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Previous thread: This general is for the discussion of Japanese visual novels. E-celeb shitposting is not allowed. Kindly use spoiler tags appropriately when discussing plot spoilers to facilitate smooth discussion.
I rather dislike Nemu so I've no desire to see her route a second time. If anything I'd watch the Kotori OVA or whatever. That was a thing right?
Ayden Gonzalez
Okay, Charles route is an improvement over Ricca's at least. She's way cuter.
Ryan Rivera
Let's not kid ourselves, people in this community are desperate enough to play (pirate) anything regardless of whether or not it has honorifics, so it doesn't really matter what they prefer. lol I find this topic personally offensive because the people who are proponents of retaining honorifics are basically making a mockery of the art of translation... for the past few weeks I've been working on a certain translation project that I want to make sure is as polished as possible, and it was extremely disheartening to see this thread tonight with people outright saying that you're "ruining" the original (which they haven't read and have no frame of reference for to begin with) if you so much as attempt to preserve the tone of the original instead of vomiting ro-mazi gibberish everywhere. Honestly, it doesn't matter to me what people think they want; I'm only concerned about producing a good translation, period, and I would dare to say that any translator worth his or her salt feels the same way. So people can bloviate all they want about how honorifics are supposedly "preserving the meaning" of a language they don't understand in the first place, but at the end of the day no one is actually going to listen to them (the fact that the OP even posted this thread proves that he's not cut out to be a translator and will assuredly either drop this project posthaste or produce something not fit for human consumption). For the few people who legitimately care about getting the "authentic" experience and aren't just turning this into a personal internet crusade, I would urge you to simply learn Japanese. If you truly care this much about the Japanese media you consume, it will be the best thing you ever do, trust me. But for the people who aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is... well, too bad. The people who actually understand the language - you know, the ones translating the games - have a perspective on the matter that you lack, plain and simple.
Cooper Collins
Putting spoilers in the OP isn't nice, a lot of people are going to see it in the catalogue.
Easton Murphy
I can't bring myself to finish this.
Liam Edwards
Muramasa when?
Hudson Morales
Choose wisely.
Henry Collins
Read Mayumayu's route. The rest don't matter.
Ryan Murphy
114 cm all the way! >mfw that tiny mouth sucking my dong while I finger her pussy.
Liam Cook
I LIKE LOLIS!
Carson Hughes
...
Dylan Wilson
I choose the FBI agents hiding just off camera. You guys are the cutest
Adrian Gomez
148>143>130>124>160>164>158>114
Matthew Phillips
The three on the left are the only ones that don't make me feel like a creep with 148 being borderline. 124 would be great if she was about five years older.
Noah Rivera
Faggot
Wyatt Lee
Why is Hachiroku the most boring heroine?
Oliver Murphy
The three on the left.
Matthew Ortiz
p-pls b my gf
Adrian Johnson
>picking anyone bigger than 148 cm
Aiden Sanders
Anything to the right of 148cm is not sexually attractive.
148cm is my favorite.
Hudson Kelly
130 has the lewdest H-scenes
Hunter King
148>130>124>143>160>158>164>114
Zachary Reyes
>tfw 5th time fapping today
Ryder Garcia
>can't breed the Maitetsu lolis Fugg
Julian Flores
>tfw
Jonathan Wilson
you start cumming blood yet?
Jacob Kelly
Any company working with a translator who only cares about making the translation they want should keep a close eye on the project. Otherwise you might end up with Chrono Clock (or worse).
Justin Baker
Why not all of them
Kevin Roberts
The ones on the left are disgusting
Lincoln Green
Have you told your Mom that you're a disgusting pedophile yet?
Kayden Cox
My mom is a loli.
Evan Jackson
Stop learning Japanese.
Luis King
Way ahead of you pal.
Leo Ward
^_^
Dominic Lopez
Just do the heroines you like, the story is not great
Julian Long
But being an EOP is suffering
Ryan Cooper
Why did Sekai Project even pick up Maitetsu if they weren't going to do the porn?
Because they assume correctly that people will buy it anyway.
Connor Sullivan
They want to spread the awareness of railroads and trains
Xavier Garcia
Everything with cute art was selling ridiculously well on Steam at the time and Lose really wanted Steam cash so they were going to approach everyone until they found someone willing to localize it.
Charles Turner
doesn't really matter. we aren't the audience anyway.
Benjamin Nelson
The inner machinations of the mind of Dovac are an enigma.
Caleb Moore
Becuase it will sell well 100%, the game is still cute as hell with very high production values.
Sebastian Jones
I love Runa!
Luke Butler
People have been repeating this over and over but it isn't true, in fact Lose didn't even know about it when SP announced it last year at AX.
Dylan Peterson
Do Kick Starters really work?
Not that any of you would back one anyway
Nicholas James
Was there anything we could have done to stop the all ages menace?
Aiden Morales
I hate Runa
Jayden Bennett
Does raising 1.25 mirrion dorrars count as working?
They do work out great, just not so great for the guys backing them.
Oliver Lewis
It will sell, but it will sell at best like what Chrono Clock did on Steam instead of the smash hit Lose wanted, since the Steam market collapsed. Of course that is true now regardless of if there is an uncut release or not.
Jordan Gutierrez
Doubtful. Steamtards go full REEEE whenever a visual novel is priced above 20 dollars, and Maitetsu will likely be a full price title since it's so new and the licensing will probably demand it.
Aside from that, lolicons are a niche audience, and train infodumps aren't appealing at all. The designs may be cute, but the characters are, for the most part, pretty dull.
Adam Rodriguez
I feel indifferent towards Runa
Isaac Miller
What is Grisaia
What is Muv Luv
Camden Bennett
are you dumb? of course they work. neko got 1 million+ without any h.
it's literally no risk. either you get the money before you do the project or you don't get the money and you don't do the project. No need to invest yourself.
Jeremiah Lopez
Sekai announced Maitetsu last March, well before AX.
Robert Hill
Sekai literally picks up anything and everything they can get. Most of the total garbage OELVNs on Steam that have been flooding the market is thanks to them.
They're basically the whores of the industry. No standards at all
Jace Martin
Same shit, doesn't change the fact that Lose didn't know about it initially.
Evan Harris
apologize to ebi-hime right now
Jeremiah Price
>Lose didn't know that Sekai Project announced one of their titles That has to be bullshit. That's just asking for legal trouble.
Parker Richardson
I don't care what any of you say. I'm buying Maitetsu on release.
Benjamin Wilson
Yeah steamfags are really against paying a full game price for a VN, it's also one of the reasons Nekopara did so well, cause it's like less than 5 bucks whenever it goes on sale and short enough it can fit within their attention span.
Jose Garcia
Cool, Im buying persona 5 on release.
Christian Williams
Me too
Liam Collins
This, I bet when Maitetsu releases we will get torrent begging and I'll be happily blogging about it here.
Liam Cooper
I'm ok with this.
Joseph Cook
When SP announced it someone sent a tweet to Lose's official account and they were shocked about it. That doesn't mean the higher ups at Lose didn't know about it, just that at least their PR department didn't, which if they really were actively trying to sell Maitetsu on Steam they should have.
Brandon Davis
Da Capo III and Chrono Clock seemed to have done decently well on Steam despite their price tags, and short titles aren't selling as well they used to.
Aiden Evans
Uh, but Moogy said it was extremely homophobic and sexist? Why would you buy that....
Jeremiah Nguyen
It all started cause some guy speculated that the reason Lose did detached h was cause they wanted steambucks, then retards started parroting that every thread.
John Fisher
This isn't wrong. It seems like the artist just isn't very good at older women because the proportions just seem off with the older ones, but the younger girls look great.
Angel Sullivan
Me too actually
Angel Foster
And I should listen to him why?
Jaxson Thomas
I'm okay with that. Let him draw all loli vns.
Easton Green
apologize
Ryder Sanders
And even that speculation is retarded cause if Lose really wanted to sell their shit on steam they wouldn't have made the game so fucking lewd by itself even after the H-scenes are detached.
Anthony Brooks
Their Japanese PR person isn't exactly the most important party to keep in the loop for negotiations of a Western Steam release by a Western company with their own PR, besides we clearly saw last year Sekai announced titles as the first opportunity once they had reached an agreement.
Jacob James
Wtf I love Persona now
Justin Watson
Reminder to buy Maitetsu so we can get Monobeno translated.
Thomas Murphy
Still feel bad for Aroduc. And fucking hell, they haven't even started on Baldr. Fuck Sekai Project so much.
Dylan Cox
>or you don't get the money and you don't do the project. No need to invest yourself. the work that has to be done just for a kickstarter costs time and money, I imagine they'd have to get initial negotiations with the jap side/localization staff out of the way at least I heard someone say that Kickstarter just lets them do perfect price discrimination which does seem to make sense
Justin Gray
I mean, if the people at Lose were really that desperate for steambucks one would think they would try to reach out to the western audience through social media to generate awareness, the fact that they didn't just proves they weren't that interested about it in the first place, it having detached 18+ content has nothing to do with plans for a Steam release, it's just a baseless rumor.
Luke Anderson
>tfw Tanuki Soft blocks western ips from their site Why do jap lolige companies hate us?
Isaac Rogers
because sekai LOL
Justin Young
Why would a lolicon company go on social media to advertise? That's a good way to crucify yourself.
I think people forget how easily battered the beehive of the West is when it comes to loli content. If it isn't stripped down almost completely in regards to any and all loli fanservice for the steam release, it will be another Rapelay.
Connor Gonzalez
Lose used to do that too up until Maitetsu was announced by SP.
Michael Gray
Fucking hell No wonder they never get anything done and their releases are half finished
Jaxon Bennett
What did Sekai mean by this?
Christopher Johnson
I don't see anything wrong with this.
Ethan Kelly
They already do that user, they literally have an official twitter account, which they use to advertise and the whole world can see. Even if they generated controversy online, Japan gives no fucks about what baka gaijins think when it comes to porn.
Hudson Edwards
>tfw it will end up being 2 years overdue Lmao
Easton James
>Runa doesn't shower in the morning In the trashcan this stinky whore goes.
Brody Sanders
>tfw Muv-Luv physical copies are well on the way of a 1 year delay
I WANT MY SLUTMIKA FIGMA ALREADY
Lucas Hughes
^_^
Brayden Hill
That's pretty hot, though. I bet she smells like a bitch in heat