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Anonymous Tue Jul 7 09:24:00 2015 No.13740498 [Reply] [Original]

Visual Novel translation status 2

MangaGamer
>Natsuiro Mikan - July release
Asuka Final Chapter - In scripting
Euphoria - In scripting
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated, 58.7% edited
Higurashi Hou -Onikakushi released, 35.8% of Watanagashi TL
Kara no Shoujo 2 - 100% translated, 82.1% edited
Bokuten - 66.5% translated, 30.05% edited
Da Capo 3 - 50.6% translated
Gahkthun - 100% translated, 21.5% edited
OZMAFIA - 41.9% translated
House in Fata Morgana - 63.1% translated
Myth - 1.1% translated
My Boss Wife is My Ex - 38.2% translated, 30.9% edited
Kuroinu - Picked up, being released as 3 seperate chapters
Supipara - Intend to fund through Eden's sales
>Sonohana RHWM - Picked up
>Himawari - Picked up
>Umineko - Picked up
>Beat Blades Haruka - Picked up

JAST
Raidy III - July 20th release
Shiny Days - August 25th release
>Seinarukana- Fall release
>Django - 1st half of 2016
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- translation about half done
Sweet Home - In translation
Sumeragi Ryoko - Picked up
>Flowers - Fall released planned
>Sonicomi - Picked up

Sekai/Denpa
Grisaia trilogy - First game all ages version released, 18+ release planned
>World End Economica- ch 2 July release
Clannad - 75% translated, 4Q 2015 release
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Fault Milestone 2 - Demo released
Hitomebore - April release
Kokonoe Kokoro - April release
Ame no Marginal - April/May release
Shizuku no Oto - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
>G-Senjou - Summer release
>Chrono Clock - Picked up
>Double Root - Picked up

Other
>Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter planned
Eiyuu Senki - Summer release
Moenovel is working on another title
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - Kickstarter planned
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Amnesia - 8/25 release

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 10:30:01 2015 No.13740670 >>13740498 Bullet Butlers isn't being translated, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 10:32:41 2015 No.13740673 2?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 10:40:52 2015 No.13740690 >>13740670 If I wish hard enough it will be. >>13740673 Because the first one of the week is done so it's time for a second.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 11:05:01 2015 No.13740725 >>13740498 You're not Dan88. Fuck off. This thread is not a GENERAL.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 11:16:32 2015 No.13740744 >>13740725 What makes it any different? Stop trying to be the board police, there are no rules for this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 11:21:39 2015 No.13740753 >>13740725 Dan pls

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 12:17:40 2015 No.13740880 Who the fuck is Dan?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 12:57:44 2015 No.13741006 And I always though EOPs are doing the shitposting. But now even they are hit. Well, hang on tight.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 13:50:30 2015 No.13741120

>>13741006
Be honest anon what was the desired effect of your post? I mean, it will not shock anyone here, nor will it convince anyone that you're for real, and it is certainly not funny. It just smells like utter boredom on your part, I bet you had a tired smile on your face while writing it but it is not funny at all.

So what was it? What effect did you seek?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:45:04 2015 No.13741281 Ame no Marginal is now in steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/348950

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 14:50:56 2015 No.13741315

>>13741281
Cool. That was a bit sudden.

Is Sekai Project just going to keep doing this "Japanese Title -English Title-" thing now? On one hand it makes it easier to search for if you know it better as the Japanese title, but on the other, just fucking use the English title.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 16:29:57 2015 No.13741721 To all you guys unware of both Beat Blades Haruka and Himawari here's some insight: http://forums.mangagamer.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=649&start=15#p15161 And lol someone on the official forums called Himawari "the no-name of the announcements".

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:22:38 2015 No.13741901 File: 43 KB, 1063x246, vcxc.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reminder to keep supporting Sekai Project since they're literally saving the visual novel industry in Japan.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 17:39:47 2015 No.13741961 File: 52 KB, 252x327, 23211.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13741315 'Rain Marginal' is actually part of the Japanese subtitle. They just shortened the subtitle.

Anonymous Tue Jul 7 18:45:22 2015 No.13742237

>>13741901
Trying to moralize this shit when all they do is kickstart "translations" for already translated games? Good lord.

It's natural for companies to die. That's what happens in competitive systems and in an industry oversaturated with products. Changing distribution platforms and trying to expand your market (doing shit like all-ages eroge) won't change the fact that there's too much garbage to sift through. Do you think dumb, casual dollars are going to do anything in the long run? Of course not. This industry has survived thanks to a core group of people who pay out the ass because they love this shit. The people who cared were importing the original games from Japan, buying merch, artbooks, spinoff shit, etc. He isn't saving anything. He's exploiting the fact that there's money to be made in the West and on Steam and frankly, it's kind of disgusting that he would posture like he's doing anything but that. Fucker can eat a dick.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 19:05:36 2015 No.13742331 >>13742237 Took the words right out of my mouth.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 19:07:19 2015 No.13742347 >>13741901 only the tryhard companies dying and they deserve it for not giving the consumer what they want

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 20:08:45 2015 No.13742589 >>13742347 Yeah, fuck Hirameki! We all know JAST has the truly great games. Garbage like Ever17 will never stand up against true masterpieces like Water Closet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 20:55:50 2015 No.13742745 >>13740498 Reported

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 21:02:10 2015 No.13742773 Literally SHOU GA NAI.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:08:10 2015 No.13743034 >>13741961 Then they're not really using the subtitle, they made up their own. That actually makes me mad, use the damn subtitle.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 22:45:42 2015 No.13743114 >>13742237 Thought the industry was dying because those core fans all went to idol shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 7 23:25:47 2015 No.13743181 >>13741281 >The latest visual novel by Tomo Kataoka Except Sumire got released just one month ago.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 01:23:47 2015 No.13743539 >>13741901 Why is everyone so assblasted over this? Just seems like he's making a statement rather than boasting about it. It's like you guys intentionally misunderstand just so you have something to complain about.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 02:04:41 2015 No.13743630 >>13743539 I'm not assblasted about it but more depressed that the industry is dying.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 03:13:54 2015 No.13743796

>>13743539
Because he talks like a sensationalist journalist. We get enough of this shit out of Kotaku and Polygon drama which spreads across the internet regardless of whether or not you actually go to either of those sites because sadly enough there are lots of people who are dumb and still do. We don't need that shit out of Dovac too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 03:28:32 2015 No.13743821 >>13743796 At least it's a good message, i.e. buy the games even if you hate him. I personally wouldn't buy Dovac shit but there's no problem with JAST and MG.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 03:40:43 2015 No.13743848 >>13741721 It's not surprising English readers are clueless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 03:44:00 2015 No.13743858 >>13743848 We don't know shit about shit man. I don't think half of us even know about Scarlett. It's all about Baldr Sky, White Album 2, Dies Israe, Muramasa over and over again.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 03:49:11 2015 No.13743868

>>13743858
Be wary of overhype if those get a translation one day. I see it all the time with English readers.

Something good gets announced for translation and then it gets hyped and hyped among English community only for people to be disappointed when it actually comes out.

Subahibi is gonna be a total case of this. Many people will be surprised how banal its story (story, not themes etc.) is. Shitposting will be insane, especially considering that faggot who translates it is a shitposter on /vg/ himself.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:17:27 2015 No.13743951

>>13743539
>It's like you guys intentionally misunderstand just so you have something to complain about.
It's not 'like' it, that's exactly what's happening. They always keep finding reasons to bitch about Sekai Project.

An example in this very thread:
>>13741315
>just fucking use the English title.
>>13743034
>That actually makes me mad, use the damn subtitle.
Meanwhile, there's been exactly one post (in the previous thread) about the genuinely retarded naming of MangaGamer's 'Umineko When They Cry' and that post was made by me.

It doesn't matter how petty, any excuse to complain about Sekai Project is a good one to /jp/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:17:35 2015 No.13743952 >>13743858 What's up with Scarlet? Few weeks ago it was brought up in some thread and now everyone seems to think it's some kind of masterpiece. It's great, but it just seems to have randomly popped up on /jp/ for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:19:36 2015 No.13743958 >>13743868 G-Senjou no Maou certainly was, even though I liked it. That game was overhyped to high heaven.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:23:29 2015 No.13743967 >>13743958 Yes, that was an example I considered bringing up.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:41:30 2015 No.13744001

>>13743952
I'm actually surprised by this too, since I randomly brought it up the other day and then, not long after that, I discovered that Dovac actually has his eye on it. I always thought it like a cool game but I had no idea it was this well regarded.

The western VN community is weird for those of us who don't speak the language though, like there are probably tons more great games out there but since we can't read them nobody bothers bringing them up. So something like Himawari just goes completely unmentioned until it gets picked up officially, and then that's when the people who know about it start talking about it. While the rest of us are surprised because all we really know about VNs is what people tell us. So now the same thing might happen with Scarlett and now it's the talk of the town. I think it's because the people who actually know Japanese but bother speaking to us are limited in number and fickle so they only talk about a few "big" things that interest them, like Dies irae.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:42:27 2015 No.13744003 >>13743952 dovac made some post at some point on VNDB about how they're financially supporting Nekoneko Soft, the developer, and how they're buddies with Tomo Kataoka: https://vndb.org/t6599 >My personal goal is picking up Scarlett but we'll see.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:45:23 2015 No.13744007 The real question is, when is some company gonna announce they're doing Bullet Butlers, at which point everyone will start talking about what an unsung masterwork it is.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:45:38 2015 No.13744008

>>13744001
Part of this is just the huge amount of newbies in the community. I've been here since 2008 and I've heard good things about Scarlett and especially Himawari before.

Though I do agree with you that I get the feeling I used to hear more about what's hot on the Japanese side of things than I do nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:47:44 2015 No.13744016 >>13744001 Himawari was mentioned a lot on /jp/ tho. >>/jp/?ghost=yes&task=search&search_text=himawari&offset=192 and further and further.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:52:40 2015 No.13744024

>>13744003
I agree with
https://vndb.org/t6599#8

Also I wonder why so many people say things like https://vndb.org/t6599#10 . It's like English readers were raised to enjoy bad shit. Well, I guess you could say they kinda were, since all those early 00's translated official releases usually were terrible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:53:52 2015 No.13744027 >>13744007 Higashide is usually good. And Ayakashibito is translated, so people know, don't they?

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:54:12 2015 No.13744029

>>13744016
You'll notice most of those posts are from a long time ago now, and a lot of them are about Sharin no Kuni. and also Yuru Yuri for some reason. People talk about it because they talk about everything, but not a huge amount compared to a lot of stuff.

I hit "random visual novel," got something called Seitenshi Yumiel Shadow Crusade, and searched for it and there's even a post about that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:55:44 2015 No.13744030 >>13744027 I hope so, because I would really like to see Bullet Butlers translated someday. Better off than some VNs, I suppose.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:57:07 2015 No.13744032 >>13744029 Did you notice >offset=192 there in my link? I just scrolled through some years to see how long in the past it goes. If you go back to zero, you will get plenty of mentions in 2014-2015.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 04:57:09 2015 No.13744033 >>13744016 >>13744029 It's better to search "Old posts first" for older VNs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:01:25 2015 No.13744040 >>13744032 I noticed, but there really aren't many notable mentions in those years (before it got announced by MG) and most of it is still Yuru Yuri. Why are there so many people posting about Yuru Yuri on /jp/? I don't get it.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:06:08 2015 No.13744052

>>13743951
To be fair, When They Cry actually is the official English title chosen by Ryukishi07 himself. Nothing wrong with using that. Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal- is just Dovac making up some dumb title. I'd have taken Ame no Marginal: Everything has an end -Rain marginal over that. I mean, let's be real. We're getting a game called Root Double: Before Crime * After Days: Xtend Edition.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:09:26 2015 No.13744057

>>13744008
It's kinda because nowadays nothing gets really huge like, I dunno, Muv Luv Alternative.

Check out 2014, top are games that barely anyone voted for (+Cross Channel rerelease) and 5 and below you get games that are good, but nothing really mind-blowing.
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/toukei_year.php?year=2014&erogame=t&coterie=null

This year Bokusen came out and was a disappointment and now Sakura no Uta has a chance to be a bomb. Hopefully it is.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:20:03 2015 No.13744077

>>13744052
>Root Double: Before Crime * After Days: Xtend Edition
That's because once you realize what it's about, the subtitle actually makes a lot of sense (yes, even in English) and is very meaningful.

(The game revolves around a certain incident, and starts with two routes, one in the days leading up to the incident (hence, Before Crime), and the other in the days directly after the incident (After Days). The subtitle itself is wordplay on the terms 'BC' and 'AD'.)

You would lose a lot of meaning by removing the BC * AD from Root Double's title. I don't really think you can say the same about 'Everything has an end' in Ame no Marginal.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:23:57 2015 No.13744088 >>13744077 Everything has an end is pretty deep, though. I think it's a sad thing to cut from the title.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:25:29 2015 No.13744091 >>13744077 Also, that sounds a lot like Reservoir Dogs. RD...hm.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:39:29 2015 No.13744117

>>13743539
>Just seems like he's making a statement rather than boasting about it.
No, his post is most definitely self-congratulatory and he tries to make himself out to be a martyr, sacrificing so much for a dying industry and not even caring if you pay for his games. He has no right to moralize when he's oversimplifying the issue and completely ignores the people who have been supporting the industry long before his dumb ass came around. This involves people who fan-translated, who played and shared the games, and imported them, bought merch, supported adaptations, etc. Money doesn't have to "flow back" if you just give it straight to the people who make it.

He wouldn't have gone this route if he didn't think it would make him money. He's also been playing it safe, going for works that already have enough western interest to net fantranslations and have been available for years, KICKSTARTING those, and then doing shit like releasing all-ages versions first. Then he pats himself on the back for doing this and makes the FANS out to be the problem for not buying shit. People have BEEN buying shit, just not HIS shit that has already been released and translated for fucking years. Sorry, but some of us actually don't want anything to do with all-ages eroge on Steam, especially not if he's just going to shit on you.

>>13743951
Go to bed, dovac.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 05:58:45 2015 No.13744154 >>13740498 Where are the fantls...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 06:12:04 2015 No.13744172 >>13744154 I've been wondering the same thing for months.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 06:45:58 2015 No.13744226 >>13744117 Honestly, the industry seems pretty fine. It's just Sekai Project that's not doing fine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 07:02:16 2015 No.13744256 >>13741721 Is Himawari a kamige?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 07:05:09 2015 No.13744258 >>13744256 Fuck off back to /vg/ you retarded memester.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 07:13:04 2015 No.13744275 >>13744256 I was going to make a post about how the only kamige is that one that Kirino popped a ladyboner for and gave to her brother as a gift but I can't remember the name and I'm not going to go searching just to make a goddamn Oreimo joke.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 07:13:38 2015 No.13744276 Milf autist... I miss him...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 07:20:54 2015 No.13744285 >>13744275 This is the only kamige: https://vndb.org/v14838

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 07:49:46 2015 No.13744325

>>13744117
>the people who have been supporting the industry long before his dumb ass came around. This involves people who fan-translated
You are aware that dovac used to host TLWiki, Amaterasu and tons of other VN translation-related sites, right? Before the whole Amaterasu-MangaGamer incident, Fuwanovel associating VNs with an anti-copyright stance and significant hostility against original developers emerged (mainly due to the large amount of C&Ds sent out in a short time span)?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 08:02:59 2015 No.13744347 >>13744276 He went back to /m/ a few months ago, they call him Gatchan there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 08:44:42 2015 No.13744439 Believing oneself to be perfect is... often the sign of a delusional mind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 08:57:29 2015 No.13744476 >>13744439 Small world from a small being... trying to attack what it doesn't understand.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 09:08:23 2015 No.13744507

Does Dovac write the descriptions for VNs on the Steam store page and stuff? Because they're always so stupid. Whoever does it is not good at his job, even random RPGMaker games have better descriptions.

Sidni Larkhearst lived a simple life, delivering messages for her village, until her home is attacked by vampires one night. To her horror, Sidni learns that Dracula, the most feared vampire of all time is hunting her. But why? Find out in this exciting 16-bit RPG from the "Valiant" team.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 09:11:10 2015 No.13744520
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>>13744077
https://youtu.be/JTi4gDjo_lE?t=11s
https://youtu.be/hdwKxuogBbk?t=11s
I wonder if the English release will do away with the Xtend edition branding. The logo in the OP already removed the katakana subtitle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 12:08:41 2015 No.13744894 >>13744520 Didn't the presenter at AX say that the Xtend Edition wasn't a sure thing? I'm expecting them to announce a kickstarter for it at Otakon and reveal that the Xtend Edition is either still being negotiated or is a stretch goal.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 12:15:34 2015 No.13744919 >>13744894 >you want the not shit version of the game? >pay Sounds like SP.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 12:24:03 2015 No.13744941

>>13744894
https://sekaiproject.com/blog-en/anime-expo-announcements/

>Xtend Edition

https://twitter.com/lemnis_ca/status/617522145757794304

>Xtend Edition

https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/617518461107834880

>Xtend Edition

https://lemniscatranslations.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/root-double-before-crime-after-days-xtend-edition-official-localization-announcement/

>Xtend Edition

I'd say it was just that the presenter didn't know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 12:29:33 2015 No.13744957 I wish you faggots would keep this Sekai Project/Steam/Kickstarter cancer confined to /vg/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 12:35:06 2015 No.13744970 >>13744957 and the people in /vg/ dont want it either

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 13:35:54 2015 No.13745169

>>13744957
What's not worth discussing about it? They're one of the three big companies releasing VNs, and while their methods are questionable, they're in second place in terms of results. And far ahead any of the worthless chumps involved in fan translation at this point.

Also, we should be discussing the Skype group that goes around downvoting all the videos of the up-and-comers they don't like, and vote brigading and other shit. Fucking scumbags scheming behind the scenes and here we are worrying about a trivial schmuck like Dovac.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:07:59 2015 No.13745309 https://vndb.org/g1986 Someone translate all of these please. Thanks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:18:46 2015 No.13745353 >>13745309 No.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:28:41 2015 No.13745389

>>13745169
>they're in second place in terms of results
You are delusional, dovac. Your shitty ripoff company released only 2 translated by your own power games. Rest are just stolen from fantl groups goods, which were released already without your involvement.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:29:30 2015 No.13745392 >>13745353 I will reward you handsomely.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:32:49 2015 No.13745405

>>13745389
Okay, fine, you got me. And how does that change the fact that we get results? Just because we paid to use a translation doesn't mean it somehow doesn't "count." We have a lot of products out there now, and they're making me plenty of money. What's your claim to fame, huh? Got anything better in your life than trying to troll me on a shitty forum? I doubt it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:35:51 2015 No.13745422 >>13745405 Even Dovac can't be this retarded.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:37:42 2015 No.13745436 Why do people even bother giving Herkz the time of day? He does nothing but act like an obnoxious cunt when he knows absolutely nothing about anything, it's like he tries to play devil's advocate but just looks like a retard because he's so clueless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:39:09 2015 No.13745444 >>13745436 every time you insult herkz he delays the subahibi release by a day

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:57:09 2015 No.13745561 >>13745422 What a pathetic attempt at a retort. I guess you're too prideful to admit defeat, but don't worry, I can read the implication.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 14:59:52 2015 No.13745580

>>13745436
I'm all for randomly insulting Herkz (and in fact have made a habit of doing it in these threads), but was there a stupid comment he just made that prompted this? I haven't been paying attention to him lately. Mainly because Crunchyroll got Symphogear so Commie can collectively go suck a dick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 15:04:37 2015 No.13745602 >>13745580 I was just reading doddler's twitter and he was saying shit about the Alicesoft announcement and all that, it's mainly just the way he acts like a know it all and like he's the best in the world while in reality knowing nothing at all.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 15:20:46 2015 No.13745674

>>13745602
Well, that is a pretty good way of describing why I hate him, so I know what you mean. I looked at those tweets and they are pretty dumb.

All this is especially a shame because BBH was a really cool thing to have announced and it's being soured by all the people who can't stop obsessing about the Rance patches they weren't going to get anyway. Actually, Herkz bitching about the situation is pretty funny considering he's been directly responsible for the delays of numerous patches.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 16:37:39 2015 No.13745966 >>13745436 I don't know. I think his twitter is obnoxious and his opinions are completely annoying. However, I also think he's a really good editor and he works on projects that I think are worth translation. I care more about the second part.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 16:47:19 2015 No.13746000

>>13745966
>I also think he's a really good editor
Really? Because he's notoriously pretty awful at it and makes more mistakes than he fixes. He failed Mangagamer's editing test thus Kouryuu refused to hire him for Gahkthun even though Koestl tried hard to get him on the project.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 16:49:39 2015 No.13746011 >>13745966 >However, I also think he's a really good editor Is that "really good" in comparison to Fuwanovel standards or something?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 16:55:08 2015 No.13746039 >>13746000 >He failed Mangagamer's editing test >Mangagamer Pfffft ahahaha, you can't be fucking serious??

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 16:55:35 2015 No.13746041 >>13746000 >>13746039 He failed largely because he was bashing MG publicly at the same time as he was trying to get hired. But that's typical herkz.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 16:59:16 2015 No.13746057 >>13746041 Doddler has bashed Mangagamer publically while being hired and it hasn't affected his career. Herkz was dropped because he was a shit editor. The guy fucking runs commiesubs, remember that.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 17:36:22 2015 No.13746216

>>13746041
Here I was thinking herkz was only just butthurt about not being hired, hence the public bashing. Didn't know the public bashing was always a constant.

But yeah, the guy is pretty full of himself. His Twitter is really grating to look at since he likes to not-so-subtly jab any time MG/Doddler posts about an issue with any of their TLs. Just gives the impression of a whiny immature kid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 17:41:09 2015 No.13746229 >>13746216 don't we not-so-subtly jab everyone anytime anything happens

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 17:45:42 2015 No.13746242

>>13744008
One of the reason is probably I and 2-3 other guys were in full stema mode back in the days and talked/spammed a lot about every eroge we played.

I went through the archive there >>13744016
and like half of the posts about Himawari during the 2008-2011 period were by me, funny how much I remember

Now I don't have that much drive and am too busy and I guess the others are the same

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 17:53:08 2015 No.13746258 >>13741901 >x is dying Every time.

Anonymous Wed Jul 8 19:14:16 2015 No.13746499

So, in other news, mangagamer's twitter pimped https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/305439676/change-localization-by-supporting-culture-select-w

If I recall, this is basically the start-up by the guy who just did ecchi mery.

What do you think, /jp/?
Do we have the next sekai project on our hands?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 19:19:35 2015 No.13746523 >>13746499 >Do we have the next sekai project on our hands? They're not kickstarting an already existing fantranslation for an all-ages Steam release, so no.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 8 19:36:15 2015 No.13746577 >>13746499 >$182 Yet no name Sekai Project OELVNs get tens of thousands.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:02:41 2015 No.13747517 >>13746039 Are you seriously trying to imply that Mangagamer has low standards? They're not fucking Sekai Project.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:05:14 2015 No.13747527 >>13746242 I knew there was something more to it. There's no way it could have been that popular here, so it makes sense that it's only a couple people who speak the language.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:08:02 2015 No.13747547 >>13746000 I think this probably has a lot to do with how he doesn't know Japanese but likes to edit as if he does. So he ends up completely changing the meaning of the original line because he has no idea what they're actually saying.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:08:54 2015 No.13747555 >>13747527 You would know a lot more if you venture outside of this thread and into the real VN general.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:10:29 2015 No.13747561 Please BUY HARUKA and support a nukige future in the West!!! Let's show them a game that doesn't need Steam to be successful.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:23:27 2015 No.13747640 >>13747561 Nope. I don't want AS wasting any further resources coordinating with Western localization efforts when they should be working on the next Tsuma game instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:23:55 2015 No.13747644 rawr

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:25:36 2015 No.13747652 >>13747555 I'd rather not spoil VNs I might read someday.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:27:22 2015 No.13747660 >>13747561 Fuck that, let's get BBH on Steam.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 01:27:36 2015 No.13747663 >>13747652 Most people there spoilertag things correctly. Unless you like going into your games almost 100% blind, you should be okay.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 02:07:07 2015 No.13747795 >>13747640 >>13747660 Please BUY HARUKA!!! She's a good girl.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 04:09:32 2015 No.13748041 File: 26 KB, 344x341, okay2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why can't I find Free Friends english download anywhere?

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 04:15:39 2015 No.13748053

>>13747517

Any native English speaker who has any experience with writing at all, even at a high school level, should have all the tools they need to "complete" the editing test. I'm sure that they check up on any background someone might have and try and get a feel for how (s)he'd work with the existing staff.

No manager would willingly hire someone abrasive and outspoken as Herkz, even he's "good" at the job in question. Just because they handle cartoon porn written in another language doesn't mean they're as stupid as to actively promote bad business practices.

It's not that they're not looking for geniuses, they're looking for people who aren't screaming manchildren. Being an autist is okay, just so long as you're a diligent, friendly autist.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 04:19:17 2015 No.13748065 >>13748041 Nobody bothered to upload it. Now's your chance anon, go buy it and get internet cred.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 05:16:56 2015 No.13748202 >>13748053 That's true, autistic people aren't inherently bad. Herkz is just autistic and bad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 05:20:12 2015 No.13748210 >>13747795 Everybody likes Everybody loves Haruka. So don't worry, she will have the best sales.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 06:26:07 2015 No.13748319
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>>13748041

I'd buy you a copy if I could have a rock solid promise you'd give an honest review of the job I did on the sex scenes.

>original script is slurred Japanese because the heroine has a dick in her mouth
>translation is produced in proper English
>I have to turn it into dick-in-mouth English
>realize that method acting is the going to be the fastest way to get a rough idea of the phonemes involved
>mfw

I am not a proud man.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 06:31:04 2015 No.13748327 >>13748319 This is why eroge translation is the greatest job a man can hope for.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 06:37:12 2015 No.13748336 Can someone explain what a 干物妹 (himouto) is supposed to be? I did some research and I still don't understand it.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 08:27:07 2015 No.13748544

>>13748319

Don't disappoint me by saying that you just stuck your hand in your mouth anonymous.

What was it? Dildo? A history of unusual flexibility? Local gaybar?

>>13748336

I've never seen it outside of the manga with the same title, and I presume it to be https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B2%E7%89%A9%E5%A5%B3 + 妹.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 08:55:36 2015 No.13748624
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>>13748544

I started with the fatter end of a mechanical pencil, but the taste of rubber was unpleasant and of course it wasn't nearly big enough to interfere with normal jaw movement. I then tried a banana, but unpeeled it was far too large, and the fruit didn't last five minutes when I did peel it. Om nom nom, potassium.

The breakthrough came in the form of a runt of a cucumber from the local farmer's market in the family fridge, which I eyeballed at "the average size of a male actor's cock in a porno". (Normal storebought cucumbers are way too girthy, and frankly I don't think I'd pick out one of this size if I went shopping for produce myself.) I stored it in a glass full of ice and shoved it in my mouth while reading off words.

No, I did not shove it up my ass after I was done. I diced it up with one of its mates, drizzled the pieces with a sauce of soysauce, vinegar, and red pepper infused oil, then dug in. With gusto.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:21:55 2015 No.13748702 Otakon is 2 weeks away. If MG was planning a last minute acquisition of Flowers, then they're going to have to license something else to replace it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:30:12 2015 No.13748726 >>13748702 Clearly this means they've licensed Baldr Sky.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:37:20 2015 No.13748741 >>13748726 I'm expecting the return of Tactics in the form of its successor, Luxury.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:38:04 2015 No.13748743 >>13744439 Hello Clephas

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:39:24 2015 No.13748745 I expect a surprise licensing deal with élf.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:41:40 2015 No.13748750 >>13748745 That would be wonderful.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:51:37 2015 No.13748767 >>13748745 If we're talking nukige then I'd prefer Atelier Kaguya.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 09:53:01 2015 No.13748774 >>13748624 You're the Free Friends editor, right? You're way too dedicated, man, I'd wager there's no other eroge editor out there that would go this far just to have the proper written text.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:11:11 2015 No.13748823
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>>13748774

I reused an image, didn't I?

While that was my starting point, readability is more important than, uh, realism. I panned finicky words by throwing the whole line into an IRC and asking, "How long does it take you to read this?" and making edits from there. But only for the occasional bad line.

Really, my passion comes from having read hack jobs on other works and flying into an autistic rage. If I "don't do a better job than this myself", it'll create some kind of time paradox and a supervillain will fall out. Or something.

Also I'm sure there's eroge editors there that have sucked actual dicks, so I'm sure I'm beat in that department.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:20:24 2015 No.13748845 >>13748702 Word on the street is that they entered a partnership with Propeller.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:20:49 2015 No.13748847 File: 568 KB, 797x599, x.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hello World translation when?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:22:37 2015 No.13748858 >>13748743 I googled that name and got what seems to be an extremely autistic Fuwanovel user. Why'd that post make you think of him?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:24:08 2015 No.13748860 >>13748858 Clephas is a a hero. He has read dozens of VNs and still needs text hookers to read kana. At least the legends about him say so.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:30:32 2015 No.13748876 >>13748860 This while apparently being eight years older than me. What the fuck?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:33:04 2015 No.13748881 Free Friends editor, what name do you go by? You sound like an interesting person so I want to stalk your Twitter or ask.fm or something if you have one.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:37:21 2015 No.13748887
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>>13748881

I-I'm pretty new to the professional side of things, so be gentle. I use the same handle literally everywhere: balistafreak.

I barely touched twitter until very, very recently. Colleagues nudged me to keep up with it, both in terms of tweeting and following, so I don't get caught flatfooted literally days after annoucements. I'll try and be more active.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:38:31 2015 No.13748890 >>13748845 That would be great news. They have some really promising titles. Wonder if they'd try to get the PSP assets for Ayakashibito and put it on Steam?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:41:30 2015 No.13748895 >>13748858 It sounds exactly like the kind of chuuni thing he'd say 100% seriously.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 10:48:59 2015 No.13748910 >>13748895 Weird, because it's a quote from Data from an old Star Trek movie that most VN fans probably only know because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93VODUlLuRk As such it is entirely possible that he would say it, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:12:47 2015 No.13748954 >>13748823 >Also I'm sure there's eroge editors there that have sucked actual dicks moogy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 11:54:48 2015 No.13749073 >>13748954 Moogy doesn't do any eroge editing, though. Occasionally he'll take credit for something he didn't do, but that's it. So he's just your run-of-the-mill dick sucker.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 12:09:46 2015 No.13749115 >>13749073 >>13748954 >>13748823 Sheeta has probably sucked Ixrec's dick.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 12:16:01 2015 No.13749142 >>13749115 Well no shit. Don't they live together?.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 12:21:27 2015 No.13749172 ┳┻\| ┻┳\| ┳┻\|_∧ ┻┳\|･ω･) Cucumber-senpai noticed us ┳┻\|⊂ﾉ ┻┳\|Ｊ

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 12:47:30 2015 No.13749267

>>13748845
Honestly, that seems too good to be true. I thought it was a bit strange MG not announcing a BL related partnership so I'm expecting the new partner to be something along these lines. Anyway, if they indeed announce a partnership with Propeller I'll be a happy man.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 12:51:26 2015 No.13749274 >>13749115 Yeah, that's what I said. Moogy has plenty of experience sucking dicks.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 13:43:37 2015 No.13749425

>>13749267
I thought MG would wait longer to announce any more BL games, since they were waiting to see how well No, Thank You! performed. It apparently sold decently, but it's been on and off the top 5 weekly sales ranking, so it's obviously not selling as well as some of their other recent games.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 16:50:15 2015 No.13749942
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>>13749425
>It apparently sold decently, but it's been on and off the top 5 weekly sales ranking,

That's pretty usual for a title. Huniepop, Imopara, and Evangile are actually outliers in their longevity on the chart. Especially Evangile, which is regularly outselling new releases.

I imagine NTY will probably be in the top five sellers for the end of the year.

>>13748624

Truly a man with dedication to his craft.

>>	Good Haro Thu Jul 9 16:59:01 2015 No.13749964 >>13749942

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 17:34:50 2015 No.13750134

>>13749942
>Especially Evangile, which is regularly outselling new releases.
That's not exactly surprising considering what's been released since.
1) Amber Breaker
2) Ecchi Mery and the Perils of the Cosmic Shrine
3) Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
4) Forbidden Love with My Wife’s Sister
5) Free Friends
The free Steam key likely helps alot too, so I do expect to see Evangile end up on MG's list of bestselling titles.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 17:37:56 2015 No.13750146 >>13748319 >>13748624 >>13748823 I want to be your friend.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 17:48:20 2015 No.13750172
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>>13749942

Hey, now, cucumbers of the appropriate size are an anomaly. And while I might be able to bury the dildo in a drawer, constant purchasing of perfectly phallus-sized cucumbers is going to make any future roommates VERY suspicious.

Honestly there's gotta be some other perfect cylindrical object that's not as perishable as cucumbers but not as instantly suspicious as dildos. Haven't found one yet, though.

Man, this would be a lot simpler if I were gay, or a girl. Then I could just get a dildo and kill two birds with one stone.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 17:53:30 2015 No.13750191 >>13750172 Learn to suck your own dick, not only do you get the most accurate experience and size possible but you also get your dick sucked. It's a win/win.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:02:19 2015 No.13750226 >>13750172 Have you considered a unicorn lollipop?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:06:09 2015 No.13750240 >>13749425 I heard it was like their bestseller at AX.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:08:20 2015 No.13750250 >>13750172 Can probably find appropriately sized sausages. Costco Italian sausages for example are roughly penis sized. Cook a bunch up and freeze them future use.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:11:05 2015 No.13750264
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>>13750191

I'm not even close to flexible enough, and I'm not so hilariously endowed that it's as simple as sitting down. Quite the opposite. Asian genes a shit, man.

>>13750226

A lollipop might last longer than a banana, but it'd surely fail long before a cucumber. If you're talking about the novelty-size ones I think you are, those also cost a ton.

Also, the dissolving sugar would get everywhere and make things all sticky, and that's a part of the fellatio experience I DON'T need to emulate for this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:12:28 2015 No.13750269 >>13750264 Just buy a goddamn dildo, you're dying to try it...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:16:28 2015 No.13750287 >>13750264 If you buy a dildo for work you can write it off on your taxes!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:20:46 2015 No.13750306 >>13750264 Want me to buy a dildo for you, anonymous?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:20:55 2015 No.13750307 >>13750240 It's their newest hardcopy and it was available at AX before the people who ordered it online even received their copies. Most of MG's other hard copies are around a year older or more.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:43:01 2015 No.13750371
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>>13750269

Sucking an object off just doesn't have appeal to it. I imagine the human element is just as important, but (unfortunately?) I don't swing that way.

>>13750287

What does that even get filed under?

>>13750306

What's the catch? I swear if it turns out to be that multi-hundred dollar thicker-and-larger-than-an-arm horse dildo I'm going to find you and use it as the bludgeoning instrument it was always meant to be.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:54:20 2015 No.13750411 File: 27 KB, 906x215, toolsandeducation.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13750371

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 18:57:48 2015 No.13750430

>>13750411

I guess I could count it as "job education"...

>>13750250

I'm worried that the sausage casing will be too flimsy, but it's worth a shot. Maybe a sausage with a tougher casing, like kielbasa or something?

I also wonder if it might shrivel/swell up with prolonged use. The cucumber's skin did a very good job of keeping it stable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 19:03:03 2015 No.13750443 >>13750430 >I guess I could count it as "job education"... Advise instead that it be listed as "required tools"

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 19:05:01 2015 No.13750450
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>>13750371
>What's the catch? I swear if it turns out to be that multi-hundred dollar thicker-and-larger-than-an-arm horse dildo I'm going to find you and use it as the bludgeoning instrument it was always meant to be.

Only catch is that you need to wait for a sale, I though they still had the independence day one on.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 21:33:12 2015 No.13751140

So /jp/, is it too early to start up the Otakon Speculation?

So we've got three titles. One is a new partner.
One is being translated by Maria (yurirei?)
One is being translated by BDH
One is being translated by Conjueror/garejei(the two new guys that don moogster-heika-dono-sama vouched for)

There's also these two conflicting statements:

http://ask.fm/The_Doddler/answer/128851504625
https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/618007463053389825

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 21:40:36 2015 No.13751175 >>13751140 I don't see any contradiction between those two statements.

Anonymous Thu Jul 9 21:43:49 2015 No.13751191

>>13751175

Well usually they ignore "are you going to license X" questions. By bothering to answer that, it lends it credence, which is in contradiction to doddler.

Although I suppose one could cut both even and say that perhaps it's not the fandisc, but another moonstone title.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 21:46:07 2015 No.13751204 >>13751140 Doddler mentioned that the new partner isn't a nukige company. Those aren't conflicting statements. The MG account didn't confirm or deny. They want to, but they don't have the time to do it right now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 21:47:04 2015 No.13751207 >>13751140 >(yurirei?) Holy fuck, I really hope so.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:21:25 2015 No.13751349 File: 1.24 MB, 924x804, websight.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13751140 Oh, and haro's working on websites for their new announcements and this was posted if anyone is a master of recognizing art via palettes

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:23:57 2015 No.13751363 >>13751207 I'm kinda curious as to why anyone who doesn't know Japanese would be hyped for Yurirei. What do you think it is?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:37:09 2015 No.13751416 >>13751363 First tell me why you think I shouldn't be.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:40:51 2015 No.13751436 >>13751416 I'm not claiming you should or shouldn't be anything. I'm asking why you are.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:41:17 2015 No.13751438 >>13751140 My speculation is that MG is using the fact that Yatagarasu went out of business to license their games from Yatagarasu's parent company.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:45:38 2015 No.13751451 >>13751436 Maybe I'm just a big fan of the game in Japanese and am happy that English-only players might be able to experience it too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:50:06 2015 No.13751464 >>13751451 If that was true I don't think you'd word it that way. I'm honestly just curious, no need to be defensive.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:57:21 2015 No.13751483 >>13751438 Stop giving them ideas. Or start, depending what you want.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 22:58:10 2015 No.13751485 >>13751464 Sorry, it's a bit of a habit. I just like yuri and yuri ghosts is pretty much the best idea ever.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 23:12:30 2015 No.13751521 >>13751485 Well, I suspect it's better than you think it is then. So indeed, rejoice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 23:18:45 2015 No.13751536 >>13751483 Since Doddler said their new partner license isn't nukige, I guess they'd start with Yamiyo ni Odore -Witch Wishes to Commit the Night-

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 9 23:37:29 2015 No.13751594 Their partner is Type-Moon. Mangagamer has coopted Commie's Mahoutsukai fantranslation. There, I spoiled it for you fags.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 00:57:15 2015 No.13751870 >>13751594 My dad works at Type-moon and he says this isn't true.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 01:56:18 2015 No.13752030 >>13749115 He deserves it, the guy works hard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 03:15:04 2015 No.13752319 Do you think anyone will ever do a translation of fortissimo//Akkord:Bsusvier?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 03:22:58 2015 No.13752341 >>13752319 No.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 03:25:45 2015 No.13752354 >>13752341 Any reason why you find it unlikely, or are you just being a negative nancy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 03:28:38 2015 No.13752368 >>13752354 There's 1000 VN's that deserve translation, why do you think someone would pick this one in particular?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 03:32:23 2015 No.13752384 >>13752368 Well, it looks to be a Da Capo spinoff, so theoretically it would be entirely possible as a MangaGamer project. However I have no idea how known it is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 03:40:29 2015 No.13752426 Like, generally people agree that Himawari is particularly deserving. So I wonder if fortissimo is in that category and people just don't know it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 04:08:49 2015 No.13752509 >>13751363 Well, I know Japanese so I'm not the best one to answer, but Yurirei is one of the few recent yuri eroge that isn't a straight-up nukige. So that could be part of it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 04:31:01 2015 No.13752553 >>13751521 That may be one of the rare times that someone here has not tried to make me feel bad about being interested in a VN. I appreciate it. >>13752509 That is also another reason I'm interested, actually.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 04:57:43 2015 No.13752626

>>13752426
Fortissimo is not a good game, it's popular for some reason but it's not good. Maybe it's passable if it's your first chuuni game, but otherwise it's eh.
Himawari on the other hand is a truly great game that went from doujin to being licensed and ported everywhere.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:07:20 2015 No.13752655

Check erogamescape for yourself:

http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/toukei_median.php?data_suu=20&year=1900&month=1&kihon_mode=title&mode1=tokuten&erogame=t&coterie=null&average=t

Himawari is #65 next to Grisaia and Oretsuba.
Scarlett is #166.
Fortissimo is #901.
Chrono Clock is #1817. ww

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:08:46 2015 No.13752662 >>13752626 >went from doujin to being licensed and ported everywhere So did Umineko, to be fair.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:11:16 2015 No.13752673

>>13752655
>Chrono Clock is #1817. ww
I've just completed it, and can vouch that its not good.
Not bad either, but just very bland and too short and neither heroines nor time-looping gimming got enough attention. It literally took me only 10 hours to do common + makoto + dd.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:14:47 2015 No.13752685 File: 408 KB, 1500x1049, moonstone1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] When is MG going to do this one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:21:41 2015 No.13752701 >>13752384 >Well, it looks to be a Da Capo spinoff The shit? Where did you get that? >>13752673 Funny how Japs hated the separated ero scenes. And also how you can now easily tell it was all for the sake of the Steam release.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:21:52 2015 No.13752703 >>13752626 >chuuni You know, I never started seeing this word in the English-speaking community until KyoAni made an anime about it, at which point places like /jp/ started using it all the time. Makes me wonder about some things.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:23:20 2015 No.13752707 >>13752703 I've been seeing it from long before that. Maybe confirmation bias?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:26:23 2015 No.13752712 >>13752703 It's been used on /jp/ to describe stuff like Fate and DI since I started coming here around 5 years ago. As far as Reddit or whatever, you're probably right.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:26:24 2015 No.13752713

>>13752701
>The shit? Where did you get that?

>Reiji is a typical student on the remote southwest island of Tsukuyomi-jima. However, due to an unexpected event where his life was in danger, he awakened as the 13th magical summoner. After summoning the spirit and magical superweapon Sakura, she gifts him with the special ability ‘Da Capo,’ which allows him to summon anyone who he met in the past 24 hours or reverts items back to its previous state (up to 24 hours ago). Now they must participate in a battle they cannot avoid.

Circus is also one of the co-developers. To be fair, I did not know about these things until today, but it is clear that it is connected to Da Capo. Which, as we know, is a legendary series, so that may raise Fortissimo's chances. Especially considering "less important" things are being translated.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:27:28 2015 No.13752715

>>13752701
Most EGS reviews pinpoint terrible scenario and kitai hazure compared to trial.
Although I didn't find trial part particularly interesting either, they were very open about whole "I don't care about big things, my goal is to get girlfriend and stop being virgin". I guess some people thought it was a joke.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:29:24 2015 No.13752720 >>13752713 >Especially considering "less important" things are being translated. As if any "importance" matters. You're just getting what MG/Sekai can get their hands on that can sell.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:30:12 2015 No.13752721 >>13752662 And? Umineko is also great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:31:26 2015 No.13752726 >>13752720 So you agree, this Da Capo spinoff about magic fighting is very possible since it can in fact sell, especially with the Da Capo name attached to it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:32:36 2015 No.13752729 >>13752721 Good one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:32:46 2015 No.13752730 >>13752720 Importance affects their licensing decisions. They wouldn't bother with Himawari if it wouldn't be so popular.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:32:55 2015 No.13752731 >>13752726 There's 100 other VN's that can sell equally well, that doesn't mean there's a chance they'll get officially localized.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:33:46 2015 No.13752733 Say, what are the chances of MangaGamer partnering with Eushully?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:34:37 2015 No.13752737 >>13752733 Before AliceSoft announcement I'd say 0, but considering that AliceSoft is actually bigger sales-vise and staff-vise, chances are pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:34:52 2015 No.13752738 >>13752729 Indeed, Umineko is a good one. I especially like that it's so LGBT-friendly.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:34:59 2015 No.13752739

>>13752726
What you'd get if anything, is Fortissimo EXS//Akkord:Nachsten Phase, the enhanced version (unless you get cucked, which would be funny).
https://vndb.org/v7595

That doesn't even have Cirtus mentioned as a developer on vndb. And if you check the official site, it only has Citrus as a small banner at the bottom. It also has Nitroplus banner too, might as well advertise it as a Nitro game eh?
http://cappuccino-soft.jp/lacryma-web/fortissimoexs/top.php

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:36:52 2015 No.13752743 >>13752733 Wait few months, I'll go ask Eushully.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:37:14 2015 No.13752745 >>13752737 Why was it that people were thinking AliceSoft would never partner with a western company, anyway? They said they weren't interested before or something? Didn't want to risk damaging their brand?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:41:15 2015 No.13752753

>>13752731
Yeah, but since MangaGamer is already partnered with Circus, the chance is higher. Why not?

>>13752739
They very well could. I guess it's just a matter of who goes for it first, MangaGamer or JAST. Saddest thing would be if Sekai Project randomly went for La'cryma, but I'd take it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:42:51 2015 No.13752758 >>13752745 Because their biggest property features an unapologetically rapist protagonist?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:44:30 2015 No.13752762 >>13752758 So?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:45:42 2015 No.13752764 >>13752745 They turned down JAST iirc

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:46:25 2015 No.13752765 >>13752762 Never heard of RapeLay?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:46:45 2015 No.13752767 >>13752745 Previous attempts to work with them ended in complete failure, they weren't even willing to discuss the matter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:48:00 2015 No.13752769 File: 53 KB, 450x750, vx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So how hyped are you for Tokyo Necro? http://tokyonecro-nitroplus.tumblr.com/

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:48:22 2015 No.13752770

>>13752758
Why do people assume Rance is something special and horrible?
On scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being vanilla and 10 deadly nightmare of pro-soc-femi-nazi, Rance is around 4, and things like euphoria, already licensed, translated and ready for release, around 7.5.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:49:07 2015 No.13752771 MG just needs to partner with CandySoft and translate GUN KNIGHT GIRL and Ane Yome Quartet.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:49:22 2015 No.13752772 >>13752769 Shimokura shit, wouldn't even pirate.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:49:41 2015 No.13752773 >>13752765 Just some drama that fizzled out like it was nothing. I don't see how that's relevant.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:49:57 2015 No.13752774 >>13752770 euphoria is obviously a niche extreme fetish thing though Rance is more mainstream than that and focuses mostly on light-hearted rape for fun

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:50:17 2015 No.13752775 >>13752772 Give Shimo-kun a chance. Although yeah, it would be much better if they kept Fukami as the writer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:51:46 2015 No.13752778 >>13752764 >>13752767 Ah, so it's that MangaGamer is a competent company and JAST isn't. How far we have come since the days of mustervation. Also, what game has the line "That crab is pretty awesome."?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:54:04 2015 No.13752785

>>13752770
Rance isn't that bad, it's true. But look at it from a kneejerk feminist perspective. It would be insanely easy to get people who haven't played it up in arms over it as a rape simulator. Not like there wasn't tons of worse stuff than RapeLay at the time, either.

>>13752773
It may not be a rational fear, but it doesn't change the fact that it still has some Japanese companies spooked to this day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:54:22 2015 No.13752786 >>13752733 If Haruka does well, I'm sure Eushully would jump on the train too. They are on very good terms with Alicesoft, and are paying attention to stuff they do.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:54:36 2015 No.13752788 >>13752770 What is a game that would be at 10?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:56:51 2015 No.13752795 >>13752785 I think it's weird that they even came across Rapelay when there were tons of sketchy actually translated VNs out there (yeah, I know Rapelay got translated after).

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:57:21 2015 No.13752796 >>13752786 Eushully doesn't have nukiges like Haruka.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:57:43 2015 No.13752798 >>13752788 Thats subjective, but if I would have to pick one, it would be 腐果の濡獄 for me. Black Cyc games are also good candidate.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 05:58:44 2015 No.13752800 >>13752796 Only if you mean that Eushully nukiges have lesser porn quality. Games like Himegari have even less story than Haruka.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:01:49 2015 No.13752808 >>13752795 Blame SA.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:04:08 2015 No.13752813 >>13752737 why are you typing with a german accent

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:05:31 2015 No.13752814 >>13752745 Ｊａｐａｎ　Ｏｎｌｙ

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:41:30 2015 No.13752875
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>>13752738
>I especially like that it's so LGBT-friendly.
If anything it suggests that being transsexual makes you crazy enough to murder an entire family and yourself believing you're both your mother and your grandmother and a 1000 year old witch simultaneously.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:44:55 2015 No.13752882 >>13752813 Gotta show German pride somehow.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:52:02 2015 No.13752890

>>13752875
Well, that's one interpretation, certainly. If you believe that Beatrice truly could have done it, which I don't. I also feel that there was plenty of other stuff about her circumstances that led to her insanity and being trans was simply incidental.

Also I've always wondered what that image is from but every time I reverse search it I only ever get 4chan posts and the like. Do you know?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 06:58:28 2015 No.13752897 >>13752890 Fucking newfag, it's Ako from Kissxsis.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 07:04:40 2015 No.13752901 >>13752808 Oh, I blame them for a lot. Just another one for the list, I suppose.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 07:08:28 2015 No.13752909

>>13752897
Like I would ever have had any reason to watch or read that. I've been around, that's just not one of the places I've been.

Still, I appreciate the information, I probably would not have recognized it as her even if I had watched the anime.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 07:10:41 2015 No.13752914 >>13752875 I believe the whole "losing your dick as a baby due to attempted murder" thing makes this particular instance subtly differ from most ordinary cases of transsexualism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 08:25:10 2015 No.13753060 >>13752909 Never ever admit something that embarrassing again please.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 08:53:54 2015 No.13753101

New drama involving the MangaGamer - Alicesoft partnership:

>Alicesoft wanted to release something older and MangaGamer asked for something newer, it’s not really Alicesoft that did it. I’m sure Alicesoft would not have much of a problem with releasing Rance VI. The major obstacle is that it’s a lower resolution game and MG is reluctant to release those, but I’ve brought it up plenty since and the guy in charge of licensing at MG says we can do it, so I’m holding them to that. They’re aware Rance has clout and VI is a major game, but from the first time I talked to them they said Haruka was their #1 target.
https://arunarutranslatescrap.wordpress.com/translations-and-progress/ (in the comments)

This contradicts what MangaGamer said at AX:
>21:56:41 <bay|AX|MangaGamer> Q: Negotiations to bring Rance over?
>21:57:08 <bay|AX|MangaGamer> A: As you may know, that's Alicesoft's most famous game, so of course that's what we wanted to do, but to test the waters of the english market, they do haruka first, and we thought it would be an interest title
>21:57:15 <bay|AX|MangaGamer> so buy lots of haruka, and we'll bring you rance

Maria denies this:
>Q: So Arunaru admitted that it was actually Mangagamer who pushed for Haruka. So Haruka sales mean bugger all in terms of Rance, which Mangagamer could have gotten if they wanted. Were you actually planning to tell us that?‎

>A: That's not true at all?
>
>Perhaps what he meant was that MangaGamer has always been interested in localizing Beat Blades Haruka, as we have always been interested in localizing as many Alicesoft games as we can.
>
>We have a list, and it's quite long. And Rance has always been the first item on the list. It's pretty silly to assume we wouldn't even try to get Rance when even the people at MG who have never played a Rance game think the series looks awesome.
http://ask.fm/TulipGoddess/answer/130781701579

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 08:59:12 2015 No.13753121 >>13753060 What's embarrassing about not wanting to watch some dumb incest anime. Isn't it more embarrassing to admit to having seen it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 08:59:13 2015 No.13753122 >>13753101 >lower resolution game and MG is reluctant to release those They did say the reason they were doing Gahkthun over the older steampunk games was because it was prettier and shinier.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:02:32 2015 No.13753128

>>13753101
Arunaru might be lying. Also the comments on that page are horrible, look at this shit:
>Sengoku rance is too easy to find in english so i thing never get out(but doest matter) rance 5d and 6 too old i thing for interest mangagamer but maibe in the futur it will end like olest alice game free game and if this hapening i hope you give translation or remake will out (probabily) and for the “new” rance i hope they will be translate ( if it case i will have this )

These are the people we are dealing with.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:02:53 2015 No.13753129

>>13753122
Just look at all those retards who are hyping Chrono Clock. That VN is absolutely terrible as far as plot, scenario and even ichaicha is conserned (you get credit rolls as soon as heroine confesses to protag, so there was no room for any proper act-as-couple events), yet just because it is released this year, its now super-masterpiece-best-thing-announced-ever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:03:52 2015 No.13753131 >>13753121 You don't even need to watch/read it to know what it is. The embarrassing part is you admitting you had no idea what that was from.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:04:02 2015 No.13753132 >>13753129 >Sekai Project >being retards You don't say.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:05:59 2015 No.13753134 >>13753131 How so? I have no interest in it so I'm not going to hang around people who do know it, and nobody brings up the name of the character when they use that image (and why would they?), so when would I have ever found out?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:06:20 2015 No.13753136 >>13753132 But that sentiment is shared among core MG userbase too, http://forums.mangagamer.org/viewtopic.php?p=15126#p15126 ChronoClock is pretty and shiny and new == best license. Himawari screenshots on vndb don't look shiny == no-name shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:06:44 2015 No.13753139 >>13753128 Fuck you for having made me read that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:08:18 2015 No.13753141 >>13753136 >And if Chrono Clock will sell well (which I'm fully convinced about), Hapymaher might be the next title Sekai license from Purple Software. I sure hope not, since they'll be stripping out the best part.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:08:35 2015 No.13753143 >>13753136 >MG userbase >retards You don't say.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:08:35 2015 No.13753144 >>13753136 >people on forums >being retards You don't say.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:08:40 2015 No.13753145 /a/ please.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:10:18 2015 No.13753152 >>13753143 Point is, its these retards who pay for stuff, so you have to consider their mindset when licensing things.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:10:46 2015 No.13753154 >>13753136 Also that's fucking ChaosRaven, of course he's saying retarded shit. Shouldn't view him as representative of "core MG userbase."

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:14:16 2015 No.13753164

>>13753139
You're welcome.

>Please sir, may I have some more?

I'd be happy to oblige.

"Hi there new guy here and I have a question and some coments.

I just played some rance games the older ones I didn’t like the artstle and gamplay were to outdated and and never got my hands on Rance VI and I see your working on that so yay for me and others.

But I have alredy played Sengoku Rance and wonder if you also will work on Rance Quest and Rance IX when your done with your othere works ofcourse.
Hop ypu will because I realy wants to know how things wil go with frozen Sill :,(

Hope you keep up the good work and I will be donating soon,
because I think everyone who is working on translations of this game series has died out and I’m very happy to someone whos still working on it.

Thanks for all the info I tried Kichikuou Rance but i could not go with it the game mechanic being to old and the lack of explenation of how to do stuff an become stronge."

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:17:04 2015 No.13753172 >>13753128 >>13753164 >>13753136 I thought MG customers would be more intelligent than this

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:18:16 2015 No.13753174 >>13753141 I don't think it's even really possible to make an all-ages version of Hapymaher, so it's probably safe.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:20:43 2015 No.13753183

>>13753136
>>13753154
What's disappointing about this thread, though, is not enough people calling him out on his retardation. Hell, he doesn't even respond to the translator that explains what it's actually about. 744 posts and he hasn't learned how to say "Sorry, I guess I was wrong"?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:22:18 2015 No.13753188 >>13753172 I'm honestly surprised they even play VNs. They give the impression of being the "reading is too long and boring" type.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:26:12 2015 No.13753197

>>13753101
I don't know who is lying, or who is telling the truth, but the one thing I know is that BBH is a very smart choice for MG.

Alicesoft is probably still very reluctant to work with the west, and sees this venture as a test. Rance06 might be very popular among the vocal community, but no one can really predict how much it'd sell as MG have never did a non-nukige game-play title before. Meanwhile, game-play nukige are their most bet-selling titles and they have charts to prove that.

In other words, BBH is a safe bet for MG to get on Alicesoft's good side, and get the games they actually want for real later with a lot less risk. Not to mention that being on the good side of a giant like Alicesoft means more potential interest from OTHER eroge developers as well.

They might've pissed a couple of entitled Rance fans, but this is a very smart strategy, and will probably benefit everyone, including Rance fans, in the long run.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:35:34 2015 No.13753216

>>13753197
Plus BBH is an awesome game anyway as well as something people have been asking for. It is a pretty big deal, it's just that the Rance drama is attempting to drown that out. But I think there are tons of people who will want BBH so it should do well.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:41:51 2015 No.13753226 >>13753197 >MG have never did a non-nukige game-play title before. Koihime Musou isn't a nukige. It's also their best selling game of all time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 09:56:16 2015 No.13753249 >>13753226 I doubt that. Source?.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:03:18 2015 No.13753263 >>13753249 MG's blog. They listed what their best sellers were as of January of this year, not including Steam sales.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:10:44 2015 No.13753272 >>13753101 Ahhh, delicious English scene drama. It never not happens.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:12:13 2015 No.13753276 >>13753272 There will always be drama as long as there's someone to stir it up. Doesn't even need to be any truth in it, you can tell any lie and someone out there will surely believe it, thus sparking the drama.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:15:13 2015 No.13753279 >>13753276 And MG forums seem to be full of retards.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:20:21 2015 No.13753292 >>13753226 Well, but it also wasn't an eleven years old game. Either way, they surely have much more trustworthy data from their nukige titles. And, as the other guy mentioned, BBH is a pretty cool game anyway.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:22:13 2015 No.13753294

>>13753129
>Chrono Clock. That VN is absolutely terrible as far as plot, scenario and even ichaicha is conserned (you get credit rolls as soon as heroine confesses to protag, so there was no room for any proper act-as-couple events),

Ooo, don't be so harsh, it's not so terrible. Just meh. The sudden endings are terrible though. The H scenes are still hot, even if they're separated. But I guess faggots that buy it on Steam don't get those.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:27:23 2015 No.13753308 >>13753294 Which has better endings, Chrono Clock or Comyu?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:27:54 2015 No.13753310 >>13753308 I didn't play Comyuu.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:30:28 2015 No.13753318 >>13753310 Damn, okay. Well, name something Chrono Clock has better endings than, then. Let's think positive.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:32:57 2015 No.13753325

>>13753294
Well, yes, if you judge game as whole, its "meh" (nice presentation, with all that animation and stuff, nice characters), I was calling "terrible" specific things about it.
I guess I hated most that it lured me with whole time loops stuff, and then they don't do anything meaningful with it, and moreover, theme of whole game is "true man doesn't need these tricks and can do everything with just guts".

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:33:14 2015 No.13753328 >>13753318 Vanitas no Hitsuji, I guess. That's the great VN everyone can tell is pretty much unfinished once you enter 個別 routes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:38:18 2015 No.13753336 >>13753325 >theme of whole game is "true man doesn't need these tricks and can do everything with just guts" That actually sounds like a pretty good theme to me. You think I'll like it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:41:04 2015 No.13753342 >>13753318 TV series Lost? You're not giving us many options here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:48:09 2015 No.13753347 >>13753336 No, because "story" involving that shit is about 30 minutes long in each route.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:56:56 2015 No.13753369 >>13753342 WTF are you talking about?! Lost's ending was was EPIC!!!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 10:59:31 2015 No.13753375 >>13753249 >>13753263 Actually, it's from an ask.fm response from the MangaGamerStaff account posted 5 months ago. The nukige gameplay titles are on it too, but Koihime Musou has the top spot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:02:30 2015 No.13753380 >>13753375 Whose Ask.fm is >>13749942 from?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:05:08 2015 No.13753384 >>13753101 The dude didn't even know about MG and Alicesoft until the exact same moment we did. I rather believe Maria.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:09:58 2015 No.13753393 >>13753380 http://ask.fm/TulipGoddess/answer/130875186891

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:20:01 2015 No.13753419

>>13753197
I don't blame MangaGamer for choosing BBH over a Rance game (in fact, I don't care about either). What bothers me is how they played the 'buy our shitty games and we'll bring you better games, we can't get you the good games directly unfortunately' card once again, and this time we have proof it's bullshit. They intentionally went for BBH instead of Rance, then lied to the community about being forced to take BBH while they really totally wanted to do Rance immediately. We have to buy their games, otherwise Rance is truly impossible for them!

You guys keep complaining about how Dovac lies to customers, but how is this any better? Or is it okay this time because it's MangaGamer and MG totally is doing everything for our best interests and not just because they're a company trying to make money?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:23:52 2015 No.13753429 >>13753384 Are you talking about Arunaru? Given that he's the translator in charge of BBH, I highly doubt that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:24:03 2015 No.13753430 >>13753419 > we have proof it's bullshit You only have unclear verbal statement of someone, who cannot know how exactly negotiations went. That's not "proof" of anything.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:24:24 2015 No.13753431 >>13753419 Well, in Dovac's case there's proof of his bullshit. In MangaGamer's it's just a bunch of he-said-she-said. Literally all we have to go on are the words of one guy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:25:24 2015 No.13753434 >>13753419 Oh wait, this IS Dovac. You silly goose, you got me again.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:25:35 2015 No.13753436

>>13753419

Do we really need this /vg/ drama over here too? I get that you're buttblasted that over the mangagamer deal and all but damn son

>They intentionally went for BBH instead of Rance, then lied to the community about being forced to take BBH while they really totally wanted to do Rance immediately

more likely what happened was that mangagamer approached with rance quest, got declined, and picked haruka as their backup plan

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:25:54 2015 No.13753439 >>13753419 Can't you blame Alicesoft for this? It is well known that Japanese companies like to do this. They won't give you their best games until you can sell their lesser games first. BBH isn't even bad so you could say it was a good compromise.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:28:15 2015 No.13753444 >>13753429 Read the comments in the Alicesoft announcement. He didn't really know what was going on.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:28:18 2015 No.13753445 [SPOILER]

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Personally I don't trust Arunaru because his name sounds a lot like Aroduc so he might actually just be Aroduc. Fuck you Aroduc, Cross Ange is the best. Peace out, bitches.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:28:45 2015 No.13753447 >>13753439 You're shifting the blame on Japanese companies without proof in the same way he's trying to pin it on MangaGamer without proof.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:29:29 2015 No.13753454 >>13753445 Can you please just give it a rest already?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:30:16 2015 No.13753457 >>13753454 My love for Ange will never rest.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:30:16 2015 No.13753458 >>13753447 You mean you didn't believe Maria when she said she wanted Rance first? Ok, dude.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:30:38 2015 No.13753459 >>13753447 evospace, the guy who is actually doing negotiations and the only guy who knows what did other side say, publicly stated at panel that it was alicesoft who pushed Haruka. His words have much more weight than Arunaru's.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:32:21 2015 No.13753469

>>13753459
So where the fuck did Arunaru even get this? I thought he was one of the good ones, now it turns out he's just more scum trying to make Mangagamer look bad for not immediately providing the community with free English patches for every single Rance game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:34:39 2015 No.13753472 >>13753469 > So where the fuck did Arunaru even get this? Who knows? I bet it was very long chain of whispering. evospace to kouryuu, kouryuu to gh or maria, and so on till it reached arunaru's ears.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:36:06 2015 No.13753477

>>13753469
I don't think he's deliberately trying to slander MG, but he stated on the day of AX that he was unhappy that BBH was picked over Rance, maybe he's just venting and said something stupid.
If he really didn't like MG he wouldn't have taken the job on BBH.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:37:18 2015 No.13753481

>>13753469

I doubt that.

What I imagine happened was that, given that these negotiations only finally really got under way five months ago, was that rance 6 was never actually on mangagamer's radar(remember, aru was involved with all of this until about last month) and that mangagamer initially wanted to translate rance quest. Alicesoft wouldn't give up rance quest, so they picked haruka.

Therefore, he's correct in that mangagamer picked haruka over rance 6, but I doubt it was done with malice in mind rather than not going back to the beginning and renegotiating.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:38:32 2015 No.13753484

>>13753458
Uh yeah. Because all that trust once placed in Maria has definitely lived up to expectations, amirite?
Arunaru has delivered on his promises far more frequently than Maria has, and so I'm more inclined to place my faith in him.

>>13753459
evospace represents MG. I assume they're smart enough to realize that announcing BBH as their first choice would have sent the legions of Rance autists into fits. Ergo, I'm going to take anything he says on behalf of MG with a grain of salt.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:38:42 2015 No.13753485 >>13753481 >remember, aru was involved with all of this until about last month was not*

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:39:55 2015 No.13753488 >>13753484 I rather not read what Rance autists such as yourself have to say.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:42:43 2015 No.13753494 Not like anything is lost from playing Rance without an English patch anyway. Just a stupid guy having sex with everything, wow so exciting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:45:17 2015 No.13753499 >>13753484 >Arunaru has delivered on his promises far more frequently than Maria has, and so I'm more inclined to place my faith in him. And he has also said that rance is contingent on haruka's success what now?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:45:43 2015 No.13753501 >>13753494 Please don't lower yourself to shitposting.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:46:45 2015 No.13753504

>>13753494
I tend to agree with this. Granted, when ignoring the R-18 portion, most Rance games have rather good gameplay for what they are, *porn games*. But that's all there is to it - if you're looking for actually good games, there's a million to choose from. And if you're just in for the sex, I believe a nukige will be a much better fit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:48:01 2015 No.13753508 File: 95 KB, 1136x640, ss_557fa66ae502bc8c020ed2f6be96e97cea79d7d6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ha, this new VN that just showed up on Steam reminds me of the drama.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:48:49 2015 No.13753511

>>13753419
>13753419
Even if MG wasn't forced into picking Haruka by Alicesoft, it was still forced upon them by circumstance (Alicesoft stating that if this game fails they are not giving anything else).

You can't bet your future with your biggest new partner on an eleven years old game with no relevant sales data to predict its success. Don't you think it would've been ten times easier for them to take an almost translated game from Arunaru, than force him into doing another one from scratch? Why'd they make their lives harder for no reason? If Alicesoft wasn't pressuring them, they could've released Rance 06 first, and then start working on BBH anyway.

>>13753459

I bet there is plenty of miscommunication regarding the matter, and both Maria and Arunaru are only speculating from the crumbs they got from Evospace who's the only one who really knows the situation. I doubt anyone is intentionally lying here (what would be their motive even?).

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:49:56 2015 No.13753515

>>13753499
What what now? He's toeing the same line as MG. It's likely true, since the BBH deal is already signed in ink. If it fails, AS will probably be considerably less willing to offer up its IPs for future licensing.

I'm not sure what you're asking me here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:50:43 2015 No.13753516 >>13753511 Because BBH is a really good game and if Rance fails it ruins the image of the ENTIRE RANCE SAGA. Meanwhile BBH stands on its own so there's nothing to lose comparatively.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:51:51 2015 No.13753519

>>13753515
>What bothers me is how they played the 'buy our shitty games and we'll bring you better games, we can't get you the good games directly unfortunately' card once again, and this time we have proof it's bullshit.

It's bullshit, yet all parties involved are saying it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:53:44 2015 No.13753523 >>13753519 Hell, even people uninvolved would say that. It makes a lot of sense to people who don't know (or should anyway) and I've been through it myself with my company.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:54:03 2015 No.13753525 Can't we all just agree that dovac is shit?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:54:11 2015 No.13753526

>>13753494
>>13753504
I guess it's not a popular opinion, but I feel the same way. Rance games aren't particularly good as games (they're alright but nothing special), and they're not particularly good for the story, and definitely not for the porn either. Frankly, I don't know what people see in the series.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:54:13 2015 No.13753527 >>13753519 That's not even my quote? This is me: >>13753447 Notice the use of the third person to refer to the poster that you quoted: >he's trying to pin it on MangaGamer without proof

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:56:03 2015 No.13753534 >>13753511 Even if they didn't need to pick Haruka, it's still unlikely they would have gotten Rance at their first game. If you cross Rance off the list, Haruka is probably the most likely in their catalog to generate interest and sales.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:56:20 2015 No.13753536 >>13753527 Then what exactly are you arguing about if you agree that MG has been forced to sell Haruka instead of Rance?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:56:37 2015 No.13753537 >>13753526 If I had to guess it's because it's essentially a one-stop shop for both decent sex and decent gameplay at the same time. It also has pretty damn good music.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:56:43 2015 No.13753538

>>13753516
Why would Alicesoft even care about the image of their series in the west? It's not like they're actively pressing for that market. Since they're only offering BBH, a game that is so old already that they can't even hope to make a single cent from it in Japan anymore, this is a pretty good indicator that they don't really care for sales outside of their territory. Look at it this way: Say a Japanese company was approaching Bioware and asks to license the Mass Effect series for translation/sale in Japan. But Bioware only agrees to sell Icewind Dale at first. Doesn't that look completely illogical? Everyone with half a brain can see that the deal is doomed from the start, because only hardcore fans will be interested that game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:56:51 2015 No.13753539 >>13753527 Unfortunately that third person reference is also outside of that post Such is life when talking to yourself on an anonymous imageboard

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:58:23 2015 No.13753542 >>13753538 Haruka is more like baldur's gate in this analogy

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 11:59:26 2015 No.13753545

Rance also became memetic on /v/ thanks to what might be described as "le edgy rapeman." Around the time Sengoku Rance got its patch, the scene was still pretty small and MangaGamer was useless, so that made it easy for it to gain an abnormal amount of attention from casual VN players, because there wasn't much else to choose from.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:01:00 2015 No.13753549 >>13753538 In that case, maybe Alicesoft is actually intentionally trying to kill its western prospects and decided BBH would be a worthy sacrifice. A shame, but getting BBH out of it isn't a bad thing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:01:05 2015 No.13753551 >>13753538 Fuck yeah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRv8bqeR_T4

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:02:55 2015 No.13753559 >>13753551 I thought corpse fucking was illegal

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:03:12 2015 No.13753560 I mean, it's not like Rance games are hard to understand without Japanese knowledge anyway. You can just wing it and you'll be fine, all you need is the gameplay and the pictures. Fuck the story.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:04:17 2015 No.13753563 >>13753549 Yes, they'd go with a game that is most likely to succeed sales-wise precisely because of that. Amazing reasoning.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:05:20 2015 No.13753568 >>13753563 >most likely to succeed Or is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlF46tZiQo

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:05:42 2015 No.13753570

>>13753536
I don't agree with that either.

It's all in my previous post: neither of these positions have any solid proof to support them.
This is what I said:
• I'm not going to automatically discount what Arunaru says. In fact, I'm more inclined to believe him than Maria.
• evospace's words can't be taken at face value since he speaks on behalf of MG and would therefore have a conflict of interest if Arunaru's claims are true (about them going for BBH first).

At this point, I would only trust Alicesoft's word on who pushed for BBH.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:06:49 2015 No.13753573 Oh shit, this game fits with this situation too. http://store.steampowered.com/app/373390/ It's like they're watching us.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:06:59 2015 No.13753574

>>13753551
This isn't really related to the thread, but I despise that company for trying to make money with our fond memories. What they are doing is just tacking on a bit of additional content, then expect us to believe it will be as good as the original. Disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:07:05 2015 No.13753575 >>13753570 So, what then is your reasoning that MG won't go for Rance instead then?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:07:28 2015 No.13753578

>>13753538
> so old already that they can't even hope to make a single cent from it in Japan anymore
> Bioware only agrees to sell Icewind Dale
You are so fucking retarded that you cannot even check vndb before posting this nonsense?
AliceSoft reprinted Haruka in end of 2014, only 7 months ago and it sold out.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:08:31 2015 No.13753584

>>13753511
>You can't bet your future with your biggest new partner on an eleven years old game with no relevant sales data to predict its success. Don't you think it would've been ten times easier for them to take an almost translated game from Arunaru, than force him into doing another one from scratch? Why'd they make their lives harder for no reason? If Alicesoft wasn't pressuring them, they could've released Rance 06 first, and then start working on BBH anyway.

Again, I'm not blaming MG for choosing BBH over Rance. It's the logical choice. The problem is...

>21:57:08 <bay|AX|MangaGamer> A: As you may know, that's Alicesoft's most famous game, so of course that's what we wanted to do, but to test the waters of the english market, they do haruka first, and we thought it would be an interest title
>21:57:15 <bay|AX|MangaGamer> so buy lots of haruka, and we'll bring you rance

>of course that's what we wanted to do
>to test the waters of the english market, they do haruka first, and we thought it would be an interest title

These are blatant lies. They didn't pick up BBH because Alicesoft pushed for it, they picked up BBH because they considered it a better choice than Rance, knowing fans would want Rance instead. Then they used this lie to get people to buy more BBH:
>so buy lots of haruka, and we'll bring you rance
The very strong implication here is that due to no fault of MangaGamer, Rance is inaccessible unless BBH sells well enough. Which is complete bullshit: MG was able to get Rance from the start, but they didn't want to risk it.

>I doubt anyone is intentionally lying here (what would be their motive even?).
Their motive is to get Rance fans who are entirely uninterested in BBH to buy BBH in hopes of getting Rance later. This is common behavior in this community; I'm sure many even here will admit they've bought shitty games in the past to support localizers in hopes of getting better games. I've even fallen for it myself before.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:09:09 2015 No.13753588 >>13753578 So what, they could as well have printed 100 copies.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:09:10 2015 No.13753589 >>13753575 Haruka fits the profile of what Mangagamer customers buy more than Rance VI does

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:09:27 2015 No.13753590 >>13753584 > These are blatant lies Proof?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:12:49 2015 No.13753602 >>13753584 This sounds like the dovac method of getting games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:13:48 2015 No.13753604 >>13753590 You're expecting a lot from rance shitposters.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:14:34 2015 No.13753607

>>13753584
>I'm sure many even here will admit they've bought shitty games in the past to support localizers in hopes of getting better games.

I cannot think of a single time when I have done this. If I buy a game, I want that game. If I'm not sure, I pirate it, as I will be doing for BBH. What were you foolish enough to do this for?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:14:44 2015 No.13753608 >>13753602 Seems to work out just fine for both of them. There will always be people with too much money.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:15:51 2015 No.13753612 >>13753608 Too bad MG has too much dignity to kickstart Rance.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:16:13 2015 No.13753616

>>13753584
>MG was able to get Rance from the start, but they didn't want to risk it.

No one, even Arunaru, is claiming that they COULD've gotten Rance though (which I highly doubt, at least not Quest).

And I still think BBH is the right decision that will end up netting us more Rance in the future.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:16:28 2015 No.13753618

I think it's fairly obvious what happened.

Mangagamer (Arunaru isn't an employee just yet but has some idea that they're negotiating something) approaches Alicesoft and wants the newer Rance games - either Quest or Rance 01.

They're too new and Alicesoft says no. We'll give you something older.

Mangagamer know that Haruka is a very highly rated nukige and fits their market perfectly. They also know fuck all about Rance because none of them have played it and view Rance VI as an old game with shitty resolution.

So they decide to push for Haruka rather than the 88.4% translated Rance VI. Now that they're only squibbling with MG over the actual game they feel comfortable bringing Arunaru on board.

Haruka is old enough for Alicesoft to be willing to give it up and Mangagamer happily take it.

This scenario fits with pretty much everything everyone has said and also takes into account that Arunaru is the only one who has specified Rance VI the individual game as opposed to Rance the series

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:17:30 2015 No.13753620

>>13753584
>These are blatant lies.

Literally the only "proof" against it is aru saying that haruka was chosen over rance 6.

Given that maria pushed for this deal, I highly highly doubt that mangagamer approached without even asking about rance. In my mind, the simplest explanation is that they asked for Rance Quest or Rance 01 and got told they were too new, and then settled for haruka.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:17:47 2015 No.13753622

>>13753575
I'm not saying MG definitely didn't push for Rance first, but IF they did actually have free pick and took BBH first, it could have been for one or more of the following reasons:
• BBH is newer and shinier than Rance VI, ergo more attractive to MG's casual (paying) audience
• BBH will take less effort to translate than Rance Quest or Rance IX (ROI is king, after all)
• Sengoku Rance is out of the question due to the amount of time the fantranslation has been out in the wild (also possibly due to the amount of work involved in retranslating it)
• Using the Rance series as a hostage to drive BBH sales (debatable, but not impossible. After all, they have in the past released second-tier games from other developers with the promise of licensing their best offerings if they sell well. e.g Lilith) They usually claim this is forced on them by Japanese companies, but I'm taking this claim with a grain of salt.
• Plain old stupidity (Hanlon's razor)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:18:35 2015 No.13753625 >>13753618 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxGHvoK9XI

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:20:56 2015 No.13753630

Here, I'll tell you how it went.

MG approached Alicesoft who didn't want to deal with gaijin.
MG asked for anything just to get in the door with Alicesoft
Alicesoft gave them Haruka

The end. Fuck off back to rance general with your conspiracies and betrayals and shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:22:33 2015 No.13753632 >>13753630 Most likely scenario.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:23:47 2015 No.13753636 Haruka is so cute.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:26:24 2015 No.13753641

>>13753630
But if that's the case, why Haruka when they could've just given them a real stinker like Shaman's Sanctuary and actually made back a bit of money off it from the licensing fees without any further risk of cannibalizing their own domestic market?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:32:53 2015 No.13753650

>>13753641
Because they're reasonable but wary. They're picking a title that is old enough not to be reverse imported, but modern enough to sell, and is rated highly in regards to it's fappability.
It's the perfect thing to test the water and has the best chance to sell to Mangagamer's customers.

If they didn't want to deal with gaijin they just wouldn't have, rather than deliberately bombing. It would have impacted their image in Japan and probably cost them time and money.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:37:06 2015 No.13753657

>>13753650
>MG approached Alicesoft who didn't want to deal with gaijin.
>If they didn't want to deal with gaijin they just wouldn't have
Well did they or didn't they?

And do you seriously think a presumably uncensored version of BBH won't be reverse-imported when the censored version still moving numbers in Japan to this day? Seems unlikely to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:39:55 2015 No.13753663 >>13753657 You're probably talking to two different people. Also, what was censored?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:45:21 2015 No.13753682

>>13753657
Of course there will probably be some people who reverse import, but not anything damaging. It's a 7 year old game that had a low price reprint half a year ago, you can't really expect any more saturation that it already has, so anyone reverse importing would probably be income they wouldn't get otherwise, since it would most likely be people who already own it and are buying a second copy, or people who wouldn't have bought it in Japan in the first place.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:50:17 2015 No.13753702

I have never even once understood the reverse import argument. Shit's in a language they don't understand, and they'd have to go through all the bullshit required for buying and shipping a game that's years old to end up saving barely more than a few bucks. Where is this legion of English literate eroge patrons who only buy things five years after the fact and only in a foreign language that is such a deadly threat to the eroge market? It's not like people in the US reverse import shit from Brazil or China because it's cheaper there.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:50:37 2015 No.13753706 File: 25 KB, 123x118, sohot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13753663 This.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:51:40 2015 No.13753710 >>13753706 What is that, a puppy or something?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:52:35 2015 No.13753716 >>13753702 It's not just the price, it's the fucking censorship.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:53:16 2015 No.13753720 >>13753630 In reality, Alicesoft wanted to start farther back in their catalog (but not with Rance), so Mangagamer met partway with Haruka.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:53:44 2015 No.13753724 >>13753716 This will come as a surprise to you, but it's quite easy to find uncensored vaginas and penises online whenever the fuck you want, even in Japan.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:55:07 2015 No.13753728 >>13753720 They should have started with Atlach-Nacha. I want Atlach-Nacha to be in English.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:56:45 2015 No.13753737 >>13753724 Are you just being facetious or are you really this retarded? Your phrasing seems to imply the latter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 12:59:20 2015 No.13753753 Will Maria still be working on the English patch for Pastel Chime: Learning to Love?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:00:39 2015 No.13753760 >>13753753 No, she sold her soul to martian reptiloids and as part of deal she now has to wait 10 years before she translates it again.

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:01:57 2015 No.13753763

>>13753618
Mangagamer's top sellers are predominantly higher quality nukige, games that have an ero anime, or games with gameplay. Haruka meets all three of those in spades. If Rance were off the table, it would be the smartest option. Heck even if they could have gone with Rance, it's still a smart move.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:04:38 2015 No.13753776 What makes this guy so certain that we'll never get Daiakuji?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:06:05 2015 No.13753785 >>13753542 Baldur's gate was damned good though. Jade empire maybe?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:07:23 2015 No.13753790 >>13753763 The real smartest option would've been Tsuma Shibori. I'm almost certain it outsold Haruka in Japan.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:08:50 2015 No.13753798 https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3cm55t/bittersweet_fools_english_translation_episode_1/ Apparently there's a partial translation patch for Minori's Bittersweet Fools now. Haven't tried it myself; no clue about quality and such.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:09:42 2015 No.13753800 >>13753785 Who says Haruka isn't damned good?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:10:54 2015 No.13753807 File: 135 KB, 300x300, A0u-kA-S1iKkgoSO5dno7ecaZvEqfWJHzjuyqu7EZOU.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13753798 Who are these two?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:12:38 2015 No.13753812 >>13753807 Main characters from some pleb VN that EOPs are drooling over

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:12:56 2015 No.13753814 >>13753807 Why are you even in this thread if you don't know who those two are?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:15:51 2015 No.13753823 >>13753807 Tragic Mary Sue and her onee-chan.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:17:48 2015 No.13753829 >>13753814 Why should he know characters from some random kusoge?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 13:37:38 2015 No.13753870

>>13753798
>Now I know the translation is not the best, nor is the wording. But I'm not an english teacher so I'm not entire sure how all the dialog should flow, but that's what feedback is for. I'd love to hear what you guys think about the game and the translation.

Sounds like a good translation?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 14:58:07 2015 No.13754091

>>13753702

Games get reverse imported plenty. You should check 2ch threads for recent-ish games (and anime too) localized in the US. The NTY 2ch threads were full of people talking about how they wanted to get their hands on the English version to "learn English." The uncensored art is usually the main concern regarding reverse-import for VN developers.

Anime definitely has a sizeable contingent of cheap nerds who seek out US releases because they're a less expensive means of buying/viewing a show (seriously check yahoo japan auctions, anything scarce or pricy is going to have a shitton of cheap US releases flooding the listings).

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 15:40:23 2015 No.13754196 >>13753525 Everything is shit. Him, MG, Jast, and everything else.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 19:51:29 2015 No.13755181 So, some guy decided to start a fan-translation of ImoPara 2 http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/10845-imouto-paradise-2-translation/ http://regulatorsoftware.com/current-works.html

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 20:54:35 2015 No.13755364

>>13755181

If you're a fuwatard you should probably tell him that he emailed mangagamer while their mailserver was dead.

Though to be honest, I don't think he'll work well with them, given that he seems to be a "project lead" and nothing else, also known as "dead weight".

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 21:25:02 2015 No.13755474 MG has 5 games to announce at Otakon, 2 of which are from new partners. Also, at least one of the new partners isn't a nukige company. http://mangagamer.org/announcements/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 21:53:32 2015 No.13755553 >>13755474 Haro's twitting at maria makes me wonder if maybe alivez is happening

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 22:02:06 2015 No.13755573 >>13755553 Really? I just thought that maria was pumped because her secret project is finally getting revealed at Otakon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 22:06:08 2015 No.13755583 >>13755474 I'm going to laugh if MG manage to get a nitro+ license. It's probably going to be an older title, if anything, though. I'm thinking Gekkou no Carnevale or earlier.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 22:09:12 2015 No.13755596 >>13755553 AliveZ is one of the worst Alicesoft's games. I doubt MG would ever touch it, and especially not now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 22:18:27 2015 No.13755622 >>13755596 We're talking about the same mangagamer that decided harukoi was worth investing in, right? And in this instance, the work's already offered and done, so

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 22:21:03 2015 No.13755632 >>13755596 Is the game really that bad, or just nothing special?

Anonymous Fri Jul 10 22:29:29 2015 No.13755670

What's up with fantranslators translating games from MG's partner companies lately? First, there's Rattan Man who translated Taimanin Murasaki and is currently translating a secret project likely to be another Black Lilith game based on his comments. Now, a new group called Regulator Software is starting an Imouto Paradise 2 translation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 23:23:15 2015 No.13755858 >>13755632 Well, everyone's calling it a kusoge and kitai hazure on egs. It's also ranked #4339 out of total 4779 games with over 20 votes there. So yeah, I imagine it's pretty bad.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 23:46:14 2015 No.13755940 >>13755670 MG is too lax when it comes to protecting their partners IP so everyone is abusing it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 23:54:26 2015 No.13755961 >>13755181 Uh, why? MangaGamer's obviously going to be doing that soon enough. Not that it matters, this project will be dead pretty quickly without their help.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 23:56:38 2015 No.13755973 >>13755858 If it's so bad, why would someone translate it? You can't always trust average scores. Sometimes people have no idea what they're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 23:58:55 2015 No.13755983 >>13755973 Why did necrosis translate dustmania? They do it because they can, availability of fantl doesn't imply any kind of quality.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 10 23:59:32 2015 No.13755985 >>13755961 He emailed Kouryuu (lead translator) and Doddler (lead programmer) about the possibility of working with MG on the project, but as of his last post he hadn't received a reply.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 00:17:31 2015 No.13756032 >>13755985 So? Why would they respond to some scrub like him, even assuming they'd seen his e-mail? He brings literally nothing of value to the table.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 00:19:03 2015 No.13756038 >>13755181 "YESSSSSSSSSSSS WE NEEEDS THIS the first game was god's gift to humanity, I'm sure this is jesuse's gift towords me <hype mode engage> hype on"

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 00:24:33 2015 No.13756048 >>13755973 That translator's previous project was Koi iro Chu! Lips. He is either a troll or off his rocker.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 01:08:31 2015 No.13756179

>>13756048
Perhaps he can simply see the good in everything. Personally I think it's great that he's translating stuff nobody would even have thought to touch. It may not be the best but it's interesting to be able to experience it.

Following this pattern, I wonder what his third project is gonna turn out to be.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 01:41:19 2015 No.13756271 File: 51 KB, 715x651, shocking.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 01:45:15 2015 No.13756277 >>13756271 Wow, I was expecting more nukige to make up for the lack of them at AX. That's good news, then. Haruka is enough for me. I don't need shit like "Busty Bitches: How to Milk These Cows" or whatever.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 01:58:55 2015 No.13756304 >>13756277 > Busty Bitches: How to Milk These Cows I need this.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 05:05:50 2015 No.13756714

Wow, there's a faggot making troll threads on VNDB and fuwanovel about MG preventing the Rance series from being localized. He also says that Haruka is a relatively unknown nukige.
I hope he realizes that many people will take what he says at face value and give a lot of shit to MG while being utterly ignorant.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 05:23:45 2015 No.13756750 >>13756714 It was supposed to be ironical, cut him some slack.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 05:33:10 2015 No.13756766

>>13756750
That's exactly what he's saying, this guy making ironic posts is going to convince idiots to be even bigger idiots. As if there wasn't enough trouble already.

Well, the only way to counter this is with positive propaganda. Just last night I saw Doddler kissing babies. Wait, that's going to make things worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 05:34:40 2015 No.13756769 >>13756766 Tbh, I don't think it can get any worse after that Arunaru's post.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 08:06:42 2015 No.13757017

>>13756769
Sure it can get worse. Did you know MangaGamer got into a partnership with Alicesoft to stop JAST from acquiring the Rance licenses? MangaGamer doesn't want Rance to be released in the west because they're afraid it would cause too much of a backlash, so they went ahead and got into a partnership with Alicesoft so it becomes harder for others to release the Rance games. Naturally, they have no intention of doing so themselves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 08:13:31 2015 No.13757029 File: 933 KB, 1329x1869, Alicesoft EGS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13755553 This should show why AliveZ won't be localised

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 08:31:00 2015 No.13757071 >>13757029 Man, people release bad games all the time. Have you looked at the Steam store page lately? They've got a translation already, all they need to do is negotiate. It's free money, guaranteed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 08:32:59 2015 No.13757074 >>13757029 Also who's the retard that wrote those notes?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 09:01:12 2015 No.13757131 >>13757029 Did you type up this spreadsheet yourself? I hope you feel suitably embarrassed. Also, >implying bad games don't get localized all the time regardless

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 09:11:08 2015 No.13757146 Look at how low Little Princess is, and it still got a translation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 09:11:33 2015 No.13757147 >>13757029 I know not being an asshole is a faux pas on /jp/, but that spreadsheet is pretty cool.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 10:32:02 2015 No.13757315

https://twitter.com/tulipgoddess/status/619684792376754176
>: >
>Are you sure you're not going to explode before ota? lol
>Maybe I should take a break from twitter......
So, one of MG announcements is a title Maria really like. If memory serves, Maria really likes Yurirei so perhaps we have more yuri on the way

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 10:34:24 2015 No.13757323 >>13757315 To those curious http://ask.fm/TulipGoddess/answer/126151702475 >I'm reeeally hoping we can get Okujou no Yurirei-san since I've been playing it lately and it's honestly a much better game than Flowers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 10:50:52 2015 No.13757359 File: 79 KB, 1280x720, RUB IT DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN DUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUNDUN.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13757315 >>13757323 The yuri fiend here. That is an excellent sign, I really hope that's what it is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 11:10:41 2015 No.13757395 >>13757029 Can I get a copy of this spreadsheet?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 11:22:28 2015 No.13757415 Fuck, I'm nervous about the Otakon announcements. Because I don't want to see some great VNs lost to EOPs. Take some third-rate nukiges.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 11:23:30 2015 No.13757417

>>13757395
it's not my speadsheet. Somebody posted it on the Alicesoft general when discussing what games he thought would get localized.

Green = Already Translated
Yellow = In translation though AliveZ's translation was officially stopped shortly afterwards
Orange = Partially translated or machine translated
Light Blue = Pretty good chance of getting localised one day
Darker Blue = It's possible that it may get localised one day

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 11:58:28 2015 No.13757533 >>13757415 Shut up, autist. We're getting five non-nukige titles. Deal with it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:13:27 2015 No.13757591 Otakon predictions: Dies Irae Muramasa Baldr Sky Albatross Bullet Butlers

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:37:00 2015 No.13757687 >>13757591 Can confirm at least one of those is coming.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:54:00 2015 No.13757747 >>13757591 >>13757687 I can confirm that at least six of those are coming.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 13:10:15 2015 No.13757787 >>13757323 So much salt in that post.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 13:13:56 2015 No.13757797 >>13757687 Bullet Butlers if the rumor that MG partnered with Propeller is true.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 14:27:17 2015 No.13758072

Call me crazy, but I've been kinda disappointed by announcements this season. Focus on story titles has been cool, but I'd like some good looking new nukige.
The art-style of Kuroinu doesn't really do it for me, though Haruka might be decent.
Where's Imouto Paradise 2 announcement? All the new Clockup titles? Partnerships with companies like Orcsoft?
Hell, even JAST isn't doing anything with their partnership with Empress or Crowd.

I just want nukige with good art. At least Mikan is looking decent.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 14:29:25 2015 No.13758078 >>13757797 Is Bullet Butlers that good? From propeller I heard good things from Kitto and Evolimit but never heard anything from Bullet Butlers. But I have to say that looking at other VNs Propeller released they seem pretty damn good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 14:33:01 2015 No.13758090 >>13758072 Anon, trust me. Based MG will deliver. MG seems to want to announce on AX and Otakon story titles and announce nukige on other occasions. I actually agree with their method.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 14:33:08 2015 No.13758091 >>13758072 We wouldn't see anything Jast announces this year until 2018 or so anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 14:43:47 2015 No.13758134 JAST just announced Baldr Sky at Comic-Con.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 14:46:05 2015 No.13758141 >>13758134 No, JAST announces Kara no Shoujo 3.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 14:48:03 2015 No.13758146 It's going to be the accursed Aiyoku no Eustia.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 15:03:34 2015 No.13758191 >>13758146 A fitting license for JAST.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 15:32:12 2015 No.13758280 >>13758146 But that game is already not being released, what would be the point of JAST picking it up?

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 16:14:45 2015 No.13758403
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>>13757146
Little Princess was very badly translated by someone who spent years lying about other games and eventually had a complete psychotic breakdown where he claimed to have severe mental problems and brain damage.

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