/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Visual Novel translation status


Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1637/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (74.8%)"
>Angel Beats 1st Beat - 190165/434217 (43.80%) lines translated
>AstralAir - prologue patch released, 51097/64880 (78.76%) lines translated
Ayakashi Gohan - 49% complete
Clover Day's - Common + 2 routes done, other routes + 348/711 KB, 390/764, and 74/722 KB translated
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Harumade Kururu - 100% of the initial harem route + 25% common route translated
Hoka no Onna - 84.88% translated
Irotoridori no Sekai - 4301/50663 (8%) lines translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - prologue patch released
Kiminozo - Common route translation complete, Haruka route 1st pass complete
>Koiken Otome - 100% translated and edited, 86.71% QC, prologue patch released
Koiseyo Imouto Banchou - 8% (3251/42627) lines translated
Kurukuru Fanatic - 100% translated
Lovely Cation- 31.6% of lines completed
Majikoi A-1 - 81%
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Commie project actively in editing
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, new partial patch released
Muv Luv Total Eclipse - 25% translated
Nursery Rhyme - 12032/32977 lines translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts translated, 212/268 through TLC+Editing, 154/268 scripts finalized
SakuSaku - 100% through TLC
Sanarara - Project resuming
>Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 9,582 / 30,513 Lines (31.4%) translated, partial patch released
Tokyo Necro - 1010/39657 lines translated
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou - 9065/31248 (29%) translated
Witch's Garden - 47555/67201 (70.77%) lines translated, 2496/67201 (3.71%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 100%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited

[VNTS !!UcDDlzwANFs No.]

Official work

MangaGamer
>My Boss Wife is My Ex - 5/31 release
>Higurashi Hou -Tatarigoroshi: 6/24 release
>Umineko - Ch 1-4 July 8th release
Bokuten - 100% translated, 73.5% edited
Da Capo 3 - 92.5% translated, 87.5% edited
Myth - in scripting
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, CH1 63% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 in testing
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
Negai no Kakera - 97% translated
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 50% translated, 22.2% edited
Imouto Paradise 2 - 44% translated, 14.4% edited
>Fata morgana fan disc - 2016 release
>Kyonyuu Fantasy - Picked up


JAST
Flowers - Re-write/editing 25%
Sumeragi Ryoko - Beta, in preorder
Sonicomi - debugging
Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 86%
Django - Waiting on translation.


Sekai/Denpa
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
>Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title 100% translated, 3rd 35% translated
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
Narcissu 0 - in TLC
>WEE 3 - 83.38% translated
>Nenokami - 63.31% translated, Indiegogo planned
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - 100% translated
>Darekoi - 74.02% translated
>Maitetsu - 14.75% translated
>Memory's Dogma - 29.15% translated
>2236 A.D. - 44% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Chrono Clock - 10%
Tenshin Ranman - 16%
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - picked up
Ley Line - picked up


Frontwing
>The Leisure of Grisaia - Released
Corona Blossom - Summer release planned
Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter planned

Visual Arts
Tomoyo After - Through Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
>Rewrite+ - Picked up
>Angel Beats - "English release planned"


Other
Zero Time Dilemma - Jun 28th release
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
Muv Luv Trilogy - Extra+Unlimited this Summer
Schwarzesmarken - on Greenlight
SubaHibi - Official release planned
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 - 8981/10293 (87.25%) lines translated
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + 25% of Mari route translated
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
ChuSinGura 46+1 - 2nd Kickstarter up
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

Rewrite+ is going to be the ixrec release hahahahahahahahahaha

the west is never going to get a well translated Romeo work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271425
Stealing is illegal.

[Anonymous No.]

>Koiken Otome - 100% translated and edited, 86.71% QC, prologue patch released
Machine trans?

[Anonymous No.]

So one thing I've been noticing for a little while now is that there's a lot of discrepancy between the top five ranking and popularity ranking these days. They used to be mostly 1:1 with each other, but these days they're quite divergent. I had assumed before this was due to mangagamer perhaps filtering bundle titles out of the top 5, but I'm not so sure anymore. For example, while one can see Fata Morgana in the top 5 this week, it's 12th on the popularity list. I can only assume there's been some changes. Mangagamer themselves seem to indicate the top 5 ranking is the more reliable of the two, so I'll stick to following that, but it does carry some other repercussions with regard to having any idea what's going on in times of bundles.

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/157pxtP4
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/jFQtQurt
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/AhjpPQ7n

As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you've got em'.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271641
Order Number - 199984
Order Date - 2016-05-22

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271641
Nutaku's new VN storefront has a "top ranking" sort for their VNs, but dunno what the criteria for the sort is. It has changed significantly between Thursday and now though. For a comparison

http://pastebin.com/zdjGDTsz

Of course, having no idea if it's purely sales based, and having little idea about the actual amount of sales going through them, means to use it with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous No.]

Aroduc confirmed for translating Angel Beats.

[Anonymous No.]

BUY FATA

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271641
I've been seeing this for ages but I'm honestly still not sure what the point of it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272277
Its to project when mangagamer will go out of business. (soon)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272277

Getting an idea how well a title is/isn't selling on mangagamer's site during it's launch period(where it'll get most of it's sales). You use the order numbers to figure out how out how many orders total happened during a given period and then reference the top 5 of the time to see what made up the majority of the sales for that period.

[Anonymous No.]

People are overreacting, MG isn't doing as badly as everyone thinks. While Tokyo Babel did sell badly Fata morgana is doing decently and OZMAFIA!! was a hit. Also Higurashi, Umineko and My Boss' Wife will do well so they are safe for now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272465
>Fata morgana is doing decently
Really? What do you base such a claim on?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272465
>Fata morgana is doing decently

source please.

It's dead on steam and has only managed to hit number 2 on mangagamer's site. The only reason it's not a failure is because it's doujin title and they only had to sell like 600 copies to break even.

>MG isn't doing as badly as everyone thinks

Literally no one's saying that seriously. Mangagamer's basically making more money these days than they did their entire first fives years of operation.

[Anonymous No.]

>frontwing and VisualArts have their own section.

In 5 years there will be other names up there.... except KeroQ/Makura. Subahibi is never coming.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272465
No one thinks MangaGamer is doing badly though? Considering how they've been doing in the past, they are still in the red.

It's just that story-titles are not viable for the current market, something that they knew for a long while and were probably prepared for it.

Hell, considering KnS2 got to hardcopy status, they either did a lot better than expected there, or are in so much in the red, that they can order a hardcopy run for something that didn't do as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272512
>they are still in the red

Might wanna doublecheck how that phrase goes anonymous

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272528
Whoops, I got my blacks and my reds confused.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272480
Its in the top sellers on MG site, daily Steam players (you can check in Steam DB ), It has also been on the top sellers on Steam under VNs, comments from people on sites dedicated to VNs, all my friends that are into VNs got it and also as the other anon said it doesn't need much to break even. So considering all that i would say that it is doing decently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272544
>daily Steam players (you can check in Steam DB )

I did. Its peak concurrent users is 33, which is literally less than tokyo babel.

>Its in the top sellers on MG site

That only works if it can keep that spot for a few weeks. If we take a look at this week, for example, we can see that there's been about 700 orders last week. Obviously the lion's share of that went to haruka. Even if we're super generous and give fata morgana 30% of that, that's only 210 copies.

Between steam and mangagamer combined it might have sold enough to not have lost money by now, and that's the optimistic take. A bit early to be saying it's doing "decently", I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272572
With daily Steam players I dont mean peak concurrent users. I mean how many are playing it right now, how many will be playing it in a few hours, how many was it yesterday and how many will be playing it tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272598

Peak concurrent users is the most people that were every playing it at the same time, anonymous. It's exactly what you're talking about. The fact that Tokyo Babel achieved a higher concurrent users means that during it's release(you know, when games have the most people playing them), it had more people playing it than fata morgana does at this time.

[Anonymous No.]

Finally some movement on Koiken otome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272602
I dont think that peak concurrent users is really valid for something like Fata morgana. Fata morgana didn't sell much on release, but instead is slowly gaining sells as people talk about it. So rather then looking at how many players are there at the same time it would be more meaningful to look at how many are playing it over then next week. Ofc I could be wrong since there is never a 100% guarantee to know accurately for people outside MG if they don't tell us, but with the research I did I think they will break even and at last make a bit money of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272627
>FlyingPantsu | Project: Koiken Otome | Translation: Complete, Editing: WIP | Shall we say 5th June?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272448
>it's launch period
>it's sales
>it's
I will kill you. its. There is no fucking apostrophe in possessive form of it.

[Anonymous No.]

Haro, please switch the second to last picture you have on Umineko page (on Steam and website). It's a pretty big spoiler. I still remember how mind fucked I was in that scene.

[Anonymous No.]

MangaGamer suddenly decided to spam their user emails with their hardcopy announcements.
Not that I particularly mind, but why fucking ACon while never doing that to AX or anything else actually worthy of spam?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272768
New marketing tactic after all the things we said to them :)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272802
They need to experiment with trial versions. Something like a webplayer that works for 1-2 hours for like 2 bucks, or even free if you sign up with a card.

Sucker people in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272768
It was just a single e-mail. What spam are you talking about?
Also, the hard copies were still announcements along with Fata Morgana fandisc, Kyonyuu and release dates for Higurashi and Umineko.

I fail to see how a single e-mail saying all this is considered spam

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272817
Uninvited solicitation is considered spam you know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272835
I didn't get any emails and I've bought from them in the past. Are you sure you didn't sign up for some kind of mailing list?

[Anonymous No.]

Highlights of MG pannel.

Euphoria hard-copy announcement at 27:00. Makes me wonder how the crowd reacted when MG originally announced it:
https://youtu.be/NzdE2xC-nYo?t=1620

Kyonyuu rejected title at 7:15. MG staff and crowd losing their shit:
https://youtu.be/cUFe6pQ3CwE?t=435

I wanted to be there

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272983

Was there really a point to having a half hour of QA when they literally don't know anything the audience doesn't(sometimes less, amusingly)?

Also culture select is the company made by the guy who did ecchi mery, who seems to work pretty closely with mangagamer. I wonder if he originally ordered the booth and then gave it to mangagamer?

[Anonymous No.]

Haro, is the Kyonyuu Fantasy you guys got the HD version?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271678
They updated the sort again, seems to update on a daily or semi-daily basis. Princess Evangile still on top though. Unless there is some sort of ranking available only to members it probably is sales based. Especially because at the moment, every title with the disclaimer that a game has no nudity is behind every title without that disclaimer.

Kind of have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand I'm hopeful that it means a bunch more people are buying Princess Evangile, but on the other hand, it's fucking Nutaku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273059
Who cares who's buying it from where? For a niche product, the more eyeballs the better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273014
They had a 90 minute time slot, a far less than 90 minute presentation, and were having a lot of fun, so they really had no reason to stop the Q&A.

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>>15273070
Yes I fully agree, but it is a bit of a shame to see the platform that likely still has significant restrictions on the content they'll allow (even if they have been relaxed some) take off, provided that a meaningful amount of titles are being moved through it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272768
Isn't it their usual mailing list stuff? They do it with every release or special sales.

It's a step-up from last year where they just tell you to check the Con Announcement page for new announcements.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272846
He's obviously subscribed to their newsletter.

>>15272835
If you subscribed to their newsletter by not unchecking the box, then you invited the solicitation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273088
It's Nutaku's loss if they don't allow certain titles. From the localization companies' point of view, it's just another platform for them to advertise and earn extra profit and customers from.

At best, if they get rejected for certain titles (maybe Mikan), they can hope that the Nutaku's customers will just buy directly from MangaGamer instead.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271317
Visual Arts translation for Angel Beats is already at 50%.

https://forum.kazamatsuri.org/t/baba-na-ga-and-orito-coming-to-anime-central/2558/16

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273380
>Baba confirms: Half of the text for Angel Beats! -1st beat- has been translated into English!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273388
RIP Redditor TL project

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273414
Good riddance.

[Anonymous No.]

No progress on Bishoujo Mangekyou this week.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273414
>>15273422
It's officially been dropped. They might still release a partial patch of what they managed to complete before the announcement. They even acknowledge that what was done was not a good quality translation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4kiheg/visual_arts_exec_confirms_half_of_angel_beats_1st/

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273609
Thanks for the plebbit post, janny.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273609
>I'm currently going through day 2, and I'm honestly thinking of redoing the entire thing because it's so damn shitty.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273623
You mean a highschooler than doesn't know Japanese made an awful translation? I'm shocked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273660
are you new here? 90% fan translations are like that

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273681
And those are bad too.

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>>15273616
>Error: You are temporarily blocked from posting for violating Global 3 - Garbage Outside of /b/.
I am confused here. Am I the one who posted the reddit link or are you? Do you think it's okay to post reddit links on this site?

[Anonymous No.]

I'm walking a thin line trying to vote with my wallet. But it is really hard.

First problem is of course nutakus greedy store system. No free choice on gold amount, so it is designed to make you overpay for everything. Now they happened to have an "offer" of 500 gold extra so I could get my 7 dollars worth of gold for 5 dollars and have some extra left. But this is probably last time I buy anything there until they change that fraud system from F2P overpay to normal.

The second problem is that I doubt Dovac has the brains to understand that the sale was because of the discount even though nutaku sucks. Instead he'll probably see it as a sale thanks to nutaku reaching more customers.

Oh well, at least JAST and MG runs discounts so their titles will keep selling. Dovac will probably kill Denpasoft within a year with no discounts.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15272768
I noticed this as well. Though I personally don't mind in this case, MangaGamer should be careful with this as it's blatantly illegal, particularly when sending to people that have explicitly unsubscribed. The lack of unsubscribe button is also not doing them any favors.

>>15272846
>>15273207
Not him, but I also got the e-mail despite having unsubscribed in 2014. I double-checked by logging in to my account on the MG site, but my account settings say I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. They probably sent it to all recent customers, regardless of whether or not they are subscribed.

(Regarding my decision to unsubscribe, this is an example of MG failing at marketing. I have never bought a single nukige from their site, yet they kept sending me e-mails advertising products I was not interested in, often multiple mails per product. In addition to it being annoying to receive so many useless e-mails, it was awkward to have lots of mails in my inbox with stuff like 'Bukakke Ranch' and 'Hypno-Training My Mother and Sister' when people might see that when looking at my screen. With the e-mails themselves lacking an unsubscribe link, I unsubscribed by sending an e-mail. Had they had a mailing list for only non-nukige announcements, I would've still been subscribed.)

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>>15274309
>Not him, but I also got the e-mail despite having unsubscribed in 2014. I double-checked by logging in to my account on the MG site, but my account settings say I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. They probably sent it to all recent customers, regardless of whether or not they are subscribed.
I only signed up recently to buy Fata Morgana from them, and I didn't get any email about the hardcopies. Hell, I didn't even get any email saying that the game was now available when it released, which is a bit poor.

[Anonymous No.]

Order Number - 170129
Order Date - 2016-04-01

I think the 1st was the day Fata went up for pre-order.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271641
Order Number - 170129
Order Date - 2016-04-01

I think the 1st was the day Fata went up for pre-order.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15274450
>>15274438
You can delete your post you know. Click the box and then click the delete button bottom right

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275725
I didn't think someone would make a more embarrassing blunder than my own, but there it is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275734
I didn't refresh the thread and there was no delete icon. Bite my tiny dick

[Anonymous No.]

A line from Reddit's Angel Beat translation:

"When I looked up, I could barely see Yuri's panties through her skirts, and because of that, I turned my head around."

Fan-fricken-tastic.

[Anonymous No.]

The highschool kid who was translating Angel beats is hoping to be contacted by Visual arts to translate and get paid even though he admits to using a dictionary word by word to translate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275850
Which is code for "I ran each noun and verb through Google Translate and guessed from that."

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275850
>>15275866
There is literally nothing wrong with google translate

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275850
Why the fuck do they even do this? Just for the e-fame?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275850
VA's own translation is further along than his and he admits his translation is bad. VA has nothing to gain by contacting the fan TL group. That only happens if the translation is basically done, of good quality and they didn't already hire someone else to do it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275902
Yeah, it's flawless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275913
Maybe they were hoping to sell the translation down the line.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275929
You just need to read between the lines

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275929
You just need to level-up your machine TL reading skills like sanahtlig.

[Anonymous No.]

Reminder that Key kids got BTFO'd by both moogy and Conjuerer.

http://ask.fm/moogy0/answers/136052402900
http://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/136302718683

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276245
Just how badly does moogy want to suck Romeo's cock?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276245
These are the same people that like Gahkthun and Tokyo Babel. Why should we care what some NEET twitter lowlifes with shit taste think?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276245
That's a badge of honor for Key if anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276245
Fuck. Maybe I should give Clannad another shot. It's gotta be doing something right if these SJWs hate it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276256
Probably very.

But it can't be denied Romeo is an amazing writer. I've read his two LNs recently, among other LNs, and you can just tell how much better he is than some random whoevers writing a generic fantasy hoping to get rich on the anime adaptation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276245
>beginners

What a joke. Not all of us can be super Eroge masters like them

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276282
>But it can't be denied Romeo is an amazing writer.
Yeah it can. Kouya and YMK are terrible. Even "good" Romeo shit like Cross Channel is boring, has terrible plot and inconsistent characterisation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276292
YMK isn't written by Romeo.

The qualities of Romeo's plots and characterizations, you can discuss, for example in the two LNs characters aren't all tha special. Way above typical LNs, but in the end just neat and functional.

But I mainly meant as far as the text itself goes. The flow, if you will. I'm not sure if you can do this, and if you'd be able to tell, but really the best way to realize how well Romeo writes is comparing him directly to others. If you only read "translated" Cross Channel and parrot opinions about Kouya (which all agree the text is amazing, parrot that too), you should shush.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276304
>m-muh prose
k

I'll read a novel that's actually interesting and engaging if a little wooden than I will read a novel that's boring, dreary and inconsistent but """"""""well-written"""""""""".

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276304
... Go back to TL wiki faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276309
Both of Romeo's LNs are interesting and engaging, just not special like say, Subarashiki Hibi or Sakura no Uta, special that they make you unable to thing about anything else as you read them. That's my standard for "special".

And yes, muh prose indeed. Muh prose you can't even understand.

>>15276319
Shush diletant.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276337
Oh the ironing...

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276245
Why are you so obsessed with these e-celebs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276344
Cause it's funny to see you unhappy about them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15274450
>I think the 1st was the day Fata went up for pre-order.

I use their blog for dates, which says it was the 31st. http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/03/31/the-house-in-fata-morgana-now-available-for-pre-order/

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276346
I like laughing at them, keep posting more.

[Anonymous No.]

Apparently Aroduc's translating Baldr Force.

[Anonymous No.]

HOLD THE DOOR

[Anonymous No.]

GET ON THE FLOOR

[Disability-san No.]

I know this is a visual novel translation and its been going on for a long time, but I've got some Japanese movies I will put onto a capture card that aren't owned in any English speaking countries that have never been translated before.

Would the 4 jay be down for a movie translation project?

I need a place to upload them and a form to take on this challenge.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276803
Fuck off

[Anonymous No.]

>>15276803
I will if you pay me $5000 per movie.

[Anonymous No.]

e2gaming.com
????
MG got NTRed by a random nobody?…

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277038
>e2gaming.com
How did you even find this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277087
There's even thread on VNDB about it https://vndb.org/t7866
Looks shady as fuck, and possibly another reincarnation of Japan Contents.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277038
Looks like a shell company

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277113
>>15277087
>>15277038
>Registrant Street: 2-7-21 Tenjin Chuo-ku
>Registrant Street: Tenjin Prime 8F
>Registrant City: Fukuoka-shi
>Registrant State/Province: Fukuoka
http://wsdata.co/2015-09-30/e2gaming.com-domain-information.html

Where was Japan Contents located again?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277038
>Magical Marriage Lunatics
Unbelievable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277038
It's over Mangagamer is finished.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277038
How is MG getting cucked left and right

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277308
Japanese devs aren't necessarily exclusive.

There's also the possibility that this is a scam, or only for mobile.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277166

All of their registrations were in tokyo or chiba, so it might be something new.

On the other hand, it was registered suspiciously close to b2gstudio.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/b2gstudio.com

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277327
>Japanese devs aren't necessarily exclusive.


Has there been any recent English releases for mobile recently done in such a way? I know Kirakira got an English mobile release back in the day got one through M-trix (same company that Moonstone let do an English version of Gift for mobile), but don't recall anything more recent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277363
>>15277327
If they're not exclusive practically they should be since they're just cannibalizing sales and fostering bad blood. Incredibly stupid

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277372
If their goal is to get as many games of theirs on the English market as quickly as possible to make money, then it makes perfect sense to use more than one English publisher. This e2gaming might produce shit translations though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277382
Ah. I thought you meant game exclusivity. I see no problem at all with choosing another publisher.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277392
It is also entirely possible though that a Japanese company does handle mobile rights separate from PC distribution for international release. The KiraKira case at least is one example where it has been done before.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277392
Some people like brand exclusivity for titles, especially since this e2gaming is unknown and could produce terrible work.

And the possibility of this being a mobile release is very likely considering most of their catalog is otome vns, which are very prominent on the mobile market. What would MG do if they can't license the all-ages assets for Steam because this other publisher already bought the English distribution rights for them?

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>>15277038
Wayback Machine says their website has been the same since January, so it's just more garbage. If it was remotely real something would've been announced in 5 months.

>>15277166
That's just the location of their domain registrar.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277499
>Registrant Name: Whois Privacy Protection Service by MuuMuuDomain
>Registrant Organization: Whois Privacy Protection Service by MuuMuuDomain
>Registrant Email: [e-mail]

Yeah that's pretty obvious.

Also, makes you wonder what legit business would use a whois privacy service.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277577
>what legit business would use a whois privacy service

That's not really that uncommon.

[Anonymous No.]

Leaked Mangagamer to announce White Album 2 at AX-(source-someone twitted but deleted right after)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277742
Uh-huh

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277742
although i would be very happy if this were true but i do not want to wait 2 years for it to actually get done.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277742
Nothing is impossible now, but I'd still be very surprised if its true. WA2 is single highest rated VN ever, its even higher rated than F/SN.

>>15277770
As opposed to what? Getting it done never? Wtf are you even blabbling about you fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277779
He'd rather have a fan TL pick it up so it can be done slowly over the course of the next 5 years with dubious quality.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277742
>someone twitted but deleted right after

You were too stupefied to even see their name? I'm kinda inclined to agree with
>>15277764

[Anonymous No.]

Guys I have a big crush on BDH. How do I get her to notice me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277793
No, someone who tweeted it asked to not say his name so MG higherups wouldn't fire him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277795

Offer to suck his dick.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277798
Stupid excuses. Since when people on the internet started to respect anyone's wishes in the face of hot news?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277779
SP could get it done in a few months. MG will take several years due to how slow they do shit and massive nukige backlog.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277831
You're joking right? Has SP released a single VN of medium+ length other than Nekopara and WEE ? Fan translation buys don't count.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277837
a lot of the games SP picked up that already got fan translations got re translated from scratch.
Clannad is probably the best example.

Also Maitetsu is already around 20% and the game just came out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277831
>SP could get it done in a few months
WEE announced: 2014-06-14
Today: 2016-05-23, 2 years passed and they aren't even fucking close to release.
dovac, next time make up some more believable lies, such outrageously false shit isn't going to pass even as joke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277853
yeah and baka tsuki also left lb:ex in limbo for years until they decided to abandon it because of the official release. They don't even do visual novels anymore, stop deluding yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277742
But when's the first White Album?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277868
>baka tsuki
>stop deluding yourself
I fail to comprehend what are you trying to say here. We were discussing MG speed vs SP speed, why do you suddenly bring some shitty machine-translators in discussion and claim I'm somehow "deluding" myself?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277878
i would like the first WA. It's probably not a very good game but I enjoyed the anime.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277883
two of them are released and you have to understand that SP is constantly commissioning new translators in and out. Idk how many teams SP has in circulation but the progress on maitetsu shows that they can do high demand titles quickly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277884
I gave up on the anime because of how infuriatingly terrible the MC was. My hope is that the VN would allow you to not make him a constantly flip-flopping douchebag.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277896
the anime was mostly original content and doesn't share much in common with the game. The game has an entirely different tone, not much heavy drama at all compared to the anime.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277894
We are talking about RELEASES, not whatever bullshit dovac is spewing on twitters and "trackers".
They didn't release WEE in two years, period. They didn't release Maitetsu, period. They didn't release Grisaia no Meikyuu, period. They didn't release even single non-fantled-in-the-past game longer than 5 hours of play, period.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277894

Yeah, I'll believe you when they actually translate and release something to a decent quality entirely from scratch in reasonable timeframe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277904
https://vndb.org/p162

they have plenty of releases that are lengthy, but yeah i understand. you hate SP so you will be really selective.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277917
>they have plenty of releases that are lengthy
All of them were translated by fantl teams and SP either released fan-tl translations as is (GnK) or slightly edited them (CLANNAD). There are no lengthy releases which SP translated themselves.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277922
they go over the fantl games with pretty extensive editing/reworking. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the routes are just entirely redone.

And clannad was was not edited at all, it was a whole new project from scratch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277929
>they go over the fantl games with pretty extensive editing/reworking
Must be nice to live in your imaginary world.
In our real world:
Narcissu - mostly as is.
WEE 01 - released as is, was so bad that even steam users complained about bad English
GnK - mostly as is, was censored in some places so its actually inferior to fan patch.
G-Senjou - as is.
Root Double - as is.

CLANNAD was THE ONLY title that received any significant editing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15273059
Should be my last post on the subject as it's unlikely that any more useful information can be found from it in the short term, but in the end it looks like Nutaku updates their rank sort for visual novels once daily, and it is almost surely sales based. That said, how long the remembered sales period is, if it's based on revenue or raw numbers, and how many titles they are actually selling is anyone's guess. For now Princess Evangile remains at the top, while the titles with a "no nudity" disclaimer and Deardrops make up the bottom. It's unlikely we will be able to guess if the sales are meaningful until either someone involved comments on it, or inferring its success or failure based on more titles showing up or the lack thereof.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277940
>Root Double - as is.

I kinda doubt that. I played Never7 by the fan-tl team and that was alright. Root Double has awful awful editing that gives a lot of scenes a completely different feeling. Something bad happened here. Could obviously be that the actual fan-tl team changed, but it could also be that someone "from Sekai" edited this. No idea. I don't care. It was horrible though. The localization attempts were as well. (no, you can NOT translate "san" as "Mr." or "Mrs." all the time. That's not how the language fucking works! If you localize something to be more close to what people in the west know, do NOT let school kids refer to each other as Mr. whateverfuckingnameyouhave. Also Mr. First-Name also happens.. I mean wtf? WTF?)


That said, Sekai sucks, more news at 11. Even if they have a product or two which are good, they also published a lot of shit. Like Sound of Drop, where the TITLE should already give you an idea how bad the translation is. They didn't care. They published it. Literal as hell translation that, as a result, has no natural english at all.. and plenty of errors where wrong words are used for the given situation. Also nice literally translated idioms!

[Good Haro No.]

>>15274309

Looked into this, apparently someone just made a mistake when sending out the newsletter (I dunno how the thing works so I can't really be more specific). It wasn't deliberate and shouldn't happen again.

[Anonymous No.]

Princess Maker is dead, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277831
>MG will take several years due to how slow they do shit and massive nukige backlog.
Might want to double check that anon.
Unless you like to make a fool out of yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277878
>>15277899
You should also specify if you mean the original or remake.

Harada's original is like a RNG simulator.

[Anonymous No.]

So you people are saying that no one likes or plays Liar-soft VNs and that is why Gahkthun failed. Well you are wrong, I asked ED admin for download numbers and got this:
- Sharnoth 31k, plus more form when the site used other file hosts then downloadani
- Inganock 29k and plus more for the smae reason as Sharnoth
- Gahkthun numbers I will keep for myself but I can say that it is a lot less then the other 2.

So the point is people do like and play Liar-soft VNs but they dont like Gahkthun.
Gahkthun was meh, even I a Liar-soft didn't really like it. So before MG gives up on them they should try to localize one more that is better like Sharnoth, Celenaria or Sona-Nyl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278292
>Gahkthun numbers I will keep for myself

What is the point of your post then? You're still saying that sales were abysmal and nobody wants liar-shit regardless

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278320
No, I'm saying no one wants Gahkthun but they do want other Liar-soft VNs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278334
Like 妖刀事変?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278334
If they wanted other Liar-soft VNs then they would chuck cash down on Gahkthun to increase the odds of other ones being translated. I don't think most care.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277940
>Narcissu - mostly as is.
Its translation was awful

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278345
Not sure about that one since it got the vertically text thing going and people may not like that.
>>15278364
Well I doubt that many people are willing to spent $39.95 on a VN they dont like even if it means getting some they do like.

[Anonymous No.]

http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/14210-homeless-school-girl-translation-project/

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275928
>VA has nothing to gain by contacting the fan TL group. That only happens if the translation is[...]of good quality
loving every laugh

[Anonymous No.]

https://tlwiki.org/index.php?title=Idolmaster_SP
An update for Idolm@ster SP (not me)

Reposting this from >>>/vg/142913667

Here's to an early Happy Birthday to Ami & Mami
mega.nz/#!KBtiXbYT!isK1ZF_rZfhExzGEX9KrudvQ4zWME0N-J9uICpTqfmE

Releasing a beta version of Wandering Star with new line injections, which includes all translated scripts.
Not many of AmiMami's Story scripts have been translated, but nearly all Promotion scripts are done. Yukiho and Iori also have new revised scripts in this release.
I'm also in need of translators to help finish the last 30 scripts left for Ami & Mami's route in SP: Wandering Star.
I'll be attempting to get some translations in, but any extra hands would be great.
I'm going to need your help to find bugs to iron out, as well as extra eyes to catch any English errors during translation.
Please submit a form here if you find any: docs.google.com/forms/d/1HZDJS9kJBit3PJPG5kJ8A_VWxRVLRi3bYOfhnAmNcP4/viewform

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277847
Clannad had a horde of translators working on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15275850

>he admits to using a dictionary word by word to translate

Jesus, he must have a terminal case of no self-awareness. And I presume there's no need to say how broad can be the translation range for many Japanese words, so if he really went word-by-word with a dictionary, you know, the result is total shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278588
>Clannad had a horde of editors working on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279062
That's even worse. There's so much chance of inconsistency.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277742
You know what else went up and was deleted? White Album on Steam. I'll believe it when I see it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278598
By many words, you mean like a few dozen? Of course there are some such words, but in my experience, the vast majority of words have one well-defined meaning and occasional synonyms to that meaning. The only problem is that when he is looking up every single word, he won't finish in the next ten years. Or ever.

[Anonymous No.]

How do I get the Noel bra scene in Sora no woto?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277742
I hope you are right anon. I really want to know what happened after the anime because the ending was terrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15278292
Gahkthun is on Steam, meaning people expect 25-50% discounts to hit, so unless they need it NOW, they are very likely to get a good deal later.

It is only when you offer excess nudity you can sell fast, because people love to "inform" Steam of how wrong their rules are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279330
Princess Evangile has been out over a year and hasn't been more than 15% off on Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279597
It probably isn't selling either. Clannad was 25% or 50% recently. If anyone wonders why it has high sales.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279675
Still, Clannad and Grisaia hitting 20k on Steam is a lot compared to other VNs, even if they were at 25 or 50% sales. That's still at least $20.

Even Danganronpa 2 has barely hit 20k on Steam and that got decently popular outside the regular VN community. I thought most people wouldn't have been played the Vita version so its low sales on Steam surprise me.

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/shinhoroko/status/734624604929589251 hmm who? Does sekai pull anyone off the street for translators?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279691
The month Danganronpa 2 was released a lot of other VNs and games like Hyperdevotion Noire that target the same audience were released too.
Steam Gahkthun was also released around the same time so maybe that could explain the low sells for it too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279691
Danganronpa will have legs. They released the 2nd game really soon after the first (which is already at 42k sales) and people will pick up the sequel when it goes on sale again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279734
44% translated and that guy has been working on it for a month? Are they using multiple translators?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279330
>It is only when you offer excess nudity you can sell fast, because people love to "inform" Steam of how wrong their rules are.
Gahkthun is probably the most explicit game on Steam right now. Didn't help it sell well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279735
Seinarukana and Steam Aselia are on the same month too. So ye definitely too much stuff that targets the same audience was out at the same time.

[Anonymous No.]

I wish Danganronpa would go on GOG

>>15279758
More than the one that showed an actual peen?

[Anonymous No.]

>>2236 A.D. - 44% translated
This made my day. I have never expected this to get an official english release. The game is both amazing in quality and writing especially for a doujing game, the only thing was lacking was some voice acting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279758
It might be explicit, but word has it there are almost no scenes at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279818
You might want to check where you get your words from then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279818
There were 5-6 H scenes in a 25 hour long vn.

[Anonymous No.]

Just saw that Kurukuru Fanatic is at 100% translated now, so that just leaves editing and insertion.

[Anonymous No.]

This blog post is interesting: http://chloro2236.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-168.html

He's looking for feedback, should tell him not to do the universal edition just so it can be sold overseas. This is worse than censorship.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15280255
He is saying That there is new added art and scenario for this version, so why the fuck not? It's not like the sex scene matter to the plot, and it's not censorship if the original creators are working on the all age version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15280255


This is one title that Sekai explicitly confirmed an 18+ release as soon as it was announced, so it's not exactly a problem that the original author helps to create an all ages version to go along with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277038
https://www facebook com/e2gaming/
>yes we are in the process of localizing Taisho Alice

I just hope they're not working on any of the titles they have on the galleries section of their website.

Facebook links are considered spam lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>15280609
>I just hope they're not working on any of the titles they have on the galleries section of their website.

That's quite optimistic of you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15280543
It is censorship as soon as a game version is discarded because they are afraid of soccer moms.

But as long as they sell them, I don't care what else they sell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15280733
We don't really have to care about soccer moms anymore, at least not for products intended for adults in the first place. Now censorship comes from the left.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279753
It's a short doujinshi game so this doesn't seem like much of a stretch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15279098
You're absolutely clueless. Speak no more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15280777
Soccer moms will become our new primary audience. After all, they have to do something now that they can't fuck the milkman.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271323
>Frontwing
>>The Leisure of Grisaia - Released
It has nothing to do with Sekai this time around?
Will I actually be able to support Front Wing and Grisaia without also supporting Sekai?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15281851
Yes, no SP involvement in any way, and translation quality is better than what SP usually generates.

[Anonymous No.]

JAST has new forums.

http://discuss.jastusa.com/

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282628
>Current game tab
>Last response is from Sanahtlig
So fast goes to shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282692
He's one of the moderators there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282698
Even worse. I dont like him at all.
And despise the use of Keima with his shitty opinion.

[Anonymous No.]

Conjurer's an interesting guy MG picked up. He's telling people that C&Ds will never actually be enforced.

>In any case, no VN company in the world has enough funds or patience to chase and sue people overseas, especially when there's nothing for them to gain from it after the translation was already released. Spending half your budget on making an example of a fan that spent hundreds of hours translating your game out of love doesn't sound like the best business plan, lol. It's much more likely they'll rather ask to buy your translation for an official release instead.

>But you should stop anyway if your translation is so shitty not even the company that bothers to send a C&D wants to touch it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282738
Well duh, enforcing a C&D across countries is not worth the effort. People follow them just to be courteous, but there's many ways of non-compliance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282738>>15282755
That's valid only if perpetrator is US citizen. EU and other countries have different copyright laws, in many places releasing pirated version of game is criminal offense and it would be prosecuted by state if there's appropriate complaint filed to police. Expenses in that case are almost non-existent because almost everything is done by state.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282770
Well, people torrent in Europe with impunity all the time.

There are also plenty of web hosts in Europe that will ignore DMCA too. If they ignore DMCA they'll ignore copyright issues in general.

What police department is going to take an international complaint about small-time copyright infringement? That's a joke.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282801
>What police department is going to take an international complaint about small-time copyright infringement?

That's why they report some possibly illegal content the game contains instead. Fan TLing a loli game, you're under arrest for promoting child pornography.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282801
>What police department is going to take an international complaint about small-time copyright infringement? That's a joke.
In my country people are arrested for infringing on software distribution rights all the time (for Microsoft, Adobe and AutoCAD shit), as long as they can claim damages are above certain value, and they calculate damages via simple number_of_copies_pirated x price_per_copy, so 8000 Yen game x 30000 downloads easily crosses threshold for "caused grave damages" clause for extra penalty.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282856
Yes, this also happens in the US for companies that pirate commercial software. The BSA actually offers bounties up to $1 million for people who report their company's use of pirated software and they can conduct audits and collect fines.

It's really a different matter to do this for small-time personal use stuff. Otherwise consumer piracy would be non-existent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282874
As I said, its different in US since companies themselves need to to shit and pay for court.
Here it works in a much simpler fashion: police looks for individuals installing pirated software for fee, individuals selling pirated software and organizations who use pirates software, police launches raids, pays for expertise and then contacts local representative of IP owner so he will sign needed legalese - IP owner has to confirm that it was indeed his software that police found and that he suffered certain amount of damages because of perpetrator's actions.
IP owner representative them may be summoned in court few times to be questioned, but generally he's not involved at all.
Procedure is same if you file criminal complaint that your IP was infringed, as long as you can present some evidence that there were enough damages.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282940
Yeah yeah, that's all theory. In practice no Japanese company is going to bother with all of that stuff to enforce a C&D.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282940
>as long as you can present some evidence that there were enough damages.
Which is easy, since torrent download numbers are counted as potentially lost revenue. All it would take is for the patch to get a few thousand downloads and the uploader is screwed.

>>15282957
Depending on the country. In some the procedure is cheap and easy, so it really depends on where your located.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15282856

They can't claim that though. Your country can do shit about your country. But how many do DL this from your country. How could they prove any of that? It ain't happening. Total amount of dls from all over the world have no substance.. could all be from where it's "allowed". Also I'm not even sure if companies outside of a country can even do ANYTHING at all. Probably not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15284107
>How could they prove any of that?
Your Internet Service Provider has a record of all the websites you visit, you massive fucking retard. Are you actually so dumb that you think deleting the history from your browser magically makes what you did on the Internet go away? Do you even have any fucking idea how the Internet works, you fucking moron?

[Anonymous No.]

Sanahtlig is dangerous, he has been whispering lies and Fuwashit to JAST for a while now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15284377
why would anyone listen to that retard

[Anonymous No.]

>>15284780
Well, not all that he says is bullshit. The problem is when he spells bullshit some people may actually believe it.
This is what happens when one is too stupid to search for himself and simply follows other people opinion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15284377

jast is more or less dead though so what's it matter?

[Anonymous No.]

Glad to see that so far KnS copies seem to be selling decently.
On another note, those Fata Morgana reviews I'm seeing just scream hype to me. I'll most likely pick it up even though I'm not a fan of horror stories.

[Anonymous No.]

Huh, that's the first time I've seen a writer comment on a localization. I wonder if it'll get changed?

I can't really say I care either way though, since cowtits are an affront to god.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15284892
Its not uncommon, just usually they use more appropriate ways than public twitter.

[Anonymous No.]

What happened with Brothers Conflict on psp?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15284892
If you didn't know the name was derived from German, how would you know how to transliterate it? Stupid Japs should start using Romaji for words that cannot be mapped one to one to kana, then problems such as these wouldn't happen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15284892
Translate it for me my Japanese speaking friends.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285088
He's complaining about the English title, and MG responded that they got Waffle's permission to call it that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285088

He wrote the first one in english for you: https://twitter.com/boin_master/status/734873830754160640

mangagamer replied that Waffle agreed to the title(which he said he didn't like in a different tweet) and that they worked out the name transliteration with them.

He responded telling them to please double check with waffle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285088
He wants the title to be kept as Kyonyu Fantasy and he pointed out that MG didn't carry over the German names things. Of course, the way it's written in Japanese doesn't make it obvious that they were intended to be German names in the first place.

I'm not a big fan of the title MG chose, but arbitrarily keeping the Japanese name isn't ideal either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285224
Wouldn't be arbitrary since it really is a better name.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285027

He does kind of have a point on the hende > henge thing though. I wonder why that got changed?

>>15285175

Also looking at another tweet, waffle apparently didn't even tell him about the english version lol.

Still he seems like a nice guy, even if his taste is trash. Maybe if mangagamer's nice enough to him they can get a short interview or something when it comes time to introduce the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285234
Nukige tend to sell better based on their title and many English speakers don't know what Kyonyu even means. Harem Party and Boob Wars were self explanatory titles.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285259

On the other hand, this is a title with an existing fanbase already under the original.

If it were me, I'd just split the difference and colon it.
Kyonyuu Fantasy: Funbag Frolic

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285259
I'm not criticizing them for it. From a marketing perspective it's fine.

The original title is better however. And going with what's better is not arbitrary.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285268
Take in a step further.

Kyonyu Fantasy: Funbag Frolic ~Motorboating These Slutty Tits Like There's No Tomorrow~

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285317

Now that's a title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285317
I can get behind this

[Anonymous No.]

>Baldr Sky - 5106/10284 (49.65%) lines of Nanoha route translated. Overall progress: 23834/91443 (26.06%) lines, 1204.89/4720.14 (25.53%) kb, 87/196 (44.39%) scripts


What happend?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286414
What

[Anonymous No.]

>>15285317
Man, MG could have used this title. Surely no one would complain.

[Anonymous No.]

Why isn't it called Boob Fantasy though? I mean if you sold a ton of Boob Wars, wouldn't Boob Fantasy be ideal?

Everyone knows what boobs are. Funbags on the other hand is more obscure and I hadn't heard of it until last year in Magical Girl Apocalypse translation. But maybe you are all kids and it is a common word among kids.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286497

More likely you just aren't old enough, funbags is 70s slang, like jugs.

>wouldn't Boob Fantasy be ideal

On top of being boring that kinda undersells 巨乳 as a word.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15281892
Yeah, looked at the steam page. The translations are still garbage.

[Anonymous No.]

https://vndb.org/v6232

When will this be translated?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286758
>No Sexual Content
For what purpose

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286669
Well funbag is also underselling it since the word doesn't sound impressive. My first association is still "Bad translation" because it sounds like someone just picked the new edgy word all kids use, even if it would happen to be a 70s word.

We didn't get little sister paradise, but we got imouto paradise. I think at some point in time it is better to go Japanese than to go obscure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286758
If you love tsunderes enough to overlook the absolutely terrible plot, bland and lazy character design and lower than average artstyle, then you love them enough to learn japanese and translate it yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286842

Now everything's subjective and all, but I really don't think it's particularly obscure. I'm not even the audience for shit like cowtits and I've heard it before. Words got about half a million results on google(and that's with safesearch), comparable to similar slang like knockers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286842
Imouto Paradise works because their customers know the term Imouto. Unless they are calling it Oppai Fantasy, which would still be changing it, best to translate it to something in English.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286947
Sure it is good to translate, the problem is that funbags sound on the level of "Sandwiched by my wife and her sister" and "Tasty shafts". If someone only told me the title without showing that the screenshots look alright, I'd have zero interest in the title.

MG brought this on themselves by making terrible titles to their early localization. Now as soon as I hear a title sounding like old MG naming, I just want to stay the hell away from it.

That said, I think they only kept Kara no Shojo in Japanese, so it is rare that they keep titles untranslated. But it is not unheard of, and could prove to sell more copies.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287086
>muh nukige might come across as a nukige

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287086
Kara no Shoujo was kept because the devs wouldn't let it be changed.

In the case of Kyonyuu Fantasy, they're probably better off doing what the writer wants, since it would look bad to ignore him and because the fan base mostly dislikes the new title. Maybe add a subtitle, like >>15285268 suggested. They can re-announce the title at AX or Otakon if they want so people know about the changes. It's also good PR, since it's easy feedback to comply with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287106
Bad translation, so it makes people expect Engrish, like the titles anon mentioned.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286753
It's actually pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287148
>they're probably better off doing what the writer wants, since it would look bad to ignore him

You act like anyone but /jp/ is interested in twitter-stalking a company enough to even know.

That said, I am
>>15285268
So I agree. I think mangagamer kinda just figured it was just another nukige and wasn't aware of its "prestige".

[Anonymous No.]

>>15286947
>Imouto Paradise works because their customers know the term Imouto.

Kyonyuu Fantasy costumers are people who masturbate to 2D so even if some of them don't know exactly what Kyonyuu means they only have to take a look at the cover or even the logo to know that's it's a porn game about big fucking tits. It's not because it's written funbags that they immediatly buy it.
Imouto Paradise works as well as Kyonyuu Fantasy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287214
How many Japanese devs follow the guy and could think MG will mangle their vision because they were given permission?

Negative news travels fast, so people outside the usual Twitter stalkers could get wind if it, especially if he keeps going through social media to complain about it.

It's not like MG's title for it has been well received anyway, so changing it back would more than likely be for the best.

[Good Haro No.]

I know you guys think we're complete idiots, but yes we know Kyonyuu Fantasy isn't just "another nukige". The title and logo were both approved by Waffle.

We opted to localize the title because unlike "imouto" kyonyuu isn't a word the average weeb knows.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287256
What's the plan if the writer keeps up about it on Twitter?

[Good Haro No.]

>>15287269

Dunno yet, but we are trying to get it sorted out.

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>>15287269

Obviously she ain't gonna say anything, and he doesn't really seem apt to anyway. If you'd actually looked at his twitter he didn't even talk about the title until asked. He seems more concerned with the transliterations.

Either they've got

[Anonymous No.]

Would anyone be interested in a translation port of Princess Maker 2 to the Refine version?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287280

He seems like a nice guy and enthusiastic guy. If things end up working out you should see if you can get a short interview or something out of him. I doubt it'd do anything for sales, but I really like reading those on the rare times you do them.

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>>15287307
He's a pretty swell guy. I'm glad that what I consider his best work is getting localized, so hopefully he doesn't end up in bad terms and with a sour experience after this.

A few months back he wrote an interesting analysis on why he thought eroge wasn't selling well on his Note (https://note.mu/kagamihiroyuki/n/n4d8a2555c667 if interested), and while I can agree and disagree on some points he makes, getting an article out of him would be a nice idea. His English doesn't seem too shabby either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287256
>unlike "imouto" kyonyuu isn't a word the average weeb knows.
I can personally confirm this is my case. I've been reading VNs for more than 5 years (already read more than 100) and to this day I have no idea of what Kyonyuu means. Now if you speak of imoutos I immediately know it's about sisters.

I suppose this should be the case with many others.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15287307
And if he can't be convinced, he can suck the meaty folds of my labia.

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>>15287418
>I've been reading VNs for more than 5 years (already read more than 100)

You haven't even grinded some basic nip by now? That's almost impressive, in a way.

Also are there even 100 translated VN?

[Anonymous No.]

Should have kept Kyonyuu Fantasy because the hentai is widely known and people would better recognize it.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh hey, a new project?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287418
>reading VNs for more than 5 years (already read more than 100)
>I have no idea of what Kyonyuu means
At least one of these statements is fucking BS. That or you're beyond retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287470
It sounds pretty much like what you'd expect.

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>>15287256
Seems kinda a dick move from Waffle to just approve everything without even checking with the writer's thought on it first.

Not sure if it shows interest or disinterest in the West.

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>>15287845
Why would the writer have a say in the localized title?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287845
But if they took it back at this point, it'd seem like they're... waffling

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287845

Well, he's just a writer. They paid him for the script, so it's not like he really has much say beyond that.

They didn't even tell him about the english release in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287256
Hopefully this one doesn't bomb like your other titles this year. It even seems like you're actively trying to sabotage this one with that localized title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287863
Because he wrote the story? Just because it's just a script he wrote for Waffle doesn't mean you should disregard him when it comes to work around the series, especially when the series is still on going. It's disrespectful

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287876

Most of their titles this year have done pretty good though. It's just TB and fata morgana that underperformed.

[Anonymous No.]

Is fata morgana good?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287906
Yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287906
Maybe, you should read it just to be sure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15277997
Honorifics aside, I thought the localization as very good and it gave the writing and characters a lot of personality. And this is coming from the person who posted images complaining about the honorifics localization choices they used a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287948
The translation was good, it could have used a bit more editing work, but that was obviously not in the cards as SP was rushing it out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287916
B-but I have other other games in my backlog I want to read anon, currently deciding between fata morgana or noble works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15271323
>Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Fucking hell I swear if they censor or overlocalize this shit

Back when it first released and the fan translation was scrapped I wanted to do my own translation and people said it would be out before it finished so I shouldn't bother.
>mfw I eventually went on to run a successful scanlation group and this shit is only now going to editing
I could have finished it years ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288159
Hasn't it been it editing for almost a year now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287450
If you count all the bottom of the barrel nukige translations of questionable quality, yes, well over.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287418
How? Do you not listen to the words being spoken while playing the eroge and only read the text or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288251
it was only yesterday that i learned that kyonyuu was kyo nyuu and not kyon yuu at which point suddenly everything made sense to me

not the person you were talking to

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287876
It's the story titles that have been tanking, not the nukige. And as hard as it may be to believe, a title like Funbag Fantasy could help sales, since it's attention grabbing. It worked for Harem Party and Boob Wars after all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288291
>It worked for Harem Party and Boob Wars after all.
Except those are a direct translation of the original titles of those games, "funbag fantasy" is not. If you haven't noticed there is quite a lot of people complaining about how horrible of a translation the title is

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288307

What do you think "kyonyuu" means?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288307
I seriously doubt Boob Wars would have sold meaningfully less if it's original title was something completely different.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288324
Gargantuan breasts, which let me remind you is the title they have already used in the series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288337

"Gargantuan Breasts Fantasy" sounds awful in English.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288341
A thousand times better than Funbag fantasy at the very least.

>>15288334
Good job missing the point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288343

Not really. It's stilted and awkward and not nearly unique enough to make a recognizable title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288341
We already have a alternative translation for it even if that is the case, "Honeydew Fantasy" is another official title the series has gone under. Funbag Fantasy is easily the worst out of the three

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288353
The popularity of the series in Japan is enough to prove that wrong, you even have the author of the series telling you it sounds awful. What more do you need?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288353
Funbag Fantasy isn't a recognizable title, sounds like one of those standard RPG games like Level Drain.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288359

The title in Japan is 巨乳ファンタジー so I'm not really sure what your point is

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288343

>Good job missing the point.
How so? Boob Wars sold well in large part because it's name was Boob Wars. Sure it happened to be a direct translation, but as long as it was called Boobs Wars in English and had that concept, it doesn't matter what the initial Japanese title was called or how far off the translation it was, it would have sold just as well.

I don't necessary disagree that Funbag Fantasy isn't the best name. A better name might be able to sell it better. However I am doubtful that it will lose any meaningful amount of sales simply because people are upset that the title translation is "bad"

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288376
>However I am doubtful that it will lose any meaningful amount of sales simply because people are upset that the title translation is "bad"
Of course it won't, I'm more concerned about people being turned away from the series because of the title, Boob wars for example sounds ridiculous enough in order to grab people attention while Funbag Fantasy does not it just sounds awful. It's a rather good series that I want other people to enjoy , I'd hate to see people skip out on it because of bad the title sounds. If the series originally had a title like that I would have been very skeptical about reading it in the first place back when it came out in 09.

I'm not the type of person that would comment on things like this but the localized title of the series is so god damn bad that I simply can't believe people think it's a viable title.

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>>15288400

Wait, do you really not think 巨乳ファンタジー sounds retarded and like a trashy nukige title?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288406
It's actually pretty simple and reasonable in a industry that contains games with names like 麗しの聖女神セシルを救う中出し新婚生活！～甘えていいから…貴方の子種をたくさん子宮に注いで？～ or キモメン底辺職でも巨根ならハーレムギルドの主になれる！？

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288406
Considering the shit titles that appear in LNs and Eroge nowadays? No

[Anonymous No.]

>Who's more annoying, the ">VNs can be so much more! I ctrl through all the Hscenes anyway!" people or the ">All Ages? Dropped" guys?

>Aren't those usually the same people?

http://ask.fm/Good_Haro/answers/137161290344?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=answer_own#_=_

[Anonymous No.]

Are we pushing this thread to the bump limit arguing about Tremendous-Titty Tale?

Majestic Mammary Mythos
Colossal-Cans Chronicle
Super-Stacked Saga
Resplendent Rack Record

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288446
I don't get it.

[Anonymous No.]

その気持ちは/jp/な彼女がないんだ

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288446
Tell him to read it again

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288459
Kinda moot point anyway, when the Kyonyuu Fantasy is actually in the title of the localized version as well. Just more subtle.

Still Kyonyuu Fantasy > Funbag Fantasy > Gargantuan Breasts Fantasy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15287876
Literally every release other then two have done great for MG this year. Only the story titles have done badly. The nukige and otome did great. Haruka is probably going to be this years top seller at the rate its going.

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>>15287256
> The title and logo were both approved by Waffle.

Of course they agree if you don't tell them people will hate it, link it to your worst produced products of the past, and they'll suffer lost sales. Try telling them "People hate the title, want to change it again?" and see if they say "No, we want to use a hated title".

You do whatever you want, but my purchase depends on the title. (Or actually how much I am willing to pay depends on the title.)

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>>15288459
The 'fantasy' part is important because there's other games in the Kyonyuu line of titles, this series set in... a fantasy world. It somewhat limits how creative you can be.

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>>15287280
Ask him about all the German words that he "knew" and wrote into the story. I think he'll appreciate it if you work with him.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288094
Two different genres. Not that my word means much but Fata Morgana was such a great read. Haven't finished it yet but I very much enjoyed it.

Two errors I found:

1)The backlog for the 4th story is wrong. In my readings, the words are not crossed out. Also later on, it had conversations that was for another route/ending(?).

2)Typo. "B-Because I can't shop shaking..."

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288251
Probably because I haven't heard it that much. I usually like to hear lewd lines from heroines I like.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

so if kyonyu fantasy sells well will that finally open the door for more non-bargain bin nukige?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289244

That doors been open for awhile anonymous

[Anonymous No.]

What do you think /jp/?

Will it be flexible funding?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289518
What a redundant question, of course it will.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289518
> launching in 2 days
> indiegogo
FW, pls.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289244
What is that, EOP pal?

[Anonymous No.]

Kyonyuu VS "Funbag"


http://www.strawpoll.me/10306592

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289781
Promo pictures and the like make them look monstrously big, but the in-game CGs look acceptable. Kinda strange.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288509
People who usually say they don't care about ero really want it and won't buy vns that don't have it.

People say they want story titles and MG's story titles sell like shit 99% of the time. Of course, it could just be a vocal minority that say they want story titles and don't care about ero.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15288978
>1)The backlog for the 4th story is wrong. In my readings, the words are not crossed out. Also later on, it had conversations that was for another route/ending(?).
Hah. That's not an error.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289244
I hope so anon. Give me some AAA nukige like Bishop or Lune and i'll be the happiest man in the world.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289856
Really ? I checked the CG set and they are huge. Kyonyuu means that the boobs are really big, bigger than your usual "big tits" you see all the time.
That's also why "funbags" is a shitty title because funbags doesn't really mean huge tits, funbags is just another term for tits.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290331
Those aren't big, these are big

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290375
Can't wait for MG to translate all the fucking series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290403
I really hope they release it in chronological order, releasing the games out of order that order is disastrous to the plot events in the games

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290418
It looks complicated for a nukige series though.
Is there a timeline ? And what's gaiden ? Is it a side-story between the first and the second episode ? And what's the difference between the original and the digital novel edition ?

Seems like there is also a spin-off, Kyonyuu Majo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290472
>Is there a timeline ?
Yes all the entries of the series are interconnected, it's 1 world over a single timeline.

>And what's the difference between the original and the digital novel edition ?
The original versions are good and the digital novels versions are really shit, don't waste you're time with the digital novels like I did.

>It looks complicated for a nukige series though.
It's really not.

Rome: Kyonyuu 3 + possible sequels
Early-Middle Medieval Europe: Kyonyuu 2 and/or 2if
Early 1500's: Kyonyuu 1 -> Gaiden 1 -> Gaiden 2
Modern day: Kyonyuu Majo

Proper play order: (Playing this out of order ruins plot events in certain games)
Kyonyuu Fantasy -> Kyonyuu Majo -> Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden -> Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 -> Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden 2 -> Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 if -> Kyonyuu Fantasy 3

[Anonymous No.]

Reading Steiner's tears over not getting to work on Steins;Gate 0 are quality entertainment.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290472
Gaiden is set 2 years after Kyonyuu Fantasy's true ending.

The digital novels are
> the "novelized" version is the adaptation of those VNs into novels, two volumes for each game, put back into a single VN with no routes (hence unavoidable harem ending).

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290517
I see, so there's only one timeline. Thanks.

>The original versions are good and the digital novels versions are really shit, don't waste you're time with the digital novels like I did.
But why ? the digital novels are more recent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290568
>But why ?
Because the digital novels are shorter versions of the original game that does anyway with the charm of the series?

> the digital novels are more recent.
Just because something is more recent doesn't mean it's better especially when it comes to eroge

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290532
The guy has a huge fanbase who thinks he translated the original game. That ask.fm named SciADV is pretty effective

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290568
>But why ?
No routes and shorter.

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.ricedigital.co.uk/steinsgate-0-english-2016-release-in-europe-north-america-confirmed/

https://twitter.com/_geraintevans_/status/735501338482728960
>Did someone say they wanted us to tease MORE VNs?! We'll defo do more VNs. I might even announce the next one as early as next month... ;)

What's next?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290720
>ps4 and vita only

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290850
From PQube. 5pb is probably going to self-publish it on Steam like they are doing with the first game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290720
>steins gate

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290850
That's great. We should get more console VNs localized. They sell well but MG and JAST don't want to bother with the subimssion process.

I have a hard time believing that people interested in playing niche Japanese games wouldn't own a console anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290720
>What's next?

Chaos;Child, probably

[Anonymous No.]

>>15290720
Wasn't there some teasing about Chaos;Head Noah? I think I saw some screen from translated psp version posted here.

Also, some dude on Fuwa says that Sekai licenced Ponkotsu Akuma. Please tell me he's wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15291084
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Sekai did end up with Ponkotsu Akuma.

[Anonymous No.]

Seems like Steam Aselia did well for a game that has been already out for years.

[Anonymous No.]

The Ne no Kami Indiegogo project is up.

To the surprise of no one, it uses flexible funding.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15291411
It's a 12k goal that it will make anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15291411
18+ patch for $5.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15291411
From the product description on the Indiegogo page, at least they are self aware.
>We are Sekai Project however, so a delay could still happen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15291451
Still less than 20 dollars, which is what they are going to try and charge for both uncensor patches later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15291084>>15291126
Nukige ported to Steam and machine-translated. Gee, I'm so excited.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292298
As long as they get out an uncut version like they have for the majority of their 18+ titles thus far, it doesn't matter where they port it. Though it would be bullshit if they picked up a title like Ponkotsu Akuma with no plans to release it uncut.

[Anonymous No.]

Speaking of announcements, AX is just over a month away. Any predictions? Here's the blog post where MG apparently hinted at at least some of this year's announcements.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/03/07/2016-licensing-survey-results-and-some-hints-for-the-year-to-come/

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
They'll get Subahibi

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
Free Friends 2 hard copy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
Katahane - An' call Belle, so they have another story title to complain about not selling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
Iwaihime.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
Kara no Shoujo 3 dual Japanese/English release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
Conjueror gets Dies Irae with a new company.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292694
This one I can actually see happening. It's 1080p and MG teased that they got a title that fans of HD vns will enjoy. With their current relationship with 07 Expansion, it's possible they were able to get a foot in the door of DMM for it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
With increased competition by companies with more resources, it seems unlikely they'll get any big, Steam-worthy title. So titles like Dies Irae, Majikoi, White Album 2, Aiyoku no Eustia, etc are probably a no go. It's also worth remembering they'll save half their announcements for Otakon

Subahibi is possible, but it depends on what the logistics look like for the publisher since Moogy said they wanted to do their own thing. If that doesn't work out though, then they could basically get it by default because no one else would touch it.

Eve Burst Error R is the type of title they might have got before Tokyo Babel did poorly, and has a Hobibox connection. They'd probably regret picking it up if they did though.

They probably have something Alicesoft, Evenicle seems most likely unless they somehow got a Rance title.

More Sono Hanabira also seems very likely, considering their success with their first release of it.

>>15292683
Is the sort of title they might consider, after Sono Hanabira and Yuri Ghosts, especially with a fan translation to use as a base.

Magical Marriage Lunatics would have been an obvious guess, but who knows what the E2gaming stuff means for that.

Maggot Baits seems possible considering the success they had with Clockup, and that they are bringing over the illustrator.

Minori's recent titles also seem possible, especially with nbkz at AX and what has been selling here in the Western market recently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
With increased competition by companies with more resources, it seems unlikely Mangagamer will get any big, Steam-worthy title. So titles like Dies Irae, Majikoi, White Album 2, Aiyoku no Eustia, etc are probably a no go for them. It's also worth remembering they'll save half their announcements for Otakon.

For MangaGamer

Subahibi is possible, but it depends on what the logistics look like for the publisher since Moogy said they wanted to do their own thing. If that doesn't work out though, then they could basically get it by default because no one else would touch it.

Eve Burst Error R is the type of title they might have got before Tokyo Babel did poorly, and has a Hobibox connection. They'd probably regret picking it up if they did though.

They probably have something Alicesoft, Evenicle seems most likely unless they somehow got a Rance title.

More Sono Hanabira also seems very likely, considering their success with their first release of it.

>>15292683 (You)
Is the sort of title they might consider, after Sono Hanabira and Yuri Ghosts, especially with a fan translation to use as a base.

Magical Marriage Lunatics would have been an obvious guess, but who knows what the E2gaming stuff means for that.

Maggot Baits seems possible considering the success they had with Clockup, and that they are bringing over the illustrator.

Minori's recent titles also seem possible, especially with nbkz at AX and what has been selling here in the Western market recently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292770
>>>15292683 (You)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
With increased competition by companies with more resources, it seems unlikely Mangagamer will get any big, Steam-worthy title. So titles like Dies Irae, Majikoi, White Album 2, Aiyoku no Eustia, etc are probably a no go for them. It's also worth remembering they'll save half their announcements for Otakon.

For MangaGamer

Subahibi is possible, but it depends on what the logistics look like for the publisher since Moogy said they wanted to do their own thing. If that doesn't work out though, then they could basically get it by default because no one else would touch it.

Eve Burst Error R is the type of title they might have got before Tokyo Babel did poorly, and has a Hobibox connection. They'd probably regret picking it up if they did though.

They probably have something Alicesoft, Evenicle seems most likely unless they somehow got a Rance title.

More Sono Hanabira also seems very likely, considering their success with their first release of it.

>>15292683
Is the sort of title they might consider, after Sono Hanabira and Yuri Ghosts, especially with a fan translation to use as a base.

Magical Marriage Lunatics would have been an obvious guess, but who knows what the E2gaming stuff means for that.

Maggot Baits seems possible considering the success they had with Clockup, and that they are bringing over the illustrator.

Minori's recent titles also seem possible, especially with nbkz at AX and what has been selling here in the Western market recently.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292777
Yeah, I initially posted that, and then decided to do a more complete post. I do think that is the sort of title they would pick up, but at the same time I also think they would be quite disappointed if they did.

[Anonymous No.]

Sona-nyl - purple
Iwaihime - HD
SonoHana something - First game they released sold very well.
Something from Alicesoft, since Haruka seems to have sold decently.
CLOCKUP title due to special guest
minori title that's not Supipara 2, since it's not close to reaching the goal for it.
BL games, since Good Haro will be there.

Some of these might be saved for Otakon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649
For Sekai Project, any title with a nearly complete fanTL seems like a possibility. AstralAir, Koiken Otome, SakuSaku, and Witch's Garden comes to mind. It's also likely that they were able to snag another big title, like Majikoi or Aiyoku no Eustia, for a future kickstarter. Trying to guess beyond that seems foolish, as pretty much any recent Steam worthy moege is a potential pickup for them.

For Frontwing, Island is the most obvious title, though the timing on that pickup will likely depend on when the anime is planned for. With their contacts though, it's quite possible they grab some big titles for Kickstarter.

Degica should end up with Kiminozo soon, as well as other Muv Luv spinoffs. Considering the success of the Muv Luv kickstarter, they probably could get anything else they wanted if they decide to expand their visual novels beyond Age.

For Jast, they will probably try to pick up more titles that look bound to succeed on Steam judging by their AX announcements last year. Perhaps they will be able to handle the physical PC release of Steins;Gate 0 like the original, even if Steam is a no go for them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292782
subahibi deal is already 100% done and its going to be done by keroq by themselves. There's no need to go through a publisher/localization company especially when the game is fully translated and edited.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292883
http://discuss.jastusa.com/discussion/255103/steins-gate-0-english-released#latest

[Anonymous No.]

People in this thread think that licensing is some form of auction, where the one that pays the most for the licence gets it, when there is several other factors involved.

>>15292782
>>15292883
Kickstarter is not the end all be all anymore, and with the weakening of the steam VN market Sekai lost a lot of it's appeal and do you really think that Jast is stronger than MG?

And just because a licence is popular it doesnt mean that it's more expensive, so in the end there is no reason why MG or anyone else really could get Dies Irae, Majikoi or whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292912
They have no distribution platform to sell their game through. I don't know how they make money self-publishing a non-Steam title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292924
>Kickstarter is not the end all be all anymore

It was back when deals announced this Summer were being made. And it still makes economic sense to send a big title through Kickstarter.

>with the weakening of the steam VN market Sekai lost a lot of it's appeal

While the steam market is surely softening, there is a time lag involved before Japan notices, deals for this Summer were announced before meaningful softening, and plenty of recent titles have still done well

>do you really think that Jast is stronger than MG?

Yes, because of J-List

>And just because a licence is popular it doesnt mean that it's more expensive, so in the end there is no reason why MG or anyone else really could get Dies Irae, Majikoi or whatever.

There are other factors involved, but for a title that multiple publishers would want to distribute, it's hard for MG, who has had weaker performance for non nukige titles, to get their hands on it. With the upcoming anime, Dies Irae especially will likely be a rather expensive license.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292956
>It was back when deals announced this Summer were being made. And it still makes economic sense to send a big title through Kickstarter.
Only if you can succeed. Japan Content wasted plenty of money on their 2 kickstarters and got nothing out of it, except completely ruined reputation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292956
Your entire post is guessing from someone that is not in the industry, and how is j-list a sign that Jast is stronger?

Do you have any data about the amount of sales of VNs in it? The only thing that J-list helps Jast is that it keeps money going in it when they take years to release something.

And publishers are always looking for licences thinking that all of MG announcements were made last year is retarded, Haruka's deal was started a few months before it was announced.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292649

Why predict stuff now and not closer? Especially since they could have more stuff by now and put up another teaser. But anyway:

>(one of our unannounced projects might particularly enticing to this crowd, no joke).
Sorcery Jokers

>some double trouble
Gakuen Heaven 2

>purple
I buy that argument a guy made months ago that it might be sonanyl

Also I still kind of think that mangagamer are the ones that ended up with chuable soft even given their guests this year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292985
>>15292985

I should add that while kickstarter is still a useful tool, it has lost a lot of it's "power" because of overuse by companies like Sekai and now Frontwing that has just copied Sekai's business model, one big sign of that was the fact that Root Double was barely funded.

And it's really hard to make any predictions because of the simple fact that we are not in the industry, Alicesoft itself was said to be impossible and just this year he had it's first official game released in english.

In the end I just tired of shitposting about a company sucesses or failures, and it's capacity to get licenses when we dont have the whole picture.

And I know that you are not posting trying to start shit or anything, just saying in general.

[Anonymous No.]

Why don't you like me /jp/?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292956
>>15292985
Cont.

I should add that while kickstarter is still a useful tool, it has lost a lot of it's "power" because of overuse by companies like Sekai and now Frontwing that has just copied Sekai's business model, one big sign of that was the fact that Root Double was barely funded.

And it's really hard to make any predictions because of the simple fact that we are not in the industry, Alicesoft itself was said to be impossible and just this year he had it's first official game released in english.

In the end I just tired of shitposting about a company sucesses or failures, and it's capacity to get licenses when we dont have the whole picture.

And I know that you are not posting trying to start shit or anything, just saying in general.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293125
u ugly

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293125
Who the fuck are you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293125
Not cute enough. Does nothing for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293125

I think a lot of /jp/ will actually rethink their opinions on SP after they announce uncensored maitetsu at AX.

Not all of them, but a good chunk. Maybe 30% will change to "SP is okay I guess" instead of these threads having a 100% SP hateboner all day every day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293113
I'd gladly welcome a 3rdEye partnership, but I have serious doubts they'd get their newest title even if they got a new partnership with them.

The double trouble hint was in orange, so it could be the return of Shuffle and Soul Link in their expanded versions.

Sona-nyl does seem likely.

They teased a morsel to chew on in their hints, so unless they were being intentionally misleading, then it does sound like Chuablesoft.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293158
I'd be very surprised if Maitetsu is completely censorship free.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293159
>The double trouble hint was in orange, so it could be the return of Shuffle and Soul Link in their expanded versions.

That teaser is from before that even happened.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293158

You guys are fucking delusional if you think uncensored maitetsu is happening.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293125
You're bland and plain looking. And you're not dressed sluttily enough.

>>15293158
>announce uncensored maitetsu at AX
They've been making excuses why denpa can't carry certain controversial content due to payment processor, and you expect them to release uncut loli porn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293166

I think most of /jp/ will be. But I am an expert in decyphering dovac whinings and from his whinings it is my professional opinion that he is genuinely attempting to pull it off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293173
>That teaser is from before we knew that even happened.

fixed that for you

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293173
They new the contract was running out, they likely planned it well in advance in order to get people to still buy the originals.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292782
Now, obviously these announcements are going to be split between Otakon and Anime Expo.

Based on the hints they gave, I'm fairly sure they're localizing Shiei no Sona-Nyl, though they probably won't announce that until Otakon.

Kara no Shoujo 3 is a possibility if the second sold well enough in the long-run. It's getting a hard-copy, so it had to do at least serviceably well.

There's almost surely going to be a minori title somewhere in there at Anime Expo since nbkz is there. I'm going to say Tsumi no Hikari Rendevzvous, especially since it fits that Princess Evangile decent-quality moege niche with good-quality art and content. That or Natsuzora no Perseus. Either way, I doubt they'll localize an all-ages title since they already have one (Supipara) from minori.

Since Euphoria did so well, it's fairly likely that they'll get Maggot Baits soon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293181
He's whining that payment processors are impossible and he has to do whatever they say.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293197

If that were the end of it, then why would he be looking for new ones?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293203
Nekopara is bestiality apparently. Denpa is US based, so they'll likely keep getting the same story no matter the processor.

[Anonymous No.]

If Maitetsu does come over uncensored how much will your opinion about SP change?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293185
>>15293186

/jp/ conspiracy theories sure are wild

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293158
Not until they stop using crowdfunding. Especially for picked up fan tls. As well as no more all ages only.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293215

There was a poll a few months ago where it was about 50% still hating dovac regardless, 25% elevating dovac to okay as long he doesn't fuck anything up in the future, and 25% absolving him of all sins.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293181
>Professional opinion
A professional what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293216
Tease double of something in navel orange. Suddenly, double of Navel's titles are removed from the store with the hope of them coming back with further negotiations. Oh gee, what could the connection be?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293203
Did they change payment processors recently? They stopped selling Nekopara hard copy just after Dovac said something else was rejected by the processor that was good with Nekopara.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293235

Given the contracts ran out because omega vision stopped responding to them, I seriously doubt your series of events.

Not to mention that mangagamer is so against non-"hd" releases these days that that is point against it aswell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293215
If maitetsu will come over uncensored, I'll delete all traces of being ever related to "VNs" (code word for child porn) and hide under rock while everything is being burned down.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293190
Kara no Shoujo 3 isn't even getting released in Japan any time soon. They don't plan to start working on it until they're done with Flowers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293270
Shuffle is quite famous, and HD doesn't matter when the game is famous enough. Plus, they thought it'd be easy Steam bux.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293270
>omega vision stopped responding to them
They said that due to a change in management, Navel had a different direction. Not sure where it was ever stated that the company quit responding to them. I took the change in direction to mean that they got interested in Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293298
>HD doesn't matter when the game is famous enough

They fucking passed over rance of all things due to resolution. More like even being famous isn't enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293316
It's not the res, it's its shitty graphics. We don't even know if Kyonyuu Fantasy with be the HD version or not.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293310
>I took the change in direction to mean that they got interested in Steam.

Man that's a hell of a leap in logic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293337
Considering every Japanese dev seems to be jumping on the Steam bandwagon, it's not a leap at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293346

Letting a contract like that lapse is bad form enough that it indicates more likely that they've lost interest in the english market completely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293337
How's this for a leap in logic?
Conjueror deleted his April Fool's ask.fm answer about working on Dies Irae for an official release with Lemnisca, so it must be true.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293371
The 07th Expansion titles disappeared due to a contract lapsing while Higuarshi and Umineko were being renegotiated. And what did Navel have to lose by just letting MG keep selling them?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293406
E-dick

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293406
>The 07th Expansion titles disappeared due to a contract lapsing while Higuarshi and Umineko were being renegotiated

That was after they were renegotiated, just before the steam releases actually happened.

[Anonymous No.]

Is mangagamer going to do anything at Fanime? The convention is 2 days away and they havent even announced when their booth is going to be

[Anonymous No.]

When's aroduc going to release Badlr Sky?

[Good Haro No.]

>>15293564

Booth only. I screwed up and forgot to add the booth # to the last update to the announcement/con site.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293585
When is the number of announcements for AX getting posted? I'm curious if there's any new partners.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15293603
There aren't any. All new announcements will be at Otakon.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15293603

Hmm... I haven't decided yet. Might put a few slots up on Friday.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293622
>>15293620
I'm lost here. Does this mean that there aren't going to be any announcements at AX? Or that there will be announcements at AX but just no new partners.
>>15293585
Are any of the hard copies going to ready for it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293731

One of those posters is an imposter

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293735
I take >>15293620 as the imposter, since MG not announcing anything at AX is preposterous.

>Are any of the hard copies going to ready for it?
They don't come out until the start of July.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15293731
>>15293757

All the recently announced hardcopies should be at AX. We'll have the euphoria pre-order bonus disks at cons too

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293765

I'll put a 50 dollar amazon gift in your ask.fm if you fucking stream AX

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293774
>amazon gift

code

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293774
If they stream AX I hope they rehearse this time. Might wanna figure out what to cut if they get shafted on time again too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293790

I don't really care if it's rehearsed, I just don't like having to dig through twitter to find someone liveblogging it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293812
Do they still do streams (not necessarily their panel's live feed) like Bamboo used to? I enjoyed talking to Tamiyasu Tomoe when she was a guest once way back. Or is that a thing of the past?
I don't give a shit about racist nbkz but I'd love to talk or listen to what Hamashima has to say about AX, traveling abroad or eroge in general.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293836

That shit hasn't happened in years

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293812
We generally have got live transcripts out of AX for the big VN panels.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293790
It's very simple. If you don't have the time, cut all the previously released announcements. I don't know why the kept complaining about the lack of time but used up half the time to regurgitate what they had already released. Yes, I know the previous panel ran late and you got screwed but seriously, learn to be more flexible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294268
Cons are not for epeen wars with other localizers for cheers of few maniacs, but chance to advertise to wider crowd, so there's no wonder that they prioritize stuff closer to release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293277
>They don't plan to start working on it until they're done with Flowers.
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.]

>>15292715
Yes please

[Anonymous No.]

Hopefully you abominable EOPs don't end up with something too good. The deliciousness of being able to play great titles you can't is just way too great.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294568
The next couple years will be anyone with a meaningful title trying to cash in on the Western market while the Japanese market struggles. The Western market is going to crash eventually for everything but the highest profile titles, but lots of big titles will be licensed before Japan notices.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294604
>while the Japanese market struggles

This isn't universally true. Fags like Mimasu Kei only cry about losing sales because they keep releasing recycled shit and treat customers badly. (And even then it sells as long as the art is cute, e.g. Hataraku Otona...)

And otherwise the market is simply oversaturated. Look at any list of monthly releases, every month there's tons of stuff, it can't all sell well. Already famous brands just have to keep their quality and they're okay (not blow themselves up like Eushully). And even new makers can succeed as long as they try well enough, e.g. Lose.

[Anonymous No.]

>"Romance and science fiction/fantasy" took the top spots in the genre question––quite a few of our upcoming announcements fit one or both of those categories, particularly fantasy.
Less changes for games like Shuffle! Essence, White Album＋or similes. I liked the games that MG released the past years but If this trend continues (see above) I'm done supporting them.
At least now there are new publishers with more interesting stuff like Frontwings or e2gaming (if it's legit)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294638

Chaosraven is that you?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294653
Who's that? Some retard from Fuwa?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294653
Don't be absurd, because I'm not happy with the recent MG releases that doesn't mean that I'm some tard from Fuwa/Reddit.
I like VN with romance, fantasy or mystery (like Kara no Shoujo 2) but the VN that MG released this year and announced on AC aren't interesting for me.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293277
>>15294553
The third episode of Flowers will be out tomorrow in Japan.
It's the 10th anniversary of InnoGrey and KnS is their biggest title, there is also a teaser for KnS3 so i'm pretty sure they are already working on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294827

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294638
e2gmaing's catalog is mostly otome titles. And they might be a mobile publisher.

As for MG, you say you like romance and fantasy and they say that quite a few of their upcoming announcements will have them. And of course you don't like this year's announcements so far, they save all the stuff you'd be waiting for for AX and Otakon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294837
>Finally, when asked about the status of Kara no Shoujo 3, Sugina said that Innocent Grey may immediately begin working on the third instalment upon completing the development of all four seasons of Flowers.

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/03/11/kara-shoujo-3-works-early-next-year/

It sounds like early production has started, but the actual release is probably another year or 2 off.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294910
>translation in 3 years

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294838
Fxxx that and more incest (Reiji x Yukari x Pot of Insects)

[Anonymous No.]

Looks like western progressive politics don't put otome cliches in high esteem.

>IT IS NOT OK FOR SOMEONE TO DRUG SOMEONE ELSE AND THEN SLEEP WITH THEM!! Everything else that is good about this game gets completely thrown out the window when you condone those actions! This is not acceptable!

>But the most jarring thing? The actual romance. After refunding the game I looked up a quick summary/review to see what I was going to be missing out on and holy-! The amount of NTR in this game is awful, and some of it is impossible to avoid, which really didn't sit well with me.

Source: Ozmfia reviews on Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295154
I'd like to add that just about every negative review said that at least some of the romances were "disturbing".

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295154
I'd like to also add that the people complaining about that sort of thing are the same gender and age group as the target audience, and also the same group that tends to find that sort of stuff compelling.

I mean, typically when it comes to 'rape-y' scenarios, the (literally most common sexual fantasy amongst women) revolves around an attractive hottie not taking a 'no' for an answer. Obviously, most otome VNs have a plethora of hot guys.

So yeah, it's right in their wheelhouse. Women just like playing the denial card.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295193
Sounds like the negative reviews mostly came from people who refunded the game. The same thing happened with No, Thank You, where a portion of the target audience was too sensitive to the themes it explored and wanted their money back, while saying the game was rape-y and wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

I want more reverse rape. I have zero interest in self inserting into a male rapist, because that is like self inserting into a truck. It is not something I can identify with.

Now being raped, that is something I could self insert into since I'm a pretty good choice for a victim since I wouldn't mind that much and definitely not report them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295385
I've found the perfect vn for you.

https://vndb.org/v11996

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295385
I know this feeling. It's only really valid if they're attractive though, I'd detest and actively fight being raped by a gang of hobos, for example, but I'd struggle to turn down your average male model/attractive actor.

I feel pretty vulnerable in real-life though since I fit into that androgynous femboy with an androgynous voice (trap) niche. Most of the time, people default in gendering me female.

Regardless, I've become terrified of walking around gay neighborhoods, and some of the stuff that's happened to me even just in bathrooms or in the 'gayer' parts of Toronto is absolutely terrifying and has left me with some sort of pseudo-PTSD.

Part of me feels like going all the way and living the easy life on hormones. I mean, I'm already bi, even.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295385
Starless

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295450
Wasn't that part of the scat games released last year? I want quality, not shit.

>>15295426
It probably would be. Or that henshin like VN where you are the panties/bra/whatever since for some reason I can relate to being panties groping a woman.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295160

Looks like just two of them to me.

2/75 is a way saner ratio than I expected in this modern age of trigger warnings and social consciousness, atleast.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>15295814
Poor MG will anything ever go their way?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295814

Well that's nice.

Sometimes I think haro cares too much about these threads though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295829
I copy pasted from their blog, but it's possible that they also received email complaints as well. Plus, the illegality if it had been intentional, likely prompted them to post about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295829
She is a prisoner of love for /vnts/

>Do you ever get anything out of lurking the vntls other than mild irritation?

>It can be funny sometimes. I dunno, they might be misinformed shitheads a lot of times but I like /jp/... is this what Stockholm Syndrome is like?

http://ask.fm/good_haro

[Anonymous No.]

>>15295851

What a terrible fate.

[Anonymous No.]

There are around 4M monthly visitors on VNDB.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15289957
Oh. Nice. I'm quite surprised at how good Fata Morgana actually is. I think if they used this cover, more people would've been interested.

[Anonymous No.]

Anybody else not getting their MG points after recent purchases?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296027
Would they have even been able to use the novelization's art?

>>15296046
You're better off emailing them.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.indiegala.com/animeangels

Is this the worst bundle in VN history?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296074
I don't see any VN in this bundle though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296074
No, last MG bundle was the worst in history. Just rape games. I wouldn't even have gotten it if they paid me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296027
>nice art
>no sexual content
It could have been kamige

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296074
I'm not sure about the whole VN history, but the bundle itself isn't that bad simply because its card drops alone will pay for all the included games if you bother to sell them on the marketplace.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296495
>having Sakura VNs in my game library to annoy me everytime

No thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296510
You can hide them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296551
You remove them from your library entirely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296610
Which can be reversed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296610
>>15296748
Or you know, right click, set categories, hide this game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294619
What happened to Eushully?

[Anonymous No.]

The Fata Morgana demo covers the first two chapters. What excuse do you guys have for not trying that?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/mangagamer_public/FataMorganaDemo.zip

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296815
These happened

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296815
Eushully is known for making 8/10+ games but their latest 2 release have been 5/10 and people aren't happy about it

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296828
Simply put, it's not my cup of tea.
>No Sexual Content
doesn't help either. I'm one of those people considering a romance without sex to be defective.

Also
>it is glass is shattered
>it is paint has faded

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296851
And here we learn the importance of making sure even your demo is adequately proofread. They fixed that line in the final release, at least.

>I'm one of those people considering a romance without sex to be defective.
Well, the characters are pretty defective.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296828
The art is a major turn off. And I'm all ready ready far too many things as is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296839
What is wrong with this one https://vndb.org/v16341 , looks fine too me ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296905
The art is great though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296918
IIRC people complained about how they managed the gameplay in it

>>15296828
The premise sounds somewhat interesting but that art style is a automatic "Not touching with a 10 foot pole".

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296927
We don't all read shoujo manga alright?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296942
The only thing this has in common with shoujo art is detailed strands of hair.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296927
I don't like "great" art then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296942
Neither do I. Also stop judging by appearances you pleb faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296918
Completely shit "story", bad and very annoying gameplay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15293215
I will be pleasantly surprised and I will purchase the game day 1 even if i intend to backlog it and the TL quality is shoddy.
But I believe there is no chance it is coming over uncensored.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15294933
Plenty of time to learn nip.

[Anonymous No.]

私は一年半日本語を勉強していますが、まだエロゲーを読めませんよ。
自殺した方がいいね

[Anonymous No.]

>>15297176
You should reevaluate your expectations on how long it should take but if you want to I aint stopping you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15297218
どのぐらい日本語を学ぶためにかかりますか

[Anonymous No.]

>>15297259
3 months if you dive straight into reading untranslated vns. Its going to be hard and painful experience for month or two, but your reading ability will rapidly grow and half a year later you will understand most of text w/out parser.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15296918
Maybe don't judge based on screenshots and votes from EOPs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15297259
Pretty shitty sentence.
Try maybe エロゲをやりたいなら、日本語の勉強がどのくらいかかりますか。

>>15297301
Btw this isn't actually true, you'll end up understanding maybe simplistic conversations about school-related stuff and for the rest you'll be crippled like shitty Redditors, relying on machine translation for vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15297514
>Try maybe エロゲをやりたいなら、日本語の勉強がどのくらいかかりますか。
どうも

[Anonymous No.]

We know where that partnership money is going to

[Anonymous No.]

>>15297514
It actually is true if you skip the steps of learning vocabulary and grammar, and only need kanji.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15298823
Corona Blossom IGG is up, it also uses Flexable Funding

Sekai says they have announcements at a panel today, though likely to be titles no one has heard of.

[Anonymous No.]

Corona Blossom IGG is up, it also uses Flexable Funding

Sekai says they have announcements at a panel today, though likely to be titles no one has heard of.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300058
Anime Central is the third biggest con, so if they announced doujin there, I'm not expecting much for Fanime. And AX is in like a month, so they'd obviously save anything good they've gotten for that.

[Anonymous No.]

Ne no Kami is doing good. I guess steam + yuri + hard copy + adult art book is always a good way to cash in on most of the crowd.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300500
>Ne no Kami part 2 is planned for release in October, 2016. Physical goods ship after the completion of episode 2.

[Anonymous No.]

Some of the art in Ne no Kami looks like shit. Just look at the character in this image.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300640
Having just returned from DLSite, I can assure you that there are metric fucktons of the so-called "art" (for the same $10 a piece) which, unlike your pic, does look like complete shit.
I don't care about NnK in particular since I'm not into yuri but let's not exaggerate too much here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300058
>>15300168
They announced Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300788
literally who

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300842
From the creators of Atom Grrrl, comes a lesbian roadtrip.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300856
>From the creators of Atom Grrrl

Talk about a seal of quality

[Anonymous No.]

>>15300856
ew

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.waffle1999.com/blog/waffleb/archives/1861.html

English screens from Kyonyuu Fantasy. It's a HD (cropped) edition, but I think in JP version you could freely switch between 4:3 and 16:9.

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>>15301231
It's encouraging to see both the author and the company care about the English release, even if there is disagreement.

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>>15301231
>Web Survey
What with that option in the game?

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>>15301262
I'm not sure anyone is in agreement about that title. Haven't heard of any more cheap sounding game since their Tasty Shafts.

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>>15301310
"Suck my dick or die" wasn't better.

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>>15301335
Yes, they are all excellent examples of how to localize titles to sell more.

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>>15301364
If there was a hardcopy of that game I don't know if someone would have the balls to ask to the clerk (less if is female) for this title.

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So I just posted on the new JAST forum and got this http://i.imgur.com/NviYPGY.png -_-

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>>15301231
>Why Japanese people!?

I still like this meme.

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Nice translation sekai: https://youtu.be/istiS1jl07A

Remember this is the quality people pay for

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E2Gaming updated their site to be only Taisho Alice stuff. It also appears they took the character profiles, without giving credit, from Otome Jikan.

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3 titles tagged "New Partner" were added to MG's announcements page for AX.

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https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/736317902333317120

Holy cow that was quick. Now i wonder when it'll be out.

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>>15302036
You do realize that it was most likely already completely translated before the deal was officially announced and that they are staggering the twitter notes on the game to keep in it the eyes of potential buyers

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>>15301985
Interesting

>>15302036
Get it while it's hot I guess

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>>15302056
Now i realize it yeah but still i didn't suspected that Arunaru was translating Kyonyuu Fantasy until now.

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>>15301951
Good news for Dovac is that they should help Sekai look good by comparison.

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>>15302036
And no wonder they have to defend the name, since it is too late to change it.

Maybe they'll learn until next time to not make stupid titles. Then again, they are stuck with funbags for all of that series, aren't they?

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>>15302077

Wasn't arunaru, what he's working on will be at AX I believe.

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>>15302077
Arunaru didn't translate Kyonyuu Fantasy, he tweeted that he came up with the title but had nothing to do with the translation.

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>>15302132
>>15302138
I see, my bad. I thought it was his project because of the whole "funbag fantasy" thing.

>>15302115
>Then again, they are stuck with funbags for all of that series, aren't they?
Before thinking about that we will have to wait and see if the sales are good. But i don't think it'll be a flop, seems like there is a lot of content for a nukige.

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Something is happening! https://steamdb.info/app/345620/history/ so when can I pirate this

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>>15302157
Exactly it looks like a good title. But the name is never going to sell anything unless you link them to screenshots first. If the game looked as bad as the name implies, they wouldn't get any complaints.

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>>15301936
I'm sure someone on /u/ will still play it.

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>>15301985
Will all 3 be from the same new partner though? I don't expect any more than 2 new partners.

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>>15302469

They've never pulled that before. I don't see why you'd only expect two.

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>>15302481
They did last year, for the Propeller vns.

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>>15302036
>Holy cow that was quick. Now i wonder when it'll be out.
Thought this was going to be the Fata Morgana fan disc. Fuck.

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>>15302036
Remember how sekai shill was talking in last thread how MG is too slow compared to sekai? Good shit.

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Conjureor secret project is one of the new partners

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>>15302036
>Kyonyu on the breasts
You forgot the second U, MG.

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>>15303502
interesting

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>>15303505
The writer for the game spells it with only 1 'u'.

https://twitter.com/boin_master/status/735040633845342215

>I love Kyonyu Fantasy.

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>>15303534
Japanese people are generally not great at romanisation.

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>>15303542
As far as Waffle's concerned, it's spelled Kyonyu. And the second 'u' doesn't matter. Do you want Tokyo to be spelled Tokyou just because it can be spelled that way?

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>>15303560
Well Toukyou would technically be correct, the issue there is that the spelling of Tokyo is ubiquitous.

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>>15302115
Pretty sure it's not said in-game, so if they have to change it, it would only be the title screen, logo and maybe the splash page.

Vodka would probably finish those in a snap.

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>>15303578
They've already advertised it as Funbag Fantasy.

And you're forgetting that they'd likely have to run any changes by Waffle, and you know how slow Japanese companies can be.

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>>15303578
Even if they could, I doubt they'd change it. They decided on a title and I doubt they'd want to admit to Waffle that the choice wasn't considered good. And MG would be opening a Pandora's Box by changing a localized title just because some people didn't like it.

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>>15303590
>>15303617
Some people including the writer of the game which specifically asked them to check with Waffle again.

Although, it's not the first time they changed a localized title, " The Queen and Princess as your rewards" anyone?

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>>15303652
The writer didn't want the name changed at all. It was Kyonyu Fantasy or nothing.

And that name change happened forever ago. Funbag Fantasy was intended to get Boob Wars level attention, so it was deliberate.

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>>15303502
I hope not.

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Between stealing content without credit and how they are handling their social media, E2gaming seems like a rather shitty company.

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>>15303944
They're incredibly shady. Probably not even the original company trying to branch out.

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>>15303944
>>15303996
Their website sat dormant since January with all those random 'acquisitions' on it until someone actually noticed it existed, at which point they fixed it up a bit and their facebook sprung to life.

I imagine if anyone bothered to email/tweet Primula they wouldn't even know e2gaming exists.

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>>15303996
How many outcomes can the heroin create for the Princes? I'm almost intrigued.

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>>15303542
Did you know that spelling all those Us is weeaboo-only thing? Proper Hepburn romanisanition for English says either writting macrons above long vovels or just ignore them when they are not available in encoding/typeface etc.
For example, only weeaboo write common japanese surname as Satou, while anybody els spels it as Sato or Satō.

It is very common for Japanese ignore those redundant (for English speakers I mean) UUUUUs and macrons actually.

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>>15304101
>For example, only weeaboo write common japanese surname as Satou, while anybody els spels it as Sato or Satō.
Satō and Satou are both correct different ways of writing it. Sato is wrong though, and it's not the same sound. This is why the romanisation rules exist, and Hepburn most certainly does not encourage one to simply drop letters that could be considered redundant, because that is not accurate romanisation.
>It is very common for Japanese ignore those redundant (for English speakers I mean) UUUUUs and macrons actually.
The Japs are terrible at English in general, so why would you expect their grasp of romanisation rules to be any point of reference worth anything?

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>>15304120
> Sato is wrong though
Sato is perfectly fine, as English is fine with dropping diacritics. On the other hand, UU crap is not not presented neither in Hepburn, nor in Kunrei-Shiki which are official systems.

And OU is actually wery confusing, as there is long vovel as in 王 (/oː/) and actual separate O+U as in 追う (/oɯ/), so there is completely no point in discussing "accuracy".

tl;dr you can use whatever romanisation style, neither of them is wrong o correct.

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>>15303996
> You are the heroin
Sounds like a cool story.

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>>15304120
This argument it's pretty stupid, why the hell would you pronounce foreign words according to English rules of speech?
And as the pronunciation of alphabet isn't the same in every country (especially in english) you can't impose to change the rules of romanization because you can't read it properly.
Spelling Tokyo as Tokyou is as retarted as pronounce papagayo with english fonetic.

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>>15304223
What do you think the point of romanisation is, exactly?

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>>15304237
To transcribe words from a different writing system and preserving the original phonemes.
Another thins is how any country that uses the alphabet pronounced it.
For example, the word "book" in english is read as "buk" but in another countrys can be read as "booc" or "book".

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>>15304237
To transcribe words from a different writing system and preserving the original phonemes.
Another thing is how any other country that uses the alphabet pronounced it.
For example, the word "book" in english is read as "buk" but in another countrys can be read as "booc" or "book".

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What the shit? Fata Morgana stopped starting up and gave me a Japanese error. Funny thing is the Japanese version works fine. Too bad I can't read it.

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>>15275850

How about you guys actually look at the facts instead of just posting bullshit and then believing it.

The AB TLer is a kid who wanted to try his best to help other fans read a VN no famous TLer would pick up.

When Visual Arts announced their official TL, he decided to polish up what he has(including reTLing all the early work) and release a partial. He has chosen to end it here due to the official release.

Jesus christ

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>>15304499
> MTL is fine because its freee!111
Go back to fuwanovel, please.

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>>15304499
Please return to reddit.

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>>15304330
Why would you have the Japanese version if you couldn't read Japanese?

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>>15304573
I do that all the time too. Works well if there is a threat of censorship. Reading is less important than getting the full game.

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>>15304598
>Reading a VN's is less important than getting the full game.
Wut?

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>>15304330

Exception occurred, can't read the script, file may be damaged or missing. Try reinstalling.

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>>15304499
He did say he was hoping to be contacted by them, but doubts they'd do it.

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>>15304499
>I'm secretly hoping that they would contact me, but I don't have any contact information anywhere, and I don't want things to get possibly sticky when I send them an email myself.

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