Visual Novel translation status
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1495/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (64.8%)"
Aokana - Common route + 3 character routes translation done
>AstralAir - prologue patch released, 38,785 / 64,880 (59.78%) lines translated
Ayakashi Gohan - 49% complete
Black Wolves Saga: All scripts translated, 55/65 scripts edited
Bunny Black 2 - Translation started
Clover Day's - 100% of the common route + 348/711 KB, 119/743 KB, 92/764, 338/846 and 74/722 KB of 5 routes translated
Gore Screaming Show - Prologue and day one patch released
HaraKano - Ayana Seno's route patch released
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
>Harumade Kururu - 55.2% of the initial route translated
Hoka no Onna - 45.12% translated
>Irotoridori no Sekai - 1747/50663 (3%) lines translated
Ken ga Kimi: 116/122 scripts translated, 101/122 scripts edited
Kiminozo - Common route translation complete
>Koichoco - Released
Koiken Otome - 97.18% translated, 88.90% edited, prologue patch released
Kurukuru Fanatic - 87.5% translated
Lovely Cation- 26% of lines completed
Majikoi A-1 - 64%
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Commie project actively in editing
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated
Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
Monster girl quest paradox - Being translated, new partial patch
Muv Luv Total Eclipse - 25% translated
Noble Works - 54,169 / 57,690 (93.9%) lines translated, partial patch released
Oreimo Tsuzuku - 266/268 scripts translated, 196/268 through TLC+Editing, 121/268 scripts finalized
PersonA - 44% translated
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 22583/30040 (75.18%) lines translated
SakuSaku - 100% translated, 31858/49257 (65%) lines finalized
Starry Sky In Summer - All scripts translated and edited, 114/177 scripts through TLC
SubaHibi - 100% translated, 2nd editing pass and QC remain
>Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 5,525 / 30,513 Lines (18.1%) translated, partial patch released
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen - 100% translated and edited, QC and technical work remains
White Album 2 - 17052/35275 (48.34%) lines of closing chapter translated
>Witch's Garden - 42439/67201 (63.15%) lines translated, 2221/67201 (3.31%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 78.42%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited
Official work
MangaGamer
Gahkthun - 12/23 release
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
Higurashi Hou -Watanagashi released
>Bokuten - 71% translated, 35.18% edited
>Da Capo 3 - 68% translated, 50% edited
>OZMAFIA - 91% translated
>House in Fata Morgana - 94% translated
>Myth - 81% translated, 72% edited
My Boss Wife is My Ex - 100% translated and edited
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 18.13% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 100% translated and edited
>Yurirei - 100% translated, 95% edited
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
>Beat Blades Haruka - 100% Translated and edited
Umineko - Picked up
Tokyo Babel - 84% translated
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up
JAST
Sonicomi - Fully translated, building launcher
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 83%
Flowers - 100% translated, in editing, preparing to port
Seinarukana- Waiting on LE materials. QA checking.
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumeragi Ryoko - 100% translated, waiting on test build
>Sweet Home - 24% translated
Sekai/Denpa
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title in TL through end of Nov
WAS - Kickstarter finished, delayed
Atom Grrrl - 100% translated
Narcissu 3rd - 88.54% translated
>Narcissu 0 - 59.48% translated
>WEE 3 - 8.26% translated
Nenokami - 37.79% translated
>Root Double - Kickstarter preview up
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Sacrament Sheep - In Beta
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Witch Boy - Kickstarter failed
Darekoi - Picked up
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - Picked up
Other
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Tomoyo After - Picked up
Muv Luv Trilogy - Kickstarter succeeded
Lucky Dog - Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Work being done on a fanTL of Shin Koihime with hopes of getting it licensed
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night - 2731/10293 (26.53%) lines translated
Harvest December - 3DS ports being released
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Kickstarter preview up
Magical Eyes - Winter release planned
Zero Time Dilemma - 2016 release
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
With euphoria continuing to chart for the fifth week in a row, I wouldn't be surprised if it's beaten kns2 by now. I wonder if it'll get a hardcopy?
In other news, I'm also slightly surprised at Sakura Santa's weak performance, relative to the other OELVNs on the chart. It's only managed to chart a single time at fifth place since being open to preorders. Meanwhile the AJtilley games and Sakura Swim Club have been charting regularly and well in the same time frame.
As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you got em'
Mikandi's kickstarter's got a date. And supposedly a further goal cut that's yet to be revealed. If they're smart they probably cut it to 100k. But judging from their last cut, it's probably 150k.
>JAST having an update.
Truly a christmas miracle.
Apparently the KickStarter for 2Roots is going to only 120k
where 30% goes to Translation
So Lemnisca is making 40k, split between TL and editing?
Is that a lot?
Seeing how root double is more highly regarded than their other doujin crap, it would've been possible to probably ask for a higher starting amount, with more going toward paying the translators too.
>>14450082
>Da Capo 3 - 68% translated, 50% edited
Only 2 more years to go.
>>14450207
It's going to be overfunded anyway, the base amount of their goal won't matter much.
>>14450225
I'm not sure. Narcissu is a more popular franchise and that barely made 50k.
>>14450260
Narcissu made ~100k and it only took $20 to get a copy of the game. Root Double will outdo it easily.
>>14450203
I can't believe the goth-loli vampire doesn't have a route. That was one of the main selling points, IMO. She has a really big spot in the cover and everything.
Almost as bad as making a game about fucking little sisters filled with cowtits.
>>14450270
I mean the most recent Narcissu kickstarter.
The kickstarter bubble is dying.
>>14450276
There's only one Narcissu Kickstarter and it's the recent one. It made almost 100k. There's no sign of any bubble dying.
>>14450274
>I can't believe the goth-loli vampire doesn't have a route.
Wait what
>>14450350
She's fake antagonist of game, there's one oshioki scene with her, but no proper route.
>>14450354
How disappointing.
>Irotoridori no Sekai - 1747/50663 (3%) lines translated
Dear god please make it stop.
>>14450479
Apparently this guy read through tokidan's old 80% and judged it all as garbage, so maybe we can have some faith in its quality.
It doesn't seem like anybody's pushing for a Favorite partnership with any official companies anyway.
>>14450150
It is more of a miracle that the Sakura Swim Club would even sell at all. It is the same game everyone has already bought at Steam, but with revised script. If you can revise scripts and make a ton of sales, there is a huge market for all the other VNs.
Sakura Santa will probably pick up later since right now it is uncertain if it appears on Steam.
>>14450504
but muh porn
>>14450535
It is one patch away, just like the fan translations. Though it is possible if you can't patch steam games and you can't patch fan translations, you are a good customer at MG and JAST.
MG forums still dead.
Jeez, why they cannot hire competent IT staff? Seems like their staff is managed by some brainless native jap, with jap-level salary and quality.
>>14450479
>>14450492
Did anyone try the SakuSaku partial? Was it any decent?
>>14450841
Can't judge it on translation quality but it read fairly well. There's some unedited stuff towards the end of the partial.
>>14450841
It's too easy to get diabetes in SakuSaku
>>14450504
According to the steam helpdesk leak, it's got an id so it'll probably be on steam.
117 days left.
Shouldn't Shiny Days be on JAST list though. Considering it is only in public QC and not finished.
>>14450082
Supipara is in scripting.
>>14450150
Sakura Santa is all-ages, while most of those other games aren't. Though Highschool Romance makes up for that by having a wacky premise.
Steam leaked a bunch of game names a few hours ago, like Half-Life 3 and Danganronpa.
But what's important for us are these:
421700 = Sakura Santa
421710 = Sakura Dungeon
407310 = Sakura Fantasy 2
407320 = Sakura Swim Club 2
>>14451555
Have they become the Ubisoft of indie visual novel companies?
Someone on Reddit vntls is guessing that the next game Conjueror is translating is ChuSinGura 46+1
Is he right?
>He was approached by a Japanese company directly so probably not a game from a company that already has a relationship with mangagamer/jast/sekai
>Well known game that will "make a few people excited"
>Above 80 on EGS
>>14451555
>what's important for us
No sir I don't think so
>>14451617
It's Baldr Sky.
>>14451617
>Note: This is simply a mirror from 4chan's weekly thread on the /jp/ board. All credit goes to the user VNTS there. I'm simply copying and pasting for discussion sake here since some people can't access 4chan, or don't like having 50+ post arguments about whether translating 電気街 as "electronics district" is an acceptable localization or whether it demonstrates a complete lack of Japanese knowledge and means the entire translation is awful.
They're making fun of us on Reddit again...
>>14451634
Reddit is basically Fuwanovel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/3vfr0x/root_double_before_crime_after_days_xtend_edition/cxnc5j7
>>14451648
That post is kind of retarded though
>Of course, the truth is obviously that SP is using KS as a preorder platform, even though that's very much against the ToS,
He has a point about Sekai Project overusing KS, but the only way someone would consider this a ToS violation is if they have an intense hateboner for SP and just wants to shit on them at every opportunity.
>>14451658
What do you think "for personal non-commercial use" means?
>>14451678
There's also all the parts about being honest.
A project where all the work has been finished before it's funded obviously doesn't need a kickstarter to fund its work.
>>14451678
What are you talking about?
>>14451718
...The part of KoS's terms of service that explicitly specifies it's for personal, non-commercial use.
But I see now that you're not equipped for this discussion, nor I suspect any.
>>14451731
>The part of KoS's terms of service that explicitly specifies it's for personal, non-commercial use.
I think this is the most retarded thing I've read on these threads
Clearly these projects were for personal use only right? Pebble raised $20 million on the platform for non-commercial use right?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises
>>14451756
And yet, there it is, right in the terms of service. Maybe you should familiarize yourself with them, as well as what project funding is and the entire theory behind stretch goals.
>>14451766
By your argument, all the most successful projects on KS would be a violation then. They're most definitely not personal or non-commercial. Please tell me how those projects were allowed to go through then, when KS so readily takes down projects that go against their ToS or for copyright infringement problems?
Besides, the tos clearly states
>Kickstarter is for your personal, non-commercial use, except as explained in section 4 and section 5 below.
where section 4 and 5 basically say "fulfill your backers"
I love memes.
>>14451783
Easily. The funding is to bring a project to completion. After that, you can do whatever the fuck you want with it, commercial or otherwise. You cannot use it to sell products already completed. You cannot use Kickstarter as a storefront. Those would be commercial uses. And those are the differences between those Kickstarters and this one.
>>14450757
And nothing of value was lost.
>>14451634
Why is that fucker pretending to know Japanese? I know /jp/ does for shit and giggles but he does it for upvotes.
>>14451648
>All deals are different, but the general rule is SP makes nothing from running a KS.
笑
>>14451634
It sures takes some stones to pretend reddit is any less autistic than /jp/ while at the same time literally reposting a thread from /jp/.
>>14451555
>Sakura Fantasy 2
I'm actually surprised this is getting continued, I thought we'd be stuck with an incomplete episodic game.
>>14451934
>we'd
Gross, a Sakaura player.
>>14451939
I played it for the yuri. I think their games are shit in general.
>>14451930
He knows Japanese. He asked google translate and it said he knew.
>>14451731
Don't forget all the parts about honesty.
They've already run one kickstarter where they admitted that funding it without reaching any stretch goals would make no difference between not funding it at all.
>>14451956
You should've just waited for Spirits on the Roof instead of giving money to WC and helping them to churn out shit after shit after shit.
I'm usually not the VN guy, but is every VN as horrible as the Fate / stay night VN?
It drags on too long and makes sure to tell you the same shit 3 times, that every retards gets it.
The fighting scenes are cringeworthy and don't get me started on how horribly forced the sex scenes were.
>>14452376
Shit pacing and tons of repetition is pretty standard for VNs yes.
>>14452376
Fate is the best VN you're ever going to get.
>>14452376
> is every VN as horrible as the Fate / stay night VN?
No. Just chuuni shit.
>>14452376
>>14452404
>>14452456
>>14452458
This is why people never trust opinions of 4chan users.
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - Commie project actively in editing
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 2nd project with 2.2 scripts translated
>Mahou Tsukai no Yoru - 3rd project released ch 1-5
How many projects do we need to complete a VN?
>>14452518
Just wait for the 3rd one. First two are shit.
>>14450150
Order Number - 104955
Order Date - 2015-12-06 05:16:41
>>14450940
This VN looks cute as hell, dude.
>>14453096
I can read this. Should I start translating visual novels?
>>14453255
If you can read even one word of Japanese, you are good enough to translate VNs.
>>14453255>>14453277
You are good enough even if you can't read kana, there are totally-not-machine-translation-tools available for everyone.
>>14453277
Oh, but I can't read her name. I don't know the first kanji. Should I just make something up?
>>14453285
Call her Talking Rice on the Road.
>>14453285
Call her Ixrec
>>14453535
Ixrec-chang?
>>14452518
Blame Commie for sitting on it with no visible progress for so long. People got fed up and decided to do it themselves.
>>14452518
The third project seems to be pretty well done.
>>14454086
It's just never going to be finished.
>>14454159
Yeah. He's supposedly been working on it for over two years, and it's only at about 33%.
>>14454159
Not with that attitude.
>>14454086
That's nice work
>>14450940
But does she have a route?
>>14454540
No.
>>14454542
ok.
Tokyo Babel at 91%
according to their wordpress blog.
>>14455092
>links to blog
>blog doesn't fucking work
Ok, MG's Japanese staff.
>>14455118
Try clearing your cache. It might act up for a few hours since we just changed the domain redirect.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-06/frontwing-considers-overseas-release-for-island-visual-novel/.96180
First VisualArts/Key and now FrontWing.
Who's getting on the visual novel export train next?
Literally free money to developers.
>>14455305
Do you guys think Sekai Project is working with Frontwing on it? Especially with Himawari being done by Mangagamer?
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2015-12-04/.96107
Anyone listen to this?
Quick, choose your favorite dork.
>>14455314
Well, seeing how they went from Sekai -> MG, it's safer to believe that this one will be also MG, unless there is some very compelling reason they will go back to Sekai. (money)
I don't really think they care or know about Sekai vs MG's reputation in the west, so it could go either way.
Either way, its the translator and editor that determines the quality, so who it goes to doesn't matter aside from like release schedule. (hi jast)
>>14455332
>>14455332
Is this all of MG's in-house?
Or are there unlisted people or included freelancers.
It'd be really nice if there was a list of the full translation/editing team, with all of the titles they worked on listed.
>>14455347
It includes contract workers, MG is not paying all those people salaries.
>>14455347
The people listed on the blog are sort of like more permanent/long-term staff for the most part (freelance or otherwise). It's far from everyone active at MG at the moment (also not everyone wants to be listed publicly so there's that too).
>>14455347
That's at least missing Arunaru, Conjueror and Garejei. Doesn't look like SonoHana team is in either.
>>14455305
>tfw no Touka Gettan because the company isn't around anymore
>>14455332
VN Localization fighting game is needed.
>>14455127
The new blog looks good. Great work Haro.
I suppose something similar will happen with the forums? (because they're still down)
>>14455361
Koestl is considered long term? He only worked on a single thing for you and won't be able to do anything for you for another half year or more, so that seems a bit off. I do like the new blog though, and am glad its back up.
>>14454542
Actually, she have.
>>14455347
Kouryuu is the only person who isn't technically a contractor at mangagamer, I believe.
>>14455314
I imagine they plan to cut out the middleman and do it themselves, given what's occurred thus far
>>14456041
oh, and evospace, but he doesn't do any translating.
When did mg start on da capo 3?. Has to have been a year now
>>14456101
Try two years ago.
>>14456132
Wow. What a slog.
>>14455332
Just checked Doddler's twitter and his avatar is still Akuji. What vn is the blog avatar from?
>>14455707
Yeah, because whenever I hit the forum button it just opens the MG site in a new tab.
>>14455707>>14456597
Maybe MG finally got fed up with infestation of sanahtligs and chaosravens and decided to terminate that shithole.
They should implement license wishlist right on their shop site instead, with limited number of fields for customers who actually bought something, so data would be relevant and ordered.
>>14456585
I believe it's https://vndb.org/v2191
It was a fun nukige and doddler really likes it.
>>14455707
>I suppose something similar will happen with the forums? (because they're still down)
We're still looking into options regarding the forums. The blog took priority because the forums were never really used all that much to begin with.
>>14456687
Any chance whatsoever of the main site following along at some point with an update?
Doddler has a busy week ahead of him.
>>14456722
That's okay, he's not going to actually do any of it.
>>14454540
Of course she has, and she wakes you up.
>>14456638
Wishlists for licenses seem kind of silly to begin with. You already got a pretty good sample size of what sold from the previous titles.
It would be mainly new genres that they might want to poll. Yuri? Futanari? Lolicon? Shotacon? RPGmaker games? Platformers?
To some extent you could do it for new partners also. But most suggestions I've seen are always "This game also has cute girls" or "This game also has plot twist". More or less the same things, but from other publishers.
>>14455330
Why is this retarded interviewer acting like SP started VN localization first? Has this faggot not heard of JAST or MG? Also, for all his whining about fan translations, he doesn't talk about SP using them. What a fucking weak ass interview. I'm going back to lewdgamer.
>>14457009
It's Zac from ANN, he's an idiot.
>>14456881
Be easy on him Aroduc.
>>14456980
I think the yearly licensing survey is best to see what games/genres/partners people want the most. That way you don't have the same 10 people trying to recommending you 20 different games each like on the forums.
>>14457100
Does it even differ between years though? It is always the same hyped stuff over and over until someone (usually SP) grabs it. What 2015 games do we have that are so awesome they would be on the next poll?
>>14457148
MG didn't post past the top 10 for a reason, I think up upper numbers likely had some solid choices. The more games that get licensed, regardless of who, causes the list of desired licenses to change yearly. New partner acquisitions also effect which games people ask for.
MG polled people on alot more things than just licensing choices. Peoples opinion of MG and what they'd like to see improved/changed were also brought up. Marketing data about the current userbase is important to keep updated on as well.
>>14455330
>>14457009
You can notice by the interviewer speech that he looks at SP as the savior of VNs with a competition pretty much non-existent. He also shows a very superficial understanding of several aspects of the market so you can't expect a informative interview when he's the one doing the questions.
>>14450492
>It doesn't seem like anybody's pushing for a Favorite partnership with any official companies anyway
Well, I posted on MG forums requesting a partnership with Favorite and also requested it on MG survey. I believe there were several others as well requesting such a partnership on the forum.
On another note, I'm disappointed on the guys related to the fan-translation of Favorite games because for some reason made by themselves, they have no intentions of porsuing a official release (as long as no censoring is involved). This shows hom much respect they have for the company.
>>14457535
His commercial in the middle was so lame it gave me second hand embarrassment.
>>14457587
I think Favorite was on a list of publishers that Sekai Project might've been pursuing talks with. It was on the Sekai forums.
>>14457634
Shame Sekai takes 6 months to translate H-scenes. But I guess that is the parts that is difficult because you have to convey that weird Japanese feeling of good.
>>14456977
Hopes restored.
>>14450080
>June 16th, 2015 - The first editing pass is (virtually) complete. Now for a second editing pass and QC. Hopefully this only takes around a month.
Why the fuck isn't this done yet? Not an EOP, but I thought the translation would be done by now. A friend of mine wanted to play it.
>>14458547
Because 'your friend' is a whiny bitch.
>>14458547
Haikyuu
>>14458547
Apparently DICKS is the one stalling it, not herkz.
>>14458663
Who?
>>14457041
Why?
>>14458921
What?
>>14459078
https://twitter.com/Deoto
When, where, and how.
>>14457634
When?
>>14459108
A fan listed what companies they'd like to see Sekai partner with and Sekai replied that they were pursuing talks with at least some of them. Looks like the old forum's posts were wiped out when Sekai revamped their forums.
>>14451555
>Still no sequel to Sakura Spirit
I just want more of big titted fox girls. Those were the best designs Winged Cloud has done yet.
>>14462294
Fox girls are underrated. More games should have them.
>>14462386
Play Tenkiame.
Lol may this be the straw that breaks the camels back https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/bring-was-the-hourglass-of-lepidoptera-to-the-west/posts/1438659
>>14463830
If nothing else has broken the camel's back, I doubt this will. Who cares about WAS?
oh boy, I want wait for the doujin where the monkey duo force Chisato to watch them service and pleasure Oshima over and over again until their faces are a sticky mess, and then take turns having him fill their wombs.
Last page is both of them holding positive pregnancy tests, and the omake is a double marriage
then Chisato suicides
>>14463861
I love translations where they maintain Japanese grammatical structure, no matter who wrong it is.
It's such a fantastic rule of thumb for finding people who have no business translating anything.
>>14463861
Don't bully your childhood friend
>>14463830
People who cared about the voice acting will likely be pissed, since it was such a big part of the KS and now it will launch missing some of it and with no clear timeframe for when it will all be done. Also, people who backed for a physical copy either will have to have the voices added later by patches or face a delay for an unspecified amount of time.
>>14463870
but then how will I know what each word sounds like?
>>14463870
>ahahaha
>grammatical structure
>>14463861
「Wow」, the second route Im reading is looking quite exciting already
>>14463938
>Aha,ahahaha
>>14464015
So, um, what's the correct "English grammatical structure" of that supposed to be according to you?
Aha... Ahahahaha?
>>14464119
You should go apply as editor for commie, herkz will love to have you on the team.
>>14463861
how do those clothes work
>>14464608
I'd be more concerned about the depthless hair ear.
https://twitter.com/MiKandiJapan/status/674436014014877698
Did Peter bite them and infect with his crazy wanna-be PR? Linking game you want to sell on kickstarter with US election politics sounds dumb.
>>14464904
I'd stump her rump, if you know what I mean
>>14464931
No. Describe your stump.
>>14464904
Trump memes are ubiquitous, no one cares. And if they did, it would only draw attention to their kickstarter.
>>14464904
I thought it was pretty funny.
>>14463874
Bullying your childhood friend is the only worthwile part of that game.
>>14465629
Chisato is a good girl
>>14458921
That's completely untrue.
Supposedly there's a Gekkou no Carnevale translation in the works.
>>14466026
It's not completely untrue.
>>14466089
Yes, it's actually about 17.3% true according to my calculations.
>>14466215
Now there's a sentence which makes no sense.
Mikandi is lowering the goal for their Kickstarter to 125k. They might have a chance now.
is there a walk through for koichoco thats made for use with the translated vn?
>>14466679
You shouldn't have skipped school when they teached fuzzy logic then.
Thank god Herkz is there to fight for eroge workers rights.
>>14467789
If translators instead work on all ages titles for Steam release, could they earn double what they're currently getting?
>>14467814
Don't worry doddles, Gahkthun will likely fail harder than KnS2!
>>14467878
I truly, truly hope so.
>>14467814
If you want money you should find a real job in an actually important industry Herkz you stupid retard.
>>14467973
Sure you do, dovac.
>>14467878
What's wrong with Gahkthun?
>>14468016
Bitch, if Gahkthun fails, that'll be another blow against MG doing any more 'serious' shit and force them into SP's sphere where they can fight over the Sakura market and keep them away from shitting all over anything anybody actually cares about.
>>14468031
I didn't realize people had a problem with MG translating serious stuff like KnS2 or Gahkthun. How exactly are they "shitting all over" them?
>>14468049
I think he failed at wording there, but he probably was talking only about Sekai Project with that shitting remark.
>>14467814
>who cares what your (potential) customers think? fuck them
What a fucking cunt.
Preordered Gahkthun, waiting for Bokuten.
>>14468146
Doesn't seem like many of those potential customers voted for KnS 2 with their wallet though.
Moogy's site got hacked by spambots. Now most of the shit he hosts is down except for tlwiki itself.
>>14468178
With luck, Amaterasu and Moogy will stay down forever.
![LeslieSouthpark[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/ncZ89UW.png "LeslieSouthpark[1].png")
>>14468178
>spambots
It's just viral marketing for the new South Park airing tonight.
>>14468461
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FOJKFqbE7FEJ:tsukuru.info/b/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
So not only is MG selling games from Fruitbat now- https://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=160
They are also selling Harajuku Dating Paradise - Nakadashi Banzai that Jast released like last year too- http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=161
Oh, and the Gakthun demo is out.
Don't forget, Seinarukana's planned for the fall!
>>14469106
I haven't forgotten. Can't wait for fall to happen.
>>14468461
Holy shit, that was a terrible episode.
>>14469188
Yeah, really was a poor way to end the best season in years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPCMJC1Ig6s
Is Toby Fox is English Zun?
>>14469106
Which one?
>>14469598
The fall of mankind
>>14468021
Nothing, in fact it's kind of sad that it'll fail. But it charted for all of a week when it's preorders opened and never came back since. Obviously it'll spike again when it launches, but that's not a great sign.
>>14467814
That chain of twitter replies is quite long.
Some interesting things about the titles MG chooses to localize and their pay have been mentioned.
Doddler himself said that he's almost paid enough to work full time.
>>14467814
That's kind of depressing. You can tell the amount of love that was put into KnS2. Lets hope at least Gahkthun does well.
I do have to wonder what the adult/all-ages split would be like in general if both had access to the same number of users.
>>14470606
Theoretically, can't you check that on torrent sites? You have access to all "torrent users" on them, and you'll see if they prefer all-ages or adult versions.
Unless you want to claim porn focused human torrent more.
>>14470868
Pirates are not indicative of what an all-ages version would sell, especially as the point of an all-ages release is to get the exposure of a Steam release.
>>14471201
Your other alternative would be all-ages + 18+ patch. Except it gets a bit tricky to tell how many bought it and had no intention to patch.
So we can all agree that this is the correct localization philosophy right?
>>14471364
Yes, it's too bad that bad translators and Ti9 use it as an excuse for rampant mistranslations and nonsensical English.
>>14467814
Why is hertz talking about their pay or lack there of? How would he know? He wasn't hired in the first place since he was shit.
>>14471606
Koestl could have told him.
>>14471606
Because mikandi reduced the KS goal from 170k to 125k by lowering the budget allocated to translation, so they're paying the translators less.
Libra KS is up.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikandijapan/libra-of-the-vampire-princess-visual-novel-english
>>14472000
Can't wait for it to bomb.
Hopefully it'll take out Root Double with it.
>>14472015
I'm all for Sekai Project fucking up, but Root Double is a good game and Lemnisca is a cool team. The collateral damage it would cause ain't worth it.
>>14472132
The Root Double budget allocation says most of the cost goes to the license cost and the rest is pretty much to the TLers. There's barely anything left for SP to profit off of, at least if you go by their PR material.
>>14450150
Order Number - 105614
Order Date - 2015-12-11
Really hope Gahkthun does well, it's a pretty fun read
>>14472138
Supposedly all the work and that shit is already done though, so...
>>14472154
So you're basically saying you don't need to pay the people for their work?
>>14472169
If the project is completed, then it doesn't need a Kickstarter to complete the project.
I don't even know how SP can continue claiming that they need money when they keep asking fans to cover the entirety of their operating expenses.
>>14450150
Do we have any idea how well No, Thank You!! sold?
>>14472169
If "people" willingly associate themselves with known enemy of public like SP, they should be taught a lesson.
Is Doddler really having an existential crisis over Libra selling 159 copies through Kickstarter?
>>14472275
Sure looks like it.
>>14472275
Better than spending all his spare time posting .webms of himself playing Tree of Savior in /vg/
>>14472275
I'm surprised that people at MG are surprised about KS being superior VN selling shop.
There was even huge thread at MG's own forums where people over and over again tried to explain these things to MG staff.
>>14472304
It's obviously better, but that's because the actual market is very small with a few people who spend disproportionately.
Also, when you have no ethics, milking money off people becomes a lot easier.
>>14472304
Kickstarter IS superior... but it would be pretty bad faith for them to use it to sell their games. It's really against the entire idea of the platform.
>>14472206
Well enough to get a hardcopy almost immediately.
>>14472275
Well, Mikandi just proved that with good marketing you can reap money on kickstarter regardless of how shitty your game is. It's gonna be really sad if this meets the goal and everyone starts translating games that are on the same level as Sakura Spirit.
>>14472415
>good marketing
Have you seen their twitter?
>>14472417
It's still better than no marketing at all *cough* MG *cough*.
>>14472415
I'm not sure they proved anything, the KS might not even be funded.
>>14472415
Oh c'mon, Libra is no Dies Irae, but its not anywhere near Sakura Spirit. Fundamentally, its from same niche as evolimit and other similar games. Although they failed to reach "good product" mark when judged as whole product, individual components are decent in their core.
>>14472431
MG markets, they just do it completely incompetently.
If you want to see complete nothingness and stealth releases, that's Jast.
>>14472437
If its reception, sales, and reviews are anything to go by, it's well below decent too.
>>14472431
I don't think you know what marketing is
>>14472446
At least they got Kotaku to review KnS 2. I think that's the only coverage the game got from anyone outside of a dedicated VN forum.
>>14472446
>If its reception, sales, and reviews are anything to go by, it's well below decent too.
That's because they failed to make good product out of good individual parts.
Anyway, what I've tried to say that there's huge difference between product which aimed high but failed (because thing they tried is very hard to pull off) and product which aimed low from the very start.
>>14472437
Dies Irae - 80.91, 932 votes.
Evolimit - 77.82, 624 votes.
Libra - 66.59, 17 votes.
Yeah, just like Clannad and Harukoi Otome are from the same niche.
>>14472468
Well, the end product of either doesn't seem like something I'd want to read.
>>14472474
I didn't claim its "as good" as evolimit, niche means sector of market and type of game they aimed at. Succeeding is different thing.
Kickstarters are better than selling games simply because they're self propelling.
A: Far more sites will cover a kickstarter than bother to review a VN, granting far greater exposure
B: As the kickstarter hits milestones, it will generate even more articles, even more exposure
C: People who pledge often feel driven to inform their friends, generating even more exposure.
D: The "Limited" nature drives people to buy whereas a storefront they can just leave to buy later, and then never get around to it
>>14472505
That and you can get huge amounts more money than normal from whales.
>>14472489
It failed, but it was unambitious, but it was made of unambitious good parts, but bad together, so it's okay.
>>14472512
You clearly didn't read Libra if you think it was "unambitious". It failed exactly because they set their ambitions too high.
>>14472514
Uh, no.
>>14472505
KS is good just for the publicity aspects, yeah. Too bad it's also exploitative at the same time. But it does get the most money out of the people who want to see it happen. Because there are plenty of people who will drop $150 to get dakis or random shit, which would be more hassle to sell separately. There's already over 10 $150 pledges on the Libra KS.
Kickstarter "is better" because the amount of money made, success, and popularity is visible for everybody to see.
If people see a kickstarter catching on fast or already over goal, they'll be more inclined to believe the product is good and worth backing and follow the bandwagon hype train.
After MuvLuv made the goal in 8 hours from previous fans and new interested fans, it continued to get more from its momentum from even more people who didn't read it, as well as the rewards.
On the other hand, the only way we can see MangaGamer's success is through order tracker man on vnts thread on jp or on twitter/ask.fm from the developers themselves which is very obscure.
People also like physical goods, but the only physical products MG delivers is either a hardcopy (sometimes) or that wallscroll.
KnS2 was also a sequel, so the audience was already limited to people who read KnS1, whereas Libra is a fresh brand new material who was given a lot of pre-hype with the prefundia and reddit discussion and now the KS.
Narcissu 3 barely made the KS because it was a sequel sequel, so people would have to plan to read it, or already have read the first 2.
>>14472514
I'm sure the same Japanese eroge company that made:
>My Happy Loving Life With My Five Wives Is All Thanks to the Baby Who Came From the Future!?
and
>She Gave It To Me. I Gave It To Her. ~KISS My Darling:Mecha-con case3~
decided to go for a completely different direction and make a real chuuni game only under the guise of a generic trashy moege.
>>14472557
>decided to go for a completely different direction and make a real chuuni game
Yes. And that's the very definition of word "ambition".
> generic trashy moege
You should read game first.
Long and gaudy battles, grand plot culminating in apocalypse, heroines dying left and right and so on and on are not things that could be called "generic trashy moege". If anything, having route heroines dying alone disqualifies it from moege genre.
>>14472565
I'm sure.
>>14472557
At least read EGS reviews before shitposting. It got such low votes exactly because it wasnt generic moege and moefags had their expectations betrayed.
>>14472565
Sounds good in terms of ambition, too bad the execution was poor.
>>14472571
So all their other games got bad scores because they were generic terrible moege, but this one got a bad score because it wasn't a generic terrible moege.
That makes perfect sense.
>>14472571
>[ダメなところ]
>・話が全部ちっちゃい、くどい。
>・戦闘シーンがしょぼすぎて苦痛。
>・主人公がうざいタイプ。
>バトルも大体はギャグですしギャグが面白いかといえばそこそこ面白いくらいですが
>シリアスとギャグのバランスが・・・
Maybe bluff for games with a few more reviews.
>>14472595
It got bad reviews because it's also a generic moege with very poorly written action scenes and too much random harem hijinks.
>>14472603
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/memo.php?game=22149&uid=%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB
Read actual review instead shit from shtiposters like you who didn't even finish game.
>>14472505
Kickstarter is not a store. They even say that themselves.
>>14472610
It's used that way anyway.
>>14472609
>6 reviews
>5 of them are shitposters
>this is the only one that matters
Okay
>>14472616
I wonder how many times SP can use KS before KS kicks them off.
>>14472554
I really don't like it because the reasons you laid out only make sense from a business perspective, and it's actually arguably worse for a consumer since they are essentially "gambling" by investing in a campaign's success with no guarantee and timeline.
>>14472618
Even other short "reviews" apes like you can understand stress out genre change, http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/memo.php?game=22149&uid=hanamin
> ブランド的な路線変更が成功？
> 個人的にこの手の厨二系シナリオは好きだが、元々このブランドはハーレム萌エロ路線だったので、その路線変更にかなり不安があった
