Visual Novel Translation Status (05/14/2016)

This week’s header image comes from this week’s two releases: The House in Fata Morgana (MangaGamer) and (Otome!) My Secret Pets! (Steam)

It’s happening! The House in Fata Morgana is finally out! What are you doing reading this? Go play this game! (Full disclosure: I’ve been looking forward to this release for a long time, so I’m a bit hyper over the whole thing.) Also, just want to give big thanks to Decay for helping out last night, and for his unending patience! I don’t think I could do these posts without you, anymore : P. Also #2: another Otome game released this week on Steam. Those Dogenzaka Lab folks have really been working hard!

Anyway! Welcome to our weekly VNTS (Visual Novel Translation Status) series, in which we track visual novel translation updates in-house (we don’t rely on /jp/ posts on 4ch, for example) and post it for your enlightenment and enjoyment each Saturday. If you find any errors, or you think a project is missing from this list, please let me know in the comments.

The Short Version:
Only the New Stuff

• Amagami – TL: 68.70% > 74.8%; Edit: 19.5% > 20.6%
• Angel Beats! -1st beat – TL: 42.7% >43.5%
• AstralAir – TL: 76.06% > 77.16%; Edit: 76.06% > 77.16%
• Bishoujo Mangekyou -Norowareshi Densetsu no Shoujo – TL: 7/8 script files; Edit: 9.2%;
• Bokuten (MangaGamer) – Translation: 92% > 100%
• Da Capo 3 (MangaGamer) – TL: 90% > 92.5%; Edit: 83.4% > 87.5
• Dare ka ga Koi Shita Hankagai (Sekai Project) – TL: 64.24% > 67.04%
• Hanasaki Work Spring – Added to the list this week; Prologue: 92.86%; Hikari Route: 0%; Ayano Route: 0%; Inori Route: 0%; Wakaba Route: 0%; Nonoka Route: 0%; Kanna Route: 0%;
• The House in Fata Morgana (MangaGamer) – RELEASED! Buy it on MangaGamer here, or the Steam version here!
• Just Deserts (Sekai Project) – Added to the list this week; Announced today; check out the Sekai page and the official game page; Coming in 2016
• Kimi ga Nozomu Eien – Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Drama Theater vol. 3 – Suzumiya Akane – audio drama CD translated and released! Check it out here.
• Koiseyo!! Imouto Banchou – TL: 7% > 8%; Edit: 6% > 7%
• Kuroinu (MangaGamer) – Chapter 1 TL: 55% > 63%
• Kurukuru Fanatic – TL: 87.5% > 100%
• The Leisure of Grisaia (Front Wing) – Announced! Releasing on May 18th! Steam page. The Leisure of Grisaia is one of two short mini-VNs released with the Grisaia anime Blu Ray in Japan. It will be just $3.
• Libra of the Vampire Princess – Mari’s Route TL: 0% > 25%
• Maitetsu (Sekai Project) – TL: 12.96% > 12.98%
• Memory’s Dogma (Sekai Project) – TL: 13.51% > 15.54%
• (Otome!) My Secret Pets! – Released! Buy it on Steam here.
• MYTH (ManagGamer) – In Scripting
• Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto (Sekai Project) – TL: 45.48% > 63.31%
• Princess Evangile W Happiness (MangaGamer) – Edit: 17.3% > 22%
• The Shadows of Pygmalion (MangaGamer) – TL: 86.73% > 97%
• Still, I Missed Her (Sekai Project) – TL: 1.32% > 1.41%
• Tsui Yuri – 5/14/16 – Added to the list this week;
  Opening: TL: 100%; Edit: 100%, QC: 0%;
  Common: TL: 45%, Edit: 4%, QC: 0%;
  Ichika: TL: 0%; Edit: 0%; QC: 0%;
  Futaba: TL: 0%; Edit: 0%; QC: 0%;
  Total: TL: 13%; Edit: 2%; QC: 0%;
• WORLD END ECONOMiCA episode.03 (Sekai Project) – TL: 71.54% > 78.83%

New Releases

• The House in Fata Morgana (MangaGamer) – RELEASED! Buy it on MangaGamer here
• (Otome!) My Secret Pets! – Released! Buy it on Steam here.

Removed from the list this week

• The Men of Yoshiwara Ohigya – Released on Steam
• Lucid9: Inciting Incident (Sekai Project) – Released on Steam
• Starlight Vega (Sekai Project) – Released on Steam

All the Game Updates:

 

— Commentary Section —

Zakabox™ Commentary

「I never said how long the resting period would be! Turns out it was two weeks this time. Deccy and Tay were somewhat late in preparing the post, so I actually have an excuse for being late today – also, I got no new post notification mail. Weird.

To begin with, allow me to recommend Lucid9 yet again as it leaves our list. It’s a p. good free mystery visual novel, and we’re not exactly drowning in those.

At last, the bokuten tl hath finished. Deccy talks about it being darker still than the (sometimes excellent) Kira Kira below, but I’m not sure if he got across what I’ve heard: it’s a downright utsuge. I wonder whether or not I’d enjoy that… perhaps :P. Narcissu was nice, but I’m not sure if I consider the ending that bad.

Just Deserts is a dating sim, not a visual novel. I’m not sure why it’s on the list, but I don’t write it. Anyway, I’m sure some of you will be interested. Will it top HuniePop though? Probably not, unless you hated huniepop, in which case probably yes.

Front Wing continues its own translation efforts with another Grisaia side story. Whether or not their translation will be any good by now remains to be seen.

Kurukuru Fanatic is a project you probably know nothing about—unless you’re a yandere fanatic, in which case you might have been following the translation with bated breath. It’s now fully translated, and might actually not be completely terrible. We’ll see.

It’s good to have an update on MYTH. Scripting times tend to vary wildly (just look at how long Himawari is taking, lol), but hopefully MG can get this one released soon (no trademark infringement intended).

I haven’t seen anything on Ne no Kami for a while. It’s a yuri VN that also has some fantasy-y action parts, though from what I can tell browsing EGS it’s mostly focused on the romance… which is fine, I guess. Scores are at least decent, so it’s something to look forward to if you’re a yuri fan.

Pygmalion’s translation is almost finished. I’ve seen other translations stop at 97% – I believe the MYTH’s translation did – so I wonder if that’s code for the translators wanting to go through some tough spots in the writing that they skipped through in the original pass. Pygmalion is a chuuni VN, so it might have some tricky-to-translate parts. As for the actual novel, it’s by Propeller, who made Ayakashibito and Tokyo Babel among others. The vndb discussions have one user state their disappointment with it in comparison to Tokyo Babel, though they still considered it good; another praises it, considering it better than even Tokyo Babel… I wonder what side of the fence I’ll be on, lol. Like Tokyo Babel there’s no porn, so there’s sure to be a Steam release. Like Tokyo Babel, it might not get a lot of sales. RIP in pepperoni chuunige localizations? T_T

Speaking in potentially RIP’t localizations: really, do give Fata Morgana a try. There’s a fairly long demo out to help you decide.」

 

Lots of fun things to check out this week. Here are my favorites:

• Release: The House in Fata Morgana
• Audio Drama Release: Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Drama Theater vol. 3 – Suzumiya Akane – audio drama CD was released by the TL team. Check it out here.
• Announcement: The Leisure of Grisaia, a short mini-VN, is coming to Steam
• Release: My Secret Pets!, another Otome game, is out. While I don’t often play Otome games, I do try and spread the word as much as I can.
• Update: Wow, Da Capo 3 (MangaGamer) and Amagami (Ni Shi Shi Fan TL) both got updates this week! Feels so rare : D

I’m not feeling very well, so that’s all for this week. Have a good week, everybody.