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VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs Sun Jul 19 06:53:23 2020 No.24837544 [Reply] [Original]

Visual Novel translation status

>Aiyoku No Eustia - 91.83% Translated, 90.68% edited, partial patch released
Amagami - "Script translation done. 2107/2329 original edition scenario scripts edited (90.5%)"
Amayui Castle Meister - Rough patch released with 63% of dialogue translated, overall 74% translated
Chaos;Head Noah - Still ongoing
Chicchakunai Mon - 49.7% translated
Gore Screaming Show - Prologue + day 1 patch released, 13,40% [5011/37383] lines translated
>Gin'Iro, Haruka - Common + Bethly + Hinata + Momiji routes translated, Yuzuki 13.37% translated, overall 64.61% translated, Common+Bethly+Hinata+Momiji routes patch released
Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi no - "Main School" routes fully translated, Editing and QA ongoing on the Main School routes, overall 53% (36255/68206) lines translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - New partial patch released
Kami no Rhapsody - Story patch released, interface and image edits still to come
Kud Wafter - 24436/64692 (37.72%) lines translated
>Lover Able - 100% translated, 88.63% edited
>Maji Koi A-4 - 8 of 62 scripts translated
>Miagete Goran, Yozora no Hoshi O: Fine Days - Patch delayed because to resolve a technical issue
Nursery Rhyme - 100% translated, still being edited
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts through TLC+Editing, technical issues resolved
Pure Pure - 95.59% translated
>Pure x Connect - 14945/43896 lines translated, 7808/43896 lines edited, prologue patch released
Shin Koihime Musou - 100% translated, 34% (37329/108888) edited
Steps to Love - Common route TL patch released
>Summer Pockets Reflection Blue - 7,819/34,142 (22.9%) lines translated
Taimanin Yukikaze 2 - Yukikaze route patch released
Watashi wa Kyou Koko de Shinimasu - 100% translated
Yosuga no Sora - Translation finished, editing and TLC ongoing

Official work

MangaGamer
Room No.9 - August 6th release
Ciconia - Phase 1 Released
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
Shiei no Sona-Nyl - 100% translated and edited, Refrain content 56% translated
Rance Quest - In Beta
Rance IX - 100% translated
Rance X - 28% translated
Luckydog1 - Picked up
Fxxx Me Royally - 100% translated and edited, in image editing
Wan Nyan A La Mode! - Through Beta
Rance 01 - Out of Beta
Rance 02 - In Beta
Mugen Renkan - Out of Beta
Uchi no Kanojo - 100% translated and edited, image editing finished
Trinoline Genesis - 100% translated, 40% edited
Musicus! - 94% translated and 92% edited
Jeanne at the Clock Tower - Fully translated and edited, image editing wrapping up
Steam Prison: Fin Route - 100% translated and edited
Secret Project 3 - 100% translated and 91% edited
Secret Project 4 - 89% translated and 87% edited
Secret Project 6 - 60% translated and 55% edited
Secret Project 7 - 70% translated and 66% edited

JAST
Majikoi - "Suffering some unforeseen delays", in QA and preparing Steam release
Sumaga- Upcoming release
Flowers - 3 is up for preorder
Katahane - Upcoming release
Josou Sanmyaku - 87% translated, 85% edited
Django - Waiting on translation.
Machine Child - Announced
Dramatical Murder - Picked up
Lamento Beyond the Void - picked up
Slow Damage - Picked up
Eiyuu*Senki GOLD - 100% translated
Yamizome Revenger - 50% translated
Mamono Musume-tachi to no Rakuen ~Slime & Scylla~ - Picked up
Shoujo Dominance - Announced

Age titles with various publishers
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - July 30th release
Muv-Luv Unlimited - The Day After - 2020 release
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up

Spike Chunsoft
Robotics;Notes - 2020 release
Robotics;Notes DaSH - Picked up

Frontwing
Loca Love Vol 2 - On hold to resolve problems with Steam
Sharin no Kuni - Debugging of the game engine ongoing, to be followed by beta testing

VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs Sun Jul 19 06:53:38 2020 No.24837552

Sekai/Denpa
>Nekopara Vol 4 - 100% translated and 50% edited, November 2020 release
The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Planning release", appears to have been rejected by Steam
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - "More programming"
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, 2020 release
Rewrite+ - Main game 60% translated, Harvest Fiesta 50% translated, November 2020 estimated release
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In QA, going to update existing release to HD version
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 60% translated
Island Diary - 100% translated and edited, Winter release
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Awaiting engine work
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Awaiting engine work
Sanarara R - 100% translated, 25% edited
9-nine- Episode 3 - 40% translated
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 100% translated, editing ongoing, waiting on build from dev, 2020 release
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress, 2020 release
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Amairo Chocolate - 100% translated and edited
>Kimagure Temptation - 60% translated
>Slobbish Dragon Princess - 90% translated
>9-nine- Episode 4 - 30% translated
>Karakara 3 - In Development
Secret Project 7 - listed

Sol Press/Panty Press
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 30% translated, 10% edited
Nukitashi - 100% translated, 22% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 68% translated, 68% edited
Irotoridori no Sekai - 100% translated, 90% edited
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 100% translated, 61.5% edited
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - Main game 100% translated edited, and TLC, 40% QC, tentative Summer release
Dracu Riot - 100% translated and edited, engine porting starting shortly
Riddle Joker - 85% translated and 75% edited
Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche - 75% translated and 25% edited
Clover Days - 100% translated and TLC, editing and engine porting starting shortly
IxShe Tell - 85% translated and 80% edited
Aokana Extra1 - 45% translated, 15% edited
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Melty Moment - 30% translated
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"
Secret Project #1 - 30% translated

Fakku
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - Localization at "40% to 50%", 2020 release

Visual Arts/Key
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated

Aksys
Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - August 21st release
Piofiore no Banshou - September 10th
Gensou Kissa Enchante - November 13th release

LoveLab
The Humbling of a Holy Maiden - 60% translated, 50% through programming
Secret Project 1 - 30% translated, 20% edited

Other
>Jiangshi x Taoshi - Episodes 1-2 released, episode 3 upcoming
>Trap Legend - Released
>Evenicle 2 - Announced, Steam page for a demo covering chapter 1 put up to be released within the upcoming weeks.
Wanko no Yomeiri - Upcoming release
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
Venus Blood -Hypno- - Announced, Kickstarted planned for September or October
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 07:04:25 2020 No.24837905 >>24837544 >Maji Koi A-4 - 8 of 62 scripts translated Maybe it won't take 3 years this time.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 08:20:38 2020 No.24841476
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>Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - Localization at "40% to 50%", 2020 release

Fakku Games has tweeted about the project and included some new screenshots from the beta build.

https://twitter.com/fakkugames/status/1284533392441257985

That's great news since this means that the project is on track!!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 08:42:59 2020 No.24841933 Another week, another update with zero green on mangagamer and JAST

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 08:45:13 2020 No.24841965 >>24841933 MG usually do their updates every two weeks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 08:53:04 2020 No.24842086 >>24837544 >JAST : Flowers - 3 is up for preorder It was updated, release date is 30 July

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 09:16:40 2020 No.24842610 >>24837544 Trap Legend released yesterday. Such good news. I am glad it was not a one off game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 09:17:42 2020 No.24842634 >>24841933 JAST chooses to update on JAST time.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 10:27:37 2020 No.24844110
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Will the translation be any good? Do we have any idea who is translating it and what they might have worked on before?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127540/

I hope it's good. I really like Waffle.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 10:45:35 2020 No.24844462 >>24844110 The translator desired to stay unnamed until the game is out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 10:46:49 2020 No.24844484 File: 2.36 MB, 1920x1080, flowers_giveawaya2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Another day, another shitposting thread about e.celebs and krauts. Let's go!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:22:23 2020 No.24845228 >>24844462 That's fair I guess. I still hope it's good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:29:52 2020 No.24845367 I was wondering why the Musicus translator had not revealed themselves, but I guess it makes sense; if you've been assigned to translate the greatest visual novel ever written, that has to be a lot of pressure.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:31:39 2020 No.24845407 >>24837544 MG doesn't have a single moege their working on

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 11:38:36 2020 No.24845576 >>24845407 Good to hear.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 12:10:49 2020 No.24846200
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SolPress said a lot of bullshit again yesterday on their discord I heard. I don't mingle with publisher discord so please someone post what they said so we can make proper fun of them. I just got sent this gem:

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 12:14:16 2020 No.24846272 >>24846200 Well, the pic is correct. Go spend an hour on /vn/ and see.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 12:16:10 2020 No.24846300 How did Trap Shrine/Trap Legend Publisher not get canceled yet for such a culturally laden term?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 12:19:06 2020 No.24846352 >>24846300 My guess is that there simply aren't that many translated trap VNs to our moral superiors have decided to just take what they can get.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 12:49:41 2020 No.24846803 >>24846200 they aren't wrong lol

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:08:40 2020 No.24847123

>>24846300
I actually haven't seen a single complaint anywhere about the title. I think people overestimate just how much people care. The sort of person who's offended by the term isn't looking for or buying trap games anyways.

And how else would you suggest 男の娘 be translated?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:16:42 2020 No.24847261 >>24846200 Wanting semi-timely releases that aren't fucked up in 40 different ways is now entitled, okay.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:17:51 2020 No.24847288 File: 277 KB, 702x716, 1428891441711.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Maji Koi A-4 - 8 of 62 scripts translated

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:18:57 2020 No.24847307 >>24847123 I haven't read any complaints about the title either, but I have read trannies complain about the term "trap" in general.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:21:52 2020 No.24847365

>>24847307
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/04/sjws-attempt-to-get-trap-shrine-pulled-from-steam-saying-trap-is-harmful-to-trans/81432/#:~:text=Some%20Social%20Justice%20Warriors%20are,gets%20%E2%80%9Ctrans%20folk%20killed%E2%80%9D.

it already happened and it will happen again with these fucking trans niggers

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:43:32 2020 No.24847814 >>24846200 >>24846803 here's a pro business tip >If you want people to buy your product >don't insult them

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:50:38 2020 No.24847925

>>24841965
Sometimes MG does it monthly. I can see them waiting until after any Otakon timeframe announcements they have since that's in 2 weeks anyways.

>>24845407
What's the point when Nekonyan gets all of the good moege anyways? Might as well go for niches that aren't completely filled. I'd be somewhat surprised if it ever comes to the point where Nekonyan doesn't release mostly moege in a given year.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:51:48 2020 No.24847949 Moege bad, fuck off to the /vn/ faggots

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 13:57:36 2020 No.24848033 Is Wan Nyan A La Mode not a moege? It sure looks like one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 14:07:22 2020 No.24848192 >>24848033 it's a nukige that just looks like a moege

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 14:26:25 2020 No.24848426 Can someone tell me why literally all good discussion places for Eroge are so bad? Fuwanovel: Dead Kastelcord: Bad Darakuen: Bad Darakuen 2: A cesspool vndb: Dead Most publisher discords: Dead 4chan /vn/: full of niggers... Anything good left?

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 15:59:46 2020 No.24849572

>>24846200
Asking for a progress update during that 6 month period of radio silence, or for a Kickstarter update for Kickstarters that have gone over a year without an update, or for an announcement or product pages for any of their 3 Windmill Oasis VNs they picked up over a year ago isn't being entitled, toxic, nor annoying as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 16:35:31 2020 No.24849998 >>24846200 I wonder how that SP employee will react when he asks Xev for a paycheck and Xev calls him entitled.

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 16:43:31 2020 No.24850071

>>24846200
Well you have someone in this thread complaining that MG haven't put out updates this week when they do it around every two weeks (they did last week), so they aren't entirely wrong, just they are the wrong people to try and complain about it after snubbing people for so long after botching up releases.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 17:05:53 2020 No.24850289 >>24848426 You can discuss them with your friends.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 17:40:25 2020 No.24850674 >>24848426 densetsu

Anonymous Sun Jul 19 17:47:47 2020 No.24850758

>>24848426
Because most of the regulars left the old places for their personal safe space bubbles on discord or twitter where all their friends agree with each other. The remaining autists frequent these half-dead places like /vn/ and post non sequiturs until the illusion of communication becomes apparent.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 19:46:43 2020 No.24852366 >>24837544 >Django - Waiting on translation. Is the translator okay?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 20:47:43 2020 No.24853176 >>24847365 Stop linking that shitty tabloid.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:01:58 2020 No.24853370 >>24847814 Worked for Orange Man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:03:10 2020 No.24853390 >>24846200 Based. I am going to buy their products now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:13:27 2020 No.24853523 >>24848426 You could just go to Reddit and be a normalfag. >>24850758 Yeah unfortunately it's kind of true. I have never seen parts of sites nowadays have so many words and posts without really speaking to each other.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:32:13 2020 No.24853764 >>24853176 OAG is cultured.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:34:17 2020 No.24853802 https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1285021061520687104

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:38:19 2020 No.24853866 File: 33 KB, 598x263, question.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wonder if anybody is going to ask them what happened with the MG partnership.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:43:36 2020 No.24853942 >>24853176 What else are they supposed to link?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:46:04 2020 No.24853977 >>24853942 archive.org

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:48:11 2020 No.24854006 >>24853866 They already were asked, they're obviously not going to answer.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 21:48:20 2020 No.24854009 >>24853977 So you want identical content but different link you schizo >>24853802 Sick of all this kyonyuu

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:43:26 2020 No.24854812 >>24854009 I'd prefer you not link him at all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:54:58 2020 No.24854952 File: 56 KB, 822x187, 1564549581387.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24852366 He's fucking dead.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 22:59:36 2020 No.24855001 >>24854812 "Please don't link facts I don't want to hear!"

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 23:03:41 2020 No.24855035 File: 34 KB, 274x697, 8c82dd221539418.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24855001 >OAG >Facts

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 23:49:14 2020 No.24855518 >>24855001 >>24855035 Both of you fuck off please.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 19 23:49:55 2020 No.24855526 >>24855035 Go back to your Discord.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 01:20:28 2020 No.24856360 >>24844110 I'm skipping it because it'll have mosaics and Waffle does really good genitals so fuck that shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 01:22:53 2020 No.24856384 >>24853866 There's probably nothing to say, other than that MG still has the licenses. I wouldn't be surprised if MG announced an Alicesoft title for Otakon, especially if said Alicesoft title had absolutely no chance of getting onto Steam (Rance 03).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 01:57:18 2020 No.24856640 >>24853942 Nichegamer. That site is way more reputable than OAG.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 04:24:47 2020 No.24857785 >>24855518 Why don't you fuck off with them

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 04:28:10 2020 No.24857847 >>24857785 You first.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 04:49:48 2020 No.24858239 >>24856640 Apart from the founder lying about paying people

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 05:21:58 2020 No.24858620 >>24858239 And plagiarising articles from Gematsu for years. But they're still more reputable than OAG.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 05:31:27 2020 No.24858677 >>24858620 OAG is cool just for the fact that he makes people like you mad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 08:34:16 2020 No.24860232 File: 111 KB, 392x446, 1594464940823.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] We are actually the best news source.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:46:16 2020 No.24864578 File: 68 KB, 352x500, 1595267081.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24853764 I still haven't forgiven OAG for lying about Amagami.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:50:03 2020 No.24864628 >>24856384 Its pretty clear that MG will not get anymore Alicesoft titles unless Eve2 bombs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 13:59:39 2020 No.24864717 >>24848426 Because this is a ded medium buddy soon you won’t have much to discuss anyway

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 14:36:32 2020 No.24865069 >>24864717 Untranslated thread exists. Do you think I need translations? I just enjoy both. Also who needs "new titles" ... Eroge were peaking in the past.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 16:05:40 2020 No.24866212 File: 109 KB, 500x500, 1591038382698.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24864578 What did he say?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:54:01 2020 No.24867388 >>24864628 Wonder how much it really matters in the end since other than Evenicle all people seem to care about is Rance and they have that bagged already. It is still a notable blow for them though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 19:58:46 2020 No.24868811 krautfags report in, yall looking forward to tomgirls of the mountain?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:00:17 2020 No.24868819 >>24868811 yes, I can't wait for summer 2019 it's only taken jast almost two years to release a VN that a random asshole on 4chan managed to translate and release the sequel of in six months.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 02:50:36 2020 No.24873288

>>24867388
The Beat titles are popular enough, and I could see the milf titles gaining a decent sized audience in theory. I doubt Alicesoft could release all of their titles on Steam, but they could probably release on the MG or JAST stores as third party publishers if they really wanted to. I personally think that Alicesoft is only going to self publish titles that they can get on Steam and let other localization companies deal with what they can't though. If Steam is involved, they can be assured that their title won't be a flop so eating all of the cost themselves isn't an issue. However, with the much smaller stores, it's less risky to let the localization company eat up some of the cost even if the final profits may be less if the title manages to sell well regardless.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 03:39:16 2020 No.24873684

>>24873288
>they can be assured their title wont be a flop
Oh anon...Normally you'd be right because of the chinese market but the chinese market cannot access Evenicle 2, so you're basically banking entirely on western sales since there's no reason for the japs to buy a copy because it's censored, the chinese don't even see it on their clients, and at least 25% of the western audience wont buy it because they kept mosaics. I'd genuinely be surprised if it reached even 25% of the sales of Evenicle 1 based on current handling of the title.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 04:20:26 2020 No.24874172

>>24873684
China (and various other countries) were region locked from Evenicle 1 while Eve 2 doesn't seem to be region locked at all. While a drop because of the mosaic is possible, I doubt it will be as dramatic as you claim. Most people genuinely don't care about mosaic, at least if Yuzusoft title sales on Steam are any indication.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 04:33:33 2020 No.24874307

>>24866212
he saw some random dude on Twitter -- who has an Amagami obsession, but isn't involved in any translation of it -- make a joke about how he was going to make Haruka gay in his Amagami localization. he then ran an article on it and passed it off as if this dude was actually working on an Amagami localization officially, with the intent to gayify the script.

anyone familiar with visual novels knows that Amagami will never be officially localized in any capacity, so it was promptly mocked here due to OAG's poor research on the subject matter. later, after the article had already been published and received much of its clicks, he make a partial addendum saying that he "may" not actually be involved in a localization for the title.

even though i am more or less politically aligned with OAG, being staunchly anti-censorship and so on, i think that site is absolute trash and does more harm to the cause than good. he constantly runs clickbait outrage articles like that with little to not research. trash website

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 04:40:36 2020 No.24874378

>>24864628
that's under the supposition that their relationship has soured, which i honestly kind of doubt.

if anything i think Alicesoft is going ahead on Evenicle 2 like this because they want to capitalize on the first game's popularity before it fades in the minds of its audience on Steam. but as most of us have surmised here, the majority of Alicesoft's other titles wouldn't have very good odds of getting on Steam at all. financially speaking, it honestly makes more sense to keep working with MG since it's already the established area to buy Alicesoft titles. would they really have all their Rance games on MG's store except for one? that would just be weird.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 04:49:34 2020 No.24874475

>>24874172
Evenicle 2 is region locked in China because Adult Only tagged games and Steam Community Hub aren't available in the current steam chinese client.
>Also most people don't care about mosaics
Mangagamer themselves have confirmed that titles without mosaics sell at least 25% more copies than a comparable title with mosaics. Sol Press has also stated that their mosaic free titles sold ~40% better than their mosaic'd titles, but Sol Press has a much smaller pool of titles so I wouldn't give it the same weight as Mangagamer who has been doing this for over a decade now.
>Mosaic titles sell well if yuzusoft titles are any indication
5% of all the sales of Senren Banka are to western audiences, with the other 95% being split between asian countries. 188/3547. With Sanoba Witch being 25% western and 75% foreign. 253/1033

Evenicle has sold more western copies than Venus Blood Frontier, Senren Banka, and Sanoba Witch combined. The average Adult Only western VN release will push about 50-100 western reviews, with 100-200 foreign reviews. Evenicle sold double that before influencers pushed it, with it then doubling again afterwards. It was lightning in a bottle due to a variety of external factors, this will not happen again with Evenicle 2.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 04:56:33 2020 No.24874549

>>24874475
>Evenicle sold double that before influencers pushed it, with it then doubling again afterwards. It was lightning in a bottle due to a variety of external factors, this will not happen again with Evenicle 2.
Yeah, I think people forget, but its launch was perfectly timed. Steam had just made big publicity on their initial stance for adult content -- after many years of badgering from their audience -- which was extremely laissez-faire at first. Evenicle got on during that storm, with a recognizable artist and obvious polish by comparison to its competition, that I think it just became an easy hit.

Sequels always sell less than their predecessors in this market, so while I think Evenicle 2 will still do well, I doubt it will approach the massive success of the original unless Sseth shills it again or something.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:04:46 2020 No.24874625

>>24874549
Evenicle sold well because it was an extremely polished gameplay focused title that was one of the first major 'adult only' titles on the platform. You had uncensored art, a well known artist, a well known developer and publisher, and eventually they had social influencers pushing it. The sequels to funbag fantasy sold 50%-75% less copies than the original title and this was with the ability for Mangagamer to directly push the news of this release to owners of the original title. I would be genuinely shocked if it sold more than 1/3rd what evenicle 1 had.

To put it in perspective, it selling 1/3rd what Evenicle did would mean it sold three times as many copies as any other steam Adult Only VN, or about 4x as many western copies as Venus Blood Frontier did which wasn't hidden behind an 'Adult Only' option you have to manually enable in your steam settings. Or perhaps a better example. If it sold 1/3rd as many western copies that Evenicle did, it'd have sold MORE copies than the entire funbag fantasy series put together on steam.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:22:17 2020 No.24874789 Noone cares about Tomgirls I see? Good, then JAST can keep holding it back. Your loss.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:28:50 2020 No.24874837 >>24874789 Yeah, I don't care. They should've released Josou Sennen Oukoku instead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:29:48 2020 No.24874846 >>24874837 You know that most of the Josou-games are connected and usually you start with localizing the first title?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:31:09 2020 No.24874858 >>24874846 The connections are so loose it doesn't matter and the first title's art and designs are significantly worse. These aren't games you play for the intricate plot.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:34:46 2020 No.24874889

>>24864578
I still do not forgive them about numerous lies either about various other games without really looking into things, just what people say or what is rumoured. It's just clickbait the site.
>>24874307
My opinions exactly. Everything is overblown more than it needs to be which is why i default back to Nichegamer despite their issues.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:39:43 2020 No.24874930

>>24874475
Evenicle 2 will not sell as well as the first i do agree on that. China being one factor, mosaic being another. I do not know though if it will sell well enough for Alicesoft to keep going and pushing out releases. It may be the fact that if it does not sell as well as the first game they may not feel like porting games over to the West.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:44:59 2020 No.24874972 I rather read krautsite than OAG.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:45:38 2020 No.24874978

>>24874930
Hopefully it sells poorly enough for them to stop getting hands on with their titles. The official developers getting hands on with a western release almost always results in a significantly worse release. See Evenicle 2, Maitetsu, Muv-luv, Moenovel titles, basically everything released by jap devs that aren't Ninetail, whom have somehow against all odds managed to handle things perfectly and I have nothing but good things to say about them

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:51:19 2020 No.24875024 >>24874978 Yeah that seems to be the issue due to bad QC and centralization in of itself.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:53:17 2020 No.24875038

>>24874978
>Maitetsu
This is almost entirely on SP though. Where Lose became a problem was in refusing to let certain CGs be uncensored because they were censoring those in the upcoming Pure Station release, but if SP had actually ensured at the start that they had the uncensored assets, that probably wouldn't have happened. Or at least, even if it did happen, the backlash wouldn't have been as bad, because it would've actually clearly been Lose at fault rather than SP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:55:36 2020 No.24875066 >>24875038 Both are shitty companies and both are at fault. SP for just assuming everything went fine with a japanese developer being in charge of the content, and Lose for being a shitty chinese company forcing censorship on foreign releases.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 06:33:30 2020 No.24875432 >>24837544 Amagzmi

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:20:59 2020 No.24875923 https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/hv4m44/new_englishjapanesechinese_storefront_called/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:33:20 2020 No.24876087 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhmwZbBuecQ Flowers Stream is now live. You can win flowers ete or printemps from this SEA Streamer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:38:40 2020 No.24876166 >>24875923 >Nutaku It's shit. Also they have Magicami listed as a game on their About Us page, but it's not listed anywhere in the actual games list.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:58:47 2020 No.24876373

https://twitter.com/Magicami_en
http://nutaku.net/games/mgcm-dx/
http://nutaku.net/games/mgcm/
https://johren.games/games/mgcm-dx-en/
https://johren.games/games/mgcm-en/

Magicami getting an English release in August, on both Nutaku and Johren, in both porn and no-porn versions. The websites are practically identical so yeah, Johren is just Nutaku.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:00:13 2020 No.24876383 >>24876373 I'm really confused as to why people use Nutaku when all of their titles are censored and rewritten.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:00:21 2020 No.24876384 >>24876373 Not a VN.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:02:13 2020 No.24876401 >>24876384 Neither is Evenicle, yet you didn't say anything about that. >>24876383 Nutaku's userbase doesn't know any better.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:03:24 2020 No.24876416 >>24876401 >Neither is Evenicle All alicesoft releases are VNs except their shitty mobage.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:05:28 2020 No.24876436 >>24876416 Do you think VN is a codeword that means "thing I like"? Because that's the only way that makes sense.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:08:39 2020 No.24876477 >>24876436 It means exactly what I explained it meant a few threads ago.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:10:13 2020 No.24876502 If it's inside the VNDB its a VN. The autistic screechers there like beliar or Eacil can never be wrong.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:11:59 2020 No.24876526
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>>24873684
>at least 25% of the western audience wont buy it because they kept mosaics
Lmao. You're fucking deluded, autist. If anything, more people going to buy it because it has mosaic instead of disgusting uncensored monster dicks like first game.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:25:48 2020 No.24876738

>>24876526
>Mangagamer confirms that their uncensored titles sell at least 25% more copies compared to their censored titles
>deluded
You're right anon, Mangagamer clearly has no idea what they're talking about after all. It's not like they've been selling VN's for 12 years now and have access to sale data and feedback.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:26:31 2020 No.24876754 The 'visual novel' denomination isn't common in Japan. You probably already know that. Though once I found it as ビシュアルノベルin the description of a... 2D H-JRPG done with rpgmaker.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:47:11 2020 No.24877018

>>24876526
Anon do you realize how retarded your post is? Just think for 5 seconds. If titles with mosaics sold better than the same title without mosaics, then why would a company ever release a title without mosaics? Why would companies like Nekonyan, Mangagamer, JAST, and Sekai Project release titles without mosaics if they'd sell more copies by keeping mosaics? The answer is pretty fucking obvious. It's because titles without mosaics push more copies than if they'd been released with mosaics, so obviously they'd try to release as many titles as possible without mosaics.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 09:23:51 2020 No.24877547 >>24848426 I miss when /vg/ wasn't a thing and all of /jp/ was a board about VNs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 09:26:18 2020 No.24877593 >>24848426 How about our vninfo discord. I heard it's good :)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:37:39 2020 No.24878721 Why is Johren such a joke lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:41:34 2020 No.24878806 >>24878721 Can you stop bringing your unrelated discord/e-celeb shit here? No one knows what you're talking about nor does anyone care.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:50:57 2020 No.24878946 File: 41 KB, 400x400, IDZYp1Sk_400x400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24878806 It shows because Johren is a shop, not an e-celeb. I am an e-celeb. Know the difference.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:53:21 2020 No.24878979 >>24878946 Are you trying to roleplay as Moogy or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:54:20 2020 No.24878998 >>24878979 I don't like yuri so thats a futile attempt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 11:55:36 2020 No.24880074 >>24876502 Yeah, vndb is really autistic when it comes to vn hybrids. If there's a good reason for it not to be a VN, it wouldn't be on the site, other than the few explicit exceptions that they have.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:27:06 2020 No.24882760 Okay so you fuckers. Who of your bastards is shitting up the untranslated eroge thread with your krautism? Stop it or we go to war.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:10:29 2020 No.24884229 >>24876477 it means a shitty made up EOP term that literally no one in japan uses, i will continue calling "visual novels", moege, plotge, nakige, nukige and eroGE GAMES till the day i fucking die bitch, theres a reason its not called fucking eroHON.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:12:35 2020 No.24884271 >>24882760 holy shit please yes, the autism between krauts and /jp/edos will be unimaginably grand

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:12:54 2020 No.24884272 >>24880074 Why is Fate Extella on vndb but not Persona?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:16:19 2020 No.24884308 File: 261 KB, 1080x1406, visual novel.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24884229

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:23:37 2020 No.24884405

>>24884308
ok thats one example, now give me an entire database showing japanese publishers calling it visual novel, youre literally going off of singular use super rare cases, how often do you hear japanese people refer to it as visual novel? also why are they called eroge if theyre not games in your shitty opinion?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:25:25 2020 No.24884436 >>24884405 They are called Novel games or ADV in Japan. Visual Novel and Sound Novel are just replacement terms. You can call things with different names, you know?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:32:48 2020 No.24884546 File: 21 KB, 905x320, 1570987569641.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24884405 https://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/attlist.php?att[56]=on&submit=on#kekka

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:35:13 2020 No.24884587 >>24884272 The existence of narration tends to be vndb's dividing line. Fate/Extella has a shit ton, while I don't remember Persona having a lot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:05:13 2020 No.24885576 https://www.backloggd.com/u/moogy/reviews/ Please laugh at his shit taste

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:15:50 2020 No.24885676

>>24885576
I enjoyed Ryza and all, but the fact that he considers it to have anything close to "thoughtful writing" really hammers home how retarded he is. It's cookie cutter and juvenile in every sense. This in combination with the high marks for FF7R gives confirms the suspicion that titles with even minor yuri undertones will get a rather large markup from him.

Poor guy suffers from brain rot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:36:47 2020 No.24885879 >>24874978 Still better than mangagamer and their 10 year gap between releases.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:46:45 2020 No.24885971 Come on guys. Larping as moogy isn't funny.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 01:49:18 2020 No.24890768

>>24864628
I feel like it's the other way around. Now they can release English titles twice as fast (hypothetically) if they have two souces to work from rather than just MG or AS alone. Especially since they will have their own hands full making games rather than supervisor, program and beta-test their translations. That and their in-house Gacha.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 01:52:55 2020 No.24890829 >>24890768 Yes they will be able to release titles twice as fast, but half of them will be censored fan-translations... So who cares?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 06:10:41 2020 No.24893528 JAST released their Shoujo Dominance game. Apparently it's real incest. https://jastusa.com/shoujo-dominance-my-precious-reina

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 08:06:12 2020 No.24895442

>>24877018
>Why would companies like Nekonyan, Mangagamer, JAST, and Sekai Project release titles without mosaics if they'd sell more copies by keeping mosaics?
Only JAST and MG bothering with removing mosaics. And both are joke when it comes to sales compared to big guys like NekoNyan and Sekai. Nobody cares about uncensored dicks, you fucking homo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 08:10:42 2020 No.24895547 >>24890829 Anyone who is not mentally challenged or MG employee.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 08:14:29 2020 No.24895613 >>24895442 Nekonyan has roughly 50% uncensored/censored ratio for their releases, Sekai Project has 25/75 uncensored/censored.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 08:15:48 2020 No.24895642 File: 90 KB, 564x643, 1545692189846.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24895547 But that's the same thing anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 10:10:14 2020 No.24897625 >>24893528 >This title is a charming nukige that is fully uncensored for a wonderful fapping experience! Haha

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 10:13:25 2020 No.24897698 >>24893528 https://jastusa.com/sale/my-little-sister-can-t-possibly-have-a-hemorrhoid Should've talked about this fine title.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 10:51:32 2020 No.24898385

>no new translated VN with a loli route
>no new translated VN with a sister route
>no new translated VN with a tomboy route.
>MG hasn't put out a moege in a while and also doesn't have any listed that their working on.
>Sekai hasn't but out a non-short VN since Baldr Sky.
>Sol Press is basically done with VN.
>Jast always delays shit
>NN seems like the only one with their shit together
This shit makes me sad

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 10:53:12 2020 No.24898417 >>24898385 >>MG hasn't put out a moege in a while and also doesn't have any listed that their working on. This is a good thing. If only every company would follow their example.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 10:56:03 2020 No.24898474 >>24898385 >MG hasn't put out a moege in a while and also doesn't have any listed that their working on. Wasn't their last release a moege?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:01:07 2020 No.24898560 >>24898474 It was a nukige

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:03:02 2020 No.24898596 >>24898560 What's the difference? Both are moeshit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:07:15 2020 No.24898662 >>24898596 >Both are moeshit. If we listen to you then Bible Black would be moeshit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:10:46 2020 No.24898734 >>24898662 Pretending to be obtuse doesn't make you win arguments.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:17:27 2020 No.24898844 >>24898734 Not him but he's right. And to be fair, junk opinions aren't worth arguing about.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:51:52 2020 No.24899390 >>24898844 How is he right? Nukige is a retarded catch-all word and it's obvious that I meant moe focused nukige by what I said.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:16:49 2020 No.24899771 >>24899390 >Nukige is a retarded catch-all word >Nukige VN were porn is the the focus has high amounts of sexual content >obvious that I meant moe focused nukige by what I said. >>24898596 Stop trying to backpedal faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:17:58 2020 No.24899795 >>24899771 *main focus

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:18:20 2020 No.24899802 >>24893528 >Father / daughter Well, at least there's an option to have her call you father instead of daddy. That shit's a huge turn off.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:18:48 2020 No.24899812 >>24899771 >VN were porn is the the focus has high amounts of sexual content So you actually think that Maggot Baits and Nyancafe are the same genre?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:23:34 2020 No.24899866 >>24899771 >Stop trying to backpedal faggot Your lack of reading comprehension isn't me backpeddling.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:27:05 2020 No.24899904 >>24899866 The irony.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:27:49 2020 No.24899916

>>24899812
Not even him, but they're both nukige, there's only a problem here if you think something being a nukige means it can't have any other descriptors applied to it at the same time. Your attitude makes as much sense as saying a yaoi VN can't be a nukige because other nukige are straight.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:31:29 2020 No.24899951 >>24899916 That's exactly what was said before, yes.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 16:17:31 2020 No.24903042

>>24898385
What's the point of other companies releasing sizable moege when Nekonyan has cornered the market on that genre? I'm actually not sure if Nekonyan releasing their games faster is a good idea since that could lead to player base burnout. MG releases a title a month, but they don't focus on one niche so heavily. There isn't as much of an audience overlap between various MG titles as there is for NN titles.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 16:43:28 2020 No.24903309 [DELETED]

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In related news, Abaddon: Princess of Decay by Sakuraprin has received its first update since its announcement (more than a year ago...) claiming the project is close to 50% done and keeping its 2020 release window.

https://twitter.com/fakkugames/status/1284533392441257985

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 16:44:34 2020 No.24903319 >>24903309 Read the thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 16:47:11 2020 No.24903362 Sorry, wrong thread. I had other threads open in other tabs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 17:17:51 2020 No.24903739 >>24885676 Ryza's plot is kind of whatever, but the character relations and interactions have some tact to them. Even the silly parts. Also. Ryza 2 hype!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 17:40:23 2020 No.24904020 https://twitter.com/verdelishJP/status/1285988967297376256 >any idea when Lamento will be possibly released? >Realistically, 2022 at the earliest. Slow Damage and DMMD will probably be the two big releases of 2021.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 18:31:31 2020 No.24904559 >>24904020 Huh, JAST really is getting out titles faster than they used to. Sumaga might unironically release within the next couple of years.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 18:37:04 2020 No.24904625

>>24898417
But if everyone followed their example then literally every single company would a broke mess perpetually hovering on the brink of bankruptcy like MG with their catalog full of literal kusoges nobody cares about instead of rolling in dough like NekoNyan with their moe kamiges people actually like and want?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 19:22:18 2020 No.24905226 >>24904559 >Huh, JAST really is getting out titles faster than they used to. Did we read the same post? Lamento was announced in 2018 and the "realistic" date for it's release is 2022 which means it's going to come out in 2023 or 2024 knowing JAST.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:12:56 2020 No.24905818 >>24904559 This is JAST BLUE. They work totally independent from JAST and even have their own discord. JAST BLUE isn't under the new bosses helm so they obviously keep their old speed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:37:03 2020 No.24906058 What's the next big release? By big I mean not a 1-10 hour short vn

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:38:38 2020 No.24906083 >>24906058 vndb.org

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:45:36 2020 No.24906159 >>24906083 That doesn't help when no one has a date up

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:16:41 2020 No.24907091

>>24906159
>no one has a date up except for the 2 midsized titles in the OP that have explicit release dates
If you don't count a a sizable fan disc or a chapter of a yuri series, my best guess is probably Hello Lady which is supposed to come out this summer (presumably August). Failing that, it'll probably be either Eternal Torment or WanNyan Cafe, since I doubt Rance 01 is ready to be put up for preorder right after Room No 9.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:25:56 2020 No.24907200 >>24907091 >since I doubt Rance 01 is ready to be put up for preorder right after Room No 9. 02 would have to come out of beta first since they're being sold as a bundle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 00:46:10 2020 No.24908821 Does anyone have the uncensored Grisaia CG samples that were shared for like a day before they were taken down?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 00:50:38 2020 No.24908879
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Any recommendations for a VN where a girl is forced to fuck some disgusting guy that she doesn't want to fuck and eventually ends up enjoying it/addicted to his dick? Good art is important. I know it's a fairly common scenario, but I haven't seen many translated ones. The more degenerate it is, the better.

My favorite is the one in the pic.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:09:17 2020 No.24909131

>>24908879
https://vndb.org/v/all?q=&fil=tag_inc-513.tagspoil-0.lang-en&rfil=&cfil=trait_inc-1141&s=title&o=a

That's a list of all VNs that are 1) translated, 2) have an ugly bastard, and 3) have him make the heroine fall for his cock. Unfortunately, as you can see, it's three games long, and you've played one of them.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:12:45 2020 No.24909177

>>24909131
Thanks a lot, anon. Sadly the other two don't look like something I'd enjoy, but there's nothing that can be done about that. I'll just give learning Japanese another try someday in the near future if I don't fall into another depression hole.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:21:03 2020 No.24909285 Where can I find a clean Japanese copy of Baldr Force? Every where I look there is a version that has a reg.exe virus file that is prepatched.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:29:44 2020 No.24909404 What was the VN that two guys were working on from this place and one of the guys went missing for like 4-5 months? Whatever happened to that?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:33:40 2020 No.24909480

>>24909404
Danny? It was 3 guys but one guy died and the other had an emotional breakdown and needed a few months. It's still slowly being worked on now that the guy who had a breakdown is back working on it and the translator is working on another project in the meantime.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:35:55 2020 No.24909529 >>24909480 What was the name of it? Sorry for being senile. Last thing I read was a blogpost about one of the guys going missing and the other guy being unsure if he was gonna continue or not.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:42:11 2020 No.24909644 >>24909529 Can't remember the full title off my head, just that it's being translated by NTRanon, editor-kun and the guy who died last year.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:43:51 2020 No.24909666 >>24909644 Cheers, it was Tsuma no Niku Ana ni Homestay Suru Macho Ryuugakusei ~Shucchouchuu no Sono Ura de, Tsuma wa Kurobikari Bou kara Afureru Hodo no Hakudaku o Sosogare, Yorokobi ni Michita Acme-gao o Sarashiteita~

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 01:50:40 2020 No.24909767
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>>24909404
>>24909480
>>24909529
The name of the game is Tsuma no Niku Ana ni Homestay Suru Macho Ryuugakusei ~Shucchouchuu no Sono Ura de, Tsuma wa Kurobikari Bou kara Afureru Hodo no Hakudaku o Sosogare, Yorokobi ni Michita Acme-gao o Sarashiteita~, but most people just call it Danny or NTR homestay, or something along those lines.

Hi, I'm one of the two translators who's working on the project. The other guy - Mayumianon - has been MIA for nearly a year at this point and not responding to messages. I wrote a long post about it a couple months ago that you're probably referring to here, https://pastebin.com/5chdQzuY .

If you want an update with what's been going on since then, there's really not much to say. I've been slowly chipping away at editing Danny, editing 100 lines here, 200 lines there. It's a very, very, very, very long game, at over a million characters, 51k lines, and 90 h-scenes, so it's taking an extremely long time for me to edit.by myself. Admittedly, my laziness and dislike of editing isn't really helping. I can't promise anything, it'll be done when it's done. My sincere apologies for the delay.
>>24909480
>>24909644
To clarify a bit, in last September Mayumianon said he was unhappy with the current state of his translation and wanted to re-do it, and I said sure. While I was waiting for him to do that, I started a secret project. Mayumianon vanished in mid-November, and when I hadn't heard from by around February or so I decided to finish the remainder of Danny by myself instead of letting it die waiting for him to return. I asked an editor I work with a bunch if he'd be willing to help out, and gave him links to both Danny and the secret project, which I'd basically finished by around March or so. He decided he wanted to focus on editing the secret project (which is getting pretty close to being done, actually), so I've been editing Danny by myself since then.

I hope that clarifies things a little. I will admit this series of events is probably extremely confusing to the outside reader, but it's also very confusing to me, and I lived through it.

Again, I'm very sorry for all the delays and I hope I can get it out soon(tm), so please be patient with me.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:01:59 2020 No.24909906

>>24909767
I didn't expect a reply from one of the guys working on it.
I thought the game sounded interesting a while back but I forgot the name of it, and I was also curious if there were any updates that had been shared about what was going on behind the scenes.
Thank you for your reply and good luck with your project! While I of course greedily want it as soon as possible, you should take your time with it until you're completely satisfied and also be careful not to overwork yourself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:04:55 2020 No.24909948 File: 460 KB, 1280x720, 1575260330429.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24909906 You don't need to worry about him overworking himself.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:09:16 2020 No.24910018

>>24909948
What do you mean? It seems like he translated a bunch of games in a short amount of time and is now also editing them himself. I hate the jews that asks for lots of money/patreon to translate a short TV show clip instead of doing it for the love of it, but I feel sorry for how hard this guy is working almost thanklessly.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:16:11 2020 No.24910099
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>>24909879
Ordinarily, someone that you're working with vanishing on a fan tl thing is completely expected, and I'm told it happens surprisingly often on official work too, but in this case it is a bit odd because Mayumianon once took a two week break then wrote me a full-blown apology e-mail saying he was extremely sorry for delaying the project. I'm pretty worried about the guy, I really do hope he's okay.
>>24909906
Thanks for the patience and understanding. I'm doing my best, but editing's not my forte, so it's slow going. I also don't want to be critical of Mayumianon, since the man a) isn't around to defend himself and b) was clearly aware of the issue, but I'm currently going through the parts of his TL that he didn't get around to fixing and I can understand why he wanted to redo them.
That said, there's really not a lot going on behind the scenes. Every day (or every couple of days) I open the excel file and plug away at it for an hour or three. It's not very exciting.
>>24909948
Quiet you.
>>24910018
I translate because I enjoy it and I find it fun (I don't enjoy editing as much, admittedly, but it's a necessary part of the process). And I'm not doing this for thanks, or else I'd be working on things that people would actually like to read and be popular instead of whatever random nonsense happens to catch my eye. You don't need to worry about me not being appreciated enough, I'm fine with the way things are, and I'm honestly rather uncomfortable in the public eye, which is why I work anonymously on this website.

(Don't worry about the lack of wordwrapping in the image, somebody wrote a script to do it for me, I'll add in wordwrapping in later once I've edited everything).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:19:52 2020 No.24910154 >>24910099 You're a good guy. Hopefully, a non-shitty editor offers to help you.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:25:57 2020 No.24910215

>>24910154
The editor I work with is fantastic, if a bit slow, but otherwise I have absolutely no complaints, he kills himself busting his ass slaving over my projects (in fact, as I type this he's been working for something approaching 12 or 13 hours straight). He just said he wanted to work on a side project for me first before moving on to Danny, so I figured I'd pick up the slack and do some work on it myself. While I do regret and sincerely apologize for the time that this project has taken, in the end, it's a fan project. We have no deadlines, it'll be done when it's done.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:26:20 2020 No.24910220

>>24910099
>often on official work
Do you mean quit? I don't see how people can just disappear from a real job.

>Mayumianon once took a two week break then wrote me a full-blown apology e-mail saying he was extremely sorry for delaying the project
If that's the case then I really don't think he's alive anymore.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:28:16 2020 No.24910241 >>24910220 It was Conjueror all along.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:32:57 2020 No.24910310 >>24910099 >I'm honestly rather uncomfortable in the public eye, which is why I work anonymously on this website. Aren't you worried about the opportunities you could be missing out on by doing it anonymously?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:38:20 2020 No.24910365

>>24910310
I doubt it. Some people do it because it's a fun hobby, not for fame or recognition or money. Not to mention his real job pays way better than what any VN company could. There's also the fact that doing it anonymously is the best possible choice since you can't be stopped by anyone or anything, because you have no face in which to threaten.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:39:23 2020 No.24910380 File: 517 KB, 1280x720, 1578981913791.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24910018 He has doggy power to replenish his energy, he'll be fine.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:41:15 2020 No.24910404

>>24910220
> I don't see how people can just disappear from a real job.
While I'm certainly no expert on official work, I know a few people who are in the industry - several of whom lurk this thread - and all I can say is you would be surprised how common it is for official, paid translators to just disappear. I k now for a fact it happened for two games listed in the first two posts of this thread. But I probably shouldn't say more than that because I was told this in confidence. The official people who lurk this thread know who they are and they can say more if they want to.
>>24910310
> I don't see how people can just disappear from a real job.
I have turned down four or five offers of official work (although I'm still unsure how genuine Xev's offer was, but considering the current state of SP I suspect it was very genuine). The closest thing I've come to doing official work is doing QC for the english releases of Trap Shrine/Trap Legend, and even then I wasn't actually paid for that and was shocked to see my name listed in the credits of the first one.
And, well, no, to be a tad blunt I don't give a shit about the opportunities I'm missing. Translating is something I do for fun. Spending hundreds of hours translating officially on games I don't enjoy for shit pay sounds like a great way to kill any enjoyment I get out of it.
That said, I don't have any particular problem with selling out. If somebody comes to me and says they want to purchase a TL I've done I'd probably say yes, it's basically free money considering I've already done the work and it's better than getting fucked over like the poor Yukikaze translator did. That said, I can tell you for a fact that nobody's lining up to purchase the translation of Ishu Aigan.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:41:33 2020 No.24910409 >>24910365 What makes you think he has a real job?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:46:00 2020 No.24910461

>>24910404
>That said, I can tell you for a fact that nobody's lining up to purchase the translation of Ishu Aigan.
Mangagamer might if you contacted them, they're always up for turning a profit on a cheap finished nukige and they'll take anything since there's very little risk involved.

>>24910409
He's told us what he does for a living and based on his legal discussion of what happened to Yukikazeanon, he clearly has some actual idea on what he's talking about.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:50:38 2020 No.24910510

>>24910461
As I said at the time, most of what I said in that discussion is inaccurate because you can't fit the actual accurate explanation into 2,000 characters, there's extremely complicated jurisdictional issues, etc. It really wasn't meant to be more than a very rough intro, and the only thing anyone should really take from it is that Yukikazeanon's in a very bad position. I hope he contacts Lilith and they're willing to work with him.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 02:58:18 2020 No.24910580

>>24910220
NekoNyan has said that their first Hello Goodbye translator bailed on them during one of their first blogposts on their site discussing its delay, and Xev said during one of his recent streams that his translator for Sunflowers bailed on him at 68% done which is why it pretty much hasn't moved since last year. He also said he had his translator for one of his LNs bail on him too.
>Unfortunately for those of you who have been looking forward to Hello,Good-bye, we're going to delay the release to November.
>We hit a little bump along the road when suddenly one of the translators disappeared on us, which is rather unusual in a professional environment, but said translator has been replaced and translation progress is steadily moving towards completion.
https://nekonyansoft.com/blog/stay-awhile-and-listen

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:08:13 2020 No.24911298 Does Muv-Luv TDA have sex scenes in it or is the 18+ rating on VNDB for a different part of Chronicles?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:25:16 2020 No.24911444

>>24910404
>The closest thing I've come to doing official work is doing QC for the english releases of Trap Shrine/Trap Legend, and even then I wasn't actually paid for that and was shocked to see my name listed in the credits of the first one.
Because you didn't want to be listed or because you just didn't expect it? I did QC for JAST on one game where they didn't put any of the four or so of us in the credits and when I asked about it they didn't even respond.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:28:50 2020 No.24911484

>>24911444
Because I didn't expect it. Basically some people on the Trap Shrine translation team sent me an early copy of the game to thank me for helping out with the translation a bit (I didn't really do much, just basically let the translator bounce some issues they were having off me, I don't really think I helped at all), and the people who sent it to me said because it's an early copy there'll be some spelling/grammar errors, so please let us know if you catch any, which I did, and boom, listed in the credits.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:43:41 2020 No.24911648 Some guy in /vg/ is tling/editing a vn >>>/vg/300430653 >>>/vg/300431284 >>>/vg/300452091

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:49:09 2020 No.24911702 >>24911648 Yes, that's my editor talking about the secret project I have him working on (scroll up a few posts). He's been posting some lines and some moans from it on /vg/ every now and then.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 04:52:48 2020 No.24911738 >>24911702 I hope you well on your secret project

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 05:03:39 2020 No.24911879

>>24911484
Kek, just be a news site for VNs like us. There is no easier way to get free games and you can also support the company in the long run by reviewing them. Both sides benefit from it.

Also you won't be listed in the credits. But hey, at least people get credited here. The anime/manga industry is much different and you have to fight for getting credit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 05:35:12 2020 No.24912188 >>24911879 Fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:14:32 2020 No.24912525 File: 354 KB, 1920x1080, jyosou_shinwa_FrEMb4nWcd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24912188 Sure showed em.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:44:34 2020 No.24912866 >>24904625 Making money by pandering to people with poor taste (moebutas) is understandable, but not laudable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:47:27 2020 No.24912902 >>24909285 Order a used hardcopy from Japan

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:50:48 2020 No.24912936 >>24912902 >Anonymous 07/23/20(Thu)12:47:27 No.24912 How about you boot it in a VM. That way the virus does nothing to your system

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:51:58 2020 No.24912948

>>24910220
>I don't see how people can just disappear from a real job.
Have you never worked? People ghost IRL jobs all the time. They just stop showing up with no notice and you never heard from them again. I assume it's going to be similar or worse dealing with projects where the only accountability you have is keeping in contact through email or something.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:52:51 2020 No.24912955 >>24912948 No, they don't ghost jobs irl all the time. At least not in europe.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:55:07 2020 No.24912979 >>24912955 I imagine they do. Either your job pays well enough to prevent that or you primarily work with white people.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:20:18 2020 No.24913250

>>24912955
in the US it's extremely common outside of coveted positions. I did a lot of warehouse work for various businesses and whenever group hiring would happen, 75% of the group that was hired would be gone within 2 weeks, with the rest gone within 2 months barring 1-2 people who stay for longer than 2 months.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:23:24 2020 No.24913283

>>24913250
That's similar to my own experience. My job doesn't pay particularly well, but it's definitely above the minimum and you can get raises up to a decent wage. I don't really get how these guys do it. They have bills don't they? Shit, just the economic insecurity of continually being unemployed would get to me. Maybe they're just not capable of holding down a job.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:25:05 2020 No.24913294 >>24913250 Does that have anything to do with the lack of job security, i.E. hire-and-fire culture in the US?

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:30:15 2020 No.24913342

>>24913294
I'm >>24913283. From what I've seen it's primarily self-inflicted. Where I work you're only going to get fired if you fuck up extremely bad (destroy property, get in a fight, etc.) or are habitually absent and late (we have a system in place so it's not arbitrary). Basically if you just show up you're guaranteed a full-time job. But it's a constant stream of people in and out the door. Probably for every 20 people that get hired, 1 of them will stick around for more than three months.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:32:25 2020 No.24913364 >>24913342 And like I said, we don't pay minimum wage either. It's a physical job, but I'm a fat loser posting on /jp/ about VNs and I can do it, so I know these other guys can.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:35:05 2020 No.24913389

>>24913283
In my region it happens because warehouse jobs often have really high quota's and you're given several weeks to be able to reach that quota before write ups and eventual firings happen. This places you into 1 of those 3 groups. Group 1 would be people who aren't willing to deal with all the various bullshit that happens in regular warehouse jobs and don't want to put in the sheer effort or big brain plays needed to overcome the various issues that crop up so they just work casually a few weeks while there's no pressure while searching for another warehouse job and leave when they get it. Group 2 would be the people who can big brain their way through the various issues by cheating or powergaming the system and try their best to get placed to a different position before they're caught. Finally you have group 3 which did both big brain and effort extremely early on and used it as leverage to get trained in multiple positions and from there focused down the one they enjoy the most or used the power/knowledge gained from those other positions to cheat their way through the quota tasks.

I have absolutely no fucking idea why freelance VN translators would ghost a job though. It's easy fucking money and the quotas are easy too since you basically end up with 1-2 years to finish a title, or 5 in the case of Sharin no Kuni, those poor dumb kickstarter supporters.

>>24913294
Nah I doubt it. The lack of loyalty due to low job security only comes into play when you have other companies poaching employees. People do half-ass their job if they think they're going to be randomly replaced though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:40:11 2020 No.24913450 >>24913389 >I have absolutely no fucking idea why freelance VN translators would ghost a job though. Mental illness.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:44:15 2020 No.24913494 >>24913450 Heh. Ludo.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 07:54:51 2020 No.24913595 >>24913283 The rotation of people is on purpose, so they don't have to pay extra because of permanent staff taxes cost.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:14:34 2020 No.24917250 Why did Cojnueror kill himself despite not even being the 40%? I don't get it bros...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:16:10 2020 No.24917286 >>24917250 He couldn't take it anymore. Stop bringing him up and let him rest in peace.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:32:58 2020 No.24917661

>>24837544
Haruoto Alice * Gram is being translated over at anime-sharing, the trial is currently at 100% translated+edited, but not QCed. No downloads posted yet.

The translator had dropped Fortune Arterial just before starting Alice*Gram, so I'd say this one looks even flimsier than your average fanTL project.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:40:54 2020 No.24917843 File: 175 KB, 573x800, 1595451226190.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If Alice Soft are helping to publish/produce/whatever this game, does that increase its chances of seeing an English release?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:59:54 2020 No.24918332 >>24917843 Alicesoft will only be touching titles they're confident they can get on steam. So no.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 12:23:19 2020 No.24918807 >>24918332 That looks exactly like the Sexual Content games that tend to get on steam though. I'd say the better reason not to expect it would be the fact that they have other already successful stuff waiting in line.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 12:46:13 2020 No.24919228 >>24910215 >>24909767 If you have two projects, and one editor, and you don't want to edit things yourself, why not get a second editor?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 12:48:31 2020 No.24919295 >>24918807 >>24917843 Yeah, all the characters seem to have extremely huge breasts, that's a sure sign that it's steam viable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:33:43 2020 No.24920124 >>24919295 The crab in the upper right is flat.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:54:12 2020 No.24921326 >>24918332 If they can get Evenicle on Steam, there shouldn't be a limit to what they can release on the platform. Steam's system is fucking retarded.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:55:57 2020 No.24921356

>>24917843
It wouldn't be a bad idea for Alicesoft to release the occasional budget title through Steam to see how they do. People are more likely to impulse buy small, cheaper titles than larger ones. Assuming that it's about the length of the various titles KaguraGame releases, they can probably charge $25 which is about the current price listed on DLsite and get away with it. It's probably too new though, unless Alicesoft was planning on a Steam release from the beginning (which I severely doubt). It might not sell as well as Kagura titles sell because no Chinese audience, but it should still sell solidly if it's halfway decent.

>>24920124
It's fantasy focused regardless so that increases the chances. Steam is fickle though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 14:59:10 2020 No.24921397 >>24920124 If a single flat/loli was a problem they wouldn't have gotten Evenicle 2 in.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:04:02 2020 No.24921450 >>24921397 You think this because you still think Steam is allowing titles based on actual standards and not how much money they think they'll make.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:09:53 2020 No.24921532 >>24921397 Strictly arbitrary. There's no consistency.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:11:17 2020 No.24921558

>>24921326
Evenicle was released at a time where they were allowing anything that wasn't genuinely illegal. Just because Evenicle was allowed back then doesn't mean it'll be allowed. This was made abundantly clear when Kara no Shoujo 1 was accepted to steam, but the sequel was rejected when they tried to release it on steam a little later down the road. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the full Evenicle 2 title gets banned from steam despite the Demo being approved. This happened with one of Sol Press's? titles. Or maybe it was NN I don't remember.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:12:20 2020 No.24921574 >>24921397 Evenicle 2 isn't in yet, only the Demo is. They can see that the demo is fine but something in the full title isn't and they ban it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:12:44 2020 No.24921580 >>24921397 >they wouldn't have gotten Evenicle 2 in. Is there any confirmation that it has been approved? It was of my understanding that games that haven't been approved can still have demos/store pages.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:13:49 2020 No.24921597 >>24921574 Just go the Agarest route. Blacked out CGs, then "leak" a patch to bring them back.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:14:13 2020 No.24921602 https://vndb.org/v26902 Why is this on vndb? There's no narration.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:17:35 2020 No.24921653 >>24921602 Narration is only their rule for hybrids. That's a pure VN regardless of writing style.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:18:16 2020 No.24921661 File: 1.89 MB, 1440x810, marco_2020-02-29_22-15-51.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24921602 Probably because it's a VN.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:19:19 2020 No.24921677 >>24921532 I remember when Steam banned a Key to Home despite it getting looked at by the ESRB and getting T.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:31:10 2020 No.24921848 >>24917250 He was translating for fun. It became less fun when his co-worked bullied him for a joke.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:32:48 2020 No.24921873 >>24917250 He was translating for fun. It became less fun when his co-workers bullied him over a joke.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:34:57 2020 No.24921909 >>24921873 >He was translating for fun. Is that why he sold Himawari?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:37:48 2020 No.24921949 >>24921909 It was a job, yes. But it was a job he loved doing. One can only be so lucky in life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:39:46 2020 No.24921976 >>24921949 >But it was a job he loved doing. You know this how? From what Quof said it sounded like he didn't really enjoy it considering the fact that he'd work for 4 months a year then take the other 8 months off.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 16:46:28 2020 No.24923079 File: 48 KB, 805x394, 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24921976

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Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:38:36 2020 No.24923759
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>>24923079
>>24923134

PhDs are a bubble which is about to burst, anons!
I dropped mine instantly during my 4th year when I landed a job as a high school teacher.
PhD from humanities braches (my branch, and most likely this guy's branch) are paid peanuts and are extremely unstable. Also, the working environment is competitive pressure and fake people.
Also, new regulations state that you cannot work at the university where you completed you PhD for 5 years, and I've seen doctors drag around unemployed and working like dogs until they've been able to work again at that university 5 years later for a shit position.
Also, you keep on being an aggregate teacher (the same as someone without a PhD) until you become a certified PhD.
How do you get a certified PhD? Working for free, guys!! Get enrolled in research projects, publish in peer reviewed journals, travel around to conferences where most times you even end up spending your own money and wasting money in the process, etc until you gain enough exp points so as to request it when there is an opening.
Also, did I mention that, in order to work as an aggregate professor, you need to have ANOTHER 20 hour/week job as a requirement?

TL;DR don't fall for the PhD meme.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:31:58 2020 No.24924371 >>24923759 Don't worry, bro. I read all that.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:36:52 2020 No.24924427

>>24923759
You are absolutely right. Don't forget that you are forced to release some actual research results and there is not always something groundbreaking to find so people make token papers and it fucking sucks.

It's enough to do a bachelors degree, and then do whatever you want.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:00:40 2020 No.24925173 >>24921677 I'm still annoyed that after it finally came out after being released on Fakku it ended up just being a shitty MTL.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 02:38:42 2020 No.24930957 >>24923759 Yeah academia is a fucking cancer. Getting a tenure these days is a miracle, you'll waste your life in the name of vocation. Being a postdoc sucks so much anons

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 03:41:38 2020 No.24931658
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>>24925173
It wasn't a shitty MTL. It's just a bit harder to read than the usual VNs and I doubt the TL was experienced enough to make such an idea read well. I don't know who the TL was though. maybe someone can screenshot?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:08:06 2020 No.24931969 File: 51 KB, 805x393, the fuck.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24931658 I was going to load it up to check, but now it's crashing when trying to advance past the first line.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:26:42 2020 No.24932177 >>24931969 Eroge Japan is a japanese company so I assume they hired a bilingual translator who obviously makes ESL-Mistakes but MTL reads much differently, even edited.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:27:55 2020 No.24932194 >>24932177 Oh, people might not know but Eroge Japan and Henteko Doujin are two companies with the same guy behind it. Both are japanese companies.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:34:50 2020 No.24932281
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So Yumeutsutsu Remaster is now coming out on Vita and it has the SAME fucking price as all other versions. Even scaled down for the vita they have the audacity to demand more than 100 Bucks for these games. What the fuck Degica?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 04:35:55 2020 No.24932294 File: 654 KB, 1280x833, C0THdrh.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Even worse...

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:52:50 2020 No.24933129 >>24932281 >>24932294 because they know retards will buy it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:53:50 2020 No.24933137 >>24933129 Yuritards actually

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:57:40 2020 No.24933174 >>24933137 That's what he said.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 07:13:22 2020 No.24934006 >>24923134 Well there you go. If you run out of shit to read, why keep living?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 07:19:33 2020 No.24934109 >>24923079 >>24923134 Yeah, I love my job and I also love my hobby. kills self

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 07:53:55 2020 No.24934578 >>24934109 He was clearly coping. I assume he necked himself when the fact that he threw away his future to translate niche weeb porn for minimum wage became too hard to live with.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:11:05 2020 No.24934823 File: 160 KB, 513x788, Discord_7ho6iAZi6W.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is what murdered Conjueror.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:13:28 2020 No.24934863 File: 71 KB, 513x788, Discord_7ho6iAZi6W.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:19:56 2020 No.24934980 File: 168 KB, 513x788, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24934823 >>24934863 He was literally hanging out with Haro at the MG AX booth a week before he killed himself. Also, nice try.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:24:54 2020 No.24935079 Conjueror died less than a year before the greatest visual novel of all time was released. Very sad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:28:23 2020 No.24935137 >>24935079 Sakura Succubus?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:31:47 2020 No.24935195 File: 145 KB, 975x679, moogy-votes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24935137 Musicus of course.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:39:22 2020 No.24935316 >>24935195 >another musicshit overdrive vn Pass.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:41:23 2020 No.24935338 >>24934980 Shit. I accidently posted the unedited file. Now people who know Thorben will know what we wrote 3 years ago. Oh imagine my shock!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:42:54 2020 No.24935378 >>24935195 >My ideal of an eroge. Nothing will top this for me. But four other games topped it?

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:44:35 2020 No.24935408

>>24935378
It's moogy.
>You’ll also have to deal with knowing that the vast majority of people who read visual novels in English don’t have the level of reading comprehension or education necessary to really start to approach interpreting and understanding SubaHibi on anything but a surface level, so your efforts in translating it will be mostly wasted.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:46:05 2020 No.24935436

>>24935408
Moogy actually never did something bad to us. Usually his orbitals are the toxic ones that cause drama. Let the man enjoy his yuri and don't bully him.

He has been a gigantic edgelord in the past. Let him live with that shame thats engrained for eternity inside the vndb.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:49:35 2020 No.24935490 >>24935378 I don't know when he wrote that, but it lists the vote date as 2011. Maybe he should revise the review.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 08:50:23 2020 No.24935503 >>24935490 Yeah, his 5 orbiters might actually care what he thinks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:04:41 2020 No.24935695 >>24935436 >us You've been here since like 2018.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:11:36 2020 No.24935789

>>24935408
>>You’ll also have to deal with knowing that the vast majority of people who read visual novels in English don’t have the level of reading comprehension or education necessary to really start to approach interpreting and understanding SubaHibi on anything but a surface level, so your efforts in translating it will be mostly wasted.
And what education does moogy have? Shit, what education does Sca-ji have? VNs are middle brow entertainment at best.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:14:19 2020 No.24935827 >>24935695 I'm lurking since 2015 bro :/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 09:15:08 2020 No.24935831 >>24935789 Learning Japanese is the greatest thing a man can accomplish in Moogy's mind. ENGLISHY SPEAKY DUMB, JAPANESEY SPEAKY SMART

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 10:31:22 2020 No.24936892

>>24935831
This seems to be something that happens a lot when you take a dumbo and let them learn another language (not just Japanese). They come back and start talking about how the other language is just so much more expressive and oh, you just can't understand these books unless you read them in the original, English is so limited because it doesn't have noun genders or something, blah blah.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 11:32:17 2020 No.24937898 They made an English account https://twitter.com/monoceros_ENG

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 11:56:37 2020 No.24938285 Hi, I'm Leak-Anon. I know that Sumaga is actively worked on, be excited.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:32:22 2020 No.24938794 >>24934109 He didn't love his co-workers. Also, there's nothing more Japanese in spirit than leaving the Earth prematurely.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:34:51 2020 No.24938822 >>24938285 Release date: 2040

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:35:59 2020 No.24938838 >>24938285 I am sure you're lying, but that won't stop me from being excited!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:36:57 2020 No.24938852 >>24938822 Dunno about Release dates but I can confirm that it is not forgotten. In fact, all Nitroplus titles will be released, eventually.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:37:42 2020 No.24938860 >>24937898 https://twitter.com/monoceros_ENG/status/1286616883349852161 Huh. The music is genuinely good. Is this actually Jazz though as they claim? I guess Jazz can be slow and melodic too then.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:42:53 2020 No.24938918 >>24938860 It just doesn't feel "jazzy" because it's missing the sax. https://youtu.be/ZcThrAU9yLk

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 12:58:40 2020 No.24939147 >>24938852 >all Nitroplus titles will be released, eventually. are they working on a retranslation of phantom?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:03:21 2020 No.24939215 >>24938285 >>24938852 >all Nitroplus titles will be released, eventually. give us a rough idea of a release order

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:06:12 2020 No.24939259 >>24939215 Not him but I would assume Muramasa would be up after Sumaga since the translation is apparently done.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:12:32 2020 No.24939342 >>24939259 >Muramasa would be up after Sumaga since the translation is apparently done. i'm legit wondering what they are going after Muramasa because the translation almost finished judging from Moogy's posts

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:26:08 2020 No.24939492 File: 28 KB, 610x307, Aristocunts.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sometimes JAST descriptions make me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:28:57 2020 No.24939522 >>24939342 Those are taken over from the steam description of the game. Aristocunts is shitty enough so they gotta advertise every single mundane thing to make it seem contentious.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:31:54 2020 No.24939559 >>24939342 Well there's always Django, still "waiting on translation." Other than that I'd think they might go for Tokyo Necro.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:33:44 2020 No.24939578 >>24939559 No updates on Django but recently there has been some conversation about Tokyo Necro which also some JAST employees engaged with on their discord. They can't be so detached from it. Probably in negotiations?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 13:44:00 2020 No.24939713 >>24939578 i'm waiting on mojika to get an announcement since shiggygo drawn games do well in sales in the west

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 14:17:22 2020 No.24940175 Anyone plated amayui castle meister? How does it compare to kamidori?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 16:20:11 2020 No.24941866 >>24939559 They should just get Cuckoldkugai already. They already have access to the translated script. Cyberpunk wuxia with a guy who looks like a Fate character probably sells.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 18:03:50 2020 No.24943097 >>24941866 Even if the plot of Kikoukugai is kind of dumb in retrospect, it's a charmingly shameless kind of dumb. I like it a lot despite everything.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:14:21 2020 No.24943913
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Too bad we never got a translation of the PSP version of Ayakashibito. Not only does it remove the retarded sex scenes and add an additional route, but PPSSPP would allow us to make HD artwork mods with current upscaling tech that looks virtually hand drawn with just a drag and drop install.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 19:59:19 2020 No.24944437 >>24939342 I would say Axanael could be a safe choice since it's not that long. Either that or Phantom remake. >>24939578 >recently there has been some conversation about Tokyo Necro Such as?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 21:25:37 2020 No.24945372 >>24944437 >I would say Axanael could be a safe choice since it's not that long. Either that or Phantom remake. Axanael could also fit that teaser/hint they revealed at AX 2019.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 21:34:02 2020 No.24945450 >>24943913 >Ayakashibito Is the translator okay?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 21:36:25 2020 No.24945466 >>24945450 Gone again. Returned a few years ago after /vn/ sent thank you emails for the work on Ayakashibito that went completely under the radar in 2014.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:04:09 2020 No.24947519 >>24945466 Didn't she get pregnant?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 05:43:58 2020 No.24949535 >>24945372 >hint they revealed at AX 2019. What hint?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 05:44:53 2020 No.24949543 Checkerpeck released a trial of Shukufuku no Campanella. Great game. Go play it. https://vndb.org/r73316 >>24949535 The hint was the trailer with guns, but that one is Django, not Axanael.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 06:49:08 2020 No.24950212 >>24949535 https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/1146669097750368256

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 09:05:04 2020 No.24952307 >>24947519 I don't know, I don't really follow anyone in the medium. This is the only place I get my news.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 09:35:00 2020 No.24952682 >>24935195 >Musicus Isn't this cuck shit?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 09:38:34 2020 No.24952723 >>24952682 The MC raises someone elses child. So yes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:36:44 2020 No.24953596 File: 935 KB, 608x891, 1595618673417.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Happy Anniversary Guys

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:10:08 2020 No.24954151

>>24943913
800x600 art being upscaled to 3200x2400 with this level of detail and accuracy is mind blowing. Localization companies should really look into doing this. Cheap laptops, tablets and even phones all have resolutions that exceed 720p and 600p. I've seen people use low resolution artwork as an excuse not to buy something before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:12:32 2020 No.24954198 >>24943913 >Not only does it remove the retarded sex scenes Fuck off faggot

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:20:13 2020 No.24954341 >>24954151 >Localization companies should really look into doing this. Didn't Sol Press do that with Sakura Sakura and even with Doddler's help it delayed the game for like a year.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:22:39 2020 No.24954379

>>24954198
No, really. The sex scenes in Ayakashibito are retarded and exist solely to fill a quota. I'm not saying sex scenes in general are retarded and shouldn't exist.

The sex scenes with the heroines are fine, and in Suzu's case, great, especially during the traumatic events in the true route. The sex scenes between the other members of the main cast are also fantastic, and there's no such things a harem in this one. Here's what's not fine:
>omnipotent being needs potty training and it ends in fingering and is never, ever mentioned again at any point in the story, also happens at the very beginning of the game with the main heroine
>random cuts to villains having orgies with random soldiers, or with each other, incest included, never amounts to anything
>random rape scenes with minor characters (one is decent because the protag goes super saiyan and wants to kill the rapists before he's stopped), including one with a character who's in the story for a brief moment in name only and later gets a full rape CG
>sex scene between the protag and his teacher's love interest, while said teacher defeats the villains by himself a few floors above
>cheating in the true route with a minor character while the main heroine is in a life threatening situation
>random masturbation scene with a minor character
The main character has strong morals and a personal code he follows. He would never cheat on his love interest, nor would he have sex with someone else's. This takes away from the story as a whole, and the 15+ version would objectively be the superior experience.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:28:22 2020 No.24954484 >Here's what's not fine: You being bitching about sex scenes like a Reddit faggot

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:30:21 2020 No.24954515
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>>24954341
The only game with upscaling that I'm familiar with is Rance 6, and while the gesture is nice, the tech used ultimately made it look worse. It would come down to resources in the end, but the technology to get results seen in that CG exists and is free to use. This is the original image.
>>24954484
Grow up. I'm not bitching. I'm saying these scenes don't fit in. Ayakashibito is narrative driven and the scenes mentioned exist to fill a quota and negatively affect the storytelling.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:32:49 2020 No.24954560 >>24949543 >Translation up to the OP. Heh.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:33:58 2020 No.24954574 >>24954515 >Grow up Your on 4chan retard

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:35:04 2020 No.24954598 >>24949543 Is he not going to work on the h-scenes

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:35:24 2020 No.24954603 >>24954574 Yet you stick out like a sore thumb, babby.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:36:42 2020 No.24954622 >>24954603 >Yet you stick out like a sore thumb, babby Reddit is that way faggot

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:38:24 2020 No.24954638 >>24954622 This is getting sad. The adults are speaking. Go play with your toys.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:41:33 2020 No.24954673 >>24954638 why do you argue like a tranny

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:46:00 2020 No.24954734 >>24954379 t. quof

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:47:38 2020 No.24954758 >>24954734 Go play nukige, gay.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:49:56 2020 No.24954801 >>24954379 >The sex scenes in Ayakashibito are retarded and exist solely to fill a quota I'm glad these type of stuff stopped on recent releases, why where developers back then even making eroge if they hated ero so much?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:50:26 2020 No.24954809 >>24954341 Yeah, I remember something like this happening. Sakura Sakura sold like shit to make things worse for Sol Press, but that isn't too surprising.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:53:20 2020 No.24954837

>>24954801
Because the market demands porn. All of Higashide's scenarios have forced sex scenes that mostly don't fit in anywhere. I think very few VNs from that era actually have sex scenes that add anything to the story. Saya no Uta and Kikokugai are the only ones that come to mind where they aren't just there to get people hard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:53:26 2020 No.24954840 >>24952682 No. Go back to /vn/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:58:33 2020 No.24954897 >>24954801 >why where developers back then even making eroge if they hated ero so much? They wanted to write adventures games but knew they wouldn't sell without porn shoved in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:59:51 2020 No.24954919 >>24954897 And that's a good thing.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:02:46 2020 No.24954959

>>24954919
How? Take Kanon for example. The H-scenes are modular so they can be removed without affecting anything. Which also means they have no place in the story, so characters will fuck prior to establishing a romantic relationship and it's never mentioned again. If I want to fap there's plenty of other shit available.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:02:57 2020 No.24954964 >>24954919 Depends on context. If it negatively affects storytelling, it's a mistake. Sex scenes should be meaningful. Heroine scenes are fine, random or out of character sex scenes belong in nukige or moege.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:04:12 2020 No.24954982 >>24954964 Rape scenes can also be used to great effect. e.g, Berserk.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:06:03 2020 No.24955008 >>24954959 who gives a fuck what you want >>24954964 >If it negatively affects storytelling, it's a mistake says you faggot >nukige or moege. not the samething retard

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:07:00 2020 No.24955022 >>24955008 coomer gon coom

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:07:52 2020 No.24955038 >>24955008 Have a construction conversation or go back to /vn/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:08:51 2020 No.24955054 >>24955038 This isn't your thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:10:09 2020 No.24955071 >>24955054 And this isn't your board. Here you go: >>>/vg/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:10:14 2020 No.24955074 >>24954959 >>24954964 A story with a romance that has no sex is not believable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:10:30 2020 No.24955076 >>24955054 See >>24954603 You're noticeably one of the only genuinely unlikable people here, and it seems you can't hold a conversation without spilling your spaghetti.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:11:40 2020 No.24955092

>>24955074
Which is why I said it depends on the context and that sex scenes should be meaningful and make sense within the plot. The discussion involves random or out of character sex scenes in games like Ayakashibito. There's no way it can be argued that they improve the narrative.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:13:25 2020 No.24955117 >>24955076 your post is peak reddit

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:14:00 2020 No.24955128

>>24955074
It depends. I don't think it's "believable" that every high school couple immediatley starts fucking as soon as they start dating. A lot of routes end prior to the point where sex might realistically occur (especially routes that end as soon as the dating starts). In games that drag things out longer, sure. But even then I don't think you necessarily have to depict, and not every game is entirely focused on romance to begin with, even if it's included. Not fully portraying the romantic aspect isn't a problem in that case.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:14:05 2020 No.24955129 >>24955092 Then it's the fault of the writer for not making that sex scene fit in his game, not the sex scene's fault.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:15:23 2020 No.24955154 >>24955128 >I don't think it's "believable" that every high school couple immediatley starts fucking as soon as they start dating. You don't think something which happens all the time in the real world is believable? Get out your basement.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:16:05 2020 No.24955168 >>24955154 Note that I used the word "every" please.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:17:19 2020 No.24955188 >>24955168 In your post you also say that there are games which drag things out longer, so your use of "every" doesn't really mean shit, does it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:18:23 2020 No.24955204 >>24955129 It's not. The narrative is fully fleshed out and all meaningful characters have appropriate sex scenes. The problem is the random cutaway sex scenes that happen and exist only to fill a quota. See >>24954379

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:18:49 2020 No.24955213

>>24955188
It does. Take a route that ends as soon as the dating begins or very soon afterwards. You're telling me it hasn't believably depicted a romance because you haven't seen the characters fuck. I don't see how that makes it believable for the reason I gave.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:25:06 2020 No.24955312

>>24955154
I hate to pull the experience card, but I had a relationship in high school (with a virgin girl) which became sexually active and it was a protracted, gradual development. I wasn't getting pro-slut level blowjobs a week later. I've never read a VN that actually depicted this stuff in way that seemed real. In some ways that isn't necessarily a bad thing as reality can be disappointing, but still.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:25:44 2020 No.24955321

>>24955204
I fail to see what quota most of those are filling? Sounds like shitty writing and set ups for forced drama to me. If the quota was to give each character a h-scene then the writer could have easily added in "what-if" h-scenes for them like many other games have done.
>>24955213
>You're telling me it hasn't believably depicted a romance because you haven't seen the characters fuck.
Yes. Sex is the second biggest thing in any relationship, if your characters never have sex then you've failed to write a decent romance.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:26:37 2020 No.24955337 >>24955321 >Yes. Sex is the second biggest thing in any relationship, if your characters never have sex then you've failed to write a decent romance. Do you believe that there were any "decent" romances written prior to modern pornography?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:27:48 2020 No.24955358 >>24955074 Yes, because every romantic couple has hardcore sex the day they meet. While that's true for some people, there are legitimate couples who wait for years until they screw. Not everyone operates by H-manga rules.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:29:19 2020 No.24955378 >>24955312 >In some ways that isn't necessarily a bad thing as reality can be disappointing, but still. https://youtu.be/9Rtvwu75K3I Reminded me of this song.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:32:54 2020 No.24955438

>>24955337
Maybe you should read some romance stories if you think sex doesn't exist in them.
>>24955358
>Yes, because every romantic couple has hardcore sex the day they meet.
Do you people even read VNs? In most of them the events take place over a span of a good few months or even a year+. Do you want every VN to be Azumi's route from Majikoi or something?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:33:41 2020 No.24955449 >>24955438 >Maybe you should read some romance stories if you think sex doesn't exist in them. You're being disingenuous. You're not asking for sex to occur, you're asking for a pornographic depiction of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:35:36 2020 No.24955481 >>24955438 >Maybe you should read some romance stories if you think sex doesn't exist in them. Tell me a romance written before 1900 that meets your specifications.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:37:10 2020 No.24955502

>>24955321
>If the quota was to give each character a h-scene then the writer could have easily added in "what-if" h-scenes for them like many other games have done.
It's already a 50+ hour VN with 4 completely differently themed routes with no repeat content. I suspect the script was finished and then had sex scenes injected later. Said quota is the issue and results in out of place and forced sex scenes that do nothing but take away from the overall experience. I don't think it's necessary to see a random character with no direct dialog or even a face associated with the name suddenly show up in a rape scene, nor could does a way to do it without "shitty writing" exist.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:39:14 2020 No.24955531 >>24955502 >that do nothing but take away from the overall experience for you, many people don't care so deal with it

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:40:38 2020 No.24955547 >>24955531 Again, it depends on the context. If it's a serious narrative, it's out of place and introduces thematic and pacing issues. If it's comedic moege it's fine.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:41:06 2020 No.24955552

>>24955449
Would you not consider the sex scene in titanic to be a "pornographic depiction"?
>>24955481
But why? We're talking about things that were created in the current era, things were much different back then and people had different morals and ideals.
>>24955502
>a random character with no direct dialog or even a face associated with the name suddenly show up in a rape scene
But what quota would that be filling? Sounds to me like the author just wanted to include a rape scene himself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:41:42 2020 No.24955562 >>24955531 Are you incapable of having a discussion without throwing a tantrum?

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:43:00 2020 No.24955587

>>24955552
>But what quota would that be filling? Sounds to me like the author just wanted to include a rape scene himself.
Game needs X amount of sex scenes to fill the arbitrary quota of whatever was acceptable for a VN of that size at the time. The heroines already have 3+ each, as do the villains.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:43:41 2020 No.24955596

>>24955552
>Would you not consider the sex scene in titanic to be a "pornographic depiction"?
The question was about things prior to modern pornography, so your example is not relevant.
>But why? We're talking about things that were created in the current era, things were much different back then and people had different morals and ideals.
So it's subjective then.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:44:47 2020 No.24955613 >>24955562 why are you crying so much?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:46:42 2020 No.24955643 >>24955613 "Deal with it" as you say.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:47:05 2020 No.24955650

>>24955613
Why are you so insufferable? You're the only one here incapable of holding a conversation. I don't understand why you even try to interact with others online when you clearly have some issues you need to work through. I can easily identify you each time you post.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:47:10 2020 No.24955654 Why do people think that VNs are anything other than a type of pornographic material?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:49:06 2020 No.24955676 >>24955654 The h content in most plotge is an afterthought.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:49:44 2020 No.24955683 >>24955676 Says who?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:51:25 2020 No.24955708 >>24955654 So what are all-ages VNs? Are they not VNs? Fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:51:33 2020 No.24955709 >>24955683 Anyone with a brain. Said content is seldom mentioned ever again after it takes place, nor does it affect anything other than rewarding your romance flag with a fap.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:54:14 2020 No.24955744 >>24955708 They exist, but they're normally not good and I'd wager that most VN fans would agree that porn would only improve them. It's only a minority of cartel faggots like yourself that think otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:54:48 2020 No.24955753 >>24955709 That doesn't sound like an afterthought, more like they know what >they're making is porn so in they include them, if they were so confident in their story they would make it all ages.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:56:06 2020 No.24955773 Hata doesn't even need to derail this thread. Idiots can do it on their own ... :/ Guys we reach the limit soon and we discussed nothing!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:56:22 2020 No.24955777 >>24955753 Or in other words, they write a story and then the include the sex scenes to appease the regulars of the medium, i.e, a necessary afterthought.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:57:00 2020 No.24955784 >>24955744 VNs are a type of adventure game. They aren't necessarily romantic fap fodder. You don't seem to really get what they even are.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:58:27 2020 No.24955802 >>24955784 Anon doesn't understand that not everything is moege fapbait, but that's all he reads so the that means the entire medium is just porn with no other purpose or a focus on storytelling.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:01:47 2020 No.24955848 >>24955784 >>24955802 Every all-ages VN I've seen has been romance based with fucking occurring off screen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:02:02 2020 No.24955855 >>24955773 I know, today is the five year anniversary for this >>24953596 and nobody even brought it up instead we got this guy >>24955650 seething

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:02:33 2020 No.24955860 >>24955773 >Guys we reach the limit soon and we discussed nothing! What kind of newfaggotry is this?

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:04:01 2020 No.24955877

>>24955773
Nigger, the limit had been reach long before this topic got discussed. Already headed for page 10, but I guess you don't want the thread to be active.
>>24955855
You're the only one seething here, buddy. Try to behave like a normal human being for once and you might not get shit on for being an insufferable manchild.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:04:53 2020 No.24955890

>>24955777
They write a story fully knowing they will include sex scenes that only serve as pornographic material, considering how many all ages games exist they could have not done that but still choose so they could sell a porn game to an audience that wants porn.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:05:05 2020 No.24955898
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>>24955848
I used to think of them as some kind of unique thing too, so I get where you're coming from. But they're called ADVs in Japan for a reason, because they're adventure games. One thing that kind of got me to understand it was looking at katan's blog. His list of best games includes shit like Myst, The Longest Journey, etc. classed directly with "visual novels." Take something intermediary like YU-NO and you can really see it. They're just different types of the same thing.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:06:50 2020 No.24955921

>>24955890
You're just supporting the argument. Games with porn sell more, so they shoehorn it in. Plot driven VNs have it mostly just to appeal to a wider audience and is just there for the sake of it, not because the writer had some amazing sex scenes in mind. The guy who wrote Ayakashibito even left the medium, and his last VNs were 15+.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:07:26 2020 No.24955931 >>24955877 that's a big cope your doing right now

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:12:56 2020 No.24956030

>>24955898
If I wanted an adventure game that spends half the title going on about romance only to allude to the other half of the romance happening offscreen, I'd play an actual video game. I've got nothing against all-ages title, other than the fact they try to make romance a big part of it then only show half of it in 99% of all-ages titles. Look you want to do a DBZ VN be my guest, but if you're going to do ishuzoku reviewers except you cut out the entire review portion then you can fuck off. If you're going to do a romance driven title, show ALL of the romance. If you're doing an action or mystery style title then stick to it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:18:50 2020 No.24956153 >>24956030 I think we just play these games for different reasons. I read them for the story primarily and don't care if there's porn or not. Some of the more fulfilling romance stories I've read had no H scenes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:20:08 2020 No.24956179 File: 855 KB, 800x600, YwkKZcn.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Checkerpecks TL of Shukufuku no Campanella is surprisingly not bad!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:21:10 2020 No.24956195 50 Shades of Grey is one of the biggest selling novels of all time. The writing and scenes are cringe but people know what they're getting. The same with VNs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:22:06 2020 No.24956211 >>24956179 It sucks that the guy working on it says he doesn't won't to keep working on it unless he gets support

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:22:12 2020 No.24956213 >>24956179 Have you checked it against the Japanese? Maybe they just have a good re-writer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:22:57 2020 No.24956229 File: 2.16 MB, 5120x2880, 1595697546421.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Evenicle HD mod when?

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:24:40 2020 No.24956256

>>24956213
It's actually very close to the japanese, in fact too close. The sentence structure is close to the japanese original.

But what would surprise you. He didn't bow to the cartel and kept Honorifics and speech quirks like Ara Ara. He is /ourguy/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:25:26 2020 No.24956270 >>24956256 Cool. I'll check it out.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:26:13 2020 No.24956283

>>24956153
Imagine if a title was about vanquishing a demon lord except when it came time to raid the castle it faded to black and by the time everything came back the protagonist was talking about how it was the most epic fight he's ever had and that he barely managed to claw victory from the claws of defeat using some nifty tricks he picked up along the adventure. That's all-ages VN's where they force romance in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:28:54 2020 No.24956332 Hata (aka me) actually made a "review" of Checkerpecks TL. https://vndb.org/t14395

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:29:26 2020 No.24956343 >>24956283 I simply don't view sex in that way. I get nothing out of most H-scenes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:33:56 2020 No.24956416 >>24956343 I've never fapped to h-content in a VN.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:34:42 2020 No.24956432 >>24956416 I see you've never read Ultimate Boob Wars.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:35:08 2020 No.24956445 >>24956332 If you like Sayonara wo Oshiete so much then why don't you translate it, you fag?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:35:47 2020 No.24956455 >>24956432 I mean, I can't fap to the sounds of someone fisting a bucket full of water to usually subpar artwork and extremely annoying exaggerated moaning.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:36:13 2020 No.24956462 >>24956455 You just confirmed that you've never read ultimate boob wars.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:36:21 2020 No.24956464 >>24956416 I fap to it occasionally but it has to really hit certain kinks. Otherwise it's just a chore to click through. The music tends to put me to sleep too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:36:56 2020 No.24956478 >>24956445 I'm not confident enough to translate...otherwise I would've hired at JAST already.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:36:59 2020 No.24956479 >>24956462 Of course I haven't, but I assume it's all the same. After 100+ VNs that's all there ever is. I've started CTRLing them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:37:32 2020 No.24956489 File: 907 KB, 804x604, 79005346.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24956479

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:40:46 2020 No.24956557 >>24956332 >There's a mysterious power called Ale Sounds like a story about alcoholism.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:41:40 2020 No.24956580 >>24956557 We actually discussed that Ale, might not be the right TL. The original is エール Eeru... what would you make of it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:41:58 2020 No.24956587 >>24956464 >The music tends to put me to sleep too. By the way this is the only good H-scene music I've ever heard. It really nails that anxious, surreal feeling of having sex for the first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g0_TUUyuXs

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:45:16 2020 No.24956656 >>24956580 I'm not a translator so I'm pulling this out of my ass: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ell Apparently an old unit of measurement. Also, ELL is an acronym for English Language Learners.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:46:09 2020 No.24956676 >>24956656 Is that the new EOP?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:47:41 2020 No.24956702 >>24956580 >There's a mysterious power called Ale (pretty much Mana). If you collect Ale and crystallize it, it turns into a jewel. Going to go out on a limb and say it's meant to be Air.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:47:57 2020 No.24956708 >>24956676 If you want it to be. ヽ(〃･ω･)ﾉ

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 14:02:55 2020 No.24956924 File: 1.23 MB, 3200x2400, 79005346.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24956489 Too low res, bro. Let's fix that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 14:06:21 2020 No.24956977 >>24956924 So this is the power of true oppai.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 14:19:12 2020 No.24957150 >>24956587 This is the best sex scene music. You definitely want to feel pure depression when you watch someone fuck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdl5_CcbfDg

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 14:49:52 2020 No.24957638 Is Aroduc still dead?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:02:45 2020 No.24957833 >>24957638 Died from lethal sodium intake.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:47:06 2020 No.24958415 >>24956924 Technology sure is wonderful.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:53:28 2020 No.24958513 >>24958415 Too bad devs don't use it and still release VNs with 1998 resolutions in 2020.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:56:08 2020 No.24958551 >>24958513 Bro, they still use fax over there... Though, I wonder if it's because most people don't actually have PCs and just go to the local cafes. Not sure how big the screens are over there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 16:20:56 2020 No.24958881 does anyone know how unplayable Kimihime is without the patch

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:14:26 2020 No.24959547 >>24957638 He still spends time shitting on anime every season on his blog.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:15:14 2020 No.24959559 >>24956283 funny cos missing out key scenes is a writing trope in Japanese literature/filmmaking, so much so that Nisioison parodied/paid tribute to it in a Katanagatari story which almost exactly copies your plot description!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:33:32 2020 No.24959767 >>24958551 I was thinking more about western localization. I think people would be more willing to pay for something that isn't either a tiny window or ultra blurry fullscreen. At 1440p, even 720p is a small box on the screen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:34:52 2020 No.24959783 >>24958551 >Bro, they still use fax over there... It's still used in the west too, you know?

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:42:28 2020 No.24961079
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https://twitter.com/BishoujoNEWS/status/1287162065166180352?s=20

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/19714-kami-no-rhapsody-translation-by-rhapsody-translation-full-patch-released/?page=12&tab=comments#comment-521160

What a fucking day to be alive. First the Campanella Trial is coming out and now Kami no Rhapsody, which makes it the second completely no-MTL Eushully Game that makes it in the west.

Fan-TL Community is on fire, lads.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:44:36 2020 No.24961097 >>24961079 >no-MTL >Fuwanovel

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:47:45 2020 No.24961135 >>24961079 Eushully gets sucked off really hard here but have any of their games after Kamidori even been as good?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:49:05 2020 No.24961148 File: 4 KB, 572x54, 12315.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>24961079 >Kami no Rhapsody lol just when I thought of playing it

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:50:54 2020 No.24961163

>>24961135
Kami no Rhapsody isn't that good sadly, but the novelty makes the release notable.

Their best games are the Ikusa Megami series, LA DEA, Soukoku no Arterial and Sankai Ou no Yubiwa imho.

The newer games since Grasesta got worse and worse and the newest Conquista doesn't even allow non-windows10 PCs to play it. But they run smoothly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:50:54 2020 No.24961164 >>24961135 No, and kamidori isn't good either.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:50:57 2020 No.24961165 >>24961135 >after Kamidori Kamidori wasn't even that good. It's massively overhyped.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:52:23 2020 No.24961181 >>24961163 >Their best games are the Ikusa Megami series, LA DEA, Soukoku no Arterial and Sankai Ou no Yubiwa imho. You haven't played any of those though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:56:52 2020 No.24961230 >>24961181 Correct. Just Soukoku no Arterial. It's a cool card game. I should add it to my vndb. But I'm lurking for a while and Tyr is an expert for those games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:57:31 2020 No.24961238 >>24961164 >>24961165 Yeah, that's kind of my point. Kamidori was only alright so why is there such a demand for the rest of their games?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:58:47 2020 No.24961249 >>24961238 From my experience the people who played Kamidori put like 100-200 hours into the game. Also this Sseth guy reviewed it so its widely known.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 19:58:56 2020 No.24961252 >>24961230 So why even give an opinion?

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 22:34:59 2020 No.24963158

>>24961163
>Conquista doesn't even allow non-windows10 PCs to play it
Windows 8.1 is fine too (as in officially supported), it's Windows 7 that the game refuses to start under. It can be patched to work under 7 however. In a similar fashion Amayui didn't work under XP but could be patched to restore XP compatibility, unofficially of course.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:24:15 2020 No.24966022 >>24955708 That is all age eroge, they still fuck but off screen.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:32:05 2020 No.24966142 >>24966022 Dumb post.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:07:42 2020 No.24967949 >>24963158 Oh thanks. 8.1 is such an edge case of an operating system these dayss that I didn't think about that one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 07:02:15 2020 No.24970208 >>24966022 Eroge can't be all ages, retardbro

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 07:06:15 2020 No.24970430 >>24970361 New thread up with the updates for this week

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