Visual Novel Translation Status (30/10/2022)

Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and if I may conclude this week I can definitely say that it's an interesting one because of Nekonyan's announcements, although I can't exactly say that it's an exciting one because some of the announcements are smaller compared to their previous announcements. That said though besides Nekonyan's announcements (That I still look forward into), we also have several releases with the most notable one is Alpha Nighthawk, and of course we have some companies announced the exact release date for their VNs as well. Anyway let's see what I can write in regard of this week, and for the title I'll tell about it on PS later.

Aksys did release Paradigm Paradox back on 27th, and while I admit that the premise is looks interesting with magical girl stuff and all (Even with said magical girls are mostly just the heroes transform into the girls) in the end it's still too bad that the release is only for console. That said if you're interested with it and have Switch, you can try the VN and have fun. Speaking of release, we also have Mangagamer will release their Nightmare x Sisters on November 17th later, so you can note the date if you've been want to play that nukige. We also have Sekai announced their release, although unfortunately said release is Raspberry Cube in Chinese language only on November 4th later (Boo...). That said though, at least we have them finished the QA progress for both of Morning Mist and Eternal Heart (Tokeijikake last part and Hoshimemo FD respectively for the reminder), so we can look forward to the release of those two in this year if all goes well.

While initially I didn't think that JAST will announce something back on AWA, turned out that they announce Onigokko FD in which its should be obvious that it's the fandisc for Onigokko with the main feature is the little sister Aoi route who from what I see is popular enough in the main game so much that a lot of people lament that she didn't get the route. Other than the awaited Aoi's route, there'll be the after stories for the other heroines as well, so perhaps it might be worth to look forward if you want to spend more times with Onigokko's heroines. JAST also announce that they'll release another VN on November 11th later, and said VN is Gore Screaming Show in which as we know it's a horror VN with good looking Ueda Metawo's art, so go note the date if you've been looking forward to it.

From fan translation, we have Chronos is at three quarter translated, Shin Koihime Musu is at 60% edited, 204 out of 255 script files of Kusarihime are translated, ChuSingura is at 15.05% translated, and H2O is at 33.8% translated with Hayami's route is at 86.7% translated. Speaking of fan translation, turned out that one of Nekonyan's license is Koichoco which as we know it's been fan translated since 2015, so obviously to me it's quite redundant. Then again, it's only the matter of time anyway until Nekonyan get the licenses for all of sprite's VNs anyway. Obviously the premise is still the same, so I'll just tell the new feature in which now the player will be able to freely play any route first instead of the player must play Chisato's route first, so no more cry on how sprite forced the player to play Chisato's route first. Currently it's been fully retranslated, and I said retranslated because Nekonyan use the new translation for Koichoco.

We have three surprising announcements here, but before going into that I'll mention that Nekonyan did reveal their first secret project in which turned out it's comedy VN Baka Moe Heart with said VN can be said as bakage, or if you want some comparison perhaps ASa Project VNs would be the closest comparison (In regard of the comedy obviously). Anyway for the premise we have Shoutarou who want to get the lover come into the school that heavily promote romance. Of course the road to get girlfriend is not quite easy, seeing that there's a group who want to destroy the couple just because the group didn't like what the couple doing. Shoutarou obviously didn't like what the group did, and so he decided to confront the group in order to protect the couples in the school. For the progress, as of now we have this fully translated and edited.

The aforementioned three surprising announcements are Ore wa Cupid ga Ponkotsu (aka Klutzy Cupid), Enki Dekinai, and Shinsou Noise. It's easy to see why the announcements are surprising, because all of those are from the partner company of Shiravune with Klutzy Cupid is from the same developer as Kamiyaba. As for Klutzy Cupid itself, it's about the love fairy who forced the Love Note to the MC Tsumugu, and if he failed to use it to get the girlfriend within 90 days then Tsumugu will loss his vital organ with no way to return it so naturally Tsumugu will tried his best to get the girlfriend within three months. For the progress, we have Klutzy Cupis is at 95% translated. In Enki Dekinai there'll be a lot of talk about eroge making, and the reason is because the MC Masashi will work on the eroge company after being enlisted by his big sister Sayaka who've been desperate to fulfill the deadline for the new eroge release. Currently we have Enki Dekinai has been fully translated along with 20% edited.

Nekonyan got Shinsou Noise itself is quite surprising, because we have several sign that Shiravune will get the license of it seeing that it has been developed by DMM branch company (Azurite) on top being available on Johren. Well I suppose DMM here is flexible, although Nekonyan did mention that it's quite an uphill battle to get the license from DMM. As for Shinshou Noise, like the English title said it's about the psychic detective case with the MC Kazuma has superpower to envision the other person thought albeit uncontrollable. Since Shinsou Noise is the detective game, Kazuma will need to make good use of his power in order to find out the truth and so obviously he'll need to learn on how to discern the other people thoughts. Shinsou Noise here is the joint project between Liar-soft and Silky's Plus, and as for the progress it's at 65% translated along with 60% edited. I'll just say that I'll look forward to this along with Klutzy Cupid and Enki Dekinai.

Almost forgot to note that we also have several updates from their available licenses, and for the updates we have Dracu Riot engine work is almost finished with them targeting early to mid 2023 release, Alcot (Clover Day's developer) finally sent fixed animation assets build so they back to do QA work on it along with targeting early 2023 release, Irotoridori is still waiting on remastered assets (The one from HD re-release) for the implementation, Melty Moment is at 80% translated, Floral Flowlove has been fully translated along with halfway edited, Kakenuke is at 20% translated along with 2% edited, and their remaining secret project is regressed to 55% translated (Maybe there's some recalculation on the script) along with 20% edited. Lastly they've been preparing Aokana EXTRA2 as their next release, and if all goes well we may have it on December later.

Lastly we have a Liar-soft VN in which it's quite a coincidence that Nekonyan just announce a Liar-soft VN (Technical wise), and said VN is obviously Alpha Nighthawk in that it's Shiravune's latest release. In Alpha Nighthawk we have two MC with different gender with the female MC is Hakone Miriya who is an ordinary soldier, and the male MC is Yodoka Ichizou who is the former elite soldier (So it's more or less like Gahkthun, albeit shorter than that). For the premise, we have the world that was threatened by a mysterious gigantic rose that was suddenly formed in the space with said rose capable to launch the thorn that can easily destroyed a city to the Earth, so obviously things looking grim in that both MCs will keep doing their best to be safe. Go get Alpha Nighthawk if you're interested with it (Or perhaps took a liking to the arts) from either Steam or Johren, and have fun.

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

PS - Since we have JAST announced Onigokko FD that notably put more focus on the little sister heroine Aoi, I figure that I should make a reference towards Aoi's VA (Nanjou Yoshiono) song from Stella Glow, To the Sea, by changing 'Sea' into 'Blue Universe' because we have Alpha Nighthawk release with the main song title is 'Blue of the Universe', so we have 'To the Blue Universe' as this week VNTS Review title.