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Visual Novel Translation Status (09/03/2016)

This week’s header image comes from Sakura Space (Winged Cloud), the lone release this week. Buy the 18+ version on Nutaku here. There is no all-ages version.

Hey everybody! Good news: all VNTS posts should now be fixed. Yay, right? More good news: I put together a new section (whether or not it’s a regular thing is uncertain, so enjoy it while it lasts!) below the game updates this week: chronological listings of releases and projects we dropped. Take a look and let me know what you think!

I also want to thank Decay for his exhaustive review of VNTS last week. He was up literally all night checking all the projects and putting VNTS together, and so please join me in thanking him for all his hard work. He really cleaned things up, and deserves much love from all of us.

Oh, right, one last thing! Be sure to check out the latest translated KimiNozo audio drama over at KimiNozo.life, Evan translated and released a new one last week! They’re pretty interesting if you’re looking forward to the eventual KimiNozo translation.

Anyway! Welcome to our weekly VNTS (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.

The Short Version: Only the New Stuff

New Releases!

  • Sakura Space (Winged Cloud) – Released! Buy the 18+ version on Nutaku hereThere is no all-ages version.

Removed from the List This Week

All the Game Updates:

Fan Translation Projects

Fan Translation Projects

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JAST USA Projects

JAST USA (Updates; Archive)

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Other
  • Starless – Script check 10%, added new mosaic to fix list.
MangaGamer Projects

MangaGamer (Updates)

[wpdatatable id=174]
Sekai Project Projects

Sekai Project (Update Page)

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Other
  • Here’s a handy link to sort Sekai Project’s Steam releases by release date: link

Misc. Projects

Other Projects

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Bonus Recaps: 2016 Releases & Dropped

2016 - Releases

Translated VNs Released in 2016

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2016 - Dropped from VNTS

Projects We Stopped Tracking in 2016

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Funny-Commentary-Section

— Commentary Section —

Zakabox™ Commentary

「…」Zaka is still off wrestling with bears in the Swedish arctic. Gotta love those month-long Swedish summer vacations.

Decay’s Musings

Hello, friends. Things finally seem to be slowing down a little as they tend to do in late summer and autumn. Maybe this will give me time to go back and appreciate some of this year’s earlier releases? I mean, it’s a good dream to have, isn’t it? Reality almost certainly won’t be so kind. I’m actually getting a little worried, there’s a lot of stuff I want to read and I feel like I may never get the chance to do so. This will sound equal parts privileged and sad, but up until now I have never had a moment in my life where I simply did not have the time to do what I want to do. I can’t help but think back to the time when I was an actual nobody with zero obligations and spent all my time actually reading VNs instead of doing the random stuff I do now. Editing, reviewing, VNTS/news posting, various RL stuff, etc. I regret none of that, but I do miss the simpler times a little.

As for what I have been up to, I finally got my woefully delayed Supipara review out the door. I was hoping to like it more than I did. This was a strange one to review, because after finishing the game and going into the review, I thought I would give it a 3/5. On VNDB I gave it 5/10 which is square between 2 and 3 on our scale, except maybe my feelings were leaning a little towards the positive side of things. As I wrote about the game more and more, though, I started to realize how full of faults it really was. I thought back to my experiences with it, how I felt, and why I felt that way, and ultimately I’ve come to the conclusion that Supipara is just not very good at all. I wish minori would have stuck to their wheelhouse instead of trying to make a simpler, light hearted moege. They’re clearly not very good at that. And I say that as someone who’s generally okay with moege.

I make it sound like I’ve been crazy busy and I have been busy, but what has also played a large part in me not reading many VNs, getting my review work done in time, or even fulfilling my personal quotas for Dracu-Riot editing has been a mountain of personal and emotional issues swarming around me right now. I’m not going to make this into some emotional pity-seeking blog post or anything. And you shouldn’t worry because it’s nothing super serious, just some shit I have to work out. I’m saying this because I want to apologize. I’m sorry to SolidBatman and the review team, I’m sorry to the boys over at The Oxford Comma is Superior Subs for slacking on my duties, and I’m sorry to everyone who has been looking forward to the full, polished Dracu-Riot patch. At this point, I’m not holding back the 100% Miu route patch or anything (and that IS cooking along). But my recent inactivity means that the patch that does release might not be as polished as it could have been. And while we plan to release the Miu translation ahead of the fully edited and TLCed release, this also probably means that the edited release will be delayed even further. The bummer about this is that I’m not really out of the woods yet and I don’t know when I will be, so my sporadic activity will likely continue for at least a little while. I’ll try to take on fewer duties than usual for the time being (although I already accepted a Flowers review key… haha).

ANYWAY, enough of that. I heard there was some drama about Baldr Sky? Yeah, whatever. I actually don’t have much to say about that. I regret commenting on a similar matter in the past and ultimately we aren’t privy to the majority of the details surrounding this scandal. I could think of several scenarios where SP is in the right here, and several where they’re in the wrong, and the answer is probably somewhere in the middle. So I kind of just refuse to take a stance on the matter for now.

Also MVP of the week is MangaGamer. Twelve updates? Jesus. If only one was for Himawari. Anywho, that’s all from me. See you all later.



TAYsteful™ Thoughts

So! What did you think about the recap section? In case you were too lazy or just missed it, I’ll reproduce it here:

Bonus Recaps: 2016 Releases & Dropped

2016 - Releases

Translated VNs Released in 2016

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2016 - Dropped from VNTS

Projects We Stopped Tracking in 2016

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I’m not sure this is something I’ll do every week. Maybe once a month? Idk. It’s not a huge deal to update it each week, but we already have so many tables. Let me know what you think, eh?

Have a good week, everybody!

Tay

I'm the Fuwanovel community admin and a big fan of Visual Novels. The easiest way to get a hold of me is via a PM on the Fuwanovel Forums, by twitter (@ArchmageTay), or by email.

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Arcadeotic
7 years ago

It was quite fulfilling to see the progress going along for all of those announced VNs.

Also, Tsui Yuri’s prior translation’s check is now finished, but I don’t know if ya missed it or if it was just not worth to mention.

Anyways, good work as always.

Decay
Reply to  Arcadeotic
7 years ago

It happened after the post was finished.

Vorathiel
Vorathiel
7 years ago

Hunks workshop have broken link, missing ‘h’ in ‘http’. 😉

XReaper
7 years ago

just wanting to mention that the stalled musumaker tl, the one which got removed from vnts, has recently got started being worked on again by the same group as before.

littleshogun
littleshogun
7 years ago

My VNTS Review, and once again I think you better release the table at year’s end (Of course if you want to release it weekly then so be it).

http://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/1411-super-dimensional-fortress-sakura-review/

fiery_stars
fiery_stars
7 years ago

I don’t know if you guys have seen this, but John Hardin posted what will perhaps be the closest thing we’ll get to a confirmation on his Twitter that Atlus aren’t localising the Utawarerumono visual novels from Aquaplus.
https://twitter.com/JohnLHardin/status/769046266902970368
Hopefully now fans can step in and translate it now that the Vita has been hacked.

Dergonu
Dergonu
7 years ago

Hehe, yeah sorry, my update came in a day late this time.
But yeah, retranslation is done, so I’ll be going back to normal TL progress again next week.

Thanks for the updates, like always.

dilworks
7 years ago

Totally like the year releases/dropouts recap.

Might be a good idea to do it every quarter or so.

Katie
Katie
7 years ago

Maybe make a graveyard for the dropped projects, but that might get too depressing/overwhelming.

Anon
Anon
7 years ago

The 2016 tracker list is actually really nice. Good idea.

yami
yami
7 years ago

any chance the 2015 recaps/ any recaps be posted in one area???

Anonymous
Anonymous
7 years ago

I think, the new section is pretty helpful.
Hope i wont miss anything again next time

You-kun
You-kun
7 years ago

I think you should make a different post only for released and dropped translations. They are not like progress of translations which means they don’t change every week drastically to point of raises need to putting them in vntls. So making a post dedicated to released and dropped projects and updating that post regularly seems more plausible in my opinion.