/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Sekai/Denpa
Karakara 3 - Upcoming release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - "QA finished, image editing & bug fixing in progress."
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Fully localized, in engine work
Re;Lord Volume 2 - 100% translated+edited, awaiting engine work by the developer
Harumade Kururu - Awaiting engine work, upcoming release
>Rewrite+ - Main game 60% translated, Harvest Fiesta 50% translated, November 2020 estimated release
Love Duction - 100% translated and edited, engine work in progress
Hoshizora no Memoria (retranslation) - In QA
Hoshizora no Memoria Eternal Heart - 40% translated
Island Diary - 100% translated
Riajuu Plus - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo!! for Otome - Waiting on a third party
Miko no Kanata - 100% translated and edited, awaiting engine work
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
NarKarma EngineA - Announced
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. - Picked up
Sumire - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 3 - Picked up
I Walk Among Zombies Volume 0 - Picked up
Sanarara R - 100% translated, Editing and programming started.
>9-nine- Episode 3 - 5% translated
Amatsutsumi - Translation and editing in progess
KoiKuma Fan Disc - 100% translated, editing ongoing, waiting on build from dev
>The Seventh Sign -Mr. Sister- - "Back into QA"
Love's Sweet Garnish 2 - Translation and editing in progress
Kanojo no Seiiki - Picked up
Glass - Picked up
New Glass - Picked up
Nekopara Vol 4 - Translation started, 2020 release
Amairo Chocolate - 30% translated
Kimagure Temptation - Picked up

Sol Press/Panty Press
Shitsuji ga Aruji o Erabu Toki - 30% translated, 10% edited
Nukitashi - 98% translated, 7% edited
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - 74% translated, 68% edited
Irotoridori no Sekai - 70% translated, 46% edited
Mirai Radio to Jinkou-bato - work starting shortly, upcoming release
DareSora - Volume 1 Released, info on future volumes soon
Witch's Garden - Picked up
Happiness! 2 Sakura Celebration - 48% translated, 38% edited
Jinrui Saikyou Seiyoku no Yome Kouguchi Rinko - Picked up
Hyper->Highspeed->Genius - Picked up

Nekonyan
Hello Lady - Main game 100% translated and edited, release will include fan disc content, tentative Summer release
Dracu Riot - 100% translated and edited
Riddle Joker - 85% translated and 75% edited
Kinkoi: Golden Loveriche - 50% translated and 15% edited
Clover Days - 100% translated and edited
IxShe Tell - 65% translated and 55% edited
Aokana Extra1 - Translation started
Fureraba Complete edition - Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Melty Moment - On hold until after a newer Hooksoft title is released
Making＊Lovers: Geki Icha After Story - "we plan to translate the Fandisc as well"

Fakku
Abaddon: Princess of the Decay - 2020 release

Visual Arts/Key
Angel Beats 1st Beat - 50% translated

Aksys
Collar x Malice -Unlimited- - Summer release
Piofiore no Banshou - late 2020 release
Gensou Kissa Enchante - late 2020 release

Aniplex.exe
ATRI -My Dear Moments- - June release
Adabana Itan - 2020 release

Other
Yumeutsutsu Re:Master - April 23rd release
Haramase no Kuni - April 24th release
Project Sakura Wars - April 28th release
Utawarerumono Remake - May 26th release
Ouka Sabaki - Partial "Early Access" release on 9/17
Taimanin Asagi - Page for the Trial of episode 1 back on Steam
The Humbling of a Holy Maiden - Announced
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>23499424
>MangaGamer
>Secret Project 1 - 70% translated and 68% edited
>Secret Project 2 - Fully translated and edited, image editing wrapping up
One of these should be Musicus, right?

>>23499711
Assuming it's anything like last year they should have 6-7 secret projects, so not necessarily.

>>23499711
Musicus is already on the translation list. I wonder what the secret projects are regardless.

>>23500008
It's on the list, but only because it was confirmed to be happening by Overdrive themselves. MangaGamer still haven't announced it.

>>23499424
>Choukou Tenshi Escalayer - Finalizing the release build
Release date imminent?!

>>23500312
will probably be the May release i imagine

>>23500980
Higurashi Ch 8 is already scheduled for May, it'll be mid June.

>>23499424
>Project Sakura Wars - April 28th release
I can't wait.

>>23499424
>Django - Waiting on translation.

Is the translator okay?

>>23501015
PC release when

Update on Junketsu Megami-sama

https://twitter.com/LoeQuality/status/1245624515876413442

>>23500022
I don't believe they ever actually listed Trinoline as a secret project between the initial minori AX panel that it got announced and the official announcement that MG was localizing it, which is the closest scenario that comes to mind.

>>23514152
Same thing happened with Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden. Although it was via a blogpost by Waffle, not a panel.

>>23503518
You've been hit by,
You've been hit by
A smooth criminal.

Angel Beats 1st Beat is now 100% translated! https://twitter.com/alkatranslation/status/1252509144248025088?s=19

>>23519994
They intend to release the patch May 1st https://alkatranslations.com/angel-beats-1st-beat-translation-complete/

>>23499424
仲村ゆりの憂鬱

the krauts are back holy shit. https://visual-novel.info/

>>23524544
A year+ later, and still no one here cares about your shitty website.

>>23519994
What's the point when 2nd Beat is never happening?

>>23526201
Because you need first beat to read the 2nd beat.

>>23526201
It has content that wasn't in the show. If you don't want to read it that's up to you of course.

Due to the recent layoffs, there's a chance Kickstarter will go out of business in the near future. I wonder if companies like Sekai that want crowdfund money will simply crowdfund on Indiegogo or if crowdfunding outright stops being a viable option for VN companies. I know that Indiegogo campaigns have historically done less well than Kickstarter campaigns, but I'm not so sure about nowadays.

>>23527090
I would like to read it but I don't want to read a "part 1" and be blueballed forever.

>>23529010
A Kickstarter for Kickstarter.

>>23529010
>there's a chance Kickstarter will go out of business in the near future
How is this possible? Don't they literally just print free money from the % cut they take from projects?

>>23533378
I could understand this sentiment if the anime didn't exist, but the story is already there if you want to see it. The VN just gives you extra content and routes. Certainly none of the shit in pic related is in the anime, since she's just a side character there.

>>23533459
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/20/21228412/kickstarter-layoffs-planned-coronavirus-project-declines-crowdfunding-union

>>23533471
>Off Screen Sex
Fuck all-age kusoge.

>>23533504
>kusoge
I swear I need to filter this word. I don't think I've ever read a single post that used it that was worth reading.

>>23533522
>filter
I don't think I've ever read a single post that used this word that was worth reading either. If you're going to filter something then do it, you don't need to tell the world about it.

>>23533678
Unfortunately I felt the need to passive-aggressively insult him for insulting my beloved all-ages games.

Still no flowers 3.
What the FUCK is JAST doing?

>>23533459
>>23533470
As a sidenote, Patreon is also suffering for similar reasons. I've heard that it's at least partially due to the two companies' habit of banning projects for ideological or arbitrary reasons, but it's hard to say for sure. Indiegogo seems to be doing fine, but I'm pretty sure that they were always a smaller company than kickstarter anyways. I'm not sure about Subscribestar. I can at least say that unionization didn't help Kickstarter at all.

>>23529010
>>23533470
>>23534221
>Conversations are now starting with Kickstarter’s union organizers
>Unions
>due to the two companies' habit of banning projects for ideological or arbitrary reasons,
I wonder why companies seem to go out of business, it's a huge mystery.

>>23533471
>pregnancy

>Amagami
can somebody please knock at the anon's door to check if he's alive ;-;

>>23537278
see >>23463339

>>23537287
Ah I see. Sucks, but absolutely understandable. しょうがない ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>23537338
He said maybe he'll have something by May, at least!

>>23537354
I hope!

>>23537354
I'll believe it when I see it.

>>23533864
Being Jast

I ain't from here, but just asking, is there any translation of Yokorenbo? Or nobody never bothered to translate?

>>23548148
vndb.org

>>23548169
Nope, all JP ;_:
Tks anyway.

>>23519994
I want none of these beats.

>>23534987
Can't tell if this is redpilled or bluepilled but if its the former there's a distinct lack of knowledge on what unions actually are. If its the latter then good job anon.

Mahoutsukai no Yoru translation update (4-13-2020)

>>23548590
While I doubt Kickstarter's downfall was specifically due to the union, it's an extra burden on the company. Large successful companies can afford to negotiate with a union, but smaller or failing companies can't. And then there are the unions that become so large that they end up abusing the common worker in their own way by gatekeeping or negotiating for policies certain members don't want.

>>23499424
>2nd beat never ever

Don't remind me you fucking EOPs. FUCK

>>23549293
>but smaller or failing companies can't
The thing is if you're a small company and a union has already started against you then it's pretty clear that you've already fucked up from a worker's standpoint. At that rate, I personally am not sure that the company should be allowed to get bigger. Even then not being able to meet union demands just means that your business model won't be sustainable in the long-run unless your market is so untapped that its impossible anyone will find an alternative, for example, Amazon. The VN market isn't like that since:
1. The consumer base is relatively small, the market very much split in between multiple smaller companies and;
2. The consumer themselves can render the company useless by making their own translation and distributing it or by learning the language.
I know pirating is seen as the big bad in terms of video games most of the time but truly the impact pirating has is relatively small to what Fan TLs can do. A well-done Fan TL or even just an existing bad one can discourage a company from picking up the license or if they do, hurt their sales since there will be consumers who have already read the Fan TL and thus won't buy, consumers who won't buy the licensed release because of Fan TL preference, or will read the Fan TL because it's free.
>And then there are the unions that become so large that they end up abusing the common worker in their own way by gatekeeping or negotiating for policies certain members don't want.
I honestly cannot think of a single example where this happened. This might be US bias in my case but cannot think of an example where a union got their way so much that the union is now the one abusing the worker, especially when that very union is made up of workers from the same company/industry.

Anyway, back on topic. There is no sustainable business model for VN companies unless you do the tried and true "sell what the mainstream consumers want first in order to fund the products you actually want to make" but so far I haven't really seen that and I don't know what company could do that and with which product. All of them are fucked. The consumer base is not sustainable especially when companies try to play at both sides and localize to shit and that just ends up propagating point number 2 instead.
The ultimate goal for an otaku is to learn Japanese, and if they are the type of giving person or enjoy it, translate so the rest of us who aren't there can experience what we want to.

>>23549554
Last Operation is our only hope anon. Even if its a manga at least its confirmed to be the "true" route of Angel Beats.

>>23548185

I can't believe they're re-translating Mahoyo.... we don't deserve them.

>>23551034
Definitely did not ping the right person anon.

>>23548653

I can't believe they're re translating mahoyo.... we don't deserve them.

>>23550800
>if they are the type of giving person or enjoy it, translate so the rest of us who aren't there can experience what we want to.
But how long does it take to learn how to insert text into VNs in a reliable way without crashes or game-breaking errors? I have zero coding or programming knowledge, I'm only a translator. And I don't want to work with other people, fuck other people.

>>23548590
I am saying that Unions while they may have their heart in the right place for protections it is very archaic in the sense of money and being unable to fire a bad worker. Or the system can easily be abused. I have heard a few stories in the past how most union workers may do well but there are some that do absolutely nothing and will not be fired at all or where they demand so much more money than what can be offered.

>>23550800
Unions can discourage non-union members from being hired onto a job or force its members to go on strike when they may not be able to afford it. Collective bargining only works if all of the workers are in the collective. If the employer could easily hire non-union employees, then collective bargining becomes ineffective. As for why a worker may not want to join the union, union jobs tend to have less freedom and may force fees onto its members. There's also the sheer fact that higher wages mean fewer people getting paid no matter how you slice it.

In any case, I would argue that Mangagamer is the closest to "sell what the mainstream consumers want first in order to fund the products you actually want to make" model though more accurately, their modus operandi is selling very niche titles to have the extra funds to localize extremely niche titles. Despite their almost random assortment of titles, they seem to have enough well selling titles to be stable. At the very least, they've been alive since back when the market was weaker even if it's not exactly strong now. Nekonyan seems to have more or less established a buyer base for their moege while Cherry Kiss Games seems to be doing fine with their cheap nukige. Part of the reason of those two companies' success is Steam. The other VN companies have funding unrelated to PC VNs as JAST has J-List, Sekai has console sales, and Sol Press has LNs (not that the last one seems very stable).

The relationship between fan tls and official sales is somewhat unpredictable. For example, Sengoku Rance still sold well despite a previous fan translation and both Muv Luv and Clannad did fantastically on Kickstarter. Whatever fanbase a fan tl generates can translate to a buyerbase when the official version releases partly due to fans paying for something they have already played for the sake of being fans and partly because they spread the game's positive attributes by word of mouth to people who haven't played the fan translation and would be willing to wait for the official version. Arguably, the titles screwed over by having a fan translation beforehand wouldn't have sold all that well officially in the first place.

>>23552327
>In any case, I would argue that Mangagamer is the closest to "sell what the mainstream consumers want first in order to fund the products you actually want to make" model though more accurately, their modus operandi is selling very niche titles to have the extra funds to localize extremely niche titles.
Technically, that was how MG operated in the past. Sell ton of nukiges that the mainstream loved and use that money to fund things they wanted to sell or a buffer for things they know wouldn't do well.

>>23551545
It really depends on the engine. VNs that use Kirikiri or ONscripter are really easy to crack into and insert a script, while some other VNs are downright impossible. I think it's fine to have a dedicated person for the job, especially when they could make improvements to the existing engine sort of like FSN Realta Nua Ultimate Edition is doing (https://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/8229-Fate-Stay-Night-Realta-Nua-Ultimate-Edition).).

Anyway, you don't always have to work side-by-side with somebody, just ask for tools so you can translate and they can provide them. In most projects, the programmer doesn't really do much unless the VN is a hard nut to crack.

>>23552327
Yes, I have heard of MangaGamer but the stories about translators getting paid laughable wages are pretty common. Personally am more of a fan of Sekai's business model because it gauges things like fan interest with Kickstarter instead of guessing as other companies do.

Clannad and basically Key licenses, in general, are goldmines because their adaptations are extremely popular and in the VN community the VNs themselves are entry-level so everyone plays them at some point. The Clannad license is a snag to whoever gets it no matter if there's a Fan TL or not, sort of like Steins;Gate or Fate/stay night, if that ever does get licensed. I think Muv-Luv was a special case since the Fan TL was infamously horrible that fans have wanted an actual translation of it for a long time, and this was gauged with the Kickstarter which did amazingly. The difference with Muv-Luv is that it doesn't have any adaptation that's popular in the West so it can't ride on that hype, and even then KimiNozo is more popular in Japan from what I've heard, so a Kickstarter was necessary to gauge if they were going to profit or else they were going to be taking a huge risk.
>Sengoku Rance still sold well despite a previous fan translation
Honest to god no joke the Rance fanbase is actually insane so I would not be surprised if they just wanted to replay it over and over again and bought multiple copies.

>>23557269
Muv-Luv did well because they made a lot of promises that western fans wanted, only to half-ass all of it because they launched the kickstarter as an excuse to secure more funding to port the game from console to pc for their japanese audience. They burned a lot of bridges with what they did to the western version and with the kickstarter and I don't think any of their future titles would do strong with the western market.

>>23557342
Can you give specific examples? I always hear about them not delivering certain things to this day but what are some of the differences between the western version and the Japanese version?

>>23557391
They delivered high-quality releases of the all-ages versions and half-assed the 18+ patches. They also said they would release Photonmelodies and Photonflowers, which are all-ages fandisc compilations, and people got mad that they weren't going to get the 18+ content from the original fandiscs.

>>23557391
Also some autismos got angry because they had to replace one of the songs in the OST because it plagiarized a Ricky Martin song and could get them sued.

This is a rather old one but can anyone help direct me to an English patch for makai tenshi djibril episode 3 / Jiburiru 3

Has anyone played this before?

>>23557391
Removed songs from the soundtrack without telling anyone, cropped the CG's without a way to uncrop them (at first) Said they'd include a patch which restored all removed content, massively delayed the release of each title by 3-6 months due to steam. Took 3 months for the extra/unlimited patch and 9 months before alternative got a patch. Complete lack of communication during the entirety of the kickstarter other than

>Soon!
so often times things would launch completely out of nowhere because the last update they gave on it was 6 months ago with them saying
>out soon!

>>23557432
It was at least 2 songs and I'm not miffed by the removal of them, i'm miffed by the fact they never mentioned it and we only found out when we got our hands on it. They had 3 fucking years to say they were changing a track for legal reasons and they never did.

>>23557478
No such patch exists. You can check vndb to see all of the releases and patches that any VN has received. If there's no English release/patch listed, then it doesn't exist.

>>23557478
>Has anyone played this before?
Yes.

>>23557507
I mean you're right, but there are also VNs subbed on youtube since the script was never programmed by the translator. Those aren't listed on vndb last I checked.

>>23557531
Those are almost always MTL and I don't think I've ever seen a completed one. Also Djibril is an NTR nukige, it's not going to be on youtube.

Kickstarter was a great tool at first to drum up support for a license, act as a month long marketing campaign, gauge interest in how popular it seems it will be, get some funding up front, and offer up some physical goods you otherwise wouldn't be able to do. Shame that it's been abused so hard by mostly Sekai, Frontwing, and Sol by running projects before finishing past ones that they burnt their fans.
You'd think in such a small industry you'd try your hardest not to piss off the small group of buyfags that support your company but I guess that huge lump sum up front is too enticing to ignore. I don't think it's a coincidence that those 3 have such a hard time getting decent sales on their VNs either. I know if I got burned from something like any of Sekai's promised Vita ports that they took money for but are never coming out, or for how Iroseka seems to be going I'd write off the company and never buy anything from them again.

>>23557523
Are you fluent in Japanese were you able to enjoy it properly? I'm serious, I will still try and play while being a beginner in Japanese

>>23558166
I played 1-4 while I was still learning and they were pretty easy. I don't know why you'd start at Djibril 3 though.

I'm looking at the top rated 18+ visual novels ever on VNDB
What VN do you like the most? The most sexual too?

>>23558213
>>>/vg//vn/

What is the goal here?
>>23517901
>>23537310
>>23556902

>>23558340
It's apparently someone from an idolfag/vtuber thread that necrobumps every single thread in front of the one he's from so that he can create the OP.

>>23557654
It's hilarious how those Vita ports have been delayed so long that the Vita is basically dead and used by nobody now, and the people who pledged for a Vita port would probably be happier off with a Switch port instead.

>>23558573
If you check Doddler's work history google doc he finished the Fruit of Grisaia Vita port to Unity in 2016, Sekai just chose to never release it. I really wonder what sort of decision making goes in to just sitting on a finished product and pissing off all those Vita backers instead.

>>23558723
The same one that sat on Tenshin Ranma until Yuzusoft got pissed and passed their licenses over to their suspiciously similar counterpart Nekonyan.

>>23558366
I guess the guy killed himself and he is daijoubu now.

>>23558723
>>23560567
Read about Sekai Project's involvement with Teaching Feeling if you haven't and you'll realize how much of a incompetent shitshow the whole company is.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sHW-0BVH-MWXSlAvtgizYz70aPc18EBJe3Aw84C8ToA/edit

>>23565313
Even Dovac knows he and his team are incompetent as shown by the apology google docs he made a few years back ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ECcHQStHoBIOFVrbYJi8lA1LYhDNIVHryTuEl1ty9wU ). That also revealed how he was still in charge of lots of projects even after the company tried to make it look like he was sidelined after his 2016 twitter meltdown.

>>23533864
It was likely planned as the AX release before Covid-19 happened, then they would have 'officially' announced Flowers 4 at their panel. They seem to always release a title on or around AX the past few years.

Please be something other than a moege.

>>23567929
While they did license Hello Lady, moege are pretty much Nekonyan's whole niche in the market at this point. It would be weird if it weren't a moege. There's nothing wrong with diversifying your catalog and becoming more of a generalist company like MG, JAST, or Sekai, but that carries its own share of risks. Mainly, people complaining that it isn't a moege.

>>23568053
I'd just like them to release a game I actually want to read.

>>23567929
But moege is the only genre worth playing.

>>23568506
Funny.

>>23568506
Good one anon

I have never read a moege (other than Muv-Luv Extra which doesn't count) and I never will.

>>23569198
What about Rance?

https://vndb.org/v19944
Was this translated recently? It was uploaded on erogedownload.

>>23569559
Yes, but it's edited MTL.
>I just finished making this translation, this is a part edited machine translation and part my own translation since I know a bit of Japanese but I'm still learning so be advised that this might not be a 100% accurate translation, and I kinda rushed it so it doesn't have any corrections, I just made sure that everything was translated and there were no bugs. That said I think that it's a pretty decent translation and I plan to keep translating more games from Pin-Point.

>>23569516
kamige

>>23569573
Too bad.

>>23569596
The game is god-awful anyway, even by cheap nukige standards.

>>23569516
I have never read a Rance game either and I never will.

Why the fuck did MG pick up Maggot Baits instead of some other famous Clock Up VNs with anime adaptations?

>>23566313
MIght want to back that up with all the links to other docs asap, it's in the owners trash now and will be deleted soon, and the top tweet doesn't exist anymore.

>>23569730
It probably cost a buck less

>>23569730
I don't pay attention to h-anime, what Clock Up games have adaptations besides Eroge! and Euphoria?

>>23569813
Please r<3pe me

>>23569737
Tweet: archive.vn/MW6dN
"Hey it's me your favorite punching bag": archive.vn/zGbwz
"Yes I fucked up part 1": archive.vn/I38CO
"Yes I fucked up part 2": archive.vn/XFoMw
"Yes I fucked up part 3": archive.vn/63lSL
"Yes I fucked up part 4": archive.vn/QNYzE

>>23570143
After this, is it any wonder they are putting all their eggs in Nekonyan and the Chinese market?

>>23569730
They wanted it to be picked up as a meme/wtf title due to the extreme content, similar to what they did for Euphoria.

I expect they'll grab Fraternite next. The staff were tweeting about it last year and it has a HD Remaster in Japan now.

New secret project listed for NekoNyan
https://twitter.com/NekoNyanSoft/status/1253846614449500165

>>23573605
Wake me up when they confirm whether it'll be uncensored or have mosaics.

>>23573068
Maggot Baits did sell well enough to warrant a hardcopy, so there's substantial demand for such extreme titles. Even if the physical format is different, the fact that the USB is customized probably means that the sales threshold wasn't different from usual or possibly higher. 4GB usbs aren't that expensive, but they are still more expensive than DVDs of comparable storage, last time I checked.

>>23574084
I haven't followed Nekonyan too closely since I play moege rarely, but don't pretty much all of their titles have mosaics?

>>23575460
Please don't respond to the anti-mosaic autist.

>>23575460
Of the games released so far, I think only Aokana and Yuzusoft games have mosaics.

>>23575460
They have 14 titles announced on their site and of those 6 will have mosaics. The 4 Yuzusofts, Aokana, and Melty Moment according to its product page's FAQ since they say there's nothing drawn under them in its case. The other 8 are mosaic free including IxSHE which is another Hooksoft just like Melty Moment.
If you compare the numbers based on the total titles with mosaics, 6 of 14 looks fairly high but it's skewed from all the Yuzusoft they're doing so fast. If you look at it from how many companies they work with and how many of them have mosaics it's 2.5 of 9 companies have mosaics since Hooksoft is at 1 with and 1 without.

>>23576533
New thread up with the updates for this week

>>23575659
>>23575622
Oh, okay, that seems reasonable enough.