Visual Novel Translation Status (02/10/2022)

Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and as you can see that it should be obvious that the biggest news is in regard of Royale release by Nekonyan, although for some people arguably the bigger news is in regard on how Spike Chunsoft finally announce that Noah PC version is indeed banned by Valve. Other than that, we also have some updates from Shiravune and fan translation in which while it's not big at least it's quite a nice one to a degree. There's also some updates from Sekai Project in which they finally do the updates from several feng VN, and of course we still have some updates from fan translation. Overall I suppose I can say that this week is an above average one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it (I'll tell you about the title on PS later).

Honestly speaking I'm pretty much neutral in regard of Noah, especially after I know that most of the contents is the same as the old Chaos Head. That said I can understand on why some people did say Noah as the definitive version of Chaos Head, because it's have routes addition that supposed to add more info in regard of the setting so it's too bad to have Valve decided to ban Noah for some reasons, especially when one consider that this is the first time they made the PC version of it because Mages never released PC version of it (So far Noah here is only available on consoles). I can give some of my speculation on why Valve banned this, but in the end only Valve can explain the reason why. At least Spike Chunsoft here is willing to look up for more storefront, although because of that they need to delay the release for PC version. Oh yes Committee of Zero here is still working on Noah here, with their current progress is they're fully TLC-ed and edited 96.84% of it.

Turned out that the one who will localize Sacrifice Villains is Shiravune instead of Mangagamer, in which admittedly I should see it coming from the fact that there's Chinese language listed as the planned language support, although overall there's no much change besides the chance that it'll be available on Steam and there'll be mosaic in the sex scenes. We also have Shiravune released Dawn of Kagura: Maika’s Story – The Dragon’s Wrath with the premise is that we have the titular Maika as the MC who keep fighting against youkai who keep bothering human, and of course she face the risk that she can be raped by the monsters as per usual Kagura shrine maiden gameplay VN series. Go get the VN if you want to see more shrine maiden (Just beware that the interface is still untranslated), and have fun. Anyway the release aside, I hope that the rest of the planned Shiravune's announcements will be more interesting than their initial five one.

Like I mentioned beforehand, this week Sekai have several updates in regard of feng VN, although this week they also have released Hamidashi which unfortunately is in Chinese version. They did stated in regard of English release though, in which it's 'a little longer' that to be said can be more than a year seeing that Hamidashi is a lengthy VN. If anything else, at least they manage to set the Steam store for it which is nicer than it sounds seeing that Valve can be random when it come to ban (Like the aforementioned Noah), so good for them. For the update, we have Akaneiro is at 30% translated, Chiisana Kanojo is at 20% translated, Nie no Hakoniwa is at 60% translated, and Zutto Mae Kara Joshi Deshita is at a quarter translated.

From fan translation, we have 167 out of 255 script files of Kusarihime are translated, Chronos is at halfway translated, Manakashi is roughly 54% translated, Yosuga no Sora is at 64% TLC-ed along with 24% edited, both of Sora's and Yahiro's route from Haruka na Sora are translated, ChiSingura is at 13.2% translated, and Senmomo is at 72.73% edited with Chapter 5 is past three quarter (78.54%) edited. We also have Fakku announced their next nukige release Sei Yariman in November later, and good for the one who want some release from Fakku. Speaking of announcing release, we have Nekonyan open the Steam store for Mirai Radio which obviously mean that it's almost ready for the release. Just in case you're worry about the sex scene, it'll be intact in which is very ironic if we know what happen with Aojashin. For the release date, it's estimated to be released within this year after being changed from October release plan, so let's see it later.

The biggest news to me here is obviously in regard of Nekonyan newest release Royale, in that it's another VN from ASa Project that said to put more focus on the comedy than the romance, which really says a lot seeing that ASa Project usually has a lot of comedy. For the premise we have our MC Hirotaka who wish to have a girlfriend decided to hit a girl, with the girl is turned out to be student council president, Shione, with her secretly really want to be got hit and have slight narcissist tendency. Turned out that his wish to get the girlfriend is fulfilled by a new transfer student Mari who claim that she's been in love with Hirotaka since their childhood, and add Shione along with the other girls caused Hirotaka's everyday live is more chaotic than it was thanks to several girls decided to held battle royale in order to win Hirotaka's love. Anyway, this one should be good VN if you want to read some more comedy VN, so go get Royale and have fun.

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

PS - Since the English subtitle for Royale here (Love's a Battle) is obviously resemble the almost finished Kaguya-sama: Love is War manga, I figure that I should make a parody of it by simply changing 'Kaguya-sama' into 'Shione-sama' so we have 'Shione-sama: Love is War' as the title.