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Visual Novel Translation Status (07/15/2017)

This week’s header image comes from Wonderful Everyday ~Diskontinuierliches Dasein~ (SubaHibi) (Front Wing), which had a Kickstarter preview launch. Check it out here.

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:  Not a ton of announcements this week! Decay added a few SP updates which we missed last week as well. And that’s about it! I’m playing Final Fantasy VIII again (it’s the best FF game). That’s new. I also introduced a guy on a bus to visual novels yesterday. That was weird. Having so many classic VNs on Steam makes that conversation WAY easier, though. Anyway! Have a great week, everyone. – Tay

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™ 「I heard from Tay that someone mailed asking me to write something so people know I’m alive, so uhh, by some amazing coincidence I’ve now got proper internet for the first time after ten days of suffocating drought. I did… things without internet access, man. Like, I translated like 20kb of Japanese vn just because I wanted something to do. I finished two books, first a re-read of Terry Pratchett’s Monstrous Regiment (There aren’t a lot of authors I like to read more than once, but old mr. T does it for me), then Peter Robinson’s When The Music’s Over, which we picked up randomly because it was the only one in English in this boat bookstore’s lineup (and got burnt on price too – English books were in an unlisted price class all of their own, and like 30% more than the most expensive otherwise!). I’m not the biggest crime novel fan ever but I don’t hate them either, and it was quite good. I think it might be better if you’re an old cultured British person, because it referenced like a million old music tracks offhandedly – It’s not like you needed to know to understand the plot, but they seemed to be kind of an adjunct to other methods of characterization he used. It was interesting to see how much of the novel was technically not all that related to the plot, but instead spent on characterization – conversations meandering, small talk, that sort of thing – without it seeming out of place or slowing down the pace too much.

I’m writing this from a camping in Bornholm, Denmark, an island that is closer to Sweden than Denmark but still very Danish because that’s how countries work for some reason. I spent the last ten days-ish minus some time in transit on Gotland, another island, though that one actually does belong to Sweden. They call sheep “lambs” and lambs “lambkids” for some dumb reason and Visby has some slightly cool old remains I guess. Frankly it wasn’t all that special and I wonder what started the “Gotland is a p. cool place” meme. Maybe I just don’t appreciate walking in old town quarters enough, since at least the limestone cliffs at Hoburgen were pleasing to me.

Oh, right, this is a visual novel website. Uhh, nothing really stands out to me other than the Anniversary no Kuni no Alice project asking for more translators at 91% translated. That seems a bit weird. What’s going on behind the scenes? I know some otome tl projects end up with like 10 translators credited, though maybe I shouldn’t talk since I’ve been on one with like 8 (but we did it for the memes, man). Look forward to Asu Owaru Sekai, Sono Zenya tl in 2018 and Stargazer in 2020. Maybe. Sukitoki never.」

Decay’s Musings‘Sup. Pretty boring week really, IRL and in the VN scene. I suppose everyone’s just taking a breather after AX. Fine with me. I still have way too much stuff I’ve started in recent months that I’ve yet to finish, chief among them Dies irae. Eventually…

There was one release this week, however, and I don’t think anyone saw it coming. I know I never heard of Mahoutsukai no Mita Yume/Sorceror’s Dream before. Maybe it’s a good VN, maybe it’s not. I doubt we’ll ever know, because boy howdy, does the translation look bad. Like, worse-than-Libra levels of bad. The Steam description is kind of okay, but the three screenshots on the store page are nothing but word salad. It doesn’t even seem worth the $2 they’re charging for it.

And apologies for missing approximately a billion SP updates last week. It’s pretty embarrassing how many I actually managed to miss. And even this week I screwed up the tables in a few spots and had to go back and fix them. This just ain’t my month for VNTS, I guess. As always, let us know of any screw-ups or omissions and we’ll try to fix/add ’em.

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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Emiya
6 years ago

I think you missed an extra I in your “FFVIII is the best FF game”

Decay
Reply to  Emiya
6 years ago

“FFVIIII”?

Ahh, you must mean FFVII-II, aka Dirge of Cerberus, Square-Enix’s truest masterpiece.

Blackbird
Blackbird
6 years ago

july 25th… and you call that early 2017?!

Freestyle
Freestyle
6 years ago

Introduced VNs to someone on the bus? Sounds like u entered his route!

Jek MX
Jek MX
6 years ago

I swear, introducing and convincing someone to read vn or regular novels is one of the hardest things I ever done. I tried more than a few times but usually ends up with total failure or poor results.

Freestyle
Freestyle
Reply to  Jek MX
6 years ago

i agree, i stopped trying

some biased views are hard to change lol

mochisato
mochisato
6 years ago

somewhere there is a ff fan angry for not saying that ff7 is the best final fantasy

Ranger
Ranger
6 years ago

I think you mean FFXV as the best Final Fantasy.

You-kun
You-kun
6 years ago

I don’t know if it is intentionally not added but still missing:

https://vndb.org/v16981

Zakamutt
Admin
Reply to  You-kun
6 years ago

Fixed for now, though it’s possible Deccy had his reasons I guess. Couldn’t get it to sort alphabetically though.

littleshogun
littleshogun
6 years ago

My VNTS Review for this week, and enjoy. Enjoy.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/1902-alices-abenteuer-im-wunderland-review/

By the way, Ate the Moon Translation (Ayakashibito and Katahane translator) was decided to started Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou from the beginning, so I think it’ll be worth to keep the eyes on that project.

At least it was easier to introduce the VN nowadays now that we had Steam, but it’s still hard to do in my counyry though.

Katie
Katie
6 years ago

VIII was my introduction to FF games. I have a love/hate relationship with it.

vocaotome
vocaotome
6 years ago

Hi! Anniversary no Kuni no Alice admin here! Just to satisfy your curiosity, we were looking for new translators because we have been functioning on only 2 translators(+me occasionally pitching in) for almost an year now. One of them recently got a job, and we didn’t want to overexert the remaining translator. Even though 10% doesn’t sound much, the text in this game is split into 3k+ scripts so it tends to tire people out, the reason why we’ve had to recruit around 20 translators throughout the years.