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MangaGamer
>My Boss Wife is My Ex - Released
Higurashi Hou -Tatarigoroshi: 6/24 release
Umineko - Ch 1-4 July 8th release
Bokuten - 100% translated, 73.5% edited
Da Capo 3 - 94.7% translated, 91.3% edited
Myth - in scripting
Kuroinu - Being released as 3 seperate chapters, CH1 70% TL 18.13% edited
Supipara - Ch 1 in testing
Himawari - TL and editing finished, in scripting
Negai no Kakera - 100% translated
Princess Evangile W Happiness - 50% translated, 22.2% edited
Imouto Paradise 2 - 46% translated, 14.4% edited
Kyonyuu Fantasy - 100% TL+Edited, in scripting
Fata morgana fan disc - 10% translated


JAST
>Sumeragi Ryoko - Beta, in preorder, script edit 20%
Django - Waiting on translation.
>Flowers - Re-write/editing 40%, Beta 10%
>Sonicomi - debugging, testing, tweaking
Sweet Home - 100% translated, debugging script
Sumaga- Fully translated, in editing
Trample on Schatten- Translation 86%


Sekai/Denpa
>Clannad Side Stories - Released
Fault Milestone 2 - Side Above released, GE still to come
Grisaia trilogy - 2nd title 100% translated, 3rd 35% translated
Narcissu 3rd - TL+Editing done
Narcissu 0 - in TLC
>WEE 3 - 93.30% translated
Nenokami - 99.79% translated, Indiegogo started
Mayoi Hitsuji no Kajuen - 100% translated
Darekoi - 78.75% translated
>Maitetsu - 15.70% translated
>Memory's Dogma - 55.03% translated
>2236 A.D. - 53.79% translated
>Koi to, Guitar to, Aoi Sora. - 54.14% translated
Kokonoe Kokoro - 100% translated, engine work
Creature to Koi Shiyo - 100% translated, engine work
Chrono Clock - 10%
Tenshin Ranman - 16%
Wagamama High Spec - 2016 release
Hoshizora no Memoria - picked up
Ley Line - picked up


Frontwing
Corona Blossom - IGG project started
Sharin no Kuni - Kickstarter planned


Visual Arts
>Clannad Side Stories - Released
Tomoyo After - Through Steam GL
Little Busters - Picked up
Harmonia - Through Steam GL
Rewrite+ - Picked up
Angel Beats - 50% translated


Other
Zero Time Dilemma - Jun 28th release
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - 9/13 release
Muv Luv Trilogy - Extra+Unlimited this Summer
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 - 100% translated, in editing
Kyuuketsu Hime no Libra - Common + 25% of Mari route translated
Sora wo Aogite Kumo Takaku - Through Greenlight
ChuSinGura 46+1 - 2nd Kickstarter up
Steins;Gate 0 - 2016 release
Taisho Alice - Picked up
>Love Sweets - Picked up
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>Stuff like this has been either added or updated since the last thread

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So it would seem that mangagamer's website must have a hard limit(5) on the amount of new products that can be displayed in the coming soon section of a catalog, as to get around the problem of no one being able to buy the haruka wallscroll/wallscroll+LE outside of those blog links, they've added a rather clunky fix consisting of a show more link that links to http://www.mangagamer.com/product_list.php?goods_type=3&opt=cmsn. Oh mangagamer, you and your ghetto-ass website.

Top 5 Ranking: http://pastebin.com/hSVNFjet
Popularity Sort: http://pastebin.com/rtWN2sxF
Full Data Point List: http://pastebin.com/R97Y23GT

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

>>15346638
>Amagami - 1st day patch Released for PS2/PSP, "1637/2308 original edition scenario scripts translated (74.8%)"

Is this ever going to finish?

>>15346921

Give it a decade or so.

>>15347032
That's a long time, what if I die?

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Friends I'm gonna predict the future and say 聖鍵遣いの命題 is gonna be announced for localization. Probably by Sekai Project.

Check out how the game looks, the story synopsis and the reviews. Perfect mix of of hastily-made game with EOP appeal to make "mad money" on Steam while it's still possible.

Reference reviews and tag comments:
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/game.php?game=22863

>どんな選択肢を選ぼうが行きつく先は同じです。回想にヒロインのHシーンが追加されるかどうかだけ
>選択肢はあるが意味はない
>ある意味長いね。だって個別ないようなものだもの。
>RPGゲーをそのまま文章に起こしたような内容。

Short summary in English:
>LN-like artstyle (pretty good one actually)
>premise like from a generic fantasy battle harem LN with an anime adaptation
>writing like from an anime JPRG
>H scenes as unlockable extras (=game is easily keckable for Steam release)
>short, choices don't matter, meaning ADD Steam users might actually finish it

Seems like writing is on the wall.

>>15347209
It does sound completely like it's trying to go for the LN feel, just in VN form. Tribute or stealth parody?

>>15347304
More likely a conscious effort to aim for that audience.

Honestly it would even be a servicable and enjoyable game if they didn't fuck it up like the reviews mention. Makes me believe they'll rely on other source of cash - clueless Steam gamers.

I wholly recommend Fata Morgana. Reading it was such a joy.

>>15347394

I don't even know what you're waiting for anymore.

The ChuSinGura finished, getting only a mere 6% of it's goal. Remains to be seen if they show up to take a parting shot for people not supporting their poorly done project, but otherwise, doubt they try to do anything else under Japan Contents, though they are likely to try again under a third name with something else, provided they didn't lose enough with their first 2 efforts to make it no longer viable.

>>15347541
>it's
its
>>15346638
Only SP's release in pic, even though MG has also released a game this week. Hi dovac.

Wonder what IG thinks about jast now that they're 6 months past the fall 2015 date they said they could have flowers out by

>>15347590

That Flowers possibly won't bomb like their games did with MG?

>>15347607
Yuri can't bomb in this 2016 era. It'll attract the tumblr lesbians and someone else will make a petition for a flowers anime.

>>15347590
Ironically, it would probably be out by now if they did give it to MG. Maria was salivating over the chance to translate it, after all.

>>15347607
I don't think a JAST game ever failed in in terms of sales.

>>15347209
A fantasy battle harem LN with voices and music is exactly the type of thing that I want. Going to check it out later today. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

>>15347667
I don't think a JAST game ever got released until their preorders guaranteed a profit.

>>15347668
Yeah, I'd be up for it too, but it doesn't seem done well.

>>15347682
well, it's not like you got tons of other VNs translated into english

>>15347696
This one isn't either, I thought I made it obvious in my post.

>>15347682
Well, my standards aren't too high so hopefully it's still fun.

>>15347590
Pretty sure they don't give a fuck about the western market, they don't even bother to retweet Jast or MG tweets about their titles.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dharkerstudio/the-bounce-visual-novel-series/

In addition to the original game (Beach Bounce) and its first sequel (Beauty Bounce). Its getting another five sequels beyond that. Its like some kind of malignant tumor now.

>>15347885
This has to be some kind of money laundering scam at this point.

>>15347669
JAST stealth-released some dating nukige w/out preorders once, I believe.

>>15347885
That is because they know the market.

- Free patch / same price on all-ages and adult content? Wow, exactly how it should be. Now which Japanese company has this figured out? Maybe Mikandi, not so sure about any others.
- A group of girls. I still don't understand the gamble with making 1-2 girl VNs that will only sell if your customers liked their design.
- Not rape/mind-crushing focused.

It would be better with localized titles following that pattern. But you can only buy what is being produced.

>>15347551
>Only SP's release in pic, even though MG has also released a game this week. Hi dovac.
MG's release was a non-notable nukige. It's plenty common for them not to be featured, even when there's not even another release that week (and the image is just a project in progress).

>>15347607
Yuri and Steam means it could sell like Kindred Spirits did for MG. We'll see how many people are interested in an all-ages episodic yuri VN this time.

I wonder how MG feels about the Steam market now. They put games on Steam to make more sales, but now companies that sell well on Steam are starting to want to cut them out of the deals. Not to mention their sales on Steam have started tanking for story vns. And the Steam forums are a cesspool, where if you don't let people do whatever they want, they complain that you're Totalitarian. I think they're even worse than the MG forums ever were.

Apparently Aroduc's translating France Shoujo.

Apparently Conjueror's translating Dies Irae.

>>15347885
I'm not even angry anymore. Only pity.

Apparently No Name Losers are back.

>>15348595
Don't most of their former members work for MG? In that case they never really left.

>>15347667
What about their old as fuck VNs? We're talking shit from the DOS-era.

>>15347885
Why are all the most shitty OELVN devs from the UK? First Winged Cloud and now AJTilley.

>>15348650
The bigger question is why do OELVNs sell on Steam so much better then regular VNs ?

>>15348733
Cheap prices and the most stupid of consumers. Weebs take one look at Sakura and think it's a Japanese game. I don't know about AJTilley. tumblr? The art is hideous and they all have the tumblr nose thing going on. I don't know how that one got popular.

>>15348775
>I don't know how that one got popular.
Free porn patches and weeb bait. Sword of Asumi and Divine Slice of Life were full on weeb.

>>15348826
>Divine Slice of Life

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kirito/divine-slice-of-life

So how many kickstarters does this faggot have?

>>15348847

Every single game he's made.

>>15348733
Because they know their audience and they know how to market it in their tumblrina circles.
Japs don't know how to market VNs in the west. Hell, even SP and MG barely marketed Root Double and Fata Morgana respectively.

>>15348733

Most don't.

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>>15348847
>Creator; KiritoKun
Autist detected.

>>15348826
Yes it is that simple. You release games the way fans want them, and you sell. Because buying PC VN is almost entirely politics these days.

You are not catering and listening to fans? Well piracy will solve that. If you want to sell, you have to adapt to customer demands.

>>15348899
Translating Japanese VNs is alot trickier though. They can be much longer and have professional voice acting so they'll be expensive by Steam standards. And Japanese companies are very risk adverse and might not listen to the publisher's suggestions.

>>15348895
He has to be an autist to have this schedule:

Mar-2017: Bunny Bounce
Jun-2017: Bare Bounce
Aug-2017: Baking Bounce
Oct-2017: Bass Bounce
Dec-2017: Blizzard Bounce

>>15348847
If you click his profile you can see that it says 3.

>>15349038
He has kickstarters under different names.

>>15349164
Why del? /jp/ allows ASCII.

>>15349255
Maybe new people don't understand /jp/'s love of text art and irony. Was issued a warning for off-topic posts. I guess they didn't know the guy in the twitter post is a English to Japanese VN translator.

>>15350042
I meant Japanese to English translator. Goddamn.

Sad times. https://twitter.com/HijackedCat/status/739480803718123521 mg needs to improve their brand awareness

>>15350042
Someone blogging isn't really related to VNs, or their translation.

>>15350482
Pity because I like talking about dovac's cancer coughs.

>>15350471
>I know Sekai Project localised one called Kindred Spirits
How dumb can one be? Jesus christ

>>15350471

To be fair this happens with pretty much everyone. A lot of people seem to think MG is doing Maitetsu because they keep asking us about TL status.

>>15350594
Why isn't Doddler responding to questions anymore?

>>15350594
Do you just tell them all that Sekai's doing it and direct them to the project status page on your blog?

>>15350722

Probably too busy to hang out on 4chan right now.

>>15350744
Thanks for repeating me. Going to answer the question?

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What's your favorite VNOTY and why is it Fata Morgana?

>>15350754
What? You aren't making sense.

>>15350779
Your family tree must be rich in biodiversity.

>>15350805
The answer is literally given to you: that he's too busy to answer questions. And you say that's repeating your question?

What's with all this disney shit lately? When are the REAL DEAL VNs going to get translated?

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>>15350815
Literally you.

>>15350858
Screw that. What we really need is more comedy moege.

>>15350858
What are some examples of real deal visual novels?

>>15351262
Sakura Dungeon

>>15350858
>REAL DEAL VNs going to get translated
People don't want these kinds of VNs. They only want fluffy moege and loads of sex.
Time to learn japanese anon.

>>15350858
But Fata Morgana was released last month.

>>15350858
We got three of those this year

>>15351400

wow, three in a whole year?

let me get out the party streamers.

>>15351473
Party streamers for that? You're surprisingly easily pleased.

>>15351473
The year has just started

>>15351537

The year is halfway over.

>>15350722

Would you want to go on a board like /jp/ when you're on probation?

>>15350471

How do you even find shit like this anonymous?

With MG getting more and more publishers to cooperate with them, is it even worth it to even learn Japanese anymore?

>>15352777
Learning a new language is always fun. But if you mean "to read Japanese interactive porn books" then no.

>>15352777
Yes. They may be getting publishers but they're all shit and can only chug out maybe 1 or 2 game from them each year. Look at their partnership with propeller. They decided to go with no name TB and then the no name pygmalion instead of the better ayakashibito/etc and even asairo.

And then look at alicesoft and how they had to do BBH and not rance like everybody wanted.

the english VN scene right now is a gachapon where there's stuff good stuff available but all you get is shit.

A "good" moege hasn't even come out yet from anybody.

>>15353455
>moege
>good

>>15353464
moogy様 says parfait is a good moege

>>15353455
>no name pygmalion
I'll be laughing my ass off seeing Pygmailon completely outsell TB. Guess what, Evolimit, Ayakashibito and Bullet Butlers are also no name VNs to most that even bother to buy VNs. I wonder what kind of reasoning you're having to think those VNs would sell better. Simply some name recognition in the VN community? If that's the case, you should understand by now that unless that VN has a HUGE name behind it, it won't sell much.

I'm not so sure about Asairo and SukiMa given their different natures though.

>>15353882
>HUGE name behind it, it won't sell much.
Well, let me correct myself. Having a big name is what seals the deal in some cases but if a VN similar to PE gets the same type of attention because of a youtuber it'll almost certainly be success. And moeges sell better than more serious VNs.

>>15353455
>A "good" moege hasn't even come out yet from anybody.

Can you guess why?

Is this the dark age for visual novels? Zero seriously discussion everywhere.

/vn/ is garbage.

Boring and repetitive circlejerks on reddit.

>>15354859
Everyone is learning Japanese. See you on the other side.

>>15354859
>Is this the dark age for visual novels?
Read some of the 97% that aren't translated before forming judgements

>>15354911
But they are all shit. All kamige are translated

>>15354371
We're all waiting for the no name lolige Himawari. Heh, it'll most likely ne a rather boring moege

>>15354986
It's a sci fi story game, so expect it to be serious and thought-provoking.

>>15354962
Like SubaHibi?

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>>15353464

Huh, it's been awhile since bamboo's really been visible on the english side.

Fire up your crazy speculation /jp/, why is he at AX?

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>>15355163
One of MG's new partners could be LevoL.
https://vndb.org/p4837

>>15355163
One of the new partner's is probably his other company, LevoL. Which would mean this.

https://vndb.org/v16342

>>15355163
I hope he shows up in this outfit or one equally outrageous.

>>15352777
Yes, the point of learning Japanese is to tell other translators that their translations sucks. It's the /jp/ way.

>>15355386
EOPs do that too. Some people say that the Clannad fan TL was better than the Sekai Project release, despite the fan TL being a mess.

>>15355401
As far as I know most people just said it is the same thing, but the easy words rewritten and the difficult ones still wrong.

What do you think of this one https://vndb.org/v18145 ?

>>15355944
Looks good. I'm a big fan of historical games, so this is right up my alley. It's probably too new to get translated anytime soon though.

>>15355404
That was only people here that bought into a pre-release narrative and just assumed it was true.

>>15350763
Not like there was anything else amazing released

Man I'm so close to the Koiken Otome day

>>15356759
If you're so desperate to read a machine translation, you can fire up Google Translate right now.

>>15356832
^

>>15356938
^_^

>>15355944
>>15355976
Actually, Aroduc just sent me a skype message that he's translating it now. Expect it to be finished within 2 months.

>>15357098
I'm so glad he could time out of translating Baldr Force to translate this.

How /jp/ feel that sekai hires feminists for qa https://twitter.com/SpaceDoctorPhD/status/739972080750465024

>>15357186
Considering dovac's hate for porn, its par for the course.

>>15357101
Baldr Force isn't that long.

>>15346638

>SubaHibi - Official release planned

Maybe when my kids are 30 I will finally see this release.

>>15357186
He has some nice flowing hair there

>>15357186

I'm pretty sure peak rage regarding SP was hit long ago. I don't think a lowly QA hire will really change anything.

>>15357273
You mean when your wife's kids are 30?

Apparently Aroduc's translating https://vndb.org/v14556

>>15357396
My dad works with Aroduc and he said it was Venus Blood.

>>15357186
Just another reason not to work for them.

>>15358793
Or give them money.

The new Sekai Project survey is long, 30+ pages. No license requests or developer requests, though pretty much asks everything else. Several questions about 18+ releases, and they directly ask about Jast, MG, and Nutaku.

They also made you rank things in order on a few questions, one had you rank your interest of 12 upcoming titles, which is a bit of a pain that you can't just give half the list "don't care at all".

>>15358908
I just picked the titles I actually had interest in and then clicked random numbers for everything else.

>What is your primary daily function?
Doesn't even have a NEET option. They clearly don't want accurate results.

https://twitter.com/sekaiproject/status/740026401357582340
Is Steam dying so bad that Sekai is about to jump ship?

>>15359573
Really strange leap of logic. Steam hasn't been dying for their titles and there are plenty of reasons to want to have your own online store.

>>15359573
I'd think it's more to have a place to sell physical stuff, and developing a storefront helps keep Japanese developers from going off to do their own thing because you offer more than just putting a title on Steam

>>15358908
That was a wonderful survey. I got to totally diss Nutaku as the trash it is, and point out that sekai is barely better.

Now if they follow my 3 steps to improvement, I would say Sekai is the best. Will be fun since the most important point was uncensored maitetsu.

They updated Corona Blossom with an FAQ, a couple things from it.

>Patch distribution:
>The 18+ patch will be downloadable directly from Frontwing.
>It may also be available through other channels.


So they are going to have their own distribution platform/store front for 18+ releases/patches (in addition to anywhere else they end up including)

>About DRM:
>The digital version of Corona Blossom Vol.1 will be delivered through Steam, and all limitations of that platform apply.
>Furthermore, the physical package, as well as the retail version which will be sold in Japan, have a form of DRM included.

Good luck crowdfunding with that. Honestly though, the demand isn't there for Corona Blossom in general to get them to reverse that, but it's probably quite relevant if they plan to do the same for Sharin no Kuni.

>>15360341
Sharin no Kuni's an old title though, so they might not feel as inclined with the DRM.

XSeed picked up Fate/Extella

>>15360476
Though likely an issue for when they get around to doing an Island kickstarter.

>>15346638
Why would anyone even want to read VNs translated to English, or even worse, translated by fans who aren't remotely proficient enough in either English or Japanese to produce anything that isn't an insult to the original work?

By the way, drop the trip you insufferable faggot.

>>15360537
Is Shirou in it ? I really hope not, I hate Shirou so much that I couldn't even finish Fate/stay night because of it.

>>15350042
Translator or "translator"?
Does he translate for publishers and companies who demand a consistently reliable translation, does he "translate" for video game companies, which have next to no quality control or does he become a maverick with Google translate and break out fan translations?

>>15360341
>Hard copy drm
But why?

>>15359573
It will be a success like that time they tried to crowd fund on their own.

>>15360632
Archer is in it, since it's based of of Extra Shirou probably won't be in it it but we might have one of those servants from Grand/Order that are basically Shirou but not quite Archer.

>>15360751
I'd assume that the Steam + patch version will be pirated before anyone even receives their hard copy.

Remember when a bunch of cocksucking assholes did a countdown and then canceled it because they can't even get that right?

>>15355163
I wouldn't be surprised if he announced the LevoL title, or another Go Go Nippon type cash in for Steam. I doubt he needed much motivation to come over though, he always seemed to love AX.

>>15360537

CCC translation where?

>>15355163
He's still one of MG bosses, so it doesn't have to be new license. Maybe he just wanted to hang out with EN staff.

>>15363348
Even without anything to announce, he can always talk about Bokuten since that release is upcoming, and if negotiations are done, how much they got away with for the Steam release of it.

Sekai Project is Sakura Dungeon's publisher? I thought that they had parted ways with Sekai Project.

>>15363874
Sekai workers said Winged Cloud's VNs were shit (truer words have never been said) which hurt Winged Cloud's dev's feeling so he jumped to MG. Afterwards MG, out of the good of their hearts, tried to fix the shitty as fuck grammar that is in the Sakura series. This also hurt said faggot's feelings. With nowhere else to go but back to Sekai (Peter Payne, like /jp/, is a weeb and wholly uninterested in OELVN trash), Winged Cloud decided to go back to the original publisher so they can both be shitty together.

>>15348115
it's ok they have good nukige now so I don't care about all ages shit on steam

>>15348115
With regards to story titles, while there surely has been some decline on Steam, I think a large part is the specific titles they started releasing. Liarsoft, Propeller, and Novectacle don't have nearly the appeal that moege, their yuri titles and Higurashi do. That said, they have Umineko coming up which should do very well for them on Steam, and Supipara not too far away to reverse the tide.

As to the Japanese companies cutting them out, that was likely as soon as the Western market showed signs of life. Going forward though, they should still thrive in their niche of nukige and other 18+ only releases as that is much harder to replace for the companies that release titles that can't readily have a Steam version made. They also should still be able to get moege and other titles which can have a Steam/18+ release for a while, as most companies are not doing their own thing yet, any many trying to do their own thing won't be able make that strategy successful, with results like Japan Contents. Mangagamer is also in a good position to make deals to distribute the 18+ version of titles that Japanese companies are putting onto Steam themselves, though Nutaku might end up stealing a lot of that market if their store is successful.

>>15364872
It's a mixed feeling really, seeing Moonstone break off to do their own thing and more VN companies coming forward to handle it themselves instead of relying on a third-party like JAST and MangaGamer is great for getting even more VNs out faster, but the lack of quality assurance means that every release could be a poorly translated cash-grab like Debonosu.

At least with current MangaGamer (and JAST barring Flower), if they release something, I can rest easy knowing that it wouldn't be KonoSora-tier.

>>15364872
Higurashi and Umineko are some of the few famous VNs that MG has licensed, so of course they'd sell well.

Your average story title isn't going to be a hit on Steam. Moege will sell very well, but Steam has also softened recently, and any title that comes after likely won't reach Princess Evangile numbers. If publishers start pumping out countless moege that will also saturate the market, which is what the Japanese devs will probably end up doing.

I'm not convinced that Supipara will be a success. It's all-ages only, episodic, and currently incomplete even in Japan. Why would people buy into a series that might take years to be finished?

>>15364202
If Peter Payne is a weeb, then where are my fucking honorifics?

>>15365352
Yeah, if every Japanese company wanting to get involved with the market was on par with the effort Frontwing is putting forth, everything would be great. But we are far more likely to get projects like KonoSora, early MG, and current Debonosu Works fror any given project.

>>15364872
The decline on Steam is because of the exact same reason as the decline of anime on TV in the 90s.

Oversaturation of crap (with inflated reviews/advertisement/etc.), reducing interest because it creates the perception that it's all crap to people just trying out the medium. SP flooding Steam with OELVNs have literally been murdering everything for short-term profits.

It will never recover, just like anime never became super-popular again.

>>15366142
I don't trust FW all that much either. Some random guy tells them he translated the Michiru fandisc and they just buy his translation, no questions asked.

Reminder that Sekai ruined VNs in the west with Winged Cloud and Sakura.

>>15366174
>It will never recover, just like anime never became super-popular again.
>>15366196
>Reminder that Sekai ruined VNs in the west with Winged Cloud and Sakura.

Only EOPs care.

>>15366201
No shit. This is the English VN translation thread.

>>15366191
Yuukan was done well. But that's a 30 minute game. I suppose we'll see with Corona Blossom if their internal translations are good.

>>15366191
I trust Frontwing to not put out Debonosu Works level crap, I wouldn't expect them to regularly be on MG's level though.

>>15366174
It's far more than just SP, but yeah, the flood of OELVNs is doing no favors for the potential market.

>>15366291

Beyond that, the sheer amount of shit of all varieties on Steam is doing no one any favors

>it's an aesthetically appalling fuwanovel copy/paste without any of the sorting features
Is there a point to this thread at all in 2016?

>>15366640
No, and that's why you should leave. Bye-bi~

>>15366640
Eww fuwatards are creeping in

Can you guys open Gahkthun Steam store?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/458380/

I've been unable to ever since about 8 hours ago.

>>15366917
Same for me

>>15366174
I'd say it is the opposite. SPs low priced VNs have shown that you can make a killing selling things cheap. Leave it to Japan to still believe it needs to be high priced to make up for the low sales numbers.

As far as I know the low sale count of story VNs is all because of price. Most are just waiting for summer sale, which all Japanese companies will ignore because they want full price. Maybe some people will give up on discounts and buy them around September.

>>15360341
They added another page of FAQ, they don't plan to crowdfund 2+3 though they would look to sell similar merchandise depending on how well this does. Considering how it is doing fairly meh now, that probably means hard English copies only for volume 1 of the 3.

>>15366917
Same problem with Kindred Spirits.

This is what quality is like. https://twitter.com/Stuart444/status/740531921772511233
https://twitter.com/Stuart444/status/740532393115832320

Have people given up on Kudo Wafter?

>>15366917
Steam redirected me too many times according to the error message.

>>15366929
Even some of Sekai's cheap doujins haven't sold more than a few hundred copies.

>>15366917

We're looking into it. It seems like a bug relating to the age gate.

>>15366859
There is literally nothing wrong with Fuwanovel.
Please read my blog.

Clephas.

>>15367246
We got ourselves a infestation, guys bring out the napalm.

>>15367263
Haha, lol. Upvoted.

Shame there's a limit to how many times I can upvote daily, because that is hilarious.

there's enough genuine stupidity in these threads without people deliberately acting stupid on top of that

please stop

Sekai seems to be playing up some announcement for their E3 stream this weekend.

>>15367353
Fate Stay Night confirmed :)))))))

Ready for that MangaGamer Nitroplus partnership announcement? Nitroplus is done with JAST exclusivity.

>>15367353
If they have made progress with Sony for console releases of their titles, they'll probably announce that considering it's E3. Good chance they announce some title(s) as well, but they also need to save stuff for AX/Otakon.

>>15367364
They would get Hello, World, and then be shocked when it doesn't sell because the West isn't interested.

>>15367364
Somehow I doubt that

>>15367453
It wouldn't be that surprising to see JAST's exclusivity end, but I doubt MangaGamer would be the publisher they'd turn to.

>>15366984
>I'll not write this message

（´・ω・｀）

>>15367486
If Jast didn't want it, or couldn't start it before the decade is over, perhaps something like Tokyo Necro would make sense going through MG if only because others aren't viable. But I would agree, it seems unlikely Nitroplus would decide to go with MG even if they drop exclusivity.

>>15367636
Nitroplus never had an exclusive partnership with JAST. Console releases aside, I know of two PC Nitroplus titles in the works with other publishers that would put me in some shit if revealed.

>>15367684
Muramasa?

>>15367684
Are you including 5pb works?

>>15367684
In the past it had seemed like those involved talked that way, for example Moogy, when he was involved with the Nitro+ stuff for Jast, said that Jast "has exclusive access to N+ titles and can release any of them at any time."

I'm hopeful though that they are in fact branching out to allow others to license their titles. Jast has done a good job with the Nitroplus titles they have released, but they picked up the partnership at AX 7 years ago, and during that time have only released Demonbane, Saya no Uta, Steins;Gate, and Hanachirasu.

>>15367684
>Nitroplus never had an exclusive partnership with JAST

yes they absolutely did.

>>15367445
I would absolutely love to see Hello, world.
If I ever become good enough at Japanese I am jumping straight to that one.

>>15366917
>>15366954
They fixed whatever the problem was, as it's working again.

>>15369105
More like Hello, boredom.

It's about twice as long as it needs to be. That kinda kills it. I believe it would be legit classic if the writer knew how to hold back.

And the language in it isn't even hard, you're probably just lazy and don't care enough about learning Japanese.

are there any translated ntr games that are worth playing?

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Is there any chance of a release of Killer Queen, now that Lemnisca is done translating Root Double?

Lemnisca previously translated the first title, and Flat doesn't seem entirely against dealing with the west, if only having concerns with legality due to the loli content in Killer Queen?

>>15347469
Death, presumably

Any comedy VNs like Snow Sakura coming out?

I really like the format of 5-6 girls and a funny common route that isn't the type of lame moege we see today

>>15370078
I'm just going to add that I am not suffering from nostalgia goggles as I just finished Snow Sakura this week

>>15369868
>>15369868
I heard that Hello,World have the same problem as MuvLuv, where boring parts were dragged for too long, is this true? And girls routes were too similar to each other or something.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/485040/

How does this make you feel, /jp/?

>>15370356
>Degica

Could be worse

>>15370078
Have you tried My girlfriend is the president?
Other VNs with decent comedy are Hoshimeno and Ikikoi. The type of comedy you're looking for is usually on moeges

>>15370356
>>15370365

Nevermind, I actually looked at the screenshots.

>That font
>Asky

>>15369903
The only translated ntr games are super short nukige from MG. Some of them are okay, like My Boss' Wife Is My Ex, but none of them are standout.

>>15369903
Wait for Bokuten

>>15370279
http://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/povlist_game.php?pov_id=4&game=2267#pov_infomation

I didn't have time to download Sakura Dungeon torrent a few days ago when it was uploaded to Nyaa and now it's deleted:
http://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=2036341

I don't even care for the game, but I'm not going to tolerate this shit. I'll seed the hell out of it.
Fuck you dovac.

https://torcache.net/torrent/8B465969D371E99DD6838215A16AB63E9EE86C1D.torrent

In case Nyaa admin bent over completely, check other torrent sites in the future too. kat.cr works fine for countries which don't ban/block it.

>>15370670
Or you can just get it from erogedownload.

>>15370078
I thought Da Capo's common route was pretty funny. But the type of VN you mentioned is most likely to be a moege.

>>15369984
I doubt loli content is an issue in any title that isn't all loli. If nothing else you can just JAST it and make a black screen and an offsite patch.

Almost all VNs are illegal anyway if they contain school girls. It is just that nobody cares to report them.

>>15370373
Someone asked them about the screen shots on twitter, their response

>That was a very early translation used for the screenshots. We have done a lot of editing since then.

>>15371155
> demo is not demonstrative of actual translation quality, we stealthily redid everything!
Every fucking time.

>>15370365
>>15370373
Being a tri-languaged release (JP/CH/EN) , I would guess it was translated by the Japanese company into both on a tight time table, and Degica is just publishing it.

>>15371402
IF degica is only hitting Steam's launch button and doing a poor job of promotion, then the devs don't need them.

>>15371141
Actually there are different laws for different age ranges. For example in New Jersey as long as the girls are 16 or older it's fine to depict them in sexual situations, which is the minimum age for most eroge anyway.

>>15371665
Real or cartoon? In Sweden it is illegal for real girls to be in porn unless they are 18. Cartoons on the other hand is legal for all ages.

I think there is a reason they write 18 or older and not 16 and older on packages, so most likely enough places have those teens as illegal.

Though to be fair, it is almost only Canada and Australia that bothers with cartoon laws. Every other place is maybe one case in 10 years. Which is very little considering how many people have loli.

>>15371725
Cartoon, not real of course. That shit is always 18 or older everywhere.
I mean yeah, most devs will just leave the ages out or say every character is 18 or older, but the lolicon and underaged laws are pretty arbitrary. I just know that there are some places with separate laws for characters being prepubescent and characters being just under "adult" age.

Most cases that try loli have to do with real CP as well. I think there was only one case ever where somebody got charged just for cartoon porn in the US, at least. Canada and Aus are hell.

>>15371741
Not to mention most cases the people got told to confess that it was a crime, instead of actually letting a person who knows law determine it in a court. I'd be surprised if anyone actually went to court and got sentenced.

>>15371725
>>15371741
Australia here, please don't lump us in with Canada, we're nowhere near that bad.

>>15371725
When you say cartoons you are probably right. I guess you are referring to the case with the mango translator. Keep in mind that one of his pictures was ruled illegal, and he only got away with it because of his expert status.

If your drawings are too realistic you can get in trouble in Sweden.

>>15371829
Not to mention the only reason it got to court was because his wife tried to get custody of their child and figured reporting those images would help her.

So unless you got realistic cartoon drawings and a wife that hates you, you are pretty safe in Sweden.

>>15370356
>Kogado Studio
While it is probably too old to matter, I'm guessing with the music Symphonic Rain would be a rights nightmare if anyone wanted to pick up Phar's translation for an official release?

>Albatross will never be translated

>>15372401
Who said so

>>15372401
>implying albatross sky butlers isn't happening this year

>>15372457
Me. It's literally impossible to translate.

>>15372477
moogy pls.

>tfw in med school
>tfw 148 iq
>tfw not intelligent enough to understand subahibi on anything but a surface level

Sure, Einstein was a cool lad, but he didn't know Japanese. He didn't have the mental capacity for it. I am the best.
- Moogy

Is there a bigger twat in the VN community?

>>15372471
Never ever.

>>15372643
they're all dickheads but who else will bring VNs to us lowly EOPs?

>>15372643
I like how you used quote function for all the line except for the one which was actually quoting someone.
I also appreciate the surprise box.

So I heard this is the thread to come YMK?

>>15372643
This is the "get cancer and die" statement of this medium. It'll come back to bite him in the ass as the official release of SubaHibi draws near.

>>15372654
>they're all dickheads
In my experience, most of the people affiliated with localization and translation are nice.

>>15372695
You must be new to greentext. Have you ever visited a board on 4chan that isn't /jp/?

>>15372719
Are you referring to TotalBiscuit when he said that to someone on twitter?

>>15372654

Has Moogy actually had an important role with localizing any title since his translation work on the short Dra KoI?

>>15372742
No

>>15372742
Wasn't he supposed to translate Schatten until they fired him when they noticed he wasn't actually doing anything?

>>15372742
The only thing notable about him is that he's the founder of TLWiki. He's the Hideo Kojima of VN localization, doing little work and taking all the glory. He unironically views himself this way.

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

>>15372754
Yes

>>15372776
>If I was born in 1453, Leonardo Da Vinci would be jealous of me
Sounds like Moogy.

>>15372719
>You must be new to greentext. Have you ever visited a board on 4chan that isn't /jp/?
Did you notice that this IS /jp/? When in Rome, do as romans do.

>>15370670
What the fuck are you talking about?
http://sukebei.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=2041891

>>15372742
If I were Moogy I would revel in the fact that /jp/ still manages to talk about me at every possible opportunity, despite the fact that I haven't done anything in years and they pretend not to care who I am.

>>15372823
He's a pseudo e-celeb who's objectively superior to them. It's jealousy. If you take a peek over in /vn/, you'll see Moogy having a meltdown.

>>15372927
how many people in the west even read VNs? How many of that number give a shit about who translates them?

>>15373119
Just count the unique IPs in this thread, that should be about all of them.

>>15371818

Forgetting the Simpsons case, mate?

>>15347209
wow, those egs scores...

>>15369984
KQ was terrible, why would anyone want it?

sekai added bunch of extra info on their projects

like hoshimemo is only 10% and that they're still not done with wagamama demo

They're as slow as jast

https://sekaiproject.com/progress/