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  1. And the surprise winner of ACen is JAST USA, because at least nobody expected anything from them.
    6 points
  2. Sorry for the wait folks: VisualArts/Key: Working on getting that audio fixed up and uploaded. Anyone have suggestions on where to put just pure audio? They had a ton of security to prevent people from recording so i got the best I could. Sekai project: First video youtube decided to flip for whatever crazy reason. Should flip to normal soon™.... MangaGamer
    5 points
  3. Visual Novel Translation Status (05/21/2016) Okay, for the title this week I decided parodying this song from 1969. As we could see, Sachi was hypnotized Yumiko and Sachi said 'Come on, Sakaki-san... What are you?'. Well, there's much more choice in term of what you want to become in term of animal though, but Yumiko decided to became a dog (Well, it's the writer choice anyway, and in game Yumiko said 'bitch' so I guess it was appropriate). After my comment on VNTS Header Image this week, welcome to my VNTS Review for this week. As for Leisure itself, not interested but anyway, there's a good news for everyone that waited for Meikyuu (It will be released this summer) and Rakuen (Translated 35% as of now). Well, the Anime Central announcement this time was surely would bring everyone with high expectation down. Okay, maybe Kyonyuu Fantasy (Or Funbag Fantasy for localization) was quite decent (Bookwormotaku like this nukige) and Fata Morgana fandisc should be good for anyone else who want to read more Fata Morgana after finished reading it, but 4 out 6 six announcement was turned out to be hardcopy from already existed title, so this is quite letdown (Although if I said the box might attract the people who want to collect the packaging though). Although the earlier announcement was letdown, Mangagamer also announce that they'll release Tatarigoroshi on June 24th and Umineko on July 8th. I only look forward to Tatarigoroshi (If only to patching the voice), while Umineko was already had the patch with improved sprite and voiced to boot (And I kind of didn't click with new sprite from Mangagamer). I think since Anime Center announcement was majorly from Mangagamer, so I'll conclude Mangagamer section here. Oh, for last word I think I better look forward to next week update from Mangagamer to made up this letdown. For more announcement, Sekai announce one doujin VN called 2236 AD which the premise might sounds interesting, although kind of vague. For more update, other than Grisaia series Sekai also had nice progress from WEE Episode 3 which touched 82.49% as of now. Other than that, there's not much interesting although if you want to knew the round up Darekoi and Memory Dogma had some nice progress (More than 10% progress) while Sekai also want to launch Princess Knight using Indie Go Go (At least they learned not to using Kickstarter in case the project failed I supposed). Okay, this week instead of Anime Central, actually interesting news mostly came from Fan Translation. Astral Air progress this time was crazy (1.6% progress from last week, and for the progress it was at 78.76%), and looks like this summer we'll get boost in term of progress according to Chuee. Koiken Otome, they had 100% editing and 86.71% QC this week, which mean it shouldn't be long time before they release the patch (Or maybe next month hopefully?). While both of those 2 news of course good, we'd also face the problem from Dracu Riot side. As we knew, the team right now face some real life issue so maybe they need delayed the first rough complete patch (Although they said it'll be at the end of June, I'm still willing to wait until end of July). For last roundup, Tsui Yuri as of now had 22% translation progress and 2% edited. There's no translation progress from Bishoujo Mangekyou, but the QC was already started and it was at 3.1%. And for last update, we had Majokoi translated at 1.9% and edited at 1.6% (Also Majokoi team got another new 2 translators there. Hope it'll be speed up the translation). Oh, and actually from last week Mari's route at Libra was not 20% translated, but 25% translated. I think that's all for this week, and see you next week. PS - Since Decay mentioned his worry about Angel Beats translation project (Not that I'm interested as of now), here's the translator response in regard of Angel Beats localization announcement from Key at Arcadeotic post (Thanks). It mean that they'll try to continue for new as long as they didn't get hit by C&D or DMCA claim as for now. Although the translator word was more likely they wait until Key make official announcement. Well, let's see it for later though.
    3 points
  4. Woah...I've only heard of two of these. Xreaper's got you covered for obscure unique-ish works. Also the BGM is stellar.
    3 points
  5. Black Sands Exclusive: Bakasura, The Flesh Walker Legend has it then once every 3000 years, a child of Nibiru is born with flesh. These children become super predators with hyper-concentrated muscle tissue and understone instead of bone. Their flesh allows them unparalleled speed and unlike the others before him, Bakasura has survived. Unlike on his world, where the planet was incinerated every 200 years,Earth is much calmer. His reign as a wild Asura has been long and all the ancient fear him for he devours both the ancient and the living. It is unclear if he has any instincts other then the hunt but one thing is for sure, avoid at all cost.
    3 points
  6. Rewrite+ was just announced for an official english release: http://anitay.kinja.com/visual-arts-announces-plans-to-release-rewrite-in-the-1778000315 With the anime coming soon, this seemed kinda obvious.
    2 points
  7. I'm not sure it exists, but it's entirely possible to tell a story with images, sound effects and music alone. In VN format it'll probably end up looking like a prettied up slide show, however.
    2 points
  8. Granted, perhaps this announcement could mean Charlotte gets some sort of VN? Wouldn't be unheard of. Though it'll probably be for the PSVita which would suck.
    2 points
  9. I'm sure the people working on the Angel Beats patch are pretty salty (unless they were bought out I guess). This is why you don't translate titles from companies that have entered the localization world. Also, I can't help but glance at that "Jun Maeda plans to do more with Charlotte". Please, don't. Seriously, just don't, there's so many great things you could invest your time on. One can hope I guess, but Kyonyuu Fantasy is so far off from what I expected that it really disappointed me lol. Seriously we don't need more games in this genre, there's so many great fetishes to explore!
    2 points
  10. I will never understand these hostage analogies. Who wants the games? You. Who pays for the games? Also you. Who gets a cut for being the intermediary? Them. What's the problem? If enough people pay for the game, want the game, they release it. Else they don't. Most of the time kickstarters and indiegogo's even offer more rewards for those willing to spend more money for them. Kickstarter assures a company turns in a profit, regardless of the game's sales - EDIT: Which in turn assures the intermediary remains in the game, contacting more Japanese companies and bringing more stuff over, faster than any of the 3/10 Fan Translation Teams which deliver anything after years of slow progress. It also gives the fans more merchandise, cheaper prices, and more info and control over the direction they take (via Prefundia, for example - Some vehement complaints suggestions have changed a company's mind in aspects that, if they hadn't made a kickstarter, we wouldn't even know about until release. Muv-Luv's initial 'editing of the existent release' turning into 'pretty much retranslating the game' or Sharin no Kuni's "devilish" DLC policies being done away with). I don't get the supposed disadvantages of Kickstarter... What does it matter to you which black hole the money gets sucked into? If enough people want the game, are willing to pay for it, they'll get it. But if everyone kicks up a fuss over things that don't matter (a company whose sole objective is to make profit is being greedy? Better call the papers), nobody gets anything. EDIT: Of course, failure to meet the conditions imposed on the Kickstarter with no valid justification is good enough reason to stop backing a particular group. "Fool me once..."
    2 points
  11. I read that whole thread while drinking my morning coffee and was able to put delicious salty tears in it. I never miss these threads, it's always so entertaining.
    2 points
  12. Oh happy days Well... It could've been much better I'll say my 2¢ on the fandisc when I actually get around of playing it, but it wasn't an 'announcement' per se, when it was already kind of announcement Never cared about hardcopies ever, so these are kind of eh to me Kyonyuu Fantasy is definetly one of those nukiges I actually am interested in (aside from Bishoujo Mangekyou), so this was a pretty good announcement overall.
    2 points
  13. I'm a fan of the Kyonyuu Fantasy translation. Now @Arcadeotic won't have to hear me telling him to TL it. Other than that, 4 physical editions, a fandisc, and a nukige that I have wanted for a while now. In overall, not a great day announcement wise. Announcement of the day for me is Kyonyuu Fantasy and I could care less about any of the other announcements.
    2 points
  14. 2236 is the most interesting announcement of the day imo. It's amusing how MG announced four hard copies in anticipation for selling a ton at AnimeExpo, and AX just now completely changed the rules for how adult content is sold, completely shafting them.
    2 points
  15. I can't be the only person who is absolutely pissed that they are doing an indiegogo campaign for princess kaguya. I do not even care about the game but I think it's a dick move to announce a game last year and then demand an indiegogo campaign for its release a year later.
    2 points
  16. To celebrate my 1000 post on the Forums, I took a picture on my normal position, in which I usually use my laptop And here's without the hand Sorry for the excessive twirls on my hair, I was born with them
    2 points
  17. 2 months and 9 days. That was rather fast, wasn't it. I mean, after over 5 months of getting to 500, my activity on this site really surprised me when I started to make this post. Anyways, thoughts on these past 2 months? Honestly, fast. It all went in a flash, and I had oh so much fun. I started a new thingy on my blog about mangas and it's thoroughly slowly dying there. Good shit. Other than that, I'm finally getting close and soon can read VNs freely in a bit. I also met a few nice new people, which I'll put in a spoiler because who really has time hear about me rambling on and on, which I do enough already. I'm also quite pleased on how the chat has been doing since I last talked about it. I also got my dirst Fuwa troll so that was fun. Nothing else much to say from these past two months, I've just been doing what I usually do. Now onto the nominations. Now that that obligatory segment is over, let's start up the part two: AMA. I'm willing to answer every and each one of your questions, there's really no discrimination about the type of the questions. If ye have a question you want me to answer, post it down. Here's to it all. To questions, the future, luck and good well-being of this entire site. I think the next one'll be 2000, if I ever get that far. Cheers, I'll be waiting for those questions.
    1 point
  18. Hey all, it's time for another convention! Anime Central is starting just tomorrow, the 20th of May. It's the biggest convention until July's Anime Expo, and most of the major players of the VN world will be there! Except for JAST, I can't actually find them or J-List on the exhibitor's list on acen's website. All times below are CDT, or UTC -0500, I believe. I will attempt to keep this OP up to date with all the latest developments. VisualArts/Key VisualArts is one of ACEN's "premium partners" so they get a nice posh booth that you'll want to visit if you're a Key fan (Booth 11). They will also have a panel, too. It will be held at 4PM on the 20th. "Join CEO Takahiro Baba, Artist Na-Ga, and Composer Shinji Orito for this multimedia industry panel all about your favorite games and shows from VisualArts!" Announcements: VisualArts announced that the Clannad side-stories will release in just a few weeks, and that they have plans for an Angel Beats localization. Sekai Project Sekai Project will of course be present as well. They'll have a premium booth at Booth #61. Their panel will be at 5:30PM on the 20th. Sekai Project has teased two new announcements from two new partners. It's always hard to predict exactly what Sekai Project will announce, especially since they have a fondness for partnering with pretty obscure doujin and OELVN developers. They've announced some pretty big stuff recently, though, so who knows? Sekai Project were previously planning a livestream but it unfortunately had to be canceled due to a lack of manpower. Announcements: Sekai Project announced a couple new doujin titles, the sci-fi doujin VN 2236 A.D. and a side-scrolling platformer MAGICALxSPIRAL. The previously announced yuri VN Ne no Kami will have an IndieGoGo launch on May 25th. MangaGamer MangaGamer may have the dinkiest booth (Booth #410), but they'll have the biggest panel, at 9PM on the 20th. MG has teased six new announcements for this show, one of them from a new partner. You can see their site for it here. Things to expect from MangaGamer: A new hardcopy announcement, perhaps euphoria. An "official" announcement for The House in Fata Morgana's fandisc, which has already been announced within the first game, MG seems to be waiting to give it a proper announcement. For the remaining four announcement, I'm guessing one of them will be a BL or Otome title, basically whatever Good Haro is translating next. We might also hear about the next Alice Soft title they're licensing at this point. Many people are expecting their new partner to be Chuablesoft, which is indeed possible considering their CEO took to twitter last year to engage english fans and talk about localization possibilities. That could just as easily be one of SP's announcements, however, or maybe they haven't yet made a commitment to the western market. They're also overdue for announcing their future SonoHana plans. There's a lot of possibilities with MG's announcements, it'll be interesting to see how they play out. @Yotek says that he'll be at the event and will attempt to record the panels for those interested. So what are you all expecting?
    1 point
  19. I don't know the rules in Norway but I am actually researching the possibility of buying the Euphoria physical to Sweden. We shouldn't be that different in laws and rules. But I don't know.
    1 point
  20. indeed, forest the only VN out of the 4 worth reading.
    1 point
  21. Seems like they didn't expect it to come so soon, and also that they're not involved in any way. I feel for them, but they really should have known this was a likely scenario with Key licensing all their big titles. This is why I abandoned the idea of translating SonoHana Nyu Jene after MG partnered up with the company. As much as I love the game, it's just not worth the risk. I think the "Well shit" sums it up, but I also appreciated this mention We almost did it guys!
    1 point
  22. They post on Reddit if you want to read what they think: https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/4kas0n/visualarts_planning_angel_beats_localization/
    1 point
  23. If their partnership with Waffle was about licensing their most recent nukige I could be somewhat happy, but Kyonyuu Fantasy? Meeehhhhh.
    1 point
  24. Progressed a bit more with Tokyo Babel. Unfortunately the writer doesn't really seem to care about his own apocalyptic story, because he's pretty much just given a bunch of school clowns fancy names of angels and demons. Apart from that it's just run of the mill school life moege. Since it more or less already disqualified itself as a serious story VN, I try to do the same like in Comyu and just enjoy it for the slice of life comedy. It's a lot harder though because characers and writing are several leagues below Comyu. Well, maybe it'll get better sometime...
    1 point
  25. I'll get KnS2 Hardcopy. They are probably keeping all major announces for the AX.
    1 point
  26. as a professor in an engineering university i would suggest you to read a lot of books, magazines, and newspaper articles. Those nearly always go through an editing process before publishing, so they will be the best examples of good grammar, punctuation, and proper formatting. What goes into print is usually edited more thoroughly than what you find online, because people pay for it and expect the best quality. If you already read a lot and still have trouble translating it into your own writing, there are many published books, articles, and classes available that can help improve these skills.
    1 point
  27. That's 3 that actually care about Kyonyuu Fantasy being TLed.
    1 point
  28. It comes from the word 'arcade' and the suffix -tic, -otic, meaning having an obsession of sorts, like in 'manic' and 'alcoholic' So basically a game addict put fancily Thanks, I'm humbled of being a role model to someone My favourite non-VN game is without a doubt Binding of Isaac, it also being my favourite roguelike
    1 point
  29. Yes, for the longest time, actually I aim to always make you proud, dad While Kirie is a himedere I've grown to love, Shizuku is still miles better
    1 point
  30. I was amused by that title as well. It's a bold choice, certainly, and it's not like I can think of anything better. But then again, I'm an aficionado of awkward alliteration and assonance.
    1 point
  31. littleshogun

    Birthday thread

    Happy 34th birthday, @grim_tales1. I'd just remember that I saw you a lot in Lucid9 thread. Hope you get well in upcoming year.
    1 point
  32. Hmm, I think I'll go for the Kara no Shoujo 2 hardcopy. Not really sure what to think about the Kyonyuu Fantasy announcement. Not the biggest fan of the art, but it's a fantasy title and one of the most popular nukiges. Well I guess at least @BookwormOtaku will be raving... I'm curious about nbkz from Minori being special guest at AX. Could mean a new Minori title (Soreyori no Prologue plz) - or could mean nothing.
    1 point
  33. Need more context to answer that. All we can tell from こんな時代に、望みなんか持つからさ is that someone think having wishes in this age is stupid/abnormal. Why that is and whether or not it's tiresome depends on the rest of the character and story. It could be "that's why you fail" or "that's why you get disappointed" or even taken a good way "that's why you're special".
    1 point
  34. Kelebek1

    Japanese Help Thread

    Well it says that "people who believe in wishes in this age are stupid." Everyone can interpret it differently as to why, that's sorta the point of philosophical and poetic language isn't it? he's replying to something/someone though and we don't have the whole rest of the scene/story to judge exactly why he's like that. It's pretty much just exposition on the character and how they think about life. Seems like they're maybe expressing faithlessness, hopelessness, and maybe just tired with life in some aspect. There's no reason to dream, no reason to reach for the stars, your dreams won't come true. There's no magic or miracles in the world etc etc etc. Like Parallel Pain said, it depends on the character and story, it all shapes how you'd interpret that line for that character.
    1 point
  35. Summary of this event so far
    1 point
  36. You guys didn't want one of the announcements to be a physical version? Good news, it's not a physical edition, but THREE physical editions!
    1 point
  37. Sekai Project first 100% confirmed Anime Expo announcement: https://vndb.org/v17515 If this really is the big 18+ title they had in mind, well, I'll pass. Won't pledge even 1$, don't really like Sayori and her art.
    1 point
  38. No idea why, but I'll always recommend Tenkiame.
    1 point
  39. I am a shitposter of my forum. Memes are my posts and puns are my words. I have made over a thousand shitposts Unknown to pertinance Nor known to class. Have withstood claims to cause many derails Yet these fingers will never type with meaning. So as others complain, Unlimited Shitpost Works. 1000th post already. Son, I'm so proud. As for the question... Kirie or Shizuku?
    1 point
  40. Ask and you should be given. But you can search for yourself too. http://wallpaper.zone/ it doesn't have everything but a lot of good stuff.
    1 point
  41. Y'know, I never thought of you as a guy who plays CoD.
    1 point
  42. Chapter 1 has been edited and released! Link to the PDF (Thanks so much to @AaronIsCrunchy for helping out with the editing, I really appreciate it!)
    1 point
  43. Finally completed my pilgrimage and finished Tokyo Babel Lilith's route was great. Samael and Cerberus made for great companions, they seriously blew every other side-character out the window. And let's not forget Mini-Lilith I also liked the implications regarding replicas and individuality. Anybody who's played the sci-fi horror game SOMA knows how fun it can be to ponder about that Best of all though, I finally got my heavily, heavily desired BUT, I feel the story could've, and should've, wrapped up around here, given how climaxy and powerful this moment was. But nope! Turns out you're only 50% of the way through, GLHF with 40% more filler battles before you can finally do final boss round 2 (which then only lasts like 5 seconds). TL;DR the second half for me suffered from ughhh pacing from the oversaturation of battle scenes. That difference between the Setsuna End and Lilith True End, though. Simply laughable. Like C'MON MAN, WHAT HAPPENED, YOUR POWER OF LOVE AIN'T STRONG ENOUGH SO YOU DROP HER, SETSUNA?!!! WTF!@#$ True End epilogue is one of the best epilogues I've ever read. And it was only 2 lines
    1 point
  44. Yeah, it was definitely better than what everyone feared for. It's been awhile since I last read anything Grisaia, but the translation is still very obviously an imitation of koestl's style. That said it was good in it's own right, so kudos to Frontwing for managing to actually find themselves decent, English native translators in Japan.
    1 point
  45. Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate Princess Evangile Are two I can think of right now and they're pretty good, Princess Evangile is one of my personal favorites and the fandisc is being translated aswell which is awesome. Good luck finding something to read.
    1 point
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