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Meteor World Guardian Review


littleshogun

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Welcome to this week and since we have Akagoei (English title Guardian of Daybreak) released I decided to make a parody of the writer's another work, Ryuusei World Actor, by changing the word 'Actor' into 'Guardian', so we have 'Meteor World Guardian' (Translation Note: Ryuusei mean meteor) as this week VNTS Review title. As for what I can say this week is more or less an active one thanks to a big number of announcements courtesy of Nekonyan and to an extend Mangagamer on Anime Central 2022 (That has finally been up after two years absences because of pandemic). Of course there's also the release matter such as the aforementioned Akagoei, although if I may be blunt other than Akagoei there's no much to say in regard of it. Regardless of that, I can still say that this is an exciting week to a degree. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week as well.

Cherry Kiss did moved up their nukige release by four days, and no much to say other than good job to them. Love Lab revealed that they've been working on a moege called Sugar Sweet Temptation with the VN itself is usual cafe moege with the writer worked on Tsujidou and Kirikoi along with the artist worked on Amairo Chocolata duology. At least it seems to be slightly interesting, and it'll be released sometimes in autumn or winter 2022 (ie September to December). We also has some updates from Love Lab projects, in which we have Maid for Loving You was at 85% translated and they'll release Chinkamo Twins at July 1st later. Speaking of exact release date, we have JAST basically directly confirm that yes they've been working on Flowers Winter for some times and we also already have the exact release date for it at June 18th later, so you can note the date if you've been looking forward to Flowers tetralogy finale.

Mangagamer did bring two new announcements for this year Anime Central, and if I can summarize it in one word I would say that it's quite plain to say it nicely. The first announcement is The Patient S Remedy in which it's more or less BL version of Evenicle 2 with the premise the MC sperm can somehow cure the disease that can kill people within five years the doctor offer the MC to allow himself to participate in the research for the cure, and of course the MC will injecting his sperm into the other five (Male) patients. The second announcements is How a Healthy Hentai Administers Public Service in which it's the sequel of Hentai Lifestyle, and let's just say that it's a nukige with the public servant uniform here is obviously attempted to be as sexy as possible (Personally I find the uniform is quite tacky, but different stroke for different people). Lastly we have some updates on Raillore from the translator's tweet, and currently it's been fully translated along with 91.56% edited.

Fan Translation

As for the aforementioned Akagoei, while granted that Kinugasa as the writer has been (in)famous for his open ending writing to a degree, at least we can still accept that Akagoei here is sort of justified to have open ending because actually it's the first part of the trilogy. For the premise, it has our MC Kaito who has been trained as the bodyguard that will be assigned to guard a daughters of noble families, and our Kaito here is quite an eccentric figure to say it easily so much that he initially has some problem with his employer. Anyway the patch did translate the whole Akagoei and the prologue of Akagoei FD (For the info the patch worked on the release that compile all of Akagoei trilogy), so if you've been waiting to play the first part of Akagoei trilogy then go get the patch at Daybreak Translation download page and have fun.

We also have Meikei no Lupercalia new translation project (The link to the project page) with the current progress was 22 out of 94 script files of it were translated, and we also have the patch that cover up to Chapter 2 was released. As for Lupercalia itself, it's a VN about theater in which the people were act dramatically as per usual theater. Other than that, I suppose we can say that the casts were use the theater as the way to cope with their past which to say quite dramatic to a degree. No much to say other than good luck to the translation project seeing that Lupercalia here is sort of interesting seeing that it's one of the well received VN in 2021. Note that the translator said that if there's no progress in a year it would be better to think the project as dead, so I'll try to keep my eyes on this for a year.

For the rest of the updates for fan translation, we have Chicchakunai Mon was fully translated, Ruitomo was at 16.94% translated with common route was at almost three quarter (74.75%) translated, Senmomo was at 57.13% edited with Chapter 4 was at 27.06% edited, Imaimo was at 35.1% translated with Matsuri's route was at 83.4% translated, 96.1% original lines of Summer Pocket were reworked, and Eustia was at 83.27% in programming with Licia's chapter was at 96.85% in programming. We also have some progress on Fate/Extra CCC after some time of with no visible progress, and for the info it's been fully translated so naturally the team preparing for the editing work of it. Lastly we'd past 100 script files for Mizuha's route of Ginharu was translated, or to be exact 115 out of 139 script of it was translated with 9 out of 10 sex scenes were finished.

Nekonyan

Before going on talking about Nekonyan's announcements on their first convention, I should say that it's their right to announce as many project as possible (Six projects to be exact). That said though I would prefer if they can really work on those announcements seeing that we already have Sol Press as the example on how they took too many big projects and in they end they've been collapsed because they can't work on those projects properly, so hopefully Nekonyan here won't ended up like Sol Press. I also really hope that Anime Central 2022 here is not the first and the last convention that Nekonyan attend. Anyway let's see what I can write in regard of Nekonyan's announcements below.

The first project is Secret Agent, and it's the ensemble VN that has the MC not became the trap (He's just the normal male student) which to say may trip some people. Although on the other hand if Secret Agent here is successful, perhaps we may see ensemble VNs that have the MCs as the trap. Anyway for the premise we have our MC Jin who is the descendant of a ninja infiltrate the academy only to have his identity found out by one of the female student Kanon. Of course Kanon willingly to keep Jin's secret with one condition, namely Jin was asked to train Kanon as the ninja seeing that Kanon is quite passionate about ninja. Other things to note would be that there'll be some actions in here, this is formerly Nekonyan's 3rd secret project, and currently it's been fully edited.

Since the second project of Nekonyan is non-VN game (It's 3rd person shooter with the female MC Lorena), I'll give the update for all of Nekonyan's projects outside the one that were announced. For the updates, we have the programmer adding the feature from Yuzusoft newer VN into Dracu Riot, Makeover FD was fully edited and ready for QA, Mirai Radio engine porting work was halfway completed, Aoi Tori was fully edited, Golden Time (Kirikoi FD for the reminder) was fully translated and three quarter edited along with the release was planned at summer, and the engine porting for Clover Days were mostly done along with the release was planned at either summer or fall. No much to say other than I hope Nekonyan will be able to release the last two (Golden Time and Clover Days) on time.

The third project of Nekonyan here is one of Saga Planet that was released before Kirikoi with the name Floral Flowlove, in which I'll just call it as FF (Not Final Fantasy for the info). As for FF, if I may borrow Ouro's word that refer the game on Kirikoi it would be 'It's about a guy who can see angel and devil wings, and he becomes entangled in political intrigue with a royal family. Add in his service to the church, him doing some serious soul-searching -- and it's teeming with titties'. Or if you just look at VNDB, it would be about the MC who can see angel and devil wings who somehow has relationship with four girls (The heroines) who are figuratively called angels. Anyway I look forward to the eventual release of this and currently it's been at 84% translated.

The fourth project of Nekonyan here is another Saga Planet VN (Yes we have two Saga Planet VNs localized) is Kakenuke Seishun Sparking. Like I'd say beforehand I already sort of wish Nekonyan localize this, although I admit the reason is simply just because I thought the school uniform in there are quite sexy like back at Natsuyume Nagisa lol. In Kakenuke we have the MC who's too focused on job so much that he thought that he didn't need youth, which obviously attract two club leader who more or less dragged the MC into their club activity in order for the MC to have youth. From what I see with summer setting and the uniform design, Saga Planet here might want to create the same atmosphere as Natsuyume. Other thing to note is that Kakenuke here is already used Kirikiri engine in which several of Nekonyan VNs used the engine, so hopefully there'll be no bothersome porting work like back at Kirikoi. As for the progress, it's been at 10% translated.

The fifth project of Nekonyan here (Or perhaps I should call penultimate announced project) is Ren'ai Royale (I'll call it as Royale from now on), which as we know is another ASa Project so obviously you should expect some comedic story here although looking from the review it seems ASa Project pushed the comedy a bit more. As for the premise, we have the MC Hirotaka was suddenly confessed by a transfer student which in turn caused some of Hirotaka's friends (His own blood related little sister, the student council president, and the junior who also an idol) react and engage in a battle royale (Well there's a reason for the title) in order to win Hirotaka's love. As for me I already expect it and sort of hoping that it'll be translated so good for Nekonyan to get this. Oh yes we already has some progress on this, and for the progress it's been fully translated along with 5% edited.

As for the last announced Nekonyan's project in which it's obviously not the least is Irotoridori no Sekai, and yes it's not the typo. I think everyone here should already know the premise, so I'll just write on the history of the project here. It's started from way back at 2012 when the first project was abandoned, and then Nekonyan (Back when they called Shinku Translation) decided to work on this only to have it officially localized by Sol Press. Then as we know Sol Press can't do more on this anymore, and thus FAVORITE finally decided to reach out Nekonyan which mean finally Irotoridori here is back to Nekonyan. History aside, with Irotoridori license it mean that Nekonyan here may license another FAVORITE VNs such as Astral Air (For a very obvious reason) or Sakuramoyu in the future so let's see if we can see it happen later. Oh yes for the project it's been fully translated and edited (Since when Sol Press worked on this) and it's currently in programming work.

That's all for what I can write in regard of this week VNTS Review, and see you next week.

Edited by littleshogun

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Thanks for the updates

Mangagamer's acquisitions and catalogue continues to disappoint. At this point, their company seems to be on a slow decline.

Fan Translations are still trucking along fine. They work on their passion, so the fact that they give us anything is nothing short of a miracle.

Nekonyan continues to get pretty good acquisitions from a variety of producers. At this point, it is probably the most beloved VN localisation company at this moment.

Oh yeah, JAST still exists... I guess. I guess its fine. It gives us some great VNs, occasionally.

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