/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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Visual Novel translation status


Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1784/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (77.3%)"
AstralAir - 100% translated, release a long ways off
Ayakashi Gohan - ~82% Complete
>Clover Day's - Common + 3 routes done, other routes + 348/711 KB and 362/722 KB translated
Daitoshokan - 89.82% translated, 77.07% edited
>Kanojo to Ore to Koibito to - 45/146 scripts translated
HaraKano - Patch with Common, Marina, Ayana, Ren and Kanna routes released.
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Irotoridori no Sekai - 9681/50663 (19%) lines translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama - partial patch released
Kurukuru Fanatic - 100% translated, UI + Wordwrapping done
Lovely Cation- 33.4% of lines completed
Majikoi A-2 - 20.26% translated
>Majo Koi Nikki - 14537 / 40208 (36.2%) lines translated, prologue patch released
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3 semi-active projects, one project released ch 1-6
Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, another partial patch released
Muv Luv Total Eclipse - 25% translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts translated, 212/268 through TLC+Editing, 154/268 scripts finalized
Sayonara wo Oshiete - 4622/12903 (35.82%) lines translated
Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 11,066 / 30,513 Lines (36.3%) translated, partial patch released
Tsui Yuri - 68% (3995/5872) lines translated
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou - 10613/31248 (33%) translated
Witch's Garden - 63% (42302/67197) lines translated, 4% (2153/67197) lines 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



Official work

MangaGamer
>Detective Masochist - Released
>Orc Castle - 9/2 release
Kyonyuu Fantasy - 9/9 release
>Higurashi Hou - Released ch 3, ch 4 100% translated and edited
Umineko - Released chapters 1-4
Bokuten - 100% translated and edited
Da Capo 3 - 100% translated and edited, in porting
Myth - in scripting
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, CH1 94.6% TL 21% edited
Himawari - In Beta
Negai no Kakera - 100% translated, 60% edited
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 55% translated, 24.5% edited
Imouto Paradise 2 - 63.35% translated, 41.67% edited
Fata morgana fan disc - 31% translated
Maggot Baits - Picked up
SukiSuki - 71% translated
Dal Segno - Picked up
Hadaka Shitsuji - 22% translated
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
Bocchi Musume x Produce Keikaku - 7.5% translated and edit
Sonohana Nyuu Jene - 91% translated and edited
Shiei no Sona-Nyl - Picked up
Hapymaher - Picked up
>Sorcery Jokers - 33% translated, 22% edited
>Rance 5D - 2016 release, 100% translated and edited
>Rance VI - 2016 release, 100% translated and edited
Trinoline - Announced



JAST
Flowers - Vol 1 released, Vol 2 onwards still to come
Sumeragi Ryoko - Beta, in preorder, script edit 70%
Katahane - "Translating new scenario, editing original scenario"
Eiyuu*Senki - Picked up
Princess X - 85% translated
Princess X fandisc - Picked up
Trample on Schatten- Translation 96%
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing

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Sekai/Denpa
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title Steam released, uncut 35% of new content done, 3rd 50% translated
2236 A.D. - 100% translated
>Maitetsu - 24.71% translated
Nenokami - 99.96% translated, Indiegogo finished
Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora. - 100% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
WEE 3 - 100% translated
>Chrono Clock - 31.44% translated
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Tenshin Ranman - 40.69%
Darekoi - 100% translated
Wagamama High Spec -Demo is 100% translated, overall 22.8% translated
>Hoshizora no Memoria - 29% translated
Memory's Dogma - 100% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Ley Line - picked up
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
SakuSaku - Picked up
Koikuma - Picked up
Fatal Twelve - Picked up


Frontwing
Corona Blossom - Vol 1 released, vol 2/3 upcoming
Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter halted, will be restarted
Island - Picked up
Grisaia no Senritsu - Picked up


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Picked up
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
Muv Luv - Released, uncut patch still to come
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Collar x Malice - 2017 release
Period Cube - 2017 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Other
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
Steins;Gate 0 - 9/23 release
Root Letter - 10/28 release
Dead End Junction - September release
>Dies irae - Announced, Kickstarter planned
ChuSingura46+1 - Ch 2+3 released
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + Mari route translated, Calen 25%
>Taisho Alice - Vol 1 fully translated, all 4 volumes to be translated, crowdfunding plans scrapped
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
Hakoniwa no Gakuen - Picked up
>Enigma - Picked up
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
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

[Anonymous No.]

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/vnwwLhMC
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/c1aUeeJ5
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/aWn4bqRY

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

[Anonymous No.]

the last big game to not get an announcement is WA2

i wonder if that will ever get picked up

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>>15755392
It would probably end up using the totally-not-machine-tl fan project so no thanks

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>>15755392
>big game means shit moogy memed

t. you

[Anonymous No.]

>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3 semi-active projects, one project released ch 1-6
Who?

[Anonymous No.]

Guess I really should learn Japanese because these games are never coming over. ;__;

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>>15755529
You got told by denka, eh?

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>>15755540
Didn't even know that faggot had an opinion on it.

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>>15755549
>EOP thinking he can talk shit about denka

[Anonymous No.]

moogy doesn't know Japanese.

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>>15755392
Fate Stay Night hasn't either, but yeah the list of games people just have to have because they've been hyped to hell is just about all getting translated.

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>>15755529
They probably aren't as good as the original anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

Dies Irae and Baldr Sky are coming out censored in english and there's nothing you can do to stop it hahahaha!!

while you're waiting for your censored shit all the JOPs are playing a game even better than sky, Baldr Heart hahaha!!!!!!

(better gameplay system)

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>>15755623
>there's nothing you can do to stop it

Not supporting the kickstarters is doing nothing, I suppose. However, that actually does stop the translation process if they both fail. :3

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>>15755623
Are we still pretending the Baldr franchise has more than one decent game?

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>>15755623
Dies Irae might have a sucessful KS, but I doubt it. It'll probably fail like the Sharin no Kuni KS. It helps that it's not fan translated and is hyped by the community, but I doubt their PR will be any good.

Baldr Sky most certainly will not without the 18+ version and even with it, it's still unlikely because Sekai.

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>>15755623
Honestly Baldr Heart is turning out to be my biggest disappointment of the year so far.

Why can't Giga do anything right?

[Anonymous No.]

Sekai Project murdering Baldr Sky basically makes it impossible for even something like Shirogane x Spirits! to be localized either, doesn't it?

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Why does Sekai Project take forever to translate?

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>>15755623
>nothing you can do to stop it
Holy shit, the delusion. Neither of them will actually make it past Kickstarter.

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>>15755790
Yes, and when Dies irae also fails, embrace the moege, because that's all you'll get.

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>>15755601
>Blick Winkel
Boy I hate people who think Ever17 was good.

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>>15755820
Because their in-house translators no joke, aren't proficient at Japanese. And when they can't find anyone to translate their stuff for them, they can't get any work done.

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>>15755751
Desperate;y trying to recapture success without ever understanding why they were successful in the first place?

That's the usual reason.

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>>15755183
Any of these has animated H scenes?

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>>15755601
Weekly reminder that no anti-honorific commie shitter has been able to translate this simple dialogue >>15728018

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>>15755946
I managed to watch some DURARARA 2 anime in the weekend and noticed they say one name and text another. Good going as usual to remove honorific system and just flat out name the person the same regardless of who says what to them.

But I guess you have to appeal to normal people who watch anime and are not otaku.

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>>15756003
Always putting the first name as text, even though the other party calls them by last name pisses me off so much.

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>>15755484
I'm guessing the Beast's Lair one.

[Anonymous No.]

Here's what will happen to the Dies Kickstarter

>All ages announced only
>Reaches 40% and stalls
>18+ preachers all start saying "lol its because theres no 18+ you fucking censorship fuckers"
>they add 18+ patch option
>reaches 45% and stalls
>18+ preachers now say they want a full release not a patch
>they promise full release
>reaches 46% and stalls
>18+ preachers kill themselves, other localization companies realize the west was a mistake and JOPs remind everybody if they just started learning japanese the time of the announcement, they'd be able to read it by the end of the kickstarter.
>Dovac draws out of the VN scene and focuses on LNs / Manga and becomes a billionaire
>EOPs kill themselves
the end

[Anonymous No.]

>>15756194
Learning Japanese is work; bitching is not.
EOPs 1
JOPs 0

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>>15756194
I don't think that Dovac is still the CEO of SP because his name was removed from the staff list. But we all know that also the staff from SP hate ero.

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>>15756194
Sekai should just give up. VN, Novels, Manga, Anime are all "adult" territory with mainly 16+ titles.

You have to have a mental age above 5 to work in this business. Being afraid of cooties doesn't cut it.

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>>15756219
Funny when they're releasing Koikuma.

Even more funny that they are going to release an all-ages version on Steam. What's it going to be? A 5-hour version?

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>>15755392
Technically Muramasa hasn't either, despite JAST saying they wanted to do it.

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Why does everyone think that normal people are anti honorifics ? 90% of the people who would play a Japanes VN are doing it becouse the want Japanese stuff, something different the then usual western crap. Westernising Japanese VNs and games defeats the whole point of playing them.

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>>15756344
Not everyone, most of the VN and anime fans like them but there is always someone who will hate them.

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>>15756344
Extrapolating from the vocal minority, and hence anyone complaining about the lack of them must mean they are the minority while the majority hates them?

Despite the fact that indifference exist and most people don't care about it.

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>>15756365
>and most people don't care about it.
Nice projecting.

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>>15756344
Probably for those 10% who play it for the story and removing everything but the story is a constant improvement in delivering a good book.

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>>15756370
Don't forget to remove the voices, sprites and CGs too.

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>>15756372
That was implied.

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>>15756344
If you want to discuss honorifics please create a separate thread. This thread already spam as it is.

Also, in case some of you guys missed, a anon made this thread ( >>15739624 ) a few days ago and it's still up.

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>>15756383
>This thread already spam as it is.
Fuck me.
This thread already has enough spam as it is.

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>>15756383
>a anon

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>>15756365
You're the part of that "minority" that don't like them.

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>>15756387
Let's discuss Funbags. I think they should just add a second store item calling it Kyonyuu Fantasy so us autists can vote with our wallets.

I don't even care if it is listed on the application and title of the game. As long as I can avoid having it listed as Funbags in my purchase log.

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>>15756397
Fuck your funbags. You will only see that on the title screen. I will see "Yuki" during the whole common route and then some.

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>>15756397
With a little imagination you can see whatever you want, and after a can of beer or smoking some herb you could also see ponys or other strange things.

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>>15756399
They all pale compared to Himawari not including the doujin game version. Not delivering twintail sex should be illegal.

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>>15756399
>I will see "Yuki" during the whole common route and then some
Just edit the script yourself when it is out. Then upload a patch for anyone else who wants the name change.
I would be interested in the download numbers for it.

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>>15755824
Is he the guy that converted all the metric units to imperial in his translation?

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>>15756440
I don't have the knowledge for that. Another anon said he'd do it.

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>>15755623
> Dies Irae and Baldr Sky are coming out censored in english
>Implying anyone would give a single fuck about them in 2020 when they finally out.
Anon, please.

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>>15756647
People have been talking about Dies Irae on /jp/ since 2004.

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I want Dies Irae to fail just to be able to taste his delicious tears.

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>>15756655
Idolmaster too. I guess it is also a kamige that we still haven't gotten.

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>>15756219
That's probably to keep him out of the public eye. He's the boss and likely still the one in charge.

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>>15756194
You forgot something:
>Sailing off into the sunset on his boat(which he bought with his kickstater meme money)
>Cracking jokes with his guests (Drake,Taylor Swift, ,Adele,Frank Ocean,Jay-z etc) on the deck

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>>15756701
Same here, they want to push an censored/cropped game trought you throad and if you don't swallow it then they will continue puhsing moeges on us, scarry stuff.

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>>15756875
英語でおｋ

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>>15756902
JOP's there -> >>15743200

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>>15756701
Can't he just quit full stop?

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>>15756701
I'm sure it'll make the goals if it's reasonable and they properly use the anime to market it.
That said, passive-aggressive attitudes like this always turn me off. Especially in this case when they already have a translator and it seems like the developer is running the Kickstarter themselves, this is obviously a cashgrab since there's no way they need the funds to publish it.
So fuck 'em, I hope Baldr fails. Maybe then EOPs will learn.

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>>15756701
Libra had really good PR. A significant amount of people seemed to back it because Mikandi Japan has potential as a company, not because of the non-existent reputation of the moege.

A company can't just throw a kamige at people and expect them to gamble their money without explaining why it's trustworthy. Well, maybe they could back during the Clannad KS, but things are different now. The shitty reputation of Sekai and the ridiculous success of Muv Luv made things harder for everyone else. The VN crowdfunding bubble has burst.

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>>15756961
If they actually worked more together and ran with a % per sale instead of any form of licenses and voice costs, I'm sure they would perform much better.

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>>15756961
Shit I meant Dies Irae, not Baldr.
Although I hope Baldr fails, too.

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>>15756397
Actually on the image, itself, you can see Kyonyuu written in white because it was summer and they were eating ice cream.

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>>15757001
Actually, I might not mind DI as long as they give the option for the non-cropped CGs. Can't do anything about the H-scenes but perhaps the translator could add back in the cut narrative that was too hot for the console. Not sure if Conjueror is willing to play both side-by-side though.

Baldr is fucked. You get cut content and not even anything by the developer to replace it.

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>>15756393
More of the "prefer them to be in it than not, but not that big a concern" really.

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>>15757043
I'm honestly not against the all-ages version of DI since everyone defending it has convinced me that the new stuff in AA at least makes up for not having the sex scenes.
But I can't think of a reason why Light would even need money. There's no indication (as far as I know) of them contracting a third party to publish. Conjeuor has obviously been involved with the project for months, so unless they're not paying him at all I imagine they got the translation fees out of the way already. Getting something released on Steam takes basically no money.
So they are going to use the Kickstarter just to get people to give them extra funds, and if it fails they'll use that as an excuse to not bother with any future titles. I had no intentions of funding it in the first place, but unless somebody gives a good reason for why they "need" funds then I am going to hope the campaign crashes upon them. Maybe their goal will be low, but I imagine it'll be at least 100k, which is obviously far more than they need.

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>>15757043
Actually they can just Corona Blossom those H-scenes into the gallery. Not that it would be worth it since nobody accepts that way of dealing with adult material.

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>>15757060
What do you mean? It clearly will have 70k voice fee and 60k license fee. You just can't get around those default prices made by people who want money for no work at all.

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>>15757068
If Japanese companies want to publish in the West, they should start trying to negotiate to include English releases in the initial contract, so that they don't have to pay people again for doing no additional work. The issue is if voice acting agencies and the like will even allow this.

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>>15757147
Not worth doing for those couple titles that come over and they would probably want more money for a license that isn't just covering japan.

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>>15757147
VA companies are greedy as fuck. They expect the same wages as if they were doing it the first time. I mean, I expect residuals but that's crazy. Although, for some reason, nukige publishers have been able to lower the prices on the voices which is why they are easier to license.

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>>15757068
Did AA have all-new seiyuus for it that would make licensing a bitch or is it the same ones in the 18+ version?

I know they can either keep them (maybe make them use their work-safe names) or give them new ones depending on the company.

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>>15757179
People doing nukige (or eroge almost in general) tends to be old people. Remenber that japan's VA industry is like the Idol's one, where young people is most wanted that old.
The joke here is that nukige's VAs are like 35-60 years old woman.

Maybe I'm wrong tho.

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>>15757195
Oh yeah, totally forgot about that. That's true too. Whatever pays the bills, I guess.

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>>15756252
> VN is about a virgin succubus and other backwards, lewd yokai.
> Literally starts with the succubus practically trying to rape the protagonist.

How will the Steam release even fucking work?

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Hey /jp/ you think those numbers are true?
http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/15302-eroge-sales-201607/
If so, then why Japs devs even bother with Western market where you extremely lucky to have even 5000 copies sold on Steam.
>1- Senren ＊ Banka (~44022 copies)
Holy shit, on Steam this game would sold like 2000-3000 at most. What a joke this "western vns market". Why Yuzusoft even bother to make a deal with SP with such sales in Japan?

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>>15757332
As previously stated, they saw Nekopara and thought they could be "the one" to get those numbers also. Plus, they don't have to do anything to get an international audience, just license it out for extra money.

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>>15757332
What a bunch of horrible dogshit titles. Good thing most of them are on the decline so maybe there's salvation for Japs' shit taste.

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>>15757332
Even Dies Irae, everyone's favorite game, only sold about 7k week 1 when it got released on PSP in Japan. I'm not even sure why people expect to get astounding sales when VNs don't even touch real games in sales both here and in Japan.
Either Japanese developers were blinded by Nekopara's sales, or Sekai Project convinced them mimicking those figures on other titles would be possible. Which it clearly isn't, the only games to come close to Senren Banka would be VNs with anime adaptations, in the west. And even those titles would be lucky to scratch 40k.

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>>15757223
It starts with MC jerking off in front of all heroines.
Get yout facts straight anon.
Yeah I cannot imagine how is Steam release supposed to work too.

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>>15757223
>>15757422
Probably something like To Love-Ru in VN form. They could probably leave in all the sexual stuff as long as it stays in text form right? Seems to work with other games depicting sexuality.

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>>15757416
Peter Payne said that Japanese devs are expecting to be the next Nekopara, and Sekai Project and Frontwing have been trying to create the next Nekopara.

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>>15757465
>devs are expecting to be the next Nekopara
Make your game cost 1$ and you would be next Nekopara.

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>>15757511
Sakura Clicker, free game, "sold" 1 million copies. So there is a huge market out there... for anime you don't have to pay for.

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>>15757332
Those numbers are from TG調べ, so you need to take into account pic related.

Not sure EOPs on Fuwa can do that. Or if you.

And to not just be a dick, I'll tell you that the ranked stores don't include Sofmap, which is pretty much the biggest seller of eroge and often has the most extras for preordering, so it's rather safe to presume every of those games sold notably more.

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>>15756701
Cool, more moege.

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>>15757332
Those numbers are the exception, not the rule. And Yuzusoft has their audience--it's a middling moege with a lot of cute CG, but nothing of substance.

Plotge sells just as badly in Japan as it can over here. Though to be fair, in Japan things cost twice as much.

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>>15757647
Yuzu has a reputation for a making safe games new eroge buyers can easily get into.

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>JOPs are delusional enough to think that major title kickstarters will fail

no wonder you faggots failed in life

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>>15757701
I'm gonna remember this and laugh at you when it happens, you little cunt.

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>>15757647
>Plotge sells just as badly in Japan as it can over here.
Its almost as if people who want plot would rather read actual book written by some capable author instead of porngame written by some hack the only companies who want his "work" are porngames makers.

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>>15757709
You talking shit about the Butcher?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15757760
>Butcher
Yes, he's a hack writer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15757783
Please, tell me your favorite writer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15757829
Ryuukishi07

[Anonymous No.]

>>15757837
no ero = hack

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>>15757829
All eroge writers are hacks. There is a reason why they write at the bottom of the barrel medium.
>>15757852
He would be a hack even with ero.

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>>15757880
Or maybe they fucking enjoy that medium. Have you ever thought of that possibility?

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>>15757900
>they fucking enjoy that medium
Yes, that's why the moment they become somehow famous they drop ero immediately. Totally the sign of love for eroge medium.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15757944
When they see a chance, people will become sellouts rather than do what they enjoy. That applies to any field, not just writing.

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>>15757707
>YOU WILL REGRET INSULTING ME!!!

>>15757701
seriously, if Dies Irae of all games would fail to fund, Shitkai Project would have gone out of business a long time ago.

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>>15758026
That presumed anger in me is only a reflection of your own hwabyung.

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>>15758035
>U MAD BRO U MAD BRO

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>>15758085
lol hwabyung'd eop

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758026
Dies irae is going to fail due to their hilarious failure to advertise.

[Anonymous No.]

Anybody hear what Aroduc did?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758212
He called my favorite anime of the season shit. That bastard.

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>>15758026
You once again overestimate vocal minority, anon. Who actually hayed Dies Irae? 500 or something moogydrones who voted in Conjueror poll and bunch of real dea elitists?
We all know that most of them are hikkineets without money and pirates who never buy a shit. Add there people who wouldn't back it up because of censorship and cropped CG, burst of kickstarter bubble and people in general stopping caring about vns fad and I can see how DI fails. Still bet that it will barely make it by meme power alone and Counjueror's cries of despair.

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>>15758026

Dies and Baldr's performance will be interesting. They're both in the unique position of being extremely hyped within the English-speaking community without much backing the hype. That's not a judgement call on either game, but most of the English-speaking "fans" don't know shit about either title. It's not like with Grisaia or Clannad or MuvLuv where you had dedicated, existing fans who were highly invested the games and willing to shell out lot of extra for bonuses and whatnot.

That's where Dies and Baldr are going to struggle. Are people really going to shell out for lots of extras for games they don't really know anything about beyond the fact that they're highly acclaimed by a small group of people in the community? Those higher tiers are really important to KS success given how small the VN audience is. Just look at how badly Root Double struggled.

I think the notion that if either of these fail VNs in the west are doomed is based on a serious misunderstanding of the market here. Being a "good" or "interesting" title isn't particularly relevant to success.

[Anonymous No.]

Are we at a point where there are too many licenses and too few professional quality people to work on them?

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>>15758345
I actually know nothing about Dies Irae, so people chatting about it have done a poor job at saying antyhing else than "It is sooooo awesome".

Googling showed me a lot of good nudity, so I guess right now I just know the adult version is amazing and the censored all-ages is going to remove everything great I know about the game and just deliver "unknown product".

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758248
He calls most anime shit every season. Is rare that he actually takes any favorability to anything even.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758542
So then that obviously means that anything he acknowledges must be god tier.

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>>15758532
https://vndb.org/v548

That good enough? If the description/art/concept/genre/ratings don't interest you then just move on.

Or is it just that you want the entire story spoiled, is that how you normally choose your next read? If the limited amount of people who actually can read japanese only praise it, they probably wouldn't want to ruin your experience.

If you like nudity there's plenty of nukige out there, the H-scenes are hardly what makes DI good (atleast according to most JP critics).

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758345
You're ignoring the fact that everyone hates SP and Baldr is 15+ only with Moenovel-esque censored dialogue.

[Anonymous No.]

People who think DI will be easily funded are just as delusional as those who think it'll surely fail. It is difficult to gauge its success right now in general, because only a very small amount of people even know of the title's existence. You then need to consider which of these people haven't read it already, which are willing to pay to fund it, and how much money they'll throw at it. DI's success will most definitely depend on how popular the anime is.
If the anime is popular and people want more, it should do as well as Grisaia, at least. If the anime fails to attract a fanbase, then the Kickstarter will rely solely on word of mouth. It may be able to do well if advertised, but I think it's a hard sell to get people interested in a story-heavy title known for the quality of its prose (in Japanese). Similar titles have failed before, without having to beg people to give them money.
Then there are other issues that'll shy people away. It already has a stigma of being "censored." Regardless of your own opinions on this, that sort of thing doesn't generally fly with people who fund things. It also has other issues (cropping), and it seems kind of silly that the developer itself would need a large amount of funds to self-publish in the west.
We can guess all we want, but until the campaign really starts, I think it's too difficult to get an accurate prediction of its success.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758739

I'm not, I just don't think it's as significant a factor as the things I mentioned.

>>15758751
>If the anime is popular and people want more, it should do as well as Grisaia, at least

I don't think Grisaia's KS's popularity was that closely tied to the anime (not that it didn't help). It had much more to do with the popularity of the fan patch and the established fanbase that gave it.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey is kuroinu gonna be uncensored?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758769
Yes

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758776
welp i'm gonna die

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758751
Libra was a literary who before the KS. And even then, all the people who read it said that it was average at least. What they did was both a good PR and good goddies to sell.
Dies Irae has the meme status already. Unleast they fuck up really bad, I cannot see them without getting his money.

[Anonymous No.]

Is the reason why Subahibi is stuck at 98.7% edited and 100% translated because of the planned official release?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758698
>who actually can read japanese
Moogy doesn't know Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758797
They need to organize a crowdfund for that last 1.3%.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758698
>https://vndb.org/v548
So it is Fate/Stay Night. Why didn't you just tell me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758765
Also a deciding factor was, it was one of the earlier VN　kickstarters and they promised 3 games + a console release. Not sure Sekai can repeat that success with people having a taste their constant lies and delays. Some backers might have become jaded and not back further Kickstarters regardless of whom is doing them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758794
Mikandi earned that money as a potential new JAST or MG. We'll see if they succeed or if they end up a Frontwing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758794
Libra appeals to people who actually buy VNs. Plotge barely sell in the west, even the popular ones with successful Kickstarters aren't doing great sales-wise.
However, cute girls always sells. I mean, the Libra KS even advertises it as moe.
I'm not going to deny that DI could do well if advertised properly, but trusting meme status alone isn't enough. DI is way more similar to Sharin or Root Double than it is to Libra, and it also has the misfortune of being pushed when the Kickstarter fad has started to die down.
It could very well get funded quickly without an anime to help sell it. But I don't think it's a guaranteed thing, there are far too many variables. If games could sell on meme status alone they wouldn't even need to kickstart it in the first place, since the sales would be guaranteed. I'd be just as surprised if it failed spectacularly as if it met its funding goal in a few days.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758831
They really did try really hard. Especially near the middle when it looked like the Kickstarter would fail. I thought that was impressive they were able to pick up hype and funds again. Although, like you said, the actual quality of the release has yet to be known.

[Anonymous No.]

Will we ever get another translated Sei Shoujo game?


Are any of his new games even worth translating?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758794
>both a good PR and good goddies to sell.
Dies Irae RR already shit and they haven't officially started yet and what goddies they can offer?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758841
I don't know. I experienced their attempt being more than what Sekai ever does. But I suspect it is a question about which places you hang out at.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758857
A cool, new T-shirt that you wear during Hanukah. You'll be the talk of the town!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758794
>Dies Irae has the meme status already. Unleast they fuck up really bad, I cannot see them without getting his money.
But they fucked up anon. Cropped CG? All-ages version? A fucking kickstarter by the japanese company? Dies Irae translation project is a joke and i really hope it'll fail. I don't even like chuunige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758882
>All-ages version
It's a 15+ version


:^)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758837

Yeah, Libra leaned hard on the cute girls appeal and were very aggressive with add-ons and other merchandise. That kind of strategy doesn't really work so well for an unfamiliar story-focused title.

I'm inclined to agree with your assessment that DI could easily go either way though. I don't think it's going to fail for sure or anything, but I'm just not sure being hotly anticipated (for no real reason) is going to be enough on its own.

Also worth noting: the anime isn't set to start until next year. If they hold off on the KS for that long how many people in the core audience (the people who are hyped for the game now) are still going to care? People in this community have a pretty short attention span and even things that were a big deal initially can start looking dull and old hat really fast.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758886
>no gore or sexual content
>15+
More like "i want steam money version"

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758345
like I said, Shitkai has based their entire business model on making kickstarted after kickstarter for far less well known and acclaimed games, and despite it being well known how they butcher stuff far worse than what's been announced for DI, it's worked. DI's kickstarter failing is a pipe dream.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758837
Sharin had bad PR, with the fucking CG gallery & Music DLC, the porn being removed and then sold as DLC and being translated long time ago without something new to do with the money aside of rape people's wallet.
RD was in the "Sekai's year of KS" with some many KS in a short time. Also, they sold it as a plotge nobody wanted.

>>15758857
The artbook, CDs (OST & CD Drama), figures, the first episode of the anime, etc.
They could use as milestone KKK's translation and Interview with Kaziklu Bey.

>>15758882
Yeah, I'm still mad for the cropped CG, but until they confirm it, I'm still willing to back it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758918
>well known and acclaimed games
All my keks. Literally nobody give a shit about DI except JOP and moogy's cocksucking clique.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758888
People have waited for years, they'll wait another if they really want it. If Light is going to bank only on meme status then it doesn't matter if they start the Kickstarter today or in three months, it's not like more people are going to suddenly be interested in it.
Perhaps if they try to push it as the next Fate in lieu of using moe or fanservice to attract people, then they could get a mildly successful ad campaign.

>>15758937
It's fine if you want to fund it yourself and you believe in its success. I do think it'll probably make its main goal (as long as it's under 200k), but I have serious doubts about the speed it'll hit that without a good advertising campaign. Sharin was mismanaged but it's still indicative of where the community is now; it's a title not too similar from previous successes on name alone, which is what DI will rely on without an anime or good advertising campaign.

>figures
what figures?

>CDs (OST & CD Drama)
Drama CD would be stretch goals, since it needs to be translated. And basically all of the drama CDs are included in AA so it'd be pointless. Physical CD could work but there won't be a lot of interest in that, not enough for people to pay a lot of extra money for.

>the first episode of the anime
Nobody will go to a higher tier for something that'll probably be on CR and will definitely be on nyaa.

>artbook
This is probably the only add-on they could convince people to pay extra for.

>They could use as milestone KKK's translation and Interview with Kaziklu Bey.
These could work as stretch goals but I really doubt they'll go for it. If they do they'll mention them after the funding goal is hit.

[Anonymous No.]

We'll eventually get an H patch. So why are you complaining?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758981
which is still more than can be said of Shitkai's successful kickstarters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759009
When are we NOT complaining? Amantas Amentes is just an excuse.

[Anonymous No.]

Arunaru says he completes about 0.7-0.8% of TL progress on SukiSuki a day. So, at this rate, it looks like it'll be done in a little over a month.
It still needs editing, of course, but I wonder if we'll actually see it released this year. Just in time for the Holidays, perhaps? Either way, looks like a lot of titles are going to be coming out within the next 5 months.

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>>15759009
I'm just complaing for the cropped CG.

>>15758983
Sharin had a patch years ago.
At least Grisaia would bring the sequels. Sharin did nothing more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759031
It's probably my most anticipated title right now except for Rance and Maggot baits so I'd be real happy if it comes out this year. Plus once it's done maybe Yuki autist will kill himself and we'll be rid of him.

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>>15759009
Just like all the other unpatched games, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759040
>Grisaia would bring the sequels
We'll get 18+ sequels before 2020, r-right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759061
Dies Irae isn't like any other random game. If even Eiyuu Senki got an H patch, I don't see why DI wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759071
Praying for a russian autist to fix up the release is something I can't hold a stake in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759071
Eiyuu Senki H-scenes are untranslated. You might as well download japanese version of DI and fap to it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759060
Not anticipating Psycho-Pass? It seems like a go-to title for anyone who likes gore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759083
I don't care about the H scenes, I just hope someone will replace the censored CGs

>>15759084
Not that anon, but PP seems like shit

[Anonymous No.]

>ITT: people complaining over getting the proper version of DI

They aren't cutting content from the base game, unlike what SP are about to do with Baldr.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759071
It recently got another update.
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/forum/hentai-lair/hentai-game-discussion/383255-tenco-eiyuu-senki?p=5704856#post5704856

>>15759083
Someone translated half of them, but is slow going. The update above includes what is currently translated.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759084
Not him but
>No Urobutcher
>Console exclusive
Nah, Pizza Party died after Season 1.

>>15759143
They're cropping the CG, which is part of the experience.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759143
>project not even officially announced
>shills already on damage control
Cant wait for this glorious trainwreck!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759162
There's like 3 censored cgs jesus fuck get over it

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758808
It's in the same vein as Tokyo Babel. It's over the top chuuni that also pokes fun at the cliches of the genre.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759189
>censored cgs
He's talking about cropped cg not censored, you stupid shill.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759179
>shills
fuck, man, we have people here who unironically defend sekai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759189
>cropping
>censoring
I think you misunderstand. This is something quite different, as it is butchering by cropping them to fit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15756194
>EOPs kill themselves
I would just go find another way to spend my free time, I'm not a "VNs are art" autist

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759207
So both will sell poorly because of not enough nudity. If only they had a fullblown adult version that couldn't fit on Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759161
isn't JAST translating the h-scenes aswell?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15756655
there was no /jp/ in 2004.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759207
It's completely different from Tokyo Babel

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759211
It's because of all the whining people do about resolution. A recent ask.fm response from Haro shows that it's a major issue to people even when most people act like it's not until they're actually playing the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759229
They're releasing the console version I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759229
I think they are, but the work they did started before they announced it. Also I am not really expecting JAST to release it any time before 2020 with how they stall nearly everything. Though at the same time the H-translation has been pretty slow and may not even fully finish.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759244
But didn't people also complain about it when Sekai did it for G Senjou? Would have thought they would also take some note of the backlash from that time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759244
Well, it isn't a problem so long as they provide the original aspect ratio as an option. I believe Funbag Fantasy does this.

>>15759273
Yeah. G-Senjou also sold like hot shit. What a flop.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759273
No company listens to complaints about changes done because of complaints. It is only the first complainers that they listen to and the others should grow up and deal with it.

The trick is to be first to complain. You need to beat focus groups and SJWs by months and complain about things that haven't even happened yet. Like Baldr censorship.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759236
Doesn't it have highschoolers and cool shit (one has nazi vampires, the other has angels and demons) doing magic, sword fights and talking about convoluted philosophy to make it sound even cooler? That's very chuuni on my book, sempai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759299
>chuuni
>highschool

I think you mean middle school.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759310
Chuunibyou syndrome is with people who are past 8th grade, yet they still have delusions and act grandiose, you tard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759319
Acting like you have special powers =/= actually having special powers

Is this another Japanese term that moogy fucked up because he doesn't know Japanese?

[Anonymous No.]

What if the NTR title Haro talked about is WA2?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759031
While it could be finished this year, I doubt it'll come out this year. To many things fighting for release slots, and Sukisuki makes way to much sense to be released at Valentine's Day for them not to do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759482
does WA2 really count as ntr?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758816
SP has yet to deliver on a single mobile port and they're not even done fucking WEE, and what is done is translated very poorly.

Most rewards haven't even been mailed because they don't have enough money to pay for anything. That's why we haven't gotten a single update about Leyline or SakuSaku for a year now, despite them being totally 100% finished before the announcement. They don't have the liquid at the moment to pay the translators/licensors.

The Nekopara kickstarter will determine whether the company will survive for another year or die. Either way, they're fucked in every way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15757179
why is it different for anime? there are tons of officially licensed shows all with their original audio, and you never hear companies like crunchyshit or funny claim that it was too expensive.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759031
SukiSuki is such a catchy, memorable name. I get why they localized the name the way they did, but it's just not as memorable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759492
Yeah, the girls get NTRed fucking hard constantly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759532
I don't know how but anime localization companies have a lot of money. Some animes cost like a million to license.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759031
>SukiSuki
Literally the only game I actually hyped for.
Might as well kill myself after it released.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759533
Everyone calls it Sukisuki anyway.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15759533

That's why I've been using SukiSuki for the hashtag and stuff. Since something like #IYLMTSS doesn't exactly scan well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759676
I wouldn't say that it's the only title im hyped for but its up there. Mangagamer is getting a decent chunk of money from me when they start releasing their titles. Nothing wrong with enjoying moege, Da Capo III is my most hyped title. I barely give a fuck about Dies and Baldr,

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759832
I'm also hyped for DC3 but SukiSuki is looking so delicious that I'm just want to read it and end everything while feeling good for once.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15755183
We're living in the golden age of western visual novel acceptance.

Tell me, /vntls/, what is the Duke Nukem Forever of VN translations now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759804
Hello, Haro-poo. You should advertise it as "Buy SukiSuki!" #SukiSuki #/jp/NTR

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759861
MG will probably license more moege in the future, so don't end it yet. It's probably their second most well-selling genre. It's far behind nukige but still.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759865
Any big project being worked on by JAST, Commie's translation of Mahou (or even a completed translation by anyone else) or SubaHibi (still).

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758345
Dont see Baldr struggling as some others do, sure the whole censoring stuff is annoying but the Baldr series is also beloved because of its gameplay.
Not saying the story is bad, but some of the routes always had something missing or were moving a bit to fast and so on and i still think the whole last route was kind of stupid at parts, maybe not so bad if at least people stayed dead...

Anyway see the EOP eating up Baldr Sky for its gameplay, there doesnt exist so much comparable really in the west or at least on PC.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759486
If it releases on Valentine's day I definitely won't be buying it because my free time will be for Persona. They should be aware that there's likely more than a little crossover like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759031
MG likes to release one big title per month, so not too likely. Rance is likely to come during December, September has Funbag Fantasy, while October and November are likely to be taken by Bokuten and Da Capo III.

February seems like the perfect time to release it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759162
It's coming to Steam next month. Still sucks that there's no Urobuchi.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760089
>translation done by NISA
Dropped

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760089
He's on to bigger and better things now. Like puppet shows. Oh, and Godzilla.

[Anonymous No.]

Speaking of Kickstarter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760114
>from kikokugai to puppet wuxia
Natural progression.

[Anonymous No.]

Reminder that Kikokugai is shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760124
Only moege waifufags unironically think that, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760120
I have a feeling that even if they have a successful KS, they'll screw it up by saying they'll stick on Denuvo DRM or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760132
I hate moege, but I think Kikokugai is pretty bad. SnU is good though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760120
Baldr, DI, Sharin...


Which one is the most boring of the three?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760043
Another of my favorite VN Twitter clique memes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760140
Alright, mon. It's definitely one of my favorites.
>edgy cyberpunk kill bill with cyborg kung fu and soul crushing depression
It's not for everyone, I suppose.

>>15760141
Di is the only one that matters. Baldr Sky is already doomed to fail, and SnK has been translated for like 8 years.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760160
Neither visit Twitter nor am interested in memes.
So someone else already has that opinion thrown around a long time and annoys everyone with it, well then sorry didnt know.
Mostly just hang around /vn/

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759865
> what is the Duke Nukem Forever of VN translations now?
Sumaga. It was licensed initially almost a decade ago. Muramasa is a contender, but Sumaga has actually had 'progress' over that period instead of being flat-out dropped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759865

Sumaga. Pretty much Otome Function tier at this point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760120
Why do they think it'll work this time?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15755392
I'm surprised DI and Baldr are coming before this, honestly. There's a bunch of fans of the anime craving for the continuation of the story.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759929
I have to wonder if any other moege will even come close to Princess Evangile numbers. The Steam market has softened alot since it was released and now that MG can't offer Steam keys many people will just buy on Steam and pirate the adult version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760065
Both Bokuten and Da Capo need ported and after that is beta testing. Given Da Capo 3's length it could be in beta for weeks. I think that Himawari or A Kiss for the Petals: A New Generation have a good chance of releasing this year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15759249
Console version was already released. JAST announced the 18+ PC version at a con.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760887
You are completely right. What I should have remembered is that the bastards are not doing the gold version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760980
Loli Gawain never ever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760980
Oh but they will.

[Anonymous No.]

Someone translated this https://vndb.org/v18414 and https://vndb.org/v18415

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761191
MS Paint: Origins

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761191
Wow, someone's actually translating PC-98 games. There might be hope for Dragon Knight yet.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761270
They got a Patreon and apparently plan to do more of PC-98 games. https://www.patreon.com/nana_vs_nana

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761290
"My first goal is to translate 100 different PC-98 games."

Nice, I hope they dont give up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15758794
Good point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761191
Where can I find the game?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761871
Since the company went bankrupt I don't think that you can buy it anymore. So check Nyaa or wait for Erogedownload.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761871
>>15761883
Here https://mega.nz/#F!qAdkUQSL!l7HO2Gb6sqkZifjBa8k2SQ

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761871
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=89160695801352120397

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761871
The emulator and the game: http://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=2113869

>>15761914
Isn't that just the patch ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15760783
Doddler said he was probably going to be finished with the demo before the 29th of August. Assuming he actually did finish, the demo would probably come out near the end of September. A November release isn't that unlikely

[Anonymous No.]

Apparently Gin'iro Haruka is better than Baldr Heart.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15762733
Baldr Heart is really that bad?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15762733
Good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15762752
He's just shitposting.

EGS comments are relatively favorable except idiot or two who couldn't understand how to play it. There are some complains that story is too soft compared to Force and Sky, not enough dead and raped heroines and shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15762428
The demo is only the prologue. That section being done doesn't mean the port is even close to being finished.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15762752
>>15762775
Sorry fellas but moogy-dono just gave his verdict and it is indeed shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763037
wtf i love Baldr Heart now

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763037
So it's actually good. Got it.

[Anonymous No.]

What did R07 mean by this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
he meant "I am a hack please kill me"

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
I don't know but it's really got me thinking.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
looks like something that would air on Adult Swim

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
i cant stop laughing

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
I think he meant twintails are so amazing they are better than flying cars.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
He's finally completely lost it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
Looks like an old MTV commercial. Ugly drawings and all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15755184
>>Maitetsu - 24.71% translated
Translated? I believe the term you're looking for there is "censored."

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763159
literally this

[Anonymous No.]

>tfw you'll live enough to read Dies Irae
Feels good

Sumaga when?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763110
Trigger doing the animation work on it? It is Inferno Cop tier.

[Anonymous No.]

So when the heck are VisualArt going to localize some Tone Work's games?

[Anonymous No.]

So when the heck are VisualArt going to localize some Iris games?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15755184
Why does it take so long to translate Tenshin Ranman? Isn't the language in it really simple?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763534
>Why does it take so long to translate Tenshin Ranman?
because Sekai is shit

>Isn't the language in it really simple?
yes, all the Yuzusoft games are extremely easy to read.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763534
You get what you pay for also applies to translators.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763534
>Thinking Sekai Project can ever do anything not slowly

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763534
> You're asking about Tenshin Ranman.
> Not fucking SakuSaku or fucking Leyline which has been at a 'picked up' state for literally the past year, despite being fully TCed, edited, and QCed.

We haven't had a single tweet or update about them. It's like they can't pay the translators, or they're busy rewriting the dialogue like Moenovel to forcefully make it a 15+ abomination.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763849
Wasn't SakuSaku just picked up at AX?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763849
>SakuSaku
>Leyline

Been waiting for years then they go to SP. Whats more troublesome is that they might cut content.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763890
yes, though the translation has been waddling back-and-forward for the past 2 years. it was supposedly fully finished in May. though, in retrospect, i don't really trust that anymore considering Chuee said they had been in dealings for Sekai for around a year at that point.

probably just waiting for the licensing and negotiations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763891
>>>might

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763849
>>15763891
Sakusaku should be fine as that has a Denpa release confirmed. Leyline on the other hand does not and when initially asked the translator said its up to Sekai,

Though even with a Denpasoft release, it won't be released until they make a functional Steam version approved by the Japanese developer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763534
SP is too busy with translating all those doujinshi kamige from Argentina and Taiwan.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/the-grisaia-trilogy-three-huge-visual-novels-for-p/posts/1667593

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764165
>18+ is a priority
Is this what happens when Dovac dies?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764193
If it was a priority they wouldn't have spent 3 months getting it out desu

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764193
>18+ is a priority
>Eden TL work is 64% complete
Sounds legit

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764193
I think it is more of a matter that the first title has roughly 22k owners on Steamspy, while the second is averaging around 3k. Additionally, unlike the Steam audience, the kickstarter buyers are going to disproportionally be looking for the uncut release after they were sold to backers through backerkit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764165
>Est. Delivery date: Oct 2015

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764236
>tfw still haven't got my RD backer rewards
I will never support Sekai ever again

[Anonymous No.]

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/08/29/sex-and-hardship-in-funbag-fantasy/

[Anonymous No.]

Picked up some old titles at JAST sale. It is kind of funny how I pirated all that stuff a decade ago and never got around to play them.

Wonder if it will take more than a decade to get around to play them after buying too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764165
Love it how they're trying to get people to be more aware of their next big Kickstarter endeavor when they still haven't delivered on several of the others, including Grisaia.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764460
https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/768914619566059520

[Anonymous No.]

>>15761290
cool, first time backing someone on patreon

[Anonymous No.]

>>15763402
No, it's 100% censored.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15755184
>Wagamama High Spec overall 22.8% translated
You now remember this was supposed to be simulcast with Japs release.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764987
Censorship is a lot of work, anon

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764165
>we are looking to be moving into the technical and testing stage next month for a release this fall.
>this fall
>all-ages release was months ago
areyoufuckingkiddingme.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

>come back to 4/jp/ after years of not looking at 4chan
>mahoutsukai still not fully translated

I know I have no right to complain, but I blame it's lack of translation entirely on lack of pornography

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765216
You should blame Commie.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765216
>tfw can read it in french

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765583
The French have more Japanese products since they are the super weebs. I wonder why they even bother with the English communities.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765600
2D will be banned under sharia law

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765600
because moenovel failed with the 12 year old french girl audience

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/world-end-economica-complete/posts/1667814
>Hi Backers,

>We have an alpha build ready. However, we'll be using Steam Greenlight to get the anticipated final episode out to everyone. Backers will still get early access before the general public. We refrained from explaining plot points for episode.02 and episode.01 so there aren't any spoilers for the Greenlight.

>Please give it a vote here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=754721965

>Porting of the other two episodes to Unity has started and when we have significant progress to report we'll post a update. We're also in the process of taking the original assets* and having them ready for the 1080P upgrade. We intend to have both the 1080P upgrade and port to release together.

>*To reassure everyone, we're not upscaling, the original assets were natively drawn at 3495 x 1966

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765741

I don't understand. With all the garbage titles they have under their brand, why do they need Greenlight at all?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765741
>To reassure everyone, we're not upscaling, the original assets were natively drawn at 3495 x 1966

Dies Irae btfo
Rance btfo

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765780
too bad it only took them 2 and a half years to release an alpha build

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765763
You'd think Nekopara alone would be enough to where they don't need this. Not to mention the other two games in the series.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765763

They don't "need" it. It's just something they do to build hype and gain attention.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765741
> WEE 03 finally released few years later after deadline
> only to be cropped garbage

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765829
Actually they are forced to use it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15766098

No, they really aren't.

[Anonymous No.]

Nobody is currently working on Itsuwari no Kamen, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15766238
Correct. It's PS4/Vita exclusive anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15766249
It's also on ps3.
Good to know, thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765964
It's always been a 16:9 game and WEE3 isn't even using those higher res assets.

[Anonymous No.]

Umineko

[Anonymous No.]

Well, I'm afraid I'll have to read Sorcery Jokers once it's out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767166
>Honorifics
Dropped

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767166
>Honorifics
Picked up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767189
see >>15755946

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767189
If you hate honorifics then why are you reading VN's or watch anime?
Like D*** said; "you aren't their target audience"

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767059
Please don't post the garbage anime here.

[Anonymous No.]

That feelio when you will never see Kuon fuck people up due to grief. Pretty funny that the director admitted to not playing the games which is why there were so many fujoshit episodes.

[Anonymous No.]

I am not a VN regular, but what exactly started the whole "VNs in the west" translation wildfire we have right now?

2-3 years ago basically all we had were fan translations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767404
JAST and MG were around then, dude. What we have is just more awareness due to dovac's kickstarters of high profile VNs. Also Steam allowing VNs helped somewhat in its acceptance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767404
Nekopara selling crazy numbers and then a bunch of successful Kickstarters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15765829
Reminder to thumbs down every Winged Cloud VN and/or game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767418
Thumbing down never helps.

>>15767404
Probably Sekai's kickstarters being a success and those titles getting onto Steam due to Steam not caring anymore. That helped to make the Japanese rely on the West more as the Japanese yen declines. This, in turn, gave Mangagamer more opportunities to license stuff and release them and convinced Frontwing and Key to start self-localizing. Frontwing is trying to become a middleman company as well.

JAST's still the same as always though.

That's said, this expansion's already starting to end as Steam sales decline due to lack of QC on Steam's part and Sekai having terrible customer service. Muv Luv was the peak, and it's getting harder for companies already. Root Double only succeeded because of Vitafags, and Sharin no Kuni failed.

Mikandi Japan and their vampire moege succeeded regardless with great PR though, and Frontwing seems to be better than Sekai already when it comes to customer service. At the very least, VN fans are still better off than before the expansion even if Sekai closes down and others have to shrink or focus less on VNs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767689
>Great PR
Everybody says this but what exactly did they do? I threw $20 at it and never checked again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767861
They hustled their assess off and managed to get way more coverage and attention than some unknown moege should have. And managed to convert that attention into money with aggressive expansion of tiers.

[Anonymous No.]

Kotaku did another piece on Kindred Spirits, so congrats on MG for selling a bunch more copies even if the source behind it sucks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767861
They got deals with JAST and MG to send out info about their kickstarter in their newsletters. Active on Steam GreenLight when people asked about adult patches. Patted the backs of other kickstarters to have them send out info about Mikandi's kickstarter. Overall pretty much everything you can do except get Feminsists to try and ban your game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15768057
They also leveraged access to the devs into Japan to turn the Kickstarter into a feel good story instead of another money grabbing exercise that most recent VN Kickstarters have been labeled as.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15767878
>>15768057
That sounds cool, how was the game received in Japan? Looks average but fun

[Anonymous No.]

>>15768001
It is a positive review, and they finally figured out that Kindred Spirits isn't all that explicit. A quick look and it is an article by an otome fan they brought on to write a recurring column about "sex games", and the column itself was named after something in Hadaka Shitsuji.

[Anonymous No.]

http://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/138258798555

Why didn't he like this one, chums?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15768947
Keep your e-celeb bullshit contained in the inferior general. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15768951
what the fuck else is there to talk about you stuttering autist

[Anonymous No.]

>>15768975
>stuttering

Also, if you don't have anything to talk about other than garbage, than don't talk at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15764340
>Manga Gamer Naughty Bits Blocker
That was surprisingly cute.
Anyhow. September will be one good month for porn.

[Anonymous No.]

I finally got around to playing Beat Blades Haruka. I honestly think it was pretty boring. The gameplay started to feel really tedious around day 30 or so too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15769378
>The gameplay
Who give a shit? Its all about fetishes and porno. Its great nukige.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15769404
Something about the dialogue just felt really dry even during the H scenes. The terrible unmosaiced genitals didn't help either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15769404
It checked off alot of my usual fetishes, but I just didn't enjoy it that much for whatever reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15768304
A resounding Meh. As somebody who has played (Although I don't remember most of the details) and like these types of stories, it becomes a complete mess in the later half of most of the routes and I can see a lot of people being mad about Iris not getting a route even though it wouldn't make sense in context

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/chronoclock-limited-edition-box-set-and-exclusive

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
Are you fucking kidding me

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
Christ

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
Wow, only $20k? They sure have lowered their goals lately.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
>31.44% translated
>to be released in January 2017
doubt.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

Throw money MangaGamer's Hapymaher instead. ┐(´ー｀)┌

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
I'm sure the Grisaia and RD backers will be glad to hear SP is working to ensure backer rewards are delivered in a timely manner from now on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
>nutaku

this kill the denpa

[Anonymous No.]

Who bought the $1700 tier? Is it dovac himself?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770132
Probably an employee, yeah. Standard KS tactic.

[Anonymous No.]

>We've already secured funding for the game to be fully translated into English, this campaign is focused on producing physical goods so there is little risk of backers not getting their items.

This is new. It's not even for the translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770149
We reach new lows everyday

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/chronoclock-limited-edition-box-set-and-exclusive

They decided to just do Kickstarter for goods to avoid failure, they also got the 18+ version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
JUST

[Anonymous No.]

Is Chrono Clock actually any good?
>>15770149
Probably why the goal is so low.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770194
I've only ever heard bad things about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770149
>I said that it was hard to believe them when RD backers still haven't got their rewards and I think they reported me for spam.
Pfffffff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770194
It's not bad, but all of Purplesoft's other recent titles have been better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770228
Is it true it has detached H?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770222
Funny. I'm surprised Kickstarter still allows Sekai to use their platform. I guess to them it doesn't matter as long as you deliver 10% of your promises.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770194
The op is cool.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770228
It's one of those made-for-Steam cashgrabs, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770249
Kickstarter is anti-consumer, the project only needs to have something to show for the "donations". It doesn't even need to be remotely what was promised.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

Let's mass report this campaign for breaking the rules.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770251
Speaking of openings. I just can't stop listening to Sukisuki's opening. The song is just so damn catchy.

https://youtu.be/YTXj08O57uo

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770294
Ok.

What kind of report should we write up?

[Anonymous No.]

Sharin Kickstarter update tomorrow about when they will relauch another likely failure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770332
>another likely failure

Which employee(s) will looseboy throw under the bus this time?

[Anonymous No.]

I guess frontwing's changed their streaming policy? Their new PR boy has really been making the rounds too. I wonder if they're trying to rebrand themselves or something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770400
I don't think they've ever had a policy against streaming, but against lets plays and other youtube videos which contain a complete playthrough?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770307
Oh wow is that 3L?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770400
The streaming policies they had dropped the chance of a major streamer streaming a title (and thus selling a bunch) from a few percent to 0 percent, so changing it was a smart decision but isn't likely to help a ton unless they get lucky.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770420
Lost Pause/Noble would probably finish Corona Blossom if their policies allowed it, and he's got quite a following, even if he's not strictly visual novels any more.

[Anonymous No.]

Half of the funding goal has been reached. I guess they will be fully funded by today. Sure are a lot of retards with money out there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770447
People gave that Breeding Season scum tons of money per month for years, so, yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770417

It looks to me like he wants to do the whole thing.

>>15770420

If they want that nekopara dosh, becoming a meme like it is really all they can hope for. Maybe that's why they decided to change course?

[Anonymous No.]

I completely get the SP hate but this is moronic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770502
>but this is moronic.
Why? He's getting the word out regarding the controversial RD situation. Who cares if he does it via a negative review on the relevant game?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770502
How so? He paid and didn't get what he paid for. There is no rate-the-publisher page so he has no choice but to complain at the game page.

[Anonymous No.]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/305439676/its-adorable-its-tactical-a-doujin-indie-srpg-moek

Cute

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770524
>$6,500
>moe rpg

This thing needs to be funded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770524
Impressive samefaces

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770524

Well they're already doing better than their last kickstarter.

[Anonymous No.]

What a hard-working girl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770576
my girlfriend. very proud of her

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770130
If a Nutaku partnership gets the titles uncut then it works out for the best. This now leaves 6 Sekai titles without an 18+ release announced, hopefully the partnership knocks out a few more.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770602

Not being edited in tandem though. Probably mid next year.

>>15759486
>Sukisuki makes way to much sense to be released at Valentine's Day for them not to do that.

I actually think it'll probably be bokuten for valentines.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770643
>bokuten for valentines

People want to cry on Valentines? Well, it is singles-awareness day...

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770620
Nutaku loves censorship

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770658
Nope

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770667

Are you retarded or do you want people to start posting some of those ridiculous examples in this thread?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770602
So, SukiSuki is at least 16-20 hours? That's short.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770667

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770673
Go ahead, you'll find enough info to be proven wrong

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770667
They love to censor, though.

Also a lot of their translations are awful.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770702
>They love to censor, though.
Nope

>Also a lot of their translations are awful.
True

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770706
What do you call >>15770683
>>15770702

then? It looks like 4Kids-tier censorship to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770658
Nutaku has had problems with censorship in the past but at least they have been working to reduce the bullshit even if its not gone yet. They also have a vested interest in making sure 18+ releases sell as they have no primary Steam business. I'm sure Sekai would censor the moment their payment processor required them to, and considering Nutaku somehow managed to grab exclusivity here I doubt Sekai was planning to do an uncut release at all for Chrono Clock otherwise.

The situation is still not ideal because of Nutaku's issues, but it is better then the alternative.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770706
>Nope

Oh I get it, you're one of their shills that tries to sell the excuse that they "have" to do it.

Nevermind that nobody else in the anime titty biz does that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770710
It's called censorship alright

>>15770715
You get it, although
>Nevermind that nobody else in the anime titty biz does that.
What is SP?

>>15770711
Someone with common sense

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770719
Ok, your issue was with the "love to" bit. Got it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770719
>What is SP?

Cancer. Just because nutaku doesn't censor "as much" doesn't make them not fucking cancer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770726
At least nutaku gave actual explanations that their payment processor required them to censor their shit, and stated that they do not in fact do it on their own volition
And no I have never bought anything from them nor do I plan to, just like to keep myself informed

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770736

And yet somehow fakku, jast, and mangagamer can find payment processors that'll allow it but a nutaku, with literal millions of dollars in backing can't.

For someone who likes to keep themselves informed, you sure are fucking gullible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770749

Not sure how Fakku manages it, but MG and JAST are Japan-based companies so they have access to a different set of payment processors than Sekai and Nutaku do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770749
fakku and jast dont publish loli and mg isnt even an american company. nutaku are canadian to make matters worse, so it's no wonder they would have to censor loli characters

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770763

Nutaku is literally backed by dmm and manwin. They aren't even in the same league as everyone else in the amount of money they have access to. They could use any goddamn payment processor they want.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770765
>fakku dont publish loli

They do, it's just hidden by default

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770781

Oh, and incase you don't recognize who manwin is, they own redtube, youporn, pornhub, brazzers, reality kings, livejasmin, etc etc etc.

The idea that they're some tiny startup constrained by what their big bad payment processor would allow is basically a fat line of bullshit they're selling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770233
Yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770682
https://vndb.org/v17376

It's longer than that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770682
>>15770836
I finished it in 28 hours.

Though I've probably spent way more than that in-game. I returned to the H scenes a lot.

Especially the childhood friend paizuri scene. I don't even like paizuri that much and that was a great scene.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770719
Is that you Dovac? Do you work for Nutaku now?

[Anonymous No.]

This sounds like bullshit. If it was 10 years, that would've been understandable but, what kind of VN company loses artwork from a year ago?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770880
>what kind of VN company loses artwork from a year ago?

More damning, IMO, would be the fact that apparently hapymaher is going to be uncensored according to haro's website for it, and that's even older.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770894

Oh, and it's literally the same artists, so that excuse wouldn't work either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770880
>>15770894
>>15770899
My trust in Sekai has been shaken

[Anonymous No.]

They got their $20k already, I guess moege still sells, or at least there are enough people willing to pay a premium

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770952
It's not really surprising that stupid people are willing to give other stupid people money.

Just look at all the professional victims on patreon that pull in thousands of dollars a month simply for being bully victims on Twitter.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770967
you have to believe

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770967

Kickstarter's always been a popularity contest. That ecchimery guy's company just ain't that popular.

[Anonymous No.]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=754357608

On Steam Greenlight too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771107

btw he's https://twitter.com/KomodoMB/ if any of you got a twitter and want to tell him he should be shilling his shit if he wants to make that 10k he originally wanted.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771143

Real subtle, dude

[Anonymous No.]

We all love crazy conspiracy theories right?

Sekai's remaining PR bitch is on reddit now defending nutaku and saying that they're improving their company and he's been to their offices. Kind of going above and beyond for just a distributor.

Nutaku's got money to burn, and dovac was always bitching about having to secure additional funding for the company. I wonder if Nutaku approached dovac with a big old pile of money to exclusively distribute their 18+ titles, and dovac being so angry at how "entitled" everyone was about their porn just said "fuck it, fine".

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771222
Nutaku has been working with Sekai for some time. They had a number of launch titles on the store, quickly had a short term exclusivity deal on Sakura Dungeon, grabbed Karakara recently, have another short tern exclusivity deal for Sakura Space, and now this. Sekai also asked about them in their big poll during the late Spring. This has been a long time coming, has been occasionally noted here whenever Nutaku made the news, and shouldn't be much of a surprise. It also makes business sense for both companies, Sekai gets access to a bigger market, and it takes care of one of their bigger PR headaches without much effort on their part, while Nutaku gets a steady supply of titles. I'd fully expect more integration going forward.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771257
Access to a million non-buying customers. I don't know if that beats torrent site advertisement.

Anyway, I do wonder if that physical game is all-ages only. It sounds like something Sekai would do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771318
>Anyway, I do wonder if that physical game is all-ages only. It sounds like something Sekai would do.

They claim it won't be in the kickstarter comments

[Anonymous No.]

Hmmm...

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771318
They explicitly say it is the uncut version in the Kickstarter

>The physical version is the Denpasoft edition of the game, but you will also get the Steam and Nutaku download should you go physical. We got you covered!

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771357
what am i missing here

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771373
>>15771373

Maybe he's insinuating that mangagamer might try to get DC3 out around the time that the latest fandisk comes out in nipland?

I don't think they can turn it around that fast though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771389
Doddler says he's moving faster than he thought in regards to the port, but I fully expect DCIII to be out in November or something. It'll probably take that long for play testing and shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771357
>ままはは
Thanks, I didn't even notice Bootup was releasing another game

[Anonymous No.]

Re:Zero VN coming out on PS4 and Vita in Japan on March 23.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771474
Who cares? No one. There's no Rem route.

[Anonymous No.]

$25k now on the kickstarter. Obviously not going to be a monster hit, but it is likely to end up with a respectable total, especially for a rather generic title.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770047
> SEKAI DOING A KICKSTARTER FOR AN ALREADY ANNOUNCED GAME.

Just more evidence that they're near bankruptcy and this is just a way of keeping their shit afloat.

Who would support that shit when it's going to be 2019 and SP will be dead by the time they would get anything?

[Anonymous No.]

> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/chronoclock-limited-edition-box-set-and-exclusive
> It's already funded after a day.

There are no words. Can we all do a mass suicide ala Danganronpa? Fuck this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771619
Hey man, Dovac needs to eat. Stop with the bully

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771630
It gets me that a VN that has taken 13 months to hit 31% with an ETA release somehow in January is getting 20k+ in the first day. Especially since almost none of their Kickstarters have every promised port/paraphernalia shipped to backers. Like, no one has gotten their OSTs for RD. Arguably worse, they've overshot their 'estimated' release dates by multiple years, especially with shit like WEE where their no-name translators do a slow, crappy job - the very same treatment CC is getting.

It's fucking depressing that no one learns that SP is a fuckawful company. Fuck humanity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771474
Damn, I'd actually play this if I had either a ps4 or a Vita.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771773
Dude, both are the weeb consoles. I don't understand how you can't have them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771800
I believe this image describes my situation quite nicely.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771800
I have a Vita but I fully gave up on Sony and the PS4 when they went full Microsoft with PS+.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771837
I never ever used PS+.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770711
>Nutaku has had problems with censorship in the past but at least they have been working to reduce the bullshit even if its not gone yet.
This only happens because they choose titles that pander to their shitty standards. Nutaku is still the same bullshit

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771474
I just dreamt of ram last night..Most vivid dream I've had in a while. I was holding her hip as we were taking a picture. It seemed like we were close. Never before had I never wanted to wake up in my entire life.

[Anonymous No.]

The Kickstarter well will dry up eventually right? CC seems well on its way to 100k.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772821
I wonder if those dumb bastards didn't bother to read the description and think they're paying for the translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15771257
This seems like a much bigger partnership than previously.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

With Nutaku seeming more than willing to inject more money into SP, it doesn't seem like their practices will end any time soon. They're been ramping up their PR a bit lately, too, which is most likely why they caused Dovac to go completely mute.
The only good thing is that with a real Nutaku partnership they'll be forced to release uncut versions of their titles, but if they're going to give stupid excuses for why they can't de-mosaic, or deal with Nutaku's generally retarded censorship in general, I'm not sure this is better for EOPs.
Seems like the hope, like always, is that MG will pick up any interesting titles and that SP sticks to getting garbage. Their only good titles right now are Baldr and Maitetsu, both of which are being castrated, but it's unfortunate to see Chrono Clock get funded so quickly despite being nowhere near close to translation completion and having a Kickstarter just to squeeze more cash out of idiots.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772843
I don't think the backers really care what they're funding as long as the game is included in the backer rewards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772821
I am still surprised people are giving Sekai money for yet another product they haven't yet finished. Nearly every kickstarter they have done is behind schedule or missing reward shipments.

[Anonymous No.]

is type moon steeling great VN writers for fate metirels to u guys? is type moon the bad guys? or is it something happening in every part of the industry right now

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772881
I was hoping that there might have been a turnaround considering their worse-than-usual practices in the past few months. But I guess not.

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>>15772843
78% of the revenue thus far is from physical products. I am guessing that someone willing to put down $125 for a physical product really wants a physical product, rather then making a choice to support it for a translation.

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>>15772897
Type-moon has been "lifting" ideas for VNs ever since Tsukihime ripped off Kizuato. Surprised Leaf didn't sue their asses then.

P.S. Are you drunk?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772897
If only they weren't "stealing" hacks like Sakurai.
Septem's chapter in FGO is atrocious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772881
Denpa is already not selling physical hard copies because of payment processor issues, and Dovac has complained about being rejected for other stuff because of payment processors. Obviously Nutaku isn't ideal, but they are unlikely to have any less problems then a pure Denpa solution. Also while it might be for show, they have been emphasizing "no censorship" whenever they talk about their store, and practically speaking even if that doesn't hold it is far easier to fix an 18+ title with a few stupid Nutaku edits then it is to fully restore an exclusively all ages release, as a title like Chrono Clock likely would have been without Nutaku's input.

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>>15772911
He's probably talking about how Higashide and Sakurai are writing for TM now which basically killed interest in Propeller titles and Steampunk games, respectively. Of course TM VNs have ideas that have been used by other stories, but it's another thing entirely to have writers quick other studios just to write trashy fanfiction LNs.

TM (Fate, really) is just massive, so lots of writers want a piece of it, either for the money or for the world. Butcher and Narita have also joined the fun, although both of them are Nasu's friends, and both of them are still doing plenty of other things.

[Anonymous No.]

SakuSaku kickstarted when? Ley Lines kickstarter when?

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>>15772935
Tomorrow. It's only a day away.

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>>15772866
Obviously this here is a bigger deal then previous deals, but considering Sekai has had a chronic problem about making money off of uncut releases (as Dovac has ranted about multiple times), and they were working with a distributor who makes a living off of 18+ titles with a platform they are trying to expand, it was only a matter of time to see Sekai make bigger deals with Nutaku.

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>>15772909
I can't believe people STILL haven't learned that Sekai won't deliver on time or at all. I get that during the early days, people would've had hope but this is Sekai's 12th kickstarter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772881
Ideally this deal would lead to either uncut or mostly uncut Baldr Sky, something that seems unlikely to happen without something like Nutaku cash. Maitetsu probably isn't going anywhere, but I'm not entirely sure MG would have gone along with an uncut release, and it does seem that Sekai wasn't Lose's first choice, just the only one who said yes.

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>>15772911
i was

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>>15772975
While I am sure that has turned away some people, I still doubt the people still willing to fork over $125 for a rather generic title are particularly worried about if they get it in April 2017 or April 2018. They just really want that physical release.

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>>15772881
I hope that Nutaku is reaching out to "do it yourself" self publishing Japanese efforts. At least Sekai had their own uncut platform to distribute titles even if they have been hit or miss about securing such rights, but a title like Noratoto might not be considering an uncut release at all without a meaningful platform to distribute on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15772935
SakuSaku Kickstarter on October 1st

Leyline Kickstarter on November 1st

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>>15772881
It really surprises me that people are willing to fund another product from SP, when they themselves admit that it's just for physical goods, which should seriously be illegal.

Not to mention Chrono Clock's speed is abysmal to the point that I think Hapymaher has a better chance of coming out before CC does.

Speaking of which, is SP really going the "blame the dev route" again with the uncenosred CG being lost when MG could confirm Hapymaher being uncensored? That's really low.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773091
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/277698737/silent-hill-resurrections/description

I don't think the Kickstarter staff even care about what's on there anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773091
Yes they do, check the KS comments.

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>>15773091

>Speaking of which, is SP really going the "blame the dev route" again with the uncenosred CG being lost when MG could confirm Hapymaher being uncensored? That's really low.

I mean I suppose it is not impossible, Denpa is going no mosaics for Ne no Kami and I doubt Nutaku is thrilled about a mosaics only release when they are shelling out the money to distribute it yet they have no Mosaics on their DMM stuff. But Sekai does manage to "lose" non-mosaic art quiet often so it is hard to guess when they might be serious about it.

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>>15773118
I agree that it's not impossible and maybe they were really lost through some freak accident. It just feels off that Chrono Clock's uncensored CGs are gone, while Hapymaher's, which pre-dates CC, are completely fine.

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>>15773118
The weird thing is that Purple soft seemed to make this game exactly for Sekai's standards. I guess it's possible that they didn't think Sekai would want the non-mosaic'd art though. Either that or there is uncensored art, but Sekai doesn't want to put in the effort to make the genitals look presentable like what MG occasionally has to do.

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>>15773132
There's no way it's gone. And even if it is, can ALL the artwork be gone? Didn't the artists have to give WIP artwork to the director?

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>>15771619
And people think Dies Irae will fail.

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>>15773132
Indeed, it just seems odd, for financial reasons that they would avoid non-mosaic art for this. As said Denpa is working to make Ne no Kami non-mosaic, even though that required going back to the original artist for redraws. Their OELVN stuff, especially Sakura, never had mosaics so its not like they are unfamiliar with non-mosaic releases. I'm also sure they are aware how it looks that MG has Hapymaher without mosaics yet they can't get Chrono Clock, and their partner in Nutaku would surely prefer to have no mosaics.

They could surely be lying about the non-mosaic art being lost (and that is probably more likely then not). It is just hard to figure out what their possible reason would be in this case, as they don't seem to have anything to gain.

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>>15772912
Sakurai is the best thing that ever happend to Type-moon, but sucks for me since I hate Fate.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773151
Dies Irae will likely have a huge goal beyond what this is likely to end up with. Additionally this can sell well based on the cover, while for Dies Irae you have to explain why it is a good title, which is harder to do.

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>>15773165
They probably have multiple teams doing different projects. One team might like ero more than the rest of them. We all know Sekai's higher ups don't like ero to begin with so they'll give out any bullshit answer on their pet projects.

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>>15773151
Depends on how much money they're asking for.

50k possible, 100k or more, really unlikely.

This KS is only 20k after all. Even if it gets 70k, that doesn't prove anything for Dies Irae since CC is a moege. Moege do better than most other VN genres except for nukige. Unless DI is the next Fate/Stay Night (which may be possible), it's not going to be doing well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773184
Sekai will just say that they'll be doing a Vita release (and not deliver) for DI. Those Kickstarter retards will pay for that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773172
>Dies Irae poster
>All the girls in the Nazi costume
200k in 2 days.

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>>15773118
It's probably more like that there's no genitals drawn on the non-mosaic art or that it just looks so absolutely bad it needs to be redrawn anyway, so they're using the excuse that it isn't available. Perhaps MG negotiated that the uncensored assets needed to be procured for Happymaher, or maybe it just has better available uncensored images.
In this case I think SP is just doing something more to avoid paying any extra cash, rather than them trying to screw people out of an uncensored release. They very likely don't want to front the costs for whatever it is to make the art presentable, assuming that is the issue.

[Anonymous No.]

I dont care anymore, I will only buy stuff from MG and JAST while pirating the rest if its interesting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773184
My guess is that DI's Kickstarter will be 100-150k and it'll take them near the end of the campaign to reach that, unless they get a damn good advertising campaign or have an anime boost.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773196
Sekai's not doing Dies Irae, dumbfuck.

[Anonymous No.]

Google ate the ero!

[Anonymous No.]

Why are there no hard copies for Eden, didn't it sell well ?

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>>15773139
>>15773209
The uncensored work looking like crap and needing work is the most likely explanation. But even so, if it was just that it is surprising that Sekai would let MG get the advantage here. Sheer pettiness likely lead to them going out of their way to avoid mentioning Hapymaher after all, from the Kickstarter page.

>Purple Software is a visual novel developer of the highest caliber, with titles such as Mirai Nostalgia and Amatsutsumi to their name.

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>>15773229
Yes, that's puzzling especially since ef got one and it sold way less.

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>>15773229
Perhaps the low price an Eden hard copy would go for, along with needing to go back to the ESRB with money to get a full detailed AO rating that Minori would have required (as digital only rating seems to be free, while physical distribution detailed rating is not), made it less appealing then the other titles they decided to prioritize.

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>>15773250
Why is so minori adamant about getting a rating? Nobody else seems to have this problem.

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>>15773220
Actually caught my error after posting but then just said fuck it and left it.

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>>15773255
Minori was one of the companies that had hesitations about 18+ releases in the West in the first place. NNL managed to force their hand to release Ef officially after the whole C&D incident. But they were (and still are) clearly hesitant and the compromise happened to be to get a rating, probably as some sort of defense if issues were to arise.

[Anonymous No.]

At least its seems like CC avoided being butchered by commidevs so we can have our beloved honorifics!

[Anonymous No.]

> SP teaming up with Nutaku.

Wow, it's like cancer teaming up with cancer. They're just cancerous in different ways.

Hopefully Nutaku changes their 'we edit the CGs/etc.' policy to make younger characters look like they were abducted by aliens, had their faces rearranged without any sense of aesthetics, then released.

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>>15773315
Great, so instead we can have the art and translation butchered instead!

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>>15773230
To be fair, I wouldn't mention a title that a competitor sold unless I had to. Purple Soft has more than just HapyMaher.

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>>15773339
SP already does both those things.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773327
They already have mostly changed that, and relaxed their censorship guidelines, with Flower Knight Girl. Even if they didn't though, there is hardly a more trivial fix then a CG swap.

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>>15773327
They aren't messing with third party games, and back when they asked what VN they should translate in house, they said they wouldn't censor that. Not that I completely believe them, but I doubt they'll go out of their way to mess with third party games regardless when they can simply reject selling certain games.

Though this obviously means that they can only accept really vanilla third party games. Rance is probably too hardcore for them.

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>>15773347
How Nutaku does business:

1. Say you won't censor or edit anything
2. Do it anyways
3. Lie to customers that it wasn't done
4. Customers show them some comparison pictures
5. Say, "oops" and revert changes
6. Promise to never do it again
7. Repeat 1

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>>15773362
I'm pretty sure Nutaku will give up at some point. The anti-censorship crowd is really autistic. Someone has to be paid to alter those assets.

[Anonymous No.]

lol Audi is assuring people that ChronoClock will be done by January when it's nowhere close to being done.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773362
Shouldn't it be Repeat 2? 6 already implies 1

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>>15773388
PR = Paid Riars

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>>15773398
He's so terrible at it that it's hilarious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773398
This will come back to bite them when backers realize that he lied just to get them to back the project.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773406
Should've hired the guy from Frontwing. Now that was a smooth talker.

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>>15773362
They surely have limited the bullshit in recent months though, and as said, it is trivial to revert a CG change in a visual novel even if they were to pull bullshit. Besides, lying to customers dumb enough to fork over money for free to play browser games is one thing, pulling that sort of bullshit with their 3rd party partners as they go full force with their "Steam for porn games" project is quite another.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773410
I would like to believe you but seeing the current Chrono kickstarter success, I have no faith this will happen.

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>>15773410
You say this but Sekaifags STILL back their shit despite them having no delivered on pretty much all their projects and many backer rewards gone missing

I mean fucking Grisaia was supposed to be completely done last year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773410
The people forking over $125+ for this mostly are not going to be first time backers, understand there will be delays and the estimate is bullshit, but want their shiny hard copy anyways even if it is months late.

[Anonymous No.]

Prime example right here. Seems like he knows what's going on (even got a physical game is terrible condition) but still backed Sekai anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773388
Adult game is probably 99% done. It is the all-ages version that is at like 30% because it is harder to write your own story.

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>>15773441
the H in that game is segmented

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773441
All the H-scenes in Chrono Clock are separate from the main story already (likely as a direct result of planning to release it in the West during production).

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>>15773439
Even he brought up the weirdness of CC having mosaics when Hapymaher doesn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773459
Maybe he read this thread. Heh. Anyway, /jp/ has been telling people for literally years not to back Sekai so if you and get burned, it's really your own fault.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773411
I believed pretty much everything he said, if only because he gave me new reasons to hate Sekai.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773451
As in it is in the gallery when you start the game as in Corona Blossom?

I guess too many companies got Cancer and killed their own market.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773480
Purple Soft immediately regreted it and promised not to do it again though, which is neat.

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>>15773411

I wouldn't say he's that smooth, he's been bitching about his job on his twitter that got outed here.

>>15773388

It's not like it's impossible. They could, for example, just throw quality out the window. Or maybe nutaku gave them a shitload of money and they'll hire six guys like clannad.

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>>15773342
Of course, but Happymaher is basically their only other title that English speakers would even be aware of. Them mentioning other titles people don't know about but ignoring Happymaher is pretty petty (and silly) although it's expected.
Plus, mentioning Happymaher would draw attention to the fact that it'll probably be released before CC despite being announced recently, it'll be uncensored, and it'll have a better translation. They'd just be bringing even more attention to their own lackluster releases.
Still funny to see them intentionally ignore it, though.

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>>15773495
Well, people like to bitch on their personal Twitter. When I said smooth, I meant in how he treats customers and potential customers. Very respectful even if all of it was not likely truthful. On the other hand, that audi guys is very snarky, blames customers for demanding things they paid for, blames being "new" for the shitty job they're doing and it's your fault for not understanding their hardships.

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>>15773439
>>15773459
Does Dovac have mind hacking powers?

It's the only reasonable explanation.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone commenting on the translation mistakes in the character descriptions? The english here doesn't even make sense.

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>>15773482
It would be amusing if they decided to do that after feedback from Sekai, but Sekai ended up coming back and asking for the uncut release anyways now that PR and financial reasons make uncut releases more viable. It is more likely though they made the decision on their own initiative like Lose with Maitetsu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773544
did they get these guys to translate it

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773544
The English makes perfect sense. I don't know if it matches up with the JPN text though.

Are you illiterate?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773544
In Japan, if you address someone without an honorific, it means you are very close.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773551
>Patricia of end

Every time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773565
this story is the heartful story

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>>15773439
What an idiot, CC was announced way before Happymaher. If anything, MG's pickup was the surprise.

This just shows that the backers aren't even reading the campaign. They probably think they're paying for the TL instead of just dumping money into a glorified shop.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773544
Wait that seems fine though. This on the other hand >>15773551 .

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773572
I would assume overall it is just people buying adult games from a company that said "We don't need adult games".

Of course rubbing it in their faces aren't as effective when it brings them money.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773551
>Yuki
Are you fucking joking me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773525
Frontwing's PR guy is the best thing they've done. He makes me want to trust them, even though I know they're really no better than SP.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773556
>>15773553
It's an awkward sentence in english, but it's also not really what the japanese says. I'm not sure where they get 'dirty' from 'familiar'.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773620
Give it up, even the Japs see one u as the more valid translation style.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773630
I think "dirty" in this sense means not to tease her. "Don't get too close to me, silly boys" type of thing, I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773637
The Japs are not really the ones to follow regarding romanization. Ever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773678
How dare you question their artistic vision of how they want the name localized?

[Anonymous No.]

Worth remembering now that it is clear Nutaku is going to be throwing money at visual novels as they build their platform, their list of visual novels that would be easy for them to get through DMM included most of the Railsoft library.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773570
Good thing his mother is no longer dead. He must be happy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773913
she was only dead when he was young, after all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773551
>Patricia casts a spell on him to change the cat
I dont

[Anonymous No.]

>>15770967
For the Chrono Clock Kickstarter alone (not even talking about previous PR for Chrono Clock), I received an e-mail from Sekai, there's tons of talk about it both in this thread and in the thread about censorship, and there's a 100+ posts thread on Reddit. But for Moekuri? I didn't even know it existed until you posted that picture, and I had to actively look it up to see what this is about.

In addition, one is a recent title by a fairly popular company; in addition to the guarantee of quality that comes with a professional production like that, plenty of people have already played it in Japanese and their opinions about it can easily be found. But for Moekuri? I have no idea if it's any good; it's an indie game nobody's played, so it could range anywhere from absolutely terrible to brilliant, but I have no way to tell.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773953
Throwing money at a known liar whose translated products are subpar and whose physical promises for goods are mostly unkept vs throwing money at a small doujin with modest goals.

I'll pick the latter. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774003
They also fully delivered their kickstarter before starting this new one didn't they?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774006
I think so.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774006
Case in point. Look at all this great customer service.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15773199
>All the girls in the Nazi costume
But they are men anon, they looks like bishonen faggot but still.

[Anonymous No.]

Is WEE normally this ugly looking?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774006
Yes and Wish was a pretty polished localization.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774006
>>15774003
Good for you, but that doesn't magically let people know about them. Culture Select needs to either do serious marketing or get people talking about them to be visible. As it is right now, even Sekai's bad rep has more PR value than Culture Select's good service.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774202
He just started the damn company. Like fuck, give him some time.

[Anonymous No.]

http://mangagamerstaff.tumblr.com/post/149759218734/since-sekai-project-has-stated-that-purplesoft-has

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774254
>original, pre-mosaic art

lmao. So it wasn't redrawn art as some Sekai supporters have been saying. You got lied to again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774219
Sympathy doesn't make a Kickstarter succeed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774282
His first one did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774291
But just barely, with a goal of only $4800, and with a huge spike caused by marketing activity, without which it would not have been funded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774387
Yes, the goal of marketing is to make you aware of something. Yes, a smaller company would not have a bigger marketing budget of a larger company. Yes, you might not know about something because game journos might not even look at your game even though you sent out press releases as is the case with this. Is that all?

[Anonymous No.]

>Today’s release of kinetic novel Karakara was the first of many new adult titles, which we hope to begin delivering on a weekly basis.
http://www.nutaku.net/blog/nutaku-summer-update/

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774254
Oh damn, that girl looks like a semen demon.
Is she a route?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774963

I can't imagine mangagamer'll take an exclusivity deal, but given that they already put some of a couple titles on there, I wouldn't be too surprised to see them stick more titles on there. The money must be pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15774963
Does nutaku even get enough traffic to make this whole thing that big of a deal?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775173
I hate this, If Nutaku established themselves properly in this then RIP my Idea of MG and JAST doing it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775246
nutaku.net Total Visits: 22.80M
This is date from June 16 to July 16

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775246
They get enough paying traffic for it to be worth it I imagine. Chances are Nutaku's denpa games have sold double+ then the actual games on the denpa site. Is it worth it? Not for J-ast or Mangagamer to focus on but it is a market to sell things through and they would be silly to not take advantage of easy sales.
For Sekai though its probably how they are going to make any money on adult releases so Nutaku's rules will probably greatly effect the kinds of 18+ content Sekai bothers with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775275
Nutaku has a ton of free games on their site. I wonder how many of their users actually pay for anything.

[Anonymous No.]

Giving Demon Master Chris to Nutaku -_-

Helping your competitions store get started is not a good idea MG no matter how much money they give you now for it as it will come back to bite you in the long run.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775299
Or how many of them would actually be interested in VNs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775305
Most of MG's staff is freelancers, so what do they care who they end up doing translation work for in the end?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775278

I don't think they actually care about the sales so much as the fact that nutaku is likely paying for the privilege.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775299
Hard to judge, but it is at least enough that Sekai seems to be forging a close relationship with them

>>15775305
I don't blame them, the inclusion or exclusion of MG titles is unlikely to make or break the storefront, considering Sekai is giving them full support and they literally are throwing a couple million dollars at it. They might as well get some extra cash from their back catalogue in the mean time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775310
This might be the early days of vns on Steam all over again. Interest could really wane over the next year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775314
I mean the store not the staff, who controls the biggest store will be able to influence what titles we get. And I rather see JAST and MG do that then Nutaku.

You see what Steam did since it is the biggest Store and say no to ero people started focusing more on all age VNs

[Anonymous No.]

A big question is how hard they will go after Japanese publishers who are self publishing. Excluding companies that have no interest in releasing uncut releases regardless of the finances, distribution remains the biggest problem for making uncut releases financially viable, and a third party store with plenty of traffic makes that far more viable. I just wish Jlist would have set up something similar, considering all the traffic they get

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775368
Agreed. Giving too many games over to Nutaku would mean that you work for them and it's their way or the highway. Exactly like with Steam.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775299
The games may be free, but pretty much all of them are pay-to-win. Believe me, there are thousands of whales shilling out over there.

[Anonymous No.]

>Nutaku

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775397
People pay for this shit?

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775406
Unfortunately.

Here's the rest, if anyone wants a laugh (and/or cancer)

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775411
2 million dollarydoos for game development and not one good translator.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775368
Purely vanilla titles would be safe, but anything remotely hardcore or questionable by Canadian standards would be in trouble.

I really want to know what kind of numbers vns on Nutaku pull in.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775419
If they decide to localize any of the titles on their list they put out of what they could get, I surely hope they get a halfway decent translator, or find the absolute best translator out there if they actually go through with a Railsoft title.

[Anonymous No.]

Once Nutaku gets flooded with trash like Steam did, then the incentive to put a title on there will go down, because people will become less likely to buy it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775438
it's already flooded with trash

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775433
They seem to get away with more then I would expected these days, seeing CGs from Flower Knight Girl. Also the hideous redraws seem to have largely stopped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775438
They already have a large audience willing to pay for trash. That said, success on Nutaku is likely to be much more dependent on HCG quality in the game preview then any other measure of game quality.

[Anonymous No.]

I don't visit the site so, is there a reason everybody saying Nutaku is getting Rail-soft? I'd rather MangaGamer get them since they already have Liar-soft. Plus,

>Nutaku's Albatross

I really don't want to imagine it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775464
Yeah, they've let up on the censorship for the most part. Right now, the dumbest thing they're doing is keeping loli characters off of event banners.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775468
Nutaku listed a number of titles they had access to and asked people to tell them which titles they wanted to see licensed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775468
They made this list https://vndb.org/t7956 earlier this year, highlighting titles they could probably get through DMM (VDZ's reply has them in plain text). For whatever reason, it includes most of the Railsoft library.

[Anonymous No.]

Liar Soft a shit. Hope they go bankrupt.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775493
If they can actually get Scarlett, I would think Sekai's close relationship with Nutaku would lead to a deal similar to Chrono Clock, considering Dovac has wanted to bring that over.

[Anonymous No.]

>>15775468
Some dude from nutaku posted on VNDB a list of games that people could ask for, and everyone treated as they having the rights to those games, even though the guy said that they could ask for games that weren't on the list.

And most of the games have no relation between them, besides what >>15775493
said of having several Railsoft games in there.

Hell he didnt even put Iwaihime on the list, a game that DMM is the developer and producer, so I wouldn't take that list very seriously.

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>>15775516
While it isn't necessarily a list of titles they can get, it also seems way too random with a couple specific patterns (in particular the Railsoft titles and Kizuato/Shizuku being there multiple times) to have not been generated based on some sort of internal list from dmm.

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Sharon no Kuni kikestarter now has a Vita port and a fuckpillow.

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>>15775516
>>15775526

There are also a couple Sorahane titles and a couple NekoNeko Soft titles. But you don't end up with a list including Private Garden, Utakana, Tokyo Shota Street, and Aruruu to Asobo, along with the entire Railsoft library by pulling names out of a hat. The list was somehow generated from dmm, it is just a question of what the significance of being on that list means.

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>>15775578
And a lower goal. They'll probably make it this time.

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>>15775587
I don't know how they can add more rewards but then lower the goal. Unless the goal was high to begin with.

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>>15775578
Why are they making kikestarters for games that got fan translations years ago?

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> Sekai and Nutaku, two worst ever companies of eroge, joining hands to make even worse abomination
Its like watching bad B-tier horror show, except its real.

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>>15775595
They're probably already done a bunch of work on the project and are willing to lose some money elsewhere to make sure they don't have to fund the entire thing without Kickstarter.

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>>15775598
Because Muv Luv made 1.25 million

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>>15775526
>>15775579
But why did they ignore a game that they are both the developer and the producer?

Something that makes it ridiculous easy to release on the west, since they already have the rights and it is even from a well know writer.

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>>15775598
It's for the sheckles goy

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>>15775608
Because Muv Luv is a ongoing series with anime series occasionally airing(Even if almost all of it is garbage) so getting a larger amount is to be expected?

>>15775621
I would think jews would be the people that know best how to make money, misusing kikestarter only works on popular content.

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>>15775599
The end result seems better though. Without Nutaku, Sekai probably planned to release only an all ages release of Chrono Clock, and if Nutaku is willing to fork over funds, Sekai has no reason to ignore getting rights to do an 18+ release of other titles except when legal issues come into play. I am not a fan of either company either, but if Nutaku is the kick Sekai (and Japanese companies that are self publishing) needs to do 18+ releases, then the combination is working out fine.

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>>15775634
But that way Sekai wont die, I want to see Dovac starve.

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>>15775661
Don't bully Dovac-sama

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>>15775661
Sekai is going to be stable financially. When they can throw out a Nekopara title and sell 250k copies, along with a monthly Sakura title, losses disappear real quick.

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>>15775661
He's a drunk with an eating disorder, he's already pretty much there.

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>>15775678
>along with a monthly Sakura title
Why would you expect the Sakura factory to slow down that much?

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$36k day 1 total for Chrono Clock.

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>>15775701

Shit's literally moving faster than root double did. Impressive.

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>>15775705
The power of moege at work.

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>>15775477
If that is the extent of their issues now though, it is much more reassuring considering they look like will be a significant part of the market going forward if only just because of their sheer size.

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>>15775611
I don't think they ignored or added anything, and I doubt anyone took a look at the list before it was distributed or they would have caught the duplicates. It wasn't necessarily some type of exhaustive list, but it is safe enough to say it was some type of internally generated list based on some criteria within dmm. What it meant exactly is up to speculation.

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>>15775477
None of tentacle scenes were reverted in games where they were censored, and in all other games such characters are skipped entirely.
Same shit for other more animalistic kinds of monsters.

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>>15775728
If one takes them at their word that it is payment processor issues (which is the only thing that makes sense, they don't have anything to gain otherwise) it is probably the same issue that Sekai ran into with their hard copies of Nekopara.

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>>15775715
It's a pretty bad moege, too.

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>>15775746
Fortunately for SP the whales funding this don't care about anything other than the character designs.

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>>15775756
Will they care when they find out the eroge is a post-story thing like it was in eden*?

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>>15775764
I really doubt it.

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>>15775773
People like to say how the ero is an important part of the relationship progression in the game, and it's really not when it's just tacked on at the end.

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>>15775780
And that's why Purple Software said they won't do it again.
That has nothing to do with Kickstarter backers, though. I'm sure a good portion of the backers would deny an interest in ero in the first place, so it being disjointed from the story probably is irrelevant to them.

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>>15775780
Not just "at the end", its more like "what if" omake in Grisaia Labyrinth, doesn't even feel like it was part of story.
Original story ends at first kiss.

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>>15775705
Root double had an acceptable start but faded rather quickly, at least until they went into overdrive when they got worried it would fail and added stuff (especially the Vita version) to the kickstarter. Granted that isn't a worry this time around thanks to the laughably low goal, but they could still pull similar stuff to give it a boost halfway through.

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>>15776063
The thing is, the Vita goal was just a "maybe". They straight up said that it wasn't enough and was expecting the Steam sales to fund it.

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>>15776063
They don't need to pull a stunt like that, why invest money into additional work when the point is to sell physical goods? This won't have the legs of other Kickstarters because the whales are there day1 and there are no stretch goals.

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>>15775828
In Grisaia, is it canon that Yuugi ends up with _______Michiru_______? Kinda sucky if you ask me.

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>>15776127
Canon is harem end, michiru is just first to be impregnated due to not understanding how condoms work.

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https://twitter.com/nutakugames/status/771058544338698240

Nutaku and SP are not communicating well if Nutaku thinks CC is going to be uncensored.

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>>15776172
i doubt there is a communication problem, they are just using uncensored in a different context.

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>>15776172
Nutaku is even bigger liar than SP, and uses same "devs did it" trick when lies get exposed.
Its going to be very fun show when Nutaku starts pointing fingers to SP and claim SP failed to meet its obligations.

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>>15776172
I wouldn't be surprised if in this case that just meant "without any cuts from Japan"

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>>15776188
It's probably this. Whatever Japan got is whatever you're getting.

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>>15776182
There isn't going to be much public finger pointing, they have a mutual need for each other. Sekai is by far Nutaku's most important partner for the moment for their multi-million dollar "steam for porn" project, while it takes care of the thorny issue of uncut releases for Sekai while making a good profit.

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>>15776188
That's what it means. In general this is what people think uncensored means, possibly because of the slew of cut Steam releases.

If you ever hate yourself enough to check out Libra's Steam page, one of the threads there is Mikandi asking of people want uncensored (no mosaic) art, and most of the replies are people saying they want "the same experience as Japan" or "don't buy censored content" even though the censorship in that particular thread is explicitly referring to mosaics, not sex scenes.

Also considering Nutaku's track record, doesn't take a genius to figure out that uncensored = no strange redraws/scene omissions.

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>>15776178
>>15776188
Considering Nutaku's own problems with censorship, this is probably not the best word to use in this context.

I'm just waiting for the inevitable blowout.

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>>15772933
>He's probably talking about how Higashide and Sakurai are writing for TM now which basically killed interest in Propeller titles
Higashide had left propeller before he has started writing for TM though. That's why propeller tried to copy his previous work with a whole team of worse writers (which turned out really bad).

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>>15775397
Are they still planning to translate railsoft games?

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https://youtu.be/HMQlGLaid84?t=46s

Did you guys a favor and skipped all the yakkity yak shit. Get to the point next time, dude.

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>>15775493
What the fuck is this list? I thought that nutaku was a company which focus on cheap nukige. Why is there so many titles from Leaf and RailSoft? These are plotge, don't fucking ruin them.

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>>15776555
They have no idea about these VNs, its just list DMM (their main partner) gave them.

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>>15776555
Nutaku has more money than any VN publisher, they basically print it with their browsershit. Nowhere else would people pay 100 bucks for a 10 roll gacha.

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>>15775780

it's even worse when they cocktease you, there were so many times during eden* where I thought they were going to fuck but didn't

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>>15773495
Senpai noticed you.

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>>15776602

Their games aside, nutaku is literally a part of manwin canada, which itself is owned by mindgeek, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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>>15776633

The point was that a real smooth PR bot would realize that people stalk them and not show emotion. I ain't got nothin' against you dude.

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Sassy.

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>>15776838
I don't know if that was actually their intent or not, but still pretty savage nonetheless.

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>>15776850
I'm guessing part of it was just to take a shot at Sekai, but they likely added them just because of the question they got asked that was linked earlier in the thread.

[Good Haro No.]

>>15776850
>>15776907

We just got a few questions about it today and I wanted to head off speculation that we made a mistake or weren't truthful about the release's status.

I'm sure some people will keep suggesting they might be redraws though. I'm not really sure how to get rid of that misconception at this point. I've corrected it a bunch of times but it keeps popping up. I guess people can't believe that a lot of eroge really do look that wonky under the mosaics a lot of times or something.

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>>15776925
They actually look fairly decent. It's no Shigeo, but in comparison to, say, Haruka, Hapymaher uncensored looks perfectly good.

Someone in /hgg/ thought that the Funbag Fantasy uncensored stuff were redraws lol

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>>15776925
>I'm not really sure how to get rid of that misconception at this point.

You've only got a few official denials on the ask.fm. If you want something more subtle than just putting a big "ACTUAL JAPANESE RESOURCES, NO REDRAWING USED, GLUTEN FREE ANIME TITTIES" on the page, you might consider having whoever's doing the uncensoring write up blog posts as part of the title promotion(that might be kind of sparse on it's own, so perhaps tie it in with the other image editing). That atleast gives people something to point when the argument comes up instead of digging out ancient answers.

Of course, doing that would also give room for the "fuck uncensoring it, leave it mosiaced" arguments, so it's your call.