/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
>Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell - Released
>Her and Her and My 7 Days - Released
Tropical Liquor - March 9th release
>Koikuma - Waiting on a third party
Fatal Twelve - In QA, Late March release
2236 A.D. - English version released by the Japanese developer, Sekai release in QA
Girls in Glasses - Through QA
Re;Lord ~Herford no Majo to Nuigurumi~ - Through QA
The Bell Chimes For Gold - In QA
>Dracu-Riot - In QA
>Maitetsu - In QA
Nanairo Reincarnation - 100% translated, waiting on a third party for engine work
Baldr Sky - 50% translated, Combined release of Dive 1 + Dive 2 in mid 2018
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 100% translated
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - 50% translated
Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - Kickstarter finished
Miko no Kanata - Picked up
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
CyberRebeat - Picked up
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
Rewrite+ - Picked up
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Senren * Banka - Picked up
Ninja Girl - Announced
Island Diary - Announced
Love Duction - 20% translated
Koi ni, Kanmi o Soete - Picked up
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
>Creature Romances Series - Waiting on a third party

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - April release, Scripting, debugging, and QA remain
>Momoiro Closet - Kickstarter started, April 27th release
Island - 100% translated, 40-50% edited, 2018 release
2 upcoming secret announcements

Fruitbat
Seven Days - Picked up
Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Kickstarter finished, demo released, March 2018 release

Sol Press
Sakura Sakura - March release, demo released, Steam page up
>Newton to Ringo no Ki - 89% of common route, 1st, 2nd route and 11% of third route translated, 76% of common route, 100% of 1st route, and 17% of second route edited, demo released

Nekonyan
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ - Through TL + TLC + Editing, 80% QC, late March release
Hello,good-bye - 10% translated, 2018 release, Summer 2018 release
Sanoba Witch - 20% translated, Fall 2018 release
Melty Moment - Aiming for a release next Winter
Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - Early 2019 release

Other
Tayutama 2 - Q1 2018 release, delayed to revise scripts, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms - Spring 2018 release
Hemoimo - Dropped by SakuraGame and no longer being released on Steam, upcoming Fakku release planned within the next couple months
Magical Charming - Release planned
Song of Memories - 2018 release
Tsundere Idol: My Personal M-Pet! - Kickstarter started
Neighbor - 2018 release, Prefundia up, Kickstarter starting March 1st
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Monmusu - 2018 release
Taisho Alice - Volume 1 released
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Dead board. Dead week. Dead scene!

>>18484868
Come up with your own phrase.

Mangagamer survey results when?

>>18484838
It's female protag week.
>>18484876
Two weeks after you stop asking.

Imouto Paradise 2 still in MangaGamers Top 5 weekly chart despite A Kiss For The Petals being released and Funbag Fantasy: Sideboob Story pre-order.

Hope they are already having negotiations for Imouto Paradise 3 at this point.

I'm surprised that The Spirit Master of Retarnia is still in the Top 5 weekly chart despite being a decent at best dungeon crawler.
Maybe people are just that desperate for gameplay visual novels so they buy anything.
Would be really nice to get more non Rance gameplay visual novels (even I bought Retarnia).

The only green for JAST, and it's to announce a new project they won't be working on.

I think they're just trolling sometimes.

Still waiting for a new BaseSon visual novel to be picked up by MangaGamer.

>>18487664
Sengoku Koihime would be really nice.

>>18484838
Last chapter of Kuroinu is in testing. And the next chapter of Higurashi is getting ready to enter testing.

>>18487664
I'm not even sure they're still partnered with BaseSon.

>>18486659
>despite being a decent at best dungeon crawler
It's bad. Also, it runs like shit.

>>18488782
> it runs like shit.
That's what happens when you use unity

>>18488731
BaseSon is a subsidiary of Nexton who are in turn one of the founding companies of MG. That said, I don't think MG has released any Nexton titles in the past few years at all, so who knows if that's even still a thing.

>>18489027
On the other hand isn't Circus also one of MGs founding companies? Except that they get releases much more often.

Maidens of Michael has thus far peaked at 35 concurrent users on Steam. It has also shown nearly equal peaks in the morning and evening US time, and has 18 of 32 reviews thus far in English and most of the rest in Chinese, suggesting similar numbers in both markets.

As usual, peak concurrent users only suggests how well a title did at launch on Steam, and isn't directly tied to how successful the title will do in the long run, and there some additional variables that would affect concurrent users so a direct comparison between two titles won't be perfect (not to mention R18 titles will have a meaningful fraction going directly through MG instead of Steam). Still here is how it thus far compares to other launches by MG (concurrent peak ignores peaks that occurred later during bundles) That said, between the decent performance on MG's sales chart and the respectable initial peak, it is probably one of MG's better recent launches for a full length title, but at the same time, not some type of runaway success.

Eden - 302 (During the Summer 2015 sale, day 1 peak of 130)
Higurashi ch 1 - 268 (During the Summer 2015 sale, day 2 peak of 255)
Ozmafia - 246 (day 3 peak)
Kindred Spirits - 228 (day 3 peak)
Umineko: Golden Fantasia - 187 (day 1 peak)
Go Go Nippon - 181 (during a sale, launch peak not available)
Remembering How We Met - 174 (day 2 peak)
Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome - 109 (day 3 peak)
Higurashi ch 2 - 88 (day 1 peak)
Umineko - 75 (day 2 peak)
Princess Evangile - 66 (day 4 peak)
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 66 (day 2 peak)
Higurashi ch 3 - 65 (day 2 peak)
Higurashi ch 4 - 48 (day 1 peak)
Higurashi ch 5 - 46 (day 1 peak)
Umineko ch 2 - 44 (day 2 peak)
Tokyo Babel - 40 (day 3 and 6 peak)
Maidens of Michael 35 (thus far, day 3 peak)
Fata Morgana - 33 (day 2 peak)
Dal Segno - 33 (day 4 peak)
Da Capo 3 - 31 (day 2 peak)
Cho Dengeki Stryker - 30 (how long that happened after launch not available)
Himawari - 28 (day 1 peak)
Supipara - 26 (day 5 peak)
Sorcery Jokers - 24 (day 3 peak)
Gahkthun - 22 (day 5 of being on Steam, originally released months before the Steam release on MG)
The Shadows of Pygmalion - 21 (day 2 peak)
Space Live - 9 (day 1 peak)
Myth - 8 (day 1 and 3 peak)


The Tsundere Idol Kickstarter has a bit over 3 days left and has shot up to 91% of its goal over the last couple days, so it now appears that they should reach its goal. Likely out of concern that it could fail to reach their goal, they opted to throw in a key for Wild Romance to anyone at the $19 tier a few days back. Given the choice between a Steam Key and a Fakku Key, the Steam Key remains the much more popular option with 115 backers choosing solely the Steam Key and just 21 backers choosing solely the Fakku Key. Separately, Momoiro Closet is up to $20k of $35k 6 days in, so it should have no problems reaching its goal, especially with an inevitable advertisement to the backers of their other Kickstarters and the original Grisaia Kickstarter.

Angel Beats eternal 50% translated.

>>18484838
goodness I hate female protagonists.. except Taimanin Asagi.

Do you think Majo Koi Nikki will come out this year?

>>18491053
Unless they really fuck something up then yes. They seem to be making decent progress with it.

Tsukihime remake whhhheeeeennnnn

What do purchases from mangagamer look like on a bank statement? Also, do you guys just buy with your usual everyday debit/credit cards? I've got some paranoia that using my usual card will somehow reveal my perversion to the world.

>>18492560
The world doesn't care about your perversion.

>>18492560
If you're that concerned then use a pre-paid.

>>18492560
Is this your first time making an online purchase? It would just state the amount of money withdrawn and the company name..

>>18492579
I doubt the world would care but I'm an irrational faggot anyways.

>>18492585
I hadn't considered prepaid cards, maybe I'll look into that.

>>18492591
I figured it'd look like that. I guess I was just hoping it wouldn't.

Anywhos, thanks guys.

>>18492614
Stop trying to buy things with mommy's/daddy's/wifey's credit card

>>18492560
It shows up on mine as:
>BHT 0570-009-555 GBR
(I think it's the phone number of their payment processor.)

>>18484838
>SukiSuki - In Beta

Only two more years to go!

>>18492560
Who cares, you could do worse. I bought a Maitetsu dakimakura cover.

>>18492657
I fail to see how this is bad.

>>18492624
seems kind of erotic if you buy porn on your wife's credit card.

>>18489027
What a shame I even own the hardcopy of the original Shin Koihime from MangaGamer.
I guess a 50+ hour visual novel with so many voice actors isn't that much profitable compared to some random moege which will always sell more.

>>18492560
If you are that paranoid you can always contact their support and ask for an alternative paypal purchase method. You give them money and they give you MG points with which you buy the desired visual novel.

>>18492560
It shows up under the name of the payment processor MG uses, so very discreet. Nothing to indicate that you bought porn at all.

>>18492624
he doesn't want his wife to know he's buying please bang my wife and marina's cuckolding report

>>18492769
That's even sillier, since what you purchases isn't shown on the statement, neither is MG's name. It looks like a generic transaction from the payment processor. Just tell whoever you bought digital copies of some computer games.

今更ながら『ニュートンと林檎の樹』の英語体験版の印象は？

>>18492657
Doddler wanted to buy something similar and look where that got him.

>>18492887
I installed it, saw they romanized Shuu as Syu and turned it off.

>>18492798
I installed it, saw they romanized Shuu as Syu and turned it off.

>>18492895
That's how it appears here so what's the problem?
http://laplacian.jp/newrin/character.php

>>18492895
そんなのどうでもいいじゃん？正直なところ俺も訓令式があまり好きじゃないけどゲームをやめるほどでもない。

>>18492952
Japs use kunrei-shitki.
>>18492969
I have other VNs to read. I can be picky.

>>18492974
>I have other VNs to read.
例えば？

どうせ発売後ヘボン式ファンパッチが出る。

>>18492984
Any of the unmarked ones.

>>18493009
ヤリゲー多すぎ。

>>18493026
They are two different folders.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/the-grisaia-trilogy-three-huge-visual-novels-for-p/posts/2123291
Grisaia hard copies are shipping at the end of March.

>>18494621
>ESTIMATED DELIVERY Oct 2015
Only 2 and a half years late.

>>18493009
nigga how much space you got on your hard drive

>>18495224
not that guy but i have like 7tb, i'm sure other users here have way more

>>18495565
where the fuck are you people buying your 7tb SSDs from? Fucking hell people here are richer than /v/

>>18495824
i only have 1 SSD for OS and certain other programs, i use regular hdd for storage. i'm also not rich at all, i'm in debt

>>18495824
why'd you need ssd for something like vn anyway

>>18494621
>>18494681
Now watch it get delayed six months.

>>18495904
Nobody mentioned using SSDs for VNs. The anon above just went from someone talking about HDDs and switched the discussion to SSDs for no identifiable reason. 7TB SSDs aren't even available to consumers yet.

It's not like 7TB is all that much anymore. I have 8TB of storage for anime, games, VNs and all the other shit I need, plus a 250GB SSD for Windows and applications.

I thought we would get MG's survey results by the end of this month, but I'm not so sure anymore.

>>18500605
Too many people voted for fate/stay and baldr sky so survey results got canceled.

>>18495824
How poor are you, anon? A 4tb external is only $100; I can make that much flipping burgers for 2 days.

>>18502437
>>18500605
too many people voted for non yaoi/otome shit so they have to rig the results.

>>18500605

fwiw I'm aiming for Friday.

Tsundere Idol managed to reach their goal on the second to last day. A bit over 24 hours remaining and it is $400 Canadian above its initial goal. That said, it is at just 310 backers and they aren't close to filling up either set of tiers for early adapters, so they likely were expecting a fair bit more. Frontwing's Momoiro Closet is nearing $24k, getting a bit of a boost from being included in the Grisaia update.

The Sekai bundle finished with 85,351 bundles sold, or roughly $634k. Averaging the default rate that would be roughly $412k going back to Sekai from the bundle. Sekai also put up a March 2nd release date for Creature Romances, and they seem to be going into overdrive trying to promote it as a meme game.

>>18489437
Why does it matter? They're never going to release the rest of the games and even if they did they won't be available in English for many years.

https://gematsu.com/2018/02/spike-chunsoft-announce-four-titles-western-localization-gdc-2018
since they mentioned in a press release that they have a deal with mages, i'd wager at least one of these will be a chiyomaru game

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/posts/2120992
The Muv Luv titles are back up on Steam, and Denpa has the R18 patch again. Sekai seems to have farther involvement with IXTL judging by the post.

>>18506551
>sekai will now be giving the muv-luv series the chrono clock treatment
If you live in the EU and backed the project, you better issue that chargeback before you get your physical goods otherwise you'll have to argue for it.

>>18484841
Wait, so Maitetsu is no longer 'waiting on 3rd party' shit?

>>18506551
>>18503741

>people are saying that Sekai Project is in the red and dying
>they still get the biggest and most popular visual novels
Geez lads give it up, reddit and steam will keep Sekai Project alive forever.

MangaGamer doesn't have any ''big'' visual novels that they can boast about and they're mostly translating moege or nukige trash.
JAST is busy putting Majikoi on steam while Sumaga is being translated for almost 7+ years now and Sekai Project keeps buying up/licensing the most popular shit out there.

>>18506663
what do you mean ? Eurofag here

>>18506970
He most likely meant to ask for a refund/charge back before they start shipping the physical goods. Once they start shipping them Sekai Project will get all your money.

>>18506997
thats what I don't get, why would I ask for a refund when I waited so long for this shit, is there a problem with these company ?

>>18507005
Yes, SP is shit, my French friend.

>>18507005
Sekai Project is currently the worst western publisher. It used to be moenovel but their most recent release was fine in regards to translations, so now it's Sekai Project. They're basically the EA of VN's.

>>18507061
fuck how do you know im a baguette. It also pain me to refund after fucking 3 years, my poor Takemikazuchi ...

>>18507084
Because no other yuropoor language is retarded enough to put spaces before question marks.

>>18506551
>Sekai seems to have farther involvement with IXTL judging by the post.
Sekai Project is actually now listed as the publishers for both Muv Luv titles on Steam.

so Monmusu was supposed to come out in November 2017 then vndb said it got delayed to February..
So I'm guessing it could delayed again?

>>18507200
Most likely picked up by SP considering that they picked up Tropical Liquor too.

>>18507227
And SP very likely picked up Clover Days. Maybe JAST since they did My Girlfriend is the President, but i have doubts about it.

>>18507200
February is not over yet.

>>18506807
I'm hoping that the deal is extremely disadvantages on the part on Sekai, but that's wishful thinking. Any game with a fanbase will have plenty of people willing to sell their soul to get what they want. At the very least, I kind of doubt Muv Luv itself will sell a lot outside of bundles, but fan disks and various side material inevitably will.

MG has Rance. They can't really boast it to the "mainstream", but it's mainstream enough that it gets more notice than any VN without an anime.

>>18507796
Considering that they are hinting at something big with the ''exciting sweet news in the next months'', I'll bet that they are going to kickstart and publish Kimi ga Nozomu Eien too.

>>18507796
Rance has two anime adaptations.

https://twitter.com/NekoNyanSoft/status/968946227789352960

Fureraba is being released on March 30th.

>>18508420
Also Fandisc announced.

>>18508420
>>18508445
https://nekonyansoft.com/blog/fureraba-release-date
Also the Steam release will be delayed relative to other platforms.

>The game is going to be released on Friday the 30th of March. The game will be available on Nutaku, FAKKU, and our website. The initial plan was to also release on Steam simultaneously, but apparently, we underestimated the extends of German bureaucracy relating to taxes, which is why there is going to be a short delay of a few weeks. We considered delaying the release on all other platforms as well, but we figured there would be no real point in making people wait if they're going to get the game on those other platforms anyway.

>The standard edition of Fureraba will be available for $29,99. The deluxe edition, which comes with the full OST of the game, for $36,99.

>We also have a little surprise for you as well. We're going to release Fureraba's mini FD later this year and to thank all those who want to support us from the very start, the FD is going to be available for free for all who preorder Fureraba in our store, or purchase the game before the 15th of April there. Of course, you will also be able to buy the FD on other platforms when released.

>>18508006
Are you really this pedantic?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/a-clockwork-ley-line-a-visual-novel-trilogy/posts/2125462

>Since we're bad at announcing dates, then missing those deadlines

At least they're honest about it now.

>>18508420
Names still not fixed.

what if we're wrong and NekoNyan are /ourguys/?

>>18510501
No one will admit it. Two years from now when they make a mistake we’ll be bombarded by people saying “I knew they were sekai all along!!”

>>18510501
I thought Tsurezure Scans are /ourguys/

Does NekoNyan have a Discord?

>>18512484
They only have a Facebook, twitter and youtube from what i can tell.

>>18508596
>announcing delays beforehand
Truly madmen. A shame Sekai and JAST can't do something so basic.

Offering a delayed preorder bonus is interesting at least. It sounds neat, but it's probably the type of thing other companies would include with the original purchase of the game with no strings attached. Still, offering such an incentive may be enough to drive preorder sales and could perhaps get more money overall than offering a flat discount depending on how many preorders there are. The blatant downside is that they can't do a first week steam sale.

>>18512484
kill yourself teenbro

Tsundere Idol finished its Kickstarter with $11,293 Canadian (out of a $10,000 goal), with 350 backers, or roughly a $32 per backer average. That is obviously on the low end for both in backers and average per backer, but that isn't particularly surprising for a short, unremarkable nukige from a new company. That said, with them only clearing their goal by 12%, crowdfunding alone likely won't be reliable enough for them to continue funding translations of Norn nukige, as it isn't like the rest of Norn's library is significantly more appealing.

this coming soon
there is a demo on steam
it’s very interesting

>>18514876
>A Sameface in the Dark.

>>18514971
on that artwork only
in VN they are not semeface

>>18506807
>Lads

Nobody said they were going to die within this year or the next. But it will just be a long and drawn out process.

You are right about one thing though outside of Higurashi,Umineko,Evancile for Steam there is not much right now on heavy hitters except Rance. Which still to me is important for the long-term.

>>18508420
Well at least they are releasing a game. Let's just hope the translation is good and everything is done properly.

>>18514853
It does look good but the quality will need to be there to secure funding in the future.

>>18514876
soon? it's two months away

>>18514853
You forgot to mention that most tiers incentives were "Get an extra copy to give to your friend!" and their promotion of the campaign was "You can also get our previous game (you probably already own if you bothered with this campaign), just raise your pledge".

I'm not sure what target audience they imagined, but I don't think the nukige crowd is all over sending copies to their best nukige friends. And if they did, it would still mean that many friends didn't have to commit to the kickstarter, meaning lost supporters anyway.

https://twitter.com/Denpasoft_pr/status/969320149391159302

Girls With Glasses is being released by Denpa tomorrow.

>>18516307
Why is everyone too incompetent to time there releases properly? And Sekai even more so, didn't they release a VN a few day ago? So basically killing their own sales.

>>18516789
Not like Sekai makes most of their money by actual sales anyways. Bundles and kickstarters must make up 70% of their money, if not more. Like how they rushed out 2 VNs for the steam winter sale a month or two ago.

>>18516789
Denpasoft doesn't have all that much reach either, which negates much of the potential benefits of a stealth release. While Sekai has had reasons to keep the Denpa and Sekai brands separate, initially for press related reasons and now for them releases console titles, there is also a reason why Sekai has roughly 32k followers on Twitter and Denpa has just 6.5k as their efforts to build up social media has focused on the former until recently. I would also venture to estimate that Denpa has a relatively small mailing list compared to say, MG, and that with them jumping into the nukige market, that Yuri Ghost title and Girls With Glasses aren't exactly the noteworthy titles to jump start those efforts. Although the two titles may find more success once they get added to other platforms down the road.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2098570429/bring-classic-horror-visual-novel-neighbor-to-the

The Kickstarter for Neighbor by Otusun land started.

>>18517521
>Freelance designer Yuuki Kae
finally a translator who respects Japanese names

>>18517402
It's not a surprises considering that for years they focused on steam first and Denpasoft/ 18+ later.
Titles like Grisaia had months of delays for the 18+ version, the 18+ version of Chrono Clock had unedited H-scenes which made it unreadable and so on.

It's funny how they are trying to cater to the 18+/nukige crowd now, the same people who they insulted and said that they aren't their target audience a few years ago.

>>18506807
>JAST is busy putting Majikoi on steam
>JAST
>busy

>>18510501
I'm willing to give them a chance, but considering who is working with them I am keeping my expectations low.

>>18510871
We used to shit on MG as consistently as Sekai, though. The majority changed their tune over time as they improved.

Cynicism is abound in this community, yes, but I think it's important to keep in mind that the majority of us just want companies to improve. None of us benefit from Sekai's lackluster releases. I remember even being a little hopeful for Sekai when they decided to make the smart decision of gagging Dovac more than a year ago. But it was nothing more of a PR stunt - hardly anything changed about their actual practices.

If NekoNyan makes a good first impression and maintains it, then I'd be perfectly fine with throwing them money. God knows we need more competition in this market.

>>18516307
Art looks horrid.

>>18518046
The main problem is that your average visual novel read, which is Sekai Projects and Frontwings main audience and target market, just doesn't care about translation quality. They see a visual novel and like the cute girls on the cover and buy it. It's as simple as that, translation quality or other localization issues is the least thing that they care about.

Back in the days MangaGamer mostly published on their own store page and sold a few visual novels on JAST, while steam was on 2nd place and they listened to their audience and improved.
Now you have all sorts of platforms to make money of, be it kickstarter, go go indie platform, steam, nutaku, fakku, etc. You can sell your questionable ''quality release'' anywhere you want and make money of it.

Dovac was right on one thing, why should they waste time and money and do 400 hours of QA when every of their kickstarters still gets funded, when every of their visual novels still sell and when people are still shilling and defending them to death (just go to reddit and look at the comments for the Leyline update).

>>18518281
>They do not care about translation

Lol absolutely true.

>Why waste money on QA

I think we are seeing the reasons why. Just look at the companies that are pulling from them. Nothing like that happens unless they are not doing a good job with what they are doing.

>>18518430
Companies who are pulling from them are just speculations and even if it's the case it's most likely that they want to publish stuff themselves and avoid giving Sekai Project a cut from the pie.

They got the Muv Luv license a few days ago and are most likely going to publish/kickstart Kimi ga Nozomu Eien too.
I don't see them running out of companies/developers anytime soon.
Maybe if the japanese visual novel sites and community writes about their shady practices, like using kickstarter and bad unfinished releases, but I doubt even that will happen.

>>18518472
Of course there are positives, to be honest I do not expect them to lose much for awhile things will be the same for at least the next year or so it's going to depend on what they produce. And also I get it there are useful idiots I know that. But you also have to see how that ends up being negative when looking from the outside.

>>18516307
wtf is this? another Nostalgia title?

So this, the mantis girl game and the monster 'boys' otome game all from Nostalgia releasing this month.

https://twitter.com/jastusa/status/969446080659185664

JAST announced a release date for Sweet Home. It's releasing May 1st.

>>18518281
I think they do care about translation. They are just "rational" so they see it as Japanese versions are unreadable, the English is readable, and there won't be a re-translation within 10 years so it is what they are forced to buy.

The concept of skipping a good VN (or pirating it) doesn't register with most visual novel readers and that is why you can release any trash you want (until competing companies release the same title, but better).

>>18484838
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/81h4s0/i_am_chris_ling_ceo_of_sekai_project_ama/

>>18522148
Don't.

>>18522148
>that huge list of "So why do we have so many fuckups" following excuses, exccuses, excuses
lmao

fucking shameless cons i swear

>>18522148
They did a AMA last year and somehow got worse after that, this seems to be another PR move and sadly people will swallow this like good little sheep.

>>18522148
This is a thread for untranslated VNs, may I know what does this have to do with the thread's subject? Why are you linking reddit? And what does the link have to do with us? You have been reported to the 4chan staff. Please don't post off topic trash and if you want to use "epic" reaction images, there's >>>/a/ for this. Make a safe trip back there, and remember not to come back! We don't really want you here, so don't hesitate on staying the fuck out of /jp/!

Thanks for your comprehension.

>>18522352
>This is a thread for untranslated VNs
>Visual Novel translation status

>>18522352
Bad post

>>18522148
The whole thing reads as damage control the post after even normalfags are starting to notice there are some serious problems with the company.
Wonder if people are going to be bamboozled for the 10th time with them saying they are a new company and are going to improve? It has been around 4 years now and the same issues they had back then are still around.

>>18522148
Just how is this company still going? How do they get their shitty hands on so many VNs with no issues?

>>18522694
They got the golden ticket of getting in early on the Steam boom with Nekopara and other titles along with plenty of successful Kickstarters, which which made them seem as a great link to the western market for Jap companies. Since then some have woken up to self publishing like Frontwing, but there are still plenty who are too small or just testing the waters to know better.

Haro, just wondering if the poll results will be posted today?

>>18522148
Funny how they completely changed their excuse on censorship...

>>18522641
>>18522694
They'll be just fine for the next four years. The people who think Sekai actually makes honest mistakes are the same people who pour their money into kickstarters. They just will not die, partially because some consumers will always be uninformed and make poor choices.

You forgot to delete the fucking reddit link.

>>18523218
>uninformed
There are only so many times a sane person can be burnt by delays and other issues before they stop giving them chances. I really don't get how their customer base is so masochistic to keep coming back again and again.

>>18523232
Are you so new that you haven't seen previous AMAs linked or referenced here or would you be fine if it was only MG's or JAST's? This thread has always doubled as industry news and the link is relevant. Also who doesn't like some Sekai damage control?

>>18523286
He's upset that someone linked a website he doesn't like.

>>18523286
>Are you so new
I've fought against every single plebbit link posted here for the past 6 years. Go back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/81h4s0/i_am_chris_ling_ceo_of_sekai_project_ama/dv3f5e5/

What a fucking dumpster fire

>>18523340
This is just pure cringe.

>>18523340
I was hoping for at least a hint of news on something, but it is mostly just PR shit that we saw three times before now and "soon". Would be the perfect time to drop a nugget of information to show their transparency thing isn't all smoke and mirrors.

>>18523340
>What a fucking dumpster fire

It's ok! They'll just delete all of the big bad comments. ;)

What a fucking joke of a company.

This response in particular is really funny. The lack of self-awareness, my god.

>>18522826

Sorry, some other stuff came up that I had to address more immediately so I didn't quite make it. They should be up soon though.

>>18523467
Shame, but it's not really a big deal. Thanks for the response

>>18522148
Someone should've posted the Tsurezure/Sekai comparisons in editing

>>18523494
I'm surprised no one hammered them for their consistent laziness in regards to CG translations when none of the other eroge distributors in the West seem to have this issue.

I would do it if I had a plebbit account, but no thanks.

>>18523521
I just made one, you don't even have to verify the email, just do a username and password and you're done

>>18523494
>>18523521
I made an account (today) just to downvote the part when someone asks a serious question and he replies with a link to a meme.

Fucking CEO of a company that just raked in a million USD from an OVA is replying with memes.

>>18523578
A meme that looks like it might've been slightly amusing 20 years ago. It's like a 13 year old that just picked up the Internet yesterday. Truly amazing.

>>18523578
For the record, it's not the CEO that's replying with memes. SP_Chris is the CEO's account and is the one replying with all the serious answers. Sena-chan seems to be the designated memer.

>>18523631
"sena-chan" and "sp_chris" should visit /vn/ or /jp/ someday.

Denpa released Girls in Glasses.

sekai project, motivating eops to just learn japanese and cut the bullshit since 201X

>>18523340
they talk like children, sena especially but chris is almost as bad

i dont know if this was supposed to make a good impression or not, but they should probably count themselves lucky that the Japanese can't read their embarassing posts - i can't really imagine any company willing to work with these toddlers if they knew how embarassing they were.

>>18514876
Gee whiz, I wonder whomever could this be

>>18514876
Gee whiz, I wonder whomever could this be

Did that one girl that Sekai fired ever make back home? Inquiring minds want to know!

how do I refund my kickstarter pledge? fuck sucky project.

> We understand that the community wants free patches, we bring this up often with our developers, but the overall feeling still with many of our developers is they would rather offer a lower cost for all ages and a patch that makes the 18+ version the same price in the end as the full 18+ game.

But why do they want all-ages cheaper? If the answer is "It sells bettter", then free patches makes it sell better too. If selling better is not the argument, then why not put it at full price?

With the real kicker being a title with full price all-ages and free patches selling better and having the highest profit.

But I guess skills like argumenting for a cause is not part of the hired staff at Sekai.

>>18526559
They bring developers as an excuse, because it's convient for them to say "We really want to, but we can't since developer doesn't allow us to do that".
Sasuga sekai PR

There's always so many excuses that it all seems like bullshit

these people have their heads in the clouds and if you call them out on it... excuses. every time.

>>18526559
Ignoring for a moment how Sekai Project continues to fall back on everything being the developer's fault (conveniently Japanese developers aren't likely to check English forums), them selling an all-ages version for less does make some sense. If you consider the all-ages version to be censored with cut content then there are people who would likely get upset at paying full price. Cut content means you're getting a lesser product and it should be cheaper to compensate. You can think of it as a discount for those not interested in the 18+ content. Those people would probably not appreciate having to pay full price for content they don't want. Making someone feel like they got a good deal is one way to build consumer goodwill.

Of course, the downside is now they have people annoyed at the "18+ tax" who have been vocal with their complaints. I guess Sekai is banking on consumers who would only buy the all-ages version and would never touch an 18+ product. This seems like it all comes back to the how Sekai hates porn, isn't interested in serious fans of their product, and are chasing the larger casual market on Steam. Sekai would be ecstatic to appeal to a large all-ages crowd and drop the 18+ content altogether. A cheaper price is one way to try to appeal to that Steam market.

>>18527201
I disagree with the practice but I can understand the mindset of the cheaper all ages thing, but then to, in some cases, have the gall to charge half the price of the VN for 10 or so minutes of 18+ content is something else. Of course people are going to be unhappy with that kind of pricing and resort to pirating patches.

wow look at how fast Sekai Project ruined Muv-Luv.

>>18527201
I disagree.

People who dislike porn and want all-ages would be willing to pay MORE than the 18+ version if they could skip the porn as it takes away from the experience. It is in their opinion the superior product without weeaboo porn. Why should they get a discount because they get a product they like more than the original?

If an all-ages buyer ever feels discriminated against, they can always download the free patch and get the full game too. Just because you don't plan on using content does not validate a discount. Take an online MMO for example. If you pick PvE server, do you get 50% discount for not using PvP? No, there is no such silly thing as discounts based on choosing to avoid content.

In my opinion all-ages games are for the most part 18+ games with porn auto-skip. There is no difference, except you choose to skip content. If there are replacement scenes it just makes it even less acceptable with price difference as the all-ages has unique content that should be priced fully.

The only people who support all-ages discounts are people who want to pay less and only play all-ages versions. Which is a weird coincidence.

>>18527267
It is usually worse. They don't even have an all-ages version to begin with in half the cases, then spend months of work and money on making one, then they dump all that cost on the 18+ patches and games.

Can't wait to pay 10-15 dollars more for Baldr normal version compared to the steam version they had a developer making for 3 years.

Wish MangaGamer would post their survey results so we can talk about something else instead we're ranting about Sekai for the X amount of time.

Give it up guys, Sekai won't change their ways or go bankrupt ever.

>>18527985
But it is fun to shit on them since they don't learn and it also keeps it in everyone's mind. They are still having the same kind of issues now as they had with their first few Kickstarters which is pathetic.

>>18528048
I'd almost say they're smart because they'll always have enough people putting money into the kickstarters no matter what they do, and thus there's no incentive for Sekai to have to fix any problems. And those few people are all they need to stay afloat.

>>18528597
Probably because kickstarter is more store centered than Denpasoft store is. So easier to buy there than at their own store.

>>18523340
>Their asking about the releases we have been promising for over 3 years now what do we do
>Try to make a funny le meme joke!

What did they think was going to happen? Of course they are going to want to know what is going on with the releases.

>>18523453
>>18523393
>We are going to keep announcing less stuff but we will still announce more
>If you aren't securing licenses you are not doing your job

Yeah this is why they are going to be dead for the next 3 years or even less.

>>18526239
>Reads spoiler

Dropped.

>>18526389
She did make it back. Her friends did fund her way back.

>>18527985
>Give it up

We can talk about whatever we want.

>>18527985
fake Haro said Friday and its almost Sunday so I'm guessing no releasing anytime soon

The guy translating https://vndb.org/v13249 updated his blog after like 2 years

>>18527985
We can shitpost like /vn/ about how yukino is best heroine in Hatsukoi but Tone Works ruined her route.

>>18534849
Hi, it’s been a while!
First, I would like to apologize for disappearing. And a big thank you for everyone who waited. My life has been kind of crazy these past years, partly because of health and financial problems. I always wanted to come back, but I just couldn’t, up until now.

About the project:
In February, I finished translating the game. After that, I started going through the script and fixing my mistakes, which there are quite a lot of. I’m trying to make it more understandable and unified, so I’ll take my time. My plan is to finish up in March and move on to the next game, but…

Problems:
I’ve been thinking about the legality of this, and I have to contact the publisher somehow. I need some kind of approval to post any part of the game. Even if it’s just a patch containing a single file. I doubt they’d go to court with me, but I don’t exactly want to get DMCA’d either. I’ve looked around a bit and most VN publishers are against fan translations, and take them down quickly. It would be sad if all of this would go to waste. So, if you have any suggestion about this, please leave a comment or contact me.

If everything goes well:
I want to keep on doing this. I have a list of games I want to work on, and I was thinking about putting up a poll, so you guys could vote about what should be the next one. But there is no point, if I don’t have approval from that publisher. For example I have a few Alice Soft games on the list, but I highly doubt they’d like that. We’ll see, though.

Anyway, I’ll try to keep you guys updated this time around! Thanks again!

LOL

>>18534971
what a cutie

https://vndb.org/v2163

Translate this.

https://doki.co/2018/03/03/nanatsuiro-drops-vn-01-02/

Doki Fansubs started translation on Nanatsuiro Drops and released a partial patch.

>>18535555
>Unison Shift
I can already see the steam release in 2-3 years.

>>18535074
>Elf Heroine
>Princess Heroine
>Demon Heroine

Yes. Yes. This is very to my liking.

>Animals

Ruhoh. I don't like the sound of that.

>>18534971
so basically, you want to go legit and sell them your translation.

Kinda sad we don't get Softhouse titles from MG anymore. They were a perfect mix of comedy + lewd

>>18536439
True, Ultimate Boob Wars and maybe Eroge! from Clock Up are still one of the best nukige for me.

>>18534971
Fan translations are technically under fair use. Granted, the original company can DMCA you, but most companies don't bother unless you're selling the translation outright (like what Dark translations did way back in the day).

Whether or not you get DMCA'd for doing an Alicesoft game depends more on Mangagamer than Alicesoft. If you avoid any title MG isn't likely to license (like Atlach Nacha, Daiakuji, etc), Mangagamer isn't likely to bother you. Newer games are a bit more risky, but I doubt MG is likely to do anything older than Daiteikoku except maybe Galzoo Island.

>>18536644
Looking at the company that released the title and its parent brand it doesn't look like they've releases a title in years too.

>>18535074
Apparently, Aroduc is translating this.

>>18538196
New thread for this week is up