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I'm sure MG is feeling pretty good about their decision to dump these guys right about now.

Funny, because I also didn't know what Atelier Sakura was, and I was half-expecting that MangaGamer was getting involved in localizing Gust's Atelier game series.

Hi!
So, we have a completely different release and marketing schedule for Japan and overseas.
The reason Vol.2 has been announced and preorders opened in Japan is that the physical release of Vol.1 was last Friday, and the promotion for Vol.2 was prepared in light of that.
We haven't started promoting Vol.2 overseas yet for a number of reasons; for example, we're still reviewing all the feedback we got about Vol.1 and figuring out how to approach Vol.2's release in light of that, also, we're going to be utilizing Indiegogo again essentially as a pre-order platform for the game (more on our reasoning for this will come when the campaign is announced), but not all of the goods, etc. have been completely prepared yet so we've held off on an opening date announcement for that (but it's coming soon!).  It has nothing to do with our relationship with or standing in the Western VN community, nor with the sales of Vol.1.
As far as the tapestry is concerned, our contract with Sofmap prevented us from being able to offer it overseas.  I'm glad you like the design, and it's unfortunate we couldn't make it more easily available, but there's literally nothing we could do about that.
I've mentioned it before, but we're certainly not affiliated in any way with anyone trying to guilt people into buying our products or anything remotely like that.  At this point the only person speaking for Frontwing outside of official social media accounts is me.  To be perfectly honest, it's a bit disheartening to me that people still think of us like the OP does, but in a way, that just means I'm not doing my job well enough, so I do apologize for that.
Lastly, (criticism of the pricing model and format of the H-scenes aside) while Corona Blossom may not be a genre-changing masterpiece, I think the reviews for Vol.1 on Steam and other sites show that at the very least the game doesn't "suck"!

One thing to appreciate, at least Frontwing is engaging with fans, trying to see what they can do differently. They did this with Sharin no Kuni, and are going to bring back the KS after making changes, and now this. Just this bit of outreach can do wonders for a company's image cough cough 

Three DIFFERENT official S;G releases.
Not a single official C;H release.
P.S. Also, R;N exists, I guess.

That's quite a leak.
Poster translation:
Note: There's a few kanji I couldn't make out due to the low resolution of the image, so I interpolated.  Should still be more or less correct, but don't focus too much on the exact wording.

I know I forget about this thread a lot, but even I was surprised to see the last post was in February. Whoops.
Anyway, not sure how many people might be following along here, but I promise we're much better at updating on Twitter (team is @AlienworksDev, my personal is @Raithfyre) and I hope that we're going to get much better at updating our blog. Though that might depend on whenever we get web stuff figured out.
REGARDLESS, we've made lots of progress and improved many things since the last time I posted here. We're up to a couple hundred thousand words and, by our estimates, that's only maybe a quarter or a third of the way through. Naturally, quantity =/= quality when it comes to writing, and we're going to try to not have lots of padding and fluff (at least, not beyond what you'd expect/hope for from a largely-slice-of-life game) but HRP will definitely be on the lengthier side of things.
We're hoping to have the game out by this time next year - ideally more like June or July 2017 though. That new demo that we wanted to do will probably be around in the spring, though it's harder for me to estimate which month.
The biggest news we have is the premiere of our opening theme, with a coinciding new trailer. The theme song, "REIGNITE," was composed and recorded by the music studio ARTE REFACT (Love Live, IDOLM@STER, and more) and vocals are performed by Sasaki Sayaka (Planetarian anime, Nichijou, Girls und Panzer). Yeah, we're kinda shocked too.
 
Also, we released our first game, the yuri kinetic novel Highway Blossoms, back in June. You can grab it on Steam or itch.io. Bats did a review of it here on Fuwa if you'd like to look at that before (or after!) buying.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/452440/
Surprise! Although this time we had slightly more hype than what we've typically been getting, the suddenness still feels jarring. The game will unlock on Steam in approximately four hours from the time of this post, according to Steam's countdown timer. 
Many of you may remember the demo debacle from this spring. JAST seemed to have taken that criticism to heart and really spent a lot of time heavily retooling the translation. I've talked to @meru, the new main translator on the team dedicated to fixing the translation, and it sounds like a lot of work has been put into making it better. 
As for what Flowers actually is, check out this extensive review from Golden Sneer. https://goldensneer.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/flowers-le-volume-sur-printemps/

I find this song so beautiful and calming...

http://www.hj-story.com/comics/                 So Cute!!
 
These comics were published free from the author.

After hearing about it a lot on here, I decided to play Katawa Shoujo! I just finished Act 1 and got to Lily's route. I find myself liking Lily and Hanako the most, so I am happy I got one of their routes as my first one.

Since we're giving out titles for upcoming Sakura titles -- and let's be honest, over half of them are going to become a reality at some point -- here's a snazzy tier-list me and couple of friends convo'd a good while ago, more than half thought by yours truly.
It features Sakura-fied™ titles from VNs, movies, memes, and other video games alike.
Embedded version for slackers:
Good times

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I was in this position about a year and a half ago. I ended up choosing the PS Vita, and I don't regret it at all. I would recommend it to you as well. If possible, try to get one of the Vita's with the OLED screen. I haven't played the slim, but I know several people that have said the OLED screen is better than the one on the slim. The Vita also has a lot more VNs available on it too! There are some extremely good ones like the Danganronpa series, VLR, Steins;Gate and more. It is also worth noting that the Vita is region-free and the 3DS is not, so if there is a VN or another game that is only released in Japan, you can import it and play it very easily! If you want a 3DS game from another region, you would need a 3DS from that region.
For reference in case this helps at all, here is a list of VNs for Vita in English (either available or coming soon). Here is a list of the ones available for 3DS.
Also, FYI, Corpse Party and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows are compatible with the Vita. I have the whole series on mine.  I also heard a rumour this month about 999 possibly coming out to the Vita, so let's hope it's true!
Based on my experience making this same decision (I found myself making a lot of the same pros/cons as you) and what you are saying, I think the Vita would be a better choice for you, especially if you aren't too interested in the library besides Pokemon and Animal Crossing (Those were the exact same franchises I wanted it for too lol). Even though Sony might not be supporting the Vita too much, there are still a lot of games coming out for it! Depending on what your taste in games is, there might be a lot of great games for you! 
I hope I helped!

I started playing Everlasting Summer last night for a few hours, and I am liking it so far!  The character art looks a bit weird sometimes, but I am enjoying the story. The music is pretty good too!

It feels kinda like option 9 fits more if you don't really know much about a specific VN or VNs at all. That's because it gives info of the VN before it throws walkthrough  and 100% saves at you. Making the reader want to actually play it them self. But for someone that knows what it/they are it kinda feels like giving them info on walkthroughs and save files quicker will make things easier for them. But seeing as Fuwanovels goal is to get new people into VNs, giving them info what a VN is about feels more important than 100% save files. IMO of course.  

I voted for option 1 since I think having all of the resources at the top looks the best. Option 2 looks pretty nice too, but I prefer the first option to it. 

I just hopped on Steam and gave you a Yes vote.  Good luck!

Before this can be translated and read(properly) Chaos;Head Noah needs to be translated(as LCC is a Sequel the remake of Chaos;Head known as Chaos;Head Noah)
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/16019-chaoshead-noah-pc-port-and-translation-project/
 

Chaos;Head Love Chu☆Chu! - VNDB
NoahTranslations.wordpress.com
Hello! I'm Rimi and I'd like to bring "Chaos;Head Love Chu Chu!" over to the English speaking community! I feel I'm on the way to at least being able to look for translators as all the needed tools have been found or created. If your interested on how I came to the current point you can read about that over on where I first started a thread for this project over on GBATemp - http://gbatemp.net/threads/chaos-head-chu☆chu.432748/. Anyway if you weren't aware ChuChu is a game that branches off from it's main game "Chaos;Head" which is part of the SciADV series. We would be working with the PSP version of the game as I do not own nor know where to start with modifying xbox360, ps3, or vita games.  
Team Members:
RimiNishijou - Engineer of Sorts. waterflame - Image Editor, Blog Manager Progress:
As of 7/5/16
Tools needed to modify the game to work friendly with English have been completed. Extracted text is in a workable format Recruitment:
Translator Translation checker Proofreader Editor Contact Information: Please  either reply to this thread or via a PM. If at that point you'd like to use a different form of communication it can be discussed.
Via PM Reply below Via our website Closing statement: I am fully aware of the amount of time and effort that will be needed to be put in to the game. As stated on the GBATemp thread if this project were to fail I can at least leave the tools needed to res the project from the dead if someone wants. That way they wouldn't need to deal with that side of things. Questions? Comment? Concern? You can leave em below or PM them if you so wish and I'll try my best to answer them.
In-game screenshots:

Hey there, Kairi, welcome to Fuwanovel! Can't remember if I congratulated you before, but if I did, oh well, Congrats on getting your degree! Hope you enjoy your time here, there's plenty of great people! Exclamation points!!  yes I went to XBA and got him

Hello! I just made an account, so I figured I should try to introduce myself! I'm normally quite bad with introductions, so I'm sorry if this is bad. XD
I am Kimi, but I tend to go by Kairi on forums like this. I recently finished university and got a degree in French. I am hoping to become a translator or an editor in the future. I have quite a few hobbies, but gaming is definitely the biggest! I have many different consoles and one gigantic backlog. I mostly play on either the Xbox 360 or the PS Vita, but I like playing on other devices too like the DS, PSP, and PS2. My favourite genres are action, adventure, fighting, hack and slash, platformers, and RPGs. I also really like reading books and comics too. 
I have been interested in visual novels for quite a while, but I haven't played many since I used to be extremely busy with time-consuming things like my thesis translation project for my degree. Now that I am done with school and have much more free time, I would like to start reading more of them!
I am glad to be here and hope to become involved with the community!