead or we'd have heard something about it long ago.

[Anonymous No.]

Finally, a comment on the Greenlight page from someone who recognized the SonoHana artwork.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=537976814

[Anonymous No.]

>>14279324
iI you going to steal someone's work at least have the freaking sense to go for some very obscure shit no one has heard of before

[Anonymous No.]

>>14279448
Or something way more well known. In for a penny, in for a pound and all that

[Anonymous No.]

>>14279448
Is the SonoHana series very well-known in Russia? If not, then maybe they thought it was obscure.

[Anonymous No.]

If any MangaGamer staff is here, are you guys planning to take any action against the SonoHana ripoff greenlight campaign?

[Good Haro No.]

>>14279875

I don't know exactly what action is being taken yet, but admin staff have been alerted to the issue.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280007
Why haven't you returned my calls?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280007
Just talk to your shitty Steam rep.

[Anonymous No.]

That Narcissu kickstarter is already slowing down by a lot on the 2nd day.

[Anonymous No.]

sekai scams backers out of 1.3 million dollars. http://cliqist.com/2015/10/27/checking-sekai-projects-many-visual-novel-kickstarters/

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280132
So basically, don't back them hoping for a Vita release any time soon, their release estimates suck, and they work on numerous projects at any given time. This info is nothing new, but it's nice to have it all spelled out in one article.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280132
>Given the high quality of Alienworks’ concept and visuals, it made sense.
Westerners have some problem with anime style art perception.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280240
Hopefully Jast never gets into Kickstarters, seeing they have no problem sitting on titles for half a decade.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280132
I wonder if another article on that site made AJTilley ragequit kickstarter.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone thinking of playing the Bad End visual novel on Steam greenlight?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=536712944
I'm superstitious, so I have no intention of playing it. Seriously, "If you play this vn, you'll die." Why do I think that dovac and Herkz are going to receive multiple copies of this game as gifts?

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280323
come on, this is your one chance to become an anime

[Anonymous No.]

>>14275529

Paypal doesn't but itch.io allows erotic material.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280132
The terrifying thing is that the conclusion he reaches at the end is that SP is doing a great job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280625
Well, it is doing a great job, at scamming people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14279324
ANNNNNNNNNNNNND it's gone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280323
That looks cool. I like the art style of the girls.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14280625
I don't know how but Sekai Project has managed to trick a lot of people into thinking they're a legitimately good company. "The ultimate visual novel publisher" when MangaGamer exists, what the fuck? Like, how do these people not even see all the shitty things SP are doing? How is fucking /jp/ of all places the only place that can really tell SP has a problem? And it's not just "internet hate machine" or whatever people say about 4chan, we love MangaGamer around here because they're actually good. But SP is absolute shit so it's absurd that the plebeians are having trouble seeing this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14281287
Because they look at how good the translation for Grisaia is and assume all of SP's projects will be like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>14281324
Grisaia's isn't even good anyway. It had Herkz dragging it down.

[Anonymous No.]

Imagine if it had an editor who wasn't a retard with things like "That a fact?"

[Anonymous No.]

>>14281287
>How is fucking /jp/ of all places the only place that can really tell SP has a problem? And it's not just "internet hate machine" or whatever people say about 4chan, we love MangaGamer around here because they're actually good.
The answer lies in the fact that some /jp/ posters have been following the scene for multiple years and know the history behind MG along with their attitude. Also, MG staff posts in these threads and helps to chill for them.
I don't have the time right now to write in length about this and the thread is about to feel off the board but this is pretty much it.