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Visual Novel Translation Status (03/11/2017)

This week’s header image comes from Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception/Mask of Truth which, we learned this week, is coming to the PS4/Vita in NA/EU on May 23rd courtesy of Atlus!

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:  A bit of an anemic week this week! That said, we learned that Atlus is bringing Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception/Mask of Truth to the PS4/Vita in NA/EU on May 23rd (pretty cool, guys!). A bunch of updates from Fan and Licensed translations, alike, as well, so dig in and enjoy this week’s VNTS post!

The Short Version: Only the New Stuff

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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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 MusingsHey everyone! I’m finally riding the waves of the future. That’s right, I got myself a PS4, my first console since the PS2, believe it or not. And to top it off, I grabbed myself a new monitor capable of a whopping thousand and eighty p’s! Up until now, I’ve been making do with a rather low-end 1680 x 1050 display for the last seven years, which has slowly but surely been gaining an orange tint. This isn’t necessarily a big step up, but I needed something that the PS4 worked well with, and it’s pretty great having a multi-monitor setup now.

I mainly bought the PS4 for Persona 5 and Yakuza 0, but it’ll be nice to be able to play the upcoming console-exclusive VNs like Utawarerumono and Chaos;Child (unconfirmed but some firm leaks are out there). Speaking of, Utawarerumono has a release date! I never finished the first game, but I’ve heard some fantastic things about the Mask duology, so I should dust off my rusty save and give it another go. It wasn’t bad, I just had a million other things I was doing instead, as usual.

Outside of that, it’s a pretty slow week. I’m still plinking away at Chrono Clock. I hope to have a review up by this time next week, though. In short, it’s pretty good, but not exceptional. It’s worth playing if you enjoy slice of life romance. I’ll have more to say in the review, obviously, so stay tuned for that.

Time for me to hit the sack. Have a good one, everyone.

TAYsteful Thoughts™I get a lot of Fuwanovel-related email. Enough that I’ve had to build a complicated web of forwarding so that review keys, for example, make it out of the abyss of my inbox and into the hands of our Reviews Team. If I let up for even a day (let alone a few days, such as exam weeks), the numbers skyrocket. What I’m getting at is that I struggle to keep up with my email, and I know it, and I’m sorry. I missed an email from an undergraduate student in the Congo last week, and by the time I got back to him, he didn’t have sufficient time for his project and had to choose something else. Similar situations (mostly involving undergrads) have happened in the past, and I felt (and feel) pretty bad about each one. I ask for your understanding: keeping Fuwa up and running for everybody takes a lot of work, and I only have so much time outside my studies/work/research to spare. Apologies all around.

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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PP
PP
7 years ago

Didn’t Ao no Kanata have a complete translation at some point and the translator sold it? Or am I mixing that up with another game?

Tempest
Tempest
Reply to  PP
7 years ago

lol orginalren “lost” the translation you mean >.>

Freestyle
Freestyle
Reply to  PP
7 years ago

thats was something else Leyline or sth, forgot the name of VN

Freestyle
Freestyle
7 years ago

got a PS4 huh? Get Horizon Zero Dawn! Or Nier Automata ;d

Jek MX
Jek MX
Reply to  Freestyle
7 years ago

Well if he has a PS2 then he should play Drakengard (Drag on Dragoon)and watch some playthroug of Nier Gestald in order to get most of the story.

Katie
Katie
7 years ago

The first part of the 2 parter Hakuoki otome will be released in mid May.
https://twitter.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/status/839191247164174340

haerts
haerts
7 years ago

Dunno if you add Greenlight info to the list but: Darekoi (Now “A Butterfly in the District of Dreams”) & PacaPlus are on steam Greenlight.

Darekoi: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=880337744

Pacaplus: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=878474390

Thank you~ 🙂

Squallada
7 years ago

Is the Boku to Koisuru Ponkotsu Akuma translation going very slow or is it just me? Any insight on that matter?

Michael
Michael
Reply to  Squallada
7 years ago

Indeed, its going rather slow. Perhaps it isn’t a priority for SP at the moment? Which would be a pity. Its one I am looking forward to.

littleshogun
littleshogun
7 years ago

My VNTS Review for this week. Enjoy (Sorry for being short there).

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/1671-ayaya-as-a-doctor-review/

As for Bokukotsu, couldn’t comment of about how it’s becaming slow but maybe the translator stumped at some lines (I don’t care about it in tbe first place, although I knew that Nekopara artist working on that one).

Michael
Michael
7 years ago

Too bad there hasn’t been many updates of late. There are quite a few been wanting to find out.

HerbalNekoTea
HerbalNekoTea
7 years ago

Other project i follow :

Sonohana 11 : 113/120 –> 115/120
The 2 others steins;gate : Nothing new.

I cannot wait to see what’s going to happen with Sonohana 11, will he sell it to mangagamer and it get localized or he publish the patch. Wait and See.

invalidname
7 years ago

Muv-Luv had an update back on Feb 27 that hasn’t been noted in the last few VNTS updates, but it was mostly about progress on Kickstarter rewards, and the phrasing of where they are on the translation of Alternative probably doesn’t parse easily enough to put it in the table.

To wit: “for the purposes of our translation and editing passes, we’ve divided it up into three large arcs that provide milestones for our progress. At the moment, our in-depth translation check has been completed, and our intensive editing pass has reached the midway point of the game’s second arc, putting us well within the second half of the overall process.” Uh, yeah. What they said.

They also note that the first arc probably involved the most work, due to technical terms in all the infodumps that they wanted to make sure was consistent.

Mochisato
7 years ago