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Greetings, friends. Decay’s back this week and I’ve come to you with an important announcement: Summer is now officially over! In accordance with my earlier explanation for how long summer lasts for, KoiRizo’s release marks the final summer VN release. You can shove those gaudy hawaiian tees back into the closet, and you also better change all of your calendars to denote summer’s new end date, because now it’s finally Official. Also, my apologies to JAST, looks like Shiny Days just barely missed the mark.
Welcome to our weekly APSVNTS (A Pretty Sweet Visual Novel Translation Status) series, in which we track visual novel translation updates in-house (we don’t rely on /jp/ posts on 4ch, for example) and post it for your enlightenment and enjoyment each Saturday. If you find any errors, or you think a project is missing from this list, please let me know in the comments. Any new updates are marked by orange text.
The Short Version:
Only the New Stuff
Anniversary no Kuni no Alice – Nice boost to 55% translated
AstralAir – Progress continues to be swift and steady, now up to 46.92%
Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort – Released! Download the patch here.
Lover Able – New project! At 6.84%
Magical Eyes – Red is for Anguish – Newly added to the increasingly growing “others” portion of the list, it’s some kind of upcoming mystery VN with a dash of horror being translated by Fruitbat Factory.
Oreimo Tsuzuku (Disc 2) – More progress, now 96.6% translated. They’re in need of more volunteers in order to not delay things further, so check them out if you think you can help!
Utawarerumono Portable – No tracked progress updates but they issued a new blog post to assure us they’re not dead
White Album 2 – TL at 29.43%.
From MangaGamer, Sonohana – Remembering How We Met is now released, while release dates for Go Go Nippon (Oct 16) and Kara no Shoujo 2 (Oct 30) have been announced, along with other project updates!
JAST seems to be updating their new status page pretty often, which is great for us who like to track it. Flowers is now at 100% translation. Keep it up!
We missed some Sekai Project update last week, sorry! Check out their new project status tracker here.
Fault Milestone Two was released a couple weeks ago, looks like we’ve slept on that one. Sorry! Get it here.
A Kickstarter for Witch boy Magical piece launched last week. It’s a BL visual novel about magical boys transforming into magical girls. It doesn’t look to be doing so hot, so spread the word and support it if BL is your thing.
And another Kickstarter, this one for the pretty sweet Muv-Luv series! This bad boy has already gained $350,000 in its first 24 hours and it’s steadily crushing all expectations and records previously established by visual novel Kickstarters. This is “real game” money!
Fan Translation
Fan TL Project
Team
Brief Status Summary
Akaya Akashiya Ayakashino
(VNDB)
AkaAka TL
(Updates)
TL: 98%;
Editing: 15%; 2/3 of common proofread; Demo being tested
Amagami
(VNDB)
Ni Shi Shi TL
(Progress)
TL: 61.1% (1410/2308)
Amairo Islenauts
(VNDB)
Sakura Subs
(Progress)
Prologue TL: 100%; Edit: 100%
Common TL: 100%; Edit: 99%
Airi: TL: 0%; Edit: 0%
Masaki TL: 40%; TLC: 25%
Shirley TL: 20%; TLC: 10%
Yune TL: 0%; Edit: 0%
Konoka TL: 40%; TLC: 20%
Bonus TL: 20%; Edit: 0%
Anniversary no Kuni no Alice
(VNDB)
Märchen TL (Progress)
TL: 55%;
Edit: 39%;
Proofread: 28%
Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm (Aokana)
(VNDB)
OriginalRen
(Progress)
“The common route is now finished, in addition to Asuka and Misaki’s routes. This includes editing.”
AstralAir
(VNDB)
AstralAir TL
(Progress)
TL: 29,998/63,940 (46.92%)
Ayakashi Gohan!
(VNDB)
Hanataba TL
(Progress)
Ayakashi common route: 100%
Asagi’s route: 1667/5631 lines (30%)
Haginosuke’s route: 3798/4634 lines (82%)
Manatsu: 2041/4358 lines (47%)
Suou’s route: 2588/5246 lines (49%)
Uta: 100%!
Yomi: 1429/5349 lines (27%)
Trial is translated and patch is available! (link)
Black Wolves Saga -Bloody Nightmare-
(VNDB)
Golden Spirit
(Progress)
TL: 55/65 scripts
Edit: 49/65 scripts
Brother Conflict PSP
(VNDB)
PassionAndBrilliance
(Progress)
Passion Pink: TL – 100%
Brilliant Blue: TL – : 5%
Note: Despite JP Vita release, the team is continuing the project (link)
Bunny Black 2
(VNDB)
Seiha TL
(Progress)
Aroduc put together the to-do list and project plan. (Update topic)
Clover Day’s
(VNDB)
Yakusoku TL
(Progress)
Common TL: 100%;
Anzu TL: 49%;
Anri TL: 16%;
Hekiru TL: 10.25%;
Tsubame TL: 40%;
Izumi: 12%;
Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient
(VNDB)
Hysteric 4 U
New Goal: Late ’15/ Early ’16
(Counter on site isn’t accurate)
DSP #3
(Denwatls’ Secret Project)
Denwatls
(Progress)
TL: 10% (Project began on 20 July 2015)
Gore Screaming Show
(VNDB)
Crying TL
(Progress)
TL – 29%
TLC- 0%
Editing – 12% (Re-editing)
Image Editing – 11%
NEEDS TL HELP
HaraKano
(VNDB)
Loe Quality TL
(Progress)
Marina 100% Patch released
Haruka Na Sora
(VNDB)
trjr
(Progress)
The team is currently focusing on Yosuga no Sora before working on this one.
Hatsukoi 1/1
(VNDB)
Kousetsu Translations
(Progress)
TL: 11409 lines
Edit: ~10200 lines
Hiiro no Kakera
(VNDB)
Otome Game TL
(Progress)
Being translated, see site.
Latest post:
[HnK] Chapter 1 – Day 2 – Part 3
Hoka no Onna no Ko to H wo Shiteiru Ore wo Mite Koufun Suru Kanojo
(VNDB)
(Progress)
NSFW
TL: 5882 lines
Edit: 2024 lines
Holy Breaker
(VNDB)
Skyspear TL
(Website Coming Soon) (Thread)
Picked up
Looking for TLC.
Iinazuke wa Imouto-sama!
(VNDB)
Imouto TL
(Progress)
Patch released: Complete version .91 Patch (translation is complete, will undergo revisions)
Immoral Little
(VNDB)
Tiny Lilly
(Progress)
Translation started
Imouto Paradise 2
(VNDB)
Regulator Software
(Progress)
Added to the list. NSFW. 63/298
Irotoridori no Sekai
(VNDB)
SakuSaku TL
(Progress)
PICKED UP. Some progress already reported (link).
Needs 1 Editor (critical) and 1 translator.
Pretty sure the main project is still Koisaku atm, tho.
Ken ga Kimi
(VNDB)
Golden Spirit
(Progress)
TL: 115/122 scripts
Edit: 81/122
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
(VNDB)
Alternative Projects
(Progress)
First chapter’s translation completed (link)
Koi ga Saku Koro Sakura Doki (Koisaku)
(VNDB)
SakuSaku TL
(Progress)
TL: 46265/49257 (94%)
Edit: 31858/49257 (65%)
QC: 31858/49257 (65%)
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate (Koichoco)
(VNDB)
Basic TL
(Progress)
TL: 100%
Edit: 100%
QC: 85.6%% (340/397)
Koiken Otome
(VNDB)
Flying Pantsu
(Progress)
TL: 96.55% (39,304 lines);
TLC: 90.38% (36,792 lines);
Edit: 83.09% (33,824 lines);
QC: 81.53% (33,192/ 40,710 lines); Prologue patch released.
Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort
(VNDB)
MDZ
(Updates: Page, Doc)
Released! (link)
KoiTate
(VNDB)
Magicflier
(Progress)
TL: 89% (34139/38001);
Edit: 58% (22248/38001)
Kono Oozora Retranslation Project
(VNDB)
(Progress in this thread)
“Common route, Kotori’s route and twins’ routes are 100% translated”. (link)
Kud Wafter
(VNDB)
Project Wafuu
(Progress)
TL: 39.18%
Kurukuru Fanatic
(VNDB)
Dark Eye
(Progress)
TL: 87.5%
Little Busters EX/ME
(VNDB)
Doki & Fuzzy
(Updates: Page, Doc)
Total TL: 98.5% (29712);
Total Edit: 58.27% (17576)
Total QC: 0%
Lovely x Cation
(VNDB)
Elevator TL
(Progress)
Overall: 21%
Lover Able
(VNDB)
EvilObject
(Progress)
TL: 6.84%
Mahoutsukai no Yoru
(VNDB)
Commie Fansubs
(Progress – outdated)
Fully translated, undergoing editing.
Mahoutsukai no Yoru
(VNDB)
Loe Quality
(Progress)
2.2/200+ scripts translated
Majikoi A-1
(VNDB)
Maji TL
(Progress)
Overall: 11.4%
Monster Girl Quest Paradox
(VNDB)
DargothTL
(Blog) (MGQP-Related Posts)
“Progress: Not as much as I’d like”
MGQ Paradox English Patch v1.21a released (see this post).
Muv-Luv Altered Fable
(VNDB)
Jutsuki Sen
(Progress)
3rd patch released in 2014: with Sumika, Meiya, Kashiwagi routes
Muv-Luv Alternative – Total Eclipse
(VNDB)
Alternative Projects
(Progress)
25% (Link)
Noble Works
(VNDB)
Oxford Comma
(Progress)
TL: 92.9% (53,589/57,690)
Nursery Rhyme
(VNDB)
Kururu
(Progress)
Needs a hacker! TL: 25.9% (8543/32977)
Edit: 2% (805 / 32977)
Oreimo Tsuzuku (Disc 2)
(VNDB)
Rinjinbu
(Progress)
TL:: 96.6%;
TLC: 80.6%;
Edit: 71.6%
Needs more volunteers!
PersonA
(VNDB)
(Progress)
TL: 43%
Edit: 33%
NOT DEAD! Dealing with lots of errors. “So far I have all of Raoul’s and Fantome’s routes translated. I am working on Philip sand would say I’m about half done with them.”
Princess Maker 5
(VNDB)
(Updates: Page, Doc)
TL (100 – unTLd): 86.06%;
Finalized TL: 32.91%
Rance 5D
(VNDB)
2.0 TL
(Progress)
TL: 100%,
Edit: 100%;
Now being revised
Rance Quest Magnum
(VNDB)
2.0 TL
(Progress)
TL: 42%
Rance VI
(VNDB)
Arunaru
(Progress)
TL: 88.4%
On hold. See this post.
Re:Birthday Song
(VNDB)
Otome Adventures
(Progress)
TL: 22%
Rewrite Harvest Festa
(VNDB)
Amaterasu
(Progress)
Total Lines: 22583/30040 (75.18%)
Needs hackers
Sanarara R
(VNDB)
Gao Gao
(Progress)
TL: 14.5% (15/103 parts).
TL on hold, awaiting new tools.
Sayonara wo Oshiete
(VNDB)
TLWiki
(Progress)
TL: 29.8% (4269/14309);
Edit: 0%
Shin Koihime Musou
(VNDB)
SKM Team
(Progress)
Story: 100%
Character Events: 85.9%
H-Scenes: 17.2% (Everyone hates H-Scenes)
Battle: 34%
Comprehensive Total: 69.2% (Including Battles)
Non-weighted Total: 74.8% (Excluding Battles)
SonoHana 10
(VNDB)
Yuri Project
(Progress)
Some TL , some editing and QC done
SonoHana 11
(VNDB)
Yuri Project
(Progress)
Some TL done
Starry Sky ~in Summer~
(VNDB)
Golden Spirit
(Progress)
TL: 173/177 scripts
Edit: 154/177 scripts
Subarashiki Hibi (SubaHibi)
(VNDB)
TLWiki
(Progress)
TL: 100%;
Edit: 98.4%;
Supreme Candy
(VNDB)
Habluka
(Progress)
TL: ~33.7% (~14573/43261)
Sweet Pool
(VNDB)
Aarin Community
(Progress)
Translation: 100%
Translation checking: 100%
Editing: 100%
Proofreading: 96%
Insertion: 96%
Tasogaredoki no Kyoukaisen
(VNDB)
Kohaku
(Progress)
TL, Edit & TLC : 100%;
To do:
1) Fix technical stuff (95% done);
2) Image Editing;
2) QC
To Heart 2
(VNDB)
Ittaku Subs
(Progress)
TL: 100%;
Edit: 15%;
Follow here for the latest. (9/12: some update info here)
Got enough editors, STILL NEEDS TLC
Tsujidou-san no Jun’ai Road
(VNDB)
(Progress) (Repository Link)
Translated: 4.02%
Quality Checked: 2.17%
Play Tested: 2.17%
Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete
(VNDB)
Sharin-Sub
(Progress)
TL: 15.7%. Looking for TLCers, and editors (link)
Opened a Rizon group #WareMete
Utawarerumono Portable
(VNDB)
BLACKlabel translations
(Progress)
Approximately 20000/37500 lines translated
Wand of Fortune
(VNDB)
Otome Game TL
(Progress)
Being translated; see site.
Latest post: Week 1 – Day 1 {Part 9}
White Album 2
(VNDB)
Baka-Tsuki
(Updates: Page, Stats)
TL: 29.43%; Rough patch released
Introductory Chapter has undergone editing.
Witch’s Garden
(VNDB)
WG TL
(Progress)
TL: 56.56% (38012/67201);
TLC: 4.63%; (3113/67201)
Edit: 3.31% (2221/67201);
QC: 3.11% (2089/67201);
Yosuga no Sora
(VNDB)
trjr
(Progress)
Overall TL: 84.07% (33109/39383)
JAST USA (Updates; Archive)
Game
Brief Status Summary
Bitch na Ichinichi
TL: 100%
Editing in Prog
Django
Waiting on TL
Flowers
Translation finished!
Preparing for engine port.
Game site is up
Seinarukana
Translation and coding finished
Waiting on LE materials
Shiny Days
Download Edition released!
Physical copies ship out on Sept. 30
Preorders up on J-List
Sonicomi
TL is done
Editing in prog
Game site is up
Sumaga
TL is done
Editing in prog
Sweet Home
TL: 10%
Trample on Schatten
Main scenario 100% translated and edited
Extra content 33% done.
MangaGamer (Updates)
Mangagamer
Brief Status Summary
A Kiss for the Petals – Remembering How We Met
Released!
Beat Blades Haruka
TL: 50%
Edit: 45.7%
Bokuten
TL: 66.5%
Edit: 30.05%
Da Capo 3
Translation: 58.8%
Editing: 8.7%
Euphoria
In Scripting
Pre-Order here!
Free Friends 2
TL and Editing Complete
Gahkthun
TL: 100%;
Edit: 70%
Go Go Nippon 2015
Release October 16th
Pre-Order here!
Higurashi (Retranslation)
Second chapter – TL + Edit are done
In Scripting
Himawari -a pebble in the sky-!
TL: 100%;
Edit: 100%;
Side Stories: done!
House in Fata Morgana
TL: 79.29%;
Edit: 1.3%
Kara no Shoujo 2
Releases October 30th.
Pre-order here
Demo is up (link)
Kindred Spirits On The Roof
TL: 52%;
Edit: 41%;
Kuroinu
TL: 18.13%;
Edit: 18.13%
Myth
TL: 32%
My Boss’ Wife is My Ex!
TL: 100%;
Edit: 100%
OZMAFIA!!
TL: 82%
Princess Evangile W Happiness
Announced at Otakon
The Shadows of Pygmalion
Announced at Otakon
Supipara (Ch 1)
TL: 95%;
Edit: 68.63%
Tokyo Babel
TL: 27%
Umineko When They Cry.
Announced
Other pre-orders on MangaGamer:
The Menagerie (Lupiesoft) – Link
No One But You – Link
Sekaiju – Yggdrasil – Link
Sekai Project (Release Cal)
Game
Release Date / Status
Atom Grrrl
TL: 100%
CLANNAD
Q4 2015 (TL is done, First edit almost done). Side stories fully translated.
Chrono Clock
TBD
Dizzy Hearts
TBD
fault -milestone two- side:above
Released! (Steam page)
G-Senjou no Maou
Picked up! Coming this summer! Yup, totes. -Zaka
Human Reignition Project
TBD
Koenchu!
TBD
Kokonoe Kokoro
Engine Integration/QA
Memory’s Dogma
TBD
MMD
TBD
Moonshot
TBD
Narcissu Trilogy Remake
Narcissu 3rd TL: 3.83%, Narcissu 0 TL: 1.27%
Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto
TL: 25.43%
No One But You
Steam Page (Link); Pre-order on MangaGamer (Link)
November Boy
TBD
PacaPlus
TBD
Planet Ruler
Engine debug + QA
RaidersSphere4th
Steam Early Access Link
Resette
TBD
Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition
TBD
Rising Angels: Fates
TBD
Sacrament Sheep
Engine debug and QA
Sakura Beach
TBD
Sakura Swim Club
Released! Buy it here.
Shizuku no Oto
TL: 25% + Edit: 20%; Demo Released
Sierra Ops
December release, Demo Released
Starlight Vega
TBD
Sunrider: Liberation Day
AX PV released
WAS -The Hourglass of Lepidoptera-
Backers have access to private alpha
Witch boy Magical piece
Kickstarter launched! (Link)
WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.03
TL: 7.39%
Here’s a handy link to sort Sekai Project’s Steam releases by release date: link
Other
Stuff from me/Decay/Zaka/helpful friends:
Muv-Luv kickstarter is live! (Link)
Magical Eyes – Red is for Anguish (vndb) to be released on Steam this winter.
Miu-path of “Dracu-Riot!” going on here.
Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth~ Hits PS Vita This Fall (link).
Norn9: Var Commons Coming to PS Vita This Fall (link).
Wish Tale of the Sixteenth Night – Kickstarter successfully funded.
Stuff from /jp/ poster VNTS (thank her/him, not me, if you find this helpful!):
Eiyuu Senki – Delayed until…. later this year?
Moenovel is working on another title
Lucky Dog – Possible iOS released based on the ongoing text only fanTL
Harvest December – 3DS ports being released
Zakabox™ Commentary
「Hey look, Koirizo’s out. Did nothing for it in the end, as did 3 of the 5 QCs that were originally in for it apparently. I guess a good QC that also actually does quality check is pretty hard to find… RIP. I do hope they fixed that “hmm” for a very non-hmm sound right at the start… where was I?
It seems Shiny Days is now out for (a sloooow) digital download, though hard copies are still set to be shipped on the 29th. I’d mock JAST some more, not least because apparently it has a crash bug in fullscreen early on, but I expect Decay to do the job for me below.
Shiny Days aside, Flowers hitting 100% translated is nice. The “engine integration” part is interesting – Doddler, who ports visual novels for MangaGamer, was a bit confused at the timeline promised by JAST as the work he had to do for other Innocent Grey VNs was fairly extensive, yet he wasn’t contacted about it. Then he did the usual Doddler thing and said that was maybe a bit unprofessional and probably deleted some tweets, as one does. He later wrote a more thought-out response on ask.fm. At least MG got to kinda-sorta NTR Sekai Project…
Keeping on the Yuri track, the all-ages (no, it does not have an adult version) Sono Hanabira VN is set to hit Steam in… about 2 hours, they say. The porn to plot ratio of the originals always was a bit much for me (and I enjoy muh 2d porn), and I liked the earlier all-ages spinoff Hanahira!, so this might be quite nice.
…For the final blast of lesbianism, Atom Grrrl!!! (PV) is indeed an adult yuri visual novel. It’s apparently kinda dark and about thug lyfe and stuff,
one
two of the CGs on the vndb page has a gun involved, and a character is named Big E, and uhh, I like what I see – also, that video is quite something. The sales of this will apparently determine if my previously hyped Love, Guitars and Blue Skies will make it over.
I should say something about the Muv-Luv Kickstarter, but I’m strangely uninterested. Probably because as an Ixrec translation, I have been advised by the Japanese-Reading Overlords to avoid it, and I actually am currently reading easy VNs in Japanese so that might actually happen. Also because I really don’t know if I can handle a 50 hour VN when I seem to
drop
stall them like flies recently.
Oreimo Tsuzuku’s second disc sure feels a lot closer to done than it probably is. Considering a lot of routes in the first disc ended poorly, we can hope for some level of continuation in the next part, which you could potentially help get out yourself.
The Sonohana game unlocks in one hour now… still much more interested in Yuri Ghosts though. I may or may not be writing something about the SonoHana one soon! And with that, I should probably end this before I reach the yuri singularity.」
Decay’s Musings
“B has come to”
Hello, my friends. Multiple releases this week, very exciting! So naturally I’ve been neck deep in Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort, right? Well, I’ve been waylaid by a certain project that has me pretty excited and that takes precedent over finishing KoiRizo. I’m sure you’ll learn more about that project eventually, but for now, what I can say about KoiRizo is that it’s not bad. It’s also not great. Maybe even not good, I’m not sure. I’ve only read most of one route before getting sidetracked, but I plan to come back to it soon. It definitely has its charms, though, and the art is quite good, so I’m not going to tell you to stay away from it. I hope to have better things to say next week, after I’ve spent more time with it. I will say that the translation is quite good, so hats off to mdz, Darbury, and everyone else who worked on that, you guys did a bang-up job.
Shiny Days is also out (download codes for pre-order folk)! From my rant last week you might have pegged me for an impassioned fan. That’s not entirely true. I first played School Days just a month or two ago after it was in one of JAST’s bundles for mega cheap. It was a peculiar experience that I didn’t fully enjoy, but I did find it unique and interesting enough to want to play Shiny Days. One thing I find fascinating is how Setsuna was set up to be a major heroine in School Days but it felt like they sort of ran out of time for that story arc and ended it part way through, never to touch on it again. In Shiny Days, Setsuna is the main heroine, taking center stage, so it feels like they’re making amends for that misstep. Her character was also not particularly well developed in School Days, so I’m really interested to see how they handle that in Shiny Days. But I’m not sure when I’ll get to that. Eventually I will, maybe soon, maybe not?
The Muv Luv kickstarter is also really interesting. I’m not a huge ML fan. I thought Extra was pretty terrible, actually, and I know I’m not alone in thinking this. But Unlimited didn’t really do a whole lot to make up for that and Alternative was good, but, well, I never actually finished it. Crazy, I know. Oh, right, the Kickstarter. As of this writing, it’s currently sitting pretty at $370,000. That’s a lot of ducats for a little over a day’s worth of effort. Things are going to slow down for a long while then they’ll spike again on the last day, as that’s how all Kickstarters operate. But at this point, I’d like to say that the $720,000 stretch goal seems achievable, and possibly even much more. That’s kind of ridiculous, Degica and age have to be feeling good about where things are headed for them.
Unfortunately the same can’t be said for the folks behind Witch boy Magical piece. One quarter of the way through the campaign, it’s sitting at $6,600 out of $57,000. It’s looking pretty dire for them and they most probably won’t make it unless something unexpected and drastic happens. This will also probably be Sekai Project’s first KS failure, I wonder how they’ll handle it. In the past, other developers and publishers have made second attempts after a failed campaign, with lower goals and reduced scope. Or maybe SP will write off BL crowdfunding as not viable? It’s hard to say.
For those wondering about Tay, don’t worry, he’s okay. His life of adventure seems to have calmed down a little and he was ready to do this week’s update, but I took it upon myself to do it anyways. Gotta keep you guys guessing! Now for this week’s final thought: “Pomeranian Swingers” is a pretty sweet company name. This week’s header image is from Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort.
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