Visual Novel translation status
Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1587/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (68.7%)"
>AstralAir - prologue patch released, 47049/64880 (72.52%) lines translated
Ayakashi Gohan - 49% complete
Black Wolves Saga: All scripts translated and edited 59/65 through TLC
Clover Day's - Common + 2 routes done, other routes + 348/711 KB, 92/764, and 74/722 KB translated
HaraKano - Ayana Seno's route patch released
Haruka Na Sora - Sora 11.29% translated, Kozue 23.73% translated
Harumade Kururu - 100% of the initial harem route translated
>Hoka no Onna - 72.39% translated
Irotoridori no Sekai - 3101/50663 (6%) lines translated
Ken ga Kimi: 116/122 scripts translated, 108/122 scripts edited
Kiminozo - Common route translation complete, Haruka route 1st pass complete
Koiken Otome - 100% translated, 88.90% edited, prologue patch released
Kurukuru Fanatic - 87.5% translated
>Lovely Cation- 31.6% 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, another partial patch released
Muv Luv Total Eclipse - 25% translated
Nursery Rhyme - 12032/32977 lines translated
Oreimo Tsuzuku - All scripts translated, 202/268 through TLC+Editing, 136/268 scripts finalized
Rewrite Harvest Festa - 22583/30040 (75.18%) lines translated
SakuSaku - 100% translated and edited, 48% through TLC
Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi - 8,448 / 30,513 Lines (27.7%) translated, partial patch released
>Tokyo Necro - Project starting
Witch's Garden - 47555/67201 (70.77%) lines translated, 2496/67201 (3.71%) edited, prologue patch released
Yosuga no Sora - Translation status is Common route 100%, Sora route 100%, Nao 100%, Kazuha 100%, Akira 89.73%, Motoka 32.17%, Common and Kazuha fully edited
Official work
MangaGamer
Tokyo Babel - 3/31 release
OZMAFIA - 4/29 release
Higurashi Hou -Tatarigoroshi: 100% TL+ED
Bokuten - 79% translated, 50% edited
Da Capo 3 - 83% translated, 79.3% edited
House in Fata Morgana - 100% translated and edited
Myth - 94% translated, 81% edited
My Boss Wife is My Ex - In testing
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, 35% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 in testing
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
Umineko - Picked up
Negai no Kakera - 51% translated
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 25.36% translated, 10.6% edited
>Imouto Paradise 2 - Picked up
JAST
Seinarukana- Golden master
Flowers - demo released, delayed
Sumeragi Ryoko - Beta, in preorder
Sonicomi - Summer release
Sweet Home - 66% translated
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 86%
Django - Waiting on translation.
Sekai/Denpa
Root Double - Kickstarter succeeded, planned March release
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title 100% translated, in editing
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
Narcissu 0 - in TLC
WEE 3 - 40.36% translated
Nenokami - 45.48% translated
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - 100% translated
Darekoi - 15.77% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - picked up
Memory's Dogma - Kickstarter reached goal
Chrono Clock - Picked up
Tenshin Ranman - Picked up
Witch Boy - Kickstarter failed
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - picked up
>Ley Line - picked up
>Maitetsu - picked up
Other
Magical Eyes - 3/31 release
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Tomoyo After - Picked up
Muv Luv Trilogy - Extra release in March, Unlimited by early May
>Schwarzesmarken - on Greenlight
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 - 6764/10293 (65.71%) lines translated
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Kickstarter succeeded
>Zero Time Dilemma - June 28th release
ChuSingura46+1 - Kickstarter Canceled
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
Corona Blossom - English release planned
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread
Trains!
Shocked to see SP pick up Maitetsu... Hopefully a good team would work on it, hopefully.. Well, the 2 year hype begins.
Is Maitetsu even good, or is it just pedobait?
>>14982514
Its good... and nothing wrong with pedobait
>>14982514
It's shit.
>Bishoujo Mangekyou - 303,5 kB/710 kB (42,7%)
2 pictures in the OP and they're both for SP, instead of 1 SP 1 MG. Well, I know OP's real identity now.
By the way, look forward to greening Dracu Riot since the release is THIS WEEK. In 5 fucking days!
>>14982775
Maybe if MG announced something other than shit at that convention ...
>>14982785
Call ImoPara shit one more time, dovac. I fucking dare you.
>>14982775
>Dracu-Riot
>tokyo necro
makoto save us! can not even the dead know peace from this evil?
Sekai Project literally FLAGGED a review that was critical of their business practices and sent their army of sycophants to harass the user who posted it.
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198098243009/recommended/426690/
All because a negative review actually made it to the top. Can this company possibly get any shittier?
>>14982787
ImoPara is shit. Anybody who likes it has shit taste.
>>14982514
I'd say it's pretty damn good at being pedobait.
What the fuck would you be doing here if you aren't a lolicon anyway
>>14982929
The steam review system is irreparably broken. Nobody of sound mind uses it for any sort of purchasing decision.
>>14982933
t. Dovac
>>14982945
>t.
I keep seeing this. What does it even mean?
>>14982949
It's an /int/ meme. Some Finnish word that is basically the equivalent of "Sincerely," suggesting the poster is signing their name.
>>14982514
It's probably good and pedobait at the same time, but most of the people who bought it and will buy the eng version will be pedos.
I wonder why MG decided to stay so low for this con. SP went all out and now they're getting all the hype and media coverage early while nobody hears or gives a shit about anything MG. The hard release of free friends was absolutely not con-announcement worthy as a announcement. That sort of thing is like a side mention.
Now that Imopara 2 is confirmed, what are the remaining possible titles based on the hints given on the poll results?
>>14982935
>What the fuck would you be doing here if you aren't a lolicon anyway
Enjoying all the VNs with heroines who aren't lolis, you fucking retard.
That aside, it's guaranteed that this will be an all-ages release. So if the main draw of it is the hot loli sex, and SP strips that out, there won't be anything left worth reading. Thus my question of whether or not it's good enough to stand on it's own without the ero.
>>14982966
>I wonder why MG decided to stay so low for this con
Because its the way they were working for many years. All worthy announcements happen in summer, at big cons.
>>14982989
Sex is never worth reading in a VN. When we say it's good we're referring to the story.
That said, SP's translation of it is going to suck, so this is essentially wasted time.
>>14982966
They dropped a pretty obvious hint that they're doing Dies Irae.
>>14982990
>Implies they've had worthy announcements to make each year for years when it was only the last 1 maybe 2.
>>14983018
Shut your fucking mouth. They've had big announcements each year for the past five years at least.
>>14983008
Dovac will announce Dies Irae tomorrow.
>>14983022
You're talking out your ass.
>>14982933>>14982949>>14983025>>14983029
Your shilling is so fucking pathetic and obvious. dovac is now hiring random hobos to stema?
>>14983042
It's just Dovac himself making all the posts.
Fucking dovac ruining lolis for everyone.
>>14982787
>imopara
>Imouto Paradise
>all heroines except one have cowtits
Fuck that shit
>>14983042
You forgot your trip.
And you're right, MG were well known as distributors of mainly nukige because of the quality announcements they made at Summer cons.
>>14983042
I posted >>14982949. How did you get dovac from that? Plus, I actually think he's shit.
Fucking eop are flooding over here go back to >vn
>>14983069
t. EOP
>>14983069
/VN/ has gone to shit, so JOPs over there told everyone to come over here ...
>>14983069
バカ外人ね～
>>14982775
That April Fools' day release isn't suspicious at all.
>>14983067
Ya looking for logic in the wrong place, my friend.
>Tokyo Necro - Project starting
By whom?
Haruka has reseated itself on top of the sales chart this week and by my estimates is likely to be closing in on 1.5k. Ozmafia aswell seems to have had a pretty strong opening, and is probably at 250ish sales. I wonder if that will have any impact on Steam Performance, as there are no steam keys, and it has taken a good chunk of sales that would have helped potentially propel the title up the best sellers list?
Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/sfF3qxbN
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/P9uQ3t2U
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/4feCJGFj
As always, this tracker is powered by anonymous like you, so post order numbers if you've got em'.
>>14982767
You need to stop fucking finnish.
>Wasting a slot for Free Friends hardcopy and lesbian drama CD.
Meanwhile SP destroy the chance of seeing Monobeno in english and even get to sell Kohaku awful translation.
How does Furifure even get a hardcopy ? If you can make hardcopy for Noesis title then what the fuck are you waiting for making a hardcopy of InnoGrey titles. Real fucking visual novel. A lot of people don't want to buy Cartagra and KnS2 because they are waiting for a hardcopy to go with KnS1. I swear MG fucking suck at marketing.
>>14983616
>How does Furifure even get a hardcopy ?
It sold enough copies, while KnS/Cartagra didn't.
Market wants ImoPara and Furifre, they don't need edgy "story" stuff.
>>14983636
You didn't read Furifure if you think it's not edgy. It's as edgy as "story" stuff can be, they are from the same studio. ImoPara is on the light side of ero so it's a given that vanillafags and imoutofags are waiting for this type of nukige. So ImoPara isn't a surprise but Furifure getting a HC while nobody fucking care is surprising. A bad surprise and a wasted candidate for hardcopy.
>>14983229
So Haruka doing well should give us Escalyer next year
>>14983636
This is why the VN community is a fucking laughing stock.
People want Furifure? Fucking hell.
>>14983772
Or Oyako Rankan ?
>>14983804
>People want Furifure?
Yes.
Unlike spam from angry vocal minorities, sales numbers don't lie.
>>14983812
And that is why the VN community is a fucking laughing stock.
>>14983812
>sales numbers don't lie.
You don't know and you will never know how the sales were anon. MG don't publish these things.
>>14983050
In 1, only 2/5 had cowtits.
>>14983981
I was talking about 2. Guess I should have put that 2 there.
Maitetsu and not Monobeno?
What?
Is the vn community dead?
Eop People are extremely excited with imouto paradise 2 and Free friends the announcement.
>>14984060
>extremely excited
Read the thread before posting.
>>14983812
>>14983852
I actually think freefriends is something special, as far as hardcopies are concerned. I highly doubt it's sold more than 1k.
Sales data from that far back is limited but, we can make a few assumptions.
Mangagamer's order number total was 33030 on 5/5
Freefriends went up for preorder on 5/22.
A bundle occurred on 5/28 with a potential of 7528 codes. Let's split the difference since it was the highest tier and call it 3764.
We have an order number one day after the bundle launched for 34913. A good chunk of that was probably bundle sales, but let's ignore that and run the usual math to say that at the point in time free friends has 470 sales. From this point on until mikan launched, we have 5562 orders. When we remove the bundle orders, we have 1798. Assuming it was the number one seller aside from bundles that entire time, that's another 450 sales max. After that, we have chart data that shows it not charting further. That's 920 sales, and that's a very generous estimate. With that in mind, you can also take it into account that it failed to make the top 10 best sellers of the year, and I'd estimate the bottom of that chart is probably in the 700-800 range.
Basically I'd say that mangagamer probably did a smaller order run for free friends. It's not up for preorder on jast either, so maybe they're using a new company that gave them a better deal?
>>14984060
I would say the Sekai Project/Winged Cloud steam market has taken over much of the community now. /vn/ is more reddit and Fuwanovel than 4chan these days. Just the other day, someone unironically recommended YMK.
>>14984105
Also, for further fuel on that argument, if freefriends truly was an impressive sales success, then mikan and euphoria are even bigger successes by extension, as we know they sold more.
In reality though, if I were to simply pull a number out of my ass, I'd say it probably sold 600ish copies and mangagamer only had a hundred or two hardcopies printed.
Wow, Sekai Project really did not announce anything of interest, huh? I hope nobody's seriously excited about that.
>>14983804
>>14983831
>This is why the VN community is a fucking laughing stock.
>And that is why the VN community is a fucking laughing stock.
Would you stop spamming this? Nobody fucking cares what you think.
>>14984114
The fuck is wrong with YMK?
>>14984050
You should have realized by now that SP only ever gets the scraps from the "big" companies. They're always struggling companies who maybe had a success in the past but are desperate to make a profit off their new games. Do you know how little Maitetsu sold? It's not good. They will never give Monobeno to SP. They only intend to attempt to change the narrative about Maitetsu.
>>14984279
What makes you think I fucking care what YOU think?
>>14984304
Is this a joke attempt?
Maitetsu sold amazingly in Japan. I know cause I was there two days ago, seeing the lines.
Or maybe you're mistaking Maitetsu for Shoujotachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu? That's considered a disappointment and Japanese buyers are pretty unhappy.
The reason you EOP pals aren't getting Monobeno is you can't really take away the sexuality from Monobeno, it has sex in the main story, as a plot point in some routes. Even in the Vita version the sex happens, just offscreen. Maitetsu just has it all as separate H scenes, it can be sanitized easily. Although it's still debatable if some English internet circles won't make a fuss about it anyway.
>>14984306
What makes you think any of us care what you think? Fuck off, nobody wants to see your dumbass posts.
>>14984317
The ONLY reason we're getting Maitetsu is because some dipshit is working on a machine translation and Sekai figured they could sell that.
>>14984335
How when it came out two days ago and the trial a wekk before that?
When was the machine translation made? You mean on Friday 18th of March the trial came out, on Sunday someone started a machine translation and during the following week the Lose instantly agreed for an English release?
Perhaps use your brain a little before you post.
>>14984317
We aren't getting Monobeno because nobody have the balls to translate a fucking huge and risky loli title in the west. Be it Jast or MG.
Furthermore fantl is dead and there is no competent person who can translate something this big.
>>14984348
Sekai was already negotiating for it before it came out. They just got lucky that someone "just so happened" to be working on the machine translation. And yeah, I know what you're thinking. Was it really a coincidence? Of course not. Sekai told them right off, start this translation and we'll buy it off you. We don't care if you know Japanese or not. And you know why? Because they save the money by not hiring any editors. Scummy fucks.
>>14984352
Maitetsu can be called risky too. Most of the story is still lolis blushing at you and long explainations about trains.
I guess clueless EOPs on Steam will just see that it moves with e-mote like "muh Nekopara" and buy it without thinking. I still feel bad for the writer. On every prerelease event you could see his passion for trains is absolutely genuine and now his railway love letter will be poorly translated by some Sekai Project schmuck. I hope he at least gets quite some cash from that.
>>14984360
And you're thinking all this happened in the span of one week and Lose agreed to it? When the fact that Sekai Project making teases that turned out to be Maitetsu even before the trial came out proves you're wrong.
At least have some fucking logic to your autism.
>>14984372
No, this was in the works for a long time, like you said. They just advertised it through fanTL. You really don't find the timing all too convenient? At least have some logic to YOUR autism.
>>14984363
Loli blushing is less risky than "your little sister have her periods for the first time and she's ready to breed" which can be the synopsis of Monobeno.
>>14984370
Shut up and go back to Akame ga Kill, tasteless nerd.
>>14984381
What fanTL where and when?
No fanTL could even exist until Friday 18th, so why bother with such farce when they officially announce it on 25th?
>>14984389
Same reason they put every single one of their games on greenlight.
>>14984394
What fanTL where and when?
>>14984384
That's just the premise you read on VNDB,there's actually even more to it.
>>14984401
Didn't know that it was the synopsis on VNDB,i tried to read it with machinetl once and that's what i remember from it. But my comprehension of kanji isn't that good so i need to study more before tackling something like this.
>>14984396
The one that was announced on the 18th.
https://www.google.com/search?q=maitetsu+fan+tl
Do I hae to do everything for you?
>>14984412
Machine TL is always horrible, save yourself from it by learning Japanese. Well, you're already doing it so good luck.
>>14984416
I don't see anything like that. So yes, do everything for me. Or rather just stay quiet already. Close the tab and all is gone.
>>14984424
That fucking spoiler.
>>14984435
Yeah, I knew you had nothing. I just can't understand how small and pitiful you have to be to not just close the damn tab when it became clear you were wrong. Seek some help for your ego I guess.
Sekai Project is gonna ruin Maitetsu with their own bad TL.
>>14984435
>>14984424
Bad posts.
>>14984435
Dude just let it go.
>>14984114
I can understand being pissed at how the west just wants moege, but I hope you're aware that before KS, *everyone* recommended YMK as babby's first VN.
>>14984435
I'm not sure what rational holocaust revisionism has to do with Sekai Project being awful.
I wonder about who will port the engine of Imopara 2, because ahem... in Canada they're protected by law.
>>14984624
>rational
hahaha whatever that makes you sleep /pol/-chan
>>14982966
>I wonder why MG decided to stay so low for this con.
It's only Anime Boston and Sakura Con, they aren't the major cons.
>>14984742
>but Nanking did.
Crazy talk.
>>14982966
>what are the remaining possible titles based on the hints given on the poll results
Purple could mean Sona-nyl.
An HD release, provided they meant 1080p, likely means Iwaihime.
The orange hints could still mean the expanded editions of Shuffle and Soul Link, with Steam versions of course.
The fantasy hint could be Kyonyuu Fantasy.
It's almost guaranteed we'll see Supipara 2 by the end of summer.
Another SonoHana game is likely, given the one they started with, it's likely going to be Maidens of Michael.
An Alicesoft title, hopefully Rance, but it could be just about anything.
And another Propeller title, I'd guess Ayakashibito or Bullet Butlers, since they both have all-ages PSP versions. There's also their crossover fandisc, Chrono Belt.
>>14983677
Free Friends would be an easy sell at cons, like Harem Party and Boob Wars were. MG even said that story titles like Kara no Shoujo were a tougher sell at cons and they had to put alot more effort in to get people to buy it.
>>14982966
Have you seen their past years announcements? They never have anything good for the first half of the year. The whole "NukigeGamer" thing is because they usually have three nukiges for Anime Boston and Fanime.
In fact, A-kon 2015 had three announcements, Kuroinu, Go Go Nippon 2015 and No Thank You hard copy.
>>14984763
And a moege or 2. Something from MOONSTONE or similar.
Someone's secret project
>>14984922
That's going to be Sekai's.
>>14984935
I wouldn't be surprised if MG licenses it. Their staff is working on a number of secret projects.
>>14984922
What is that?
>>14984922>>14984959
Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma
I really don't see how Sekai could do it. This isn't Nekopara with three short sex scenes removed. The very first scene has MC whipping out his sphinx in front of all the girls, there's a ton of sex jokes and innuendos, more than a third of every route is spent on sex, girls go on dates to a sex shop, all the drama is resolved by sex... It is a nukige through and through and SP won't go for it if they can't put it on Steam.
>start typing the meme I created, Albatross Sky Butlers, into google
>google suggests "albatross ski butlers"
Fucking Google. You had one job.
How did it even turn into Albatross Ski Butlers? Did someone defile my meme? I haven't been watching the scene.
>>14985024
just sounds like google being google
>>14983616
>Real fucking visual novel
If people actually bought 'Real fucking visual novels' things would be different. Too few care enough to give their money to serious VNs and too many spend their spare money on VNs more focused on porn.
>>14984922
>>14984963
>Boku to Koi Suru Ponkotsu Akuma
>Artist is Sayori
Oh damn. Is the ero good?
>>14985142
What's stopping you from looking at the CG rip on sadpanda?
>>14985148I'd rather hear see the CGs, hear the VA moaning but yeah, if need be, I'll look at the gallery.
>>14985175
I get you completely, but no need to abuse the spoiler function for that.
>>14985142
It's basically Nekopara on steroids. Funnier, lewder and cuter. 5 scenes per heroine, some are animated.
>>14985232
>Funnier, lewder and cuter.
Sounds great.
>>14985242
Which is why I requested it in Mangagamer's survey. Funnily enough last year I requested Tokyo Babel so I'm pretty confident it will be localized.
>>14984763
It won't be Rance
>>14985300
Sounds like they like you. What else you vote for this year?
>>14985307
Thanks Haro, glad to know the rest of my list is right.
>>14985308
Silverio Vendetta and Bishoujo Mangekyou.
>>14985365
>>14985300
You have good taste.
>>14985399
Thank you.
>>14984763
Lol if people got pissed at Gahkthun's repetition they're gonna rip sona nyl apart. At least Sona Nyl can pass off as a Otome game which could get sales from girls
>>14985552
How can anybody read Inganock and not expect more of the same?
>>14983219
by an ESL, don't get your hopes up
>>14985563
I don't know about you but Inganock was a completely different experience from Sona Nyl to me. Sona-Nyl is basically Steampunk series on max steroids. Plus, the unvoiced parts will look fucking lame in English.
>>14985586
I meant the use of repetition.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/445730/
Finally. A visual novel for the common man.
#tlwiki confirmed Aroduc's porting Baldr Force into Sky's engine.
>>14984809
No, the whole 'nukige' thing is because traditionally their line up is dominated by nukige with one or two story titles breaking things up.
That only changed a year ago?
>>14986344
Going by the reception of their story games, they may go back to doing this.
Mangagamer got blown out by sekai project. Will anything ever go right for them?
>>14986350
Could be worse. Dovac could announce Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou tomorrow.
>>14986350
Alicesoft.
>>14986412
Imagine if Dovac stole the Alicesoft partnership and got Rance.
Non-H Sengoku Rance coming to Steam.
>>14986418
Imagine if Dovac got Giga and put Fuwatards on it.
>>14986346
They will start to focus more on Steam.
>>14986423
You won't need to imagine that for long.
>>14986423
You mean like they did for Key and Lose?
>>14986433
And if Babel fails on Steam?
>>14986478
MG will be finished
>>14986478
They will just copy Sekai with focusing more on finding then licensing and putting out games similar to Nekopara. Is apparently what seems to sell after all.
>>14986498
why do people still call mg nukigamer when that's all that actually makes money for sekai, they're just nominally all-ages
>>14986478
Go 100% otome.
Corner the otome market.
>>14986510
Otome, BL and yuri. They all seem to sell well.
>>14986510
Amnesia sold like crap, so it's not a reliable market.
I'm not sure if this is new but a secon tl group (from facepook) is translating Aokana in 5 languages and will release a common route path by April 20th and the final translation for september.
Maybe this isn't fake but if they're faster (x2 +(x5=languages)) than Ixrec then this probably will be one of the worst engrish/chinese/whatever machine-translations since hmm... Flyable Heart?
>>14986748
This is pretty funny. Why fail in only one language when you can fail them all?
>>14986748
>5 languages
I guess it isn't hard to click and change the language in the drop down box in Google translate.
>>14983050
>being this much of an autistic pedo
Oppai imoutos are literally god-tier, stop being an actual pedophile with shit taste
https://twitter.com/dobacco/status/714185118680637440
> dovac
> being human
pls.
>>14987287
Maybe he shouldn't invite it by being a massive colossal faggot. He should have a cup of concrete and harden up.
>>14987258
Literally sewer-tier.
>>14987287
I seriously want to know what the fuck is wrong with him.
>>14987464
Nothing much, actually. Although sometimes I wonder how bored people must be to target him all day. Then I suddenly remember what this place is ...
>>14987464
Give an attention whore a victim complex and put him in charge of a company he doesn't know how to run and that's how you get Dovac.
Because professionalism is overrated, everyone knows the way to succeed in business these days is for your CEO to be a twitter e-celeb.
>>14987500
Professionalism matters exactly as much as your business associates care, which is often not much in this brave new world.
>>14987496
hi dovac
>>14987287
He's probably the one that got the previous posts deleted.
>>14987659
You forgot your trip.
>>14987464
Dovac runs into problems because he is combative and often vents publicly on twitter (and formerly other locations). Additionally, he feels everyone should be happy about how Sekai Project (and him in particular) has handled things, and can get quickly annoyed when people disagree. With regards to this, he often tries to make (likely correct) economic arguments to try to convince someone with no economic stake in Sekai Project to approve of his decision on something because such disagreement bugs him personally. It also can bug him when people aren't happy with the official company line, thinking that just because he says "we can't answer now", that once said discussion should stop, or how no one heavily involved in the community treats Denpasoft as an independent project separate unrelated to Sekai Project. It is fair to say he has improved somewhat, if only by limiting where he vents to twitter instead of all over the place and how upset he gets over certain issues, but he still has the same basic problem.
>>14987708
No part of this involves constantly acting like a victimized twelve year old.
>>14987708
Yeah, he doesn't deal well with stress it seems. Understandable.
>>14987708
Don't forget that his constant history of throwing temper tantrums, or how he offered hosting and then kicked everyone off it because they didn't agree with his glorious vision of how things are supposed to be.
>>14987704
Hi dovac.
>>14987708
How he improving when he tries to get rid of negative (and true) Steam reviews?
>>14987742
You forgot your trip.
How come mangagamer can survive off of 1,500 sales of a game?
1,500 * $30 (Some games are even cheaper than that) = $45,000. That's not even enough to pay one programmer for 3/4 of a year, not to mention license costs and everything else.
Also, is Aroduc/anybody ever going to translate more eushully games? The gameplay on those is fun :3
>>14987772
Because they used to pay their staff poorly. Not sure what the case is these days.
>>14987772
You've got the assholes at Nekohen running them all through machine translators now. It's only a matter of time before Dovac tries to release them.
>>14987772
At the moment, only because they release like 10-15 games a year.
>>14987772
It doesn't take a programmer 9 months, to do literally anything with these things. And if they pay the translator around $10k, $5k for two editors each, and let's say $5k for the programmer (all of these are too high for most MG games because they tend to be shorter), that's still $20k split between them and the Japanese company.
>>14987772
If you must know, it's because doddler works for cheap because he loves VNs. Of course everybody at MG is but at his skill level, he should be making a lot more. If he has to rely on MG, he would starve. He does this in addition to his full time job.
>>14987708
I have no ax to grind with dovac but he hasn't exactly earned my goodwill either. For that he has to deliver what has been promised.
>>14983097
It's tradition
Only for Aroduc.
Oh boy, I sure am looking forward to all-ages Maitetsu.
>>14987999
fuck off pedo
>>14987708
There's no justification for releasing 18+ Grisaia six months after the non-H version when there was already a patch for the 18+ release. Just none.
Dovac is actually in a really strong market position. If you were to ask japanese developers about localization companies they know of, they'd turn up only Sekai project largely due to their very public kickstarters. That in turn is getting companies to approach them, rather than the other way around. Mangagamer isn't even on their radar.
>>14988117
Sekai wasn't the first localization company Lose approached. It was craziest one to actually accept this game with these license terms.
>>14988061
>any true lolicon
>looking forward to a butchered version of the lolige of the year
At most they'll get a few sales from normalfags who thought the art looked good and retards who think they're supporting Lose. Bullying them by saying that the original game has plenty of porn with those childish looking characters will be fun.
>>14988085
Considering the numerous Denpasoft releases since, and that G-Senjou is a very safe title to release 18+, it's believable that the original developer is at fault. That said, Sekai Project could sure as hell have made it clearer if that is the situation.
So does porn sell or not?
>compared to steam and the money it costs for our other site to be maintained it's not worth it
>>14988189
Then don't choose porn heavy titles and gut them.
>>14988189
There's something distasteful about the sense of entitlement dovac has, as if customers owe him. No, kid, its the other way around. You have to show us something worth buying. Not demand that we show you that we are worth selling to.
>>14988117
MG said they had to turn away potential titles because they didn't have enough staff. I mean, I guess they could try hiring N3s for the shorter titles...
>>14988336
Like JAST did with Flowers?
>>14988353
Hey, he was beyond N1 and onto native-level Japanese. His English, however...
>>14988357
oO
Didn't MG made that mistake YEARS ago? I assumed the industry had moved past that.
>>14988357
>onto native-level Japanese
There's no way anyone who know Japanese could make some of those mistakes.
That "shout" line is something only compete newbie at Japanese could do.
>>14988378
Oh, I thought it was a native Japanese person with shitty English translating. Never mind, then.
>>14988372
JAST has been full retard for 20 years, why change now?
http://www.1uptranslations.com/en/localization-blog/2016/3/confessions-of-a-game-translator-12-actual-reasons-why-some-game-translations-suck
Since we're on this topic, your thoughts?
>>14988404
Management issues and real world problems, mostly. Most of them are common sense.
>>14988404
Most of it is on the mark but it all comes down to either management being incompetent or the translator being incompetent. Or both.
Unsurprising that it includes the old 'It's localization so your complaints about accuracy are irrelevant' though.
>>14988404
Self-serving excuses, completely out of touch with actual consumer concerns. And nintendo's excellent localization? How absurd.
>>14988495
Well, other than their philosophy of heavily rewriting scenes, their localizations are very high quality. Her point was that they have localization testers who know the game very well and give feedback about the lines and how they're used in context. They also give plenty of resources and time for the localization. I can certainly believe that.
Most of their core audience don't give a shit about altering the game from the original, so who's to say they're bad localizations because of that?
>>14988532
Something like Rune Factory 4 was a huge amount of effort in terms of testing and making sure all the translated lines made sense in the game since the script was just one big list of lines. Nintendo probably has a better workflow and more resources.
http://kotaku.com/getting-jrpgs-out-in-english-is-harder-than-you-think-1441094168
http://archive.is/szjLi
>>14988117
Yet Mangagamer actually managed to get a translation deal with Alicesoft which is a fair bit bigger than anything Sekei have done.
Mangagamer can't be too obscure if they managed to get a license from Alicesoft
>>14988614
Hopefully Evenicle on the horizon!
>>14988639
It's not
>>14988239
This times a million.
>>14988614
Yeah but that's just Haruka so far.
I really hope MG picked up Ponkotsu Akuma though
Rance ___ is already pretty much fully translated as well as progress on other ones. Pretty sure MG already relayed to AliceSoft that the west really wants Rance and have been waiting for year(s).
What I'm most interested in is any new parters that could lead to a ~REAL DEAL~ VN for the west.
Also, now that MG and Navel broke up, we can pretty much say that OreTsuba is not going to officially reach the west any time soon, if ever. The more time passes, the older it gets and more less likely it gets to be picked up. It might get fanlated but can you really trust the quality of translation of prose of ESLs with machines? The trend for localization is now brand new shiny things and simultaneous JP/Eng attempts like Gahkthun(new/shiny), Harmonia from Key and Corona from Frontwing (eng before jp) and Maitetsu, (absolutely brand new, translation announced same day as release). The older things get, the more incompatable they get with newer editions of Windows.
To EOPS out there, if you really want to read aged XXX shilled kamige, you're better off learning JP. If none of the titles revealed at AX are good or interesting, that'd be a perfect time to start.
We still don't even know when Muramasa is going to be un-stalled, and then finished translated, and then stalled again before release like sumaga.
Subahibi has also been in stasis ever since the official deal was made with no word.
Anybody could probably learn japanese and become proficient enough to read something before it gets licensed, translated/edited/scripted, and scheduled for release. You could also then read whatever the hell you want at any time without waiting inbetween. That's probably something many people overlook.
>>14988532
>Most of their core audience don't give a shit about altering the game from the original, so who's to say they're bad localizations because of that?
Did you not see the reaction of the latest Fire Emblem? It showed there is a point where even your average person will notice there is a real problem with the localisation if it isn't done right.
Remember how everyone in this thread wanted 天使のいない12月 translation?
Oh, how the time flies. It was like a half a decade ago.
>>14988955
>It might get fanlated but can you really trust the quality of translation of prose of ESLs with machines?
And do you trust the translation of prose to ESLs with machine translation working for Sekai Project.
>>14988955
>Subahibi has also been in stasis
Just because you don't see stuff happening publicly, it doesn't mean its in stasis. Mugi is working on legal stuff and checking content with JP side, JP side is working on engine stuff, trying to make tlwiki script work.
>>14988955
G-Senjou was 7 years old when picked up. As long as there's fanbase for it, anything can go no matter how old it is.
>>14988974
Remember how JAST announced Sumaga?
Remember how JAST announced Seinarukana?
Remember how JAST announced Trample on Schatten?
Remember how JAST announced Kikokugai?
Remember how JAST announced Jingai Makyou?
Oh, how the time flies. It was like a half a decade ago.
>>14989032
And still nothing. Lol EOPs honestly. And like this guy said >>14988955, nowadays you'll only get gutted versions of the newest shiny games.
>>14988974
As no one wanted to translate it now this game is a official™ /jp/ meme for shitposting in december.
>>14989036>>14989032
Seinarukana is already printed, should be delivered to those who preordered within month.
>>14989050
I don't think so; probably they first will release it for the normies (aka Steam) with extra content and after the other "normal" physical/digital editions.
>>14988955
Yeah, nah, I've moved on from living breathing VNs. There's plenty of other Japanese games that are being localized, more so than ever before.
>>14988973
>Did you not see the reaction of the latest Fire Emblem? It showed there is a point where even your average person will notice there is a real problem with the localisation if it isn't done right.
Oh I sure saw that. I also saw how the new FE:F sold 2 or 3 times more copies than the previous FE game. The average consumer doesn't give a shit, rather, they'll buy it to spite the people whining about translations.
Remember how 7 years ago people were hyped for Touka Gettan translation.
Now you damn EOPs don't even know what it is. You just got brainwashed by your Moogys into hype for muh Muramasas.
How to translate a visual novel?
>>14988656
How would you know?
>>14989295
Send your resume to MangaGamer, JAST and Sekai Project. Alll of them are in dire need for translators, so if you know Japanese, they will teach the rest.
>>14989302
1. Mangagamer don't have the power in the relationship and based on Haruka we can guess that Alicesoft hardly want to bring over their newest games.
2. If Mangagamer had the ability to pick and choose they'd go for Rance because - 1. VI is already mostly translated 2. It won their survey and 3. It would shut up all the malcontents
No Sekai/Denpa titles get released before 2017
>>14989307
Is there any application which translate the visual novel and we just have to correct the mistakes?
>>14988656
Let me guess, it's Daiteikoku. I really hope Alicesoft didn't find out about the AliveZ translation and force MG to take it.
>>14982400
>Bokuten - 79% translated, 50% edited
It's admirable that Mangagamer still translates its demented parents titles.
I guess Green Green rerelease was the obituary of Overdrive
>>14988189
So, dovac deliberately goes after VNs with sexual content to get a all ages release and then either gives very little priority to such release or just entirely ignores such release. Then he comes out saying he does care about the sexual content and in some cases it's simply impossible to get the version with it.
This really says a lot about the intentions dovac has when he approaches japanese devs. He's pretty much telling them the west doesn't care about it and rather have censored versions.
Why do you think G Senjou didn't get a adult version? Simply because dovac didn't care enough to put effort into getting such version. What about Hoshimeno? Denpa Soft didn't say anything about it and given the loli content, you can pretty much expect a censored version too.
Dovac does this and even comes out saying this shit? Does he simply expect us to think "well, he says he tried so let me give my money to him"? And even if he licenses some VNs with sexual content to release them on Denpa Soft is he saying they sell like shit because he's comparing the numbers with Steam or just because he's having unrealistic expectations and poor market knowledge about these type of VNs?
Fucking hypocrite.
>>14989323
That's the editing test.
>>14988336
Which is good. Taking everything regardless of your capacity is how you end up with Sekai.
It's like dovac looked at JAST and tried to find ways to make it worse.
>>14989328
Overdrive became a different company, LevoL.
https://vndb.org/p4837
>>149893>>14989332
And what's next?
>>14989340
Do MG have the contract to tl everything from them or did that end with the switch?
>>14989346
Since it's a new company on paper, they'd still need to negotiate with them.
>>14984922
Yes, please.
I want my translated lewd mummy loli.
>>14989383
>>14989383
Is that even exist?
>>14989390
https://vndb.org/c33070
Clearly the best girl.
>>14987973
For insem so is releasing a small fraction of what he claims he has fully completed
>>14989392
Thank you, I want play that vn
>>14989383
>>14989404
Entitled EOPs.
>>14989340
What's is the benefit of creating new companies.if you're just going to do the same thing again? To kick out a co-founder?
>>14989684
This seems pretty different from their Overdrive games.
Honestly Overdrive should just stick to making music vns.
>>14989684
Tax evasion and rebranding to distance yourself from your failures.
>>14989403
it will be funny if he would actually release a full patch
>>14982940
I use the reviews for negative info. Like censorship, bugs, etc.
If someone says good things, I'll just consider the game to be to their taste and they add nothing of value.
>>14988981
Mugi-kun could maybe say something anything about how its going instead of radio silence
>>14989220
well it helps to split your game into 3 different SKU
>>14990089
Even if relevant negative information is, if not deliberately suppressed, drowned out by all the noise?
>>14990236
You can sort the reviews, you know.
>>14989329
Dovac needs to learn that all-ages or adult doesn't matter.
If it is a good game, in a bundle, for 10 dollars, 3000 bundles tend to sell in 2 days. It is the pricing that matters, and Denpasoft is extremely overpriced compared to Steam.
Just try me Dovac. Set Grisaia at 10 dollars for 1 week in your denpasoft store and marvel at how fucking well adult games sell.
Or try the opposite, and put your all-ages titles at 45-50 dollars. (As far as I know, only Clannad has this price, and it sold rather poorly for being one of the most famous VNs around)
>>14990311
I'm rather dubious knocking prices through the floor works in a niche market, especially one where a full length game is 30+ hours. People don't need backlogs of VNs they only bought because they were cheap/on-sale.
If anything, they need to find ways to allow passionate people to pay more. Say, $80-100 for a digital deluxe with translated drama CDs, wallpapers, progression of CG sketches from concept to completion, naked/underwear patches etc.
>>14990362
They already do this, it's what Kickstarter is for.
is there a english patch for tentacles and witches?
>>14988085
>There's no justification for releasing 18+ Grisaia six months after the non-H version when there was already a patch for the 18+ release. Just none.
What the fuck?
>>14987772
There's a reason all of mangagamer's "staff" are "freelancers".
>>14990788
And the reason is that they would have nothing to do most of the time as full-time employees.
>>14990362
I kind of wish MG would get a F2P game just so I have an excuse to support them more(plus they would handle it better then nutaku). I've already bought everything I give a damn about from them so now I just kind of sit and wait for their next game.
>>14990797
Considering MG had to 'turn away' stuff because of a lack of staff, you're very, very wrong.
