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I did not even try this banner.
In all honesty, I am farming quartz to roll for Sigurd again in the new year banner.
Glasses boy is the only thing I want, but judging from past experiences, he is probably the one I won't get. If I get anything at all. -
On 10/9/2020 at 3:49 PM, ligigi said:
the link is no longer available. can you help me?
Is this still related to Sorcery Jokers? I looked back to the original post, but I can't really check if this is what you want to extract data from.
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I watched "The Rising of The Shield Hero" anime and while the portrail of the suffering Martyr gets overly abused sometimes, the anime ends when this aspect of the saga is about to come to an end as well.
Sadly, that IS the impression most people get from the first season.
I ended up gobbling down every content I could find and read all 17 light novel volumes available in english.
I have to say the series has its ups and downs, but overall it has much more than the whole "false rape accusations are horrible" and "modern day slavery is fine if you treat your slaves well enough" that brought all the hate and love the series got.
Fortunately, the second season supposedly will cover at least the Spirit Tortoise Arc, which covers quite a bit of character development and introduces a lot more regarding how the world works.
It should settle for new and old fans alike, while solving the problems the first season had. -
Currently rewatching Neon Genesis Evangelion (Netflix changed the ending song, so I am kind of annoyed at that) and boy, watching this again after you get older gives a totally different perspective on Shinji's character (not only him. The entire cast has a lot of inner struggles that you can barely understand when you are young).
Almost on episode 20 and this series is amazing (much more than I remembered).On 02/07/2019 at 10:26 AM, wei123 said:Just completed Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2. The secret hidden in Eren's basement has finally been revealed, making it a huge turning point in the series. The fight scenes were also top notch as expected. Overall a very good watch but it's a pity that there are only 10 episodes.
On another note, the final season of AoT will premiere next year. It will start from Volume 23 (Chapter 91) of the manga and adapt 2 very long arcs, so I'm really looking forward to it.
I also watched it and I heard the manga is also near completion. Do you have any idea how many chapters are left? -
2 minutes ago, PrincessOfFinch said:
I might like the ending, who knows!
I've never read the manga to Elfen Lied but the show was my first 'adult' anime so I guess it's kinda special in that regard. I still think the show is cool but it's not the best.
Regarding Gurren Lagann, I am a tear jerker for happy endings. Well...
SpoilerThe marriage scene almost made me cry. And I don't know how I feel about it.
I don't really enjoy bittersweet endings, but I can see the beauty in them.The manga has not the most perfect story in the universe, but it is damn worth a read, at least once.
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22 minutes ago, PrincessOfFinch said:
Hibike Euphonium, Highschool DxD, Kakegurui, Mirai Nikki, Welcome to the NHK, Nichijou, No Game No Life, Spice and Wolf, Gurren Lagann, Elfen Lied (rewatch), and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1 (rewatch).
Gurren Lagann is very good. I don't like the ending that much, but I could hardly think of something not too cheesy.
Also, Elfen Lied's manga is quite beautiful indeed. The anime did great on the soundtracks, but it covered almost nothing of it.
When the shit would really hit the fan, it ended. -
Recently I finished reading Claymore (yeeees..... The ending is so much more satisfying than the goddamned filler ending the anime had). Raki as a male adult that did not act like youma livestock? Hell yeah.
I also re-read Dragon Quest Dai no Daibouken (for the many brazilians here, it's the source material for the anime "Fly, o pequeno guerreiro", which people older than 25 should know quite well).
The animation itself was the closest thing to the original material I've ever seen in my life, but unfortunately it covers the story only up to volume 10. The manga has 37 volumes, so roughly only a quarter was covered (and they stopped right before one of the most awesome fights in the entire thing, creating a filler ending. Meh).
Edit: Pop is the best side character, ever. His bromance with Dai (Fly) is so well written that you almost feel the dude should be the MC.
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16 minutes ago, Kosakyun said:
I'd like to think that its main driving force isn't the despair that accompanies this descent into the Abyss, but the grand adventure that waits for them in its depths. While I do say that, ittaku's comment is also spot-on. It doesn't cut corners in presenting the dangers that accompany their endeavor, and it quite honestly has one of the most painful scenes to watch that I've seen from recent shows. I cannot begin to try and draw a comparison between it and the shows you mentioned.
But, I stand my ground that it's not the grueling hardships that make Made in Abyss the show it is. It's the wonder the characters have for the unknown, and the different ways in which they try and satisfy this wonder. But then again, that's true for the two shows you mentioned as well (which are primarily driven by other, stronger elements) so you do you. I hope you're able to give them a try someday.
I find the OP an accurate representation of the overall atmosphere of the show. Give it a watch:
I also dropped Code Geass (but due to me not enjoying the characters as much as I have with other shows. Lelouch is awesome, yes, but I kind of did not get into it).
This one (Made in Abyss) is another one I skipped due to the "a little too cute design". After Madoka (which I genuinely enjoyed because Homura is a walking plot twist) I kind of turned my radar on for this kind.
Urobutcher is good, but my poor heart has a limit on the despair side. -
I am not sure if this one has been posted before, but Saya no Uta's OSTs is one of the best and most fitting collection of BGMs I've seen.
Silent Sorrow and Shapeshift come to mind, but Schizophrenia and Sin are also very good.
Saya no Uta is so underrated it hurts.
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On 13/04/2019 at 5:27 PM, MirāNoHebi said:
Just watched the 2nd Heaven's Feel movie...and wow. It is exquisite. Superb. Awesome. Splendid visuals. Also...the way Sakura was rendered in a certain scene, well, lets just say that kind of appeal at that kind of proximity in real life you'd explode. Just off the charts.
I have yet to watch that and I am a little worried.
The first movie was as rushed as one could expect, had the flaws one could expect, but overall I enjoyed it.
Sure, some scenes were bound to be cut or rushed.
But the content on the second and third movies is the main reason Heaven's Feel route is so good.
Also, Shirou grabbing Sakura by her waist and calling her his woman is priceless (I doubt this scene will even exist on the movies, but oh well).
Shirou being the one to use the mana excuse just to bang the heroine is just amazingly hilarious (when you compare his actions with the other 2 routes) that you kind of need to accept she managed to get him in the horny side of the Force.
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Rewatched Trigun for the 4t67th time.... Totally worth it.
I also enjoy the soundtrack, which I listen to every now and then while going to work.
I am not really into watching anything new lately, except maybe One Punch Man (well, it is funny as hell... And I can really use this kind of escapism in my days off).
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On 20/03/2019 at 9:54 AM, Dreamysyu said:
All of them are love interests in other age games though. And none of them are even interested in Takeru this way.
I meant in the original game, in which Shirogane is actually a badass Eishi and is considered awesome by the female cast (because, well, there are almost NO MEN in the entire army due to...
Spoiler...80% of male humans being already dead by the time the plot happens.
In the spin-offs (Altered Fable and CO. The Day After is a totally different beast) we only see our regular nerdy student Shirogane, who isn't a nice friend by any means to anyone in the cast (with the exception of maybe Mikoto). There is no reason for anyone to like the bastard, despite Sumika's "childhood friend unrequited love" (which I never bought, to be honest).
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On 20/03/2019 at 11:32 AM, AustriaVNFan said:
You probably misunderstodd me
I DID finish Tsukihime... but still I never got into this VN, it was simply a VN that I had to fight hard to finish...
Aw... Ok hahaha
Well, personal taste is very subjective. But I am glad you finished it.
Ciel's route in particular can be.... Challenging. -
18 hours ago, Nandemonai said:
The entire point of Persona 3's story is how one finds meaning in one's life, given the inevitability of death. [...] Letting him cheat death would cheapen the point of the story.
See Persona 2. The first part (Innocent Sin) is a group of friends (Tatsuya, Maya, Sarah and Eikichi) trying to solve the mysteries regarding rumors that once spread become reality. Thing is, they bit way more than they could ever hope to chew and...
Spoiler...were manipulated by your favorite Lovecraftian Outer god Nyarlathothep to end the world. How? By letting people create humors that would bring the Last Battallion and Hitler back to life and by a rumor according to Mayan legends they lift the entire city in the air. That lures the team to beat the badies and.... In the end Maya gets killed. According to Mayan legends the world would end when a woman named Maya is killed inside that temple. Voi la! Everyone in the rest of the world dies, save for those now in the floating city.
They are, then, given a choice to reset the world so that none of this would happen. The price is that they would never meet, never feel anything for each other again. They boldly accept and the world is reset anew.This is lacking a lot of context, but the way the game leads you to that moment is so nicely done that you stop caring about the absurdities. Specially since Maya needs to earn her "best female character of all time" title someday.
The second part (Eternal Punishment) is literally what the name says.
SpoilerTatsuya refuses to pay the price and this splits reality into two different worlds. One that is the world of Innocent Sin (still retaining all that transpired) and this new world, where he is the only one that remembers.
His actions, however, kind of set in motion the same events that led to the destruction of his original world. There is NO HAPPY ENDING at all in Persona 2. Just the struggle.The game is amazing, but only if you play both and in order. And if you like bittersweet endings.
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Natal from Evenicle.
I mean, Evenicle doesn't have a route at all and the MC literally fucks every female thing whilling (mostly) but Natal was left out of his roost, even though she liked him and he had been wanting to do her since first sight.
Sure, her final scene is cute AF (because her character is good) and even though she had a reasonable motive not to join as another wife, I consider it a huge missed opportunity.
Tsukihime's Arihiko as a "bromance for life" interest. He is the main reason Shiki is bearable at certain points. Arihiko is totally husbando and bromando material.
Ah, the entire Izumi's Valkyries unit from Muv Luv Alternative. Once again, there is no actual route here, but they should have been love interests.
I mean, Kashiwagi is the greatest fem-bro of all time. Why not a love interest also?
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On 18/03/2019 at 11:19 AM, AustriaVNFan said:
Tsukihime: Although so many people seem to love that VN I just couldn't get into it. It seemed horribly repetitive and the pace was soo slow. Also the soundtrack was really boring although I normally don't judge a VN by that. The only route I could get into was Arcueid's.
Even though I love Arcueid as a character for what she is (and how well her entire existence is consistent with the way she acts) I recommend at least trying to go deeper.
Ciel's route can be tiresome because it looks like the exact same path as Arcueid's, but her real route starts when Roa is dealt with.
Arcueid and Ciel make the "Near side of the Moon" arc. While I enjoy it (mostly due to Arcueid's character alone) the "Far side of the Moon" arc is MUCH better.
Akiha, Hisui and Kohaku make up said arc and they stand for the best stuff there is in the visual novel, really.
Give it another chance and you are not going to regret it.
As for me, I started but lost interest in Kikokugai (The Cyberslayer) for reasons beyond me. I simply stopped and never got back into it, even though the premise is interesting. Almost 10 years later and I still remember the initial plot, which might mean something.
I also never managed to beat Evenicle's last boss. The game is amazing and I laughed hard way too many times while playing it, but after I went out of the last dungeon to grind a bit, I had a huge change in my life and never touched it again. -
Single rolls. Period.
The only 10 pull that got me anything was the first, when I had just started playing and the Rashomon event was up.
I got 30 quartz from Fuiyuki and France's free quests and daily logins and got myself 2 Shutens on the same 10 pull.
Everything that came after that was thru single pulls alone. Vlad Berserker, Francis Drake, Tit Arthuria Lancer and a ton of 4 stars, including the summer Kiyohime Lancer and 2 Martha rulers.
I am 100% F2P and I gotta say 10 pulls is for whales. -
4 hours ago, TakunDes said:
Does anyone want to help out with extracting the script from ゾンビのあふれた世界で俺だけが襲われな ?
I did look at the tutorial section but it didn't seem to help much. It's using Noa file type for the Scripts. Anyone can give guidance on what tools are needed to extract for this game. the thread on data-extraction-thread/ was very unhelpful
I am interested in translating the first one, if it all goes well translating the second and third game as well, just kinda want to make its popularity grows. I don't have a job and I use PC full time everyday for up to 10-15 hours so I had plenty of time around doing nothing atm
help would be appreciated!
Edit: Okay I managed to extract the script into XML so i can edit them to English, but how do i export it back to Noa file again for testing?
Edit2: okay I figured out everything luckily, and it works in game
Whoa. That was fast.
Good luck on your project buddy -
7 minutes ago, Archangel said:
Don't need it anymore, got what I want.
Oh ok. I know the thread has been here for a while now, but since no one answered I got worried.
Cheers to you then
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Went MIA because I moved from one country to another, twice. I honestly apologize for not updating here, as I wasn't available during this time.
Handle (the one you use or plan to use): AstralSword
Positions you can fill:
Text Editor (English) - A test is required. While I am not terrible at it, english is not my first language.
Image Editor/Cleaner - I am good at cleaning and editing, but I am not good at drawing. Sadly, I am can't draw a vagina to save my life (mosaics are my bane).
Script scene-recreator (once the logic behind it is understood, I can make whatever you want).
Video editor (adjusting size, adding subtitles, turning videos into giant .gifs - in case the engine accepts gifs for mobile background and not video files);
Types of projects (VNs) preferred: Whatever keeps me interested till the end. Usually Nitro+ and Type-Moon stuff.
Availability (edit this one as you get involved in projects): Currently working on my own Demonbane translation/Realta Nua thing, but I can manage to work on another.
VNs most interested in producing an ftl for: Usually Nitro+ and Type-Moon stuff.
Motivation for joining in on ftl: Basically, I love to read. And VNs became a large portion of what I read on my free time, so I think it is time to contribute back to the community.
Conditions (any additional conditions, under which you will or won't work):-
For the greater good (and by that I mean greater quality) run a few tests for the role you want me to perform. A friend once told me I was a jack of all trades, and that is quite accurate. I know a bit of every role (I fare better at some roles than I do at others) but I am not really a specialist at any of them.
Run a test. If I pass, then we go from there.
There is no such thing as a rejection when it comes to projects like this. If I do not fit the minimum quality requirements for a job, just say it. I won't bite you or anything. Quality standards exist for a reason. -
I work
and do college(finally... It was about damn time I graduated), so my free time is not always the same as everyone else's. That being said, a nazi-narrow schedule is overkill. - If I say I will do something, then I will. There is no need to keep asking every 10 minutes if I did my job.
- I try to do my work as soon as possible, exactely to prevent what I wrote above from happening. If I have any changes in my schedule, you will be the first to know.
- You can clearly see that I am very easy to deal with. Just throw anything at me and, if it is interesting enough, then I am game.
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For the greater good (and by that I mean greater quality) run a few tests for the role you want me to perform. A friend once told me I was a jack of all trades, and that is quite accurate. I know a bit of every role (I fare better at some roles than I do at others) but I am not really a specialist at any of them.
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On 08/04/2018 at 4:30 PM, Archangel said:
So, I recently figured out how exl6ren works, but I want to translate a CERTAIN Visual Novel, but I have no idea how to edit the .scr files. Can anybody help me with this?
.scr is a file extension commonly used on screen-savers. Is it the extension in the script files?
Did you try to open it using any text editor, such as Notepad++?
If this fails, send me a sample and I will see what I can do. -
6 minutes ago, tymmur said:
Darbury wrote about that specific issue.
I understand that completely but, if you have the time to wait untill your mind "forgets" what you wrote, that issue can be minimized (not to perfection, of course, but after two passes it is bound to be very close).
My Demonbane translation from english to portuguese is going smoothly in the sense that I actually like the results of the first 2 chapters.
One thing that works to erase the "auto-correct effect" (at least in my head) is to recompile the translated script in the game and proofread it there.
Since I translate the script using Notepad++, reading it in the game is like looking at a totally different beast.The font is a different size, there are OSTs, there are CGs, so the feeling inside your head is different. It works.
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On 27/04/2018 at 8:16 PM, StrategyMasterz said:
ermm, what does that mean?
Probably referencing this:
From KonoSuba:
EXPLOSION: The sole spell in Megumeme’s arsenal, which she can only cast once a day. Cast with an overly-long incantation punctuated by an Engrish pronunciation of the word “explosion”, the spell is a common “mark-out” moment for many fans. “EXPLOSION” is commonly spammed in the comments sections for KonoSuba-related material online.Basically, you sparkled a flaming. Nothing wrong with that once in a while, though. Specially since it was not your intention (just like the character in question).
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On 27/04/2018 at 7:50 PM, StrategyMasterz said:
Thanks! Well if I have no choice but to wait 3 years just so I can help with VNs well I've got no choice then
I am a translator and my own editor (not japanese-english, but an editor's role is not bound by language. The job is the same nonetheless).
An editor must be fluent and very knowledgeable of manierisms in said language, in order do be able to put 'feeling' into the translation (which I believe you are, since you are an american native-speaker).
Let's put it this way: The characters MUST look like a real person speaking when they express themselves. Otherwise, the translation won't be adequate.
In my case, that is a pain, since it is hard (close to impossible IMHO) to take both roles simultaneously.
I translate close to 500 lines, make a read-check to correct the most grotesque mistakes, then go to the next 500 lines.
After a day, I go back to the first 500 lines and then act as the editor (since my mind would not be attuned to the not so obvious mistakes I made the first time around).
In your case, you could take the editor role right away, since you would be reading something another person wrote. It is hard to notice your own mistakes, but not the ones from someone else.
All in all, good luck with school, and just do not stop reading. It keeps your mind sharp.
What Anime are you watching now?
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Posted · Edited by AstralSword
Yes indeed. The first half goes pretty much until the first wave ends and we have the duel between Naofumi and Motoyasu. This is covered in the very first volume of the light novel alone.
The Spirit Tortoise Arc validates the Shield Hero as the only one (up to that point) the whole world can count on, in full contrast with the "suffering Martyr" thingey.
Otherworldly threats come to light in full force, even crashing the boundaries set for the world the MC was summoned to.
I'll say no more. It's best if we just wait for it to air and hope the adaptation will do the source material justice