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Eden's Zero - What I know is the author tried to use space as his setting even though he still carried the power of friendship that people know back when he wrote Fairy Tail, which mean obviously he wrote Happy as the call back to Fairy Tail. Currently the manga is already finished, so the author can put his focus back on Fairy Tail 100-years Quest which currently got the anime adaptation courtesy of JC Staffs (Same studio who work on this). Oh yes, while the author usually make the MC name based on Japanese words of the season, this time the author decided to name the MC Shiki which mean 'Four Seasons' instead of just naming him something like 'Aki' (Japanese word for fall) or 'Fuyu' (Japanese word for winter). Odd Taxi - I was bored when I do some browsing in regard of Best Anime in 2021, and several results did list Odd Taxi as one of those. Anyway while it's easy to dismiss the casts as the talking animals like in Zootopia or Bearstar, actually all of the casts are human with the animal appearance is because it's what Odokawa (The MC who also the driver of the titular taxi) percept. Odd Taxi is one of the hidden gem for Spring 2024, with people didn't expect it became popular at the beginning only to be proven wrong with the series gather quite a number of Blu-ray sales and eventually made the movie that address the cliffhanger ending in the TV series. Tokyo Revenger - Another shonen dark series which in like with Jujutsu Kaisen, although unlike Jujutsu Kaisen there's no much use of magic besides time travel. And yes, we have one here in which it was used by the MC Takemichi in order to prevent the death of his girlfriend Hinata. By the way you may mistaken Mikey as the MC, which is understandable because he was promoted more compared to the MC so much I thought he was the MC before I search more of it (Especially with he has cameo in Shikanoko anime). Admittedly Mikey's story is as much as important as Takemichi's quest, although in the end he's not really the one who start the story. Higehiro - Obviously this is one anime that would make people who never watch the anime practicing their moral preaching skill to the level of annoyance in Twitt..., I mean X. That aside, this anime is about the MC Yoshida who just had his confession was rejected by his crush suddenly find the high school girl Sayu outside his apartment, and Yoshida being confused he decided to allow Sayu to live in his house. Some times later, Yoshida realize the people may gossiping around him had someone find out he sheltered Sayu, although after he find out Sayu's extraordinary circumstances in which she ran all the way from Hokkaido to Tokyo alone he decided to allow Sayu live together consequences be damned. I did read the manga some times before the anime announced, and turned out the anime was adapted further compared to the manga. That's all for what I can comment in regard of Spring 2021 anime.

About achievements, well I guess it depend on whether the gamer will try to get all of it or not, and sometimes it better to avoid if the requirement to get the achievements are very cumbersome. Generally speaking I never tried to get all achievements, although I remember I tried to get several achievements back in Star Ocean 3 (It help that collecting some of those mean new outfits and the early achievements are easy to get). For VNs achievements, usually Nekonyan tried to include one in their VNs. Obviously though not every VNs publisher willing to make the achievements, so it's understandable if Shiravune VNs didn't have it. Oh yes, you're quite right in regard of the achievement can spoil the plot to an extend (And usually I tried to pick up the spoiler from Steam achievement), although obviously the developers would be careful to not explicitly spoil the story through the feature.

Visual Novel Translation Status (25/08/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and for the title I'll tell it in the PS below. For this week, at the very least I can say it's more lively compared to the last week. For this week highlight, we have Mangagamer and JAST announce new title, although both of them didn't announce big title like Nekonyan. Other than new title announcements, we have Shiravune became slightly active with them finally announce the release time for Sacrifice Villain along with Daybreak released Majikoi Ryouken After. Overall, initially this week is an average one to me, although we also have one surprise big release two days ago, so I can say this week is an interesting one. Anyway, sorry for being late and let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Aksys released Ihanashi no Majo on Switch, and they also announced the exact release date for PC version (October 22nd). For the premise, it's about the boy Hikaru who move to Okinawa in order to live together with his grandfather, although it's more like he's abandoned by his family because his grandfather was already fled before Hikaru came. In his first night on Okinawa where he search the place for him to sleep, he met the mysterious girl Lilun who is clearly not from Japanese despite her fluency. With both have nowhere to go, they decided to break into Hikaru's grandfather house and set it up as their residences. Few days later, Lilun was decided to reveal that she's a witch because of the emergency situation, with her fluence in Japanese is also thanks to magic. From what I can see, apparently there'll be many talks about Okinawan culture. Go get Ihanashi no Majo if you have Switch and want to play it (Or maybe wait until October 22nd if you only have PC), and have fun. Both Mangagamer and JAST were announce new title, and Mangagamer decided to bring surprise announcement by announced two Empress VNs (Sleepless Midsummer Night's Dream and Sleepless Nocturne). As we know, both JAST and Shiravune have licensed Empress title, and it's quite surprising because Empress apparently prefer JAST looking from two of their VNs licensed by JAST (I can only say it's too bad the announcement is no Lewdness which would be interesting if only because it has female MC). Anyway, both title have male MC who have the meeting with very sexy rich woman Mamiya Marie, although obviously we can't say MCs have the best luck, especially if we know on how ruthless she can be in Starless. Regardless my opinion on both VNs, at least I can see the art is quite good thanks to Sei Shoujo. No info on the release date, but at least there'll be no mosaic if you're worry about it. JAST released their VN from AX, and said VN is Seira. For the premise, it's about the male MC who is an office worker somehow have very strange dream with he always saw the maid Seira who always show her underwear. The MC tried to make use of the situation, and Seira being the good maid fulfill whatever the MC want, including to have sex in which Seira will do her best at it (Being nukige and all). The other notable thing is the art, with the artist also design the characters in both Shibukuzu and Manakashi, although obviously Seira is not have disturbing contents like those two. Go get Seira if you want maid nukige, and have fun. Back to the announcement, JAST announced Minagoroshi no Otome which is the newest VN from Dead End Aegis developer, so obviously there'll be magical girl have a lot of disturbing sex. Apparently it's about the female MC want to achieve her revenge with some GL romance between three couples, although I suspect there'll be tentacle sex scenes like in Dead End Aegis. No release date for English yet, because the VN itself is still not released yet with Japanese version will be released on October 25th later. For fan translation, we have Kud Wafter suddenly have progress with it's all age version is at 79.4% translated, Taima Seiko Alice is past halfway (55%) edited, Karenai Saku is past three quarter (79%) edited, and Akagoei 3 editing is almost finished with it is at 98.65% edited. Daybreak just released Majikoi A Ryouken After, and from what I see it'll tell the story on how Yamato will have many moments with Margit (Because Ryouken After is the sequel of her after story) with he will have harem because of Margit's squad members all show the interest to Yamato. Not my interest even though it has harem ending and Minato Soft somehow make this as the only Majikoi with wide screen resolution (1280x720), but good for Majikoi fan to get another Majikoi spin-off. Oh yes, I know there's Sakura no Uta translation project, although I decided to not wrote about it until now. Seeing it now finally has sizeable progress (At 8% translated), I decided to keep my eyes on it from now on. Shiravune finally show some activity in regard of Sacrifice Villains, and said activity is they manage to open the Steam store for it with the release time is said to be in Q4 of 2024 later (Up to December 31st later). Not really my interest, but let's see if Shiravune can release it before 2025. Speaking of Steam store, we also have Nekonyan manage to open the store for Kamikimi. Shiravune also announce one more VN, in which it's Real Eroge Experience DT with it's being nukige and telling us the reality of eroge MC with he will have a lot of sex with the girls around him (In this case five girls) even with he was called out as being unlucky. No release estimation as of now, so we need to wait for more news. Last but not the least, we have Tsui no Sora Remake translation patch, which is definitely good news after a certain failed attempt. For Tsui no Sora itself, it's more or less very similar to the first half of Subahibi, in which SCA-DI obviously designed Subahibi as the 10th anniversary game of Tsui no Sora before change the time setting to match 2012 apocalypse trend (I never forget on how I find out the days in Subahibi is actually match July 2009 instead of July 2012). The premise is once again very similar with Subahibi, with we'll going to see the events before the upcoming dreaded July 20th, 1999 from multiple perspective. The remake itself is obviously very similar to the old Tsui no Sora and the first half of Subahibi save for one difference, namely the addition of Yasuko POV who is basically nobody in Subahibi (She has slightly bigger role in the original, although not by much). Forgot to mention the developers did their best to revamped the character arts, especially to Yasuko who look very cute compared to her original art. Feel free to get Tsui no Sora Remake translation patch if you want to play it, and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and once again sorry for being very late here. See you next week. PS - For the title, because we have Sakura no Uta translation project significant update along with Tsui no Sora Remake release, I decided to make the title as 'Sakura Philosophy' simply because Tsui no Sora Remake has a number of philosophy talk just like in Subahibi.

As of now there's full translation patch of it available from two days ago, so now you can play it in English in case you somehow still didn't play it yet.

Nice to see you're almost catches up with the present anime as well, so I'll change my approach on commenting the seasonal anime here. Anyway, let's see what I can comment on Winter 2021 anime. Promised Neverland Season 2 - I tried to look up more in regard of Season 2 poor reception, and the reason is simply Aniplex for some reason decided to cram all ~150 chapters in 11 episodes despite they could milk it like their other franchises (Demon Slayer, Madoka, Fate), which should goes without saying is bad for pacing. Oh yes, I did mention Aniplex because Clover Works itself is the subsidiary of Aniplex. Interestingly the author themself is involved in the writing of the original story of the anime, although whether the mess of the anime is caused by Aniplex or the author who want to finish the story within two seasons of the anime or even the higher up, we never know. What we need to know is the anime skipped several major arcs, which some of those are important for the character developments so obviously the fans are very upset with it. TRPC - After HealGPC was hit by pandemic, Toei start to recover back with TRPC with the theme motivation vs laziness, which make sense considering the world that made people become lethargic after the lockdown. Toei also tried to be very serious in writing the series, with them hiring several experienced Precure writers. For the series itself, it's about Manatsu who met the mermaid Laura with Manatsu obviously become Precure soon after. Forgot to mention this is the series where Toei started to introduce their in-universe cosmetic brand, Pretty Holic, which become the mainstay of Precure since then (Up to the most recent Precure, WPC). EX-ARMS - Well, this series is definitely quite well known, although it's not because their 3D animation can rival Ufotable. But rather, the graphic is quite bad so much people made the meme about it. It didn't help the staffs are basically newbie when it come to the animation, so obviously leaves a lot to be desired. For the story, let's just say it's just standard sci-fi setting with the MC become the AI and then eventually can materialize his human form in the final episode. Spider - It's one of unique manga with the MC being female and thus I look forward to see her getting human form. I did search about the series, and while I did get what I search for I was immediately overwhelmed by on how the series is turned out has very complex setting, which may or may not good depending on what you're prefer. Jaku-Chara - I pick the manga by random, and I see on how the shut-in MC was trained by a girl who is more or less want to be very perfect Aoi. Obviously with such very unhealthy obsession towards being the very best so much she decided to train the MC, there are some sign beneath her perfection and sure enough the author wrote her messed up situation. Unfortunately, the anime still didn't adapt that particular plot point because the author just wrote Aoi's story starting from 10th volume while the anime just focused on how the MC was grind his experience to be like Aoi, which is very understandable because it show the growth of the MC even though I keep waiting for more story of Aoi who seen to be out of focus for the most part (Until her story that is). Jobless Reincarnation - We have the MC who is expelled from his family and then died in the car accident, and obviously he was reincarnated as Rudy in the other world. While usually reincarnated MC has very strong moral character, Rudy before reincarnation didn't have the best character even after considering his past as the bullying victim. That said, he use his second life in order to improve himself and possibly do more good than his past life. It should be mentioned Jobless Reincarnation is not really the first isekai world seeing there are a number of popular isekai anime in the past, although it's the one that help popularized the genre so much it become saturated. Oh yes, while there are plans to adapt this in the past, there's no much words of it until 2021 when studio White Fox decided to form new team, Studio Bind, in order to make the anime series with very good production value. Idoly Pride - I find it darkly humorous on how the VA of the dead idol (Nagase Mana), Sayaka Kanda, turned out dead after she do suicide because of her messy circumstances. Story wise, it's about Mana's former manager (Kouhei) who tried to move on from the loss of his artist by forming the group idol. To his surprise, two of his new idol group members have unique circumstances, with one of them is Mana's little sister, Kotono, and another one has voice which is very similar to Mana, Sakura. While the series is like usual idol anime, the main story will be focused on those three, Kouhei, Kotono, and Sakura for the most obvious reasons. That's all for what I can comment in regard of Winter 2021 anime.

Congratulation on the surprise release. Anyway, I'm curious on how the progress ongoing until now because the last time I follow this was two years (Or whether you'll continuing on it). If you're still continuing this after common route patch release, then good luck.

Looks like Fall 2020 is starting to look up after dry Summer 2020 anime, which in turn help a lot of people who suffer lockdown in the middle of pandemic. Anyway, let's see what I can comment on this season. Adachi and Shimamura - The other pure GL manga after Bloom Into You, although unlike Bloom Into You there's no explicit kiss. The anime itself is about the interaction between two trouble students, Adachi Sakura and Shimamura Hongetsu with both characters got equal focus. The other thing to note on the anime is it only adapted up to volume 3 of the light novel, which in turn only adapt around a quarter of the material compared to Bloom Into You which adapt half of the material. One more thing to note is that nice of Tezuka Studio to make beautiful art on it. Jujutsu Kaisen - What I can see is the manga is about to be ended on September 30th later, and it got quite popular thanks to the death of a very popular character from this series which mean anyone who following anime meme would inevitably spoiled about the fate of a certain character even before following the manga (Well for one I never follow the manga and yet I know about the character death). Other than the meme, honestly I have no much to say besides it's being published in Shounen Jump despite the story is more fit to be seinen, although then again published the manga in Shounen Jump is definitely help its popularity. Talentless Nana - After being successful with Sharin and G-Senjou, looseboy decided to try his luck with the manga and he immediately start the story with his signature style, Bait and Switch, like in G-Senju. In this case, after he did write on how the male character called Nana was deemed as Talentless because his talent is only to remove the other talent (For the info, the setting has people who can use superpower called Talent, and Nana here is like Mikan in Alice Academy with both have dispelling power and deemed useless by the others), a girl character who also called Nana killed male Nana and the female Nana cement her status as the MC with she only has very good if normal combat ability. Obviously, from here we'll follow on how Nana herself became like that and see if she can get her redemption. Tonikaku Kawaii - I don't really know if the slice of life in there can be said as marriage diary besides the writer and her wife (Which for the info was work together in Sore ga Seiyuu), although if it is then obviously their relationship won't be as dramatic as this anime. For the info, our MC Tsukasa here was almost going to isekai only to have cute girl Tsukasa save him. Afterwards, Nasa immediately propose to Tsukasa with she accept. There are more of the background story in this anime, but it's easy to say we'll going to follow Nasa and Tsukasa marriage life for the most of it. Higurashi Gou - After Ryukishi failed with Ciconia Phase 1 with the sales didn't reach what he want (It didn't help that the price is quite expensive for presumably one eight of When They Cry series), he decided to milk Higurashi with he make the new anime and announced said anime as the remake. Which is fair considering Fruit Basket, except he decided to make bold writing by revealing that actually what he wrote is the sequel of Matsuribayashi, and I can only say that it's quite rude to throw the characters back into suffering after their happy ending (And not to mention some other stuffs that the other fans already pointed) even though some fans may not satisfied with how Higurashi ended. Easy to say that fans reaction is obviously prefer that it's not exist, and obviously Ryukishi need to tried his best to quell fans outrage by making the manga has different resolution. Anyway, with Ryukishi fail to get necessary funds to write Ciconia Phase 2, he decided to take a job to write new Silent Hill with the game is still in development. Elaina - I did learn on how people can practice their preaching and psychological analysis through watching this anime along with sharpening their debate skill, which good for them. That said, Elaina here is mostly prefer to not interfere with the other people problem as much as it's possible, although admittedly the way author depict it in the infamous episode 3 certainly won't be easily swallowed. Like you say, Elaina is another journey anime like Kino's Journey. For more info, it got second season and I like the opening song. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear - It's about very rich shut-in teenager Yuna who thrown into the game world with she can only use her overpowered Bear equipment, and obviously it prompt people to ridicule her before Yuna swiftly prove her worth despite her harmless looking equipment. Also while Yuna here is prefer to laze around, she will surely lend a hand to anyone who need help, especially if the one who need it is children with the author keep having Yuna accepted the request from cute little girls. Anyway I did read the web novel, and it's still ongoing until now with the story itself is more or less episodic (So no ongoing plot thread besides Yuna keep beating anyone who in the way of her, at least for now). That's all for what I can comment on Fall 2020 anime here.

Well obviously dark fantasy is what people usually call as edgy, and in light novel it's usually the one that has revenge story. Obviously this type story would be too bleak for some people, although obviously it would be very engaging to follow until the end in order to see whether the casts can earn their happy ending or not in the bleak setting. Of course though, the writer should try their best to balancing the character development and breather in the midst of dark story, because after all almost nobody would want the story become bleak from the beginning to the end so much it make the story become not engaging at all. Oh yes, it's quite interesting most of translated otome has dark story, which is quite ironic compared to the male oriented VNs that have much lighter stories. Speaking of otome, actually what we saw in light novel with the genre 'Reincarnated as Villainess' is really misrepresent otome game, because most of the story in the light novel are mostly have kingdom setting with the villainess is not really prominent in otome VNs, and the reason why the author use otome game is probably because the author only understand otome is the counterpart of usual VNs where the female can date more than one handsome characters (To further make the counterpart with isekai harem novel) with the author can only refer shoujo manga when it come to make the in-universe otome VN. That aside, most otome VNs are only available on console, so it's too bad if you want to play those and only have PC or laptop. Forgot to mention usually dark fantasy VNs have some rape, which make sense as the way to instill the bleakness into the reader. For the prominent example, besides Maggot Bait there's euphoria with it has nice song along with surprisingly nice story beneath the disturbing sex scenes. Obviously the story should be the main draw, although obviously most people would prefer to avoid the rape altogether. Speaking of rape, there's Mugen Renkan with the female MC will suffer a lot of rape, which in hindsight make it closer to the otome when one think hard about it. Of course there's more than rape in Mugen Renkan, because it tell the story about the immortal female MC who did her best to find happiness in her immortality. That's all for what I can write in regard of this topic.

Visual Novel Translation Status (18/08/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and for the title I made the parody of Zombie Police by changing 'Police' into 'Sword Princess' with the latter is from the title for one of Yamizome Liberator heroine (Ichika), so we have 'Zombie Sword Princess'. By the way, Ichika's setting is her father is the higher up in Japanese police department. Anyway as for this week, well it looks interesting. By interesting I mean the updates is very scarce and I have no much to say other than it's very plain week, which sort of make sense seeing we'll going to have some active week incoming so perhaps we can treat this week as a breather. That said, we still have some updates, and so let's see what I can write about this week. Actually the aforementioned Zombie Police was released on the last week, only that I decided to talk about it on this week. The VN itself is about the MC Tamura Yasu who is a detective formed a detective duo with the girl detective Kabane Akemi with Akemi peculiar body would help the investigation a lot. Akemi's peculiar body is zombie for some reasons, and thus she's the titular Zombie Police because both are working on the police. For what I can see, apparently the game will have similar gameplay like Ace Attorney (And by extension Ouka Sabaki), namely you'll doing investigation in the crime scene in order to collect testimonies and evidences before doing some deductions. No much to say other than the game is available on Steam and didn't have sex scene in the first place (So no need to ask for uncensor patch), and feel free to get the VN if you want some VN with detective works. For this week updates, first of all we have Akagoei 3 is now past 90% mark edited with it currently at 91.38% edited. Next, we have Idea Factory announced the exact release date for Date A Live Ren Dystopia, and said date will be on September 5th later. Visual Arts is finally announced the exact release date for Lunaria PC version, and according to Steam they'll release it on 30th later so you can note the date if you want to get it from Steam (The link to the store). As it turned out JAST has been working on Yamizome Liberator with the latest progress is they've been finishing with the QA work, and now they working on fixing the remaining bugs. Lastly we have a fan group translate One fanfic VN which is made by Alcot (Or rather their precursor), Stay -Fragments of Memories-. From what I can see, it tell the additional stories for three of One heroines, Mizuka, Akane, and Misaki, so it may worth to get if you're fans of those three, although beware of the main game spoiler if you play it. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

Well technically speaking learning Japanese is just need a bit more effort with the first step is learnt hiragana and katakana in which it has 46 characters each, although the kanji is indeed pose the problems with thousands of it available. That said, even if someone manage to persevere to learn Japanese in order to learn the Japanese in order to read untranslated VN, I think it's not really worth the effort if it made people became bitter when the VN they used as the reason to learn Japanese turned out not worth the hype and thus they became grumpy anytime people hype the localization work of said VN.

I see that you're now finished with Ushieta translation works, so congratulation on that. Well, no much to say besides good luck on the image editing work later on.

Decided to tried previous Venus Blood VNs (Empire and Abyss), and let's just say there's a reason why Ninetail decided to localize their VN starting from Frontier because Frontier is where Dualtail put major overhaul on the unit creation which they still use in Savior with some improvements in each of post-Frontier entries.

Visual Novel Translation Status (11/08/2024) First of all, Nasu still not released the expansion of the FGO with the name 'The Origin' despite that it would be cool for the player to play the story based on the original Fate, But instead it's because we have Fate/Stay Night remastered released, so I just add 'The Origin' in which it's also what Sunrise called the remake version of the very first Gundam (Gundam: The Origin). Anyway welcome to this week VNTS Review, and as for this week we have several releases with the biggest one is obviously Fate/Stay Night Remaster. Other than that, we have Sekai gave us several updates with the notable one being Harukuru's update, and also two more Escude VNs announced by two different publishers. Overall while in theory this should be the exciting week, I feel that it's more or less an above average one. With that done, let's see what I can write in regard of this week. For the Escude VNs which I just mentioned, there's Houkago Education announced by JAST and Sennagi announced by DL Site with both VNs have a number of sex scenes. For Houkago Education, we have one student of the all boys school was somehow manage to getting close into seven teachers thanks to said students attending the remedial lessons from those teacher, and before you wonder if Escude suddenly make BL VNs all of the seven teachers are girls. So basically you'll going to have date with the teachers, who despite the staffs obviously design them like usual high school students heroines are quite competent in many fields. Speaking of JAST, they just announced they'll release one of their title from AX (Seira) on 24th later. For Sennagi, actually it has been announced for a while, and I can only mention it as 'Beat Blade Haruka with Narika's VA voicing the main (And single) heroine and all of Noroi's cadres are cute girls'. The premise is no much different from Haruka, with Himeka was engage in sexual ritual as the way to obtain the power to fight the demon, and thus Himeka and the MC Souma do a lot of sex in order to save the world from the demons. Cherry Kiss released their nukige in which it's about the MC who want to have sex with his mother's best friend, and no much to say other than the MC will get his wish fulfilled along with it's the first VN from Orcsoft that Cherry Kiss published after all of their previous nukige are from Miel. Go get the VN if you want to play some nukige in case you like the art (Personally it's not quite appealing to me, but to each of their own), and have fun. Frontwing released Revue Starlight VN, and from what I remember about the anime it's about the female students who doing very dramatic play backed up with very dramatic story (Like Lupercalia) along with the anime has some GL subtext. I would say that I didn't have very high opinion on the VN which adapt the story from the other media, although at least the original writer involved in the VN writing, so there's that. Go get the VN if you want to see more Revue Starlight franchise, and have fun. Sekai just gave us several updates, with those updates are Sheol was in review by Valve (Good luck to that), Chiisana Kanojo is fully translated along with 65% edited, Wagahigh FD is at a quarter translated, Amairo Chocolata 3 is fully translated along with 15% edited, and last but not the least we finally have Harukuru in QA which mean Sekai finally got the engine from the developer so hopefully we'll see its release in the near future. We also have Shiravune announced Criminal Border Part 3 which has the story goes even darker, and it'll be release sometimes in this year. For fan translation update,s, we have Akagoei 3 is at 89.22% edited, Majikoi Ryouken After is fully edited, and Ushieta is fully translated with the translator will be focusing on the image editing work. Lastly we have Fate/Stay Night release in which it's arguably the biggest release. I said arguably because technically speaking it has almost complete feature, such as voices and upgraded graphics. Granted the sex scenes are not in the Steam version, but it didn't matter anyway. It also has bugs, although it quickly taken over of after it goes viral. That said, technically speaking it's redundant release, because we already have it since 2008 courtesy of Mirror Moon. Granted some people mention on how Mirror Moon translation didn't really capture on the beauty of the prose that Nasu want to convey, but at least Mirror Moon provided the translation patch to anyone else who just want to read the story and didn't care much about the prose. For the story, it's about Shiro who has hero complex was dragged into the battle royale between the mages with each mages can summon their familiars (Servants) with Shiro somehow summoned Saber who said to be the strongest Servants. Go get Fate/Stay Night if you've been waiting for it (And spamming Mangagamer's survey with it) or want to see the other translation of the prose, and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

Well, in case there's news about English translation I'll make sure that I'll post it Fuwanovel. Also if anything else at least there's Aniplex released Fate/Stay Night in Steam.

As for the news in regard of Silverio and Senshinkan series, obviously still no news in regard of those yet.

At first I thought the VN of the Month for July 2024 would be either Secret Love or Select Oblige thanks to both being full VNs, although turned out Select Oblige reception are not quite good compared to either Hamidashi or Wagahigh. Secret Love itself is quite nice if only for the uniform design, although story wise it should be expected that it's another moege from Hooksoft so you can just ignore the promoted gimmick (The gimmick for Secret Love is you can chose to either hide or reveal the relationship). Hookah Haze is like Valhalla, although some did mention on how it's too short. So yeah out of all releases, the only viable candidate for VN of the Month is Lilja in which it's another VN with same sex relationship after Yuri Trap Garden. Lilja has episodic story with the titular character will paint the GL couples. I don't know if Frontwing will make similar VN in the future seeing apparently it's just their experimental work, but I would like if Frontwing manage to do so anyway. That's all for what I can write on July 2024 releases.

Less anime than usual for understandable reasons, namely because Summer 2020 is the height of the pandemic and thus the lockdown was heightened. Oh well, at least it's easier to write the commentary with less anime here. Kanokari - Now that I look at the studio, I guess I can see why the author (Reiji) keep writing it despite the reader keep saying Reiji keep stretching the story to the almost ridiculous length. Also he at least know where his priorities goes when he made that memetic speech, because after all people would hate buying his manga (Whether they'll use it as fire starter or toilet tissue is another matter) anyway and he would get the money. That said, to be perfectly fair, the first season is still normal compared to the arc that the upcoming fourth season will be adapt (TMS surely find another nice Cash Cow after Conan). By the way when I read the article about this I imagined Kazuya is quite handsome, only for my expectation to be failed because he looks like shounen anime MC (I feel pity for Kazuya though now he stuck with the writer that won't give him good character development). Lapis Relight - It had nice premise all right even though in the end it's more or less typical idol anime, just with the staffs mixed up some magic and set in RPG based world along with fight the monsters. Misfit Demon Academy - Obviously with a bunch of works with overpowered MC no one expect the story to be original, but regardless people manage to like the anime anyway thanks to Anos being overconfident with several of his feats justify his boasts (It definitely help that Anos himself are quite handsome). Obviously being successful the studio decided to make more seasons of this, although unfortunately the next seasons were riddled with production problems so much the very last episode of the latest season was very late. That's all for what I can comment in regard of Summer 2022 anime here.

Honestly I thought the same back when Utawarerumono 2 and 3 were only available for the consoles, only to have Shiravune proved me wrong by porting both into PC. Also recently Shiravune released the first White Album Remake in which it's only on PS3, so it should be possible for them to localize Tears to Tiara 2 as long as they have prepared the necessary steps.

Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and for the title I'll tell it on PS later. Anyway, this week biggest event is officially Otakon 2024, which in practice turned out to be Nekonyan's announcement even though Mangagamer also have the panel on it which they made private for some reasons. Other than Nekonyan announcements, we also have Fate/Stay Night HD release date and Kiminozo early backer release, and lastly we also have Milk Factory 3rd VN (Oppai Succubus) release by Frontwing. Overall, this week is almost exciting thanks to Nekonyan's announcements and several other updates which is very good after several plain weeks beforehand, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. After Nekonyan rescued both of Onikiss and Irotoridori licenses from Sol Press, this time they manage to rescue Sakura Celebration which it's almost complete when Sol Press was folded. The premise is still the same from way back when Sol Press announced it in AX 2019, with the magician MC coming back to his hometown in order to celebrate the long season of sakura blossoming. With it being Windmill VN, hopefully Nekonyan can also licensed the other Windmill VNs, such as Witch's Garden or HHG. Oh yes, Sakura Celebration is formerly known as the third secret project, and currently it's been fully translated and edited with the QA work on it is halfway done. Speaking of Onikiss, Nekonyan announced Onigyu in which it's another VN from Tinkle Position telling the story about the MC with asthma tried to do the experimental therapy, with said therapy was got hugged by his four cute little sisters. While there are some research about on how hugging can increase body immunity, obviously it didn't included the part of sex with blood related little sister. Onigyu also already has some progress, with it's at 65% translated along with halfway edited. Forgot to mention we also have some usual fan translation updates, with this week we have Taima Seiko Alice is at 45% edited, Akagoei 3 is at 17.24% in QA, Majikoi Ryouken After is past 90% mark (91.04%) edited, and Ushieta is almost fully translated with currently it's at 95.3% translated (Yui 1 was already fully translated with Yui 2 was past halfway (56.2%) translated). Turned out Nekonyan was also have the license for both Karichaimashita and Royale mini fandisc, with both obviously depict the after stories for the heroine while at the same time provided new material, particularly threesome sex that Yuki had with Emi and Hasumi in Karichaimashita fandisc volume 2. No much info about the progress other than they already have the localized name, After Hours for Karichaimashita FD and Victory Parade for Royale FD with After Hours translation has been worked on. For other Nekonyan updates on the older announcements, we have both Koichoco and Enki Dekinai are in QA and they still don't know the release time for Tenshi Reboot. Speaking of release, we have Nekonyan planning their upcoming release will be both Dracu Riot and Kakenuke with the planned release time in this summer or fall, so let's see if we can see the release happening on time, moreso if we see Kakenuke is still at 85% translated. Since I mention the fandisc for ASa Project VN, I should also mention Nekonyan also have main ASa Project VN, with the VN in question is Futamata Ren'ai that I sort of predict will be localized by Nekonyan. For the premise, it's about the MC Nao was suddenly asked by half foreigner girl Kirame as her boyfriend as the way to take the responsibilities for what he did at the mixer. To make the situation more complicated for Nao, suddenly the popular girl Yua decided to make a move to Nao by asking Nao to be her girlfriend. With ASa Project decided to project (Sorry for the pun) Makoto on Nao by forcing him to do two-timing, obviously he did need his best to juggling with two girlfriends which to say easier said than done if Futamata is not comedy VN. For the progress of the VN, currently it's been fully translated with the Steam store for this is already opened (The link to the store). Nekonyan also have HajiLove Making Lovers, which is pretty much Makeover with the casts are in high school instead of young adult (By the way I forgot to mention Futamata casts are in college), and for HajiLove Makeover progress currently it's been fully translated along with 5% edited. age was manage to release Kiminozo HD Remake for the backer with the release for non-backer people will be on October 17th later, and it has censorship issue to put it simply. Other than censorship, I can say the story is definitely good in 2001 with dramatic love triangle and all, although nowadays people may inevitably compared it to WA2 which also already translated (And not to mention the sex scenes are still intact). Frontwing released the third Milk Factory VN, Oppai Succubus, and it's about the MC who tried to summon succubus dragged into the other world only to be asked to save the succubus school from being closed down because its erotic deviation score is too low. Obviously the MC will not produce the school idol like in Love Live, but instead the MC will have sex with the succubi in order to make them become experienced in sex and increase erotic deviation score. Go get the VN if you want some nukige with very big breasts heroines, and have fun. I did hope Shiravune would localize a certain VN from Cube, and turned out Nekonyan is the one who manage to do it. Said VN is Hacking the Moon to Find My Goddess or Kamikimi. The premise for Kamikimi is about the MC Kaito manage to do big feat by hacking the central AI which rule the countless other AIs, and Kaito in need to have girlfriend decided to commanding the AI to provide his ideal girl. In order to fulfill Kaito's request, the AI decided to make the the robot girl that match Kaito's request. Soon after, Kaito start to live together with the robot that match his ideal girlfriend, Tsukuyomi. While the story mostly has slice of life, it should be mentioned that it can be dramatic like Cube other VN, Same Nanokakan. Oh yes, the character was designed by Kantoku which is we remember is also Your Diary (The one that has infamous translation) character designer. Kamikimi here is already fully translated and edited with the engine and image works are ongoing. For more info, Nekonyan working on Extended version, in which it'll have some additional contents akin of fandisc, such as the new route for the new heroine (Hazuki). Aniplex announced they'll release Fate/Stay Night on two days later (August 8th), and they also announced they've been working on Fate/Hollow Ataraxia with it will be available on both Switch and Steam. While I definitely think both are more or less redundant, at least there won't be any problem in regard of removed sex scenes like Kiminozo (Just read the older version if the fans are desperate for it very much), and more importantly it should stop people spamming, I mean keep filling Mangagamer's survey with Fate/Stay Night at each year. Last but not the least, Nekonyan finally revealed their 2nd secret project in which it's the biggest announcement, namely turned out they've been working on Hatsuyuki Sakura, which as we know is the most well known Niijima Yuu work. Hatsusaku is also part of season series from Saga Planet with it represent winter. By the way, I still remember on how I'd hear my roommate keep replaying the opening of this along with WA2 Closing Chapter and Grisaia no Meikyuu opening videos in 2012. Also I did remember it has translation project in 2013, although it went nowhere with the last update was at 19% translated. Anyway while it has dramatic twist, the premise is quite simple with delinquent student Hatsuyuki met a strange girl Sakura, and then Sakura said she'll guide Hatsuyuki to the last winter. Since this is the 2nd secret project, it mean it's been fully translated and edited, which should be nice if not for one remaining problem. Namely they pending the porting work in order to prioritize other VN. For elaboration, Hatsusaku use Siglus engine which would be very costly to license, and so Nekonyan port the game to Unity just like what they did with Kirikoi. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week. PS - Because we have Sakura Celebration got licensed by Nekonyan after Sol Press lost it for the very obvious reason along with Hatsuyuki Sakura got announced, I made the reference for fripside (Hatsuyuki Sakura opening song, Hesitation Snow, singer) other song, only my railgun (A Certain Scientific Railgun opening), with I combined both 'Sakura and 'Railgun' words, so we have 'Sakura Railgun' as the title.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and I see you apparently like BL VNs. Well, no much to say other than I hope you'll have fun in here and feel free to ask for VN recommendations. PS - By the way for an immediate recommendations, I would say Hashihime and Slow Damage should be nice to try in case you still didn't play those yet seeing both are well received BL VNs even though both are quite dark.

I tried to search gotsugoushugi thingy, and apparently it mean plot convenience which would be similar to Deus Ex Machina (Or Diabolos Ex Machina for the story getting worse). Obviously the usage of this is always cause controversy no matter which side of the world, although whether the usage would destroy the enjoyment of the story or not is up to each of their own. About Grisaia, let's just say I did think Meikyuu and especially Rakuen as the fandisc simply because there's no canon route in Kajitsu, something that Frontwing didn't provide at 2011 because they intend Kajitsu as their last VN and ready to scrap the trilogy plan. Of course, history speak otherwise and thus Frontwing continued the trilogy plan while recklessly expand the franchise (Phantom Trigger and Chronos Rebellion). Anyway forcing charage into linear VN obviously would cause issues especially with one of the ending is pretty much completed, so Frontwing tried to fix the situation by showing on how Yuuji help all five girls in the anime, which to say not really perfect but at least it get it's job done. Speaking of VN series that turned into trilogy or duology, there's Galaxy Angel or Ryuusei World Actor which does the continuity better (Galaxy Angel ask us to chose the heroines at the beginning of the sequels, while Kinugasa (For all his ending writing fault) always wrote the sequel based on the available ending). There's also Sharin in which the fandisc is like Meikyuu, and Keiichi stated to Hozuki he chose Hinata as his lover. My point is all of those examples write the continuation based on the available endings, something that Frontwing didn't do with Grisaia, so yeah I can definitely see if you have the problem with it. Anyway, for all of it's fault on connecting the sequels, at least the author manage to write nice character stories, which allow Kajitsu quickly to become well known VN with I remember did keep my eyes on by then active TL Wiki site to see the translation progress of Kajitsu. That's all for what I can write about Grisaia here.

So that's what Shiravune recently doing then. I see. Not like I care about Utawarerumono spin-off anyway, but good that Shiravune keep helping Aquaplus localized their game, which by the way I still waiting to finally see Tears to Tiara 2 on Steam.

Visual Novel Translation Status (28/07/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS review, and as the title since we have Lilja released with the titular character is the painter, I decided to make the title as 'Poem of a Painter' with the original word is from Sakura no Uta direct translation (Poem of Sakura). As for this week, let's just be blunt that it's very plain with the only notable update is Lilja release. Other than it, I can only say Sekai surprisingly already have set the Steam store one of for their VN, Chiisana no Kanojo, or in English is A Maiden's Serenade, so at least there's something. With that done, let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Once again Sekai already set the Steam store for Maiden's Serenade (The link), although the release time is only listed as 'Coming Soon' so it may take a while before the release. They also have two surprise updates, namely they have Amairo Chocolata 3 is at 90% translated and Wagahigh FD is at 20% translated. For fan translation, we have Akagoei 3 is at 88.01% edited, Majikoi Ryouken After is at 42.96% edited, Majikoi A Plus Disk is at 17.66% translated. Other than Lilja release, Frontwing also announced the exact release date for Milk Factory 3rd VN, with said date will be in August 1st (is tomorrow), so feel free to note the date if you waiting for the nukige about the MC who isekaied to the big breast succubus academy. Lastly we have Lilja released by Frontwing, and looks like it's the story about GL even though it's not necessarily for the main couple (The titular Lilja and Natsuka). The premise is about the blind painter Lilja who live together with her assistant Natsuka, and Lilja herself is quite an eccentric painter with her only want to paint things that pique her interest. It should be noted while the writer (Asou Ei) was experienced in writing VN with disturbing stories (And sex scenes) such as Kuroinu and euphoria, the writer himself also write one of Sakura no Uta route (Which people deemed out of place), so he didn't exactly new when it come on writing the VN without the disturbing sex scenes (Lilja itself still has some drama though). Oh yes, Lilja itself has episodic story with Lilja herself accepted the requests to paint her clients who are in GL relationship with Natsuka act as Lilja's eye (Lilja being blind and all) investigate the clients stories. Go get Lilja if you want GL VN with some drama, and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

You did miss some anime which is understandable, so I'll do the comment on some missing anime here. Also Spring 2020 is when the pandemic start to taking effect, so there's less anime than usual. Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS - The anime was aired from 2017 to 2019 with it's the last time Konami promote regular duel in the anime. In here Konami decided to make the card for the main character be a bit useful for the meta game after the last two MC signature cards didn't make impact in the meta game, although unfortunately Konami did their job a bit too well so much the MC signature card, Firewall Dragon, become the bane of the real life game and thus banned before getting the nerf. Oh yes, Konami also introduce the new method of Extra Deck summoning, Link Summon, with it overshadowed the other methods at the time of VRAINS aired. Story-wise, VRAIN is about Yusaku who has very troubled childhood as the orphan and using duel as the way to do revenge, so easy to say VRAINS has darker premise compared to ARC-V. Shokugeki no Souma 5 - At that time of the author write that arc the manga was facing the decline, so the author decided to basically self-insert as controversial villain Asahi in order to get the interest from the reader. Unfortunately, the author didn't really excel at the cooking writing despite Asahi was the so-called top chef with the cooking consultant took maternity leave mean the manga was guaranteed losing one of it's main draw, which is really evident when Asahi spent his time brag his win as if the author desperately lengthen the chapter while he had writer block. Obviously the reader lost interest after the author basically self-insert himself, so the manga was understandably cancelled. The author wrote some after stories, although he didn't manage to find the way to fit the romance even after using the most classic trick with the hero Souma supposed to save Erina from the author Asahi, never mind the author himself is hentai manga writer with some obviously has romantic set up before the sex scenes. With such messy arc, of course most people won't ask for the adaptation, although JC Staff deliver the adaptation anyway with they trim some of the messiness from the arc so good for JC Staff to put the effort on the adaptation that almost nobody asked for. Interspecies Reviewers - It's formerly one of the highest anime rating on MAL, although the anime didn't have the story like Frieren with the MC reminiscing the old journey while on the new journey, but instead the MC was reminiscing his experience on enjoying prostitution service from the different species and then wrote the review about it. Yes, this anime here is mostly about the MC has sex with different species and therefore has a lot of explicit contents. As for why it has high score, it's mostly because it's the joke from a certain Youtuber who is very angry after Funimation cancelled the series after they deem the anime is too explicit with said Youtuber ask the people to vote bombing the anime with 10. Obviously MAL admin was immediately saw something wrong with it and they took the action quickly. Controversy aside, I can say the opening song is quite nice despite the lyric. Bakarina - The full title is too long so I'll just list the anime as the nickname of the MC, Katarina Claes, and the reason for the nickname is because she was too focused on escaping her death flag while ignoring the growing affection of the people around her. This series is the start of where it popularized the MC reincarnated as the villainess in the otome game (Even though it's more like shoujo manga villainess), so understandably it's quite basic compared to what we have in the future. Honestly one season is more than enough seeing the anime adapt the whole web novel, although the novel became very popular so the author wrote more of it in the light novel with the anime get the second season. So I would say that if you didn't like the second season then you can just watch the first season only. Oh yes, there are some GL subtext in the first season, although future stories decided to go full otome and decrease GL subtext That's all for what I can write in regard of Spring 2020 anime here.

Well for Summer 2004 I watched Shikanoko (My Deer Friend Nokotan) along with Legend VTuber and Mayonaka Punch.