Visual Novel Translation Status (01/13/2018)

Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and for the title since Sorcery Jokers was have almost has same flowchart system as Odin Sphere's flowchart in regard of listing the events that did happened at the same day - at least to me, I just parodying it into 'Joker Sphere' lol. I knew that 11eyes did the same thing as well, but what remind me first in regard of Sorcery Jokers was Odin Sphere, so there's that. Anyway, as for this week other than Sorcery Jokers release that I was interested since back at Otakon 2016, I like that we saw some Mangagamer VNs was either already in beta testing or finished the testing. This week there's also some usual good progress from fan translation, which is always good to see. On the other hand, there's too much project that was apparently stalled for some reason. Let's see what I could comment for this week as well.

Fan Translation

It's a shame though that AstralAir was included in one of the projects that got purged, because lack of the progress for almost two years. More so considering back at 2016 it goes pretty fast, which surely would make people expected a quick release. Although since we have Favorite partnering with Sekai, I guess it would be impossible to release it without official way I guess - which is confirmed by Chuee himself that he said that he'll release AstralAir officially. We still don't know the partner though, but the most possible partner for AstralAir would be Sekai for now because of aforementioned reason. It's also a shame as well since Irotoridori was purged as well because of the same reason, which make it that it have two failed translation projects. I hope that someday that someone would break the curse of Irotoridori.

Oh, and interesting (Or maybe funny) to see that Mahoyo was cursed as well so much three translation projects for that was failed. But seeing that it's apparently still the first part out of the trilogy according to Nasu and Fate Grand Order still was very successful - it's currently TYPE-MOON Cash Cow Franchise, I doubt that we'll see the finished trilogy soon and therefore I would say whatever. And that's not counting his promise in regard of Tsukihime remake, which we still don't know when it'll be finished. Also there's a matter that Herkz himself stated that the chance of Mahoyo release from him was at 0% or nil, so I think we could say that Herkz was already abandoned Mahoyo project - not that it matter to me once again, because the reason that Mahoyo still the first part of the trilogy.

Purged projects aside, there's some update from Eustia with current progress was at 31.9% translated along with 19.95% edited and 18.7% TLC-ed. We also have usual update from Loverable in which it was at almost fully translated (99.18% translated with Kaho's route was at 94.58% translated), 68.65% TLC-ed, and 28.7% edited. For more regular updates here we have Musumaker was at 46.6% translated (The number was screwed though because of image translation), Pure Pure Chapter 3 was passed 90% mark (91.30%) translated along with overall translation was at 52.92% translated, and Shin Koihime Musou was at 90% translated along with 13% edited. Oh, and finally we have Majokoi was fully translated (Congratulation for almost two years of hard work), along with 98% edited. It didn't mean that the project was already finished though because there's a lot to be fix by the team themselves, but at least it's getting there for now.

There's an update from our Quof as well in which turned out that he translated Sailor Moon doujin nukige thing and about to be released in a month or two - good if you want to see Sailor Soldier have sex I guess. More importantly he said that his work on LxC 2 was slowing, because he took more time on his 5th official project which obviously we don't know yet. He also announced that he changed the order of translation for LxC 2 to Hime's first (No change), then Wakoto's, Hinata's, and finally Seine's. Speaking about establishing order, we also have Tsurezure already decided the order to translated HatsuKoi append disc starting from Maya's, then Kyou's, and finally Yukino's. Also they already decided the first route to be translated in Hoshiori, although the detail is still the secret though but at least we knew that it'll take a good part of 2019 for the translation alone because it's very long VN (Tone Work's and all). For Tsujidou, they finally have their first update for 2018 and right now Renna's route was at 10.95% translated and overall was at 79.47% translated.

Mangagamer

As for Mangagamer, once again congratulation in regard of Sorcery Jokers release. The premise was more or less that we live in a world where magic is exist and there's a research in order to exploit it's power or something along the line. What we gonna have is that there would be five POV looking from the CG which is not same as having five MCs, because the POV of male was a lot compared to the female so basically we'll gonna have two MCs which is contrasting each other in regard of personality and backgrounds. I would say have fun in regard of this VN, and hope you'll enjoy that. Forget to say that if you buy Steam version, you could grab the 18+ patch for free.

Other than Sorcery Jokers release, we have Hashihime was past halfway (53%) edited, Trinoline was at 66% translated and 21% edited, Kuroinu Chapter 3 was fully edited, Rance Quest was at 64% translated and 47% edited, and Maggot Bait was at 69% edited (Suggestive number there) and it was already 9% edited as well. There's also three projects that was in testing by Mangagamer, and those three projects were Hapymaher, Sono Hanabira 11, and Sideboob - I wonder which one would finish the testing first. They also already finished with the testing for both of Supipara Peace Story and Damekoi, in which I guess that Mangagamer gonna release Supipara first because Damekoi was apparently still in scripting. That's all for Mangagamer.

That's all for this week, and see you next week.