Visual Novel translation status >Aiyoku No Eustia - 6.87%

Sekai/Denpa
Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam version April release, uncut release early Summer
Neko-nin exHeart - April release, demo out
>Nekopara Vol 3 - May 26th release
Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk - In QA, Kickstarter finished, Spring release
Ley-Line: Daybreak of Remnants Shadow - 72% translated, Kickstarter finished, Summer release
Ley-Line: Flowers Falling in the Morning Mist - Picked up, Kickstarter finished, Winter 2018 release
>KaraKara 2 - 60% translated, late 2017 release
Memory's Dogma - Code:01 Released, 02 onwards upcoming
2236 A.D. - 100% translated, Engine/QA work ongoing
Maitetsu - 100% translated, engine work ongoing
Nenokami - Part 2 2017 release
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
Tenshin Ranman - 99.25% translated
Darekoi - 100% translated Engine/QA work ongoing
Wagamama High Spec - 100% translated, early 2017 release. Editing/Engine work ongoing
>Koikuma - 52.36% translated, 2017 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - 100% translated
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
SakuSaku - Engine/QA work ongoing, Spring 2017 release
Baldr Sky - Picked up both 1 and 2
>Fatal Twelve - 52% translated, Kickstarter started, demo released
Her and Her and My 7 Days - 70% translated
Girls in Glasses - Picked up
The Bell Chimes For Gold - Picked up
Unannounced Project 1 - 68% translated
Unannounced Project 2 - 100% translated, editing/engine work ongoing
>CyberRebeat - Picked up


Frontwing
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger - April 28th release for Volumes 1 and 2, Kickstarter Started
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter finished, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Roughly 50% translated, 2017 release
Subahibi - 2017 release


Visual Arts
Little Busters - Opening posted, more info "“in a few weeks"
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
>Muv Luv Alternative - 2017 release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
Period Cube - 4/25 release
Collar x Malice - 2017 release
Bad Apple Wars - 2017 release
Code: Realize fandisc - Picked up


Fruitbat
Seven Days - Late 2017 release
SeaBed - Late 2017 release
Chuusotsu! 1st graduation - Prefundia up, late 2017 release


Other
>Hyakka Hyakurou - Released
Taisho Alice - April 2017 release
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - May 16th release
Dies irae - Steam version in debugging, uncut patch TL to finish this month, May 2017 release planned
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - 5/23 release
Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Danganronpa V3 - 9/26 release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - 11/30 release
>Magical Charming - Fall release planned
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
>Moenovel is working on another new title
Himawari to Koi no Kioku - On Steam Greenlight
Harumade, Kururu - Seems to have an English release planned
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

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https://kazamatsuri.org/little-busters-english-edition-features-detailed/

I'm surprised that the release is catering to anti-cropping fags. I assumed they were an extreme minority.

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>Daitoshokan - 100% translated and edited, images, engine work and QC remain

>translated and edited for half a year

does QC and the rest really take so much time?

>>16869915
There was enough of a demand during the Clannad Kickstarter that they eventually opted to favor the 4:3 resolution over the originally planned widescreen resolution, which probably left a lasting impression on them. Though with how Kickstarter feedback tends to work out, it may have been as you say a loud minority at the time. Of course though, you can easily go find demand for a 16:9 HD resolution as well, so they seem to have decided it was worth supporting both.

>>16870041
Translation sold to SP.

>>16869569
>Overdrive's Final title
So this means that this will be their last VN?
Well, after releasing that ugly remake of GreenGreen and that utsuge named Bokuten I'm not so surprised...

>>16871021
Bamboo tweeted that he'd rather quit and give fans an outstanding product as one last thank you instead of quietly stopping production and going under.

https://twitter.com/bamboo_milktub/status/852092615361085441

Why are people so surprised that Overdrive is going under? I've suspected this ever since members of it went on to form LevoL. 11gatsu no Arcadia came out in 2015. They don't seem to have been active after 2015 though.

>>16870041
That's what happen when you get in bed with the pros.

>>16869569
What happened to lovely x cation?

The fact that Hikari Field has now announced Magical Charming certainly explains why it was omitted from the survey they put out a couple weeks ago asking which Lump of Sugar titles people wanted them to pick up.

>>16871089
Would have thought the Go Go Nippon game and its DLC would keep them afloat with how much it sold.

>>16871636
Steam's cut, MG's cut, and many copies being bought while it was on sale really put a dent in profit margins.

Overdrive must be in a ton of debt for even GGN's sales not being enough to keep their doors open. If their crowdfunding fails, then they won't be able to afford to make their final project.

>>16871747
>MG's cut
Wasn't MG founded by Overdrive?

>tfw still no miniature garden torrent

>>16870041
>translated
Given the quality of the patches they released, it's not translated at all. More like fanfiction loosely based off the original text.

>>16871842
Doesn't matter, because if in reality SP bouth the translation then we can't expect anything better.
kof, kof... Chrono Kof... Clock quality tl kof, kof...

>>16871864
CC translation is very good though. Its editors who fucked up script with adding stupid quirks.

>>16871904
>CC translation is very good though
No, it wasn't;
What's matter is the finall product and when you read more than a few lines that aren't even close to what the characters are saying then there's must be something wrong with the tl and not only with the ed (uk localization, lack of honorifics, memes, etc...)

>>16871747
My guess is that while they may be able to stall the inevitable with Go Go Nippon DLC, there were enough diminishing returns that they would only have lasted a few years before being forced to close down even if they kept making it.

Rather than delude themselves that they can turn it around, they decided to make one last game as their final legacy. Them making for Steam standards is more so they get the widest possible audience for their last gig rather than for the sake of Steam bux. I can't blame them for wanting to end on a good note rather than Go Go Nippon 2025.

I wouldn't be surprised if they closed their doors the day the game actually releases. Heck, they might do it before that depending on how committed they are to the simultaneous release and how long MG takes to translate it.

>>16872066
Would be pretty hilarious if it turns out to be their Final Fantasy which gives them enough profit to keep them afloat. Snowball chance in hell, but might happen.

Although, they might still just funnel all the profit into LevoL and make VNs there.

>>16871148
Elevator canned it.

Qof will translate it once Sansha Mendan is done.

>>16872167
Really?
Well, now that it's in Quof's hands LxC2 might be possible.

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>Hatsukoi 1/1 Progress Update #14

>Once again, there’s not a lot to be said this week. Progress is going smoothly and that’s really all there’s to it.

>Prologue: 100.0%
>Common: 100.0%
>Midori: 100.0%
>Yukino: 0.0%
>Runa: 100.0%
>Kyou: 100.0%
>Maya: 90.08%
>Total: 84.97%

>I hope we can release next weekend but due to a busy schedule on my part we might not make it.

The VN tl scene is saved

>>16872394
They are already confirmed to be shit though.
Literally scanlator quality.

>>16872437
>They are already confirmed to be shit though.

By your personal opinion so it's worthless.

They are better than any other active fan tl and they are fast.

>>16872437
>They are already confirmed to be shit
Proof?

>>16872437
I read the prologue and I found only 1 minor issue.

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>>16872551
Probably talking about pic related. Some random acquaintance of moogy was complaining about scanlators doing it and having poor quality.
So in short some BS opinion from some nobody.
Anyone can go check their quality for themselves since they are releasing partials after they finish every route.

>>16872672
It's an okay translation but nothing to write home back.

>>16872684
Nice order.

>>16872684
The thing people are surprised about is the speed while still being an ok translation. Normally you would expect a MTL, some gibberish or fake progress out of most projects that work that fast (with a few exceptions).

>Moenovel is working on another new title

Another VN for French 13 yrs old girls?

>>16872791
Their recent release, that LoveKami spinoff, was a rather ecchi title that was designed as a Nekopara clone. Not that I would expect them to release something R18, but they came back to try and get into the Steam craze by selling anime boobs, rather than to get as broad of appeal as possible.

>>16872038
Your standard for judging a translation is off-base.

Also CC was translated quite decently. If you want crappy weeaboo translations go hit up some random community translator from Fuwa, /vn/ ... or current /jp/

>>16872672
Why anybody would listen to anything moogy's shitty acquaintances say, I have no freaking idea

>>16872437
It's hatsukoi 1/1, 3/5 of the game are already unreadable garbage anyway.

>>16872147
LevoL released 1 VN in 2015 then went silent. No idea how that title sold. That was probably their attempt at rebranding rather than shutting down, which likely means that VN didn't sell enough.

>>16873013
fuck off, cartel fag.

>>16873013
>game are
is*

>>16872914
First of all the CC was more "localizated" than translated but if you want to defent SP I don't care, even if you swith the word "very good" for "decent".
What I don't understand is why you call any fan-made tl as "crappy weeaboo" (fuwa/4ch aside) when I have seen more that a few better tl than this one; Saya no Uta, Hanachirasu, Swan Song, Eien no Aselia, etc... Maybe you hate them because they use honorifics or the Japanese name order, who knows?

>>16872672
Sounds like he's just jealous that scanlators can actually do things in a timely fashion.

>>16873148
i didn't switch any word because i'm not the same person you were talking with originally. the trials and tribulations of conducting an argument on an anonymous message board.

most competent fan-tls have gone official, so most of the fan-tls currently being made are second tier translations. and second tier translators aren't usually competent enough to do anything other than to stick rigidly to the japanese structure and word choices in ways that make it sound weeaboo. the current climate is such that any translator who's halfway decent soon gets snapped up by some one official.

all the fan-tls you mentioned are from a while ago

>>16871089
It's less a surprise and more some kind of sad feeling. Green Green was one of my first faps. It makes them somewhat special.

>>16869570
>Magical Charming - Fall release planned

Well, shit.

Now I'm interested.

moogy doesn't know Japanese.

>>16872672
Issue is scanlation mostly deals with short dialog and not prose, so there's usually not a lot of complexity involved

>>16873215
Jealousy is a crazy thing. A lot of star personalities on Translations etc who have an ego suffer a lot from Running Krueger Effect.

>>16874262
*Dunning Kruger effect my bad.

>>16872914
>weeaboo translations
>CC was translated quite decently
You know, things like "Douzo Lad" sound more weeabooish to me than honorifics.

>>16872914
>Quite decently

If your standards are being released at 85% translated with numerous spelling errors, and making a English character trying to pretend they know Japanese by making them look like a weaboo then I think you have lower standards than Sekai Project does.

>>16874211
Simple VNs aren't exactly known for their prose complexity though.

>>16874853
if you can't tell the difference between translated and edited, then i believe your standards are so low you may as well read it in german

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>>16874994
>he is defending CC

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>>16875007
>defending guy who can't tell Japanese from English

>>16875025
>can't tell Japanese from English

that's what they did in CC

>>16875040
>that's what they did in CC

in which case this anon >>16874853 should feel right at home with it then

>>16874853
At the end of the day it was fully translated, with everything but the h-scenes edited. Sekai was up front about it and stated their intentions to fix it in a patch. That's more than can be said about certain companies (ATLUS) who release games that obviously haven't been fully edited (ATLUS) and hope to slide it by you without you noticing (ATLUS.)

>>16875091
So they fixed it in a patch already? The game was released one and half month ago

What is it like to be an EOP or a Japanese reader caring about EOP translations?

It seems like a waste of time.

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Little busters : Came less than 1 month ago, news nearly every day.
Rewrite + : It'll be one years soon there's still nobody that care about it.

>>16875103
horrible

>>16875108
Free yourself then.

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>>16875115
I can't. It's too heavy. Save yourself. Raise a glass to my memory every now and then

>>16875091
I would take a bad Atlus Translation over a Sekai translated visual novel any day.

>>16875054
No matter how much you defend CC it is not going to change the fact it was a disappointment.

>>16872348
That's what I want (I love LxC2 so much) but I've got to hope the LxC1 team still has the enthusiasm to work on LxC2 after LxC1. Half the reason I'm working on LxC1 instead of jumping to LxC2 is because EldritchCherub is on the LxC1 team.

>>16873264
I'm not that guy but calling others weeaboo's (a hypocritical word) because they want to have their honorific/japanese structure in the translations is plainly stupid. I understand that any translation should have some balance between translating and "localizating" sentences but doing only the later is harmful for the whole translation and should be avoided. (the maid talk from CC is a good example)

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>>16875091
>with everything but the h-scenes edited
Some of the route also had parts unedited as well as having untranslated context menus.
>with portions of misaki, d.d and michiru routes as well.

>>16875096
They fixed some of it. Only 1.01e has been released going by the steam news feed while the intention was to probably go up to 1.03+ some time this month (with possibility of delays).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/chronoclock-limited-edition-box-set-and-exclusive/posts/1828698

>>16875301
No one gives a fuck about unedited parts.
I give a fuck about one thing only. They put fucking "dearest brother" in as a vocative. That is not something I can read.

>>16875266
i never said something was weeaboo for including honorifics. feel free to point out where i did. japanese structure does often sound weeaboo, so if you often use a japanese structure when using english prepare to be laughed at a lot

>>16875438
Pretty sure the people who actually paid money for it give a fuck. Would would be happy with getting an unfinished product?

>>16875266
continuing on, english sentences are often structured subject, verb, object (SVO.) japanese sentences are SOV, or often excluding the subject entirely with heavy implications. japanese is a lot freer and they often do other weird and wonderful things. If you translate japanese to english without changing structure, your translation will sound horribly weird in english. sorry but this is really basic stuff

>>16875455
>>16875475
Sorry, before I was writing from the mobile and shit happens... When I said "structure" I was talking about the name order and such. I understand that in the west we use first the name and then the surname but it sounds weird when a character is speaking to someone politelly (surname or position; sensei, senpai...) and in the translation he's calling them by their first name like in Denganronpa.

>>16875438
you sound angry, dearest bro

>>16875538
oh. yeah, definitely agree with you there,

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>>16875438
>No one gives a fuck about unedited parts.
Speak for yourself, when a costumer purchase something then the product should be complete and leaving the setting untranlated is a bad idea.
It's a hell to someone to fix the gamepad, fonts, cg filters, etc.... when he can't read moonrunes.

>>16875558
at least you can make out the font size. i guess that's the important thing according to SP. oh and the resolution, can't forget the resolution

>>16872672
>moogy-dono-pussy-sama
They have no rights to complain. They haven't contributed to an english translation project for years so why should we care about these faggots?

>>16875558
It's okay. People who support Sekai's longevity in the VN market deserve this.

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More news on Little Busters

https://kazamatsuri.org/little-busters-english-edition-features-detailed/

Apparently it will get an HD upgrade like Clannad did; so it will be 1280x720, but also have the option to switch between 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio. On top of that it will have the ability to switch between Japanese and English at any time.

This isn't directly related to the translation but there were a few people in an earlier thread worried about the resolution and whether the game would end up cropped, so I figured I'd post this.

>>16876028
But is it EX?

>>16876078
Nah, we're probably never geting the Ecstasy sex scenes officially. It'll have the EX routes though if that''s what you mean since it's an improved version of the Memorial edition.

>>16876315
Interest: 0

>>16874853
the only real problem CC had is that they should have gone full blown weeaboo translation. given DD's "hard as fuck" way to translate her lines, SP should have just went in the consistent route and just sticked themselves to weeaboo TL to the end.

>>16872066

did Bamboo mentioned anything about wanting to focus on MG stuff and thus wanting to give fans a last good VN before demolishing Overdrive?

>>16876331
>wanting Key H scenes
clearly you've never played kanon or tomoyo after

>>16876331
https://youtu.be/8hU2j-FyUgM is the H-scene music. It's not fappable.

>>16876487
I don't think Bamboo mentioned MG being a factor. I don't think he does much anyways.

>>16876752
>https://youtu.be/8hU2j-FyUgM is the H-scene music. It's not fappable.
You underestimate me.

>>16876475
DD's lines aren't hard to translate at all though? Just bold or highlight the specific words she's saying in English to emphasize that she's saying it differently/strangely. There's no need to do a double mish-mash of reverse-translating combined with British slang (Although she's not the only one hit by this apparently, so maybe it wasn't even intentional).

The reverse-translation alone or the British slang would be enough on its own (more so the second one, because the first way is pretty silly) but both of them was overkill.

>>16876752
Playing through the original, I'm not too sure where the H-scenes would be placed that wouldn't make the whole thing weird or uncomfortable anyway.

I think there's one after you do the painting thing with Kud and another when Komari is completely mindbroken into thinking you're her brother?

>>16877000
When you live together with Rin. Red haired retard almost begging for dick also.

>>16877000
Everyone's already seen the masterpiece by J.C. Staff, so I don't get the point. There was even an OVA release of EX routes.

>>16877057
Haruka's route feels weird at any moment for a H-scene, considering it was just soap drama after soap drama. Feels like a post-end or bad end kind of thing.

>>16877059
Didn't watch their version of Refrain or EX, but the first season felt weak compared to VN versions. Been a while, but if I remember correctly, Komari's and Haruka's were a definite drop, Common was a maybe drop and Mio was an okay?

>>16876994
>Just bold or highlight the specific words she's saying in English to emphasize that she's saying it differently/strangely.

that is not what bold, highlighting, or italics is used for. because of this the audience won't know what you're doing. it's not a good solution

>>16877343
>that is not what bold, highlighting, or italics is used for
It is in manga.

>>16877487
one more reason why manga localizations are a joke

>>16877518
Nice capitalization and punctuation, Moogy's buddy.

>>16877343
>>16877487
Don't comic books in general do that too?

>>16877554
any that do are using punctuation incorrectly. italics are used only when the word itself is foreign and untranslated. Take "Douzo, lad" for example. Sekai should italicize "douzo" because it's a foreign word, if that word were to be translated into written english ("here you are, lad") but is still spoken in a foreign language, it is not italicized. it is denoted through footnotes or prose.

if comics or manga do otherwise then they do so incorrectly and risk confusing the audience

>>16877582
These rules were decided by you just now.
Fuck off.

>>16877600
would you like me to post the rule? or would you like me to post an example of a book translated two different ways, one which keeps French passages untranslated and italicized and the other which translates those passages and has them unitalicized?

either way no, i won't "fuck off". deal with it

>>16877612
*spoken french passages

>>16877612
There's no official rule.
For each book you post, I can post one manga which does the exact opposite.
>it is denoted through footnotes or prose
TL note: The heroine spoke in English just now. Also, I am an incompetent translator, because it's not like you can HEAR the heroine talk.

>>16877722
It's in all the guidebooks - Chicago, AP etc.

Books are regulated publications, while a lot of the time manga localizations are done by amateurs with money. If you can find a published novel which does the exact opposite, I'll concede the point. The fact that you have to resort to manga is proof enough, though.

>>16877740
There is no rule which describes what to do when English words appear in foreign script. Stop bullshitting.
It appears in published manga as well. I don't read novels, so don't ask the impossible of me.

Not in this argument but yeah, pretty much every foreign translated novel I've read has left certain words in with those words written in italics. I don't know if it's any rule written anyway but it's pretty consistent and works fine, and wouldn't even be looked down upon in a literary sense.
>>16877792
Also, I don't know if you were intending it, but
>I don't read novels, so don't ask the impossible of me.
Is a very funny line.

>>16878113
Not only are you not in this argument, you don't even know what it is about.
We are talking about characters who normally speak in a foreign language, suddenly speaking in English. Not at all about foreign words being untranslated.

Fatal Twelve finished up with $50k from a bit shy of 1100 backers. A relatively impressive total for an unfinished doujin title, although they missed a $55k stretch goal (guessing they'll make that with backerkit).

I can't imagine the crowdfunding parade is done yet though with results still holding up.

>>16877792
It's a guideline for acceptable and good use of english in published works. That's why it's in the guidebooks. You are correct that it isn't a rule, you are incorrect when you say it's acceptable.

Which is why you can only find published "manga" which does this.

>>16878163
He is correct, you are not. Italics are only used when words are left in their original foreign language. That is the guideline. That is what is acceptable. Bitch about it all you want, it makes no difference

>>16878556
You can bitch all you want; italics is still in practice used in the sense which we described in these media.
Your pointless argument about other uses of italics is completely irrelevant.

>>16878564
It's still in practice, it's just undeniably a bad practice.

>>16878556
>>16878564
>>16878113

I still stand on my previous statement that SP should have just went the consistent route of weeaboo TL given DD's lines are weeaboo-ish in general.

Jast announced an April 26th release for Nympho Sensei Ryoko.

>>16878794
How can they take so long to release a fucking nukige, the type mg release every other week?

>>16878987
That's Umesoft doing it by themselves to be fair.

Though, with JAST's track record, there's a significant chance that it'll get delayed at the last minute to add to the hilarity.

http://rattanmantrans.tumblr.com/post/159703864955/ochiru-hitozuma-animation-english-translation

>>16879935
Disgusting.

>>16880171
I really don't know why he used that pregnant screenshot for the game, they're barely pregnant in the game and an unknowingly reader may think they're just fat or something

>>16880185
No, it was obvious to me that they're pregnant, but they're fat pigs.

>>16880198
>fat pigs
Go back to /vn/ please.

>>16878987
Peter is too busy shitposting on Twitter to actually manage his VN staff. Quite funny actually since he started JAST as a VN company and the later J-List was just something he did for extra money.

>>16871066
What a good guy. I'll fund his kickstarter.

>>16880171

>he doesn't like Black Lilith

>>16880748
Nice quoting, but that is not at all true. Yukikaze is a cutie. I am no cowtit-hater, but everything has its limit.

>>16880748
>Liking black Lilith
>Liking a company so shit that they rely on GATCHA bullshit to keep themselves from dying.
>Liking a company with good designs wasted on generic Lilith shitty fetishes.

I thought /jp/ had taste.

>>16881038
>not liking Black Lilith fap material
are you gay or something?

>>16881051
>Fapping to Lilith degeneracy.

Are you a muslim?

>>16878211
It's probably fair to say that Sekai using the prospect of a physical edition to boost up its sales of larger games and trying to fund smaller games entirely through crowdfunding seems to be a stable enough of a situation.

How much of that is related to Nutaku money keeping them from being too far into the red is hard to tell though. They don't seem to be doing better off than in previous years when they declared that they were in the red.

>>16881342
>It's probably fair to say that Sekai using the prospect of a physical edition to boost up its sales of larger games and trying to fund smaller games entirely through crowdfunding seems to be a stable enough of a situation.

I agree strongly with that assessment. They did kind of back off of Kickstarter a bit after the Root Double scare and Magical Boy failed, but they seem to have found a stable approach to crowdfunding in the mean time. Additionally, any decline of Kickstarter as a platform for VNs seems to have flatten out or even mildly reversed, and the ability to appeal to other backers of similar Kickstarters has since proven to be invaluable.

>How much of that is related to Nutaku money keeping them from being too far into the red is hard to tell though. They don't seem to be doing better off than in previous years when they declared that they were in the red.

It is going to be difficult to determine that from the outside. One of the initial issues that Sekai Project had was they overpaid for things during their first couple years when the sky seemed to be the limit for anything put on Steam, and they were in a period of rapid expansion. They ended up with results like losing money on G-Senjou (or at least they hadn't made money through when they discussed that), despite selling 5-8k through that point. On Steam they seem to outperform MG on comparable titles, and they have Kickstarter to help farther boost what a title can bring in. Additionally they have a nice base level of revenue coming in thanks to the handful of long term big sellers. All that said, if they have improved their internal budgeting and reduced their costs, they could be in rather stable shape, but trying to guess exactly how they are doing from the outside is a foolish endeavor.

As to their Nutaku deal specifically, it would be awfully nice to know what kind of units Chrono Clock was moving on Nutaku compared to Steam. It has yet to drop out of the top three on the sales chart on Nutaku, and is in fact back up to the first slot at the moment, despite some OELVN (Army Girls) being released on the 14th. But without any concrete idea about what sales on Nutaku looks like with their downloadable games platform, it is impossible to compare how it has done they versus how it has done on Steam.

>>16881486
>>16881342

Sekai Project is shit stop schilling them on this board.

>>16881878
t. mangagamer schill

>>16881878
>wanting to know how Sekai is doing to see if it's possible to derive pleasure from their suffering
>Shilling for sekai

I'm being polite in that first post, but my hatred of Sekai burns deep.

Overdrive is gone? Good.
Milktub 0 クソ毛唐 1

Any predictions regarding Grisaia Phantom on steam?

>>16869569
Teikoku Kaleido -Banka no Kakumei- was just released on Steam as The Charming Empire.

https://vndb.org/v16651

>>16884136
Ages all.

>>16884151
It's also an otome.

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness got its Steam release date moved up, so now it's coming out on Steam April 24th instead of April 27th.

>>16884129
At the very least, making an early judgement about how Phantom Trigger is doing on Steam beyond the Kickstarter will be difficult, since the launch will look good regardless thanks to the influx of players from Kickstarter backers.

Maki Fes was released

Any news on Flowers: Natsu-hen? I need that shit.

>>16887028
Oh yes.

>>16887034
Maybe in a few years. JAST has been giving more priority to its steam releases, but it's still JAST

Denpasoft posted Neko-nin is being released "later this week"

I'm curious how it will do, but at the very least it should be a step up from their other recent indie/doujin releases that have largely fallen flat at launch.

>>16881342
They seem to at least completely avoid to run kickstarters of 18+ VNs with removed H-scenes. They must be aware that they can only succeed with all-ages from the start titles, or H-scene supported games.

So maitetsu and baldr will never have a kickstarter.

So I'm confused is Dovac a tranny or not. They posted a selfie today on Twitter, looks pretty much like a guy to me. But the pinned post has them in a skirt posing like a girl?

>>16887483
The Nutaku page went up and lists a Friday release. I imagine it would be the same elsewhere unless Nutaku brought an exclusivity period again.

>>16887963
Looking like a guy and dressing like a girl are not mutually exclusive. If he just started with hormones and chopped off his dick, he wouldn't look any different at first.

>>16887558
One of the things they were going to do that pissed Aroduc off was run a Kickstarter to fund the already completed project. And they already ran a Kickstarter for Grisaia, so your premise is already bullshit.

>>16887963
>extremely long nails
>wears a skirt
>attention whores
>emotional tantrums and self loathing
Getting his dick chopped off would just be a formality at this point, anyway. He already fits the general stereotypes for women.

>>16887963
If he has a dick he is not a tranny. If he does not then he is.

>>16890889
Meh, abomination, eldritch horror.
Same thing.

Moogy confirmed being the one working on Baldr Sky now.

>>16892700
I don't think he has any issues being an editor, but if he's the translator, then it'll be stalled to JAST levels of stall.

>>16892708
https://twitter.com/moogy0/status/854873074830901249
>well, if nothing else, the way Atlus handled P5 has helped motivate me to put 110% into my current project, so I guess it's all right...

>>16892708
He's not the only one working on it. He's the "lead" translator, using Futsuu's self admitted shitty work as the start.

>>16892746
So now the effort scale of 1-10 it is now 1.1?

>>16892700
proof?

>>16892746
Dunning Kruger at work here. I give Baldr Sky 5 years at this rate.

>>16894294
You're being too generous. Seven going into eight is a more realistic bet.

>>16892700
Yikes. Good luck English only friends kek

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I am absolutely at wit's end; do any of you have this KiraKira/Deardrops soundtrack album?

http://vgmdb.net/album/30566

I've tried absolutely everything I can think of, including emailing Overdrive myself to buy a copy from them (they don't have any), but still nothing. This CD is impossible to track down.

>>16895384
Maybe see what they have available for their upcoming kickstarter. It could be a way to get some good limited edition merch.

Chuusotsu - 1st Graduation's Kickstarter starts on April 25th.

>>16895140
>friends
You mean peasants, don't you?

>>16892804
THIS

Will Tayutama 2 also have an 18+ version?
Or is the butchered Steam version going to be the only one?

>>16892700
That'd be hilarious if true.

It took Aroduc, probably one of the fastest (if not THE fastest) translators in this medium, a year or so and it was, what, 90% finished?

Mugi took years translating a 2 hour game, and he had help. He dropped Subahibi and Schatten, and he also claimed that he would likely spend 6 years translating 30-50 hour games.

I honestly can't ever see him making it as anything but an editor. The dude cannot translate for shit.

>>16896782
The Chinese release has a paid 18+ patch, though I don't believe anything has been said yet about an English patch yet.

Seems the Nutaku version of Nekonin ExHeart got released first, while the Steam version (and probably the Denpasoft version if they time it with the Steam release) won't be released for another 8 hours.

any news on rance quest?

>>16897302
You'd have to wait for AX or Otakon. All Alicesoft titles are pretty much left up to MG now.

>>16896809

That is true for a majority of Translators even those that try to cry foul to games that they are jelous that they could not translate.

Which makes it funny considering they will never be working at the high end industries anyways because they act like children.

moogy doesn't know Japanese.

>>16897941
If this is about Persona 5, it is true that some of the lines are pretty off though. It definitely needed a second QC or something.

It's most egregious at the beginning but gets a lot less apparent as time goes on. I think they're mostly frustrated that Atlus didn't manage to keep their usually high standards for Persona 5, making obvious amateur mistakes.

>>16897996
>their usually high standards
Are we thinking of the same company? They've been making those kinds of mistakes since they've existed. Fuck, in SMTIVF they left a crucial moment at the end of the game in Japanese for Christ sake. People only care now because Persona 3/4/5 are the only games they have experience with.

>>16897970
just like you

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>>16876331
>i read vns for the porn scenes

MG updated, Dal Segno next after higurashi?

>>16898693
Do you really think that attaching /a/ image with /v/ meme is a good idea for the post on /jp/?

>>16898697
It is all down to how well Circus did with the engine work. If it turns out it was shoddy then they will probably have to pull someone else into fixing issues delaying it.

>>16869570
>Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam version April release, uncut release early Summer
Why release it so much later - just an excuse to make some more cash, I suppose?

>>16898697
Probably before Anime Expo, but I think it's too long for them to be done by the end of May.

Sweet Young Brides is the most likely May release, but it depends on how far along they are in inserting the text and such. It can't be that hard to beta test.

>>16899131
Ero patches are low priority for Sekai, moreso that Phantom Trigger will be releasing in April as well.

At least Koestl might be free to translate Sona-nyl, but that depends on whether or not Sekai decides to retranslate that Grisaia fandisk.

>>16899154
That makes sense, thanks anon.

http://games.seiha.org/
>Script tools needed, none coming in foreseeable future
lol

>>16898697
I'm not even close to finishing Da Capo III...

>>16899181
That feelio when can't access Aroduc's super secret forum.

>>16899131
Grisaia in particular has significant engine differences between the two versions, so it has thus far been the Sekai title delayed significantly compared to other releases which have been same day.

>>16899131
There's a number of script differences, translating the adult script adds additional time, and there's a desire to deliver the primary kickstarter goal at the earliest possible time. That probably sums up why the adult version takes much longer. It doesn't seem to bother them much that some rewards take years to deliver, but they seem somewhat sensitive to the main product being late. Though it was available as an add-on, the adult version isn't acknowledged as a part of the kickstarter campaign.

The Steam and Denpasoft versions of Nekonin ExHeart are now out as well. It's anyone guess how the title will do in the end, but at the very least it should break Sekai's recent streak of complete duds at launch with their last 4 games.

>>16899753
I'm not surprised. Companion was a decent doujin, but I doubt most people want an all-ages game about a guy that becomes infatuated with a 17 year old prostitute. Most people probably won't Let's Play it either. Does it violate YouTube's policy about minors?

>>16899181
Unluckiest translator.

>>16899699
>they seem somewhat sensitive to the main product being late
Hahahaha What? Since fucking when?

>>16899181
I guess Doddler being so busy with deadlines, so he has no time to help, killed it. Are there even any decent hackers/programmers in the scene left or did they all retire of get bought out?

>>16899831
I doubt it's going to have issues along those lines, but regardless, I'm guessing Companion is on track to be Sekai's worse performing title. It has thus far peaked at just 3 concurrent users, and has had multiple days with a peak of 0 concurrent users despite launching only 3 weeks ago. It would take a remarkable turnaround to end up doing at all respectable.

Not that their other recent titles have done much better, PacaPlus has peaked at 7 and Trapper Knight, Sharpshooter Princess and The Falconers both peaked at 5. PacaPlus at least may have enough novelty value that it might do okay overtime, similar to Japanese School Life which only peaked at 11 concurrent users but is probably a bit above 2k in sales now.

Nekonin EXHeart on the other hand is at 19 concurrent users on Steam after being out for a bit over an hour and should peak much higher as it will be going up for some time. Not to mention it should sell a meaningful amount of titles on Nutaku and Denpasoft as well.

>>16875091
>ATLUS

Shut up and fuck off the board. The only angry people angry about the translation are a minority and some journalists or people who failed to get jobs localizing games. Good luck ever being hired by Atlus after throwing a immature hissyfit on twitter.

Also Mandatory Happiness is going to be on Steam next week unless they changed the date again.

Hey Haro, are you going to put a countdown to the next event when you update the announcement page?

Because it really helps in figuring the time that the panels happen.

>>16900541

Yeah probably unless I forget again (whoops!)

>>16892746
Do we have the reading comprehension and education necessary to understand his latest "project" on anything but a surface level, though?

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Just wanted to personally thank the Fate/Stay translator for their wonderful job of translating this beautiful piece of work. In all seriousness why don't more translators actually translate? It's cool to hate on Fate around these parts right?

>>16900732
>Just wanted to personally thank the Fate/Stay translator for their wonderful job of translating this beautiful piece of work
Takajun died years ago. I'm sorry.

>>16900732
What kind of shitpost is this?

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https://github.com/07th-mod/higurashi-console-arcs
Someone ported and translated the first console exclusive Higurashi arc

>>16869569
While I'm waiting for Clover day's for the next 2 years what should I play?

I finished If My Heart Had Wings and now I'm vnless for now.

>>16900845
>>16900789
Just thanking actual VN translators. Fate was a shit. How is that a shitpost? Reading Fate made me appreciate actual translated pieces more.

>>16901041
Sumaga.

>>16901133
>Sumaga
/jp/ always ruses me, without fail. At least now I have another thing to add to my list of things to wait for.

>>16900277
My main issue with the whole controversy is that the same websites complaining about Persona 5 actively defended the clearly worse translation of Fire Emblem Fates. Persona 5 tl being rushed and needing QC is a valid argument; it being worse than the localization of FE Fates is not.

>>16900548
I personally hope MG reveals the number of hard copies. It's arguably good for both the people who care about them and those who don't.

>>16901194
They've been announcing all of their hardcopies outside of conventions this year. I kind of think that none of their official announcements this year will be hardcopies

>>16901041
>Clover days
Make that 3, sekai still has to buy it and do its usual shit

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>>16901303
I should probably start drinking then because without cute girls in vns my life is meaningless and it seems there's only like 2 good translated vns in the history of vns.

Hell, in the time that Clover Days takes to release I could probably learn moon to the point where I could read vns.

>>16900732
Which VN is that from?

>>16901392
Harmonia. It's really well-written if I do say so myself.

>>16901403
Thanks.

>>16879935
I salute the guy for having good taste and translating Lilith's best game ever, just hope he didn't rape the script and can translate half-decently. Would be a shame for such a masterpiece to be shat on.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1986219362/dies-irae-english-localization-project-commences/posts/1865972
>Unfortunately, the physical game and physical rewards will have to be delayed.

>May 31st: “Dies irae” digital version release

>June 30th: Shipment of physical game and all other physical rewards

>>16900935
This looks awesome, hope more people can help with translations.

>>16902736
And nobody was surprised by this.

>>16902756
my cat was

>>16902736
Hardly surprising.

For me the project served one purpose - pushing DI to the top of my backlog so I'd be able to finish it before you EOPs get your hands on it. Started playing around Christmas, finished few weeks later, so everything worked out.

Where's my cat torrent?

>>16902736
Looks like Dies irae is making its projected May release date by just a hair.

>>16902857
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=919627

>>16903006
>all-ages
Are you having a giggle?

>>16901221
I think if they planned that, they would have mentioned it before Anime Boston where they only said none of the Anime Boston announcement were hard copies.

I think there would be at least 2 hard copy announcements in AC: Rance 5D/VI and Da Capo 3. Probably with wall scrolls too since those seem popular enough. I can't think of any other titles that warrant hardcopies right now. Maybe Sono Hana if the fan base is persistent enough like with Kara no Shoujo.

>>16902736

Compared to pretty much every other big Kickstarter project, they are on track to be close to what was scheduled originally (with the digital release still scheduled to be on time).

>>16902736
Is it weird that after SP's bullshit, a mere month delay seems completely reasonable?

It shouldn't be, but after waiting literally months upon months for my backer rewards a single month seems like child's play

>>16903473
My Grisaia physical reward is about 2 years overdue, now.

At this rate, I probably won't see it for quite awhile

>>16903230
Regardless of if they announce Rance at AC or just on their site, if they are already planning a hard copy of Rance I'd expect them to have it out for AX. If they were to time it with AX, then they would probably do a June 30th release as that is the Friday of AX starting.

>>16903491
>>16903473
That will teach you to support cancer, idiots.

>>16903590
I didn't know SP was cancer until I already gave them my money.

>>16903491
>>16903590
Muv-Luv kickstarter is taking just as long

>>16903473
>Is it weird that after SP's bullshit, a mere month delay seems completely reasonable?
No. A month delay for just the physical goods isn't a big deal.

>>16897996
>High standards

They have been doing that since the beginning grammar errors and typos have existed forever. The only legitimate persona game that had bad horrible Translation quality was Persona 1.

Most who are complaining are just asking to be on the blacklist to never translate for those companies and do not understand anything at all.

They just pick and choose lines saying they can write it better but In the overall game and dialogue they would fail worse it. It's just jealousy and petty really for them to be mad and make a big deal out of it.

>>16904134
This is the equivalent of all those people on Fuwanovel who say that the machine translation they are reading is fine and they don't even notice any of the issues people are complaining about. Obviously they must be jealous of the awesome team that worked on it!

>>16901194
I agree no doubt it needed one QC and they were too pressed on time. Fates was so poorly handled especially with the censorship and the head Pat game removed. It was just really silly overall.

They actually tried to say P5 was worse when at best it had a few problems. I can understand the plot, the dialogue, and the interactions. There was just a few lines and typos that were not that good but overall it's still not as bad as they made it out to be.

>>16898012
persona 3 and 4 both already had untranslated japanese dialog and generally shitty translation so i still don't understand why people would wait until now to care

>>16904357
It's because they are spiteful and petty that is all it boils down to. One even complained in his article that a friend did not get the job and that they were horrible. It's like adults that are still children mentally.

>>16904470
With the bad quality of official translations, you'd think fan translations would be boosted again.

>>16904575
I think that is what they are hoping for as their endgame but it backfires in the long-term.

>>16904575
>you'd think fan translations would be boosted again
That requires people to put in time and effort effort while doing it for free. Also most of the decent translators either retired or are now getting paid to do what they did before, so are unlikely to go back beyond doing a favourite VN that has no chance of getting licensed. What's left are mostly the dregs of old projects and people trying to "translate" on fuwa.

>>16904656
That is true and that really does leave a huge hole in the VN community. The size and scope of Translators is small only because Japanese is not an easy language, for English speakers and most other languages in general to learn.

I imagine that most who who try and translate either give up or simply realize it requires a lot of their time than usual.

Does anyone here know any fan translation discord channels? I'm interested in talking to the people involved and perhaps even trying to participate myself.

Can you retards stop making this the Persona general

I swear everywhere I go this shit is spreading like a cancer

Looking at it about 24 hours after launch, Neko-nin had a fairly decent launch. It's already up to 50 reviews (more than their last 4 releases combined) and made it to the top of Steam's popular new releases. It has peaked at 57 concurrent users thus far, which is a good amount, especially compared to other recent titles. It is harder to get a read on how it has done on other platforms, though where it ends up settling on the Denpasoft popularity sort will be indicative of how it has done there compared to other titles in a few days.

Of course, a relatively strong launch is only one part of how the title does long term. But at the very least, it seems Catgirls still have some potential to sell on Steam beyond Nekopara.

>>16905281
Shut up and give me the 18+ patch.

>>16905242
stop resisting your dating-sim RPG hybrid overlord and embrace the experience like every sane member of the community has

As the person who normally gets the updates from the Sekai stream, I had missed it this week. They seem to have uploaded the recording yesterday though, and the only thing to note from it is they gave a tentative "this week" for Eden of Grisaia on Steam.

Of course, it was a Wednesday stream in which they said that, and from then through now there have been no signs of any immediate release upcoming.

>>16905305
Patch would be nice yes. I don't want to pay for all-ages users discounts. Sekai should pay that from their own pockets if they are so obsessed with all-ages.

>>16904916
the White Album 2 translation discord

great!!

>>16899139
Confirmed
https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/857808098882445312

Punch Line translation when?

>>16933171
Fuck if we know. Not soon, that's for sure.

>>16933171
why would you even want one?

>>16933293
I enjoyed the anime