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Suzu Fanatic Fuwa Elite

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1 hour ago, Decay said:

In this week's VNTS, I touch upon the social issue Maitetsu will face with Steam. Mainly, I wonder how many people will be afraid to buy and play Maitetsu on Steam purely out of shame?

Being all-ages (technically - at least on Steam anyway), there shouldn't be any more shame then owning any other anime-based vn or game imo - only people that are familiar with the medium - and more specifically, Lose - will have any idea. To anyone else, it's just more "anime trash". Now, if SP does something stupid like leave in any scenes that show skin - even if "safe" - or have anything that sexualizes the characters - THAT I could see causing problems, and hesitation from many consumers.

 

Otherwise if SP does proper censoring, it'll just be another moege(?)~

 

Afterthought: Afterall, from what I can tell - it's basically Kancol with trains - it just has a controversial origin.

 

Also, what is shame? I don't think it and I have ever met :makina:

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7 hours ago, Zenophilious said:

Imagine the shit that would go down if parents found out that their kids were buying games from a company that was also selling a loli fucking game (obviously not true, but we all know how the media would report on that).

Not true? So Maitetsu isn't just a nukige with loli trains?


I'm just glad I'll get ImoPara 2. :P

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I guess the only two releases worth mentioning of both companies are ImoPara 2 and Maitetsu.

I'm fine with ImoPara2 since it's more than I would have expected from such a small con, especially considering what rubbish MG 'could' have announced.

Sekai Project seems to have gotten inspired by Jast's Starless and do the same with Maitetsu just with lolis instead of fetish content. It's fascinating to see how our precious English VN publishers manage to always pick the most outrages titles between hundreds and thousands of other top VN's that would be perfectly save. Anyway, I'm not into loliges so I can fortunately follow the whole affair with a bemused smile. :illya:

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Well the whole thing was disappointing to say the least.

As far as Maitetsu goes, I really don't see the reason to license a title they know is controversial only to remove the majority of it's content. While I didn't really have much plans for Maitetsu before, I absolutely deplore removal of content to give a half-assed product.     

Then there's Sakura Manga ........   

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Kawasumi Fuwa Elite

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people are actually wondering why maitetsu? Did you see how many bought the all ages nekopara versions lol.

And nekopara actually leads me to what I wanted to talk about, PRODUCTION VALUE.

Maitetsu has A LOT of it, including animated sprites even in the CGs (you cant deny that when you talk about vns, then this actually counts as something "out of the ordinary"), the game engine they use is solid as hell.

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john 'mr. customer' smith Fuwa Elite

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26 minutes ago, Kawasumi said:

people are actually wondering why maitetsu? Did you see how many bought the all ages nekopara versions lol.

And nekopara actually leads me to what I wanted to talk about, PRODUCTION VALUE.

Maitetsu has A LOT of it, including animated sprites even in the CGs (you cant deny that when you talk about vns, then this actually counts as something "out of the ordinary"), the game engine they use is solid as hell.

I agree. They're a company, and so long as there's more money to be made from localizing these high-value titles, that's what they're going to do. I don't blame them for that. They have released critically acclaimed vns in the past like planetarian and grisaia, neither of which sold very well. It's just a shame that the public perception of visual novels is developing this way

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Satsuki Fuwa Master

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33 minutes ago, Kawasumi said:

people are actually wondering why maitetsu? Did you see how many bought the all ages nekopara versions lol.

And nekopara actually leads me to what I wanted to talk about, PRODUCTION VALUE.

Maitetsu has A LOT of it, including animated sprites even in the CGs (you cant deny that when you talk about vns, then this actually counts as something "out of the ordinary"), the game engine they use is solid as hell.

B-But...child porn! International law violation! Africa! Blah blah!

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Lolicon issues surely interesting I supposed, and with Maitetsu company who also developed Monobeno which also full of loli. I think it's safe to said that lolicon was controversial thing.

Anyway, this announcement was maybe kinda underwhelming but I'll try to make tier list just like back at VNDB for this announcement.

Good (See It Later)

  • Maitetsu

Slightly Interesting (Ooooookay)

  • Still, I Miss Her (OKVN, or Original Korea Visual Novel)
  • Companion

Take your time Mangagamer (Not looking forward)

  • Imouto Paradise 2

??? (Didn't know much other than this is side product for VN)

  • Yurirei Drama CD
  • Free Friend Hard Copy
  • Sakura Spirit Manga

For tier good first, from VNDB list and Kawasumi VN, I think this VN had high production value, especially when Lose (The company behind it) provided different song for ED and sang by the seiyuu for each route (Or so my interpretation according to VNDB list, although it may common for recent VN though). Also, here we had seiyuu like Kadowaki Mai and Kawashima Rino voicing side character, and we knew how much those 2 experienced in voicing eroge, especially for Kawashima (As for Kadowaki, I'm sure some of Fate fan here recognize her voice as Ilya). The premise though to be honest was like moe train, just like moe battleship back at Kancolle. Also, since this game was just released in Japan recently, we still couldn't gauge how good the story were if we based that on review, so the solution was waiting for a release than play it by yourself and see if it's good or not. Shame that the discussion that had with this game was censored lolicon thing, oh well.

Still, I Miss Her had slightly interesting art, the premise was apparently quite dark so maybe we'll had interesting dark drama in love that could end up like infamous School Days Bad End, which the anime was adapted that and spawn meme called Nice Boat. As for Companion, I think the premise was so alike eden, except the star (In here it's actually small planet) that caused apocalypse was at first by human in order to control overpopulation on Earth instead came from the space, but in the end the star was lost control and about to cause apocalypse to Earth. Still, I think those 2 companies was still new in VN making and I kinda wonder if fan reaction could be think that it'll be better than original. Well, looks like Solidbatman here looking forward to those 2 for the arts though, so at least those 2 VN already had someone who want to play it, which is nice of course.

As for Imopara 2, anyone interested of how pink haired heroine from Imopara 1 could had the daughter with same hair, same personality, AND SAME SEIYUU (Yukimura Toa). Although I knew the reason was that the developer too lazy to made the pink haired heroine with different hairstyle though lol, but at least the developer here put much more effort to design other heroines hairstyle and their body I supposed. I mean at least they different from their mother. The premise ? In first Imopara, MC was had fun incest and screw all of the heroine which of course all of them were siblings (And how could the parents from Imopara 1 had the 5 daughters with different hair colour and 1 son is a mystery we'd never know, unless they also had incest lol). In here, apparently harem route was canon from Imopara and they managed to inbreed with MC from Imopara 1, and pink haired heroine from Imopara 1 had MC and pink haired heroine from Imopara 2. And the story was like the parents here was leaving MC, his little sisters, and his little cousins who born from the result of incest alone in the house. And since this is nukige, of course the people who left in the house involved in sex duh. I'd not had much interest in this I think as of now.

For the rest, I just summed up my though below

  1. FreeFriend Hard Copy was unnecessary, unless someone who like to own every hard copy for the game they played
  2. Yurirei Drama CD was interesting, but I think Mangagamer probably will sell it with the translated script in the case. Actually, speaking about translating Drama CD, it had already done by GundamAce back in Animesuki forum with Ever17 Drama CD, so it's quite interesting to see official company first translate Drama CD I think
  3. Sakura Spirit Manga, well let's just said that it'll be at ecchi segment if there's effort to scan it and posted on any manga sharing site

I think that's all of my thought for this morning announcement. Well quite a letdown after I tried to wake up at 9 am. Oh well, at least there's still 5 more events to speculate, and looks like Mangagamer will announce their new partner for next announcement. As for Sekai announcement at almost 3 hours later, I'll try to type my thought tomorrow if I had the chance. Oh, and happy early Easter by the way. Sorry for my bad English.

PS - From Sekai, I'd actually far more looking forward of how much Root Double was ready before release it. Download Edition was fine, but oh well.

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littleshogun Fuwa Master

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Tokeijikake, eh. Well, looks like Kohaku announcement was their cooperation with Sekai. And actually Tokeijikake translation homepage was not showing progress for several month, also this is first part of 3 sequels, so not so much looking forward from very start of translation I think.

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Arcadeotic Fuwa Master

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I think it as great news that Tokeijikake got picked up by Sekai

I do love this series greatly, and I'll now be looking forward to this a lot

At least something good came out, although I concider Maitetsu and ImoPara 2 as good news as well

But hot damn, this is something to look forward to

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