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I suppose it's up to someone else to finish the job for them. Preferably our group if we had more people interested in the "cause."

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, known to American audiences as Rumbling Hearts, is a visual novel dating back to 2001 that deals with heartbreak, psychological trauma, fickle romance, and mounds upon mounds of drama grounded in crude, unmitigated realism. If any of y'all have seen the anime series of which it spawned, you probably have a good idea of what this ingeniously crafted plot entails. However, despite these characteristics, this visual novel has yet to be fully translated into English, having sat on the shelves in relative obscurity for almost a decade and a half while its contemporaries and even its semi-sequels (i.e. the Muv-Luv franchise) get thoroughly translated for VN aficionados to relish. Since the early 2000s, many people have constantly talked about translating it but to no avail. I say that it's time to revitalize this project and truly bring to fruition what I feel is a long overdue and deferred dream: the translation of a gut-wrecheningly tragic Bildungsroman into the English language.