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In the end MTL is just a tool, which mean it's up to us on how to use the tool to make legitimate translation. Of course though, considering what we have in the past it's very hard to erase the stigma of MTL, especially with on how bad they were in the past, and it would be still hard sell to use MTL anyway even if the translator did their best to edit the line. That said, at least you can still use MTL as some sort of dictionary at the absolute minimum (And even then it's debatable), as shown in My Girlfriend is Blue-Collar Work (Which has very lengthy title describing four phases of the story). Oh yes, it's interesting on how some tried to defend MTL because 'it got point across better compared to the localization', which make sense seeing the people who mention it are read the VN in Japan with them most likely use MTL to read the untranslated VN in the beginning. For localization, well some did have their fault for sure, especially with a Shiravune translator did translate 'Onii-chan' as 'Bubby' in Kamiyaba simply because he was probably homesick at that time and remember on how their family calling their older brother as such. There's also Chrono Clock and Nukitashi, which is not concidence both are worked out by the same editor (Who already quit from the VN translation scene). I never care about anime controversy seeing I using sub anyway and even then I could try to less care about the political stuff in the sub, although Saban cases is quite special seeing they manage to make DDPC is more controversial then already is (It's related to the story and character). For elaboration, Saban removed several episodes, which won't work in DDPC seeing each episodes has some continuity hints towards the main story. PS - By the way my stance is I still prefer to not use MTL, although it's not like I can calling out anyone who do it anyway seeing I also involved in making MTL patch of Amayui.

When it come to minigame, most of the time I can't play it well if it was suddenly shoved with it. I say this because I suddenly remember the card game in Everlasting Summer that was suddenly popped up when I read it, and I was annoyed with it so much that I'm a bit happy with the one who suggest it got his misfortune (Granted turned out it's quite easy, but at the first playthrough I just skipped through the rule so it's kind of my fault in the end). For Little Busters baseball gameplay, actually there's story reason for this but it would be quite a spoiler to talk. Oh yes, if you want the example of the VN with minigame, there's also Rose Guns Days with the gameplay is you need to click the bubble whenever there's a fight to represent whenever the MC strike the enemies or defend against the attack. Beat Blade Haruka and Aoishiro also has one with the former is very notable seeing Haruka is gameplay VN, although it only available in the Extra so it won't distract you in the main game. That's all for what I can comment in regard of this topic.

Visual Novel Translation Status (21/04/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and because we'll going to have both of Amazing Grace and Aoi Tori released in few days, I decided to make the parody of Detective Conan 12th movie again, Full Score of Fear, because the movie has Amazing Grace song with I change 'Full Score' into 'Curtain Call' from Aoi Tori insert song (Futaridake no Curtain Call), so we have 'Curtain Call of Fear' as the title. For this week, all in all it's above average one. The reason is definitely not because the number of the new announcements or Kara no Shoujo 2 release by Shiravune (Which is redundant to me), but because we finally have the exact release date for both of the aforementioned Amazing Grace and Aoi Tori. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Cherry Kiss released Hentai Homewrecker, and feel free to try the VN if you're into NTR. For this week announcements, first of all we have Kagura Games work together with Alicesoft to localize the remake of Yoru ga Kuru, which Alicesoft presumably release based on Persona 3 Reload release (I mention it because of the similar plot). Idea Factory announced Switch only otome game 9 R.I.P., and it's about the ordinary high school girl who was suddenly thrown into supernatural happening with she need to chose her boyfriend from several handsome ghosts who become her acquaintance. Dramatic Create announce they'll localize Tokyo Meiji Renka, and unlike Idea Factory they announce the PC version as well. From what I see, it's about the female MC who time traveled into Meiji era and then awaken her superpower. By the way, all of those three VNs are slated to be released within this year (2024). We also have Kemco announced their denpa VN Horrific Xanatorium will be available on 26th later, and it's about the MC who live in a world where the virus that cause hallucination became the pandemic which naturally made the MC doubt about the reality. Shiravune released Kara no Shoujo 2, and once again I can only say it's the redundant release even though it's interesting to see they manage to sell it on Steam, especially with they reject it back when Mangagamer published it. That said, it has trial bundled into the main game with the trial is more like the prologue along with the new translation courtesy GundamAce of Lemnisca. JAST has a bit of progress, namely they've been fully translated Djibril with it currently is in editing work, finished the 1st QA pass for Hell Academy, and struggling with bugs in Tokyo Hero Project. For fan translation, we have Akagoei 3 is at 58.06% edited, Taima Seiko Alice is at 20% proofreading, Ushieta is at 54.5% translated with Nagisa's route is at 46.5% translated, and ChuSingura is at 42.68% translated. Unfortunately Valve reviewer decided to reject Aoi Tori build that Nekonyan submit, so they have no choice except delay the release for Steam version of Aoi Tori. That said, at least this time the reviewer just rejected the build instead of banned the game like Tenshi Reboot, so we may see Aoi Tori Steam version sometimes in the future. Also just because the build rejected didn't mean Nekonyan delay the release of Aoi Tori, especially since they already in tight deadline imposed by Purple Software, so yeah they already have the exact release date for Aoi Tori. Said date will be on the next week (30th), and you can buy it from either JAST or Denpasoft later. Speaking of announce the exact release date, Shiravune decided to follow suit with they surprisingly announce the same for Amazing Grace, with the release time will be in Friday (26th) later, so feel free to note the date if you've been waiting for it, especially if you've been waiting since they announced it in last 2023. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week and see you next week.

Now that it's been almost a year since the implementation, I think at least it's somehow manage to worked to a degree. Although, it also help the initial sorting is also based on the number of votes which is the closest one to the old Bayesian system. That said, while it's still uncanny with some unfitting title enter top 100, at least the staffs tried to curb the situation by placing the threshold at 100 votes for the top 50 list and weighted the score for the title less than 100 votes. PS - I would say that the threshold should be higher to filter more thoroughly, as in between 150 to 200 votes, but it's good enough for now.

As for database that contain text dumps for VNs, unfortunately I don't know any. The closest one that has it is TL Wiki in form of script, and even then it's for the select number of the VNs that their group translated.

For the topic, well I tried Irotoridori no Sekai (Which Nekonyan just release it) and Venus Blood Dark Chronicle. Weird combination I know.

Visual Novel Translation Status (14/04/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and because we have Corpse Party 2 along with Cherry Kiss nukige (Hentai Homewrecker) announced I decided to combine both so we have 'Homewrecker Party' for the title. As for this week, initially it's just another below average one, although turned out this week we have some very notable updates in regard of the release plan so overall this week is an average one to a degree. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Once again Cherry Kiss announced their new nukige, Hentai Homewrecker, with the MC was roped into have NTR by the willing housewife. No much comment that I can mention other than it'll be released in two days (19th) later. We also have Team Gris Gris was turned out still active with them silently develop the real Corpse Party 2 (Not the fanfic game one), and the VN will be available sometimes in Autumn 2024 (Between October to December) later. Oh yes, it's also will be availble on PC, so you don't need to buy the console just to play this later. For the premise, it's like the first Corpse Party with the casts dragged into the otherworld with them must do their best to escape from the vengeful ghost, except this time all of the main casts are all female (We may have male side casts reveal later though) and the casts dragged into the otherworld from the abandoned hospital instead of the abandoned school. This week we have both Sekai and Shiravune announced the nukige with summer theme. Sekai revealed that they've been working on Kurikuri Click with the MC was does his best at his job as oil masseuse with his task job is to rub the oil into the customer's body, which eventually lead to the sex scenes when the MC at one instance was going overboard when he got sexy woman customers. Anyway, it'll be available on May 3rd later. Shiravune also revealed they've been working on Nyonin Island with the MC was hired as the island manager, and then it's revealed the MC got nice job because turned out the island has no male before the MC came to the island, so normally the female turned to the MC to have sex. For the release time, Shiravune only list that it'll be on this year. Speaking of release time, Shiravune announce the exact release date for both Mashiro Iro with said date is May 2nd, so keep the date in mind if you've been waiting for Mashiro Iro in English for some times. From fan translation, we have Taima Seiko Alice is at 35% edited along with 10% proofreading, ChuSingura is at 42.22% translated, Akagoei 3 is at 56.28% edited, and Ushieta is past halfway (50.8%) translated with Nagisa's route is at 28.4% translated. Other than regular updates, we also have Sampaguita release, and from what I understand its the third game of Yarudora series with the MC encounter the amnesiac girl Maria who is from Philippine and carrying a gun, which tipped the MC that Maria is involving in something dangerous. Note that the patch is for PSP version, so you need PSP emulator to play it. We also have Loverable translator announce they'll release it in August later after working on it for eight years, although for now it's still up in the air. Last but not the least, we have Daybreak announce the exact release date for Yuzuki's patch release, and it'll be in 26th later so let's see if Daybreak can finally release the last patch for Ginharu at that date. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

Honestly looking from how Alcot was suddenly stop making yearly releases after Shogun-sama fandisc, it's quite predictable they'll retire (Although I still feel bad about it for the obvious reason). Also from what I see somewhere, apparently the writer want to retire as well, so he decided to make Clover Memory's as his last project before retiring. Anyway, the link to it's Campfire in case you want to check the crowdfund, and the goal is to gather 36 million yen within May 31st later.

The thing is VNDB only list the tag 'Tickle Torture' as sexual activity, and in case you want the one outside sex scenes it's kind of hard to recall it. So my apologies that I can't help you much in regard of non-sexual tickle scene in the VNs.

Watch Gushing Over Magical Girl in Winter 2024, and let's just say it end at the perfect moment before the plot getting more intricate (Also yes it has some interesting plot despite the series is just the female MC became the villain cadre who out to sexually torture the magical girl as the way to express her love). Other than that, I also watch Onimai which ultimately is usual CGDCT despite the unusual premise that made me drop the manga for years and skip the anime until now (Also it's good to have Studio Bind working on Onimai anime with the manga translator was initially expected Doga Kobo will worked on it).

Yeah, JAST really is about to release the nukige in June later. That said, obviously it's not my interest here, especially with there are some other interesting non-nukige VNs from the olden time, although at least the art is still looking good even after more than 10 years since its initial release. Still, have fun if you've been looking forward to it.

Well I only remember one of the VN has that scene, and said VN is Venus Blood Frontier with one of the optional sex scenes has the girl tickled by the tentacle. Other than that, euphoria (Has many other disturbing sex scenes though) and Nukitashi has one. I hope my recommendations will be helpful to you in case you didn't play those VNs yet.

Well if you just want sly heroine, then Kaname from Sugar Style, Kasumi from IxShe Tell, and Mai from Secret Agent. There are more that I can think of, although some of the other examples are big spoiler. Lastly, while I don't know if you're already read those VNs or not, I hope that my recommendations here can be helpful to you.

Bump the thread for obvious reason, namely it got exact release date and it'll be on May 2nd later. Also it'll be simultaneous release with Sana Edition, which to say is quite bothersome compared to just release it as one game considering Sana Edition is also has the common route. Anyway, feel free to note the date if you're been waiting for this.

Well Hoshiori may be fit, although it only has two months though, so if you prefer longer one then perhaps you can try Ginharu with the relationship start from middle school all the way up to 20's. I know that both examples have childhood friend heroines, but at least it didn't have the casts plan a family after three weeks. Oh yes, you can also try Summer Pocket with none of the heroines are childhood friend, although it didn't as lengthy as two earlier examples though. Lastly I don't know if you're already played those VNs or not, but I hope my recommendations here will be helpful to you.

Well looks like we'll going to have it finished in this April, because the translator announced the exact release date for Yuzuki's patch (On 26th later), so let's see if that date is indeed the real one. For the progress, all of the work for Yuzuki's patch is pretty much already done save for some very minor work, or in the translator's word 'to upload literally like what… 2 images to it(?)'. That's all for (Possibly) the last update before Yuzuki's patch release.

Visual Novel Translation Status (07/04/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review. For the title, because we have Tengoku Struggle with the female MC being the step daughter of King Enma tasked to return the prisoners from Hell, I decided to make the parody of the old anime Yu Yu Hakusho with it has the son of King Enma as one of the major character by changing 'Ghost' in its direct translated title (Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files) into 'Prisoners', so we have 'Yu Yu Hakusho: Prisoner Files' as the title. As for this week, we have several releases which to be frank not really interesting to me. Another thing to note is that finally Ninetail announce their timeline for Ragnarok Kickstarter, and ironically it's the most interesting news in this week. Overall, this week is another below average week and let's see what I can write in regard of it. Aksys did release Tengoku Struggle, and for the premise we have female MC Rin who is the step daughter of King Enma tasked to return all of the escaped prisoners that suppose to face their punishment. In order to have good chance to successfully capture the prisoners, Rin enlist the help from Goemon and several others handsome prisoners to do her job, and obviously we'll going to see the romance blossom between Rin and one of her helper. Go get Tengoku Struggle if you have Switch and want to play it, and have fun. Dramatic Create announce they'll localize Nie no Machi along with it's fandisc, and from what I see Nie no Machi is BL VN with the MC is stranded in the world of between the living and the death. For the release time, the main game will be released in this year and the fandisc will be released in 2025. Also there'll be PC version as well, so you didn't need to buy Switch if you want to play this. Shiravune released Holy Slave Academy, and well no much to say other than it's old nukige with the MC was the teacher who tasked to mold his student into the sex slave by using any means. Speaking of nukige, Cherry Kiss also suddenly released their nukige back in April 1st, and it's about the MC who has his own bunny suddenly transform into the girl which of course will have a lot of sex with the MC. Ninetail announce the time for their Ragnarok Kickstarter, and they say the KS will start some times in May later. Ninetail also mention some difficulties in regard of their upcoming KS, such as no gameplay demo thanks to the engine issue, the increased shipping price because of the rising cost, and the increased price for one of the pledge. For fan translation, we have Taima Seiko Alice is at 30% edited, Akagoei 3 is at 53.37% edited, ChuSingura is at 41.91% translated, and Ushieta is at 44.9% translated with Airi's route is fully translated. For Ushieta here, obviously this is quite big achievement seeing the old project was stopped at 35% translated, so good job to the translator for finishing Airi's route. Anyway, now that Airi's route is fully translated, the translator planned to working on Nagisa's route next. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week. PS - I know there's some significant update in regard of Ginharu, and I decided to save the talk for next VNTS Review.

Let's see what I can comment in regard of Fall 2018 anime. Reincarnated as Slime - Conveniently we just have the third season premiered few days ago. Obviously it has three season means that the series is very popular, and I can definitely see it (Especially with my brother and sister also watch it). The premise is very simple, namely we have an office worker dead after being stabbed only to find himself reincarnated as the slime who soon named as Rimuru. From there, Rimuru build his territory into the strongest one by consolidating thousands of monster that Rimuru named (Note that the power up process in the setting was done by named the creature). All in all, people watch the series for the escapism and I guess Rimuru's cuteness as well. Goblin Slayer - It's about someone who known as Goblin Slayer dedicated himself to exterminate the goblin which is the weakest monster in usual RPG alongside slime. While the premise is sounds laughable with someone dedicated himself to exterminate weak monster, turned out the writer manage to show on how goblin is no less threatening than dragon or demon lord seeing the goblin in the series can annihilate even experienced adventurers. Also like in Maoyu, the casts here is only called by their job title instead of their name. Anima Yell - Obviously this is CGDCT series from Kirara, although it did show cheerleading as sports which is something that still rarely shown in the manga or anime (Usually they just used as the eye candy for the obvious reasons). The anime is ended up adapting half of the manga, and overall it's conclusive enough. Neighbor Vampire - It's about a girl who came across the shut in vampire who then proceed trying her best to befriend the vampire. Also it's called as Kinmosa Vampire, which make sense judging from the character design alone. Jojo Golden Wind - Araki finally shown his fondness toward Italy by making it as the setting for Jojo Part 5. In here we have Giorno who inherit Joestar blood, although the connection came from the most absurd condition because his blood father is Dio (Joestar's nemesis) who is attached into Jonathan's body (Well bizarre is Jojo's middle name). One day, Giorno saw a gangster who save him crushing anyone else who sell drugs, and so Giorno decided to do his best to stop drugs deal in Italy by joining the mafia group. Of course, his journey is not easy, seeing his rival is more than willing to kill Giorno, and it only getting harder in the latter half with several of Giorno's allies are killed. Girls in Twilight - I only note this for Uchikoshi, and he didn't manage to write on how the group fight the main villain (Twilight King). For the series itself, it's like Irotoridori with the girls visit the parallel word, and each girls will get an arc that ultimately will make them have superpower. Zombie Land Saga - It's like Love Live with the girl save their establishment by forming the idol group, except they need to save the whole city and more importantly the girls themselves is the zombies. Obviously the premise is out there so much even the staffs didn't believe that it could work, but the unique premise manage to make it work anyway with second season available in 2021. That's all for what I can write in regard of Fall 2018 anime.

Looks like you're interesting with clumsy girl thing. In this case then there's some VNs who have those, such as Irotoridori (Tsukasa) and Amatsutsumi (Kyouko). Although if you want the closest one with what you mention, then perhaps going with KEY VN is the best option, with one of those type of heroine is Tsumugi from Summer Pockets. I don't know if you're already played those VNs or not, but regardless I hope my recommendations will be helpful to you.

Well out of all three VNs, obviously the VN of Month for March 2024 goes to Unravel Trigger. For the other two, Macau Midnight Madness could be an interesting GL VN only to have the developer using AI for the art, and Delusional Mystery Adventure developer use MTL to translate their VNs into several language. For Unravel Trigger itself, looks like it has nice plot setting like Ryuusei World Actor albeit with vampire, although it's interesting to note that both the director and the artist are worked together on Sousaku Kanojo even though the developer is one of Nexton's branch company instead of Akabei Soft 2 one (So hopefully we may have Shiravune localize Unravel Trigger in the future seeing now they have the licenses for several VNs from Nexton's branch company (One Remake, Suzukuri Karin, Amanatsu)). That's all for what I can write in regard of March 2024 release.

Congratulation on finishing Airi's route, which to say is quite big step up compared to the past project because I did search my past VNTS Review and then found out the old translator stuck at Airi's route with overall is at 35% translated. Good luck with your work on Nagisa's route.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and no much to say besides that I hope you'll have fun in here. Also feel free to ask for some VN recommendations if you want one.

Visual Novel Translation Status (31/03/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and for the title because we finally have Sekai released ReLord 3 with the sub title '~The demon lord of Groessen and the final witch~', I made the parody with I change 'Groessen' into 'Toyotoki' (From Ihanashi no Majo English title, Tales from Toyotoki) and 'the final witch' into 'the songstress' with songstress part come from one of Venus Blood Hollow fandisc title 'The Dragon Songstress'. Anyway, for this week initially I thought it would be a plain one, but near the end of the month there are several sudden release along with Mangagamer finally do another updates. Overall, this week to me is more or less a below average one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. We have a new publisher called Ramune Games about to release their debut work, LingerieS, with the premise the trap MC was assigned to take care of the lingerie shop that his twin sister take care of while said sister have some other business for the whole two months. From what I see, apparently it's another single heroine VN, and looking from the number of the side heroine we may have more parts available later. In any case, the plan is to release the VN in this year later. Ramune Games itself is the branch company of the developer who usually made nukige, so we may have 18+ patch for this. Speaking of this year release, we finally have Ihanashi no Majo English language support for Steam with the support will be available on Autumn later (The Switch version will be available on this Summer). It's interesting if not funny on how both Ninetail and Sekai decided to do sudden release for both of their VN, and it's good for the latter now that they have one less title to worry about. No much comment on Venus Blood Hollow fandisc other than it'll focused on the dragon sibling (Julia and Liese) who will received a lot of love from Leon's trusted tentacles, and feel free to play if you want more of Hollow (I'm still waiting for Ragnaro's KS). Sekai did suddenly released ReLord 3rd, and with it they finally done with ReLord trilogy. For the premise of ReLord 3, we have the demon lord MC finally almost done to liberate his territory from the witches, although obviously the MC still need to face the hard fight seeing now he need to deal with two enemies at once. Go get ReLord 3 if you've been waiting for the release before playing the trilogy, and have fun. We also have Shiravune announced the exact release date for (Redundant) Taimanin Yukikaze, with said date is 30th later. Once again, this week we have Mangagamer's updates. As for the updates, we have Hana Awase PC port is in progress, Funbag Fantasy 4 is at 80% translated along with 78% edited, Rance 03 is at 73% translated, Rance X is finally reached 90% mark translated, Sex Open World is also passed 90% mark translated (92%) along with 86% edited, and Ixseal is at 84% translated along with 81% edited. Honestly I only care for Ixseal here, but it's good to see that Rance X finally almost finished its translation work with X has a very big amount of text. Lastly for fan translation, we have Akagoei 3 is past halfway (50.05%) edited, Ryouken After is past halfway (55.58%) translated, Taima Seiko Alice is at a quarter edited, and ChuSingura is at 41.53% translated with Chapter 2 is past three quarter (76.43%) translated. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

The leak is already happen, so yeah you can play it immediately if you can't wait for the perfectionist translator to finally finished with his last steps. Also while some did say that it use the old version, from what I understand the leaked patch is still viable enough, so feel free to play with it.

What I can say is the VNs with space are very rare, only has around 417 VNs according to VNDB so of course it has potential to be developed as the setting for the VNs. While in theory space setting is encouraging the future and imagination (Like STPC linking both of space and imagination), in practice most of space VNs (Or rather work) are took some clue from both of Star Wars and Star Trek, which make sense because both are very prominent franchise with space setting. Anyway, for more other example of VNs with space setting, I can only think two, Galaxy Angel trilogy and Lunaria. Galaxy Angel has the story deviate from Star Wars, with the Empire being in the side of good and the rebel prince is set as the villain. It also has RTS gameplay with the MC Tact act as the all girl squad commander with Tact need to do his best to have a good relationship with one of his squad member in order to boost her performance in combat, and it's quite successful so much it as anime adaptation (Which is deviate from the VN very much). For Lunaria, while the setting is in virtual space, it also has moon setting with the MC find the main heroine in the unknown Moon server, so yeah it still has real space setting. That's all for what I can comment in regard of the topic here.