/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


>Aiyoku No Eustia - 62.89% Translated, 45.86% edited
Akatsuki no Goei - 100% translated, prologue through editing, common route in TLC, 2019 release
Amagami - "Script translation done. 677/2329 original edition scenario scripts edited (29.1%)"
>Amayui Castle Meister - Overall 50% translated
Chaos;Head Noah - Fan translation ongoing
Dragon Knight 4 - Being translated
Fate/Extra CCC - 17% translated
Gore Screaming Show - 21,78% [8144/37383] lines translated
>Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no - 56% (38469/68206) translated
>Hoshi Ori - Common+Marika+Misa+Rika+Touko route patch released, Sora route 25.26% translated, overall 74.98% translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - New partial patch released
Kangoku Senkan 3 - Released
Lover Able - 100% translated, 60.61% edited
Maji Koi A-3 - 45/95 scripts translated
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, 55% edited
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts through TLC+Editing, 267/268 scripts finalized
Pure Pure - 91,79% translated
Relaxation Yuka - 61.41% translated
>Shin Koihime Musou - 100% translated, 28% (30950/108888) edited
>Summer Pockets - Common route translated, 9698/62897 (15.41%) lines translated, Trial patch released
Taimanin Asagi Zero - 35% partial patch released
>Watashi wa Kyou Koko de Shinimasu - 44% (1000/2265) lines translated
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common/Sora/Nao/Kazuha routes 100%, Akira 92.51%, Motoka 63.98%, overall 92.60% translated


Official work

MangaGamer
>Steam Prison - Released
>Lilycle Rainbow Stage - 3/14 release
>Higurashi Hou - Chapter 6 released, chapters 7-8 through TLC+Editing, chapter 7 in programming
Bokuten - Finished Beta
Maggot Baits - Sent to ClockUp for scripting
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
Shiei no Sona-Nyl - 83% translated
Hashihime - Entering Beta shortly
Trinoline - Out of Beta, in scripting
Damekoi - Through Beta
Room No.9 - 100% translated and edited
Sengoku Rance - image and UI work finished, getting ready for Beta
Rance Quest - 100% translated and edited
Overdrive's Final title - English release planned
Amatarasu Riddle Star - In Beta
Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 - 100% translated, 67% edited
Rance IX - 100% translated
Rance X - 24% translated
Luckydog1 - Picked up
Fxxx Me Royally - 100% translated, 28% edited
Kotonoha Amrilato - 100% translated and edited
Ano Harewataru Sora yori Takaku - Translation and editing finished
Choukou Tenshi Escalayer - 100% translated and 83% edited
Secret Project #1 - 90% translated and 30% edited
Secret Project #1 - 85% translated and 80% edited

JAST
>Lilium x Triangle - Released
Flowers - Volume 2 Released, officially picked up Volume 3
Katahane - Fully translated, in editing + QC, Early 2018 release
Majikoi - 80% complete
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumaga- Fully translated, 70% edited
Machine Child - Announced
Princess X fandisc - Picked up
Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi - 100% translated and edited
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 - Early 2019 release
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - Translation ongoing
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up

Spike Chunsoft
Steins;Gate Elite - 2/19 release
YU-NO - 2019 release

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Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Karakara 3 - 2019 release
>Nanairo Reincarnation - Q1 release, some QA and engine work remains
>Majo Koi Nikki - Q1 release, final rounds of QA remains
>Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
>9-nine- Episode 2 - 93% translated, 84% edited
Harumade Kururu - 75% translated, awaiting engine work, 2019 release
>Rewrite+ - 35% translated, 17% edited
>Baldr Sky - 70% translated, 70% edited
>Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, needs engine work
Ninja Girl - 100% translated
>Island Diary - 13% translated
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 100% translated, porting to new version of engine
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - 50% translated, porting to new version of engine
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, in "icebox"
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
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
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
Tokyo Chronos - Kickstarter succeeded
Secret Project 1 - 100% translated and edited, waiting on third party for engine work
>Secret Project 2 - 100% translated and edited, 90% through engine work
>Secret Project 3 - 40% translated

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - Feb 2019 release
Lilitales - Picked up

Sol Press
>Yotsunoha - Submitted for Steam approval, demo released
>Hitotsu Yane no, Tsubasa no Shita de - Delayed until end of Feb
Irotoridori no Sekai - Kickstarter started
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - 2019 release
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 2019 release
>Kimi o Aogi Otome wa Hime ni - 100% translated, 60% edited, 2019 release
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 27% translated, 11% edited
Nukitashi - 2019 release
>OniKiss - 64% translated, 48% edited
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon

Nekonyan
>Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Mini Fandisc - Released
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 - 90% translated, 50% edited, Early 2019 release
Melty Moment - Early/Mid 2019 release
Hello Lady - Early Q2 2019 release
Aokana - 60% translated, 20% edited, Summer 2019 Release
Senren Banka - Late Summer 2019
Making Lovers - Winter 2019
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"

Cherry Kiss
Nekura Ijimerarekko o Tasuketara Natsukareta - Future release

Fakku
HemoImo - Fakku release planned. No longer waiting on devs; requires additional scripting and UI editing before release.
Love Cubed - 2019 release
Oral Lessons With Chii-chan - Summer 2019 release

PQube
Song of Memories - 2019 release
Our World Is Ended - 2019 release

Other
Dies irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey - Feb 28th release
Seven Days - 70% through testing, demo released
If My Heart Had Wings Flight Diary - Feb release, awaiting Valve approval
Lamunation - 70% translated, Q1 2019 release
Date A Live: Rio Reincarnation - 2019 release
Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~ - 2019 release
>Yumeutsutsu Re:Master - Released planned
Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart - released planned
A Day in the Life of Maria - Kickstarter ongoing, August 2019 release
Venus Blood Frontier - Kickstarter succeeded, December 2019 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Tayutama 2 - Future release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

I only read moege!

[Anonymous No.]

Can we still expect Rance for a Q1 release?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20848179
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>20848179
Unlikely unless they have been testing a lot behind the scenes. Depending on the beta team size the beta could take anywhere between 3-6 months for being a gameplay title along with how big it is. Maybe even more than that if they encounter tricky issues along the way that need fixing up like Evenicle which apparently had some major bugs during beta.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20847959
Aren't 12 year old French girls too young to be on 4chan?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20848406
If Sengoku Rance is ready, they will announce a pre-order for it a few weeks before either Anime Expo or Otakon, so that they have something to talk about during their panel. AFAIK they did the same with Evenicle.

[Anonymous No.]

Look at all Mangagamer's newest release:
Everything are about:
- Otome
- Yuri
- BL
- Moe

[Anonymous No.]

Look at all Mangagamer's newest release:
Everything are about:
- Otome
- Yuri
- BL
- Moe
This are the future of VN on the west guys

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849220
Gotta get that otome and yuri money from steam before JAST announces 5 otome titles like they announced 5 BL titles last year.

[Anonymous No.]

After 3 years, Sekai Project is finally back to where they would've been had they just made a fair offer to Aroduc in the first place, but with a much shittier translation and still at least 1.5 years to finish the translation before beginning on QA, testing, and all the censoring they need to do, assuming they're not lying or mistaken about how far they are again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849252
JAST will save VNs

[Anonymous No.]

>>20848179
I sincerely doubt it. Beta testing should take a while and its "getting ready" for beta, not even undergoing it right now. Expect it in fall or later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849266
They can't even release normal VNs without being a buggy mess. I have no idea why they think they can do a massive, major rewrite and restructure of an entire VN, a gameplay one at that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20848179
Q3 is still a pretty optimistic estimate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849331
Don't worry, Doddler will do it for free if needed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849286
It is undergoing beta now. Apparently, they started right after posting that.

https://twitter.com/Aru_Naru/status/1096115531172610048

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849377
And looks like RQM is waiting for SLC.
https://twitter.com/tulipgoddess/status/1096989891848781824

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849484
Not like Quest is coming out before mid 2020 at the earliest the way things are going. Considering how long beta testing and scripting takes gameplay titles.
I could be wrong, but RQ is probably because SLC is working on SR

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849592
And because, like all hackers, SLC is a lazy piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849220
It's your own fault for not broadening your tastes.

[Anonymous No.]

>Baldr Sky - 70% translated, 70% edited

Wow, a surprise this week.
Will this actually out around 2030?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849266
>before beginning on QA, testing

Uhh since when was that a step they took?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849988
Okay, claiming that they're beginning on QA and testing when they're actually finishing the translation that they said they already did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20848179
Alicesoft titles have historically taken 9-10 months to translate. Realistically you're looking at a Nov/Dec release.

[Anonymous No.]

DUDE

[Anonymous No.]

Nothing new today. Steins;Gate Elite in a few days. I wonder how good the translation is, the don't use blicks again do they?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20850763
I'm pretty sure that the Steam version of Steins;Gate has a different translator than the JAST one (Blick), and I wouldn't be too surprised if Elite had yet a different translation since it's under PQube. Reading Steiner has worked for them before, so it could be his for all we know.

Isn't Elite just a fully animated version of the original? That sounds like a pain to play through; I didn't like the way School Days worked at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20850806
Is it true that JAST version is better then the Japanese version?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849598
Hackers can afford to be lazy because every single one of them except doddler have other jobs and do hacking as a side job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20850507
Yes, 9-10 months. It definitely hasn't been 26 months since the last release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851121
Then what's Doddler's excuse?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851130
>26 months
???
Evenicle was translated half a year ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851209
Didn't he only quit his normal job recently?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849680
>I have to consume shit in order to accept this new shitty fad
No thanks. I’ll stick with replaying good VNs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851224
Since Rance VI.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851227
Four months ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20850806
Almost all of your information is wrong there. Steam version of Steins;Gate uses the JAST translation, and so does Elite (which is not under PQube, it's under Spike Chunsoft).

>>20851113
In terms of engine stability, yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851130
Rance VI released 2017-02-03

Isn't that 24 months tho? How long did it take the original team to translate it?

>>20848406
>>20849286

Beta and hacking should go lightning fast since they already have the original Sengoku translation to use as a reference for the bugs. The only thing Mangagamer has to do themselves is fix that map UI bug.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851912
>Beta and hacking should go lightning fast since they already have the original Sengoku translation to use as a reference for the bugs
It isn't that simple. If you fix something it could easily break something else that without you knowing, so ideally you would still have to test everything to make sure it still all works correctly. If they do all of that or not is a different matter though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851209
Excuse for what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851912
This >>20850507 post says "Alicesoft titles", not "Rance titles".

[Anonymous No.]

>>20847949
>Rewrite+ - 35% translated, 17% edited
Looks like it's going to be quite a while before this one gets released.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20849847
aren't they removing all the sex scenes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851912
>Rance VI released 2017-02-03
Read vndb releases again and properly if you didn't play it when it came out. It was on Christmas.

[Anonymous No.]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1010600/The_Princess_the_Stray_Cat_and_Matters_of_the_Heart/

RIP

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
At least they know the eroge fanbase.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
>35-45 hours of content
Seeing how the original is only 20 hours I think this could possibly be a lie.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
I’ll read it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
Let me correct myself, I’ll read it if it has H-scenes. I don’t think I’ve seen a confirmation yet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
>A romantic comedy that'll have you cry-laughing like an emoji
Feels like some Taisho x Alice level of understanding the audience.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
Since I can access the steam page without logging in I guess it's all ages only?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
>cry laughing like an emoji
ouch

[Anonymous No.]

>>20854417
What the fuck is a TOKYOTOON

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851130
>>20851224
>>20852259
Sorry, I meant 9-10 months to go from beta to release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20855689
1 Rance and 1 non-Rance Alicesoft title per year would be perfect, but that would require hiring some full time staff I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20853265
That's a shame, the sex scenes in baldr sky are pretty good
I remember laughing really loud at one of them too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20851130
If it's coming in winter, then it's gonna be 3 years. That's impressive for one game which has a dedicated team. So RQ in 2022, IX in 2025 and X in 2030 since it's way longer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20855765
anon,
they had the same programmer on Evenicle as VI and SR
extrapolating based on SR - VI as the time to release a game is erroneous
it's the average of Evenicle - VI and SR - Evenicle.

>but escalayer will come between
different programmer, it'll have a different timeline

[Anonymous No.]

When it Kanojo to kanojo coming out by JAST.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20857523
Yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20856405
Nice argument, but consider this: Evenicle 2

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859126
You mean the title that's not even out in Japan yet?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859233
The title that will be out by 2030, yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859126
oh, yes, aru is going to put rance x and VBF on pause to finish evenicle 2 just to stall RQM

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859257
We're talking about programming and testing, not TL.

[Anonymous No.]

What's the ROI on VNs? Sometimes I daydream about starting my own VN company. Seems like it would be easy to churn out those linear 2D games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859262
Why the fuck would you test before text insertion?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859281
I have a feeling you shouldn't think about profit if you're planning on entering into a niche market like this. I don't even think there's any consistent way to measure it since it depends completely on the content of the VN. Only do it if you have a game you actually want to make.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859281
Only Japanese people can make VNs. Fuck off, gaijin.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1097774513347940352
>tanuki
What the fuck is a Japanese word doing in my pure English translation?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20860968
Tanuki is an honorary English words thanks to Super Mario Bros. 3

[Anonymous No.]

>>20860968
I too, remember this very English nickname in this pure English translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20860968
I always thought tanuki was a badger.
t. ESL

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861069
>"yatte shimau ze" (Let's do it)

Was that translator drunk?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861069
What do you mean the fucking OP had honorifics and the game didn't? This is false advertisement. Almost as bad a pic related. We should sue MG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861121
What's wrong with pic related? Haven't read Chrono Clock and after reading Hapymaher I honestly won't even bother.
Art was the only good thing about it, Purplesoft should do a nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861159
The finished product was not only a meme TL to such degree that it made SP apologize and promise to fix it, but also removed honorifics, replacing senpai with buster in the process. Oh, I said finished product, but it was actually released with 84% finished editing, something the editor boasted about on twitter day before the release, and very broken H-scenes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861121
Suke-san and Kaku-san are in the actual game too. It just felt easier to use the OP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861181
Don't forget that the mosaic free CGs were apparently ''lost'' until MangaGamer got Hapymaher mosaic free and they changed their mind quickly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861232
Well damn, I must have forgotten that. Why?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861312
There aren't a lot of Japanese characters in Rance VI, so Japanese honorifics was only kept for a few cases. Most of the time, if the original had Japanese honorifics, they were dropped or replaced with Western honorifics because of the Western setting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861331
So like Sengoku will go full weeb with the natives?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861335
Japanese Honorifics will probably be kept for 90% of the game, but you never know with Arunaru Oui Oui

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861349
That's actually from the original though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861181
>>20861159
https://mega.nz/#!e5EylDBQ!wA3PILq_TX_3s5nE10QMo2IAV1PWlzM4pCEfxzU5yTw
I fixed it, lads. Chrono Clock is much better than Hapymaher, by the way. Not porn-wise, but Hapymaher was a snorefest with the dream shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861364
That's clearly Ui ui, but jokes aside, thanks for the correction.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861371
>Hapymaher was a snorefest with the dream shit.
So it worked as intended then?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861371
My biggest beef with Chrono Clock, apart from the meme translation was indeed that the H-scenes weren't part of the main story. It's so bad when you finish a route only to be greeted in the main menu with 3-4 detached H-scenes, all unlocked. It kills the reading flow and it just feels lazy.
It's pretty obvious why Sekai Project licensed Chrono Clock instead of any other Purplesoft visual novel, because it's easier to make the all ages only version thanks to the detached H-scenes.
They could have made threesome, group scenes and spice things up thanks to the H-scenes being detached, but all of them were so plain and boring. It screams: We want to sell this in the west, but we don't want to piss off the Jap audience, so lets just throw in a few H-scenes in the extras menu and call it a day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861549
The scenes include a defloration scene them not being included in the main game makes sense from two perspectives. One, the routes end after confession and the H-scenes are the epilogue. Not that much different from older games which would have a drama->H-scene->end format. Two, they actually justify their decision in the plot. Since both the girls and the MC only get memories from their main route and not the epilogue in Kuro's route.
There definitely should have been a Michiru/Misaki 3P, though, considering the implied ending. Also, nothing stopped a bonus harem H-scene, since there is an infinite number of timelines, some of which must have surely included a harem route.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.kanjidamage.com/kanji/526-older-brother-%E5%85%84

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861731
Aru did everything wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20847948
>Shin Koihime Musou - 100% translated, 28% (30950/108888) edited
I can start with this one right ? Dont need to play the first one since its remake

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861771
Yes you can since it's pretty much a remake but with additional content and characters.
Kakumei is the remake of the remake which adds even more content and characters (over 70+), so it would be the best to read that one, but since it's not in English, stick with Otome Ryouran.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861331
>Western setting
I'm so fucking sick of this retarded meme.

[Anonymous No.]

Can the Sol KS make it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20861771
It's openly machine translated.

Not translated badly.

Not shitty English.

The guy creating it literally said "I can't read Japanese. I use machine translation, but I also watch a bunch of anime, and that's good enough."

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863167
Hopefully not, I'm sick and tired of kickstarters.
Most of the money isn't used for the kickstarter project anyway, instead they will use it to keep afloat and buy other licenses with it.
Sekai has been doing it for years.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863192
Source: your ass

[Anonymous No.]

>>20862691
This. Almost the whole world Rance is in was once conquered by JAPAN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863183
No, he said he's using a dictionary to look up the kanji he doesn't know. 3 years ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863277
Not only that, now JAPANese culture is widespread in all countries on the Continent and everyone speaking nihongo has valid lore reason and not just "the game was made in Japan". There are even some boomers from ancient era who still speak in broken Engrish.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863279
No, he didn't.

>I can't read, actually. Text-hooker + a bunch of dictionary tools or just some kanji to romaji converter. But I've watched enough anime to understand what they're saying.

And at no point did they ever throw out all the garbage, so even on the off chance that at any point in the last five years he's been doing this that he did actually study Japanese, most of it is still garbage.

[Anonymous No.]

Fucking JOP faggots stop enjoying untranslated Rance games behind my back.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863277
I think he meant the fact that western setting is a meme excuse, since honorifics are used in the same way and you run into the same exact issues when characters change the way they address each other.

[Anonymous No.]

Seems like JAST got more stuff https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1098012184012115969

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863435
I'm all in for extreme delays, fuck ups and horrendous translation that you EOP scum will get because that's what you deserve for not learning Japanese for more than half a decade. I bet you think it's cool to hate on Haruka because "it delayed muh Rance".

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863317
1) I dont think english is meant to be some original language because the sister of that one inventor majin speaks an ancient language at one point and its something completely incomprehensible

2) using the honorifics for nippon characters helps underlying the cultural differences between them and the continentals, which are cleary meant to exist in the setting

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863534
No, I had no idea what Haruka was until you posted about it and I looked up at OP. Honestly I don't really care though I do wish my current PC could at least run Rance 5D.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863536
What's the point when almost everyone speaks the same language anyway? You either remove honorifics completely and make a good workaround, or don't remove them at all. Half-assing like that just looks bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863167
Probably not.
I wonder what went wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863906
did they ever bother to mention there wouldn't be any mosaics on the kickstarter page?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863917
Kinda?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863906
They didn't hire Chuee. That's where everything went wrong. It was a bitch move to steal his and Akerou's dream project.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863933
Ouch that was a bad choice of words on their part. 'Directors cut' is a really really bad description to use after the muv-luv "directors cut" fiasco which was a $10 paid dlc that still kept stuff censored. They should've stated that "There'd be no form of censorship in the physical or digital release, we believe in preserving the artistic integrity of the titles in the manner that the original creators wanted to originally release it." or something like that which is vague in what the content is, but firm in that it'll be ALL the content possible in the best state possible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863961
They already confirmed it'd have no mosaics, I guess they jsut can't say it outright there.
>>20863952
Epic, because nn hasn't stolen anything from anyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863967
Yeah I know all this, but a lot of backers/potential backers wont. The Muv-luv kickstarter didn't start to pick up steam until they announced that there'd be a 'directors cut' patch very clearly on the front of the kickstarter, which turned out to be a scam since it just restored some of the cut content and kept mosaics for said restored content so that they could just release it the same version in japan without needing to make a new version without mosaics.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863967
>Epic, because nn hasn't stolen anything from anyone.
What did NN even steal?
Yuzusoft's deal with Sekai fell through because Sekai people are incompetent as fuck. They won't even get to release Dracu Riot and Tenshin Ranman.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864005
>What did NN even steal?
Hello,Goodbye from Hikari Field

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864014
I'm sorry you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864031
Why's that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864005
If you're okay with nn swooping in and taking yuzusoft, then you surely are okay with sol press for taking a game from a company that didn't have any contracts with nn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864066
Did you forget that Shinku Translations was fan-translating that title?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864371
It was at 18% TLed after 3 years. I'd say it's fair game at that point. Are you going to get mad at Nekonyan for picking up Aokana because there was a dead fanTL for that too?

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/reiterasu/status/1098009170920595456

Another one bites the dust.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864514
This is the same person who got fired from Sekai for doing a shitty job which is an impressive feat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864526
No. She's the one that they made move to work in house and then immediately fired as soon as she did, then found work with Sol Press and had worked on Muv Luv for Degica, who is just Sekai under a different name

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863499
Yeah, that's what I meant. A western setting is a very common excuse for dropping Japanese honorifics, but I personally would prefer if the Japanese honorifics were kept (mainly because Japanese honorifics don't translate one to one to Western honorifics regardless of the setting of the work and even if Early Modern English has more honorifics to work with). Rance even goes the extra mile to justify why they're speaking Japanese in a mostly medieval European setting while in most European medieval fantasies written in Japan, you just have to accept it as a quirk of the writing.

>>20863529
If they don't take a decade to release, then that would be great.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864514
Every western company is like that. Only a complete retard does anything more than the bare minimum they need to do to not be fired. You're a disposable asset who they're going to use until they no longer need you, then they toss you away. Literally every single job that isn't extremely small or family owned is like this and the only reason those jobs don't do it is because laying you off would cost them more money than it would be to simply keep you. ESPECIALLY in a hyper niche business like localizing VN's where they need to be as cheap as possible to not end up in debt because of how volatile things are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864575
Spoken like someone who worked at McDonalds for a week and has lived in his mom's basement ever since.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864622
I've never done fast food work actually, I worked as a cook at a restaurant for 3 weeks until the place shutdown. I've worked FedEx, Amazon, retail, and a bunch of warehouse jobs until I ended up settling down as a specialized gunsmith due to my time manufacturing firearms. Not a single one of those places(aside from my job as a gunsmith due to it being family owned with 20 total employees) gave a shit about their employees and would work them to death with mandatory 60+ hour overtime weeks. It does not matter if you had perfect attendance during those 2-3 month long crunch periods and went above quota every single day. Once those crunch hours were over all non-critical staff were laid off. Then 6-9 months later they'd start mass hiring for crunch again. The companies over here really don't care about you and in a handful of states can fire you whenever they want with no benefits due to it being 'At-Will' employment. I see no reason why the visual novel translation industry would be any different to any other regular job.

Hell the visual novel industry actually encourages you to half-ass anything you do since publishers don't care about the quality of the work so long as it's legible. Something Sekai Project, moenovel, and sakura game have shown numerous times and something Mangagamer has recently shown with the suki suki translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20860968
Can you really translate tanuki to raccoon? Aren't tanuki like their own creature?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864840
Yes it's a separate, real animal. But there is no equivalent in America, so you settle for the closest thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864840
Sure. You forget that translation isn't about accuracy it's about making sure there isn't any of the original language left over.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864840
>>20865046
Technically, the term for a tanuki in English is raccoon dog, not just raccoon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864840
My EOP brain doesn't understand what's a tanuki.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866314
Unironically translate it to dog or horse for the American and steam audience.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20864514
2nd Sol Press employee who is whining this month. Xev is secretly Dovac it seems.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866441
This one seems like it has more mental problems than anything, but yeah let's blame sol press.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866477
Sol Press shill

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866507
Epic comeback, should I shill nn instead?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866441
Xev comes out like a nice guy in /vn/ actually. He just needs to step up his game and give Steiner, that guy from MuvLuv, and the PR girl better pay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866660
Bango said in /vn/ that Sol Press pays him like shit, but he's just glad to get paid at all since he's from a shithole named Venezuela (I think). All of them seem nice, Sekai Project used to be called the saviour of western visual novels after all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866712
He said on twitter that he gets 1 cent per character which is the same as MG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866712
>Sekai Project used to be called the saviour of western visual novels
Hell no. Dovac has been an asshole since day one.
I still miss his raging fits whenever he came to post in the /vnts/ thread.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm the only savior western visual novels need. :anzu:

[Anonymous No.]

1ct/moji? Even we got more and we tl EVN for devs who can barely meet ends.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866950
Ironically, Bango can buy a mansion and bitches with the money he earns. Venezuela is that fucked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866950
VN translation is piss poor money, it's why all translators are abandoning the scene for LN and Manga.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866962
He told me that SolPress gave him a chance when he was at his lowest or something and thats why he is obligated to work for them. Don't take that without a grain of salt though, I don't have logs.

[Anonymous No.]

He is a great translator with lots of talent which he puts to use in their TLs.

[Anonymous No.]

Is Bango a girl or am I being rused?
Can't believe such an innocent girl would translate mom son incest.

[Anonymous No.]

From exchanges with bango they? never felt like a girl honestly.

[Anonymous No.]

Stop with the eceleb shit.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone hyped for this? Second trailer came out yesterday!

[Anonymous No.]

>>20867011
Hata ist homosexualen?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20867106
no u.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866992
and apparently a girl translates rape porn too,
wow the internet is full of surprises

[Anonymous No.]

>>20867480
Girls love rape porn and all kinds of weird shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20867016
Wasn't it VR? So hyped for it the day they make a decent hardware to use it with.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>20865046
Fuck this American-centric world view, honestly. Not everything needs to be oppressively dumbed down for Cleetus in the Mid-west to understand something. We're all fat fucking weebs here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866712
>Venezuela
Pretty sure you could get half of US federal minimum wage and still be in the one percent of that country.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20868100
Not so sure since plenty of women sell their bodies in the nearby countries to get money. And it feels like prostitution must give more money than translations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20866314
>>20864840
>>20865046
>>20866026
>>20861044
There needs to be more situations like Super Mario Brothers 3 where there's both a tanuki and a raccoon.

[Anonymous No.]

It's been few weeks since I had time to follow EOP news.

Anything new? Any spicy dramas? Translations being proven shitty?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869053

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869087
Some people didn't like "bronii-chan"?

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solpress/irotoridori-no-sekai-a-visual-novel-by-favorite/posts/2422925
It'd be nice if it got funded.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1098399235421151232

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863529
>>20869424
Hey I recognise those boys!
https://vndb.org/v6589
Weird game for them to pick up.

[Anonymous No.]

I guess trap games are the new diversity ratio? Not that I complain.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869497
Hope it does well for them. As long as it's not a generic moege, or episodic release, I would like most things to succeed. It amazes me if this just after a month of Kaikyou, this is just a coincidence, or if JAST was really in negotiations with Nounai Kanojo.
>>20869596
Before this and Kaikyou, wasnt the last trap one something MG released 2 years or so ago? I dont check often anyways.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869596
I'm a bit surprised that trap games have largely been neglected considering how well that Umesoft trap game did. Maybe they are too close to shotacon for publisher's taste? Granted, they are definitely niche, but I doubt they are much more niche than otome or yuri games.

[Anonymous No.]

Looks like frontwing put all three grisaia games on the magnagamer store, but they're uncensored this time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20863952
>They didn't hire Chuee
They probably did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20870343
Maybe that's why they are failing, wouldn't want to trust anyone involved with Hoshizora.

>>20870326
What was the excuse SP gave? No uncensored assets or just a "parent company refused"?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869102
Nobody liked it.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1098479637510918146
Welp.
Looks like someone slept on the job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20870699
>including the exchange of uncensored PR materials
rip person on PR

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869679
School Idol QT Cool (official) and Netorare Otokonoko (fan translation) were the last two, both in early 2017.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20870699
so what they're saying is that there's literally no reason to purchase their release of the series since it's exactly the same as all 3 or 4 other stores selling it?

[Anonymous No.]

Ayy, Fromtwing is full of shit. They clearly have the uncensored Grisaia cgs, not that anyone believed Sekai's shitty lies.

Exit the market, Frontwing. You're pathetic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20870699
>>20870843
You really have to wonder what kind of malfunction went on for Frontwing to give uncensored artwork for promotional reasons, but not give them uncensored artwork for the build on their store. I mean, what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20870843
The MG version has mosaics too so they don't piss off all the people that bought the Grisaia complete boxes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869087
>>20869102
>bronii-chan
I want to puke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20870874
They clearly still have them; how else could FW have fucked up and sent them to MG? They supposedly "lost" them, remember? The awful excuse Sekai gave us for having mosaics in their release?

[Anonymous No.]

Aaaaa I didn't save them.
Anyone managed to save the uncensored Grisaia stuff?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871008
I hope so.

[Anonymous No.]

Antimosaicfags, you are so irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/DiesOfficialENG/status/1098532515181199361
Looks like Kaziklu Bey is 20 bucks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20859257
>oh, yes, aru is going to put rance x and VBF on pause to finish evenicle 2
I mean, that'd be kind of neat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871008
This. I usually save all the preview stuff and so on but I didn't this time. Not in time anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20870843
Wouldn't it be out of contractual obligations towards Sekai Project that they can't share the uncensored CGs to a competitor?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871535
Probably. sounds like some sort of Sekai Project contract obligation since literally everything frontwing has released that doesn't involve sekai hasn't had mosaics.

[Anonymous No.]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/951000/Trap_Shrine/
Oh wow, 2019 is the year of traps.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't complain. The aesthetics of yuri and the gay of yaoi make traps the best of both worlds.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871008
Found on reddit.
https://imgur.com/a/Fw44XVC

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872161
Would legit buy the trilogy if they re-released it mosaic free.
But having now proof that Frontwing has the mosaic free files and won't release or update the original version is just a big middle finger. As >>20870843 said fuck Frontwing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872161
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871639
Apparently it's translated by Bango (At least that's what I assume from his tweets about it).
It's pretty strange timing though since JAST are announcing a title from Nounai Kanojo today which is the company that spawned No~Strike.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20869497
Not so weird. It is one of those games that seem more popular than their failed attempt at Monster girls game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872671
Hey I liked Princess X.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872607
JAST announcing and JAST releasing a title are two different thing anon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872698
But would you have preferred Monster Musume / Interview with monster girls / 12 Beast style more?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872800
I like moege, but not vanilla nukige, so not monmusu. I have read demi-chan and it would be good to have something like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872607
>>/vg/244887083

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872607
>>>/vg/244887083

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871639
I'm mostly surprised they're doing a simultaneous Jap and English release. Being on steam too I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872863
It says it's 2-3 hours long and it seems all ages only, it's pretty much made to be sold on steam just like those Love Kami titles from MoeNovel.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872882
>t says it's 2-3 hours long and it seems all ages only
Who'd buy an All Ages trap vn?
People didn't learn anything from the Daresora fiasco.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872882
>The developers describe the content like this:
-Cross-dressing
-Homosexual romance
-Foul language
Doesnt seem all ages to me, but i guess anything's possible. Has NK or NS done an all ages release before? One of the devs on twitter did say its short and the price will be low to match.

[Anonymous No.]

The next big flop https://solpress.co/blog/559/under-one-wing-releasing-february-28th

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872892
The problem is Nekopara is the best selling visual novel ever on steam with 1 million sales, so Jap developers try to copy it by making their visual novel short, cheap or meme heavy.
>>20872917
I can access the store page without being logged in, it has to be all ages only, unless they made a 18+ patch.

[Anonymous No.]

It says Chinese translation, that means all age unless they have a off Steam patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872934
Makes one wonder why Sol Press goes out of its way to license flop-ge while NekoNyan releases superior triple A releases.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872952
Sol Press will be releasing VN of the fucking year in a few months.

[Anonymous No.]

>Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 - 100% translated, 67% edited
So what exactly is going on with this? Looking through the archive it's been 6 whole months since the last update. I thought 1 and Gaiden did really well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872961
Doesn't matter what they release if it flops anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

They should change their name to Flop Press lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872982
I will buy 10 copies though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872988
Hi Xev.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872966
Probably sorting out Steam version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872993
And why would that halt the editing progress?
After looking some more it's been at 67% edited ever since July 1st and was keeping up with the translation progress until then, I wonder if the editor just fucking died or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871568
Well, another reason to hate Sekai, I suppose.

>>20871639
Inb4 outrage because the word trap is controversial for some outdated reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871535
They don't have any contractual obligations towards Sekai Project anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872952
What's with fellating nn and its shitty moege? Or is it just the usual sol press hate for some reason?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873087
>shitty moege
Dumb plotfag. It's plotge and chuunige the stuff that bombs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872952
>Popular=Good
So anything but the most "popular" shit is not worth reading? Can you get any more shit taste.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873033
Maybe they are trying to convince Waffle to give them the If version, so far they have been picking up each title based on the Japanese release order.
Waffle also does the uncensoring according to Vodoka, so who knows.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873170
>Maybe they are trying to convince Waffle to give them the If version
I'd sure like it if that were the case, but if it was I don't see why the editing would be halted and not the TL as well. Also, isn't the If version just the same game with additional "what if" scenes? I don't think there is any change in the script so it shouldn't really matter when it comes to TL/Editing progress.

[Anonymous No.]

>Nanairo Reincarnation - Q1 release, some QA and engine work remains
FUCK YOU SEKAI THIS GAME HAS NO POINT WITHOUT ERO

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873242
It still has it though?

[Anonymous No.]

>http://rattanmantrans.tumblr.com/post/182863488030/thanks-to-everyone-for-the-feedback-this-past
>So assuming that nobody else takes it, the next game will, at last, be Flatty and Cowtits 2.
Looks like Rattanman's next project after TA0 is Tamanin Yukikaze 2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873086
How're those ports you promised coming, Doddler?

How's that translation you promised you'd do because the Fuwanovel one was so shit, Koestl?

How're all those Kickstarter extras you still haven't fulfilled coming, Dovac?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873658
Considering how physical things are so rarely delivered, it is amazing anyone is even using kickstarter these days.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20872161
Wow they really are uncensored. Frontwing Japan is mocking us i swear. What the fuck is wrong with japanese devs? These xenophobics cunts are only here for our money i guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873873
>Japanese companies are liable to get shut down for releasing uncensored stuff
>Waah they're evil and money hungry
You're embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873885
Yeah, look at all that trouble they got in for releasing Subahibi without mosaics!

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873885
Then maybe they shouldn't base their company in japan? Base it in the US and then release uncensored western versions and censored eastern versions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873885
You don't even know what you are talking about. Japanese companies never had any problems to release uncensored stuff outside of Japan be it porn videos, adults manga and doujin or even eroge for years. Why are you taking their defense? Dumbass.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873908
Because you would open an entire branch in another country to see 3 more copies for the autists that like so see uncensored dicks.
>>20873911
When they release stuff without mosaics it's always through publishers that make it unable to get their version in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873919
You do know that MGs store is blocked in Japan, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873919
>When they release stuff without mosaics it's always through publishers that make it unable to get their version in Japan.
Indeed like caribeanpr for porn, Fakku for ero manga or MG/JAST for eroge. So what's your point? The fact is that it's still the japanese publisher, here Frontwing, who don't want to make the effort to give the uncensored CG to the western publisher.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873919
It's not just us that would benefit. The japs would also benefit because they could (illegally) obtain uncensored versions of their VN's as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873925
You got me there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873919
>When they release stuff without mosaics it's always through publishers that make it unable to get their version in Japan.
But Frontwing doesn't even have their own store or site which you could use to download their theoretical mosaic visual novels.
Also, it would be sold on MangaGamer's site which is based in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873933
>MangaGamer's site which is based in Japan.
No it is not. I'm pretty sure the only part of MG which is based in Japan is their branch for physical releases (and maybe the payment processor, but maybe that was their old one).

[Anonymous No.]

>>20871639
https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1098785062500339712
Indeed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873075
It's because of mentally ill Trans people. They get mad and try to make up dumb things like Trap means Trans or is a diss to them.

[Anonymous No.]

Japanese honorifics are a meme created by the hacker 4chan.

[Anonymous No.]

Flowers 3 is at 60% according to JAST Discord

[Anonymous No.]

Is there anything like Ochiru Hitozuma translated?
Everything since that seems dull as fuck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873086
Then what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20876360
What do you mean "like Ochiru Hitozuma"? Do you mean /ss/, or corruption? If it's corruption you want then Sansha Mendan is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877583
>Sansha Mendam
It's shitty quof-ge. Anything that guy translates is mediocre.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877597
Have you actually played it? I can't see how you would like Ochiru Hitozuma but somehow dislike Sansha Mendan, they're very similar. The game is one of the best translated nukige out there both length and quality wise if you're into corruption that is.

[Anonymous No.]

Honorifics toggle is the most useless shit ever. Stop wasting time on 10% of the readers who are translators and other cartel shitters anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877638
Are we hating on SolPress for no reason again?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877651
That is actually a decent reason to hate on them. Having honorifics toggle delays the game's release because they have to QA 2 different scripts and is overall a massive waste of time since they're catering to a very small amount of people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877651
They are doing Kickstarters so fuck them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877716
I can't wait to see IroSeka fail.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877860
Just like people here said that Venus Blood will fail?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877906
NineTails or what they're called actually tried during the kikestarter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873925
Yes, but I bet Sekai isn't. And it would upset Sekai customers if MG started selling the superior version.

Of course most people should already hate Sekai is it is kind of a non-issue. But I guess companies just try and be nice to eachother.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877906
Venus Blood was getting 1k per day, there was no risk if it failing. IroSeka has been stuck for days. Technically they could still make it if they get really lucky, but more likely then not it will fail as people hate Sol Press.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877638
It is an improvement on life. Honorifics toggle, mosaic toggle, everyone is 18+ toggle, are all things that should exist.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20876240
4 more years to go!

[Anonymous No.]

>>20878120
Kickstarter is only stuck because it is doing the sharin strategy of offering non-lewds for the amazingly big all-ages crowdfunding crowd that fund eroge.

It is essentially Sharin no Kuni or Dies Irae. Hoping enough story fags buy add-ons because they already read it, but want to pay money to make others able to read it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20847949
https://twitter.com/otusunland/status/1094502487875215362
A Day in the Life of Maria is 100% translated and edited.

[Anonymous No.]

Reminder to call Chuee a faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20878561
faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>20878561
You guys should give the boy a break. He already learned his lesson and won't even attempt to embarrass himself writing how a certain heroine was pregnant with shyness.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873925
vpn

[Anonymous No.]

>>20878120
>people hate Sol Press
The heck is there to hate? Their translations are on point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877672
How is trying to make the effort to appease both honorifics faggots and non honorifics faggots bad? I don't care for one of the other either. But hating them for putting more effort than they should is retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879033
I would assume the problem is that honorific translation is the fast and easy one to publish games fast. And non honorifics is both slower to make, and making both means it is slower, so all it does is delay releases.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873885
Hey, dipshit, don't you remember the flop that was Corona Blossom? They developed and published it themselves, and gave in to public demand and removed mosaic censorship after the first episode. They clearly CAN sell unmosaiced VNs, they probably just don't give a fuck about OG Grisaia at this point. Why make the original version better when you can just run another Kickstarter for a shitty all-ages cashgrab that takes little to no effort and prints money because weebs are fucking stupid?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20873885
>>20879373
Not to mention that lame flop of a nukige, Momoiro Closet. They don't give a shit about their products, and it shows. I'm glad most of their releases sell like shit, and I hope they cease operations in the west, honestly. Let some other company that gives a fuck license VNs instead, and fuck off into the anime industry, which they've been trying to break into for years, quite pathetically, I might add. Not a single fucking Kickstarter of theirs has shipped goods yet, either. Looking in from the outside, it's absolutely hilarious. How many years have they had to work on physical merch now? Not even mentioning the fact that they have previous experience producing and shipping physical merch to JP fans, so they have no excuse for their incompetence and repeated delays.

Fuck Frontwing. If their actions so far are really the best they can offer, then they really deserve financial death. Utterly pathetic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879457
Reminder that Frontwing has full access to the Akabei Soft catalogue since both of their CEO's are good friends, yet here we are still waiting for Sharin no Kuni to be released.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879588
They also refused to use unmosaiced CGs for Sharin, repeating the same tired excuse about how they couldn't do it because they're both JP companies. It was obvious bullshit then and it's obvious bullshit now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20877583
>Sansha Mendan
Could stand to be a littler dirtier, but this looks good, thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879588
It is probably as impossible to make an 18+ PC version as it was for Dies Irae. It just isn't possible to make that kind of game that they've done all the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879706
I thought they said they were releasing Sharin without mosaics? What's the fucking point of reading their 'official' version when you could read the fanTL and have it be exactly the same?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879807
Their original plan was only all-ages so we know they weren't thinking at all except "Hey that Nekopara seem to make money so lets put any random VN on Steam and get rich".

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879807
You should read through their original prefundia, it was hilarious. They wanted to sell Sound Mode and CG Gallery as DLC. I guess something similar worked for G-senjou with the voiced and unvoiced version, so they wanted to take it a step further.
http://prefundia.com/projects/view/sharin-no-kuni-a-japanese-visual-novel-localization-project/9059/
>First of all, we've decided to abandon the DLC plan we initially announced, in accordance with user feedback. As of now, the version of the game available for digital download on Steam at release will have the Sound Mode and CG Gallery intact (previously the Deluxe Edition), and is planned for general sale at $40.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879807
Nope. They made a fucking tumblr page and lied through their teeth about how it would be illegal for them to release Sharin without mosaics.
http://syarinad.tumblr.com/post/147440122193/about-mosaic-censorship-in-the-18-patch

[Anonymous No.]

>>20879901
>>20879911
All those poor stupid backers. They should've bailed the moment they saw that shit.

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>>20879911
Didn't the eroge self-regulatory body EOCS/Sofurin come out saying they support Japanese companies releasing products overseas without mosaics as long as it is sold in a way that Japanese users can't get it? Either way, Frontwing has shifted gears a lot since then to go full uncensored so it's weird it's still an issue.

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>>20878120
I doubt that people are actively choosing not to support the Kickstarter because of their opinion of Sol Press, but rather they just aren't drawing in enough interest between the company being poorly known and the title itself doesn't pull immediate interest the same way Venus Blood managed to do so.

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>>20879956
Dunno. You'd have to check the dates. It's still bullshit, either way. Every company that partnered with JAST provided uncensored CGs, and as far as I know, none of them were imprisoned because of it. There's still holdouts, like Minori, but at least they don't actively lie and claim that they can't. I'm fine with companies citing legal reasons to keep mosaics as long as they don't claim they literally CAN'T do it. It's risk mitigation; they can do it, they just don't fucking want to.
Anything else usually seems to be a lie. Just look at what Purplesoft did lol somehow they "lost" newer h cgs for Chrono Clock, but kept older ones for Hapymaher? And then they magically found the "lost" cgs again after MG made Sekai look like shit by releasing Hapymaher without mosaics?

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>>20877860
In the event that it fails, the Re:Sharin Kickstarter success after the original failure at least offers a guideline to get it back up and running if they consider the title too important to leave on the table.

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>>20882329
Yeah like mentioning that there'd be no censorship or mosaics on the frontpage of the kickstarter.

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>>20882329
Sharin no Kuni is popular thanks to the already existing fan translation and it's one of the first visual novels you would get recommended back in 2016 together with Grisaia.
Iroseka just isn't interesting and I still haven't read Hoshizora nor will I until they release the never ever fan-disc.

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>>20881332
There aren't a lot of reasons I can think of as to why Sekai didn't get the nonmosaic assets of Chrono Clock at first: either Sekai didn't properly communicate how much the West appreciates nonmosaic art or Purple soft would have made them paid extra for nonmosaic. Neither is a good excuse on the part of Sekai. I think it's the former partially because of Baldr Sky not being 18+. Sekai doesn't seem capable of explaining the general expectations of the Western fanbase for one reason or another.

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>>20884327
Isn't the simplest reason that SP doesn't give a shit about it and just never negotiated for it? Then they made up some lie when asked about it only to be blasted when Purple Software partnered up with MG who did ask and got it easily enough.

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What happened with the guys that translated the muv luv chronicles?

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>>20879457
>that lame flop of a nukige, Momoiro Closet
Did it flop?
I liked it.

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>>20884596
They were machine translating it and it was all thrown out along with Ixrec's crap.

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>>20884327
I think Sekais dealings are always focused on being allowed to sell a cheap title on Steam. If mosaic removal or H-content cost extra, they probably gladly do not ask for it at all.

Most likely the reason they have 18+ titles is because their partners didn't let them lower the price, but then they argued "But if we have an all-ages game with less HCG, and one with them, shouldn't there be a price difference?" to get their all-ages Steam games lower in price.

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2018 review when?

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>>20886673
Never. MG didn't even sell 10 vns in 2018 so they're too embarrassed to show the sales chart.

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>>20887538
kuroinu + ammolite series comes out to at least 6 titles. Then there's funbag and evenicle which brings it to 8 and I'm sure they squeezed out another 2 with the gay games + their own original title korropocur or whatever that garbage was called.

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>>20887538
>>20887549
Not that it matters either way because the review includes everything from before 2018 as well.

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>>20888321
Thread up with the status updates for this week

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>>20888329
Isn't too soon tho? This thread hasn't reached the bump limit yet.

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>>20892747
Are you new to VNTS? It isn't quite like your regular general thread. There is a new thread every Sunday with the new updates regardless of the state of the last thread and if it dies mid week then the thread will usually stay dead unless it is a con week and it filled up by Monday.