/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status

Aikano ~Yukizora no Triangle~ - Common Route translated
Aiyoku No Eustia - In progress 100% TL patch leaked, project to continue, 100% Translated/edited/TLC
Akatsuki no Goei ~Principal-tachi no Kyuujitsu~ - 100% translated and edited, 60.92% through QA
>Akatsuki no Goei ~Tsumibukaki Shuumatsuron~ - 48,788 lines translated (80.25%), 49 lines edited (0.08%)
>Amagami - Released
>ANONYMOUS;CODE - Patch that translates untranslated voice lines and revises script released
Baku Ane 2 - Prologue, Ritsuka Fully translated, Wakana 8/8 Lessons, 5% route, Mashiro 5/8 lessions, Miran 2/5 events and Sayaka 1/3 events translated, Ritsuka patch released
CHAOS;HEAD Love Chu Chu! - 65.04% translated, 6.17% edited
CHAOS;CHILD Love Chu Chu - Being translated
Chicchakunai Mon - 100% translated and 39.5% edited
Chusingura 46+1 - 29630/82770 (35.80%) lines translated, Kuranosuke route partial patch released
Deatte 5-fun wa Ore no Mono! Jikan Teishi to Atropos - Common Route patch released
Dragon Knight 4 - 58% translated
Eiga Go-toubun no Hanayome ~Kimi to Sugoshita Itsutsu no Omoide~ - Common + Ichika + Nino + Yotsuba routes translated, Miku route day 1 of 5 translated
>Fate/Stay Night - Partial patch released with a new translation for Fate/UBW/9 days of HF
GinIro Haruka - "Translation finished. Second pass finished. QA done. Preparing final build."
Haruka na Sora - Sora and Yahiro routes translated, Kozue 60% translated, Sora 90% edited
Honoo no Haramase Oppai Nyuu Doukyuusei ~Oppai mo Haramase! New Class Zen'in Harama-sensation!~ - Picked up, porting to Ren'Py
If My Heart Had Wings: Snow Presents - 23% translated
>Jan Jaka Jan - Released
Jisatsu no Tame no 101 no Houhou - 17% translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - 2nd Alpha patch released, Astarotte route finishing up
Kaseki no Uta - Translation: 15389/15389 (100%)
Ken ga Kimi - 58% translated
Koukan no Toriko-Tachi - Prologue, common, and Cuckold Play route translated, Swinging Route 35%, Yukari POV 40%
Kud Wafter - AA Version 23,835/31,579 (75.5%) Lines translated, 18+ Version 19,240 / 33,113 (58.1%) lines translated
Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~ - Translation finished, fully edited
Lover Able - 100% translated and edited, 16254/34467 lines approved (50.42%)
Lucky Star ~Ryouou Gakuen Outousai~ - episode 1 patch released
Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru - 66% translated
Miagete Goran, Yozora no Hoshi o - 1 of 4 routes translation finished for the restoration patch, Houkiboshi Hika 2 of 4 H-scenes translated
Nursery Rhyme - 100% translated and edited, text insertion 100% complete, testing ongoing
Otogirisou - 100% translated
Pure Pure - 100% translated, needs proofreading, partial patch released, all routes have been inserted
Sakura no Uta - Chapter I 30% translated
Sakura No Toki - 1% translated
Sakura Wars 2 - Demo patch released, ADV, Battle, and "Long Day in the Theater" mode fully translated, disc 1 text inserted
Sen no Hatou, Tsukisome no Kouki - Both original and fan disc 100% translated, in need of editing
Shin Hayarigami - 48% translated
Shirotsume Yubiwa - 100% translated, 50% beta patch released
Shizuku - Ongoing translation
>Taima Seiko Alice - Upcoming translation
>Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu - 100% translated, Editing ongoing
Tokimeki Memorial 2 - Being translated
>Tsui no Sora Remake - 100% translated and edited, entering QC
Umi kara Kuru Mono - 91/138 scripts translated
Yosuga no Sora - Translation finished, editing and TLC ongoing, Total: TL 100% TLC 71% ED 55%, Common/Kazuha/Motoka/Sora routes fully edited


Official work

MangaGamer
The Pillagers of Raillore - Out of Beta
Ciconia - Phase 1 Released
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
Rance 03 - 55% translated, 41% edited
Rance X - 70.5% translated, 5% edited
Luckydog1 - Translation nearly complete
Funbag Fantasy 4 - 66% translated, 63% edited
Eve of the 12th Month - 96% translated and 47.5% edited
DEAD DAYS - 100% translated and 88.5% edited
Beat Valkyrie Ixseal - 61% translated and 58% edited
Welcome to a Sexy, Open World - 56% translated and 51% edited

JAST
>Goblins on the March: Breed All Humans! - Released
VenusBlood Hollow fandiscs - Kickstarter reached goal, March release listed
Sumaga- Slow progress ongoing
Katahane - Progress being made again
Django - Not actively making progress
Tokyo Hero Project - Translation finished
Machine Child - Still being developed
Yomegami: My Sweet Goddess - 100% translated
Yamizome Liberator - Picked up
Mojika: Truth Rears Its Ugly Head - Picked up
Djibril - Being translated
Sisters: Last Day of Summer - In QA
Masquerade: Hell Academy - In QA
Paradise - In QA

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Sekai/Denpa
Happy Saint Sheol - 25% edited, Demo released
Nie no Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of Offerings - 100% translated and edited, 70% engine work
Harumade Kururu - Waiting on build
Rewrite+ Harvest Festa - 100% translated, 40% edited
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - 50% translated
Sumire - Picked up
Sanarara R - 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Karakara 3 - 100% translated and edited, 70% engine work
Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru - 100% translated, 35% edited
Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita - 100% translated, in editing
Chiisana Kanojo no Serenade - 75% translated, 35% edited
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi 10% translated
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi AA - Announced
Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka - 50% translated
Re;Lord 3 - In QA
Hamidashi Creative - Announced
Inupara - In Development
Nekopara After La Vraie Familie - In Development
Parfait Remake - In translation
Raspberry Cube - Announced
NEKO-NIN exHeart SPIN - In translation

Nekonyan
Angel Chaos RE-BOOT!- January 2024 release
Irotoridori No Sekai - The Colorful World - In QA, Steam page up
>Aoi Tori - Steam review build functional, nearing QC
Dracu Riot - "Waiting on Warmsoft for a QA Build"
Melty Moment - 80% translated
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Floral Flowlove - 100% translated, 60% edited
Kakenuke Seishun Sparking - 15% translated, 5% edited
Love, Elections, & Chocolate - 100% translated, 17% edited, "Unity port in-progress"
Love Love Love, Burning in my Heart! - 100% translated and 74% edited
Ready or Not: The Deadline is Coming! - 100% translated, 17% edited, "Image editing complete, Engine work in progress"
Mysteries of the Heart: The Psychic Detective Case Files - 100% translated and edited, "Image editing in progress" working with developer on engine work
Secret Project 2 - 100% translated and edited, queued for Unity port
Secret Project 3 - 100% translated and edited, image editing complete, waiting on QA build

VisualArts
LUNARiA -Virtualized Moonchild- - 2023 release
Summer Pockets Reflection Blue - 2024 release

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - Hoping to resolve issues with the distribution platform by the end of September
Everlasting Flowers - June 27th release date

Aksys
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II - February 15th release
Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- - April 2024 release

Age titles
Kiminozo - Aiming for a Summer 2024 release

Fakku
Two Beasts Or Not To Beast!! - 2.0 version, editing in progress
Forbidden Ward - In Pre-Production

Saikey Studios (mix of official/unofficial)
Natural Corde -Aiyoku no Iro ni Somerarete, Watashi wa Arugamama no Jibun ni Naru- - Picked up
Anata Gomennasai, Watashi Mou... - 20% translated
Enrenchuu no Toshishita Kanojo ga Onna ni Ueta Osuzaru-domo no Gakuen de Koubi Aite ni Sareteta. - 10% translated
Toaru Hahaoya no Ayamachi ~Yukari Hen~ - 50% translated

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Shiravune
Kagura Genesis: Kuon's Story - January 26th release
>Holy Slave Academy - January 30th release
Dungeon Travelers: To Heart 2 in Another World - Febuary 14th release
Nukitashi 2 - Q1 2024 release
Ego's Spark - Q1 2024 release
>Criminal Border 2nd Offence - Q1 2024 release
Amazing Grace -What color is your attribute?- Q2 2024 release
Saving Mrs. Hinako with My Cock - 2024 release
Kara no Shoujo II - Announced
Kara no Shoujo III - Announced
Sacrifice Villains - Announced

Kagura Games
Winter Memories - January 6th release
Forsaken Quartet - Upcoming release

PQube
KONOSUBA - God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire! - Picked up

Aniplex
Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - June 30th release date listed

Love Lab
Ever Maiden - 2024 release

DLsite
Friendly lab - unlock(); - Upcoming release
Club Suicide - Picked up

Idea Factory
Sympathy Kiss - Febuary 27th release

Dramatic Create
Of the Red, the Light, and the Ayakashi Tsuzuri - Febuary 29th release

CRAFTWORK
Geminism - English version announced

Harukaze
Monkeys! - English release planned

Moonchime
Haunted Obachestra Vol.1 Awaking - Upcoming release

Alice In Dissonance
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Below - Upcoming release

WSS Playground
Tenshi no Takarabako - December release

G-mode
Shinjuku Soumei - Febuary release

HyoukanOpera
Knight Case Files - January release

MiKandi Japan
Libra of the Vampire Princess - New translation physical patch tested, back with programming, Steam patch testing to follow

Tensei Games
>My oshi vtuber jumped through the screen and now we're living together: Chill and vibey beast girl game streamer - Released
>My oshi vtuber jumped through the screen and now we're living together: Slightly psycho succubus ASMR streamer - Released
>My oshi vtuber jumped through the screen and now we're living together: I want to make a contract with the lady vampire - Released
>Do you like having sex with your colleague? I'll strip her down and make her a porn star! - Released

Artlink
Married Woman Hypnosis Counseling - Announced
A Tale of Hard Nipples ~The secret to this town's confectionery's delicious sweets is rich, fresh milk~ - Announced
>Professional Married Woman Cuckolder - Announced

SukeraSomero
LipTrip ~My Boss Is My Heat Suppressant?!~ - Febuary 22nd release

Cherry Kiss
Ara Ara Auntie Incest - January 12th release

PRODUCTION PENCIL
>Paradise Cleaning! -Tutor X Hypnosis- - January release
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>45667041
>Paradise Cleaning! -Tutor X Hypnosis- - January release
Pretty sure this is just an asset flip shovelware gameplay title, not the actual VN. Also the text in it will 99% likely be MTL just like all other Production Pencil self-published games.

[Anonymous No.]

It's always a joy to see Doddler talking about game engines.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1741036160418558288
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1741428258577723697
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/1741102190385860964

[Anonymous No.]

Happy 2024 everyone!

[Anonymous No.]

Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - Translation 100% dropped, TLC, editing, QA, image editing not happening

[Anonymous No.]

Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - Translation 100% complete TLC, editing, QA, image editing left

[Anonymous No.]

>>45668780
>TLC, editing, QA, image editing left
Where did they go?

[Anonymous No.]

With Nekonyan releasing Tenshi Souzou in January, Iroseka in February and, assuming they manage to release it, Aoi Tori in March is there really anything left in their backlog that people want? Shinsou Noise maybe? Everything either looks mediocre or has already been translated.
Feels like they're blowing their load early this year.

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>>45669780
when was the last time they released anything of note? they need the yuzukino to stay afloat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45669834
I guess clover days was something of note since it was stuck in fantl hell for so many years. If we don't count that then Aokana Extra2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45669780
They have a bunch of unannounced projects in the works so hopefully they'll finally announce them soon

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>>45669780
Iroseka is probably the only one of those they have any real control over the release date of those three (once its through Steam review at least, seems like it would have been December had the review finished). Tenshi Souzou is a combo with Hikari Field (and Yuzusoft is likely going to be pushing for it to release ASAP as well considering the long tails of the other Yuzusoft titles, Senren Banka managed 1,444 concurrent users today) and their hand being forced on Aoi Tori.

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>>45669955
Well the steam page for Tenshi says that it's releasing in January.

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>>45669955
>Senren Banka managed 1,444 concurrent users today
i love senren, and it's probably the best yuzuge to start with, but its popularity over all others yuzuge is a bit surprising. maybe it's the loli heroine.

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>>45669997
It was released right as lockdown started and has been riding that wave of popularity ever since.

[Anonymous No.]

another year has come to pass

december 2023 ended without any angels to be seen, surely december 2024 will bring us salvation

[Anonymous No.]

>Sakura No Toki - 1% translated
Huh? Who is translating this? Same guys doing Uta?

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>>45672453
Some fucking retard
>I have experience working on official translations, but due to some controversies in the past, I’ve decided to give up my name and start afresh. Furthermore, I’ll be doing the translation and image editing, while my friend will be doing the text editing.

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>>45672699
One time a professional translator joined my TL group for some fucking reason and not only did it turn out that he was a tranny, he also had FF14 open at all times
I wonder if the human brain intentionally forces people into being caricatures

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>>45671099
Next year for sure, they promised.

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>>45669780
where you get dates for iroseka and aoi tori, I wonder?

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>>45676101
Pic related for Iroseka
And Purplesoft are forcing Nekonyan to release Aoi Tori before April. So March seems most likely.

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>>45670030
Along with the power of word of mouth no doubt. I wonder what the Chinese otaku meme culture around that game is like. Those are insane numbers for a vn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45676528
Senren Banka has more reviews on Steam (17727) than Steins;Gate (16048) or Danganronpa 3 (17574) does.

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>>45679091
How many are chinese?

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>>45676143
I feel pity for the Steam reviewer who has to re-read this crap carefully for +100hours and check word per word if there's any racist, anti-feminist, anti-lgbt, anti copright, underage, fat-right, etc content that has to be "fixed" for the final script. Once fixed these parts are send again to be analysed again. No wonder why it takes them months to aprove it.

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>>45679788
reading through a 100+ hour kamige to then butcher it even further than it already is, why is the world like this

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>>45679180
16k i think?

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https://vndb.org/v39527

Mama ni wa Naisho no Papa Netori ~Watashi, Oyome-san ni Naru ne~

https://vndb.org/v23333

Kuro Gyaru Musume to no In'yoku Soukan ~Honrou Sareru Chichioya no Seiyoku~


Any chances of these two being picked up from Appetite and licensed as short games down the line?

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>>45684298
Tensei will probably do them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45684298
>>45684357
Appetite has the largest catalog of all vn companies, so it's probably best you contact tensei your interest in their specific titles.

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>>45684357
>>45684364
Is this how the rest of the Appetite Games were translated? Because honestly i did Master Servant Sex a lot from them and i noticed these titles are very good for license pickups.

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>>45684460
>i noticed these titles are very good for license pickups.
They're literally bottom of the barrel shovelware trash.

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>>45684481
Yes i can agree they are shovelware, but then again it does not mean there is not some good hidden gems in the shovelware that is worth getting.

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>>45684460
Tensei games is the cherry kiss games for appetite I'm pretty sure.

[Anonymous No.]

I wish a more concentrated effort could be displayed toward kinoge and kamige but unfortunately, EOPs really do love their 120min-240min nukiges which they instantly uninstall after completion. It's just a damn fucking shame. If you're going down the nukige route, at least TL Atelier stuff and if not that, why not do things like focus on Evil woman executive?
It's a shame.
I just don't get it.

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>>45685579
Be the change you want to see.

>why not do things like focus on Evil woman executive?
Because it's a comedy game which makes it hard to translate in the first place, plus it's long and has a shit ton a h-scenes.

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>MangaGamer
?

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>>45685579
As an EOP I prefer the lengthier oriented nukige with more scenes, interesting situations, or just generally higher quality than the short stuff. Atelier Kaguya, Squeez/Milkfactory, Lune, Bishop, etc. I like story and context to go with the sex, it makes it more fun. With something short, it just never reaches that build up and payoff that I want.

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>>45684481
some of them are decent. the choice to focus on specific niche fetish is an happy one.

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>>45685768
That was like 4 years ago and was basically a nothing burger. Why bring it up?

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>>45685579
>I wish a more concentrated effort could be displayed toward kinoge and kamige
Such as? Please give examples because i think this is a good conversation to have.
>EOPs really do love their 120min-240min nukiges which they instantly uninstall after completion.
Nothing wrong with short VN's being translated as they usually do not take from the lengthy VN's at all. Plus the recommendations i made earlier are just scenario's that i think is interesting and has not been done before. I mean literally when has there been a VN where a woman steals the MC away from another woman translated? It's nonexistent.
>TL Atelier stuff
You mean Atelier Kaguya? Because if you do i have mentioned https://vndb.org/v28731 a few threads back about it. There is some good content behind their catalog worth going into.
>why not do things like focus on Evil woman executive
I think this has been done a few times actually. Great Deciever by Empress is an example. Unless you have a specific scenario you like.
>>45685784
I can agree with that. I am not saying companies should abandon all of those licenses from them and focus only on short VN's. But just license a few here and there to prevent dead months. Also the appeal of short length VN's for someone is it caters to more specific scenarios that people can buy for an experience that is worth 10-12$ overall. If you are not that type it does make sense that the payoff is not worth it.

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>>45687579
NTA, but I read through Akuma de Oshioki recently, and a ~30 hour, multi-route nukige w/plot like that that he's saying companies should go after would be just an insane amount of work. Each h-scene is a few hundred lines, a good part of which is sound effects that don't transliterate well into English. And there are easily 50+ of them. Blowjobs and scenes where the heroine/MC has something obstructing their mouth would be especially difficult, you'd have to actually listen to the audio and puzzle out what they're trying to say, since the text is basically useless. The humor was surprisingly sophisticated too, which while enjoyable, also adds to the difficulty. And on top of that, there's all the weird fetish stuff, which makes a game like that basically impossible to market in the places where it can actually find an audience big enough to recoup the costs.

So I can understand why nobody attempts those kinds of games. And that's not even getting into the technical or logistical shit like needing engine tools that don't currently exist.

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>>45687684
This is a good point, some things are extremely cultural as well and is not simple to translate overall. It's not Monogatari in LN tier, but it does make for some VN's harder to translate over because it takes that same amount of effort and sophistication as well from Editor and Translator to bring over West. This also might explain why some licenses do not get picked up and some just do not want anything to do with the West at all, Eushully being notable of that example.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687684
are you saying no one reads these games because blowjob sounds are hard to read? what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687736
>Eushully being notable of that example.
Eushully just hate westerners. It's not like their games are hard to translate or anything, maybe excluding Amatsukaze.

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>>45687579
>I mean literally when has there been a VN where a woman steals the MC away from another woman translated? It's nonexistent.
Isn't that the whole premise of White Album 2? Never read it, but that was my general impressions.
>>45687743
I think he's saying fan translators don't want to do it because it's a lot of work just to help dudes fap, and neither do localization companies for money reasons.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687743
I'm saying the reason games like that don't get worked on is because the sum of all those small things about them make them difficult and unrealistic prospects for a company looking to earn money translating them.

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>>45687736
blatantly false. just hire better translators, i.e actual people that work in the translation industry. Look at hirahira hihiru for a recent example.
Besides, if retards could translate subahibi, dies irae and muramasa I really don't see where you're pulling this headcannon from. You sound like a localizer

[Anonymous No.]

Big nukige are usually too much for one person. Just look at Oppai Academy, they had to hire 7 translators.

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>>45687769
sum of what things though. blowjob noises? you've typed alot of words but ended up saying nothing.

>>45687759
>don't want to do it because it's a lot of work just to help dudes fap
I could replace this with literally anything and it'd still be true.
Plenty nukige get translated anyway, seems there's a market for them if this continues to be the case.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687777
Subahibi was okay, but Dies Irae's TL was pretty shoddy.
Muramasa had to come with a full PDF on shit they couldn't translate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687777
there's a big difference between nukige and all-ages plotge you can dump right on steam

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>>45687798
Yeah im not saying they're perfect, just that the amateur bunch could deliver readable translations of stuff considered extremely hard to TL.
The muramasa PDF was just TL notes for words that had no equivalent/names of things or stuff they chose not to translate.

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>>45687799
No, there isn't.
Maggot Baits exists btw.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687783
every translator know 5 kanji, together they managed to translate the whole vn.

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>>45687758
That's what i mean i kind of messed up my train of thought there and brought them in for a discussion about why some VN's do not come West despite demand.
>>45687759
>Isn't that the whole premise of White Album 2? Never read it, but that was my general impressions.
I do not think so.
>>45687777
Hiring better translators is easier said than done. Some things just take longer and are more difficult to work with than others is all i am saying.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687838
Maggot Baits took like 4 years to translate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687790
>blowjob noises
>sheer quantity of h-scenes (necessitates multiple translators >>45687783)
>difficult humor
>extreme fetish content giving you a smaller customer base to begin with
>technical problems like needing engine tools
were all things I brought up. It varies from game to game, but a lot of that is stuff any long-form nukige will deal with if a publisher is going to make a serious effort to bring them to the West. Which is why you don't see it much outside of like MF. And even they end up half rewriting the thing anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

https://ninetail.info/tn07/
New Trailer dropped for Gears Of Dragoon 3 coming out in a few months in Japan. I can only hope it comes over someday here, because it seems like they have taken feedback on the map system to know where your quest is, and the UI of the characters looks neat, and traversal on the map seems much easier than in the past with the 2.5D character traveling on the map. Maybe they can drop another trailer soon with battle gameplay and menu UI.

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>>45687897
https://steamdb.info/app/1999870/charts/
Doesn't seem like it performed that well.

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>>45687902
I would still say it performed well enough. Consider the fact that GoD2 has sold well on JAST store and also Steam ownership is decent even for a VN Gameplay game that is 8 years old. I do not think JAST or even Ninetail expects it to be very high.

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>>45687798
>Dies Irae's TL was pretty shoddy.
it's fine, you just fell for memes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687943
The routes https://vndb.org/s27508 translated were bad.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687947
explain how they were bad.

[Anonymous No.]

apparently nishida hajime is working on a new trap game. last ones had a simultaneous english release, so it's on topic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687956
santa claus

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>>45687877
>difficult humor
any japanese or otherwise non-english product since its subjective
>extreme fetish content
most nukige aren't like this unless ur gonna qualify big boobs and incest as an extreme fetish
>technical problems
any other visual novel
>sheer quantity of text
any other visual novel

so that leaves only blowjob noises, as I said.
>you don't see it outside of
See what?
>nukige will deal with
deal with what? how? nips wont change anything about their games.
>see MF
what's MF?
>rewriting
I've never heard of significant rewrites outside of a massive flop like kuroinu by MG

are u ok?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687964
yup, adapting a joke that doesn't make sense in english is definitely a hallmark of bad translations

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687943
>inserting random shit that Shirou never said
>TL mistakes later on with Isaac and castle references
it wasn't too bad but it had its share of fuckups. Muramasa's TL was way worse

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687971
>unless ur gonna qualify big boobs and incest as an extreme fetish
I think big boobs is about most you can get away with if you want to sell on Steam. see Milk Factory, they made the sister a step-sister in the last release since incest is too far
>what's MF?
...

[Anonymous No.]

>>45688034
of course the step incest cope is everywhere, doesn't really matter since no one cares about the word "step" existing.
you're claiming there's no nukige releases outside of milk factory or that they are some significant portion? interesting delusion
Don't expect me to know acronyms for nukige companies just because you're a fan.

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>>45669780
>is there really anything left in their backlog that people want?
Personally looking forward to Shinsou Noise, Seishun Sparking and Enki Dekinai. Don't really care about anything else besides those and the stuff you mentioned. I'm honestly just interested in when they're going to announce the secret projects.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687897
Wish they could afford to hire better artists.
>>45688034
Did they fix that in the non-steam version? If so maintaining multiple versions of the script can be added to the list of headaches.

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>>45687579
>Such as? Please give examples because I think this is a good conversation to have.
Well, I took the liberty of editing that 'image' recurrently posted around November and toward the end of December. It's nothing definitive but this would be as close to a
>"I hope this all gets TL'd someday list"
--list as can be, to me and maybe to some others given I think it's alright now.
This is my effort to establish what 'kamige' and 'kinoge' are and that's that. I look forward to the translations someday.

https://files.catbox.moe/da450r.png

[Anonymous No.]

>>45669780
>is there really anything left in their backlog that people want? Everything either looks mediocre or has already been translated.
your post gave me a melty moment

[Anonymous No.]

>>45688204
nice false flag

[Anonymous No.]

I never looked at the #plot scenes for subahibi but seeing some of the early SoL scenes in translation was sad. They weren't brilliant in the Japanese, but at least you could imagine them being funny for SOMEONE; the translation, not so much. I hope the parts people autism about are better, but I fear the worst... oh well. It's not like a lot of people enjoyed the start even in Japanese, even if I did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45688623
autism

[Anonymous No.]

>>45685579
The good nukige most of the times are hard to get licenses for. Let alone will they even make back the money they costed to get the licenses for. You need a really big platform to advertise your games to outside of even just Steam in general, and the big sales on Steam are from Chinese purchasers - not English. I don't think even advertising on Fakku! gets a whole lot of sales, and they are arguably the biggest platform to advertise hentai to in the normiesphere. And even then I don't think anyone that is actually spending money on Fakku goods is going to buy a visual novel porn book for the price of some 60+ dollars. Especially not in this market where people are living paycheck to paycheck and working 3 jobs to survive.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687743
He's saying the effort to produce a quality product is a lot investment for minimal return. Like, what I'd consider a very invested amount of effort into trying to produce lines that matched the audio was Iro Yoridori, but the autistic editor that worked to make all that happen spent a shit ton of time listening to every single blowjob line in the game to make it happen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45688934
And yet companies keep releasing nukige?
Are you suggesting they're doing it at a loss for years now?

>>45688961
>quality product
>the metric is blowjob noises
no one gives a shit what's in the fucking dialogue box as long as she's not talking. People can hear the noises. They don't need "chupa chupa slluuurrrpppp" x30 with the exact amount of "p"s
>minimal return
do you have numbers to back this up? if it were so minimal they wouldn't bother with so many.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45688988
We're talking about big nukige are we not? The only long stuff that gets translated is Oppai Academy and Kyonyuu Fantasy, the latter people mostly play for the story.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689010
https://vndb.org/p403 https://vndb.org/p200 just off the top of my mind. Both bigger than crappai shitcademy's glorious 2 english release portfolio.
>kyonyuu fantasy for the story
medication.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689049
>Escu;de
>Clockup
I don't consider either of those nukige. Kyonyuu fantasy is kind of in that same ballpark, and people absolutely read it for the story

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689049
Big as in length and amount of scenes.
>medication.
What? It's common knowledge that no one plays Kyonyuu Fantasy for the porn. Just look at the reviews. Or better yet play it for yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45688988
>do you have numbers to back this up?
I'm sure there are steam charts for the Oppai Academy games. Makes me curious now how well they sell in comparison to Cherry Kiss titles, which are significantly shorter nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689109
>I don't consider either of those nukige
>I don't consider nukige "nukige"
>also the game I called a nukige a moment earlier is exactly like these games I think are not nukige
you gotta be trolling or mentally ill, sorry. You're confusing a nukige having a good story with people reading the game for the story. Take your meds or move to a first world country, apply to an adult school and re-do your education.

>>45689116
escude games are longer than oppai academy though, retard. vndb's free and public.
>for the story
Escu;de games like re;lord or himeyoku and clockup games like maggot baits and euphoria are what people play for the story because that is their focus first and foremost. It's also easy to tell because the games have actual solid theme and message that you can often see discussed.
Kyonyuu fantasy is a nukige that is first and foremost about big breasts which you can already gleam from the title. It happens to have a decent story attached to it and people noticing it in the comments have nothing to do with your bizzare idea that people read it for the plot.
fucking hate retards.

>>45689234
Charts aren't a good source for this because of all the storefronts. I think oppai academy gets carried by the title alone, might not be the best way to compare long vs short game sales. But yeah sadly no solid numbers on this stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689234
OA 1: https://steamcharts.com/app/1590600
OA 2: https://steamcharts.com/app/2313140
Amount of people playing at any given time isn't exactly a great metric, but the all-time peak # is a good way of knowing how many people bought the games on release day and played them that day.

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>>45689267
>escude games are longer than oppai academy though, retard. vndb's free and public.
Not script-wise, which is what matters when translating something. Escude times are padded with gameplay shit.
>Kyonyuu fantasy is a nukige that is first and foremost about big breasts which you can already gleam from the title.
If you put Gaiden 2 on at a decent auto mode speed you don't get to a h-scene for like 6 hours. What kind of nukige is that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689267
>also the game I called a nukige a moment earlier is exactly like these games I think are not nukige
that wasn't me, retard. And considering Clockup and Escu:de as analogous to Milk Factory titles is boderline deranged

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689312
>Not script-wise, which is what matters when translating something. Escude times are padded with gameplay shit
I doubt the script file size for oppai academy is bigger but w/e. The same holds true for clockup titles being longer anyway, so it doesn't matter. You claimed oppai academy is "big" because it long - it is simply not the case.
>What kind of nukige is that?
One with a long intro.

>>45689339
they're all nukige whether you like it or not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689352
>they're all nukige whether you like it or not.
if you believe that then you've expanded the term nukige so much that it's not even useful

[Anonymous No.]

45689367
lol.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689352
You are aware the first Oppai Academy game has 82 h-scenes, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689367
You're mentally ill if you think maggot baits, kyonyuu fantasy and euphoria are "plotge" and not "nukige".
They're very clearly a mix of the two, something people call nukiplotge or nukimoege.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690070
>They're very clearly a mix of the two, something people call nukiplotge or nukimoege.
exactly, I accept your concession. They're not pure nukige like MF games are. If you're going to use the term nukige by itself, you use it for shit that is clearly 100% about giving the reader a fap. Clockup and Escu:de have too much plot in them to be called straight nukige, as does kyonyuu fantasy. You need different terms to talk about those games, or the term nukige itself becomes useless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690089
Concession of what? You said they're not nukige. Being a mix of the two means they are nukige, else they would be just plotge and not a mix
You should go back up the post chain and see what the subject's about, the games having plot to them is irrelevant to their length as nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690099
>these games are nukige just like MF
>actually they're nukiplotge or nukimoege
that concession

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690102
IQ so low I have no clue how to even comment, not gonna bother anymore.
The second line doesn't deny that they're nukige, imbecile.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690099
>else they would be just plotge
Plotge isn't a real genre.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690115
>>45690115
It's a continuum, anon. You were referring a different spot on the scale than what the rest of us were discussing. So you changed the terminology you were using to be more accurate to what you were talking about. That doesn't make them part of what we were talking about, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690136
No, they are without a doubt nukige moreso than they are plotge. If I had to choose one term it would be "nukige". But obviously there are games which do not fit into one definition, so they are given several.
Just like any other media.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690166
>If I had to choose one term it would be "nukige".
And it's my position that doing so makes that term pretty much useless, and leads to the kind of confusion we've spent the last 20 posts arguing about. You save the term nukige for things on extreme end of scale, where games have no value beyond just fapping to. Anything less isn't nukige, it's some kind hybrid that you can use any number of names to describe more accurately.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690196
Your position is retarded. There's not much more that can be said about it. Let me know when "drama" and "comedy" are only used for extreme ends of the spectrum. Also by the same logic they cannot be called plotge either and thus have no genre. Amazing.
not gonna bother anymore, you're mentally impaired

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690210
>>45690210
>Let me know when "drama" and "comedy" are only used for extreme ends of the spectrum.
You just have to use multiple words to describe things that are a combination of more than one genre. Kind of like, I dunno, calling a game a moenukige. Which I know you know how to do, since you just did right here >>45690070

Expecting one word to encompass everything including genre hybrids is what's retarded if you ask me. Etiquette when discussing a work is to be specific, not lazy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690239
It is a mix of nukige and plotge, but primarily a nukige, as plotge do not have a gorillion fucking H scenes interceded constantly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690279
Then you call it a plot-nukige. And you understand that that's not what we're talking about when we discuss capital N Nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690286
that's not a term, much like comedrama isn't one.
plotnukige is a netspeak abbreviation of "a mix of plotge and nukige", much like you'd describe movies as a mix of comedy and drama, tagging them both "drama" and "comedy".

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690313
>that's not a term, much like comedrama isn't one.
Have you never heard the term Dramedy? Or rom-com? These terms are all over the place anon, and it works exactly the same here. Again, specificity over laziness. Calling a rom-com just a romance movie or a comedy is just confusing for everyone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690330
rom-com which is an abbreviation of romantic comedy, aka a mix of romance and comedy. same about "dramedy". Meds.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690330
if it's not a nukige it cannot be a nukiplotge, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690353
>rom-com which is an abbreviation of romantic comedy, aka a mix of romance and comedy
Yes anon. You take two words and mash them together, and by the power of the English language, people understand that what you're talking about is a combination of the two. What you don't do is just call it just a comedy or just a drama, much like you wouldn't call a clockup game just a nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690370
>much like you wouldn't call a clockup game just a nukige.
because if you do that, it implies that a nukige is all it is. Like a MF game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690370
I've never argued they're only nukige, just that they're primarily nukige. Stop talking to your own delusions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690386
>I've never argued they're only nukige
You didn't. But you brought them up as an example in a discussion about games that ARE only nukige, and they don't apply in that context. Because plot-nukige and nukige are not nearly the same thing, even though they have some similarities/overlap. If you'll admit you were wrong about that, I'll shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.]

If EGS says it's nukige, it's nukige. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690410
I wasn't wrong because they are primarily nukige. They just have more plot elements. It was never specified whether we were talking about "pure nukige" or otherwise. You should just shut up regardless, retarded faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>45689234
OPPAI Academy Big, Bouncy, Booby Babes!
Owner estimations
~14.9 k by VG Insights
~15.2 k by Gamalytic
~21.9 k by PlayTracker

My Yandere Sister loves me too much!(Cherry Kiss)
Owner estimations
~5.9 k by Gamalytic
~6.6 k by VG Insights
~21.7 k by PlayTracker

Honorable mention for a short VN.

The Humbling of a Holy Maiden
Owner estimations
~1.1 k by VG Insights
~1.1 k by Gamalytic
~8.8 k by PlayTracker

Now granted you can make the argument that Oppai game sold a lot and really well. But the two titles below i mentioned that fulfilled a specific fantasy scenario niche proves that they do sell really well when making your money back due to the shortness of the nukige. Low cost, low risk, medium reward.
>>45689279
I find Steamdb.info does really well on owner estimates, Playtracker is kind of what i trust but it does help to have seperate data points.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45687933
Also some interesting stats for certain Gameplay VN's.

VenusBlood FRONTIER International
Owner estimations
~23.2 k by VG Insights
~23.7 k by Gamalytic
~37.5 k by PlayTracker
~120.0 k by SteamSpy

VenusBlood GAIA International
Owner estimations
~1.6 k by Gamalytic
~2.3 k by VG Insights
~4.3 k by PlayTracker
~7.0 k by SteamSpy

VenusBlood HOLLOW International
Owner estimations
~7.4 k by VG Insights
~8.1 k by Gamalytic
~13.8 k by PlayTracker
~18.0 k by SteamSpy

Also here is a comparison with Evenicle which made Alicesoft desire to enter in the market.
Owner estimations
~33.6 k by Gamalytic
~42.1 k by VG Insights
~122.8 k by PlayTracker

It's interesting to note that Gameplay VN's do sell really well especially if they are high end like VB is. I would consider 15-30k sells to be high marks considering they keep selling for 45$ with discounts at 35$, these companies live on the margins with not going over budget, so it makes sense they made a lot of money back and then some. 2-4k should be threshold of making money back or at least breaking even in the Gameplay VN sphere.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45688167
>Wish they could afford to hire better artists.
If you mean for Character designs and background art etc, Ninetail is excellent at that. But if you mean H-Scenes. Yes they could do a better job on them really. Hopefully they can remedy GoD2 with this release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690645
I feel like those cheap and short nukige from Cherry Kiss selling almost a 3rd as less than OA for far less the price and time spent translating is interesting at least. It shows that one long nukige for the price of something like 70 to 80 bucks that can also take about a year worth of translating/editing/QA is going to make about the same returns as a 3 cheap nukige that will probably take about 2 months to TL/edit/QA(if they even bother doing editing/QA).

[Anonymous No.]

>>45691240
Although, 70 to 80 bucks might be stretching it when I'm looking at OA2's price on Jast's store right now and it's selling for about 35 bucks. Compare that to 3 Cherry Kiss recent nukige which usually seem to sell at the price of about 10 to 12 bucks. What I'm curious of now is how many units need to be pushed for a long TL investment nukige to make a profit, and how much would that number be in comparison to units sold from shorter and cheaper nukige as a comparison. Which then gives a good metric of how much those bigger nukige need to sell for them be worth the investment compared to just pushing out 3 to 4 shorter nukige in that 1 big nukige's time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45690645
>>45690796
I think looking at the concurrent player graphs is a much better metric than those estimated sales figures. Or at the very least don't include the PlayTracker and SteamSpy numbers since they are clearly completely off.

[Anonymous No.]

CARNIVAL (Setoguchi) translation announced.

[Anonymous No.]

Albatross (Mareni) translation announced.

[Anonymous No.]

>45693246
It's on vndb, retard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45693213
>>45693255
Someone translating 70 lines of a visual novel to shill his website isn't an announcement of a translation, retard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45692673
I will not include them in the future as you made a good point. Steamspy and Playtracker overestimate by a lot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45691258
If I remember right if a long novel that is not gameplay related sells 1-2k copies its considered good in the eroge world. But for shorter ones I wonder the same question as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45693246
>Albatross translation announced
You joke but this will happen one day and VNTS will celebrate, revel in mead, pat themselves and one another on their back(s) --in spite of doing nothing-- then swell with happiness and look up to their sky[roof] and grin.

And then everyone will promptly wait 7 years for the actual TL to come out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45693682
All while THEY laugh at us.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45693691
They're still in brazil. I think it's an okay trade.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't even understand why people want Mareni translations. Well, I do, it's because of e-celeb opinions, but I mean, they're not considered "kamige" or are well known in Japan. And considering the main appeal is not the story or characters but the writing itself, you'd need someone on the level of a professional literary translator, and we know that's just not going to happen, so what's the point?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45694292
They also have amazing atmosphere, but so do most Liar/Railsoft titles.
But yeah, it's mostly just japanese language masturbation, which is probably why they aren't popular with the eroge crowd.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45694346
Yeah, it's just weird seeing Albatross mentioned alongside Sakura no Uta, Oretsuba, Muramasa (before it was translated) etc. as epic untranslatable kamige, as if it's considered to be on the same level as those.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45693691
Can't wait for the Brazilian -> English patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45693691
No progress made in the 6 years it's been announced.
It's over.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45697181
That one's coming after the Oretsuba Danish -> English patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45694292
Albatross story is pretty good though...

[Anonymous No.]

>>45694346
>which is probably why they aren't popular with the eroge crowd.
I love how 2 opinions (one being from a totally dead account) are representative of the eroge crowd

[Anonymous No.]

>>45694292
>they're not considered "kamige" or are well known in Japan
Neither is Umineko and that's beloved by redditors.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698463
I just added that as an image because I thought it was funny. But most reviews mention that the text is hard.
His games have low numbers of votes too. I think the highest was 300.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698476
Of course it's hard, mareni uses a lot of archaic shit just for the sake of atmosphere

[Anonymous No.]

>>45694292
>just not going to happen
Same was said about Muramasa or Dies Irae a few years ago. Please.
>not considered "kamige" or are well known in Japan
Eroge is very niche by all measures, be it Muramasa or some obscure doujin. Take a breath of air.

All I can say is that Albatross' story is the main appeal of the work. It's a very entertaining adventure, and the writing style serves as a purpose to tell that story, not the other way around. You need a dictionary at hand and you even have these useful notes to help with the references and the most obscure words: http://railseibiya.web.fc2.com/
To make it more clear, it's not purple prose like you can find in other visual novels like the ones written by Kurashiki Tatsuya or Shimizu Hatsumi. Mareni doesn't use complicated words or phrasing for the sake of sounding cool. The thing is that he writes with a style of lyrical prose, where the long chain of complex sentences sound like a poem. That's what sets him aside from other visual novel writers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698802
>Same was said about Muramasa or Dies Irae a few years ago. Please.
It's a good few steps above those in terms of difficulty, especially from a translation perspective. Also Liar soft games sell like shit so it would likely have to be a fantl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698802
>Same was said about Muramasa or Dies Irae a few years ago. Please.
People complain about the translations for those games all the time, including in this very thread. And come on now, no one in their right mind thinks Steiner or Conjueror are on the same level as people like Donald Keene.
>Eroge is very niche by all measures, be it Muramasa or some obscure doujin. Take a breath of air.
Obviously was talking about Japanese eroge players, not saying that random 70 year olds in Japan know about Muv-Luv.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698802
>Albatross' story is the main appeal of the work
did you read fucking albatross?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698918
Yes, fully. Any comment to make about the story?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698802
you sound like a carteloid.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698946
The main appeal of albatross are the characters, the setting and the atmosphere created precisely by the detailed description, the story as such is non-existent given the structure of the game and the background, making albatross a "collection of tales ". The fucking "story" is not revealed until 密航者 "route"

[Anonymous No.]

>>45699011
It has a long common route and then a very solid route for each heroine. The cult story for the twins. The Moses Ark for Kuro. The Cthulhuthian 'Villa of the Sea God' for Rui. All quite full winged stories for each heroine. And finally the true ending with the stowaway. To say that the story is non-existent before the stowaway end, or that it's just a collection of tales, is false.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45699188
Oh god fucking retard, put that shit in spoiler. You are obviously retarded, so it's not worth wasting time with you when you don't even understand basic concepts

[Anonymous No.]

>>45699213
Well, seems like you'll have to bring your bullshit to back another board, like reddit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45699235
The ark reveal is the best surprise fucking retard, even I, who don't give a shit about EOPs, have some awareness about the culture of this board and about its threads and the importance of using spoilers

[Anonymous No.]

>>45699468
I would have forgotten that random tidbit as an EOP cause its literally nothing besides general route plot, but thanks to you I'm now likely to remember it, retarded faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45700361
newfriend, everyone who wanted to read it already read it, your fucking fault lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698837
>no one in their right mind thinks Steiner or Conjueror are on the same level as people like Donald Keene.
No one who isn't a delusional weeb thinks any eroge writer is on the level of Osamu Dazai either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45700361
kek

[Anonymous No.]

Are their any good martial art/kung fu focused visual novels? I'm on a martial art binge atm.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702306
Ayakashibito kinda'. But it's probably not what you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702306
If you include sword fighting in that, then Hanachirasu

[Anonymous No.]

let's gooooooooooooooo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBQR5rq3OE

[Anonymous No.]

which vns, not giving a view to that faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702612

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702623
thanks bro

[Anonymous No.]

That guy has such weird taste
https://vndb.org/u6633/ulist?votes=1

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702683
forgot his second profile where he rates just h scenes https://vndb.org/u131820/ulist?votes=1
he copy-pastes 100% save file and reads h-scenes ahead of actual vn

[Anonymous No.]

Dead medium.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702694
didn't know about it, thanks for the laughs anon kek

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702706
Why'd you blur your name from your reddit posts?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702306
Majikoi.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702623
awful taste

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702623
>>45702584
>>45702683
>>45702694
Honestly this guy has some bad taste and also the video does not help either. He does not explain why he is looking forward to the releases, or the Synopsis, the Characters or anything else that would make the viewer go and read anything. It's not even a review, it's just some QA checker.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45702584
well at least I now know the answer to the classic Zen koan "what is the sound of one man sucking his own cock"

[Anonymous No.]

just a heads up, jops are starting to shill bad games on purpose to troll translators. >>45704401

[Anonymous No.]

>>45704558
kill yourself, no one cares, translators are jops themselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45704558
It should have been obvious with the Fraternite image it's a troll post. Although i will say i do hope someday we do get Galzoo Island translated in the West.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45704558
sasuga VN community. Proving yourselves lunatic retards once more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45704558
>to troll translators
nobody in their right mind would commit to translating something without having read it and liked it first, unless they're doing MTL, which is by definition garbage and not something we care about

[Anonymous No.]

>>45704558
Unbelievably based JOPbro

[Anonymous No.]

>>45704558
We've been doing that for years, EOPbro

[Anonymous No.]

Does anybody even care what JOPs think these days?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45705829
Apparently you still do it enough to try to continue the discussion about JOPs

[Anonymous No.]

>>45705829
eop do since they beg for translations based on jop review and opinion

[Anonymous No.]

>>45706166
ESL-kun...

[Anonymous No.]

>>45706198
yes eop-san?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45706292
>eop-san
呼び捨てでいい

[Anonymous No.]

>>45698824
I'm amazed that so many of their games have gotten translated despite selling like shit outside of Kindred Spirits. I wish that Shiravune would have done Fairytale Requiem or Albatross instead of the furry games, but those two have lolis so I suppose that wouldn't fly.

[Anonymous No.]

So when's the next game with a loli route?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45704558
Sad seeing people trying to do this embarrassing internet supervillain shit because they can't cope with being too low IQ to learn a foreign language properly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712102
I don't quite understand who your post is directed to

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712427
The residents of the texthooking thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712456
I don't understand how your post is supposed to be aimed at VNTS posters

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712102
Sad seeing aspies not being able to detect obvious shitposting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712456
How do you know who wrote that is hookcuck?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712102
What is your method for learning japanese bro?

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712503
Start from 0 like an actual jp kindergartener learning it
Only use your extant japanese knowledge to further learn japanese
Cold showers daily, paleo diet

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712548
Ok bros, ignore this faggot, ngmi

[Anonymous No.]

>>45712548
Sushi diet

[Anonymous No.]

MG update
>Welcome to a Sexy, Open World! is 75% translated and 70% edited!
>ClockUp’s DEAD DAYS is fully translated and edited!
>Alicesoft’s Beat Valkryie Ixseal is 71% translated and 68% edited!
>Funbag Fantasy 4 is 73% translated and 71% edited!
>Rance 03 is 65% translated and 41% edited!
>And Rance X is 72% translated and 5% edited!

[Anonymous No.]

>>45714939
>MG update
>Welcome to a Sexy, Open World! is 75% translated and 70% edited!
Looks like this might be able to come out later this year.
>ClockUp’s DEAD DAYS is fully translated and edited!
Congrats! I will be getting it when it releases.
>Alicesoft’s Beat Valkryie Ixseal is 71% translated and 68% edited!
Forgot about this one. Glad to see it progress. Might pick this up due to the Gameplay elements.
>Funbag Fantasy 4 is 73% translated and 71% edited!
Classic almost there. I wonder if they will get the Fandiscs next.
>Rance 03 is 65% translated and 41% edited!
Absolutely happy to hear the 10% progress. Sadly I do not think it will be out this year but the next.
>And Rance X is 72% translated and 5% edited!
Just glad to hear X is making progress. Take as much time as needed. Because this is a gigantic project.

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is the ongoing loocalizer controversy going to affect the english vn market?

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>>45716778
none of those people play vns

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>>45716782
i am talking more in terms of people who work in the industry. some of them also work on vns, and people like steiner are active on twitter and have come out to defend loocalizers.

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>>45716782
t.loc apologist

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>>45716791
no one gives a shit
>>45716792
learn japanese

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>>45716800
look what thread you're in

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>>45716800
sure loc friend :)

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your niche drama that no one cares about isn't going to get anyone fired.

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>>45716820
sorry but this isn't as niche as you think. more and more people are learning about it every day. asmongold made a video about it with 500k views, and even japanese people are finding out about it too.

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>>45716834
nobody who plays VNs cares

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>>45716834
>asmongold made a video about it with 500k views
and those 500k people forgot about it within a couple of hours

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if drama is irrelevant then why are you here talking about drama to begin with
it's irrelevant just ignore it right
:)

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>>45716866
oh fuck steiner said something on his twitter! we need to cancel him!

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>>45716887
literally shaking, friend?

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[Anonymous No.]

>ifunny.co

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>>45716834
while it's the first time it blew up this high I dunno if anything will come out of it. People seeing it thru asmongold dont have much power to affect anything - best case nip side takes it all the way to the companies and they help pressure.

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none of this is vn related. take it to /v/

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>>45717048
wrong. these are the people translating vns
>>45716995

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>>45717060
That's an editor who hasn't worked on VNs since 2019. And we discussed that her in 2017 when it happened. You can look it up in the archive if you want.

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>>45717069
loc friend seething

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>>45717069
that was just an example, why are you pretending like that's the only time that ever happened? it hasn't even been 2 months since the criminal border "incel" controversy.

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>>45717107
oh no, there was one instance of a word i dont like in a vn i didn't read!

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[Anonymous No.]

RIP uncensored Purplesoft works. Embrace the shiravune future.

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>>45720361
So Nekonyan fucked up their relationship with Purplesoft for the sake of rando vntuber, who died soon after anyway. Brilliant move. Retarded company.

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>>45720465
What I don't understand is how Nekonyan can argue with Purplesoft that taking down videos of someone doing a full unedited playthrough of their own visual novel wasn't valid.

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>>45714939
Rance 03 is actually a lot further out than I thought. Disappointing news.

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>>45722037
They're doing a lot of the engine work as it's getting translated, so it shouldn't bottleneck at 100%

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>>45720465
That's what happens when literal manchild with peter pan syndrome run a company lmao

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>>45720465
Also their staff are openly calling the Purplesoft boss a "cunt". Maybe these should be sent to Purplesoft.

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>>45722103
>just remember, there are plenty of cunts in eroge
Too much hypocrisy for today

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>>45722092
More than that, they hired a dying man for QA out of pity, because he was bored in the hospice and wanted to read tenshi souzou reboot before his death.

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>>45722128
Were they the ones who made this transparent?

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>>45722103
Go ham, PS discord is in their X bio https://twitter.com/purple_software

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>>45722135
Mostly guy himself.

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>>45722179
Well, we lost a brother, I'm not going to throw shit on him now that he's no longer here. I will, however, continue to shit on NN for using him as an excuse and gaining sympathy just to not accept that they are a shitty company. Literally the most disgusting thing they can do

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>>45722236
>Well, we lost a brother
No, you got it wrong, QA was a completely different guy, not bosskwar. QA guy is not dead yet, but he's dying.

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>>45722262
Well, it just goes to show that they're definitely using the guy who died as an excuse. If it had bothered them that much, they would have simply cut ties with PS at that point. Fucking disgusting faggots

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>>45722103
How long has Aoi tori been in the "editing" stage? I havent been paying attention to it much

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weeeeeeeee boss told us we had to work weeeeeee bad boss

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>>45722562
It's the porting to unity that was holding the game up, but Nekonyan recently scrapped that when they got the message from Purplesoft telling them to hurry the fuck up.
Looking in the archive the first mention of the engine port being in progress was on June 13, 2021. So they must have hired a complete retard who spent 2.5 years making minimal progress only for all his shit to get scrapped anyway.

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>>45720361
>>45722103
This is why I avoid NN releases overall. Something has never sat right with me on their overall childish behavior.

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>>45724137
So much for the idea that making an actual company equals professionalism (compared to fanTL work).
As if...

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They're about 4 other koku-illustrated Purplege which are all quite nice.
It happens that, now, probably, the likelihood of these 4 games getting translated are simply that much lower.
A real shame.

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>>45724489
Well there's Shiravune, but you won't get to see Koku's art uncensored in that case.

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>>45722103
Is it really such an absurd demand to not take longer to translate a game than it took to create it in the first place? Maybe marinating in a discord server at all waking hours affects someone's perception of time in a weird way.

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>>45724552
The biggest drawback imo
Amatsutsumi's uncensored CGs were great

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>>45724564
At least the mosaics aren't that intrusive in their works.

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>>45724552
It'd be quite something if Shiravune and Shiravune alone went through:
Seishun Fragile
Mirai Nostalgia
Realive
[HapyMaher Regret END] Hapymaher -Fragmentation Dream-

But I don't really see anyone else bothering with these so maybe you're right.

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>>45724704
I can see Shiravune doing Hapymaher Regret End since they have already translated a few VNs that had an translation prior.
Mirai Nostalgia is probably too old and Realive/Seishun Fragile had a lukewarm reception in JP so they're probably not the highest priority.

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>>45724704
I'm surprised people want more hapymaher, it was quite mediocre.

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>>45724821
I assume people just want more Maia

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>>45724137
>overall childish behavior
Still works for them overall since their target audience is very onions-orientated and manchild-orientated. Mental age of moebuta eternally stuck at 12.

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>>45726844
It's not just a moebuta thing, it works for them because nearly every westerner into otaku shit these days is either an incorrigibly irony poisoned "lol why do you care?" style millennial or a they/them zoomer into it for the "aesthetic" and neither of these groups care about anything related to sincerity, quality or professionalism.

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In other news. It looks like Sekai Project has either cancelled their plans to translate the Parfait remake or have lost the licence to it as they seem to have stealthily removed it from their Project Tracker.
December 1st: https://web.archive.org/web/20231201020207/https://sekaiproject.com/project-status/ Parfait is there
Now: https://sekaiproject.com/project-status/ Missing

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>>45732981
rip

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>>45732981
https://sekaiproject.com/game/parfait-remake/
Page is nuked too.

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>>45732981
It was supposed to be a Maruto certified kamige

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>>45734589
New thread up with the updates for this week