Mr Poltroon

I'll do this one. I'm almost finished with the VN anyway.

I'm playing it. It's got quite a lot more going on than I actually expected it to.

Well, JAST will not be doing the translation, so that's +1 to speed, at least.

The bug ignored whatever preferences were set there. It excluded all titles with certain tags from searches, regardless of preferences. That's all it did. I don't think it unchecked the preferences, as at least it did not do so to me, but it might have for others.

The issues with hidden search content were a bug, not a feature. This bug has since been fixed. The settings regarding extreme content that Steam currently has and has had for years had nothing to do with the bug, and the bug ignored them.

I was also convinced it didn't have honorifics, until I noticed it did. They're rare since almost nobody actually uses them. Yuzuyu doesn't bother with them, the guys don't use them, Tomomi prefers nicknames... They're just rare all around.

First of all, editing and testing are factors that can take as long or more than the translation took. Especially because these are gameplay titles, and some of them non-linear at that. And it's not just the staff that takes longer. Gameplay titles also last longer for the players, so they at least avoid releasing gameplay titles in quick succession, and Evenicle came out just a bit over a month ago. If too many were released in succession, they would theoretically eat into each other's sales. Third, Decay is correct.

It's certainly in the cards, if they can work with Japanese closely enough to write/translate the script for Liberation Day.

"a rare attempt at expanding to the Japanese market (at least successful enough that the games’ developer, Love in Space, apparently works on making their upcoming title, JP-idol themed Shining Song Starnova, into another export product, with Japanese voice acting and other elements rarely seen in western-produced VNs). " I found this weird when I first read it, for I'd always been under the impression that Love in Space's titles were exclusive to the west. After checking it out, though, it appears Liberation Day has a Japanese version. Mask of Arcadius seems to have something in Japanese too, I think, but I don't believe any other of their products are available in Japanese, including Starnova.

I had no idea it was common knowledge my permissions were traditionally messed up. Most concerning, this information leakage. Incidentally, my random playlist happened to start playing https://youtu.be/wuoN9MesbW0 just as I was reading the culprit's name. I would feel this is quite a coincidence if my random playlist were not packed full of ace attorney tracks.

There is no need for further aid, as the walkthrough for this title is already available.

May I ask for the Source?

And I sincerely appreciate their efforts in this approach.

It would not. I imagine they do not intend on acting retroactively unless the pot is stirred.

Shining Song Starnova is also published by Sekai Project. As has been mentioned before, Maitetsu was approved for Steam before they took a slightly more definitive stance of implementing filtering tools. It was not through arbitrary luck that one got approved and the other did not.