This week’s header image comes from selections from our eight releases: One each from Carnival of the Sacred Duels, the Harvest December Series, Libra of the Vampire Princess, and Monster Girl Quest Paradox.
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: We have a lot of releases this week, and I have a feeling many of them will prove controversial. Headlining the releases is MiKandi Japan’s Libra of the Vampire Princess, the translation of which hasn’t been winning over many readers. Dargoth released the final patch for Part 1 of Monster Girl Paradox, which I know many are looking forward to. And then, of course, we have an absolutely huge drop from George Henry Shaft, consisting of four VNs in the Harvest December series, its fandisk Perfect December, with two VNs to top things off: Carnival of the Sacred Souls and Ludesia: Spidering and Scraping. Yeah, that’s a lot of releases for one week. – Tay
The Short Version: Only the New Stuff
- Aiyoku no Eustia – Total Edit: 9.61% > 10.23%
- Boku to Koisuru Ponkotsu Akuma (Sekai Project) – TL: 73.93% > 74%
- Carnival of the Sacred Duels – Released! Get the patch here. Purchase the game on DLSite
- Clover Day’s – Anzu TL: 63% > 71%
- Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Voice Porting Project – 173/294 Files Voiced (58.84% by count, 65.79% by size) (Link)
- Fault – Silence the Pedant (Sekai Project) – New demo released on Steam here.
- Flowers -Le Volume sur Ete- (JAST) – Half translated (link) (as of 06/13)
- Funbag Fantasy: Sideboob Story (MangaGamer) – TL: 94% > 100%
- Hapymaher (MangaGamer) – TL: 80% > 82%
- Harvest December Series – George Henry Shaft released patches for Harvest December’s many parts:
- Harvest December: Winter (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- Harvest December: Spring (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- Harvest December: Summer (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- Harvest December: Autumn (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- ^ Perfect December (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite) – George Henry Shaft also released Perfect December, which “contains three additional side stories unlocked after reading the main story.”
- Harvest December: Periphery iOS Games – Release: These are patches for two iOS Harvest December: Periphery games. Get the patches and more info about them on George Henry Shaft’s Blog
- Hashihime of the Old Book Town (MangaGamer) – TL: 64%; Edit: 14%
- The House in Fata Morgana – A Requiem for Innocence (MangaGamer) – TL: 69% > 72%
- Imouto Paradise! 2 (MangaGamer) – Edit: 80% > 92%
- Libra of the Vampire Princess (MiKandi Japan) – Steam version released at last, get it here. Warning: heavily engrish translation.
- Lover Able – TL: 74.15% > 75.39%; Edit: 20.37% > 20.71%; TLC: 43.64% > 44.3%
- Ludesia: Spidering and Scraping – Released by George Henry Shaw! Get the patch over on his blog. Purchase the game on DLSite
- Maggot Baits (MangaGamer) – TL: 37% > 39%
- Majo Koi Nikki – TLC: 34% > 51%
- MangaGamer Secret Projects – Several updates, see the table below for details
- Monster Girl Quest Paradox – Final Part 1 EN patch released! Get it and more info here. Note: MGQ Paradox Part 2 (new JP content) was released. Get it on DLSite
- Sansha Mendan (18+) – TL: 73.9% > 75.82%
- Trinoline (MangaGamer) – TL: 21% > 25%; Edit: 2% > 3%
- Tsujidou-san no Jun’ai Road – Part of Common Route Released (Link)
- Utawarerumono Portable – Translation: 133 > 159 / 616 files; Script Check: 117/616 files; Misc. hacking: 95%
- Venous Blood Chimera – TL: 37% > 39.5% (Patreon)
New Releases!
- Carnival of the Sacred Duels – Released! Get the patch here. Purchase the game on DLSite
- Harvest December Series – George Henry Shaft released patches for Harvest December’s many parts:
- Harvest December: Winter (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- Harvest December: Spring (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- Harvest December: Summer (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- Harvest December: Autumn (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite)
- ^ Perfect December (VNDB) (Patch) (Buy it on DLSite) – George Henry Shaft also released Perfect December, which “contains three additional side stories unlocked after reading the main story.”
- Harvest December: Periphery iOS Games – Release: These are patches for two iOS Harvest December: Periphery games. Get the patches and more info about them on George Henry Shaft’s Blog
- Libra of the Vampire Princess (MiKandi Japan) – Steam version released at last, get it here. Warning: heavily engrish translation.
- Ludesia: Spidering and Scraping – Released by George Henry Shaw! Get the patch over on his blog. Purchase the game on DLSite
- Monster Girl Quest Paradox – Final Part 1 EN patch released! Get it and more info here. Note: MGQ Paradox Part 2 (new JP content) was released. Get it on DLSite
Removed from the List This Week
- Neko Para Vol. 3 (Sekai Project) – Released! Get the all-ages version on Steam here, and the 18+ version here. All-ages to 18+ upgrade available here.
- Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception (Atlus) – Released! Get it on Amazon for PS4 here, or for PSVita here.
All the Game Updates:
Fan Translation Projects
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MangaGamer (Updates)
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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
Other Projects
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Comments (11)
ninsays:
June 24, 2017 at 6:12 amI’m of the opinion that George Henry Shaft is crazy, but while I’ve heard his Cross Channel tl wasn’t good, his Hanahira TL seemed perfectly fine.
Oh, and if you liked the original Monster Girl Quest, then try Paradox. While the battle system isn’t very unique being typical RPG maker fare, the amount of customization involved in the Job/Race system and the amount of main story and side story content is insane. Not everything is translated, but that’s only H-scenes and really insignificant dialog.
Decaysays:
June 25, 2017 at 11:44 amIt’s kind of hard to screw up Hanahira since it’s so thoroughly simple. I guess the hardest part would be to have the writing chops needed to make the cute dialogue actually cute and entertaining, and not transform it into a soulless and boring ordeal, as is so easy to do in translation. I haven’t read Hanahira so I don’t know how well GHS does at that particular aspect, but considering the opinions on translation he has voiced, I’d be surprised if the writing was as cute as it should have been.
His Cross Channel TL was definitely a disaster, and this new stuff looks pretty bad, too.
imcomingsays:
June 24, 2017 at 6:52 amthis week release a lot
littleshogunsays:
June 24, 2017 at 11:32 amThis week VNTS Review from mine, and to be honest I could less care about Libra in the first place. Once again I won’t give money to Mikandi there.
https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/1852-draculius-review/
littleshogunsays:
June 24, 2017 at 11:36 amBy the way, it’s not my Draculius VN Review. The title was Draculius+ although apparently the URL couldn’t display + there.
TrickZZtersays:
June 24, 2017 at 12:34 pmAnd again you forgot about recently translated Chinese novel:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/495990/True_Love_Confide_to_the_Maple/
Oh, and here another one that was released today/yesterday (depending on your time zone):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/653950/Your_Smile_Beyond_Twilight/
ヤミハナsays:
June 24, 2017 at 10:21 pmHeads up:
Root Letter has a Steam store page.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/543240/Letter__Root_Letter/
Miyandosays:
June 25, 2017 at 12:10 amGod why is the Libra author so obsessed with pee?
beastmodesays:
June 25, 2017 at 1:17 pmdoes anyone know if they are going to translate bunny black 3 i heard the stop just want to confirm if is true
Decaysays:
June 26, 2017 at 10:08 pmThere seems to be tech issues with BB3 that did not exist with BB2. It doesn’t seem very likely that the previous games’ translator, Aroduc, will ever translate BB3 as well.
beastmodesays:
June 27, 2017 at 3:43 pmthx for the heads up its a shame really good dungeon crawler/novel