Visual Novel translation status Amagami - 1st day patch Released

Sekai/Denpa
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title Steam released, uncut still to come, 3rd 35% translated
>2236 A.D. - 100% translated
Maitetsu - 15.28% translated
Nenokami - 99.79% 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 - 25.97% translated
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
Narcissu 0 - 89.23% translated
>Tenshin Ranman - 30.04%
Darekoi - 100% translated
Wagamama High Spec -Demo is 100% translated, 2016 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - 18.38% translated
>Memory's Dogma - 99.18% 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


Frontwing
>Grisaia no Zankou - 7/20 release
Corona Blossom - IGG project finished, Vol 1 7/29 release
Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter started
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 - 7/14 release
Muv Luv Alternative - Winter release
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


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


Other
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
Steins;Gate 0 - 2016 release
Root Letter - 2016 release
ChuSingura46+1 - Trial released ch 2+3 end of July
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 100% translated + edited, in QC
>Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + Mari route translated
Taisho Alice - Picked up
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
SubaHibi - Official release planned
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
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

The best part of Muv Luv releasing was getting a Degica livestream of people shitting on Ixrec's translation for 2 hours.

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Note the appearent lack of detailed knowledge on Lose's representative's part, indicating Sekai Project probably wasn't fully open during their talks with Lose.

>>15541091

Why do clueless Redditors/Fuwatards always try to look smart and fail?

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4t12c6/lost_in_translation_how_errors_slip_into/

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>>15547749
Tell me more.

>>15547776
The best part is:

>Edit 7/14/16: JAST USA responded with the following comment.
We'll be addressing some of these issues as the game is prepared for Steam, and a patch will be released for the non-steam version.

>>15547688
>Hanasaki Work Spring
Oh shit, that came out of fucking nowhere.
Better hope it's from a legit group.
I've been dying to see some quality charage get translated.

>>15547776
This is the same guy that defends machine translation.

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Well /jp/, we've got a years worth of tracker data now and we're a majority of the way through this year. If anyone wanted to whip up a quick script to compare weekly ranking/volume of sales, I'd wager you could probably make a fairly accurate guess at what the year end top sellers will be.

The downside is that I've become a lot more comfortable reading stuff in moon as of late and thus haven't been buying stuff from mangagamer when there's a lull in order numbers(The empty space last month being a nice example). This is a minor issue, as without consistent numbers there's not much to pin estimates with. Therefore I think I'll move to just logging information without comment if that doesn't bother anyone.

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/Wr2ESA1m
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/mfJ2eA3z
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/bYWGjzHn

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

>>15547776
Some of the shit he quotes as wrong is literally exactly what's written, and his corrections are more like Nintendo-brand omega localizations. That one about "not making problems worse" is literally
>"You shouldn't add to problems."

translated as

>"You're just making things worse."

which is likely fine in context, but he says it's wrong and should be
>"A raging gale is as likely to spread a fire as quench it..."

What the fuck.

http://cliqist.com/2016/07/13/kickstarter-explicit-videogame-content/

Why is Laguna such a fag? I mean besides literally being one.


>>15547857
Just because the translation is wrong, doesn't mean that the reader will get the wrong idea.

God Koiken Otome is so bad .
It's like every single shitty LN harem trope bloated out into VN format.
Even ignoring the shady translation quality I couldn't see how it could be salvaged.

>>15547789
RIP

>>15547873
the only thing I'm extrapolating from that is Beat Blades Haruka was a decent sales success so hopefully we will get Rance in English.

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>>15547789
I liked how TOM linked to ANN like it was an actual editorial and not a paid advertisement.

>>15547776
Hi, I wrote that article. Any constructive feedback or questions? The Reddit feedback has been less helpful than anticipated, but perhaps the /jp/ community can foster a more constructive discussion.

>>15547934

Just offhand, I'd be shocked not to see imopara and eroge make the final ranking for another year in a row.

>>15548032
Learn Japanese.

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Haro added another new partner announcement to that announcement page on Friday, but the thread was already dead.

>>15547749
Is there a VOD?

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>>15548032
>The Reddit feedback has been less helpful than anticipated, but perhaps the /jp/ community can foster a more constructive discussion.

>>15547934

People must really want Rance if they're willing to buy Beats Blades.

>>15548088
I don't know, from MangaGamer's regular customers alone, Haruka would be a great seller due to it being Fetish: The Game.

Having OVAs also helped.

>>15548032
By ``less helpful than anticipated'' you mean ``more honest than I'd prefer''?

Also please refer to >>15548044.

>>15548064
Probably the same publisher but with two games.

>>15548064
If this keeps up, we may be looking at 5 or 6 announcements for Otakon.

>>15548129

It's not. They're from two different companies.

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>>15548032
Pic related is wrong. Both the JAST version and yours.

But you are catching some good errors on JAST's part, true.
Like in
>望むたちが戦力にならないとでも言うのか。何処かの誰かさんよりはよっぽど戦力になっているだろう。
>「今は焦らないで、望ちゃんは自分のことだけを考えて。私の事は気にしなくっていいから。」
>ああ、まずい！逃がすな！

desu shit like this makes be wonder who the fuck they hire to translate for JAST

>>15548151
So WA 2 from Leaf and Eustia from August? Nice.

>>15548135

I'd think we'd have 5 at least. There's that rance hinting, that (probably) sona-nyl hint from earlier in the year, and more sonohana aside from those two.

>>15548153
>desu shit like this makes be wonder who the fuck they hire to translate for JAST

Wouldn't the name be in the credits?

>>15548157
Shut up EOP shithead, August won't get debase themselves by releasing something for you.

>>15548164
But Leaf is still good, right?

>>15548157

More likely sorcery jokers and that ntr-or-lolige title, I'd think.

I don't really get where the eustia hype is coming from though. A lot of people seem to expect that and there's no good reason so far as I can tell(until we get new hints atleast).

>>15548166
Yeah.

>>15548167
August for August.

>>15548163
It was more of a rhetorical question. I don't care who it is exactly, just saying they should be getting better people. When some Redditor can catch you redhanded, you know you have ways to go.

>>15548172

That's retarded, though.

>>15548168
Then everything is still daijoubu.

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崇高たるショーカン士様のトップ２５エロゲ

http://ask.fm/Conjueror/answers/137411399131

>>15548227

Thanks for the blog update

>>15547896
Its sanah, he doesn't know Japanese and uses machine-translation.

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>>15547688
>Koiken Otome - Released

Since Liarsoft and Shigeo are making a joint project with Silkyplus, maybe MG could use their connection with both to start talks with Silkyplus and licence Nanairo Reincarnation.

>>15547766
>「元々、18禁要素はストーリーと分離しているので作りやすいのかなと。海外については、話を聞かせてもらった程度ですが、有力な市場と感じます」（Lose代表・tO氏）
>People were saying Sekai Project bluffed their way to Maitetsu with sweet talk and this make it seem like the truth.
Very good. SP should burn.

>>15548341
Can you understand what the quote means?

>>15548344
No, just what was posted in english in that thread.

>>15548368

It's pretty dumb to quote shit you don't understand, especially third hard. There's nothing really to celebrate there. He says they figured it'd be pretty easy to remove the porn since it was originally isolated and that from what they'd heard(presumably from SP), they felt the foreign market was quite prominent.

>>15548309
I read it. Good production values. Good music. Good VAs. Good art.

Absolutely and thoroughly mediocre in every other regard, one of the most boring visual novels I've read period. At least terrible visual novels can sometimes be fun reads, but KO was so fucking middle-of-the-road that it was frustrating. Absolutely nothing stood out about it.

Is JASTs site down ?

>>15548410
You're not understanding the one most important word there - 程度.

>>15548427
>from what they'd heard(presumably from SP)

I covered it, I believe.

He's celebrating like someone this means anything when it's just lose saying that SP sold them a grand tale.

>>15547766
>>15548341
This is good. It means they'll give Monobeno to Mangagamer instead.

>>15548444
Yes exactly, by using 程度 he implies he has a limited understanding of the Japanese market and only heard from SP... what SP wanted to tell Lose.

>>15548445
lol

I wonder if by Eiyuu*Senki, JAST are talking about the original Eiyuu*Senki that was also released on Playstation, or the new Eiyuu*Senki Gold exclusive for PC. If it's the former, why bother releasing something that has been fully translated (and pirated) years ago?

>>15548455
cause i guess this one will have uncensored H scenes and translated H scenes at that.

i dunno, though. Gold is objectively better.

>>15548453
>Yes exactly, by using 程度 he implies he has a limited understanding of the Japanese market and only heard from SP... what SP wanted to tell Lose.

I understand that, but he's saying
>Very good. SP should burn.

Which is stupidly premature.
Lose bought in at (presumably SP's) word, but they have yet to be proven wrong so.

>>15548460
Maitetsu in best case will sell terribly, because price is too high for boring content.
In worst case, it will completely blow up, with MSM calling for lynching. There's no way it would end up satisfactory for Lose.

>>15548460
And what SP's word was? What could persuade Lose? Sales of Nekopara likely. Will those repeat?

>>15548410
>from what they'd heard(presumably from SP), they felt the foreign market was quite prominent.
Prominent on what? On having a all ages version?

>>15548471
>>15548475
>>15548476

No doubt it'll bomb, but the point is that lose doesn't know that yet.

>>15548475
No way. Nekopara sells because it's short as hell and costs barely any money.

Maitetsu is a fuck-long game and it's a new one at that. It's going to go for at least $50+

>>15548476
Prominent on selling meme games for 10 bucks or less.

>>15548481
Which is the point of the Japanese quote. That Lose only heard ある程度の話. So let's wait and see the consequences.

>>15548488

Yes, so why would someone say something like
>Very good. SP should burn.

Nothing's changed.

>>2236 A.D. - 100% translated
My body is ready.

>>15548455
The fact Fruitbat is mentioned in the announcement, its definitely the original game but now with porn and on steam. So actually, you are correct on the steam version, that will likely just be the PS3 version with maybe another editing pass(but will still sell because actual game on steam). But J-ast's version will have a decent amount of content that was never translated before. I'm at least going to by it when it comes out.

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>>15547688
>Hadaka Shitsuji - Picked up
>Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc - Picked up
>Flowers - Re-write/editing 50%, Beta 15%

>>15548510

But anonymous, you yourself are a faggot

>>15548510
>best girl aimee
>Worst character in the game
You're a massive faggot.

>>15548533
Who are you quoting?

Having finished the Walkure games now, I wouldn't be surprised if MG picks them up in the future. Seems like it'd be a natural fit and the kind of thing that would sell well.

Tfw stll no kyonyuu

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Why has nobody picked this up yet? It was a great read and the girls were top tier.

>>15548153
What is your suggested translation for the line you pointed out?

>>15548064
MG tweeted that one of their Otakon announcements will be a yuri vn.

>>15548088
You do realize that Haruka was a very popular and well-regarded nukige in Japan, right?

>>15548925

Pretty much everyone is expecting more sonohana.

>>15548877
奴らにはなにも出来ぬ。

"They can't do anything".

>>15548667
>It just entered testing so once that's done, it should be out soon[tm].

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/753999775473827840

>>15548153
I'm not defending mistakes. There's never an excuse, especially bad ones. But if it took ten hours to find only a dozen, that's really different from the standard Fuwalation where it's easy to find a dozen in the first fifteen minutes. Or Flowers, where it's easy to find a dozen in the first dozen lines.

Could be better, absolutely, but crucifying something you have to work to find errors in instead of all the other stuff where you can throw a dart and find major problems seems incredibly misguided.

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Maybe she'll be at Otakon.

>>15548974
I remember people tweeting about little kids taking pictures with her.

>>15548959
>But if it took ten hours to find only a dozen
It took a 90-hr playthrough for me to find 15 dialogue errors, to be exact (note: it's unlikely I was able to identify all errors). Probably half of that time was spent in gameplay rather than reading.

The message I wanted readers to take away is that companies (and critics) focus quite a bit on minor spelling and grammar and pay less attention to the rare but arguably much more important translation errors that are less obvious to their audience (who mostly have no Japanese knowledge). Demanding perfection is unreasonable, but perhaps we as an audience should reconsider our priorities. In the end, companies simply respond to what their audience wants. If they care about typos but not occasional context errors in the translation, then typos are what the company will focus on fixing.

>>15549072
Fuck off, autist.

>>15549072
Do you actually know Japanese or did you use mtl?

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>>15549072
>by the same guy who wrote this
>got BTFO and had to release his own restoration patch
Do something useful like continuing the fight to ensure 18+ BS

>>15549072
You are an idiot.

>>15548957

Could still end up with Myth and Himawari(if frontwing can ever insert the script) before it, putting it months away.

>>15549072
You don't even know Japanese and most of your errors were changes in localization/editing, not proper mistranslations.
You'd have a much better case if you found a character who never said the correct lines, or some sort of plot twist that broke the narrative being mistranslated. But slightly rewording things is hardly mistranslation.

>>15549120
Still nobody in jail for patching the game. I guess those customs are pretty bad at taking your PC and playing through all your games before you get to pass.

JAST could have easily included all content from the beginning instead of being silly.

>>15549379
Allow me to go through it, as a neutral third party.

The first one is a translation mistake.
>年は砂月と変わらんだろう。
Even if you don't know the context, the line clearly refers to someone's age (年は) which is same (変わらん) as 砂月's (砂月と), presumably (だろう). JAST is completely off. Theoretically you might not understand how 変わらん means "the same". For that see http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/content/変わらない
>複数のものにさほど違いがないさま

The second one is mostly a stylistic thing.

Third one is a genuine mistranslation.
なんてどういうこと expresses the speaker's dissatistaction about what precedes it. Another example: http://kosonews.com/blog-entry-20680.html

Fourth one, he's right JAST's translation is wooden, but his is total lol, yeah.

Fifth one, both JAST and him are bad, someone already posted details ITT.

Sixth one might feel like a stylistic difference, but he's completely right that よく知っている refers to one's well of knowledge, not inteligence. See meanings of the phrase here:
http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/content/よく知っている
That said, "well-informed" doesn't feel like the best choice in English, since it can give the impression of the person in question learning the information from someone else, which doesn't really have to be the case here. Why complicate things? Best would be just "knowledgeable".

Seventh, the first sentence is fine in both versions, but the second one is a mistranslation on JAST's part. 何処かの誰かさん means "a certain someone" - a roundabout way to refer to someone specific without saying their name. To be just "someone somewhere", it would need to be just 何処かの誰か. Note that not even every native Japanese knows the difference in English: http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1151396411

Eight, the Japanese line is pretty weird, so I question if he retyped it correctly. Nonetheless, you can't really say 手を出す refers to fights, as in actual combat, there, the sexual connotations are clear since target of the actions would be a girl. Perhaps some ambiguity like "Don't try anything." works best. The reader will pick up on as much as he manages from that.

Ninth is a small stylistic thing.

Tenth is a mistranslation. 望ちゃんは自分のことだけを考えて is clearly a positive command.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_verb_conjugation#te_form
>As a simple command:
>食べて Tabete: "Eat."
>読んで Yonde: "Read."



Eleventh again a mistranslation. No ambiguity here.
>逃がすな
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/command
>In order to command others to not do an action, simply attach 「な」 to the end of the verb.

Twelfth a mistranslation based on misunderstaning the に過ぎない
http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=nisuginai

Granted, the last three mistakes are likely a product of rushed work than lack of knowledge. Thy're all basics and considering the mistakes are just complete 180°s on the actual meaning, one can assume the translator just had a momentary switches in judgement.

Hi, I have 212 played hours on Seinarukana and the TL was shit.

>>15548925
Make your bets
https://vndb.org/v10700 - A Kiss For The Petals – Maidens of Michael
https://vndb.org/v16262 - A Kiss For The Petals - The New Generation
https://vndb.org/v13107 - Tsui Yuri

>>15549498
Maidens of Michael seems like the perfect one to go for after the last one.

But they might want to change the focus to give other yuri couples more exposure.

>>15549498
>https://vndb.org/v13107 - Tsui Yuri

I'm not a yurifag, so what makes this likely?

>>15549513
The other couples all appear and most of them have routes in that game, plus it's the prequel/sequel to RHWM that they already released. Maidens of Michael was also the 3rd most requested vn on MG's licensing poll this year.

>>15549523
It's popular and new. It has an existing fantranslation project that's been making good progress, but I'm not sure if it's machine translation tier or not.

>>15549498
The New Generation needs Maidens of Michael and Snow White's Knight to come out before it for it to make sense. It builds on the characters introduced in those other VNs.

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>>15547688
>>Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou - 10275/31248 (32%) translated
What the fuck

>>15549554
Clearly a Fuwa projects worked on by ESLs.

>>15549554
Now let's see a 4,000 word essay calling that shit.

Shittier taste than I thought, I have no idea why people like that lucky star fanfic.

>>15549487
Excellent. I'll refer to this post as a reference, and fix the error that both you and >>15548948
pointed out.

Would you care to review the two excerpts in the (minor) spoiler section as well?

>>15549808
Which VN are you talking about? Anyway, does MG know when their panel is going to be yet?

>>15549487
>Granted, the last three mistakes are likely a product of rushed work than lack of knowledge. Thy're all basics and considering the mistakes are just complete 180°s on the actual meaning, one can assume the translator just had a momentary switches in judgement.

Aroduc is well known to be a fast translator, so I guess it's not surprising that he compromises accuracy to some degree. It was all reviewed by Makoto before release as well, but with that much text, it's hard to get everything.

>>15549911
It was all reviewed by Makoto before release as well.
I paid careful attention to the credit roll. Makoto wasn't there. I know Aroduc said this but he also seems to have been out of the loop. Editors in the credit roll included DxS and Tolrin. DxS is definitely a different person, and I don't think Tolrin is Makoto either.

>>15549911
Translation's hard, and with only one translator, it's really easy to make stupid mistakes like that, no matter how good you are. Think of how many times you missed carrying a one in math, or misread a sentence in English because you glossed over a word.

That's why professional game localizations usually use multiple translators and fewer editors. The chance that multiple translators skim over the same error is tiny, and if translators actually know what they're doing and are working together with a style guide, they don't need the text to be cleaned up much.

Nintendo's approach to rewrite everything for maximum lulz notwithstanding.

Are sekai actually deluded enough to believe people will buy maitetsu? I don't understand them

>>15549943
I say that as a person being involved in the project, the script undergone a sizable review after Aroduc completed translation and it was edited and tested by DxS and Tolrin. I couldn't say for sure if it was Makoto or not, but it did get reviewed by a separate translator. Some of the text issues were introduced at this stage (the text color markers appearing for example), which was after the testers reviewed the game. I presume it was Makoto given the timeline of two years between Aroduc finishing testing and Jast finally deciding it's ready, since that delay sounds pretty normal for Makoto, but I couldn't say for sure.

>>15549947
Clarification to myself.

If these errors are rare, then fine. It's understandable. Not excusable, necessarily, as perfection is always the goal, but understandable. If they're constant, or indicative of a fundamental lack of comprehension across the board, like that guy who always translated ああ as "ah" and ええ as "eh", that's a completely different problem.

>>15549909
If they knew it would be posted on their announcements page.

I wouldn't get too excited if they post numerous announcements leading up to Otakon, since Supipara Chapter 2 and Trinoline's official announcement from MG could be among them.

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I enjoyed this comment.

>>15549977
They rarely seem to put much thought into what they will do once they get a license.

>>15550000
Trinoline is officially announced by MG already though.

At most, it will one of those pre-announcement reminders that they like to do at start of the panel.

>>15548338
>Nanairo Reincarnation
This, fucking this. If MG manage to make a deal with Silky's Plus i'll buy their titles day one.

>>15549943
If you want to fix the translation then put back the honorifics.

>>15549985
Alright. I'll update my description of the project staff accordingly. Maybe expecting no context errors is unreasonable. Well, it's still good to have an awareness that they exist and that even skilled professional translators aren't infallible. They make mistakes, and inevitably these will make it into the release with the limited budgets visual novel localizations are subject to.

>>15550211
>professional
>Aroduc

No

>>15550047
What do you mean? Sekai's plan is "Get popular VNs - do all-ages on steam - get massive cash from normals". What could possibly go wrong?

If you don't buy them, the VN industry will die, so you got no choice!

>>15550077
Look forward to a sekai localization.

>>15549554
I remember this print being posted in this thread months ago. At the time the guy even created a thread on MG forums asking them to contact him about using his translation to make a official release. I can only laugh at this

So what are the chances of MG getting this game licensed ? https://vndb.org/v15679

>>15550372
Look bad, these are three I want translated

https://vndb.org/v1179
https://vndb.org/v7302
https://vndb.org/v1141

>>15550211
No matter if a release has a limited or highest budged, if the translator is bad then is bad; fire him (same for the editor/s).
Also removing honorifics in a japanes VN is a insutl for the readers like SP did after editing Root Double.

>>15550405
>https://vndb.org/v1141

How long are you going to hold onto this dream anonymous? It's no longer simply just impossible, it's now double impossible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/2agggr/which_english_translation_of_cross_channel_should/

Herkz giving his opinion on Cross Channel's translation when he doesn't even speak Japanese. What a retard.

>>15550480
Apparently he can't really speak english either considering how far he let that terrible Mahoyo TL go, and even had to have OTHER people tell him how awful it was before he realized that having an ESL translate wasn't a great idea.

>>15550472
Why is it impossible?

>>15550425
Depends on your target audience, I suppose. I don't think any of the three major publishers consistently retain honorifics in all titles.

Apparently Aroduc's translating Eiyuu Senki.

>>15550505
Depends more on the content if you ask me. I've read manga where it hasn't been noticable that honorifics are dropped, and I've read manga where you constantly read a weird phrase and think "Oh localization".

In general for sci-fi/fantasy action stories, you barely notice they are gone. For relationship/drama in Japanese locations, it doesn't work to remove them.

>>15550499
I hate him, but let's be fair about that one: Dude does not give two damns or a fuck about the Nasuverse. I doubt he was even paying any attention to the project until people started whining to him about it since he's the leader of Commie.

>>15550505
Like Atllus? Because Persona games retain all the honorifics and I hardly have seen any complaint.
I woud understand removing them if they were barely used but that game have school settings and they constantly referring to others as senpai, sensei, onichan, etc...

I think it's pretty funny that people in this thread shit on Akame ga Kill considering Takahiro is legendary and the vast majority of us love Majikoi. You know you love AgK too.

>>15550530
I could see how it would matter more in manga, where the written word is all you have. In visual novels, you have the Japanese voices. If all you're looking for is the manner of address (the honorific), even someone with no Japanese knowledge could pick that up from the voices. Such aficionados do listen to the voices... right?

In any case, with Steam releases becoming the standard I think we'll see fewer releases with honorifics, other than perhaps nukige where they might stick around. Being inclusive and appealing to a wider audience is generally more important to companies than pandering to their hardcore fans. That goes for 18+ releases also, unfortunately.

>>15550593
Akame ga Kill would have been good if the Empire had won.

>>15550631
The only thing that could make Akame ga Kill good is if everything in it was completely different.

>>15550620
>I could see how it would matter more in manga, where the written word is all you have. In visual novels, you have the Japanese voices. If all you're looking for is the manner of address (the honorific), even someone with no Japanese knowledge could pick that up from the voices. Such aficionados do listen to the voices... right?
This is why it is pointless to give a shit about honorifics in voiced works.

>>15550646
But protagonists aren't voiced.

Check and mate, faggots.

>>15550480
He's a moogydrone with no opinion of his own

>>15550620
I don't think so, most of the VN's released by the major publishers (MG/SP) in Steam have honorifics, but if Jast wants to change the trend...

https://georgehenryshaft.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/project-3-status-as-of-july-1st-2016/

What is that guy working on?

>>15550702
Why would you care?

>>15550646
There is more than honorifics that cause troubles. You should use first names in western languages, and I can only assume most translators forget that and just translate the last name from kanji and throw away honorifics.

And you know if people translated it properly they'd be all "Hey why is voice saying name A when the text says name B? Have they screwed up the translation?".

You are pretty much set up to lose regardless of what you do. So keeping honorifics at least make some people happy that it is correct in a Japanese sense.

>>15550620
You mean like in Seinarukana where Satsuki asked Nozomu to call her by name, instead of senpai, completely shitting over the fact that JAST made him call her Satsuki from the beginning?

>>15550480
Please, post plebbit links more often, janny. Two times per thread is not enough.

>>15550501

Aside from the 5pb aspect which made it impossible in the first place, Omegavision's now lost interest in the west(or in mangagamer atleast).

>>15550657
> But protagonists aren't voiced.
Not voicing the protagonist can be a stylistic choice that's supposed to make him more of a self-insert character. And in that case, do you need the honorific?

>>15550727
Navel should probably have tried to join in on the sales and bundles. It is funny how they weren't in any.

>>15550736
>do you need the honorific
Yes, I do.

Also look at that >>15550717

The bimonthly honorific argument, guest-starring everyone's favorite selfimportant blowhard this month. Looks like we've got a good thread ahead of us

>>15550764
Hi Herkz.

>>15550751

I imagine they weren't interested in the percent of a percent of a percent of a cut of a few ten thousand dollars.

While honorifics are important, what's more important is not changing a heroine's name.

>>15550717
I suppose. I forget how JAST handled that particular line. Probably just literally, creating an odd discrepancy in the single line. If it were up to me, I'd consider deleting the line along with the voice for it, though that's probably not what the pro-honorifics faction would want to hear.

>>15550802
If you ditch honorifics I couldn't really care less if you also remove sentences and rewrite the lines. As long as steam people can read it and understand the gist of it, right?

>>15550796
It's even funnier when they change the family name for the first name because "we need adapt it to the western market" (more like american market).
Even in my work I never heard to my boss calling me by my first name.

>>15550849
I live in America and I don't know the last names of half my coworkers. If I do it's mostly because there's a bunch of people with the same first name.

>>15550802
For my you can remove all the honorifics, cut some voices and lines or dub them, but then you will get a bunch of steamers screaming in the forums and than can affect the sales.

>>15550854
>bunch of people with the same first name
...and that why in most of the countrys is more polity to refer to the employees by the last name.

>>15550854
Same in my country. First names everywhere. I mean even teachers are called by their first name.

>>15550051
It wasn't added to MG's announcement page though. Since minori stealth announced it, MG might formally announce it at their panel to get news outlets to cover it.

>>15550918
http://blog.mangagamer.org/2016/07/07/trinoline-announced/

They already announced it formally, it isnt on the announcements page because it was announced outside of their panel.

>>15548032
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4t12c6/lost_in_translation_how_errors_slip_into/d5fv1y9
>linking directly to /jp/
This is SP level incompetence. Sanah you should apply for a job there, you'd fit right in

>>15550983
I'm sure even sekai have some standards.

>>15550983
>>15550726

>>15550989
sanah or SP, who is worse? discuss

>>15550726
/jp/ actually used to be the place for these kinds of in-depth discussion before it got real shit. You have only yourself to blame.

>>15551064
Nah, I blame moot.

>>15551064
I can't remember when we had discussions without endless spamming, shitposting or /jp/'s own flavor of internet personalities.

I fucking hope that mugen is dead, as I have been told

>>15550983

You're the faggots who enabled him.

>>15551111
Nice surprise box.

I'm going to go ahead and chuckle at my sanahlgbt joke.

>>15547776
>how errors slip in
>translator is stupid and bad and I'm awesome and perfect

That cleared up everything.

>>15551133
>write cause

>>15551133

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>>15551133
Dovac seems to have serious health problems and to be honest, I'm pretty sure SP as a whole would continue with their bullshit type of releases and censored content without him. He should go treat himself first and then try to actually make something that doesn't involve making the western audience look like idiots to Japan.

>>15551142
>Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
What the fuck do you even mean...

>>15551170
>Dovac seems to have serious health problems

No, he's just a yuuuuuuuuuuge melodramatic bitch.

linktriforce007 apparently just upped and released the Yoake translation saying he has been sitting on it for years.
https://www.mediafire.com/?e2bhw8arbm5vbt6

>>15551306
Did he demand to be thanked for his magnificence and threaten to take everything and run off if not given proper gratitude again?

>>15551306
>all ages
Literally who cares?

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>>15551323
He didn't really say that much. Saw it on reddit after clicking though from one of the links earlier in the thread.
Just checked back and either the mods cleaned up the post or he deleted all mention of himself. Caught a snap of it from another tab I had open though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4tc9aw/yoake_patch_files_leaked_100_translation_minus/

>>15551343
Seriously, fuck off. Don't make this thread just discussion about things on leddit.

>>15551343
It got deleted

>>15551356
Well this is a thread about releases and upcoming releases and it got released over there. It is relevant to this thread.

>>15551356
It's about the release of translation files and more than you have ever contributed to this thread.

>>15551356
Seriously these threads have slowly become a dumping group for reddit posts. Why even bother coming her if you like reddit so much? If I wanted to subscribe to a translators blog or twitter I will.

>>15551396
>>15551356
So suddenly when it is reddit people start bitching? Where were you when people were just posting the latest Dovac or other translator drama twitter posts in nearly every thread? Or is that fine and reddit the step too far?

>>15551343
Huh, its actually real. Thanks for the heads up.

Apparently Aroduc mains Mei.

>>15551425
It's all shit, these threads have become just a bunch nobodies gossiping about who said what on twitter drama like a bunch of bitches in heat.

>>15551425
please leave

>>15551498
Last time I looked, everyone used machine translators and text hookers.

That's why.

>>15551498
Because most of the drama is about shitty translators and translations. Of course an untranslated thread wouldn't have that problem. Their main drama is shitty VNs.

>>15551498
Do you really need it explained to you or are you actually that much of a mouthbreather

>>15551510
>Last time I looked, everyone used machine translators and text hookers.

Are you talking about the people in the untranslated general or the "translators" for this generals?

>>15551367
mediafire link is still valid, though.

Sekai Project did a short Q&A with their post AX stream, though with different people then Dovac. Most of it was recap or the usual meaningless questions you would expect in Q&A, though they answered some other stuff.

Baldr Sky - For now their goal is to get out the Steam version, though they know that people have "questions about how it will be released".
Grisaia no Meikyuu - uncut version is waiting on stuff from Frontwing
Grisaia no Rakuen - They'd like to have it out by end of the year
Maitetsu - They will look at the uncut release after it is released on Steam.

>>15551629
>Baldr Sky - For now their goal is to get out the Steam version, though they know that people have "questions about how it will be released".
Their goal should have been "to get the rights to the translation that's already almost done."

>>15551306

But is it any good? I don't remember what else this guy has done.

>>15551642
If I remember right Edger also translated Canvas 2.

>>15551629
In other words we are only getting all ages on all of those things.

>>15551875
The question is will they make up excuses for not delivering 18+ content, or will they just not even acknowledge it once the VNs are out?

>>15551915
You already know they're going to blame the Japanese devs.

>>15551928
They already have.

>>15551629
> baldr sky and maitetsu all-ages only
kek. Told you so guys. Can't believe there were idiots who still hoped for 18+ version and believed dovac's bullshit.

>>15547766
Some more details from that thread:

>現在、社内にはアメリカ、イギリス、オランダ、イタリア、フランス人がいて、今は中国での展開を検討中なのでそのスタッフを探しています。
>Looks like Frontwing are planning to translate their stuff to many other languages aside from English.

>現在、ある著名タイトルを進めていまして、そろそろ発表できると思いますよ。
>Looks like Regista is also planning to announce something too.

>日本アニメのメジャー化がゲームに好影響
>Looks like Japanese VN developers are interested in getting more consumers who got interested in their works through anime.

>『ルートダブル』の翻訳はユーザーだったジョン・フーバー氏の提案から。現在は著名多タイトルを翻訳中。
>it looks like Lemnisca have some big project (or maybe several?) in works.

>>15552540
>>it looks like Lemnisca have some big project (or maybe several?) in works.
Dovac is asking them to translate Baldr Sky because Aroduc's not caving.

>>15548719
Somebody did try to translate it but they dropped the project in the end.

How can the KoiOto translation be so shitty

>>15553299
Reddit/Fuwa?

>>15553299
>How can machine translation be so shitty

dunno lol

>>15553313
I mean, how can a group supposedly work on something for 3 or 5 years, whatever it was, and deliver such a subpar product? It's just an insult

>>15553322
subpar translation for a subpar VN

>>15553299
What's wrong with it

>>15551306
>>15551332
>all ages
why bother

>>15548032
stop posting content acting like you're well versed in visual novels and japanese when you use machine translations
or kill yourself. either one is fine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4te0e4/yoake_brighter_than_the_dawning_blue_100/

It's up again

>>15547873
Order Number - 204877
Order Date - 2016-07-18 10:16:40

>>15551629
To be expected. People threaten to never buy from them again if they don't deliver and so they have to at least keep up the appearance for as long as possible to still sell some steam trash to them.

But I think those two titles will kill Sekai, and it is exactly what they deserve.

>>15548485
Then is Lose expecting to sell Maitetsu for these kind of prices to get a lot of attention?

>>15553938
I would assume Dovac does classic negotiations. Like he'll list the facts he wants, and ignore the ones he dislike.

So a presentation for Lose would be "We are the publishers of the best visual novels in the industry like Clannad and Grisaia and we sell 25000+ volumes on Steam".

He doesn't really want to admit the game must have had an anime, they have to be on 50% off sale and any adult product turned all-ages must have a patch.

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Why can't you weeaboos grow up like MDZ-sama?

>One of the discoveries made on the trip was the realization that I might be progressively outgrowing visual novels (or just Japanese media in general). I had visited Akihabara, the so-called Mecca of anime and related media, both during this visit and during the last. In contrast to my visit last year, my venture this year was grounded more in obligation than desire (e.g. “If I’m going to be in the area, I may as well pay Akihabara a visit). In noting this, I mean to point out that my drive (or passion) for the media has gradually subsided since the last year.

>>15554062
>machine translator who doesn't know Japanese decides he might not actually be that into Japanese media

Stop the presses.

>>15554062
No, thank you. I'd rather retain my youthful weebness than grow up to be a boring adult.

>>15553938
Well, Lose is already convinced that people will play Maitetsu for the story, probably because Dovac convinced them. In the case of pricing, though, if it goes for $30 or more I can't imagine it generating any sales. The target audience of this product probably won't buy it, and I can't see even Steam users paying $30 for a loli game, with or without ero.
Get ready for Purino Party 2, starring trains and lolis.

>>15554221
I can't see it going for less than 40. And given the pricing of other Sekai titles which are significantly less long than Maitetsu, I theorize it may go for more than that.

>>15554221
>Get ready for Purino Party 2, starring trains and lolis.
Purino Party had a bunch of ero CGs with penetration, no chance this happens.

>>15554235
Why not go for $60 (that is 60 Euro for us poor fucks) right off the bat? After all, every AAA title costs this much recently. I blame console games for setting the trend. Fuck you subhuman shits.

EUSTIA
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>>15551306
How is the translation?

>>15554316
Machine TL.

>>15554316
Really good :^)

>>15554334
that meme is seriously getting fucking annoying

Liar-soft's upcoming vn looks like it based its title on Dungeons & Dragons.

大迷宮＆大迷惑 -GREAT EDGES IN THE ABYSS-

That translates to something like Dungeons & Deceptions, doesn't it?

Haro, please tell me where my hype level should be for Otakon.

Is any of the announcements a highly requested title?

>>15554775
What does it even matter when it will be released years down the line at the earlierst? At this rate, no EOPs will remain in a few years when even the slowest people have realized that nothing good can come out of ``localizing'' (code for censoring and rewriting) VNs.

>>15554775
Around 1/10

>>15554799
>I am a butthurt JOP who can't handle my Japanese cartoon games getting popular among people can't read GRORIOUS NIPPONESE

>>15554799
Most announcements get released within a year or 2 after they've been licensed. MG doesn't cut content, but some vns retain their mosaics. And localizing makes sense when the line makes no sense in English.

>>15554822
>Guy posting in English
>JOP

Really makes you think

>>15554775
10/10
We should be getting: Rance, Sorcery Jokers or some other 1080p vn, Maidens of Michael if you're into yuri, and a NTR or loli vn. If purple hinted at Sona-nyl that's also a possibility. And Supipara Chapter 2 might be on the list if Chapter 1 sells enough to hit its goal.

>>15554853
Twist is he hired someone to translate his posts for him so he could shitpost in this thread.

For the poor Yuuki guy, there will be a Yuuki in the Beach Bounce series. I'm giggling a little about how an original English game can go with a spelling that a translator doesn't dare go with.

>>15554676
> 大迷宮＆大迷惑 -GREAT EDGES IN THE ABYSS-
>That translates to something like Dungeons & Deceptions, doesn't it?

"Big dungeons, Big nuisances" would be my translation.

The title has a tongue-in-cheek feel to it.

>>15554888
He's fighting a nameshit battle with Arunaru, he never stood a chance in the first place.

>>15554888
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that the character was romanized of Yuuki in the original Japanese OP as well

>>15547688
>>Trample on Schatten- Translation 96%
This pleases me.

>>15554929
It wasn't, it was romanized as Yuki in the Japanese OP. It was ruby text'd as Yuuki though, hence why he was fighting for it.

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>>15554944
Yeah, nevermind. You're right.

>>15554933
They announced that thing in 2012! I'm positive while read it in japanese before Jast get it out

>>15554950
I hate balloon breasts and it looks pretty weird here too but at the same time I... hnn- no. She's just cute in general the boobs got nothing to do with this!!

>>15554676
>>15554899
Big Trouble in The Big Dungeon

When you read the interview about it (you can't) with Mareni, he specifically mentions being inspired by 80's dungeon crawlers and Western fantasy in general.

>>15554978
I don't really care about body builds in general. Facial and hair aesthetics are more important to me.

That being said there's a lovely loli in this title as well.

>>15554221
Whoever did the livestream for Sekai Project (not Dovac) is convinced people will play it because it is a "wonderful story, a wonderful game". Granted considering the market dropoff for longer titles recently I'd think it would be a hard sell even with an uncut version, and will likely fail to reach the high expectations that Sekai and Lose would have for it.

>>15555018
>Whoever did the livestream for Sekai Project (not Dovac) is convinced people will play it because it is a "wonderful story, a wonderful game".

Is it?

>>15555023
My personal opinion? It's kind of boring. I liked Monobeno a lot more. There's a lot of memes about Maitetsu having train info dumps--and they're not wrong, but there's also political stuff as well. It tries to be high brow, but I just couldn't buy into it. It's a mix of weird lolige elements as well as other more serious themes much of which I couldn't take very seriously. And it was so dull.

Also I have to say I don't like the transition to full Live2D. It gets pretty jarring seeing the girls CONSTANTLY stare at you and the animation looks uncanny and kind of cheap (even though it was probably pretty expensive to produce an entire VN like that).

I've heard others share similar experiences with it. It's not an average visual novel, but I felt like it was just slightly above average. Which is disappointing given all the months of hype and marketing surrounding it.

I wonder how well it sold?

It doesn't really make much sense to me to make it all-ages to begin with. But if Sekai/Lose wanted to localize one of the works for the story and make it all-ages, why did they choose Maitetsu over Gothderi?

>>15555113
They kept the H out of the main story, and everything indicates Lose planned to localize Maitetsu well before Sekai Project got involved with it, a decision likely made relatively early in development.

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>>15554979
>he specifically mentions being inspired by 80's dungeon crawlers and Western fantasy in general.

>>15555113
They probably saw Rail Wars anime selling (because of the lewd) and figured they could cash in on the popularity of trains (despite it being nudity that sold).

Classic case of companies just looking at the surface of things without actually researching.

>>15555166
Rail Wars sold?

Seriously? It wasn't even good lewd. And even the writer thought it was a poorly-made adaptation, didn't he?

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>>15547844
Hello there, i'm the one in charge of the graphic editing for Hanasaki Work Spring! We are all new to this, but i can assure you, the translators and editors have a VERY high quality standard, besides that, i can also tell you that we will (probably) be done by... maybe the end of this year, or early 2017, somewhere around that.

To prove i'm not bullshitting, have a screenshot of my work.

>>15555252
>the translators and editors have a VERY high quality standard
There's a difference between having high standards and working at a high standard.

>>15554950
Someone should make a de-breast patch to flatten them balloons. One of you guys must know how to draw right?

>>15555252
How would you know if a translator has a high standard or not? They run it through both Google and Bing?

>>15555280
Maybe they even use ATLAS and LEC

>>15555213
My assumption was that it sold. Why would someone localize anime that didn't sell?

>>15555280
Kek, i know cause he uploads his progress after he gets a part done, after that i give it a read, check for any typos (Usually none), and then report to him, after that the editors come in and check all of the grammar, time tenses and such shit that i suck at, although they generally struggle to find anything to fix.

>>15555301
What qualifies you to TLC something? Do you know Japanese? Is your marker of quality that the translation doesn't contain any typos?

This is getting more suspicious by the minute.

>>15555301
When does someone check the translation? I mean, correct English doesn't say anything about it being correct.

>>15555317

As previously stated, we have editors, besides that, he says it's WAY simple japanese, and if that wasn't enough he constantly asks in the japanese help threads, and also, before you ask, it's MOSTLY a faithful, literal translation, but in some parts we have adapted jokes and such, because there are a LOT of bad puns which really wouldn't make sense no matter what we tried, but those are very few.

>>15555301
If you are not checking the TL that doesn't mean much. Simply means he might actually know English instead of being an ESL, but that doesn't mean the translation is accurate.

>>15554978
The balloon tits are the only thing turning me off about this game. At least there's a loli heroine, but it's a bummer that most of the girls have severely disporportioned bodies, at least in most of the promo art. The CGs don't seem that bad.
Can't say the same for the animations, though.

>>15555336
>he constantly asks in the japanese help threads
I'm getting the feeling that this guy is simply trolling. The bait to real information ratio is way too high. It might be best to just ignore and move on for now.

>>15555300
Didn't Sentai Works localize Mahou Sensou?

>>15555352

He just asks about puns, there's no bait here, check the japanese help threads yourself, and by now we pretty much have the editor acting as the pun master since he seems to be good at adapting bad puns (I wonder why), other than that, like i said before, we have (well, had, we need another one now, he went missing, AGAIN) the other translator checking after him.

>>15555023
It does not appear so, though I was simply quoting the Q&A response. The answer given when asked about an 18+ version was "No information so far, there is nothing to say, move along people", followed by talking about how wonderful the story, game, world and characters are, and ended with saying that after it is released on Steam an uncut version is something they would look into.

Even if the story were great though, being a title and company unknown to the Steam crowd, and the likely high price tag, would still make it a hard sell (uncut or not). Art can help sell a game, but it can only go so far to help with full length titles, and considering the lack of success of recent titles with a good story the story only goes so far too. Granted it probably won't do terribly in terms of raw numbers compared to similar titles, but expectations are likely through the roof, (and especially would have been when the license was acquired), because of the huge numbers by their cheap franchises and the good sales of early long releases such as Clannad and the first Grisaia release.

>>15555018
Let's be honest. Sekai Project picked this up because it has animations like NekoPara. They're trying to strike oil again. But as others have said, people bought into NekoPara because it was cheap and hit a chord (cat girls) among Japanophiles. Train lolis isn't going to cut it. It's too Japanese.

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>Yoake Mae yori Ruri Iro na complete patch on Erogedownload
Uhhhhh?

>>15555816
It's just a shitty patch without TLC that the editor leaked because the project is dead.

>>15555816
>complete patch
Not even fully edited or QCed going by what erengy said in the link at >>15553418

>Regarding this patch, please note that Wreathlit, Midori and Estel's routes, Feena's true route, and the extra stories haven't gone through full QC and don't have their images translated, unless someone has done some additional work before releasing it.
>Edit: I assumed that this patch was at least based on the latest revision of our SVN repository, but as it turns out, it's just the patch that I distributed to our team on 2013-09-21 for testing purposes. Our main editor, Sheeta, made huge amounts of changes to the scripts after that. It's better than nothing, it should be readable, but I wouldn't advise anyone but the most curious to use this patch.

>>15555931
It doesn't really matter at this point. He said he would start working on it now, which is the exact same thing he said 2/3 years ago. No reason to trust that he would work on it.

>>15551306
That one's down, here's the working one: mfi.re/?th1p1qwtbsacc4l

Why are August game translations so memey? They look really interesting to play, but every translation attempt has been left unfinished, delayed, cancelled, or so slowly worked on there's no point in thinking about it. Seeing some parts of the Yoake translation make it look downright painful to read and it's only the 15+ version.

>>15556012
You confuse me by your use of "memey".

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>>15555300
Because they localize everything. Sometimes it's a stipulation of licensing something actually popular, other times it's just capitalizing on the silliness of the western market.

>>15556164
I don't get the point you're making. Why wouldn't you localise the show that saved anime?

>>15555341
Well, as far as the balloon tits go I think this one of the better moege I've seen in that regard. The artist at least has some decent idea how to draw actual boobs, as the boobs are a good middle ground between realism/stylistic design.

http://exhentai.org/s/07fce2cf8e/869167-76
http://exhentai.org/s/e1a053e728/869167-622

The boobs here actually sink into the flesh a bit, have actual spacing (thank god), and generally don't look like terrible implants. Granted, they're just a bit too "round" but that's the concession you have to go with in anime styles most of the time, as a lot of people prefer that unnatural roundness. Red-head seems to have breasts which look too perky for their size, but, oh well.

I also like how there are variable areola sizes and that they nipple area themselves have actual puff--too often do moege artists fall completely flat in this regard by giving everyone dot nipples.

>but it's a bummer that most of the girls have severely disporportioned bodies
They do look significantly better in this regard for the CG, but this is just a problem you will find in the anime art-style in general (mostly in the modern, "moe" style). Bodies are all about unrealistic stark contrasts between twiggy bodies, and high amounts of fat in the desirable areas (breasts, butts, thighs). It's a stylistic choice. Personally I don't mind it.

>>15556112
Why are you confused?

>>15554888
>>15554914
He's not the only one fighting for the faithful representation of the heroine's name, you know.

Arunaru in particular and MG as a whole refuse to respect author's wish and intend to rename one of the main heroines just because. It's not even a case of changing the name for esthetical reasons (e.g. アーナス -> Arnice), it isn't a romanization (neither transliteration nor a transcription) of her name, it's not an alternative spelling, it's just a completely different name altogether.
By the way, the video is the only material with incorrect romanization, everywhere else - and most importantly in-game - it's written correctly (YU-KI on the official JP game site, ゆうき on DMM or even ユウキ on EGS).

If that guy manages to convince MG before it's too late, good for them.
Otherwise, my word in >>15514599 still stands. I will fix it and they will pay for it whether they want it or not.

>>15556653
I'm sure most people don't care that it's spelled Yuki, since google translate spells it that way.

>>15556681
I'm sure most people don't care because it literally makes no difference whatsoever. It's one fucking letter

>>15556681
Fortunately (for those who do care) or not (for Arunaru and MG), *I* do care and I'm not a fuwatard to accept Google Translate.

>>15556694
>it literally makes no difference whatsoever
Go ahead and tell that to MG. Maybe you'll succeed at saving them some money and me some efforts.

>>15556653
https://twitter.com/twit_chu

I highly recommend you tell Chuable about how their wishes aren't being respected.

>>15556757
They most likely won't change it, since they'd set a precedent for caving every time someone disagrees with a localization choice.

>>15556641
Are you even sure you yourself knew what you meant by it?

>>15556762
MG has proven to be very resistant when a fan tries to get them to correct something they believe is wrong, like the whole Higurashi incident. I doubt one or two people complaining is going to change anyone's mind. Not to mention all the image editing for the game is probably done and has Yuki on all of it, so it would cost them time and money to go and change and not simply be a find and replace.

I would find it funnier if they did the programming for the game and set something up where if her name is changed the game refuses to work. It would be hilarious.

>>15556905
It should fail to start up and the error message would just be, "Fuck off."

>>15556905
>like the whole Higurashi incident
Thank god they ignored that one nut spamming the internet about that one.

>>15556933
Did that nut reappear when the third game came out? Or did they disappear entirely when the content they were actually campaigning against came out?

>>15556956
They still complained about it on neogaf, but by that time seemed to have given up their campaign to get it changed.

I wonder what's gonna happen with Kyonyuu Fantasy, since in that case it was the writer who complained about the character/location localizations and he didn't want the title of the game to be localized at all.

>>15557028
I imagine that is probably the reason it's being held up. They might be backtracking on it.

>>15555301

Your editors suck.

>>15557039
It just started testing not too long ago and was in scripting before that, so there might not have been any hold up.

>complaining that Aru won't change names

What do you think his reputation in the Alicesoft/Rance general for the past three years has been built on?

>>15557066
Eh, I hope nothing comes bad of them going along with the localization then.

I would like to see more waffle titles.

>>15557073
I consider that to be partly Waffle's fault for not consulting the writer to begin with. He found out when MG announced it, but by then the translation and editing were complete and the title choice had already been announced and the promo images already created.

What the writer wants means sweet fuck all when he's a part of a studio. If the negotiations took place between MG and Waffle, and Waffle okayed it, then there's no drama to speak of.

>>15557269
Doesn't the producer/director have the final say?

It's definitely not the writer.

>>15557043

In what sense? one (sorta) speaks Japanese (Basically he can play the games in japanese, check for errors and such but actually articulating sentences is too much for him) to check for translation errors, and the other one is a motherfucking grammar Hitler... man does her constant nagging annoy me...

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Hey uhh, to whom it may concern, there's two translations for Air: Winter Confetti and Gao Gao, which one is the recommended one?

Seems like Gao Gao is from multiple sources, which sounds bad in theory when dealing with a translation. Can anyone educated tell me which to pick?

>>15557070
Alicesoft generals are fucking retarded. They lapped up shit-tier google translations of Ludo the Insane, and tried to use it as point of reference for names in game, while Arunaru put effort to preserve original meaning. Of course he wouldn't listen to Ludo fans.

>>15557732
Your fan tl seems nice. Hope for the best.

>>15557801
>Ludo
Whatever happened to that hack? Did he eventually get buried in his numerous lies?

>>15557438
Its up to whoever is in charge of company. Usually all rights for product belong to some legal entity, so staff wishes aren't relevant anymore. Of course, most of studios are very small and staff is kind of family to each other so person in charge would listen to them, but he doesn't have to.

>>15557269
That's a bit different in Japan. Writers need to approve quite a lot of things. Peter Payne has even talked about it before, how sometimes licensing stuff can be a pain if the author doesn't agree to it, even if the company does. I think he was talking about Butcher at the time. That said, the writer himself should have probably tried to be more involved in the localization in the first place if he was going to complain about it. I'll assume that in the case of Waffle the studio holds all the rights so they didn't even need to consult him, but of course I don't know for sure.

>>15557808
He goes by some other name now. Still giving out VN advice even though he doesn't know Japanese.

>>15557808
He's "Reading Steiner" now, went to greener pastures of Steins;Gate fandom, since there are no evil Arunarus who would expose his incompetence.

>>15557819
>He goes by some other name now. Still giving out VN advice even though he doesn't know Japanese.
Is the name moogy?

>>15557808
Pretty sure he was complaining about how nobody asked him to work on S;G0 like a month ago.

>>15557818
Hmmm, then maybe MangaGamer should consult him on some things such as the romanization of his characters. Of course they don't have to listen to everything he says but it's just to get in his good graces. Japan is all about relationships or so I've heard.

>>15557836
What a fucking idiot.

>>15557834
Maybe it's all one person. ┐(´ー｀)┌

>>15557801
>while Arunaru put effort to preserve original meaning
Until shit like demon lord happened

>>15557852
How else you translate maou into English? Don't say "Demon King", that's far more retarded.

>>15557837
By the time the writer found out the translation and editing were done and the vn was already being scripted. If Waffle did the scripting themselves, it's not as easy to fix at that point.

>>15557868
Overlord
t. Aroduc

>>15557819
And working on the official Valkyrie Drive translation for some fucking reason apparently. Because nothing but the best for other video games.

>>15557876
We Disgaea now?

>>15557868
Even if it is, Demon King has been the translation Maou for decades. Literally no reason to be contrary especially when it's already been translated as such in other translated entries in the series.

>>15557876
Speaking of which I hope he plans to finish up BB.

>>15557900
He already said that he won't do Bunny Black 3 for various reasons, including MG being in talks with the devs.

>>15557837

Name and location spelling stuff was fixed very quickly after that incident (the announcement blog post was edited to reflect those corrections). We didn't just ignore it.

>>15557902
Dammit.

>including MG being in talks with the devs.
Well, that's good news I suppose (?)

I dunno. I really liked BB1 and 2, does Softhouse have any other good titles?

>>15557904
Is it still Funbag Fantasy?

>>15557907
I thought that name was stupid but it kinda grew on me now.

>>15557913
same, i get stockholmed easily though

>>15557907
Yep, Aru hasn't changed one bit over the years. Such a stupid translation of the title

>>15557807

Thanks man, like i said before, it will (most likely) be done by around the end of this year.

>>15557926
>Aru

>>15557905
https://vndb.org/v16413
https://vndb.org/v18285
https://vndb.org/v6579
https://vndb.org/v2684

>>15557905
>does Softhouse have any other good titles?
Wizard Climber is probably their best title, at least for general audience.
I like their games for silly, fun and non-drama plots and fun gameplay, but lately they weren't well received by JP or EN community because too casual and too non-drama.
Other good titles are Mon o Mamoru Oshigoto, Ouzoku, Yukioni-ya Onsen-ki, Suzukuri Dragon and my favorite because of overly blatant pandering Akuma Musume no Kanban Ryouri.

>>15557942
Neat.
https://vndb.org/c29452 Looks like Darx's daughter.

>>15557955
>I like their games for silly, fun and non-drama plots and fun gameplay
Yeah, I kind of felt so-so about BB1 and 2 in terms of gameplay (I enjoyed the SMT-esque dungeon crawling though), but the script was genuinely fun and ditto for the characters. Nothing profound but the tongue-in-cheek attitude of the whole thing was great.

>>15557955
Aroduc likes both Wizard Climber and Suzukuri Dragon, so maybe one day, but he said that their engines don't handle English text correctly by default, so they need to be hacked to do so, and the hacker is with MG now and doesn't respond to any of his messages. That's why things are more or less dead in the water.

>>15557955
That is Darx's daughter, his second with Forze. Same powers as Forze/Koze, but much weaker and able to control them better.

>>15557973
>That is Darx's daughter, his second with Forze
Ah. I'm guessing Darx fucked off somewhere with his wife, or do they make an appearance?

>>15557818
>I think he was talking about Butcher at the time.
for what? saya?

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>>15557981
They're off traveling the world or something. It's not made clear from what I remember. Just that Koze's taken over the throne for at least a while.

>>15557828
>>15557819
he changed it to something else. apparently working on valkyrie drive?