/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa/Maiden
Karakara 3 - 2019 release
Dracu-Riot - Through 1st round of QA, fixes from QA next before more QA, in "icebox"
>Nanairo Reincarnation - Through QA, Q1 release
>9 -nine- - Through QA
>Majo Koi Nikki - Through QA
Baldr Sky - 50% translated
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 100% translated, porting to new version of engine
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - 50% translated, porting to new version of engine
Riajuu Plus - Release "within a couple months"
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 33% translated
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - Picked up
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
Tenshin Ranman - QA and engine work next, in "icebox"
Fault - Silence the Pedant - Demo released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
G-senjou no Maou - Denpa version announced
Nekopara Vol 4 - Announced
Rewrite+ - 35% translated
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Ninja Girl - 100% translated
Island Diary - Announced
Love Duction - 100% translated, needs engine work
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 2 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work
Harumade Kururu - 75% translated, awaiting engine work, 2019 release
Tokyo Chronos - Kickstarter succeeded
Secret Project 1 - 100% translated and edited, waiting on third party for engine work

Frontwing
Sharin no Kuni - Feb 2019 release
Lilitales - Picked up

Sol Press
Yotsunoha - Re-entering QA, demo released
Irotoridori no Sekai - January Kickstarter, sequels set to be stretch goals
Hitotsu Yane no, Tsubasa no Shita de - 100% translated and edited, 2019 release
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - 2019 release
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 2019 release
Kimi o Aogi Otome wa Hime ni - 78% translated, 40% edited, 2019 release
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 23% translated, 11% edited
Nukitashi - 2019 release
OniKiss - 58% translated, 25% edited
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon

Nekonyan
Hello,good-bye - Jan 25th release
Fureraba ~Friend to Lover~ Mini Fandisc - TL+TLC+Editing finished
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren'ai - 70% translated, 30% edited, Early 2019 release
Melty Moment - Aiming for a release next Winter
Hello Lady - Early Q2 2019 release
Aokana - 33% translated, 16% edited, Summer 2019 Release
Senren Banka - Late Summer 2019
Making Lovers - Winter 2019

Cherry Kiss
Nekura Ijimerarekko o Tasuketara Natsukareta - Future release
>Isekai Harem Dungeon Master - Translation nearly finished

Fakku
HemoImo - Fakku release planned. No longer waiting on devs; requires additional scripting and UI editing before release.
Love Cubed - 2019 release
Oral Lessons With Chii-chan - Summer 2019 release

PQube
Song of Memories - 2019 release
Our World Is Ended - 2019 release

Other
Seven Days - Kickstarter succeeded, December release, demo in testing
If My Heart Had Wings Flight Diary - Winter release
Lamunation - 50% translated, Q1 2019 release
Date A Live: Rio Reincarnation - 2019 release
Code: Realize ~Wintertide Miracles~ - 2019 release
Fukurou-san - Kickstarter unsuccessful
A Day in the Life of Maria - Kickstarter ongoing, August 2019 release
Venus Blood Frontier - Kickstarter succeeded, December 2019 release
Magical Charming - Release planned
Angel Beats - 50% translated
Tayutama 2 - Future release, R18 patch planned but may not be ready at launch
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

Missed this
>Relaxation Yuka ~Karada mo Kokoro mo Iyasarete~ picked up.

Nanairo Reincarnation actually looks good

>>20627014
It's pretty great. Now all you have to do is hope that Sekai doesn't fuck it up and you also get Akeiro.

>>20627014
>>20627046
But it's Sekai right? I don't know even know how Nanairo can work without 18+ content. I really hope they don't use the "all-ages" card bullshit again.

>>20627131
>I really hope they don't use the "all-ages" card bullshit again.
I don't see why you should care at all about the steam version at all, let the normalfags eat shit all they want. So long as they don't censor or fuck anything up in the 18+ version all will be good.

>>20627131
>I really hope they don't use the "all-ages" card bullshit again.
I don't see why you should care at all about the steam version, let the normalfags eat shit all they want. So long as they don't censor or fuck anything up in the 18+ version all will be good.

>Our World Is Ended - 2019 release

Why even bother translate it when the updated version is coming out soon? Shouldn't Pqube known that it was in the works already?

S'up EOPs.

Any new drama among you lot?

>>20627014
>>20627131
>>20627310
It's going to be censored in some form since Sekai Project can't do a proper release to save their life.

>>20629009
As long as the only thing that's censored is the genitals I'm fine.

>>20629034
Do you honestly think some of the all-ages changes wont bleed over into the +18 release? Even when it's detached H they still find a way to fuck it up ala Maitetsu. I seriously hope everyone here picks up a pirated copy to read through before they even consider purchasing it and give it a week or two to see if any subtle content changes/rewrites occured.

>>20629082
Are they basing the steam version of the PSV release? If not then I think it'd be almost impossible for that mishap to occur again.

>>20629082
I never said I don't think it's going to happen but even if it does, the community will fix it like they've done many times before. I don't buy from Sekai and I have lots of other VNs to read so I don't give a shit

>>20629111
PSV is the base version with a +18 patch to revert the all-ages changes and reintroduce the +18 scenes. They'll also probably be charging for the +18 patch like they always do. So i'm expecting a lot of mistakes where content isn't properly reverted and still using the all-ages stuff instead of the original +18. Unlike say Wagahigh where the all-ages steam release was based off the +18 release just edited to remove H-scenes, some indecent jokes, and rewrites the blood-related sister heroine to be a non-blood related cousin or something.

>>20629134
I was speaking in regards to people who for some stupid reason still buy from Sekai Project. If something requires a community patch to fix it's probably not something you should be spending money on in the first place.

DUDE

>>20630435 DUDW

bAlDr SkY wIlL bE rElEaSeD mId 2018

>>20631482
Stop typing like that.

JAST is really slowly turning into the worst localization company out there. Half a decade to release shit and cutting their titles. If Peter Payne wasn't such a jew and if he actually invested that J-List money, they could release visual novels on a monthly basis like MangaGamer does, but it's fine since their shills sanahtlig and co will defend and shill each of their release.
And before people say that's only with their recent titles, JAST has been cutting, censoring or releasing inferior versions of their titles since Aselia the Eternal.

>>20631570
its not hard being the worst when you can count on your fingers the amount of companies

>>20631570
It's better to do nothing than to fuck up every single thing you touch.

Not sure if forum posts count as announcements but it looks like Making Lovers FD got picked up too.

https://forums.nekonyansoft.com/index.php?/topic/273-will-making%EF%BC%8Alovers-get-its-fandisc-translated/

>>20631766
Thiccccc!

>>20631570
I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up with them cutting any conversations where they talk about their age or similar. Aselia was released all ages only because of the Mahiru like loli sister and the evil route too AFAIK.

>>20631570
Are the missing lines because JAST bought the PS3 version's translation from Fruitbat and based their release on that version?

>>20631919
The PS3 doesn't have any alternative extra content or extra CGs, it's just the all ages version of the 18+ one with some censorship like in the bath scenes.
JAST's version should have more content than the PS3 one since it's the PS3 plus 18+ patch combined, so it doesn't make any sense that they have missing lines.

>>20629176
The thing is what happened to Maitetsu wasn't a mistake in the first place. Lose deliberately removed the ecchi content from the 18+ release for whatever reason and only relented partially after Fakku pressured them into it. So I can't see the same thing happening to Nanairo or any of their other releases unless a similar thing happens with the developers wanting to remove content themselves.

>>20632879
I admire your confidence, I only hope it will not end badly for the rest of us. Perhaps we might even get it without mosaics. I think it'll be a dumpsterfire with no survivors, but I don't think that'll make for a good mood so let's go with yours.

>>20631766
Can't wait for this.

>>20627014
>>20627046
>>20629009
Why does Sekai always get the good shit?

>>20631570
Eiyuu*Senki isn't censored, all the h scenes are still in game. If anything was removed then its probably useless text that didn't add anything or just sounds strange in English. You can check it easily if you play both versions like I did.

>>20631570
Surferdude is a very lazy and salty man, he is always shitting on people Eiyuu*Senki before it was even released and later that guy fan translating Venus Blood. Now its back to Eiyuu*Senki because people called him out for being too lazy to translate the whole game.

>>20633706
Actually wouldn't surprise me at all if he made the shit up.

>>20627014
Be careful to not get spoiled about the main girl being dead.

>>20633706
>that guy fan translating Venus Blood.
That guy that was running a patreon to machine translate it? But didn't think it was machine translation because all he was doing was machine translating every single individual kanji because learning kanji was too much work?

>>20633683
>then its probably useless text that didn't add anything
It baffles me that someone can make that much of a ridiculous statement. All text is important. Fuck your subjective perception of what the reader should see.

>>20631570
They've been the worst for ages my dude. Sitting on empress and nitroplus licenses and never releasing a damn thing

>>20634735
Sweet Pool

>>20634229
>All text is important.

Wrong. Most text is just filler.

>>20634913
It doesn't justify literally censoring and cutting content, retard.

>>20634937
It wouldn't be censorship unless the exclusion of text was political in nature. If it was just that they didn't feel like translating all of it because it was seen as non-important text and opted to remove it instead, it'd just be them cutting content due to being lazy. I never bothered reading the JAST release since the fantranslation was better with more content.

>>20634937
It actually does. If loc companies had more freeway to cut the fluff then they could make vns better then the originals. Autists like you are literally depriving the west of superior reading experiences. Fuck you.

>>20634982
Than maybe west just should write their own shit if they hate original so much.

>>20635007
west's too lazy

>>20634982
What exactly is "fluff" by your definition?

>>20634913
What’s filler is subjective. I enjoy SoL, but I think 10 minute chuuni speeches in the middle of battles are boring as fuck. Those should be cut.
Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds? Well, it works both ways.

>>20635007
Wasn't it Aroduc who rewrote some shit to make something make more sense? I forgot which VN it was (Kamadori?) but he mentioned it in a blog post a long time ago. Isn't he praised as being a good translator?

>>20635360
People who praise Kamidori’s release are blinded by the gameplay.

>>20631570
What do you expect from a company that hires sanahtlig and Tyrosyn as volunteers

>>20635360
Yes.

>So, uh...
>In Serawi's chapter 6, there's a map full of trolls where if you let Control drop below 50%, game over. When that happens, it calls a script that says "We killed the troll, now the rest of them are fleeing. We've protected the forest." Then it goes to the game over screen.

>So... it's a script meant for victory on the map, but the trigger for it is a specific kind of game over. There's no other associated scripts with the map. God only knows what happened. Incorrect pointers or something.

>As tempted as I am to just leave it in as a testament to the awesome job of playtesting Eushully did, I'm just going to ahead and completely rewrite something appropriate for the scene, hopefully exactly opposite of the original.

>>20636166
I see nothing wrong with this.

>>20636461
That's because fixing a bug is not the same thing as leaving out "fluff", genius.

>>20636469
That's not fixing a bug. Fixing that bug would be fixing the pointers so the scene played for the correct trigger.

If only you motherfuckers actually learned japanese

>>20637859
yeah you tell them

>>20633682
Most of the big announcements this last year have been with Nekonyan/Sol Press (aside from MG's Rance deal). Sekai picked up quite a number of big titles as they were in a heavy expansion mode, but most of their bigger titles currently in the pipeline including that are from Summer 2017 or before, and they've even lost at least one of them to NekoNyan.

>>20639719
>lost
>to NekoNyan

Uh huh.

>>20639719
>big announcements
>Sol Press

lol, all they got is Oniikiss

>>20639938
What is iroseka and nukitashi

Anyone noticed how they stealth released Newton on JAST https://jastusa.com/games/newton-and-the-apple-tree ?

>>20639969
Sakura^2, and Daresora too.
https://jastusa.com/sakura-sakura
https://jastusa.com/daresora-tears-for-an-unknown-sky

>>20639975
I guess they're waiting for all of them to be up to announce it themselves.

>>20639969
>>20639975
So does the JAST version not have mosaics or something? It doesn't mention it on the store page for whatever reason so i'd assume they're removed. You'd think they list something like that on the store page for a title, unless i'm completely blind and somehow overlooked it.

>>20640013
Sakura Sakura will most likely have mosaics but I don't see why Newton would since it didn't have any on the Steam version.

>>20640025
You'd think they'd know better to put that kinda stuff on the title page, especially when none of their first party titles have mosaics which has become the norm to expect for every JAST release.

>>20639975
At this point I think it's safe to say that JAST wasn't the one who stole their license. So I guess that leaves Sekai?

>>20640276
JAST was the least suspicious out of everyone, why the fuck would they care that someone else got a license when they don't even really care about the VN scene at all since they have J-List.

>>20639969
>>20639975
Guess that recent wave of things getting banned from Steam got them scared.

I found some old Flyable Hearts scripts on a computer I'm getting rid of from back when Cudder had that shit public.

>42291,1445583,"Because many loads were not yet carried in, it was good that I could support it alone."
>42292,1445658,"If this was the afternoon, possibly I may have been defeated by a full-scale domino."
>42293,1445749,"For the next, I'll cease Suzuno entering this classroom..."
>42294,1445796,......It's dangerous.
>42295,1445819,"When such a thing was considered, I noticed Suzuno being rigid and sitting flat on the floor."

What fond memories. He probably works for Sekai Project now.

Dovac drives a Tesla: https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/1085004604381659137
How does it feel to fire everyone and spend their salaries on a car?

>>20641019
to be fair for a small company having a dedicated social media team is a huge waste of money

>>20639938

>>20641155
Karma's a bitch
Maybe their "biggest western fan" shouldn't have submitted one of the worst translations ever for a game of theirs lol

>>20641155
>Hope the translation doesn't suck guys!

https://twitter.com/Kouryuu_/status/1084989741739716608
>Some random news for today: editing on #Maggotbaits is now complete, so off to programming it goes!

>>20639719
> Sekai picked up quite a number of big titles as they were in a heavy expansion mode
Befpre the collapse.

>>20641019
Just let it happen. Pride before the fall.

>>20642463
Praise the Lord, I will fap to skullfucking yet.

Oh wow Chaos Child heading to PC....

>>20642463
>so off to programming it goes
So another 6+ months before it goes anywhere with how long their backlog is.

>>20642994
Should have been done a lot sooner. Anyone who cared already picked up the PC patch released last year.

>>20643047
>So another 6+ months before it goes anywhere with how long their backlog is.
Clock Up do the programming themselves for their titles.

>>20643053
That helps, but they mostly do a release a month and have six titles currently around the beta stage and another three 100% translated and edited. It probably isn't coming out any time soon unless they push it to the front of the queue.

>>20642994
https://store.steampowered.com/app/970570/CHAOSCHILD/

>>20643096
Well the expected release date from back when it hit 100% translated was mid 2019 so it'll probably still be released around then. It may even be sooner since they'll probably want to focus on releasing it and Bokuten as soon as possible because they were announced a good few years ago.

>>20639975
Daresora became adult on JAST despite it being the same all-ages version. I guess they think anime isn't for kids.

>>20640856
As far as I remember, Cudder just did the tool. The rest was just people who don't know Japanese using it to insert MTLs because they thought it was good enough because you understand what happens if you read such things.

>>20643113
Apparently the anime is also on Steam. I guess it should make sense to combo stuff like that on Steam, even if it isn't really big on anime as a platform yet.

>>20643265
Maybe they are releasing the adult patch for it as well.

>>20643277
...That was also Cudder.

>>20643353
While Steam can be wrong, the information there is that the adult content begins in episode 2, so it would only become adult if they bundle the episodes.

>>20643113
This is great news.

MG 2018 sales ranking when?
MG Licensing survey when?
Iroseka kickstarter when?

>>20643387
I guess it's technically true, although the Japanese version lists it more as a supplementary addition to 1 rather than a second episode.

https://twitter.com/mrdergonu/status/1085207472632221697?s=21

https://loequality.blogspot.com/2019/01/happy-birthday-to-me-another-present.html

>>20644186
>Harachuchu!! 100% English - COMPLETE
Holy shit. I remember trying to read this in Japanese back when it was a new release. That takes me back.

Wonder if MangaGamer will pick up Love Sweets this year.

>>20641019
Well, still better than virtual spaceships.

The next preorder should be coming up in about a day in a half. Bokuten and Steam Prison were stated to be almost past beta about a month ago, but it's probably Trinoline since that was said to be already past beta. Lilycle and Damekoi were also in the beta stage when the last update was stated though the chances of either of them being the next preorder are low.

>>20645173
Don't see why. Sakura Dreamers, Imopara 3, or one of the Itou Life nukige is far more likely. Love Sweets is too generic.

>>20646159
Because Love Sweets was already announced.

>>20648047
But it was supposed to be Moonstone's attempt at self-publishing. If those plans fell through MG might not pick it up. And MG ending up with it would force Moonstone to admit they failed.

>>20643840
It's weird. Each chapter is set during a specific week in time, but are not released in order.

>>20649350
>And MG ending up with it would force Moonstone to admit they failed.
I really don't think there's much pride involved in these things. Especially since the "announcement" for the English version was two tweets that got almost no attention. It's the same scenario as Sumikko Soft with HaruKuru, yet they seem to have easily given up the licence to Sekai. And I also imagine it's going to be the same scenario with Harukaze and Noratoto.
Self-publishing only really works for Japanese companies if the title they are releasing already has a lot of fanfare about it in the west or they have a huge backlog of games to choose from. I know Moonstone are pretty popular, but when people think of Moonstone they think of Princess Evangile, Imopara and Sakura no Mori Dreamers. Not fucking Love Sweets.

>>20649933
Honestly its only if they lost the trust of a big publisher that it would be that way.

The new design for sekai project's webpage is god awful. They spend all their time on unimportant things instead of releasing any good games.

>>20652499
Even shitty translators are hard to find, but shitty web designers are everywhere.

Absolutely nothing happened here today what the hell?

-> New Chaos;Child Version still does not support the additional map translation provided by the Co0 (Committee of Zero Patch)
-> Kagura announced a new RPG-Maker Game

-> Sekai Project reworked their website and it looks bad

-> PhleBuster announced that they are cutting ties with Shiisanmei and you can buy Lionheart (a pretty cheap vn/rpg) for 1.99 which is worth it.

-> Did you fuckers even watch VConf?

>>20652607
Who the fuck cares?
Who the fuck cares?
Who the fuck cares?
Who? The fuck cares?
Did I watch what?
> ->

>>20652607
None of this is even remotely worth mentioning.

>>20652499
>>20652607
Their new website looks very familiar to my final project in Beginner's Web Programming that I did 2 years ago.

Which is to say it looks incredibly rushed, generic, and lazy

>>20652635
There is not much worth mentioning in general so you better mention everything.

>>20652805
What a retarded viewpoint.

>>20652607
>Eh, sort of worth mentioning, but not really
>only very tangentially related to the thread
>no one really cares
>Probably the most important of the bunch, even if it's about a title no one cares about.
>But why?

>>20652607
Why anyone would support VConf when it has direct ties to Sekai Project is beyond me.

>>20652607
Very annoying, but expected of shitty companies like that
90% RPG maker games are shit
I don't care enough to complain even if it's sekai
Who?
Who or what?

Kindred Spirits Full Chorus came out, yet there isn't a new pre-order up yet.

>>20653709
Nevermind.

>>20653113
Those SJW fucks want to kill us off.

>>20653713
Yeah, MG is dead.

>>20653713
Hype
>>20654143
You are dead, eat shit Sol Shill

Giving stuff to fujos on Valentine is retarded. Should have been the March preorder for Whote Day.

>>20653713
Looks like this got approved on steam and Cartagea still hasn't, so they are relasing it first.

Finally. I waited for Steam Prison a long time.

>>20654439
>150 likes on twitter in less than 3 hours
This will be another best selling title like Ozmafia won't it?
That aside, I'm not really a big fan of female protagonist focused visual novels. The only one that I want to read is Sona-Nyl since I really like the WAB series.

skipping hashihime for this :(

I want yaoi and otokonoko games, not fucking otome

>>20654143
Seems to be pretty popular.

>>20654210
>fujos
Retard.

>>20654990
Only the mentally ill use twitter actively. Same as the customer base for this crap. The number of likes is very close to how many sales it’ll get, unlike the games for heterosexual males.

>>20655300
Shit sells quite well, the steam peak chart anon can tell you more about how well it sells. There's a reason why JAST announced only gay and cuckshit last year.

>>20655525
Probably because the Otome crowd don't get catered to that often. They seem to rank 3rd on the catering to ranking, right below fujoshis.

>>20655567
Yeah, they buy and eat up pretty much anything.
Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome has a 6.8 rating on vndb, that's a rating worse than last years Sorcery Jokers, Hapymaher and Magical Marriage Lunatics, yet it had 104 concurrent players on steam.

https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/1085449187150495744
>Removed Sol Press-related stuff along with that one unannounced title I did forever ago that'll probably never get released. Luckily it wasn't all that good.
Must have been KKK, right? Masada is a hack just like Nasu.

>>20655891
Some more semi related information:
https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/1085320735856476161
>Announcements definitely this month? If you like --------. You might be interested in this. Also, announcements in March. That will be big. Nobody will see this one coming.
Looks like the big March announcement will be from Sekai Project, since they are the only ones listed on his chart with a ??? and they attend Sakura-Con.

>>20655964
I see he's still doing the "I'm not a shitty translator, I swear" routine. Just end your life already, Ludo.

so, where can i download good shit do play?

>>20656038
Have you heard of the internet?

Fuckhead

>>20655964
Really hope it's not Sekai Project, my hype dies the moment they announce anything. I don't even bother to pirate their shit due to almost all of their releases having mosaics.

>>20656149
Your hype should die the moment you see Steiner is translating it.

>>20656149
Who cares about mosaics if you get it for free?

>>20656169
Who cares about eating shit when you can eat it for free?

>>20656182
Anon I don't even know what you're trying to say. Can you speak using sentences instead of analogies that don't make sense.

>>20656202
Just because you get it for free doesn’t mean you can’t comment on its flaws. Especially since there are retards who won’t get it for free, and thus support these practices.

>>20656224
Mosaics doesn't impact anything

>>20655891
Why would a huge Masadafag like Steiner shit on KKK?

>>20655993
He really is a tiresome piece of shit, isn't he?

>>20656169
hi, mosaicfag here. Mosaics are a blight upon the modern day VN industry since back in the day for the first ~8-10 years of the western vn industry, not a single release from any of the notable publishers had mosaics. This is 51+ titles released by various publishers all together, in a row, without mosaics. With all that being said, I have no problems with fantranslations having mosaics, they don't impede my enjoyment of the title one bit. However I cannot read 90% of officially released titles that have mosaics, even if I pirated the title and spent nothing on it. I just end up not caring about the title after ~110 minutes of reading since there'll be no payoff to the time invested into the title.
Now that I think about it, I don't think I've finished a single official release (other than the nekopara series, but those run like 70 minutes each release so I end up finishing it before I can drop it) that has kept mosaics and I've been reading VN's for nearly 15 years now.

>>20658160
Is this bait?

Are you only jerking off to this medium or what? I can't for the life of me see why someone would have such a ridiculous reason for not finishing what you are reading because you can't see the genitalia clearly, fantranslated or not.

>>20658160
>I have no problems with fantranslations having mosaics, they don't impede my enjoyment of the title one bit.
>However I cannot read 90% of officially released titles that have mosaics, even if I pirated the title and spent nothing on it. I just end up not caring about the title after ~110 minutes of reading since there'll be no payoff to the time invested into the title.
Good luck having anyone take you seriously when you say both those things a sentence apart. By your logic you shouldn't be able to care about any fan translation after 110 minutes either because there'd be no payoff.

>>20658230
keeping mosaics makes the release look like an unfinished half-assed cash grab which kills my desire to read the VN in question since it leads me to believe that the publisher had no faith in the profitability of the title and opted to cut corners to reduce costs.

>>20658289
You don't have different standards for fan-translations and official releases? I think it would be extremely unreasonable to expect a translator to not only do translation work on a title but also go through the effort of decensoring every CG and then releasing all that work completely free of charge. I do however expect any company that is charging for their work to be worth the money and not a half-finished job. A "Western release" is a release of the original title with all the content that can be legally published in the west, not a "western port" of the censored japanese version with an english text option.

>>20658370
you have brain damage

>>20658471

>>20658482
Kuro

>>20658545
Chro

>>20655891
sumaga

>>20658570
I didn’t say Chro was not correct. I just said Cro is wrong.

A VN from Pqube is ging to be announced next week

https://twitter.com/PQubeGames/status/1086242994213261314

Hope they translate Riddle Joker after Senran Banka

>>20661091
Steiner didn't even know Japanese back when Sumaga reached 100% translated.

>>20662109
I'm skeptical he knows Japanese now.

>>20662575
The guy's working with a ton of companies now though. How can it be possible for him to trick everyone in the industry?

>>20663059
The industry's standards aren't exactly very high.

>>20663059
The industry has such low standards that even machine translations like Venus Blood -Chimera- get defended as good translation or MoeNovel still making profit from butchered all ages releases.
You could sell literal machine translations and there will be people defending them because it's better than nothing attitude or reddit's we have to support the official steam release no matter how bad it is attitude. For example, people refusing to read Dracu Riot because the official release will be superior than the leaked fan translation no matter what.

>>20663113
Parsing kanji =/= Machine TL

>>20663150
>You're actually on the right track, but made the wrong conclusion. Yeah, I'm pretty bad with Kanji. I tried learning them, but I guess I'm simply too old. They just won't stick with me, sadly.

>However, I'm not using machine translations but dictionaries that solve those wicked kanji for me. Problem solved. ^^

It was a machine TL. Arguably worse than just putting everything straight into Google Translate because it can and does use sentence context clues to assist it, while this guy claims to be putting each individual kanji into Translation Aggregator (somehow magically knows how to parse them correctly) and then guessing what the meaning was from a set of nouns and verbs.

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1086390068502323203
I guess this is either their 'Sakura' or 'Sorcery Jokers' hint that they didn't manage to announce last year.

lot of MG titles coming out of beta, wonder what the release order will be

>>20664728
Guess it's Sakura no mori Dreamers if it's the sakura hint, since there's no way Frontwing would give away Sakuuta and the premise of a 100-150k kickstarter.

>>20664909
They could easily release 2 titles per month now, since their new announcents are like in 2 months during Sakuracon AFAIK, but that would affect their sales I guess.
Still no Sengoku Rance news, did SLC fucking die or what?

>>20664909
I really hope Trinoline is the next preorder

>>20664909
>damekoi

>>20665167
>did SLC fucking die or what?
Hopefully quit for good. We need fewer assholes in the translation scene.

>>20665417
Are we talking about the same SLC? The guy has made like 40 public posts ever. All of which were on /haniho/ and almost all of them about hacking.

https://noisypixel.net/wabisabi-announced-coming-west-steam/

>>20665538
No one cares about your EOLVN shit Dovac.

>>20665555
Their 2-10 hours doujin shit seems to be doing well, cheap to license too.
No wonder Boku to Nurse no Kenshuu Nisshi fan patch was taken down, so they could announce it later.

>>20665618
Only thanks to chinks. Sekai will be in trouble when Chinese Steam gets split from the global version.

>>20665674
Chinks and Sayori are really the only things that are keeping Sekai Project alive. With Sayori announcing a full fledged Nekopara anime, we won't get rid of Sekai Project anytime soon.

>>20663960
Looking up kanji in a dictionary and using the best definition based on the context in no different from a normal translation. A bit slower, perhaps.

>>20665167
If they released 2 games for different audiences, they wouldn't lose sales. A yurige and a normal VN. An otome and a normal game. A BL and a normal game. But no, they just don't do that.

>>20667620
Well, they do. Just not at the same time.

>>20668028
Why even reply if you're gonna post stupid shit? We're talking about 2 releases per month.

>>20668044
I take no responsibility for early morning replies.

>>20664909
Valve and how fast they approve or decline shit will heavily impact release date and order, unless it's a MangaGamer only release like Damekoi.
Even though Bokuten is finally out of beta, it can get stuck in steam hell just because it looks like another slice of life high school moege to the average employee.

>>20669499
I mean, they could just release it on MG first and then do a Steam release later. Nothing says that they need to concurrent it.

>>20667620
>If they released 2 games for different audiences, they wouldn't lose sales.
Where the fuck is your proof for this? Do you honestly think that normalfags only enjoy one type of VN and that's it?

>>20670101
I believe that people who like BL will not buy a straight nukige, yes.

>>20670106
The core demographic for BL is females you do know? Just like the core demographic for yurige is males.

>>20670120
Thanks for agreeing with me.

>>20670122
In what way exactly am I agreeing with you? Do you think girls don't masturbate to nukige?

>>20670130
Some do, sure, just like there are fags who fap to BL. But the core demographics for nukige are males.

>>20670137
I know that it's mostly males who read nukige, but that has nothing to do with my post there. You said:
>I believe that people who like BL will not buy a straight nukige
So I responded saying that there are people who will buy both, then you fucking agreed with me. So how don't you not see why it is retarded to release two games in the same time-frame and lose out on a bunch of potential sales in an industry where pretty much every sale counts because they're so low? (minus a few outliers obviously).
Also I want you to take a look at the nukige MG have in their backlog that's almost ready to release. Maggot Baits. Do you know what nukige by the same developer sold really well with females? That's right, euphoria.

>>20670203
It was an example. The point is that they will have several releases ready, some of which can be released at the same time without losing sales. Sure, they might lose a few, but a lot less than if they released the game at the same time as when another company releases something which directly competes with it. Lilycle+Damekoi/Trinoline/Bokuten for March, for example.
While every sale counts, that is not the whole story. Delaying popular VNs because you have a big release backlog may lessen the hype of the games. There is also the matter of opportunity cost, where you might not have the budget for acquiring new good licenses, something that MG has fallen behind on recently.

>>20670248
>something that MG has fallen behind on recently
I think they're just not announcing stuff unless it has had a decent amount of work already done on it, unless it's something huge like Rance X. It also seems like Sekai Project is trying to do the same and I'm sure the newer companies like Nekonyan and Sol Press will eventually do it too because people get impatient waiting for a game, and like you said it lessens the hype for the game. Yet they still have to show that they're working on something so we get "Secret Project 1" and such instead of and early announcement.

>>20670248
>something that MG has fallen behind on recently
I think they're just not announcing stuff unless it has had a decent amount of work already done on it, unless it's something huge like Rance X. It also seems like Sekai Project is trying to do the same and I'm sure the newer companies like Nekonyan and Sol Press will eventually do it too because people get impatient waiting for a game, and like you said it lessens the hype for the game. Yet they still have to show that they're working on something so we get "Secret Project 1" and such instead of an early announcement.

>>20670248
>There is also the matter of opportunity cost, where you might not have the budget for acquiring new good licenses, something that MG has fallen behind on recently.
If the #1 title on EGS isn't a good license then what is?

>>20672547
Announcing an obvious license which is 5 years away from releasing is not a good announcement.

>>20672559
So it's not a good license because it was obvious and also announced early?

>>20672571
It is a good license, but it is not a good announcement considering all the other companies' announcements. Muramasa is a great license too, but you know it's not gonna come any time soon. Rance X is very far off, sspecially since they didn't release SR in Winter like everyone thought they would initially. Plus they still gotta figure out how to do 01-04 (once it's made).

>>20672586
Other good announcements?
The only other good announcement from last year was Aokana, everything else was a meme announcement like Onikiss.
Of course if you are into BL then last years JAST announcements were the bomb for someone who's into that genre.
But yeah, I can see so many publishers announcing gameplay titles this year due to Evenicle's success, but they won't come out in 2-3 years too due to size and shitty programming.

>>20672646
>The only other good announcement from last year was Aokana
lol

>>20672646
Your taste is irrelevant when it comes to judging what is and what is not a good announcement.

>>20672646
Have you actually played Aokana? It's not the kamige you're making it out to be. Hello Lady, Byakko, Nukitashi and Making Lovers are all better games than it.

>>20672646
>aokana
>good
It's censored, therefore it's garbage.

>>20672559
>obvious license
Tell that to the people who kept voting for more Rance every year in the survey.

>>20673144
10$ that Aokana will be in the Top 20 again this year.

>>20672646
Ever occurred to you that Rance is popular not because of muh gameplay?

>>20673419
true, it's popular because of gameplay and le epic rapeman

>>20673443
Maybe for 50 or so EOPs in a shithole that is /haniho/. Majority of sane people though play it for great writing and characters.

>>20673466
>great writing and characters.
Pull the other one. It has bells.

>>20673643
Your opinion is irrelevant.

>>20673689
Not that anon, but your shit ain't relevant either, get out of here if that's the only thing you can say.

>>20665193
Trinoline is the most likely since that was stated to be out of beta first IIRC. Damekoi is likely too though, and Bokuten has been in dev hell forever, so that might be pushed out first. Lilycle would be kind of funny, but since MG just had a yuri release in January, it's the least likely of the currently out of beta titles to be next.

>>20676741
New thread up with the updates for this week

>>20677069
Good fucking job - >>20626918

>>20673689
yours as well

>>20678183
Why'd you bump?