/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>2116252
Apparently Sono Hanabira New Generation is going to be one of the MG announcements.

Oh this exciting time again. Once more we learn what gets sacrificed to EOPs. As I always, I really hope it's not ８月.

http://mangagamer.org/announcements/

>>15672004
It makes no sense to license that when Maidens of Michael and Snow White's Knight are basically required reading for it.

Hoping for Rance VI, anything else is a bonus.

>>15672004
>New Generation
But why? Like >>15672393 said, they need Maidens of Michael to work. Alongside, using another couple without the Reo/Mai is like shooting in the feat. They (or at least Reo) is the most popular girls in Hanabira series.

>>15672491
*are the most popular.

>>15672393
>>15672491
The post they linked is to a shitpost.

>>15672502
Maybe with the New Generation title, but we're gonna get a new Hanabira tomorrow.

Maidens of Michael makes the most sense. MG could even call it a sequel to Remembering How We Met.

it would be nice if we could get another lolige like sweet sweat in summmer this time..

>>15673308
I doubt they'd save a short nukige to announce at Otakon, since it's where they announce their major projects of the year. It could be a moege that's lolige-esque, but it's just as likely going to be a NTR title.

>>15673354
NTR is so weird. In general most porn could be NTR if you didn't decide to self insert into the person having sex.

As far as lower profile titles/nukige go, MG has an extra contention this year at Anime Weekend Atlanta at the end of September, and they would likely hold any such unannounced titles until then.

If they don't announce Rance, i'm ending it

>>15673900
Take Dovac with you.

I can't wait to see what new license(s) SP announces they're going to ruin tomorrow

>>15674126
They'll announce a partnership with Iris and will bring all-ages version of all their games to steam.

>>15674126
Eustia.

Place your bets

>>15674603

And my bets, that I may be proven right or wrong for all time.

>>15674603
I'm not betting anything in the new Partner.

>>15674644
Well, I don't know what Loli or NTR game that MangaGamer's going to get, so that would be the second new partner for me. Other than that, everything else is exactly the same.

>>15674738
>Loli or NTR
What if it's loli AND NTR?

>>15674753
Then I will need both hands.

>>15673570
NTR is only fun when it happens to someone else.

>>15674753
https://vndb.org/v17836 would be fun

>>15674753
Would that be appealing to both? Or is that like an ultra-niche?

https://www.lewdgamer.com/2016/08/12/mangagamer-tsukiware-crossdressing-critical-hit/

>>15674895
>OELVN

No thanks.

>>15674911
Ye I dont care about it either, just posted cause it MG relevant.

I had no idea what the new partners could be, just put something down that I'd like. I'm guessing overall this convention will be disappointing other than Rance.

This https://vndb.org/v4235#main

Venus Blood

>>15675099

I believe haro confirmed no hardcopy trolling.

>>15674837
probably not. loli fans are probably coming from a possessive fatherhood or older sibling complex

I'm crossing my fingers that the New Partner announcements at the Mangagamer panel might mean more Otoge or BL, but I can't think of much I've seen staff talk about on Twitter that wasn't already announced at Anime Expo.

Mashou Megane's too recent of a release, even if I'd really like to see it stateside.

>>15675253
Leave it to /jp/'s world famous psychoanalysis expertise!

>>15675178
based Haro

>>15675333
>still no link in lewd cat

Well, given how Maria is hyped for Otakon I'm pretty sure Rance is confirmed. There's a yuri title too but besides that, I have no idea.

>>15675178

I did for AX, but I can confirm that again for Ota.

>>15674603
Reminder that porn is bad. ERO games are only for kids and 18+ version are not important at all.

>>15675546

thx bby

>>15675696
sup dovac

>>15675696

I really wish it were a lolige but I have some serious doubts.

>>15675696
>chinese doujing game
It can't be worse than oelvn, can it?

>>15675696
>Supipara 2
Please no, keep save that disappointment for Atlanta or Boston, wherever the September con is.

Okay sorry I didnt really look under game translation news, so I am gonna ask something everyone already knows and probably annoys you guys.

Anyway so Sekaiproject wants to release Maitetsu in the west, cut h-stuff probabaly some other filtered stuff, okay okay all that i get.
But isnt the game about romancing lolis?
At least one of them isnt a robot, so how are SJW even okay with that or do they want to neuter it even more?
(I just played Monobeno, so I assume Maitetsu is similiar)

>>15675727
They at last have better art then oelvn shit.

>>15675745

Technically they haven't said that an 18+ release is impossible yet. I fully expect them to keep stringing people along on it.

>>15675745
Maitetsu is a plotge about anthropomorfic trains with loli porn as extra. Monobeno was algo a plotge but with loli porn between the story.

>>15675808
Monobeno is yes a plotge but the romancing loli stuff was still there.

Well suppose Maitetsu might be different and those few scenes where prota has any "impure" thoughts can be rewritten to make it fitting for the western market.

>>15675745
Isn't it because they have people in the team who don't want to translate/touch pedo art?
I totally understand someone not wanting to be involved with such sinful content. Probably working in a company that translates and publishes 2D loli porn as business isn't the best idea.

>>15675745
SJWs don't care about VNs. Not sure why you'd even bring them up.
The reason SP avoids loli is the reason every other company does, it's a legal grey zone, even in the US which is one of the most liberal countries in the anglosphere when it comes to loli. They want to avoid it at all costs.

SP also believes the game will sell on its own merits (I have serious doubts about this, from both my own exposure to Maitetsu as well as the Japanese reception), but the Japanese developer also thinks people will play it for the story.
Monobeno would work as all-ages (it even has an all-ages version),so Maitetsu probably could. If the developer helps. Regardless, in both cases there's "objectionable" content other than the sex scenes that SP is very likely to want to cut or edit.
One of SP's staff also said Maitetsu is cute not pedo, so that's certainly how they'll try to market it.

>>15676020
Maitetsu is in a bad spot if the only localization will be all ages. It seems like it'll be both too long and too expensive for the Steam people who bought Nekopara for <$10. Along with that, pretty much every plot heavy game that didn't already have an existing fanbase (Muv Luv) has not done all that well this year.

I don't see a lot of success for it if this past calendar year is anything to go by, but I'm just an anonymous guy on the J.

How many projects do sekai have going at the minute anyway, it seems like they have a lot of stuff yet to be released

>>15676100
They can hijack as many fan translation projects as there are.

>>15676100
Something like this.

>>15676136
jesus fuck

>>15676136
A literal cancer on the VN scene.

>>15676136
>Leyline was 100% translated and edited 7 months before Sekai project announced it
>it's been 4 months since they announced it and no release window said yet

Can't make this shit up

>>15676136
meanwhile JAST only has 12.

>>15676169
It takes a long time to gut the ero from a game.

>>15672447
01 is more likely. Even so though, I think a Rance game is unlikely.

>>15675525
Maria's a fujoshi though, so I think a yuri game's more likely (because there wasn't one announced in AX).

>>15676429
>fujoshi
>yuri
I don't think that means what you think it means.

>>15676437
Yuri's a weird genre that has both a prominent female and male fanbase. It's not like Yaoi where the fanbase is overwhelmingly female.

>>15676447
I'm not talking about the word Yuri.

>>15676169
Wasn't Subahibi completed last year, too

>>15676497
I think Subahibi's its own thing.

>>15676497
It became legit, so we have to wait. I'd give it at least 3 years.

>>15676414
Arunaru said his secret project was what you think or something similar, and that he didn't have to do a lot of work on it. This means its either the mostly finished Rance games, or some really short gameplay thing. I'm going to go with Rance on this one, and since 6 is the one Arunaru worked one I'm expecting that one.

>>15675742
Last year in the Otakon thread I made I said Supipara was part of the announcements and it was. I'll say it again. Expect Supipara chapter 2 to be part of the announcements.

Is this panel live streamed?

>>15676752
I doubt Mangagamer made 35k in Supipara/Eden sales in a week.

>>15677102
Anything is possible when you fudge the numbers.

>>15677108
While I can see them faking the numbers in the future, it's too soon. Ch 2 will be funded in a year at worst through Steam sales.

What did she mean by this?

https://youtu.be/NHozn0YXAeE

>>15677334
diabolik lovers confirmed bitches!!!!1

>>15677334
Sona-Nyl? I did think that the Kawashima Rino hint was talking about that. And it's the type of VN that Maria seemed likely to work on.

>>15674753
https://vndb.org/v8282 this one also has femdom.

>>15677334

Is there any game called Triple Homos or Homo³?

All Ages are the future of VN's
All Ages are the one which drive the industry forward into globalization
All Ages are mass market and profit oriented

>>15677334

Probably trying to draw attention to the changing colors of her twitter avatar.

>>15677770

And also, while I haven't caught all the colors because I haven't been paying attention, I kind of think it's just a subtle reference to 5d's roulette.

>>15677039

Outlook for a stream seems poor. What's worse is no live transcript either. We'll have to do it the hard way, searching for people twitting about the panels.

these "predictions" just end up as projected blind hope.

Is there anybody who actually deduces based on hints/reason?

>>15677525
I feel you. Go read hmanga if you want to fap!

>>15677843
"Reason" is for squares.

>>15677843

There's pretty ample evidence lying around for the rance predictions.

Mangagamer confirmed a yuri announcement, and everyone's favorite autist craig donson is hyping it up, so there's your sonohana evidence.

Koestl is hyping up the con, and there was that purple hint earlier in the year. Not exactly hard proof, but sona nyl seems like a fair guess out of that.

Those are all pretty common predictions. There's also more spurious stuff like sorcery jokers matching the hint earlier in the year, or stuff matching up to that lolige/ntr genre title.

>>15677953
Purple soft as a new partner would be more suitable for a purple hint. But I don't really think their hinting skills is top notch.

>>15677978
>Purple soft as a new partner would be more suitable for a purple hint. But I don't really think their hinting skills is top notch.

I don't know if you're aware of it, but the steampunk games all have color-coded titles. Just as, for example, gahkthun was yellow(golden) lightning, Sona-nyl is purple shadow. Not to mention that the entire game has a purple theme. And that Koestl is the one who's hyping it. And that he said he'd be working with mangagamer again near the end of the year. And that it's got an all-ages cut so as to be steam-ready.

And also that purple soft is already with sekai.

>>15677430
Good prediction.

>>15676713
>legit
Yeah that's right, trust Moogy and his lackeys you are a good goy.

>>15676136
Its been 2 years since WEE was fully backed at insane for its length sum, and WEE3 is still nowhere near ready and all these non-win ports are non-existent.

>>15677334
Rance - Hikari o Motomete??

How many more hours?

>>15677889
B-but I usually don't fap to sex scenes on VNs that aren't nukige and still want them in!

>>15678607
http://mangagamer.org/announcements
MG has a timer on the page.

>>15678630
why

>>15678634
Huh, It didn't appear due to script blocking.

>>15678637
I like seeing the heroine nude, enjoy her reactions on sexual scenes and I feel sort of a connection with her because she loves me enough to give herself to me. I guess that part of the reason of me thinking like this is because of how sexualized this industry usually is along with 4chan lurking and multiple doujins.

However, I can appreciate a VN that doesn't include sexual content on its japanese edition. However, if it's localized and censored that's obviously a problem.

>>15678678
you know your responding to an obvious troll right?

>>15678687
Newfags are coming anon

>>15678008
>Sona-nyl
It would be retarded to safe another steampunk crap for Otakon when gahkthun tanked. Given how many people get disappointed with gahkthun, Sona-nyl going to sell even less.
Wouldn't put it past MG to do this though.

>>15678733
>gahkthun tanked
MangaGamer said Liar-Soft is satisfied with Gahkthun sales. You shouldn't rely on /jp/ asspulls when it comes to measuring success of VNs, 90% of time /jp/ is ridiculously wrong.

>>15678607
Sekai's panel is 12:45 PM. So about 3 hours from now.

With any luck, it'll at least provide entertainment of the internet shitstorm kind.

>>15678792
Where did they say that?

1 hour to SP's panel.

Its funny how sekai doesn't have booth but has panel. Licensing shit but never releasing anything.

>>15679315
Cue "Unlimited License Works" chant with "Yet these hands will never release anything." line in it.

>>15678927
Aren't they the new JAST? They can announce all they want but they don't have the staff to translate. In fact, I'm just gonna call them LAST.

>>15679331
Nah, that's JAST's. Sekai's is "I have no releases. This is the only path."

>>15679334
Funny thing is, they have WAY more shit announced than them. They managed to out-JAST JAST.

>>15679334
JAST never picked up the volume of titles SP has. While both of them are extremely slow at releases, SP probably has more stuff licensed right now than JAST has released/licensed in their lifespan.

Sekai released Root Double.
So, they CAN release things

>>15679370
Yeah, but they weren't the ones who translated it.

>>15679370
Doesn't count, it was 100% ready fan-tl.

>>15679370
World End Economica
>Estimated delivery May 2015
It's two short episodes, they still haven't done it

>>15679378
>>15679376
So when JAST pays translators, they're the ones translating it, but when Sekai does the same thing, it doesn't count?
It wasn't a released fan translation, it was an official translation done by a legit company, Lemnisca translations

>>15679386
It was done before licensed by sekai.

>>15679391
Wouldn't be released if not for Sekai

>>15679394
Yes, it would be, like every other fan-tl by lemnisca. And it would be released earlier and we would also get other games from series and we wouldn't have previous patches deleted.

>>15679394
The point is that SP so badly mismanages their projects that anything not nearly complete before they touch it gets delayed forever or never releases.

Was looking at steamspy, Grisaia no Meikyuu sold on same level as fucking Fata Morgana?
Uh huh, seems like all that NEKOPARA CROWD didn't work well for you, herkz?

>>15679428
They're waiting for the +18 version.

>>15679386
>a legit company, Lemnisca translations
Funny how prior to the license, it was a fan group, but by some magical alchemy it becomes a "legit company" overnight despite nothing changing about the people involved.

>>15679432
But every sekai project shill claims 18+ versions don't matter and nobody buys them, this cannot be true.

>>15679404
Probably wouldn't have that shit editing job, too.

Dovac assassination so close.

>>15679524
Is he actually attending for the panel? Or is someone else doing it?

>>15679551
Someone else, co-founder

So, any jpsie attending panel? Or live tweet? Or anything?

>>15679584
Well, I am.

Did SP's panel star?

>>15679611
just now, yeah.

>>15679611
Yeah, about 3 minutes ago

>>15679428
Everyone already forget or lost interest in Grisaia.

>Nekopara anime Kickstarter
So that's what dovac meant by leaving VN market, he's going to make anime now.

>>15679584
https://twitter.com/ellyberries is doing it

SP is beyond parody at this point

>>15674603
Here is my bet

>Sakura Spirit Manga
>Nekopara Anima
SP confirmed for leaving VN industry

HOLY SHIT SP GOT DIES IRAE
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

lol more sakura cancer

>>15679674
They'll branch out to losing money in 3 industries.

So far its only OELVN and indie crap. Sasuga.

>>15679674
And the GATE manga comes out in September.

SP setting an extremely low bar for MG here

Please don't bully SP

>Fatal Twelve is a thrilling VN from the same people that brought you Sound of Drop! Coming soon~

>>15679698
You mean it's only slightly less vague release dates?
Judging by vndb, all of this has been announced before.

>>15679704
baldr is a hard act to follow. it was pretty obvious this con was going to be shit for sp.

https://sekaiproject.com/products/fatal-twelve/
Doujin.

>>15679719
One new announcement so far

>>15679714
>>15679724
mite b cool

>>15679724
>doujin
>Fatal Tweleve
>Fatal
>Fata
Obvious rip off

>>15679726
https://vndb.org/v18386
>This one is from a dev. in Argentina! Looks really interesting

Doujin shit from Argentina. Hilarious.

Original Argentinian Visual Novel, are you excited, /jp/?

>>15679747

They announced this ages ago too. It's not new.

They announced Baldr Sky last, after bunch of shitty doujins, so its too early to relax.

>>15679747
>https://vndb.org/v18386
SP entry dated 2015-09-27. Fatal 12 is only thing new.

>>15679724
>Now the task at hand is to uncover the “Name,” “Cause of death,” and “Regret”
What is this? Budget mononoke?

>>15679755
They did? I don't remember the shitposting about it.

Kinda funny how that guys tweet about Nekopara instantly got 30 likes/retweets and everything else has been 0
Nobody gives a shit about this crap

>>15679744
For some reason I find the art unsettling

>An adorable alchemic JRPG game, The Emerald Tablet coming soon in 2017! Also for PS4 and Vita!

>>15679772
SP is really leaving the VN industry.

>>15679676
>tfw it's true

This Elly girl has incredible shit taste. Sasuga SP fans.

>>15679772
>we want the Atelier audience

I feel too sympathetic towards Argentina people so I have no choice but to look forward to it.

>>15679774
They've released actual games before, though. Like Rabi-ribi.

>>15679778
She works for them

>>15679772
> Also for PS4 and Vita!
They're big boys now. Lets hope they finally leave vn market for good.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChunandRice/status/764507782976565248

>Dairy Princess, a game where you aim to have the best ranch ever is coming soon in 2017!

>Dairy Princess
An obvious all ages Funbag Fantasy

>>15679791
fucking lol

>>15679788
Sorry Good haro forgot to delete ur name:/

>Physical copies of narcissu for PS4 and Vita coming out in 2017 through Limited Run! Also on PSN.

They are really picking up a lot of console titles, though. Gotta be doing something right to afford that.

>Like the bartending waifus, hope you can help us all down here in this godforsaken hell hole to come out...

Argentina VN dev trying to escape the third world through Sekai

https://sekaiproject.com/products/the-emerald-tablet/

it's literally a Chinese Atelier knock-off

Narcissu 3 when?

And that's all the announcements.
Just indie games and release dates.

Time to evade questions about Maitetsu!
Are you guys ready?

Q&A already. WTF?!

>Q&A
So, we are saved this time? Nothing worthy ruined?

Place yer bets on whether or not Maitetsu will be dodged again

Wait... that's it? No real visual novels? Are we safe?

Good Haro is cute.

What a relief.

They announced Baldr Sky last convention
They can't have constant announcements

>>15679829
Would someone really ask about loli porn in front of a normie crowd like Sekai's
Maybe I'm just too insecure

Good things never happen, be prepared for a 'but wait' after Q&A, so that nobody can ask questions about what will inevitably be an 18+ title getting stripped down.

Maybe Sekai really is leaving VNs

>>15679837
You'd think they would've saved at least 1 noteworthy thing for Otakon, but apparently nope.

Where is my main man Ryan Caldwell?

>>15679838
Nobody at a con is a normalfag.

>>15679837
Honestly Baldr was literally the only "wow" announcement they have done in 3 years

>>15679838
They're not asking about loli porn. They're asking if they're only going to release a butchered, incomplete version of the VN.

>>15679844
They can publish on Vita and PS4 now. They're also getting into manga and anime. What do they need the visual novel crowd for now?

So, what did they tell during QA? Any news on maitetsu / baldr 18+?

>>15679838
If I was there, I would. That shit ain't illegal in my state, I got no worries.
Like anyone gives a fuck what congoers think of them, anyway. How the hell is somebody going to an anime convention going to judge a lolicon? Especially at a VN panel, of all things.

Good. I was really thought Dovac would ruin Eustia with all age shit or something else. We dodge the bullet.

>>15679860
I'm glad. I don't care if they get successful, just dont touch VNs anymore

>>15679866
I wonder how many of their fans are freaking out that Sekai announced no vns of note at all.

>>15679856
Maitetsu was also "wow" but for the bad reason.

Do none of those goddamn congoers have twitter to keep the rest of the world updated on the Q&A? Reeee

>>15679873
Sekai project has fans?

>>15679866
>I was really thought
What did anon mean by this?

>>15679873
SP fans only care about Nekopara anime

>>15679876
>congoers
rofl

some nigger on the reddit discord is posting things from the q/a

Congoer here: It's fucking nothing.

9 hours

No JAST panel, right?
So MG won Otakon by default, no matter what they announce.

>>15679908
Ask about Maitetsu

>>15679908
Did they even mention 18+ stuff?

Will SP announce anything for C90?

People who want 18+ content are a minority and what's worse, they pirate said content. Sorry lads, you are not the intended audience anymore.

>>15679944
>anymore

>>15679938
I died.

>>15679944
>Sorry lads, you are not the intended audience anymore.
Who is then? The Nekopara audience doesn't give a shit about anything other than Nekopara as shown by the Karakara sales. The "core" audience was told to fuck off as well, so what is left?

>>15679739
I had a good laugh but thinking about how much some of Sekai's drivel has made compared to Fata just makes me want to die.

>>15679435
http://www.company-detail.com/company-lemnisca-llc-4741259
They were registered as a "legit" "company" months before Root Double's announcement but for god knows what reason, they only announced they were a company after the release.
Maybe to ship from Sekai Project and reach out to other publishers.
Or maybe they're working on getting licenses of their own.
Conjueror did joke about working on Dies Irae with Lemnisca for April Fools...

>>15679970
The Playstation audience

>>15679844
They don't want dirty gross VN fan money anyway, makes sense. We've only been told we're not the target demographic a million times.

>>15679980
We know that GundamAce works on some (big?) project though.

>>15679976
Such is life. Unless it has cute cat girls on the cover no one will buy SP's shit either.

>>15679991
The PlayStation audience doesn't care either, although maybe they can get some of their indieshit jRPGs to sell on Vita.

>>15679991
Can't wait for inevitable failure to sell even 1000 units since western consoles audience doesn't read books.

>>15679980
>to ship from
to jump ship from*

>>15679728
I hope that it will turn out better than Sound of Drop since I couldn't connect with its characters or feel something about its story at all.

>>15680001
>to sell on Vita
I feel trying to go for the Vita is a big mistake as it is mostly abandoned in the west. I mean you might be able to corner the market with no competition, but that market isn't exactly large.

Forgot to post mine. What did SP announce?

>>15680001
The non-existent Vita audience will eat literally anything released on vita, though. As long as its anime.

>>15680027
> What did SP announce?
Nothing.

>>15680027
> What did SP announce?
Shit.

>>15675099
I'm going to die of laughter if it's Escalayer.

Heck, I'll videotape myself laughing myself to the gallows.

>>15675333
BL sucks and is utterly unreadable, otomege is best.

Fight me.

>>15680027
A lot of all-ages Indie VNs (a lot sound to be OELVN) and a JRPG. Nekopara Anime Kickstarter already was announced I think too.

So you got everything right except them getting a single really good 18+ VN that they would censor which thankfully wasn't the case.

>>15675696
I would legitimately suck MG's dick if they did WA 2. It's too fucking long, though.

>>15680021
The market does have competition, though. Companies like Compile Heart, NISA and Experience have the niche weeblord audience in the palm of their hands.

So I think I have a full writeup of SP, please make any corrections

Old Stuff:
(Anime) Nekopara Anime Kickstarter
(Manga) GATE Manga
(OELVN) Human Reignition Project
(OELVN) Sakura Spirit
(OELVN) Yume no Sono
(VN) Memory's Dogma
(VN) Narcissu Hardcopies

New Stuff:
(VN) Fatal Twelve
(VN) The Emerald Tablet
(VN) Dairy Princess

>>15680059
Why isn't Monster Monpiece uncensored on Steam yet?

>>15680067
Emerald tablet and Dairy princess are games.

>>15680067
> (VN) Memory's Dogma
Is not this OELVN also?

>>15680059
I think even some of them are starting to give up on the Vita as they are now porting lots of their titles to the PC market.

>>15680067
Sakura Spirit announcement was about its manga.

They also talked about the Sekai Project shop along with their Nekopara merchandise.

>>15680078
http://lizarts.info/
No, it just hasn't been released anywhere yet.

>>15680078
Japanese doujin that was kickstarted.

>>15680078
It's developed by LizArts. SP is only publishing it.

>>15680075
>>15680086
Thanks

All VN are games

http://www.strawpoll.me/10984103

>>15680102
Yes, but there's a big difference between something focused on gameplay and something focused on story.
If the story is just a foil for the gameplay to fit into it's more game than VN.

>>15680095
>>15680097
>>15680099
Thanks. Maybe pirate it when released.

>>15679934

https://twitter.com/NepsKnight/status/764511608693329920

>>15680133
lol

>>15680069
Currently in beta testing afaik.

>>15680102
Nah. They're under the vague umbrella of "interactive electronic medium" with real vidya and walking simulators. Some also happen to be games, but that doesn't mean all of them are.

>>15680133
That guy doesn't even seem to be at the con, how would he know that?

>>15678421
I've said this before, but SP is literally a hot potato. They aren't 'not making android versions because they don't want to bother'. It's that they have so little liquid money that they can't afford to do anything but host more Kickstarters and license/release OELVNs. When it comes to stuff like Leyline and SakuSaku, they're delayed almost surely because SP can't afford to pay them at the moment.

It's literally a Jenga tower on the verge of collapse.

>>15677430
I'd be surprisingly okay with that. The anime was fucking hilarious.

>>15680171
Apparently someone was talking about the Q&A elsewhere.

>>15680173
>they have so little liquid money
Why don't they just put their cash into a blender then?

>>15677525
I stopped playing videogames because they kept trying to cater to a larger market and bakaify things.

Now my niche market is going through the same process. Fuck this world, where do I even evacuate to?

>>15680171

If that's not enough there's also http://disq.us/p/1awdfv6

Face it, dovac lied

>>15680133
OELVNs and old news too. Why did they even bother coming? Do they really think people give a shit about their no-name dual-language doujin crap?

> SP announced more titles when they can't even release a tenth of the ones they already have going.
> They haven't met basically any Kickstarter promise.
> They managed to poison the entire VN industries' well with their own greed.

I don't think you could find anyone to go back in time and manage SP worse from the onset.

It's times like this that I wish dovac didn't nuke his twitter. I'm sure there'd be some amusing shit on it right now

>>15680202
There's still Anime Fest and Anime Weekend Atlanta.

>>15679641
Nah, he's making games now. Good riddance.

I really hope dovac goes bankrupt, he's a terrible human being.

>>15680133
>On AX: We'll have news about +18 versions on Otakon
>On Otakon: Sorry but we cannot say anything
Profissional service as always

>>15680242
B-b-but its all jap devs fault, they prohibit ever telling about content they already licensed!

So, do we all agree that MG wins by default?

They could announce 6 below-average nukiges and they'd be better.

>>15680242
Before that they said they would do it at AX too.

>>15680229
He would just be telling us we should be grateful for all the "great" games they are bringing to us and without them the western scene would be dead.

>>15680242

Actually it was

"Wait for AX for news about maitetsu"
AX comes and goes
"Wait for the next con for news about maitetsu and baldr sky"
And thus now otakon has come and gone

You don't even need confirmation you already know the answer.

>>15680250
They're probably saving most of their low tier nukige for Atlanta. Sekai has a panel there too, but MG will still almost definitely win.

>>15679813
C-can't I just play Atelier instead? I mean, Escha to Logy was some of the most fun I've had for the past year.

Though my sister was perturbed at how I'd spend hours on a menu screen making the perfect equipment.

>>15680264
> my sister
Play Imouto Paradise with her instead.

We're hours away of MG devastating SP announcements.

We're hours away from delicious Rancefag tears

>>15680230
>Anime Fest
Isn't that going on right now too?
Has SP ever had presence in two cons at once?

>>15680283
She's 2 years older than me. It wouldn't work.

Speaking of that, why is there no translated onee-chan focused nukige/moege? There's a ton of imouto ones, but no onee-chan.

>>15680309
I want to see the looks on their faces when we get Escalayer.

I'd be cool with Evenicle or Rance though.

>>15680293

>Mangagamer

Devasting anything, they going announce shit yuri,moege and nukige.

>>15680311
If /a/ anything to go by its seems west love little sisters more. I am fine with both.

>>15680198
HRPG Maker Games.

>>15680357
Still better than OELVNs and Chinese RPGs.

>>15680357
Which is what we want, of course. Just look at the sales.

>>15680357
> tfw dovac thinks his banana-land doujin oelvns are better than based nukiges.

>>15680357
Only way they could fuck up more than Sekai is if there were 6 hardcopy announcements. Even announcing only 1 Softhouse Seal title would let them beat Sekai, at least for me.

>>15680390
Good Haro confirmed there will be no hard copy announcements.
And there are 2 new partners, which obviously couldn't even theoretically be hard-copies.

>>15680357
> moege
I am honestly more hyped for SukiSuki than all-age Baldr Sky.

We're probably going to get at least a couple moege, since they only really have three of them pending release, none have been released recently, and one is episodic.

>>15680403
Honestly, I'm more looking forward to Himawari and Bocchi Musume. N-no homo.

We all know all-ages Baldr Sky won't use Aroduc's translation and will be a ghetto-ly put together project instead.

>>15680403
Baldr Sky isn't even that good.
Story is so thoroughly littered with asspulls and deus exes that I'm amazed it was so hyped by certain crowd. And then there's issue with constant flashbacks, and then protagonist who is supposed to be ruthless mercenary with years of experience yet who acts like helpless schoolboy. Chinatsu route of Dive1 was most retarded thing I read in quite a while.

South American devs are based you faggots

>Sekai Project Announces Next Wave of Exciting New Titles for PC and PlayStation Platforms at Otakon
This press-release is such cancer.

Why doesn't Sekai Project just localize actual games instead of eroge if they have such aversions when it comes to anything ero?

>>15680551
> all those random words being capitalized.
??

>>15680399
Joke

Head

That aside, I'm still expecting the most recently added announcement to be a hardcopy (in case the Good Haro in the thread is fake).

>>15680562
>random
Don't You Know Old English? Capitalize Nouns.

>>15680562
Have you ever seen a title? For, uh, anything?

>>15680559
Actual game licenses cost money and have more competition than VNs

>>15680559
That's exactly what they're trying to do. They've been announcing more console games and shitty dj games lately.

>>15680559
There too much competition for actual games that aren't unknown stuff from South Timor for Sekai Project unlike with VNs where they can pretend they are the king in the West.

When was the last time, mangagamer released a kamige?

Fatamorgana but it flopped

>>15680598
Silly anon, you cannot release kamige in the west. The moment you license it, it stops being kamige, and its already complete kusoge when ready to be released.

>>15680598
MG usually releases middle-of-the-line titles.

>>15680598
Himawari soon for the next big meme kamige
Otherwise it's really up to your interpretation I guess. I really liked Euphoria

>>15680598
Tokyo Babel is a kamige

>>15680622
Literally.

Rabi Ribi was fucking great, but these new games don't seem to have the same kind of love put into them. I hope to be wrong because I love these little weeb games.

>>15680598
Maggot baits will be the top of kamige and it'll also be MG's lifetime best seller, that's all that matters.

>>15680598
>but it flopped
I bought it twice ;_;

>>15680631
Dovac pls go.

>>15680598
It was probably dirt cheap as a doujin property, and, given they licensed the sequel/fandisk, it was almost surely profitable.

>>15680645
>It was probably dirt cheap as a doujin property
But it got released on 3ds in japan! Surely it's worth more than most other titles.

>>15680598
> Fatamorgana
> kamige
Moogy shit on it, so its kusoge.

>>15680645
>given they licensed the sequel/fandisk, it was almost surely profitable.
that was actually technically announced in the game itself. once you beat the title for the first time there's extra stuff where the staff makes comments through the characters and stuff, really funny and all.

at the end they announce the fandisc localization. so it was decided before sales hit i think

>>15680652
it's pretty popular in japan, more so than it is here that's for sure.

for the drama CDs they got some pretty top VAs

MG VNs I'm saving my pennies for:

Sukisuki - /jp/'s game
Fata Morgana Fandisk
Dal Segno
Bitchmusume Produce

Otakon:
????

>>15680655
That's actually all the more reason to love it.

>>15680655
wtf i love fata morgana now

>>15680311
I feel your pain anon.

>>15680655
>>15680664
>>15680667
I've seen this exact same string of posts before.

Rance 6 inc

>>15680671
I'm using my computer, xbox, and phone to samefag myself and make that exact series-of-posts ad naseum until you love it

MG got https://vndb.org/v18279 i believe!!!

>>15680679
Shit, I'm using my PC, 3ds, Vita, WiiU, PS4, Laptop, 2 phones and a tablet to impersonate everyone that usually posts in these threads. You're gonna have to step it up.

>>15680689
meme artist

Lets all scram for Venus Blood!

>>15680689
that would be awesome. mizuryu kei's sluts are delectable.

>>15678955
Nowhere. Gahktun was a flop, that's all.

>>15680717
>Venus Blood
That would be neat. Some of my favourite VAs voices characters in that series.

>>15680717
*scream -_-

Bet on some Moonstone's moege.

>>15680799
Sakura would be really nice, but maybe it's too soon.

MG is obviously announcing a partnership with Iris.

MG is around 4 AM for me meh. They are always so late and I idiot always stay awake and get disappointed meh.

>>15680598
Kara no Shoujo 2.

Still waiting for Caucasus.

>>15680841
don't bother, it's sub par.

>>15680689
Please no, even for a nukige it's shit.

>>15680850
>don't bother, it's sub par.
I don't care anon, Caucasus got Sugina Miki art and MANYO soundtrack. That's all i need.

>>15680858
fair enough. the art is based.

>>15680920
is sakura dreamers any good?

>>15681020
I don't know Japanese.

I thought SP was going to announce their inevitable AstralAir license today.

>>15681031
犬 is the correct one.

>>15680799
It's going to be that trap Moonstone moege Ojou-sama to Himitsu no Otome.

I know, my husband works for Mangagmer.

>>15681081
are you sure it isn't 太?

>>15681107
I did watch the show so yes i'm sure.

I guess you abomonable EOPs will get the new Palette work.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/insidears/archives/52738411.html

Why would they make it episodical if not to force it cheap on Steam?

>>15681150
>episodic
I really don't like this new meme.

>>15681160
Then why did you buy nekopara?

>>15681138
It makes sense for the dog to between the man's legs though. Why would it be on the top right?

>>15681150
> will get the new Palette work.
> implying SP will ever translate anything without existing fun-TL.
Sure thing.

I suppose we'll check the usual place since there's no stream?

Bayoab so far only mentions AX.
But Otakon starts right about now, no? Or what time zone exactly are we talking about?

>>15681150
Didn't Supipara flop in Japan because it was episodic? Why aren't other devs taking notes?

>>15681558
Otakon has been going on for the whole day

>>15681566
I was referring to the relevant panels of course.

>>15681578
We're just waiting for MG at this point.

http://mangagamer.org/announcements/

>>15680107
What is wrong with you guys? It was obviously A rank panel since they didn't ruin any games.

>>15681610
I can't refute with that logic.

If Rance isn't announced I'm ending it.

Speaking of Rance, they have to start with VI right? there not going to go from newer to older graphics.. so the best plan would be to go VI then 01 or quest. Plus wasn't VI partly translated already?

>>15679789
They're just partnering up with publishers who actually can deliver the console promise since their own ass couldn't do it after 3 years.

Who here is playing Duel Destines since it's on sale while anxiously waiting for MangaGamer's announcements?

>>15681910

It's gotta be VI given arunaru's statements.

>>15682044
It's Drapeko.

>>15681936

Please MG-dono, give me some imoutos

Please be Evenicle or Daiakuji. I don't give a fuck about Rance.

MG will announce the translation of a pc port of Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen please ;_;

>>15682118
Well, they're already doing Imopara 2. Unfortunately, it's full of cowtits.

>>15682147
I pay for that.

>>15682097
>this copy of windows is not genuine
Stop being a lazy git. It only takes a few min using Daz loader to make it genuine.

>Arunaru ‏@Aru_Naru Aug 10

>I want to be ready to take to Twitter when it finally happens but the panel's in the middle of the last day of Comiket
What did he mean with this?

>>15682173
He wants to gloat about finally landing the big Escalayer license that everyone has been waiting for.

>>15682147
>a game that moogy likes
Yawn.

>>15682152
Yea that's so annoying. All of the girls in ImoPara are boring except for Michika and the girls of ImoPara2 are just copies of them with larger breasts. I want a VN that's a VN in it's own right with an imouto route, not just an imouto fetish VN because they're not very good.

>>15682184
Moogy doesn't know Japanese so it's ok to ignore his opinions completely.

>>15682147
Now i really need a partnership between Leaf/Aquaplus and MG.

DO IT.

>>15682173
Japan is superior and he has no time for weebs.

>>15682184
wtf i hate Utawarerumono: Kamen Rider now

>>15682184

im surprised moogy likes it. The original was nice, the slice of life was super comfy.

>>15682158
Done :)

>>15682207
Not only the slice of life but the whole genre shift was great and really violent. Ainu culture with nekomimi is a cool combo too.

>>15682207
the original was great in every aspect except the gameplay

>>15682207
Oboro was great. I never though I would end up liking him so much when he first appeared.

>>15682245

yeah the combat was pretty bad lol, i hear they improved it in the ps2 port

>>15682245
It wasn't THAT bad. If you're talking about bad, Nepture was one of the worst shits I've ever played.

>>15682147
I have so much nostalgia for the first. I'd pay a lot.

Leaf is with Atlus though.

Is anyone going to stream MG's panel?

Where is Haruka?

/vn/ is making fun of us again

>>15682408
Far away.

>>15682408
2 spaces to the right from ImoPara.

>>15682408
She's fighting time travel ninjas.

>>15682430
Who cares?

2 hours to go.

>>15682430

please do not bring bring foreign memes into /jp/, they harm the local ones
thank you

Romeo’s my favorite writer for sure, because my favorite thing in visual novels is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his visual novels are filled to the brim with this. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book and POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! And then you think “hmmm what’s he gonna do next, this trickster” and you pick the visual novel back up and BZZZZ you get a shock and “hahahaha” you've been pranked again by the old Romeister, that card. “Did you rike it?” he says, laughing “yukyukyukyuk”. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up his mouth and displays em for you – left, right, center – “You rike these? Do I rook handsome?” Pulls out a mirror. “Ah!” Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and reappears hauling a huge golden gong

>>15682549
Nice copypasta.

>>15681558
Huh? That's weird. He's been going for many years. I wonder what happened.

>>15680660
>Sukisuki - /jp/'s game

What do you mean by this?

>>15682579

The guy who does the logging is in japan for comiket

>>15682192

Cross your fingers and hope against hope that the lolige-or-ntr title is one of galette's onii-chan series.

>>15682613
/jp/ was responsible for the Chuable-MG partnership.

>>15682655

As much as people like to say this, /jp/ was not the only telling him not to go with SP.

And that ultimately I'm fairly sure the real cause was him running into bamboo at denkigai matsuri.

i wonder why sekai project announces projects without information they know they'll be asked like 18+ and then they say "fuck you we just got the okay to announce we dont have enough information be grateful" even though they have no intention of releasing said announcement until like 2 years later because its at 10% translation progress.

why can't they wait for full information... and then announce it when its arlready 70%+ complete???

>>15682694
Because SP's entire business strategy is to drum up hype for a kickstarter and then release a substandard product with unfulfilled fundraising goals.

>>15682694
Because they believe rushing an announcement out the door to get hype is a good thing (when it is not). It kinda worked for about 5 min with Baldr where people got in to the hype thinking something good was happening until people realised they never mentioned anything about 18+ content.

>>15682694
They have full information. You don't just sign contracts without the relevant details. Business does not work that way. They are lying out of their ass per usual.

>>15682729
With the impressions Dovac gave it sounded more like they got a preliminary contract signed especially with the way Aroduc didn't seem happy and some others were totally confused about the whole thing afterwards.

>>15682746
For Baldr Sky that is.

>>15682746
I'm sure dovac did all sorts of shit since he thought Aroduc was going to agree to anything. Joke's on him.

>>15682694
If Otakon has shown anything, they like to blow their load early and peter out during the moments that counts.

Which seems to be how their company operates.

>>15682752
>since he thought Aroduc was going to agree to anything
Still waiting on his blog post about it, as I am really interested in what is going on with some of the behind the scenes shit. He said he would be posting about it at some point about a month ago.
Wouldn't surprise me if he is having to have a solicitor look over his contract to see what he can and can't say.

>>15682726
It didn't work at all for Baldr. When they announced it during the stream the first thing everyone wanted to know was if it'd be all-ages only. It then blew up on basically every website after that and dominated the discussion.
Hell, if Aroduc didn't get outed as translating it himself by several people on Twitter I bet the reception would be even more lukewarm. When everyone thought a competent translator was on it then at least there was some hope for its quality.

>>15682796
The issue is did Aroduc even sign a contract? If he did, there would be no issue since he has to give his translation to SP. If he didn't, and he didn't want to give it up, then they can't do shit. Of course it might be that he partially translated it and that is what he'll give SP but he won't do further work due to ragequitting which would also fuck over Sekai since their translators suck ass.

One fucking hour until Rance.

>>15682905
You're forgetting the 45 minutes they'll spend recapping stuff we already know about before they cram in all the announcements into 5 minutes. It will then be followed by a 10 minute Q&A.

>>15682916
Then, One fucking hour and 36 minutes until motherfucker Rance.

>>15682933
You're forgetting that Mangagamer usually starts late because previous panels tend to overextend.

>>15682956
Why can't they start in time like based SP?

>>15682916
Having time for Q&A. Surely you jest.

>>15682971
Ye its fucking 4AM -_-

>>15682971
Because morning panels don't have to deal with compound delays from all the previous presenters, unlike MG's late night peep shows.