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  1. September has some nice title, although out of all title the most obvious VN of the Month candidate is Koibana Ren'ai in which it's the most popular VN if we based it on number of votes at VNDB. Still may as well try to comment on some other releases here. Sore wa Maichiru - Looks like the story has no much change from the older VN, although Navel changed most of the VAs here. No idea if we will see this in English, especially after Mangagamer discontinued Shuffle and Soul Link, although then again we may see Shiravune pulled something from Navel in the future which could be this one. Nekonin Spin - The only single announcement that Sekai has for this year, and Whirlpool did make three heroines in here. Initially I think this might be interesting title especially with good graphic, although seeing that apparently it's quite short I may as well just skip it. Natsuzora Asterism - Apparently a lengthy GL VN with routes and sex scenes in which it's quite rare to see, although there's no much info in regard of it other than it's apparently already released in September. Koishi Irodoru Seigiranman - The VN about the setting where the villain and superhero live in one city with the MC is basically Tuxedo Mask with he will ready to help the heroine if she's in pinch. That said, obviously you better expect this as normal charage seeing that most of the focus are slice of life, and that looks like the superhero aspect here won't get much focus like in Dengeki Stryker. All in all, I can say this is the second most interesting release in September 2023. Koibana Ren'ai - The most interesting release in September 2023, and that it's another VN from ASa Project. As you can see they're like to experimenting with the formula, in which this time they put some focus on several side couple (Non MC male with non heroine female), although whether it work or not is up to each of their own (One of the con is the writing weakening the development of the MC and the heroines). That aside, it would be interesting to see it translated, and perhaps Nekonyan can localize this in the future alongside Futamata. That's all for what I can comment in regard of September 2023 releases.
  2. Hamayamata - CGDCT about the girl who encounter a foreigner who like Japan, so it's like Kinmosa to a degree with the casts joining yosakoi (Japanese dance for festival) club. Sailor Moon Crystal - Tori's attempt to remake Sailor Moon, and even though the graphic looks nice at a first glance the fans notice on how there's many things wrong on that. The story follow the manga instead of making it like Precure (And older Sailor Moon) with character development episode, so it's understandable if one find the story is quite rushed. Fate/Ilya 2 - Type Moon did attempt to give Ilya some spotlight by making her as magical girl with they try to make the setting as light as possible (For Type Moon), but alas they can't avoid to write some dark story along with some epic battle that happen across the two season along with the third season later. Nozaki-kun - It's about the female MC Chiyo who find her crush is turned out to be shoujo mangaka, and I like the design for the female MC in which she's quite cute. Too bad that her crush is a bit too passionate toward his mangaka job, so obviously Chiyo need to work hard to gain her crush attention after somehow recruited as the mangaka's assistant. Akane ga Kill - I see that Takahiro is in the mood for experimenting with dark stories after his success with Majikoi, and one of such stories is Akame ga Kill with he wrote the story about the revolution group who rebel against heavily corrupt empire with the titular character is the member of the revolution group (Although the MC is the male Takumi instead of the female Akane). Like in Majikoi, it's quite obvious that Takahiro like to write strong female, although unlike Majikoi Akame is far much more darker with only a handful casts survive through the end (And yes, it apply to both sides). Pripara - Looks like the staffs have enough to write drama in Pretty Rhythm, so they notably heavily reduced it along with making the MC as grade schooler who can grew up in the virtual world. It also copied Aikatsu in regard of the card, although unlike Aikatsu each Pripara episodes has some comedy with it come from the quirky casts. By the way, I did like it's third opening Realize. Persona 4 Golden - You may wonder on why Atlus make another Persona 4 anime, and the answer is easy enough in which it's because around that time they just merged with Sega with they probably in need to some income, so they decided to make another Persona 4 anime. For the anime, they animated the new contents from Golden while put some more focus on the new character Marie. That's all for what I can write in regard of Summer 2014 anime here.
  3. Welcome to Fuwanovel and sorry for the belated greeting, @Neyunse. I see that you like GL story, so you decided make your next big VNs project as GL VN, Roses of Love No much to say here other than I hope that you'll have more fun in here and good luck on Roses of Love there.
  4. While I know that Chaos Head Noah opening is good, obviously we can't forget the original Chaos Head opening Find the Blue, so I'll post it below. Enjoy.
  5. Visual Novel Translation Status (01/10/2023) Since we have Secret Agent released with one of the heroine, Kanon, being a big ninja fan with her favorite anime is about a ninja who does his best to rescue his princess, I decided to parodied the old anime with same premise (Flame of Recca, although Yanagi here is not exactly the typical princess who live in the castle) with I changing 'Recca' into 'Kanon', which should goes without saying that ensemble didn't make Kanon have fire superpower as cool as it would be lol. Anyway as for this week, it definitely far more interesting compared to the last week seeing that there's several releases compared to the last week. Other than releases, we finally have Mangagamer post their updates with several big progress on their project. Overall, this week is an interesting one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. We have two releases from fan translation, although both releases are small one. The first is from Shinzou Translation with the said release is Rabbit Heart, and from what I saw it's like Toy Story with the MC is somehow reborn as stuffed rabbit with six years old girl bought the stuffed toy. The second release is Yuuwaku aka Temptation, and in here we have the MC as the former police detective become the private eye who also got quite a number of weakness ((Drinking, smoking, gambling, women) got a request to investigate the missing painting, and he'll do so while gaining the clues by romancing several women (Forgot to mention that Yuuwaku is an old VN with it's first released in 1995). For the updates, we have Fate/Extra CCC was fully edited and currently in testing, Kud Wafter 18+ version past halfway (53.51%) translated, and Tsuma Netori is at 65% edited. For Mamiya Mami, seeing that the sequel was leaked early, it seems that Shiravune may decided to wait until the sequel is accepted by Steam, so obviously it saw indefinite delay until further notice. If anything else, at least they have two nukige will released in this month (Asagi on 27th and Tenioha feat. Mami on 30th), even though to be frank those two nukige are not what I can call as their bigger release even with Asagi is formerly banned in Steam. We also have Fruitbat announce their VN after several times, and said VN is Mamiya Doomsday Dreams with the release date is on November 21st later. The VN itself is the final part of their previously released Mamiya, making Mamiya here become duology (That, and Mamiya itself is an underrated VN). In case you've been waiting for BL VNs with heaven and hell theme naming, there's some good news in regard of it with JAST Blue currently do QA work for both of Paradise and Hell Academy. Not my most favorite updates, but at least there's some progress in their backlog. Speaking of backlog, we finally have Mangagamer revealed the updates on their backlog with the most prominent one is we finally have both of Raillore and Sona-Nyl finished the testing, so perhaps we may have those two VNs released in this year. For the rest of the updates, we have Rance X big progress (70.5% translated), Eve of December is at 96% translated along with 47.5% edited, Funbag Fantasy 4 is at 66% translated along with 63% edited, Dead Days is fully translated along with 88.5% edited, Rance 03 is past halfway translated (55%) along with 41% edited, Sex Open World both passed halfway translated and edited (56% and 51% respectively), and Ixseal is also the same with 61% translated and 58% edited. Lastly, we have Mangagamer will release another Nightmare VN (Nightmare x Vampire) on 19th later. Last but not the least, we have Nekonyan released Secret Agent back on September 29th. For Secret Agent, it's the first ensemble VN that is available in English, although the MC (Jin) here is not being trap like most of their VNs (At least it still has good art). The premise is we have Jin who is the member of the ninja clan that has been there since Edo era, and he was tasked to infiltrate the high class academy in order to find the lead to resolve a big incident. In the academy, he met Kanon who soon knew that Jin is the ninja. Seeing that Jin identity supposed to be secret, he ask Kanon to keep Jin's identity as the secret, and then Kanon agree with one condition that she'll get the ninja training from Jin because Kanon herself is a big ninja fan. Anyway, with this ensemble VN available in English, hopefully we may have the other VNs with trap MC. Go get Secret Agent if you've been waiting for it, and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.
  6. Kindaichi R 2014 - Compared to 1997 series, it definitely had far more few episodes, which in turn it make easier to binge compared to the old series (And obviously Conan). That aside, it's still usual Kindaichi with he need to solve the cases with most of it are serial murder case. Oh yes, it adapt the story from the manga that was see the revival after it was concluded in 2000 (Hence the R in the title). Atelier Escha and Logy - It took 17 years for Gust to make Atelier anime despite that it has potential to become one, and six more years to make another one (Ryza). Well, I guess it depend on the game popularity to determine whether Atelier series can get the anime or not. Anyway, for Atelier Escha it's quite unusual to get male MC, although in turn it make people reminded them back when Gust tried to make male MC in Iris and Mana Khemia before back to female MC in Rorona, which in a way it make the game is quite nostalgic to older Atelier player, moreso because Iris is the first Atelier game in English. Yu-Gi-Oh ARC V - The staffs decided to make some ambitious story with they combined all of the previous series world (GX, 5D, and Zexal) to be appear in one series which in turn make Extra Deck summon method from previous series more prominent. Also the staff here make the parody of fans reaction, especially in regard of eternal debate between best Extra Deck summoning method, by turning it into a big war with serious consequence. Oh yes, the ace monster of the MC (Yuya) is Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon with the new summoning method Pendulum Summon that is quite confusing at the first glance, which I need to look up more to understand it. Forgot to mention that the ending of this series is kind of controversial, especially after the staffs had way too much fun with making the parody of fans reaction to the franchise. Gochiusa - CGDCT with bunny and cafe, and compared to the other similar anime it has good graphic compared to the rest. Sol Press did manage to get the manga license, although unfortunately the manga sales didn't have enough revenue to paid the tax so currently the license in questionable state thanks to Sol Press unable to continuing the publishing. That aside, the manga is still ongoing even past 10 years, which show that Gochiusa here is very popular compared to the other CGDCT (Besides K-ON). Jojo Stardust Crusader - The most popular Jojo in which it introduce Stand as the staple of the series, and that it's the most well known series. That said, it's not well known for the story (It's quite old-school and simple), but rather for the meme with some from this series are taken from the final battle. Oh yes, this is the first anime that fully adapted Jojo Part 3, whereas the previous adaptation cut some element to fitting the alloted time. NGNL - One of unique Isekai anime with good graphic, nice opening song, and unique premise. The premise is we have the world where all conflict are settled with the game, and our dual MC Sora and Shiro are master of games that invited to the another world by Ted (The world's deity). Obviously with the world's rule, both Sora and Shiro using their brain to won several games with higher stakes, which make the series is unique seeing that Isekai MCs usually just brute force the problem by using their overwhelming powers. It's too bad that there's still no 2nd season that fans keep asking for, although considering that making good animation took a lot of times and the controversy surrounding NGNL, perhaps it make sense to not have 2nd season. That's all for what I can write in regard of Spring 2014 anime here.
  7. Honestly speaking in regard of flowchart I rarely see much VNs use it, although obviously it would be very helpful tool to see the consequence of the choice. For Sorcery Joker's, seeing that it's linear VN flowchart obviously was used to help the player track the scenes that happen at the same time between POV, which definitely make it easier to see the whole picture. 11eyes also do the same thing in form of table, although it mostly focused on Kakeru. The closest one with Sorcery Joker would be Odin Sphere (RPG), in which Vanillaware provided flowchart that show the scenes between five MCs so you can make the chronology of Odin Sphere. All in all, I guess flowchart can definitely be used to guide the player to make the conclusion in regard of the story, although now that I think of it flowchart can be doubled as Scene Viewer function, which to say is make a nice interface compared to just list the scenes. That's all for what I can write in regard of flowchart.
  8. Welcome to Fuwanovel @clubber, and coincidentally one of my cousin name is also Edward. Feel free to ask for VN recommendation if you need it, and I hope you'll have fun in here.
  9. HapCha - Being the series to celebrate 10th year of Precure, Toei clearly do a number of experiments to the setting, and what I can say is that some are successful (Non-Precure secret keeper) and some are failed (God as Precure benefactor, stronger focus on romance). Regardless, it's pretty clear that using Earth as the singular world with Precure has two worlds is clearly failed, especially when HSPC who also do a number of experiments in Precure formula still keeping the two worlds setting. Also I didn't find myself fond of International Precure even back then, with I already thinking that it looks more like parody than serious setting. That flaw aside, I find that the design is quite nice and simple compared to all of Precure series (Yes, up to HSPC). Wake Up Girl - The episode 2 is certainly quite something in which it deconstruct a bit about fanservice for the idol, and let's just say that it could ended up worse if not for the interefence of the runaway president. Other than that, it's more or less usual idol anime, albeit a bit realistic one. By the way some of its member still working as VA, especially Yoshino Aoyama who just had breakthrough career as the titular character in Bocchi the Rock. Forgot to mention that I did like the initial poster with the idols looks simple compared to the similar idol show (Especially Aikatsu). Nisekoi - It's about Raku who had quite a childhood romance with him currently tangled in mafia politic by having false relationship with cute (And rude like gorilla) Chitoge. Another thing to note is the passionate debate on who is fitting to be Raku's girlfriend, with the strongest cometition is between Chitoge and Raku's crush Onodera. As for the ending, while some may not like the ending, at least it's not something like Hataraku Maou-sama ending. That's all for what I can write in regard of Winter 2014 anime here.
  10. Visual Novel Translation Status (24/09/2023) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and seeing Shiravune decided to license Amazing Grace I figure that I'll make the parody of its opening song title, Cold Voice, by changing 'Voice' into 'Honey' with Honey is another song from the singer's another song (Also Koiiro Chuu Lips opening), so we have 'Cold Honey' as the title. Anyway as for this week, to be honest if not for Amazing Grace announcement it would be a plain one. Other than Amazing Grace announcement, we also have a fan suddenly released translation patch for old Alicesoft VN. Another thing to note is predictable Sharin delay from Frontwing, which in hindsight make sense if we see them put more focus on Ginka. Overall this week is mostly below average one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. Visual Arts is finally released Tsui no Stella, and the release date is today. Well if anything else at least it's nice to see finally Visual Arts released one of their announcements back in January even though it's a redundant release seeing that there's fan translation patch for it was released back in July, and now let's see if they can also released Lunaria in this year as well. Speaking of exact release date announcement, Ninetail also about to release Venus Blood Gaia Steam version today, and good for Venus Blood fans who prefer to just buy it on Steam. Speaking of Ninetail, it's too bad that JAST need to delay the release for Gears of Dragoon 2 because they need to deal with some leftover technical problem, but at least the delay is not too long with the new exact release date will be on October 20th later. Forgot to mention that finally Aniplex about to release Mahoyo on Steam, and for the exact release date it'll be on December 13th later (The link to the store). Frontwing did predictable action with Sharin, namely they delayed it again because of some plug-in problem. I may as well say that it would be better for them to not give any more updates until all of their problem is over and they manage to set the Steam store. That said, it's not like most of the people desperate for Frontwing release anyway, because we already have the main game and its FD being fan translated (Granted that apparently the FD content outside main route is MTL-ed, although turned out that it's actually properly translated with the scripts being unedited). In my case though, I just want to see the finish line for Sharin KS, if only for the backers who trust Frontwing to deliver better translation compared to the available one. Speaking of deliver better translation, turned out Mikandi keep working on Libra retranslation off-screen, and recently they announced the Halloween release plan with them currently do the testing work. Sekai did release nukige focused on little sister succubus, and I have nothing to say other than have fun if you've been waiting for it. Cherry Kiss also released their nukige, and it's about the wives who tried to be helpful to their debt-ridden husbands by working in a cafe that provide sexual service to the customers. Idea Factory announced the exact release for Bakarina VN, and it'll be on November 28th later, which I should remind that it's pure otome VN so obviously no GL routes for three Bakarina's friend. For the aforementioned old Alicesoft VN, it's Only You Re-Cross in that it's the remake of the same old VN from 1996 with said remake is from 2001. The premise is about the MC who got the evil mark in his arm with the government hunt him out of fear. After he being beaten out and then saved by the fighter with tiger mask, he got the clue to protect the eight girls with the possibility that one of those girl might be his destined soulmate. Oh yes it also has PS2 version with the MC was voiced by Midorikawa Hikaru who is known to voiced cool characters in anime, although the one that was translated is PC version. For fan translation updates, we have Fate/Extra CCC is past 90% mark (2340 out of 2499 main scripts) edited and Kud Wafter 18+ version is at 45.9% translated. Lastly, Shiravune announced Amazing Grace in which it's one of Cabbage Soft VN, and as we know they have contract with Sekai in regard of Amairo Chocolate. Granted that it's nothing new that developer can have two overseas publisher (And even Nekonyan can get Shinshou Noise which notably under DMM (Shiravune main company)), but seeing that Sekai seems to be focused on smaller Amairo Chocolate when it come to Cabbage Soft, I hope that Shiravune can also localize two other big Cabbage Soft title (Sakura no Kumo and Jewelry Heart). As for Amazing Grace, it's about the MC who find his beloved town burning on Christmas Eve only to be looped back to the start of Advent (The first Sunday of December, which in Amazing Grace it's December 2nd). From there it's up to the MC to prevent the fire in his town and find the cause of it. Amazing Grace is also has some discussion in regard of art, which may or may not like Sakura no Uta. Oh yes, Shiravune already have the release estimation, in which it's between October to December (Hopefully on December 2nd to be more fitting with the VN), and they already has the Steam store of it. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.
  11. Kill la Kill - Just like how Gurren Lagann answer Evangelion, this time Kill la Kill answer Madoka and I say this because some of Studio Trigger staffs did work on Gurren Lagann. Also just like Gurren Lagann there'll be flashy fight with them making the usual naked body not played for fanservice much but instead it was used as the way to allow the heroes to fight the enemies, and it make sense in the context. Oh yes, even though I say that this is answer Madoka, Trigger staff decided to be frank with the outfit design is more like powered armor without frilly magical girl outfit. Walkure Romanze - I do some search on Youtube seeing that the full translation patch of this has been available, and what I find is that there's a lot of scenes with the director make it as bait and switch for perverted moment. That aside, this series is like Aokana in that both male MC need to deal with their early retirement from being an athlete, and unlike in Aokana at least the staffs realized that Takahiro is the MC instead of Mio. Non Non Biyori - CGDCT in a rural village, and Hotaru is very good looking for a 5th grade (I did use her as my avatar for some times before settled with Nadja). Her aside, it seems people watch it more for Renge. Has male character, although the character is never speak so it's non-factor. Little Busters Refrain - The part where the story started to pick up, and in here the staffs adapt Yuiko's route along with Rin's route and of course Refrain, which make sense of we know the VN seeing that Yuiko's route give us the foreshadowing in regard of story mechanism. Also it's quite obvious that unlike After Story, Refrain here told the story about the secret of the world, although the main meat is on how Riki grew up to be someone who can surpass her cool hero Kyousuke. WA2 - Even though it's called WA2, it only adapt Introductory Chapter so obviously it's still incomplete. Seeing that Introductory Chapter is quite short, at least I can say that the anime adapt this quite faithfully. Note that WA2 did make love triangle being dramatic without relying on violence action like in School Days. As for if the studio can adapt Closing Chapter, while it might be easy to just adapt Setsuna's route in Closing Chapter, they would definitely need to thinking hard on which route that they should adapt to avoid controversy in would be Coda adaptation. Oh yes, like Walkure Romanze the VN of it also already have full translation patch that translate the VN all the way until Coda endings (And mini after stories as well). Lastly I should say that Todokanai Koi (The opening song) here is really iconic WA2 song. That's all for what I can write in regard of Fall 2013 anime.
  12. We have the latest progress, and said progressive currently Yuzuki's route in under QA (And already finished second pass) which apparently mean that it enter the final phase before the release, so perhaps we may have Yuzuki's patch before 2024, although once again the situation can be changed seeing the number of the unfinished works and real life matters. That's all for the update here.
  13. Visual Novel Translation Status (17/09/2023) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and as for the title because we have the update from Ginharu in regard of Yuzuki's route along with H2O release that also has the initial SCA-DI version of Sakura no Uta, I made a parody of the anime Yume-iro Patissiere by changing 'Yume' into 'Sakura' so we have 'Sakura-iro Patissiere' which sounds like Sakura-iro Dreamer VN lol. Oh yes, for the patissiere part it's because Yuzuki's dream to be the great patissiere in order to be like her late father who is a pastry chef (Patissiere mean female pastry chef). As for this week, while we have a number of announcements and releases, I can only say those are quite small, with the biggest update to me is obviously in regard of Ginharu. Overall, this week is an average one and let's see what I can write in regard of it. Sekai has several updates, with the most prominent one is they delayed Usonatsu release because they need to finishing its QA work in which currently is at 30% done. Other than Usonatsu delay, we also have both of Animal Trail (The FD and 2nd game) are apparently just starting the QA work and Nie no Hakoniwa is at halfway edited. Speaking of Nie no Hakoniwa, apparently this VN is bigger than what the illustrator (Sayori) usually work, although whether it'll be true or not we'll see. Frontwing finally have the release date for Ginka, and said date will be on October 26th later. Cherry Kiss is about to release yet another nukige with married women working on cafe to help their husband pay the debt, and they'll release it on 22nd later. Succulent decided to localize two of their own VN, and from what I see the company specialty is short 18+ Otome VN. The first VN is Tsuki no Onna, Kawa no Tenshi, Kami Meku Toki (Or Tsuki no Onna for short) with the story is the female MC met a handsome serial killer and have the romance (By the way the MC breast is very big so much that it can rival the heroine in Milk Factory). The second is Hime no Rakuen with the MC being dominant against the two heroes, or in other word it's otome VN with femdom which is very rare. Both are still not have the release date, so let's just wait and see. We have two releases from fan translation. The first one is yet another small VN from Shinzou Translation with the translated title is The Saddest Smile in the World that has the premise a pachinko addict encounter a girl in the part who want some sweets, and some times after that both started to know each other. For the second release it's Shiina Mahou no Himitsu or in English it should be Shiima Mahou Secret. The premise of the VN goes like we have the MC who live in a rent apartment with the titular Shiina Mahou as the landlady, and one day the MC find out her deepest secret. Namely that she's a doujin author who specialized in drawing erotic manga, which of course embarrassed her very much. Of course, the MC didn't really mad at her work but instead he support Mahou's secret job, and from there both of the MC and Mahou will do a lot of sex in the name of material research. For the rest of fan translation updates, we have Tsuma Netori is at 55% edited, ChuSingura is at 31.54% translated, past three quarter of Fate/Extra CCC (2035 out of 2499 script files) are edited, and Akagoei FD is at 53.51% translated. Last but not the least, Yuzuki's route of Ginharu finally saw QA progress (Or in their word 'under QA'), which mean that at least we already have it fully edited, so at least this should be the last step before finally we have Yuzuki's patch released. Realistically speaking we may have it released in 2024, although I hope that Daybreak can release Yuzuki's patch around Christmas just like Mizuha's patch. Speaking of Mizuha's route, Daybreak already released the update for Mizuha's patch so you can download the update if you didn't like the rough experience of reading her route. That's all for what I can say in regard of this week, and see you next week.
  14. Obviously there's no English translation patch seeing that the team apparently struggling to find the best way to translate Nasu's prose and therefore had several lengthy session of passionate but unproductive debates (If they still working on it). Anyway you didn't need to wait for the translation team finally manage to reach a conclusion and release the patch for PC version, because Aniplex finally saw that the potential for the Steam market and they'll release PC version of Mahoyo on December 13th (The link to the Steam store). As for to put it on Android, it might be possible seeing the engine is Kirikiri, although I don't know how to compress the size.
  15. Congratulation for the release, and thanks for all of the hard work on translating H2O. I hope that more people find this interesting, especially after your hard work on this.
  16. Welcome to Fuwanovel and sorry for the belated greeting, @Meinos Kaen. Good luck on your company, and I hope that you'll have fun in here.
  17. Free - All swimmer are male, so it's pretty clear that the female audience will got their fanservice lol. That aside, well I suppose it's like usual shonen sport. Daybreak Illusion - The obvious Madoka imitation, and unlike Madoka and certain other anime it didn't popular enough to see more work. Speaking about Madoka, Shaft finally have a teaser of it's second movie that was set after Rebellion. Symphogear G - It's quite clear that the singing while fighting is quite successful, so obviously they make the sequel. In G, the team have a new journey, which mean the chance to met new friends and new enemies. So it's more or less another Symphogear. Neptunia - The adaptation of the first three games, although it's mostly adapt the third game faithfully with them mixed up the events from the first and second game. Oh, and obviously it has more comedy compared to the game itself. Silver Spoon - After working on FMA, the author decided to write a story based on her experience of helping her family farm in Hokkaido, and thus we have Silver Spoon. Of course though being the author story on the farm, it's obvious she didn't write on how non-alchemist fight against the alchemist or the homonculi ruled the military state from behind the shadow, but instead just usual slice of live in a farm. Kiniro Mosaic - I knew this anime from a Precure community member, and I decided to watch both series which I manage to like. In here we have Shino who is have fetish for blonde hair, and she find herself drawn to Alice when Shino stay in Alice's house at England (So obviously Alice has blonde hair). In high school, Shino find out that Alice decided to stay in Japan to go to the same school as Shino, and then both of them will have a lot of fun with their friends. Oh yes good job to the staffs to have the VAs spoke in English for the premiere episode, especially Alice and her mother VA. That's all for what I can write in regard of Summer 2013 anime here.
  18. Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live - The best Pretty Rhythm with them improved the song, and I admit that I'd like to hear the duet song. Tatsunoko here also put some focus on the handsome male cast, so at least this time they have more role besides being there as the fanservice for female audience by have them perform several times. Hataraku Maou-sama - The reverse of Maoyu with the hero being female and the demon king being male, and also both got thrown into the real world with the demon king keep thinking that he'll survive in the real world like the demon king. Has the second season in 2022, although apparently the animation gotten worse. It also has controversial ending which to say didn't do any favor to the fans. Attack on Titan - It also got controversial ending, and some hardcore fans got crosse the line by made the death threat to the writer. Anyway the writer did mention that he was inspired by Muv Luv Alternative with the Titan here is obviously stand-in for Beta, and of course with a lot of death and all. Initially the author sent the manga to Shueshia, although they rejected it without realising that it could be their Cash Cow Franchise (Oh well, their loss). Then the writer goes to another publisher, and the rest is history. Date A Live - Admittedly the premise is quite questionable with the MC need to date the spirit to save the world, but surprisingly the author find a way to make it work while adding sci-fi element. Other thing to note is that the artist is also Neptunia franchise artist, so it's normal that Idea Factory (The company behind Neptunia) published the VNs for Date A Live. Devil Survivor 2 - I remember that I make a note on demon summoning cost because resummoning demon from Compendium is quite costly and I played this up to the early 7th day. Anyway for the anime, let's just say that the staffs got a bit creative in regard of rewriting and arranging some of the game plot points. That's all for what I can comment in regard of Spring 2023 anime here.
  19. Visual Novel Translation Status (10/09/2023) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and since we have both H2O and Anonymous Code release I decided to change 'Sand' from H2O full title (H2O -Footprints in the Sand-) into 'Code', so we have 'Footprints in the Code' as the title. As for this week, I can say that it's an interesting one, especially with the fan translation has several releases. Other than that, we also have Anonymous Code in that it's the newest entry of Science Adventure series. Other than those two releases, we also have several release announcements. Anyway, let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Craftwork delayed their Geminism release to November 24th with their reason is they want to make the work in perfect condition or something like that. Sekai announced they'll release something on 22nd later, although it's just their little sister succubus nukige. Well, at least their backlog is decreased again. Shiravune announced that they got the license for Criminal Border after posting the very obvious hint with the picture of Meryl (One of Criminal Border heroine). For the info Criminal Border is the serial VN from Purple Software with the core staffs are the one who work on Nine, although unfortunately Tsubasu is not working with them but instead they work with the new artist (Not the usual Purple Software artist), so I can only say that I need to get used to the art in that I keep thinking so ever since Purple Software reveal it. Oh yes they already have the exact release date for the 1st part, and it'll be on November 14th later. We have a surprise release of the translation patch for the VN Gensou Rougoku no Kaleidoscope in which it's Ryukishi07 VN with the Itaru Hinoue as the artist (Her art is not as bad as Koropokkur), and this time Ryukishi try to write four girls got trapped in a death game. The game master give two choice to the girls, in which they'll either see everyone or one of them dead. The other thing that I know is that it's quite underrated and it's only for console (PSV and Switch), so feel free to try the VN if you have the console and want to read more Ryukishi's work. For the updates, we have Tsuma Netori is at halfway edited, Haruka no Sora Kozue's route is at halfway translated along with the overall VN is past three quarter (77%) translated and TLC-ed, 1629 out of 2499 script files for Fate/Extra CCC are edited, and Akagoei 3 is at 52.04% translated. As for Majikoi A-5, it's the last part of Majikoi A and with this now Majikoi A is fully translated so good for Majikoi fans. I did mention that we would have H2O release in this month, although I didn't know if the translator would release it in last Friday. H2O is the VN from way back in 2006 with the anime adaptation available, and for the premise we have Takuma who is blind ever since his mother death move the rural village in order to allow himself to move onfrom his mother's death. In the village, he met the rude Hayame, the kind Hinata, and the mysterious Otoha, and Takuma somehow has his blindness gradually recovered the more he interact with the three heroines. Oh yes, the patch also translate the fandisc (Root after and another) with said fandisc add some more contents, such as the route for some side characters with one of said character is a trap (Interestingly enough the MC for the trap route is female, which to say is quite unique), and most prominently the some sort trial of Sakura no Uta that SCA-DI would have a lot of problem finishing it until 2015. Anyway get H2O if you want to play old VN from Makura which should be good as long you didn't expect another Subahibi or Sakura no Uta, and have fun. Lastly we have Anonymous Code released, and said work is the sixth game of Science Adventure series in which it had go through rewriting six times. It should also be mentioned that other than console it also available for PC, so at least you can play it if you have PC but didn't have the console. Oh yes it also has English dub, and from what I hear it's definitely far better than Taisho Alice dub lol (Although to be fair Somnium duology English dub are quite good). For the premise we have the world in 2037 still reeling after the disaster called Sad Morning in 2036, and one of the people who live in such world is Pollon who is well known hacker and has imaginary fiancee with the name Aizaki Momo. One day after his prank goes wrong, he find a girl with animal costume who has the same name as his imaginary fiancee was in problem. Seeing that Pollon is like to help someone, he decided to help Momo even though it may risk his life, if not for the gadget that allow him to do Save and Load (So yeah there'll be some Fourth Wall Break here) that he somehow gained. Go get Anonymous Code if you want the newest Science Adventure, and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.
  20. Maoyuu - Well it's like Spice and Wolf especially with the hero and the demon queen has same VAs as Lawrence and Holo respectively (Also with the talk of economy at the start of the story). That aside, the work here did challenge on hero's perspective when it come to save humanity, which the smart the demon queen would shown the hero it won't be simply to just beat the demon queen because turned out the economy for both sides are revolving around war. Oh yes, this series is quite unique in that the author didn't bother to give the name to the casts, but instead just called them as the class that they have. Love Live - The humble beginning of the big Love Live franchise, and this is created after they made several animated music video (MV). It should be noted that this is the third attempt of Bandai making the idol franchise after Idolmaster and Aikatsu, although it has difference in which it didn't have male manager or weekly concert, but instead it's just nine girls who banded together to save their school. It has 3D CGI for the dance, but at least it's better than Aikatsu early CGI. Oh yes since there's none of male, naturally GL fans have a lot of fun enjoying this and quite often ship some of the members. Kira-kira 5th Anniversary - This isn't really anime series with coherent story, but rather several songs from Overdrive VNs sang in the concert. So yes it's more or less 25 minutes MV that you can watch it in this link (No English sub though, but instead it has Chinese sub). DDPC - This time Toei decided to make every episode has some plot advancement along with making some change, although unfortunately the change manage to sour most of the audience. The reason is because Toei decided to make the new mid-season Precure from someone out of nowhere instead of someone that has been foreshadowed enough, and it's really telling that each Precure after this almost always will use the character that has been around since the beginning as the mid-season Precure (Even if it's not, there's always leak with Toei didn't dare to stray from it). That said, this is interesting Precure series if you didn't mind the controversy, and by the way I should mention that Nabatame voiced the pink Precure (Cure Heart) here. Da Capo 3 - The anime only adapt the Prologue instead of the main story which obviously won't even scratch the main story of the VN itself. Also the Prologue here is not really the real prologue of the VN (The real prologue was hidden as one of the side story), but instead just show the reincarnation of the casts in the main story. That said, the anime did manage to bring small Sakura into Prologue story even though she supposed to show up in the main story (As in she didn't appear in the Prologue). That's all for what I can write in regard of Winter 2013 anime here.
  21. Love Chuunibyou and Other Delusions - A story about a male (Yuuta) meet female (Rikka) who happen to be chuunibyou (Therefore have high imagination), which obviously would going to getting closer. Another thing to note is that Rikka's imagination is involving battle, which allow Kyoani to show their animation skill in battle scenes even though technically the scenes is not happening for real. Madoka Recap - The reason it exist is to allow the watcher to watch the series again, although the main reason is obviously because Shaft and it's director realized that Madoka have potential to gather the money, therefore they decided to milk by making the recap movie before moving on to the other things. Code Breaker - Initially it has female MC, although the author obviously wrote it from the time when Shonen manga MC is mostly male so the decoy female MC soon overshadowed by the true male MC. Anyway, no much to say other than the anime has fighting and all per usual 2000's Shonen series. Aikatsu - I like the first opening song Signalize, although as for the 3D dance let's just say that it's quite rough so much that my sister who watched it in around 2013 New Year can even see it (She just casually watch the anime for the info). For the anime itself, it's pretty much like Precure except the staff change 'fighting of the week' concept into 'performance of the week' concert. Admittedly Pretty Rhythm also does that, but at least it has some drama in the mix. Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal 2 - The continuation of Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal, and yes I forgot to mention that Yuma also has XYZ Extra Deck monster as his ace (Number 39 Utopia), although it's not as good as Stardust Dragon when it come to card for the tournament. Shin Sekai no Yori - I did wonder why there's GL tag even though I already know the anime is quite dark, and only by reading the manga I see why there's a GL tag along with the author tried to justify the scenes (Not really neccesary though). That said, the main focus is on how the casts will try to survive in their messed up world where ESP is treated as symbol of power. Little Busters - At first the fans has doubt whether JC Staff can do good job to animate it seeing that Kyoani did the good job to adapted all three previous KEY VNs (Also on how JC Staff did their best to make the infamous Tsukihime anime), and turned out they did the job quite well. For the first part, it adapt four out of six routes with JC Staffs save both of Yuiko and Rin routes (The latter for a very obvious reason) for the next part. Robotic Notes - It's pretty clear that MAGES hope that they can repeat Steins Gate success in anime adaptation, For the anime itself, at least the anime is quite faithful to the VN. Jojo - Obviously people watching this not because of the groundbreaking story (It's manga is from 1986 and the story is quite cliche by today or 2012 standard), but instead it's for the meme which to say quite handful. The anime here adapt the first two parts, because each manga is quite short with the first part only has 45 chapters which the staffs adapted into first 9 episodes. That said, it's quite important because it's established the hero villain relationship that will keep ongoing until the sixth chapter. Also with all of the manga are already finished long ago, at least you didn't need to worry for filler here. That's all for what I can write in regard of Fall 2012 anime here.
  22. It's been a while since the update, and this time the update (The source) is kind of big. The first update is we have the update for Mizuha's patch was released, so in case you've been waiting for the fix because a number of typo you can get the update in their website (The link to the MEGA page for the update). The second update is in regard of Yuzuki's QA which will start in a week, or if we base it from the posting date it'll be on 11th later. With the QA time announced, it can be seen as Irru already finished his editing work. That said, as for the chance to get Yuzuki's patch as Christmas gift, I don't really know seeing that there's still much work left with one of those is applying the subbed ending song for Mizuha's route. That's all for the most recent update in regard of Ginharu.
  23. Welcome to Fuwanovel, and your name remind me of fighting the boss with that name in Mana Khemia lol. Anyway quite straightforward introduction, so I'll just say that I hope you'll have fun in here as well.
  24. SAO - Gonna give a praise to the original, especially with the staffs going all out with the adaptation. That said, there's also controversial plot in the latter half with the author himself was embarrassed that he resort to wrote it. On the other hand though, the success of SAO mean more copy of it, and obviously some of the later isekai story based on SAO (Especially the MC in which they made it similar with Kirito as much as possible), which lead to the saturation of the story with isekai premise. On the other hand, at least isekai story didn't only focused with female MC like in the past. Kokoro Connect - I recall that I did some searching back when the translation project for the VN of it was happening, and what I found is bullying scandal to one of the VA which can be summarized as the joke goes too far resulting some shakeup in the middle of the series. Other than that, well it's about body switching between each casts before it got serious in later episodes. MLA Total Eclipse - The closest MLA anime that the fans got in 2014, and at least it expand the world of MLA so that age can making more of MLA works base on the setting. Oh yes, we have the VN version of it was just fully translated in last year. Koichoco - We have translation patch of this, and Nekonyan announced this with the plan to release it in this year (More like Hikari Field plan though). The anime did adapt Chisato route (Which make sense seeing that the player forced to play her route first in the original version), although it add some Satsuki backstory and the original villain. Lastly, the opening song of the anime is quite good. That's all for what I can write in regard of Summer 2012 anime here.
  25. Visual Novel Translation Status (03/09/2023) Because we have Norn9 FD with Nobuo Uematsu as one of the composer released and Nekonyan also announce the exact release date for Secret Agent, I figure that I make a parody for one of the most famous soundtrack that Uematsu have, specifically 'One-Winged Angel' which is very famous as the theme of the main villain for FF7 (And yes, in the past Uematsu is more known as the main composer of Final Fantasy), so we have 'One-Winged Agent' as the title, which somehow still fitting seeing that there's Agent archetype in Yu-Gi-Oh with each members themselves are the angels that represent the planets. Anyway, while Nekonyan announcement is interesting, overall I should say that this week is another below average one, and let's see what I can write in regard of it. Aksys did release the fandisc for Norn9, and it's obviously the after stories for each of the routes in the main game. Other than that, it's just too bad there's no Steam release for English version of Norn9 while Idea Factory approved Steam release for Chinese version. Go play Norn9 FD if you want to see it's and obviously have Switch, and have fun. Once again Frontwing delaying the release for Sharin to September, and apparently the reason is because there's still some works left or something like that. Then again, Frontwing did have two (Relatively) major releases in last two months, so perhaps the delay is kind of make sense to a degree. As for the exact release date of Secret Agent, it'll be on 29th later so feel free to take note of the date if you want to play first translated ensemble VN. For fan translation, we have the QC work for H2O is finished, so all that's left is obviously working on what's left before finally released it, and since the translator targeting September release we may see it in the near future. For the rest of the updates, we have 1465 out of 2499 main scripts of Fate/Extra CCC are edited, Tsuma Netori is at 40% edited, ChuSingura is at 31.11% translated, Akagoei FD is fully edited, and Akagoei 3 is past halfway (50.03%) translated. We also have Aonatsu Line trial patch release, although since the translator is very honest so much that he admit that he used DeepL to learning the base of the dialogue, obviously it's no longer can be called as manual translation. At least I can just ignore this altogether now, seeing that I'm not exactly a fan of them working on Switch version instead of PC version even though I know the programmer can only work on Switch game. That's all for what I can week in regard of this week, and sorry for being short here. See you next week. PS - I know today we have Majikoi A-5 release along with Shiravune leaked a very obvious hint to their next announcement, although I'll talk about it in the next VNTS Review.
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