Visual Novel translation status >Aiyoku No Eustia - 10.23%

Sekai/Denpa
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
Grisaia no Rakuen - Steam version released, uncut release upcoming
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 - 70.42% 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 finished, 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 - Volumes 1+2 released, Volume 3 Summer release
Sharin no Kuni - 2nd Kickstarter finished, goal reached, August 2017 release
Island - Roughly 50% translated, 2017 release
Subahibi - 2017 release
English release planned for "upcoming adult title"


Visual Arts
Little Busters - On Steam Greenlight, 2017 release
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Degica
>Symphonic Rain - 6/14 release
Muv Luv Alternative - 2017 release
Muv-Luv Photonflowers - Translation started
Muv-Luv Photonmelodies - To follow Photonflowers
Schwarzesmarken - Through Greenlight
Kiminozo - Picked up


Aksys
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 - Kickstarter started, late 2017 release


Other
>Gakuen Club - Released
>Taisho Alice - Volume 1 released
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Physical version shipped, May 16th for full release
Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen - 5/23 release
Dies irae - Steam release 5/31, uncut patch to follow
LoveKami Useless Goddess - Early Summer release
Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Danganronpa V3 - 9/26 release
Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro - 11/30 release
Magical Charming - Fall release planned
428: Shibuya Scramble - 2018 release
Love Sweets - Picked up
Noratoto - Picked up
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

>>17018516
>Symphonic Rain - 6/14 release

Hope they do it justice

>>17018516
>Love Sweets - Picked up
Isn't Moonstone MG's partner? How come they're releasing this independently?
MG too slow for them?

>>17018516
>Tayutama 2 - Summer release
Any news if this will have a 18+ patch?

>>17017570
>>17018752
I don't see how you could miss the point harder. Of course that I prefer long vowels to be romanized fully, but I don't make a big fuss about it.
The reason why it's an issue in SukiSuki is that Yuuki and Yuki are both already existing and commonly used first names. When you remove the long vowel during romanization, you effectively change the name to the other one.
When someone sees "Yuki", they think of it as Yuki (with furigana ゆき), they read is as Yuki. They wouldn't even think of it as something else.
To use an example from another language, when you see the name "John", of course you're going to read is as John. You wouldn't think that you should read the name as "Johann". You wouldn't think that someone Englishized the name, even though the other name was already existing, and perfectly fine to use.
There's another long vowel name in SukiSuki - Souta. It's not a big fucking deal if they pick Souta or Sota in the localization. Yuuki/Yuki is something else and IS a big deal.

>>17019011
>When someone sees "Yuki", they think of it as Yuki (with furigana ゆき),
I wonder how long it'll take this guy to figure out why this argument is a pointless one to make when talking about english localizations...

>>17019024
Unless you're a dumbass, you don't read two different names the same way. When you know there's a short/long vowel difference between the two names, then you can pronounce them correctly. Otherwise, you might as well pronounce them as "yucky". If you want to pander to rednecks who have never read a VN before and who refuse to learn new things, then the best option for romanizing the name would be "Youki", because they would read is as Yuuki automatically.

>>17019042
how would an english person know there's a long vowel sound in Yuuki? there is no established formal sound in english for "uu". Most "uu" sounds are loan words from latin, like continuum which has 2 distinct short vowel sounds or vacuum which has a long u.

which is the problem with keeping something in english that means nothing in english - you aren't establish any piece of information. you aren't establishing a long vowel sound at all.

A long u sound is denoted in english with a single u. Compare the length of the vowel sounds in "tube" vs "vacuum".

so all your arguments that the double u romanization will mean the reader will understand it's a "long u" is false. it means precisely nothing to the reader.

>>17018738
It seems like Moonstone wishes to get their catalogue translated. They at some point were looking to E2 for Magical Marriage Lunatics and Angel Ring (though one can only hope absolutely nothing came out of that), and announced Loved Sweets as a self publish title.

Granted they've been quiet about Love Sweets since last Summer so that could have ended up with MangaGamer by now. Either way MG should have some new Moonstone title to announce at AX with them bringing over a Moonstone artist as an AX guest.

>>17019078
And how would an english person (read: a steam normalfag who has literally never come in contact with Japanese media) know that Yuki is not pronounced [jʌki]? Nevermind the fact that they would never be reading this visual novel in the first place. Those people are irrelevant, as are you.
Good job on not responding to any arguments and reposting the same thing as here >>17016305.
You've already established yourself as a retard who wouldn't care if all the names were switched up, so please don't reply to me again.

>>17019163
Either way is fine provided they get decent translators. Moonstone has some pretty nice games. Fuck E2 though.

>>17019170
i am here replying to you again because a) i don't care what you say, b) i don't care what you think, and c) you're quite autistic so nobody's going to listen to you anyway.

most people pronounce yuki in english with a long u, because of customs already set within the language. a longer "u" isn't achieved with a double "u", so it doesn't matter about your worries of mispronunciation, the pertinent matter is that a double "u" doesn't solve it. thus your solution shouldn't be used forever wacky pronunciation corrections you want to fix in the english readers.

english localizations are not aimed at those who know japanese. if you know japanese you should be reading the game in japanese.

and lastly congratulations, you badly misinterpreted my argument from the last thread. that's to be expected though, you're the retard who thinks a double "u" in english denotes a long vowel sound

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>>17019190
>because of customs already set within the language
Not that it's any relevant, but let's see how words in English starting with yu are pronounced, shall we?
Yummy - What is this? Not long u? Just a coincidence, right?
Yucca - That's short, but don't mind it
Yucky - that's wrong again, fuck.
Do I need to go on? Why is an ESL like you trying to talk about the English language in a conversation where it's completely irrelevant?

>>17019231
Stop replying to him already. Don't feed the retard.

>>17019231
>Not that it's any relevant, but let's see how words in English starting with yu are pronounced, shall we?
lol, please continue making arguments, you sound more clueless with every one you make. maybe i'll look up how people pronounce fucker as a clue to how people pronounce futon. no english speaker thinks this, so you're either ESL or retarded. no harm being ESL, plenty of harm being retarded though.

the pertinent words in your list are yucky and yukky. that is, the "u" sound before the "k" sound is often short only when there's a "c" modifying the k, or when there's a double "k". Yuki has none of these, which is why MOST people won't pronounce it with a short "u" sound.

>>17019231
> trying to talk about the English language in a conversation where it's completely irrelevant?
>english completely irrelevant in english translation
fucking autist

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>>17018515
Kuroinu chapter 2 hit 100% editing.

Dovac is a piece of shit for what he did to Baldr Sky.

>>17020078
Still better than completely ruining it like they did with Chrono Clock.

>>17020131
They did completely ruin it.

>>17020156
How was it ruined?

>>17020197
Kicking off a known good team to put Chrono Clock's team on it.

>>17020203
That sounds shitty but is the translation terrible or something? This seems like it would be right up my alley as far as visual novels.

>>17020209
If you mean Baldr, then there's no TL yet, obviously.
Chrono Clock's translation is indeed terrible (dearest brother, senpai->name, chavspeak every time a certain characters opens her mouth). Just to list a few.

>>17020247
I can deal with most of what you mentioned, but what do you mean by chavspeak? Are there parts where the meaning is completely changed because of the translation?

>>17020297
They start having a character speak in a heavy British accent and use some very uncommon words too.

What the fuck Hatsukoi. Maya was the best girl with the shittiest route. Crappy ending.

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https://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/memo.php?game=24403&uid=菜夏

>>17020589
Why are you posting pics with moonrunes in a board for VN's that are being translated to english?

>>17020297
>I can deal with most of what you mentioned
Then fuck you too. You're dovac's target audience.

>>17020612
If there's voice acting on said lines I can make out stuff like honorrifics and names like senpai/onii-chan. Sure it's stupid to translate them as senpai-name and such but I won't let something like that prevent me from reading a visual novel I'm interested in. I care more if the translation is completely wrong at parts, and my little bit Japanese knowledge won't let me know if that is the case.

>>17020607
Because it's related to a VN's English existence.

It's a review of Grisaia Phantom Trigger that mentions how the game and its heroines got boring in an attempt to pander to English players.

>>17020607
>in a board for VN's that are being translated to english
/jp/ is actually for both.
>>>/jp/rules/2

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>>17020297

>>17020727
At the very least, I can see it sorta making sense for the British girl to pepper her dialogue with British sayings, but when you try and adapt the random English and turn it into random Japanese, it's pretty painful.

Makoto doing it on the other hand, is completely out of left-field.

>>17020676
Obviously. The characters are a long list of memes and tropes. It feels very generic compared to the original Grisaia series.

>>17020727
You forgot your douzo, lad.

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>>17020727

>>17020846
And it's your fault.

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>>17020846
If you like memes then CC is your ideal VN because you can fint them every few lines.

>>17020890
Please stop, i think we got it anon. Sekai Project killed Baldr Sky and it's nothing new that 90% of their releases are shit.

RIP lolis

>>17020726
He meant thread.
Which is a good point. Posting a JP screenshot when post people here are EOPs is not very productive. Not that I'm mad at him.

>>17018515
Why do people bother to translate anime psp vns?

>>17022078
Because there's demand.

>>17022078
Because it's portable and the ones from Android are mediocre.

Dovac is subhuman garbage.

Haven't been in this thread for a loong long time, what happened to Fate HA?

>>17022310
You can find out on vndb.

>>17022197
Agreed. He's also a danger to woman.

https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/862400923913510912

One day Amagami will come out

Sorry to bother you /jp/, I have never lurked or posted in these threads before. But I was wondering, what happened to the White Album 2 closing chapter translation? As I understand, only Setsuna's route is finished, but was the project abandoned after that?

>>17023706
Last I checked the WA2 translation was fecal matter given form. Hopefully everyone involved died.

>>17023029

I'm sure our great-grandchildren will be excited when that day finally arrives.

What exactly happened to Baldr Sky?
Is it just the usual Sekai bullshit?

>>17024269
thought they could buy aroduc's translation on the cheap, he wouldn't budge, now they have no idea what to do

>>17024343
So they actually announced it without having a translation? 2025 seems a conservative estimate of a release date in that case.
More likely never.
Way to fuck up one of the most anticipated VN's ever.

>>17024343
Well at least we can get a laugh out of this. Any chance Aroduc is still working on it in secret?

>>17024398
IIRC he was pretty much done when sekai did the deal

>>17024398
>>17024419
Wasn't he depressed after the whole ordeal and stopped translating anything?

>>17024428
he just reviews anime he hates now

>>17024446
Bravo Sekai Project. Way to kill one of the most enthusiastic translators. Why can't this company die already?

>>17024468
He should just stealth release the translation to fuck with them.

>>17024475
I'd really like that but it's not worth it if Aroduc gets in trouble.
SP will probably sue him. Fuck them.

>>17024475
tHey nKow where he lives. should aRudoc release the translation he'll be dead within the week. a bUllet to the nuts followed by a bUllet to the brain

>>17024468
Arudoc's enthusiasm was dying long before SP got involved.

>>17024493
That still doesn't make it right. If he stopped because he got bored it's okay, it's his decision.
Being treated like that and made to feel like shit isn't the same.

>>17024505
Eh, welcome to the real world. Here people don't wrap you in cotton wool and make you feel special. People constantly are made to feel like shit, and that's why we invented alcohol.

I'm playing Yukino's route and Yuuma is an insufferable faggot. Is he the same in the other routes as well?

>>17022424
Wow, it got finished years ago. Project any good?

>>17024890
Aaand holy shit Yukino is even worse. Dropping the slut childhood friend route now.

>>17024419
He had only finished Dive 1 and done a bit into Dive 2 before the announcement. If not for Sekai the project would have been done late last year at the rate Aroduc goes.

>>17025099
Take the spoilers back to /vg/.

>>17025395
The spoilers aren't real

>>17020890
I wonder what the actual line here was

>>17024488
>VNTL assassins

>>17024428
>and stopped translating anything
He tried to go back to working on Prism Ark but Doddler is too busy to help out on all the technical issues (and no one else came forward either) so it was shelved again.

>>17025754
>Prism Ark
This one? https://vndb.org/v200
Dear God it looks like shit.

>>17025804
http://tenka.seiha.org/2015/01/atonement-rhapsody-sin-pain-get-set/
>It’s far from a perfect game, and most of the routes would be vastly improved if they just stopped about 5 hours from their eventual end, but it does a great job through most of it with the characters and balancing both humor and drama, and despite being almost a decade old, the presentation is still far better than the vast majority of VNs coming out today.
He gave out some ultra rare approval for the game considering how he hates nearly everything.

>>17025833
That still doesn't make my eyes hurt less.

>>17025833
>how he hates nearly everything
He's just tsundere.

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One day AI translations will put dovac out of business

>>17027568
You mean it isn't AI translations that make them lose honorifics in the translation process?

NTR when

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikandijapan/libra-of-the-vampire-princess-visual-novel-english/posts/1883393

"Slight" delay on the Libra release while they iron out Steam Achievements and Trading Cards.

>>17027941
Though it's RPG maker, I'd still argue that Thug Hero Party is a VN. Fuck vndb definitions.
And that one is fucking glorious.

https://sekaiproject.com/2017/05/15/anime-central-2017-information/

Sekai put up their Anime Central preview. Not much to go off of though since they didn't give any preview into how many announcements they have.

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Preview of Uta 2

I heard mixed things about Tears to Tiara 2 and some complaints about Persona 5. How's the Atlus translation this time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcWXrLzu7mE

>>17029211
Stilted like most ATLUS translations

>>17029211
Better video that just starts from the beginning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UWtbZcS9bo

Seems fine to me

>>17025833
He shits on BS and praises this kind of stuff? WTF. I hate Aroduc now!

>>17029888
This was when he was younger. If you notice it's 2015 and he did mention he was starting to mature and get better. Meaning he was starting to get the hang of reading and Translation.

>>17027945
Had no idea that this was coming out. Looks pretty good

Why is Fuwanovel bad, again? I always just used sukebei for my VNs, but I remember them getting shat on by the VN general in /vg/ a lot, though I never stuck around long enough to learn why, exactly.

>>17030486
Fuwanovel is cool, get all your VN translations there.

>>17030486
Fuwanovel the site? Or the old Fuwanovel torrents?
If you mean the old torrents (since you mentioned sukebei), then it was because they were buggy as hell (plus had a high chance of being incompatible with newer revisions of a patch patch that might contain fixes) and most of the time the people who were complaining about crashes and other problems turned out to have got a fuwa torrent.

>>17030486
Sometimes their torrents wouldn't work right

>>17024428
His team jumped ship on him to Sekai Project.

>>17031450
So Bunny Black 3 never ?

>>17031474
He mentioned a while ago the current tools cause script problems with it which fucks up the text, so it probably wouldn't happen anyways. Probably be faster for him to learn programming to make his own tools than wait for someone else to have the time.

>>17031474
Bunny Black 2 was shit already with its random encounters.

>>17031517
Yeah both BB and BB2 were absolute shit gameplay-wise. Damn nice art and characters though.
Nobody played them for the gameplay.
Kamidori could actually do well even without the ero.

>>17031561
No, I said 2. Not one. 1 is good.

>>17031474
MG was in talks with the dev, so that's a reason too.

So spoil me in Midori's route in Hatsukoi.
I'm guessing the drama will be her father opposing the relationship etc.
My question is how bad it gets.

Libra of the Vampire Princess has 5 H scenes in the common route and 7 urination scenes in the common route.

>>17032072
sounds like kamige

>>17032072
Ricotta would be proud.

How many years until all 3 Leyline games are released?
How far was Kohaku before Shit Project nabbed them?

>>17032145
The first VN was 100% TL'd and edited like 2 years ago.

>>17032155
Sasuga SP. I hope it doesn't turn into a Jast situation.
I don't know what's worse. SP releasing butchered versions or Jast not releasing anything at all.

Reminder, Doddler has full access to Aroduc's translation of Baldr Sky, and unlike Aroduc, he is working with Sekai Project on it. Don't be surprised if SP's release -somehow- looked suspiciously identical to Aroduc's with a few words changed here and there to completely screw him.

The latest sekai project release has flopped on steam as expected. So when's their next kickstarter to prop up their failing company.

>Welcome to TLWiki!
>Today is May 20, 2016.

Is it kill?

>>17032949

Doddler wouldn't do that

>>17032949
That would be pretty unethical, and probably even illegal. I tried my best to get the project to go forward with Aroduc on-board, but even if he's not involved, I have no intention on screwing him over. There's no plan to use any part of the original translation project.

>>17033047
Do you think it will be released in the next 5 years?
Or will it take more?

>>17033180
I would hope so, but it's out of my hands... the majority of the work is in the translation.

>>17033212
Is there currently a team assigned to translate it? Or has it just been sitting with no progress?

>>17032949
If only Aroduc had the balls to release his fantl patch and fuck SP in the ass.

>>17033364
He would probably then get his ass fucked in prison (or at least a hefty legal bill/fine) by Sekai invoking copyright laws.

>>17029211
>only for ps4 and vita

>>17033440
They don't have to know it's him, like you don't know why but the patch is "leaked" because someone pirated Aroduc. Stealth release is possible.

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Started work on this after someone ported Ever17's translation to the PSP version.

Something that might bring a smile to fans of Ace Attorney, Jake Hunter and CING games.
I'm looking into porting some obscure English scripts for a certain VN series to a bunch of DS visual novels and I need help.

The series is J.B.Harold. It's a cool visual novel series set in New York made by Riversoft, which went eventually bankrupt and some of the stuff brought the rights for the series and re-released it, and some of the stuff joined CinG to work on games like Hotel Dusk, and Another Memory.

There were 5 main releases from 1987 to 1995 on the X6800, PC98, and some console ports.

1- Murder Club
2- Manhattan Requiem
3- Kiss of Murder
4- D.C. Connection
5- Blue Chicago Blues

Here's where it gets crazy. Devs were westaboo so they had most of these games (1,2,3,5 at least) fully voice acted in English for their Laserdisc versions.
Yet, only 1, 2 and 5 got official US releases with dual language text onscreen, and 2/5 are stuck to obscure Laserdisc versions I can't find any ISOs of online so that I can extract the text.

1, 2, and 3 were remade for flap phones, then the Nintendo DS, then iOS.
English Laserdisc script somehow made it to the iOS version of Manhattan Requiem.

I'm interested in porting the text to the following DS versions:
J.B. Harold Satsujin Jiken (1)
J.B. Harold Manhattan Requiem + Kiss of Murder (2+3)

I have 1 covered already - POC in screenshot - not reflective of the content. Not perfect, but at least covers the main body of the text.
Not doing Kiss of Murder because only its audio is in English and unless it covers the whole game, that would be useless. It would need to be transcribed and probably some translation to fill in the blanks.

So

TL;DR
I just need an ipa of the Manhattan Story iOS release to extract the text from the binary and insert it in the DS version (android peasant)
In return, everyone gets 2 new English visual novels on their Nintendo DS. Not just iOS users. Win-win.

>>17033047
What did you try?

Why didn't it work?

>>17033440
Wouldn't it actually benefit Sekai instead? If Aroduc hands out his finished translation for free, they can just take it for free and sell their game with it.

>>17034891
That's not how copyright law works. At all.

>>17030270
So now he actually opens up to such renowned kamiges?

>>17034029
>Stealth release is possible.
If he had released a partial it might have been possible, since "someone else" could claim to have taken it and finished it off. Just releasing such a large game out of the blue with the knowledge that Sekai has it licensed makes it easy to shorten down the list of candidates.

>>17035086
To add on to that, the only real chance of Aroduc safely releasing it would now to wait a while until after Sekai has it released and put it under a "re-translation" project like how Konosora has one.

>>17033464
This sucks. Hope someone ports the translation into PS3.

>>17033256
He just told you that there aren't plans on the table for it...
(((They))) have other translated projects to "negotiate with".

>>17032960
>The latest sekai project release has flopped on steam as expected.

They actually had two non-Japanese titles thus far this month, both seemed to have had disappointing launches (both peaking at less than 10 concurrent users, although still better than Companion). Their only non-Japanese title to have gained any traction thus far this year seems to have been Sweetest Monster. Granted they also have had disappointments with some doujin titles as well so their issues are hardly limited to OELVNs. Their pipeline probably has quite a bit more upcoming that was already put in motion, but I'd expect them to be in the process of becoming much more selective on the crap they decide to fund.

>So when's their next kickstarter to prop up their failing company.

They have more Nekopara coming out in a couple weeks, they'll be fine. It's quite remarkable how Nekopara has held its popularity even as all the other fads have faded. Nekopara volume 1 hit 111 concurrent users over this last ordinary weekend.

>>17034690
I'm guessing the details would be behind NDAs (and Doddler wouldn't spill details either way). While I can't imagine Aroduc and Dovac being a good team to try to negotiate even if Doddler were to act as an intermediary, but with how much they miss out on (Aroduc spent months on a now useless translation, Sekai lost probably a year or two in time to release it while getting a PR headache) I have to think that they were quite far apart on what each of them wanted when negotiations broke off.

>>17034891
While Sekai obviously would be able to take action against Aroduc if he were to distribute his translation, Aroduc is still the owner of his translation and Sekai cannot use it without him approving it, even if it were distributed in an unauthorized way.

>>17032960
I'm sure they'll announce Baldr Sky's kickstarter any day now.

>>17035283
>Nekopara volume 1 hit 111 concurrent users over this last ordinary weekend
That might be exactly because vol.3 is coming out very soon.

>>17033047
>That would be pretty unethical

And Sekai Project has never done anything unethical ever. Not once. Not for every Kickstarter they've ever run.

>>17034495
seems rather obscure... is it any good?

>>17035868
Nekopara's recent performance really isn't anything exceptional for it, it has constantly been doing far better than any of the other 2014 meme titles. Sakura Spirit's high for 2017 thus far has been 32 concurrent users and Go Go Nippon has averaged a daily peak in the 10-20 range with a 2017 high of 54 concurrent users during a sale. By contrast, Nekopara Volume 1's single quietest day in 2017 thus far still had a daily peak of 54 concurrent users (equal to GGN's best), and it managed to hit 305 concurrent users during the anime games sale last month.

>>17035889
Unethical with people they care about. They don't care if they fuck fans over because you can always find new suckers but if translators stop working for them they're fucked.

The Libra team updated again saying everything has been submitted for Valve to review.

>>17036174
Aroduc's not working for them already. They don't care if they fuck him over.

I still remember how I was cautiously happy about Baldr Sky announcement at first, then I heard that it is very possible there will be no 18+ scenes to doom my immortal soul, then came entire mess with Aroduc, then no news for almost entire year.

My enthusiasm is now somewhere between zero and absolute zero.

>>17036369
A year of diligent study and you'd possibly be able to play it in Japanese with light dictionary help for less common technical terms.

Instead you've chosen to be EOP'd.

>>17035283
Neither Aroduc or Sekai trusted each other at all, there was no way they were going to be able to agree on something that made them both happy. It's a huge waste, Aroduc loses his entire translation progress, Sekai loses a year or more of potential progress and public image.

>>17036348
How can they fuck him over? They can't demand him to give the completed TL as Aroduc could just simply say that he was lying the whole time and they wouldn't able to do jack.

Doddler's not obliged to give them anything either, even if he has the completed BS patch or anything, he could say that he deleted it after the announcement and he didn't back it up. SP can't do anything if the translators aren't willing.

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https://mega.nz/#!6sdn0KoY!uz9wn2gTNov7VzXNjTl33HKOpby69S1PiTk1G5krrA0
PM4 beta eng patch if someone interested
Translated most of story events from the first 2 years
All job and class related dialogues
Vacations
Some Liese/Risa, Christina and Marie free time events
Interactions with daughter too, but because it was the first thing I translated, quality is very, very low will retranslate with first opportunity
Interface patch already included
Just put it into game folder

>>17036541
thats a big doggo

>>17036468
They already fucked him over by asking him for his help in getting the license and then telling him to fuck off as soon as they did. They could further fuck him over by having any of the people on his team who left him to help Sekai Project give them his scripts.

>>17036390
Sorry exalted JOP anon, I am already learning Latin, German and Hungarian for my job, taking on another, extremely different language is not for me

So what VN do I translate if I want to sellout to mankogamer?
No BL and otome plox.

>>17037041
Shin Koihime Musou.
Oh wait.

>>17037041
It's not up to Mangagamer if they can release it.

>>17037041
Evolimit/AoKana

>>17037041
Even if they wanted to buy your translation, you would probably be hazed by translating a nukige before they they would buy it and sell it.

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>>17037094
I-is that some kind of ritual? To weed out the allage lovers?
W-what if I fail to translate some onomatopoeia?

>>17037073
Wasn't AoKana being translated?

>>17037192
Yeah but Google Drive ate the translation. ;^)

Seriously, fuck that guy.

>>17037187
Yes. And if you fuck up even once you will be mocked endlessly by your coworkers on twitter.

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>>17037204
I don't think I can take it guyz.

>>17036541
This is cool. (Aren't there already plans to publish all the PMs in English on Steam, though?)

>>17036705
Yuukino

>>17036541
I love princess maker!

>>17037495
Ywkino

>>17023706
The "translation" is still happening behind the scenes. What exists so far is generally awful though, and they've tried to hide that with heavy editing. If you're just curious about what happens in CC, you're better off reading an accurate summary.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160809032754/http://mdzanime.me:80/2013/12/29/white-album-2-concluding-chapter-coda-rough-summary/

>>17037227
Nothing that a couple of *kiss*, *succ* and hahhh can fix.

>>17018515
So I'm using Visual Novel Translator. Is there any way to translate the settings file?

>>17037426
Hope so, but sales of refrain were shit and no news about translation of 3

No word on a release date, but Jast put their version of Eiyu-Senki up for preorder so it should be their next release.

>>17040050
J-List likes to have a new Jast title to sell at their AX booth. SoniComi was released just in time for AX last year, and unless they aren't able to finish it in time, I'm guessing they would want to do the same with Eiyuu*Senki this year.

In retrospect, I suppose Katahane ended up being more work than they thought, as that was the title they choose to promote with printed ads at their panel last year.

>>17018515
>Aiyoku No Eustia

Wow someone is actually doing it. The golden age is upon us

>>17036446
Still it makes me rock fucking hard that Sekai got the finger from him. Good man, Aroduc

Valve has decided to delay releasing trading cards on games. Think this might reduce VN sales? If a VN doesn't sell very well, then it might not drop cards at all depending on the number Steam set the requirement to.

>Valve said it has decided to "remove the economic incentive" of the Card system first by not releasing Cards until a game has reached a "confidence metric" that demonstrates that a game is actually real.

>"Once a game reaches that metric, cards will drop to all users, including all the users who've played the game prior to that point," Valve said. "So going forward, even if you play a game before it has Trading Cards, you'll receive cards for your playtime when the developer adds cards and reaches the confidence metric."

>>17040050
>Eiyu
Eiyuu

>>17037041
Sisters Ultra Edition
And pray that the devs have a decent uncensored version. I'm not very positive they have one because of all the animation.

>>17040967
>Valve has decided to delay releasing trading cards on games.
They were usually delayed anyways, in the past, for a lot of VN releases.

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>>17035283
Speaking of Sekai titles that are still in the works.
What happened to Ne No Kami P2?

>>17041269
Cancelled

>>17041157
This. I really hope that MG will surprise us with Sisters, especially when the creator himself is tweeting about his wish of selling his works uncensored in the west.

>>17041648
Uncensored sounds awesome. Bless creators.

Almost as good as Sayori wanting to add lolis to Nekopara. Just a shame Sekai is preventing that with their icky rules.

>>17041269
Guessing it is still somewhere in the development pipeline, and will be ignored until 1-2 weeks before released, like most of Sekai's lower budget titles.

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>>17041097
Perhaps they had some reasons (such as licensing/rights issues/etc) to use a different name from the Fruitbat console release, but Jast actually did rename it Eiyu*Senki from Fruitbat Factory's Eiyuu Senki.

>>17041097
Aeiou

>>17042203
Is Jast's version the updated version of the game or is it just the base one?

>>17042591
GOLD isn't really just an updated version of Eiyuu Senki though since the plot is completely different I believe but no, JAST is only doing the regular Eiyuu Senki.

>>17042261
onegai john madden-san

Net neutrality just died, so I expect that pirate friends might find it harder to find torrent sites soon.

>>17035958
Yes

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It's nearly that time again. Place those bets /jp/. Supposedly the Denpasoft panel is tomorrow(according to sekai project, the AC website says saturday so who knows?) while the sekai panel and mangagamer panel are this saturday.

Here's mangagamer's hints, if you've forgotten: http://blog.mangagamer.org/2017/02/13/2017-licensing-survey-results-and-some-hints-too/

Also, the next title after tsumairo shoujo is an "Unannounced gameplay title" and it's apparently not a new partner so...

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>>17043580

And mine, of course.

>>17043587
>no one would ever suspect Galzoo Island
Not true.

>>17043652

Well it feels like the "smart money" call would be that that would be for Otakon, not AC atleast.

>>17043587
>Announcements: Got me
I'll help you, senpai.
"Doujin shit no one cares about"

>>17043711

There's probably something worth something at the denpasoft panel, although that'll probably just make /jp/ more angry

>>17043587
>>17043652
I fucking hope it's not Galzoo Island, there is so many AliceSoft titles i want to see translated but not this crap.

MG's one announcement probably isn't all that long unless some fan translation was involved, as it was something they didn't have ready to announce during the convention season last year, but will probably have a June release if it is their next title as Kouryuu mentioned.

>>17043580
>Supposedly the Denpasoft panel is tomorrow(according to sekai project, the AC website says saturday so who knows?) while the sekai panel and mangagamer panel are this saturday.

I believe the initial listing on the Anime Central programming page was in error (or it was later changed). The Anime Central guidebook entry https://guidebook.com/guide/80601/event/15769680/ lists the Friday date.


Anyways, just as a rundown, all times US Central

Friday May 19th
10:00 PM - Denpasoft: Erecting A Market And The Rise Of Adult Gaming (18+)

Saturday May 20th
10:45 AM - Visual Novels with Sekai Project
7:45 PM - The Now and Future of Visual Novels (MangaGamer)

Can anyone help me find the CG's for
https://vndb.org/v3643 ?
I only managed to find Summer and Autumn.
I just learned about Citra and I'm about to start reading, Read the manga years ago and it seemed interesting.

>>17043900
Don't have the CG's but let me save you some time. Don't read it, I have never been so disappointed by a work. It has an extremely strong start, dies around the middle, and barely gets back up to par at the end.

>>17043580
Not expecting a ton out of Anime Central, but if there are any surprises they'll probably be from Sekai/Denpasoft instead of MG as one MG title is pretty much known and the latter is quite restrictive as to what it can be since it seems to be an R18 gameplay title from an existing partner that will be ready for release in June.

Of course, trying to guess Sekai/Denpa doujin stuff is an impossible task, but if they have enough full length titles in the pipeline they could announce something here (especially since they don't have an Otakon panel planned), and there is the potential of getting a Denpasoft update on an existing title as well. Regardless of any bigger announcements, some more nukige for Denpasoft seems likely since they haven't had a panel since October, as well as some shorter indie/doujin Sekai title. Any potential big bets with Denpasoft along with whatever the best thing in the pipeline for either a Sekai or a Sekai/Denpa dual release should be held off until AX though.

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>>17043580
I love doing this.
MG's second announcement is a wild card for me, because last year they took Anime Central to announce the Waffle partnership. As for anything related with Alicesoft, I'ld say that Anime Expo or Otakon are the best place for more Rance and/or old titles like Galzoo Island, Oyako Rankan, Evenicle or even the others Blade Beat.

>>17044304
Given its popularity I'd think that anything Koihime Musou related would be at AX or Otakon.

Personally I'm expecting a nukige. Hopefully something decent, preferably from Alicesoft.

Please let it be some femdom nukige. No one does that. I can't even remember ever seeing any translated stuff with cbt.

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hopefully they announce a good nukige

With the Sweet Young Bride release, MG put up a Hentai Industries puzzle game for June 2nd. It's possible if Kouryuu was just discussing what the upcoming release schedule was, he was including that and the 2nd slot at Anime Central is something else.

>>17044417
Let me guess, this picture is from a story where a dude gets the power to teleport his dick anywhere, including underneath an unsuspecting girl's feet? What will they think of next?

>>17044414
Like this. That's from Waffle, so it should be a-okay. Looks pretty good.
https://vndb.org/v19009

>>17043797
>>17044299
>>17044304
Next title seems to be a Hentai Industries title, so that's probably the gameplay title Kouryuu mentioned in the podcast. The way he worded it made it seem like an in house translated title, but ah well. It's possible that he meant that the next first party title would be a gameplay title rather than the next release directly after Sweet Young Bride though.

I can't really give any good guesses for the second game. Most possible titles I can think of that were implied in the hints will probably be saved until AX or Otakon.

>>17044433
Not sure about that, since Please Bang My Wife was put up for preorder before it was announced as well.

I hope that's not the second announcement though.

>>17044066
Already started. It's been almost 6 years since I first read the manga. I really like it so far.
Yuki is the best.

>>17044467
Hentai Industries is technically third party, so it's not the second game for sure.

>>17044445

Mangagamer's always done the translations for morningstar games, their agreement just means that they can sell the titles on other services(and a a result they probably foot some/all of the bill).

>>17044467
>I hope that's not the second announcement though.

It's not that it would be the second announcement, but rather the second announcement isn't limited to the conditions Kouryuu gave about an upcoming gameplay title when he was discussing future releases.

>>17044476
Really? Its store page doesn't list it being third party like MG's other third party titles.

>>17044525
MG has never announced anything under the Hentai Industries label in a convention at least.

>>17043580

Oh, there's one other thing I forgot. Vodka was posting over on /v/ and basically admitted they've got another BL title. I imagine they'd probably save that for AX though, if it's the title everyone suspect from the hints.

>>17044570
If it's DRAMAtical Murder, than definitely. I wonder if they got an otome game to go along with it like last year. Miss Lonesome is being planned to come out soon after all.

I would laugh if they got an Alice Blue title though as a small title to announce at Anime Central

>implying it won't be a hardcopy announcement
Come on guys

>>17044636
Those were added last minute last year, so that's probably the case this year too.

>>17044636

Haro hasn't pulled that yet this year even when she could have with the kyonyuu fantasy hardcopy, so I think she probably isn't doing it this time either.

>>17044623
The hint was BLue.

I wouldn't expect it to be DRAMAtical Murder though, given its likely very high licensing costs.

>>17044636

No hardcopies this time and the HI game is not one of the announcements.

>>17044683
Thank you

>>17044469
Hope you like zombies, maybe you will find it better than me.

>>17043819
For Denpasoft, I'm expecting either some dlsite tier eroge or maybe an ero OELVN.

Sekai the same except no ero. Maybe information on future kickstarters though.

MG announcing Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden is fairly obvious. They might through in 2 just for shock value. It would be kind of funny.

Assuming that the HI title is the gameplay title Kouryuu was talking about, that leaves the second slot open for pretty much anything. I suspect a short nukige like Please Bang My Wife 2 since the only short one they have announced so far is Sweet Young Bride. They aren't exactly running out of short nukige to release though between Hentai Industries and Umesoft. The biggest possible announcement would be an AS game if they have a huge Alicesoft announcement saved for AX, and they felt like announcing 2 AS games this year, but I doubt it.

>>17044387
It's vaguely possible that they might announce it in AC so it won't be overshadowed by the Alicesoft game in Otakon. I think announcing both at the same convention won't be too bad, but I could see them announcing one at AX and the other at Otakon for this reason.

>>17036988
Really sucks to be you - learning retarded languages like German and Hungarian.

>>17033047
Didn't you (or one of your buddies) betray Aroduc by leaking the details of the translation to Sekai, which enabled them to gain a crucial foothold in negotiations with GIGA? I highly doubt you actually care about the legality or ethics of such a situation knowing that.

>>17046237
Aroduc's Baldr Sky translation was never really much of a secret. Pretty much everyone knew he was working on it.

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>>17046237
>blaming Doddler
He was the only one left out of the loop of the whole thing. Everyone else seemed to be clued in.

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>>17046600
>>17046237

>>17046605
>it's still useful. I'll loop you in after AX.
Look at that greedy motherfucker. It was july 2016 and we still don't know if Baldr Sky will be 18+ or all-ages crap with a shitty translation buster.
I hope SP will die soon because i'm sick of their bullshit.

>>17046600
Aroduc was left out of the loop too.

>>17046673
>It's been two months since the announcement that BS would be officially localized, but the open question still remains: "By whom?" I remain under no contract to anybody. I learned about the licensing from the announcement from AnimeExpo, same as everyone else. While I have received a very small handful of e-mails from Sekai Project, and I have no doubt whatsoever that the license was obtained primarily due to the tools Doddler and Nagato created, as well as my own significant work on it, Sekai Project has yet to make any kind of substantive offer to work with us to translate/release the game(s). Or anything vaguely in the ballpark. We made an offer to them (which was flatly rejected for reasons that remain unclear to us even after expliclty asking), and they did make an 'offer' to give us a grossly inadequate sum of money to hand over everything we've done and walk away, after being told at the very beginning that doing so was completely out of the question. That was a toughie to consider.

>I learned about the licensing from the announcement from AnimeExpo, same as everyone else.

The Muv Luv Kickstarter put out an update, although there really wasn't much in the update. They put out an Alternative trailer but didn't give any indication about when Alternative might be ready for its Steam release, and said the Vita stuff is mostly being held off on until Alternative is released on PC.

They did say they'll be moving to monthly updates though. Either way it seems Alternative will probably end up at least a year behind its August 2016 estimate, and the Vita release of Alternative will only fall farther behind its November 2016 estimate.

The remaining titles waiting on Denpasoft news are Maitetsu, Wagamama High Spec, Hoshizora no Memoria, Tenshin Ranman, and Baldr Sky. Aside from Baldr Sky, all of those are though the translation stage.

If we did get a Denpasoft update tonight, Wagamama High Spec seems to be the most likely since it is close enough to release that they played through some of the demo on Stream last week, and it seems very likely an R18 release is planned. Maitetsu should also get an update at some point once the negotiations are finished, regardless of the result of those negotiations, but odds are they are still ongoing. Hoshizora no Memoria seems likely to be getting an R18 release (at least based on Chuee's comments) while Tenshin Ranman is more up in the air (especially since the initial announcement was for the console port), but it is hard to guess when news about them might come out as Sekai hasn't discuss either much recently. Baldr Sky is probably out of luck unless the situation changed since AWA, but either way I'd be surprised to see any update about that at Anime Central.

>>17046685
>Nagato
Wasn't he the hacker from Ixrecs team?

>>17034495
Holy shit, I remember playing this on a X68000. Shine on you, crazy diamond.

>>17043271
It'll just move back underground, like the internet was before the dear public caught on in the early 2000s.

>>17046909
I always find it impressive that you can be 100% finished before you even know what product you are making.

>>17046934
Nagato did most of the tools for Duel Savior for Aroduc, and the initial work on Futsuu's Baldr Sky project.

>>17047342
With that one Chrono Clock stream Nutaku did with a Sekai guy, it seems they only picked up the R18 version for Chrono Clock after Nutaku's cash was on the table. While it seems like we should get R18 versions of at least a couple more titles, and they came back for Chrono Clock and Leyline, I'm guessing they just simply didn't initially pick up the R18 rights for their big titles picked up in late 2015/early 2016 initially, and thus they needed to go back for them once their priorities changed.

>>17046685
it's so nice to see someone stand up for himself and not just take it lying down

Denpasoft tweeted that they'll be "live tweeting" the event, so probably no stream.

Looks like R18 Wagamama High Spec is confirmed, Denpasoft just tweeted a pic of it out.

2nd announcement, Re;Lord by Escu:de
https://vndb.org/v14520

Oh wow, they went back and got 18+ G-Senjou

Last announcement was an "uncensored" Chrono Clock, so presumably no mosaics.

So in the end, they confirmed an R18 version of one of their 5 upcoming titles that doesn't have it confirmed, dropping that to 4, a decent gameplay title, and they went back to fix two old VNs.

>>17049446
That's a shocker. Sekai might stop being in my "outright unbuyable" list if this keeps up.

I'm not budging until I get 18+ Baldr Sky and Maitetsu though.

Curious if Sekai will have anything R18 at their panel tomorrow. Originally, it had looked like the Sekai panel would be first, and thus they could just confirm R18 stuff at the later Denpasoft panel, but if they grabbed say some 18+ VN with a Steam version I'm guessing they would want to announce it at their bigger panel for Sekai (even if a Denpa version were announced at the same time).

Additionally, if they were good announcing Re;Lord at acen, there is a decent chance they have some noticeable title for Denpa to announce at AX.

>>17049487
Didn't they say that Purple Software didn't keep the original pre-mosaic artwork or something? Then got ridiculed when MG just went "FYI, Hapymaher is completely uncensored"?

So did Purple Software "found" their pre-mosaic artwork or did SP commission them to redraw the censored bits?

Seriously, even when they do something good, it's hilariously hampered by their previous lying.

>>17049446
18+ G-Senjou probably won't do much, as it is too late to get much in the way of a patch for people who brought it on Steam more than a year ago. Although it could gain some traction on Nutaku.

>>17049586
I hope the inevitable written summary elaborates more on that, but it is amusing to see it go from mosaics to mosaic free when MG got a mosaic free title from PurpleSoft last summer.

Although the big takeaway is that between revising Chrono Clock and making a big deal about Nekonin being mosaic free, they now consider going after mosaic free releases somewhat of a priority when they are able to.

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>my face when I'm exactly right
>but I can't actually post my face until tomorrow

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>>17050095

but to be serious because haro let me know w/ https://twitter.com/Good_Haro/status/865784936673968129
we've got pic related on twitter

Pack it up boys, shows over. We officially know everything.

>>17050100

Oh, and if it's not obvious I'm like 99% sure that's the localized title for https://vndb.org/v12949 as in
>>17050095

>>17050095
>>17050100
>>17050103
I'm sure NTRfags will be delighted about Marina (not my cup of tea personally) but who gives a fuck about Hentai Industries games?
How many more games will they announce?

>>17050103
I've been hoping this would be translated.

>>17050158
They only had 2 listed, so likely Marina and Funbag Fantasy Gaiden. Nothing else until AX.

>>17050158

They've got two announcements, and the HI game was probably a recap. The other title is probably(almost certainly) kyonyuu fantasy gaiden, which means this con is already leaked.

They've still got AX and Otakon this year

>>17050169
>>17050170
Nice. Two high quality tiles for all people. Good going MG.

>>17050194
Everyone already knows they save major announcements for AX and Otakon. No point in expecting anything noteworthy before then.

>>17050103
My dick will fall off.

>>17050100
Them including the email and embargo date in the screenshot is pretty amazing.

>>17050257
For me KF Gaiden IS noteworthy. I really liked the original game.
I'm sure the people who like NTR are excited about Marina as well.

>>17050429
It's a noteworthy title, though as an announcement it isn't quite as impressive just because we have known about it for months thanks to Waffle.

https://denpasoft.com/announcements/acen-announcements-2017/

Denpa's post on their announcements. Doesn't seem to be any more info, and unfortunately no Chrono Clock CG preview.

>>17050257
From MG last year in terms of new titles we got just the Fata Morgana fandisc, Imouto Paradise 2, and Funbag Fantasy before AX. But then AX and especially Otakon happened.

>>17049637
Well, I'll buy it at least as I do give people money when they do things right. The interesting part will of course be if it is a Steam patch or not. As it is borderline wrong with paid patches.

>>17050367
Timezones are difficult, okay?

>>17050158
>I'm sure NTRfags will be delighted about Marina
I'm not sure about that, Marina is netorase and it's not that popular among NTRfags. I hate it desu, it's plain cheating and it's boring unlike NTR type B.

Did sekai say anything about sakusaku yet? It's been radio silence on that for freaking ages

>>17050535
>ChronoClock will be coming out completely uncensored! The update will have all of the original CGs without mosaics!
But I thought that they lost the original CGs! I wish someone had the original post about the mosaiced artwork and made an image where it and the ACEN Announcement post was right next to each other. Kinda hoping that they fix up the translations a bit too, but that's hoping too much from SP.

It's always been MG's style to leave anything big for AX and Otakon so it's not surprising, but SP seems to be learning from that too? They don't seem to be blowing their load before then by announcing all their big stuff at the minor cons and having nothing at AX and Otakon.

>>17050674
You can literally Google what time it is in any timezone, so there's no excuse.

>>17050674
>>17051354
And there's a countdown to MG's panel on their announcement page. They obviously wouldn't want anyone else to reveal their announcements until their panel is over.

>>17050100
Why did MG even send their press release to this guy? They are so desperate for coverage that even no-traffic blogs now pass as news sites?

>>17051624
I wonder if he'll end up blacklisted for breaking embargo time. If he ignored instructions once, he could do it again.

1st Sekai announcement is an OELVN title

Kickstarter for at least one of their announcements confirmed.

I can't tell if the titles are doujins or OELVNs trying to look Japanese.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/lets-bring-visual-novel-hoshizora-no-memoria-to-th

Just launched during the panel, there is a Denpasoft release, and has the fandisc as a $75k stretch goal.

>>17051934
Who would be retarded enough to pay for dolphins ?

Maiden Voyage - Sekai's new otome/BL brand

Seems they realized that their competitors were making money off of such titles, so obviously they decide to try and cash in.

>>17051934
Komomo is such a perfect girl. Twin tails, student council president, and a shrine maiden. Not to mention she's the Onee-chan of a pair of twins.

>>17051955
Yes, Mokomoko is the best.

>>17051953
It only mentions otome in its Twitter post.

Sekai reannounced Re;Lord. Does that mean all ages version?

>>17051968
They said otome/BL in the periscope stream.

>>17051970
They said at the panel that it does have an all ages version.

>>17051971
Nevermind. Their follow-up tweet added that it also does BL.

Their first title for the new brand looks ancient.

>>17051990
It is a doujin title that had a failed project by the doujin group last year and Sekai jumped in to rescue it.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-bell-chimes-for-gold-gay-rpg#/ was the original project.

>>17051978
Why would you release an all ages version of a porn game where the main gameplay involves stripping cute girls?

With Hoshizora no Memoria getting an R18 version, that leaves just Baldr Sky, Maitetsu, and Tenshin Ranman without an R18 release announce. Of course though, Hoshizora no Memoria was probably the last of the "easy" R18 announcements, and R18 releases of the remaining 3 are far from a sure thing.

>>17052009
Heroine starts out as a cuck and has to buy a man to marry. No wonder the campaign failed. Harsh reality is seldom welcome in otome.

>>17052027
They already made a fortune doing that with Sakura Dungeon.

>>17052039
>Hoshizora no Memoria getting an R18 version
Can someone explain why loli porn in HoshiMemo is OK but loli porn in Maitetsu no?
I dont understand.

>>17052055
Maitetsu's is more extreme.

>>17051934
Taking a look through the Kickstarter, it's another example of one focused just on the physical goods as they confirm it will be released regardless. Although that obviously doesn't include the fandisc. Noticeably, there isn't any Nutaku deal this time either unlike the last 2 big Kickstarters (Leyline and Chrono Clock). It's in line with the Chrono Clock Kickstarter as far as digital releases go, $20 all ages and $30 for the R18 version. It has a surprising lack of whale tiers, especially since it has already been fantranslated and thus should have some built in fanbase that might go after them, both slots for the $1000 tier are already gone.

>>17052009
I can't understand why they chose that one to localise, it looks ugly and I can't see it selling well at all.

>>17052134
I think it is a rather poor choice of a title to begin with, but they probably got it very cheap and it is in line with the typical cheap Steam titles that Sekai normally goes after. I wonder if they'll have something noticeable for the brand to announce at AX.

>>17052134
It was probably dirt cheap to license.

Sekai's choices of what BL and otome titles to translate has sucked so far. Witch Boy remains their only kickstarter flop. And all the license for the genres is cheap doujin garbage.

I wonder how Sekai's translation of Memoria will compare to the fan TL, since they tweeted that they're not using the fan TL.

>>17052009
Not a surprised, but Denpasoft confirmed that they'll be handling the distribution for the R18 version of that (and thus probably R18 Maiden Voyage titles in general).

>>17052120
Still different prices? I'd like to meet a single person that actually thinks they buy the all-ages version to save money but that they really wanted the porn. I'm sure 101% of their customers who buy all-ages would have bought it even if it cost 40 dollars, as it is what they would be willing to pay to not have to fast forward past porn.

>>17052244
fun TL was so bad that even SP with their low standards decided to retranslate the whole thing.

>>17052279
Implying SP can do better than Insem.
First step they'll do is removing honorifics.

>>17052297
Honorifics are the easiest tell tale sign that a translation is bad though.

>>17052297
>removing honorifics
No, Chuue twitted he leave them.

>>17052309
Thanks for your shitty opinion, herkz.

>>17052310
Almost makes me back the kickstarter. But can we trust them to not throw in Buster everywhere and random Japanese because "This girl is Italian, so we had to make her sound different".

>>17052261
During the Kickstarter itself, it makes sense to do $20/$30 instead of just a $25 combo as long as more than half the people go with the $30. But beyond the Kickstarter, it would be harder to justify a cheaper price on Steam and a more expensive price on Denpa/Nutaku if they were the same price during the Kickstarter, as the latter audience is willing to spend more than Steam buyers.

>>17051934
>$90 just for hardcopy + OST

The fuck are they trying to pull?

Eiyuu*Senki by comparison has that + a 60-page artbook.

Do you think MG will localize Ero Goods/Manga and Oretsuma? It's been 3 years since Eroge was released.

I wonder if Sekai will include the upcoming Wagamama High Spec sequel with the inevitable Kickstarter. Thus far Grisaia included its sequels, Leyline included its sequels, and now while it is a stretch goal they picked up the Hoshimemo fandisc for its Kickstarter.

>>17052503
I think that tier also includes all the digital rewards from the previous tiers. They started doing this after Clannad physical backers complained that physicals came later than Steam release.

>>17052613
It's still overpriced as fuck.

>>17052617
The physical copy is only $45 based on the tier structure. Pledging $1 and asking for it to be an add-on would be a better idea.

>>17052353
This isn't even true. Check out bundle sales and people offer minimum most often. Which is about 10-30 dollars for 5 eroge. They do not offer 150 dollars for 5 eroge "Because they like to pay more".

The only hint of truth in that statement is that if a publisher says "I will only sell all-ages", people will say that if only they could get an 18+ version, they'd even pay extra for it. Sekai (and other companies) have often made a thing out of this being some kind of rule instead of a plea.

The biggest issue is however that using Steam costs them 30% more, which means selling it for 20 dollars on Steam is like selling all-ages on Denpasoft for 14 dollars. I.e. 18+ titles are 200% the profit of all-ages. Literally paying double.

>>17052633
How about pledging $0 instead, SP shill?

https://twitter.com/denpasoft_chris/status/866013985706917888

They seem to be suggesting that there will be something noteworthy for Denpasoft at AX.

>>17052651
The lower prices on Steam are to encourage impulse buying on a very crowded platform, and to make sales through volume. It will probably be $30 on Steam again like Chrono Clock was (which was also $20 for just the all ages version during the Kickstarter). Now they probably don't need to, but they charge more on Denpa/Nutaku simply because they can and people are willing to buy it.

>The biggest issue is however that using Steam costs them 30% more, which means selling it for 20 dollars on Steam is like selling all-ages on Denpasoft for 14 dollars.

Steam takes a 30% cut, Nutaku probably takes a 40% cut unless Sekai made a better than standard deal with Nutaku. Denpasoft doesn't have those fees, but they are an American based company selling "at risk" content (porn downloads), so their processing fees are probably fairly substantial. In that regards, they should do best from the Kickstarter, where they only are paying 10%.

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Any news about first Ley-Line game? Its almost summer and SP promised spring release.

>>17052733
>Sekai project sticking to announced release schedules
Good one anon

>>17052733
They've got a nice ponzi scheme going. Just gotta start up some more kickstarters to keep the money flowing in

>>17052733
Almost all of their kickstarter end up getting delays.

>>17052760
Have they ever done this?

>>17052890
To be fair, I also work in a company, and pretty much none of the projects are delivered on time.

Hoshizora no Memoria is up to $20k on the Kickstarter. It will trivially reach the initial $45k goal, although it may take a while before it hits $75k for the stretch goal. The best analogue is probably Chrono Clock, which reached $87k, though that had a higher price point on the physical tiers and a bit more from whale tiers.

>>17052699
The way to get impulse purchases on steam is the steam sale. There is no reason to actually lie in "sale price" all the time. You'd make more money charging "full price" until sales.

Besides impulse purchases are 10 or lower. At 20-30 dollars nobody will ever impulse buy a VN. So again, different pricing makes no sense. (Apart from apparently disliking 18+ customers so you give them a worse deal)

>>17053022
Impulse buying isn't necessarily limited to Steam sales, a big aim is getting people to buy it on impulse from the new releases list upon release. In fact, I would argue that for Steam sales a higher base price with deeper sales is better (such as you could get if Chrono Clock were $40 everywhere). 50% off of $40 looks nicer than 33% off of $30 even if they are the same price.

At the very least though, with it being their common pricing to have about a $10 gap between prices, Sekai seems to have decided that it is an optimal way to do dual releases. Whether it actually is the best approach to do the best on Steam while making the R18 revenue be worth it is another question, but Sekai is hardly alone with Degica, Jast, MG, and Frontwing all having titles with a cheaper Steam version or paid patches for a Steam version.

>>17053191
The oddest part is really paid patches. The argument for 10 dollar cheaper Steam game is already "Nobody on steam would pay more". Yet how would you sell patches if nobody on Steam ever would pay more than all-ages price?

Do you somehow convince them that they bought 2 games? So it was two cheap games.

I honestly don't mind the 18+ prices. I just can't understand the excuse that Steam only consist of some weird aliens never found anywhere else on the planet.

>>17051624
>They are so desperate for coverage that even no-traffic blogs now pass as news sites?

That's always been the case

>>17053347
The idea is that there is a broad audience on Steam, and you are only selling the 18+ patch to a subset of that audience. The low prices on Steam are an appeal to try and get the sort of individuals who fed the Steam craze to buy a title on impulse or because they saw it on some video stream, and they generally wouldn't be aware of an 18+ patch even if you were giving it away for free. On the other hand, R18 patches are sold to the crowd at least knowledgeable enough to know to look to see if there is a patch when they see a VN with anime art.

If you have both an R18 and all ages release on the same platform with the same visibility, in every case the overwhelming majority of people have opted to pay extra for the R18 version, and the HoshiMemo Kickstarter won't be an exception. But almost every title release as an all ages title on Steam and an R18 title off of Steam the Steam version sold more (Da Capo 3 being a rare exception, but had that sold like Princess Evangile on Steam it wouldn't have been an exception).

>>17051624
More press is better, and it isn't like they lose much in a situation like this. They'll get some extra coverage by sending their press releases as broadly as they can. That said it would be quite a bit different had this happen with their AX panel instead.

>>17051934
Good thing I already have the original godly OST at home. I won't support the kickstarter but as long as they don't censor (remove any type of content) I'll most likely buy the game when it's out. I have preference for no mosaics, specially with that godly art.

>>17051228
>always been MG's style to leave anything big for AX and Otakon so it's not surprising, but SP seems to be learning from that too? They don't seem to be blowing their load before then by announcing all their big stuff at the minor cons and having nothing at AX and Otakon.
With the way MG destroyed them last year I'm not surprised. I actually felt much more excited about MG announcements than the ones from SP.

>>17053758
MG announced like 8 titles combined from Otakon and AX, while SP announced Baldr Sky at AX, I think? And had nothing for Otakon.

It's not a hard comparison at all.

>>17053747
The penis might still be drawn like crap though, because of the mindset that it will be censored anyway.

I'm waiting to see how the translation is like, can't be worse than Insem's, can it? That was a J->C->E translation but CC shows that you can't underestimate SP.

>>17053783
Sekai also had KoiKuma and SakuSaku at AX. But Sekai last year had several big titles in the Winter and Spring, but ran out of titles to announce after AX.

https://twitter.com/haertsisnoob/status/866090989869551617

Time for the mangagamer panel that already got spoiled and leaked.

>>17053960
I'm cringing so hard

>>17054011

Shillin' porn ain't easy anonymous.

Also the presenters are local mercenaries doing it based off summaries so I doubt they've actually played any of the games[/spoiler}

>>17054017
One of them seem to be a big fan of the nukige stuff. Especially Kuroinu and Kyonyuu Fantasy.

cringe

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That ef hardcopy reminded me to go check the minori fundraiser

Whew, I don't even think they'll make it to supipara 2 before AX

>>17054059
The Steam summer sale might push them to the goal.

"The technical aspects are holding it up" aka doddler's being slow

I hate fujos.

>>17053960
Who are the people on the panel?

>>17052577
I don't think Clock Up has any other noteworthy edgy titles, so they might start doing their light hearted titles again. Maggot Baits was asked for a lot, which is one reason why they prioritized it

>>17054117

Just presenters if I recall. Last year they wasted like a half hour for QA which was totally pointless(because they didn't know anything), so that's why they're going through MG's entire catalog this year I imagine(to avoid that)

What a waste of time.

One hour of recaps later

Marina and Kyonyuu Fantasy Gaiden confirmed

who's the red headed semen demon?

>>17054186
Wasn't she a major character in the first game? I haven't played it, so I can't remember her name.

>>17054186
https://vndb.org/c8782

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>>17054190
>>17054200
i meant this one