/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


>Aiyoku No Eustia - 5.51% Translated, 2.98% edited
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "2088/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (90.5%)."
AstralAir - 100% translated, release a long ways off
Ayakashi Gohan - ~94% Complete
Clover Day's - Common + 4 routes done, last route 348/711 KB translated
Daitoshokan - 100% translated and edited, images, engine work and QC remain
Gakuen Heaven 2 - Demo released
>Hatsukoi 1/1 - Midori+Runa routes patch released, Kyou 13.53% translated, overall 54.41% 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
>Koiken Otome Revive - 1% (206/27095) lines translated
Lovely Cation- 43.7% of lines completed
Lover Able - 56.08% translated
Maji Koi A-3 - Starting up
Majo Koi Nikki - 73% (29479/40208) lines translated, prologue patch released
>Maki Fes - 93% (2633/2835) lines translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3 semi-active projects, one project released ch 1-7
Monster girl quest paradox - Another new patch released, released, although some scripts still untranslated
>Netorare Otoko no Ko - Released
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts through TLC+Editing, 193/268 scripts finalized
Sansha Mendan - 17,311/35,409 lines translated, 16,574/35,409 lines edited
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 - 12,891 / 30,513 Lines (42.3%) translated, 1 route translated, partial patch released
Tsui Yuri - 100% translated and edited, 73% QC
Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete - 34% (11889/35476) lines translated
Venus Blood Chimera - Prologue + a few scenes translated
>Witch's Garden - 22% (11793/53677) lines translated
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
>Kuroinu - Chapter 1 3/31 Release, Chapter 2 80% translated, 42% edited
Higurashi Hou - Released ch 4
Umineko - Released chapters 1-4
Bokuten - Port in progress
Dal Segno - 100% translated and edited, about to enter Beta
SukiSuki - About to enter Beta
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 100% translated and edited
>Imouto Paradise 2 - 100% translated, 64% edited
>Fata morgana fan disc - 48% translated, 20% edited
>Sorcery Jokers - 83% translated, 65% edited
>Maggot Baits - 29% translated
>Bocchi Musume x Produce Keikaku - 73% translated and 70% edited
>Hadaka Shitsuji - 47% translated, 21% edited
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
>Hapymaher - 71% translated, 60% edited
Shiei no Sona-Nyl - Picked up
Trinoline - Announced
>Secret Project 1 - 80% translated, 78% edited
>Secret Project 2 - 50% translated, 31% edited
>Secret Project 3 - 33% translated, 32% edited
>Secret Project 4 - 83% translated, 47% edited
Secret Project 5 - 100% translated, 100% edited
Secret Project 6 - 100% translated, 100% edited
>Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden - Listed in a blog post by Waffle
3 Anime Boston announcements planned



JAST'
Sumeragi Ryoko - Golden Master
Flowers - Vol 1 released, Vol 2 onwards still to come
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

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Sekai/Denpa
>Project Lux - March 31st release
Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam version 100% translated and in editing, release planned for March although possible it falls back because of technical issues, uncut release early Summer
>Neko-nin exHeart - Early April release
Nekopara Vol 3 - April 28th release
>Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - In QA, Kickstarter finished, Spring release
>Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, Summer release
>Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Picked up, Kickstarter finished, Winter 2018 release
>KaraKara 2 - Late 2017 release
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
>Maitetsu - 100% translated, engine work ongoing
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
Narcissu - All parts released
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 - 39.46% translated, 2017 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Spring 2017 release
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
Fatal Twelve - Kickstarter started
>Her and Her and My 7 Days - 70% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
The Bell Chimes For Gold - Picked up
Unannounced Project 1 - 63% translated
Unannounced Project 2 - 100% translated, editing/engine work ongoing
Unannounced Project 3 - 100% translated


Frontwing
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - April 28th release for Volumes 1 and 2, Kickstarter Started
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter finished, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Roughly 50% translated, 2017 release
Subahibi - 2017 release


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 - April 3rd release
Seven Days - Late 2017 release
SeaBed - Late 2017 release
>Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Prefundia up, late 2017 release


Other
>Taisho Alice - April 2017 release
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - May 16th release
>Dies irae - Steam version in debugging, uncut patch TL to finish this month, May 2017 release planned
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - 5/23 release
Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Danganronpa V3 - 9/26 release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - 11/30 release
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Hyakka Hyakurou - Picked up
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
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.]

>>16768949
What is that, an OP for ants?

[Anonymous No.]

>Koiken Otome Revive - 1% (206/27095) lines translated

>Norwegian VN, manga, anime and light novel fan. JP to ENG fan translator. Japanese language student, somewhat self taught. (I studied the language by myself for about a year before I started my formal education.) Currently enrolled at The University in Oslo, getting my bachelor in Japanese language.

>My translation projects:
>Tsui Yuri ~Okaa-san ni wa Naisho da yo~ translation project
>Shi ni Iku Kimi, Yakata ni Mebuku Zouo - translation project

>I'm doing this as a side project next to my Japanese studies at uni, so I will have limited amounts of time each week to work on the project. Luckily, the game isn't too long.
>I am doing the translation by myself at the moment, though should any translators want to join, you are welcome onboard. I am also looking for an editor.

>On this note, for anyone wondering what exactly I mean with "their translation style is quite different compared to mine", I am removing honorifics, changing Yuzu's speech pattern to a normal one, (meaning she won't be speaking in the third person,) and I'll be trying to change most terms and titles into English ones where it's possible. (Made up words like doryouku and so on will not be touched, though.)

>I basically want the translation to flow as naturally as possible in English. I have learned a lot from my first project, and intend on doing an even better job on this one. Hopefully this will show in the final product.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769513
I will give Dergonu the benefit of the doubt.
If anything the dude is doing a degree in japanese studies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769513
Keeping douryoku is a stupid decision.
Change it to whatever: power, quirk etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>changing Yuzu's speech pattern to a normal one, (meaning she won't be speaking in the third person,)

There's no point keeping Yuzu's habit of speaking in the third person because speaking in the 3rd means completely different things in the West than in Japan. In fact, weirdly enough, keeping that verbal tick in the script could completely alter Yuzu's personality in the translation.

So removing it isn't a horrible idea if you cannot replace the tick with something that conveys a similar personality.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769571
It worked in Fuuko's case though.

[Anonymous No.]

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/37h6xMZW
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/LzGCYCyT
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/KaWd0diA

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

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769584
Is that so?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769611
Yes, Fuuko is retarded so it worked in her case.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769616
Good point!

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769513
Is it a good idea to list down other translation projects that haven't been completed?

Doesn't that just means he's 3-waying his efforts and will probably burn out and release nothing?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769724
He's already done with the first one and dropped the second so.

[Anonymous No.]

Official Hatsukoi Girls Ranking:
1.- Yukino
2.- Maya
3.- Kyou
4.- Midori
5.- Runa (fuck this dumb bitch)

BEST GIRL THEME "TRY-ANGLE": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcxqirWWIWQ [Embed] [Embed]

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769513
I am somewhat amazed that someone is even bothering. Unless the fandisc is miles better than the original, that is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769513
Damn, such a great art wasted on a terrible game. What a shame.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769822
Pretty common these days. A lot of titles post-2010 tend to have at least decent art.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769757
fandisc better? it's almost all sex scenes

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769536
>If anything the dude is doing a degree in japanese studies.

Hadly an assurance of quality. Especially when he's doing bachelor's.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770055
Beats self-studying though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770059
University studies of Japanese are essentially guided self-studying. Sometimes with extra focus on literature, history or society, but that probably varies from course to course.

Better than unguided, but from what I can observe on my university, most bachelor's students aren't very good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770055
>>16770067
Clearly a masterpiece such as this should never be touched by anyone but a true master of translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770105
>I'm a shit eater.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770118
We were all shit eaters once.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16768949
>Aiyoku No Eustia - 5.51% Translated, 2.98% edited

[Anonymous No.]

>>16768950
>uncut patch TL to finish this month
When will they release it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770055
>>16770059
I've met a guy whose bachelor and masters are in japanese cultural studies and, despite having lived in Japan for a year, when I showed him a simple light novel he could barely read the first page, always complaining about kanji. Anedoctal experience but I sure learned a lot more than him without ever going to a japanese class, considering I read taisho lit without issues.

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>>16769729
Where did he say that he dropped the second ?

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>>16770457
For Dies Irae, the Kickstarter listed during the campaign a roughly 3 month gap between the Steam release and the uncut patch. They still seem to be on schedule for May for the Steam release, which if the uncut patch schedule holds up, would mean an uncut release around August.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769724
OP lists projects willy nilly. He refused to list Bishoujo Mangekyou, even though there were weekly updates.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770467
You're a cool guy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770730
I don't blame him, since Japanese -> Finnish -> English sounds like a catastrophe

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770730
Was talking about the guy that wanted to do Koiken Otome Revive, not the OP.

And the latter was more because it wasn't a Japanese to English but a Japanese to Finnish to English.

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>>16769571
Really? To me speaking in third person means you have a personality quirk, and nothing more. So you are saying it would not be correct to say Yuzu has a speech quirk, and that she speaks normal? As that is the new meaning in this translation.

Else you lost the personality while trying to not lose the personality, which is awkward.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770755
I know you are new here, but a lot of the projects used to be J->C->E

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770827
>J->C->E
Worse than machinetl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770844
You talkin' shit about Insem?

[Anonymous No.]

I'm pretty sure stuff is 3 language based translations unless you were born in an English primary country. At least I tend to think in my own language as a bridge between English and Japanese. (Unless I only do Japanese <-> my own language)

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>>16770889
There's a difference between being fluent in 3 languages yourself and taking a Finish translation of a Japanese VN someone else did and translating it into English yourself. You don't know how well the other person translated it into the other language. So the English version has more limited accuracy.

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>>16770844
But still better than Jap > Finnish > English

Like seriously what the fuck

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770778

It's the implication of the quirk that's the issue. In English speaking in third person makes you sound a little crazy or off, but in Japanese it's a way of signifying a childish tone (usually). So rendering it the same way (third person speech) in English doesn't actually convey the intent of the quirk at all, it changes the impression of the character (since the important character trait being conveyed by the quirk isn't "speaks in third person" it's "speaks in a childish tone")

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>>16770059
There really is no difference between a bachelor's degree and self study. Anyone can b.s their way to a degree and I have seen it happen a lot with various jobs where it is needed to prove the piece of paper is worth it.

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>>16770467
It just reminds me of those fake websites and videos on how these people learned Japanese and how it is easy. Yet I bet if any of them were challenged to have a conversation they would fail it easily. I even remember one person saying they learned it within a single year and was able to understand visual novels and anime. Which is obviously false.

Irony is that Japanese is really advanced and it will be different depending on the story and the novel. Some novel writers are more simple and it can be really understood if you have the basics down. But if you are talking about the complex stuff well that is going to take a lot of learning.

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>>16770889
>At least I tend to think in my own language as a bridge between English and Japanese.
If you're actually fluent in a language, you should be able to directly understand that language (without some in-between translation) and think in that language, occasionally even finding during conversations in your native language that you want to use a word or phrase in that language you don't know how to express in your native language.

If you're using a third language as a bridge between languages, you're not fluent in at least one of them and shouldn't be translating.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770558
Read the goddamn thread.
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/17333-koiken-otome-revive-tl-project/

[Anonymous No.]

So is the Eustia translation real or mtl?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16771883
Subpar translation slightly better than MTL.

[Anonymous No.]

>Context is everything when translating. If you're widely read and widely exposed to the culture, you'll be able to understand a particular line in a game from the perspective of the writer and the Japanese gamer. This frees you from a literal translation. The goal then becomes to leave the word-for-word text behind, and create something that will be as significant to the English audience as it was to the original audience. If you don't really know how a particular line sounds to a Japanese audience, you might misfire when transposing it into English--or worse, offer up a direct word-for-word translation that leaves the game sounding bland because that line that had a vivid life and cultural context in the original is just an unanchored string of words in the target language. Appreciation of context is also the key to creating a localization that is both a good read in English and faithful to the spirit of the original. That's the main difference between a game, book, or manga translated from start to finish by a translator, and one that is roughly translated into English first, and then rewritten by a good English writer that doesn't read Japanese.
Name five non-shit, non-Makoto translations that wouldn't be laughed at by actual professional, competent translators.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16771883
It's real and the guy is competent enough but he has no skill as a writer.

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>>16772164
You have an idealistic view of translators, Anon. Professionals in any medium simply mean they're getting paid, it's never a guarantee of any quality. Books and TV and games all have their own Sekai's as well.

Well, maybe not that bad.

[Anonymous No.]

What happened with Amaterasu translations?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772322
Ixrec got married and quit eroge.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772272
Hence the adjective that followed.

[Anonymous No.]

What is the most popular vn genre in the west?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772481
Moege

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772481
Short titles with cute artwork hoping to make sales on Steam have seen the most success, along side with titles from franchises well known to the broader anime audience.

Discounting titles made specifically to sell cheaply on Steam, a generic pickup though, a generic moege seems to have more potential for a generic title of most other genres, but individual titles from a large variety of genres can be a success if they have some way to take off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772481
Loli zoophilia rape simulator sci-fi otome hybrids. Trust me, I'm a professional twitter stalker.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772164
5 you ask?
-Subahibi
-Dies Irae
-Seabed
-Pygmallion
-Myth
-Fata Morgana

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772684
>-Pygmallion
>-Myth
Hi, BDH! You still nor fired form MG?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772706
I doubt BDH would list Dies irae. It's too problematic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772684
That's 6 you imbecile baboon!

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>>16772735
Yes, but one's an illusion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772684
Honestly Dies has me a bit worried. There's a lot of people working on it and somehow that retard Ludo made it on that team

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>>16772684
>-Subahibi
How can you translate something you don't understand, and how can EOPs understand anything at all when they have the mental capacity of a fart in a bong pipe?
>You’ll also have to deal with knowing that the vast majority of people who read visual novels in English don’t have the level of reading comprehension or education necessary to really start to approach interpreting and understanding SubaHibi on anything but a surface level, so your efforts in translating it will be mostly wasted.
- Moogy, KeroQ marketing division

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>>16772164
My 5 would probably be:

Grisaia
YU-NO
KnS
Fata Morgana

...And possibly Kamidori? I know it's not an amazing script, but I always admired all the work that Aroduc put into fixing Eushully's lazy release. He has it all laid out in his translation notes, it was pretty amusing how much errors he had to fix.

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>>16772791
Kamidori is one of those translations which is actually superior to the original release.

If the massive errors in Hapymaher's script are going to be fixed, then that will likely be another case in the future as well. Though I have no idea who is translating it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772775
>somehow that retard Ludo made it on that team

We already know how that happened.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772807
>Kamidori is one of those translations which is actually superior to the original release.
>no honorifics

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>>16772888
While I prefer honorifics myself, I don't really mind a lack of it so long as everything else is fine. Besides, it's a fantasy setting with most of its lore stolen from Nordic mythology, so it doesn't piss me off as much as it would in, say, a Japanese setting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772904
What about the eastern kingdom, whatever it's called?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772923
Weren't they some kind of weird Japanese/Middle-east mashup? I forgot about them honestly

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772934
Japanese. That's why I mentioned it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772996
Yeah, I know. Was just having trouble remembering them, been years since I played Kamidori.

[Anonymous No.]

https://youtu.be/hEF5EOL-Rh8

Was this shitty? Actually looks fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773076
It has a 55 on EGS

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769513
>I am removing honorifics, changing Yuzu's speech pattern to a normal one, (meaning she won't be speaking in the third person,) and I'll be trying to change most terms and titles into English ones
Fuwanovel tier...

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772164
Chrono Clock objectively has one of the best translations ever made.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773085
But Aroduc!

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773250
Whatever You Are Smoking, I Want Some!

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773374
Nani? I don't smoke lad

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769513

>JP to ENG fan translator. Japanese language student, somewhat self taught. (I studied the language by myself for about a year before I started my formal education.) Currently enrolled at The University in Oslo, getting my bachelor in Japanese language.

1 somewhat self taught... That is kind of a hint this guy is not dedicated that much to the language to begin with. I have been studying close to 2 years and i am studying daily. College means nothing not even classes due if you have bad study habits or even dedication.

>On this note, for anyone wondering what exactly I mean with "their translation style is quite different compared to mine", I am removing honorifics, changing Yuzu's speech pattern to a normal one, (meaning she won't be speaking in the third person,) and I'll be trying to change most terms and titles into English ones where it's possible. (Made up words like doryouku and so on will not be touched, though.)


Just because something is different does not mean it is better. Removing Honorifics and trying to localize something instead of translating it is absolutely a horrible decision.

>I'm doing this as a side project next to my Japanese studies at uni, so I will have limited amounts of time each week to work on the project. Luckily, the game isn't too long.

I give him less than a year before he drops out due to burnout of studying and learning. Sometimes length does not matter it is about the writing that does matter the most.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770319
someone's translating it on fuwa

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773250
>objectively
If you want to shill SP here you're doing it wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773390
Then you must be on drugs, be an autist or related to Dovac if you consider the translation of Chrono Clock as a good one and much less "one of the best translations ever".

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>>16773250
Do you know that your "best translation ever" wasn't full edited when they released it because the editor couldn't finish it in time?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773442
>>16773467
>>16773491
Jeez, you guys can't take a joke

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773503
Sorry, I don't understand jokes with british accents, can you add some honorifics for a better understanding?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773533
You are meant to just google it, lad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16771938
>>16772183
It's not that bad. I'm sure it will be better once he gets some QCers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773812
It is that bad, a translation can be perfectly accurate but if it's poorly written it can sap the life out of the story. Bland writing builds a bland world.

>QCers

Nigga

[Anonymous No.]

>>16770778

Speaking in the third person in English often makes you sound arrogant. Either that or a bit mental. Trump speaks in the third person, also Poirot.

Is Yuzu arrogant or mental? If she isn't then having her speak in the third person is probably not the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774336
Depends on who it is. When girls speak in the third person, it can sound cute. If you have a penis like BDH, it will sound arrogant.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774447
You sure BDH doesn't sound mental? He rants like a crazy person

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774697
No bully /our tranny/

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774447
I think speaking in the third person can be difficult to sound cute in English. I don't think I've ever heard it pulled off by anyone except children. Could be wrong but that's my personal experience with it.

>>16774697
He's pretty rational when he isn't talking about SJW bullshit, at least. Like, I asked him why the official DR translations were so shit, and he wrote up a fairly large post with direct comparisons to the original script and the NISA translation, explained why they were wrong, etc.

He's a total faggot, but at least he knows his shit in regards to Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774858
You're correct but to be fair it kind of sounds stupid in Japanese too

[Anonymous No.]

Why is mtl so frowned upon in the vn community?

In the chinese webnovels community, people literally paid edited machine translations to read.

60/70$ for each chapter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774901
Because we are not chinks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773423
Anon, I'm super impressed by you and your knowledge. Thank you for making this post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774901
Nipponese is literally a language of context. Machine translations aren't viable. Also, see this quote. >>16772790 Not even someone well-versed in the language itself can necessarily produce a good translation if they're unfamiliar with the culture and country itself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774901
Paying for access (or getting it by producing uploads/content) yourself if common among chinks.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775395
P O T T E R Y

[Anonymous No.]

http://steamcommunity.com/games/tayutama2/announcements/detail/562228356563959965

Hikari Field dropped the name "Smart Elves 2" in favor of just calling it Tayutama 2 for the English release, after they were told them how ridiculous the former sounded for an English release. They are also playing up that they will "strengthen the translation quality control."

There isn't any reason to expect this to suddenly become a quality release, but it seems that the localization company is somewhat aware of the pitfalls and is willing to at least acknowledge feedback.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775632
Why is half of the replies in Chinese? It's for English version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16768950
>May 2017 release planned
Senpaitachi do I read this one or wait for the uncut?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775732
>all ages

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775732
During the Kickstarter it was noted that the unnecessary for Steam cuts made creating the Amantes Amentes release would be reverted for the Steam release, so baring any potential shortcomings from that process it should come down to do you want to wait for explicit H-scenes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775690
It seems that Chinese is a frequently requested language for visual novels on Steam. That's why a stretch goal for Fatal Twelve kickstarter is for a Chinese translation of it. They want to see how well it'd sell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775732
Just remember that the full game has HD cropped and 4:3 options, while the H scenes are only in 4:3 because they were never updated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775690
It's still the same Steam page as the Chinese release, which did exceptionally well (it has over 500 reviews), so it isn't a surprise if a few Chinese comments show up for an announcement that concerns the English release. If MangaGamer had a news update about adding a Chinese translation to Kindred Spirits, you would probably get a handful of English remarks on such a post as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>Narcissu - All parts released

so what's new? I've read 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775923
Himiko Epilogue is in the base version and all the DLCs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16768950
>Project Lux - March 31st release
I haven't really been tracking this project.

What kind of VR headset is going to be required and what am I getting into?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775923
A Little Iris, Zero and Sumire, three new Narcissu stories. And if you weren't aware, there's also Ame no Marginal which isn't part of the Narcissu series but has the same writer and a very similar atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.]

Quof, you fucker, according to your site, you've been sitting on two unknown titles for over 3 months, even though they're 100% TL'd. What's up with that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16776730
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH1IilFRN94

[Anonymous No.]

>>16776479
You need a HTC Vive. And here's system requirements.

OS: 32/64-bit Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10
Processor: Intel CPU Core i3
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 / AMD Radeon R9 280X
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 4 GB available space

[Anonymous No.]

>>16777605
Thanks, man.

Well, my computer can run it but deez nutz is gonna have to pay for my $800 gatekeeper.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774336
>Speaking in the third person in English often makes you sound arrogant. Either that or a bit mental.
It's supposed to be moe and/or childish

[Anonymous No.]

>>16776547
>Ame no Marginal

that's like my first bought VN in steam. with the bgm of course.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16779503
You are the cancer of the VN scene, steamfag.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16779526

>he pirates VNs

(You)

[Anonymous No.]

>>16779503
>bgm
Why? You could probably play the music by looking around in the game folder.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16779759

the bgm files are saved in a single *.arc file. dunno how to decode them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16778866
Which is why a direct translation of techniques sometimes doesn't work when dealing with languages so different.

[Anonymous No.]

So any word on maitetsu having ero yet? I don't see the point of doing an all age lolige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16778506
>>16777605
>>16776479
>tfw anon is paying 800$ to play a VR visual novel.
>tfw there is Sekai trying to schill its visual novels.

Looking pretty desperate there Sekai are you sure you are going to make it by next year?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16768949
No thread title is messing my filter options

[Anonymous No.]

>>16780421
Project Lux can be played without a VR headset. Though that will probably diminish the experience since it was made with VR in mind.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773076
While I haven't played the old Eushully stuff yet like the ones before 2008, that is probably one of their worst titles.

Although, it would be hilarious if by any chance somebody or say Aroduc one day decided to TL it over any of their other works, even Rhapsody.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16780421
In case you weren't aware, "deez nutz" is not a real person and was used to indicate that I'm not paying $800 for a VR headset until I can get my jimmy literally waxed when I plop the shit on my eyeholes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16781295
Oh my god! Have you tried asking the UN for help with such barbaric treatment?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16781431
What was so bad about it? Pity since I like the character designs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16781431
>Aroduc one day decided to TL it over any of their other works
If he is likely to do any of their works it will be the upcoming Castle Meister game. He has shown interest in it, but it is also dependant on it not totally sucking,

[Anonymous No.]

>>16781454
Dude he is messing with you. We all know this game is going to require 800$ dlc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16781916
Yeah, I know. I just didn't really get his response. It didn't seem to follow a thread of logic since no one was advocating the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16781575
Dumb muvluv kid

[Anonymous No.]

>>16775632
What about "Smart Elves" sounds ridiculous as a title?
Too haughty or something? If anything [adjective] + [noun] is a pretty standard and simple.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16783054
Tayutama has nothing to do with elves or being smart.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16783566
It could be a shit title for said game. But it's not as if it's a title that sounds ridiculous in English.

[Anonymous No.]

What are the odds Supipara Chapter 2 will get funded this year?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16784596
Hopefully 0

[Anonymous No.]

>>16784596
How much does it need?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16784660
$200K.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16776730
NDAs

[Anonymous No.]

>>16784676
I think the possibility of it being funded this year is possible then.

[Anonymous No.]

You guys are very unfair regarding fuwanovel projects.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16785083
>>>/fuwa/

[Anonymous No.]

>>16784676
>we can't start working until we reach this arbitrary number
>current funds may as well not exist until the goal is met
Japanese developers, everyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16784596
ef hardcopy and Trinoline will count toward the goal, so 100%.

[Anonymous No.]

Honestly, why even bother? The first Supipara wasn't success.

Might as well move onto another title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16785437
Since chapter 2 already exists they're probably doing it for completion sake. I don't see minori bothering with developing any more chapters though, since Supipara didn't sell very well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16785460
I know MG likes to show commitment to partnerships, but at the same time it feels like a waste of time, money and effort that is better spent on something else. Especially since people will now realise the series will never be finished, as who would want to buy something that won't get a true conclusion?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16785083
I think he is also missing in the third reason and that usually is when people try to say that they learned Japanese for a year on and off, or they are just learning it and decide they will translate the entire visual novel without much reading experience. They get way in over their heads.

They then begin to realize they do not have any experience or use Machine translation to help out. They stress and they keep pushing and then realize that it takes a lot of work. Japanese is a difficult language and takes a lot of time to where you need to dedicate your life to it. It's not like Spanish or German where there are a lot of similarities and it can be understood even without much context.

This is why I will never really go against the good Translators especially Conjurer or Aroduc etc etc. We may all disagree with honorifics but what they do and the work they put in for what they get paid for is really more about passion and love for the writing than anything else. Except for the ones that do awful translations and butcher it.

[Anonymous No.]

Chaos Child when?

[Anonymous No.]

I heard I should come here because you collect order IDs from MangaGamer. How does this work, I doubt I am supposed to spam up the threads with IDs. Is there a google document to submit them for this or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16786028
Just reply to >>16769601 with the sale IDs you have, and then that person uses that info

[Anonymous No.]

>>16786035
>>16769601
Order Number - 270196
Order Date - 2017-03-30 02:17:37
Kuroinu

Order Number - 240160
Order Date - 2016-12-05 01:23:20
Rance VI

That is all you need, yes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16786094
Yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>16786028

The idea behind the collecting was that one could cross reference release-dates, top 5 rankings, and order number differences to make somewhat accurate estimates as to the sales of a title. It's gotten less useful over the last year or so because mangagamer's transitioned from releasing one game a month to one game a week, but one can still use them to atleast tell if a site-only title was a real bomb.

If you've got anything to add to the chart, it's just as
>>16786035
said.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16769601
Would be interesting if you turned this data into an approximate sales per month graph, instead of cumulative

[Anonymous No.]

>>16786692

I actually used to do that but ceased doing so when the monthly releases sped up to the point that they took up the majority of the image. If you ever want to do it yourself for a month, it's a pretty simple process of taking the numbers at each end of the month and the adjacent numbers from the months before and after and dividing them to get the average for that dayspan, then using that to figure what the total would be at the first and final day of the month and the estimated total would be the difference. And of course, if you've got the first and last day of the month already, you need only only subtract.

[Anonymous No.]

A little over 48 hours till mangagamer's panel, should anyone wish to place their bets on a half card.

Despite the kyonyuu fantasy hardcopy leak, mangagamer made a facebook post that said none of the AOD announcements are hardcopies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16787328
>no crowdfunding
High expectations I see

[Anonymous No.]

>>16787389

Well it wasn't included in the announcement at least.

[Anonymous No.]

Most of the Sekai stream this week was spent going through a non Japanese VN, though they did mention a few things of interest.

The Eden of Grisaia Steam release won't make the end of March release because of technical problems.
The Neko-nin Ex Heart Steam page is going up next week (along with a demo).
They were asked about Maitetsu again during Q&A, and gave an answer similar to their Anime Weekend Atlanta comments on R18 Maitetsu, saying there is a lot involved in it and it is taking longer than they were expecting, but they are still working on it.
They were also asked about SakuSaku, though didn't have much they were able to say about when it would be released.

[Anonymous No.]

im surprised no one has licensed more vn based off popular anime. i heard they're mostly shit but fans would probably still gobble them up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16787737
That particular game is shit desu.
Besides the anime ended like months ago in a very shitty anticlimatic way.

[Anonymous No.]

>akabeii soft game comes with DRM shit
>tfw chink bros already have it cracked down
god bless chinks

[Anonymous No.]

>>16787414
I'd certainly be surprised if Karakara 2 wasn't crowdfunded.

Possibly not Neko Nin Exheart, but I doubt it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16787635
So it was a announcement of nothing again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16768949
>im surprised no one has licensed more vn based off popular anime. i heard they're mostly shit but fans would probably still gobble them up.

Not really most anime fans do not buy visual novels. In reverse though a visual novel that becomes an anime on the other hand works out really well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16788865
Hah, no. The VN->anime age is long gone. That was 2005-2010.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16789572
Dies Irae will still get the benefit from it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16787737
it's based on ln

[Anonymous No.]

>>16789572
Don't forget to pre-order y'all!

[Anonymous No.]

>>16790152
Can we expect PC port?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16790171
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>16790171
From Atlus? Hahaha.

[Anonymous No.]

Wasn't Meakashi supposed to be out this month?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16790190
>>16790346
Too bad. Lest wait for vita emulator then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16790385

could try and find a pstv for cheap and hack it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16790152
Censored spanking is pretty asinine. Crazy left-authoritarian countries. I'm buying used, if only because I'm too lazy to crack my Vita.

[Anonymous No.]

Fruitbat Factory released Miniature Garden onto Steam. Although I'm not sure if releasing a VN onto Steam at the same time as the Steam anime sale is the best idea.

>>16788861
>So it was a announcement of nothing again.

If you mean for R18 Maitetsu, here is the exact exchange from their upload of the stream about it. https://youtu.be/OqZ9neamqUQ?t=3843
If you mean about the stream in general, there isn't much to expect from the weekly streams they are doing, as they would hold any major announcements for conventions (especially with their convention schedule being as busy as it is). With the streams they just update what is happening in the immediate future, show off a game or two, and then do typical convention like Q&A where they will give a typical non-answer on questions on upcoming titles.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFWXpYJKaI
I want to die

[Anonymous No.]

>>16791415
>Fruitbat Factory released Miniature Garden onto Steam. Although I'm not sure if releasing a VN onto Steam at the same time as the Steam anime sale is the best idea.

To be fair, It's not like it was going to sell spectacularly in the first place

[Anonymous No.]

5th chapter of Higurashi is listed with an April 28th release date.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792450
Unless MG releases something they announce at Anime Boston, it looks like the Higurashi chapter might be the only thing they release in April.

[Anonymous No.]

Sekai Project finally added Steam cards to Clannad after promising them in 2015. My god, they've got to be the laziest backgrounds and emoticons I've ever seen.
The backgrounds are clearly just CGs from the game with absolutely no work done on them to make them look good on a profile. The profile blocks all of the details on the background. Why did this take 2 years?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792564
They are already got kickstarter money from fools. Why would they spend even more money on making something with quality?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792564
Looks perfectly fine to me. Besides do you really think the would get Hitaru Inoue to do new art?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792674
Clannad has tons of promotional material, sprites, tons of art, they could've easily used this stuff to make a background that isn't totally covered by the profile.
Literally all you can see on that background are the sides of her head, you have to be joking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792674
Lol look at the emoticons

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792674
I have seen fan wallpaper in better quality and originality than this. I could even make a Clannad wallpaper and make it much neater than this. This was just lazy zoom at the wallpaper design and the cards look like something you would expect from a 10 year old that uses Photoshop.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792709
This is something out of the 1980's and it looks horrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792564
They just decided to take a shit on it and hope the Normies will buy into it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792526
Which isn't particularly strange. Looking at the past releases Watanagashi is the only one that had another major release (euphoria) in the same month. The other arcs so far have only shared their months with nukige and 3rd party titles

[Anonymous No.]

kuroinu eng torrent where?

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know if SAO Infinity Moment counts as VN but I've no idea where to ask about it, I know there's a patched English (partial translation) ISO but I'm searching a patch in xdelta3 format made from that English release, for the decrypted PDG archive INSTALL.DAT of the Japanese ISO.

If anyone has both the English and Japanese ISO versions and wants to make a patch, I can give the directions. I wanted to update the partial translation and complete it but I can't download the English ISO for technical reasons. Pic related is a test, I replaced the player names (obviously this will NOT be in the final release, just a test).

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know if SAO Infinity Moment counts as VN but I've no idea where to ask about it, I know there's a patched English (partial translation) ISO but I'm searching a patch in xdelta3 format made from that English release, for the decrypted PGD archive INSTALL.DAT of the Japanese ISO.

If anyone has both the English and Japanese ISO versions and wants to make a patch, I can give the directions. I wanted to update the partial translation and complete it but I can't download the English ISO for technical reasons. Pic related is a test, I replaced the player names (obviously this will NOT be in the final release, just a test).

[Anonymous No.]

Just make sure the font needed for Kuroinu installs correctly, or you get the thing where the letters overlap and the spacing's all messed up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792585
>They are already got kickstarter money from fools. Why would they spend even more money on making something with quality?

Clannad would have made considerably more money from being on Steam than the Kickstarter by this point. The Steamspy estimate is up to about 40k (with less than 6k backers from the Kickstarter), and it has been one Sekai's better long term sellers. That said though, I do agree they probably wouldn't get much out of spending the time to properly do Steam cards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16793600
https://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=2256501

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794010
The H-OVA is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794018
Of course, it picks the best scenes. Everyone has seen it, which is why the hype for Kuroinu TL is above average.
But again, the best scenes are in the well-drawn and well-animated anime, so there is no reason for me to even pirate the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794026
I'm curious what didn't make the cut, so I'll still be reading the VN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16793829
>>16794038
if you reading it - share enjoyment with others as well
>>16794026
nah, only first two episodes were good
also, vn drawing is always better

[Anonymous No.]

I'm greatly pleased that pacaplus and project lux never showed up on popular releases on steam. Few more flops and sekai will be dead.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frontwing/a-grand-entrance-for-new-vn-series-grisaia-phantom/posts/1846833

Frontwing put up a $180k stretch goal on the Phantom Trigger Kickstarter to put together a collector's box of the original Grisaia titles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794258
>to put together a collector's box of the original Grisaia titles.
coming in 2017

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794269

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794219
PacuPlus has thus far peaked at 7 concurrent users, and if the launch is any indication, it is likely to be a sizable flop as few hits began with such a limited response at release.

Project Lux is much trickier to get a read on. It has peaked at 28 concurrent users thus far which isn't comparatively bad compared to other comparable titles (although it's not that impressive either), but it is an Early access title at the moment with significant limitations to controls without using a VR headset. So a short term reaction probably won't be worth much in guessing how it will do overall.

New releases aside though, Nekopara, Clannad, and Rabi-Ribi all has shown a huge response with concurrent users to the Steam sale starting.

[Anonymous No.]

how long till announcements?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794686
10 bongs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794722
At 10 bongs or 10 more bongs until then?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794811
10 more bongs. Well, maybe 9 bongs now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16794686
The panel begins at 9:30pm Eastern US time, or a bit over 8 hours from this post. Although their panels tend to begin with a recap, so the announcements likely won't be until the second half of the panel.

[Anonymous No.]

SukiSuki this month?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795387
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795539

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795543
The worst part is that we'll have to also wait for the patch.

[Anonymous No.]

How do you think they will release rance onwards? skip to quest? do the remakes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795708
Jumping Sengoku could be the best choice, even if Sengoku have a bad translation here and there.
I'ld love for them to release the series in order tho.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795758
Translating anything which is already translated is a dick move. Release of 03 would be good, but I think it's too soon. That might have to wait until 04 is out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795708
Doing Sengoku is likely enough, mainly because it's a bad idea to force people to "obtain" a nontranslated game to understand what's going on in a release. There's also more than enough demand for Sengoku, even if it was already fan translated.

They'll probably go production order more or less after that. Maybe 01 before Quest, but not much deviance otherwise. 02 might be bundled with 01 as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795848
>mainly because it's a bad idea to force people to "obtain" a nontranslated game to understand what's going on in a release
That's why they started with 5D, amirite?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795848
They have a good incentive to get to Quest quickly after Sengoku, thanks to having much of it already translated and it would arguably have the most demand, being the title after the one most people have already played.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16795864
You don't need to know anything for 5D and VI. Sengoku is more necessary for future games than I-IV.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16796057
You don't know jack shit about Athena and Bird for 5D, which doesn't matter that much, I guess. You miss out on a lot in VI if you haven't played III. Maybe IV too somewhat due to the whole toushin toshi stuff, but mainly III.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16796100
Everything before 5D is freeware. 5D was the first in the main series they could charge money for.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16796100
https://youtu.be/Nkb6jex6-80

[Anonymous No.]

Doesn't seem like anyone's twitter blogging the MG panel

[Anonymous No.]

The MG panel should be getting ready to start if their on time, though MG tweeted they don't have a stream. Hopefully someone will tweet stuff out from the panel, but otherwise just a wait until MG gets to the part of the panel when they start posting announcements.

[Anonymous No.]

IT begins

[Anonymous No.]

It's a little late, but does anyone happen to remember that site that leaked mangagamer's con announcement press release a few hours early last year? You should check it for unprotected directories. I already checked a few of the other sites that get mangagamer press releases and they're either protected or they had the good sense not to upload stuff early.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797164
If you are talking about when Rance, Sorcery Jokers, and something else got announced early, that was people literally plugging in random shit into http://mangagamer.org/(right here)/ and seeing if it worked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797191

No, earlier than that. It might have been in 2015 too, it was the site that posted the con pr for higurashi and stuff early.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797191

Also haro said she's doing it live this year so that method's probably dead

[Good Haro No.]

>>16797208

I do it live every year just sometimes at AX I upload them all right at the start of the panel because my connection is unreliable. You guys actually missed a site leaking all of the Ota announcements like a day early last year because timezones confused them.

[Anonymous No.]

Let's figure out the announcement using telepathy. All we need to do is believe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797231

I can see them announcing eustia right now in my minds eye

[Anonymous No.]

I wouldn't get too excited, anything worth announcing will be saved for AX or Sakuracon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797243
>Sakuracon
I think you mean Otakon, I dont think MG even did anything at Sakuracon last year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797259
They also list Sakuracon as only a booth on their convention page this year.

[Anonymous No.]

>trinoline

that's cheating

[Anonymous No.]

Trinoline was their first announcement, I suppose they didn't officially announce it last year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797278
>>16797281
How did the nips like it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797259
>>16797266
Ah right, my bad. Otakon.

[Anonymous No.]

Sweet Young Bride

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797283
it just came out today, so who knows

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797295

I was kind of expecting little twins but I guess that's still a bit too hardcore for them. Maybe we'll see a really lolige in 2020

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797295
https://vndb.org/v17897
>Due to the declining birth rate in Japan, the "Government-Sponsored Marriage Program" was created, pairing men with their perfect mate. Kouta is chosen as one of the lucky candidates, and when he goes to meet his future bride, he meets Hazuki, a beautiful young girl. They are married the same night, and Kouta's new wife makes a request of him:
>"Please... Please do lewd things to me."

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

They also got a BL title, http://mangagamer.org/hashihime/

Somewhat surprised they didn't announce Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden, especially since Waffle has leaked it, but I guess they'll hold onto that for Anime Central.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797295
>>16797301

Also by the way the vndb for that https://vndb.org/v17897

It's another short ammolite title ala mikan. I was kind of hoping mikan did well enough that they could get a real title like something from galette or tanuki soft but I guess they're still playing it safe.

[Anonymous No.]

They also announced Hinoue Itaru and Yamakaze Ran as AX guests.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797328
I get Yamakaze Ran, but has Itaru done art for any MG games? I'm still a little buttblasted on what she did to Rewrite+

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797321

Oh and while I'm rambling, if tsumairo shoujo does well, the next title in that "line" is this https://vndb.org/v19092 which, while still another short, low-res title, is way more lolicon, so it'll be interesting to see what happens with that since they wouldn't be able to dip their toes anymore. Still, I was kind of hoping for something more substantial.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797339
MG is hinting they have a good reason to bring her over, from their panel write up.

>But what could her presence mean, I wonder? She could be working on a new game, but is this real? Could this be a hint as to why we’re bringing over an artist long associated with Visual Arts and Key?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797339

She's only done art for key stuff to my knowledge.

Maybe little busters ecstasy on mangagamer's site?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797328
Itaru's surprising. Only thing I can think of is that MG plans to license Holy Breaker. There's a faint possibility that MG may end up hosting the 18+ version of Little Busters though.

>>16797316
Possibly Sakuracon since they haven't set the amount of announcements there yet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797364
Not really. She also did Holy Breaker! after Key was making AB First Beat, so my guess is Holy Breaker vol 1 and 2 announcement in AX.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797364
Would go along well with their goal of reaching out to third parties to host R18 releases. They managed to get R18 version of Dies Irae as well after all.

Although now that she is freelance, MG could have also picked up a new unannounced title by another company that she is working on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797371
That still seems to be done by a brand under Key, even if it wasn't released with the Key label.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797371

That's still owned by visual arts though so it's pretty much the same thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16785777
As a Steam game without high translation costs, it might have done well enough to make a profit, as it would have outsold many on site releases. Even if it doesn't do well enough to warrant creating a third chapter from scratch, that doesn't mean it is necessarily unprofitable if they release the second existing chapter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797372
Not really sure if a game will do well just because Itaru's there though. I don't think Harmonia did that well, but I haven't really checked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797364
The guy from Visual Arts last year didn't seem opposed to bringing over 18+ content, his main concern was the lack of some official body to send it to. MG could have convinced them to release an 18+ version the same way they convinced Minori (send it to the ESRB), or through some other way to reassure VA.

Either way, be it through MG or someone else, any of the R18 platforms would get a significant boost if they managed to convince Visual Arts and secured a deal to distribute Little Busters EX.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797435
Harmonia has been averaging 5-7k on Steamspy. Hardly a disaster, but probably a disappointment if their expectations were based on how Planetarian did, which is sitting around 40k.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797361

Given how that's worded it seems a pretty obvious hint that it's something new and a hint toward the title in question. One of you losers that's not a scrub at nip like me should comb her twitter to see if she mentions what she's working on recently. I did but it seemed to mostly just be personal tweets.

[Anonymous No.]

With Moonstone's artist going to AX I hope MG announces Sakura no Mori † Dreamers. Though it'll probably Magical Marriage Lunatics instead. However, wasn't Magical Marriage Lunatics already on the site of the company that licensed Taisho Alice? This is of course before they redid their site to focus solely on Taisho Alice.

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>>16797592
Sakura no Mori would be a pretty big pick up and a natural success in the west, but didn't it just come out last year?

What were the hints that Haro gave again this year?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797599
http://blog.mangagamer.org/2017/02/13/2017-licensing-survey-results-and-some-hints-too/

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797592
E2 initially had Magical Marriage Lunatics and Angel Ring listed from Moonstone initially but it seems like any deal there fell through.

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>>16797607
Just because they haven't been talked about doesn't mean they fell through.

[Anonymous No.]

>Announcement #2 (formerly Secret Project #6): Sweet Young Bride from our partners at Ammolite! Coming soon!

That's one off the secret project list. They didn't do that with the other 2 announcements, so I'm guessing they weren't included in the secret announcements.

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>>16797605
Eh. I don't really see any hints that jump out at me. Too subtle.

[Anonymous No.]

>http://www.mangagamer.org/erogawker/
>Actually made the articles too

I expected a weak one page april fools joke that lead to a sale, but instead I got a whole eight minutes of silly entertainment. Solid B+ for effort

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797623
>domiNANt
>Crazy as it might sound, genre-wise, romance remains the top choice followed by science fiction and fantasy—good thing we have quite a few games in those categories to announce this year!
>We have a lot to look forward to this year, from more entries in popular series, a title with a bit of a historical bent, something old, something new, something borrowed, and something BLue…?
Genre-only makes individual titles really hard to narrow down. BLue likely just meant a BL announcement, and with the one just announced, there might not be another one for the year.

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>>16797666
>something old
Hopefully it's something classic and well-regarded.

>something new
This could be Sakura no Mori † Dreamers. Has to be something very recent.

>something borrowed
This could mean something from Visual Arts. Holy Breaker would seem the most likely, since it's low-priced VN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797592
Technically, the marriage hint was fulfilled by the loli game, so I wouldn't bet on Marriage Lunatics.

>>16797660
Them bringing Itaru to AX is suspicious enough that they might actually be involved with a VN that she's drawing for. I doubt it, but it could happen especially if MG didn't get Holy Breaker or an 18+ deal with Visual Arts.

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>>16797696
Something borrowed pretty much means that it's something tied to another localizer or developer that self-publishes. Basically, it's something you wouldn't expect MG to announce at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797713
Personally I hope it isn't this

[Anonymous No.]

I just realized that the something old and something new hints could be for the same VN if it's a remake or has been updated in some way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797721
YU-NO confirmed

[Anonymous No.]

Historical bent might be the BL title just announced. Bent can be used to refer to gay person and it's historical too due to its setting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797725
I'd prefer a remake of Atlach-Nacha.

[Anonymous No.]

Ran Yamakaze is appearing as special guest for Anime Expo. So maybe they intend to announce Sakura no Mori wiht him there, like they announced Maggot Baits with Shigeo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797743
Could also be Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia or Magical Marriage Lunatics.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797732

I'm pretty sure it's referring to gender bending, go check kouryuu's banner on twitter.

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>>16797732
I doubt it. The BLue hint already covers that.

>>16797713
It does seem likely at this point. I wonder if it will be LB Ecstasy or maybe Kanon and Air.

>>16797721
Possible. The most likely candidate would be the Rance remakes.

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>>16797757
I'd love for it to be a Baseson title, but they pretty much priced themselves out of the English market due to the expensive VAs they use. 6k sales at full price just for Shin Koihime Musou just to break even is pretty crazy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797758
>I doubt it. The BLue hint already covers that.
Nobody said the hints were all for different VNs. And what if they have another BL VN to announce?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797758
>LB Ecstasy or maybe Kanon and Air.
I doubt Visual Arts would give MG anything major. More likely that low budget Holy Breaker title that they could license for cheap.

[Anonymous No.]

If MG does a remake watch it be eve burst error r.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797757
>>16797762
I don't see any other reason Kouryuu would put that up as a banner though.

I can see why MG may think it'll sell well though.

1. Koihime fags have been asking for it forever

2. The popularity of Rance may increase the sales of gameplay eroge in general.

If for example, Rance VI got an absurd figure like 10k by this point, they might assume a Koihime sequel would reach 6k eventually. In addition, they might be more willing to take risks because of the Rance money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797782
>I don't see any other reason Kouryuu would put that up as a banner though.
Sousou is his waifu.

>If for example, Rance VI got an absurd figure like 10k by this point
Very doubtful considering it's the old games.

>they might be more willing to take risks because of the Rance money.
Most Baseson titles would be extreme risks. If there's one that is less pricey though, they might go for it. Expect a Kuroinu chapters approach is it's Shin Koihime.

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>>16797762

Newest remake is split into three parts by default

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797793
The old release was split into 3 parts too. One game for each of the 3 main factions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797660
http://www.mangagamer.org/aprilfools/

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797802

Yes but this one is going to be split by default. Hell, if mangagamer's fast, they could translate the first one before the third one is actually released.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797815
>24 new characters announced
>73 heroines, over 200 CGs, more historical battles from the Three Kingdoms and battle system reworked also it seem some or all the Seiyuu(Voice Actor) will be different from the previous versions for at least 50.000 voiced words and over 75 Voice Actors.
They can't afford it.

[Anonymous No.]

Shin Koihime † Eiyuutan seems much more likely.

>A collection of three low-priced sequels to the Koihime series, focusing on the Shoku generals.

>It appears to occur in an alternate timeline from Shin Koihime Musou or Moeshouden.

[Anonymous No.]

what about bringing over Gesen 18's games? they look pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797592
So if you read the post on MG's site about who they're bringing, they list some games from the Moonstone artist. Only Magical Marrigae Lunatics is not italicized which is probably a hint.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798036
noooooo

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798036
dammit

[Anonymous No.]

The most important thing about MG's panel is they didn't announce hard copies and instead had three actual announcements, even i one of them was for a game announced last year. Hope that continues.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797865
Why not learn Japanese, you damn EOP?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798155
Why are you in this thread?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798108
Doubtful.

[Anonymous No.]

> MangaGamer wanting to become Gawker
Even if its a joke, it still good indication about MG staff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798221
with your lack of humor and your umbrage, you'd fit right in with the SJW crowd. good job

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798221

I don't think you quite understand the joke anonymous.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798036
It's italicized now though, so maybe it was just an accident.

Sakura no Mori Dreamers would be nice.

[Good Haro No.]

>>16798403

It was just an accident because I'm incompetent. The earlier drafts just had Princess Evangile listed, but he asked to include his more recent works too and I fucked up at adding all the italics.

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>>16798421
>>16798403
Sure, an "accident".

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>>16797780
The Eve Burst Error remake is actually a fairly good guess. There is a version that can go on Steam, and they have a connection to Hobibox.

>>16797725
YU-NO is not a good guess, as it's a 5pb console title likely to be picked up by PQube, and even if they went with someone else it would be another console publisher.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798421

Is tsumairo shoujo the lolige you mentioned some weeks back?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798108
>>16798185
They may have some hard copy announcements for Anime Central, but recently they've been announcing hard copies quite commonly outside of conventions.

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>>16797769
The idea with the Little Buster Ecstasy guesses is that MG could be the distribution platform for the R18 version of a title Key is self publishing on Steam. In which case it would be in line with MG getting the R18 version of Dies Irae, even if they aren't the publisher for it.

MG could pick up Holy Breaker to publish if Visual Arts has no intention to publish it themselves (it's probably the only Key-associated title they could potentially get their hands on). But yeah, Kanon and Air are titles that Visual Arts would want to publish themselves (especially Air which has a recent Vita release).

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>>16798236
>you'd fit right in with the SJW crowd

So when can that guy join MangaGamer? I remember the last time somebody tried to make a joke and the humorless MG staffers got on his ass all the while preaching tolerance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16792709
I absolutely loathe Sekai Project. But these are cute.

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>>16798560
Would it be an announcement if they were just the distribution part, though? I don't think they've ever done something like that before.

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>>16798999
What if it's another OELVN like GGN with art by Itaru Hinoe? Maybe the April's Fool article was half-serious.

Most likely will just be Holy Breaker though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16798422
They wouldn't make the hint that obvious.

[Anonymous No.]

https://rokkenjima.org/when-they-cry-5-teaser-page-published/

Teaser page for When They Cry 5. Could this be anything?

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>>16799227
It doesn't need to be just for the West like GGN. She became a freelance artist last year and is probably working on something now, even if it isn't announced yet, be it a title made with the West in mind (Corona Blossom, Nekonin Ex Heart) or a proper title for some yet unnamed company.

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>>16798999
Regardless of if MangaGamer got to be the publisher of the EX version of Little Busters, or the somewhat more likely scenario of them getting an exclusive launch of the EX version with Key publishing it (sort of like Nutaku with Chrono Clock), it would be a very noteworthy announcement.

Although the odds favor it being something else like Holy Breaker or a new title instead of something dealing with Little Busters.

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>>16799730
Becoming the publisher of LB EX might be big, but I don't think it's the kind of thing that MG would announce at a con. There's a first time for everything and Key is big enough to warrant it, but it feels off when they're just distributing it. >>16799583 seems pretty likely too and it would be pretty incredible if it got announced by MG before Japan did (maybe some kind of worldwide simultaneous release?).

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/moogy0/status/848130674913685504

Moogy talked about OVERDRIVE announcing that they are working with the Swan Song/Kira Kira author in a new eroge.
Maybe Itaru is going to be the artist of this new game and they are going to officially announce it on AX?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16799843
But OVERDRIVE is dead.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797321
>but I guess they're still playing it safe.
I don't get it, that title is way lolier than Tanuki or Galette stuff. Most girls in Tanuki and Galette could pass as teenagers, the girls from Ammolite are prepubescent.

[Anonymous No.]

lolicons shouldnt get the short end of the stick just becaue we're sick in the head. <2hours length again is just pathetic

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800231
pretty sure Quof is planning to translate some long lolige eventually, so you may see that in a few years

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800250
too bad i'll be impotent by then

hopefully my children can enjoy it in their era

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797660
Very entertaining page. Good job MG staff

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800285
>children
Nice joke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800162
If they truly were we wouldn't still be getting Go Go Nippon DLCs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800231
I don't see the problem m8. It's short mostly because there's only one girl. Also Annolite's art is really good so I don't get why you complain.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800375
Read the site in >>16797660 if you didn't get it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800250
He said he would do Tsuushinbo after the LovelyxCations, but only time will tell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16797309
what if someone doesnt have a perfect mate... so many questions about how this system works

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800594
I've learned not to torment myself by trying to understand the story of nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800594
It doesn't say pairing all men.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16799843
Inb4 Shin Go Go Nippon

[Anonymous No.]

Kuroinu has a textbox transparency slider, but it's greyed out. Too bad since I was hoping to darken lessen its transparency a bit.

[Anonymous No.]

Any somewhat decent recent releases?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16801325
Whatever the latest Sakura game is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800231
I don't see what you're complaining about. The game is so loli it got blacklisted by several outlets that talk about VNs including one who supposedly talk about eroge only.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16800231
I will take her as my waifu if you do not.

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck! Im so happy right now, I just won 3,5 million euros.

Where I can contact aroduc? I buy his baldr sky translation for 250k.

Also I want to hire translators to translate white album 2 and muramasa. I pay them good.

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>>16802040
very happy for you my friend, god bless

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802040
if its for both dive 1 and 2 that seems like 3-4x the going rate for pro translation, even more considering aroduc was working "on spec"

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802040
Surprised there hasn't been some rich anon that has fully funded some big translations before now. You see people putting down $10k+ on Kickstarter for shit so there must be some people sitting on large chunks of money.
Closest I can think of was lv1translator took some commissions from people for a few small things.

As for your question, if you are serious then you can probably find him on his forums or using the email from the contact button on his blog. http://blog.seiha.org/

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802088

Ok thanks, if I for example leak the translations on mega, will aroduc get sued by sekai and giga?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802110
Depends on how it is done and what actions Sekai have already taken with sending out things like cease and desists etc.
There is a chance it can be traced back to him which is the main problem even if it is released anonymously. If he had done some partial then it might be more doable since it could be passed off as another group working in secret.
Only other defence he could use was he sent it out to a group of people to test it while working on it and he had no involvement with what they did with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802110
if you really won the lottery you can afford to hire a IP lawyer to answer these sorts of questions

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802040
Timestamp with bathtub of money or gtfo

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802253
You normally get given a cheque from what I have seen with lotteries. Then you would have to wait for it to clear and then you pay taxes on it and then you would have to go to the bank to request to withdraw a boat load of cash.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802040
Lol this one takes the kek.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802040
In case you're serious, you should never give money to people who don't have any decent history on Visual Novel translations. Beware of scams.

Another option is to contact a localization company and invest money on a license you want.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802741
lol so sp can scam you instead with inflated costs claiming its on the dev side? might as well go straight to the translator

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802040
I want to believe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802826
But no one sane would invest money on SP. There are companies more trustworthy than SP.

Not to mention that multiple kickstarters have given us plenty of information about the lecensing and translations costs.
Not to mention that if you're the one paying, you should have full access to how much you'll spend on the license and translation along with the final saying in pretty much anything related to it.

[Anonymous No.]

Finished 2 of the 3 routes for Kuroinu. Claudia is basically a side heroine, since her route is much shorter than the other 2. Content-wise, this VN reminded me alot of Space Pirate Sara and Armored Warrior Iris.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802040
Buy Makoto from JAST and pay him to finish Muramasa

[Anonymous No.]

>>16803008
It has routes? I though it was just a fuckfest with choices for different sex scenes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16803021
Or Django.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16802741
>Another option is to contact a localization company and invest money on a license you want.

Doesn't Meru have her own company now?

[Anonymous No.]

So whens the next big convention?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16803211
Sakuracon in 2 weeks and Anime Central one month after.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16801414
it's right there in the post. <2 hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16804146
Maybe someday they'll translate the Sensei Daisuki games which are 10H+.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16803148
Whichever heroine you keep choosing you end up on her 'route', which is mostly a bunch of ero scenes with the conclusion to her story at the end. Kuroinu does try to give some characterization and backstory to its heroines.

[Anonymous No.]

Sekai Project announced their latest pick up.

https://sekaiproject.com/products/what-if-cows-looked-like-children/

[Anonymous No.]

>>16768949
>Daitoshokan - 100% translated and edited, images, engine work and QC remain

so it's translated for 5 months already and no sign of release or any info..

[Anonymous No.]

>>16805324
wait what i thought that was a shitpost
did sekai seriously turn a shitpost into a game

[Anonymous No.]

>>16805826
Probably trying to sell the translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16805826
That 'translation' was complete garbage, either edited machine TL, or only barely above it.