This week’s header image comes from our lone release this week: Sorcery Jokers (MangaGamer). Get the 18+ version on MangaGamer here, and the all-ages version on Steam here.
VNTS (Visual Novel Translation Status Updates Series) is published each Saturday and brings the latest updates from VN translation projects — both licensed and by fans — from around the net. If you find any errors, or you think a project is missing from this list, please let us know in the comments.
From The Team: It’s that time of year, again: the VNTS Spring Purge. We’ve gone through the list and removed ~15 inactive projects. As in previous years: should they pick back up, we’ll be happy to add them once again. As far as releases go: just the one this week. Hope everyone has had a good start to the new year. – Tay
The Short Version: Only the New Stuff
- Aiyoku no Eustia – Total TL: 31.27% > 31.9%; Total Edit: 18.7% > 19.95%; Total TLC: 18.01% > 18.97%
- Funbag Fantasy: Sideboob Story (MangaGamer) – In testing.
- Hapymaher (MangaGamer) – In testing.
- Hashihime of the Old Book Town (MangaGamer) – Edit: 43% > 53%
- Kono Oozora Retranslation Project – 1st QC Pass Complete
- Kuroinu (MangaGamer) – Chapter 3 Edit: 91% > 100%
- Lovely x Cation 2 – New Route TL Order Plan: Hime -> Wakoto -> Hinata -> Seine (Link)
- Lover Able – TL: 98.29% > 99.05%; TLC: 67.54% > 68.65%; Edit: 28.15% > 28.57%
- Maggot Baits (MangaGamer) – TL: 65% > 69%; Edit: 5% > 9%
- Majo Koi Nikki – TL: 98% > 100%; Edit: 95% > 98%
- The Most Forbidden Love in the World (MangaGamer) – Beta finished
- Musumaker – Total TL: 45.2% > 46.6%
- Rance Quest Magnum (MangaGamer) – TL: 55% > 64%; Edit: 33% > 47%
- Sailor Fuku Bijin Tsuma Senshi Aheahe Moon R – Added to the list this week. Unveiled in this post. Translation is for the “R” version of the game which contains an expansion pack, and is already at 100%. “As for a release date, the patch should come out within a month or two.”
- Shin Koihime Musou – Overall TL: 89% > 90%; Overall Edit: 11% > 13%
- Sorcery Jokers (MangaGamer) – Released! Get the 18+ version on MangaGamer here, and the all-ages version on Steam here.
- Suppipara Chapter 2 (MangaGamer) – Testing finished.
- Trinoline (MangaGamer) – TL: 60% > 66%; Edit: 11% > 21%
- Tsujidou-san no Jun’ai Road – New, detailed post. The release order for the Hatsukoi 1/1 Append Discs is Maya > Kyou > Yukino. “Once we’re finished with the Hatsukoi Appends, we’ll finally move on to Hoshi Ori. This VN is long, very very long. The game has 6 heroines, and as such it will probably take us the rest of 2018 and a good part of 2019 to fully translate the game.”
- Tsundere Idol: My Personal M-Pet! (Cherry Kiss) – Going live sometime next week (link)
New Releases!
- Sorcery Jokers (MangaGamer) – Released! Get the 18+ version on MangaGamer here, and the all-ages version on Steam here.
Removed from the List This Week
- A Clockwork Ley-Line: The Borderline of Dusk (Sekai Project) – Released! Get the all-ages version on Steam, and the 18+ version on Denpasoft.
- Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- (Sekai Project) – Released! Get the all-ages version on Steam and the 18+ version on Denpasoft.
- A Sky Full of Stars (Moenovel) – Released on Steam.
- Dies Irae (Light) – Removed now that both Steam and 18+ patch have been released
- Umineko When They Cry (MangaGamer) – Chapters 1 – 4: Released! Buy it on MangaGamer here, or on Steam here. Chapters 5 – 8 Released! Buy it on MangaGamer here, or on Steam here.
Yearly Purge (Removed for lack of progress; will be added again if that changes; we included the last known project statuses for most)
- Angel Beats (VisualArts) – Too long without any news
- AstralAir (Shinku TL) – TL: 100%; Edit: 100%; Planning on second editing pass; QC: 0%;
- Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai (Library Shepherd) – TL: 100%; Edit: 100%;
- Dormitory Love Spring + Summer (Hase im Haus) – Demo released (Version 0.2 – here)
- Himawari to Koi no Kioku (MORE) – After Steam Greenlight was shuttered, the fate of this project is still unknown.
- Irotoridori no Sekai (Shinku TL) – TL: 19%; Edit: 13%
- Kanojo to Ore to Koibito to. (Tototo Team) – TL: 8%; Edit: 0%; QC: 0%
- Koenchu! (Sekai Project) – Lack of news/updates
- All 3 Mahou Tsukai no Yoru Projects (Loe Quality) (Commie Fansubs) (nrvnqsr Team)
- November Boy (Sekai Project) – Lack of news/updates
- Song of Memories (Pure Wish) – Fall release date missed. Presumably coming to the west, with PC and Switch ports planed (Link)
- Sukimazakura to Uso no Machi (onlyMyRailgun & Team) – TL: 43.2% + Partial Patch Released
- Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete (WareMete) – TL: 34%; Edit: 16%
All the Game Updates:
Fan Translation Projects
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JAST USA (Blog)
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MangaGamer (Updates)
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Sekai Project (Update Page)
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Other
- Here’s a handy link to sort Sekai Project’s Steam releases by release date: link
Other Projects
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Thanks for the weekly effort fuwa team \o/
“Spring” Purge came early this year… it’s only January!
I kind of hate to see Angel Beats go, but since all they’ve ever said about it was at a Q&A at Anime Central over 18 months ago (I was there), and there’s never been any official statement or web presence for it in English, it’s fair to drop it from the list.
Hapymaher release soon 🙂
I heard its even better than Chrono Clock
I really want read the “Kanojo to Ore to Koibito to.” VN…hope the translation doesnt get abandoned..and as always TNX fuwanovel for keeping me updated!!! HAVE A NICE DAY!!!
This week VNTS Review, and guess there’s no much we could do in regard of dropped project. Enjoy.
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2161-joker-sphere-review/
I really wanted to write a commentary this week, and I told tay I would write one. I even opened the editor. But then I was too tired to continue and went to bed. RIP. Next week I swear I will write one!
In case anyone is wondering why some misc projects are still on the list, we get confidential tips from time to time and can state with reasonable certainty that every questionable misc project not removed is still happening.
Too bad there are projects that die after reach 100% translation and editing, like yoake. Could anything be done about them?
Not much you can do without the translated scripts, is there? And sometimes there are reasons why those projects never release anything, like poor translation quality. I know some translators who have delayed projects to rework translations before (or in some cases, completely can).
Yoake is probably a little different, but I don’t know what exactly the issue is there.