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VISUAL NOVEL CANONS

[(Anonymous)]

http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

Hey guys, I will make it short. I’m really sorry for bringing bad news at the start of the year, but we will be dropping Starry Sky In Summer due to legal reasons.

While we still have doubts about this, we are not sure how and why everything happened, whether this is really true or just a prank, negotiating is impossible as we haven’t received a reply from the sender since, we don’t want to take risks.

Unless this turns out to be all one big joke during New Year, or we can get permission from Asgard themselves, we will no longer be making English patches or involved in any translation for Asgard’s games. Black Wolves Saga and Ken ga Kimi will be on semi-hiatus due to this issue.

Also for those who wonder why we didn’t ask for permission in the first place, you are wrong if you think contacting a developer from overseas, way over in Japan is easy. You can barely contact localization companies.

All in all, we will drop Starry Sky In Summer, and have deleted all downloads related to Starry Sky After Spring on our blog. We thank you for supporting us so far and we are sorry to disappoint you.

If there is anything you want to say or ask, just leave a message on tumblr askbox or chat function. I will not reply to any whining such as “Please continue the project” or bashing members of the group like “You people are wrong, stop making stupid patches”.

Please understand we only wanted to make you happy, to bring you translation of games you want to play and to let you SUPPORT the developer. But it might not be possible anymore. I’m sorry if I sound moody but I’m just really depressed with everything right now.

tl;dr: Golden Spirit has cancelled their plans to release their fan patch of Starry Sky ~In Summer~ and removed download links to their patch for Starry Sky ~After Spring~ due to getting a C&D from the PSP publisher of Starry Sky, Asgard. The fan translations of Black Wolves Saga and Ken ga Kimi will be on semi-hiatus.

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

i've heard of starry sky, but i've never heard of this group (or is it just a single person translating?) until now but

it might be just me, but the tone of this post kind of rubs me the wrong way. reading this, it sounds like they're so ~shocked~ and ~betrayed~ by the whole thing when they (in their own words) "only wanted to make [fans] happy, to bring you translation of games [they] want to play and to let [them, the fans,] SUPPORT the developer." after all, "it might not be possible anymore" thanks to mean, ol' asgard.

another thing:

Also for those who wonder why we didn’t ask for permission in the first place, you are wrong if you think contacting a developer from overseas, way over in Japan is easy. You can barely contact localization companies.

...i'm going to assume these people (or is it a single person?) never actually tried contacting a localization publisher at all. if they actually did contact a publisher such as sekai project, mangagamer, or jast usa, they'd find that they'd be willing to look into licensing the game using their translation. this blog post does list examples of games that used fan translations for official releases including some visual novels:

http://legendsoflocalization.com/these-fan-translations-became-official-translations/

and didn't jast try to get the rights to release starry sky but couldn't because they couldn't afford the costs for voice acting with the budget they had? so it's not like any of these publishers aren't interested in releasing the series in english.

i mean, i get it's disappointing to be told that you have to stop working on something that you put a lot of effort into, but really

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

i have no horse in this race, but there's your answer

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, JAST looked into trying to get the license for Starry Sky but the costs for the voices was too high for them.

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I really hope this pushes them into looking into seeing if Mangagamer or someone else would be interested in trying to license Black Wolves Saga and Ken ga Kimi.

It's not hard to contact localization companies at all, especially Mangagamer who has been quite open with working with fan translators and trying to make things official.

I mean there's always a chance that things won't work out but I wish they'd try because I really want to support official releases.

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

While we still have doubts about this, we are not sure how and why everything happened, whether this is really true or just a prank, negotiating is impossible as we haven’t received a reply from the sender since, we don’t want to take risks.

considering how there have been fan tl groups who've gotten a c&d for their projects before, it's probably safe to assume that this isn't a prank

+1

[(Anonymous)]

i've seen people comment how that that letter must be a prank and it couldn't possibly be from asgard because it's so suspicious when golden spirit has been close to finishing their translation and i'm over here like "no, this is normal"

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

If you haven’t heard from them then I’d say it was a prank.

Once again women get nothing to play while the eroge machine churns out fan translation after fantranslation.

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

was this copy-pasted from somewhere

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

there is no escaping the ero-galge conspiracy

seriously though

while there are publishers who can be stupidly reluctant to localize otoge despite them having no problems localizing galge, i don't think that's the problem here

Re: http://otomegirlkawaii.tumblr.com/post/136644781416/announcement

[(Anonymous)]

apparently there are members of golden spirit who want to leave the group because they don't want to deal with legal trouble?

at least, according to someone who claims to be a friend of one of the golden spirit group members. granted, that person was anon and this statement was made in the chatbox of englishotomegames so take that with a grain of salt.

Root Double- Before Crime * After Days Kickstarter Up

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/root-double-before-crime-after-days-xtend-edition

As of this post, they have raised 15,906 USD out 135,000 USD with 29 days to go.

http://emotibot.net/pix/7802.gif

[(Anonymous)]

this applies to every kickstarter ever, mind

Re: Root Double- Before Crime * After Days Kickstarter Up

[(Anonymous)]

Takumi Nakazawa (director/producer/original concept) has worked as the director of the Infinity series (Never7, Ever17, Remember11)

Sold.

Though, I'll be pledging for a digital copy for now since I don't know if I personally love Root Double enough to pledge for, say, a physical copy or another higher-tier reward rn. Maybe I'll consider increasing my pledge for the stretch goal rewards later on? Otherwise, yeah.

Re: Root Double- Before Crime * After Days Kickstarter Up

[(Anonymous)]

i know that root double got a lot of good reviews for the writing but

http://i.imgur.com/EFxfAe3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zWxMXuz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nDP4bXc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zwD7Bur.jpg

is it just me or is root double's art similar to that generic, dated art style you see in a lot of galge

i get there are galge that are exceptions to this (kara no no shojo, for example) and in no way is this me claiming galge is inferior to other genres but

i swear this art style is common even among more recent games with maybe some slight differences in how each artist does the face/hair and coloring

Re: Root Double- Before Crime * After Days Kickstarter Up

[(Anonymous)]

is it me or do the tier prices above the 60 dollar digital/physical copy tier come off as unreasonable

https://m.ask.fm/The_Doddler/answers/133452538097

[(Anonymous)]

Doddler posted about Gahkthun's sales. As expected, they're on the low end.

Re: https://m.ask.fm/The_Doddler/answers/133452538097

[(Anonymous)]

still crossing my fingers that gahkthun's sales doesn't discourage liar-soft and mangagamer from releasing more of the steampunk games in english

i don't know about the chances of the gahkthun shining night fandisk getting licensed though

[(Anonymous)]

but what are the chances of shining night getting localized

https://mobile.twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/684629375258591232

[(Anonymous)]

Going by this, I think we may be getting Supipara soon. Maybe February or March.

Re: https://mobile.twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/684629375258591232

[(Anonymous)]

And it's been deleted. Guess it wasn't meant to be posted. Or it was a teaser.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/687862686797967360

[(Anonymous)]

Kindred Spirits is up for preorder and will be released on February 12th!

Mamgagamer's website is pretty nsfw so keep that in mind.

http://mangagamer.org/kindredspirits/ (nsfw)

[(Anonymous)]

there's also an official website available too, but it might not work correctly on firefox

https://mobile.twitter.com/tulipgoddess/status/687873538271780864

[(Anonymous)]

And according to Tulipgoddess it should run on Windows 10.