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Visual Novel Translation Status (08/20/2018)

This week’s header image comes from Newton and the Apple Tree, one of the new releases since our last update.

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:  It’s been seven weeks? Oops. We can’t apologize enough for the extended absence. I’ve basically entered crunch time in my current project so things will remain touch and go until late October (see below for why!). Maybe, hopefully, these will be less sporadic once Sanoba Witch releases. Until then, though, expect only one or two updates, unless Tay comes back to save us all. This update contains spans from AnimeExpo to Otakon and more. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started!

The “Short” Version: Everything That Happened Since July 2nd
(Basically, a List of Every Project That Isn’t Dead and Its Current Status)

New Releases!

All the Game Updates:

Fan Translation Projects

Fan Translation Projects

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JAST USA Projects

JAST USA (Blog)

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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™ 「あああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああああ

…wait, there’s really no reason for me to scream. Sure I have a re-exam coming up that I haven’t studied for, but I have like, six days to do that. So presumably I’ll crash and burn and not study at all, fuck. And I have to sort out some stuff about what courses I’m taking next quarter-term. And I have some doctors’ appointment on the 22nd. But, like, this is manageable. N-no worries.

Anyway, a lot of things have happened! The Flowers vol 2, Schatten, Happymare (I refuse to use the official spelling, also the tl looks a bit low tier though not disastrously so), and Newton releases all provide tantalizing options for whenever I don’t feel like reading in Japanese. Which has sort of been about half of what I do in a day for ten or so days now, the other half being shooting the breeze on like 5 Discord servers because what is focus anyway. Biggest surprise: Shinku not having the loli personality.

It’s amusing that we happened to go on hiatus during peak announcement season, but at least it lets me give you my view of it all: definitely lukewarm, but some very interesting VNs were picked up. Something that might have gone beneath the radar of many is YU-NO, a classic sci-fi visual novel with allegedly very annoying old adventure style gameplay that kept me from trying it for a while now. As I understand it the remake didn’t fundamentally change the gameplay but according to a guy I know there were some little touches added that made it a lot less frustrating to go through overall, so I might try it out at some point. The ero removal I think I can live with, especially if they keep to how the Japanese version did it, which seems to not have cut out all that much and been very lewd indeed (probably not as ridiculous as the Kikokugai remake, but still).

JAST announced a whopping three BL VNs and MG one; I wonder if the success of NTY was the inspiration for this and the earlier pickup of Sweet Pool by JAST. Nitro+ Chiral was sort of an obvious pick for JAST given their partnership with Nitro+, but it’s interesting to see them announce them at the same time. They all look to be somewhat edgy and plot-oriented, so maybe I’ll be interested too. Then again, the Japanese kamige backlog isn’t going away anytime soon. Gah.

Totono is very polarizing in the Japanese-reading community, but I’m definitely interested. Maybe the less I say about it the better. I’m still annoyed that a random VN article for normies casually spoiled parts of it for me like two or three years ago. Verdelish working on it both reassures me and makes me happy since she’s a big fan and a respected translator.

Island gets a lot of flak for having a lot of boring SoL before doing anything interesting, so basically it’s a typical visual novel. Um, kind of lost my thread of thought… right. It’s written by the writer of Himawari, which I know is enough to sell it to some people in the audience. Maybe I’ll just finish Himawari first, but then I have to fix my desktop, gah. Adulting sucks, man.

Harukuru is another sci-fi title I’m interested in. Unlike Island which apparently has a lot of SoL in the start, Harukuru has like 15 (13? can’t remember) H-scenes in the beginning, whew. They seem pretty amusing though so there’s that. Meru’s translating it as far as I know, I feel reassured by this.

The Expression Amrilato (kotonoha amrilato sounds much better, sorry) is an interesting pickup from a translation perspective. People I know who don’t subscribe to the “untranslatable” meme have called it untranslatable without a hell of a reworking and probably a dub. And yet it’s not really hard to read in Japanese; I played through the trial a while ago. The problem is that Japanese and Esperanto are much further apart than English and Esperanto, and there’s further challenges due to things like differences between english-esperanto-japanese being used sometimes. All in all I wish whoever tries their hand at this the best luck available.

428 is old (though it doesn’t look that old), weird, and very interesting. Perspective switch options, photorealistic illustrations, tense plot? Sign me up.

Apart from the announcements, they say Neighbor’s demo is coming out soon. I never really read much more about it than “it’s in the horror genre” since I like to go into things I’ll probably want to read with as little knowledge as I can, but the demo I’ll try for almost-sure. Verdelish is on this as well, so reassurance, etc, etc.

Nekonyan cares not for earthly conventions like… announcing things at conventions, but they’re planning to announce two titles this month. One is supposed to be something for the chuuni lovers that cost a heckload of money to license, and one a bit cheaper and more for the moege side but still a title likely to please. There’s a lot of good contenders for either, though Aokana seems to be a favorite pick for the moe one. But it’s really wild mass guessing at this point, so who knows? One of the founders of Nekonyan is a big Favorite fan, so maybe we’ll see Irotoridori no Sekai or something. Then I could race to finish it before it becomes kusoge, which is always interesting. Though I failed hard when it came to Subahibi. Curses.

…oh and our very own Dorg’s Sisterly Bliss (tsui yuri) translation is finally getting released soon, so maybe I’ll poke him about it forever. Except Fred edited it, so it’ll probably be spotless. Fuck. Hey Dorg, how do you feel about the Kimihane 2 delays? Oooh yeah, gottem. Wait, I want it too. Gah…」

Decay’s MusingsAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Phew, I needed that. My life has been a bit of a mess lately for a million different reasons, but even I know when enough is enough, and apparently that’s six weeks with no updates. I was burning out on editing pretty badly (not good when you have deadlines!), took a break, then sort of changed my work schedule a bit, and now I feel a billion times better despite working harder than ever. When you’re burnt out, you sorta lose motivation to do anything at all, so I ended up neglecting VNTS. Sorry, y’all.

The only new release I’ve been playing lately is Evenicle. It’s really freaking good! It seems to be getting a mixed reaction from fans. I know several Rance fans who picked it up and not liking it. It’s a very different beast from those games, though, and I love the irreverent tone and absurd characters. A lot of the characters are fairly one-dimensional, true, though that one dimension entertains me to no end. The cast are such lovable idiots. I wish to protect them all. Especially Kath. The gameplay is admittedly lacking, but it’s simple enough to not bother me, and the game world is pretty huge and fun to explore. Evenicle is just good fun. I also picked up Schatten and gave that a spin for a few hours. I liked what I played of it, but I just don’t have the time to play it much more for the time being. Hopefully I’ll get back to it some time.

The general mood regarding this year’s con announcements seems rather lukewarm, and I can see why. But there are still a few announcements I’m looking forward to. Totono is a game I’ve been interested in basically ever since I first got deep into VNs. The translator on it is fantastic (Verdelish) and the translation is already done, so I’m pretty hyped. Farther than the Blue Sky also has me excited. It’s commonly lauded as Chuable’s best VN, and its premise seems up my alley. Seeing a second Chuable title get announced when the last we knew was that MG was stalled by the company’s bankruptcy is surprising, but it’s good news overall. Hopefully that means the way has been cleared for SukiSuki.

Until next time, whenever that may be, peace.

Decay

Hello, I'm Decay, an avid fan of visual novels and a regular poster on Fuwanovel. Also, I now review and write about VNs officially for Fuwanovel? Yeah, that started happening at some point. You may also see me on VNDB as dk382.

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Brian
Brian
5 years ago

Well welcome back Decay

frog
frog
5 years ago
Marcus-beta
Marcus-beta
5 years ago

Thx for the update….

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Glad that we finally have VNTS Review at this week, and good luck for the work at Sanoba there. Anyway, here’s this week VNTS Review from mine, and I hope that you’ll enjoy this.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2464-never-at-rest-a-biography-of-alice-bedford-review/

littleshogun
littleshogun
Reply to  littleshogun
5 years ago

I mean that ‘Glad that we finally have VNTS at this week’, okay.

Dergonu
Dergonu
5 years ago

Your info on Cherry Kiss is pretty outdated. (Follow them on twitter for announcements- their website is a little outdated.)
I’ve recently started working for them, and I’m translating this title: https://vndb.org/v8491 which is currently about 2/3rds TLed.
(Cherry’s announcement tweet is here:)
NSFW: https://twitter.com/CherryKissGames/status/1018876541277802496

Zakamutt
Admin
Reply to  Dergonu
5 years ago

Following all the companies on twitter is generally just not practical due to the information flood you can and will be suffused in if you try (especially if you also try to include fan tl, yeesh). It’s not ideal to not check the twitters, but if VNTS accuracy is a goal of yours, getting it on the progress page is what you really want to do (also, having a progress page). There’s just too much work otherwise.

…Or maybe I’m wrong and will get schooled by deccy in a minute.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

No VNTS for this week, although with 80% editing progress at Sanoba it’s understandable if Decay here didn’t have much time for this. Anyway, here ‘s this week VNTS Review from mine and I hope that you’ll enjoy this.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2470-sakura-fl%C3%BCgel-review/

PS – Quite sad that Sakura Games did announced Midori no Umi along with releasing Fortissimo, but I guess there’s nothing much that we can do here.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Once again no VNTS for this week, so I decided to make another VNTS Review here. I hope that you’ll enjoy the review below, and don’t mind of you don’t understand the title lol.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2477-kirara-x-wataru-review/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

No VNTS for this week as well, so you know the deal. I hope that someday we’ll going to have proper VNTS again, and also hope that you’ll enjoy my VNTS Review below.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2483-kunashima-scramble-review/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Another week with no VNTS, so as usual I decided to made another VNTS Review here. I hope that you’ll enjoy this week VNTS Review as well. Oh and I definitely like that we got Baldr Force surprise release, which is quite funny now that we managed to get one of Baldr VN to be translated and yet Sekai was the one who announced Baldr Sky localization first (Granted that GIGA engine was infamously hard to crack, but still).

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2492-baldr-tears-review/

Someone
Someone
5 years ago

Firstly thank you for your hard on the site and specifically the effort you put into the VNTS. You guys are obviously struggling with the workload given that you have a lot going on in RL, why not get help with maintaining the schedule of the VNTS? I’m sure many members would be willing to lend a hand.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Another week with no VNTS here, so I decided to made another VNTS Review here. Here’s this week review from mine, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2495-ragnarok-album-2-~introductory-chapter~-review/

PS – Interesting that we have WA2 translation patch release, although too bad though that it’s still a partial one.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

No VNTS again (I hope that we’ll going to have one after Sanoba release), so like usual I’d make another VNTS review here. Enjoy.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2502-star-weaving-dream-arc-the-prologue/

PS – I’d been looking forward to this day when Hoshiori project was announced.

Kojichan
Kojichan
5 years ago

Just wanted to let you guys know, that the girls who were working on Gakuen Heaven 2 have finally released the English patch!

https://tinyurl.com/y8da6qmm
(Their Tumblr has a swear in the url, but it is an 18+ game.)

They’re also holding a contest for your chance to win a retail copy of the game, minus the OST disc.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Since apparently we still didn’t get VNTS here, I decide to make another VNTS Review. Hope you enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2507-tatarigami-in-love-review/

PS – I like that Tsurezure here was already translated the common route for Hoshiori there.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

No VNTS here, so once again I decided to make another VNTS Review here, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it. Also congratulation to Tsurezure in regard of common route patch release.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2511-star-weaving-future-dream-arc-chapter-1-fureraba-~friend-to-lover~/

imcoming
imcoming
Reply to  littleshogun
5 years ago

man, keep up

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Another VNTS Review from mine here seeing that we still didn’t get VNTS yet, and I hope that you’ll enjoy this.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2514-fifty-shades-of-kirie-review/

freeza's shed gold skin
freeza's shed gold skin
5 years ago

So VNTS fuwa is dead pretty much then.

really
really
5 years ago

Honestly, just hire this dude to do your updates. At least you know he’s motivated to do them every week.

You-kun
You-kun
5 years ago

This! I mean comon. How many years is now since fuwa started doing vntls? 5? But till 9 months ago you missed not even a dozen vntls. I mean did you not got busy at all for these 5 years at all? And being busy takes THIS long? Basicly you all lost motivation. Just pass it another person, dont let it die.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

It’s easy to see though that Decay was probably too tired with deadline because of his works at Sanoba (Which have tight deadline mind you), and therefore vulnerable to loss the concentration to make VNTS. I just hope that there’ll be another VNTS later, although seeing that there’s a lot of change within two weeks it’ll be hard to handle there.

Anyway, here’s this week VNTS Review from mine, and I hope you’ll enjoy this week review.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2518-sanoba-sadistic-review/

PS – I like that we have both of Sanoba release and Irotoridori announcement, although I must wait a while though for the latter.

gokudo
gokudo
Reply to  littleshogun
5 years ago

Thanks four your hard work, you’re the only resource I know currently for keeping up to date with all the VN releases.

gokudo
gokudo
5 years ago

littleshogun, just wanted to thank you a ton for keeping things up. I wouldn’t know where else to look for comprehensive VN updates. Much appreciated!

Theweirddude92
Theweirddude92
5 years ago

thanks for your hard work littleshogun, keep it up man!

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Thanks for the words here, although as far as VNTS well it’s still up to Decay and Tay though so I leave the decision to him or Tay later, and of course I’m still hope that we’ll gonna have a proper VNTS later even though it might be hard to do because of Decay’s busyness later (Nukitashi and another Nekonyan announcement).

Anyway as usual, here’s this week VNTS Review and hope you’ll enjoy it. Also I like that Tsurezure did released Marika’s patch recently here.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2521-star-weaving-future-dream-arc-chapter-2-ever17-the-out-of-infinity/

MH
MH
5 years ago

Oh man, I wish they would just admit they don’t care about Visual Novels anymore.

Pass the torch already to someone who has motivation to continue the translation updates.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Well apparently there’s some issue that was happened with the table here so we couldn’t have VNTS here, which is too bad because there’ll be a lot more of updates in the future. Hope that someday admin Tay will fix the problem. Also called Decay that he didn’t care about VNs anymore is quite rude to me, because if he really didn’t care about that then he wouldn’t work on three VNs editing work (Sanoba, Nukitashi, and one more VN).

PS – Here’s this week VNTS Review from mine as usual, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2529-wedding-wars-x-review/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Seeing that the problem is still unresolved, obviously we wouldn’t have another VNTS here which is too bad (I hope it’ll be fixed soon). Anyway here’s this week VNTS Review from mine like usual, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2532-sakura-curse-spirit-review/

CWH
CWH
5 years ago

Sooooooooooo are the VNTS’s dead orrrrrrr?

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

I guess it’s too bad that there’s still no solution for the technical problem of the main page, so I’m just hope that it’ll be fixed sooner or later. Anyway here’s this week VNTS Review from mine, and I hope that you’ll enjoy this.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2544-sakura-art-club-review/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Well no VNTS again, and for now I just hope that someday the problem will be fixed. Here’s this week VNTS Review from mine, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it. Also congratulation to Tsurezure in regard of Misa’s patch release here.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2553-star-weaving-future-dream-arc-chapter-3-white-album-2/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

No VNTS again, so here’s another VNTS Review fom mine here. Hope you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2557-romance-of-the-three-queendoms-review/

PS – At least Steam sudden fit didn’t affect HGB release much, so it’s good to see imo. Oh and nice to see that Tsurezure was almost half finished with Rikka’s route.

LordAriesV
LordAriesV
5 years ago

Man I didn’t knew i would be that sad for not seeing any more vnts. i still check every week now waiting for something to happen. well i know it can’t be helped since Tay also has other thing he wants to do. i guess i will wait for another vnts.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

It’s too bad that we still can’t have VNTS for this week (Still hoping that someday we’ll have it again), so here’s this week VNTS Review from mine and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2566-kokuhaku-2-review/

Bl4ckRange
Bl4ckRange
5 years ago

Merry Christmas Friends & a happy new year.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

No VNTS yet again, so as usual I’d make my own VNTS Review and hope you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2572-demons-carnival-review/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Still no VNTS here, so as usual I’d make my own VNTS Review. Here’s my last review for 2018, and happy new year 2019. I hope that you’ll enjoy my review here, and I’m sorry if the review is quite short for some of you.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2581-nurses-service-review/

Nyanko
Nyanko
Reply to  littleshogun
5 years ago

You Lord shogun are a Hero, Thanks for keeping us informed

frieza's shed gold skin
frieza's shed gold skin
5 years ago

Did Tay drop out like the original fuwanovel did back in the golden days? Well just in case RIP fuwanovel VNTS.

If anybody knows a place where else they keep updated fan TL and official? Reddit, the 4 chan thing, etc?

Sad news Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete is no go anymore I hope it can be worked on again. Yosuga no Sora still not even finished… Nothing on a tl of Monobeno and keep at it Witch’s Garden team!

Random
Random
5 years ago

Umm can’t you post a vnts for people in some random blog emular so its doesn’t dies?
People want updates 🙁

Mr.X
5 years ago

No vnts review from littleshogun?
Welp, time to sit idle and wait…

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

I see that we still can’t have VNTS yet, so here’s usual VNTS Review from mine. Sorry for the wait, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2588-star-weaving-future-dream-arc-chapter-4-wagamama-high-spec/

PS – As for Witch Garden, unfortunately it was stopped according to the translator himself, so nothing we can do about that. Hope that someday it’ll be picked up again and finished.

Mr.X
Reply to  littleshogun
5 years ago

Thank you so much littleshogun! You’re the reason why this site is still alive

frieza's shed gold skin
frieza's shed gold skin
Reply to  littleshogun
5 years ago
havoc764
havoc764
Reply to  littleshogun
5 years ago

thanks, anyone got a clue as to what is going on?

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

As for Witch Garden, I’ll just assume that the translator want to focus on real life so that he decided to drop it. Anyway, here’s this week VNTS Review below, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2597-time-paladin-miyabi-review/

Mr.X
5 years ago

Thanks little shogun. Please keep doing these so this site won’t die. Hahaha

frieza's shed gold skin
frieza's shed gold skin
5 years ago
littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Still no VNTS yet, so here’s another VNTS Review like usual. Enjoy.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2604-okujou-no-yurirei-san-fullvoice-reborn-review/

Michael Baker
Michael Baker
5 years ago

Come on guys, no updates for 5 months? Hope this isn’t dead.

Anon
Reply to  Michael Baker
5 years ago

Almost half a year gone and you expect this “weekly update” to still be alive? Most of the people involved have abandoned it in one way or another and if it wasn’t for the kind effort of littleshogun this would have been completely dead a long time ago.

If you’re here looking for news then it’s time you looked elsewhere…
https://erogegames.com/eroge-visual-novels/eroge-news/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

No VNTS yet again, so as usual here’s VNTS Review for this week and I hope you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2613-kaitos-angels-review/

I like that at least there’s no disruption in regard of HGB release even after Steam banned this.

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Here’s this week VNTS Review from mine, and Happy Chinese New Year.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2623-9-nine-episode-1-kujou-miyuki-review/

Too bad that we still couldn’t have VNTS here, but hopefully there’ll be one later.

imcoming
imcoming
5 years ago

please update. I check many time this duration of time

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Here’s another VNTS Review from mine seeing that we still didn’t have VNTS yet, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2632-star-weaving-future-dream-arc-chapter-5-a-sky-full-of-stars/

littleshogun
littleshogun
5 years ago

Another VNTS Review from mine, and I hope that you’ll enjoy it.

https://forums.fuwanovel.net/blogs/entry/2645-the-idolmasters-lily-girls-pv-review/