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Visual Novel Translation Status (12/31/2016)

This week’s header image comes from Da Capo 3 (MangaGamer) which got a release date this week (Jan 20, 2017)

VNTS (Visual Novel Translation Status Updates Series) is published each Saturday and brings the latest updates from VN translation projects — both licensed and by fans — from around the net. If you find any errors, or you think a project is missing from this list, please let us know in the comments.

From The Team:  Well, Happy New Year(‘s eve), everyone! Due to RL complications, the VNTS team had to scramble to get this post out (Decay did all the tables except Fan TL last night, and I’m throwing this together as quickly as I can this AM). Consequently, there isn’t much by way of announcements or commentary. Just remember that 1) we’re going to be purging a bunch of projects from the rolls either this coming week or the week after; and 2) feedback surveys were delayed (slightly), but should be up within 9 days.

The Short Version: Only the New Stuff

Removed from the List This Week

  • Shuffle! (Navel + YumeHaven) – Released! Buy it on Steam hereFeatures a new translation and is based on the PS2 version with its two new routes for Mayumi and Kareha.
  • Hara Kano – Finished and released! The full patch is done, so grab it and more information over at Loe’s blog.
    • 12/31/16 NOTE: Found a mistake which prevented 100% completion, now fixed, see blog

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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MangaGamer Projects

MangaGamer (Updates)

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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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VNTS Commentary Section

Zakabox™ 「This is the place where Zaka occasionally shares his wisdom. Will he show up this week? Will he have anything to say? Only time will tell.」

Decay’s MusingsThis is where Decay usually imparts a bunch of smart thinks to the rest of us serfs. Unfortunately, I messed up our timing this week, and didn’t give Decay enough time to write. Apologies, all! – Tay

TAYsteful Thoughts™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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Marc
Marc
7 years ago

Happy new year Fuwanovel team

Saint
Saint
7 years ago

What about translation of Dance Quest and Rance IX maybe?

Nin
Nin
Reply to  Saint
7 years ago

Sengoku’s probably first before Quest. We have to wait until July or August for them to confirm. Personally speaking, I hope they can minimize the gap between those two games.

Rance 01 is probably before Rance IX because of the production order, but it doesn’t matter that much. Rance IX doesn’t really make any references to 01.

Hopefully, the abundant sales of both Rance VI and Haruka are enough to convince MG and Alicesoft to release 2 games a year consistently.

Decay
Reply to  Saint
7 years ago

MangaGamer doesn’t like working on games with released patches so they might choose to skip Sengoku Rance.

That said, don’t expect any major announcements from MangaGamer until the summer convention season. They’ll probably translate more Rance games but we won’t know about it until then.

Freestyle
Freestyle
7 years ago

So no thoughts this week? 😛

Decay
Reply to  Freestyle
7 years ago

Unfortunately we’re all pretty busy lately, so no commentary from us this week. I’ll try to write some next week.

Katie
Katie
7 years ago

Happy New Year, guys!

Wealthy Frog
Wealthy Frog
7 years ago

I think Aokana needs to be re-translated all over again. Is that true?
I hope not. I want to play this vn someday.

Decay
Reply to  Wealthy Frog
7 years ago

The team that started a month or two ago is restarting due to the translation being heavily inaccurate, even getting some extremely basic lines wrong.

venushka
venushka
7 years ago

Happy New Year

shambala-zero
shambala-zero
7 years ago

should be perhaps noted that harukuru has been picked up officially by [insert publisher/company], with both versions to be released, 18+ & all ages as well. just saying.

Decay
Reply to  shambala-zero
7 years ago

What do you base this on? Their site mentions nothing and I haven’t seen TBAC talk about that anywhere. I wouldn’t say it’s unlikely, but that sounds like speculation to me.

shambala-zero
shambala-zero
Reply to  Decay
7 years ago

i´d say i do base this on its authors tweet:
https://twitter.com/watanaberyoichi/status/814456364466438144

Alphya
Alphya
7 years ago

Happy New Year!!!
To All the fuwa-community
(≧∇≦)b

Ralph
Ralph
7 years ago

Happy new year, Fuwa team, VNTS team! *thumbsup*

Thanks for all the continuingly hard work. I’d like to say if you need assistance with the database backend just ask, but I’m a bit confused on what (if any) that is and I have no idea how much time I *can* spare either, but still.

Grabbed Huniepop on a whim (that being a Steam sale). It was surprisingly… nice. Unexpected. I mean, I don’t know exactly what I expected, but that certainly wasn’t it.

Off to start root(W). It’s been too long since I played anything related to Infinity.

littleshogun
littleshogun
7 years ago

My late VNTS Review, and happy belated new year 2017 to all of VNTS staff out there.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/1609-everlasting-kindness-review/

PhleBuster
7 years ago

Miniature Garden is now 100% translated, 50% edited!

L3GION
L3GION
7 years ago

Thank you for all you do, it is really a god send. Especially for those of us with barely enough time to enjoy what we like, let alone search for whats new. Without you guys I personally would barely be able to find them. So again, thank you and I hope this new year is good all around.