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[Anonymous No.]

http://www.liar.co.jp/28th_preview.html

I just got exponentially more excited about this game.

[Anonymous No.]

ditto
I still wonder what it'll be about, but loving the art, as usual.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5986488
the overall feeling of the WAB is pretty similar, I guess this game will be full of people with sad/painful pasts, while the main character is the one that believes memories make you stronger.

Celenaria -> world -> Connie travels outside the steampunk polluted world
Inganock -> people -> Gii didn't pay attention to all the transformations and cured people all the same
Sharnoth -> tomorrow -> everyone feared the future's uncertainty, Mary thought it was a ray of hope instead
Valusia -> hopes -> Fear disease affects those that don't want to accept something, Azure doesn't ever give up and tries to change things

[Anonymous No.]

>>5986518
So something about the importance of remembering your memories etc.?

[Anonymous No.]

Talking about WAB... I don't think I understood the end of Valusia well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5986527
There will probably be more layers than that, but that's the gist of it in my opinion, yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

I want to ask.
Is celenaria any good? I see it often mentioned in the games.

[the_paper No.]

>>5986527
That, and ero-shashou and a gothic lolita with a big axe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5986531
the confrontation with Leo and the Fake God? IIRC, they pretty much just went with "human emotions win over an omnipotent all-knowing heartless being because POWER OF FEELINGS."
There's a reason people think it's the weakest WAB yet.
>>5986546
I haven't played it myself yet, though I hear it's good enough while being a bit different than Inganock and Sharnoth. The premise is about a girl and a catgirl leaving the steampunk empire behind to find uncontaminated world. It looks like it's a bit more about adventure than characters/characters development.
Valusia had a few cameos from Celenaria like Calberti, as well.

[Anonymous No.]

So WAB series is Inganock > Celenaria > Sharnoth > Valusia?

That doesn't bode well. At least it'll have AKIRA art, but still...

[Anonymous No.]

>>5986569
okay, thought so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5986582
Opinions, I guess. It's a series that relies heavily on setting/atmosphere, so I think it has heavy polarization. I've seen people liking Valusia as well.
I personally think out of those I played that Sharnoth > Inganock >>> Valusia

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>>5986606
Definitely. I sure as heck like Sharnoth the best of the lot so far.

[Anonymous No.]

Speaking of AKIRA and his fantastic art, does anyone know if he (Kaned Fools) had anything new at Comiket this year?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5986485
Wait a minute, where can I find the previous previews?

[&ponpo( ﾟдﾟ) ・・・ No.]

Any other info on this? The art is interesting but i'm lost otherwise.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5987827
You can't. They take them down from the website when a new one goes up.

Only one I saved the text for is 3, but I can post it here, gimme a minute.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5988647
post with more info on Liar-soft's site tomorrow apparently.

[Anonymous No.]

[Sona-Nyl previewstory 03]
「入浴」


ど──

どうしてこういうことになったんだっけ。
あたしのせい？
あたしのせいか？

全部この“Ａ”のせいだ。
そうに決まってる。

この浴室に押し込まれることになったのは
全部、ぜんぶ“Ａ”のせい

押し切られた
押し切られた！

また！
また、押し切られて！

いつも
いつもいつも
押しの強さだけはいつもいつもいつも

さっきもそう──

『リリィ』

『寝る』

『リリィ』

『もう寝る』

『なら、入浴の後に寝間着へ着替えるべきだ』

『そういう気分じゃない時もあるの』

『文化的な人間の行動ではないね』

『ばかでごめんなさいね！　いいの、あんまり汗かいてない』

[Anonymous No.]

Cont. from >>5990163

『カダス文化流入の影響で、欧州や合衆国の人間は
　 毎晩の入浴を日課としていると僕は記憶している』


『ううううるさいそんなの知らない』


『さ。服を脱ごうか』


『やめ、やめて』


『いつものことだ』


『なんで──』


『では、きみひとりでできるかい？』


　 ──できない
　 ──できないんだよ

　この服を選んだ時から、あたしは

　少女のかたちを選んだ瞬間から
　 自分の意思では、翠の服、脱ぐことができなくなった
　 着ることはできるのにね

　かたち、Ａにしか変えられなくて
　 それで

　いつも

　いつもいつも
　 いつもいつもいつも！

[Anonymous No.]

end: >>5990173

「……着替えだけっていったのに！」

「言っていない」

「きみはそうでも、あたしは言ったの！」

「さ。ブラシはどちらがいいかな」

「いいから！　いいの！　い、いい、いいから！　自分でやれる！」

「いつものことだと言うのに」

「いつもやめろって言ってるじゃない！」

「さ。ブラシはどちらに」

「なんでそんな動物洗うみたいなでっかいブラシ…」

「人間も動物もあまり違いはないよ」

「違うわよ！」

「どちらも、炭素製の生体機械だろう？」

「女の子は！　お砂糖とスパイスと、あと、すてきなもの──」

「泡が口に入るよ」

「わぷ！」


　──ああもう！
　 ──ああもう！

　──ああもうッ！　莫迦！　莫迦車掌！

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone have scans of the latest Tech Gian? There's supposed to be info in there.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone have scans of the latest Tech Gian? There's supposed to be info in there.

This is all I could find of it, from their website, but I'm pretty sure that's the head of the Statue of Liberty next to her.

Could it be Sharnoth in America this time?

[the_paper No.]

Just struck gold: got the Tech Gian DVD that came with that issue, including a truly fantastic WAB section with, among other great stuff, HUGE GORGEOUS SONA-NYL WALLPAPERS.

Resaved from the original huge (7 MB) BMP files for your convenience.

[the_paper No.]

Bigger version of that previous image.

I know this probably isn't going to be Sharnoth: From the New World or anything, but she sure does look like Mary from the back, doesn't she?

[the_paper No.]

Conductor guy confirmed for badass.

By the way, the torrent for this is here: http://www.hongfire.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=172994&d=1282396749

[the_paper No.]

Mmm, sexy subway car. This one is now my desktop background.

[the_paper No.]

I'm liking these two already. AKIRA seems to be really good at creating couple dynamics in his art.

I hope they get to actually have sex this time ;_;

[the_paper No.]

Last one (for Sona-Nyl, that is, unless someone wants me to post the Celenaria/Inganock/Sharnoth/Valcia ones. There's only these six for Sona-Nyl for now, but the others have a LOT.)

[Anonymous No.]

>>5992412
Those mushrooms still scare me for now apparent reason.

Also, all this train action will undoubtedly make everyone compare it with Baccano. I'm not sure if I'm okay with that or not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5992472
more than the crazy eyes on that moon?

also huh, that thought never crossed my mind 'til you mentioned it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5992478
The eyes could be a simple stylistic feature, but the mushrooms must have some meaning for the story.

[Anonymous No.]

What's with all the deleted posts ITT?

[Anonymous No.]

本日、ｗｅｂにて詳報公開開始！

Commence furious F5 in...

[Anonymous No.]

>>5993822

[Anonymous No.]

>>5993822
>me today

[Anonymous No.]

I was just about to make this thread, my dear op.

The new character in the preview is apparently a murderous angel, in the shape of a witch, or something? Fuck yes. And after seeing the new images posted, I am giddy with delight. I am loving the design of the girl, now that I can see her outfit properly. The train image makes me think of the new pair on some endless journey... I wonder how they met. The dark skinned guy is obviously some sort of general, so I wonder how he met our heroine.

>>5992424
>but she sure does look like Mary from the back, doesn't she?

A week or two ago, another anon and I were theorizing that it could in fact be Mary. The only problem is, is that her golden eye is on the wrong side. But still, with the hair colour, and overall melancholy look, it's definitley not a coincidence. Since this is also set in the early 1900s, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Mary were to travel to America for some reason.

>>5992459
>I hope they get to actually have sex this time ;_;

I know, right? Fuck you Liar-Soft, fuck you. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>5996834
He seems to be the conductor of that train they're riding on, judging from Preview 3, but otherwise I agree/hope you're right. Where'd you hear that about the Mary-looking girl BTW?

Dammit Liar-soft update your site already ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>5990163
So the short-haired girl is named Lily, and this guy who wants to wash her is "A"?

[Anonymous No.]

ｷﾀ━━━ヽ(≧▽)人(∀ﾟ )人(≧▽≦≡≧▽≦)人( ﾟ∀)人(▽≦)ノ━━━!!!!!

http://www.liar.co.jp/28th_top.html
http://www.liar.co.jp/sonanyl_story.html
http://www.liar.co.jp/sonanyl_chara.html

[Anonymous No.]

Okay, first of all, it seems she's actually a protagonist!

Not based on a real person (apparently), but that first name sounds like a religious reference to me, so I'm apt to think >>5996834 was right.

[the_paper No.]

YES IT'S UP

AND IT LOOKS GLORIOUS

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

[Anonymous No.]

Also a protagonist! Which puts us at two different female protags for this game. My anticipations are skyrocketing kind of.

The worldview section isn't uploaded yet, but her description mentions an "underground world" a few times, which probably has something to do with the subway. She also appears to have crazy powers.

[Anonymous No.]

And now, your villains! First up: EVIL ALBINO ATI IN A SLUTTY NEGLIGEE.

Guess they were throwing something in for the Inganock fans, huh? Glad to see that AKIRA does catgirls at least as well as Ryuuko Ooishi's. I can already hear the bitching about furry from here.

Anyway, I like this Mao character, who looks like she's Lily's lesbian stalker or something - seriously, her profile just calls her "a strange woman with cat ears and a tale who follows Lily around while laughing", pretty much. (She would also appear to have similar powers, if the bubble aura thing is any indication.)

[Anonymous No.]

And now, your villains! First up: EVIL ALBINO ATI IN A SLUTTY NEGLIGEE.

Guess they were throwing something in for the Inganock fans, huh? Glad to see that AKIRA does catgirls at least as well as Ryuuko Ooishi's. I can already hear the bitching about furry from here.

Anyway, I like this Mao character, who looks like she's Lily's lesbian stalker or something - seriously, her profile just calls her "a strange woman with cat ears and a tale who follows Lily around while laughing", pretty much. (She would also appear to have similar powers, if the bubble aura thing is any indication.)

[Anonymous No.]

This guy does have a real-life character basis: the guy who pretty much singlehandedly created the mafia in America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano

Setting appears to be confirmed as Manhattan BTW.

[Anonymous No.]

And finally, THE "A". Saved for last, because he's the one I'm most excited about.

Looks like they're not going to be skimping on the Sharnoth references!

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998129
Anyone else realize that this guy looks a hell of a lot like Archer?

[Anonymous No.]

FUCK YEAH
It looks like Elysia is the last human on the surface on Ney York. She's looking for her first love from Connecticut, they both loved each other but couldn't become lover.
The other protagonist doesn't have memories, and acts in the transformed "underground world". It looks like the violet sky is the artificial skyof this underground.
The A operatesa one-carriage-only train in the underground, and is the one who take Lily around protecting her.

So it looks like it'll be a sort of dual setting with the surface in ruins and the underground warping like Inganock. Sounds pretty cool, I'm pumped.

[Anonymous No.]

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Wentworth
could this be her? one of her names is Elles, make it a bit more feminine and you could have Ellysia. It also fits with the writer-characters theme, since she wrote mystery.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998197
Well I certainly hope so! Good catch, Anon.

We can start taking bets now on the true identity of A, too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998171
silver hair =! Archer

[Anonymous No.]

PREORDER PAGE WHERE

[Anonymous No.]

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Blunt-Lytton,_16th_Baroness_Wentworth
or, she could be this person, considering her mother (Ada Lovelace) is a character in Celenaria, and her grandfathe Lord Byron is also mentioned as existing (IIRC in the Ten Scholars?).
Elysia could be just a made-up travelling name or something.

[Anonymous No.]

That mecha barrel suitcase thing is awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

Gentlemen, don't forget that characters may be of a different gender than their historical counterparts. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.]

Can someone link me AKIRAs pixiv page?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998898
http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=22942

Although there's not much up there. His personal site at http://akira.pos.to and his Twitter have more doodles and stuff.

There's some great WAB fanart if you dig, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998913
Thank you.

[Anonymous No.]

><Ixrec|SnC>

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998951
>awesome guy

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998951
so he's playing Souten no Celenaria to see if it's worth translating?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998960
He said he might have to retcon some Inganock locution later on. Also Randolph appeared as well.

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>>5998965
Valusia has a lot of Celenaria cameos/citations as well and Sona-nyl looks like it's heading down the same road. Well, unless he wants to skip those games he feels aren't up to his standards.

[Anonymous No.]

Moar AKIRA art!

[Anonymous No.]

>>5998951
YESSSSSSSSSS

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999195
is Celenaria that good/are people waiting for it that much?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999213
I definitely am. And it could (ihopeihopeihope) be the first in a succession of WAB translations, likely including Sharnoth, which I love.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999195
He will never translate it you know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999256
SILENCE

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999256
Sharnoth is pretty much confirmed, I honestly can't see him not translating it after Alternative and Forest if they manage to use that text hook for subtitles they talked about.
Just look at his priority list on his blog.
Sucks he'll probably skip Celenaria since it's not that great and they only translate the masterpieces.

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>>5999306
I meant to quote >>5999227, sorry

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999306
But he translated Muv-Luv, even though it only scored a 7 from him, because he felt it was important enough due to its relevance to Muv-Luv Alternative.

Granted, the connection's not that strong in this case, although I haven't played (and don't care about) Muv-Luv and so don't know for sure, but if it held true in that case....

Also, I believe Celenaria is strong enough in its own right, even if it doesn't have the grimdark/SRS BZNESS elements that seem to be part of the appeal for some players.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999412
After Sharnoth it's a choice between Celenaria, Valusia and Sona-Nyl (or some unrelated fotm VN). Celenaria is strong enough to get translated... eventually.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5999488
If any one of you have a choice would you let him translate more WAB series, or high profile title like Rewrite?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000287
He translates what he likes, so it's not like you have a choice in the matter.
I feel he'd get more following translating Key than a niche company like Liarsoft but again, if he likes WAB over pretty much everything else, he's going to work with those.

[Anonymous No.]

<Ixrec|SnC> [08:01:49] <~Ixrec|SnC> I'm enjoying Celenaria enough so far it could very well score an 8 all on its own
<Ixrec|SnC> [08:02:03] <~Ixrec|SnC> and if the crossover keeps up it'd prolly be worth doing even if it only made 7.5
<Ixrec|SnC> this was meant for pasting btw
<Ixrec|SnC> though I'm touched people are cheering just because I changed my status to SnC

[Anonymous No.]

Celenaria isn't really "strong enough on its own" though, and I did read it.
It's a very average title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000404
Have you played the other WABs as well?
Celenaria is the only one I'm missing, if you feel like it could you explain what things crossover onto the other games, please?
Like, what was Calberti and Connie's story?

[Anonymous No.]

I don't know but Celenaria is only WAB title that interest me as it seems to be quite different from others. As I have played both Inganock and Sharnoth, and those bore me to death with all that repetition and crap. So someone who has played all WAB titles, how different is Celenaria from other games of WAB series?

[Anonymous No.]

Hello, /jp/.

Just figured I'd ask, but is anyone translating/planning to translate Sharnoth? This being a Liar-soft thread -kind of-. I'm just out of loop when it comes to those things.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000407
Been a while since I played it and I'm not the biggest WAB fan.
Calberti was the guy who keep saving Connie if I remember correctly, he wanted revenge on that antagonist, Connie had feelings for him.
You can see more of their relationship in the fandisk.

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>>6000435
Writing is similar to the other WAB titles, it's steampunk but the scenario honestly feel very undeveloped.
It's definitely a bit more lighthearted than the other titles in the series though, and it also has much more ero.
Connie is an awesome protagonist but I thought she was the only really good thing about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000448
Got it, thanks. Was asking before the guy appears on a sizeable portion of Valusia, it looked like he and the main female protagonist were relatives from the same noble family or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000465
*because, not before

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000465
Yeah he was a noble.
Got his family killed by some batshit scientist and he wanted revenge.

[Anonymous No.]

What the heck I didn't notice such samefagging. Lol at epic drawing style differences.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.liar.co.jp/sonanyl_chara.html
Everyone got same CV? Either it's an error or Liar-soft thinks the latest full voice approach isn't that profitable so they're back to partial.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000523
It just means "voice sample available in the next few days" or something to that effect, they're probably still recording or deciding who the VA will be.
If we go by their past games tendencies, Lily should get Mary/Kia's voice and Elysia Ati/Ana's

[Anonymous No.]

The information page also says this is full voice as well.

[Anonymous No.]

Reverse trap Lily?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000645

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000645
this just keep getting better

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000645
Yeah, it looks like she just wakes up without memories dressed as reverse trap, then the A takes her underground in his fabulous love train and she gets the frilly dress.
I guess they are going for an Alice in Wonderland feeling or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000720
>I guess they are going for an Alice in Wonderland feeling or something.

I actually thought that exact same thing, ever since I saw the first promo image! A girl tumbling through a world of falling books... Add that in with all the toadstools in the first image we got. All she needs now is a cat called Diana.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000445
Ixrec has plans for translating it after he's done with Muv-Luv. Can't recall if he wants to translate that before Forest or not, though.

>>5999488
>After Sharnoth it's a choice between Celenaria, Valusia and Sona-Nyl

Oh? He might be translating Valusia? I think I'll hold off reading it so, on the off chance that he does translate it.

[Anonymous No.]

Did he even play Sharnoth anyways?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000909
according to his blog he's planning a WAB marathon, so I guess after Celenaria he'll move on to Sharnoth.
It would be hilarious if he hated the game after making so much fuss about the series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000909
According to his VNDB account, he's currently reading through it.

[Anonymous No.]

Why is the name transcribed as Sona-Nyl, anyways? Isn't that just a long A?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000998
A lot of places in the Beatifulverse are taken after places written about by Lovecraf. Kadath and Sharnoth are part of the Mythos, Sona-nyl as well. Valusia was from Howard, I think?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6001011
Huh, didn't know that. Nice tidbit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6000921

I can't imagine Sharnoth getting less than 8.5, but Celenaria will probably get 8 at best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6002684
Celenaria will get a 7, scenario is too undeveloped.
I can't see Sharnoth get more than a 8.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6002684
>>6002687
What grade Inganock received?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6002687

Inganock get 9 and Sharnoth is just a bit worse, if any. Many people liked Sharnoth better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6002713
Actually most people like Inganock a lot more, at least seeing the Liar-soft fandom in Japan.

The problem is that the WAB titles are all very similar in writing and style so the first one you read is usually the one you prefer.
Then you get a bit tired by the style usually.

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>>6002726
I read Inganock first back then and I like Sharnoth better. While what you say it's true, the flavor of the setting also plays a huge part in polarization.
As much as I liked Inganock's premise, I just love steampunk victorian England.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6002726

Didn't Sharnoth actually sell better?