Lycoris Virens

Ciel kind of looks like Alice now, also DAT MINISKIRT on Arcrueid. Can't wait for this to come out.

Currently reading suigetsu and asairo. Had to drop muramasa because it is too hard for me to read enjoyably (vertical text, old japanese, long technical/political parts.) On another note, I felt some of the early paths in hoshizora no memoria took away from some of the later routes and the game as a whole, did anyone else get this?

Somehow, the thread went from quality of translations to the state of the forums. Fan involvement can't expected to be high for visual novels as in the first place, this is a pretty solitary activity. I would have to disagree with some of the quality expectations for visual novels. Honestly, if someone wants to translate something regardless of the output quality they are free to do so. Whether it is approved of is a different matter entirely, whether the translation is distributed at all is a different matter entirely. Hell, just because someone's translation is crap doesn't give anyone the sudden right to tell them what they do with THEIR time (Or at least it's not polite.) It takes a completely different level of understanding to be able to read as opposed to be able to translate not to mention the enormous time investment required to even make a few scripts remotely understandable in another language. This doesn't even take into account the time required to make tools to extract and reinsert text into the games only to find there are font/spacing issues. This again takes time to fix. Machine translations will be machine translations but when a person willingly takes the effort and time to do something, as long as they aren't hurting anyone or anything in the process there is absolutely no reason that they can't release what they made, no matter how much the ugly-duckling it is.

Aozaki's moon blasting laser! Poor snark.

1. Kageaki - Muramasa - Race cars. 2. Yamato - Majikoi - Hermit Crabs. 3. Shou - Flyable Heart - Food.