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Greetings, friends. Decay’s back this week and I’ve come to you with an important announcement: Summer is now officially over! In accordance with my earlier explanation for how long summer lasts for, KoiRizo’s release marks the final summer VN release. You can shove those gaudy hawaiian tees back into the closet, and you also better change all of your calendars to denote summer’s new end date, because now it’s finally Official. Also, my apologies to JAST, looks like Shiny Days just barely missed the mark.
Welcome to our weekly APSVNTS (A Pretty Sweet Visual Novel Translation Status) series, in which we track visual novel translation updates in-house (we don’t rely on /jp/ posts on 4ch, for example) and post it for your enlightenment and enjoyment each Saturday. If you find any errors, or you think a project is missing from this list, please let me know in the comments. Any new updates are marked by orange text.
The Short Version:
Only the New Stuff
- Anniversary no Kuni no Alice – Nice boost to 55% translated
- AstralAir – Progress continues to be swift and steady, now up to 46.92%
- Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort – Released! Download the patch here.
- Lover Able – New project! At 6.84%
- Magical Eyes – Red is for Anguish – Newly added to the increasingly growing “others” portion of the list, it’s some kind of upcoming mystery VN with a dash of horror being translated by Fruitbat Factory.
- Oreimo Tsuzuku (Disc 2) – More progress, now 96.6% translated. They’re in need of more volunteers in order to not delay things further, so check them out if you think you can help!
- Utawarerumono Portable – No tracked progress updates but they issued a new blog post to assure us they’re not dead
- White Album 2 – TL at 29.43%.
- From MangaGamer, Sonohana – Remembering How We Met is now released, while release dates for Go Go Nippon (Oct 16) and Kara no Shoujo 2 (Oct 30) have been announced, along with other project updates!
- JAST seems to be updating their new status page pretty often, which is great for us who like to track it. Flowers is now at 100% translation. Keep it up!
- We missed some Sekai Project update last week, sorry! Check out their new project status tracker here.
- Fault Milestone Two was released a couple weeks ago, looks like we’ve slept on that one. Sorry! Get it here.
- A Kickstarter for Witch boy Magical piece launched last week. It’s a BL visual novel about magical boys transforming into magical girls. It doesn’t look to be doing so hot, so spread the word and support it if BL is your thing.
- And another Kickstarter, this one for the pretty sweet Muv-Luv series! This bad boy has already gained $350,000 in its first 24 hours and it’s steadily crushing all expectations and records previously established by visual novel Kickstarters. This is “real game” money!
Fan Translation
Fan TL Project | Team | Brief Status Summary |
Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino (VNDB) |
AkaAka TL (Updates) |
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Amagami (VNDB) |
Ni Shi Shi TL (Progress) |
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Amairo Islenauts (VNDB) |
Sakura Subs (Progress) |
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Anniversary no Kuni no Alice (VNDB) |
Märchen TL (Progress) |
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Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm (Aokana) (VNDB) |
OriginalRen (Progress) |
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AstralAir (VNDB) |
AstralAir TL (Progress) |
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Ayakashi Gohan! (VNDB) |
Hanataba TL (Progress) |
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Black Wolves Saga -Bloody Nightmare- (VNDB) |
Golden Spirit (Progress) |
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Brother Conflict PSP (VNDB) |
PassionAndBrilliance (Progress) |
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Bunny Black 2 (VNDB) |
Seiha TL (Progress) |
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Clover Day’s (VNDB) |
Yakusoku TL (Progress) |
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Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient (VNDB) |
Hysteric 4 U |
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DSP #3 (Denwatls’ Secret Project) |
Denwatls (Progress) |
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Gore Screaming Show (VNDB) |
Crying TL (Progress) |
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HaraKano (VNDB) |
Loe Quality TL (Progress) |
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Haruka Na Sora (VNDB) |
trjr (Progress) |
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Hatsukoi 1/1 (VNDB) |
Kousetsu Translations (Progress) |
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Hiiro no Kakera (VNDB) |
Otome Game TL (Progress) |
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Hoka no Onna no Ko to H wo Shiteiru Ore wo Mite Koufun Suru Kanojo (VNDB) |
(Progress) NSFW |
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Holy Breaker (VNDB) |
Skyspear TL (Website Coming Soon) (Thread) |
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Iinazuke wa Imouto-sama! (VNDB) |
Imouto TL (Progress) |
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Immoral Little (VNDB) |
Tiny Lilly (Progress) |
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Imouto Paradise 2 (VNDB) |
Regulator Software (Progress) |
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Irotoridori no Sekai (VNDB) |
SakuSaku TL (Progress) |
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Ken ga Kimi (VNDB) |
Golden Spirit (Progress) |
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Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (VNDB) |
Alternative Projects (Progress) |
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Koi ga Saku Koro Sakura Doki (Koisaku) (VNDB) |
SakuSaku TL (Progress) |
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Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate (Koichoco) (VNDB) |
Basic TL (Progress) |
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Koiken Otome (VNDB) |
Flying Pantsu (Progress) |
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Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort (VNDB) |
MDZ (Updates: Page, Doc) |
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KoiTate (VNDB) |
Magicflier (Progress) |
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Kono Oozora Retranslation Project (VNDB) |
(Progress in this thread) |
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Kud Wafter (VNDB) |
Project Wafuu (Progress) |
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Kurukuru Fanatic (VNDB) |
Dark Eye (Progress) |
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Little Busters EX/ME (VNDB) |
Doki & Fuzzy (Updates: Page, Doc) |
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Lovely x Cation (VNDB) |
Elevator TL (Progress) |
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Lover Able (VNDB) |
EvilObject (Progress) |
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Mahoutsukai no Yoru (VNDB) |
Commie Fansubs (Progress – outdated) |
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Mahoutsukai no Yoru (VNDB) |
Loe Quality (Progress) |
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Majikoi A-1 (VNDB) |
Maji TL (Progress) |
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Monster Girl Quest Paradox (VNDB) |
DargothTL (Blog) (MGQP-Related Posts) |
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Muv-Luv Altered Fable (VNDB) |
Jutsuki Sen (Progress) |
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Muv-Luv Alternative – Total Eclipse (VNDB) |
Alternative Projects (Progress) |
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Noble Works (VNDB) |
Oxford Comma (Progress) |
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Nursery Rhyme (VNDB) |
Kururu (Progress) |
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Oreimo Tsuzuku (Disc 2) (VNDB) |
Rinjinbu (Progress) |
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PersonA (VNDB) |
(Progress) |
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Princess Maker 5 (VNDB) |
(Updates: Page, Doc) |
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Rance 5D (VNDB) |
2.0 TL (Progress) |
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Rance Quest Magnum (VNDB) |
2.0 TL (Progress) |
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Rance VI (VNDB) |
Arunaru (Progress) |
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Re:Birthday Song (VNDB) |
Otome Adventures (Progress) |
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Rewrite Harvest Festa (VNDB) |
Amaterasu (Progress) |
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Sanarara R (VNDB) |
Gao Gao (Progress) |
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Sayonara wo Oshiete (VNDB) |
TLWiki (Progress) |
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Shin Koihime Musou (VNDB) |
SKM Team (Progress) |
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SonoHana 10 (VNDB) |
Yuri Project (Progress) |
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SonoHana 11 (VNDB) |
Yuri Project (Progress) |
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Starry Sky ~in Summer~ (VNDB) |
Golden Spirit (Progress) |
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Subarashiki Hibi (SubaHibi) (VNDB) |
TLWiki (Progress) |
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Supreme Candy (VNDB) |
Habluka (Progress) |
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Sweet Pool (VNDB) |
Aarin Community (Progress) |
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Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen (VNDB) |
Kohaku (Progress) |
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To Heart 2 (VNDB) |
Ittaku Subs (Progress) |
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Tsujidou-san no Jun’ai Road (VNDB) |
(Progress) (Repository Link) |
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Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete (VNDB) |
Sharin-Sub (Progress) |
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Utawarerumono Portable (VNDB) |
BLACKlabel translations (Progress) |
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Wand of Fortune (VNDB) |
Otome Game TL (Progress) |
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White Album 2 (VNDB) |
Baka-Tsuki (Updates: Page, Stats) |
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Witch’s Garden (VNDB) |
WG TL (Progress) |
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Yosuga no Sora (VNDB) |
trjr (Progress) |
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JAST USA (Updates; Archive)
Game | Brief Status Summary |
Bitch na Ichinichi |
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Django |
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Flowers |
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Seinarukana |
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Shiny Days |
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Sonicomi |
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Sumaga |
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Sweet Home |
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Trample on Schatten |
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MangaGamer (Updates)
Mangagamer | Brief Status Summary |
A Kiss for the Petals – Remembering How We Met |
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Beat Blades Haruka |
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Bokuten |
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Da Capo 3 |
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Euphoria |
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Free Friends 2 |
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Gahkthun |
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Go Go Nippon 2015 |
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Higurashi (Retranslation) |
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Himawari -a pebble in the sky-! |
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House in Fata Morgana |
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Kara no Shoujo 2 | |
Kindred Spirits On The Roof |
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Kuroinu |
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Myth |
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My Boss’ Wife is My Ex! |
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OZMAFIA!! |
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Princess Evangile W Happiness |
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The Shadows of Pygmalion |
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Supipara (Ch 1) |
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Tokyo Babel |
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Umineko When They Cry. |
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Other pre-orders on MangaGamer:
Sekai Project (Release Cal)
Game | Release Date / Status |
Atom Grrrl | TL: 100% |
CLANNAD | Q4 2015 (TL is done, First edit almost done). Side stories fully translated. |
Chrono Clock | TBD |
Dizzy Hearts | TBD |
fault -milestone two- side:above | Released! (Steam page) |
G-Senjou no Maou | Picked up! Coming this summer! Yup, totes. -Zaka |
Human Reignition Project | TBD |
Koenchu! | TBD |
Kokonoe Kokoro | Engine Integration/QA |
Memory’s Dogma | TBD |
MMD | TBD |
Moonshot | TBD |
Narcissu Trilogy Remake | Narcissu 3rd TL: 3.83%, Narcissu 0 TL: 1.27% |
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto | TL: 25.43% |
No One But You | Steam Page (Link); Pre-order on MangaGamer (Link) |
November Boy | TBD |
PacaPlus | TBD |
Planet Ruler | Engine debug + QA |
RaidersSphere4th | Steam Early Access Link |
Resette | TBD |
Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition | TBD |
Rising Angels: Fates | TBD |
Sacrament Sheep | Engine debug and QA |
Sakura Beach | Released! (quite some time ago — Sorry!) Buy it here. |
Sakura Swim Club | Released! Buy it here. |
Shizuku no Oto | TL: 25% + Edit: 20%; Demo Released |
Sierra Ops | December release, Demo Released |
Starlight Vega | TBD |
Sunrider: Liberation Day | AX PV released |
WAS -The Hourglass of Lepidoptera- | Backers have access to private alpha |
Witch boy Magical piece | Kickstarter launched! (Link) |
WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.03 | TL: 7.39% |
Here’s a handy link to sort Sekai Project’s Steam releases by release date: link
Other
Stuff from me/Decay/Zaka/helpful friends:
- Muv-Luv kickstarter is live! (Link)
- Magical Eyes – Red is for Anguish (vndb) to be released on Steam this winter.
- Miu-path of “Dracu-Riot!” going on here.
- Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ Hits PS Vita This Fall (link).
- Norn9: Var Commons Coming to PS Vita This Fall (link).
- Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night – Kickstarter successfully funded.
Stuff from /jp/ poster VNTS (thank her/him, not me, if you find this helpful!):
- Eiyuu Senki – Delayed until…. later this year?
- Moenovel is working on another title
- Lucky Dog – Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
- Harvest December – 3DS ports being released
Zakabox™ Commentary
「Hey look, Koirizo’s out. Did nothing for it in the end, as did 3 of the 5 QCs that were originally in for it apparently. I guess a good QC that also actually does quality check is pretty hard to find… RIP. I do hope they fixed that “hmm” for a very non-hmm sound right at the start… where was I?
It seems Shiny Days is now out for (a sloooow) digital download, though hard copies are still set to be shipped on the 29th. I’d mock JAST some more, not least because apparently it has a crash bug in fullscreen early on, but I expect Decay to do the job for me below.
Shiny Days aside, Flowers hitting 100% translated is nice. The “engine integration” part is interesting – Doddler, who ports visual novels for MangaGamer, was a bit confused at the timeline promised by JAST as the work he had to do for other Innocent Grey VNs was fairly extensive, yet he wasn’t contacted about it. Then he did the usual Doddler thing and said that was maybe a bit unprofessional and probably deleted some tweets, as one does. He later wrote a more thought-out response on ask.fm. At least MG got to kinda-sorta NTR Sekai Project…
Keeping on the Yuri track, the all-ages (no, it does not have an adult version) Sono Hanabira VN is set to hit Steam in… about 2 hours, they say. The porn to plot ratio of the originals always was a bit much for me (and I enjoy muh 2d porn), and I liked the earlier all-ages spinoff Hanahira!, so this might be quite nice.
…For the final blast of lesbianism, Atom Grrrl!!! (PV) is indeed an adult yuri visual novel. It’s apparently kinda dark and about thug lyfe and stuff, one two of the CGs on the vndb page has a gun involved, and a character is named Big E, and uhh, I like what I see – also, that video is quite something. The sales of this will apparently determine if my previously hyped Love, Guitars and Blue Skies will make it over.
I should say something about the Muv-Luv Kickstarter, but I’m strangely uninterested. Probably because as an Ixrec translation, I have been advised by the Japanese-Reading Overlords to avoid it, and I actually am currently reading easy VNs in Japanese so that might actually happen. Also because I really don’t know if I can handle a 50 hour VN when I seem to drop stall them like flies recently.
Oreimo Tsuzuku’s second disc sure feels a lot closer to done than it probably is. Considering a lot of routes in the first disc ended poorly, we can hope for some level of continuation in the next part, which you could potentially help get out yourself.
The Sonohana game unlocks in one hour now… still much more interested in Yuri Ghosts though. I may or may not be writing something about the SonoHana one soon! And with that, I should probably end this before I reach the yuri singularity.」
Decay’s Musings
“B has come to”
Hello, my friends. Multiple releases this week, very exciting! So naturally I’ve been neck deep in Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort, right? Well, I’ve been waylaid by a certain project that has me pretty excited and that takes precedent over finishing KoiRizo. I’m sure you’ll learn more about that project eventually, but for now, what I can say about KoiRizo is that it’s not bad. It’s also not great. Maybe even not good, I’m not sure. I’ve only read most of one route before getting sidetracked, but I plan to come back to it soon. It definitely has its charms, though, and the art is quite good, so I’m not going to tell you to stay away from it. I hope to have better things to say next week, after I’ve spent more time with it. I will say that the translation is quite good, so hats off to mdz, Darbury, and everyone else who worked on that, you guys did a bang-up job.
Shiny Days is also out (download codes for pre-order folk)! From my rant last week you might have pegged me for an impassioned fan. That’s not entirely true. I first played School Days just a month or two ago after it was in one of JAST’s bundles for mega cheap. It was a peculiar experience that I didn’t fully enjoy, but I did find it unique and interesting enough to want to play Shiny Days. One thing I find fascinating is how Setsuna was set up to be a major heroine in School Days but it felt like they sort of ran out of time for that story arc and ended it part way through, never to touch on it again. In Shiny Days, Setsuna is the main heroine, taking center stage, so it feels like they’re making amends for that misstep. Her character was also not particularly well developed in School Days, so I’m really interested to see how they handle that in Shiny Days. But I’m not sure when I’ll get to that. Eventually I will, maybe soon, maybe not?
The Muv Luv kickstarter is also really interesting. I’m not a huge ML fan. I thought Extra was pretty terrible, actually, and I know I’m not alone in thinking this. But Unlimited didn’t really do a whole lot to make up for that and Alternative was good, but, well, I never actually finished it. Crazy, I know. Oh, right, the Kickstarter. As of this writing, it’s currently sitting pretty at $370,000. That’s a lot of ducats for a little over a day’s worth of effort. Things are going to slow down for a long while then they’ll spike again on the last day, as that’s how all Kickstarters operate. But at this point, I’d like to say that the $720,000 stretch goal seems achievable, and possibly even much more. That’s kind of ridiculous, Degica and age have to be feeling good about where things are headed for them.
Unfortunately the same can’t be said for the folks behind Witch boy Magical piece. One quarter of the way through the campaign, it’s sitting at $6,600 out of $57,000. It’s looking pretty dire for them and they most probably won’t make it unless something unexpected and drastic happens. This will also probably be Sekai Project’s first KS failure, I wonder how they’ll handle it. In the past, other developers and publishers have made second attempts after a failed campaign, with lower goals and reduced scope. Or maybe SP will write off BL crowdfunding as not viable? It’s hard to say.
For those wondering about Tay, don’t worry, he’s okay. His life of adventure seems to have calmed down a little and he was ready to do this week’s update, but I took it upon myself to do it anyways. Gotta keep you guys guessing! Now for this week’s final thought: “Pomeranian Swingers” is a pretty sweet company name. This week’s header image is from Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort.
“It was a peculiar experience that I didn’t fully enjoy, but I did find it unique and interesting enough to want to play Shiny Days.” – that was exactly my experience with School Days. Now I’m just waiting to get a working download code for Shiny Days.
I still enjoy seeing Sakura Beach listed with a TBD, despite it being released a month and a half ago.
RE: Sakura Beach —
True explanation: Guilty as charged : P. Sekai’s old project tracker page isn’t often updated, isn’t organized well, and is the last thing we check before publishing the VNTS posts (meaning sometimes it’s a bit rushed).
“True” explanation: it’s Zaka’s fault.
Argh, I actually thought I went and fixed all the stuff we’ve been missing for a while and yet…
It’s kind of inconsistent how we list Sekai Project’s OELVNs alongside the japanese VNs, isn’t it? There isn’t even any translation status to track. Maybe we should consider changing that.
I’m waiting, waiting, and waiting for “euphoria” FOREVER! ( ≧Д≦) Is it released any time sooner?!?!? *sighs* ( ̄へ ̄)
I noticed that the Tenshin Ranman project is not on the list:
http://www.erojiji.net/index.php?/topic/1349-tenshin-ranman-project/
AFAIK it’s still ongoing..
I knew about that project, but I wasn’t sure what to think of it. To be perfectly frank and quite rude: The prologue patch they released quite some time ago was hot garbage. Like, really obvious and awful machine translation of the kind I don’t want to list here, worse than the White Album 2 IC patch (which has actually undergone quite a bit of editing now). So for the same reason that we don’t list other machine translations, I didn’t ever mention that to Tay or add it myself.
However, they also said that with their renewed effort, the completed patch won’t contain any machine translation and there are new translators. Depending on how much things have turned around, I think we should consider adding it to the list. I don’t think we should be some grand arbitrators of quality or anything, there’s some questionable stuff listed here already and we should let the readers be the judge, I just don’t want to list abject crap. I’ll ruminate on this for a while.
In case someone don’t know Rewrite getting anime adaptation by 8bit the same studio that did Grisaia.
More updates right after posting… *sigh*
Oh wait, it’s good news! Supipara Chapter 1 is now fully translated and Tokyo Babel is at 34% translation. That one is actually moving at an astonishing pace considering its size.
Well it’s not exactly a translation project but will you consider adding F/HA voice porting project to list?
Also Eternal Hearth isn’t at the list too. Though I don’t know if there is a reason for that.
Yes. Just PM/email/comment me the details and I’d be happy to add a F/HA patch to the list.
Thrilled, actually. Like crazy thrilled.
A little detail that wasn’t pointed on the list: the SonoHana title on Steam has multiplatform versions, including Linux! That was a complete surprise for me, but then lately a lot of VNs launched there are multiplatform, including japanese ones.
> $10 on Steam account
> must survive ’till Winter sale for ETS2 DLC because Soviet Venezuela
> butbutbut yuri + Linux = more happy than Cirno freezing frogs
must… resist… temptation!
shiny days is rated 18 game but have few scenes removed? when is the patch coming and who were working at that?
also is da capo 3 that is translating by mangagamer is that long or they have only few translators?
thanks and sorry for my english
Apparently Da Capo 3 is absolutely huge. Also, Kouryuu is the translator working on it and he is basically the highest-ranking employee not based in Japan, so he has a lot of other responsibilities that take his time.
The Shiny Days restoration patch should be available on the 30th, if JAST keeps their word.
And yeah, Da Capo 3 is massive. And as JJ says, the translator doesn’t seem to have as much time to commit to it as do the translators for some of their other games. At this point, we can safely say that a late 2016 release is an optimistic prediction for DC3.