Welcome to the Fuwanovel VNTS, where we shamelessly copy the work of one illustrious 4chan /jp/ member in collating translation progress and add minor dabs of value through corrections and additions. Entries with updates this week in bold.
Hello, welcome to the new Fuwanovel! Yeah, if you’re reading this you may have noticed that there’s a new website live now. This took nearly half a year to do, because a lot of different ideas clashed, but it’s finally here! The feedback for the website itself has been largely positive and we’re glad for that.
This website will now be the foundation for all the other projects we’re planning to tackle. The blog was just the beginning, and the forums and the cultivation of multiple socials will be our next focus for development, together with some technological advancements and possible tools for you guys to use.
But this is all very much future stuff, so let’s stay on the ground and in VNTS. Let’s look at the newest week! It’s pretty weak on the fan translation side, but there’s a couple updates for the official ones, cool.
Fan Translation
Aikano ~Yukizora no Triangle~ – Common Route translated
Aiyoku No Eustia – 100% Translated/edited/TLC
Akatsuki no Goei ~Principal-tachi no Kyuujitsu~ – 100% translated and edited, 57.47% through QA
Akatsuki no Goei ~Tsumibukaki Shuumatsuron~ – 32,530 lines translated (53.51%)
Amagami – 3rd public Beta patch released
Anata Gomennasai, Watashi Mou… – 20% translated
Baku Ane 2 – Prologue, Ritsuka Fully translated, Wakana 8/8 Lessons, 5% route, Mashiro 5/8 lessions, Miran 2/5 events and Sayaka 1/3 events translated, Ritsuka patch released
CHAOS;HEAD Love Chu Chu! – 65.04% translated, 6.17% edited
CHAOS;CHILD Love Chu Chu – Being translated
Chicchakunai Mon – 100% translated and 39.5% edited
Chusingura 46+1 – 26420/82770 (31.92%) lines translated, Kuranosuke route partial patch released
Deatte 5-fun wa Ore no Mono! Jikan Teishi to Atropos – Common Route patch released
Dead of the Brain ~Shiryou no Sakebi~ – Aiming for October release
Dragon Knight 4 – 57% translated
Eiga Go-toubun no Hanayome ~Kimi to Sugoshita Itsutsu no Omoide~ – Common + Ichika + Nino + Yotsuba routes translated, Miku route day 1 of 5 translated
Enrenchuu no Toshishita Kanojo ga Onna ni Ueta Osuzaru-domo no Gakuen de Koubi Aite ni Sareteta. – 10% translated
Fate/Extra CCC – 100% translated/edited, in testing
GinIro Haruka – Mizuha route released, Mizuha edits finished, “Yuzuki: Translation finished. Second pass finished. Yuzuki under QA.”
Haruka na Sora – Sora and Yahiro routes translated, Kozue 50% translated, overall TL 70% TLC 70% ED 26%
Honoo no Haramase Oppai Nyuu Doukyuusei ~Oppai mo Haramase! New Class Zen’in Harama-sensation!~ – Picked up
If My Heart Had Wings: Snow Presents – 23% translated
Jisatsu no Tame no 101 no Houhou – 17% translated
Junketsu Megami-Sama – 2nd Alpha patch released, Astarotte route finishing up
Kaseki no Uta – Translation: 15389/15389 (100%)
Koukan no Toriko-Tachi – Prologue, common, and Cuckold Play route translated, Swinging Route 35%, Yukari POV 40%
Kud Wafter – AA Version 23,835/31,579 (75.5%) Lines translated, 18+ Version 19,240 / 33,113 (58.1%) lines translated
Kusarihime ~Euthanasia~ – “Translation finished. Rest of the processes ongoing.”
Lover Able – 100% translated and edited, 16254/34467 lines approved (50.42%)
Lucky Star ~Ryouou Gakuen Outousai~ – episode 1 patch released
Manakashi no Yuri wa Akaku Somaru – 66% translated
Miagete Goran, Yozora no Hoshi o – 1 of 4 routes translation finished for the restoration patch, Houkiboshi Hika 2 of 4 H-scenes translated
Nursery Rhyme – 100% translated and edited, text insertion 100% complete, testing ongoing
Otogirisou – 100% translated
Pure Pure – 100% translated, needs proofreading, partial patch released, all routes have been inserted
Sakura Wars 2 – Being translated, demo patch released
Sen no Hatou, Tsukisome no Kouki – Both original and fan disc 100% translated, in need of editing
Shangrlia 2 – Menu patch released, patch in development
Shin Hayarigami – 48% translated
Shirotsume Yubiwa – 100% translated, 50% beta patch released
Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu – 100% translated, TLC and Editing upcoming
Toaru Hahaoya no Ayamachi ~Yukari Hen~ – 50% translated
Tokimeki Memorial 2 – Being translated
Tsui no Sora Remake – 60% translated, 55% edited
Tsuma Netori – 70% translated, 70% edited, 60% proofread
Umi kara Kuru Mono – 91/138 scripts translated
Yokkyuu Fuman na Hatsujou Oba-san ni Yuuwaku Sareta Boku wa… – 100% translated/tested
Yosuga no Sora – Translation finished, editing and TLC ongoing, Total: TL 100% TLC 71% ED 55%, Common/Kazuha/Motoka routes fully edited
MangaGamer
Nightmare x Vampire – Released
Hana Awase New Moon – October 26th release
Higurashi ? When They Cry Hou + – November 9th release
Sona-Nyl of the Violet Shadows -What Beautiful Memories- – Out of Beta
The Pillagers of Raillore – Out of Beta
Ciconia – Phase 1 Released
Hadaka Shitsuji fandisc – Picked up
Rance 03 – 55% translated, 41% edited
Rance X – 70.5% translated, 5% edited
Luckydog1 – Translation nearly complete
Funbag Fantasy 4 – 66% translated, 63% edited
Eve of the 12th Month – 96% translated and 47.5% edited
DEAD DAYS – 100% translated and 88.5% edited
Beat Valkyrie Ixseal – 61% translated and 58% edited
Welcome to a Sexy, Open World – 56% translated and 51% edited
JAST
Gears of Dragoon: Fragments of a New Era – Released
Sumaga- Slow progress ongoing
Katahane – Progress being made again
Django – Not actively making progress
Tokyo Hero Project – Translation finished
Machine Child – Still being developed
Goblins on the March: Breed All Humans! – About to enter QA
Yomegami: My Sweet Goddess – 100% translated
Yamizome Liberator – Picked up
Mojika: Truth Rears Its Ugly Head – Picked up
Djibril – Being translated
Sisters: Last Day of Summer – In QA
Masquerade: Hell Academy – In QA
Paradise – In QA
VenusBlood Hollow fandiscs – Kickstarter reached goal
Sekai/Denpa
UsoNatsu ~The Summer Romance Bloomed From A Lie~ – October 24th release
Happy Saint Sheol – 25% edited, Demo in Q3, release in Q4
Harumade Kururu – Waiting on build
My Academy’s Special Place – 20% QA
Rewrite+ Harvest Festa – 100% translated, 40% edited
Subete no Koi ni, Hanabata o. – 50% translated
Sumire – Picked up
Sanarara R – 100% translated and edited, waiting on build
Glass – Picked up
New Glass – Picked up
Karakara 3 – 100% translated and edited, 70% engine work
Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru – 100% translated, 35% edited
Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita – 100% translated, in editing
Chiisana Kanojo no Serenade – 75% translated, 35% edited
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi 10% translated
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi AA – Announced
Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka – 50% translated
Re;Lord 3 – In QA
Hamidashi Creative – Announced
Inupara – In Development
Nekopara After La Vraie Familie – In Development
Nie no Hakoniwa – 100% translated, 50% edited, 70% engine work
Parfait Remake – In translation
Raspberry Cube – Announced
Animal Trail Girlish Square 2 – 100% translated and edited, in QA
Animal Trail Girlish Square LOVE+PLUS – Waiting on Approvals
NEKO-NIN exHeart SPIN – In Development
Nekonyan
Dracu Riot – “Waiting on Warmsoft for a QA Build”
Melty Moment – 80% translated
Aoi Tori – “Porting work is still ongoing”
Fureraba Complete edition – Vita exclusive content to be added to Fureraba a couple months after the fandisc release
Floral Flowlove – 100% translated, 60% edited
Kakenuke Seishun Sparking – 15% translated, 5% edited
A Colorful World – 100% translated and edited “Image editing/integration of HD assets in progress”
Love, Elections, & Chocolate – 100% translated, 17% edited, “Unity port in-progress”
Love Love Love, Burning in my Heart! – 100% translated and 74% edited
Ready or Not: The Deadline is Coming! – 100% translated, 17% edited, “Image editing complete, Engine work in progress”
Mysteries of the Heart: The Psychic Detective Case Files – 100% translated and edited, “Image editing in progress” working with developer on engine work
Tenshi Souzou “Angelic Chaos” RE-BOOT – 10% translated
Secret Project 2 – 100% translated and edited, queued for Unity port
Secret Project 3 – 100% translated and edited, image editing complete, waiting on QA build
VisualArts
LUNARiA -Virtualized Moonchild- – 2023 release
Summer Pockets Reflection Blue – 2024 release
Frontwing
Ginka – October 26th release
Sharin no Kuni – Hoping to resolve issues with the distribution platform by the end of September
Everlasting Flowers – English release planned
Aksys
Virche Evermore: Error Salvation – November 9th release
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II – Fall 2023 release
Tengoku Struggle -Strayside- – 2024 release
Age titles
Kiminozo – Kickstarter for English release planned pending success of JP Crowdfunding that starts on October 27th
Fakku
Two Beasts Or Not To Beast!! – Upcoming release
Shiravune
Taimanin Asagi – October 27th release
Tenioha! Mami’s Little Sub – October 30th release
Kuroinu 2 Redux- November 7th release
Criminal Border 1st Offence – November 14th release
ONE. – December 22nd release
Destiny Star Girlfriend – Delayed
Amazing Grace -What color is your attribute?- Q4 2023 release
My Slow Life with the Princess Knight and Her Devoted Handmaiden – 2023 release
Succubus Sessions: Mami Mamiya’s Sweet Slice of Hell – Upcoming release
Kara no Shoujo II – Announced
Kara no Shoujo III – Announced
Sacrifice Villains – Announced
Nukitashi 2 – Announced
Kagura Games
Forsaken Quartet – Upcoming release
PQube
Archetype Arcadia – October 24th release
KONOSUBA – God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire! – Picked up
Aniplex
Hira Hira Hihiru – Demo released, 2023 release
Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- – 2024 release
DLsite
Friendly lab – unlock(); – Upcoming release
Club Suicide – Picked up
Idea Factory
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Pirates of the Disturbance – November 28th release
Sympathy Kiss – Early 2024 release
Fruitbat Factory
MAMIYA -DoomsDay Dreams – November 21st release
CRAFTWORK
Geminism – November 24th release
Harukaze
Monkeys! – English release planned
Moonchime
Haunted Obachestra Vol.1 Awaking – Upcoming release
Alice In Dissonance
Fault Milestone 2 – Side Below – Upcoming release
Voltage
even if TEMPEST Dawning Connections – October 26th release
Entergram
Aquarium. – October 26th release
WSS Playground
Tenshi no Takarabako – December release
MiKandi Japan
Libra of the Vampire Princess – New translation in testing, Halloween release planned
Cherry Kiss
Ghost Girl Ghussy: XXXL Edition – Released
cyberworks
Tamaoka Soft
SEKAI/SUBETE – October 27th release
The Zakabox???
Hata thought he could write his post first, but still put mine on top. Also, he implied I wrote the header, but that was him! What a naughty boy. I’m leaving this in to clarify, but I’ll actually write my piece after his. Also, I instinctively fixed a few linguistic issues in his writing. Couldn’t just leave “inofficial” in on my watch.
Hata za meiwaku
『Zaka za Meiwaku has already mentioned all the important things in the header, so we can actually start with the VNTS immediately. I still got to do like my Spooktober coverage, so I’m just quickly going through everything here. Let’s go!
Tsui no Sora Remake is around 60% translated and 55% edited. This is honestly some great progress and we might look for a release in 2024. Scaji, the writer of the game, has actually liked a post about a fan translation for one of his games before – H2O’s. It would honestly be super interesting to see a huge creator like him endorse fan translations of lesser available works!
Funfact: We recently added a team member to Fuwa called Phantomosaka and I keep getting their name wrong and think they’re PhantomZero, the translator of this TnS translation, haha.
There’s a 70% partial patch for Tsuma Netori by the secretive Rattan Man Translations. There’s sooo many interesting nukige out there, but we only really cover Miel-titles by Cherry Kiss on the blog. Or the occasional Saikey title. Maybe we need to dig some more and pursue these fan translation projects more. If you’re interested what Rattanman’s done in the past, check here.
And that’s already the unofficial stuff, weird right?
On the official side, we have an interesting development! MangaGamer has some upcoming releases and two of them have been posted online on Reddit! The publisher finally did the step back to Reddit to post about their releases. This is a great step for r/vns, the split-off subreddit that is also in charge of the “Visual Novels Discord“. They announced the release the 3rd part of the Nightmare x Vampire trilogy and a new Higurashi Version! There will also be Hana Awase coming out this week on the 26th. MangaGamer definitely has a busy end of the month – maybe a reason why they aren’t showing up at Anime Week Atlanta this weekend. (Please, release the schedule!)
Gears of Dragoon: Fragments of a New Era is now out on JAST and three days later on Steam! While Nook gave this game a 4/10, I doubt it can be that bad. It’s a dungeon crawler RPG… what’s there to fuck up? Well, so in general Gears of Dragoon: Fragments of a New Era is a weirdly named title because it is actually Gears of Dragoon 2, the first part hasn’t been localized yet. Ninetail recently announced that they’re working on Gears of Dragoon 3 which looks like an even more attractive title! You can grab it here now!
SekaiProject has a huge swath of new updates, but the most saddening one is that the release of UsoNatsu that was supposed to go out on the 24th got delayed again due to Steam’s submission process. What could be in a harmless yuri game that doesn’t vibe with Steam?
Other than that, there’s updates for My Academy’s Special Place, Rewrite+ Harvest Festa, Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru, Chiisana Kanojo no Serenade and Animal Trail Girlish Square LOVE+PLUS. Can we maybe talk about why the fuck Harumade Kururu is eternastalled!!! I wanna read another Meruge 🙁
Anchor/ACID/whateverthefuck launched a Kiminozo KS for the Japanese audience that Eigospeakers can also back via Paypal. The details are elaborated closer in a post by our writer Sharingan. There might be a 18+ Patch in unofficial ways – I’d love if this happened.
Lastly, there’s just nukige from Cherry Kiss with Ghost Girl Ghussy: XXXL Edition and another giga-MTL game called Hentai Hotlady.
No clue what SEKAI/SUBETEEZNUTS is. But here’s a deez nuts joke.
Not too exciting this week. Next week there is AWA (Anime Week Atlanta) and one of our lads, Sabernero, will be visiting. Let’s hope the DLSite and JAST Panels have some amazing stuff to present! Okay, cya next week, lads!」
Za-Zakabox
「I remember I had this friend who would use “za” for “the” all the time. It actually showed up in my informal writing a bit at the time, which is kinda funky looking back on it. It’s kinda sad, man’s moved on from weebshit. I even did several podcasts with you, Babi! Eh, I’ll live I guess. Friends come and go, but having dumb niche interests is eternal.
Anyway, I have to say Hata covered things pretty well. The great part about having him first is that now he has to link everything to vndb, but technically I don’t since he’s already done it. The bad part is I don’t really have a comment… Okay, let’s do an impromptu rating of everything in bold this week:
- Tsuire: 7/10 scat-ji moment
- Tsuma Netori: 0/10 ntr coomer shit
- Nightmare x Vampire: 5/10 coomer shit but I think the CGs were good
- Higurashi Hou: 8/10 though honestly I don’t remember which are the good bonus chapters anymore
- Gears of Dragoon: 0/10 probably overcomplicated gameplayge with undiscoverable UI
- VB Hollow fandiscs: 0/10 same shit
- Usonatsu: 8/10 it’s interesting yurige but people that read it seem a bit mixed. Also no porn. I love moderate amounts of porn.
- AKADEMII NO SEIIKI: 4/10 moegay
- Rewrite+: 5/10 everyone says the new rewrite ending is actually worse than the OG and I imagine they’re still using that ghastly “Sizuru”
- Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru: 5/10 moege are made of dreams and colors its true
- Chiisana Kanojo no Serenade: 5.5/10 moege again? I think the OP of this has a good map on osu though so ill add half a point.
- Animal trail girlish moege: moege
- Kiminozo: 6/10, the one JOP I can trust said it’s got pacing worse than a festinating Parkinsons patient back in the day, and while our article on the subject gives it as a definitive for some reason, I don’t trust in The Hinted Patch until the patch is out. Remember how meme tier long it took for Grisaia? Dies? Actually, I guess Grisaia was a mere 3 months. Dies was six… You know these weren’t as long as I remember them. Dies was out so long that I got radicalized by some salty translation nitpickers (not the anti-loc kind. The autistic-about-quality-localizer-kind.) that it wasn’t worth reading and I should wait until I could in Japanese. Then I realized Muramasa was more to my taste. Then I didn’t read that much of that either. Look, life is a fuck and we live in a neverending spiral of chaos, you can’t expect me to have any order in my life. I’M NOT COPING MOM
- Destiny Star Girlfriend: moege again???
- Ghost Ghussy: cherry kiss insane title game/10 (they have english VA for this or something? kinda weird but maybe it works lol)
- Hentai HOTLADY: ecchi coldlady/10
Man, “festinating” is a sick ass word. Sure, nobody will understand you, but if you’re as autistic as me that’s just a good thing! It doesn’t make you think at all of what it actually means though; “fester” is what comes up when I try to reason about it. Maybe it’s a good thing it’s no longer in use. Did you know “craven” has nothing to do with “craving”? The English language is a beautiful maze. Some would say it’s ugly, but I say its wonkier parts give it character. The language really feels lived in. By so many different languages. At so many different times…」
That’s some nice looking new site all right. Anyway as for this week, obviously the most notable release is Gears of Dragoon 2 which had good looking graphic, although as for the gameplay let’s just say that you may need to expect it as old school Dungeon crawling RPG with a lot of encounter and all. Also it’s too bad that Shukusei no Girlfriend and Usonatsu need to be delayed because Valve is in the mood for being bureaucratic, so hopefully we can get both released in this year.
Anyway, here’s my VNTS Review for this week and I hope you’ll enjoy it.
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/3939-nightmare-x-archfiend-review/