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Visual Novels / Kickstarter for an English release of the Grisaia trilogy is a great success!

« on: February 02, 2015, 04:34:49 pm »

The anime adapatation of the visual novel "Grisaia no Kajitsu" aired on Japanese TV this Fall, with great success, and anime adaptations for the sequals "Grisaia no Meikyuu" and "Grisaia no Rakuen" have been announced for March 2015. Probably inspired by this, Sekai Project announced a while back that they would attempt to bring the 3 visual novels these anime series are based on to the West via Kickstarter, much like with Clannad. This project was successfully funded yesterday, and the Grisaia trilogy will get an official English release, including physical copies, possibly sometime at the end of this year! ^^

But that's not the best news! What's really great and interesting about this is that the overwhelming success of this endavour (currently funding is at 475255$, way above the 160000$ goal!), and of the Clannad Kickstarter project, has caught the attention of other VN companies in Japan! This is both according to Sekai Project themselves, and according to Ryuichiro Yamakawa, the president of Frontwing, which is the company behind the Grisaia games!

Sekai Project has started a wave, and this could very well finally be the push that is needed for more VN companies to take a leap of faith, and go with the risk of trying to get some of their games published in the West! This could be the change/next step we've waited for! These days we do get officially translated VN's from companies like Mangagamer and JAST (and now some from Sekai Project of course), but many of them are download-only copies rather than physical ones, and the selection is still limited to games from a relatively small selection of companies. And 90% of them are nukige. Here's hoping bright days are ahead for us overseas visual novel lovers! ^^

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: January 09, 2015, 12:08:43 am »

Limited Edition English version of "ef - a fairy tale of the two" (includes both the first and the latter tale of the game), the famous VN from minori:

Cardboard box front cover:

Cardboard box back cover:

Game discs front cover:

Game discs back cover:

Visual Collection artbook:
Great book. 120 pages. This is my third ef artbook, since I also have the Visual Fan Book and Art Works Book from before.

"Uncle Yuuko" sticker......:

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Visual Novels / Re: Kickstarter for Clannad's official English release!

« on: November 24, 2014, 12:30:04 pm »

UPDATE!!:

There are two new stretch goals that should be of interest to Clannad fans! If a total of 320000$ is donated to the project, we will get the "Hikari Mimamoru Sakamichi de" (https://vndb.org/v4060) Clannad sidestory, which originally has only been available (in Japanese) for the PSP, Vita, and PS3, translated, ported, and included with the English PC release of the game!  If a total of 380000$ is reached, we will get a new Clannad manga anthology that has not even been released in Japan before, and we will get it before the Japanese do!

For more detailed info, see here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/clannad-official-english-release/posts

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Visual Novels / Kickstarter for Clannad's official English release!

« on: November 12, 2014, 12:51:05 am »

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sekaiproject/clannad-official-english-release
Show your support now guys!

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: November 03, 2014, 10:36:28 pm »

Damn dude, talk about unlucky! :O That sounded like a lot of trouble! :O You definitely need to complain to someone and hold somebody responsible for that shit! :-/

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Visual Novels / "ef – a fairy tale of the two" gets an English hardcopy release from MangaGamer!

« on: October 17, 2014, 06:41:46 pm »

"ef – a fairy tale of the two" gets an English Limited Edition hardcopy release from MangaGamer!:

"We’re proud to announce that pre-orders for the hardcopy of 'ef - a fairy tale of the two.' is now open!



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ef - a fairy tale of the two. Limited Edition (hardcopy)

http://www.mangagamer.com/detail.php?goods_type=3&product_code=219

MSRP: $59.95

Developer: minori

Rating: ESRB Adult Only

On Sale: Dec 24, 2014

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This Limited Edition will feature both ef - the first tale and ef - the latter tale for the special price of $59.95! In addition to featuring both games, this Limited Edition of ef will also include a special Uncle Yuuko sticker in honor of minori’s call for Western support in our upcoming eden* and Supipara endeavor! Of course, the best part will be the 120pg artbook specially arranged for this English Limited Edition release!



Copies are indeed limited, so pre-order your copy today!"

I've already preordered my copy. I have the download versions from before, so it's a bit annoying to buy the game twice, but I really want that artbook.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: October 17, 2014, 06:33:39 pm »

Your collection is as impressive as always Clannad Man! ;-)

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: July 29, 2014, 11:56:39 pm »

My School Days Series illustration Collection artbook arrived. : ) Well, it may be called the School Days Series illustration Collection, but it actually consists of art from School Days, Summer Days, Cross Days, Shiny Days, and even Island Days (though the latter barely gets any pages), and Cross Days is actually the game with the most art featured in the book.

School Days gets 33 pages (23 from the regular version, and 10 from the HQ version), Summer Days gets 21 pages, Cross Days gets 43 pages, and Shiny Days gets 20 pages. Island Days only gets 6 pages. Then there are a few pages with other stuff. Anyway, it's a good artbook. It consists almost entirely of art, and has lots of ecchi.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: July 19, 2014, 02:58:16 pm »

Massive update because I've been too lazy to do smaller and more frequent ones when I should have. Kept postponing things. Anyways:

First, stuff I bought online in March, April, and May:

GSC 1/8 Angel Beats - Tachibana Kanade figure:



GSC 1/7 Fate/stay night - Saber Lily figure:



Kotobukiya 1/8 Horizen in the Middle of Nowhere - Futaya Honda figure:



Kotobukiya 1/8 Kara no Kyoukai - Ryougi Shiki figure:



Alter 1/8 Fate/stay night - Saber Lily figure:



Griffon Enterprises 1/8 Sword Art Online - Asuna Kenshi (Fencer) version figure:



Enterbrain 1/7 Fate/stay night - Rider figure:



Alter 1/8 Fate/stay night - Tohsaka Rin & Saber Summer version figures:


Steins;Gate English Limited Edition (comes with an official fanbook and some...pins...):




Tick Tack (SHUFFLE! spinoff) English Edition:



Next, things I bought at this year's London Comic Con (at the end of May):

Fate/complete material I - Art material (loving this artbook. Any self-respecting Fate fan should have one):



Suzumiya Haruhi Illustrations - Spring & Summer artbook:



Suzumiya Haruhi Illustrations - Autumn & Winter artbook:



Navel COLOR - Aoi Nishimata artbook (Aoi Nishimata is the female artist behind the art in many of Navel's visual novel games, such as SHUFFLE! for example):



Tony's ART works from Shining World (I don't really care about Shining World, I just like Tony Taka's art):



Banpresto 1/7(8?) Fate/stay night - Saber Lily figure:


And since the one I originally bought and posted pictures of turned out to be a bootleg, here's pictures of the authentic version of GSC's 1/8 Kara no Kyoukai - Ryougi Shiki figure (which I have now bought and acquired to replace my previous shitty bootleg):


The bootleg for comparison. The eyes in particular are pretty bad:


Also, since I realized I've forgotten to post pictures of them, my Type-Moon Ace magazine collection:


Finally, my preorder of GSC's 1/8 Sword Art Online - Asuna Knights of the Blood version figure arrived in the mail just a few days ago. As usual, GSC does not disappoint. They really are the best figure making company imo:




And that's it! Phew!

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: April 15, 2014, 09:17:19 pm »

I'll be posting my March and April loot all in one big update pretty soon (though I bought most of it in March anyway), once I receive a few remaining items that haven't arrived yet. I went pretty crazy. It's Easter now though, so I guess I won't be getting any of my remaining stuff until after Easter has ended...

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Visual Novels / Re: Tomoyo After - It's a wonderful live (Memorial Edition)

« on: March 21, 2014, 08:30:42 pm »

They will be working on a Memorial Edition patch, but Clannad and Little Busters takes priority, so I imagine it's still a long way off.

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Visual Novels / Re: Any updates regarding LB EX?

« on: March 07, 2014, 08:11:36 pm »

Sorry I did'nt mean to be complaining I was just wondering if those questions could be answered, seeing as they cannot that is totally fine. This is the first VN tranlation i have ever waited for so your response is very welcome coming from someone with a lot of experience with these things.

It's fine, don't worry about it. ;-) Senretsu was the one doing the complaining anyway.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: March 03, 2014, 08:22:29 pm »

So yeah, figures that the missing VN I had been waiting for forever would arrive in the mail the day after I posted the other pics lol. Deus Machina Demonbane (English version), from Nitro+. One of the more famous VN's out there I reckon. I'm not really into mecha, but I bought it since it's apparently supposed to be such a big deal. Anyway, pics:

Cardboard box front cover:



Back cover:



Front cover of the plastic cover inside the cardboard box (back cover is the same as the cardboard one):



User manual (also contains 8 pages of art):

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: March 01, 2014, 11:07:48 pm »

Right, I was going to wait until after I had received all the goods I bought over the past two months before posting an update, but this one VN hasn't arrived even after a month (at this point I'm thinking it's been lost during shipping or something...damn...), so fuck it. I'm way late on my loot update post because of it.

Anyway, first of, the missing figure from my previous round of loot, that I mentioned in one of my previous posts. The Kotobukiya 1/8 Aincrad Asuna (SAO) figure:




Next up, my January and February loot. I bought a ton of VN's (all official English versions)!:






Games visible in the images:
Da Capo Limited Edition
Da Capo 2 Limited Edition
Deardrops
Kara no Shoujo Limited Edition
My Girlfriend is the President
Yume Miru Kusuri (A Drug That Makes You Dream)
Snow Sakura
Go Go Nippon! (eroge free VN)
Say no Uta (The Song of Saya)
Kazoku Keikaku (Family Project)
Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete (If My Heart Had Wings)
Edelweiss Deluxe Set (Edelweiss+Edelweiss Eiden Fantasia)
Hitomi - My Stepsister -

If My Heart Had Wings is actually an 18+ eroge like most of the others, but the English version has been edited and turned into a teen friendly version. Pretty lame move, not to mention pointless. -_-

The Limited Edition games unboxed:






All 3 games comes with a soundtrack disc, and the two Da Capo games also come with a Visual Book artbook. I accidentally put the Da Capo 2 Visual Book with the back cover facing upwards in the previous picks, so here's the front cover:



Finally, I also bought one (or actually two) non-English VN ('s). The Fate/stay night + hollow ataraxia 2014 Limited Edition set:



The game box:



The back cover:



The included awesome Fate/Art Chronicle, which compiles 95 pages worth of some of the best Fate art made from back when FSN was released, up until today!:



The inluded Fate/side material art/information booklet. This is the same book that was originally released with the First Edition of FSN back in 2004. It contains in-game art and CG's from the VN, character sketches and concept art, weapon sketches, and lots of information and comments on characters and weapons, not to mention encyclopedia entries on various Fate series terms and definitions:



The game manual:



The actual game discs:

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Visual Novels / Re: Any updates regarding LB EX?

« on: February 25, 2014, 08:03:03 pm »

1. You believe translating VN's takes months of work, and no more than a year. This is wrong. It usually takes several years. All the more so if it's a huge VN like those that Key have made.

Well, Ixrec translated rewrite (+100.000 lines) in 9 months. i'm not asking for this speed, Ixrec is not a normal human, but well, dont tell lies you aren't translating the whole VN, just 3 routes (LB EX) or one route (AS, Clannad)  and you have 2/3 routes of LB EX translated if we put together what is still untranslated of LB EX and Clannad AS it even isn't A SINGLE ROUTE OF REWRITE, so, don't say that you are on a huge VN, because you have only 10% of a VN or less to translate, then you are just lazy as hell.
I'm not demanding for a translation, this is free and i can't demand anything, but  we are not stupid, just give what you have translated to another fansub and let another fansub finish what you won't finish.

I'm not lying about anything, I was talking about the whole process from when Fluffy first started working on vanilla LB, up until where they and Doki currently are with LB as a whole. I wasn't just talking about what is left to do. And even then, translating the text isn't everything, there is also typesetting, image editing, lots of programming, etc. Fansubbing a large VN from start to finish usually takes years, unless you're either superhuman and/or prioritize it before everything else in your life (which most people obviously won't do), even if a few select impressive individuals manage to do it super-fast, like Ixrec (TakaJun from Mirror Moon, the group that translated Type-Moon's VN's Fate/stay night, Tsukihime and others, also springs to mind). That's what I said, and I stand by it. That's also how it is more often than not with VN fan translation projects, which you'll quickly see if you take a look at how long many of the ones out there have been in the works.

And Clannad (the main game and AS) is not just one single route lol, it has several, and while smaller than Rewrite, it is still a HUGE VN. One of the largest out there. It is listed as being Very Long on VNDB. All the text that has already been translated needs to be gone through again and proofread anyway (though of course this part is well underway by now), since that's what's this patch is all about: raising it to the standard you want and expect of a perfectly complete patch.

And the fact that you're saying stuff like "just give what you have translated to another fansub and let another fansub finish what you won't finish." suggests to me that you haven't been paying attention to the process this VN has been through from start to finish so far. It has after all already shifted hands from one fansub group to another before, and it has been in the loop since as far back as 2007. It has been in hibernation and then revived again multiple times since then. I really don't think it would be in anyone's best interest for something like that to happen yet another time, so it would probably be better that the project stays with Doki until it is finished.

Now learn to be patient like me, stop constantly nagging, and be more grateful. Also, remember that people not working as fast as you want on one specific thing (a hobby and service done for free no less) does not necessarily mean they are lazy people at all. Many people have a life, and have many other much more important things to do that are both time consuming and require a lot of work and effort to get through, meaning they'll need to be anything but lazy in order to cope.