/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Visual Novel translation status


Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "2088/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (90.5%)."
Aokana - 6587/14,891 (44.23%) lines of the common route translated
AstralAir - 100% translated, release a long ways off
Ayakashi Gohan - ~92% Complete
>Black Wolves Saga -Bloody Nightmare- - Released
Clover Day's - Common + 4 routes done, last route 348/711 KB translated
Daitoshokan - 100% translated and edited, images, engine work and QC remain
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
>Hatsukoi 1/1 - Prologue patch released, 10.06% translated
Heart no Kuni no Alice - 78% translated, 2nd partial patch released
Hemoimo - Trial text translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - partial patch released
Kanojo to Ore to Koibito to - 7303/26935 lines translated
Karehana - 254/18,461 lines translated
Kurukuru Fanatic - 100% translated, 9.4% edited
Lovely Cation- 43.7% of lines completed
>Lover Able - 47.62% translated
>Majo Koi Nikki - 69% (27897/40208) lines translated, prologue patch released
>Maki Fes - 70% (1987/2836) lines translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3 semi-active projects, one project released ch 1-6
Monster girl quest paradox - "Playable patch" released, although some scripts still untranslated
>Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts through TLC+Editing, 185/268 scripts finalized
Sayonara wo Oshiete - 103564/257431 (40.2%) characters translated
Shin Koihime Musou - Partial patch with first chapter of Shoku's route
Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 12,659 / 30,513 Lines (41.5%) translated, 1 route translated, partial patch released
>Tsui Yuri - 100% translated and edited, 51% QC
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou - 10613/31248 (33%) translated
Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete - 33% (11765/35476) lines translated
Witch's Garden - 63% (42302/67197) lines translated, 4% (2153/67197) lines edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 100%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited



Official work

MangaGamer
>Da Capo 3 - Released
Higurashi Hou - Released ch 4
Umineko - Released chapters 1-4
Bokuten - Port in progress
Negai no Kakera - Finished Beta
Dal Segno - 100% translated and edited
SukiSuki - About to enter Beta
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 82% translated, 64% edited
Imouto Paradise 2 - 100% translated, 46% edited
Fata morgana fan disc - 40% translated, 5% edited
Sorcery Jokers - 66% translated, 50% edited
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, CH1 100% translated and edited
Maggot Baits - 13% translated
Bocchi Musume x Produce Keikaku - 46% translated and 43% edited
Hadaka Shitsuji - 33% translated, 21% edited
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
Hapymaher - 62% translated, 45% edited
Shiei no Sona-Nyl - Picked up
Trinoline - Announced
5 unannounced projects


JAST
Flowers - Vol 1 released, Vol 2 onwards still to come
Sumeragi Ryoko - Beta, in QA/coding
Katahane - "Translating new scenario, editing original scenario"
Eiyuu*Senki - Picked up
Princess X - 100% translated, in editing and coding
Princess X fandisc - Picked up
Trample on Schatten- Translation 100%, in editing
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script
Sumaga- Fully translated, 70% edited

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Sekai/Denpa
Nekopara Vol 3 - April 28th release
Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam release March, uncut release early Summer
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
Maitetsu - 84.53% translated
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
>Chrono Clock - 88.35% translated, beta version within a few weeks
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Tenshin Ranman - 99.25% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, early 2017 release. Editing/Engine work ongoing
>Koikuma - 27.02% translated, 2017 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - 90% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - Engine/QA work ongoing
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Spring 2017 release
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
Fatal Twelve - Picked up
Project Lux - Picked up
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 11% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
The Bell Chimes For Gold - Picked up
>Unannounced Project 1 - 20% translated
>Unannounced Project 2 - 57% translated
Unannounced Project 4 - 41% translated
>Unannounced Project 5 - 100% translated, editing/engine work ongoing



Frontwing
>Corona Blossom - Janurary 27th release
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - April 28th release for Volumes 1 and 2
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter finished, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Translation in progress, release expected around when the anime airs


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Being worked on by Prototype, "we hope we can deliver more info this spring."
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Period Cube - 4/25 release
Collar x Malice - 2017 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Fruitbat
Hakoniwa no Gakuen - March 2nd release
Seven Days - Late 2017 release


Other
Taisho Alice - March 2017 release
>Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Translation and main game editing complete, 2 mini episodes both 50% edited, March 2017 release
Dies irae - Kickstarter succeeded, May 2017 release planned
>Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - Spring 2017 release
>Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - 2017 release
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Hyakka Hyakurou - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Short Whirlpool title scheduled for Spring
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder if MG will switch to a once a month update schedule for now. A lot of their currently announced games are either at 100% or close to it and no new games are likely to be announced until end of March at the earliest.

[Anonymous No.]

Call me impatient or something but I am already curious just which other Alicesoft titles would MG maybe work on next

[Anonymous No.]

>>16451036
It's Escalayer remake.

[Anonymous No.]

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/Avzm7yzP
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/hjrMPgfF
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/nttcGPFg

As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you've got em'.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16451036
Earliest it would be revealed is Anime Boston at end of March/beginning of April, but I wouldn't bet on any Alicesoft news until AX at July. Maybe even for Otakon like for Rance. Alicesoft is too important for MG to waste it for a minor convention unless maybe if it was a relatively minor title like Daiakuji (super unlikely), Oyako Rankan, or perhaps Escalayer. Even then, I would only expect MG to do that if they were saving an Alicesoft title for either AX or Otakon.

[Anonymous No.]

They'll do Escalayer next and hopefully it gets boycotted

[Anonymous No.]

>possibly 5$ patch later
>Mangagamer are horrible for not releasing a patch
>Let's advertise a third party to make a patch for it

Well I guess that is another way to make money off of someone else translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452489
I think they were hoping that MG would just release a patch themselves and just charge the difference in price between the 2 versions for it, not that Imoutoworks would charge for it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452489
I can't find this page on Steam. Where did you find it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452519
I get what you are saying. It is most likely too risky to sell on dlsite. It's just weird because in the past I did hear patches were safe because it came from a 3rd party.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452548
It's cut content police on the curators. They always try to tell everyone if it has it cut or there is a patch in progress etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452558
The main problem comes from Valve having problems with people being able to screenshot and upload the content. I think a lot of the VNs that have patches on steam stop this by blurring or blacking it out during the H-content, but that requires a lot more effort.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452350
Escalayer will probably sell less because it isn't the first Alicesoft game and Rance isn't on the line, but it'll still sell well because it's a nukige gameplay title with a OVA (that's somewhat famous I think, but that was a long time ago). Oh, and on top of all that, it's HD and not in the half-assed way that makes anti-cropping fags mad.

Speaking for myself, I'm buying it. I have fond memories of the OVA, and cyborg girls are moe.

>>16452489
Stupid idea, would lead to a DMCA. MG probably wouldn't bother if the patch was free unless Steam got pissed at MG for some strange reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452567
http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10576967-Cut-Content-Police/
Well, some information on this page is welcome but it's clear that whoever writes those comments doesn't do a good homework.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452574
the Sunrider devs made an offical +18 patch for their game posting the link in the steam forums, and valve did nothing

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452656
Valve is really inconsistent, though I think that right now, Valve is going for greenlight games rather than targeting games that already made it through.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452656
The issue is that Valve doesn't have a set policy, and MG's Steam rep specifically told them not to do official R18 patches for Steam releases, which is in contrast with what other companies have done. R18 patches aren't anything special otherwise, Denpasoft is selling a handful (and a handful more OELVN Sekai titles have official 18+ patches). .

[Anonymous No.]

My votes for MG survey:
- Ruitomo
- Iroseka
- Damekoi

How shit is my taste?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452918
Kouryuu said:
>Our contacts at Valve have been very, explicitly clear with us that Valve does not want adult content in the form of 18+ patches.
>If others are producing patches, they are operating in a legal grey area at best, and can be penalized at any time Valve decides to enforce their standards.
Source is: http://steamcommunity.com/app/542290/discussions/0/152392549362107604/?ctp=2#c152392786905773920

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452932
and yet this is allowed on steam
http://store.steampowered.com/app/482221/?snr=1_5_9__405

>If others are producing patches, they are operating in a legal grey area at best
MG can just sell the nonero version on their website, and make a 18+ patch for it (and even put the notice that is not for the steam version). Problem solved. If a customer buys a patch from MG and use it on the steam game, then it's not the MG fault

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453006
>and yet this is allowed on steam
That simply means what kouryuu said. Not to mention that MG has Gahkthun and Yurirei on Steam which actually show some boobs and describe the sexual scene. It's worth noting that both of these games were explicitly allowed by Valve. Specially with Yurirei because of all the news sites going desperate with click-bait.

Valve operates on a double standard and if they ever decide to enforce something along the lines of not allowing explicit sexual content, even with patches, some companies will get in a lot of trouble (SP for example) and have their relationship with Valve terminated.

MG does well in not distributing such patches at least until Valve explicitly allows explicit sexual content to be allowed on them. Until then, those that release such patches will continue to operate in this grey area.

Better safe than sorry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453006
That is also allowed in the PSN, which is a more strict virtual market.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453062
Sekai did actually allow a patch and Dovac has been trying to do that a lot with Dlsite in the past especially with karakara.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453154
Sekai has an 18+ brand they distribute patches through (Denpasoft) so they don't need DLSite. They even got the rights to distribute the Muv Luv 18+ patch for Degica. The only third party platform they work with heavily for 18+ distribution is Nutaku, because Nutaku bribes them for titles.

[Anonymous No.]

A very early look at how Da Capo 3 is doing on Steam. It has thus far peaked at 31 concurrent users, although as that happened within the last hour there is a very good chance it will end up peaking higher than that. It is worth noting that Da Capo III will have a larger fraction of buyers that buy through the main MG site than any of the titles with comparable peak concurrent users (which are generally all ages titles), and Kouryuu commented before the Steam release that it was selling fairly well.


For comparison, peak concurrent user players of all MG's titles.

Eden - 302 (During the Summer 2015 sale, day 1 peak of 130)
Higurashi ch 1 - 268 (During the Summer 2015 sale, day 2 peak of 255)
Ozmafia - 246 (day 3 peak)
Kindred Spirits - 228 (day 3 peak)
Go Go Nippon - 181 (during a sale, launch peak not available)
Remembering How We Met - 174 (day 2 peak)
Higurashi ch 2 - 88 (day 1 peak)
Umineko - 75 (day 2 peak)
Princess Evangile - 66 (day 4 peak)
Higurashi ch 3 - 65 (day 2 peak)
Higurashi ch 4 - 48 (day 1 peak)
Tokyo Babel - 40 (day 3 and 6 peak)
Fata Morgana - 33 (day 2 peak)
Da Capo III - 31 (thus far)
Cho Dengeki Stryker - 30 (how long that happened after launch not available)
Himawari - 28 (day 1 peak)
Supipara - 26 (day 5 peak)
Gahkthun - 22 (day 5 of being on Steam, originally released months before the Steam release on MG)
Myth - 8 (day 1 and 3 peak)
The Stargazers - 5 (day 5 peak)

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453238
Da Capo being Da Capo, I'd be surprised if it doesn't get a hardcopy. Probably will qualify by Anime Central, though it could end up like Ozmafia and be announced later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453552
There are a handful of titles (such as Funbag Fantasy, Rance 5D+VI, probably Da Capo III) they likely will have a hard copy released by the time AX rolls around, although when they get announced is an open question.

[Anonymous No.]

Is DaCapo3 even any good? I remember it had an anime that I didn't watch, but I can't remember if it was even marginally regarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453062
That is Kouryuu's interpretation of his feedback.

But the real situation is that Valve has nothing to say about what you do to the game files on your computer. They are distributers that charge money to deliver you an all-ages product. If you mod it later, it is not on them, it is on you.

For Valve to actually have the rights to prevent patches, it would require them to own the rights to all downloaded digital content from Steam.

I have about 45 adult patch Steam titles in my library so far, so one can't exactly claim Steam prevents it.

You can also consider that EVERY company does it except MG. Frontwing, Sekai, Degica. Well, the "we refuse to do adult titles" companies that do Shuffle and Chusingura are also exceptions, but for other reasons.

[Anonymous No.]

Higurashi ch 5 fucking when

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453957
Weren't they planning to release the Answer Arc at the same time due to falling sales?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16453902
Valve reserves the right to terminate relationships with developers. It's their own platform and it's their own rules which can be changed at any time they want. No to mention that they don't mention anywhere that patches to include explicit sexual content are allowed.

If Valve one day for whatever reason thinks they don't want nothing to do with Visual Novel companies that actively encourage patches to get sexual content, they'll simply terminate such relationship. If MG for some reason follows what others have done by releasing such patch and Valve enforces these type of rules, they'll have their relationship with Valve terminated as well.

Anyway, both sides are "interpretations" of the double standards currently existing on Steam since the rules aren't clear. Should we blame MG for being cautious regarding this approach? I really don't think so. I actually think this just follows on their objective as a Visual Novel company which is to always deliver Visual Novels with sexual content or not through completely legitimate methods.

Doing what others do - in this case, providing a patch - when this double standard and unclear rules exist is like playing with fire (even if the chance for things to blow up is low).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16454466
>Doing what others do - in this case, providing a patch - when this double standard and unclear rules exist is like playing with fire (even if the chance for things to blow up is low).
I can see this blowing up in a few years if someone manages to get a VN removed for having a patch, as then it would cause a domino effect of the company being reported of pointing out all the others that are doing the same thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452920
>no WA2

[Anonymous No.]

>>16454744
Didn't MG say there wasn't a need to vote for it since the demand for it is already known?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16454948
why the hell don't they save us from the machine-tl garbage then?

we all want it, do it to it imho

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455220
Most likely licensing fees are too expensive compared to how many copies it'd likely sell. That or the devs have no interest in having it translated.

[Good Haro No.]

>>16453902

Look, MG's been trying to do things fully above board. The problem might legitimately be that we actually asked. But we asked and were told not to. There was nothing to interpret, it was very cut and dry.

I've mentioned this elsewhere before but there are different reps and they all have power to make decisions on things like this independently. As best I can tell, there is no company-wide policy about content. It just seems to depend on who you get stuck with and how much trouble your game causes the company (or your rep). If your game starts getting too much negative press or they think your company is more trouble than it's worth, they can dump your ass regardless of whatever they told you in the past. Small publishers like MG don't bring in all that much money compared to some AAA dev, so it's not like MG has a lot of leverage.

>>16454948

The survey is not an election or a contest. Your suggestions are not 'votes'. Just suggest whatever you actually want to read.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455385
As I said, it is the interpretation of your Steam rep, as there is no such rule as no patches. There is a rule you can't sell adult content on Steam and that is it. From there you have to make your own picture about if selling all-ages and handing out patches is selling adult games.

Technically nothing stops Steam from banning MG because there are torrents for the adult version that you can copy over the all-ages version. It just wouldn't look that great to claim a game being pirated is against the ToS.

Which in other words mean MG can always 3rd party launch patches and be safe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455444
Actively doing something your Steam rep explicitly told you not to do is a horrible idea, regardless of the technicalities involved or if there is a rule written down or not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455444
Leap of logic there. While it is true there's nothing particularly stopping Steam from kicking out MG right now, any obvious attempt at making a patch on MG's part may make Steam more willing to kick them out, at least more than if someone made a makeshift patch out of something that was never intended to be a patch.

I personally think MG is right to be cautious, though that's mostly because I don't get this obsession with needing shit on Steam. It's a convenient store front, but nothing else to me.

>>16455322
For WA2 in particular, isn't it owned by Aquaplus now who is currently working with Atlus? That makes it less likely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455385
>The survey is not an election or a contest. Your suggestions are not 'votes'. Just suggest whatever you actually want to read.

You know, considering how many time she's said this in different contexts this year, when compared with previous years where she was just as quick to laugh at people requesting the impossible as anyone else, I'm starting to wonder if sales are up enough that previously closed doors are starting to open up.

[Good Haro No.]

>>16455734

I say it every year. There's no point in trying to game the survey because it's not a contest where the top X requests will get licensed automatically/force MG to expend resources to try to license them. That's just not how it works. Even if a license is "impossible" it gives us more useful information about what people actually want than these weird compromise suggestions that are harder to interpret.

Suggest things you actually want to read or would buy if they were licensed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455385

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455747
fuck off retard

[Anonymous No.]

>>16456855
/vn/ please go.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16456855
>>16456598
(you) stop samefagging it up. It gets really annoying seeing you countless times trying to prove your point and trying to troll.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455747
To be honest, I always take into account what's feasible or what's absurdly likely for MG to license when voting in the surveys.

If my personal first choice seems mpossible, and the second one seems all but guaranteed, I'd rather let MG know about my 4th and.5th choice rather than bother telling the company about my first 2 choices.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455542
>I personally think MG is right to be cautious, though that's mostly because I don't get this obsession with needing shit on Steam. It's a convenient store front, but nothing else to me.

MG just don't understand caution.

They release games like Euphoria that would kill the eroge industry if feminists reacted to it... just to get more profit and they liked the game themselves.

They don't release hard copies until like 6-12 months later, even if a game sells 10 000 copies the first month. Or if the prequel sold 2000 hard copies, they won't even print 500 for the sequel.

More or less MG just randomly go defensive or on the offense, without any real reasons to back it up. So they are kind of aware that eroge you can sell anything, so they go for games like Maggot baits... but then they talk about how going for loli might be bad.

If MG never did risky things I'd understand them. But when they take large risks and no risks at the same time, it just comes off as random.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457198
>would kill the eroge industry if feminists reacted to it
Im not sure that feminists throwing tantrum at twitter would lead to killing eroge industry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457198
Why would the feminist boogeyman care about some gore nukiges?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457342

gore nukige that are unusually popular with women no less

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452489
Patching it yourself is a pretty trivial process at least. You just copy over the adult0 archive and replace script0 in the streaming assets folder and the game will not only run the adult version, steam integration such as achievements will also continue to work. Just need someone to host those files to make it easy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457198
No one cares about gore though in Murrica. Loli's a bigger issue than gore in the US, though I think MG's European audience has more to worry about since it's actively illegal in many of those countries plus Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

I wonder if MG will ever be forced to IP block certain countries because of that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457358
People keep touting this, but how do you know it's popular with women?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457405
Sounds to me like MG did that on purpose. If they wanted to, they could make the process a lot harder.

The fact that they didn't already says something.

[Anonymous No.]

Quick question. As someone who haven't read these threads in a while, is there a way for me to check out what got translated meanwhile? I remember an archive website been posted after the statuses once upon a while, but I can't find it anymore...

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457932
Yeah, that fuck stopped updating it 3 years ago or something.

I'm not gonna say it's quick, but going down this list might give you a good idea:
https://vndb.org/r?q=;fil=olang-ja.type-complete.released-1.lang-en;o=d;s=released

Alternatively, filter for MangaGamer, SekaiProject, JAST releases etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457504
Most laws contain a sub section that states that if it is part of a movie, book, game, news or something else of value, it is legal. It is just shit countries like Canada that think it should be illegal even if it is just a documentary about it.

I haven't read Australian law in detail, so they may also be retarded. But overall other countries allow fiction that has something else than porn in it.

So every time someone state loli VNs can't be sold, they say that visual novels have zero reading value.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457942
Thanks

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457932
warosu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16458016
I think he meant the Tinfoil thingy, VNTL or something it was called.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457954
That stupid obscenity test is mostly an American thing, most of Europe wouldn't allow loli games to be released. Australia and Germany regularly ban regular, non-ero video games, and recently New Zealand banned Galgun to such an extent that it's illegal to even import. Lots of Europe isn't too far off from that. But there are of course other countries that don't give a fuck, but I imagine it's more effort than it's worth to try and release a real lolige, as much as I want to see one released myself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16452489
There's literally nothing wrong with it. If MG doesn't want sales, they shouldn't be getting them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16455385
Maybe you shouldn't have called Steam rep "Vile Asshole". Next time take your pills and don't go off with some ramblings about rapists and white privilege during business meeting.

[Anonymous No.]

Im helpping a guy hack kimiaru and we've run into a roadblock. Could someone help me with the the audio not playing?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16458335
>Maybe you shouldn't have called Steam rep "Vile Asshole".
How exactly does her post call MG steam rep "Vile Asshole"? She's simply stating what we're witnessing with multiple Visual Novels on Steam.

Well, since you apparently have a personal issue with her I assume you won't stop having a bad opinion of pretty much everything she says but you should realize that Haro doesn't represent MG as a whole. Not to mention that multiple comments she has made regarding the scene among other things are very reasonable. Everyone has bad days.

[Anonymous No.]

YumeHaven seems to have sent out a 20% off coupon en mass for Shuffle to whomever they could find on Steam that might be interested in the title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16458327
MG seems like they want to do patches (paid or otherwise) had they not been told not to do so. Not like the lack of patches is helping their own releases, and additionally being unable to do patches probably hurts their efforts to position themselves as a significant third party platform. Something like Dies Irae will have a paid patch, but presumably MG will only sell the R18 uncut full version instead of the patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16458192
In most of those cases it is bans from stores (or rating services). It isn't illegal. And I don't think MG would take much of an impact if normal stores said they'd refuse to sell their loli games.

Besides lolige is such a wide concept that it stretches from 8 year olds to 14 year olds. It is just a matter of picking the least dangerous end and work from there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16460009
As far as I can tell, complaining on their forum about no ero content does not make you part of that list.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16462404
It's likely tied to past purchases rather than picking names off of things like forums (there seems to be speculation that it is tied to IMMHW, which would make sense with AGM running both).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16451479
One more sale for Da Capo 3
Order Number - 264356
Order Date - 2017-01-25 05:56:30

>>16458327
>There's literally nothing wrong with it. If MG doesn't want sales, they shouldn't be getting them.
>Implying that MG would allow people charging for such patch
Anyway, if you really think MG doesn't want sales you should think again. It was already explained in this very thread why MG doesn't do patches.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463173
Because MG representatives never lie and speak truth even if it hurts their company and profits, right.
Of course they push all the blame on Steam, this is industry standard now when it comes to VN localizations.

If you think critically about it, you will see that "MG is lying" is much simpler and thus credible explanation than "Steam has different policies per different reps and there's no way to appeal some lowly clerk's decision".

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463209

Your argument makes no sense. If it would be so profitable for MG to provide patches and they were freely able to do so, why wouldn't they do it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463221
Because its more profitable to sell X-rated versions for full price via their site rather than provide patches.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463230

But you just said the lack of patches was hurting profits

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463209
>you will see that "MG is lying" is much simpler and thus credible explanation than "Steam has different policies per different reps and there's no way to appeal some lowly clerk's decision".
I'll believe that when you show me proof.

Using that reasoning simply because almost all other Visual Novel companies provide patches isn't a solid argument and again, it lacks proof that those patches comply with Steam standards.

Currently there are no guidelines regarding such patches so thinking that MG is obligated to provide them when they're clearly aware there's popular demand for them is quite a stretch in thought.

[Anonymous No.]

I have a question to MG staff. I don't know if you can answer this or not but I'll ask it regardless.

Imagine that someone buys Da Capo 3, Himawari, Fata Morgana, Tokyo Babel or other Visual Novel you have on Steam and on your store. Naturally, given the credit card fraud you no longer provide Steam Keys for such titles. But what if we bought these games with MG points or with a special arrangement made with your support staff (paypal payment)? Is it feasible in that case to provide a Steam key in case we reach out to your support?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463237
No, hurting profits would be admitting that they don't make patches because they want to force people to buy higher-priced 18+ versions from their site.

>>16463255
>isn't a solid argument
Yes, it is solid argument. Your only counter-argument is some moon-landing tier conspiracy whackery.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463292
>Your only counter-argument is some moon-landing tier conspiracy whackery.
That's mighty hypocritical of you, anon.

[Good Haro No.]

>>16463271

There's no formal policy about that sort of thing right now. As with most things, you could try to persuade support to do something special for you if it's a serious concern (whether they would be swayed by your request I don't know). That said, I would not encourage anyone to make a habit of bugging support for exceptions since it could pretty quickly lead to a policy of "no exceptions".

For what it's worth we are still trying to figure out a good solution to the Steam key thing. It's unfortunately not an easy problem to solve and the consequences if it doesn't work properly could be pretty dire, so it's taking a while.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463292
>Yes, it is solid argument.
You're making a hasty conclusion based on what you've seen most do and not on any official guidelines provided by Valve. Don't be surprised if things change dramatically.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463370
Thanks for the answer. I won't ask your support for Steam keys for purchases of any nature.

Hope you guys manage to reach a good solution about the Steam keys. But it's really kind of annoying because Valve can easily fix this issue and they don't do it because it's not on their financial interest...

[Anonymous No.]

>>16451479
Myth
Order Number - 264362
Order Date - 2017-01-25 07:03:02

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463370
If I were you, I would just hand out keys late. Buy 18+ today, get steam key next month. Not ideal, but fraud does not work well over time.

Alternatively looking at account stats. Like was it made today and they bought a game with a steam key? Sorry, can't give you one yet. But your account is 2 years old? And you have 10 games? You seem like a repeat customer so you can have a steam key instantly.

Some sanity checks would also be in order. Like is a person buying 5 games for full price at the same time? Investigate. Seems a little unusal as most only feel they can afford one full price game a week or so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463683
Delayed Keys are one thing, but handling Steam keys with accounts on a case by case basis would be a sizable amount of extra work (not to mention, subjective judgements would lead to incorrect conclusions at times, along with potential PR problems).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463292
Except that if they do make a patch, it would probably be priced the differrent between their adult and Steam versions. So it would still be the same price as the adult version if you go Steam + patch.

[Anonymous No.]

Kurukuru Fanatic was dropped, but the dude released all the files.

Fully script but lots need to be edited in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16465336
Anyone gonna work on making it playable? I'm not sure if anyone cares that much about this game but I was looking forward to it

[Anonymous No.]

>>16465825
I hope so, there aren't enough yandere VNs.

[Anonymous No.]

I take the translation died again on this.

[Anonymous No.]

How do humblebundle deal with fraud when providing steam keys?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16466013
The most recent update included a comment that the translation is on hold until they finish Hoshimemo for Sekai.

Of course the odds of a fan translation release are likely nil, since both Hoshimemo and Iroseka are by Favorite, and the former is an official translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16466107
http://developer.humblebundle.com/post/147806409802/humble-fraud

[Anonymous No.]

>>16457198
>Games like Euphoria would kill the eroge industry
>Feminists

Not trying to be a asshole here but feminists and SJWs at this point are a joke. And everyone seems to forget that it happens on both sides of politics even in America. I have lived through the Bush era and it was the same shit but also on the right.

Right wing Republicans
>Religious types that believes it messes with God's teachings so they believe in censorship of storyline and clothes.
>Conservatives that think similar with SJW's with the whole sexualizing of mah female because it is bad for normal families.

No matter what there will always be someone mad and crying foul. I would not care if I am MG as those people will never buy the product and they are not there core audience anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16467322
Not quite. The eras have some vague simularities, but generally conservatives will just leave it at banning the work without attacking the creator. The left tends to go more all out in shaming, and trying to damn the source of the material. Remember that the source of the Rapelay incident was CNN.

Course, the internet wasn't as prominent during the Bush era, so maybe things will be different during thr Trump era.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16467614
As an addenum, I don't believe MG will be strongly attacked unless they do something like try to put a loli game or Rance on Steam. The fujoshi fanbase is relying too much on them to translate otome and BL games after all. The most we'll see is a few disgruntled complaints.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16467660
Technically Higurashi 3 was supposed to have naked loli in it, so even that passes everyone by. It really requires the game to be almost completely focused on loli and nudity from the first minutes and onwards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16467891
There was one tumblrfag, but it was on the whole ignored, yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16466129
I just hope SP doesn't get the license. Only god knows what the fuck they'll do with Hoshimeno. Not to mention that either SP or DS said anything regarding a Hoshimeno uncut version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16468837
Chuee twitted about translating some H-scenes in Hoshimeno so I hope it would be 18+ release.

[Anonymous No.]

Da Capo III must be selling pretty well considering it is still rank 1. I remember people saying that it would never surpass rance.
On another note Kouryuu stated that the game is being pirated by 2-3x more people than actually bought. Just looking at the sukeb shows that MG must have sold at least 2-3k. Which is overall really fucking good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16468978
Alright, alright. Time to add one more to the pirated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16468978
moege is the dominant part of the industry

[Anonymous No.]

>>16468978
A lot of those pirates are probably waiting on the hard copy but don't accept the "pay twice" strategy. Some others just want their Steam patch.

So if it is merely 2-3 times as many pirates, it is pretty few who haven't or won't buy it later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16463209
>If you think critically about it
>No evidence
>No real basis on logic
>Because my opinion is fact
>Starts off with black and white arguments and strawman.
>Is doing the same exact thing that is being said about the opponent.

You know psychological projection is a thing right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469050
>A lot of those pirates are probably waiting on the hard copy but don't accept the "pay twice" strategy. Some others just want their Steam patch.
You are really underestimating how many people just aren't going to buy it in the first place. It's nice to think that people are willing to pay and while i'm sure there are people like that it is in no way going to be the majority. Just look at the other MG games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469034
I was about to mention nukige, but that statement is probably accurate when taking Steam into account (unless you count the Sakura series as nukige).

>>16468978
It's probable that Rance will sell more overall and have a longer tail, at least on the MG site, but Da Capo III being first for a few weeks is likely. At the very least, it was bound to do better than Himawari, which got a day to surpass Rance.

I'm curious as to how well it's doing on Steam and how big of a percentage it is to the theoretical sale amount though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469050
That's likely a significant percentage, but the real majority is probably made up of third world poorfags who simply can't afford the game or people just 100% unwilling to pay otherwise.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16467614
My point is that Liberals and Conservatives represent the polarization extremes in the U.S and always will do anything in their power to silence or circumvent things they do not like or believe in to control narratives.

My hope is that as this Trump thing kicks off both Conservatives and Liberals begin to evolve past the censorship issue.

Because honestly in this day and age there is so much violence and sex in video games that it should be a non issue as parents now a days have lived through video games know what they are getting themselves into.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469080
Nice green.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469082
We simply don't have the same interpretation of "a lot of".

Also, ero games are big with < 18 crowd and they wouldn't be able to buy it anyway. MG probably has stats on ages.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469207
In what world can't underaged buy porn on the internet?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16468978
>2-3x more people than actually bought it

2-3* isn't even that bad. Tokyo Babel had atleast four times(and that's assuming it hit atleast 2k sales) as many pirates as purchasers, and I'm sure there's some titles that were even worse.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469086
Perhaps, I think Da Capo III has a much broader audience appeal. Rance is mostly popular through word of mouth and no matter how you put it, the premise is going to ward off a lot of people. I don't know how large the gameplay crowd is so I could be completely wrong.

Speaking of sales, what is MG's best seller? I remember it being Kouhime Musou for a while. I'd guess either Eden or Princess Evangile .

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469270

In terms of on their site, I'd put my money on imopara.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469270
Rance is on word of mouth and has a niche enough audience like Jojo did before they had a more complete anime series. But then again it is gaining because it actually does have gameplay elements and does draw from lore as well.

You have to remember midievil ages games are still popular to this day so the theme fits well with that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469222
Well, it isn't legal. So breaking the low and spend money, or breaking the law and save money becomes your options. Only some people would actually pay to commit crimes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469425
In what world do underaged get put behind bars for buying porn on the internet?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469454

A better question is in what world would a teenage boy ask his mother to buy some animu porn for him instead of just pirating it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469529
He could use a prepaid card. He might want to support the game developers and the localization company.
I bought so many anime DVDs with allowance when I was underaged. Now I don't buy anything ever because I need money to survive.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469222
Don't you normally need a credit card to buy stuff like that? So that would stop most underage people?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469270
The thing is that Rance is capable of appealing well beyond the usual eroge crowd.

See Sengoku Rance.

[Anonymous No.]

So uh, the guy who translated Yandere quit, and left his unfinished progress of the last VN he was working on. https://twitter.com/DETranslations

Hope someone finishes or patches the game someday.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16470222
So, the translation is 100%, but not the editing
I wonder how readable is it

[Anonymous No.]

>>16470222
Is that not the same guy who translated other small works with Yandere stuff in it? Especially indie stuff like it?

Sad to see the person go but I think it was just him becoming more tired of doing all the translating and wasting away doing that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16470681
You're thinking terriball and his tumblr page. http://terriball-tl.tumblr.com/tagged/release . He's been quiet for a year and two months now.

It's common for translators to dip, it sucks this guy ended up doing it though, Yandere titles aren't on the usual menu for titles. Should Dargoth quit we'll have lost a lot of diversity in the translation line up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16470725
Yes that is exactly the guy I was thinking about. I am glad he is still online and did not delete anything.

I agree Yandere titles are really rare but are popular with certain audiences. Me being one of them I will be disappointed if there no more translations for Yandere stuff in the future.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.fandompost.com/2017/01/24/mangagamer-announces-adult-chaosrise-game/

MG made one announcement​ yesterday. I do have to admit I like the diversity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16471169
The western art makes me want to puke.
Also, I am fairly certain the trailer is too lewd for youtube.

[Anonymous No.]

Seems Corona Blossom Volume 3 is out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16469270
Rance can easily appeal to many to the JRPG crowd. Not all or even most of them, but the JRPG crowd is so much larger than the general VN crowd that the offensive aspects possibly turning off a huge percentage still means a lot of people relatively.

Said offensive aspects appeal to the nukige and maybe the anti-PC crowd (if there is one) anyways. It's not a nukige, sure, but it has more than enough sex to justify buying it for a nukige player, and the premise of the protagonist makes it sound like one.

This is disregarding the substantial fanbase that has existed since Sengoku Rance was translated.

[Anonymous No.]

So, what happened to the people who were translating TDA 03?

[Anonymous No.]

So Reddit, after working tirelessly for several years, released their own VN to challenge the hegemony of Katawa Shoujo:

https://vndb.org/v20658

I wonder if this can finally topple KS, I personally think it's time for a new king.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472573
...Did you even read the description? It's a five minute joke game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472599
Now, now, no need to be combative. I'm sure Reddit put their very best in charge of producing this visual novel. We should give it a fair chance before declaring it a joke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472127
They became legitimate professional translators and started working for Degica on their Muv Luv stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

https://vndb.org/t8742
https://www.kimochi.co/Episicava

A visual novel developed by a Nigerian Ghanaian Prince.

Very little reason not to buy in, I think. I'm sure the money will be used responsibly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472895
>18+
Already better than half of the shit posted here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472919
If it's not a scam I admire his effort, can't be easy to develop VNs in Ghana of all places.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472926
>>16472919
Art isn't particularly bad either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472937
>if his clan wasn't
hadn't been*
I thought Ghana was in anglosphere.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472948
Definitely needs some proofreading, also the protag is literally a copy of Gilgamesh from F/SN, down to the jacket.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472953
They did claim that they were inspired by F/SN. Better than copying Shirou I suppose.

Nutaku has to go all out in advertising this website if any of the projects there are going to succeed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16472643
I honestly can't tell if you're a dumbass ledditor or a dumbass trying to make leddit look bad over a literal meme game. Either way, get the fuck out and take your oelshit with you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16473122
>I honestly can't tell if you're a dumbass ledditor or a dumbass trying to make leddit look bad over a literal meme game
Christ, you're either too fucking young to catch on to extremely obvious mockery or just autistic.

[Anonymous No.]

EOLVNs are not on-topic in /jp/.

I always thought that rule was stupid, but given that the lot of you seem to act like retarded children whenever one is brought up, maybe it's for the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16473119
>Better than copying Shirou I suppose.
Don't say that again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16473211
>OELVNs being off topic being stupid
>on the fucking translation general

>>16473122
Dumbass trying to make leddit look bad over a literal meme game it is, then. Fuck off to /vn/.

[Anonymous No.]

Mangagamer's survey closes tomorrow if you feel the need to give them your worthless opinions but haven't yet.

It took haro about a month to put together the results last time, for reference.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16474510
I'm very unsure if I should change my vote for Damekoi. It's a title that I want to read for a long time already but it's a 10 year old VN. I suppose the odds of it having a official english translation are very slim at best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16474510
I think last year's had a lot more options though, didn't it?

Like asking for titles from partners they're already working with and a section for new partners.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16474551

It doesn't matter what you list, anon, they'll never pick it anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16474746
Encouraging.
Well, I'm sure they'll pick Bishoujo Mangekyou.

[Anonymous No.]

Huh, Da Capo fans stronk according to Kouryuu. Maybe simply being in stock for all of those years grew a quiet fanbase. It's possible Princess Evangile fans gave it a try too, and that would explain DC I being at 5th for the day.

>>16474718
I don't remember that, but my memory's pretty bad anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16474979
I wish they'd re-translate Suika. The first chapter's ending left me depressed for days

[Anonymous No.]

It's been a while since I last looked into this, but was there ever an official statement about Maitetsu? Last I heard they neither said yes nor no to an18+ release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16474979
I wish they will translate the best version of DC I and DC II, since they already gathered quite the fanbase.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475087
https://curiouscat.me/Kouryuu/post/85924372?t=1485248055
PP is looking up but PC and PCII seems to be unlikely.

Although, with Da Capo getting on the fifth place, it could be the data that Circus needed to be convinced to allow MG to release the two.

It can also allow them to be rerelease on Steam to complete the trilogy, which would bring in more money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475026
No statement yet. If they ever make one, they'll be a ruckus every VN place though, whether good or bad.

>>16475103
Maybe if DCIII, its fandisk, and Dal Segno all do really well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475149
I still have no idea why they are trying to bring that over here.

I mean, I'd buy it if it was 18+. Hell, I'd buy an expensive limited edition if they offered it. But they probably won't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475185
If I had to guess, Lose was desperate to get steam bux and Sekai was desperate for licenses.

The latter is definitely dissatisfied because of the shitstorm while the former probably will be because there's no way it's selling as much as the average memege or probably even Steins;Gate.

[Anonymous No.]

gah. just realized that the blonde in DC3 isn't the lolimilf. well, that kind of takes away some of my enthusiasm for playing it.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/mangagamer/status/741355846244925440

Pygmalion is on its way out soon. Preorder page is already up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475647
>8% edited
>soon

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475654
6 months seems pretty soon in the case of editting and beta.

[Anonymous No.]

Pygmalion is scheduled for February 24th.

>>16475654
For some reason he linked to a tweet from last Summer.

[Anonymous No.]

Did anyone else get the patch for Kurukuru Fanatic off reddit and is getting a 020700.scn error when playing?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475924
>reddit
"no"

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475924
Considering I don't regularly visit Reddit, no. Try /vn/ on >>>/vg/ instead.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475924
>Check on reddit
Sorry but I'm trying to stay away from cancerous threads (Reddit/Fuwanovel.).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16475026

If I recall the last statement regarding it was that they believed they had "a solution that would please everybody". So probably an unofficial patch ala jast

[Anonymous No.]

>>16477154

Oh, and of course that details would be coming around christmas of last year, but that's sekai project for you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16477154
Their last statement was actually during their AMA saying they were "negotiating". So if anything they actually regressed from having a solution.

[Anonymous No.]

MangaGamer put up a bundle for Pygmalion + Tokyo Babel as well.

Somewhat surprised they haven't done a Da Capo bundle. At the very least, there was enough of a bump with the older titles to get Da Capo back onto the weekly list (granted that probably isn't a huge accomplishment).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16477745
>Somewhat surprised they haven't done a Da Capo bundle.
>Da Capo 2 $44.95　
Because it would be to expensive. Look at the prices, Circus don's seems that want to lower their prices.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16477198
Yes, I believe at the end of the year it was no longer "a solution" but rather "we don't have any information". Requires companies to regress on information instead of move forward.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16477860
They do sales though. Navel never joined those because they figured asking for less than 40 bucks would be too cheap... until they jumped on Steam and said "throw away 20 dollars and 30%? Count me in!"

[Anonymous No.]

>>16474800
>Well, I'm sure they'll pick Bishoujo Mangekyou.
Let's hope not.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone notice winged cloud is not publishing with sekai? Same with many other previous evns they worked with. Looks like people are abandoning ship.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478551
Does that matter when their Nekopara kickstarter is at 631k? Sekai is going to be fine.

[Anonymous No.]

> tfw Walking Dead is top #1 bestselling Visual Novel
How can manlets from MG even compete?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478551
It's not so much abandoning ship, but rather a continuation of what happened with Key and Frontwing. Once a publisher makes a name for themselves, they no longer have much reason to publish with Sekai and give Sekai a cut, as publishing on Steam doesn't exactly demand going through a big publisher these days.

Sekai still seems to be good with Nekoworks (at least for the time being). Additionally, they probably can count on a steady stream of Japanese titles as while there are a few Japanese publishers like Frontwing big enough and interested enough in the West to set up their own thing, the majority of publishers (along with Japanese doujin groups, a big source of Sekai's library) aren't going to trivially cut out Sekai as a middleman (even if there may be more competition for those licenses these days).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478649
Next they'll tell me King's Quest is a fucking visual novel

[Anonymous No.]

Kouryuu talks about his stress with translating DC3 and managing MG
http://blog.mangagamer.org/2017/01/25/translators-corner-da-capo-3-r/

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/Kouryuu_/status/824798067945852928
>Speaking of #DC3R's reception, I'm actually really surprised to see it almost rivaling #Rance for total sales.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478661
Nekoworks is selling vol 1 patch without denpa. I'm pretty sure they're planning to drop them soon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478783
I predicted long ago that DC3 would be one of the best selling MG's game. It could be even more successful if retards at MG would bother to put 1 and 2 games on Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478783
He does clarify that he means MG+Steam.

Probably means good things for both titles though, Rance with only a MG release is comparable to a title with a Steam release that is being viewed as a success.

Although after two nice successes, Pygmalion will probably be another disappointment.

[Anonymous No.]

MG updates just got posted, not much progress for any of the titles not named Princess Evangile. But we learned that 4 of the 6 secret projects are above 50%.

As for Higurashi, Kouryuu has stated that he is working on the revisions for chapter 7/8 .

[Anonymous No.]

Conspiracy time
MG have 6 unannounced projects
First one is 71% translated and 44% edited
Second one is 33% translated
Third one is 10% and 9%
Fourth one is 51% and 30%
Fifth one is 93% and 23%
The sixth in both 100% translated and edited.

For the last response of Kouryuu, we know that higurashi is in works, with umineko behind, so we can take both out, what leave 4 new projects.
Also, there is a new alicesoft title in works and maybe another Waffle title, with the success of Furbag Fantasy.
A new Yaoi title could be in works also, with Good Haro hinting it.
So yeah, 3 new VN we know is in works and 3 we don't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479640
I'm a bit confused about what you're saying. about Higurashi and Umineko. The entire set of both titles were announced a long time ago, and don't count towards any of the unannounced projects.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479640
I am pretty sure that both Higurashi and Umineko are not being counted among the secret projects, and the only project Haro has with MG is Hadaka Shitsuji the other project she has is according with what she said last year not with MG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479640
Umineko and Higurashi aren't secret projects so if they were going to post updates for them they would with the games themselves and not as secret projects. So we have six projects with the best hint you gave being maybe a yaoi title based on hints.

[Good Haro No.]

>>16479640

Higurashi and Umineko aren't secret projects.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479640
They are only editing Umineko and the Higurashi answer arcs, which is why they don't get progress reports.

Anyways, Funbag Fantasy 2 or Gaiden is likely to be one of them. The other 5 are a bit hard to guess though since the secret projects were said to exist before Rance, Sono Hana, or anything else with obvious sequels were said to be done. Maybe an Alicesoft nukige like Escalayer or Oyako Rankan, or perhaps Please Bang My Wife too.

An otome game or a yaoi game seem unlikely, but not altogether impossible if they hired a new translator for them. Yuri's also unlikely for a similar reason, though it's not too impossible they started working on another Sono Hana title or a yuri title in general even before New Generation was finalized.

Maybe Supipara since it's only 17k away from the 200k goal, but I really doubt they would even mention it as a secret project. Possibly one of the Minori games with ero, but that's also very doubtable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479640

Your speculation's kinda dumb, for reasons pointed out by >>16479685

I haven't been twitter stalking as much lately, but I believe the timing for those lines up that one of them may be an arunaru project and one may be a conjueror project(he actually has a few unaccounted for right now, but I don't remember if they're mangagamer projects). Most of the other usual suspects are occupied or probably occupied.

We're kind of dead in the water until haro gets around to hints for the year because no one talks as much on twitter these days.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479902

Ralen's been working on maidens of micheal since before mangagamer even picked up sonohana and hired that merry band of yurifags. I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479902
>>16479977

Also I doubt we're seeing any minori announcements since trinoline is in the works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478686
What do you expected from the Steam tag system.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479902
I could see something Sonohana or yuri at the least. Another Alicesoft is possible considering we have an extra secret project from when Haro mentioned five last month. Definitely need more info though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16480105
>>16479746
Come to think of it, are the secret projects in random order, or is it numbered by most recently acquired to most time since acquired? Both the 5th and 6th projects approaching completion implies the latter, though they could simply be short nukige as is expected for Anime Boston.

[Good Haro No.]

>>16480204

They're not in any particular order.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16480228
Thanks for the info. There goes that line of speculation.

I assume that not all of these titles will be revealed at Anime Boston. It would be interesting if MG already got a title that they planned to announce at Anime Expo and Otakon.

In the off chance all of these are for the various smaller conventions though, I would assume that there are secret projects MG didn't reveal yet or simply haven't started on, which is fair enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16480228

Good.

Now how about some more hints.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16480318

She said they'll be with the survey results like last year.

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>>16480315
There's still half a year till AX or Otakon, Rance and D.C III P.P are probably up there in being picked up too. Both of them could be considered successes (especially DC III) and there is no way that MG isn't going to capitalize on that,

Not counting hard copies around 14 games got announced last year. No way MG is not going to pick up more games by con season.

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>>16478618
>Its going to be just fine
>2 years later
>No Nekoworks, Visual Novel industry including Doujins leaves Sekai behind.
>everyone decides to pirate their visual novels.
>b-but its just a few downloads it wont effect anything.

Sekai drones make me laugh the most. They do not see the future in front of them. It's almost like they have the mindset Dovac does.

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>>16478661
Not only that but you do notice some Japanese companies are beginning to enter the industry themselves rather than rely much on 3rd parties. Well at least the bigger ones and the niche anyways.

You are right though, but i also believe some are just entering in because they see Visual Novels like Clannad become succesful and Grisaia.

Frontwing i even admit is finally having a good strategy of using Indiegogo to their advantage for Corona Blossom. And they do pull in much better numbers everytime they launch a new one. Also i do remember on the last huge livestream they had, they did hint that there is a possibility that a huge Grisia physical set 18+ version. Which is hinting that they really want to get more of the lions share of sales.

>>16478797
They should do that already really. I mean if the kickstarter actually proved anything they could make good money on the Nekopara series and cut out Sekai in the process. It never made sense to me as to why Nekopara still went with Sekai even after the second game sold really well. Hopefully Nekoworks makes the right move and just decides to be independant.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16479640
>Higurashi
>Umineko fighting game

Anon those were announced at the end of last year. MG even had a show for a few of their announcements. Also if i remember they did mention they were translating Higurashi the rest of the arcs in one go so it was already technically announced.

My only hope is that one day Bishoujo Mangekyou makes it and also a hentai i found named Tan Dou no Or will make iti. Both of those should be short enough for them to translate in a few months or less.

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>>16480763
I personally think most doujin companies will keep Sekai around, but you can't survive with only doujin VNs. Nekoworks and maybe possibly even Winged Cloud leaving (again) will be a huge blow. Giga will either fuck off the Western market, start translating their own, or maybe work with a third party (I suspect Frontwing).

They could end up localizing cheap nukige to stay alive much like what MG used to do, but I think that may become MiKandi's domain since they released that softhouse seal title.

Sekai's survival depends on whether or not they can make it in the doujin vidya market, but I suspect no. That market already seems overcrowded with Fruitbat Factory and Nyu Media around.

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>>16482147
Winged Cloud self-published their last Sakura game, and it's nowhere to be found on Denpasoft. They might've already ditched Sekai.

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>>16482147
They won't have a problem getting moege from someone anytime soon. There is a large enough output of decent moege in Japan by a variety of companies that aren't going to enter the market themselves (along with years of existing titles, even if you limit yourselves to HD titles).

They also have their whole Vita project upcoming which is a much less crowded market than Steam. Not to mention as Vita publishing has a higher bar of entry it gives them something that is a bit less easily replaceable than a middleman for Steam and localization company.

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>>16482445
Obviously they'd do bad censored vita ports to Steam just for cash.

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>>16482956
Everyone has been doing Steam versions of various R18 titles for cash, and with a couple noticeable exceptions they do so in the easiest possible way. If there is a Vita version, that often can be the easiest way to create a Steam version.

Although that post focused on the other way, taking releases designed for Steam and creating a Vita release.

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>>16480877
>they did mention they were translating Higurashi the rest of the arcs in one go
Fuuck I'm gonna be waiting until 2018 for 5-8 at least

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>>16483086
https://curiouscat.me/Kouryuu/post/91432897

They plan to have it out by end of the year at least, and they are already revising 7 and 8. They are probably just going to release the answer arcs in one big bundle. and the remaining 3 chapters in yet another bundle.

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>>16483410
>remaining 3 chapters
They're doing both Rei and Hou, so there are 6 chapters left after finishing Kai. They aren't as long though, so it shouldn't take too long

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So since the MG Survey is closing soonish, how about we compare our VN suggestions.
Here is my 3 votes:
Daiakuji
Sure I would like Sengoku too, But I've always had ad thing for Daiakuji since watching the OVA AGES ago.

Aku no Onna Kanbu Full Moon Night
I even bought the darn game because I liked it so much, 2nd game was a bit disappointing though, but Lune overall got some pretty good titles.

Atlach-Nacha
Old and very unlikely, I like the setting though and the story seems like it could be really good... mostly just a dream though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16483657
Lune in general would be a amazing partner for MG, besides Aku no Onna they also have https://vndb.org/v18795 and https://vndb.org/v20464 that I'm sure would be a huge sucess.

And about my suggestions I put Evenicle, because a ero rpg with Yaegashi Nan's art is just perfect to me.

Nanairo Reincarnation because the art is amazing and I remember hearing tons of praise of it some years ago.

And Eustia because I really want to see if it is as good as people say.

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>>16483657
Atlach Nacha would be great, but I decided to save that for next time.

Daiakuji is old enough that it's very unlikely, but it fits the current political situation a little too well, so I voted on it.

Next was Blade Briders, more because I'm an /m/fag than for any legitimately good reason. Though I think a true HD gameplay eroge will do well for MG even if it's mediocre.

Lastly was Galzoo Island. It seems like a neat first person dungeon crawler. AS gal monsters have also grown on me, even if they aren't really monster girls.

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>>16483657
I made blanket statements like "anime related VN" and such since I think it is such an untapped market.

Because they seem to want to sell Steam games, and it is silly to make all-ages of the adult games to do so. Just pick pre-made anime spinn-off VNs that are short, cheap and sell a lot. (Well cheap to translate, I have no idea if they want millions for licenses)

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>>16483657
Rui wa Tomo o Yobu - https://vndb.org/v776
Same writer as Comyu. Heard very good things about Ruitomo, its description and tags are my kind of thing and I just want to see more from the writer.

Irotoridori no Sekai - https://vndb.org/v5834
Well acclaimed and successful nakige from Favorite. I'm not one to turn down nakige specially when it's done by a competent company. Of course, we also have lolis. Hoshimeno was very enjoyable and I expect the same thing from Iroseka in case I ever have the opportunity to read it.

Sekai de Ichiban Dame na Koi - https://vndb.org/v415
Another very well acclaimed VN. What got this game under my eye was a review by TakaJun. He praised it to the heavens given how healing and sympathizing it was due to the lack of luck the protagonist had. I'd like to read a VN like that so I voted for it even though I'm aware it's a dated VN and the art may turn off people that prefer shiny things.

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>>16483858
>from Favorite
Not gonna happen. They have have partnership with SP.

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>>16483909
Partnerships aren't exclusive. JAST got Flowers from Innocent Grey and MG got Hapymaher from Purple Software.

Unless the partnership included some deal about exclusivity I believe we'll see more cases like this.

And not to mention that Iroseka would be much better in MG hands.

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>>16483808
All ages VNs made along side an anime are generally made by larger developers who would have higher license costs. Aside from those, there are a handful of original R18 titles with anime of various popularity out there, and I'm guessing all the major localization companies have expressed interest to the developers for any that they feel could do well in the West.

I disagree that all ages on Steam R18 off Steam is a bad idea, seems to be working out for Da Capo and Princess Evangile, among others. In general titles that have sold well all ages on Steam have also sold well R18 off Steam (compared to other R18 releases on that platform).

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>>16483936
And not to mention that Iroseka would be much better in MG hands.

The fan translator is working on Hoshizora no Memoria for Sekai now, and intends to continue Iroseka after that. It's very likely Sekai has been eyeing the license with that in mind already, but even if MG did manage to snatch it from Sekai, the base translation at least would be the same either way as either would continue that translation (granted MG could give it a better editing pass).

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>>16483936
>And not to mention that Iroseka would be much better in MG hands.

The fan translator is working on Hoshizora no Memoria for Sekai now, and intends to continue Iroseka after that. It's very likely Sekai has been eyeing the license with that in mind already, but even if MG did manage to snatch it from Sekai, the base translation at least would be the same either way as either would continue that translation (granted MG could give it a better editing pass).

[Anonymous No.]

>>16483972
Chuee is a disappointment. Only people with no true respect for the game they're working on would be willing to work with a company that doesn't mind removing content of VNs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16483657
Fairytale Requiem (Liar-soft) - https://vndb.org/v16796

Nice art with a cool, fairy tale-themed horror premise that sounds like my jam. The game has been pretty well-received from what I've seen so far.

Amatsutsumi (Purple Software) - https://vndb.org/v18852

Another game with a interesting-sounding premise with good reviews to go with it. The lovely, atmospheric art was what got me interested enough to look up more details on it.

[Anonymous No.]

Progress update time.

https://tsurezurescans.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/hatsukoi-11-progress-update-3-twitter/

Important stuff:

>Common: 76.65%
>Total: 14.34%

And we got a twitter for non-important posts; @tsurezurescans

Pic related is one of the more important choices of the game.

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>>16483939
It isn't bad, it just seems more expensive to localize when it involves double products. But that is the key word, SEEMS. Not necessarily the way things are.

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>>16483858
Ruitomo and DameKoi both seem like the kind of highly acclaimed but poorly known titles that MG has historically gone after that probably don't have huge sales perspective and would have a decent chance to disappoint on release. At least they both could end up on Steam so they have that going for it (DameKoi could even use an appealing title along the lines of "The World's Most Forbidden Love"). Additionally the same 5pb issues that stopped Oretsuba could still be in play for Ruitomo (it also wouldn't be a surprise if it was cost prohibitive as a license regardless).

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>>16484073
>Amatsutsumi

It's a bit of a shame that Chrono Clock on Kickstarter+Steam+Nutaku+Denpa is likely to do much better than the purely R18 release of Hapymaher, leaving Sekai more likely to end up with Amatsutsumi.

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>>16483657

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>>16483657
Liber 7 Eigou no Owari o Matsu Kimi e
https://vndb.org/v18759

Doko e Iku no, Ano Hi
https://vndb.org/v466

Honoguraki Toki no Hate Yori
https://vndb.org/v19974

[Anonymous No.]

>>16484335
Voting for Muramasa is pointless since it's licensed by JAST already

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>>16483657
Hatsuyuki Sakura
https://vndb.org/v7302

Akatsuki no Goei
https://vndb.org/v629

Madou Koukaku ~Yami no Tsuki Megami wa Doukoku de Utau~
https://vndb.org/v11620

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>>16483657

KimiAru
https://vndb.org/v581

Atlach-Nacha
https://vndb.org/v163

Sisters ~Natsu no Saigo no Hi~
https://vndb.org/v3896

┐('～`；)┌

[Anonymous No.]

>>16483657
I'm a simple man

Henshin!!! ~Pantsu ni Natte Kunkun Peropero~
https://vndb.org/v6472

Change! ~Ano Ko ni Natte Kunkun Peropero~
https://vndb.org/v14934

Seriously just give me my porn.

And also I asked for the Da Capo III fandisk. Was one of the funnest games i've played in a while.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16478750
>Da Capo 2 took a while to break even, the fan discs flopped, and it took us several years to finally sell out of the one and only Limited Edition print run we ever did for both titles

lol

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>>16483657
I asked for Tsumashibori and Galzoo Island since I want those before they start going after the more recent stuff only. Looking through Alicesoft's older stuff those the the last of the pre Haruka things I would want that seem releasable(though Daiakuji would be amazing).

Also voted for Evenicle because Senren art, though I wish it also had Senren proportions.

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>>16484945
>Henshin!!! ~Pantsu ni Natte Kunkun Peropero~
Man of good taste. I wonder if MG will ever attempt to localize it.

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>>16483657
>And Eustia because I really want to see if it is as good as people say.
Eustia is the #1 kamige that would have a mixed reception among men of taste but be loved by most commoners

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>>16484528
Eh, Muramasa making the list wouldn't exactly be pointless. MG may never be able to touch it but since the list is public it would at least be a reminder to JAST that people want it.

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>>16483657
Rance Quest + Magnum - https://vndb.org/v6985
Just trying to show more demand for it so that they pick it over SR (or at least announce them simultaneously ala KnS).

Otome＊Domain - https://vndb.org/v18149
I want more trap protagonist games and this seems to be easier to sell with a bunch of really quirky heroines compared to Ensemble's line of more by-the-book type characters.

Hakoniwa Logic - https://vndb.org/v14924
I want more mystery/detective games and a lighter-looking one may draw in a bigger crowd. Also, can't resist Kirika.

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>>16484981
>Also voted for Evenicle because Senren art, though I wish it also had Senren proportions.
I have bad news for you, Evenicle has great tachie but almost all of the CG look goofy to the point of being distracting and or unfappable. You've been warned.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16487100
I've looked at the cgs before. They don't bother me at all. Not the best I've seen but nothing horrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16487142
That's good to hear. I know I was bummed when all the CGs didn't live up to my expectations.