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For VN of the Month, I would say that I chose Usonatsu in that it has nice art with the developer already proven themselves to make it ever since they worked on Sound of Drop (And Fatal Twelve). Other than it's nice art, honestly I don't know much about it except that the female MC may ended up with one girl with the other girls may form the second couple. Would like more GL VN with more than one heroine like Hakuai or Aoishiro, but it's nice that we got more GL VN after the boom was died down past 2016. About Harem x Shangri-La, well nice big boobs I suppose. I did wonder if the VN can be like Wagahigh in that turned out it has nice character routes, although looks like it's impossible to hope so seeing that the boob design for the heroines make Wagahigh boobs looks very small lol. In any case, apparently the ending has two types of harem ending, although then again HaremKingdom with reasonable boob size has five types of harem ending. At least the art is good if you can get past on how the boobs were drawn in exaggerating manner. That's all for what I can write in regard of August 2023 releases.

Accel World is more or less like SAO, except the MC is being fat instead of slim. Lupin Fujiko Mine seems to deconstruct the Fujiko Mine character who often has work together with Lupin only to betray him, although in the end the deconstruction didn't last. For Saint Seiya Omega, Toei decided to hire HCPC artist which in turn make the characters resembled HCPC. AKB0048 is what would happen if the Macross creator decided to make an anime about AKB48, which of course he add space rebellion plot (At least the creator already have enough experience to combine idol and space war in previous Macross series). Medaka Box is like what happen if someone who has capability like Momoyo tried to find her purpose through helping anyone else. Lastly, Nyaruko-san is about the girl version of Nyarlathotep that usually depicted as the villains in any other works. Well, that's all for what I can comment in regard of Spring 2012 anime here.

Bodacious Space Pirate - One of the favorite anime of my favorite GL reviewer, and if you ask me why pirate I guess pirate is sounds far more cool than privateer (The term for legal pirate). It help though that One Piece is about a pirate with the manga is still ongoing until today which should says a lot about it's popularity, and obviously it's also ongoing back in 2012. Nisemonogatari - Compared to Bodacious Space Pirate, my favorite GL reviewer did dislike it with a passion. Personally speaking I never get around to watch Monogatari because it seems to be quite cliche with harem set up despite the interesting premise, so naturally I less care about Nisemonogatari here High School DxD - Very usual harem comedy set up, although it talked a lot on some place thanks to the high number of fanservice contents. Symphogear - Initially the director just want to have the character song played whenever there's a battle, although the VAs mistakenly thought that they should sang when the character song played in the battle, and thus the director decided to ran with it thus making Symphogear quintology being famous for that. Anyway compared to the other series, the first Symphogear has humble beginning, although having one character dead while protecting a civilian with said civilian and the dead character partner being traumatized is not what we call it humble beginning. In any case, it's often mentioned as on how magical girl should be when it come to the fighting, especially in regard of more passionate Precure fans. SmPC - Continuing the effect of the earthquake, Toei decided to make SmPC as light as possible with the episodes being episodic with the countdown of the main villain revival, and it shown in the art in which Kawamura's art is lighter than her work in YPC5 duology (Obviously it make the fans think that SmPC copied YPC5 characters). That said, just because it lighter it didn't mean that the staffs can do more, seeing that they make one of the cadre being the most infamous villain in Precure franchise along with putting much effort on animating the duel between the aforementioned cadre with one of SmPC (Said duel is regarded as one of the best fighting in whole Precure franchise, at least to some of the fans). That's all for what I can write in regard of Winter 2012 anime here.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and I see that you've been developing VNs for 10 years. No much to say other than good luck to your current project (And find the replacement artist), and I hope you'll have fun in here.

Visual Novel Translation Status (27/08/2023) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and since we have Shukusei no Girlfriend announced with magical girl in the VN along with Samurai Vandalism release, I decided to just change 'Samurai' into 'Magical Girl' in the latter so we have 'Magical Girl Vandalism' as the title. As for this week, while we have many new announcement, I can say that in the end those new announcements are kind of plain. We also have the releases, although compared to the last week I did find those are less interesting. Overall, I suppose this week is a below average one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. Cherry Kiss has sudden release back on 25th, and said release is unsurprisingly another nukige called License to Breed with the premise is the MC who is from the branch family of a prestigious family come back to his hometown with his late grandfather gave the authority to the MC to breed in his hometown, which the MC will make full use of the authority to have sex with any female for the sake of increasing the birth number. Speaking of nukige, Shiravune announced Tenioha feat. Mami in that the MC will have a lot of sex with Mami who is the big sister from one of the heroine in the previous work. What I can comment is that I remember Tenioha is a nukige that has the translator removed one of the route, which is quite understandable because it's trap route with the MC will do BL sex with said trap. No exact release date from Shiravune, but they announce that they'll release it in between October to December later. Frontwing released Aikagi After Days, and with August is almost ended I suppose we may as well think that Sharin release is impossible to do with the remaining days. In Aikagi After Days, what I can see is that the MC will spent more days with his girlfriend in summer, and they'll have a lot of sweet time. Not quite interesting to me, and I hope sometimes Frontwing can release bigger title from the developer, like Amakano. Still, have fun if you're interested with it and been wanting to play it. We have another new title from Shiravune, and said title is the aforementioned Shukusei no Girlfriend with the MC have the chance to be a couple with the popular girl in his class who turned out to be the magical girl after she save the MC. For the release estimation, it's the same as Tenioha. Kagura Game released Samurai Vandalism, and from what I see it's usual RPG Maker game with the developer do their best to refine the production value, so at least it might be good gameplay VN on it's own. Shinzou Translations released Memolily, and it's about a story where Yuta met with a nameless girl that he'll call Lily with Lily open her heart to Yuta. I can only say that it's quite underrated VN, and feel free to get it if you're interested. For the rest of fan translation updates, we have Tsuma Netori is at 70% translated, H2O is almost finished with QC work with the current progress is at 92.8% in QC, ChuSingura is at 30.76% translated, Akagoei FD is at 96.55% edited along with 57.47% in QA, Akagei 3 is at 47.6% translated, Fate/Extra CCC editing work was past halfway (1343 out of 2499 main scripts) done, and Yosuga no Sora is at 73% TLC-ed along with 60% edited. Lastly, we have Tsui no Sora Remake was past halfway (51%) translated along with 47% edited. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

Hunter X Hunter - Most recent adaptation with the later arc getting animated, with the most well known is Chimera Ant arc. Madhouse did their best to end the anime on the almost conclusive note seeing that the author still doing his best to working on this, although seeing the number of hiatus that he took maybe it would be smart for him to just ended it at the same time 2011 anime was ended, especially with now the series in Archived section of Shonen Jump (Read: Practically cancelled). Mirai Nikki - The MC Yukiteru got the prize to compete in a twisted game where each participants must do their best to kill each other, and so he does his best to survive using his phone that can predict the future. That said, the one that people knew about this anime would be Yuno Gasai who is quite infamous for her action as yandere who will do anything for the sake of Yukiteru. Chihayafuru - No much to say other than it's shoujo anime about karuta game, which to say is quite like a sport seeing each participant need coordinated sight and reflex to get the card right (Well I learnt about it from DDPC in that it has an episode about karuta). Mashiro Iro Symphony - The artist who work in the anime adaptation is Kawamura, who is quite known for making beautiful drawing in her Precure series. I admit that I said Tsubasu art is quite beautiful because of Kawamura drawing in Mashiro Iro Symphony, and thus Tsubasu prove that her drawing in her VN is indeed nice. For the story, well I guess it's more or less like usual charage. Anyway while I say that it's usual charage, I still hope that someday we get Mashiro Iro VN in English. Fate/Zero - Well MAL already praise this enough back in 2011, so I think it's okay to have one or two critic. Anyway Nasu did leave the creation of the original material in the hand of Urobochi, because this is the prequel and therefore it's inevitable that the ending was already spoiled anyway. Of course Ufotable realize that, and thus they decided to go all out polishing the technical side (Graphic, animation, and soundtrack). That side even with very predictable ending, Urobochi can still write some nice casts, namely Rider and his master Waver along with villainous Caster and his equally bad master Uryuu (Also quite ironic that the villainous Caster and Uryuu has the best bond in Fate Zero). Persona 4 - Atlus obviously realize that Persona 4 is very popular (It help that they allow the player to directly control the other party member after their failed experiment of fully AI controlled party members in Persona 3), and seeing that they need money of course the most logical thing to do is make an anime of the game. For the anime itself, I guess I can say it's more or less quite faithful. Majikoi - I saw my university classmate watch this in a class, and it depict the big war in 1st episode that I learnt later is Momoyo's route climax. Anyway unlike Persona 4, the anime staffs here decided to adapt this liberally by mixing the events from several routes and make the original villains for the anime. That's all for what I can write in regard of Winter 2011 anime here.

Late to the party here. Anyway as for the recommendation I guess it can be something like Shibuya Scramble (Small romance content though), Tokyo Babel (No multiple MC), Tokyo Necro, or maybe 11eyes. I don't know if you're already read those or not, but regardless of it I hope my recommendations can be helpful to you.

For Clover Day's translation, I should say that you should try to find the mistranslations by yourself anyway, seeing that the mistranslations may not be noticeable if you didn't fluent in Japan nor you'll be understand why it's the mistranslation in the first place. Regardless, have fun playing Clover Day's if you decided to do so.

Since I miss the chance to comment Spring 2023 anime, I may as well do that here. Steins Gate - Obviously very successful adaptation compared to Chaos Head, and it help that there's 24 episodes allotted on top that the VN has ladder structure in the first place (It mean the anime staffs can just adapt all the way to the true ending). With MAGES find out their anime adaptation being successful, of course they did the logical stuff by milking it to the death, including to remake the VN with anime graphic which to say is very unnecessary and forcing Daru as the MC in Robotic Notes Dash. Unfortunately though, MAGE still risk themselves in near bankruptcy along with the series creator Chiyomaru did step down from his position, so I guess the milking of Steins Gate is not quite enough to save the company. Anohana - It's the story about a group of friend who understandably can't move after one of their friend was dead, and the development is that they try to move on from the tragedy. Oh yes, the dead friend is counted as the main cast instead of Posthumous Character because said friend is appear as the ghost. Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal - Another new Yu-Gi-Oh series with the less mature MC compared to Yusei (Thus more lighthearted compared to 5D), and this time Konami bring another Extra deck monster type called XYZ which obviously change the metagame back when it was introduced (Especially with the infamous Tour Guide from the Underworld before the new ruling). Anyway, Yuma here has quite a reputation for being easily defeated, although perhaps it's more like he suffer more on screen lose compared to previous MC. Then again, Yuma has spirit guide in form of Astral is certainly not helping his case, especially if we compared it to Yugi. Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream - Tatsunoko decided to make a franchise based on idol with them basically making a magical girl show (Without transformation scene) that has singing while do ice skating, and if I may say something is that the mascot is quite unnecessary for a series (Besides to increase the number of the item to sell in real life) that tried to sell the show in non-magical setting. I also should mention that the story is typical idol stuff, and the writer definitely realize it so the writer decided to pull some soap opera element in the series. Also I like the song in here, although the insert song in Rainbow Life (3rd series) are far more improved. Idolmaster - Compared to Aurora Dream, I would say that I didn't mind the drama in here lol. Also in here while we have the girls who want to become the idol, the MC is the producer who will do his best to make the idol under his watch being successful, including helping the girl whenever said girl has some problem. By the way this is one of successful idol project from Bandai, with another one are Aikatsu and Love Live. Usagi Drop - Obviously the anime has a lot of feeling good element, especially with the 30 years old MC tried his best to become the daughter of his grandfather illegitimate six years old daughter that has been rejected by his family. It should be mentioned that the manga ending is quite infamous even in Japanese, and I'll leave it at that (Feel free to search more of it if you're curious though). That's all for what I can write in regard of Spring and Summer 2011 anime here.

I should mention that interesting to note that two magical girl series (Madka and SPC) has been affected by big disaster at that time in Japan (Tohoku earthquake), although SPC got it the worst. Anyway for the anime, well Infinity Stratos is usual harem with male MC, Kore ka Zombie desu ka has some unique if not crazy setting with the illustrators are Yuzusoft artists (I just learnt about it today), and Beelzebub is usual shonen stuff with Oga who at first is quite hesitant to do so before finally getting serious about it. Madoka - Obviously this is the first that start the trend that magical girl should have some bleakness, especially with the cute art that the artist use in Hidamari Sketch. Of course, anyone who know the writer (Urobochi Gen) should expect him to bring some dark element in the show, and he keep manage to prove his capabilities in episode 3 with the bleakness keep going on and on, although he did manage to bring the happiest ending in his work (At east compared to either Saya no Uta or Kikokugai). Obviously the formula bring success, so much that it become the big franchise with the movie sequel and the spin-off Magia Record. Back in 2011, the last two episodes broadcast need to be delayed for a while because of the aforementioned earthquake, although thankfully the series writing is already over by then. SPC - Initially the staffs has a plan to make the ending being more darker than already dark HCPC finale, although the earthquake obviously change the plan. To make it worse, the staffs already write about one third of the initial episodes (Would be around 16 episodes) before the incident, obviously causing the staffs need to change the writing as much as possible to adapt with the situation. That said, even with the situation and unavoidable circumstances, obviously most people didn't like the change nicely, especially when it near the finale the staffs need the heroines to do some unnatural action to advance the story. All in all, I guess SPC is still a nice series with good drawing and nice opening, although don't expect much good story in it. Oh yes, Toei decided to try musical motif in this series, although whether it does the job or not is up to each of their own. That's all for what I can write in regard of Winter 2011 anime.

Visual Novel Translation Status (20/08/2023) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and since we have both Clover Day's along with Walkure Romanze were released, I figure that I'll just combine the word from both so we have 'Clover Romanze' as the title. For this week, I should say that this is more interesting compared to the last week even though technically we have less updates, especially with the aforementioned Clover Day's and Walkure Romanze releases. Other than that, we have usual fan translation update along with Shiravune announced their new title. Overall once again this week is an interesting one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. We have Hana Awase exact release date, and said date is October 26th. Although it's only for console version, so no Mangagamer version that is available in PC. For when Mangagamer will release it, I don't really know other than it's announced that PC version will come in the future. Sekai finally have the exact release date for Usonatsu, and it'll be on September 15th later although the announcement is from JP site instead of Sekai themselves (At least we have their backlog reduced yet again). For Shiravune announcement, it's Kuroinu 2 in which it's the sequel of the first Kuroinu with the MC Derek who is said to be the second coming of the legendary Vult that has done a lot of heroic actions, and by heroic actions I mean raping a lot of women with Derek does his best to make his predecessor proud. Yeah, we'll going to have a lot of rape scenes here, and in case you want to play Kuroinu 2 then you can note that it'll be released in between October to December later. There's one underrated VN called Bloodstained Flowers that has been translated a fan, and the premise is we'll going to have a group of students came into an abandoned mansion with it's previous owner being a scientist that involved in researching a very poisonous flower that will either directly kill the victim or make the victim showing violent tendency, which naturally the group of the students will be the victims of the flower and then the madness ensues. Feel free to get the VN if you're interested with it (Available for free in the official website), and have fun. For the rest of the updates, we have Akagoei FD is at 89.66% edited along with 57.47% in QA, Akagoei 3 is at 44.85% translated, ChuSingura is at 30.45% translated, 1209 out of 2499 main script of Fate Extra CCC are edited, Tsuma Netori is at 65% translated, and H2O is at 77.7% (What a lucky number) in QA. I already know the team who translate Walkure Romanze has target to release Noel's patch on this year, although I never think the exact release date would be on the same day as Clover Day's release (Not that I'm complained or anything). For the premise itself, we have the school with the focus on jousting sport, and for explanation it's like fencing except each participant ride a horse and using lance to score points. We have Takahiro who is an ace in jousting but need to retire because of the accident (Mod Clephas point that it's better reason than Masaya's reason to retire in Aokana), although he didn't entirely abandon the path of jousting with him working as beglieter (ie the assistant) using full knowledge of jousting to assist the heroines in the jousting match. It should be mentioned that while the VN is not as well known as Majikoi, Ricotta still manage to grab some non-eroge VAs (Particularly Shitaya Noriko and Uchiyama Yumi) to act in here. Go get Noel's patch if you've been waiting for it, and have fun. Last but definitely not the least, we finally have Nekonyan released Clover Day's after years of work and tribulations. From what I can gather, at first we have the translation project for this established way back in 2014 by Astro with the most progress is that he manage to release the translation patch that translate up to the prologue. Some times after that, Astro stop his translation work and Ittaku took over the project with him finishing up the translation works, although it didn't mean that it's ready to be released (The reason is because of the legal stuff). Fast forward to 2019, Nekonyan decided to offer their help with Clover Day's and announced it in January 2020, although it's still not over because Steam decided to randomly reject the initial build (Which Hikari Field need to resubmit it) and Alcot also need to work on the Plus version build. Finally after all of it was done, we have it released back in 18th. For the premise, it's about Yuuto who is live together with his (Mostly female) childhood friends with Yuuto himself is from the orphanage in England. From there, he'll have romance with one of his childhood friends. Go get Clover Day's if you've been waiting for it (At most 9 years), and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week. PS - I know that Shiravune announced Shukusei no Star today, although I'll save the talk about it for the next VNTS Review.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and I see that we have another OELVN creator here (Not that it wrong, because more VNs should be good). No much to say here other than I hope you'll have fun in here, and good luck on your project.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, @Inkwis Bart. No much to say here other than good luck on your OELVN project, and that I hope you'll enjoy yourself in here.

Welcome to Fuwanovel and sorry for the belated greeting, @raavikant. No much to say other than I hope you'll have fun in here.

Welcome to Fuwanovel @Tenshi, and sorry for the belated greeting. For the recommendations, honestly speaking it's quite broad, although if I may suggest something in case you didn't read it yet perhaps both Taisho Alice and Bustafellow could be interesting to you (Bonus point for those two VNs are available on PC). Lastly I hope that you'll have fun in here.

Since you just came back to Fuwanovel, I suppose greeting by saying welcome back would be more appropriate, @MikeB. Anyway, feel free to ask for more VN recommendations if you need it and I hope that you'll have fun in here like in the past.

I have no much to say other than at least good that Shiravune did try to expand their market by increasing the option for the buyer to buy their VNs. Also by the way today they just increased their VNs on both Mangagamer and JAST, with the notable one are Marmalade VNs (Here's hoping that someday we may have Shiravune localized Study Steady 2). Also I hope that Shiravune can also increase the store, particularly Denpasoft and GOG.

For the info I didn't miss that big release, because I already wrote it about a month ago.

This time I'll also comment on Summer 2010 here. Highschool of the Dead - Obviously it has zombie and ga service with the MC and his friends tried their best to fight zombie. One thing to note is that the author was already passed away, so there's no way to continuing this (Moreso the late author didn't have the apprentice to continuing the work, unlike Berserk author). Amagami SS - The anime did very faithfully adapt the routes, and by faithfully I mean they really faithfully adapt the VNs without forcefully mashed the routes like what usually anime studio did. Yes, the studio did adapt separated arc for each heroines, so you didn't need to grumbling on how the anime only favor one heroine. We have the English patch for PS2 version, although the patch is kind of rough. Digimon XRoss Wars - Another attempt of Toei making new anime of Digimon, and the story is lighter compared to Tamers or Savers with the main villain is the Digimon themselves, particularly Bagramon who is the ruler of the evil empire that the heroes fight. Oreimo - Apparently people can't accept on how the MC decided to chose his tsundere little sibling over some other heroines with nice personality, which combined on how people conceived tsundere as rude and the general displeasure toward incest (At least to anyone else who didn't play much VN featured it) is the cause of the infamy, although apparently there's more of it. In any case, Oreimo has some talk about otaku media and stuffs regarding eroge with little sister heroine. The World God Only Know - The MC is the avatar both of Sanahtlig and mod Plk_Lesiak. The story is like the handsome MC Keimaru need to use his knowledge in dating sim to date the heroines as he was tasked to do so by the goddess. While at first it has some insider joke about dating sim game, slowly the story is going in shonen direction. Bakuman - I see that it's your favourite anime there, and for the info the other mangaka work is the famous Death Note if you're curious. Anyway Bakuman is definitely not about the handsome boy who use his Death Note to kill the criminal or any editor who keep pressuring manga author, but instead it's the struggle of the duo to make the manga, which may be a bit similar with the mangaka who also the pair. Yosuga no Sora - Like Amagami it tried to faithfully adapt the heroines roues, although with 12 episodes the staff has no choice to adapt the maid route as the Omake with them just adapt four routes. The anime version is somewhat infamous with the staffs decided to be a daring by trying to be as close as the source material by animated the sex scenes, and of course general people who didn't read VN with incest would react in a very predictable manner. Anyway while we still have the patch for the VN is working on, actually the VN is already fully translated in English with some translation in later parts are understandably still rough. That's all for what I can write in regard of Summer and Fall 2010 anime here.

Well I guess you have a point then in case someone want to play Hoshimemo in a very big monitor and want it looks nice, although to me it's not much use anyway seeing that I only have laptop which is more than sufficient to play normal version. For the translation, well I think the fan translated version is already good enough to read Hoshimemo, so I didn't pay much attention on whether HD version translation is the improvement from 2017 translation or not. So yeah, I think that Hoshimemo HD release is redundant, although if you want to say otherwise then so be it.

Visual Novel Translation Status (13/08/2023) Since we have Sakura Bunny Girls released around three weeks ago (Sadly Winged Cloud didn't do female MC anymore) and we have Jewel Bem Hunter Lime released few days ago, I figure to combine both title so we have 'Sakura Jewel Hunter' as the title. For this week, let's just say that it's a breather before Clover Day's releases. On the other hand though, there are several smaller releases along with usual updates, so all in all this week is a below average one. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Some fans decided to start Aonatsu Line for Switch version with the plan to release the demo on last August. While this is the good news seeing that Alka seems to be not working on this anymore (No more update beside announced that they work on it), unfortunately I'm not the fan on how the translator decide to just work on Switch version even though it's because they're not exactly have much choice in the first place (The programmer can only do work on Switch engine). In the end, I guess I have no much say other than good luck to the team. By the way, just in case someone want to know the most recent of Tsui no Sora Remake translation progress, currently we have it at 41% translated along with 35% edited. We have two fan translated VNs released at this week, with one of those is Jewel Bem Hunter Lime in which it's PC98 VN with the release compiled all of 12 chapters. From what I see, it's quite like 12 episodes anime to a degree with each chapter dealing with on the titular Lime with her sidekick Bass came into Earth in order to chase the demon who stole the six jewels from her homeland, and apparently the series was influenced by 80's magical girl show so we'll going to have Lime transform for each of the necessary job of the week (At least looking from the review of the anime adaptation of it). For the second release, we have Planetarian Snow Globe with the premise is we'll going to see the moment before the catastrophe that happen in Planetarian, and it's the adaptation of one of Planetarian short stories. Go get the patch if you want to see more Planetarian even though it's quite short, and have fun. For the remaining fan translation updates, we have Tsuma Netori is at 60% translated, ChuSingura is at 30.31% translated, 1133 out of 2499 main scripts of Fate/Extra CCC are edited, H2O is at 63.5% in QA, Akagoei FD is past halfway (50.57%) in QA, and Akagoei 3 is at 41.05% translated. That's all for the remaining fan translation updates. Sekai has several announcements, with one of those is in regard of Karakara 3 with it's build is 70% complete and the CG work is in progress, and that they have the plan to release it in 2024. Another update is in regard of Usonatsu, with them already opened the Steam store of it and they targeting this year release. We also have Obedient Women released it's last route, and with this now we have all available routes in English thus making Obedient Women fully translated, although the developer may have another story available later. We have Aksys announced the exact release date for Shuuen no Virche, and it'll be on November 9th later. From JAST, we have Yomegami is fully translated. We also have Hikari Field announced they'll release Koichoco in this year, and turned out that it'll be included English translation so at least there won't be Chinese only release first for Koichoco, which would be too bad if Nekonyan do that even with redundant release. Frontwing announce two new VN, with the first one is Ginka in which they already had it for a while, although they just opened the Steam store for it. For the premise, it's about the MC who lost his female childhood friend (The titular Ginka) with him decided to go to another town to move on, and when the MC come back to his hometown to make sure if Ginka is really gone suddenly he saw her again with Ginka herself is not changed from five years ago. It bears a mention that ATRI staffs (Particularly the writer) working on this, so you may see some resemblance with it. The second project is Everlasting Flowers in that it's sprite work with same artist as Aokana, and from the art apparently it's GL VN. Interestingly, this time they decided to ask Frontwing instead of Nekonyan to localize it. Anyway, no much info other than the Japanese version of it will be released on 2024. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

Decided to replay Venus Blood Frontier now that we have Gaia released and decided to try to get the best rank as much as possible, and let's just say that turned out it's far more difficult compared to when I just skipped several turn in order to gather the resource considering that it's severely lacking in the beginning. It didn't help that the enemies deploy much more troops compared to Gaia and Hollow, and not to mention several invasion that will ate the turn (You can just choke the invasion in Gaia and Hollow). That said, I finally understand why people said it's quite hard, because I can't see why people said so when I play through Frontier the first time, although then again getting S Rank in Frontier first playthrough is amounted to Self-Imposed Challenge.

I did play Chrono Cross around 13 years ago, and now I look at it I can say that the graphic is quite good and so does the music. However, the one that people criticize is definitely the gameplay and the story to a degree. Story-wise, well if I may say perhaps it would be wise if they didn't try to connect it with Chrono Trigger because it can stand on it's own, although of course with the team already made Radical Dreamer that was advertised as further attempt of milking the sequel of Chrono Trigger, they have no choice but to make it as the sequel. Gameplay-wise, well I should say that Venus Blood and Eushully VNs are more capable of utilizing 45 characters roster that the artist drew out of control, which to say is really a waste considering that you can only take two out of around 40 characters with the MC basically glued as the main party with the party limit is at three characters. In fact, I would like to say that the staffs probably have a lot of debate when they discuss on how they should go with the gameplay, and they just released it as it is when the deadline is already getting close. It didn't help that basically the characters are very customized with Element system can just make them the clone of each other. That said, at least the battle itself has potential to be interesting, which only to finally find it's form on Shadow Hearts 2 out of all series (I may miss some other JRPG that has the characters assigned to the elements though). All in all, when it come to Chrono Cross, well at least it's still worth playing to a degree, as long as you didn't mind on how the game fail to utilize all 45 playable characters.

Visual Novel Translation Status (06/08/2023) Because we have White Album release, I'd make a parody of Wild Arms remake (Wild Arms Alter Code: F) by changing 'Wild Arms' into 'White Album' simply because both series have same initial (WA). Anyway welcome to this week VNTS Review, and as for this week I guess I'll just say that this is quite an average one with Shiravune has some updates to note. Another thing to note is Kagi o Kakushita Kago no Tori (Shortened as Kagitori) release, which to say has some things to talk about. Lastly we obviously still has regular updates from fan translation, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. The publisher decided to released Kagitori suddenly back in last Friday, and as expected they didn't have the sex scenes translated. Apparently the publisher is still new and Japanese native who didn't understand English, causing some questionable translation choice. From what I see in Steam discussion, it seems publisher also quite clueless when it come to release 18+ patch outside Steam, because they got the info that Valve immediately ban the company for doing so, which seems to be farfetched even with Steam randomly ban several VNs. In any case, it's too bad that it seems Cabbit didn't have enough money to go to proper VN publisher to localize their VN, so their works are always ended up localized by shady publisher. Oh yes, for the premise it's about the MC who decided to try prove the innocence of the cute girl that was accused of murder, and so the MC decided to live together with the suspect. Feel free to try Kagitori if you can get past the translation problem and 18+ contents removal. This week we see yet another ChuSingura update, with the current progress is reached 30% mark (30.14%) translated. Other than that, we also have Tsuma Netori is at 55% translated, H2O is past halfway (50.4%) in QC, 1083 out of 2499 main scripts of Fate/Extra CCC are edited, Akagoei FD is past 80% mark (85.06%) edited along with past 40% mark (40.23%) in QC, and Akagoei 3 is past 40% mark (40.07%) translated. That's all for this week fan translation updates. For some reasons, Aksys decided to delay Norn9 FD release for a week, from initially will be released on 24th to the new release date on 31st later. Speaking of announcing exact release date, we also have both Frontwing and JAST announced it, with Frontwing will release Aikagi After Days on 25th later and JAST will release Gears of Dragoon 2 on September 28th. Sekai finally manage to release Hoshimemo FD, and well I have no much to say other than it's redundant release unless you prefer new HD graphic, although at least Sekai's backlog is decreasing. Speaking of redundant, Shiravune announced they'll release Taimanin Asagi on Q4 of this year (Between October to December), and they already set the Steam store for it, which really telling on how clueless Kagitori publisher is seeing that Asagi has a number of sex scene. Oh yes, we already have this translated for several years, although Shiravune version may have better translation. Last but not the least, we have White Album release, which should be mentioned that it's not really the prequel of well received White Album 2 even though it was set in the same setting. For the premise, in here we have the MC Touya who is already university student and has his girlfriend Yuki being an idol that currently starting to become very popular. However there's a problem with it, namely Yuki being popular put some strain in her and Touya relationship. As the result, Touya can ended up with the other heroines beside Yuki. While it sounds like it could lead to drama like in WA2, in the end it's not much seeing that WA is part dating sim. Also this is actually the backport for PS3 remake, so don't expect the sex scenes in here (The one that had sex scenes is 1998 version), although it has new heroine route to make up the loss anyway. Go get White Album if you're interested with it (Just don't expect WA2 drama), and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

Admittedly July here has more interesting releases compared to last month, although it only amounted to three VNs. As for VN of the Month for July 2023, I think the most fitting one here would be the newest ensemble VN being currently the highest rated VN on both VNDB and Erogamescape. Yes, I know that it's the VN with trap MC which as we know is what ensemble best known for, and they manage to have the trap MC wore sexy training outfit like shown in the CG lol. For the newest Hulotte VN, well it has interesting premise and would be nice to see it translated, although we don't know on who will be up for the task (Could be either Shiravune or Nekonyan now that we have the latter successfully released Klutzy Cupid (Previous Hulotte VN)). That's all for what I can write in regard of July 2023 releases.