/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


>Aiyoku No Eustia - 50.42% Translated, 41.07% edited
Amagami - "Script translation done. 618/2308 original edition scenario scripts edited (26.7%)"
Amayui Castle Meister - Prologue patch released
Chaos;Head Noah - Fan translation ongoing
Dragon Knight 4 - Being translated
Fate/Extra CCC - 17% translated
Gakuen Heaven 2 - Demo released
HaraChuchu - Kukuri + Mei + Ena (aside from epilogue) routes patch released
>Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no - 15% (10473/68206) translated
Hatsukoi 1/1 Append Discs - Kyou and Maya scenerios released
Hoka no Onna - 100% translated, looking to go official
Junketsu Megami-Sama - New partial patch released
Kanojo to Ore to Koibito to - 8% (2443/28887) lines translated
Lovely x Cation 2 - Project slow but active again
Lover Able - 100% translated, 39.86% edited
Maji Koi A-3 - 38/95 scripts translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3 semi-active projects, one project released ch 1-7
Monster girl quest paradox - Part 1 patch released
Musumaker - 52.0% translated
Nanatsuiro Drops - Partial patch with episodes 1 and 2 released
Nursery Rhyme - 100% translated, 50% edited
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts through TLC+Editing, 264/268 scripts finalized
>Pure Pure - 82.31% translated
Sayonara wo Oshiete - 116405/257436 (45.2%) characters translated
>Shin Koihime Musou - 97% (105232/108888) translated, 28% (30359/108888) edited
Tsuriotsu - 7637/31643 (24.1%) lines translated, 4080/31643 (12.9%) lines edited
Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete - 34% (11889/35476) lines translated
>Watashi wa Kyou Koko de Shinimasu - 14% (319/2265) lines translated
Witch's Garden - 48% (25535/53677) lines translated
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 100%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.88%, Motoka 51.62%, Common and Kazuha fully edited


Official work

MangaGamer
Tsui Yuri - September 6th release
Koropokkur - September 27th release
Higurashi Hou - Chapter 6 released, chapters 7-8 through TLC+Editing, answer arcs to be released within a year and Rei arcs started
Bokuten - Port in progress
SukiSuki - In Beta, rights situation cleared up
>Maggot Baits - 95% translated, 45% edited
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
>Shiei no Sona-Nyl - 58% translated
Hashihime - 100% translated and edited, in beta shortly
>Trinoline - 100% translated, 80% edited
Damekoi - "Beta testing complete, in scripting"
Room No.9 - Picked up
Sengoku Rance - 100% translated and edited, in beta shortly
Rance Quest - 100% translated, 87% edited
Bitter Exclusion - Through beta
Overdrive's Final title - English release planned
Amatarasu Riddle Star - 88% translated, 58% edited
Steam Prison - 100% translated and edited
Kindred Spirits on the Roof: Full Chorus - Picked up
>Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 - 100% translated, 67% edited
Rance IX - 100% translated
Rance X - Picked up
Luckydog1 - Picked up
Lilycle Rainbow Stage - 100% translated and edited
Fxxx Me Royally - 10% translated
>Kotonoha Amrilato - 100% translated and edited
Ano Harewataru Sora yori Takaku - Translation and editing finished
>Choukou Tenshi Escalayer - 72% translated and 56% edited

JAST
Flowers - Volume 2 Released, officially picked up Volume 3
Katahane - Fully translated, in editing + QC, Early 2018 release
Majikoi - 2018 release
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumaga- Fully translated, 70% edited
Machine Child - Announced
Sweet Pool - Picked up
Princess X fandisc - Picked up
Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi - Picked up
Togainu no Chi - Picked up
Dramatical Murder - Picked up
Lamento Beyond the Void - picked up
Slow Damage - Picked up

Age titles with various publishers
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Localization finished, technical work remains
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - Translation ongoing
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up

Aksys
Tantei Jinguuji Saburou Ghost of the Dusk - 2018 release
Death Mark - Picked up

Spike Chunsoft
428: Shibuya Scramble - September 4th release
Steins;Gate Elite - Early 2019 release
YU-NO - 2019 release

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Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
>CyberRebeat - Released
>Koi ni, Kanmi o Soete - September 7th release
Koikuma - New round of QA starting, 2018 release
Dracu-Riot - Through 1st round of QA, fixes from QA next before more QA
Nanairo Reincarnation - In QA, waiting on a third party
Baldr Sky - 50% translated
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 100% translated
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - 50% translated
Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 33% translated
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - Picked up
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
Rewrite+ - 35% translated
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Senren * Banka - Picked up
Ninja Girl - 100% translated
Island Diary - Announced
Love Duction - 100% translated, needs engine work
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 2 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work
Majo Koi Nikki - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work
Harumade Kururu - 75% edited, awaiting engine work, 2019 release
9 -nine- - 100% translated, 0% edited, awaiting engine work
Tokyo Chronos - Kickstarter ongoing

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - Targeting a September release
Loca-Love - Fall release
Lilitales - Picked up

Sol Press
>DareSora - Volume 1 being released in September
Sakura Sakura - Demo released, upscaling finished, QA started and expected to take a month
Yotsunoha - Q3 release, starting QA, demo Released

Nekonyan
Sanoba Witch - 100% translated, 80% edited, October 26th release
Hello,good-bye - 60% translated, 25% edited, November release
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Mini Fandisc - Fall release, 50% translated
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - Early 2019 release
Melty Moment - Aiming for a release next Winter
>Hello Lady - Early Q2 2019 release
>Aokana - Summer 2019 Release
>Two more announcements before the end of the year

Cherry Kiss
Harem Guild - Upcoming release
Nekura Ijimerarekko o Tasuketara Natsukareta - Picked up
Tenshi to Akuma to Elf ga Oyome ni Kimashita - 1/3rd translated

Fakku
Hemoimo - Dropped by SakuraGame and no longer being released on Steam, upcoming Fakku release planned. Currently waiting on beta build
Love Cube - Picked up

Other
>Punchline - Released
Tayutama 2 - Future release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
>Neighbor - Late September release, demo released to backers
E-Gene - 1st entry planned for Fall 2018
London Detective Mysteria - Fall 2018 release
If My Heart Had Wings Flight Diary - Announced, work ongoing
Magical Charming - Release planned
Song of Memories - 2018 release
>Venus Blood Frontier - Prefundia up, Kickstarter in September
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Seven Days - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>19799757
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3 semi-active projects, one project released ch 1-7
This hurts every time...

[Anonymous No.]

Nothing major, but someone on /vn/ released a partial TL patch for Kanobitch.

https://vndb.org/r59241

I don't lurk there a lot, so I don't know if the translator plans to finish the TL though.

Also, as far as I know, here are the future announcement dates for the rest of the year.

Sekai: September 20-23 during AWA. Probably nothing major will be announced here, and it could all be OELVNs.

Nekonyan: 2 announcements at the end of October after the release of Sanoba Witch. I think they implied that the announcements would concern their current partners like Yuzusoft or Lump of Sugar.

Mangagamer: November 13-16 during Anime NYC. Probably a mix of short and sizable game announcements. According to Conjurer, a mid-sized chuunige will be announced here. They haven't really announced any short games during convention season so far, except Tsui Yuri, but that's coming out in less than a week. Then again, with a sizable amount of VNs, some of which are short, that are done or almost done with TL and editing, maybe they don't need additional filler titles right now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19799820
There will never be a complete translation, NEVER.

[Anonymous No.]

If you wanna see a translation for TA:ZERO in near future. Here's your chance http://rattanmantrans.tumblr.com/post/177647873755/regarding-taimanin-asagi-zero

[Anonymous No.]

>>19799845
Wasn't expecting much of Kanobitch, but the CG was surprisingly good. The sprite art doesn't really do it justice.

[Anonymous No.]

Do you think Atlus will translate the Utawarerumono remake? I believe so, but it's been very quiet

[Anonymous No.]

>>19800215
Doubt it. I don't think that 2 and 3 sold particularly well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19800357
They probably shouldn't have been silly and censored the games. If I don't remember wrong in addition to actual porn they removed some old fashioned kid punishment with slapping a butt?

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>>19800459
There's no actual porn to remove. The developers betrayed their original fanbase.

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>>19800459
1. Uta 2 and 3 had no porn in the original Japanese releases. There was never an 18+ release.

2. Yeah, kid spanking censorship was retarded. People thought it was because parts of Europe illegalized spanking, but it's hard to say. I'd say that the main factor it didn't sell well was more because it was a really niche game than anything else though.

[Anonymous No.]

See, this is why we shouldn't of had that midweek NekoNyan thread
Now VNTS is dead af with nothing to discuss...

[Anonymous No.]

>>19800476
>>19800459
Are you refering to Anju getting her butt slapped? What did they censor? It was in game

[Anonymous No.]

>>19800496
>af
Stop.
Also no one should care if there is something to discuss or not. Some weeks the thread is filled up within a few days and others it hardly had anything, though the former has happend a lot more recently with how many more people from /vg/ seem to have started posting here ever since someone tried to force this into a 24/7 thing.

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>>19800503
Googling says:
>I just checked the differences between the two (I got the game early, so I already cleared it), and in the English version Munechika doesn't have her right hand up and Anju has blue pants on.

Classic meaningless censorship that didn't change anything, but upset all who wanted a pure unmodified game.

As the slapping still happens, one can only assume the changes were to avoid pedophiles buying their game and masturbating to child butts.

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>>19800590
So meaningless. They could of provided a better translation or an extra CG instead of wasting money on this shit

[Anonymous No.]

Kimi to Kanojo is actually 100% TLed

https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1032424489940742144

[Anonymous No.]

>>19800669
So is Sumaga, so while nice it could still stall. Is best to not get any expectations of speedy releases from JAST.

[Anonymous No.]

NekoNyan are /ourguys/, bringing all these kamige

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>>19799845
Remaining hints: "Sakura" (either Sakura no Mori † Dreamers or an Atelier Sakura nukige) and "Sorcery Jokers" (most likely a 3rdEye title, that mid-sized chuunige conjueror mentioned)

Also, it's possible that MG could have gotten Lamunation!
Pic related.

[Anonymous No.]

MangaGamer's Top 5 Chart:

1. Treasure Hunter Claire
2. Evenicle
3. Sweet Switch
4. Sisterly Bliss ~Don't Let Mom Find Out~
5. Himawari - The Sunflower -

Treasure Hunter Claire still ranked 1st.
Evenicle and Sweet Switch fighting for 2nd place.
Sisterly Bliss ranked 4th (was 5th a few days ago).
Himawari on 5th place (was 4th for a few days) thanks to last weeks sale.
Curious to see what they'll put next for pre-order in a few days and how it will affect the chart. Doddler seems to be still working on SukiSuki according to a little tweet a few days ago, so I doubt we'll see a pre-order for it.
>https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1035633458075193344
The screenshot is cropped, but it should be this girl. >https://vndb.org/c34576

[Anonymous No.]

>>19799934
I really wish he'd tell us what the project he was working on was. It's so much easier to pick ZERO over something that can only be guessed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19801587
>Evenicle still going strong
Nice

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>>19801361
From what I hear, Lamutation is shitpost the VN, which only makes me want it more.

The Sakura hint might be the Da Capo III fan disk since that did do well enough to end up in the top ten, but I think Sakura Mori Dreamers is more likely if only because Moonstone is a bigger seller in general, and it would be weird to go for a year without announcing any Moonstone titles. The Moonstone game could always be Imopara 3 though.

>>19801587
MG could always wait until Koropukkur is released before announcing a new preorder. If it's a sizable VN, the next VN is most likely to be Damekoi, but there are a number of small VNs they might be able to release instead like Hashihime or Bitter Exclusion. I think it's more likely to be Hashihime because it has been a while a BL game has been released.

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>>19801873
I wouldn't be surprised if MG announced Evenicle 2 almost as soon as it comes out like they did with Rance X since it's doing so well. Maybe they have enough AliceSoft titles right now though.

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>>19800595
>They could of provided a better translation
Are you stupid? The translation of both games was really good.

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>>19801898
It's too literal. The localization should have purged all of the references to foreign cultures for American tastes. It's not like people can learn foreign terms through context or anything.

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>>19802134
>too literal
You're an idiot.

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>>19802151
I think you're taking his post too seriously.

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>>19802175
Hard to tell in these threads. I wouldn't be surprised if he was serious.

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>>19801898
Good, but a translation could always be better. My point is that they shouldn't have wasted resources on censorship

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>>19802151
>>19802175
Eh, I was being sarcastic and tried to indicate that with my second sentence, but it can't be helped I suppose.

I would say that Utawarerumono 2 and 3 went out of its way to not translate terms even most people advocating for less liberal localizations would be fine with translating. Most of the terms were necessary for Ainu flavor, but some of them remaining untranslated was like if a translator left Maou as Maou instead of Demon King. They left Mikado of all terms untranslated IIRC.

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>>19801873
>Evenicle still going strong
Fuck.

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>>19802282
>Demon King
Archfiend*

[Anonymous No.]

>>19799845
Xev just said Sol Press is possibly attending a con in October >>>/vg/226760997.

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>>19801030
I know alot of people who are mad that Aokana will retain its mosaics.

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>>19803418
I'm mostly upset that they come up with the most cringeworthy excuses for not doing so

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>>19803604
I think JAST is the only publisher that has a strict no mosaic policy. Even some of MG's titles retain mosaics for various reasons.

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>>19803604
>cringeworthy excuses
They straight up wrote that the developer doesn't want to remove them. How is that an excuse? You know their only release so far didn't have mosaics, right?

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>>19803858
First it was
>there's nothing drawn under the mosaics
then it was
>there is something drawn under the mosaics but it's very basic and, uh, they only added in psuedo-detail after applying a mosaic to it. Yeah.
So did they finally admit that the developer just doesn't want to remove it? I hadn't seen that post yet.

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>>19803869
How is that relevant to Aokana, idiot? Why are you posting about Sanoba Witch? And you still haven't replied to >>19542499

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>>19801774
He said it's something popular, and he made a reference to his poll which I wasn't aware of. And he has a history of only working on lilith titles. I couldn't find his poll results, but that would probably give a big clue.

>>19801896
Yeah it's possible, but I'd like if they start releasing some stuff before announcing another Alicesoft title.

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>>19801880
I would say Hashihime too, but it depends on how fast steam will approve it. Damekoi could still be in scripting due to them using the remastered version, Bokuten has lots image editing left according to Doddler and Bitter Exclusion would be too soon for another nukige since Sweet Switch was released like a month ago.

>>19801587
Looks like he's still working on SukiSuki, the tweet is an hour old.
>https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1036364362498240512

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>>19804379
>SukiSuki

Only two more years to go!

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>>19804379
>https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1036364362498240512
My reaction when they still haven't dropped the idiotic idea of changing Yuuki to Yuki.

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>>19800669
I am going to make a prediction for December/November release.

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It's kind of funny that TBAC is translating both Aokana for Nekonyan and short nukige for MG (Sweet Switch).

>>19801896
MG will probably slow down on the Alicesoft announcements soon enough. There are only a few more Alicesoft games that are extremely viable.

Guaranteed: Rance remakes (including 04 if it gets made), Beat Valkyrie Ixseal, Evenicle 2

Likely: Oyako Rankan and Tsuma 3. Both dabble into NTR, which seems to be a somewhat popular fetish on the MG store, and maybe MG wants to diversify their nukige stuff with more milf.

Possible: Daiteikoku (Survey...), Pastel Chime 2 and 3 (if MG really wants a Steam compatible Alicesoft title), and Galzoo Island (Bad end and Pastel Chum like this game)

Long shots: Heartful Maman (short nukige and MG has other companies for that), Blade Briders (gameplay title that isn't well received in Japan), Drapeko (minimal gameplay and not extremely notable overall), anything else older than Daiteikoku (most Alicesoft titles in the mid 2000s to the mid 2010s were mediocre or bad, and anything older than the mid 2000s is obviously too old barring a remake. Oh, and everything up to KR is freeware anyways. Atlach-Nacha, Yoru ga Kuru, Only You Recross, and Daiakuji never, though Daiakuji at least has some chance of a remake, and the Atlach-Nacha writer is penning a new VN for Alicesoft).

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>>19805381
>Daiakuji never
Sad.

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>>19805531
>Daiakuji
too old and likely they'd get shit from within the scene for the content

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>>19805381
>Daiteikoku
Again with this shit.
This game is a NEVER EVER. It's the reason Alicesoft started blocking foreign IPs.

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>>19805662
How come?

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>>19805662
Huh why?

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>>19805662
MG has no reason to avoid pissing off China, at least for a eroge they wouldn't stick on Steam anyways. I personally think that it's not likely because it's not exactly a well regarded game in the first place, but it would sell well because of Loli Hitler and because bad gameplay eroge still sell well.

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>>19805381
>Daiteikoku (Survey...)
For two years running the survey has listed it as Daiteitoku. Either it's a completely different game or they don't give enough of a shit to actually spell it correctly.

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>>19805739
>>19805784
>>19805800
Quoting an old post:
>It seemed pretty Nippon banzai. China is led by an objectively evil motherfucker and they're the first nation you steamroll while America conspires against Japan and "forces" them into situation where they have no choice but to make the first strike (they'll still declare war if you don't commit nu-Pearl Harbor first). Accepting 帝's plan also makes everyone happy under Japanese rule and you supposedly don't get rebellions at all. It's pretty much a parody though (Germany is led by loli Hitler)

In other words, it's WW2 in Space written from the perspective of a raging Japanese nationalist.
I'd imagine MG wouldn't want to deal with such big landmine.

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>>19806285
>Raging Japanese Nationalist
>WWII
There are many stories about WWII and really this is not as controversial due to it being a fictional parody of WWII unless they had the holy hoax and has the impearlist flag which Korea and China always whine over.

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>>19806285
Why would this be a problem? Have you seen what battlefield 5 has done to WW2 already? At this point nobody would really care except history buffs.

[Anonymous No.]

Hello EOPs.

Buy 誰も知らない天体への涙 when it comes out for you in like 2 yeeks.

The game's like 30 minutes long and more of a taste of an idea of a game than anything else.

Buy it so the devs get cash to make it a real game.

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>>19808173
You want me to buy an episodic all-ages plotge? Are you out of your mind?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19808181
It'll have porn scenes released next month. Dunno if you'll get it though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19808173
I only buy moege, sorry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19808173
i'll think about it

[Anonymous No.]

>>19808173
I don't care how good the writing is. Episodic release ruins it, and I refuse to support companies that take this release approach.

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>>19808954
considering production costs and how nobody makes any money in VNs i'd expect to see it happen more often

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>>19808860
Thanks, EOP pal.

>>19808954
It's not ideal. Appearently they weren't able ot get funding for a full game. Which is weird considering ChronoBox was successful and widely praised.

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>>19808173
I like how jops that come here always specify that we are eops tsk

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>>19809009
That could backfire horribly for them if lots of people end up holding off for all the episodes to release before buying.

[Anonymous No.]

Did you guys find the NN announcements underwhelming?
I'm not even sure about Aokana, let alone Hello Lady since both of them have large, insufferable chunks of chuuni content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809117
>Aokana
>chuuni
It's fucking sports. Are we gonna call Hajime no Ippo chuuni now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809117
I like chuuni, the downsides to most chuuni is that the protag is fucking garbage and drags down the entire vn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809138
Erm, yes? It's kind of a battle royale.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809117
You know what's bad chuuni? Fighting bad guys and power ups. You know what's good chuuni? Scheming and exacting revenge while being morally gray. I'm hoping Hello Lady is the latter based on the description.

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>>19809156
>Scheming and exacting revenge while being morally gray
That's not chuuni though.
>Fighting bad guys and power ups.
This is chuuni.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809162
Please, are you saying something like G-senjou or SnK is not chuuni? Of course it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809117
For a company that started this year I would say both of them are great announcements.
MangaGamer did nukige for so many years before they actually got a few decent titles.

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>>19808173
Do you know how much it's going to be?

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>>19809166
Idk man, those titles were more like drama. The bad guys don't even have superpowers.

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>>19809176
honestly I liked MG's nukige more than I like all their current stuff so the recent years have been kind of a bummer for me.

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>>19809196
Chuuni AKA something middle schoolers would fantasize about. If you think being an arrogant genius who makes master plans while thinking about illegal chess moves is not aspiring, then you're boring.

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>>19809176
I expected more moege desu. Something like Amairo or Mashimaro or Onikiss too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809214
When I was a middle schooler I fantasized about banging cute asian teenage girls. I guess all moege are chuunige then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809214
I must be a boring dude, I guess.
SnK was like an eye opener with its deep quotes and intricate plot.

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>>19809176
>MangaGamer did nukige for so many years before they actually got a few decent titles.
That was in a time where lots of Jap VN devs hardly even took note of the west. With the mix of the Steam boom (even if it is now over) and reduced revenue at home they have slowly warmed up since it is mostly free extra revenue for them from license fees. Makes it far easier for new publishers to pick up titles now.

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>>19809205
Their nukige was kind of shit back then compared to the nukige licenses we're getting from then now (eg. Kyonyuu Fantasy and Imopara). I just wish there was a company that had a main focus on licensing good nukige, it's what I hope Cherry Kiss Games turns into but as of right now they only have Norn and Miel games which are more in line with MGs old licenses.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809205
Their nukige was kind of shit back then compared to the nukige licenses we're getting from them now (eg. Kyonyuu Fantasy and Imopara). I just wish there was a company that had a main focus on licensing good nukige, it's what I hope Cherry Kiss Games turns into but as of right now they only have Norn and Miel games which are more in line with MGs old licenses.

[Anonymous No.]

The two new NN's announcements aren't edited by Chuee.
Guys, is Akerou finally getting rid of Chuee?
Pls

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809205
Out of all the nukige they released only Eroge and Ultimate Boob Wars were good (at least that's the only 2 titles that I remember).
Now that they have a partnership with Waffle all they need now are a few titles from Atelier Kaguya or the 2 Alicesoft milf nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809220
Chuuni requires a very strong main character. Moege is literally the opposite, so that you can self-insert easier.

[Anonymous No.]

Eternal Punishment PSP when

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809249
oh they have BETTER nukige now, but nowhere near as much which makes it feel empty when one is released every ~3-5 months aside from the shovelware ammolite titles they do.

>>19809262
They also did 3? Lilith titles, the jewel star trilogy, Slave Witch April, Sexy Demon Transformation. I mean there's TONS of old MG nukige and while not all of it was worth the asking price, they were definitely worth a solid sale price and there was so much variety due to the sheer quantity of them.

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>>19809374
With the steam boom pretty much dead at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if they pick up more nukige in the next few years just to get the cheap nukige money again like they used to.
I feel like Oyako Rankan and Sideboob Story 2 are inevitable announcements for next year, just to name a few. If they release Maggot Baits in early 2019, hopefully we'll see another Clock Up nukige too.

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>>19809403
>hopefully we'll see another Clock Up nukige too.
I'm hoping for MA*KO HUNTER if this happens, although it's probably unlikely because localization companies for some reason never pick up vanilla nukige with modern art-styles.

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>>19809117
In what world are either of those announcements underwhelming?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809412
I think Manko Hunter is the only thing left from Clockup that I want to see translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809428
>Hello Lady
chuuni
>Aokana
chuuni
Is it too much to ask for more moege? I loved fureraba.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809412
Kenzen! would be great too, but I guess Ero Manga! would be a better choice due to it having a H-anime which could boost sales.
At least Amatarasu Riddle Star is a vanilla moe/nukige from Softhouse Seals side brand.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809117
This is a bit arbitrary, but if Rance X is an S-tier announcement and Harumade Kururu is a B-tier announcement, then Aokana seems like A-tier while Hello Lady is B-tier.

[Anonymous No.]

Speaking of announcements any hints or leaks what visual novels Sekai Project will ruin this month at AWA convention?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809521
Didn't Maitetsu flopping pretty much kill them?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809262
>or the 2 Alicesoft milf nukige.
I have to praise your persistence even though I hate you bringing that up constantly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809529
They got over 100k $ from that VR kickstarter last month.
All they need is another Sayori title or a Humble Bundle and they are good for another year or so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809521
I honestly have no clue. I originally thought it would be Clover Day's but the blog post a week or so ago basically denied that theory.
I don't think they'll announce anything big honestly since their recent releases except Nekopara Extra (which was only like $4) sold like shit.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey Xev, can you explain why publishers can't decide about the Romanization style for Japanese names themsleves? I've read your vague answer on /vn/ but didn't want to ask there for more details due to too much spam and shitposting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809446
shitty fucking bait
In what world is Aokana chuuni? And every other game they’re working on is moege; did you just forget about those?

Fureraba was shit and anyone who liked it should go back to /vn/

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>>19809166
You’re fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810054
Fureraba is the best IP nekonyan has.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809215
I'd be surprised if their post-Sonaba Witch announcements weren't both moege.

>>19809403
I honestly wouldn't bet on Oyako Rankan, but since Nan, Onigiri, and Orion art centric titles made it to the West, it's about time Min-naraken had a title licensed too. I'd settle for Galzoo Island or Blade Briders at this point. Gyokai would be cool too, but he did the Rance remakes, so he's already guaranteed.

[Anonymous No.]

I know this isn't the thread for this, but where could I download raw anime unsubbed? I'm looking for 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809117
Yes, I was hoping for more moege. Hello Lady has ugly girls and looks tryhard and Aokona is done by the same guys that did Koichoco so I can't be hopeful for it

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810246
Don't they have enough moege announcements for you already? When will you be pleased?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810054
Spoiler abuse. You're the one who doesn't belong here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810258
I was hoping NekoNyan would be a 100% moege company, but they already fell for the tryhard memes and are wasting time on garbage no one will buy (no one ever buys plotge)

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810280
>wasting time on garbage no one will buy
Oh yes, I'm sure no one will buy Aokana or Hello Lady.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810280
/vn/ moebutas don't buy anything

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810280
>>19810298
Aokana will sell well because it's a moege first and foremost. Also, simultaneous China release and all that.

Hello Lady, I'm not so sure. Chuunige don't really sell well. Not even Dies Irae sold that well, though its free to play model makes it hard to tell how well it sold.

>>19810321
This. I'm pretty sure it's steamfags who are the main buyer base of moege.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810264
Nice deflection. Look at any other thread on this entire fucking board and try to tell me about "spoiler abuse" again.

>>19810150
Yeah, no. Definitely not after their translation, at least.

>>19810246
>Hello Lady has ugly girls
the fuck are you on?
>Aokona is done by the same guys that did Koichoco so I can't be hopeful for it
Koichoco was admittedly pretty mediocre, but every single writer on Aokana is completely different.

Honestly, just do all of us a favor and off yourself right now.

>>19810280
Why are you so angry? They've literally only licensed one non-moege title, and you're already screeching like a retarded frog.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810537
>the fuck are you on?
One of the girls look like a man.
Sorry not gay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810654
There's one heroine who's crossdressing. She doesn't even look particularly masculine, and the rest of the heroines are more attractive than most moege heroines I've seen. And you said ugly "girls", not ugly "girl". Show me one other female character from that game that is unattractive.

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>>19810344
>Not even Dies Irae sold that well, though its free to play model makes it hard to tell how well it sold.

It is among top 5 worst localization projects so probably didn't get much in the ways of positive word of mouth to help sales.

They released 4 games almost at the same time. Widescreen all-ages, 4:3 all-ages, adult version, and JP HD version.

Want the ultimate game? Sorry, you'll just have to play all 4 games by themselves and then merge your experience of the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19811066
>Want the ultimate game? Sorry, you'll just have to play all 4 games by themselves and then merge your experience of the game.
You forgot about Also sprach Zarathustra.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809191
Dunno, but the Japanese release is 500 yen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19811892
It's gonna be 3 bucks

[Anonymous No.]

>>19811904
Yeah, considering how short it.

[Xev !!Jqgyo8A4vql No.]

>>19809914
US companies aren't really in a position to contest decisions that often. Our market has much less strength than Japan and China, so a lot of the time we're more of an after-thought.

Let's take Mosaics for instance:
There are several reasons a company may need to keep them in.
1. Their contracts with contractors and personnel forbid them from releasing a non-mosaiced versions.
2. Their deals with merchandise distributors or banks forbid them from releasing non-mosaiced versions.
3. They're not willing to potentially risk jail time or fines.
4. There's no material behind the mosaic, and paying for the production of that doesn't make sense.
5. The original files just aren't available, which would require a full redrawing (refer to #4).

Now for Romanization style, for a lot of companies it purely comes down to how they want the names to be expressed. However, it could also be done to fulfill contractual obligations (i.e. "Your company will directly work on any foreign content"). Technically it would be fulfilling that obligation, without influencing the entire translation.

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>>19813037
>so a lot of the time we're more of an after-thought.

lol, so this is how it ends after the NekoPara craze
everyone thought Steam will save them

[Anonymous No.]

>>19813037
>how they want the names to be expressed
This could only apply if the characters are not Japanese. Otherwise, the only name the author can give them is the Japanese one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19813101
Considering the west wasn't even on their minds at all for a lot of VN companies before the craze, it is still better than what it was.

>>19814125
There are still different forms of romanization which can give a different spelling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19814143
>There are still different forms of romanization which can give a different spelling.
Yes, and romanization is not to be done willy-nilly based on what looks cool to the author. That leads to ridiculous and often inconsistent spellings. This is not a part of their language; They have nothing to say about it. Again, if the character is foreign, they have every right to name the character is the original language and decide how it's written in Japanese, since that's the language the game will be released in. But it doesn't work like that the other way around.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19814166
It's their game, they fuck it however they want.
It's not like this industry makes enough money for them to care about our name autism

[Anonymous No.]

>>19813037
I think you are in position to contest it though. Localizers jobs are to tell the copmanes exactly how their choices impact the results.

There is no better way to lose sales than censorship. Mosaic being the reverse case where keeping it loses no sales, but removing it boost sales.

I kind of wish we had a good image of it all though. So you could use it as an easy tool to tell people how to reach 0 sales. (Remove voices, remove porn, remove honorifics, remove CG gallery, replace the music with free sound samples, make a new English OP video, etc)

[Anonymous No.]

>>19816713
The best one is to do a dub of the voices. That one fujo game did it and all the fujos were super mad. It was quite funny.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19816727
That Alice otome game was funded by the Japanese government's Cool Japan initiative too IIRC. I wonder if they would have dubbed Moonstone's games if they gave them the chance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19816713
I don't think the Japs care. Especially if all the localiser did was pay up a fee for the licence with no real ties to revenue. Also, on the topic of removing things, in some cases the license for the voices can end up being exorbitant which makes it unviable to pay such a high fee which can give rise of how MG handled Koihime Musou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810054
>Fureraba was shit
Nah it was great

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810280
>I was hoping NekoNyan would be a 100% moege company
That is so fucking retarded

[Anonymous No.]

>>19816713
>There is no better way to lose sales than censorship. Mosaic being the reverse case where keeping it loses no sales, but removing it boost sales.
There is literally 0 coalation between mosaics and sales. It is probably the lowest on the totem pole of censorship because there are so many factors that lead to its inclusion or exclusion that are like 90% on the Japanese developer

[Anonymous No.]

>>19818557
While I prefer mosaics over decensored CG, I really can't agree with that statement. There are people bitching about mosaics all the time. Nekonyan announced that many of their titles would retain mosaics, and the thread about mosaics is the most popular thread on their forums, with people openly declaring that they will not buy the games which have mosaics.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19818626
>There are people bitching about mosaics all the time.
I have also seen people complain about how shit a lot of decensored stuff looks so it can work both ways. The people who rage over not having uncensored CGs end up more vocal because it comes under the idea that there is still a form of censorship in a title and anyone advocating otherwise is for censorship of any kind.
The ideal would be to have the option to choose, but the time, effort and cost just isn't worth it. It bloats up the file size and you have to pay someone to actually actually implement that option and then also test both versions to make sure both work fine with no problems.

[Anonymous No.]

I somehow sympathize with dovac on a level, it really isn't worth it to throw money on this industry when you literally never make it back

[Anonymous No.]

>>19818891
No one cares.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19818891
>I somehow sympathize with dovac on a level
Stopped reading there

[Anonymous No.]

>>19818891
They only have themselvea to blame. If they weren't incompetent at management (dovac himself admitted he fucked up projects) they could have made plenty. Their kickstarters were huge successes but they squandered them with bad project managent, blunders and underestimating how much work vita ports take.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810280
>>19818544
Unless a company is 100% nukige, I don't think they can stay afloat by relying on one niche, not even moege. It's not like every moege is an instant hit. (Wagamama failed, and while Circus moege do fine, they aren't exactly blockbusters.) Like MG did before them when they found Moonstone, Nekonyan has to find a company that do games that sell really well for Nekonyan, and the best way to do that is to experiment. Of course, maybe they've already found their gold mine with Smee, Yuzusoft, or Lump of Sugar, but if they aren't such, they've already started the search for other potential candidates. Even if one of those moege companies do become reliable sources of money, it doesn't hurt to have more, unless they go overboard with licenses like Sekai.

>>19818853
It can work both ways, but I've people claim that they won't buy if a game has mosaics while I haven't seen people who would not buy if a game didn't keep mosaics. While I don't think that mosaic autists are a huge percentage of the market, I have a feeling that they are reliable buyers of localized eroge in general.

>>19818891
I would sympathize if Sekai outright quit rather than beg the VN market for money to make ends meet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19819035
>I would sympathize if Sekai outright quit rather than beg the VN market for money to make ends meet.
I would pay Sekai to quit the industry, honestly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19819145
If only their Sekai Games brand did well enough that they stopped giving a shit about PC releases. I doubt that would ever happen though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19819642
Speaking of their other brands whatever ended up happening with their supposed BL/otome brand? Not that I really care, I just haven't heard anything about it since it was announced.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19819861
Well they fired the chick who was supposed to run it and then they released that one doujin otome under their main SP brand instead. I imagine they want to pretend like it never existed.

[Anonymous No.]

Any download link for 428 Shibuya?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820291
right here bro https://store.steampowered.com/app/648580/428_Shibuya_Scramble/

[Anonymous No.]

>Tsui Yuri up to 2nd place
It is almost release day, but that still surprised me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820291
https://store.steampowered.com/app/648590/428/

[Anonymous No.]

So did you enjoy Alice's game, EOPs? And did it sell well?

Mirai Radio turned out to be relatively disappointing so many people on EGS, so Laplacian might need your cash.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820582
It did okay I guess. Looks like Fureraba sold much better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820591
Jesus, you EOP really only buy vapid moeges and romanceges?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820582
I thought it was awful and dropped it after ~2.5 hours of reading. The fact they want $40 for something like that kinda boggles my mind, I wouldn't spend more than $15 on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820598
But Alice's a real qt.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820603
the girls are super cute and I loved all the interactions with them but literally everything else was so boring and awful and since it's focused more-so on the story than the actual interactions between the characters it just feels like a horrible slog.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820582
The art for Mirai Radio looks really good, it's hard to believe it's done by the same artists who did Newton Ringo. What did the Japs not like about it? No major spoilers please, just in case.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820656
It's short (the trial is pretty much a half of it) and the girls' routes are disappointing to some.

The art is good, yeah. Kinda reminds me of Re:Lief.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820682

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820682
Was it a long trial? Seems strange to use half of a game as a demo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820695
Relatively long, yeah. But obviously it's not ideal to do that. That's why people are unhappy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820582
It was ok. I liked Gramps, Alice and Lavi

[Anonymous No.]

>>19818891
>throw money on this industry when you literally never make it back
they could have made stable profit if they weren't such dumb fucking faggots

[Anonymous No.]

Not translation related but does anyone remember how to get the hcg on the top right of Dies Irae?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820582
Most of the people that make it through to the end really love it, but the shortness and plot focus seems to be a make or break for some people.
I thought the story was short and on point, good for what it was.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820582
haven't read it yet, it's on my very long backlog

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820310
>>19820568
Thanks /jp/.
This game didn't age well. Feel weird to them back in the flip phone era without LINE.

[Anonymous No.]

So will Sekai release tenshin ranman this year?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820594
If I wanted plot, I'd open a book. I want healing, a fulfilling romance with a cute 2D girl whom I get to fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822026
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822044
you aren't fucking anyone, though. the protagonist is, and you're just watching.
>inb4 muh self insert

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822193
Semantics

[Anonymous No.]

This place did become /vn/ 2.0

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822424
Feel free to go back there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822193
Who are you quoting, newfag? Are you jealous that I read VNs in the right way?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822026
>>19822177
They won't release it next year either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822424
Nigger.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19810964
All of the girls in Hello Lady are ugly.
Also, I heard Akerou took a loan to buy the license for that game and Aokana.
You guys think Nekonyan is done for if said titles flop? Kinda like Maitetsu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19820432
And ImoPara 2 on 5th place.
ImoPara 3 when?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823143
It will most likely be announced next year, they'd be stupid not to license it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823134
Mori, Saku, and Tamao all look cute to me. The rest look pretty bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823157
Knowing MangaGamer they already licensed it, but they won't announce it until 40-70% is translated like most of the time with titles that do well for them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823134
Where did you hear that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823283
He's just making shit up, don't pay him any attention.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/GOGcom/status/1037326826723569664

Maidens of Michael is now on gog. Steam better step up their game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19799757
>Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi - Picked up
This is 100% translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823366
Maybe this would let Maidens back on Steam, but it wouldn't be surprising if they were stubborn about the issue for no reason. Starnova still isn't on Steam for example.

[Anonymous No.]

This is bad opinions - the thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823283
>>19823318
Decay, NN's worker said so on their discord server.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823826
And are you going to show us proof?

[Anonymous No.]

What ever happened to Ie no kagi?

[Anonymous No.]

Interesting to see that releasing something mosaic free required actually a bit of work, I thought the developer just gives them the mosaic free CGs, they slap the translation on it and call it a day.
>https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1036855984612732928
While mosaic free CGs aren't the most important thing for me, like for that anti-mosaics anon (translation quality and visual novel genre/theme are), it sure is a big bonus, which sometimes gives me that little push to buy the visual novel.

But I do wonder how many times the mosaic free CGs were available to some localization companies, but they couldn't be bothered to go through so many layers for each images or just that little extra work. Some publishers don't even bother to edit the normal background CGs most of the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824041
Changing CGs should be trivial in game programming. Roughly copy and paste to the asset folder and then compile, and you are done. If it isn't that easy, your game developers were pretty bad at making a game.

If you were really clever, you'd actually just have the censorship as a layer on top so you disable it when you want uncensored games. With the drawback that it would be illegal if anyone disabled the layer in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824467
Sounds like they just have one huge-ass photoshop file with a ton of layers and create the CGs from there.

I assumed that the mosaic itself is a layer too, but they flatten the assets with the mosaic itself as one layer so that even if someone manages to hack the engine and tries to turn off the layer (or extract the assets), it's not an option.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19806285
Are there even any people among the asian cartoon porn game fancrowd that seriously care about these things and take them seriously?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824494
It wouldn't be the people who play the game who care about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19822026
They'll release it just after finishing Baldr.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824514
Does anyone actually know what the problem is with it, and how come Nekonyan hasn't ran into the same problem? Last I heard even Doddler didn't know what the fuck he was supposed to be doing with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824538
I personally think that there's no actual problem beyond Sekai just not caring anymore. Though I suppose there's always the chance that the translator bailed and Sekai never found a new one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824538
>>19824563
The worst thing is that Seiha was almost done with it but they pissed them off that much that they'll never touch this again even when we 100% know that Sekai will never finish it, which is basically the case. I think when something someone has picked up years ago is still not out you can assume it's dead. Still mad though. This isn't some fan project, it's a company and they just seem to buy licenses for VNs they'll never release.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh yeah, to the anon that was asking for info on it last week.
It's confirmed Chuee is co-Editing Sanoba Witch with Decay.
Now, I trust Decay to do a good job, but we'll see. I already confirmed that there are typos in the stuff Chuee worked on. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824607
>Seiha
Aroduc
The rest of his team (Doddler, DxS) backstabbed him and went with SP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824614
Give the dude time. He's still not done with his major.

[Anonymous No.]

Aroduc will return soon. The dawn of life is upon us fellow brethren.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824614
Fuck. Well then, I can only hope that he has improved at least a little since Fureraba (doubtful) and that Decay can do an okay job at cleaning up after him (also doubtful).

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824639
We still haven't see how well decay edits.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824646
He apparently edited a LN for Sol Press: Battle Divas.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824614
>>19824639
You guys hate on Chuee because he enjoys editing and gets paid for it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824673
Didn't you make this exact same post a few weeks ago?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824673
More like the guy who bashed fan translations by saying that official releases are better than fan translations in every possible, who managed to work on one of the worst releases like SakuSaku, Hoshizora and Fureraba and somehow he hasn't been fired yet.

He's like an incompetent version of Dovac.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824652
According to the reviews on Amazon, the editing was pretty poor.

[Anonymous No.]

Why don't you just become a translator yourself? YOU do know Japanese, don't you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824769
Noone would hire me because I tl too literally.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824769
All the official companies rejected me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823400
This is correct and it is going through an editing pass currently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824780
They want meme TLs, not actual TLs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824784
Fuck them. Be your own king - start fantranslatin' in spare time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824797
heh.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824806
You have no fucking idea what arunaru did and didn't do, you newfag german piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824820
It's just a meme. Arunaru is my favourite translator of them all. Evenicle was great.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824830
That's great, but not a vn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824830
Aside from the butchering of Gurigura and a few other smaller things, it was pretty solid.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824769
My writing skills are subpar and I'd never be able to translate something without making some mistakes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824841
Your writing doesn't have to be amazing. You have to be accurate. Editors do exist.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824830
You read one VN he did and you defend that fucker. Even though you don't know anything about what he does and how he does it. Even though your enjoyment was thanks to the quality of the original game and not the translation. Just stop.

[Anonymous No.]

If Arunaru does his no honorifics allowed bullshit in SukiSuki I'm gonna have a fucking aneurysm

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824865
Yuuki-anon will save the day

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824868
I really doubt he'll go through the effort of adding every single honorific back in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824847
He's just incredibly fast and can tl great masses in reasonable time. He's doing few actual mistakes, rarely any typoes (found 5 in Evenicle all the way through, even though thats more on the editor) the choice with the udon noodles or whatever was questionable and more a meme than an actual glaring issue, I played a bunch of BBH and it was fine. Also he is already finished with Rance IX and works on other huge scripts in the meantime. He's easily one of the top tlers we have currently and we'll wait for Rance X in awe. How can you not like a translator that doesn't only bring games we want over here but also does games with immeasurably huge scripts?

I don't see your issues with him, maybe you have some unsatiated grudges against him?

[Anonymous No.]

>SukiSuki is a vn about food
>/ourguy/ Arunaru will localise it to make sure us low IQ burgers will understand it
Can't wait to read about Mahiru's love for Jelly Donuts and Hotdogs

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824880
He completely removed Gurigura's speech quirk. I mean he didn't even make an attempt to translate it over and just completely removed it. It's like removing Mihiro's Senpai quirk from Wagahigh.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824880
Shut up you Rancefag nigger
Arunaru is a garbage translator
Stop sucking his dick just because he translates what you like
I have no fucking clue why they put this hack on SukiSuki

[Anonymous No.]

Odds on Chiho's calling MC 'onii-chan' being removed?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19805531
>>19805544
>>19806255
>>19805381
>Daiakuji
Meh. Daibancho was better and they ain't doing that.

>Daiteikoku
While, I wouldn't mind. I think it's more trouble than it's worth with all the loaded political history in it.

[Anonymous No.]

Let's speak about another game. Yumina. JAST recently kept posting about it again. Do you think theres chances they'll do the fandisc one day?

>>19824892
Didn't we have the same in Maitetsu? Nagi's "-baaaai.. I feel people don't really value speech quirks but i don't really see why you would need them if the games is voiced. Also how would you have implemented it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824923
Don't try to change the topic Arunaru
You're going to change those fucking honorifics you faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824923
Every time you post a fucking screenshot it has a cursor in the middle of the screen, how do you still not know how to take a proper screenshot?
Also, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824923
For Gurigura? I'd have translated it to Big brother Aster or just big brother since she almost exclusively addresses him as Onii-chan and Ramius/Riche as Ramius onee-chan/Riche onee-chan. It's a very important thing considering how all she has wanted her entire life was a family and now she finally has one and the way she addresses them shows just how huge of a deal it is for her. By literally not even bringing mention to it you not only remove a huge emotional way she addresses with her new family but you also remove what made her unique in terms of interactions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824717
This still cracks me up.
The guy said official translations were better than fan ones, and he ended up shitting the bed with the abomination hoshimemo's tl was.
For someone who is a fan of FAVORITE he should keep away from their titles.

[Anonymous No.]

Guess who was the only place on the entire internet that was defending arunaru's removal of honorifics in Evenicle, because of 'muh Western fantasy setting'
I wonder if they'll do the same thing for SukiSuki

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824950
Yeah I guess I should disable the cursor in sharex. It happens when you play in fake fullscreen.

>>19824955
Not bad, but that would've interfered with the non-honorifics thing. I can see why this can be a problem. What would've been a solution? Just making her say "brother/sister" once in a while? Or maybe give her some line "you are like a brother and sister to me?" to establish this relationship for the future?

As you mention it it might've made sense.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824973
people defend the removal of honorifics even in /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824983
Yh, literal redditors who who click on the link to this very thread in r/visualnovels maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824981
>Not bad, but that would've interfered with the non-honorifics thing.
O-Or, now here's a revolutionary solution
How about DON'T remove the honorifics?
HOLY SHIT
Problem solved!

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824998
>Yh
I assume you're one of them?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824998
i've been posting in /jp/ since before r/visualnovels existed and i defend the removal of honorifics in /jp/ because i think the people who defend it are engaged in a delusional where they pretend to be japanese

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825004
It's always the redditor who screams at others about how they're reddit

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825003
Honorifics are boring though.
If you can't convey the relationship between two characters without honorifics, why bother translating?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825010
wow that wasn't even english

cut out the center and replace it with "because i think the people who attack it are engaged in a delusion"

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825012
>If you can't convey the relationship between two characters without honorifics, why bother translating?
But they never fucking do. They just remove them and leave nothing in their stead.
This argument makes no sense because they do EXACTLY that

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825012
You can do it without honorifics but that would need excessive rewriting and filler lines that convey that relationship. It would be actually safer for the accuracy to just keep them. But this question will be discussed for eternity like the difference between は and が in the Djt...

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>>19825023
>>19825032
Take japanese localizations for example, like, say, GTA Vice City Stories. In the Japanese version they added back honorifics and it worked as fine as the original version.
If it works for Japanese people, why couldn't it work for us?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825032
Except honorifics debate has an objective conclusion since removing them CAN be detrimental and by keeping them in you never lose anything
>>19825036
Because we have basement dwelling virgin NEET's who probably don't even have a qualification in English Lit doing our translations.
Not an entire company of professional translators

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>>19825023
if you read a japanese script with all honorifics/pronouns removed, with what accuracy do you expect that a certified nihongo expert could re-insert the correct honorifics/pronouns based on their assessment of the situation/relationship between the characters?

i honestly think the percentage would be pretty high

[Anonymous No.]

Honestly you anti-honorific anons just sound really ignorant about the whole topic, it makes it really frustrating to argue with when the other side has no actual argument beyond 'b-but I don't like them >:('

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825047
See >>19825045
We don't have professional translators who are experts in creative writing and manipulation language
We have Arunaru.

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>>19824981
Oh I had a huge thing typed out about it but I hit Alt and it went back to the catalog for some reason. I guess the shorthand of it was just use Big Bro Aster and Big Sis Ramius/Riche every now and again to show affection and stick with Aster and such for when she's talking about him to someone else? I mean it is a normal thing to call your family in such a way here in America. Hell i'm 24 and I do address my younger brothers as lil bro and they address me as big bro from time to time and they're 18 and 19.

Or just you know, keep them fucking in because 99% of the people that would read such a VN are people who know what the fuck honorifics mean and how important they can be for character interactions.

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>>19825036

Oh this is a very simple question. For us keeping anything japanese in the translation feels like someone was lazy or that they are not proficient enough in the language to convey it without the use of japanese. This is also why we change the japanese sentence structure more than often because it just doesn't read as well in english. Keeping honorifics feels alien to us because our TLs have to be as clean readable english as possible.

Not that I agree with that. I'm even fine with stilted sentence construction as long as it is accurate.

Filling a translation with invented things just to make things flow is unacceptable though.

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>>19825045
>you never lose anything
you lose the fact that some people think that it reads like garbage

watashi could similarly claim that anata lose nothing by retaining all japanese first-pronouns because it increases accuracy without costing nothing and the only argument against it is "it sounds really retarded" but that's really a reason good enough for most people

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>>19825068
> feels like someone was lazy or that they are not proficient enough in the language to convey it without the use of japanese.
Who thinks this?
You?
Who the fuck are you?
Why does your opinion matter?

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>>19825084
why does yours

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>>19825084
This fellow anon I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825085
Because I'm not using my opinion that 'I think it looks dumb' to argue my point so it's irrelevant

[Anonymous No.]

Never forget.

[Anonymous No.]

Personally I think aesthetics shouldn't matter as much as accuracy. This is why honorifics should be kept. But honestly this debate will never end. But if this is the only reason to shit on a tler then get something else to do. You are wasting your time not learning japanese by playing eroge, fella.

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>>19825120
Fuck off, Hata.

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>>19825120
>The only reason
It's not
Arunaru also likes to 'Westernise' every fucking joke and reference he touches
>>19825119
Can't wait for how they're going to defend the removal of honorifics in a japanese high school

[Anonymous No.]

He came up with a third naming convention for Rance universe rather than use an existing one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825143
>GL era
>Jill

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825160
>AV era
>Abel

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824998
they get sent through the cartel discord actually

[Anonymous No.]

So the cartel are actually just a bunch of fuwanovellers who want no honorifics? I thought its some secret TL group that controls the scene from the shadows...

Where can I sign up?

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>>19825179
Fuck off, Hata.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825119
reminder that reddit also agreed, only the permavirgin cartel faggots who are delusional enough to think they're real translators think otherwise

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825221
Using virgin as an insult? Why are you even here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825223
swap out permavirign for your insult of choice then, it isn't the point

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825251
Alright then, I'll swap it out for "Retards who can't use capitalization and punctuation."

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825259
if you were a little less uptight you might have lost your virginity by now

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825287
Begone, normalfag.

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>>19824614
Literally the only reason Chuee even has a job is because he's Akerou's butt-buddy. With the kind of work ethic he has (virtually none, given that ALL of his works have been ridden with bad grammar, inconsistent localization decisions, and typos) I doubt anyone else would hire him.

[Anonymous No.]

The usual asshurt about Arunaru aside ...
>>19824041
>>19824467
>>19824491
https://exhentai.org/s/c49009b408/869167-1502
For those curious which game it was from. I suppose we really will be getting SukiSuki this year.

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>>19825528
>I doubt anyone else would hire him.
i would say Sekai but after the drama he caused with the Hoshimemo monstrosity i wonder if they would even hire him again

[Anonymous No.]

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1708442022337025126

Steam talks about its ongoing updates to the store, but didn't answer why many visual novels are being held back by Valve.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825629
Yeah. Accidently pinged everyone and then it was unimportant. Bad decision :/

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825629
I wish they would clarify what exactly they meant by legal

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825629
>The second is an Adults Only filter, which allows you to filter out games that feature explicit sexual content.
Hopefully this means they can stop beating around the bush and just let on all VNs without needing the patch middleman.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825774
It will most likely still require patches, since certain payment processors won't let the 18+ content be hosted on Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825876
Give them to JAST. JAST allows PayPal.
Somehow... GoG also does.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825893
Gog doesn't host the patches. Not sure how JAST found a way around the policy or if they're just breaking rules secretly like when they shipped Doddler merch labeled as wood glue to avoid import taxes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825918
Thats actually slick though-
You know how I avoid import tax when flying? Landing after 6pm. The tax office already is closed then :P

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825629
This means that they are well soon the way. Could be a November release maybe even October.
>>19825876
You can use Steam cards as a form of payment and it even uses other card companies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825933
They told Dharker Studio that they were still months away from having the filtering tools ready.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825876
I really hope not since allowing anything would mean paid patches would end, beating around the bush and having "fans" announce an 18+ patch existing on the community forums wouldn't be necessary, and JAST, MG and all other companies could start putting their backlogs up on there with no edits. It'd be a win for everyone.

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>>19825959
>paid patches would end
I doubt it. Since some Steam users don't want the 18+ versions so publishers will most likely post both all ages and adult versions with the the all ages versions being able to "upgrade" via the paid patch.

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>>19825959
>JAST, MG and all other companies could start putting their backlogs up on there with no edits.
Not likely since what's illegal varies so you could get titles that have alot of region blocks or could be not be allowed to begin with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825629
Still zero word on A Key to Home, and I'll assume all the rest of the VNs previously removed too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826149
It’s pretty obvious why they’re ignoring A Key to Home

[Anonymous No.]

That's weird. If it would be one thing if there were no new preorders, but there's no twitter or blog post about Tsui Yuri. Is it even downloadable for the people who got it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826278
Maybe they're waiting till 1am.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825534
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1037540833568772096
Looks like you're famous now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826295
The preorder discount ended too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19823400
https://twitter.com/merumeruchann/status/1037558613789761536
And apparently 50% edited

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826295
Well, I guess they just forgot about it or had a last minute delay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826314
I did it, Mom.

[Anonymous No.]

I guess there isn't a new pre-order till the 27th then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826543
Oh never mind it just updated. Bitter Exclusion is listed for Oct 18th.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825946
Yes they but if they are showing the progress this means it's not that long until it happens.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19825959
It may just mean that you can have porn but the patches would be off site and if people do not like it they can filter it out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826543
Can't wait for this kamige!

[Anonymous No.]

>>19809342
why complain here of all places? it isn't a visual novel. isn't there a gbatemp containment thread for it?

[Anonymous No.]

word is the 428 translation is not good

[Anonymous No.]

>>19827762
It's made by Spike Chunsoft, i don't know what people expected.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19827762
And here I was wondering if 428's Nasu side-story would be the first instanceof Nasu getting a good tl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826910
More like they were getting tons of complaints and wanted to show their current progress. They even said in the post that they have a ways to go and features to add before the new system is ready.

[Anonymous No.]

Steam automatically filters out adult titles on the front page now. And you have to list that the game has adult content on the store page now.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1037642604593049600

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1037644679049703425

Spoilers ahoy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828517
>spoilers ahoy
Kusonova is not a real VN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828545
The point is this new policy could lead to all VNs being spoiled on their store page like how Fata Morgana was in MG's blog post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828551
Fata Morgana is not a real VN either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828560
It doesn't matter since Steam will apply the spoiler of mature content policy to all VNs. Everything will get spoiled.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19826546
It says Oct 11 on the store page. In any case, with that title out of the way, next title is probably Hashihime or Suki Suki. Damekoi might be the title too, depending on how far along it is.

[Anonymous No.]

Looks like any game labeled Adult Only will be filtered by default. You'll have to manually go in and change your store preferences for them to be visible.

It looks like they don't want most people to see the most mature titles unless they opt it for them. This could hurt sales if people don't change the default store settings.

[Anonymous No.]

All hail the age of no-ero eroge.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828623
>It says Oct 11 on the store page.
Yeah they put it back a week as soon as I made that post, I was too lazy to remake my post though so I just went to bed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828630
Aside from needing to be explicitly selected to view, I would expect that such content to eventually be completely filtered within China as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828517
The question is, does a title with an R18 patch count as being "adults only" provided that the Steam version is edited beyond Steam's censors.

Newton comes to mind, where the Steam version was censored to be allowed even before the filter, the "17+" patch would be allowed with these filters, and the 18+ is probably still not allowed onto the platform. If this ends up being a black hole that doesn't get sales, VN developers will still have reason to censor to avoid that, especially if they can do that and still have an 18+ patch.

[Anonymous No.]

You can now ignore any Steam dev or publisher that has a dev page set up. Just click on the gear on the right side of the screen to get the option to ignore them so their games won't appear in your searches.

>>19828977
It's possible that Chinese users might have the option to enable the content restricted.

>>19829003
Some users have posted about issues with their filter preferences not saving, so some people can't see the adult games even if they try to enable it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19824981
For honorifics free version, it is just a re-write anyway so you just write whatever. As long as it is English it is a valid translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>Tsui Yuri is out, yet mangagamer credit card processor refuses my card
Hey, I tried. Should I buy Princess Evangile on steam to compensate them? Will I even be able to get a patch for it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829632
>Will I even be able to get a patch for it?
I believe there is a free patch on their website.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829632
The first one doesn't have a patch while w happiness does on their site.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828630
Well at least it works and all that needs to happen is the word to be spread about this and of the steam change.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829632
The first Princess Evangile on steam is all ages only, the MG store version is the +18.

I think you can contact MG to get another way of paying for Sisterly Bliss.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829669
Well, that's stupid. I guess they just don't want my money.
>>19829825
>I think you can contact MG to get another way of paying for Sisterly Bliss.
Yeah, but that's effort and human interaction, the only reason I pay for stuff I could get for free is wanting to support the authors (lacalizers included) and ease of access. If you take half of that away, I just won't bother.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829632
Save your money for Lilycle and Kotonoha

[Anonymous No.]

What's with Tokyo Necro translation? Been going steadily then suddenly died like two years ago and nobody gave a crap since then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19830134
moogy is translating it now, you're welcome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829901
The first PE came out before MG was allowed to do patches. Retroactively creating patches for older titles seems to be on the back burner while they focus on upcoming titles. If you want patches, don't get anything older than Dal Segno from them on Steam. Dal Segno was their first title with a patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19830136
So it's never coming out?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19799757
http://www.siliconera.com/2018/09/05/psychedelica-of-the-black-butterfly-steam-product-page-appears/

Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly is getting a PC port onto Steam it seems.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829632
i had the same issue, if you email them they let you paypal them directly and then they'll gift your account the appropriate amount of points

[Anonymous No.]

>>19830566
They should have an easy option to paypal those points then, that's technically not adult content, if they are going to use loopholes anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19830859
They have Doddler working on a site update, so hopefully a PayPal solution is found.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19830347
Wasn't that the otome game that received a dub and an awful localization?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19829901
The thing is MangaGamer allows all kinds of questionable visual novels on their site from loli, scat to bestiality. I'm honestly surprised that they have a payment processor at all.
MangaGamer would have to pull a JAST and cut out everything scat, bestiality, loli (rape?) to have a payment processor as good as JAST.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831205
Their old one was pretty good wasn't it? Minus the obvious problem it had which forced them to switch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831017
You're thinking of Taisho Alice.
That said, Aksys localizations are usually pretty bad. I feel bad for otome fans.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831223
Yeah their new one even has some restrictions like not allowing anything which focuses on hypnosis according to Kouryuu.
Though my old MasterCard worked with the old and even the new payment processor.
Lets hope with the new site updates they can update their payment processor too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831265
>not allowing anything which focuses on hypnosis according to Kouryuu
Sexual slavery too, I believe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19828630
I found out where it is. For those of those who are new to Steam click the username > Store preferences and then check the Adult Only Sexual Content part.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831205
You know sometimes i wonder if they should do Crypto-Currency as a backdoor for transactions. Some companies may have to resort to that if thats the case.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831464
>Cryptomeme
Please.
Payment processors are just as harsh towards them, so that's not an option.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831501
Snail mail then?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19831340
If that's the case then why can they still sell Euphoria and KuroInu, as the first games that come to mind? Hell, Evenicle had both sexual slavery and hypnosis in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19832009
Mind break is not hypnosis.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19832012
There was hypnosis though, with Evenicle's Drilltits. You see the scene where dragon bitch is hypnotising her while they have sex.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19832019
They allow hypnosis, they just don't allow titles that focus on hypnosis.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19832028
Then where the fuck is my Futanari Elf, MangaGamer?

[Anonymous No.]

>>19832019
Do you see this line? How retarded do you feel? Mind break through drugs is all over that game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19832086
Also, by rewatching this scene I was forcibly reminded that he took away my "Onee-sama~" from me. Now I'm mad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>19832086
It was both, though. She wasn't just using the blood on her. Unless I've remembered wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

I should have listened to you guys when you said Island was shit. I'm at the end of Rinne's route and man it sucks so bad. She's a complete nutjob.