Official work

MangaGamer
Free Friends 2 - 100% translated and edited
Higurashi Hou -Watanagashi released
Bokuten - 73% translated, 40.30% edited
Da Capo 3 - 70.3% translated, 57.6% edited
OZMAFIA - 92% translated, 14.33% edited
House in Fata Morgana - 95% translated
Myth - 87% translated, 81% 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 and edited
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
Beat Blades Haruka - 100% Translated and edited
Umineko - Picked up
Tokyo Babel - 100% translated, 35% edited
Negai no Kakera - Picked up
Princess Evangile W Happiness - Picked up


JAST
Sonicomi - Fully translated, building launcher
Flowers - 100% translated, 23% edited
Seinarukana- Waiting on LE prototypes
Sweet Home - 34% translated
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 83%
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sumeragi Ryoko - 100% translated, waiting on test build


Sekai/Denpa
>Root Double - Kickstarter shortly, planned March release
>Nekopara 2 - 2/20 release
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title in TL through end of Nov
Atom Grrrl - 100% translated
Narcissu 3rd - 88.54% translated
Narcissu 0 - 89.23% translated
WEE 3 - 8.26% translated
Nenokami - 37.79% translated
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
SubaHibi - Official release planned
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 - 2946/10293 (28.62%) lines translated
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Kickstarter started
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

Anyway with BB2 finish, are Aroduc gonna rolling for three ?

And what the Aroduc secret project ? Don't tell me it is Baldr Sky Zero to troll Force and Dive fans.

>>14567543
Baldr Dive is my favorite one.

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Here comes the bundle spike.

In other news, the princess evangile wallscroll bundle has begun to show a quantity remaining(44). If we assume the minimum printrun quantity to be atleast 500(and likely higher at that) from doddlers words regarding why certain titles have not gained hardcopies and we assume said print to have been split evenly between the bundle and the nonbundle, this suggests atleast 200 evangile hardcopies have been ordered. Not bad for extra money.

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

>>14567550
It's probably a minimum of 800.

>>14567543
2 isn't done? The patch that was released was for beta testing, the game won't be done for a few months still. Aroduc has stated he intends to work on 3 but he also said he had two smaller projects planned so those will probably go before BB3.

>>14567550
>111398 to 139090 in less than a week

Jesus.

>>14567860
If only that wasn't just because of a nukige bundle off of Indiegala.

Libra of the Vampire Princess
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikandijapan/libra-of-the-vampire-princess-visual-novel-english

>>14567632
Is he a NEET ?

>>14568088
Apparently he has a day job. Doddler once said he had no idea how Aroduc gets as much done as he does, and I kinda have to agree with him. Aroduc just seems to have more time in a day then I do somehow.

>>14567501
The MG website says that Magical Eyes is supposed to be released on February 29th.
https://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=1&product_code=160

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I liked Gahkthun quite a bit overall. And I hope MG translates its fandisc, because it takes place a year later, so it's basically the epilogue of the story.

The one chapter that I thought wasn't very good was Chapter 10. Everyone else in the story acted like idiots due to Coercive Suggestion, but Amy and Jo weren't under it. Amy stealing her sister's fiance and then wanting to kill her for not being as cheerful around her anymore was just moronic. And Jo promised Neon she wouldn't try to steal Tesla from her way back in Chapter 5, but still asked him on a date and had sex with him. Considering what her sister did to her, you'd think she'd know better than to do something like that. I actually think Jo could've been a much more interesting character if they gave her a better story arc and didn't just have her as the other woman.

>>14568114
Yeah but who's better, him or Ixrec?

The top 5 most looked forward to 2016 MG releases are:
1) Princess Evangile W Happiness - 15.87%
2) Umineko - 11.52%
3) Beat Blades Haruka - 8.61%
4) Da Capo 3 - 8.51%
5) Kindred Spirits on the Roof - 7.59%

http://blog.mangagamer.org/2015/12/23/mangagamers-best-of-2015/

>>14568404
>3) Beat Blades Haruka - 8.61%
I actually find it kind of amusing to see Haruka on the third place.

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>>14568404
>2) Umineko - 11.52%

>>14568411
Yeah, the rest of the nukige except for Kuroinu have much lower numbers.

The 8 lowest ranked games are(ranked from loweset to highest):
1) My Boss' Wife Is My Ex - 1.89%
2) Myth - 2.81%
3) Free Friends 2 - 3.01%
4) Shadows of Pygmalion - 3.1%
5) House in Fata Morgana - 3.79%
6) Ozmafia - 4.72%
7) Bokuten - 4.88%
8) Kuroinu - 4.98%

I can't believe people voted for games they played already instead of games they didn't so they can try to win them.

Also, fuck off, ChaosRaven.

>>14568601
Don't worry, eventually they will find all the translated stuff is already localized and they will have to actually work.

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87 days left.

I hope MG reconsiders those hard copy w happiness at launch. They both have the original game sales numbers and the popularity poll of the fan disc. It should add up well enough for a justified hard copy sale.

>>14568725
A popularity poll isn't exactly a good indicator. Obviously the games that get on Steam will sell the best. Gahkthun and KnS2 had high numbers in the poll, but their sales haven't exactly been impressive so far.

Princess Evangile's sales data is definitely useful though. However they might still have a delayed hardcopy release in order to give them time to patch bugs that could be found at launch.

>>14567498
>White Album 2 - 17052/35275 (48.34%) lines of closing chapter translated
Why is this still on the list, when even Fuwanovel considered the "TL" bad enough to remove from theirs?

>>14568748
I don't think multiple choice data is that far from the truth. The other polls are meaningless however since if you like 3 games equally you can only randomly pick one anyway.

>>14568988
The poll offers the chance to win a popularly voted game for free. People might not want to pay for the game, especially a $45 one, but would be more than happy to vote for a chance to get a free copy of it.

>>14568045
>Libra
This has actually bounced back pretty well the last few days after it was dead during the holidays. If it can keep up a 1k+ pace it has a good chance of making it with the end of project surge.

Kara no Shoujo 3 trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITKga26vh48

>>14569091
True. It seems like most people are voting to get free games instead of voting on best games. Maybe it should be renamed to "most overpriced game 2015".

>>14569183
You pronounce 天 as Kara?

inb4 you fug Buddhists this time around

>>14568749
Every TL is a bad TL. Learn moonrunes

>>14568404
da fk why is umineko up there

>>14569300
trying mate but i'm still fking stuck on the damn kana

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>>14569091

They seem to have been pushing harder to get noticed the last few days or so. Reddit AMA, bothering a bunch of sites, and if you actually turn off your adblocker you'll see pic related above /jp/. I'm pretty sure if someone linked them to this thread in particular they'd be shilling here too.

>>14569336
Holy fuck. You weren't kidding when you said they were shilling everywhere. They must have thought in the beginning that it was easy to squeeze money out of weebs.

>>14567550
Order Number - 142343
Order Date - 2016-01-04

Let it not be said that we are all pirates.

>>14569367

I'm pretty sure what happened was that xero approached mikandi and mikandi looked at that muvluv kickstarter, saw the dollar signs, and jumped right in.

Though at least one of the parties are heavily invested in this, as they went ahead despite their prefundia, where they were heavily warned to temper their expectations(something they seemed to acknowledge with their goal cutdown).

I'm getting really tired of seeing sekai in the news all the time, what's worse is it's always positive. The entire new years it was sekai news. Why does no one cover things by jast or mg?

>>14569703
>Why does no one cover things by jast or mg?

Because porn is evil

Seinarukana still isn't released.

See you folks in 2017.

>>14569703
>Jast
what is there to cover

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>>14569811
Sucks for you.

Can I play BB2 without having finished the first? It was too hard for me...

>>14569771
Why don't they do what sekai is doing? Tricking evn devs and Indies to work with them? It looks pretty easy judging from how many announcements sekai does on a monthly basis.

>>14570058
They have a moral compass?

>>14569703
If I remember correctly. Siliconera received a massive storm of shit from their audience after covering Mangagamer news, since unrelated to the news covered even, they found other contents of Mangagamer's catalogue to be objectionable. And thus saw it morally unfit and vile to publish Mangagamer related news.

In other words. Crazy people are trying to suppress them. That, or Sekai shills are trying to hog all the limelight by throwing dirt at their competition.

>>14570159

No, the guy working for Siliconera who liked MG left or was fired or something. They always had a bias against games with adult content but only made exceptions for things staffers liked (eg. KnS or things staffers were working on fan projects for).

>>14569958
No.

>>14570159
I thought they covered some of MG's all ages announcements last summer.

I don't understand why an adult game company would ever want to be covered in a non-adult media. It is like trying to sell boats at a car dealers magazine. Maybe you find someone, but it certainly isn't the right place to be.

At best you just get SJWs whining about ruining their perfect illusionary world.

>>14570254
You don't understand why a business would want exposure and promotion?

>>14570254
This is an especially dumb example because there's probably a good demographic crossover between people reading car magazines and potential boat owners. Just like there is between people reading sites dedicated to covering niche Japanese games and potential visual novel buyers.

How often does MG advertise on 4chan's pink boards? Maybe they should think about it more often.

>>14570414

We have before, but consider for a moment that most people (I'm sure yourself included) use ad block these days. Traditional ads just aren't worth it most of the time.

>>14567632
>Aroduc has stated he intends to work on 3 but he also said he had two smaller projects planned so those will probably go before BB3.

>I hope to finish the script files themselves this week, and then it's cleanup and whatnot before back to the behemoth for the next probably 6-8 months, although I may announce it some time before then for… a number of reasons.

That doesn't sound like a smaller project,

>>14570414

Mikandi actually posted about the effectiveness of their 4chan ads thus far
>the first run got a lot of attention. 0.18 ctr, 760 clicks, 422k impressions. Google analytics said 460 clicks. No backers tho

It's a hundred bux for 400k impressions. Pretty cheap, but not very effective.

Mangagamer did run evangile and eden ads in the past though.

>>14567498
man i remember when Amagami started, is the game even worth it or good. I do have a hacked psp and can play burned ps2 games but is the vn a good story?

>>14570868
No.

>>14570535

6-8 months for aroduc is probably the entirety of baldr sky.

So root double is coming out in march no matter what? dam the team who did I/0 and stiens gate were fast but this is crazy. I mean the were doing the other one and they stopped and then started right away on this? did they ever say they will finish the other infinity game? how hard was it to get the Japanese team to ok it? must of been easy this time.

>>14570899
Milf autist, please. At least try to pay attention and understand time.

>>14570899
Milf autist you're actually using caps in some places. Good job!

>>14570906
Well how long have they been apart of sekai? I was out of here for a while. was it that long ago? I know they stopped 12riven at some point but i wanted to read that. did they stop 12riven too do rootdouble and lied that they were having problems hacking?
>>14570916
It matters if I type with two hands.

>>14570928
>I have no idea how long they've been working on it, but it must've been fast!
Jesus christ, autist.

What the fuck when was G-senjou no Maou added to steam, did it even sell.

I played clannad back in the day but never finished it because i couldn't get the fucking true end. is the steam version the same or a different translation.

>>14570951
2 months ago, and it's sales (2.5k) aren't great considering it's a popular title and most of those sales were probably at $13.

>>14570968
98% same translation, but much better edited.

>>14570899
>>14570951
Why do you keep coming back?

>>14570985
didnt it get overshadowed by clannad? I remember clannad was like top 5 for hours, it actually topped gta5.
Why are the infinity titles not on steam yet anyway. they would be popular.

they must of made a shit ton of money on clannad, its sold because of its name.

steins gate and chaos head seems not to be on too yet, huh thought that would make money.

>>14571000
Marketing for G-senjou was garbage.

They had no announced date until 17 hours before it came out.

The 20 dollars for voices thing also pissed people off.

Clannad had a lot more advertisement and press coverage and was already famous.

>>14571000
G-Senjou's release got a lot of poor word of mouth because they badly cropped the CGs and tried to hide it in a comically inept fashion. The Infinity titles are a licensing issue. And yeah, Clannad sold 11k units at $42 or more in a month, it's doing really well.

>spoonfeeding this dumbfuck

>>14571014
>>14571011
Don't encourage the autist.

>>14571011
>>14571014
Oh well that makes sense, it not like i would buy vns on steam anyway or buy them to begin with.

>>14571018
What ive been here forever and read vns right when they were translated. I just was interested in how vns were actually selling. really its just slowed down everything. its still slow or even more slow because fan translators are dead.

>>14570868
It's a decent dating sim. If you're looking for a story, you're looking in the wrong genre.

>>14571064
All I know about it is the sexhair girl. I never even finished the anime.
Is it weird that it never got ported to the pc?
I mean this guys going through a lot i bet translating a ps2 game.

>>14571073
>Is it weird that it never got ported to the pc?
No? Why would it be ported to PC?

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>>14570968
Ignore >>14570986. Clannad has a brand new translation, but the idea of Sekai doing anything right is so incomprehensible to /jp/ they're in blatant denial. The new script doesn't even resemble the old one.

>>14571509
The problem is that responses to milf autist never, ever generate interesting discussion. It's all just a matter of re-explaining things we already know to some retard.

So when is the G-string 18+ version available? Sekai is really bad at this industry.

>>14572032
>The new script doesn't even resemble the old one.
[citation needed]

>>14570254
There's no western adult media for games, so you either get exposition in non-adult, or you get none at all.

Hey /jp/. I'm kinda new to the VNR thing and would just like to know how do you make it translate ingame choices? Sorry for the trouble.

>>14569183
Fuck it's down. Can't find anything on innogrey website too.

>>14572032
well I downloaded it, Its been like 7 or 8 fucking years maybe ill reread it, ill have to use the fucking guide again, I remember this game being autistic. I thought i did it perfectly and still I fucked up and couldnt get the right end, so i never knew how it ended.

Who re-translated it? I remember it was actually not bad, just maybe not editied perfect.
It wasn't machine translated right?
I think sekai started out fucking machine translating till they hired all the good fan translators. to the point where there are none left.

>>14569183
Wait what, I still need too read 2, I was reading the very first one (not kara the actual first one) but got so sick at one point i almost threw up and had the shivers for a while. I couldn't finish that fucking game, its worse than actual horror movies. I dont want to even remember it but it was at the church with the fucking retarded sister that didnt save him. holy shit that was bad, not even kara was that bad.

>>14573667
You mean Cartagra ~Affliction of the Soul~?

>>14569183
Apparently reddit thinks that KnS2 was a success for MG. They should be in for a surprise.

>>14573701
Yeah, im not fucking playing that, its sad because I like mystery and they really do have story but the horror is not even horror, I read stephen king and its is just plain gore. Im guessing 2 left off at a cliff hanger, again? how? Was 2 good I mean who is he chasing at this point? actually dont say maybe say if they are actually needed and it turned into a huge trilogy. Im guessing we are getting 3? Sadly these games actually come out really close too release and whoever translates them is really good.

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By the way, did SP say something about Witch Boy after the kickstarter failed?

>>14573747
Still no word on that. I consider it a backburner project at this point.

>>14573660
Sekai hasn't hired a single good fan translator.

They have poached a couple projects from them though, but literally not one of them was actually hired to work on Sekai's own stuff.

>>14573952
They hired the infinity I/0 guys.
They are really good. I think gundamace is his name and the stiensgate guy. they make a good team.

>>14573960
Here, autist, let me highlight something that you somehow seemed to miss despite it being a third of my post.

>They have poached a couple projects from them though
>They have poached a couple projects from them though
>They have poached a couple projects from them though
>They have poached a couple projects from them though
>They have poached a couple projects from them though

>>14573977
No they did hire them, for root double.

>>14573981
Milf autist, every time I attempt to educate you out of your persistent retardation, I regret it. Why do you even care about translations when you don't understand basic English?

>>14573994
They didnt poach root double, they hired them to fucking work on it. They started it and skipped 12riven because of it.

>>14573994
You should educated him on how to reply to multiple people in one post. Fucking retard can't even do that correctly.

>>14574000
You are making random shit up to fit your own inner narrative based on your own admitted ignorance. You constantly complain about not knowing what's going on, but are here saying that you know better than anybody about what's going on. Go back to whatever dark corner of the internet you come from.

>>14574000
If they hired them to work on it, then why is part of their kickstarter buying the translation off of them?

>>14574093
Sekai is just using the kickstarter to get their investment back.

>>14574127
Right, so your assumptions are that Sekai paid them to do what they were already doing, and is now lying about it, and the translators wouldn't have translated the game they were already working on except for Sekai promising to pay them later.

>>14574136
They were working on 12riven before, not Root Double. They dropped the 12riven project to translate Root Double for Sekai.

>>14574152
This is not true. Why do you think this is true?

>>14574152
>There may also be some of you who might be concerned that this will get in the way of our other projects. I can assure you this will not be the case. Though we are currently working on Killer Queen, we will still be finishing our translations of I/O and 12Riven first. Root Double, on the other hand, depends on whether or not Xtend (the PS3 version) gets a PC port, so our project of that is essentially on hiatus while we wait for news. The longest we’ll wait is two years at maximum. If there’s still no sign of a port by then, then we’ll translate the original PC version (and possibly see if there’s a way to include the content from Xtend). That said though, when that time comes or if Root Double Xtend does indeed get a PC version, that will come first regardless of what we were doing at the time.

In your world, literally everybody is lying about what they were doing, when they were doing it, and their motivations for doing it.

>>14574185
It's a sane assumption. You can't trust anyone on the internet, especially if money or fame (even imagined) are involved in any form.

>>14574185
Didn't they take down their other translations as part of the deal? If they release anything else they were working on, it will likely be officially.

>>14574185
>>14574053
>>14574093

Well they did fucking remove all their translations from their page, so yeah they were hired by sekai who got the rights to sell I/0 and root double and got rid of the others just in case they could make a deal. So if you ask me they stopped 12riven, made a kick starter to make money and show that people want it, then sell the project on steam.
Its not really fucking that hard to think about.
Does it matter? not really because the team is really good and they are fast. the only problem is now we cant get 12riven unless a deal is made, im not sure if its the same company who made root double and I/0.

>>14574263
If you don't understand English, don't argue semantics.

>>14574361
I are a Sekai Progeckt tranlslator.

>>14573715

The 600ish sales bracket isn't a failure or anything, it's slightly better than breaking even. I could see mangagamer doing kns3 if they still have ties to IG despite that flowers cucking, particularly if maria really wants to do it(since having a willing translator, an available license, and a title that is likely to break even at least trumps just about all other factors).

>>14574445
Each sequel is selling less, so it's really not likely to break even. And you're assuming that they have infinite resources when they obviously don't. If the choice is between 2-3 nukige or shitty little Steam doujin things that are all going practically guaranteed to make a profit, or one sequel to a game that barely broke even, both taking the same amount of total translation effort, they're going with the former every time.

They're not doing Shin Koihime either, despite knowing that'd easily sell double what KnS or Gahkthun did (eventually). The effort is not worth the cost and HOPEFULLY breaking even, not even being confident of that, is a poor aim for a business.

>>14574445
>it's slightly better than breaking even
It would more sense to license a game that has an all-ages version that could be put on Steam. KnS3 isn't happening for the foreseeable future anyway, since IG doesn't plan to focus on it until Flowers is done.

>>14574460
>Each sequel is selling less

Cartagra isn't a sequel and KnS2 sold more than it.

>And you're assuming that they have infinite resources when they obviously don't

They don't have infinite resources, but the resources they do have make their choices independently. As I said, if maria wants to do it, it'll probably happen. Evospace doesn't just dictate what titles everyone works on, they all more or less pick from what's available and they can make an argument for. It's the sole benefit to working for such shit pay.

>>14574445
>The 600ish sales bracket isn't a failure or anything,
Considering it was reviewed on Kotaku?
600ish sales is a total failure. Just imagine KnS2 sales if it wasn't reviewed on Kotaku.

>>14574475
>and they can make an argument for.

...

I'm pretty sure that sekai is doing sumire next judging from agilis' post on reddit

Moving 600 units is a colossal failure for a big name story VN.

With story VNs selling so poorly, expect to see a mountain of nukige combined with plenty of Winged Cloud and Tilley from MG in the future.

>>14574682
So like how it was in the past?

>>14574682
Story vns can sell well, they just have to get on Steam first.
Just wait for MG's 2016 announcements: Higanbana with updated art, Rose Guns Days, and EVE: Burst Error R.

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It's a storyge, right?

>>14574706
He did say he didn't want to get stuck with another nukige, didn't he?

>>14574713
And? If MG pays, he'll suck whatever dick they want him to.

>>14574724
He said he'd quit translating for them if he kept being assigned nukige.

>>14574729
And how many is that? 3? 4?

And keep in mind what he wants to do, Alicesoft games, still have exponentially more fucking than most things.

>>14574738
He's also an Alicesoft fanboy. If he can't do Alicesoft, he'll stop translating period.

>>14574760

If I recall he said it's not alicesoft, didn't he?

>>14574791
He's doing one of Mangagamer's short pieces of crap that they have sitting around in hopes of getting an Alicesoft thing after Haruka's out. This isn't complicated.

>>14574791
He did say it was not an Alicesoft game, and that it wasn't a nukige.

>>14574802
No, he said that if he had to keep doing nothing but nukige, he'd quit. Not that he wasn't currently doing another nukige.

Jesus fucking christ, people. When he was asked if he was translating Haruka, he replied
>Why would I be translating Haruka?
If someone's asked a simple yes/no question and they evasively dance around it and don't give a straight answer, don't make retarded assumptions.

>>14574825
But then Dovav wouldn't have a business plan

>>14574857
I thought his business plan was just to lie to people in their faces?

https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/123409094/#123685147
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/123409094/#123691757
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/123409094/#123687668
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/123409094/#123685147

Insufficient information to make proper speculation, but perhaps there's assets to make a higher resolution version from the psp port of pastel chime continue? arunaru played that out of the blue recently too.

>>14574952
Occasionally (see the voices in WAS), but it's pretty rare. He prefers to dance around the truth as much as possible, like
>Are you releasing the adult version of Grisaia?
>Sekai Project will be releasing the full version of Grisaia that was released in Japan without any cuts.
or
>The trial version was full of errors. Are those going to be fixed in the final version?
>We have brought on additional translation resources to ensure that we're releasing a high quality product.
or
>Do you need to do a Kickstarter for this mostly completed project?
>We have calculated the monetary requirements for this project and believe them to be an accurate sum for what it takes to localize and release a game that the fans want.
or
>Are you using the fan translation?
>The fan translation will not be released. We have many people going over the script and will be accepting translation assets from an outside source to assist in our effort.

It's only when he's backed into a corner that he lies and then a month later pins it on the Japanese devs.

>>14575016
Less pornographic than Haruka doesn't narrow it down at all. Suck My Dick or Die is less pornographic than Haruka.

>>14575016
Publisher: 5pb
Good luck with that.

>>14575036
I remember when Winged Cloud blamed the VAs. That was some funny shit.

>>14575067
And he specifically said not Alicesoft.

If you can't tell the difference between these two kinds of answers:
>Is it an Alicesoft game?
>No.

>Is it a nukige?
>If I have to keep doing nothing but nukige all the time, I'd quit.

You probably eat paint.

>>14575086
That wasn't Winged Cloud, it was Dovac, practicing his "blame someone else" bullshit.

http://vnsnow.com/2014/11/sekai-project-chief-responds-to-vns-nows-questions-on-the-guardians-spell/

Too bad for him that the VAs responded and called him out.
http://vnsnow.com/2014/11/update-former-guardians-spell-va-director-speaks-to-vns-now/

Unfortunately, the whole fiasco just died after that.

>>14575094
>And he specifically said not Alicesoft.

I actually can't find a source for this anymore. I could have swore it happened, but I came up with nothing.

>>14567498
I've checked VNDB, but sorting through the wealth of tags and VN they have is a little daunting.

Can anyone help me fill out the list I'm making of translated VN with actual "gameplay" to them?

1) Rance 1-Kichikuou + Sengoku
2) Big Bang Age
3) Bunny Black
4) Widenyo
5) Dungeons & Dolls
6) Slash! Thrust! Burn!
7) Toushin Toushi 1+2
8) Kaeru nyo Panyo~n
9) Little Princess
10) Mamatoto
11) Eiyuu Senki
12) Girlish Grimoire Littlewitch Romanesque
13) Tears to Tiara 1+2
14) Kingdom
15) Most of the Monstergirl Quest series
16) Galaxy Angel series
17) Castle Fantasia
18) Utawarerumono
19) Kamidori Alchemy Meister
20) Sakura Taisen 5
21) Eien no Aselia
22) Gadget Trial
23) Piece of Wonder
24) Princess Waltz
25) Boob Wars
26) Muv-Love Alternative
27) Sunrider
28) Yumina the Ethereal
29) Shikkoku no Sharnoth -What a Beautiful Tomorrow-
30) Koihime † Musou 1
31) Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles Vol.1
32) Lightning Warrior Raidy 1-3
33) Kagura Douchuuki
34) Violated Hero 1-3
35) Men at Work
36) Brave Soul
37) Words Worth (The translation for this is MIA)
38) Fortuna (Same as above)

>>14575379
And any news of upcoming translation projects about these same kinds of games would be great as well. I know Beat Blades Haruka falls into this category, but I'm not sure about anything else.

>>14575379
Words Worth isn't translated, not even by Fuwanovel/Cudder standards.

Also, Muv Luv Alternative has literally no gameplay.

>>14575393
re, Words Worth: VNDB says some group called Fun Translation translated both it and Fortuna, but that when they went under the translations disappeared. (They also had DRM on them)

re, Muv Luv: thanks for letting me know. Again, I'm just going off what VNDB says

>>14575455
It wasn't a translation. It was a disaster.

>>14575455
Words Worth is very much a disaster tl wise. Same with Rance 1, and how does Muv-Luv Alternative have gameplay?
You have the wrong Castle Fantasia game listed, the 2nd one is translated, the first isn't.

Actually(and I'm going to regret posting this) here;s a list of all the gameplay h games I've played from my blog. Look through the list and decide what is a vn and what isn't. It's a more complete list then vndb when it comes to in English though I will warn you, I don't care about quality or machine when making it.

>>14575892
And I forget to actually link it, good job me:
https://englishhrpgs.wordpress.com/save-storage-2/

>>14576495
How unfortunate.

>>14575892
Thanks man

Freefriends and sonicomi up for preorder.

Root Double kickstarter also supposed to launch today. I wonder how that'll work with libra. Will they cannibalize and kill each other?

>>14576847
sonicomi is 144 dollars only.

14 dollars per hour of gameplay!

>>14576847
I hope both of them fail hard. Fucking cancer ruining everything.

>>14576847
>sonicomi up for preorder.
And Seinarukana's still not.

>>14576847

Oh, and also of note for the sonicomi preorder, there's a super special edition with a mousepad and fig. That's not anything too noteworthy on it's own, but given that the mousepad is never-before-produced and includes such a pricehike, I suspect jast/pcr is making it on their own. That means mangagamer could conceivably do mousepads aswell for titles that warrant it(since mangagamer is still using PCR which is jast)

>>14576898

You've got nothing on that one anonymous that's been waiting for sumaga this entire time

https://jlist.com/jast012

Either they messed up on the store, or the article got it wrong.

LE seems to be 50.
collector is 144.

Regular price where?

If jlist messed up, everybody should flood their orders for the LE for 50 for the figure and watch them say, "sorry the price was wrong hahahaha"

>>14576847
Root Double will be fine. Libra's been doing a lot better lately and if anyone might be hurt it would be them.

>>14576970
It'd be nice if KS removed their project for the whole thing already being done.

I can dream.

>>14576986
http://gematsu.com/2016/01/sonicomi-communication-with-sonico-coming-pc-llaunches-english-summer-2016

Standard is supposed to be 50.
LE is supposed to be 95.

on their store, they messed up the standard which shouldnt be allowed for preorder price with LE.

Free Friends 2, the sequel to Free Friends, is now available for pre-order! Pre-order to pick the game up at 10% off. Free Friends 2 will be out on January 26th.

> more news to come in 2016 for subahibi
> we in 2016

Well... What's the predicted price?

>>14578615

One million dollars

>>14578615
$30-$50, because moogy and Herkz want to be paid top dollar for their efforts, including keeping you all hyped up for the release.

Wait I thought root double had a kickstarter already. Its actually happening today?

>>14579368
It just launched.

Given how utterly revolting and incompetent western VN translation companies are, it's only a matter of time before all Japanese companies interested in the market outside of Japan hire translators to work with them directly. All that is left is quickly slapping it on Steam, and all the bux are flowing directly back to them instead of through a completely useless middle man.

>>14579372
Link?
Why are they doing this anyway? I thought they were getting it out in march, it must be done already.

>>14579409
>it made 2000 dollars
dam how do normals with money to spend even find it that fast.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/root-double-before-crime-after-days-xtend-edition

I guess we'll find out what impact libra running at the same time has.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=593193737
some translated screens

>>14579421
>35 supporters, already at 3k USD
Are you fucking kidding me. You're paying almost $100 each for a freakin' shit game.

I'll never understand people ``pre-ordering'' aka funding shit.

>>14579448

It's probably going to be about that ten times that by the end of the day. I wouldn't waste all your outrage right at the beginning, anonymous.

>>14579436
Why are steam comments so moronic? That one from Hiecchi is especially moronic.

>>14579448
Who cares, we get a translated vn thats ranked high, has a actual story, and its gonna be done fast and has a good translation. Its not like Im doing that. Some people are just rich and bored and need something fun in their life. We can leech off them. and maybe this will show that story vns sell and we will get baldr sky and all the 5pb games from the other companies.

>>14579421
Still going for the "SP will give us the physical game this time!" meme, eh?

>>14579384
I would say everything would be better if they did have a translator. But I guess the one positive thing localization has ever given us, was demosaic art.

If they fixed that law (or just went with the comic book approach of just a tiny bar on top) they could really run the entire business from home.

Maybe Lemnisca will translate a ton of other good vns after this with other companies. How about Chaos;Child and Robotics;Notes. Hopefully we do get 12riven.

>>14579486

As long as the translators they get are actually competent. Japanese companies can sometimes hire 'professional translators' who are horrid.

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They need to translate VNs where people have black hair.

>>14579462
Doesn't seem to be moving that fast.

>>14579448
Why do you care ? I for sure don't give a fuck because i'll pirate it and i'm glad these rich boys are paying for me.

>>14579511
They need to translate good VNs first.

Karma is nice, all the news posts about root double has comments full of users telling people to stay far away from sekai.

Quick question, forgive my ignorance, I don't visit here too much. I noticed that in the first posts there was no mention of Muv Luv Altered Fable. I seem to recall it being at 65% or so for a long time. Was it finished eventually or just abandoned? I see on VNDB there is a listing for a complete patch, but it doesn't sound complete, and doesn't say it's released.

I guess if they actually don't fund it, then they will just release it for free and do 12riven after.

But in this day and age we must support publishing games officially so that it takes longer!

>>14579734
The kickstarter included the fandisc if i remember. They will be translated by them.

>>14579739
Kickstarter? For what? Like I said, I don't visit here much. I slowed down VN playing, not wanting to burn through all the good translated ones too quickly.

>>14579748
The whole Muv-Luv pack. Be it extra, unlimited and alternative. It was funded last year anon.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/description

>>14579754
>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series/description
Huh, neat. I played it a while ago, I thought it was weird at first that they would retranslate it, but I guess if they include little new things and stuff it's not bad. I kinda want that soldier class hoodie, but I know I'd never wear it. Thanks for the info anon, I'll keep a look out for more info on that.

>>14579770
>retranslate

More like extra editing.

>>14579589

It's 10k right now. 30k end of day 1 seems like a good, slightly conservative estimate.

>>14579776
It's been a while, was the translation that bad? I thought it was fine. It looks like they'll add in new songs and maybe some voices for Takeru. But I kinda glanced over it.

Is Root double even any good?

>>14579776
>>14579781
Ixrec worked with them so it's the same translation as before.

>>14579728
Now this is rather interesting. I guess people are finally starting to get it. I bet dovac is mad he can't just delete comments like on steam.

>>14579795
That hasn't stopped the progress from advancing at high speed though.

>>14579811
Kickstarters are usually the most popular in the beginning and at the end.

Seems like libra's gonna be using denpa as a distributor for the uncensored version of the game. I wonder if it'll be on mangagamer too?

>>14579728
Why? any reason actually? I mean Lemnisca has a good name and thier translations are good.

>>14579782
Its considered one of the best infinity games, and they are all good expect code18 apparently. The guy who did all the infinity games and I/0 did root double. So if you like those then i guess you will like this vn.

>>14579834
Because Sekai has yet to fully deliver on a single kickstarter they have ran, some of which are two years old.

>>14579964

Except they have.

>>14580054
Nope. None of their VN kickstarters have been completely fulfilled. Even Fault hasn't shipped out its art book, prequel game, or Vita port.

>>14580054
Only if you count the headphone set they did at the very start. Nothing else has fully finished, not even Fault or WAS which are their first kickstarters have shipped and finished everything promised.

>>14580138

A kickstarter is a kickstarter, so it still counts :P

>>14579964
well sekai is not doing the translation, Lemnisca is and they are good.

>>14580311
The games coming out on Steam aren't usually the problem, it's the physical rewards that tend to be delayed forever.

>>14580311
but Sekai are the ones getting money, and that is my problem. I don't really care about root double either so I don't care what happens with this kickstarter, I just want Sekai to be seen as the jerks and liars they really are.

>>14580367
WAS was delayed for what? A full year and still hasn't gotten all its game stuff done, Grisaia is definitely behind schedule(plus the adult version took how long to finally come out, though that wasn't technically kickstarter so whatever), Clannad has another game due out still, Fault is late and badly translated plus still has another episode and the prequel. World End Economica still has another episode. Which one of their game kickstarters has actually released all of the promised game content that they were suppose to?

Is there an official list of /jp/ suggested VNs?

>>14579782
It's pretty good, the original release has pacing problems in the final route but was fixed in Xtend edition.

>>14579781
>I thought it was fine
Then you have problems with both your English and Japanese.

Looks like all that negative PR is finally working. Users on other sites warning that sekai is a giant scam.

Libra somehow ended up making 9k today. I guess Sekai shilling for them in their Root Double email worked out huh.

>>14581364

They might even make one of their stretch goals at this rate

>>14580532
No. /jp/ does not want newbies; you'll find /vg/'s VN General much more welcoming. They also have recommendation charts and the like.

Looks like supipara 1 might be in february judging by that tweet mangagamer just deleted

Looks like Conjueror's translating Baldr Sky judging by that tweet he just deleted

Looks like Maggot Baits was licensed by Sekai Project judging by that tweet they just deleted

Bunny Black 2 translation is almost done?

That's relatively quick.

>>14582518
>>14582545

There's literally a few people that replied to it if you search, you smartasses.

>>14582582
LITERALLY A FEW!?

>>14582617

Literally two.

>The Narcissu series has lots of games and can be confusing, so we've decided we need to bundle 1&2 along with the epilogue to help new players. We’re putting together a launcher to make everything work smoothly and that’s what’s holding up the release to the store.

>Future releases will be DLC attached to this main bundle.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/narcissu-10th-anniversary-anthology-project/posts/1459281

>>14582570
I played the beta. Its a little disappointing how the game skips some of the angels defloration scenes. Still fappable though

>>14583447
What's the delay for? Wasn't all this shit ALREADY translated? How hard is it just to make a guide telling you which order to play in?

>>14583590
>What's the delay for?
>We’re putting together a launcher to make everything work smoothly and that’s what’s holding up the release to the store.
Also, backers get it first, so it makes them feel special.

>Wasn't all this shit ALREADY translated?
>Narcissu 3rd - 88.54% translated
>Narcissu 0 - 89.23% translated
They still working on it.

> How hard is it just to make a guide telling you which order to play in?
They want to make it as convenient as possible for casual Steam users to give them money.

>>14583642
MG should do this too. You go to their site and press buy, and they give you the game should buy and play. This avoids people buying the wrong games.

>>14583653
The most they could probably do is say whether the game has any sequels, prequels, fandiscs, or same series games on the games store pages.

>>14583843
Steam users sure are happy at getting a cut version.

>>14583852
I doubt MG could get Liarsoft to make content to fill in the missing scenes either.

It sucks, because I want the fandisc and extra sales through Steam would make that alot more likely to happen.

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I hope that if I win anything that it's not a copy of Huniepop.

root double sure is funding can't wait for it to crash and burn

I wonder what the PR department was thinking with that giveaway based on polls. You won't get "best 2015" you'll get "most expensive game people haven't bought yet 2015".

Had they had their forums up, I believe people would have pointed that out. Their forums seem to be invaluable as a common sense filter for their PR department.

Still amazed they made an all-ages single character wallscroll when they could have taken the two or three highest ranked characters in an ecchi scene. I hope they noticed I bought it so they would release more wallscrolls with better content, but it is hard to tell if they understand we buy crap to get good things.

>>14583909
Don't celebrate just yet. Narcissu was looking like might fail there for awhile. And I'm sure that if Root Double looks like it's in trouble that several thousand dollar pledges will mysteriously appear to push it over the finish line. The same thing happened toward the end of the Narcissu kickstarter as well.

>>14583909
It's well on track to meet its initial goal. I don't think anyone is going to weep because they're not getting the drama CDs.

>>14583977
The $1,000 tier and above are a joke. The only things the $1,000 tier has that the $225 doesn't are a signed copy of the game and the fanbook, which will only be given if the stretch goal is hit and even then you can get one as an add-on for $30. These tiers only exist in case Sekai needs to bail this KS out.

>>14584035
Well, it's no surprise. I can kind of understand that some people would be willing to part with that much money if it gave them a tangible benefit in the long term (for example, e-penis bragging rights in Star Citizen [if it ever comes out, lol]), but there's no way in hell anyone unaffiliated with the project would be donating $1000 to a random japanese game translation.

>>14584096
Root Double's goal is $135,000, but your observation stands.

>>14584111
Oops.

Kickstarter Goals:

Grisaia Trilogy - $160,000
CLANNAD - $140,000
Root Double - $135,000


Hmmmm...

>>14584045
I don't know, man. I make roughly $1850 a month and I backed for $150 (+$10 shipping) even though I barely care for physical goods and the only benefit over the $100 tier is a poster. I backed because Ever17 and Remember11 are my favorite stories ever and I want to support Nakazawa, and I absolutely want this kickstarter to succeed (though it probably will even without me backing for this much). I don't find it hard to imagine that someone making several times as much money would back the $1000 tier for the same reasons.

>>14584215
Okay, so you're above average middle class in income. Maybe even upper middle class in some regions. Now, imagine someone made ten times as much as you per month. That's already elite income class, bankster or mobster or something along the line. Why exactly would THEY back something like a VN translation when they could be busy getting sucked off by 1a prostitutes for half the money? Or just hire a Japanese student to translate it for them in their leisure time.

It's just inconceivable for me.

>>14584236
>22k salary
>average middle class

Uh

>>14584270
So, you're saying he makes 1.8k per month before taxes? In that case, he'd hardly spend his money on shit, right?

Sekai Project isn't a startup company or indie developers.
Why do they insist on using Kickstarter and crowd funding?

>>14584319
Because idiots here and on reddit keep funding them. Though, I wonder why kickstarter hasn't been notified that SP is using them as a preorder store.

>>14584283
It's after taxes. After rent, insurance and other bills I have roughly $1000 left to spend on groceries and stuff I like. My income is average for a programmer straight out of college where I live.