/jp/ - Otaku Culture

おはよう

>Lovely Cation- 11% of lines translated
Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, new demo patch for items, skills, and gameplay text, etc
>Noble Works - 48,169 / 57,690 (83.5%) lines translated, partial patch released
>Nursery Rhyme - 8034/32977 lines translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - 241/268 scripts translated, 176/268 through TLC+Editing, 66/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 44% translated
Prism Ark - Common route translated
Rance 5D - 76% translated
>Rance VI: 88.4% Translated, on hold
>Rance Quest - 33.01% messages and all strings translated, 39/198 quests finished
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 18647/30040 (62.07%) lines translated
SakuSaku - Common route + Konami route fully translated, 38516/49257 (78%) lines translated, 28289/49257 (57%) lines finalized, Konami + Mio route released
SonoHana 10 - Being translated
SonoHana 11 - Being translated
Starry Sky In Summer - 62/177 scripts translated
>SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
>Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - 8/323 scripts translated
>Witch's Garden - 31621/67201 (47.05%) lines translated, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited

Weekly EOP thread.

Official work

MangaGamer
Free Friends - June 26th release
>Higurashi Hou -Onikakushi released, 29.2% of Watanagashi TL
>Kara no Shoujo 2 - 100% translated, 77.60% edited
>Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 28.2% edited
>Da Capo 3 - 49.8% translated
>Gahkthun - 100% translated, 21.5% edited
>OZMAFIA - 41.2% translated
Euphoria - In scripting
>House in Fata Morgana - 62.9% translated
>Free Friends 2 - 100% translated, 48% edited
>Myth - 1.1% translated
>Natsuiro Mikan - In scripting
>My Boss Wife is My Ex - 38.1% translated, 30.9% edited
>Asuka Final Chapter - In scripting
Supipara - Intend to fund through Eden's sales
Kuroinu - Picked up, being released as 3 seperate chapters

JAST
Raidy III - July 20th release
Shiny Days - August 25th release
Seinarukana- Fully translated, being tested and edited
Django - Couple more months of translation
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- translation about half done
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up

Sekai/Denpa
Grisaia trilogy - First game all ages version released, 18+ release planned
World End Economica- chapter 2 TL finished, in editing, Spring release for chapter 2
Clannad - 75% translated, 4Q 2015 release
WAS Lepidoptera no Sunadokey - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Fault Milestone 2 - Demo released
Hitomebore - April release
Kokonoe Kokoro - April release
Ame no Marginal - April/May release
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal

Other
Eiyuu Senki - Summer release
Moenovel is working on another title
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - Kickstarter planned
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Amnesia - August release planned
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>Rance VI: 88.4% Translated, on hold

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Has anything good been translated since MLA? I only come to /jp/ anymore to shitpost. I'm out of the loop.

>>13674827
In response to a question about progress being put on hold, the translator said

>Due to some circumstances I can’t release it anytime soon anyway, so I’m working on another project for the time being. It may be on hold for a while, unfortunately.

>>13674827
>>13674861
It will still be out around August anyway

>Blue*
>Fuwanovel
>Bragging about it being a word for word translation
>By a translator with no name who only communicates through the supposed editor

Good god.

>>13674869
Alicesoft has partnered up with MG. He's working on Haruka for them. This will be announced at AX. Don't expect any more unofficial Rance game releases.

>>13674871
Google has no name. It is the great Google.

>>13674878
Nope.

>>13674909
Yes.

>>13674916
1. Whatever people say about Arunaru, if he wasn't going to release the game he'd say so.

2. Mangagamer employ a translator who is translating Rance Quest and Rance 5D. You'd be more believable if something similar happened with those projects (given the translator is already confirmed to be working for MG)

>>13674929
Maria wasn't going to release either of those any time soon regardless.

And point #1 is just patently retarded. I'm sure he still wants to and plans on releasing it, through the people he's now working for, you imbecile.

>>13674955
Maria continues to forge forward with her rance projects, has not announced any delays or cancellations, and 5D is actually pretty close to having a finished translation. I find it very unlikely that Arunaru's postponement would be related to any licensing deals.

>>13674955
5D is apparently going to be translated in a few months.

>'m sure he still wants to and plans on releasing it, through the people he's now working for, you imbecile.

After at least a year delay because Alicesoft aren't going to be releasing Rance VI in the west before releasing Rance 01 and Rance 03

>>13674984
>Alicesoft aren't going to be releasing Rance in the west.
Fixed that for you.

>>13674929
Maria said her MG project is an Otakon announcement, so it's probably not a title new partner as MG said they have 3 partners to announce at AX. Otakon is more likely to be titles from companies they are already working with instead of big deal new partners. Considering the titles she has worked on for MangaGamer thus far, she is likely translating Flowers for MangaGamer.

>>13674988
>Alicesoft aren't going to be releasing in the west
There. All fixed.

so now that jast finally got starless out what will the next title they've been sitting on for years will peter decide to give us?

>>13675037
Maybe Sumaga.

>>13675037
Nitro purus.

>>13675037
Raidy III and Shiny Days are next on JAST's agenda, both coming out this summer, Raidy apparently being for sale at AX (but not shipping to internet buyers until later).

>>13674871
>>Bragging about it being a word for word translation

This is a sure-tell of someone who knows very little Japanese.

>>13675045
HAH! Nice joke! :)

When the fuck is Seinarukana coming out? Fuck Jast.

>>13674817
Just know that I will always support Princess Maker. No matter how long it may take.

Beato...

>>13675305
Speaking of that, I get the feeling that one of the announcements is that they are translating R07's other games in-house.

This is what he has to say about Subahibi possibly being released in this decade.

i havent been to one of these threads in months, in years
its almost heartwarming to still see sumaga at that same status as before
;_;

>>13675298
Did you know that 5PM tea is not served at 5PM?

It's chaban, not tyabann or whatever stupid shit. Fuck you, Moogy.

>>13674817
>SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
WHAT?
The english vn scene isn't dead? We are actually getting subashitty?

>>13674859
To Heart 2 is translated.

>>13675876
I can't wait to see the amazing conversations the peasants manage to come up with in the months following its release.

>>13675890
It might even displace Umineko as the primary generator of excruciatingly awful "discussion" and "theories" among ESLs and people with the IQ of a garden gnome for a while.

>>13675942
>>13675890
Whatever the case, you can rest easy confident in your intellectual superiority over random commenters on the internet.

>>13675890
>>13675942

Better to just ignore all shitty EOP threads and sites.

>>13675881
It's translated but not finished. There are a few routes not edited yet.

Tennai translation when?

>>13675890
You know it's much more likely for westerners to understand Subahibi's themes for obvious reasons.

>>13676185
Yeah, because every cocksuck from Fuwanovel has read Witty.

>>13676197
Just like all those japs with 300 eroge in their EGS list, right?

>>13676178
When you learn the language and translate it.

>>13676207
I don't really ever check users on EGS, just games and their tags and reviews.

>>13676225
Let my try the screenshot.

>After all, onii is a bad person. Eating outside.

Seems okay.

>>13676235

>>13675876
i told weebs to translate it and they actually did. what a mad man

>>13675070
Seinarukana never.

>>13676178
In December.

>>13675045

>>13675045
Lel. XDDDD

>Rewrite Harvest Festa - 18647/30040 (62.07%) lines translated
I still hope Ixrec's gonna see it through.

Does anyone have the image that talks about the evolution of Japanese Eroge, compared to Western ones?
I don't have it saved right now.

how fuckin long does it take to QC koichoco?

it's been fully translated for over a year now

>>13677776
And I thought the delay between grisaia's translation being done and the release was ridiculous.

>>13678319
Grisaia's translation would spoil anyone, it released a year after announcement, and that game is huge. Most fan translations don't go even a tenth as smoothly.

>>13678319
If you think that's bad, try Yoake Mae yori Ruri Iro na: Translation reached 100% in July 2011, but it was only released in ha ha, just kidding, it still isn't released. Seriously.

>>13678719
But Edgar is a great translator and Sheeta is a great editor!

>>13676914
Do the west still make eroge?

>>13678724
people still make shitty porn flash games like on newgrounds like back in the day

that might be about it

>>13678743
Oh well, it wasn't meant to be anyway, with how ultra puritan the west is.

>>13678743
Western devs seem totally against porn. There's always complaints about sex is unnecessary or creepy, or the whole games as art argument where they want to make something "meaningful."

>>13678764
They can't even handle outfits and stuff that are "too sexualized" or whatever, that Japan wouldn't hesitate to put in an all ages game.

>>13676178
It still hurts

>>13678724
The next game from the everlasting summer guys will be eroge. They seem to be putting more effort into this one, I don't think it will be free. Dunno if Russia counts, though. There's also this, where they slipped h-scenes as a stretch goal under Kickstarter's radar: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unwonted/no-one-but-you The writing sample they provided is pretty terrible.

>>13678779
I always know the slavs would inherit nippon heritage!

>>13678779
Nice, I'm gonna buy some slav guns to support the scene!

>>13678722
>But Edgar is a great translator
Please show me evidence that this isn't the case. No, 'but he works with Sheeta' does not count as evidence for him not being a good translator.

>>13678855
Be more transparent.

>>13676914
This one?

>>13678855
Canvas 2's translation wasn't very good. It wasn't eye bleedingly awful or anything but it was pretty uninspired. Same with Yoake. The original Japanese script wasn't very good but Edger's is so much more boring. And a boring translation is the worst kind.

>>13678882
And here I was thinking completely inaccurate and unreadable translations were the worst kinds. I should completely rewrite stories and call myself a translator, apparently my translations wouldn't be too bad that way!

>>13678897
An inaccurate but fun to read translation can be appreciated on some level, even if it isn't the same thing as what's originally written. I'd rather have that than something I can't stand to read in any capacity.

>>13678903
brb, translating baldr sky

>>13678930
I'm not saying really inaccurate translations are good. But I hate being bored, and anything that bores me I drop immediately. Edger is a very boring translator who has a ridiculously dry writing style.

>>13678930
tanoshimi ni shitemas

>>13678942
君にメリーshitemas too, motherfucker

>>13678897
Boring translations may not actually be the "worst kind," but Edger really isn't that great of a writer. Just because something isn't completely inaccurate and unreadable doesn't mean the translator gets a free pass, I really dislike this, "but I understood the obvious stuff that happened, what exactly is the problem here?" attitude. Being able to write and accurately replicate the original work are both important, don't act like you can just write the first thing that comes to mind when you read something as your "translation" just because it pretty much says what the original says

>>13679049
Does a translator absolutely need to be a good writer? Because if we narrow it down to that, I think we're only left with koestl and no other translators. You can't expect the quality of literary translations without the pay and prestige of literary translations. It's inevitable that people translating porn games aren't great writers.

>>13679079
There's also Makoto and probably a few others. And you don't really need to be any better than the writer you're translating.

>>13679079
Well, I'm not exactly talking "literary quality" here, but good writing really is extremely important, yes. Eroge is a written medium, after all, and I'm not shitting on your husbando or anything, just expressing my annoyance with an attitude I see a lot. Obviously my Japanese is shit so I'm going to lap up translations that are fairly mediocre anyway it it's something I couldn't play the original of anyway, but good writing is important for sure, let's not vehemently defend mediocrity every time someone jokingly makes some snarky implication

>>13679104
The problem is that we only have 'mediocrity' or 'nothing' to choose from, and people are insisting 'mediocrity' is the wrong choice here. I enjoy reading something mediocre more than I enjoy reading nothing.

>>13679079
I really wish this "Koestl is a good writer" meme would die already. Better than Ixrec != good writer. if he was a good writer he'd be writing his own books, not translating B-list eroge like Grisaia.

>>13679131
Nah, there's a lot of stuff that's worse than mediocre going on, and nobody seriously discourages reading the mediocre stuff, barring perhaps a few of Ixrec's more rough releases and the like.

>>13679132
When people say this, it's obvious that they're exclusively comparing him to other eroge translators.Koestl is a pretty funny guy and writes some half decent comedy, to be honest, which is better than you can say for almost everyone else in the scene.

>>13679132
That's not a proper comparison. Not all good translators are necessarily fiction writers, you know.

I just need shit understandable and accurate, that's all I ever ask.

>>13679242
And you're fine if they don't quite reach either mark.

>>13679248
I wouldn't be able to understand if it's not understandable in the first place.

Now accuracy, that requires peer reviews.

>>13679242
Fire ATLAS up and play some moege, you'll probably know what's going on. That's all you want, right?

>>13679290
No, I actually don't understand ATLAS translation.

>>13679295
Well, you could always just JParser it up then as a supplement, plenty of retards on Fuwanovel do that, I'm sure it'd provide a very enriching reading experience. It really doesn't take much to understand most games on a basic level if that's all you want to do, setting your standards that low is just inviting machine TL as an option

>>13679147
In 100 years some literary historian will stumble upon these posts and be revolted at the lack of recognition one of the greatest writers of the 21st century faced in his early days.

>>13679306
If I can understand ML-tier translation level (without even editing it up) then yeah, it's bye bye other translations for me.

>>13679316
And ML here means "machine language".

>>13679316
Well that's fine, it just means your opinion is irrelevant to anybody that could understand most stuff with a texthooker yet still opts to play translations and avoid ruining games by just going for a bottom of the barrel understanding by crawling through the game and trying to parse each individual line

>>13679347
Thank you for understanding.

Has anyone announced plans to translated Angel Beats - 1st Beat? It comes out in a few days.

>>13679425
Yes.

How can SP keep getting away with it?
30+ titles "in development"

>>13679458
More kickstarters than actual products. lolz

>>13679458

>>13679310

Please. We all know koestl only becomes recognized as 'great' due to Supreme Overlord Moogy's influence.

>>13679458
Because they're almost all tiny, shit doujin crap that they're just going to run through Atlas.

>>13679463

You should just cross off all the OEL titles because SP isn't directly involved with any of them, they're just publishing. And some of those titles have been "in production" for years now (see PacaPlus)

>>13679425
Me

>>13678878
I never got the point of this chart. They're clearly suggesting that less sexual content means something is "more serious", and if that's the case it would be easy to argue that Western games just realized that early on and (mostly) avoided it altogether.

>>13679498
The point is the West's adult games never get to the point of branching off into different genres/formats like eroge.

It just dies off immaturely, or becomes cheap doujin games.

>>13679532
Or The Witcher, or since we're including Leisure Suit Larry for some reason, about seven thousand other games that feature some slight clothes on humping, but that's inconvenient, so we ignore it. I mean, it's not like the Japanese side has anything that says "just has a few short sex scenes in it."

The Japanese side also extremely overrates the popularity of just about everything on there.

>>13679650
That's a polish game. Is it really "western"?

>>13679650
Witcher and seven thousand other games that feature humping aren't explicit, you can't even see cocks or vaggos.

>>13679742
So just like most of the other Western games on that list.

>>13679758
I do agree with your point.

Commercial "eroge" in the West might as well end at Custer's Revenge.

Aww shit man, another month full of waiting for the euphoria to be on sale, y u do dis mangagamer?

>>13680460
It takes time to release a quality product.

>>13680460
>y u do dis
Get out.

So is it time yet to turn this thread into the AX speculation station yet, or is that next week?

Given how hyped haro seems to be for AX, I have the feeling that some of those three companies may not be relevant to our interests(unless, of course, that is your interest)

>>13680548
That's next week. This is probably going to be another boring thread.

>>13680548
Are you sure that's not just because of the goods and hard copies they're selling for NTY? What other BL or otome company would they partner with?

>>13680460
MG has nothing to do with the current wait, that's all on Clockup. But even after the current phase there's still testing then fixing what is found, so I wouldn't expect Euphoria until August at earliest.

>>13680548
Doddler and Haro seem to be doing all the marketing and hyping games for MG now, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is something for everyone at AX.

>>13679742
You can't see those in eroge either.

>>13678724
MG is partnered with an evn developer that does some eroge. Lupiesoft mostly seems to do yuri and futa at this point. They'll be talking about their games at MG's AX panel.

>>13678779
The love scenes that are mentioned in the kickstarter might not be all that graphic. Just have to wait and see how far they're willing to go with it.

>>13679425
I doubt any such project would be announced, since Sekai Project would likely send out a C&D. Or they could try to buy the translation, so the other party wouldn't release it as a patch.

>>13680791
Has Sekai Project even announced they would do it? Fuck I hate SP's translations.

>>13680798
No, but many people are expecting/hoping it'll be one of Sekai's announcements next month. It's inevitable though, since it's Key's best title that currently doesn't have a fantranslation. Even some of Sekai's fans on their forums have been wanting Sekai to license vns without existing fantranslations.

>>13680830
It's not even released and due to the format, is almost guaranteed to be terrible. Lamenting the lack of a translation for an unreleased game that's being released episodically that isn't going to be finished for half a decade is silly.

>>13681507
Angel Beats has a following because of the anime. And people that I know who watched it were bummed that not all of the characters introduced got their own arcs.

Episodic vns are becoming more common, just look MG's upcoming releases of Kuroinu and Supipara. Sekai Project has already started releasing episodic games with Fault Milestone and World End Economica.

>dead fan translation scene
>commercial scene releases dreg
>hardly any new releases
>episodic visual novels that take years
Visual novels are dead

>>13681619
It's time to learn Japanese.

>>13681619
It's your own fault for not migrating to greener pastures and better hobbies yet. You could be learning Japanese, working out, getting a girlfriend. Whatever you name, it will be better than reading VNs that aren't even taken for serious by Japanese people.

>>13681627
Fuck that. It'd be better to just leave and never look back.

>>13681627
Even new Japanese releases are bad

>>13681585
An anime that only had sales because of the marketing blitzkrieg and was all but outright stated to have been an economic failure, and of your VNs, one that's not episodic, one that's already a proven failure, and two budget doujin crap that also failed miserably in Japan.

Take your uguu bullshit and go back to Animesuki.

>>13681629
I already have other hobbies, I just don't want to lose this one.

>>13681635
Sure, there's a lot of crap that comes out, but good things come around too. Like Evenicle. Plus you have the great wealth of older games you will now be able to read.

>>13679650
>The Japanese side also extremely overrates the popularity of just about everything on there.
Huh? Pretty much everything on that list had a considerable influence in the eroge industry. I'd list their influence but hell, the chart does that job already. The only two titles I'd swap would be Kanon for One (which came before it and is more of a pioneer) and... you know, Subahibi shouldn't really be in that chart. It's popular but there are a huge amount of plot based games that came before it. Put MLA or Muramasa instead. Subahibi doesn't take itself seriously very often. Also not including YU-NO is a very questionable decision. At any rate, comparing japanese and western eroge is not a very good idea. Eroge had a lot of space to develop from the shitty PC-88 porn games, while the western adventure games, from what I can tell, went to the "point-and-click" path, with sierra, lucasarts and the like leading the industry. Later on, the genre had a decay for some reason, while eroge diversified itself and maintained its market. If you try playing some PC-88 games you'll quickly notice they have few differences from 80s text adventure games in the west, a considerable amount not even having any sort of sexual content.

>>13681635
Why would you want to play new releases before going through that 200+ titles backlog, though? It's like watching only seasonal anime without having touched the classics.

>>13681659
You could always do both.

>>13681653
>I'd swap [...] Kanon for One (which came before it and is more of a pioneer)
Wasn't One pretty much a ToHeart clone? From what I understand, Kanon took the innovations that were in one and put more focus on them, popularizing the nakige style of storytelling. As far as I know, Kanon was far more influential than One.

>>13681659
I don't have a 200+ title backlog. I've read most of the translated visual novels I intend to read.

>>13681681
That's the line of thought. Kanon took inspiration from One. Oh, and what you mentioned: To Heart. God, how can one make a chart like that and not put To Heart?

>>13681746
I think he's saying you could have a backlog that big if you knew Japanese, even if there were no more good eroge being released (not true, by the way). This isn't a thread about learning Japanese though, so let's drop the subject

>>13680662
You definitely can, in uncensored games.

http://mangagamer.org/announcements/

Four now, huh

>>13683733
They said they have 3 new partners, so some of those announcements aren't games from new partners.

>>13683733
>>13683746
I just hope the 4th announcement isn't them confirming that work on Supipara is underway, since the plan to localize it is already known.

Looking at the A-KON announcements, it's also possible they'll announce a hard copy of eden* to help keep the fundraiser going.

>>13682627
>uncensored games
Gross.

So drawfags adopted Albert or is it some autistic brigade's roleplay?

>>13685676
Huh?

>>13684497
That would not make a lot of difference. Their hardcopy runs are small.

>>13684497
>I just hope the 4th announcement isn't them confirming that work on Supipara is underway

That is certainly going to be an announcement they'll play off as a surprise. They haven't updated the funding page since just a little bit after the sale started and they probably won't until AX when they try to shock us with the thrilling news that they are indeed localizing one half of a half-finished game.

>>13687065
>shock us with the thrilling news that they are indeed localizing one half of a half-finished game.
I think the reason they haven't updated the fundraiser is because they're waiting for eventual refunds or just want to surprise us with how much the fundraiser has increased ever since its last update.
Anyway, they announced this project last year so they should know it comes as no surprise their annoucement of the localization of Supipara first chapter given that at this point they clearly have more than 100k on the fundraiser.

Apparently Aroduc's translating Sora o Aogite Kumo Takaku.

>>13689151
Last week he was translating Ikusa Megami Zero and next week he'll be on Baldr Sky right ?

>>13689828
I thought last week he was doing Eiyuu Senki Gold, but I may have the weeks mixed up.

>>13689840
Ah you're right. Ikusa Megami was two weeks ago.

>>13689828
He was already translating Baldr Sky.

I thought Aroduc hates mecha stuff and refuses to translate Baldr Sky.

>>13689983
No. He hates Baldr Sky and is tsundere about mecha.

>>13654740
DELETE THIS YOU FUCKERS!!

>>13684497
Supipara is probably for Otakon if they announce it this Summer. The Eden and Supipara fundraiser were announced at Otakon last year so it makes sense to announce the fundraiser was a success at Otakon this year.

Anyone know what's going on with koiken otome? I'm beginning to doubt they even translated what they said they did.

>>13691607
This was the project that was allowing someone who clearly didn't know English and openly said he used machine translation because it's fast. Then, when he got shit for it here, they said "Okay, we won't let him translate any more... except for the parts where it won't matter. We also redid all of the things he did. Yesterday. And we have seven translators, all working on different parts of the game, none of whom have ever translated before, all picked up from Fuwanovel. But it's okay because we're having them check each other's work."
All this is on top of them posting the first passage from the game, extremely mistranslated, and everyone telling them how great a job they did.

There was never any actual translation going on to begin with.

>>13691655

Typical elitist /jp/ scum. Just because the translation is woefully inaccurate and the English is riddled with typos and grammatical errors doesn't mean it isn't a valid translation. Would you rather have nothing at all? You should be grateful to the brave heroes who sacrifice so much time and energy to give you VNs to read! MTL is fine, you just need to fix it in editing! You just have unreasonable expectations! It's just a porn game, it doesn't matter!

Did I miss anything?

>>13691697
Demanding proof and claims that errors posted are cherry picking.

In all seriousness, then where could aspiring (and competent) translators post their projects? Nowadays is practically impossible to do it in "La Familia" (TLWiki) since it's integrated of members, half of them doing some work for either MG or JAST. It's a circle. And then there is the other option, Fuwa, which is a big no for some people. (Though there are some capable people there, you just need to identify them) What can an aspirant and competent translator do against this nagging dilemma?

>>13691765
Be like Ixrec, Phar, Aroduc, etc, and just do shit on their own not part of any community.

>>13691765
Translate "Aiyoku no Eustia". Guarantee audience and epeen.

>>13691765
>Though there are some capable people there
No, there are not. Associating with and enabling that kind of behavior is proof positive that they are not capable.

>>13691765

Anyone can post a project on TLWiki. You don't have to be "in" any group. It's just a damn wiki. Alternately start your own blog, it's not exactly rocket science.

>>13691765
>aspiring (and competent) translators

Oh the delusion. Wait till you release some comparison screenshots and people rip you to shreds.

>>13691765
>there are some capable people there
Name a single one.

Is Mahoyo ever being translated?

>>13693370
No.

>>13693370
Already translated, dude. It just needs the best editor in Za Warudo.

>>13693444
I don't know why they're so uppity about getting a good editor when the translation is bad enough to cause people to quit.

>>13693469
Why don't they just get a new translator? If they'd spent half the time retranslating it from scratch as they have throwing editors into the wood chipper they'd be done by now.

>>13693711
Why don't we just get a translator for everything we want translated? It's as easy as posting that you want something translated on Fuwanovel, and bam. Translators. You have to watch out though, some of them might get hired by Sekai Project.

>Little Busters - Original released, work ongoing with EX./ME content, now a joint project with Doki. 29712/30163 new lines translated
It's been way too long. What the fuck are they doing?

>>13697865
SP is now working with Key, they probably want to license Little Busters

I wish someone would pick up Shirokuma bellstars already.

>>13697869
Not really an excuse for stopping 300 lines behind the finish line.

>>13697873
Maybe they don't want a C&D or something. LB is still a perfectly good read without the EX content, it's not worth the (possibly eternal) wait

>>13697918
I have the EX iso with the current EX patch (that basically removes all EX content while fucking up the galleries/music player and introducing random bugs). I just want Saya route (sex scenes I don't care).

>>13697918
I just want Sasami route.She's mai waifu.

>>13697955
>>13697962
I will admit that the EX heriones are superior

What the fuck, Doddler?

>>13698835
What happened?

>>13698840
Being a faggot

So going by a tweet from MG, it looks like at least one or two of the new companies next month at AX will be gay/lesbian stuff.

>>13699828
>Otakon

I'd put my money on BL stuff because Haro is so hyped, and supposedly Flowers is to be an Otakon announcement. However, there's also

>please tell me this implies that you got some yuri games
>Well, #AX2015 is next week, so you'll find out very soon!

There's four new annoucements and three new partners, so I suppose it could be yurirei, in addition to flowers at otakon. koestl was jacking off over that one, so maybe it's possible that he'd take on work from mangagamer at the same time as he's busy with grisaia?

Or it could be something completely new.

>Full Page mangogamer ads on lewdgamer

Thoughts /jp/?

Kinda surprised shitkakucomplex doesn't have the same ads, must charge more

>>13692404
Those "people" are autists and their opinions are worth less than shit.

>>13700034
Once they realized that many people still haven't heard of them, they likely talked the higher ups into giving them an advertising budget, though it's likely a very limited one.

>>13700569
Yeah, there was ads here for a bit as well around the Evangile release after the survey.

Who's going to be the hero that keeps Ixrec from Ixwrecking Baldr Sky?

Remember in February when Jast said that they were going to release more games in the next six months than they had in the last three years?

If you include the Kana re-release, re-releasing Hanachirasu's fan patch as official, and assume that Raidy will be the first game in years that isn't delayed after they announced a release date, they'll just barely reach four games.

Otherwise, they're at one. Starless.

Sasuga, Jast.

>>13702446
https://connect.jastusa.com/support/discussions/topics/5000025194/page/3

>We're going to be releasing more titles in the coming 6 months than we did the previous 3 years combined. This is in one part due the natural time-lag of project start to finish, but on the second part with changes in staff within the company.
>Fri, 13 Feb, 2015

They released 8 games in the last 3 years. Only going to miss it by four or five!

>>13691765

I think it's a pretty difficult problem. I'd like to get more involved with editing translations but it's hard to find projects that need help and are recruiting. That, or I would like to work on light novels, since the average release quality for those is horrible (although I can't tell if its because of machine translation or poor English skills).

Fuwanovel is a no go because there are too many people from India/Malaysia/Etc on it that barely qualify as human beings and think using the phrase "this fellow" is an accurate translation.

>>13702588
It's easy to find projects that need help, whether they think they do or not.