LIly LYric cyCLE

https://archive.loveisover.me/u/thread/1600350/
https://archive.loveisover.me/u/thread/1887972/
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CM video of ririkuru duo series
歩実羽佳
http://youtu.be/BkUM96O9O2s
晴星良
http://youtu.be/KAlCT-mrdjE
なつき美緒
http://youtu.be/XSj_D-bA_pM

http://www.particle.jp.net/lilycle_rs/
The visual novel site is open.

Yuuno self-indotruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXSXQroIug
CM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCMR2WFWDR8

New Character duet songs are up on Yamibo
>http://www.yamibo.com/thread-242409-1-1.html

http://www.mediafire.com/download/9n2z9z4j2i5zcs9

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OHDMC67Uz0

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Happy new year image
(though so late)

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New radio series is updated!!!
...Though they are not a couple, They are main character

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fascinating!

>>1959060
Wah! What are we going to do on the bed, onee-chan?

bumpu

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I have no idea what this thread is about, but I was browsing the catalog and saw it near the bottom despite apparently being full-on yuri?

>>1980855
Nobody cares about it for some reason.

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>>1980855
We even got a proper kiss on the lips in one of the (translated) dramas, too bad!

A friend of mine just came back from Japan and while he was posting some photos I noticed this <-.

He did not realize what it was so it's a pure coincidence. He said he 'saw it in a few places' so apparently the VN gets advertized properly.
Hopefully it'll sell well! A little over a month until the release.

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http://youtu.be/Bo6sx-rrfGM
Opening movie is opened!!!

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>>1993621
Nice, they actually delivered, I'm hyped now.

>>1993651
Are they blood related?

>>1993666
Yes

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What's going on here?

>>1993771
They're original to the game, right? Maybe there'll be different routes for different couplings of that trio, like Kimihane.

>>1986763
That makes me sad for some reason.
What has this board done to me?

>>1986763
Well, it's drama CDs, which isn't really a medium I (and I imagine a lot of people here) am really that familiar with.

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I can't access previous threads here >>1949766 , can anyone upload them or something?

>>1993621
I'm... not too fond of the song, to be honest. It's not bad, but it's as generic as they come, and this is coming from a weeb J-Pop junkie. The video is pretty generic, too, but it's saved by all of these super cute and sweet sprites and CGs.

I really need to get into this series, I know it's diabetes-tier sweet and the moon's pretty easy, but my yuri VN backlog is stopping me.

>>1994226
I never knew that yuri VNs were releasing at a rate that could cause someone to have backlog. What are you playing that I do not know of.

I'm playing this in Mar, re-playing flowers Haru & Natsu to prep for Aki-hen in late Apr, then finally playing Aki-hen in May. I have so much time it's ridiculous. I think I can even squeeze kindred spirits in somewhere. I've been meaning to see how the localisation fared.

>>1994248
I just have too many other things on my plate, as heretic as this sounds, so I haven't really read a lot in the first place. Out of yuri VNs right now I need to read Futari no Qualia, possibly Kimihane and naturally lesbian rooftop ghosts. There's also a subtext-y Tristia and I've yet to read Hakuai and Flowers, the latter of which I've been specifically putting off because of the upcoming translation - but now that's unfortunately a non-issue. Was planning to get into LLC after ghosts.

Being really slow at reading moon doesn't help either.

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>>1993773
>like Kimihane
At least there is no Hina this time....
Would be nice if they add a threesome route.

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I finally listened to the drama CDs.

Hare x Seira best couple by far.

>>1996645
I kinda liked them as a couple but I didn't like their CD all that much. I actually wrote reviews for Vols 4-6 in the previous thread (and went over the character limit twice in my review of Vol 5 alone, uguu) but all the archives are down and Wayback Machine archived my review of Vol 4 only. Oh well.

>>1997164
Thank you, I just found it. Hope you don't mind me reposting vol 4 review for convenience until the archive is back.

>So, Vol 4, Himitsu Relation. The first one in the new trilogy. ... The... The... Well, that's it for the introduction!

>Waka is a super high tension character. She says how much she loves Ayumi whenever she gets the chance and she's a lot like Ibuki in this regard - frankly labelling her as a 'pervert' wouldn't be far off. She gets shot down by Ayumi regularly but it doesn't get her down (well, not for more than 5 seconds anyway). She gives more thought to her relationship with Ayumi than you'd give her credit for. She can overthink things and express her feelings in a roundabout way: she doesn't actually lose the plushies Ayumi gives her, she just pretends to do so to get new ones.

>Ayumi is very level headed and down-to-earth. She's the tsukkomi to Waka's boke but unlike Alice she doesn't tsukkomi with over-the-top violent outbursts. She's more deadpan and at times she plain ignores what Waka says and changes the topic. She cares about Waka a lot but she's hellbent about upholding their senpai-kouhai relationship. She's in perpetual state of self-denial about her feelings for Waka. Somewhat surprisingly despite her stoic manner she's not very self-confident.

>>2003489
>Interestingly a part of first chapter takes place before Waka takes the entrance exams; it's a first for the series I guess. Overall this Vol feels a lot like Vol 3, with a similar boke-tsukkomi comedy couple. The relationship angst coefficient is kept to minimum and the gap is filled with comedy instead. The confession is unusually anti-climatic but it a good sense: instead of shouting out their feelings on a cliff during a thunderstorm they just figure out that since their feelings are mutual they might as well go out. Although neither of them seems to have much of an idea what 'going out' consists of.

>Because of the nature of the Vol (comedy focused) it's not very easy to find something to write about. A good chunk of the CD is banter between Waka and her upperclassmen (since she's the only first year). ... Also finding the time to give it a proper listen proved to be a challenge for me so I had to keep pausing every 5 or so minutes only to abandon it for a day or two. As a result I'm sure I missed a lot; I just couldn't focus on it.

>I think a lot of people are wondering about how openly /u/ the new Vols are. 4 was pretty /u/. I'd rank it above Mai-Mayu and Ibuki-Alice. Ayumi and Waka's relationship doesn't really leave any room for interpretation but topping the lovey-dovey 'bakkouple' of Ayame and Hina is not an easy task.

I really want to read a review for vol 5 now, as that's the couple I'm most interested in among the new trilogy.

>>2003490
>I really want to read a review for vol 5 now
And I'd love to post it but unfortunately I'm pretty sure I didn't save it in any text file, nor did I post it anywhere outside of /u/. I'm sure I reviewed Vol 6 also (and got a reaction image out of a random passerby, since I had to break it up into at least 3 if not 4 posts due to the character limit) and maybe even 1-3 in an even older thread. Too bad all the archives are down.

Rainbow Stage release postponed until 4/28.
https://twitter.com/PARTICLE_YURI/status/707876082490281984

>>2005625
Goddammit Particle.
Oh well, I'd rather have them postpone it than release it in a buggy and unfinished state.

>>2005627
He says that the game itself is alright, looks like he set an unreasonable deadline for tokutens and they couldn't print them in time (or something like this).

>>2005629
O-oh, maybe I should've actually taken some time to read the actual tweet then, uguu.
I imagine pushing the release date back must be quite the setback though since all the promo material they released has the old date printed on it, and they put some effort into advertizing it seems (>>1989085).

So, I finally managed to access my old reviews. Not sure if it's just one person who cares about them but I'll repost them here anyway. Since it would get a bit spammy otherwise I'll just sage everything.
The reviews are relatively spoiler-free, thanks to, you know, actual spoiler tags. They're needlessly long however. My apologies. Anyway, here goes.

Well then, time to write something about Vol 5. I'll just jump straight to character introductions.

Seira is kinda who I expected her to be. She's a pretty typical short-fuse tsundere. She's very competetive and a bit of a sore loser. At the same time she's responsible and conscientious. If there's anything that surprised me about her tsundere-ness is that rather than being the 'can't-confess-her-feelings' of Natsume variety she's actually in denial about them. Well, to begin with she actually says that initially she (legitimately) hated Hare but over time she grew to love her as much as she hated her. Also, her dere side is REALLY dere. She can switch from tsun to dere pretty fast and while she doesn't go that far in the series it wouldn't feel weird if she asked Hare to pick some names for their children.

Unlike Seira Hare turned out to be a bit of a surprise for me. I expected her to be more of a flashy prince-type character. She's nothing like that, really. If one were to try to find a nice euphemism you could call her 'stoic' but to put it bluntly she's pretty phelgmatic. She's playing hooky from student council work whenever possible and carries a bit of '[everything is] pain in the ass' aura around her. Even though she skips out on work when she can she comes through in times when she's needed the most.
She picks on Seira a lot but rather than enjoying making Seira mad or trying to draw out a reaction from her Hare does it seemingly absent-mindedly (not unconciously, though). She's really 'business as usual' about the whole thing and usually proceeds to appease Seira (a little) after making her snarky remarks.
Frankly she's a bit of a 'spaced out' character (of the 'boke' variety). It took a while before her feelings caught up to her and Waka kinda helps her to realize she's in love with Seira. Reaching that conclusion doesn't disturb her usual, 'ah, I see' phlegmatic pace.

This volume was rather drama-free as well although I guess there was a bit of angst in the confession chapter. ... It feels kinda weird to have yuri stories that are this drama-free.
Hare and Seira are very much frenemies. In the seiyuu commentary track Fujita used the term 'kenkappuru' to desribe them (clever and convenient, didn't hear that one before) - basically a couple that fights a lot. There's certainly quite a bit of bickering going on between these two. I wouldn't say they are on Sakurako-Himawari/Kanade-Hibiki level (mostly due to Hare not being a tsundere, so it's not exactly double tsun: Hare just likes to add fuel to fire at times) but they fight a lot.

It's not a bad thing per se but I expected something different from this vol and thus ended up being somewhat disappointed. I thought Hare would be flashy and flirty and Seira would go from going full tsun when Hare would flirt with her to full jealous when she'd spot Hare flirting with other girls or something of the sort. And then Hare would actually fall in love with Seira and she'd get really self-concious all of a sudden.
Well, something like that anyway. Making snarky comments to push Seira's buttons would've been nice, too (she does that anyway but her motivation for doing it is different).

I've also ended up being a bit disappointed by the voice acting this time around. I've heard Matsui Eriko a number of times before but she usually uses that high pitched voice with stretched vowels (somehow I can't remember her voice as Isuzu). It feels, uh, 'round' (great adverb to use here, it helps everybody understand what I meant perfectly, good job me). She sounds more bored and 'flat' in Vol 5. There's something about that voice that rubbed me the wrong way I guess. Hard to express and thoroughly subjective obviously.
Fujita on the other hand felt too animated. Her parts seemed overacted. They felt way less off when I tried to visualize Seira actually saying them so maybe it's just a matter of Fujita's animated acting being a mismatch for a drama CD. If you were to see Seira in motion it'd probably be a whole lot easier to stomach. Frankly I don't think she pushes her acting far beyond the bounds of Ayano but yeah, it just felt off.

I guess I should say something about the extent of Hare's and Seira's relationship since I've done the same for Vol 4. Again, nothing to misinterpret here, their feelings are mutual and properly stated. They feel a wee bit less /u/ than Ayumi-Waka; I guess their relationship lacks a feeling of intimacy. Maybe because they went from rivals to lovers. But yeah, they are a legit couple no matter how you try to spin the tale.

I really enjoyed the seiyuu commentary track. Surely the best one yet. Also the longest one by a pretty wide margin. I don't know how well Fujita and Matsui know each other but they don't really seem to be complete strangers. (I actually looked it up just now and they're not from the same agency). They get along really well. Also Matsui calls Fujita 'Saki-senpai'.
Most of the time the 'free talk' tracks feel kinda forced and there's an air of 'well, they did ask us to say something...' but these two genuinely seem to enjoy talking with each other. The track is so long because they didn't really seem to keep track of time. Saki seems to be pretty fun to listen to, I might dig for some radio recordings where she appeared as a guest.
Another thing that kinda caught my attention after listening to Vol 4 is that they picked some weird seiyuu for the characters this time around. Matsui says she never stared in a yuri work before and Suzaki Aya said the same thing last time. ... I'd have to relisten to both of those tracks again to remember what was it that I really wanted to say but overall I just didn't feel the love for yuri from them I guess.
Fujita actually asks 'eh, didn't you play a character that loves her sister?' (refering to Benio from Mikakunin) and Matsui is pretty confused and kinda claims that's not 'really' yuri and they proceed to talk about 'love' vs 'like' a bit (using the actual English words to avoid the ambiguity of Japanese 'suki'). Well, in a way Matsui wasn't completely wrong but she made it kinda obvious that she thinks two sisters together is NG which in turn makes me think she's doesn't know anything about previous Ririkuru vols, heh.

Sheesh, I sure wrote a lot this time around, didn't I? Which is amusing because while I wouldn't say I disliked Vol 5 it's not my favorite and ended up being a bit of a let-down for me (was looking forward to it the most among the 'new trilogy').

After giving it some more thought I decided to repost Vol 6 some other time. Wouldn't wanna flood the thread with my posts too much. So yeah, that's it for today!

>>2015011
Thank you for the review.

I'd say don't be afraid of flooding the thread though, considering its level of activity.

Did anyone ever translate Yuuno, Tamaki and Saeka character profile?

>>2015380
No one did it.

>>2015041
>I'd say don't be afraid of flooding the thread though, considering its level of activity.
Relatively lack of activity is actually the problem here, just makes it look like 90% of the stuff in the thread are my crappy, longass reviews.

>>2015380
I sat down to do just that like 5 times and I ended up being distracted by something else each time.
To my knowledge they're still untranslated.

Trial version is out:
https://twitter.com/PARTICLE_YURI/status/713275713789362177

>>2016133
>1,2GB
That's one hefty trial.

>>2016133
The text is often uncomfortable to read or clashing depending on the character's color, and it's really irritating that auto mode sometimes cuts the ends of lines short. It would be nice if they got the fundamentals right.

So I don't know much about this series. Can somebody tell me if there's anything noticeable about its seiyuu, considering the franchise spawn from drama CDs? I heard there's a couple of Yuru Yuri seiyuu starring in this.

>>2016660
>I heard there's a couple of Yuru Yuri seiyuu starring in this.
Akari, Kyouko, Chinatsu, Ayano, Kaede and Mari's seiyuu are in it

>>2016735
I see, thanks.

I thought Ibuki was best girl, funny to find out she's voiced by best Yuru.

>>2016758
She is quite like if Kyouko grew up a bit and got a job as a maid in order to get close to a Reo-esque ojou-sama.

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>>2016488
>it's really irritating that auto mode sometimes cuts the ends of lines short
Turns out that it is possible to avoid that by setting the auto mode slower, but the slider for that was ignored until I restarted the game. It does mean the unspoken lines wait longer than it takes to read them, but the game is mostly spoken so I can live with that. That also means the text colors aren't too bothersome as I can just listen mostly anyway.

Technical irritations aside, it's nice. No sign of it trying for emotional depth or very much of a story, but I enjoy the moe manzai of it. Good delivery from the cast helps.

So the events in the game start before the drama CDs' events. Kinda disappointed, wanted to see them as couples from the beginning.

Anyone have the .docx files for the translated stuff? I want to have them on my PC but the guys who translated the 3 volumes + Winter/Summer stuff haven't set it so they can be downloaded.

I really don't want to depend on my internet for that. Plus, archival purposes.

>>2020246
We'll contact seiyuuri and try to do something about it.

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Anime announced? It is an April fool joke though.
That said, they tweeted something similar in the last year's April fool's day, about the drama CDs becoming a VN, some months later Rainbow Stage was announced, so who knows...

Anyway, in the next tweet they said they are hiring new people because they are expanding or some shit like that. Maybe they are planning more stuff after the game, that would be nice.
I find really surprising how succeful this series has become in Japan, I thought it was going to flop, but I was totally wrong.

>>2021594
>Anyway, in the next tweet they said they are hiring new people because they are expanding or some shit like that.
That's also a joke. The job was for measuring yuri sugar content.

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An April Fools' idea discarded because it didn't feel much like a lie

>>2022024
Best couple and Seira best girl.

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It's nice to see people talk about this series since no one seems to know about it. I'm definitely a fan of Saeka because she's calm, chill, and ninja. But I can't stand girls like Seira whose reason to be angry can only be understood through narration... Meh; Finger sucking scenes will make up for that, though.

>>2022609
>since no one seems to know about it
What did you expect? It's a drama CD series, a niche within a niche. VN certainly adds more attention to it and that anon's >>2019439
complains are unfair because most of the readers probably didn't know about this series before VN.

The designs are really cute. It should get atleast an OVA

>>2022609
I like Saeka too, probably second best girl after playing the trial.
Also, Saeka x Tamaki sensei OTP. Funny, since before playing the trial, I thought it was going to be the worst option.

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I translated each character description from the official website and added it to VNDB for anyone curious about who the characters are: https://vndb.org/v18057

These CGs can get so moe that nosebleeds become inevitable.

>>2023223
This visual novel got a translation?

>>2022609
>>2023223
dont like the font, some of the letter are hard to read.

>>2023253
The font is fine, its the lack of color contrast that makes it hard to read.

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>>2023230
No, I just translated a few scenes, including the one in this post. I did enjoy the trial version, and since my Japanese could use some work, I wouldn't mind translating all of it for practice.

>>2023304
If your Japanese needs practice, read and listen to more. Translating isn't a good use of time.

>>2023223
>>2023304
Can't read shit, use different colours.

>>2023340
It's the usual anon who shills his yt channel here.

Hmmm, I think now would be a good time to repost Vol 6 review so here I go.
It's really long. Sorry about that. I could use an editor it seems! Heh. Anyway, here goes:

Time for Vol 6 review. (I actually had some good introduction in the version I lost but I can't remember it anymore.) [Note: I first listened to Vol 6 from my mp3 player while I was in The Middle of Nowhere. I wrote down my thoughts on a sheet of paper but I lost it, unfortunately.]

Natsuki. I thought Natsuki's central character trait will be her laziness. It does seem that way at first but somewhat surprisingly there's much more to her than that. Instead of being plain lazy she can't bring herself to act due to her paralyzing fear of failure. Also rather than being a sloth who just leans on Mio out of convenience her dependence on Mio is much more childlike, complete with some (unfounded) fear of abandonment. She's just very weak emotionally.

Mio was supposed to be a 'yandere' (I'll actually get back to these labels later) but despite some of her stalker-ppoi habbits she's not possessive in any way or form and she even encourages Mio to make more friends. Her world revolves around Mio but between these two I'd say it's Natsuki who is actually much more clingy. She's a warm, motherly character.

This volume made me think about the relationship between the main characters more than any of the previous CDs. There are many sides to it - in the free talk they get labeled as a 'dame couple' due to Natsuki's overreliance on Mio; sometimes they feel like mother and child, sometimes like an old marriage. They are childhood friends (somewhat amusingly this is played so straight that the entire vol begins with a marriage promise they made when they were kids) and it really shows. What kinda suprised me when I started thinking about it is that it's actually the first osananajimi couple we've had yet.
Anyway, these two have an aura that's kinda hard to describe in words. When they're together (and they are together a lot) they go off into their own little world and pretty much ignore their surroundings.

There weren't as many fluff SoL situations in vol 6 as there were in previous vols. Instead there was more relationship focus and the fluff portions got turned into AAANGST. Normally I dislike angst and I prefer my fuwafuwa happy-go-lucky yuri but honestly this has worked out pretty well for vol 6.
What surprised me the most about this volume however was Kanemoto's voice acting. I've heard her in lots of anime and I actually happen to like her quite a bit but I always thought of her as someone who's way more suited for comedy than drama. She does a wonderful job at making Nacchan sound worried and insecure at just the right moments. The way she reads her lines gets across much more information than the lines themselves. Akasaki gives a good performance as well (although I wouldn't have expected any less from her) - both of them do a hell of a job at creating their characters through their voice acting.

This is something that I kinda disliked about vol 5. I found Hitsuji to be too tsundere-ppoi, like a character created using a cookie cutter. Hare on the other hand was really bland; I'm watching Joukamachi this season and Matsui Eriko voices a character capable of creating 'clones' - each of them (there are 6 IIRC) has more personality than Hare (we're talking voice acting mind you).

I usually mention the yuri level at the end but it's probably kind pointless by now. The status of Mio's and Nacchan's relationship is pretty obvious. Now that I think about it they might be the first couple to sleep together. ... 'Sleep together' as in 'sleep in the same bed' of course.
I think vols 1-3 were less blatantly yuri because particle was still feeling out the waters. They held polls before ex 1/2 and I'm guessing they got lots of 'less 'special friends', more 'lovers' please!' responses. Then again Ayame and Hina are still the sole couple to share a proper kiss. We'll see how it'll develop in the future I guess, especially in Rainbow Stage.

Last and actually least, seiyuu commentary track. While Akasaki and Kanemoto seem to know each other and act somewhat friendly with each other the track itself feels pretty stiff. Half the reason we didn't bother with translations of seiyuu tracks is that they felt pretty official, stiff and - frankly - kinda boring. Vol 6 has one of those. If they were all more like vol 5 I think we'd go through the extra trouble.

Oh, right, I promised to address the personality labels. Haraguro/uzakawa, ikemen/tsundere, kuudere/yandere. In each of these pairs one makes sense, the other - not so much. Waka is very 'uza-kawaii', Hitsuji is a tsundere (to a fault, unfortunately) and Nacchan is a bit of a kuudere (although I'd describe her as more of a dandere I guess but it's not much of a difference). But I (we, actually) legitimatelly have no idea what was supposed to make Ayumi a haraguro, Hare felt more 'hetare' than 'ikemen' (personality-wise) and while Mio is pretty obsessed with Nacchan she's not the least bit clingy so she's a total failure as a tsundere.
I don't think I'm complaining here, in fact not paying attention to such tropes is for the best because the characters feel less generic as a result. But if that's the case why bother bringing them up to begin with?

One last thing I'd like to mention are the relationship settings. Vol 1 has 'more than friends, less than lovers' (intially of course); Vol 2 has sisters; Vol 3 has a bit of 'servant-master' going on and they're cousins on top of that; Vol 4 is senpai-kouhai; Vol 5 has rivals; and fianlly Vol 6 has an osananajimi couple. ... What else could they even come up with? Fels like they've exhausted just about all their options. The only other things I can think of right now is 'stundent-teacher(/nurse)' but it feels like Ririkuru won't go there (shame!).

And now for some new content.

>>2020246
>>2021188
So yeah, that went kinda nowhere for the time being. It's a bit of a complicated situation and I'm really swamped with stuff right now and can't make the time to try to do something about it. Sorry. The best I can do right now is upload the non-QCed versions for you - without seiyuuri's editing - but let me warn you that they weren't QCed for show.

>>2022609
>It's nice to see people talk about this series since no one seems to know about it.
Same here!

>>2022730
Well, it would be silly to make the VN cover post drama CD material only. It would only allienate potential customers.

>>2023223
Very nice! I'm(/we) are actually considering translating the VN myself(/ourselves) but it depends on many many variables, so right now the chances of a translation materializing is about ~35%. But if you'd like to do it yourself that'd be great. It's not like there's a shortage of yuri that needs to get translated so when I'll finally be a bit more free I can just translate something else. As long as the translations reach the people who want to read them!

>>2024244
>I think vols 1-3 were less blatantly yuri
Yeah, I thought the same. I actually lost all the interest in the series after the Mai/Mayu and Ibu/Alice drama CDs, since I was expecting actual yuri.
It also annoyed me the series promoted itselfs as a "yuri series that can be enjoyed by non yuri fans",

I only picked up the new drama CDs after seeing Mai and Mayu actually kissing in the opening, and I found them a lot better and more blatantly yuri than the first season ones. EX drama CDs were pretty good too.
Also, looks like they dropped the "yuri series that can be enjoyed by non yuri fans" too.

It is pretty obvious it will happens at this point, but I want all the couples to get a proper kiss in the game.

>I'm(/we) are actually considering translating the VN myself(/ourselves)
Would be nice.

>>2024247
Hara-Guro and Yana-Dere had question marks so were probably meant as jokes. RS does give nods to them.

>and they're cousins on top of that;
Are they? I think they were childhood friends. They've got cousins covered now though, along with roommates and student-teacher.

>>2024267
>Yeah, I thought the same. I actually lost all the interest in the series after the Mai/Mayu and Ibu/Alice drama CDs, since I was expecting actual yuri.
I was a bit disappointed by Mai/Mayu but it was obvious that incest is a bit of a touchy issue. Vol 3 might've been lacking in yuri but it's probably my favorite one yet so there's that.

>yuri series that can be enjoyed by non yuri fans
>I only picked up the new drama CDs after seeing Mai and Mayu actually kissing in the opening, and I found them a lot better and more blatantly yuri than the first season ones. EX drama CDs were pretty good too.
>Also, looks like they dropped the "yuri series that can be enjoyed by non yuri fans" too.

Well, it's no wonder they were trying to reach out to as wide an audience as possible. But then they probably realize there's more money to be made by being less half assed about the yuri content.
They had polls after Vols 1-3. I think they got a lot of 'make this more yuri' feedback which is why they did just that for vols 4-6.

>Would be nice.
It would, but unfortunately days are only 24 hours long, and to be perfectly honest I'm not even sure my Japanese is at a high enough level to get it done. I've downloaded the demo as soon as they released it but I've been so busy I didn't even manage to unpack it yet, much less (try to) read it.

>>2024288
>Are they? I think they were childhood friends.
Pretty confident they're actually related, although it's been like 2 years since I last listened to Vol 3.

>>2024291
>it was obvious that incest is a bit of a touchy issue
Yeah, that's why I picked up the series again after seeing them kissing in the opening, If the sisters are kissing, the others couples will deliver too.

>>2024249
>Sorry. The best I can do right now..
's okay. Ultimately someone can (even I, if I ever stop being a lazy fuck) just copy the text and paste it in a word file and mirror whatever it's showing in the online version. But I'm just a lazy asshole so.

Interesting. The website says the game will have 10 happy endings? I'm assuming that's one ending per pairing (6 of them) and four possibilities for the remaining threesome:

- Yuuno x Tamaki
- Tamaki x Saeka
- Saeka x Yuuno
- Threesome

>>2026318
Is there any precedent in the series for a threesome end? I know little about this all of this since I just discovered the thread recently and I can't imagine a threesome with this art.

>>2026372
There's no sex at all with this art, if that's what you thought anon meant.

>>2026372
The VN has incest between blood related sisters, so I wouldn't be surprised with a threesome end. Specially after playing the trial, those three are always together, even in the promo art.

If you are talking about sex though, forget it, the series is totally sfw.

>>2026416
That is almost reassuring, it would probably be too good for mortal eyes to look upon without a pure soul anyway.

>>2026510
I don't see how incest makes a threesome more likely if the series is sfw-only. If it had to have a poly end I would hope for a more sensible cause like having them admit they would want to share instead of steal/abandon the other sister. Otherwise your comment made me imagine it would use hentai logic where one taboo opens the door to a world of endless debauchery.

>>2026617
The sister couple isn't the game original trio (who are a student teacher and 2 roommate pupils, one them a cousin of the teacher).

Rather than hentai logic, it's a lighthearted series where they don't let realistic concerns put a downer on things. If incest gets a pass like that, then optional polyamory doesn't seem like it would be a step too far.

>>2026617
Like the other anon said, the sisters are a different couple, not a part of the possible threesome.

Also, as someone who listened to the drama CDs and played the trial, I can totally see them adding a threesome end.
I remember in the Natsuki/Mio drama CD, after they confess, Mio says something like "isn't is weird for us to like each other, since we are both girls?", Natsuki answers "Yeah, it it weird, but I'm weird, so being weird is fine" and the problem was solved in 30 seconds. They can do something similar and give us a threesome end in the VN without even drama.

>>2026621
>>2026640
Oh, that makes more sense, thanks.

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>>2026372
>I can't imagine a threesome with this art
I can

FWIW, my impression from all the promotion arts/vids was that Yuuno is the "harem lead" where she could go for either Tamaki or Saeka. Tamaki and Saeka scenes together look more like normal friends getting along to talk about Yuuno, than having any romantic tension between themselves.

My impression from the character profiles though, is that Yuuno is fixated on her cousin Tamaki, and Saeka won't be the "true ending."

I'm waiting for the full game instead of playing the demo, let's see if the game can convince me those 3 are really equal protagonists.

Sorry guys, when I said "threesome", I meant it in the SFW way. I legitimately thought it was an appropriate way to describe the three of them getting along and dating each other at the same time. ;__;

>>2027003
Yuuno being the harem lead was my first impression as well. However, after skimming through the trial (literally just holding that CTRL key and PRIMARILY stopping for Seira x Hare scenes- err...), I saw a bit of Saeka x Tamaki potential.

Actually, Saeka isn't very well acquainted with Tamaki (if at all) before the novel starts, right? As far as I'm aware, Tamaki is just Yuuno's cousin. I got the impression that Saeka thought Tamaki's clumsy nature was cute, hence why I just kind of felt like shipping them with each other.

In any case, I've never actually imported a VN before (hooray for internets), but I think this one is going to be my first. Hooray for taking my VN virginity.

>>2026372
Oh crap, I forgot to reply to this comment. Again, when I said threesome, I just meant it in the SFW way.

And if you're wondering why I think a trio end is plausible... it's just because of all the art floating around and the fact that the site says there are 10 happy endings in all. The way I divided these possible endings made sense to me, so why not.

As well, a trio ending is something that has not been explored yet in the Lilycle series. We've seen the best friends pairing, the incest pairing, the tsundere x maid thing, the senpai x kouhai stuff, the typical tsundere rival x cool and unbeatable student council president and the childhood friends pairing.

It wouldn't be a surprise to me at all if the three of them ended up together, but it would only be one of the endings. I'm almost positive we'll be seeing different variations of the trio though (Yuuno x Tamaki, Saeka x Tamaki, Yuuno x Saeka).

>>2027003
Tamaki and Saeka just met like two months after the school year started, but they got extremely close in no time. Also, all the Tamaki/Saeka/Yuuno scenes in the trial are in early months. So we don't know how their relationship goes by the end of the game.

Okay, I bite. Went and skimmed through the demo and suddenly Saeka became my second favourite in the whole franchise, just after Ibuki. Let's see if she can hold the spot or even become an equal with Ibuki when the whole game comes out.

Seeing how the opening vid has several kissing scenes, it's quite safe to assume that every couple will have one, and that this VN will take place both before and after the CDs events (a.k.a. we will get to see everyone's relationship development).

Some of the sentiments other anons had shared in this thread that I agreed:
- Saeka/Tamaki shoots straight from the worst to potentially the most desirable pairing. Going by visuals alone, I seriously thought I would only prefer either of them with Yuuno. Yuuno is kind of a disappoinment. She's not as cool as she looks, and more of a loud annoying type like Mai or Waka. Saeka on the other hand is hella cool. Dat easy confidence and ninja. I nearly die just thinking about the possibility of her getting charmed by the clumsy Tamaki.

- Hare's voice acting felt really flat in CD5. A shame, since Hare/Seira was the couple that visually appealed the most to me. I don't like her casual clothes in the VN that much either.

Last but not least: Ibuki is as fabulous as ever. The power of voice acting, man.

>>2027167
Agreed, I thought Yuuno x Tamaki or Yuuno x Saeka were the best options for the trio, but after looking through the trial, it turns out, Saeka x Tamaki is the best IMO.

I love that Saeka is serious and somewhat shy, but still swoons over Tamaki. Oh yeah, and the fact that she's kind of a ninja.

Our opinions differ with Hare! I felt that Hare's voice acting was spot on in the drama CD and the VN! It may sound flat or stoic, but I think it matches her character. This is the beauty of acting though, everyone's interpretations and opinions are different.

Oh, I guess I should mention I'm a die-hard Matsui Eriko fan too though. Her casual clothes look great to me, but are oddly unfitting for some reason...

>>2027167
Kinda repeating myself here as I'm just reposting stuff from a repost (>>2015007) but:

>I've also ended up being a bit disappointed by the voice acting this time around. I've heard Matsui Eriko a number of times before but she usually uses that high pitched voice with stretched vowels (somehow I can't remember her voice as Isuzu). It feels, uh, 'round' (great adverb to use here, it helps everybody understand what I meant perfectly, good job me). She sounds more bored and 'flat' in Vol 5. There's something about that voice that rubbed me the wrong way I guess. Hard to express and thoroughly subjective obviously.

So yeah, I agree.

>Last but not least: Ibuki is as fabulous as ever. The power of voice acting, man.

I agree with this as well, Ibu is great.

Man, it feels so good to see Ririkuru threads finally being alive. It took almost three years but we finally managed to get here. (´;ω;`)

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Vol 1 <恋心フレンズ> / <Koibito Friends>

>Pink
Wakamiya Hina
CV: Mikami Shiori: myanimelist.net/people/11236/Mikami_Shiori

>Orange
Segawa Ayame
CV: Takamori Natsumi: myanimelist.net/people/11659/Takamori_Natsumi

Release date: 27th November 2013
Self-introductions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRTL4G58Jcw - not translated (yet?), sorry

Translation of the introduction image: pastebin.com/ErQ62ZJS

Translations:
ch1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8Y0JfRTlHZk9uRVE/edit?usp=sharing
ch2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8OS1hNUZIQ2Uzbkk/edit?usp=sharing
ch3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8a2RwdENXaHhPME0/edit?usp=sharing
ch4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8NTJxOVFJQUZNOEE/edit?usp=sharing
ch5: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8ODk4d0lSMW9xLXc/edit?usp=sharing
ch6: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8SXpmY3kzUWlzWVE/edit?usp=sharing
ch7: [free talk, we didn't translate those]

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Vol 2 <bitter honey>

>Blue
Shiina Mayu
CV: Asakura Azumi: myanimelist.net/people/1722/Asakura_Azumi

>Purple
Shiina Mai
CV: Uchida Maaya: myanimelist.net/people/13639/Uchiida_Maya

Release date: 25th December 2013
Self-indotructions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTK_raaZltU - not translated (yet?), sorry

Translation of the introduction image: http://pastebin.com/JufA14Dz

Translations:
ch1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8UnloZ3hqeDVJdHM/view?usp=sharing
ch2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8X3lxMUV6MHF0blU/view?usp=sharing
ch3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8MWRGUDJ2M1E5TEk/view?usp=sharing
ch4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8Um8wSXpjcVhEOUk/view?usp=sharing
ch5: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8QWRLanNuaE1kQjg/view?usp=sharing
ch6: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8OW1wNnA1cGo5NGM/view?usp=sharing
ch7: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8MVBJck1oZnFPUG8/view?usp=sharing (translated by seiyuuri, a group which also did QCs)

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Vol 3 <もっと、ずっと、ぎゅっと> / <Motto, Zutto, Gyutto>

>Light Blue
Kugayama Alice
CV: Uchida Aya: myanimelist.net/people/8921/Uchida_Aya

>Green
Oribe Ibuki
CV: Ōtsubo Yuka: myanimelist.net/people/12452/Ootsubo_Yuka

Release date: 29th January 2014
Self introductions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzEjzfcSEc - not translated (yet?), sorry

Translation of the introduction image: pastebin.com/3QuVArkh

Translations:
ch1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8SWtsWmdlQTgwR2s/view?usp=sharing
ch2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8MEcwU0V2N1pXRWc/view?usp=sharing
ch3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8bmZtQ3FrWnVvQUU/view?usp=sharing
ch4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8NFZwVUZCak03bTA/view?usp=sharing
ch5: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8OWJjQXRQRUNxVHM/view?usp=sharing
ch6: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8OEUxbnFxWDFoN3M/view?usp=sharing
ch7: [free talk, we didn't translate those]

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Before listening to EX you should check out these:
>>1949765
>Batch (all 6 vids): www.mediafire.com/download/6o3332g2gzyn347/Ririkuru+character+introductions+(batch).zip

ex 1 <夏休み編 -smile with sun-> / <Natsuyasumi-hen -smile with sun->

Same cast as first 3 CDs.
Introduction vids are in the link above.

Release date: 30th July 2014

Translations:
ch1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8SXM5RGNtUW4wNXc
ch2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4lT8NrX-oL8clRneTVzUGt2ajQ
ch3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8Ym9pckRvM25HM0E
ch4: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8T2FjVHkxZ3BCQ0k
ch5: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8RlpRb1Awa1FFYjQ
ch6: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8U3ExbUZxTmFBUFU
ch7: [free talk]

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ex2 <冬休み編 -trust in snow-> / <Fuyuyasumi-hen -trust in snow->

Same cast as first 3 CDs.
Link to character introduction vids in the previous post (and OP).

Release date: 29th October 2014

Translations:
ch1: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8LTl4bUxBdnhRRFU
ch2: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8ODhaVjlmQnczdWM
ch3: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8bHNSTFAxM2Zsems
ch4: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8REQySE1SMTFPY1E
ch5: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8ZFRrOEFBc19sYjA
ch6: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lT8NrX-oL8R0tYQ0JmU041RzA
ch7: [free talk]

This got a tad spammy, my bad (everything was properly saged, though!). I was trying to figure out whether there's much of a point to reposting these this late in the thread for a while but I decided to go through with it because...

Yesterday I talked about drama CD translations with some IRC buddies of mine and most of them were strong supporters of making a video file out of it and timing the subs to the audio.

If we have a timer who's bored enough to do this I'm pretty sure we could get the QCed translations from seiyuuri.
It'd be cool to use fully translated introduction images (like the ones in previous 5 posts) for the vid too, so that'd be a job for some typesetter/graphic designer. Using them as is would require extensive cleaning and redrawing so it might be better to wait till the game will be out as we'll have lots of sprites to work with.

The introduction vids are in webm format because I used to repost them in /wsg/ anime threads a bit. I haven't done it in a while but maybe I'll do it next week, seeing how the VN release date is right around the corner.

Just preordered the game off of Amazon earlier this morning, hooray. I see that my copy will come with a ticket to meet half of the cast at some event in June? Maybe I should consider attending, haha.

>>2028085
That's for the drawing for being able to buy tickets

>>2028085
>>2028108
You better upload the drama CDs that comes with the pre order.

>>2024247
>Vol 3 has a bit of 'servant-master' going on and they're cousins on top of that
Is the cousins info included in a special or something? Because there's no mention of it in drama CD3 nor character profile of Ibuki and Alice.

>>2028167
This is the second time I'm answering this kinda. Did you relisten to the CD or maybe ctrl+v the translations? I was really sure they were cousins but my source is the CD so maybe I'm just completely wrong. And now that I think about it it's weird that it's not mentioned elsewhere so all sings point to me being wrong. My apologies.

I might actually try to relisten to it myself just to confirm this but yeah, for now let's assume I'm wrong since that sounds more likely.

>>2028085
Pretty nice, good to know /u/ supports the industry!

>>2028176
I just listened to the whole vol 3, yes.

Haven't listened to the two extra CDs (because I won't be able to download through torrent for a while), that's why I don't know if the cousins thing is mentioned there or not. Because vol 3 only said they're childhood friends.

Btw, could some kind soul upload the extra CDs to Mediafire or Mega, please?

>>2028183
Here you go

Smile with sun
http://www.mediafire.com/download/a7bw4z4w0069d1o/

Trust in snow
http://www.mediafire.com/download/4vneasn2a1puqet/

>>2028108
Ohh, I see, thanks for the clarification! I will still probably try to go to Japan this summer anyway.

>>2028111
Haha, the 7th drama CD, right? I could do it, but the package gets here a few days (3-4) after release, so someone else will probably beat me to it.

>>2028176
I think you replied to the wrong comment... nonetheless, I always thought they were sisters (granted, it's been VERY long since I heard the second drama CD). I will check it again later.

>>2028272
Oh shit, I'm retarded. You guys were debating Ibuki and Alice, not Mai and Mayu.

>>2028260
Thank you so much!

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If anyone here has played the trial version, can someone explain this scene in the photo that occurs on 7/14 where Ibuki attempts to lick Alice's fingers? And thanks for the links from above.

>>2030252
Ibuki admonishes Alice it's bad manners to lick her fingers even if she's got "happy powder" (from Happy Turn, it has a reputation for being tasty) on them. Of course Ibuki wants to lick Alice's fingers herself. So Alice implies she'll get wasabi on her fingers so they'd burn Ibuki.

>>2030252
What >>2030376 says. And since I was bored:

Ibu: My my*, ojou-sama, even if it's Happy Powder licking your fingers is bad mannaers.
Alice: Y-yeah, I get that...
Ibu: So I'll lick them instead.
Alice: Oh, this spicy** wasabi (flavored) snack looks tasty~

* TL note: 'my my' means 'ara ara'.
** TL note 2: Alice actually says 'tsuntsun' which doesn't directly translate to 'spicy' (that's 辛い). Tsuntsun is an onomatopoeia (not really but let's not get into that this time) that represents what happens to your nose/sinuses when you eat wasabi/strong horseradish/other things like that. You've probably experienced it before.

>>2030376
>>2030413
Ah, I see now. I didn't know つんつん could also mean spicy. Ty both!

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>>2030252
There's a few more lines after the above photo in the link that's been killing me to know for the past couple of days, especially the last 2 lines (takes place in 7/14 in the trial). In this photo, it says something like:

Ibuki: Hieek!
Ibuki: I have wet tissues... *cries*... everyone can have some too... *cries*...
Yuuno: Why do you sound disappointed...?
Ibuki: Because that was my chance to lick her fingers, legally... *cries*...

[Here's where I wasn't sure]
Saeka: (Something about worrying the legality of it all?) 心に引っかかる = stuck in the back of my mind
Mayu: (Something about already personally being imprisoned)

>>2030555
The verb 引っかかる is being used in the sense of it being it being against a law (it would "catch" on that law).

心の法 would be like moral judgement. Mayu thinks Ibuki was already past the point where she'd have been imprisoned, metaphorically.

>>2030577
How about this:

Saeka: 「心の法には引っかかりそうですけど」 = "So you were worried about whether or not it was legal."

Mayu: 「個人的には、既に獄中なんだけど」 = "She'd probably be serving time if you ask me."

In case anyone was still doubting even with kiss scenes being present, the Seiyuus said on the radio show that this will really contain absolute, unambiguous, pure romance.

>>2030615
No, Saeka is saying Ibuki licking Alice seems like it would fall foul of "laws of the heart".

>>2030643
>absolute, unambiguous
What the seiyuu recognize as unambiguous wouldn't necessarily overcome the demanding levels of some people on /u/, but I'm surprised they would even be speaking about whether it was ambiguous or not. What episode and segment of the show was that?

>>2032670
That's just the sort of thing people say about stuff that's good enough that it's worthwhile for people beyond specific genre fans.

It's canon couples. The first drama CD for each couple was about how they confessed.

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If anyone has played the trial, can someone explain the scene in this photo? It happens on May 27th and involves Mayu asking whether or not Mai went to a friend's place. I threw in a translation that might fit, but I'm not too sure.

Mai: "Ah, yeah. I went with everyone else."
Mai: "...And they're your friends... So I was curious about who they are..."
Mayu: "...What's there to be curious about...?"
Mai: "Hehe... ///"
Mai: So~ Mayu was concerned about me going to a friend's place~ I get it now~

3 days left, I hope we can get a torrent the same day.

>>2037970
I really really don't see htat happening. Not that I'd want it to happen anyway. I'd give it a week.

My copy is now with the delivery courier. Hype!

>>2040716
I would love to buy this, but importing can be so expensive here sometimes.

Quite a lot of bonus items.
-Fully coloured visual book
-Drama CD Vol. 7
-OP/ED CD

>>2040736
When is it ever cheap for anyone?

Threesome end confirmed
http://seiya-saiga.com/game/particle/lilycle.html

>>2041104
Shit, I was right. 10 endings in total, as mentioned before.

>>2040716
Mine is as well. DHL? :P

>>2041110
Just got the game, but will play it later. The hype is real. Would upload some stuff, but the bystander effect is real.

Haven't played through a lot, but judging by the ending songs, I'm getting the feeling that Saeka is the main character of the three.

>tfw no torrent

>>2041361
I'm pretty sure if anyone is the main character among the three, it would be Yuuno. She's always in the center position in arts that feature the three of them together as a group, as well as the only one that is always chosen to be full sized surrounded by chibis of other characters.

>>2041110
EMS. I ordered it before Amazon allowed overseas purchases.

It progresses like Yurirei does, on a calendar. Selecting and viewing an event unlocks more events. RS changes pov to one of the characters in the pairing for that event.

>>2041395
RS?

>>2041400
Rainbow Stage

This is silly but it's bothering me:
That's not a library... That looks more like a bookstore to me.

>>2041412
I tried changing the POV in the trial but couldn't do it, or I don't know how to do it.

>>2041366
Ah, maybe. I retract what I said earlier - I thought Saeka was in all three ED songs (I thought I heard three voices in track 02, but it's only two, like the others).

I had also felt like Saeka gave off a "protagonist" feeling- moreso than the other two, at least. I am being stupidly subjective though, so feel free to ignore what I said before, haha.

(I'm undoubtedly biased about Saeka <3)

>>2041416
I don't believe you are able to control POV changes. The game plays out like Yurirei no Okujou-san with the calendar/planner system, but where it differs is that POVs change within a single event. You don't get to choose who to change to.

>>2041414
I noticed that too. I assume it's a stock background. Maybe they couldn't find a decent one of a school library.

No links yet?

>>2042035
Buy it, if you're that desperate for it.

>>2042274
I'd buy a digital version.

>>2042278
You're in luck then. It'll go on sale on 6th May. Under a week to go.

http://dlsoft.dmm.com/detail/pgpr_0006/?utm_medium=dmm_affiliate&utm_source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.particle.jp.net%2Flilycle_rs%2F

>>2042286
Regular edition here
http://dlsoft.dmm.com/detail/pgpr_0007/

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>>2042286
>>2042288
Already tried that, but it is not available here for some reason.

>>2041421
I'm starting to develop a Saeka bias too...

>>2042442
She might be everyone's favorite of the new trio

Holy shit I'm dying of a sugar overdose. All them バカップルs...

I find it funny the most common complaint Japanese seem to have is about ///

>>2042994
>about ///
?

>>2042998
Like in >>2034397

Game's up in Yamibo.

>>2042493
It's her calmy voice.

https://mega.nz/#!rV50nYQS!SV-3xcuUd1ND7CEnYNhxwL-0nC_zbyyfN9VZmiMlYIM

cg pack

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New Ayakashi Ninden Kunoichiban with Saeka as the harem protagonist, please.

>>2043771
link pls

>>2045262
http://www.yamibo.com/thread-248196-1-1.html

Baidu link
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1hrEchFI
pass. t3mh

>>2045265
can someone mediafire it? I am having a difficult time.

>>2045265
>>2045330
mega would be nice too

>>2045330
>>2045346
I'd do it, but my upload speed is utter crap, and the game is around 4.5 gb.

>>2045330
>I am having a difficult time
Try creating an account on baidu, and install the downloader, is a lot faster than the direct download.

>>2045373
if I could read chinese maybe I could register.

>>2045373
it's slow as hell man. (100 kb/s)

>>2045388
You can't register without a China phone number rip

i'll probably just wait until it gets uploaded elsewhere

This is horrible, I haven't been able to bring myself to play through Yuuno x Tamaki because I don't want to leave Saeka out. Also, while I adore Saeka x Tamaki as a pairing, I have to admit I preferred Saeka x Yuuno's route more.

Here you go

https://mega.nz/#!ONIQCSYY!B47rhPLM4yzQuf4QpeH2NvIUERTiV5RQN-CmJEtRCBw
https://mega.nz/#!bNIzBKRY!lygdpeLRc4ikqNBhzR-wd8xnFvLjTrukC1SjsoDc8I4
https://mega.nz/#!yJ4DwaAT!vR7q7GpdCUfwojA14aRpUBrAr3oG8_2AEu6UbDylwFs
https://mega.nz/#!TIAQDYBS!bWw0kpW-g3JMRV_oTBQdIBwhuQhEfHOyvUMyFNLMpaM
https://mega.nz/#!Scgl2JAZ!UavopjE2j7JxjOmx5h56ce3s5l8CXxkedfcvY65BW18

>>2045961
thank you so much i love you

>>2045961
thanks anon.

Torrent based on >>2045961 http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=809336

It feels like a lot of drugs were involved in the creation of this VN. It's all so insanely.. "cutesy". Rainbows eh, rainbows.

Outside of that I'm not sure yet. The backgrounds are embarrassingly bad, while the sprites are okay to good, but the.. "animation" seems like more of a bad point than a good one. Chibis seem cute enough. Voice acting is a mixed bag, which surprised me. This started as drama cds, and yet like half the cast feels off. There are good voices, but also a lot REALLY forced and unnatural sounding stuff. (well, might've had to do with the whole first scene feeling extremely forced and unnatural in itself as well..) There's also a lot of voice acting/dialog and not much narration. So I hope this does improve.

Couple-wise I at least like the "first one" (genky loli+kinda deadpan senpai), though I haven't seen any more specific scenes on the calendar yet. I already need a break from all this.. glitter.

>>2046551
Hot opinions.

Seeing how you're obviously a pirate anyway, you ought to listen to the drama CDs first.

>>2046553

Not sure how you get to that conclusion.

But anyway, I'm not going to touch any drama cd, unless I really like something. All the ones I tried in the past sucked, even with liking whatever they were based on, so that medium is probably just not for me.
But hey, that's one reason why they made this VN. Although admittedly, the structure is pretty bad for new people. Yurirei eases you into its big cast way better. They really seem to assume quite a bit that people know at least some drama cds.

Thank you to the kind anons who organized all these links and translated!!!>>2045961
>>2046096
>>1949765

>>2046566
Other than calendar events briefly recapping the confessions for the original 6 couples, it makes no concessions for people who haven't listened to the CDs and cheerfully references stuff from them.

I haven't played the game yet (only the trial) and I'd like to know how different the drama CD scenes are compared to the same scenes in the game.
I really liked some confessions in the drama CDs, would be sad if they made them too different in the game.

>>2046711
The game doesn't try to recreate the scenes from the drama CDs. Even for the confessions, although it includes them, it's more like it just quotes some of what was said.

I assume there are no translations for vol.4-6 yet, right?

So, about these.. "choices". Are they like in yurirei where you have to play these events twice for unlocks, or are they just there for the heck of it? In the scenes they don't really affect anything but like 4 text-boxes.

>>2048860
The initial events for the routes of the different couplings of the trio unlock depending on a few choices. Other than that I've not noticed the choices making a difference beyond the immediate scene.

>>2048878

Didn't even know there are routes. Just seems like a bunch of events so far. Or the "routes" are like that as well and just consist of several events like that.

Well, I'll see, if I'm not getting to annoyed by the teacher. God I don't like teacher x student. And from the first scene in the VN, she also seemed more annoying than anything else. Though in the 2 months I played she hasn't appeared again.. which makes things even worse.

>start game
>suddenly event starts about a girl having her birthday before the title-screen even pops up

Okay, anyone knows all the birthday dates? This is kinda awesome, I gotta give them that.

>>2048922
All the character profiles on Particle's site have them

>>2048926

Okay, could've thought of that. As such they are even on vndb. Makes it easy. Will need some major date-changing if you wanna see all of these.

I hope this game will get translate in not-to-far future. Someday...

>>2048922
Yeah, I was really surprised when I opened my game today. I hadn't played for 6 days straight - talk about coincidences. I only bothered to change my times for Saeka (2 days before my birthday, huzzah) and Hare, because I don't really care about anyone else.

I was wondering why their birthdays were even listed, but I guess this answers my question!

>>2049077
Seeing as how it seems to be possible to inject translated text, I would think it's a likely outcome, eventually. My moon is so-so but I'd be glad to pitch in a little if someone's gonna spearhead this.

Finished all the calendar events. (I've not listened to the cast omake clips, the bonus drama CD or messed with my PC clock for the birthday events yet though)

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It's all a kind of super-sweet execution of the playbook of moe and not really anything beyond that, but it's what it sells itself as and if anything, it's the sort of thing where I could primarily just enjoy thinking "I hope she reacts like this" and that's how it would go. For nearly 30 hours (in auto-mode, default settings).

>>2049829
>30 hours
Sweet jesus, I thought the game'd be much shorter.

>>2050626

It's the voice-acting. I'd assume its script is like 1mb sjis, based on what I've read and tested. (meaning measure the length of seen events and assume all events in the game are roughly the same length on average)

The game has barely narration, so if you listen to all the voice-acting, it takes a while. Otherwise it'd be more like 15-20 hours. Provided you don't read "slowly"... or really fast. (some faster readers can get 1mb sjis done in like 8ish hours without a problem or considering it rushing)


So yeah, this VN isn't super long script-wise, but budget-wise I doubt it was much cheaper than some twice or thrice as long "normal" VNs. Guess they did things this way as it started as drama cd's. Though the amount of narration is that small that I really wonder why they even bothered with that and didn't just make that into thoughts and voice it as well..

Can someone upload the drama CDs that came with the game? pls

Drama CD Vol 7 + OP&ED
http://www.tsdm.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=717216

>>2057145
Hate these chinese sites where you need credits to unlock stuff, thank god I was already registered on that site and getting credits was easy.

Thanks btw.

>>2057145
>>2057501
can you mf or mega or something?

>>2057617
I'm uploading the WAV version to MF. it will take like 2 hours though.

>>2057617
>>2057619
Here you go.

Drama CD
http://www.mediafire.com/download/0raxx4ksyjfnsi6

Music CD
http://www.mediafire.com/download/rvb63gri4rcdhzr

>>2057676
thanks

Preemptive ban! I can't have this dying on me when I'm still reading the VN.

I wonder what Particle will do now. Keep developing these couples, new couples, nothing?

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

>>2063498

Probably nothing at all. As far as I can see, it bombed. /u/'s reaction is incredibly lackluster as well. I personally don't see its appeal either. Maybe they shouldn't have hired a nukige writer. That'd have been probably a good idea. (or, you know, if you hire a nukige writer.. make one)

Well, it was a first project, but if I'm right about it bombing (getchu sales for its release-month were even lower than some sales of older VNs, obviously also way lower than most other new releases), then.. there might not be a second try to sort things out. As budget-wise they probably invested a good amount into it. It's not super long, script wise, but it has a lot of voice-acting and even some relatively known voices from anime. (Akari~n, Yuuki Yuuna)

>>2068430
Fumiya has been Lilycle's writer from the beginning. The 2 nukige weren't even out then.

The writing isn't a problem anyway. The Japanese who have actually taken an interest in the game seem to have really enjoyed it.

>/u/'s reaction is incredibly lackluster as well.
/u/ only has a few people who can understand untranslated games.

>getchu sales for its release-month were even lower than some sales of older VNs
You can say the same for Flowers Aki-hen.

>>2068430
>it bombed
Nah, it did well, the three physical versions of the game were pretty well ranked on amazon.

Interesting, there is a chance to release this game in English? I mean, Rainbow Stage. Is it worth playing overall?

>>2069825
It's very good if you like something that's basically a CGDCT with several actually dating couplings.

Does anyone have lyrics of OP and ED song in Rainbow Stage? Colorful Heart Line and True Heart Essence. I really like those songs.

>>2070117
see
>>2068421
The entire trial is translated, even the Opening.

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The Colorful Heart Stage event sounds like it was fun
goriko7188.exblog.jp/23220414

I wonder why they didn't show how the girls became friends.
I guess thar part of the drama CDs is canon then, since they kinda implied it sometimes.

>>2082575
Everything in the drama CDs is treated as canon by the game

>>2082619
Haven't finished the game yet, but what about this >>2046715 then?

>>2082799
I wrote both posts. What's in the drama CDs is not retold as actual scenes in the game, but is referenced, clearly being treated as canon.

Did someone buy Vocal Collection? Will you upload it with booklet scans? (I just need a full lyrics for OP and ED song of the game). Thanks!

Has anyone but me ( >>2049829 ) finished RS?

(Seems a shame to let the thread die without reaching bump limit)

>>2091176

Haven't really dropped it per se, but.. well. I'll probably not continue it. I'm not even that far in. Almost done with June. So I doubt I'll get motivated to finish it, with as much left as there is.

>>2091176
Well, I haven't even picked it up yet but seeing as how I listened to all the drama CDs and stuff...
It's just that I don't have time. I will probably be free starting in like October and I'll focus on it around that time. Then again I've built up quite the VN backlog, with Starlight Vega, Little Princess, Hakuai PC and some other stuff coming out recently.
But yeah I bet I'll have a thing or two to say about Rainbow Stage when I'll finally get around to it and I'm sure I won't drop it either.

I started playing slowly since my japanese is not that good yet.
The thing is my favorites couples are Seira/Hare and Natsuki/Mio, but the game only give me Ayakita's event, so I have been playing even more slowly, since I lost motivation.

>>2101283
You have to do a bunch of 共通episode events before the first event for the drama CD couplings appears, but after that, each of the events for a particular coupling unlocks the next of their events.

bump2

>>2108445
Bump

Slight bump

bumpy bump

>>2128763
It's been a month with no activity, maybe we should just let it go.

>>2045961
So is this translated and worth getting into?

If the thread's going to keep getting bumped, it would be nice if it were with actual posts.

The writer did a twitter poll a month ago about whether people wanted a continuation of Lilycle or a completely new work. Half the respondents were fine with either, but those with a preference favored a continuation (by 3:1).
https://twitter.com/PARTICLE_YURI/status/764073056637554691

>>2136620
The full game's not translated. You could start with some of the drama CDs that are.

>>2142376
So they are actually planning to make more stuff, that's nice.
I'd like new characters in the same settings.

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Is there any chance JAST will pick up Rainbow Stage? The game have alot of interesting & cute characters, its well drawn & voices by popular Voice actress. I see no reason JAST should ignore it.

>>2153847
First things first, if JAST were to pick this up I get the feeling you wouldn't see a release before 2020. If you plan to waste your next 3 birthday wishes on hoping this will get an official English release go for Mangagamer at least.

That being said the chances are really really low. Mangagamer and JAST usually keep to a bunch of partners of theirs. I don't see them reaching out to Particle considering how low profile Particle is. The series is completely unknown to Westerners as well which doesn't do anything to help, even if it features some relatively well known seiyuu.

So yeah, as disappointing as it is an official localization is really unlikely. A full fan translation for a yuri game of this length is pretty unheard of as well.
The only tiny glimmer of hope is that the recent and upcoming yuri releases will do well commercially. This year we've had Yurirei, Hakuai and Flowers, and before the year will end Ne No Kami, Pygmalion and New Gene are fairy likely (well, mangagamer might want to delay either Pygmalion or New Gene to avoid cannibalizing their own sales, we'll see). There honestly aren't all that many yuri VNs out there to translate so if all of those would sell well and the English publishers would sense there's still more money to be made with yuri VNs...
It's unlikely, but hey, hope dies last.

>>2162233
>I don't see them reaching out to Particle considering how low profile Particle is.
Particle is a brand of Production Pencil, who are larger than 10mile. Seeing how Katahane got licensed, I don't think the partners aspect is as important as you make out.

>>2153847
The only problem I see are the drama CDs, the first part of the story for the 6 drama CDs couples feels totally rushed if you haven't listened to them.

>>2162264
>Particle is a brand of Production Pencil, who are larger than 10mile. Seeing how Katahane got licensed, I don't think the partners aspect is as important as you make out.
Fair enough I guess. The thing is though Katahane was something English speakers already knew about so it wasn't a completely random choice on JAST's part. People have probably asked them about the possibility of localizing that numerous times before it happened.
I imagine if JAST/Mangagamer where to get flooded with 'please localize Ririkuru, kthxbye' mails and inquiries they'd take note of it at least, but...

>>2162708
That's also a fair point but as Mangagamer has proven with Yurirei official releases for drama CDs are possible. The bigger problem would be that in Ririkuru's case you're supposed to go down the CDs -> VN route, whereas Yurirei drama CDs are basically omake material. I bet it's much harder to sell drama CDs to people who are not familiar with the franchise, as opposed to Yurirei model where people are just paying for more of the same. Drama CDs being way more niche doesn't help obviously.

One way or another I guess the conclusion is more or less the same: a localization isn't completely impossible but fairly unlikely. And unfortunately the more time passes the less likely it'll be, unless some localization company could pick up the rights pretty cheap in a couple years.

So I picked this up and while trying to start some kind of discussion about a VN that came out half a year ago and has no translation patch seems kinda pointless there's one thing I'd really like say, even though I have my doubts anybody who could profit from such info will see this post.

If you're learning Moon and you're a beginner this is a perfect VN for you. You can trust my informed opinion because the only thing I've ever read in Japanese before this - manga, LN, VN or otherwise - was Hanahira. Here are a couple of reasons:

• Rainbow Stage is similar to Hanahira in that it's ~95% dialogues. It doesn't have furigana (are there even any VNs that do?) but since almost all lines are read you'll know the readings anyway. Now this might not help you if you're just not familiar with the kanji/jukugo period but it's still about as beginner friendly as it gets.
• The nature of the game - picking short scenes from calendar - makes it easy to follow stuff and review things later. You can reread specific scenes a bunch of times without needing to save anything. Since most of the events that happen in each each are relatively self-contained (to make reading things out of order possible, and boy does Ririkuru offer you a lot of freedom when it comes to this) there's no snowballing even if you'll misunderstand something. The scenes are short too which I think is a good thing.
• Probaby most importantly the Japanese used in the game is really basic. It's easy to follow and aside from Ibu going switching to either her poetic or extrmely keigo mode once in a while none of the characters have any real speech patterns that could give you trouble. The conversations are all about daily life things, with no rocket surgery kanji you won't know.

TL;DR If you're a Moon beginner this VN was basically made for you.

bampu~

>>2171660
Thanks for the info. But I'm really tempted to run chiitrans on it. At least that shows all the furigana.

>>2193380
I tried using a visual novel translator thing (similar to chiitrans) but words seem to have been cut off, and the sentences aren't complete. I wonder if chiitrans will do the same?

>>2193526
I'm not sure how that works or what it is, but you can get the text through ITH just fine, if you need that.

>>2198653
it also uses ITH, and it works fine for other games, but when it comes to rainbow stage, a lot of the characters don't make it through

>>2205573
Oh whoops. I read it in Japanese because of >>2171660 and I assumed ITH would work. My bad. I should've checked myself. That being said there might be some other hooker that'd work, and if not there's always KanjiTomo, since you'd only ever need the help for a bunch of kanji. Unless you're completely green, in which case ITH wouldn't have helped anyway.

18+ game when?

>>2233207
Particle is supposed to be all-age brand, so if Production Pencil do a new yuri eroge (there was Lilium x Triangle) it would almost certainly kept separate from Lilycle.

And a large part of the point of Lilycle is the seiyuu and very few of them do eroge.

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>>2233218
I just want to see more ero stuff from the artist, I like her style.

>>2233747
Judging by the sample size of your 1 pic and what I've seen in Ririkuru I feel the artstyle fits SFW stuff more but to each their own I guess.
It's the eyes I think.

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>>2237891
Don't know why but I really like it.

>>2237947
Maybe the gap between the cute faces and the lewd makes it for you.
Me, not so much.

>>2237947
It's great.

>>2237947
Yeah.

bump, but im surprised this thread is still alive

>New project soon?
>April's fools
So new project never.

>>2301011
Yeah they keep doing it >>2021594 >>2022024

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>>1949765
>[#seiyuu] PARTICLE - Ririkuru - りりくる LIly LYric cyCLE - Vol. 1-3 + Extras 11CD Collection
>http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=633910
>http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=633909

nyaa is dead, can someone upload this somewhere else

>>2341451
Check the /g/ nyaa

>>2341451
https://nyaa.si/view/633909
https://nyaa.si/view/633910

>>2341759
>nyaa.si
Fuck off

>>2341762
but onee-chan, the other onee-chan was looking for them, where else would she get them ;_;

>>2342201
From nyaa pantsu? Why would you use .si when it makes the same mistakes as the original nyaa?

>>2342230
Don't know what you're talking about SI seems pretty good to me (aside from there RSS links not working). I especially like their offering of magnets.

bump. wow thread have been living for one and half a year

>>2367734
How well did the games sell? Surprised their doing another one.

>>2367736
A tweet a few weeks ago was doing a survey about whether there was demand for digital download of voice drama (as well as CD), so I'm not expecting a game.

>>2367742
They did a survey some months ago asking if we wanted more of the same characters or new ones for the new project.
I would be okay with drama CDs if they are making new couples but for the old characters I'd prefer a VN.

how is this thread not trashed yet

but i'm always looking forward to more fluffy yuri

>year and a half old thread

I kind of want to see if this will get to two years.