SP Implosion Discussion Thread

[also some VTNS discussion No.]

https://twitter.com/DancingQueen_DQ/status/1029094072168853504
https://twitter.com/JkaplanAW/status/1029096951931842562
>Yep, the ENTIRE office is gone. Not sure about remote people, I'll hear back soon I'm sure.

Official response from SP:
https://sekaiproject.com/2018/08/13/official-statement/

[Anonymous No.]

Personally, I would take them for their word since Sekai dying is too good to be true, but they have lied plenty of times before. It wouldn't surprise me if they actually were going bankrupt, but they pretended otherwise just so their Tokyo Chronos kickstarter would barely succeed.

I would also think that losing your physical office because of shrinking business looks bad on the negotiating table.

[Anonymous No.]

What the fuck happened to all that nekopara money? They supposedly sold 2 million copies of it. You'd think they would be swimming in money by now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19658982
They wasted it all overhiring culturally diverse useless fucks in their overpriced office in LA.
I feel bad for that poor chink Sayori, they just keep milking her dry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19659119
Sayori is as bad and greedy as them, they deserve each other.

[Anonymous No.]

What is Sekai Project?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19659214
Sol Press alter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19658512
Davoc entering the cuckshed 2018 colorized.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19658512
The OP image has more and better editing than most of SP's releases.

[Anonymous No.]

It was likely inevitable, as having a large physical presence in an expensive city and a full time marketing team wasn't going to be sustainable with recent VN sales, and Sekai wasn't getting significantly better results than their competitors with their recent releases so it is difficult to believe that the added expenses that came with such a team was paying dividends.

Although Sekai likely still has a solid amount of revenue coming in. While it may be very difficult to get new titles off the ground on Steam these days, the hits from the Steam craze continue to sell well. Although those sales come from the titles continuing to get active promotion on Steam (being popular enough to show up in feeds such as related games), rather than any actual marketing that a marketing team at Sekai was doing on behalf of those titles.

[Anonymous No.]

First of all, they're not dead, they just blew up an entire division (it is hilarious that the guy came to work and just saw everything was empty. Such an SP thing). Second of all, If anything it just means that things will be slower than they already are so business as usual. As much as I'd like to sing ding dong the witch is dead, it's really not

BTW, since this is basically notVNTS, the 18+ patch for NewRin is already up

[Anonymous No.]

Restructuring kek

[Anonymous No.]

Judging from those twitter posts, nothing of value was lost.

This comes from someone who largely ignored SP anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19658512
>EOP shit
Get the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19661861
Restructuring does make sense, nearly everything Sekai does could be handled with a internal structure much like MangaGamer, and that would have significantly cheaper internal costs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662056
I dont disagree

[Hata No.]

Did someone see how the Tokyo Chronos Kickstarter just jumped by 15k today in a time of so much negative press surrounding them? Sketchy as fuck LOL

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662285
Chinks don't care about negative press, all they care about is limited edition collectibles.

[Hata No.]

I'm conspiring that Sekai downsized on their staff to have money left to boost the kickstarter for Tokyo Chronos, which is the first VR Visual Novel attempt and thus a new market and thats why they desperately want the kickstarter to succeed. Also AX apparently runs a giveaway for funders. Still its sketchy as all hell.

>takes off tinfoil hat

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662340
That's cool and all, but who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know shit about SP but I'm pretty sure it's like their response says, they fired the useless marketing leeches while keeping the people who do the actual work. Nothing of value was lost.

[Hata No.]

>>19662396
Why are the marketing leeches useless? Now you have probably dovac in charge of the SP Twitter...not really a desireable outcome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662409
They are useless because they didn't do anything to increase sales whilst getting paid for doing absolutely nothing.

[Hata No.]

>>19662421
We'll see how this will develop. Maybe Sekai actually restructures itself and becomes a better company. One can only hope.

I put my trust into JAST though. 22 Years of existence and didn't rely on Kickstarters and other shenanigans a single time. They are just slow, which will probably change by increasing the workforce and efficiency of the project teams .:anzu:

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662459
>I put my trust into JAST though.
I'd rather put mine into MangaGamer desu. Fuck JAST, you're fucking jaded if you think that they wont always be slow with their releases (especially their Nitro+ titles) so long as J-LIST still prints them money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662459
While I trust JAST, I'll never believe that they'll be fast.

>>19662056
How does MG work anyways? All I know for sure is that they have a physical location in Japan, and that they mostly communicate with their legion of freelance employees online.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662459
>I put my trust into JAST though
JAST literally doesn't do anything. You're aware they've been around so long, yet you don't seem to know that they release like 1-2 titles a year and have infinite delays because their money comes for J-List

[Anonymous No.]

The damage control on Sekai having to fire their employees. Its going to get even worse now and is a sign of things to come.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662716
You're overreacting. To me it just looks like them getting rid of people not doing their jobs. Although I wish it was true

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662459
Thata cuz they have like 2-3 employees

[Anonymous No.]

>>19658512
Has maitetsu been fixed yet?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19663658
No.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19662737
>To me it just looks like them getting rid of people not doing their jobs.
Then they should be firing everyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19663919
Better idea
Just shut down the whole fucking company

[Anonymous No.]

>>19663658
Speaking of fixing, Sekai released a patch for Clannad for some reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19663658
>>19663903
Actually, yes.
https://vndb.org/r58283 fixes most of what was wrong with it.
While https://vndb.org/r57710 restores the censored CGs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19664379
>fixes MOST of what was wrong with it.

No.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19664551
Read the second line man.
https://vndb.org/r57710 restores what Fakku fix didn't.
The game is fully fixed in the sense that it now has full parity with the Japanese edition.

Now, if you meant that they (SP) didn't fix Maitetsu then yes, it hasn't been fixed but someone else did the work for them (like always).

[Hata No.]

>>19664599
The missing lines and bugs are still not fixed, but everything else is fine. If you cannot live without 3-4 unfixed infodump lines thats unfortunate.

[Hata No.]

Wow. Tokyo Chronos is almost fully backed.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/tokyo-chronos-a-new-vr-mystery-visual-novel-game?lang=de

[Anonymous No.]

>>19665092
SP didn't fix shit, so SP isn't getting my money.
>The missing lines and bugs are still not fixed, but everything else is fine.
That is not fine at all.

[Hata No.]

https://twitter.com/ebihimes/status/1029507260568018945

oh shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19665717
EOLVNs aren't welcome here. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19665734
This is a Sekai is fucked thread, so EVN devs fucking off from them is on topic.

>>19665717
They've been leaking EVN devs for a long while now, ever since Winged Cloud left. It seems like most of them just go to Sekai for the initial boost in sales, establish some sort of fan base, then fuck off to do their own thing.

[Hata No.]

>>19665795
I think its all connected to friendship between the devs, their projects and these employees who were sent off. Also firing a whole bureau does not really throw a good light on sekai so It is kind of understandable that people are leaving. Sekai is actually in distress and I am afraid that this threads topic isn't too far from reality.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19665815
Some of the marketing people who were fired were EVN devs themselves, so it isn't too far-fetched to think that Ebihime leaving is directly related to the mass firing. I wouldn't think too much of an EVN dev leaving Sekai though unless it's the biggest one that they currently have, Love in Space.

[Anonymous No.]

Why is this retard namefagging?

[Hata No.]

>>19666012
It's just my shtick.

[Hata No.]

>>19666012
Deal with it, faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666012
He thinks he is someone notable because he is a self-proclaimed 'Visual Novel Journalist', whatever that is.

[Hata No.]

>>19666026
Nah. I'm just a passionate Eroge enthusiast like you guys too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666052
What's your opinion on honorifics reddit-kun.

[Hata No.]

>>19666052
What's your favorite eroge, fellow eroge enthusiast?

[Hata No.]

>>19666089
Muramasa, Subahibi, Swan Song.

[Anonymous No.]

Thank you lolitrains for being our saviors.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666098

[Anonymous No.]

>>19665092
They are, I went and asked the guy making the decensor patch.
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/20789-maitetsu-18-demosaic-patch-wip/?page=10&tab=comments#comment-492708

Heliosaurus's patch is compatible with the Fakku/SP update that fixes broken lines and bugs.

[Hata No.]

>>19666093
I'm disappointed in myself for expecting an interesting answer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666115
Thats amazing. Going to update my info then!

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666093
I'm convinced you're just shitposting now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19658982
Guess who's the CFO of SP?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666145
Euphoria is pretty good too!

[Anonymous No.]

Tokyo Chronos fully founded guys. That...was quick.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/tokyo-chronos-a-new-vr-mystery-visual-novel-game?lang=de

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666202
all that money they are saving from firing to fund their own project.smart

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666478
This is what I'm expecting too but without proof its hard to tell. It is a normal practice on kickstarter but this is so obviously fake holy shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666553
Ah yes, I see.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666553
Let me get my magnifying glass.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666574
messed up w

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666553
>>19666582
Why does it matter?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666582
>20 people suddenly pledged more than $15000 in less than a day.
Yeah, it's fake as fuck. Should've at least evened it out during the days it had left.

>>19666609
It's confirmation that they are facing a difficult financial situation and they are relying on KS money to stay afloat. In this case, they got 50k give or take, which should be enough to cover them for a few months, but I expect yet another KS soon after.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666553
To be fair, they linked the Tokyo Chronos Kickstarter to the Clannad Kickstarter recently, but I would say that it was still really suspicious.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/clannad-official-english-release/posts/2263602

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/sprite_fairys/status/1029672883499483136
>Aokana TL announcement soon
GET HYPE

[Anonymous No.]

I hate ebihime

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666730
Use statbackr, It will show you a much detailed pledges history. Their shit is obvious.

[Insider No.]

>>19666773
Remember how I said that SP, MG and Jast got outbid by a company that offered them a Chinese translation? Don't get your hopes up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667081
I'm hoping for Nekonyan, let's wait for their announcement this month.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667101
I want to see their Sanoba Witch release before I start hoping for them to translate anything. The Fureraba release didn't exactly instate hope for their future releases.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667131
Besides the few grammar mistakes (Chuee is still an inexperienced editor) and weird localization choices (Sissy, Bazinga) it was good enough to read.

And considering that they're backporting the extra content of the Vita version to the PC one and that they hired a new guy to work on the grammar mistakes for said "Complete edition" means that they actually care about the stuff they do, unlike SP.


Also, Sanoba Witch is being edited by Decay so it's expected to be of higher quality than Fureraba.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667319
>the few grammar mistakes
lol
>Also, Sanoba Witch is being edited by Decay
Nope. Unless both of them are working on it, and we all know how well that has turned out in the past. https://twitter.com/TheChuee/status/1028833308149534720
Even if it was just Decay, he is shit too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667319
>Chuee is still an inexperienced editor
Keep telling yourself that Chuee. You've had plenty of experience editing and you're still godawful.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666906
Can't this just be submitted to KS? Part of their T&C states you can't donate to your own project last I checked, since some random project failed as the staff couldn't donate the last $30 that they needed to reac their goal

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667364
>>the few grammar mistakes
>lol
I'll concede that there are more than a few. But again, they hired a new guy to fix them for the complete edition.
>Nope. Unless both of them are working on it
I went and asked on their discord about that and Decay himself confirmed that he's working on it. Didn't ask about chuee, will go again and do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667507
You're right fureraba is literally like my FUCKING favorite VN localization of ALL TIME.

[Hata No.]

>>19667425
Well, you cannot really prove it from these graphs alone. You would need an insider report on it. But for some reason I don't really want to crash the dreams of this happy developer... but just another shady move from our favourite publisher...

https://twitter.com/tokimekishiken/status/1029739550883467265

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667425
There is no way to really prove it. Someone could have just put in a $10k pledge without carting the max reward tier is $2.5k which I have seen before on other kickstarters by some crazy fans. Alternatively it could be a troll pledge and it could be withdrawn later in hopes of tanking the Kickstarter (if the goal looks like it has been met then there is less urgency/incentive for others to put money forward to get it funded) which also I have seen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667425
I did, but it's up to Kickstarter to see where the money is coming from. I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't care though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667633
I think they have to pull out before the last 24 hours, otherwise KS won't let them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667578

[Anonymous No.]

I have some insider info that Dovac used payroll money to pay for his Star Citizen habit. Something to the lines of $40,000 or more.

[Hata No.]

>>19667861
I'd be happy if he himself became a star citizen so we don't have to deal with him back on earth (´・ω・`)

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667857
I'm old enough to actually recognize which vn this came from.

>>19667861
Dovac being a backer of Star Citizen is pretty old news. That's at least several years old.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667866
I wonder why you got blocked by Sekai on twitter. Real head scratcher.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667882
He showed off his black metallic card which from my research is given to backers who spends at least 40,000

[Hata No.]

>>19667900
Likely because we criticize them publically and its a company that cannot take such sidejabs even if they are deserved. Its not like that them blocking us is any huge loss.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667861
Ha, I backed Star Citizen during its kikestarter and it's a dumpster fire now that's spiralling out of control for years

[Anonymous No.]

Newton is out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/721010/Newton_and_the_Apple_Tree/

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668363
Written by a who

[Anonymous No.]

Is Kagura Games dropping MG https://twitter.com/KaguraGaming/status/1029756895534313473

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668414
Same person who wrote Aoi Tori.
>>19668426
I doubt it, their games sell really well on the MangaGamer store.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668464
Their other tweets do list MG and Steam while this is only JAST. I guess it could be some exclusive deal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668573
https://store.steampowered.com/app/887530/President_Yukino/
It's on steam too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668426
No, but if Yukino has hypnotism, then that would explain it. MG can't have hypnotism because of payment processor antics, but brainwashing is okay for reasons

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668607
They can have hypnotism in them, it's just titles that focus on hypnotism their payment processor doesn't allow.

[Anonymous No.]

B b but pedo games saved sekai

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668729
No one has ever said this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668729
Come to think of it, no loli focused title has done particularly well. Sweet Wife and Sweet Sweet sold about average for small nukige, and Maitetsu is Maitetsu. Maybe Newton will be the first runaway loli hit, but I doubt it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668764
Newrin isn't a lolige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668729
I hope the disaster of their Maitetsu release helped cause all this. Probably not, but I can dream.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668811
Maitetsu was one of the many things what caused it, they messed up 4/5 of their big releases in some way.
More and more people are fad up with their shitty practices. They are the largest and most successful visual novel publisher in the west with the most amount of visual novel licenses under their belt, yet they mess up one release after another.
Of course, there are still people who would die defending them and there are still people who back their kickstarters because ''It's better than nothing''.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668811
It was probably the final nail in the coffin and lost them a fair bit of money for their fuck up I'm guessing

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668764
Ultimate Boob Wars?

[Anonymous No.]

Is this the power of Lolige?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669013
It's not loli focused, but it has fucking great loli fucking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668625
>>19668607
Source?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669013
Has cowtits in it, besides flat ≠ loli.
A pure loli title would be Sweet Sweat in Summer, Sweet Young Bride and Wanko to Kurasou.
Currently no major publisher has the balls to release a pure lolige. WAY too risky these times.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669297
Check their store, you will notice how 'Hypno-training My Mother and Sister' is no where to be found anymore. They also confirmed this at their latest Q&A at Otakon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669307
I wouldn't say it's risky, at least for someone like MangaGamer considering that they are releasing something like Maggot Baits and more like it's not worth it financially to pick up anything that is longer than a 2-10 hours nukige like 2 of our examples (Sweet Sweat in Summer and Sweet Young Bride).

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669307
Wanko isn't lolifocused either. As ,if you pay attention to characters, all of them are semi midgets. Yeah, the landlady and orange dog fit the loli standard, but he rest are mostly short adult people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669331
>Maggot Baits
Definitely getting this

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669528
I really hope it sells well. My Euphoria hardcopy needs a partner.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669528
i took a brief glance at the gallery when it was first announced and it doesn't look fappable at all, but i might get it just for the experience of it, kind of like why you watch a slasher film

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669592
Same thing here, Euphoria was such a ride (emotional and physical) and Maggot Baits seems like it but 10 times worse content wise.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669548
I hope so too. I want 死に逝く君 to be brought over as well.

>>19669592
I like Hanashima Shigeo's art and I'm into gore shit. So it really appeals to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669644
>I hope so too. I want 死に逝く君 to be brought over as well.
Me too. I just hope that Clear Rave don't have an exclusive deal with Sekai Project for their titles. I was pretty upset when なないろリンカネーション got licensed by them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669312
I’ve never looked, I was just wondering what pay method was complaining and also why hypnotism was such a big deal. I love it,but can’t see why anyone gets mad about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669761
Kouryuu said he loved it too at the panel, but there isn't much they can do except change payment processors again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669778
Who is that,PayPal?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19669528
I buy all Clock Up titles that get brought over. I want the whole catlog

[Hata No.]

>>19670085 Erewhon Erewhen?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19670176
Was a bit of a disappointment in my opinion. I would much rather have Kenzen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19665717
Looking at that artwork that is a bad thing to happen with Sekai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666582
That looks really fake. Especially the last one. The average backer would have had to donate 724$ to even achieve that level of 16k.

[Anonymous No.]

https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/pages/kana.html
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/pages/dojg.html
https://core6000.neocities.org/hjgp/

Stop being an EOP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19667425
Unfortunately KS would not even care. But this has happened before where a company has funded their own project out of nowhere. Then again this will be another damage to their reputation.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder if so many Alicesoft titles are being brought over simply because they sell ridiculously high or is it more because more translators actually want an Alicesoft game. Obviously, MG wouldn't okay so many titles of one studio at once if the titles from that studio were all had a significant chance to flop, but it's not like games from Clock-up or Moonstone sell badly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19668842
>>19668902
I pay no attention to this stuff. How was Maitetsu a fuck up for them? Just from being loli porn?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19670962
the 18+ release had a lot of problems, i don't have a full list but there might be a post on fuwa or something

[Anonymous No.]

>>19670541

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1029948389385887744

Judging by this, Sekai (and anyone else) will likely have problems with Valve for quite some time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19666103
Late, but... What the hell are those proportions. I wanna do things with that hand of hers

[Anonymous No.]

>>19670085
I just hope they get Nemurenu Hitsuji after they release Maggot Baits. I want my edgy love story.

>>19672051
Sekai is fucked then since they're more dependant on Steam... Who am i kidding, just a few more kickstarters partially funded with their own money will do.

[Hata No.]

>>19672111
Wait until you see their legs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19672352
Oh I want that too

[Anonymous No.]

>>19672051
>Months
This is going to be about February next year at this point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19672051
Remember, Koikuma on Steam

[Hata No.]

Island is announced my dudes. 24/8 (*´∀｀*)！

https://twitter.com/FrontwingInt/status/1030035342005420032

[Hata No.]

>>19673080
All ages kusoge.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19670611
Why not both? Though more weighted on the sales side of things. Evenicle is still third in the top five over a month and a half after release and will probably end up high on the top selling list for the year. Meanwhile Magical Marriage Lunatics dropped of a lot quicker. As for Clock-up there are probably a lack of translators willing to work on them as they are big and also can be full of fetishes they might not care for.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19673080
Just play Himawari instead. No point wasting your time with this all-ages shit.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone know if this is MTL garbage? I'm assuming it will be considering that the people working on it are literal who's.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19673949
Your mom is all ages.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19677340
Nice bump on your shitty thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19670611
>I wonder if so many Alicesoft titles are being brought over simply because they sell ridiculously high or is it more because more translators actually want an Alicesoft game.

Its more than likely because Rance sold a ton and they want to get Rance out as much as possible before focusing on the other titles.

>>19673254
> As for Clock-up there are probably a lack of translators willing to work on them as they are big and also can be full of fetishes they might not care for.

My guess is they halted on Maggot Baits because of Rance announcements. That's the only title MG is working on currently from Clock-Up unless they announce Hitsuji.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19677390
As far as I know Kouryuu doesn't work on Alicesoft titles, so I don't see why Maggot Baits would be halted because of Rance announcements.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19677419
I see more than likely they are going through the editing process on Maggot Baits then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19672051
I guess there is no way now that Sona-Nyl will be released uncut on steam just like Gahkthun was back in the day.
A shame that almost the whole industry depends on steam so much. This will delay certain titles for a few months.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19677632
Wasn't Gahkthun able to get onto Steam uncensored with the help of an ESRB rating? Not sure if MG was planning on getting a rating for Sona-Nyl, but I'd think it'd help bypass any trouble. Sona-Nyl's h-scenes (like gahkthun's) are pretty tame.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19677693
I doubt that even an ESRB rating will help now with steams stronger review process against everything with anime art in it.
At least MangaGamer doesn't have that many 18+ titles which will be released on steam, I think Trinoline, Hashihime of the Old Book Town, Amatarasu Riddle Star and Botuken are the only ones. That's 4 titles, 5 is you include Sona-Nyl.
The rest is either all ages to begin with or 18+ MangaGamer only release.
Sekai Project is more fucked since 99% of their titles have a steam release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19677419
Kouryuu is just a busy guy in general since he does stuff like press releases and TLCing every in progress translation once in a while. MB would have been slow no matter what.

After MB, I think whatever he translates will be very influenced by what MG wants translated. It might be a toss up between Shin Koihime and the Da Capo fan disks, but for all we know, MG might want to sextuple down on Alicesoft and have him do Oyako Rankan.

>>19677693
Assuming Steam's being cautious about Oregon's laws, Steam has no reason to ban if a game is said by the ESRB to be not Adults Only.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19678046
Do we know who is doing the editing for Maggot Baits?

[Anonymous No.]

DMM/Hobibox just released the 18+ patch for Your Diary+

http://dlsoft.dmm.co.jp/detail/cuffs_0022/?i3_ord=3&i3_ref=search

But the "translation" is...
I don't know whether to laugh at this thing or cry at the fact that there will never be a proper translation now.
just more motivation to keep learning Japanese I guess

[Anonymous No.]

>>19679900
>dewdrops
Wait a fucking minute is she talking about fucking pre-cum? Why not translate it as fucking pre-cum

[Anonymous No.]

>>19678072
I forgot who it was but I am sure when the VNTS shows up in a few days we will know.

[Anonymous No.]

I did some qa work for sekai before and they just sent email out saying they're not paying anyone for their last project and that their not working on any new games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19684514
My father also works at Sekai and confirmed that they are shutting down all operations soon.

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>>19684561
My dog used to be their mascot and says they're going to get sued

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More damage control

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>>19684989
Source?

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does this mean eops don't get baldr sky

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>even ANN commented on the Sekai Project situation
>The writer more or less thinks that Sekai is fucked.
>She advertises MG's Otakon announcements too, just for the heck of it.

http://archive.fo/7Lzvz

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>>19685471
Did they write an article about AX?
It's kinda sad that the whole ''gaming media'' is praising MangaGamer for the yuri and otome announcements only, yet Rance X which is pretty much the biggest and most important announcement this year gets the short end of the stick.

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>>19685518
unironically the gay agenda

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>>19685518
Not like it is going to be out until 2020 at the earliest.

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>>19685602
>2020 at the earliest
That's some nice optimism you have there.

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>>19684989
I can't wait until 2024 when it's all done.

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>>19685518
Yuri and otome are practically mainstream I guess. At least the writer didn't outright gloss over Rocket Autism and Escalayer and posted videos of them, which is a bit more than I expect from ANN.

>>19685518
http://archive.fo/U7Hie
I wouldn't be surprised if MG felt obligated to announce something yuri or female oriented along side Alicesoft just to get ANN or various gaming journalism sites to notice them. What half-decent yuri titles are there even left to localize?

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>>19685618
Might be possible if they get multiple translators on it with it being so big and there are no issues during testing.
If things are to be spaced out, then Sengoku is already translated and edited so it could be ready by the end of the year/early next year. Quest is all translated and mostly edited so could be ready by mid to late next year. IX is already translated but not edited so it could be out early 2020. leaves late 2020 a possibility for X if it is translated and tested in time depending on how they are going to handle it.
That is if things go perfectly, but you are right in that it is optimistic.

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>>19685471
This is accurate as analysis as to what is going on honestly.

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>>19685703
Arunaru is fast enough that I wouldn't worry about translation being done by the time Rance IX is done late 2019 or early 2020. Editing should be done too by then, I personally think that Arunaru can finish TL of X by Fall 2019 or something like that. The issue is that Rance X is such a huge game (with gacha elements just to make MG's life miserable). Even 2021 seems a strict deadline.

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>>19685518
Well you do have to admit last year and even this year there was a huge demand for Yuri, Otome. I think next year it will change though it was just flavor of the year really to get press attention and also potentially try to get more eyes on them. Casual types like Yuri a lot anyways.
>>19685687
>What half-decent yuri titles are there even left to localize?
Not many but Yuri is popular in Japan currently and it shows with the recent anime announcements right into fall. I do think we will see more VN's focus on that audience next year.

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>>19684989
Didn't one person on twitter say a whole office was let go, or did I miss something? Or was the office was just 3 people?

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>>19685795
A division was laid off.

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>>19685795
Other staff said it was 5, so it's weird the numbers don't match. But cash flow issues is a big red flag. How can they release games if they can't pay people?

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>>19684989
This is more than just a lie. More than 5-6 staff were kicked. This is just a rumoured number, but I know 6 of them and also theres more damage because the friends of these staff left too. Sekai is down not only marketing staff but people who work on projects too. This statement is pure bs.

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>>19685843
Fuck off, tripfag. Go back to shilling your stupid discord server.

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>>19685843
Thanks for using a trip, I can now accurately filter you.

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>>19685886
My pleasure!

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>>19685843
who cares, SP hires mostly 3rd party so firing their own employees really doesnt mean shit.

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>>19685892
What if I tell you they are down to contractors?`

On another note, what do you think will nekonyans announcements for the end of the month be? Theres a rumour they supposedly have a really sought after license

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>>19685905
A public execution of Chuee.

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Lmao what is this?

https://www.twitch.tv/kaitocross

Some dude built a working phonewave holy moly.

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>>19685905
its how SP operated when they were starting out so not much has changed. they said they wanted to go back to being a smaller company, they most likely wasted a lot of money trying to get into the mainstream spotlight. frontwing and key rightfully stopped doing business with SP after their atrocious translations.

Honestly nekopara is the only reason why SP is still around, none of their other games actually make any money and they never actually meet the crowdfund promises.

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>>19685920
Why did you take off your trip just to post an advertisement for your friend's stream?

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Can anyone comment on the translation quality of Newrin? Preferably not from our EOP namefag.

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>>19686525
The reviews look decent, at least.

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>>19685921
That doesn't really make sense with their recent Sekai Games brand. Unless they were betting on Maitetsu money to fund their mainstream antics, which would be insane.

Also, I would say that Frontwing and Key ditched Sekai mostly because they figured that they have enough money to try going out on their own rather than because of tl quality. Key might be fine; it's kind of hard to tell. Frontwing kind of seems fucked recently though.

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>>19686759
Isn't Sekai translating Rewrite+ from Key, doesn't seem like they ditched them and more like Visual Arts trying to test the waters with their other subsidiaries and not only Key titles, at least that's the sort of vibes I got from their survey. Just look how many there are:
>https://vndb.org/p993
After Rewrite+ I wouldn't be surprised if they end up getting Angel Beats or even Summer Pockets.

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>>19686850
At first, it seemed like Key would be exclusively for Sekai, but nowadays, Sekai is just one of many possible partners they are willing to consider. They seem more or less independant now especially since they have a couple of titles that were in-house translated like Harmonia.

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>>19662638
MG is basically a website and a maildrop with employees scattered around the world and working via internet. The operation is janky as fuck but has essentially no overhead.

Sekai Project had an expensive office in Los Angeles and acted like they were a fucking Silicon Valley tech startup.

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>>19688924
this

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>>19688924
this so much

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>https://twitter.com/Good_Haro/status/1030474954536566785
Looks like even all ages visual novels have problems getting approved on steam too. Good Haro is most likely talking about Koropokkur.

On another note I took a look at Sekai Project's vndb page and it seems they have 19 visual novels which originally were 18+ and which are going to get an all ages steam release.
If valve doesn't change their stance against visual novels they are fucked or at least people are going to wait even more (than usual) for certain titles.

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Chuee confirmed that none of the NN announcements at the end of this month are Favorite titles, so there's that.

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Why do you care about porn so much?

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>>19691325
We trying to hold back the ''ge'' as much as possible.

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>>19691233
I really do wonder when they will announce Astral Air and Irotoridori no Sekai, I find it hard to believe they will still be released as fan translations.

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>>19668363
Does it feature folk ost too or just opening? Was there there VN with folk ost at all?

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>>19691632
I dont think they will release any fan TL anymore but maybe favourite is still loyal to Sekai

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>>19691880
Yeah, I'm sure Sekai's one Favorite release that was awful and made people complain to the company directly really made Favorite swear loyalty to Sekai.

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>>19691907
How did they fuck it up? I only played the fan translation before getting bored and quitting

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>>19691935
https://fuwanovel.net/reviews/2018/01/03/hoshizora-no-memoria-3/

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>>19691907
maybe favourite doesn't know about it and is just happy about that sweet sweet kickstarter money

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>>19692097
Possible. Sales might not matter so long you're paid a huge large sum, and most companies don't seem aware of Sekai's reputation.

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>>19688924
Sekai managing to hold onto an office for a while and ditching it is why I think the small army of Sekaifags and Japanese companies who don't know any better and are willing to cut deals with them are enough to keep Sekai alive indefinitely. Steam screwing them over might make them suffer, but they are bound to start selling there again in a few months. The only way to make Sekai die is to make a different company more prominent than them. That would lead away companies who simply want to work with the biggest VN localization company. Even though MG is in the best position to do that, I don't think that will happen unless they get F/SN, which is impossible.

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>>19666773
Just remember that "soon" could mean the coming months.
Also SP is attending Anime Weekend Atlanta.

Just because they're restructuring doesn't mean they're penniless.
Not to mention Sprite would want that sweet kikestarter money, and Aokana is an assured 200k minimum.

If NekoNyan doesn't announce it, you know who got it instead.

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>>19692720
>Aokana
>200k
Maybe a few years ago, but VN kickstarters haven't been doing so well due to various controversies. Pretty much every KS that promised a physical Vita is fucked, and even the MLA kickstarter got controversy over missing and lackluster items. I also don't see much hype for Aokana outside the VN fanbase. Even 100k is skeptical unless you're a gameplay VN like Venus Blood Frontier.

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>>19692843
People are more sceptical of KS after so many big scams. SP's initial couple of projects did pretty well, but people are getting fatigued by the sheer number of KS they keep putting out along with the shit quality of the final product

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>>19691126
>Steam's content-driven freeze on game approvals expected to last for months
https://archive.fo/j8j4z
>Sexy Steam games delayed indefinitely while Valve builds new store filters
https://archive.fo/S7yIQ
Looks like they are holding off right now on everything until they are done with the filters and the process before approving all the Steam games.

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>>19692843
It's Sekai Project, Ironic Weaboos that pretend they are otaku, Chinese Han and Reddit will fully support them. 200k is in the bag. They deserve the NTR they put their money into.

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>>19658512
I just wanted the Hoshizora No Memoria fandisc and maybe some cool physical copies and instead all we got was a crappy steam release with a worse script than the 6 year old fan translation

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>>19697531
I forgot that Sekai promised the Hoshimemo fan disk and the 2nd and 3rd Leyline games with their KS. Come to think of it, they might have the Photon fandisks to add on top of that since they got the rights to Muv Luv. Let's not forget all of they physicals that they have promised over the years.

With Sekai fucking up so many of their recent big releases, I'm starting to believe that maybe they are genuinely fucked. Baldr Sky can't save them since that was practically aborted. Yuzusoft stuff isn't coming out any time soon. Nanairo and Harumade seem pretty niche. All they have is Rewrite as far as big, possibly well selling titles go. I guess Relord 2 would probably sell a bit, but even that seems kind of doubtable. Sayori can only stall the inevitable for so long, and if Sekai stops announcing shit to add to their backlog, they'll look bad during convention season. MG has announced more (and probably longer on average) announcements than Sekai this year, yet they still manage to have less titles in their backlog than Sekai (even counting only JVNs). JAST manages to keep its backlog low because that company only announces a few titles at one convention a year, but if Sekai tried to scale down the number of announcements they've made now, people would assume that they were fucked and not do their Kickstarters (more than now anyways).

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VNTS is up.
>>19698294
This thread is over, move along.

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Hata is going to kill VNTS again.

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>>19702914
heh

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Considering how terribly managed that company was I am surprised that this didn't happen earlier.