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I don't know when this was last updated but here you go. http://jastusa.tumblr.com/upcoming I doubt they'll make it in time for a fall release. This is JAST, after all.

> Code looks to be about 10-15% done

Considering how localization-unfriendly the engine Innocent Grey uses is, Jast is probably not going to get Flowers out by fall even if translation/editing is done. If it took MG two years to get Kara no Shojo 2 translated/edited on top of porting the entire game to a new engine altogether, then there's no way Jast is going finish up Flowers' coding in time for fall.

Expect Flowers out in ten years. After all, it is the true Jast USA way.

Which is why I'm still a bit bitter that Mangagamer didn't get the game. They've got experience porting Innocent Grey's engine and Tulipgoddess is a fast translator. Especially on games she loves, so we would probably would have gotten it much sooner than with Jast. God damn it, JAST.

expect jast to pick up a bunch of innogrey games and sit on them until the company loses all faith in jast and becomes reluctant to let them pick up anymore of their games

hey, that's what happened between jast and nitro+

it would be hilarious if mangagamer sniped some nitroplus games tbh.

anyway, i hope with what happened, mangagamer got things all settled with innogrey so that doesn't happen.

plot twist: expect to hear localization announcements for kimi to kanojo to kanojo no koi and dramatical murder from mangagamer next year

seriously though, i imagine mangagamer and innogrey managed to get things sorted out together. if anything, i imagine mangagamer's probably going to be more careful in securing licenses with innogrey and their other current partners to ensure a title they want doesn't get swiped under their noses again.

i'd laugh my ass off if they got dramatical murder. part of me wishes they'd snipe muramasa, but that won't happen. or they could snipe shingakkou since jast has ties to stoneheads.

i hope so. i'd rather not see any titles from their partners snapped up by jast. especially ones i'm interested in. i'd like to see releases sometime this century and that won't happen with jast.

if mangagamer does decide to negotiate with any of jast's partners, shingakkou seems pretty likely for them to look into if only because they've gotten a lot of requests to translate that one and i'm pretty sure one of their translators is a fan of the game too.

dramatical murder seems unlikely due to mangagamer's "no official translation if there's a fan patch out" policy and there's already a fan patch for that one. muramasa could be possible, but that would depend how willing mangagamer is to try for it and nitro+'s willingness to negotiate. i mean, nitro+ might be in the market for a new publisher to translate games for them since they've lost faith in jast, making it possible for mangagamer to make a deal with them if the latter wanted to try for it. however, i heard something about how nitro+ is pretty difficult to work with as a partner? is there any truth to that?

good_haro is a fan and i wouldn't be surprised if she put in a word to try to look into getting the license for it.

do they have that policy? i follow them pretty closely so i must have forgotten about that if that's the case. i still think dmmd could still be profitable for them, but yeah, it's still a risk. muramasa is apparently really hard to translate and i think makoto wanted it to do it? and he works with jast, so yeah. not sure if he'd be willing to work for mg. or if any of mg's translators could handle it.

plus there's always the thing about how much nitro+ wants for muramasa to be licensed. they could negotiate, but if they ask too much then it could fall through pretty quickly. i've heard they're hard to work with, but i dunno how true that is.

N+ had it's own set of problems with things related to JAST, mainly the fact their p.c coding for their older games are bad. Like, have to be re-done from the bottom up bad. Which caused a few delays, the rest were JAST being well, being JAST.

In the past yes, N+ was very hard to work with because they didn't know how their games would fair in the west so they didn't want to risk the money and brand name being out there. Which is why JAST was the only c.o who got any rights years ago. Now it's at the point where N+ knows they have a market and would be willing to work more depending on who is willing to translate and release their products. Like for the Steins;gate p.c port, they completely handed over the coding and everything else to the translation team without any other questions once it got picked up.

But, JAST fucked up their relationship with N+ after everything that happened within the last few years. 5pb doesn't want to work with them again and made it within the contract for the Steins;gate translation that they own the translated script rights past the p.c release so JAST can't fuck them over.

oh man i'd shit myself big time if shingakkou got translated, it's easily one of my favorite vns

mangagamer is pretty good about listening to fan's requests as well and haro's expressed an interest in translating it before, so its possible

https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/628392202310447104

no, they'll actually look into sniping pigeon blood

hopefully good_haro will put in a word against getting pigeon blood.

pretty much this assuming mangagamer does actually try to negotiate with stone heads and pil/slash at some point

unless for some weird reason stone heads and pil/slash insist on mangagamer translating pigeon blood first before letting them pick up shingakkou which does happen with some japanese companies

then, uh, yeah

but pidgeon blood was shit

i'd respond to that tweet myself asking for them to consider shingakkou but i already sent in a request for it via mg's ask.fm just recently

It would be better if you posted your request for Shingakkou here. Or any requests for BL/Otome games here. http://forums.mangagamer.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=53&sid=f405de20588690de05c012a5a6620028

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