Visual Novel translation status Amagami - 1st day patch Released

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MangaGamer
Free Friends 2 - Jan 26th release
>Yurirei - 2/12 release
Higurashi Hou -Watanagashi released
Bokuten - 75.2% translated, 42.21% edited
Da Capo 3 - 75% translated, 68.8% edited
OZMAFIA - 93% translated, 22.34% edited
House in Fata Morgana - 98% translated, 20% edited
Myth - 93.1% translated, 81% edited
My Boss Wife is My Ex - In testing
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 near beta
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
Beat Blades Haruka - in testing
Umineko - Picked up
Tokyo Babel - 100% translated, 58% edited
Negai no Kakera - 4% translated
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up


JAST
Sonicomi - Summer release
Flowers - 100% translated, 23% edited
Seinarukana- Waiting on LE prototypes
Sweet Home - 34% translated
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 83%
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumeragi Ryoko - 100% translated, waiting on test build


Sekai/Denpa
Root Double - Kickstarter started, planned March release
Nekopara 2 - 2/20 release
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title 75% translated
>Atom Grrrl - Q1 release
>Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
>Narcissu 0 - in TLC
WEE 3 - 8.26% translated
Nenokami - 37.79% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Witch Boy - Kickstarter failed
Darekoi - Picked up
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - Picked up


Other
Magical Eyes - Feb 29th release
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Tomoyo After - Picked up
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter succeeded
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
>Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 3904/10293 (38.03%) lines translated
>Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Kickstarter reached goal
Magical Eyes - Winter release planned
Zero Time Dilemma - 2016 release
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

>>14629089
House in Fata Morgana should be 100% translated

Reminder, a bit of shitposting is okay but please don't use racial or homophobic slurs as part of your argument, they are offensive and hurtful.

Yosuga no Sora still alive huh?

>>14629188
Only if you're on the wrong side of the argument. For the rest of us, they are fairly funny.

New manga gamer boundle out that will give them plenty of sales numbers again. Poor tracking guy.

But it is mostly no name porn titles. I guess even though they cost barely anything to translate, they don't really sell much. At least in the 25 dollar range.

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Just when you thought the bundles sales obscurification might calm down, time for a groupees bundle!

The number of evangile wallscroll bundles has dropped from 40 to 30, and it has moved to the first spot on hardcopy sales chart. I suppose that's a good week for hardcopy sales, relatively.

In other news, I've been tracking the weekly sales chart for awhile, and recently started doing the same for the popularity sort. Given Mangagamer recently posted their end of year sales totals (http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/01/13/2015-in-review/) and I've actually got a fairly good chunk logged, I figured I'd start pastebinning so you can go back and get an idea of how things faired. and also see just how much gahkthun struggled.

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/E3hZvvCk
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/thUYmZ60

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

>>14629188
sorry faggot

>>14629528
Not funny.

>Aokana - 1st pass TL done, 2nd pass in progress
>AstralAir - prologue patch released, 42,852 / 64,880 (66.05%) lines translated

Should machine translations be supported?

>>14629599
Those are not machine translations, they're machine assisted translations. Lines will still be edited for fluency, so quality wise these translations are up-to-par.

>>14629533
Nigger, it's hilarious. At least I'm rolling.

And in other news, CLANNAD's Kickstarter had another update and physical goods should be ready to ship next month. Maybe us retards that fell for SP's early shilling will finally fucking get something.

>>14629621

delete this

>>14629621
Hahaha. Is that the excuse Fuwafriends tell themselves?

That cosplay thing mikandi set up for libra is pretty funny. It seems like they put some work into it but it's been up for a couple days now and no one cares. I guess 3d really is pd

>>14629331

Order Number - 152075
Order Date - 2016-01-16

>Aokana - 1st pass TL done, 2nd pass in progress
>2nd pass
Does this mean they're going to retranslate the entire thing, like with Never7 and Steins;Gate?

>>14629599
At this point, I don't think VNTS has much choice, because you guys call EVERYTHING a machine translation, regardless of whether it is or not. You can't exclude things when you can no longer distinguish them from valid projects.

>>14629319
It's entirely no name nukige. It's no surprise MangaGamer isn't taken seriously and is only perceived as a 'porn game company' when they keep doing stuff like this.

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Will Root Double get funded?

>>14629834
Sorry friend, but AstralAir is 100% machine translation.

>>14629331
Kindred Spirits on the Roof
Order Number - 152463
Order Date - 2016-01-16 06:37:40

15% off was quite nice for me since I bought WoW Legion this month too.

I'm fully expecting Yurirei to be a big success for MG because of all that coverage when they announced the game would be out on Steam completely uncensored.

>>14629849
While that is undoubtedly true, the same cannot be said for Aokana. Yet people are trying to convince people of that through underhanded tricks like lumping it together with a machine translation project and proving the other project is a machine translation (therefore the one I associate it with must be as well!).

>>14629832>>14629890
Are you both using dates from MG site?
400 orders in less than 6 hours is kind of too fast even for bundle, and bundle itself shows only 900 sales for whole duration.

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>>14629925
Yes.

>>14629849
like every TL.

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>>14629925
>>14629930

yup

Don't complain about machine TL on fan projects.
Just don't read them.

Or read it. Since you don't know japanese, you won't even be able to know if its machine TL'd!

Everybody wins!

Machine TL with professional tier English writing is better than perfect translation with 1st grader writing.

Machine TL with 1st grader writing is Ixrec.

ok i'm done.

>>14629319
Actually, the Harem Party hard copy sold very well and had to be reprinted several times.

>>14629319
Most of those games are several years old, so them not selling very well anymore isn't very surprising. And as mentioned many times, nukige sell around what story titles do, and actually have longer tail sales.

>>14629925
>>14629930
>>14629948
Yuri fans are thirsty and uncensored porn on Steam! Preorders only available from MG for 15% off!

The actual numbers are kind of amazing though, considering that many people will likely just wait and buy it on Steam.

>>14629925
>400 orders in less than 6 hours is kind of too fast even for bundle, and bundle itself shows only 900 sales for whole duration.

Bear in mind it's multiple games in a bundle anonymous, not to mention there's still straggles redeeming shit from thje last one

>>14630026

Most of those sales are from the Groupees bundle...

Magical Eyes - Feb 29th release
Magical Eyes - Winter release planned

Second week in a row it's listed twice, and no one notices because no one cares.

Bonus: Even the reddit repost faggot copypasta'd it unchanged

>>14630047
Highly doubt it.
Bundle is up for 3 days and amount of bundles delivered didn't change much from what it was 12 hours ago when I checked it. Yet there are 400 orders in one hour according to their screenshots. Even at 5 orders per single sold bundle, they would need to sell 100 bundles per hour, while its about 5-10 bundles per hour from what I observed.

>>14629846
Doubtful.

I wonder if Lemnisca will release their translation if it doesn't. Would be a shame to translate the entire thing only for it never to see the light of day.

>>14630120
Its too popular to fail.
I bet people will increase their pledges in last days radically if it will look like not reaching the goal.

>>14630137
I'm just going by the current rate of pledges, but I think it slowed down way too much too early for it to reasonably make the goal. I mean it's not impossible for there to be a huge push at the end, but I think it's just too far off for it to be a reasonable expectation to happen.

It is kind of a shame, I'd have preferred this one succeed than that vampire game, but it is what it is I guess.

>>14630137
The problem is people don't want to back Sekai anymore and they're sure they'll just release it anyway. No reason to do a glorified preorder.

>>14630147
Is it possible for them to lower the goal or accept a smaller amount if they don't make the full amount? Or do they get nothing unless they raise the full amount ?

>>14630137
I pledged $150 (+$10 shipping) from the start. I'm not rich enough to raise my pledge even further without having to seriously question my sanity.

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>>14630156
>they're sure they'll just release it anyway
Nah man, I can see Lemnisca going full butthurt and throwing their entire finished translation directly into the garbage because they're mad their Kickstarter failed. I very much doubt they'll release it if they can't make money off it at this point.

>>14630157
Pretty sure you get nothing if you don't make your goal.

>>14630157
>they get nothing unless they raise the full amount
That's how kickstarter works. The most they could do is relaunch the campaign again at a later time if the devs still want to try it again after the first failure.

>>14630159
Average pledge is lower than Narcissu, and much lower than Clannad/Grisaia/MuvLuv, so I'm sure plenty of backers didn't go full out and got minimal tier. If SP plays damsel in distress well enough, I'm sure they could raise average pledge up to 80-100$ range.

>>14630194
The problem is that the rewards are shit.

>>14630194
I don't follow Kickstarter much, but is it really common for projects that are this far below goal and have clearly tapered off on pledges (only getting around $1,000~day or less from what I've checked) actually turn it around and succeed?

I just feel like this thing is doomed. Where are they going to get another 80k+ from when most of the people who actually cared pledged at the start?

>>14630206
Narcissu was supposed to be doomed almost all the way till the end and then it miraculously got tons of pledges and reached goal with decent margin.

>>14630206
Some projects can get a surge at the end, however given the circumstances surrounding RD and Sekai's pissing off former backers, the lack of daily pledges is not a good sign. There may still be a surge at the end, but going by the numbers, I doubt it'd be enough to save it. Most people who were backed due to worrying it would fail have done so already as well.

>>14630210
Even Narcissu didn't perform this badly and its goal was thousands less. Sekai most likely helped bump it with a few grand themselves, but Root Double is most likely too much in the hole at this point for that to work.

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>root double fails
>it tanks all confidence in the western market's appetite for anything that isn't moege
>on the backs of terrible youtube lpers, moege become more and more common

The moebuta shall inherit the earth

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>>14630224
>Narcissu didn't perform this badly
What?
It did much worse at this point. 400-600$ pledges per day vs 2000$ per day.

>>14630277
I'm talking about how it relates to the % of the goal.

>>14630115
There were 11 bundles sold in last hour, btw. At 5 orders per bundle, it would be only 55 orders per hour. So at least half of orders come from some other source.

This is weird, but I can see a post about Kindred Spirits on r/visualnovels on my phone, but when I look up the same site in my browser, it doesn't show up. Most likely reddit being shit, but it's weird.

>>14630315

A: It's probably marked nsfw
B: Why the hell are you posting this in /jp/

>>14630333
bumping the thread

>>14629331
Order Number - 154581
Order Date - 2016-01-16 22:44:03

>>14630115

Trying to calculate anything during bundles is a crapshoot which is why I don't bother. You might also want to keep in mind that there's also a lot of leftovers from the indiegala bundle that are still getting redeemed.

>>14630120
Lemnisca releasing this on their own after all of this is really doubtful unless they really want to get sued.

>>14630277
What's with those spikes in the end?

>>14630596
It's typical for a Kickstarter's final days to get a spike at the end, usually in alignment when the 48 hours left notice goes out. Root Double will get one too, the question is if they can get close enough for that spike to push them over the goal. Their daily funding has stabilized at around 2k a day, so they're not completely doomed yet if they can get a boost from something else before the end.

>>14630596
There's a notice sent out for all kickstarters at the 48 hours left to go mark.

>>14630596
pretty sure that a good chunk of it was sp throwing their own money in to it

>>14630741
That doesn't even make an ounce of sense as Narcissu was overfunded by 22k. And that same trend happens with pretty much every single Kickstarter.

>>14630760
Sekai was getting worried about the Narcissu KS and were desperately shilling it everywhere. Then an odd amount of over 1k pledges appeared really close together. They may have wanted people to think it was closer to reaching its goal than it was, so that people would push it over the threshold and continue supporting it.

>>14630760
Things don't need to make sense or be true if they reinforce your existing beliefs.

>>14630913
By the time of the last few days it was clear that it was going to get funded. Your theory is nonsense, they didn't risk their entire business to cheat Kickstarter and waste their own money (KS gets a cut of funding) for a project that was already on its way to reaching the base goal.

>>14629890
>I'm fully expecting Yurirei to be a big success for MG because of all that coverage when they announced the game would be out on Steam completely uncensored.

I'm thinking of buying it through steam to show people buy porn on steam. I'm not entirely convinced how steam keys translate into their statistics on sales.

>>14630978
I dream of a day when people buy VNs and companies try to sell VNs on the value of the game, not for sending some kind of retarded message.

>>14630978
Steam keys show up on SteamSpy regardless.

>>14630988
I plan to buy it for the Yuritopia!

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>>14629331
Order Number - 156066
Order Date - 2016-01-18 03:55:18

>>14630978
>Oh we're both spot on. Everyone here seems to be "Yes, yuri!", when nobody is looking at the actual context of what this game really is. This is children, which look in their young teens, having sex in a school because of "ghosts". And they want to call this a video game? Really? Up their age to 18+ and put it at an all-girls college and it would be okay. But it is not.

>I've already contacted Steam requesting the title not be put on the platform and instead be removed from their future title list because of the context of the content within it.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.881868-Steam-To-Get-Steamy-With-an-Uncensored-Yuri-Game-Update?page=2

>>14630988
The only message being sent is that there's a sucker born every minute. Promise dumbasses anything you need to for the future in order to get their money now. They'll be plenty more to take their place.

>>14630978
>I'm thinking of buying it through steam to show people buy porn on steam

To show who? Gaben? Yurirei ain't gonna be making anywhere near the sales to even be noticeable in that regard

>>14629087
Is it true the guy TLing Aokana is trying to sell the translation?

>>14631071
The staff is some Fuwanovel shitter who was hired by Sekai Project, so almost certainly.

>>14631100
A Fuwanovel shitter who has offered to translate multiple random projects for ESLs posting "TRANSLATE THIS PLZ. I'LL BE PROJECT LEADER."

>>14630233
Sekai Project ruining everything as usual I see.
Pretty disgusting that people in the industry actually look at their direction.

>>14630233
He confirmed it wasn't Baldr Sky, so there's that.

Seinarukana's up for preorder.

>>14631572
Fuck you. You make me go to Jlist just to be sure.

>>14629087
>Koiken Otome - 98.02% translated, 88.90% edited, prologue patch released

This has been in the 90's for a whole goddamn year hasn't it?

One day I am going to just sit down and actually learn Japanese.

>>14631930
It takes a long time to clean up machine translation from 6 different people.

Also, for Koiken Otome? That's like buying a restaurant so you can eat hot pockets.

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/687837925170524160

What's her name?

>>14631936
>Also, for Koiken Otome? That's like buying a restaurant so you can eat hot pockets.

I am a stupid chuuni with shit taste. I liked the demo a lot, I'm a sucker for chuuni magic battles, and I liked Akane's endless determination in spite of her weak power. I just need my shitty chuunibyou stuff, man, it's like the shounenshit I used to read but with moe and waifus.

Also I want to learn Japanese so I can read whatever weebshit I want, not just for one game.

Yea I also constantly wonder why I don't put more effort into Japanese. The amount of loli games with simple text should be easy to play through with just a little work. Compared to the slim chances they get translated by anyone else.

>>14631945
Mitsumete Knight

>>14631989
You keep saying that word in reference to fucking Koiken Otome. Do you think Da Capo is chuunibyou too?

>>14632074
Kanon is my favorite chuuni game.

>>14632074
Koiken Otome isn't chuuni? It's a fucking magical school battle harem with made up terms like "douryouku", how the fuck is that not chuuni?

>>14632155
So you think that anything with magical powers that, if we're going by Koiken Otome's commitment to its 'battle' premise, at any point ever has two characters competing in any minor way, is chuuni.

Good to know you're an idiot.

>>14632155
This just in, every single LN ever made is chuuni.

>>14632178
>>14632171
Nah, it goes beyond that. All fantasy is chuuni now.

>>14632182
Only if it's a harem.

>>14632171
Then why does anime, wherever it wants to parody chuuni, usually portray characters doing superhuman stuff with magic powers, named attacks, and made-up terms?

Chuuni to me isn't just any Fantasy ever, it's stuff that has superhuman characters who get into over-the-top fights with lots of extravagantly named attacks, made-up terms, and a giant overdose of anime cheese. I mean, of I'm wrong, I'm willing to admit it, but that's what I lead to believe it meant.

>>14632233
>over-the-top fights with lots of extravagantly named attacks, made-up terms, and a giant overdose of anime cheese
So not Koiken Otome at all.

>>14632238
So there's not as much action as the premise would have you believe? Fuck.

I just want to read some unapologetic escapist battle harem trash. I have shit taste and I don't deny it.

>>14632269
So learn japanese and go read 11eyes, fortissimo and later Masada's stuff

>>14632269
Let's put it this way. Every character gets one CG where they pose with their weapon. Some heroines have to share. The main heroine gets two CGs. That's all the art devoted to the 'fighting' in the game. Even Fuwanovel machine translators call it generic crap.

>A definite like for those who want a game similar to Kamikaze Explorer and similar games with mild drama and magical powers. The big downer for this game is that it goes through all that trouble to introduce such a weird setting and turned it into just another magical gakuen love-comedy eroge

>>14632372
I wish Kamikaze Explorer got TL'd.

>>14632382
I wish you choked on your own vomit.

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>>14632395
Rude.

Reminder that haruka is set for the 23rd of February

>>14632447
Fuck off, Maria.

>>14632425
Perhaps you should've finished instead of flaking out like a cunt.

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73 days left.

>>14630233
>Unlike with MG, I'm almost completely out of loop for anything non-tl related with this, so there's very little I know myself. :(
Huh, so his new project is not MG's?
JAST's plate is already full, so its Shit Project then? Or devs themselves? But it doesn't look like jap devs directly from wording of the post.

>>14632747
It's Parfait, for Sekai Project.

>>14632747

"This time I was approached by a Japanese company directly"

https://twitter.com/Conjueror/status/667971143182057472

>>14632779
its the new baldr game that was just announced.

>>14629087
>Aokana - 1st pass TL done, 2nd pass in progress

I thought it was a machinetl project ?

>>14632936
They're done running it through Google. Now it needs to be run through Atlas.

>>14632942
I see, the update is misleading so thanks for the heads-up anon.

>>14632447
The editor who said that said he was just guessing.

It would be the first time MG releases 2 full length games in the same month though. Not that there's necessarily a major overlap between the between who'd buy those games. I might be one of the few.

Kindred Spirits, Order ID MG-156419

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Any chance for Mirrormoon to pick up the sequel of Utawarerumono ? I know they are still alive because sometimes they update their patch of Melty Blood.
It's frustrating to watch the anime of utamono when the vn look so fucking good, and it seems like the gameplay is way better than the first episode.

>>14633589
It isn't Mirrormoon. BL makes the translation.

>>14633596
Really ? Damn I thought it was the former members of Mirrormoon who were still working on Actress Again.
Well shit i can't really count on BL since they are only interested in TM titles (and are fucking slow, move your ass mcjon).

>>14633589
It's Atlus or bust. No one is fan translating a console exclusive visual novel.

>>14633607
How were the sales for Tears to Tiara II ? If it flopped then they will never work on another Aquaplus title. Or maybe it's possible that Fruitbat Factory strike a new deal with Aquaplus ?

>>14633613
Atlus doesn't release numbers and niche JRPGs don't sell enough to make it onto sales charts in the West, so who knows. I figure they'll be interested in Utawarerumono because it's on the PS4 and they've done a bunch of Aquaplus titles recently (including Dungeon Travelers 2).

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>>14633607
there is actually interest in it, the game has already been hacked.

>>14633669
That will never get finished, at least until PS3 or Vita emulation is fully viable and that's only if an official localization doesn't happen (which it probably will).

>>14633613
They've also released Aquapazza and Dungeon Travelers 2, both Aquaplus.

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>>14633691
the hacking has been done via a hacked PS3, only thing holding work back is the hacker and most likely TL are each already working on 2 other games which won't be done for some time.

>>14633712
I know. But no one is going to finish a project of this size when only people with a hacked PS3 could use it.

>>14633736
Well they did it for Vesperia so it isn't completely out of the question. But yeah I think people are just waiting to see if it gets announced before actually making a move.

>>14633740
Vesperia PS3 is based off of the official localization, it would have never been finished otherwise.

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>>14633736
you're very much underestimating how crazy people can be. if there was an available TL the project would pick up fast, but an official release would make it all pointless so i don't blame you for being pessimistic.

>>14633589
here anon, a better resolution pic.

>>14633767
Atui a cute. Thanks.

>>14633779
>Amagami
its been many many years, so many other projects have been started and finshed with this one just going along at its own pace.

Had it been announced previously that Seinarukana will have a Steam release?

>Seinarukana
>Dec 3rd - Finalizing materials, preparing websites. QA checking.
>Dec 23rd - Waiting for LE prototypes, finalizing printed materials
>Jan 18th - Packaging design, making steam page

http://follow.jastusa.com/post/128544859416/progresslog

>>14633998
>Flowers 40% editing.
Planned for november of last year.
Nice.

2016 year of the yuri.

>>14634028
2016 ? With only 40% editing and Jast policy it's more like 2017.

On MG twitter
>We fixed a minor bug in euphoria! The last mosaic was removed from a cut-in CG. New master data upload.
What scene? I didn't even notice. Now don't tell me it was a anus...

>>14629846
Certainly the fantastic performance of RD is showing how kickstarters are the future of VNs isn't it dovac? Even appealing to a different audience SP is having trouble with their recent kickstarters and this is bound to continue given their ever increasing excellent reputation!

I'm sure dovac feels proud of all the shit he has done so far. It even baffles me how someone who says he's been following the industry for several years (and even says he was related to tlwiki) can make the decisions and have the attitude he had so far. Only idiots don't know how this will hurt in the long run.

>>14634500
>Now don't tell me it was a anus...

No, it was one of the cut-ins, an x-ray/internal shot.

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Neither of those 4 games is the secret project that conjuror work for.

>>14634545
Could someone fix the copyright thing on the blog? It reads 2008-20015 and it's triggering my autism.

>>14633302
Tracker anon needs the date that MG provided in order to track progression. Standardized time and all that.

>>14634679
I know, and some retards think it's Dies and that they need to support RD for them to see a value in story games. Sekai shills are really desperate at this point. Does Conjurer have any idea how mad/annoyed everyone of them is going to be when it's not Dies?

>>14634679
it's chaos;child. moogy said so

>>14633767
>you're very much underestimating how crazy people can be
One of such crazy people here. It doesn't matter how crazy we are if the object of our craziness doesn't match your preference.

Utawarerumono 2 does have a better chance of getting a fan dedicated and skilled enough for the job than any other PS3 exclusive VN (maybe except for S;G0 - "exclusive" as in "only works on one hackable console"), but I wouldn't count on it. The project of such scope needs team work and fans like that don't like to be a part of the team.

>>14634679
>neither
>4

That's how Jast announces a Steam release? Through a progress update?

>>14634789
I hope not. I don't give a shit about these ; titles give me eustia or baldr sky for fuck sake.

>>14633079
MG usually releases games at the end of the month though, so having Yurirei at the middle would indicate a second game in February.

But as you said, that hasn't happened with their full-length ones, only their Steam releases.

>>14635011
>would indicate a second game in February.
Magical Eyes: Red is for Anguish comes out February 29th, though it's a 3rd Party title.

http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=160

>>14634766

While you're correct, in this instance I can figure out the date due to other order numbers.

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>>14629331

Order Number - 156896
Order Date - 2016-01-19 03:34:04

>>14635324
Question, if Kindred Spirits is ~30 hours long why is it only $35 full price? Is it because it's only partially voice acted. Discounting its voices, G-Senjou was much cheaper.

>>14629331
Princess Evangile Limited Edition (hardcopy)
Order Number - 156916
Order Date - 2016-01-19 03:55:34

>>14635374
Because it's going on Steam.

>>14635446
But it's not cut. All of MG's all-ages games are cheaper then their adult counterparts, though it's hard to tell now that most of the all-ages versions of adult titles have been removed from their store due to getting them rated.

This is good new if true though, since I could get some vns I've been hoping for at a discount, plus a preorder discount.

>>14635457
I meant that they're pricing it with the Steam marketplace in mind. And since there is only one version of the game the price is the same on MG's storefront.

>>14635465
Tokyo Babel might end up being around the same price then. All-ages titles haven't typically sold well for MG in the past, so copies sold on Steam or bought from them for the Steam key bonus will likely make up the majority of its sales.

>>14632745
73 days until what?

>>14635539
Until an incompetent Chinese -> English translator said he'd release his partial work on translating a Japanese -> Chinese project he filled with lolreferences to his past Chinese -> English translations.

>>14634679
can't believe baldr sky is losing the poll wtf

>>14635786
Nobody gives a shit about Baldr Sky.

>>14635786
I voted Eustia. I rather have Eustia than Baldr Sky.

>>14636013
Thanks for explaining what a vote is. I wasn't sure until you explained that.

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>>14634807
i'm not sure what the hell you're trying to say or thought i was saying but the game is pretty much completely hacked, text insertion and all. at this point there wouldn't even need to be much teamwork, one dude would just need to TL a script by himself for the most part.

>>14636149
That's Aroduc's secret project.

>>14636023
You're welcome :)

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>>14636227
don't even bring him up. poor guy is working on so many games and has no hacker to get them done, on top of that he has to beg people to image edit for him, it's a shame. wish i could convince him to work on other stuff so he would have an actual team.

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>Check the Root Double kickstarter
>If you want to hear from the translator's point of view of why this game is better compared to Steins;Gate you can read an info dump here (We didn't directly embed the image due to the possibility of spoilers)


Is it really better than Steins;Gate?

>>14636988
No, the translator is just trying to get paid. Also, someone just posted this same image in the /vn/ thread on /vg/

>>>/vg/129033842

>>14637012
Well that is me after all.

>>14636988
Soon: BDH explains why Pygmalion is better than Dies Irae.

>>14637012
Sekai Project saying anything and everything to get people to give them money? That's never happened before.

>>14636988
I think it depends on your personal taste in the end, but both Root Double and Steins;Gate are great games.

>>14637034
Sounds like advertising to me. The Sekai shills are out in full force it seems.

>>14637012
Anon posting the same post on different boards is 100% acceptable and pointing it out like you are is just being an obnoxious newfag

>>14637034
> posting on /vg/
> acceptable
Wat. Get out of /jp/ right now.

>>14637042
No need to be pretentious bro, /jp/ is not exactly a beacon of quality anymore.
>>14637038
The complain about shills or whatever, don't whine about making the same post twice.

>>14637038
Pretty sure the guy is pointing out how desperate they're getting by having to name drop a really popular title like Steins;Gate and to say RD is better than it.

>>14637048
Fine, they're spamming posts for advertisement purposes, like support RD to get Dies earlier.

Libra is now at 162000$, with 3 stretch goals reached.
Quite impressive, considering how it was on the road to fail week ago.

RD, however, shows no signs of recovering despite intensified shilling.

>>14637066
Give it another week or so.

>>14637066
They added another stretch goal, which seems unnecessary, since they probably won't even hit the Vita port goal.

>>14637058
He has made 2 posts, both on-topic to the threads they were posted in. That is not yet spam, even if he is an evil shill conglomeration that you have no evidence of.

I'm starting to sound like a defensive shill but really I'm just pissed that you went so far as to link in between threads like a smug motherfucker. Fuck Sekai Project, Nekopara translation was awful, they took on too many projects haven't delivered and STILL want to add another? Are they stupid? Etc etc etc etc

>>14637080
They also haven't been able to do any of their other promised Vita ports so far, so this one is extra bullshit.

>>14637092
I was talking about Libra.

>>14637092
>haven't been able to do any of their other promised Vita ports so far
This is first Mikandi game.

>>14637083
But why would someone who doesn't work for Sekai Project care so much? lol

What amount was Libra at before the 48 hour reminder?

>>14636452
What other stuff is even out there?

>>14637194
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/mikandijapan/libra-of-the-vampire-princess-visual-novel-english/#chart-daily
Calculate yourself.

>>14637205
He should translate Shin Koihime Musou.

Do you have faith in the current fan TL's team's quality?

>>14637205
That has teams and is hacked, I mean.

>>14637223
The current fan TL who has literally posted that he can't read Japanese at all?

>>14637228
They're fuwanovel approved.

>>14637233
Yep. Same as his idols, Clephas and mdz. All you need to do is spend a week studying grammar. Kanji is just memorization, so it's okay if you skip it and read everything out of machine translation.

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>>14637224
i just meant in general. i'm not interested in anything he's working on and everything he needs help with sounds like it'd be a bitch to work on which is why i don't wanna try to help.

but i mean, just as an example, if he or anyone else wanted to work on something easier hacking-wise or something a little more popular, like sakuta or whatever, i could probably throw a team together.

Who is the love triangle between in Kindred Spirits? Is it the MC and her 2 friends, or broadcasting club trio?

>>14637380
You're not interested in Baldr Sky?

>>14637430
How many sides do you think a triangle has?

>>14637430
There isn't one.

>>14637449
Vndb fails me again.

>>14637443
4

>>14637449
Anything anyone could've mistaken for a love triangle?

>>14637473
Not really.

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>>14637475
Vndb users are frustrating. How does something get a 2.0 for a tag when the game contains none of it? That's just misleading.

>>14637488
> believing random posts on /jp/

>>14637497
>believing random vndb users

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>>14637435
not really, but i'm not too familiar with it other than knowing it has like 20 games including sequels, fandiscs, etc.

does he even need any help on it? i wasn't even sure if he was actually working on it or if it was a meme that he was. i thought there would have been alot more excitement about it at least.

>>14637515
Why not both?

>>14637515
>Game script translation complete. 6+ technical issues persist.

Sure sounds like it.

>>14633079
Haruka is up for pre-order and its release is dated at Feb 23, so they guessed pretty well.

>>14638204
That's very fast for game of such huge size.
They could probably finalize another deal with alicesoft by summer cons season at this rate.

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>>14629087
Someone from Fuwanovel Forums has translated Bishoujo Mangekyou into Finnish

http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/12531-bishoujo-mangekyou-norowareshi-densetsu-no-shoujo-finnish-translation-is-out/

Also someone else on the forums has started an English translation of the Finnish version. Currently at 3%

https://euphemictranslation.wordpress.com/

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>>14629087
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru

Never ever ever.

>>14638250

Much of the game are H-scenes, which are usually translated poorly and quickly.

>>14638446
A machine translation of a machine translation. Wonderful.

>>14638446
> Japanese --machine--> Finnish -> English by random Indonesian
I'm sure it will be very high quality translation.

>>14638446
>Someone from Fuwanovel Forums
Dude no. It wasn't anybody from Fuwa, somebody from Finnish imageboard decided to do it.
Why they did it is a mystery.

>>14638469
Well, shit, you're right. I stand corrected.

>A machine translation of a machine translation. Wonderful.

Well, I don't speak Finnish but I don't see where it was claimed that the original was a machine translation.

The second one definitely seems like a hands on translation.

>>14638453

This is oft repeated, but H-scenes don't really take any shorter or longer to translate than anything else on average. If anything most average conversation is more effortless than the amount of descriptive narration in H-scenes, which balances out the moans and screaming, I guess you could say.

>>14638469
>Why they did it is a mystery.
Iunno. Biman is one of the best looking nukige on the market. Seems like a good reason to me.

>>14638250
Well they had to get it out early so they could do Shaman Sanctuary

>>14638446
>translation of a translation
>translation of a FINNISH translation

Fucking hell

>>14638525
Christ. At what point are they going to sell the actual Rance games? I don't care for the majority of other AliceSoft RPGs. Of course they have to sell well before MangaGamer would even consider bringing Rance to the west, even though it's a goldmine, it's a shame that AliceSoft seems to be clinically retarded as well.

>>14639026
Please stay in /vg/ ranceposter

>>14638204
Also no DRM.

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I hope Koi x Shin Ai Kanojo gets translated someday

>>14639690
Why, considering the ending?

>>14639691
I started reading it yesterday and only finished Yui's route so far, so I've yet to see the true ending a lot of people have been mad about. But I've been enjoying the novel so far, maybe I just missed reading a comfy high-school romance VN.

>>14638204
Birthday nukige? Oh MG, you shouldn't have.

It's also cheaper than I thought it would be for a full-length nukige with gameplay. Could MG actually be lowering their prices a bit? Between this and Kindred Spirits, it seems like it might be happening.

>>14638204
They forgot to tag it for having battles, but at least the description mentions that it's an RPG.

>>14638525
No, they'll do the AliveZ fan TL they were offered. And what a coincidence, it was Alice Soft's next release after Haruka.

>>14639791
Almost poetic.

>>14639705
You mean reading or "reading"?

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When the fuck is Seinarukana finally coming out?

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Reminder that Mahoyo was out in 2012 and we are now in 2016 without a translation even if it's a fucking Type-Moon visual novel.

>>14639836
Never.

>>14639876
But Mahoyo is worse than F/E CCC so it should get a translation in priority

>>14639892
Oha pal, I see that you're following Moogy-denka's twitter too.

>>14639791
>>14639804
No. They will do Mamatoto to prepare the west for their release of the mobage version of Mamanyonyo

>>14639915
Of course, how would I know what is good or not otherwise?

>>14639916
Too old and there's already a patch for it that Aru released.

>>14639690
there are better games that deserves to be translated anon

>>14634679
So now there is no hope that his secret project is one of them. Fuck i really wanted Eustia.

>>14640020
His secret project is probably Chaos;Child

>>14640036
How come ? It'll be a huge disappointment if it's true.

>>14640040
It's either this or Dies Irae
It's supposed to be a title that everyone heard about in the west and that is high quality.
Chaos:Child fits the bill and there is a PC version and anime getting released this year

>>14640048
I'm guessing Chaos:Child too, since I don't think he could even list Dies as a possibility if it really were that, because the project is supposed to still be a secret.

>>14640048
Dies Irae is popular because of his meme status for being the "hardest" visual novel to translate but i don't think people really care about Chaos:Child.
Steins;Gate is pretty popular in the west because of the anime adaptation but i don't think that's the case for Chaos titles. Robotics;Notes flopped hard too. I'm sure most of them watched the anime for Chaos;Head and it's known to be shitty, i don't think people make the connection between S;G and Chaos;Child too.

>>14640068
Moogy acts like Himawari is a kamige, but that's not a popular opinion among western players either.

>>14639919
Obviously. I would also recommend Kastel-sama and Hadler-sama's twitters.

>>14640090
>but that's not a popular opinion among western players either
Actually it is, at the very least for those who are vocal

Why would it be Chaos;Child? If anything, it would be Chaos;Head Noah first.
Might be Steins；Gate 0 though.

>>14640175
Chaos;Child because there is anime coming to increase the hype.
It's either that or Dies Irae, i wouldn't be surprised by any of them

>>14640172
I've seen people who said they don't want to play it because of loli. And I've seen people who like loli seem interested until they find out this release will be all-ages, then they immediately lose interest.

>Himawari is a no-name lolige and the art looks as expected.

Quoted from the now defunct MG forums AKA people who actually buy vns.

>>14640186
>I've seen people who said they don't want to play it because of loli. And I've seen people who like loli seem interested until they find out this release will be all-ages, then they immediately lose interest.
That's just the opinion of people who didn't play it so who care?
I'm talking about people who did play it, I have yet to see any bad opinion about it
Afterward, if it will sell or not I don't know but
>Moogy acts like Himawari is a kamige, but that's not a popular opinion among western players either.
imply that are talking about the critical reception of the game, not whether it will sell or not

>>14632779
How do Japanese companies even know about him? He's a relatively new VN translator (although not new to translating itself).

>>14640212
They contacted tlwiki, who told them to contact him.

>>14640186
Can't wait for the porn version!

>>14640212
All your favourite devs post on the jay

>>14640363
There's not supposed to be one.

>>14640386
That is why I can't wait for it.

Next week's OP needs more Danganronpa.

https://archive.is/OGb44

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Otoboku 2 when?

>>14640427
When people actually start buying the first one.

>>14640417
It's just a port. It's not a new project, a new translation, or a new release in any meaningful way but a different platform. It doesn't belong here.

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>>14638204
That really is quick, and really bad for my wallet. For once I want all three of the MG pre-orders currently up.

And is it just me or does the font in Haruka look slightly... off? The details box on the actions screen stands out in particular.

>>14640439
I heard it sold really well. Of course compared to what I'm not sure, this was like 2 years ago.

Even Uchikoshi is trying to save Root Double now.

>>14640567
People thought it sold well because it had a hardcopy, but the numbers to get a hardcopy were lower then, since even Guilty got one.

>>14640612
Heh, and doddler said KS was a good idea.

>>14640555
>However, the company has confirmed that the Danganronpa series is only the start.

>>14640630
Yes. Let's put up the announcement
>Company is planning to someday release something on Steam, hasn't specified what or when

https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/689500620693250048?lang=en
>Seinarukana is coming to steam? I mean it's a smart move, but I hope they didn't delay the regular version for two years for this.

Even the programmer didn't know about the Steam version. Sasuga Jast.

>>14640640
There has been an announcement about Liar-Soft going westward for a while up there and nobody died, I don't see how Spike Chunsoft one will be that different.

>>14640613
I actually think it was someone from MangaGamer that said that. Of course it might just be my memory glorifying it and the true story was that it sold just well.

>>14640662
No. There hasn't. Get your eyes checked.

>>14640612
I blame dovac.

>>14640913
Actually there was a line up there about Liar-soft being interested in the West for quite a while.

>>14640963
If you don't know English, why do you care about English translations?

>>14639836
https://twitter.com/The_Doddler/status/689544665746448385

Jast please

>>14640628
It was but it's been overused and the people who actually need it are crowded out of the market

So why did the kickstarter for a bland and completely unknown moege manage to do just fine but the one for Root:Double is doing horribly?

>>14641364
>Sekai Project

>>14641364
While some of the PR is cringeworthy, the Libra guys really seem to care about their product and really put the word out about it. That there are a bunch of cool and unique reward tiers which are reasonably priced doesn't hurt either, especially compared to RD. I've no doubt RD is a great game and will likely get funded, I think Sekai have just burnt too many bridges for it to be a slam dunk.

Libra being successful also opens the door to other devs to bring over games which are completely unknown in the West; the actual game apparently being middling to above average makes it all the more impressive/exciting. No-one thought Libra had a chance but in the end they've made their initial 175k goal.

>>14641364
incompetent company called sekai project

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>>14641364
Because of several reasons:

1. Oversaturation of Kickstarter VNs.

2. Half-assed reward brackets and a lack of urgency (we need your money or this won't be released), as the translation is obviously already done with the release-date pending in all of a month and a half.

3. Viral/ironic marketing for Libra.

4. Libra is being done directly by the producers themselves so you're actually supporting the industry in the best way possible.

5. Loss of consumer confidence in SP. SP has untold numbers of Kickstarted translations pending, and their work has been inconsistent or low-quality for those that they released with their in-house team, even high-key VNs (e.g. Clannad). They have yet to release decent translations that weren't already done and sold to them (e.g. Grisaia), and so their overall reputation is in the toilet.

Root Double is not doing poorly because no one wants a Takumi Nakazawa game, it's doing poorly because no one wants to give Sekai Project money for a half-assed translation. Only people who have read Remember11, Never7, or I/O are aware of Lemnisca being decent translators, and most people aren't going to look that deeply into a Kickstarter. They'll see 'I backed a SP game in the past, the translation was shit was bottom-tier English, I won't back another one'. That or 'they still haven't translated the other games I backed'.

It's a damn shame because Root Double is legitimately good, and Takumi doesn't deserve this. Plus, the industry will see that the only way to make money in the West is more moege, which means less plotge, meaning less variation in translated titles, which can only be a bad thing.

>>14641364
Because PR matters. Mikandi worked their asses off to promote it even if they basically threw the kitchen sink at it and hope something worked.

>>14641500
sekai is shilling pretty hard right now tho

>>14641463
>Plus, the industry will see that the only way to make money in the West is more moege, which means less plotge, meaning less variation in translated titles, which can only be a bad thing.

When you look at how KnS2 did its hard to say they're wrong.

Where is the secret club where I get licensed visual novels that welfare can't pay for?

>>14638604
suomi mainittu :----D

All I can say is that I supported Libra because it was a project done with customer satisfaction as goal. My impression was that the entire time it was surveys and discussions about what we want to buy.

>>14641541
Umineko is the best moege.

https://twitter.com/Uchikoshi_Eng/status/689514672295284736

Already retweeted a hundred times. I wonder what sort of bounce this will produce.

Anyone got the screen of the dude who translated Fate Stay by himself?

>>14641640
I would if it wasn't Sekai. It's such a shame.

>>14641541

I, for one, welcome the moepocalypse

>>14641364
dovac

>>14641463
>1. Oversaturation of Kickstarter VNs.
Plain oversaturation would also affect Libra. I think Libra is an excellent counterexample that there is no 'oversaturation' of Kickstarted VNs, rather it's just Sekai screwing up here.

>and their work has been inconsistent or low-quality for those that they released with their in-house team, even high-key VNs (e.g. Clannad).
While some of their translations are plain bad (Nekopara), Clannad is not one of them. It's by far the best in-house translation Sekai has done, and is pretty good (not the amount of polish MangaGamer has on their titles nowadays, but better than mainstream game localizers).

>Root Double is not doing poorly because no one wants a Takumi Nakazawa game
Pretty sure this is a significant part of the reason. Hardcore VN fans know Root Double is regarded as a kamige. Everybody else, including the freaking Zero Escape fanbase, has never heard of Takumi Nakazawa (most people outside the hardcore VN fanbase think Ever17 was made mainly by Uchikoshi).

>Only people who have read Remember11, Never7, or I/O are aware of Lemnisca being decent translators
Remember11 was not translated by Lemnisca.

>They'll see 'I backed a SP game in the past, the translation was shit was bottom-tier English, I won't back another one'.
Unlikely. The casual VN player won't know a terrible translation even if you shove it in their faces. They can read it, therefore it must be a good translation, as far as they can tell.

>Plus, the industry will see that the only way to make money in the West is more moege, which means less plotge, meaning less variation in translated titles, which can only be a bad thing.
It's not all that different from Japan. Cute girls just sell better than serious plot. Just look at yearly sales rankings - you'll consistently see decently rated moege outsell highly rated serious story games.

>>14641541
Kara no Shoujo 2
1) Is MangaGamer (games by MG are obscure by default, and having a hard time getting many sales unless it's porn-focused); marketing is entirely lacking;
2) Can only be bought from MangaGamer directly (which 1) is not Steam, and 2) scares off a lot of users); and
3) Is the third game in a poorly selling series
Although I don't disagree with the notion that plot games won't sell as much as moege, Kara no Shoujo 2 is a special case.

>>14641829
>It's by far the best in-house translation Sekai has done, and is pretty good (not the amount of polish MangaGamer has on their titles nowadays, but better than mainstream game localizers).
Oh god, do people actually believe this?

>>14641829
>Root Double is regarded as a kamige
It's not.
It's regarded as good but flawed

>>14641845
It's Sekai, so it can't possibly be good, right?

Well, yeah. Everything's pointing in that direction, and I have yet to see any evidence to the contrary other than people constantly repeating it's bad with no proof and the completely retarded statements that it's based on the fan translation (a cursory glance reveals it's so different from the fan translation people have argued it became too liberal/interpretative).

>>14641829
>Plain oversaturation would also affect Libra. I think Libra is an excellent counterexample that there is no 'oversaturation' of Kickstarted VNs, rather it's just Sekai screwing up here.
How do you know it didn't affect Libra? If we assume that the oversaturation 'costs' $20K for a project, Libra would've made $200K vs. its current $180K, which is still enough to get funded while RD may still fail with $120K and could've been funded at $140K instead.
I don't think that it will fail, unfortunately. You already see SP pledging $1K every now and then.

>Hardcore VN fans know Root Double is regarded as a kamige.
What.

The rest of the post is giving me SP vibes somehow, so I'll stop here.
Not the one you're responding to, by the way.

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>>14641882
>What.
Its same """hardcore vn fans""" (i.e. noobs with less than 10 plot titles) who think Ever17 twists were good.

>>14641867
Maybe you should take an actual look and try to understand how translation works than just a cursory glance, dumbfuck.

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/01/19/an-introduction-to-free-friends-2/
>the only Sumire at the school is none other than his very own Shinozaki Sumire, the sister his mother had taken away from him. Kaito’s dreams of one day reuniting with his sister have in fact already been realized… just not in a way that he ever could have imagined.
This actually got me interested in playing Free Friends 2.

>>14642002
Me too. Not in nukige mood now, but I wanna see what face she makes when she learns about whoring out to brother.

>>14642002

Given mangagamer's best sellers you think they'd be hyping the incest to the moon

You know, for all the talk about how mikandi did "such a good job", I think it's important to point out that if they had went with their original goal, they'd only have made it by a razor's edge. They only had so much extra because they lowered their goal in the first place.

>>14642199
Making such adjustments is part of "good job".

Not quite sure if it's been newly TL'd or not, but you could probably add this

http://novelsphere.jp/news/archives/824#more-824

to the list as being released.

>>14643075
This was out months ago in English. Your link is just for the "new" browser version.

Final Libra funds - $183,105.

>>14642042
Finished reading till the next hscene after she accepts MC as her brother. Not as dramatic and intense as I hoped, after all its just nukige. Well, heroine's attitude is still charming in a way, and Coffee art is gorgeous as always.

Siliconera sure likes to write about and priase Sekai Project.
How come Sekai Project never receives critique from news outlets?

>>14643620
You think those "loans" were only available to Japanese companies?

wonder what its like to be lemnisca and watching the rd kickstarter progress so slow

>>14643641
Its not like they have anything to lose here.
If it fails, they are back to where they were before SP deal.
If it succeeds, they get money for something they initially did for free.

>>14643646
>If it fails, they are back to where they were before SP deal.

would they really tho? im still hoping that rd goes ahead anyway even if kickstarter fails

>>14643770

Anybody who thinks it'll be released as a fan-TL project if the KS fails is on the happy-weed.

>>14643571
Nice and fappable anon?

>>14643192
They should give some of that money to the Root Double guys

>>14641857
That's pretty much what people say about every "kamige" though. All of them have flaws of some kind.

>>14644206
No, they should not. Its not their money, its money invested into Libra specifically. Giving it to you, dovac, would be fraud and grounds for at very least FTC investigation.

>>14644206
They need it for their stretch goals and because as well all know, kickstarters tend to underestimate costs, so the devs should hold onto the extra money just in case.

You can tell Herkz is desperate for money after getting fired from Sekai Project. Think his mother gave him an ultimatum?

>>14644234
Kickstarters that actually create things tend to underestimate costs, I don't think VN translation Kickstarters actually have that many real costs besides royalties though, since most of it's just labor done directly by the KS creators.

>>14644301

In this case they're probably going to be blowing a lot more money than expected fulfilling the crazy amount of rewards.

>>14644301
They're creating minisodes for the project to expand on some of the characters.

>>14644301
As far as I understand they're probably going to be sending lots of physical rewards to all over the world from Japan.

No way they'll actually manage that with no problems.

>>14644632
I guess, but I'd think that for the most part these costs could be pretty easily estimated and planned for since they're just purchasing and shipping already existing products. Yes, unexpected costs can and will pop up, but not to the extent that it costs many times what they originally estimated unless they are just completely incompetent.
>>14644487
This could potentially eat up a lot of money I guess if they handle it badly.

>>14644301
All that merch can be really expensive to fulfill and ship.

>>14644644
Yeah but you'd assume you know that going in and plan for it when making your reward tiers. I mean it's not hard to calculate price + shipping to X number of people. Logistics can make things a bit more interesting but as Sekai has shown on past products it's not too hard to just ship the stuff to one guy's house and have a few guys from the project pack everything for cheap.

>>14643915
RD will have to fail Kickstarter AND Steam release as well first before the torrent seeded from some Russian seedbox mysteriously appears on Nyaa.
Let's be real here, dovac isn't THAT braindead to not release almost completely finished RD on Steam.

>>14644651
Sekai is still trying to ship merch from 2 year old Kickstarters so they're a cautionary tale if anything. But yes a better run organization should be able to plan for these costs.

>>14644651
You ever buy from Japan? Sometimes the shipping is more expensive than the actual product.

>>14644728
I suffer more from taxes when it reaches my country. If it only costs as much as the shipping, I'm happy.

This is pretty enjoyable watching sekai getting it's reputation ruined each time someone does a post about root double.

>>14644679
If they fail kickstarter, how can they go on steam? Will SP pay for all the licensing and porting up front?

>>14646002
>all the porting

You mean what they're claiming is less than a month's worth of work, and work that MG usually has one guy do in his spare time?

What a terrible burden on them.

>>14646076
The port work is being done by Regista.

>>14646188
Also what 'licensing'? Regista bying the rights from themselves?

>>14646190
Voice acting needs to be licensed. Sekai Project probably has to pay Regista to license the game too.

>>14646192
I have no details on SP/Regista relationship but when they're both doing the KS in their mutual interests it's pretty obvious that outside funding required is minimal compared to potential returns.
I personally see this KS as totally unnecessary.

>>14646196
It shouldn't be necessary, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sekai Project is mismanaged to the point where they don't have that much money to spend.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/root-double-before-crime-after-days-xtend-edition

Did this fail?
We still getting it?

>>14646203
I don't see why KS users (or anyone for that matter) should pay for dovac's stupidity. Regista is certainly capable of releasing RD on Steam on their own either way, they should've ditched SP entirely and I would've gladly given them my money.

>>14646229

Sekai's gone into desperation mode and it's actually making a difference. If it keeps up 3.5k each day, it'll barely make it

Whats the new r07 vn coming out? Its about space right and its a "when they cry" series right?

I didn't read his last vn even though its translated, couldn't get into it.

>>14646236
So why is it failing so badly?
first of all wouldn't they still make money in the first place off of steam?

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>>14646238
It's about a cursed doll infecting a school.

>>14646248
Wait i thought it was about outer space or a scifi, I swear I remember that but that was maybe 2 years ago. Its not out yet right. Is it considered a when they cry game, because he should finally continue that universe.

>>14646236
It's funny because SP isn't actually responsible for the boost, but rather some random Gamefaqs dude that got Uchikoshi to tweet/facebook about it.

>>14646238

I have no idea what you are talking about but I know there is a manga. When The Fireflies Burn or something like that.

>>14646243
>So why is it failing so badly?

1: dovac's burnt bridges has alienated a large portion of the "core" vn audience that would support this sort of thing
2: sekai's poor handling of other kickstarters up to this point has alienated another portion of potential funders
3: because it's not a "big name" title, it's not getting coverage as easily

>>14646256

That was only one day of it. sekai is legit sending out the shills and doing another PR round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHcLiYmRG_8
huh so hes not ever gonna draw again.
too bad his art style was becoming interesting. None of his works after umineko interested me enough to read them. How did rose gun days end? its fully translated im guessing by now. Im guessing the team that did all the umineko vns and such is gonna translate iwaihime. At least we can always count on that team to do the translations.

Is this gonna be a long one buy small chapters year? unlike his shorter series that happened.