Visual Novel Translation Status (07/02/2016)

This week’s header image comes from this week’s three releases: Tomoyo After (VNDB) (Steam); KARAKARA (VNDB) (All Ages: Steam) (18+: Denpasoft); and Sonicomi  (VNDB) (Physical: J-List) (Digital: JAST)

How are you guys enjoying AX? The VNTS team stayed up late to watch the MangaGamer panel last night, and we were blown away by the sheer number of naked butlers. For more about AX, check out Decay’s commentary this week.

Anyway! Welcome to our weekly VNTS (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.

The Short Version: Only the New Stuff

• 2236 A.D. (Sekai Project) – TL: 68.94% > 86.81%
• AstralAir – TL: 92.50% > 100%; Edit: 92.50% > 100%
• Bishoujo Mangekyou -Norowareshi Densetsu no Shoujo – Edit: 20.3% > 22.9%
• Chrono Clock (Sekai Project) – TL: 20.95% > 23.43%
• Corona Blossom (Front Wing) – IndieGoGo campaign (Link) finished with over $40,000 raised
• Corpse Party BloodCovered (XSEED) – 3DS version coming August 30th, pre-order here.
• Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai – Added to the list this week. Project resumed after a stretch of inactivity (link); TL: 89.82%; Edit: 77.07%
• Dal Segno (MangaGamer) – Announced at AnimeExpo! Will be releasing both 18+ and all-ages versions. Official site here.
• Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome (MangaGamer) – Announced at AnimeExpo!; Will be releasing both 18+ and all-ages versions; Official site here.
• Hadaka Shitsuji (MangaGamer) – Announced at AnimeExpo!; Fandisc is also in translation but will come after the main game’s release; Official site here. (NSFW)
• Hanasaki Work Spring – Hikari Route: 16% > 20%
• Hara Kano – Finished Kaho’s Route; All routes except Haruka’s route are now done, with a combined patch available on Loe’s blog (Link)
• Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- (Sekai Project) – TL: 16.83% > 18.38%%
• If You Love Me, Then Say So! (MangaGamer) – Announced at AnimeExpo!; Official site here. (NSFW)
• Irotoridori no Sekai – Edit: 8% > 13%
• Japanese School Life (Sekai Project) – TL: 62.72% > 74.61%
• KARAKARA (Sekai Project) – Released! Buy the game on Steam here, or the 18+ version on Denpasoft here.
• Koiken Otome – QC: 92.38% > 96.77%
• Maggot Baits (MangaGamer) – Announced at AnimeExpo!; Official site here. (Not safe for work OR your Mind)
• Maitetsu (Sekai Project) – TL: 12.98% > 13.55%
• Majo Koi Nikki – TL: 17% > 21%; Edit: 10.68% > 11%
• Memory’s Dogma (Sekai Project) – TL: 54.48% > 66.33%
• Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo (Front Wing) – Kickstarter launched! (link)
• Still, I Missed Her (Sekai Project) – TL: 2.85% > 3.24%
• Sonicomi (JAST) – Released! Get the physical version on J-List here, and the download version on either JAST’s site here or on Steam here. 
• Supipara (Ch 1) (MangaGamer) – Releasing July 29th! Pre-order here.
• Tomoyo After (VisualArts USA) – Released! Get it on Steam here
• Tsui Yuri – Total TL: 40% > 43%; Total Edit: 30% > 40%
• Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou – Overall: 31%; Added to the list this week!
• Utawarerumono Portable – Graphics: 99.9% > 99.99+; TL: [ 158 > 206 / 616 files* ]; Script Check: [ 106 > 110 / 616 files ]; Misc. hacking: 99% > 99.99+
• Witch’s Garden – Team merged with Luna TL (Link1, Link2); TL: 62%; Edit: 4%; TLC: 5%

New Releases

• KARAKARA (Sekai Project) – Released! Buy the game on Steam here, or the 18+ version on Denpasoft here.
• Sonicomi (JAST) – Released! Get the physical version on J-List here, and the download version on either JAST’s site here or on Steam here. 
• Tomoyo After (VisualArts USA) – Released! Get it on Steam here

All the Game Updates:

— Commentary Section —

Zakabox™ Commentary

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Alright, who here loves naked butlers?? Wooo!!! …Woo? Alright, c’mon, I know there are some of you out there jonesing for that naked butler action. It’s okay, we don’t judge here. This year’s AX is off to a pretty exciting start, and not just because of the butlers. MG held their panel last night, and brought with them the announcements you see above. If you don’t like butlers, and if you don’t like gory, bloody tentacle sex, then you better like moe! Personally, I’m interested in playing both SukiSuki (Japanese abbreviation for “If You Love Me, Then Say So!”) and Dal Segno, as I’m generally pretty okay with moege. And the 18+ otome game they announced, Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome, looks like the closest you can get to an otome moege. And it’s apparently pretty dang funny, so yeah, I’m down with that.

Alicesoft was a notable no-show here, but fret not AS fans. Arunaru, the Beat Blades Haruka translator, claims to be working on an unannounced gameplay title, and there’s still one more major convention this year in Otakon. If we don’t hear anything there about Alicesoft, THEN you can get out the pitchforks. You have my permission, it’s okay.

There’s plenty of other interesting things going on at AX. Frontwing supposedly had some “exciting announcements” at their booth, but what these announcements are actually supposed to be beats the hell outta me. And apparently everyone else, since everyone I asked to visit that booth came back clueless. Later tonight JAST will be having their yearly panel, and they actually have a thing or two to announce for us. They’ve been no-shows at all the other cons this year, so I hope this one is a pretty good showing for them, they need it.

Not all of this week’s news is at AX. Tomoyo After was released?? Yeah, apparently that happened, completely out of nowhere. We sometimes complain about sudden releases with no time to prepare for them, which JAST and SP likes to spring on us, but this is on a whole other level. Well, at least it’s finally here, and at a glance it seems to possess a much better translation than before. Please also be aware that this is based off of the Memorial Edition, which contains reworked story elements, some of them are quite major. Apparently it includes extensive changes to the second half as well as a whole new ending. So this isn’t exactly just a re-release of something we already had. New TL + lots of new and improved content = a happy Decay. I can only hope that Rewrite+ gets a similar treatment, although I won’t hold my breath for any major TL improvements there.

SoniComi also was released out of nowhere. But at least they gave us a slight forewarning by stating that the game went golden master a couple weeks ago. I somehow managed to miss that tweet, however, and this release took me completely by surprise as a result. JAST really doesn’t want any last-minute delays anymore it seems, and instead of addressing the core problems that lead to them, they’re making them invisible by never announcing release dates at all. Can’t say I agree much with that strategy.

As of the time of this writing, AX has only really just begun, and our coverage won’t stop here. Sunday evening after Sekai Project’s panel, I plan on publishing an article summarizing everything that happened at AX. And also stay tuned to @Fuwan0vel on Twitter, as we’ll be tweeting and retweeting all the major news from the show as it happens. Until next time, be well my friends.

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TAYsteful™ Thoughts

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