Anime Central Announcements

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Anime Central is upon us and so are a bunch of announcements from the different Visual Novel localizers.

I figured we might as well have a thread about this because >>15234587 has hit bump limit.

The schedules as anon >>15261695 said (Central US time):
Visual Arts - 4:00-5:30pm
Sekai Project - 5:30-7:00pm
MangaGamer - 9:00-10:30pm

MangaGamer has teased six announcements and Sekai Project two. One of MangaGamer announcements is Fatamorgana fandisc as they stealth-announced on the game itself.

Remember to not expect great things. Even if the companies say they have big announcements, at best be cautiously optimistic.

The pic was the best I could find

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Template if you want to write your predictions.

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>>15262532
>Fatamorgana fandisc
Dude, I'm already hyped

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Visual Arts panel ongoing, from twitter thus far


>VisualArts panel: announced that Clannad side-story will be out on Steam in a couple weeks.
>VisualArts panel: "Jun Maeda said there's more he wants to do with Charlotte, so there's going to be more."

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>>15263367
Who is tweeting it?

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>>15263367
>"Jun Maeda said there's more he wants to do with Charlotte, so there's going to be more."

I hope he will announce a visual novel this time. The anime was really bad because Maeda can't into anime but i felt that Charlotte can be a nice read in visual novel format.

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>>15263371
https://twitter.com/invalidname

Those are from him, though unfortunately he isn't posting much.

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>>15263372
Like Angel Beats, right? Beat 2 never ever.

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vntls hit the bump limit but isn't the last thread on page ten, so it would probably have been fine.

I suppose it doesn't really matter too much though

>>15263371

https://twitter.com/invalidname/

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>>15263378
Angel Beats anime wasn't as bad as Charlotte though.

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>>15263367

As they're taking questions now, the answer to "Will Visual Arts announce anything?" seems to be a No.

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>>15263407
yes it was. angel beats was a fucking disaster. If it just stayed as a comedy it would have been fine but the final episode ruined the pacing and show entirely.

Atleast with charolette there was buildup to what was happening in the real world with the main plot. The ending was rushed and really out of place but atleast it made sense.

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>>15263434
I wouldn't say "ruined the show" but yeah i never really liked Kanade so the romance was pretty boring. Yurippe was much more interesting.

The buildup was too rushed, 1-cour is not enough to build a huge setting like Maeda wanted to. Not only the ending, everything felt really out of place.

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>>15263407
Angel beats was good until they killed best girl in episode 6. It could be a good goofy anime but Maeda killed it with the Key's Feels Train.
Charlotte at least make sense in the world and with the things that happen until the "big twist" with the 10th episode.

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pizza imouto was pretty good in charlotte. I really don't want more of the series unless its in a different perspective with all new characters. We all know that if the series kept going it would have had NTR with the protags older brother and Nao.

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>>15263480
It could be interesting if it just explores what Yuu does after he gains all the powers, there's definitely potential for some really solid stories there.
I don't think the overall narrative really needs to be stretched or that other routes need to exist, either. The anime wasn't great but it seemed to explore most of what it wanted to, unlike Angel Beats which had a large cast and seemed like it could really do with being expanded. Charlotte was really strangely paced where it felt way too slow in the middle in spite of it having so few episodes. Angel Beats always felt rushed and like it was moving at a pace faster than the story could keep up with.
Well, I don't really hate Charlotte but I am pretty indifferent towards seeing it get new media.

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>VisualArts panel: re: Angel Beats VN in English: "it's planned."

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>>15263523
I can see them taking the fan translation.

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SP panel is currently on.

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>>15263555

Anyone twitting it? I don't see any.

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>>15263581
Bet no one has showed up.

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>>15263589
With all the redditards backing up SP on the internet ? Don't worry they will show up.

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>>15263581
@invalidname

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>>15263555
Looks like it is running late, the guy from the Key panel is there so we should get announcements at least.

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>>15263589
It's SP, their panel is probably going to start 30 minutes late.

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>>15263555

Technical difficulties

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>>15263581
They are 30 minute late!

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Any announcements at the Visual Arts panel?

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>>15263614
Funny when you know that they can't manage their projects and are always late for the deadlines.

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>>15263620
Angel Beats localization is planned.

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>>15263620
Maeda wants to do more with Charlotte so maybe we'll see something with that in a couple of years.

They intend to release AB! which means they probably contacted the fan translator already.

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>>15263623
It's obviously one of their Japanese partners fucking things up.

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MG tends to cheat, so I expect them to go "Yurin Yurin is totally different from St. Michael Girls' School, they are our new partners!".
They have done it before with Noesis ≠ IG.

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>>15263648
I thought Lilith cut ties with MG because their titles didn't sell enough in the west to be interesting.

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>>15263681
That's just /jp/ speculation.

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>>15263681
Nothing's been confirmed, that's just a guess on why nothing else has been licensed from them.

I questioned Liquid's status until they announced Kuroinu.

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>>15263691

/jp/ comes up with the stupidest shit except when they're right.

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>unironically playing """translated""" novels

Kill yourselves.

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>>15263648
I wouldn't expect a Kindred Spirits hardcopy to be announced until the drama CDs have all been released, that way they can include them with a limited edition.

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>>15263648
I hope you're right with that 6th MG's annoucement

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Sayuri's gonna be at AX with SP

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>>15263706
>unironically using greentext
Kill youself.

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>>15263708
They can do that anyway. They won't be shipping any LEs for a while even if they announce now.

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>>15263648
I doubt they'd count the SonoHana games as a new partnership. It would make them look really dumb if they did that.

Innocent Grey makes story vns and Noesis nukige, so it makes sense to make them different brands like they are in Japan.

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>>15263739
It would kill the digital sales of the upcoming drama CDs, so they'd wait until they're all released.

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The new partner is obviously Makura.

Just deal with it.

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Man, there's a lot of twitterfolk apparently at the SP panel but none of them are doing the proper thing and filling their feeds with what's happening. It's almost startlingly quiet.

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>>15263744
You're making it sound like MG haven't done dumb announcements before

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Sekai Project Q & A session

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>>15263763
Pretty sure that it was too boring to update people with

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>>15263826

So far as I can tell they started a half hour late 45 minutes ago. If they're keeping their original timeslot they have to be getting to the announcements soon. You'd think someone would be twitting those atleast.

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>>15263841
They'll just delay their announcements until next month with Dovac's stupid fucking stream. Not like any titles they announce will release this year anyway.

Can SP do anything right? How do you even screw up a panel?

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>>15262532
>Remember to not expect great things. Even if the companies say they have big announcements, at best be cautiously optimistic.

Glad to hear this. I don't want anything good to be ruined by EOPs.

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>>15263876
Convention panels are delayed all the time. This time it seems like some acen staffers forgot to provide some of the necessary tech for it.

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>>15263876

Seems like that's literally the case. Panel's over and it was fucking nothing.

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https://sekaiproject.com/2016/05/20/anime-central-2016-announcements/

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>>15263918
西暦2236年 was pretty hyped Twitter brigade.

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>>15263918

Just doujin stuff huh?

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>>15263918
>Note: An all-ages version and adult version will be scheduled for release on Steam and Denpasoft respectively.

I'm surprised they mentioned Denpasoft by name on their main website.

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>>15263918
https://vndb.org/v17588

Another crownfunding. Yay.

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>>15262565
>We previously announced this game last year, but now we’re moving forward with having an IndieGoGo campaign page for the game starting on May 25th!

Gah, I was sure there wasn't going to be any crowdfunding for either of their announcements, but dovac still managed to sneak some in. Now I'm two for two on being wrong.

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>>15263918
They note they will have announcements at both Anime North and Animazement. Throw in AX and Otakon and they probably are sitting on a lot of licenses, though of course a lot of it is sure to be crap.

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>>15263918
AiD will be there. Neat.

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does anybody have pictures of sayori at the event? I want to see if shes still a cutey.

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>>15263954
>they probably are sitting on a lot of licenses
Good thing they only have 30 unreleased (with 95% of them being "release date TBA") titles so far. Sure could have 20-30 more to the list.

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>>15263980
forgot picture

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>>15263980

She wasn't there? She's supposed to be at AX

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>>15263980
Was she there? I thought they just announced she would be at AX.

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>>15263918
What a fucking waste. Why would 2236 developer go with Sekai? Poor translation quality, and the game has toms scientific terms. Fucking ruined.

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>>15264079
Because nobody buys things from MG and JAST

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>>15264099


Dovac isn't expecting anything out of it either.

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>>15264079
Sekai Project does a better job selling titles on Steam even if they have quality issues. Besides MG probably doesn't need another sales disaster.

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>>15264129
Gotta wonder why they would even bother with it if they think it's gonna bomb.

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>>15264129
Does he ever not complain. I hope 2236 doesn't see this tweets.

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>>15264144
Not necessarily for titles such as this. Root Double, Sound of Drop, and the like didn't exactly light Steam on fire. Selling Nekopara and big name titles with anime adaptations isn't the same.

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>>15264163
As oppose to his normal rants, all three statements there happen to be true.

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>>15264177
Yeah but instead of whining about people not being excited, he could have praised his new partner and attempted to get people excited instead.

People don't seem too excited but we're looking forward to bringing something over that people will love if they give it a chance.
Or something. Anything but this woe-is-me bullshit.

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>>15264156
With some of their other doujin games, they were the ones approached and asked to localize it.

Might be the case with this one as well.

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>>15264129

Are we posting twitter shit? Cause moogy-tenka-heika-dono has opinions on this subject too

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>>15264216
>yeah, they pretty much just tweeted about it some and called it a day. I think it could have taken off with proper marketing

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>>15264254
>spic

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>>15264254
Everyone always talks about "proper marketing" without a single fucking clue on what that actually is, how much it costs, and how much return on that you can expect.

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>>15264265

or what marketing efforts are actually being done. MG did more than "just tweet" about it (now how effective those efforts were is questionable but it's not like they didn't do things)

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>>15264254
>Oaxaxa
I'm sorry for you. Espero que no este tan feo como he visto en las noticias.

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>>15264254
Its getting more marketing by being on erogedownload front page then anything MG has done so far.

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>>15264254

I don't think marketing would have particularly helped. Especially if said marketing was aimed at the tumblr crowd.

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>>15264286
This is actually true, god.

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>>15264286
When said marketing is mostly done to people that don't see any value in buying VNs, I have to question if this marketing you're speaking of is good or bad to this limited fanbase.

Having a site that completely supports piracy and having people actively telling others they can get VNs for free on said site, simply encourages the thought that getting translated and even untranslated VNs are a given and they're not worth anything.

It's true this happens with video games in general in a much larger scale however, it's exactly because of this difference in scale that in smaller fanbases this hurts so much more.

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>>15263459
>1-cour is not enough to build a huge setting like Maeda wanted to
It would have been if it hadn't spent 8 episodes fucking around.

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10 minutes till mangagamer panel. Rev up that twitter stalking.

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>>15264389
While many people do pirate others use it to check what is new, and if you look at the forum you see that many people from there actually do buy.

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>>15264389
Even some developers post there like the people who did The Menagerie.

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>>15264415

I just checked the last mangagamer title that was uploaded(tokyo babel), and literally not a single person mentioned buying.

One guy said " I don't particularly want to burn around $30 for this title so I deeply thank you for doing this" though.

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Where's that fuwa stream?

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>>15264435
Not the comments section, I mean the actual forum for the site. Like this guy jut now even asked where to buy VNs http://erogegames.com/eroge-visual-novels/eroge-tech-support/4368-help-any-game-support-mac/#post77688

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>>15264461
> This one guy even asked how to maybe possibly eventually buy one game!
> #NotAllPirates

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>>15264461
That place has like 10 active members.

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>>15264459
http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/14283-anime-central-speculation-and-announcement-thread/?page=4#comment-398240
>Sorry, had to get food before manga gamer. I'll post everything tonight
It's nowhere

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>>15264459
It was never going to be a stream, but posted recordings.

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>>15264478
Maybe but according to tracking sites it got around 500k visitors monthly and the main site around 1M.

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https://twitter.com/haertsisnoob/with_replies

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>>15264519
>QA person for @Sekaiproject.
Why only coverage for MG stream is some sekai guy?

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They need to hurry up, its 4 am in Europe -_-

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>>15264552
MG always spend the first half of their panel doing recap, then makes new announcements then Q&A.

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>>15264297
>Especially if said marketing was aimed at the tumblr crowd.
MG made a blog post outlining all the offensive and potentially triggering content in Fata Morgana, explicitly spoiling several major plot elements, particularly that of Michel's past. I'm most disgusted by that than anything that was in the game.

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>>15264563

Probably not too much QA, not really anyone knowledgeable there.

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>>15264568
They warned for spoilers and put the actual content under a cut, what are you so mad for?

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New title time!

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Haruka Limited Edition

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>>15264580
July 1st release, getting it out for AX.

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>>15264580

Wallscrolls too. Looks like mangagamer's also livetweeting their own announcements.

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/with_replies

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KnS2 hardcopy? I guess it finally sold enough

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More than 2 hardcopies. Yurirei hardcopy

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>>15264599
KnS2 hardcopy was really the unexpected one.

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>>15264591
i'm happy it will match with my KnS LE I picked up at ax last year

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>>15264600

I certainly didn't see it coming.

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All these physical goods manufactured for AX and they got walled out into adult ghetto wwwww

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euphoria hardcopy fucking confirmed

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All the hard copies.

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It's just hardcopies all the way down

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>>15264591
Great. I have to buy it again.

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Why doesn't MG just sell physical copies at launch for games that they think will be popular. Jeez this is dumb to expect people to buy the game a second time.

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>>15264617
Risk management.

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>>15264617
>they think will be popular

they have a poor track record of predicting that is why

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>>15264617
Higher margins if people buy a download.

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Does euphoria hardcopy include discount coupon for experienced lawyer?

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Fata Morgana fandisk

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>Six announcements
>Four hard copies
They shouldn't count these as separate announcements.

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4 harcopies, 1 fandisc, 1 new license.

Far less nukiges than I thought.

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>>15264628
What MG calls an announcement, Jast does as a matter of course.

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>>15264628

You're in luck, anonymous, they didn't

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Stayed up for nothing -_-

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MG is lucky that Sekai Project didn't announce anything big this time because they've been getting BTFO lately in terms of big license acquisitions.

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>>15264630
At least MG don't censor their shit.

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Seeing that euphoria wallscroll makes me wish KnS2 would include one too.

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Hmm, I don't want to spend another 45 bucks + postage for something I bought before but I do want to support Innocent-Grey. I do like physical copies and I guess it'll look nice next to my KnS1 copy though.

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ahahahahahaha

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Kyonyuu Fantasy

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YESSSSSSS


BASED MG BASED MG BASED MG

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Oh wow, MG got Waffle with KF. Genuinely best nukige series ever, get hyped.

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Kyonyuu fantasy as funbag fantasy

into the trash it goes

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>Funbag Fantasy
>Funbag
Really MG, Really!?

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>people were expecting anything
Mangagamer's big announcements don't come until Otakon and that other big anime con.

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>tfw no ponkotsu

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Kyonyuu are fucking gross and so is Kyonyuu Fantasy. What a garbage fucking nukige series.

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Seems like a good choice for EOPs.

Enjoy.

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>>15264650
Fucking hilarious.

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>>15264650
Boob Wars sold a shit ton of copies entirely because it was called "Boob Wars", I don't blame them

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>>15264650
Really, Really!

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>>15264655
KF is very Big. F+ size.

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Called Waffle from a mile away. Still, a lot less nukiges than I thought.

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>SP gives us Maitetsu
>MG gives us cowtits: the game
I think it's clear who the true saviour of the western VN market is. Don't reply to this post

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They'll announce Henshin next, right?

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>Kyonyuu Fantasy is 8.0 on vndb
G-guess it's not that bad of a nukige then

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http://www.strawpoll.me/10267560

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>>15264663
Steam release when?

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>>15264685
Its one of rare nukige which have great story and could be enjoyed even if you don't want to fap at the moment.

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>>15264685
Hmm, for nukige VNDB might be somewhat relevant. It's full of EOPs voting based on HCG sets, but in the end HCG set is what matters for nukige.

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>>15264684
I completely forgot this even exists

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>Tfw MG guests are Hamashima Shigeo and nbkz

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Hamashima is cute.

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Shigeo Hamashima and nbkz are the AX guests.

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>>15264692
It has very high EGS score too.
80 average at 674 votes is insanely high for nukige.

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>>15264692
Most nukige are like a 6.0 on vndb though, so something going for 8.0 is a rare exception

Also, was browsing some of Waffle's other stuff and saw this https://vndb.org/v18742

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>>15264707
>>15264685
The OVAs were terrible, though.

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>>15264714
OVAs for eroge are never good. When you need to fit 2 h-scenes and some story in 30 minutes, you are doomed.

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>>15264710
Oh anon, you're turning me on

>>15264684
I sure hope they do. Fantastic series. It's a shame they're getting old...

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And that's a wrap. How well did you score /jp/? I ended up with a mere two points.

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>>15264714
YU-NO and Cartagra had some of the worst OVAs too. The adaption quality really doesn't have anything to do with original.

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>>15264718
I watched the OVA for Kara no Shoujo out of curiosity. Yeah it wasn't very good

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>>15264718
Yeah. It's like the idea of making a proper ero series like the Doukyuusei 2 one is completely out of the question nowadays.

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>>15264679
Sometimes I think Dovac is retarded. Why did he think it was a good idea to localise Maitetsu instead of Monobeno?

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>>15264728
He didn't think anything, it was Lose who was pushing Maitetsu license and they contacted several localization companies at once, dovac was only one who agreed with their terms.

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>>15264728
Why not? Newer stuff is always more relevant and will sell more than trying to sell something that's 5+ years old. It's also harder to justify removing the H-scenes from Monobeno when it's such a big chunk of its content and post-release freebies than it is from Maitetsu.

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Umineko Question arcs will be out on July 8
https://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=177

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Fucking finally. Good idea releasing all of these together, unlike Higurashi.
And Question arcs are actually good, so people might still want more after them.

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>>15264720
six points, not bad.

I don't think anyone anticipated four fucking hard copies.

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>>15264718
Taimanin Asagi, though. The original four episodes, of course.

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>>15264739
>those pachinko sprites
Jesus.

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>>15264738

I wonder what took them so long? They had the art inserted like five months ago.

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>>15264728
It's easier to make an all ages version of the one they picked up.

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>>15264733
What were their terms?

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>>15264741

Shoulda lowered those expectations.

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>>15264753
Very short release deadline was biggest problem, they want title out ASAP.

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>>15264757
Has SP actually released anything of note other than Nekopara? How soon could they release Maitetsu, in 1-2 years judging by their progress?

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>>15264746
Maybe they actually fixed the translation?

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>>15264738

Higurashi episode 3 got a date too. I wonder if that satoko sprite faggot will pop up against for a last stand?

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>>15264761
They'll do what JAST did with flowers but then not delay it to fix it.

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>>15264761
> How soon could they release Maitetsu, in 1-2 years judging by their progress?
They are aiming to release at the end of this year as far as I know.

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>>15264773
"aiming"

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>>15264768
This sprite censorship thing will be higu's last opportunity for some publicity, at least up until they start TLing the extra chapters in 2019.

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>>15264761
SP has a longer list of upcoming stuff than MangaGamer ever had. And they still want to announce more stuff.

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>>15264761
The only thing I can actually think of that wasn't an adopted fan translation was World End Economica and the English script for that was an obvious ESL work that read terribly.

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>>15264781
Sekai Project is barely more reliable than JAST to actually release much of it.

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>>15264782
Sekai Project has managed to release one episode of WEE in two years. Great job there.

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>>15264796
There's two episodes out, though.

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>>15264802
The first episode wasn't translated by Sekai Project and was already released in the West before they had anything to do with the series.

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>>15264739
That new art though, everyone looks like they are a druggy and just moved out of their trailer homes when they won the lottery.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just port the ps2 sprites for umineko and higurashi instead pulling these sprites out? Its annoying to have to grab a mod/patch everytime.

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>>15264702
>>15264705
I'm expecting CLOCKUP and minori announcements at AX.

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>>15264952
>Wouldn't it be cheaper to just port the ps2 sprites for umineko and higurashi instead pulling these sprites out? Its annoying to have to grab a mod/patch everytime.

I'm pretty sure they would have, if it were. They're pretty aware that everyone prefers the ps2 art(instead of the the original art like they should). Tumblr was especially angry about the new higurashi art. Maybe they'll like the pachinko art though. Battler got made mexican, which is pretty diverse

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>>15264741

>I don't think anyone anticipated four fucking hard copies.

It makes sense in retrospect, not much point in releasing hard copies after AX so best to load up on them now. I do wonder though if Euphoria will end up on J-List like other MG Hard Copies or if that one will end up being omitted.

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>>15264952
>Wouldn't it be cheaper to just port the ps2 sprites for umineko and higurashi
No, Alchemist owns the console assets and they want a fortune for them. That's why MG had to resort to commissioned sprites for Higurashi and Pachinko artwork for Umineko.

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>>15264952
No. Alchemist is either non-cooperative, or is charging an arm and a leg.

>>15264974

Tumblr barely noticed or cared. I actually saw way more pushback here over the new Higurashi sprites, before they got revised to be a little less ero moege style. It's just not a style that fits the tone of the work well.

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>>15264957
Besides anything Supipara related, no reason for them not to bring over minori's recent titles, as they seem to be the kind of titles that would do well in the current market.

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>>15264985
>I actually saw way more pushback here over the new Higurashi sprites

That's... what I said.
>Tumblr was especially angry about the new higurashi art

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I like Umineko's Pachinko artwork, I always thought its console art looked dull.

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>>15265000
What? You and I are very clearly saying two different things here. Tumblr didn't give a shit. /jp/ did. Because the art sucked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265012

I was stalking the recent tumblings and they were pissed because it was "too sexualized". /jp/ paled in comparison with only a handful of people upset at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265012
But that single autist who spammed all vn-related forums is totally representative of tumblr as a whole!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264997
They seem to be going in order, so I expect Natsuzora no Perseus.

They're still almost 50k away from announcing Supipara part 2, so I doubt that it'll make it in time for AX.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264957
I'm sure that minori guy is just there to shill for Supipara. Don't get your hopes up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265036
yeah, but the other minori titles are exactly the kind of shiny mediocre titles that are doing well in the market right now.

[Anonymous No.]

In the case of Umineko, I prefer the original sprites the most. As anon said, the ps3 sprites are dull, they lack in personality. Not really sure how I feel about the pachinko sprites, but I'm sure I'll always prefer r07's stuff over any alternatives.
For Higurashi, though, I definitely prefer PS2 over both the original and the commissioned sprites.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265143
Even if you don't like the PS3 sprites for Umineko, there's no denying it's still preferable to get the PS3 patch simply for the backgrounds and the voices.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264790
I'm hoping they implode with all their titles. Continuously acquiring new titles while their backlog grows larger is in bad faith. Yuzusoft and AmuseCraft should be big enough to go the VisualArts/FrontWing route if they so pleased.

Unless they liked the JAST time releases that SP is doing.

[Anonymous No.]

Leaked MG got White Album 2 for AX!!!!!!!!!!

[Good Haro No.]

>>15265497

Quiet guys, you're gonna get me fired!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265019
It's honestly pretty stupid that some people complained about MG's Higurashi sprites being "too sexual" (I've seen it happen as well) considering Ryukishi's sprites for Higurashi are not exactly.. chaste to begin with. If you really think about it, the MG sprites are more faithful to the original designs than the PS2 sprites ever were. Seriously though, the only thing wrong with MG's sprites is that the anatomy is fucked at times, but the style itself is really nice, the coloring especially. I don't see why people make such a big deal out of it. The PS2 sprites are nice but MG's aren't horrid either, they're both fine.

Now, complaining about Umineko's I can understand since the style is pretty... unique, but I started liking it after a while, and it actually fits some of the characters perfectly, like Bernkastel and Featherine.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265662
I don't feel their too sexual. Moreso than matsuri? Sure. But not to where the sprites are horrid. They're alright, but still can't bring myself to use them when I can use the ps2 ones.

The poses, emotions, and facial features just don't really match the characters all that well and seem off.
They did a good job on Satoko and Rena I feel, though their poses could use work. They just don't feel natural; forced. Also the foreheads really get to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264720
3 points, The kindred spirits/euphoria hard copies were easy guesses. So was the crowdfunding SP. Only thing that was surprising was Haruka, I thought it didn't sell that well. I would get the hard copy, but I already bought the game so fuck that

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265019
I remember all the butthurt screencaps that got posted here, that's not what it was, it was people getting triggered at naked Satoko

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264684
Been wanting this game ever since it was released.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265021
Fun fact. Days before ch2 release he started a thread on Neogaf about it but even there it didn't work out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264739
Wow. They really did great with this. 4 games for 22 dollars, dual language for learning purposes, dual art for your individual taste.

I guess only drawback is that they couldn't fit in voices. But that will mostly impact new sales and not sales to people who played the original.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264650
>>15264660
>>15264663
>Funbag
Why? The Japanese already have a translated title for the series

[Anonymous No.]

>Kyonyuu Fantasy
>KnS2 hardcopy

Holy shit that was unexpected. Thanks BASED MG.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266165
"Gargantuan Breasts" sounds way too sexist for the post-SJW society we live in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266165
Blame Arunaru

[Anonymous No.]

So MG announced

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265756
Haruka did sell really well by mangagamer standards.

The only concern is whether or not Alicesoft have the same standards

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266345
Some cool stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264985
Alchemist is dead.

http://gematsu.com/2016/04/gal-gun-publisher-alchemist-files-bankruptcy

[Anonymous No.]

Lol so many folks at reddit and fuwanovel butt hurt because most of MG announcements were hard-copies. Fucking casuals always expecting big things...

[Anonymous No.]

>>15265974

No there were people mad at all the sprites. There was even a short effort to try to "make their own sprites", which produced some terrible terrible abominations

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266421
I for one actually love hardcopy announcements. I find it hard to buy a vn if I can't have a physical copy to display.

I'll end up buying the japanese physical copy sometimes and torrent the official translation if there isn't a fan one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266421
Fuck them. I've been waiting for Euphoria and KnS2 hard-copies so it's all good for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266421
Deluded fagboys expecting memekamiges hyped up by muh mogys and conjuerors.

[Anonymous No.]

To be honest Kyonyuu Fantasy looks interesting, the only turn off is the overly large breasts.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266684
"Kyonyuu" : It's in the title anon. The focus of this series is big fat tits and how to milk them so it'll be a difficult read for you if you don't like them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266515
Guys, we're still being "ironic" right? We're just pretending to be meme-spouting retards and to not be disappointed by MangaGamer's increasingly underwhelming announcements, right? Just need to check, because it's getting scarily convincing at this point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266936
>MangaGamer's increasingly underwhelming announcements
>increasingly underwhelming
Fuck off to whatever shithole you came from.
If you are too stupid to figure "all good stuff is anounced on AX and Otakon" despite it being repeated gazillion times every fucking year, you should not post here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266936
Kek
Yes anon, I'm being as ironic as possible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266182
The problem is that funbag sounds like old MG with terrible quality, terrible naming, terrible game. If I didn't know this game was new for MG, I would avoid it due to title alone.

>>15266438
Hard copy is fail as always with MG. I bought the discounted innocent grey bundle because there was no way to buy KnS 1+2 hard copy. Which means MG lost a 85 dollar sale, and got a 42 dollar sale. (Yes, the bundle is cartagra + KnS, but I won't buy KnS2 until it is discounted now)

But yea, there must be cash whales out there willing to buy double of everything that makes these choices worth it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266954
>every fucking year
This is the first year I've heard it. Hell, until very recently there weren't even any announcements besides AX and Otakon.

And yes, I have been pessimistic about their announcements from the start. But MangaGamer does keep hyping people up with 'six announcements!' and 'new partner!' bullshit, and it seems to work - until the announcements are actually made. In the VNTS thread pretty much everyone was expecting at least something of note would be announced, and people in this thread didn't expect four of the announcements to be hardcopies. The community's expectations were clearly high enough to be disappointed here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267039
> 'new partner!' bullshit
Waffle is not "bullshit". Its one of most famous and high quality nukige producers, and KF announcement is much more imporant than whatever "plot"ge which was played by 100 people in Japan you retards are drooling about.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267005
In KnS2 case i read the torrent version when it was out and i've been waiting for the hard copy to buy it. I'm a poorfag so it's frustrating to pay 40/50$ for a download version.
But yeah i agree with you that MG policy with hard-copies is fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267058
This. Waffle have a lot of nukige i'm interested in, espically Kyonyuu Fantasy so i'm not disappointed at all. >>15267039 this anon is just butthurt.

[Anonymous No.]

Holy fucking shit, Key kids literally can't get a break.

First denka btfo'd you all
http://ask.fm/moogy0/answers/136052402900

and now Conjueror too.
http://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/136302718683

If you are a Key fan looking forward to Angel Beats, how do you live with yourself?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267100
I had an extremely fucked childhood and heavily relate to the characters in angel beats.

Also the music is nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267100
By not really concerning ourselves much over what other people think of us, as most fans of Japanese porn games did before they got popular and you guys came in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267165
woah there, you should know that we all have to feel superior about our tastes and shit on everyone else right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264574
Not him, but he said disgusted. Not mad. He's appalled by the SJW pandering.

[Anonymous No.]

New Higurashi art isn't that bad, I only dont the new Rika and Rena. Also PS2 art is still the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267552
The art is a non-issue anyway, since you can just mod any sprites you want to replace the new stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15262532

ah dammit i always forget about the larger cons and just go to my local ones that suck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267039
>MangaGamer does keep hyping people up with 'six announcements!' and 'new partner!' bullshit
This is what the guys that delude themselves with big announcements usually say

[Anonymous No.]

Why do MG and the others keep getting VNs nobody cares about reading while many hyped up games remain Japanese only

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267746

because your taste is SHIT and the things you are hype for aren't actually that great!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267761
we definitely need more games like a house in fata morgana, a true classic

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267746
Because the titles that you are thinking about are expensive licenses to pick up, assuming that the Japanese company is even receptive at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267746
>Kyonyuu Fantasy
I'm content, "They should have least used "funbags" instead of "funbag" though

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267782
but who is buying all these shit titles that they do bring over?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267803
Horny nerds.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267803
Kyonyuu Fantasy is greatly going to outsell Fata Morgana, even with the latter having a Steam release

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267828
I don't disagree

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267746
Apparently buyers have shit taste. I still can't accept 2 of the hard copies are for scat/torture genre.

Kindred Spirits hard copy looks good. Sadly I have no reason to buy Steam games on hard copy. But it should appeal to people who don't use Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267828
Kyonyuu Fantasy is a solid nukige with a lot of content and fetishes. Big boobs are the most common fetish too.

Fata Morgana, even if i like to read some storyge i didn't know this one existed before MG decided to translate it.

No doubt KF will outsell Fata Morgana easily.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267746
I would think AX (and a lesser degree Otakon) should have some big announcements

[Anonymous No.]

Cant wait for JAST announcements, they got to have something big :)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15266165
Alliterative names sound better and they're probably hoping the title will get people to buy it like Harem Party and Boob Wars did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268297
>Alliterative names sound better
It doesn't sound better.

> like Harem Party and Boob Wars did.
Except those were the original titles for those games. What do you think おっぱい戦争 and ハーレムパーティー translate to?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268297
They should have at least used "funbags fantasy" instead of "funbag fantasy", is it a game about women with a single breast?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268311

What do you think 巨乳 means?

>>15268320

That sounds terrible. Do you think it should have been "Boobs Wars" too?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268369
>What do you think 巨乳 means?
Large breasts, Enormous breasts, Gargantuan breasts etc

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268385
Gargantuan Breasts Fantasy

I'll take Funbag Fantasy over that. They could've just came up with an something original to go before Fantasy too. Conquering the Queen was a good example of giving an original name.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268398
I'd take Gargantuan Breasts Fantasy over Funbag Fantasy any day.

> Conquering the Queen was a good example of giving an original name.
I will agree on that though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268398
>They could've just came up with an something original to go before Fantasy too
Honeydew Fantasy was one of the old names for the series back when the series was newer

[Anonymous No.]

>>15264650
That's a cringeworthy name

[Anonymous No.]

Skimming through the Fuwa video of the panels, not much of interest in either of the Q&A (at least as far as new info goes(.

As to the panels themselves, the MG panel was far more entertaining then the Sekai Project panel, though the MG panel was a bit out of date with some of their info (amusingly no one told them that Higurashi 3 + Umineko 1-4 got release dates, and they got word of those release dates half way through Q&A)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268461
Who were the one's doing MG's panel?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267905
>Fata Morgana, even if i like to read some storyge i didn't know this one existed before MG decided to translate it.
I found out about it from Edelweiss' Comiket trailers. One of them had Another Episodes in it and the artwork and music immediately made me want to find out more about it. I think it was shortly after that that MG announced they were bringing it over.
But yes, they certainly haven't done much to publicise it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268479
>they certainly haven't done much to publicise it.
I doubt it would've made much of a difference. News articles don't exactly translate to sales anymore, as Kara no Shoujo 2 showed. And Fata Morgana's content, tragedy after tragedy and what some might see as tumblr content, would mean its audience is very limited.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15267905
Kyonyuu fantasy is a good title familia.

[Anonymous No.]

Lol on MG pannel, when they announced Euphoria hard-copy a lot of people were saying "oh no, oh no"
Seems like it was a nice pannel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdE2xC-nYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUFe6pQ3CwE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bckaQByEdUM

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268559
>and what some might see as tumblr content
Please, X actually suffers and then gets off their arse and does something about their situation, so that's already a far cry from tumblr's wannabe persecuted.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269084
Is that good haro?

[Good Haro No.]

>>15269144

I was not at ACen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269148
Are you going to attend any convention?

[Good Haro No.]

>>15269167

I'll be at AX for sure. Not sure about others yet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269148
Haro, the Beat Blades Haruka Limited Edition plus wallscroll bundle doesnt appear on the store, the only way to find it is through the announcement post.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15269193

Hm, the website's been acting up a bit since last night. I'll poke someone about it. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269177
Alright, I'll look forward to it.

[Anonymous No.]

If I preorder Umineko off MG's site, will I get a Steam key as well once it's out?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269177
I'm betting the BL announcement is the upcoming Room No. 9 from parade. It sounds interesting enough, similar in concept to Euphoria.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269213
They stopped doing Steam keys because of fraud, so no.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269242
Seriously? Well, I can sort of see why though, so I guess I'll just wait until it's out on Steam, thanks.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15269213

We can't do keys anymore unfortunately because like >>15269242 said we got hit with a bunch of credit card fraudsters trying to poach Steam keys for resale. It'll have the same discount on launch on Steam, so you're not going to be disadvantaged for buying there.

[Anonymous No.]

One encouraging thing is Sekai Project seems to be much more openingly talking about 18+ releases and uncut content through the official Sekai Project channels these days (rather than Dovac's twitter rants on his separate twitter account). It kind of seems like they are backing off a bit on the whole "these are two completely unrelated companies with nothing at all to do with each other."

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269383
The Steam market has started to slow down, so they might be becoming more open to 18+ content as a way to help stay in business.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15268479
Fata Morgan seems to me to be like Higurashi and Umineko in that the art will scare away everyone unless people hype it for months on end first.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269425
I don't get this. The art is fantastic, it's not like Ryukishi07's art which is just plain laughably bad. Does it not being kawaii uguu bright cheerful anime art really put people off that much?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269454
Yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269277
The problem is that we'd rather skip the 30% steam cut and give the money to MG, but we want our game in the Steam library.

My current problem is if I should buy Umineko on launch, because it is great. Or if I should wait on the limited edition hard copy that should be almost guaranteed. (Considering if Euphoria can get one, Umineko definitely will outsell that).

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269494
>but we want our game in the Steam library.
Why?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269507
Trading cards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269454
You either do standard art, because it is popular, or you do something else because you suck/want to be special.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269413
It also gives them an excuse to use Indiegogo and it's flexible funding over Kickstarter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269507
Convenience, nothing else really. I have multiple PC platforms, and being able to just play on any of them after selecting it in Steam is good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269601
>>15269507
In addition to this, when available cloud saving also really helps when playing on multiple machines. Copying over savegames frequently, quickly gets tedious enough to avoid playing on anything but your main machine at all. It always frustrates me when a Steam game doesn't have cloud saving.

Also, another point of annoyance is that MG's site, which you would have to download from, is NSFW. I occasionally read VNs during my lunch break at work. Visiting the site of a blatant porn peddler like MG at work would at the very least be very awkward, so being able to just download stuff from Steam is much more convenient.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269644
You could just save the game files on a external drive and carry it around.

[Anonymous No.]

Rewrite+ officially picked up. Wonder why they didn't announce that during their panel.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269658
Or I could save myself the hassle of having to carry around an external drive (plus the costs of buying one) and just use Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269672
Source?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269696
Since when is it a hassle to carry around a external drive or a USB?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269703
Fuwa breaking the news, to surprise of everybody.
https://twitter.com/fuwan0vel/status/734149079815446528

And people think Sekai is bad at marketing, VA showing people who's the real boss.

[Anonymous No.]

$18 shipping. Do I like KnS that much?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269703
http://anitay.kinja.com/visual-arts-announces-plans-to-release-rewrite-in-the-1778000315

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269730
Well do ya, punk?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269711
Which will be a problem when they decide to move onto Saga Planets titles. As long as they are dealing with Key titles though, proper marketing isn't really required.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269748
I dunno. I gots to know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269383
Every VN on steam has threads like "No porn no buy.", "18+ patch?" and so on. MG puts softcore titles uncensored. Nekopara sells official sex patches. Frontwing makes 180° turn with Sharin. ML and Libra will offer restoration patches for free. As much as dovac wanted to think that only core (read: pirating) audience cared about porn, it turns out that the paying, mainstream crowd likes fucking catgirls as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269837
Frontwing was always fine with 18+ content based on their other announcements, but it's remarkable they got Akabei Soft2 to come around.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269837
I am guessing Nekopara in particular help to inform Sekai's targeted audience of uncut releases, so people now look for patches.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269672
They are going to be running out of Key titles sooner than later at this rate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269869
Huniepop and Sunrider also offered patches. It's almost expected to offer a free patch or to be able to toggle the content on or off.

People like to complain about "cut content", but most are Vita ports that have extra content to replace it anyway. Basically, people want porn, even when they claim they don't.

[Anonymous No.]

But 18+ isn't his demographic.

Does this mean Train Lolis will have a badly translated 18+ version too?

[Anonymous No.]

MG took people at face value when they said they want good stories, and that as long as nothing was cut, then it didn't matter if it had porn or not. They licensed story titles with no porn, and they've been selling like shit. The fanbase needs to be more honest with what it wants.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270000
I doubt their payment processor would allow an 18+ version of loli trains at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270000
Between the payment processing and other issues around Maitetsu, it probably should be looked at as a special case, and their handling of it is unlikely to be representative of the rest of their 18+ titles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270008
> posters: 71
Nah, MG should just realize what is market and what is vocal minority. Even if all 71 posters buy 2 copies of shit they request, its still complete failure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270008
The silent majority wants porn so grabbing nukige that have decent stories is the best solution, Kyonyuu is a good choice for that

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270008
There surely are story titles that would sell well, the biggest problem though is the Japanese market and Western market aren't all that different in terms of what has broad appeal, and MG has the easiest time licensing good story titles from studios that already have a hard time selling their type of title in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270031
Just how small a minority are we talking here?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270008
The Liar-soft titles by Sakurai never are going to have broad appeal, people have barely played the Propeller title that has been translated for years, and good luck with Fata Morgana's art. The biggest sellers in the West still are story titles that have some type of broader appeal (especially those with an anime).

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270097
I read Gahkthun and I regret it.

I'm actually looking forward to going through Fata Morgana. I can no longer trust Koestl, Moogy and Conjueror as a litmus test for the quality of a VN, since Gahkthun was shit, and they all say Fata Morgana is overrated so it's probably actually good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269777
I do and I bought it again. I just had to listen to the OST to remember the great atmosphere. Plus anything that increases the chance MG will bring over 3 after it's released, even by 0.0002%, is a good investment.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270113
Why would you trust them in the first place?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270113
Why did you trust Conjueror in the first place? Because he tweets in their little circle?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270124
>>15270133
Because they're people that have actually read these VNs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270097
Liar-soft titles are well liked by pirates and lots of people from pirating sites actually read them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270145
You'd be better off asking the other thread on /jp/ than them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270154
Ha.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270154
They'll say "fuck off EOP" and give me spoilers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270160
We don't post spoilers ever, and as long as you hide your EOP status and just say something like "Thinking of picking up title <X>, what do you think about it?" nobody is going to tell you to fuck off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270160
You just have to be intelligent with how you word the question

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270121
The shipping fees bothered me because i live in Europe but you convinced me.
I want this fucking KnS3.

Though why is there only 11 tracks in the limited edition OST ? There are at least 30 tracks in KnS2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270184
Yeah they did the same thing with the first limited edition too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270145
You could say the same thing about EGS scores or vndb scores. People will have drastically different taste than you for the most part.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270208
But why ? MANYO is awesome and his background music are one of the best selling point in InnoGrey titles.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15270208
>>15270184

Not positive on this, but I believe the reasoning might have had something to do with the fact that the OSTs for KnS were sold as separate products in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270227
Is that so ? That's a shame.
I don't want to be picky but is it possible to know which tracks are these 11 tracks Haro ?

[Good Haro No.]

>>15270255

I don't know off the top of my head but I can ask.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270255
Probably most of the best ones. All the ones chosen for the first soundtrack were great.
Though it's not saying much when they're all pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270008
>MG took people at face value when they said they want good storie
>They licensed story titles with no porn
>they've been selling like shit
Actually, people at MG were already already of this fact. After all, the reason why some years ago they licensed a ton of nukige was to make profit because story-oriented titles sold like shit.

To my understanding, the investment MG made on getting titles such as Tokyo Babel demonstrates that they trusted that copies sold through Steam would turn a profit even if licensing costs were high. Unfortunately, this didn't turn out to be true, as they already experienced first hand.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270309
I wonder about Liarsoft's titles. Gahkthun wasn't originally intended for a Steam release, but got more sales once it was on the platform. I wonder if it profited between the combined sales.

All-ages vns can be really expensive because they can afford famous VAs, so I think Tokyo Babel's sales could really discourage licensing expensive story titles, especially all-ages ones.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15270384
>so I think Tokyo Babel's sales could really discourage licensing expensive story titles, especially all-ages ones.

At the very least, I doubt we see a repeat of last year's AX/Otakon with MG this year, where they licensed a bunch of all ages titles, Kindred Spirits (which they treated as an all ages title),
Princess Evangile fandisc, and Haruka.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15269837
>Every VN on steam has threads like "No porn no buy.", "18+ patch?" and so on. MG puts softcore titles uncensored. Nekopara sells official sex patches. Frontwing makes 180° turn with Sharin. ML and Libra will offer restoration patches for free.

All these only prove that the 'must have porn' crowd is very vocal and companies appease them by giving the option of an 18+ version. As with piracy, not every 'why is there no porn' thread is a lost sale, and it actually wouldn't surprise me if the majority of the people posting such remarks on the Steam forums wouldn't actually buy the game even if it did contain the porn.

>As much as dovac wanted to think that only core (read: pirating) audience cared about porn, it turns out that the paying, mainstream crowd likes fucking catgirls as well.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that's the nukige crowd buying Nekopara. Catgirl porn is very popular, and nukige fans actually buy games. I'm fairly sure the majority of the hardcore story VN fans did not buy Nekopara.

As far as I'm aware, Steam versions still outsell 18+ versions even with many people not caring about the porn but just buying them to have the more complete version. Gahkthun completely bombed on Steam despite having porn, while Konosora is still selling like hotcakes even though there's no 18+ version available.

Games can still sell well even if you remove the porn with no option to re-add it, while at the same time games are not guaranteed to do any better if you do have porn as an option. The only real reason to provide the original 18+ version is to get people (who won't even buy the game) to shut the fuck up.

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To the surprise of no one, they'll be using Ixrec's Rewrite scripts for the Rewrite+ release.

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>>15270681
Nekopara sells way better than the nukige crowd could deliver.

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>>15270681

>The only real reason to provide the original 18+ version is to get people (who won't even buy the game) to shut the fuck up.

It also allows you to sell a premium product, (even if only to a minority of your audience). As Steam revenues for individual visual novels continues to drop and knowledge of uncut releases being a thing increases, that is likely to become more important going forward. Also for crowdfunded projects the people who are big spenders for the crowdfunding projects disproportionately do care about such content (and the vocal displeasure you talk about for not including it is much more easily noticed).

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>>15270412
> I doubt we see a repeat of last year's AX/Otakon with MG this year
Make that next year. They license games months in advance and didn't start seeing the problems with their all-ages plans until Tokyo Babel bombed at the end of March. They may have already licensed at least a few titles that are all-ages.

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>>15270681
While a lot of that does make sense, I have to think there are economic reasons for Sekai Project to be much more willing to talk about uncut releases openly. There was a good reason they initially kept it as an impenetrable wall between Sekai and Denpasoft. It might be Nekopara (and to a lesser degree Sakura Shit) uncut releases are important enough that they make it worth it, it might be Indiegogo and their flexible funding looks very nice for their 18+ doujin, or it might be their upcoming big moege titles are well known enough they believe having an uncut release is worthwhile (especially if they plan to put them on Kickstarter). At the very least though, something appears to have changed their calculations for how they treat 18+ content through Sekai's official channels.

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>>15270871
Could it have been Yurirei and Gahkthun being allowed on steam?

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Are people forgetting our history this early?

The only reason Denpasoft exists, the ONLY reason, is because Frontwing demanded that the R18 release of Grisaia be released as separately as possible from the all ages version. Now that Sekai has no reason to pander to Frontwing who have more or less gone rogue for the localisation of everything, including Grisaia properties, that they're not contractually obliged to provide with Sekai Project, Dovac no longer has any reason to keep Denpasoft separate.

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https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/734059122912559104

I wish she was my gf

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>>15270705
Can't be worse than muv-luv right?

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>>15271175
But Muv Luv had Koestl and others going through the full script for the Kickstarter. I doubt they do the same with Rewrite.

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So what translation will be used when they bring over Air based on the Vita version?

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>>15271236
They will use RNG to join both scripts together into one ultimate translation.

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>>15271236
>>15271270

Because they are already working with Ixrec, probably the Sheeta TL will be used.

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>>15270412
We probably will get a very similar set of games as last year, as there were lot of projects that were started before Babel came out and basically failed. Since contracts mostly take time only a few titles will actually reflect the fact that steam is no longer the way to earn big bucks on anything.

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>>15270681
I think you are missing the dozens of "Bought this game instantly due to uncensored content" posts.

Not to mention you are ignoring that what sells are games priced around 3-10 dollars.

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>>15270681
>>15270871

>might be Indiegogo and their flexible funding looks very nice for their 18+ doujin

From Sekai Project's KaraKara Indiegogo project.

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>>15271911
They said the licensing decisions were influenced by what sold well last year, which on their own site was

1. Princess Evangile
2. eden*
3. No, Thank You!!!
4. Imouto Paradise
5. Eroge! Sex and Games Make Sexy Games
6. Demon Master Chris
7. euphoria
8. Sweet Sweat in Summer
9. Ultimate Boob Wars!
10. Higurashi Hou Ch. 1 Onikakushi

Even though it's not on the list, A Kiss for the Petals sold very well on Steam.

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>>15268421