Nier

From the title, it should be obvious that we'll talk about AX 2017 (Even though it's still a week away), and of course that'll be include what kind of announcement that you expect from the company in regard of VN translation. By the way, before going to list the company that'll joining AX let me apologize of my title was too simple there.
As we knew, AX is one of bigger convention for anime fan that we had at America in which it was also influenced the worldwide anime fan. My bad attempt to explain AX aside, this convention was one of the biggest if we talk about Visual Novel announcement if only because usually we got some major VNs title to be localized. Or at least that's my impression for following it for two years. Anyway, as for this year we had all of the VN localization doing the conventions later, including JAST showing of how big AX was. Let's see what I could write here, and keep in mind that all of those was just my opinion or speculation.
Mangagamer
Currently the company with the most expectation here, and this time they will have three panels this time instead of one. Yes, three panel in which two of those would be hosted by both of illustrator for VNs (Itaru Hinoue who was from KEY and Ran Yamakaze from Moonstone). Other than those two illustrator panelist, Mangagamer also had Keika Hanada (Fata Morgana) as their special guest. As for the announcement, they had four in which it's still unknown what's their announcement were (Duh), although we knew that at least one of the announcement was from Mangagamer's new partner. For now I wouldn't expect much, but if I may say something I think it's more than likely that Love Sweets would be announced by Moonstone at AX later with Mangagamer as their publisher (It's pretty obvious anyway, so it might be change later).
Oh, and here's the schedule for Mangagamer panels below from their site (Mangagamer booth was at booth 2423, booth 2522, and booth 2523):
MangaGamer Panel Saturday 9:30 PM to 11:30 PM PST in LP3
Itaru Hinoue Panel Sunday 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM PST in LP3
Ran Yamakaze Panel Tuesday 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM PST in LP5
 
Sekai Project
Their panel will be at booth 4515 (It's even in their Twitter username), and the time would be at Sunday 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM PST in LP5. Like Mangagamer, they also had one special guest in which they'll talk about the new fault game (It's Alice in Dissonance by the way, and the game was Silence the Pendant). As for the expectation, well if I may say a thing I would said that I think there's a chance that they'll announce Astral Air at AX later, provided that Favorite didn't change their attention to Mangagamer as the new publisher partner like Purple Software. The reason I said this was because in the last AX, there's Saku Saku that was localized by Sekai that came from the same translation group as Astral Air, while for the second reason there's Chuee statement (Or to be exact response) in regard of Astral Air. I'll post his comment below, including the answered question:
Considering that it's Sekai, I think it's possible that they'll announce it even with the QC progress was still incomplete just like back at Baldr Sky announcement. There's also the matter that recently Sekai didn't had major VN title announced from their convention since AX, so I would say that this would be their chance to announce Astral Air localization here. Although I may said like this, of course I would be still in shock though if it's turn out to be true that Sekai announced Astral Air at their panel later. Other than Astral Air, i don't had any guess for Sekai announcement later.
As for Denpasoft, once again they also will had a panel separated from Sekai in which their schedule was at Sunday 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM PST. They also had special guest here, Saji Sasai who work at Sumikko Soft (Harumade Kukuru), so perhaps I could expect Harumade Kukuru would be one of Denpasoft announcements (Other than usual 18+ version of Sekai announcement). Besides, I think it's more fitting that Denpa was the one who publish it instead of Sekai, because the VN itself was full of sex scene ie just an ordinary nukige.
Frontwing
Well, I wouldn't expect any new announcements from them (It's still nice though if we get one). But it would be nice though if they announce when the exact date for the release of either Subahibi or Island (Both was better though), instead of announced additional volume for Phantom Trigger (Granted, it was necessary though). Then again, maybe there'll be more people who like Phantom Trigger announcement more so there's that. As for their panel I think it's more like at the TV or something like that (It was called Frontwing TV) so I wouldn't be so sure here, although I knew their panel time for sure though (It was at Monday 9:00 PM -10:00 PM PST). Oh, and the panel would be had 18+ content apparently.
For JAST, they didn't had any conventions since last AX, so actually it's easy to just ignore them lol. That aside, apparently they'll give the updates at their current projects and also will announced some of new VNs localization, so it might be worth to watch out. As for the schedule, it'll be at Sunday 9:30 PM to 10:30 PM PST.
Other than those company above, there's Degica who also joined the AX although for now I don't know the exact time for their panel though. For now I just expect that they'll announce some Muve Luv announcement, although it would be nice though if they prepare some Kogado VNs.
I think that's all for my post now, and sorry if I posted this too early. Have fun for waiting for AX later, and speculate here.
PS - Here's the abridge of the schedule if you just using the internet to following AX (Like me). As for PST, it was the time zone that Los Angeles (AX location) use and hope it'll be help to anyone else who would confused to knew what time they must see the panel.
Mangagamer Panel - Saturday (July 1st) 9:30 PM to 11:30 PM PST Itaru Hinoue Panel - Sunday (July 2nd) 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM PST in LP3 Ran Yamakaze Panel - Tuesday (July 4th) 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM PST in LP5 Sekai Project Panel - Sunday 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM PST Denpasoft Panel - Sunday 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM PST Frontwing Panel (Or just Frontwing TV) - Monday (July 3rd) 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM PST JAST USA Panel - Sunday 9:30 PM to 10:30 PM PST

UPDATE 30/06/17: New Bio cards and changes:

BIO CARDS:
 












 
 
OTHER CHANGES:
-The game will have +60 CGs+BGs
-Increased ammount of Sprites
-Script increased from 56k to 60k words (minor rework to replace any bland scene with better dialogue)

Stay tuned, I'll update with more news soon.

Well to be honest I forgot that the translator was female here lol. Thanks for reminding me there.
Anyway, good news here even though I'd late to deliver it. Apparently the translator (Yeah123) was already found the hacker and managed to extract the script. So I hope that in near future she could begin Tukiyori translation, and if that happen I'll try to report any visible progress in this thread if possible.

Isn't "yeah123" a "she" though?

Yeah, the main translator from Ate the Moon (Katahane, Ayakashibito) is back and right now he she ask for the help. Or to be specific he she asked for hacker to hack one of untranslated VN (If possible a dedicated one), because he she was about to translate one VN there. The VN in question was Tsukiyori (Or Tsuritou just as the translator said) in which was had translation project here before it's stalled. I'd quite interested with the VN itself, although to tell the truth I didn't had any skill here. Here's the post from the translator himself herself if you curious.
Requesting hacking help – Tsuriotsu
Hope some hacker from here could help him her if possible, and I hope that it'll be translated in the future.
Edit (7/15) - Now that the project was officially started, I decided to change the title to reflect that (Former title 'Request from Ate the Moon Translation').

I have no idea when the patch will be done. All that's left to do is technical stuff, and that can take merely a few days or several weeks filled with bugs and crashers.

They need to define "translation passes," because most professional VN translations have only one translation pass. Did that mean no editing, either? It doesn't matter, though, because here's the deal: No good translation has ever looked like how this translation looks like at ANY stage. This isn't a case of it being unfinished, this is a case of the people involved having no idea what they're doing. They should never have been allowed to translate this to begin with. If the extra passes were to be performed by these guys, then I highly doubt it would turn out much better anyway.
Either way, it seems like 7 Happy Creations, the translation firm they hired for this project, borderline scammed Mikandi Japan. They charged an excessive premium for their services (WAY more than any other VN TL company), while having little to no experience and absolutely no talent for this.
edit: I'd also like to point out that "Yakkety yak yak" is an acceptable alternative to "bla bla bla" and such.

It's happening BOi!!

Thanks for all the hard work Pabloc, I'm looking forward to it.

Holy shit. Guys, the matter is done and settled already. Please, drop it.
Congratulations to Pabloc for finally reaching the finish line! I'm really excited for you.

Things are going well. Got an editor onboard, who will start editing soon. We are in the middle of getting him set up with the tools etc at the moment.
 
Progress wise, things aren't moving super fast, but I make sure there is at least some form of progress every week.
I was planning to get a lot more TLing done during my vacation, but I just really needed some personal time to relax and recover from a long year at uni during these first few weeks.
My vacation is long, so I have plenty of time to get more TLing done in the coming months. The progress will hopefully speed up soon.

Indeed.
I finished the TL yesterday and there are only 2 scripts left to edit, so I'd say it should be sooner rather than later. I have no idea how much making the actual patch will take though.

Why NISAmerica specifically though? What about PQube, Atlus U.S.A. and Aksys Games?

Hi everyone, I recently made an online petition in an attempt to localize Exile Election, a visual novel similar in style to the Danganronpa and Zero Escape series, death game adventure visual novels. If you're interested in helping persuade localizers to localize the visual novel please consider signing here: https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/localize-exile-election.html  
You don't need to make an account and you can remain anonymous if you like.
Thank you for your time and support

http://www.views-pr.jp/ <-- This company, maybe?
That's not quite how math works, unfortunately. 0.5 * 50 = (0.5 * 25) + (0.5 * 25)

I mean, "I'll shout you"? Who comes up with this shit!?

Yes, the Hoshimemo fan TL was acceptable. I found it a bit too much "accented", but it was manageable.
And @br4zil, before you care for the TL you have to care whether you like the game or not 

Ugh, nope. Sweet Love if full of sex-scenes - that's just too much vanilla for me. >_<
Speaking of sex-scenes... now I know why this last damn script is so long. I was kinda suspicious about it, since the previous one needs only a short epilogue, and yeah - one more H-scene! This will take more than a week... -.-' It's good that shipping stuff from Japan takes some time, so I won't get totally distracted by ChronoBox or something.
That aside, editing pretty much caught up with the TL already, so we can move on to making the patch and QC-ing everything right after we deal with the last script. ^^

Corona Blossom is a packful of utter nonsense.

Well, of course they're kamige. They're all about goddesses.

There are panties in the UI so all your complaints have been nullified.
 
 

TLnote: Pantsu means panties.

Hoshimemo has already been available in english since 2012, you can go ahead and play it right now to see if you like it or not.

Uh, sorry, but the translation is very badly done. It's not "a few mistakes," it's a constant stream of massive fuckups. 
Anyway, the "quantity over quality" argument is one I will vehemently disagree with, though I doubt any debate on the matter would be productive.

Libra just got taken off my VNDB wishlist. If I'm paying for a professionally produced product, I expect professional translation standards.