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And the surprise winner of ACen is JAST USA, because at least nobody expected anything from them.

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

Woah...I've only heard of two of these. Xreaper's got you covered for obscure unique-ish works. Also the BGM is stellar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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..."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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 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.

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?

So, I thought I'd make this because it seemed like a fun idea, to see if we can co-operate under pressure and without knowing each other that well. If this dies with no one joining then... I'll just go back to my corner of friends and play... But if you haven't left already, if you don't know what this game is, take a look here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/341800/ And here's the manual: http://www.bombmanual.com/ Available as a PDF or webpage, you could even print it out if you wanted. So how will this work? Well, all you need is: A Skype account. (and/or a Discord account) This game involves talking y'know? Discord will primarily be used for group calls. Skype can be used for solo or group calls as well, but I've heard there are problems with group ones, so to be safe, I'd like to use Discord for those whenever possible. A mic. It doesn't have to be the best in the world, we just need to hear you clearly. To not feel shy. [Insert "Just do it" meme here] If you want to join, make a post stating what role(s) you want to play and I'll list you as Defuser, Expert, or both accordingly. Then I will add you to the Skype group/send you the invite to the Discord group. (You will of course have to give me your Skype username for Skype) Um... I haven't really thought of anything else. The schedule, if we'll have one, will probably revolve around who joins. If you have any suggestions as to how I could make this better, let me know. Members Eclipsed: Expert Flutterz: Expert LoganW: Expert Shikomizue: Defuser and Expert Waiting List Funyarinpa: No time right now. Kingdomcome: Setting up HTC Vive.

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.

Non-loli content is less likely to be an issue. Regarding customs, you should try to fish around the internet regarding how they deal with packages in your country. Your package may get stopped for taxing, but that doesn't mean they'll open it - more than often they'll just look at the invoice or ask you for one. And I doubt anime titties are very visible through X-ray inspection.

Regarding Re:Zero @Ceris @havoc

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!

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/

If their partnership with Waffle was about licensing their most recent nukige I could be somewhat happy, but Kyonyuu Fantasy? Meeehhhhh.

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...

[nitpicky mode] I should probably clear up something. Holding someone hostage is when a person is taken from someone else, and held against their will until certain conditions are met. As a guarantee or blackmail or some such. If you want to apply it to an object, it would be something taken away from someone else and held until certain conditions are met. Sekai haven’t taken anything away from anyone, the game isn’t the community’s to demand. ‘Hostage’ is one of those emotive words people misuse when they want to make someone’s actions seem worse than they are.[/nitpicky mode] That being said, it’s only smart to be choosy over which kickstarter campaigns to support. But to be honest, I’m incredibly unmoved by the ‘I want this product but I won’t back it to get it. How dare they employ a business strategy I don’t agree with!’ argument. The world is full of products people may want but they are unable to obtain, for one reason or another. One more added to the list because of philosophical or moral differences isn’t going to make me cry great soppy tears for those who miss out.

Seriously? You see nothing questionable about this? I really regret backing Karara now as it seems quite obvious that was a huge mistake. Sekai Project is bloody going to indiegogo and kickstart every single one of their japanese vn products and while that decision is theirs to make I myself do not agree with it. The success of their karakara indiegogo campaign is obviously to blame for this. Had that failed they likely would not have decided to do this. I am a huge reader let's say that a book is announced for sale but a release is not scheduled immediately because the author needs to finish it. One year later after the author has announced they've finished it instead of releasing it they hold it hostage behind a kickstarter or indiegogo. You want this book you are going to have to back it. People have been waiting for this release and the publisher has been giving information on its progress for over a year and never mentioned of its release contingent on a campaign that may not even succeed now. Because this is what Sekai Project is doing. They are essentially saying the game will not be released unless you indiegogo/kickstarter campaign. It does not help that it comes down to expectations. The majority of their adult titles have not had a kickstarter/indiegogo campaign. People expected this to especially be true of a game announced a year ago that they've been showing english screenshots for, website of, information about its release 'coming soon', 66 percent translated, etc...when really that is a blatant lie because now the game is only coming if the indiegogo succeeds for it. Indiegogo is sketchy itself because of the way people collect money. If Sekai Project is doing this to determine limited releases of the title then my entire argument is out the window. Since I am not currently sure how it is going to be organized and can only speculate based on past releases via kickstarter/indiegogo my expectations may be subverted. If Sekai Project announces an indiegogo campaign but mentions that the game will be coming regardless of whether it succeeds (and essentially uses it as a glorified pre-order system with a way for people to get extra content and physical editions and that type of thing) then I would begrudgingly be okay with it. If however the game is contingent on a successful campaign to being released then yes I will call them out on it. What if Mangagamer and Jast pulled this? I think people have gotten used to Sekai Project's bullshit antics that they think it doesn't matter. How will anything change though if we become accepting of conditions which are simply not something we as fans should expect. If Mangagamer and JAST tried this stunt people would outrage but because it's Sekai Project people have gotten used to it. That itself is dangerous thinking. If Sekai Project wishes to take the kickstarter and indiegogo approach for all of their Japanese visual novels (and some OELVNs) then that's fine. Hell the title in question I have no real interest in to begin with however I can't make an exception just because it's a title I don't want. It's the indiegogo campaign, however, that is something I'm personally not comfortable with them doing and so I'm boycotting the purchase of their kickstarted/indiegogo attempts. I'm not saying I won't buy the games if they succeed in their campaigns I'm merely saying I will not be backing any of these campaigns. If this means some products don't get made then so be it. What difference will one person make? Probably nothing but at least I will hold true to my convictions on the topic if nothing else.

went through my special something list & managed to come up with few good, albeit (partly) unique ones. well, here you go: kyojin-tachi (it´s a huge mess in more than one way) norukasoruka omega no shikai (every fukking single one of them) hotel ergriffen (quite some nice prose in there) umi kara kuru mono edit: tried my best in staying away from the extreme, though some may find the content of theirs still being morally & ethically questionable, depending on ones own upbringing. edit2: reg. omega no shikai, personally i found them being non suited for one to halt his/her read & decide on continue reading later on, simply because 1)the flow/ atmosphere gets broken 2)they can be slightly confusing, so there´s a risk of one non catching up to their plot . edit3: you also might want to give zigzag´s titles a try, especially kurai nichiyoubi comes to mind.

KnS all the way.

It is utterly beyond me how someone can be disappointed by the lack of moege being translated. This is like Stormfront idiots going "WHITES R UPPRESSED BWAAAA" man, lol. There's more than enough moe stuff coming out already, moege is the last thing to complain about. Impressive that Euphoria is getting a limited physical edition lol That said, I'm hyped for Higurashi and Umineko! Con-fucking-gratulations Gangamamer for releasing only two episodes of Higurashi in a whole damn year. I'll be a second-year at university before they even get to work on the "extra" arcs they promised to translate at this pace. For fuck's sake (I'd probably have pirated the fuck out of the original TL already, but Vokoca discouraged me and also that one only has PS2 graphics).

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.

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.

The fuck are you translating? Whatever it is I am making sure I don't read it. Anyway going by only what is given, they are laughing at her and breaking their promise to spite her for trusting them. Also 望み is double meaning on hope. The world's crap so you were an idiot to have trusted us sort of thing. I still can't tell whether it's tiresome or not because I would need more character background and dialogue. But what's for sure is it's a negative.

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.

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".

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.

Kyonyuu Fantasy is ridiculously popular so it will probably turn into one of their best selling titles. It's a good get for them. The Fata Morgana fandisc was nice but they already announced that. I wish they had literally any other new title announcements.

Checkmate Mangagamer. Fucking check-fucking-mate. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT!

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!

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.

No idea why, but I'll always recommend Tenkiame.

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?

There's nothing more local than this. Rosa di Parma (Parma's rose): Tortelli d'erbetta :( Erbetta, or perpetual spinach in english, is a peculiar variety of swiss chard with large leaves) Anolini in Brodo (Anolini in overcooked beef broth): Caval pist (crushed horse) :

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!)

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

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.