Visual Novel Translation Status (10/29/2016)

This week’s header image comes from our six of our seven releases (including one 3DS version, and one late addition), starting from the top left in clockwise order: 

• A dragon girl looks up at the endless sky (Debo no Su Seisakusho) – Released on Steam! Get it here. All-ages version only, no 18+ version is planned.
• Beneath The Cherry Trees (Henteko Dojin) – Released on Steam, free to play with both English and Japanese language options
• Corpse Party BloodCovered (XSEED GAMES) – 3DS version is released! Get it on Amazon here
• MYTH (MangaGamer) – Released! Pick it up on MangaGamer (18+ Adult Version), or Steam (All-Ages)
• Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto (Sekai Project) – Released! Get it on Steam here, 18+ version on Denpasoft here. (NSFW)
• Root Letter (Kadokawa Shoten) – In stores now in Europe! Buy it on Amazon here.

Happy Halloween… on Monday! Okay, so, if you didn’t tell us last week, let us know what you’re dressing up as come All Hallows’ Evening!

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

• A dragon girl looks up at the endless sky (Debo no Su Seisakusho) – Released on Steam! Get it here. All-ages version only, no 18+ version is planned.
• Beneath The Cherry Trees (Henteko Dojin) – Released on Steam, free to play with both English and Japanese language options
• Bishoujo Mangekyou -Norowareshi Densetsu no Shoujo – Edit: 93% > 95%; QC: 88% > 90%
• Bishoujo Mangekyou -Katsute Shoujo Datta Kimi e – TL: 44% > 47%; TLC: 35% > 43%
• Boku to Koisuru Ponkotsu Akuma (Sekai Project) – TL: 10.5% > 12.01%
• Chrono Clock (Sekai Project) – TL: 40% > 43.98%
• Corona Blossom Vol.2 The Truth From Beyond (Front Wing) – Released! Get it on Steam
• Corpse Party BloodCovered (XSEED GAMES) – 3DS version is released! Get it on Amazon here
• Da Capo 3 (MangaGamer) – Prepping for beta > Beta in progress
• Dal Segno (MangaGamer) – TL: 66% > 79%; Edit: 28% > 79%
• Dies Irae (Light) – Kickstarter seems to be planned for… October? Possibly? (link) – Note: probably not actually
• Enigma: (Fruitback Factory) – Releasing November 15th. Preorder it on Fruitbat Factory’s store here.
• Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome (MangaGamer) – TL: 32% > 40%; Edit: 19% > 37%
• Go Go Nippon 2016! (MangaGamer) – Pre-orders are now up! Available on November 11, 2016
• Grisaia: Phantom Trigger (Front Wing) – Announced! It’s a new episodic series with an all-new cast set after Eden of Grisaia. 3 episodes currently in development, more are planned. Episodes 1 and 2 are releasing worldwide spring 2017. Official site here.
• Hadaka Shitsuji (MangaGamer) – TL: 28% > 30%; Edit: 21%
• Hapymaher (MangaGamer) – TL: 51% > 55%; Edit: 32% > 36%
• The House in Fata Morgana – A Requiem for Innocence (MangaGamer) – TL: 33% > 35%
• If You Love Me, Then Say So! (MangaGamer) – TL: 92% > 100%; Edit: 92% > 100%
• Imouto Paradise! 2 (MangaGamer) – TL: 90% > 100%; Edit: 42% > 46%
• Kuroinu (MangaGamer) – Edit: 21% > 44%
• Libra of the Vampire Princess (MiKandi Japan) – Aoi’s Route TL: 15% > 30%; Lycoris’ Route TL: 15%
• Lover Able – TL: 20.01% > 22.99%; Edit: 1.39% > 4.74%; TLC: 3.16% > 6.99%; QC: 0.87%;
• Maggot Baits (MangaGamer) – TL: 0.5% > 3%
• Maitetsu (Sekai Project) – TL: 44.75% > 47.77%
• Majikoi A2 – Finalized: 32/102 > 75/102
• Majo Koi Nikki – TL: 52.3% > 52.5%; Edit: 37.1% > 38.7%; TLC: 18.0% > 19.2%
• Memory’s Dogma (Sekai Project) – Releasing November 4th!
• MYTH (MangaGamer) – Released! Pick it up on MangaGamer (18+ Adult Version), or Steam (All-Ages)
• Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto (Sekai Project) – Released! Get it on Steam here, 18+ version on Denpasoft here. (NSFW); Part 2: TL: 53.04% > 81.3%
• Root Letter (Kadokawa Shoten) – In stores now in Europe! But it on Amazon here. Releasing November 10th in North America. Pre-order the NA version on Amazon here.
• Sayonara o Oshiete – TL: 36.84% > 38.24%
• The Shadows of Pygmalion (MangaGamer) – Scripting in progress > Prepping for beta testing
• Sorcery Jokers (MangaGamer) – TL: 52% > 54%; Edit: 40% > 50%
• Steins;Gate 0 (PQube) – Releasing November 25th in Europe, November 29th in North America. Rice Digital has a UK pre-order up. (Link)
• Tenshin Ranman (Sekai Project) – TL: 60.46% > 61.54%
• To Heart 2 – Edit: 85% > 95%
• Tsui Yuri – Total TL: 95% > 97%

New Releases!

• A dragon girl looks up at the endless sky (Debo no Su Seisakusho) – Released on Steam! Get it here. All-ages version only, no 18+ version is planned.
• Beneath The Cherry Trees (Henteko Dojin) – Released on Steam, free to play with both English and Japanese language options
• Corona Blossom Vol.2 The Truth From Beyond (Front Wing) – Released! Get it on Steam
• Corpse Party BloodCovered (XSEED GAMES) – 3DS version is released! Get it on Amazon here
• MYTH (MangaGamer) – Released! Pick it up on MangaGamer (18+ Adult Version), or Steam (All-Ages)
• Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto (Sekai Project) – Released! Get it on Steam here, 18+ version on Denpasoft here. (NSFW); Part 2: TL: 53.04% > 81.3%
• Root Letter (Kadokawa Shoten) – In stores now in Europe! Buy it on Amazon here. (Releasing November 10th in North America. Pre-order the NA version on Amazon here.)

Removed from the Lists This Week

• ChuSingura 46+1 (NextNinja) – Chapters 4-5 Released (Link); Thus, all of the game’s chapters have been released and are available on Steam
• Dead End Junction (Culture Select) – Released! Buy it on MangaGamer here or on Steam here.
• Flowers (JAST) – RELEASED! Get it: Download Edition on JAST; Packaged Edition on J-List
• Guilty Crown Lost Christmas (by lolgc, Aiden K., Crysis99, Crysis99, Andrew Siu) – Patch released! Get it, and more info, in this post on the Fuwa forums
• Harmonia (VisualArts/Key) – Released! Buy it on Steam here.
• Please Bang My Wife (MangaGamer) – Get it here. Obviously NSFW.
• Sakura Maid (Denpasoft) – Released as a free game on Denpasoft. Was part of a planned reward program for their patreon backers. Backers at the $30 level or higher unlock special content. Patreon link.
• 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. 

All the Game Updates:

 

 

— Commentary Section —

Zakabox™ Commentary

「Zaaaaakkkkkkakaaaaaa?…」

Boy, this sure was a busy week. Seven releases are a lot. And I’m not particularly pumped to play any of them, oddly enough. They all seem fine, except for Dragon Girl, but I just can’t really get excited about them. I think I might play Myth some day but not anytime soon. The freeware doujin thing looks like the kinda simple quality you’d expect from such a thing. Dragon Girl has a pretty abominable-looking translation and it’s a porn-heavy game with the porn taken out and no 18+ option. Ne no Kami looks pretty good if you’re into that kind of thing but I’m not actually into Japanese  mythology/fantasy. Root Letter I’ve heard some very mixed things about and I don’t have a console anyway. And Corpse Party has had a billion releases so far. Apparently this is the best version of that game? I’m just not really into Japanese horror.

Yeesh, what big old fat blob of apathy that above paragraph is. I can tell you what does look exciting: Memory’s Dogma. I really like what I’ve seen of that so far. I haven’t tried the demo yet, but I’m eager to see it and what the rest of the first chapter looks like. I hope they manage to execute on the concept well. The early impressions I’ve seen have been positive.

And Steins;Gate 0 comes out in a month! That’s something I just might have to buy a PS4 for. Well, that, Persona 5, and a bunch of other stuff. It’s actually kind of tough for me to scrape together the cash for a console though, especially since I also wanted to upgrade my computer. But the siren song of Steins;Gate calls, and I can’t ignore it. S;G is easily my favorite visual novel, just as Persona is my favorite JRPG series; it would be mad for me to not get a PS4 at this point. Time to start pinching those pennies and start up my healthy diet of daily ramen again.

The Dies irae kickstarter is also happening soon. How soon? Well, supposedly within the next few days, but apparently the message on their site is kind of weirdly worded and not 100% conclusive. Basically, don’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen until next month or later, or maybe even expect it. Still, if the rumored crew of Conjueror, Garejei, Steiner, and GundamAce are indeed the translators, that’s a project they have been worked on for quite some time now and is probably nearing completion if it’s not already fully translated. A kickstarter very soon and a release not terribly far behind it wouldn’t be totally unexpected. I just hope they bother marketing it beyond occasional posts on their Japanese blog.

Oh yeah, and Corona Blossom Vol 2. We almost forgot about this new release, but we managed to sneak it in just in the nick of time (hence the lack of a banner spot). To be honest I don’t know anything about this series except that the purple haired girl never wears panties in the promo art. She’s a space pirate, right? Is that just the space pirate fashion? Is that part of the Metroid canon? Pretty sure I’ve never seen any of them wear panties either, now that I think about it. I guess that settles it, space pirates never wear panties.

 

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TAYsteful™ Thoughts

I have but one thing to say this week:

Ding, dong, “Please Bang My Wife” is dead!

It’s off the list, it won’t be missed!

Good riddance.

Have a good week, everybody!