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Link to the original author's blog post: https://cythoplazma.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/sekai-projects-unwanted-child/ While I'm not one to get on the SP bash hype train, I did find this post on Reddit to be a pretty good analysis of SP's past, present and future and how they handle their releases and it exposes a lot of the problems their business model tends to encounter, something that's becoming more apparent with Root Double's rather deplorable Kickstarter which seems to be set for failure as there's only 6 days left and they're still falling almost 40k dollars short. This post deals mostly with World End Economica episode 3, a VN that was funded on Kickstarter almost 2 years ago on June 2014 and is still only 10% complete while SP is still pushing out more and more Kickstarter campaigns, leaving the backers of their initial projects kind of concerned. Actual post: So it took the new translator a full month to read two short visual novel episodes, something which should have taken less than a week. Notice also how the verb work is used in a future tense. Backers, including myself, had enough and shot back. One backer raised questions over the promised Vita/iOS tiers, to which the project creator responded with a passively aggressive dismissal. It sounded almost resentful, in a “just take your money and go” kind of way, as if us backers didn’t want the project to succeed. Sekai Project issued a quick response two days later. Even though backers had to pressure them to get as much, they did respond. To alleviate our concerns, they supposedly put a backup translator in place just to hit a self-instated four-month deadline. Our questions in the comments were answered. The plan sounded good, the company was communicating with us again. The clock started ticking. December’s production update wasn’t verbose. The company’s translation progress page – which doesn’t inspire a whole lot of confidence in its current iteration – supposedly listed episode 03 at 8.26%. Then 2016 came around. Even though Sekai Project stated backers would be updated monthly, they didn’t follow through their own update schedule and backers haven’t been briefed since December. Just yesterday though, the company posted on Redditthat translation for episode 03 is roughly 10% done. It’s been two and a half months since plans to translate the episode were laid out. The four-month window is rapidly closing and I honestly can’t see how the project team will be able to hit their goals in the time they have left. Delays in visual novel productions happen all the time (just ask Japan), but what makes World End Economica’s case particularly tragic is that Sekai Project built their entire future off the shoulders of its Kickstarter campaign. They got good press for it and they roped in the novel’s backers to their other Kickstarters, yet this particular Kickstarter that started it all is being neglected month after month. I think Sekai Project has several structural problems that only became apparent as delays increased. Many of us have expressed concerns that perhaps bootstrapping as many localizations as they did in such a short amount of time wasn’t good for the projects they already had on their way, but as Sekai Project commented that has nothing to do with production due to the parallelized way their projects are set up. Even though having teams that don’t interfere with each other sounds ideal and all, it took the new translator one whole month to read through both episodes because apparently he or she was finishing up previous commitments to other projects. This is clearly a human resources problem. When a company is offering near-minimum wage to its potential employees, it’s harder to find somebody competent to fill a spot on the fly. The other problem is cash flow related. Sekai Project’s recently launched Kickstarters have featured expensive, arguably overpriced pledge tiers compared to tiers of their past projects. Root Double is the perfect example. Even though the game is already being translated and doesn’t really need Kickstarter money, tiers still have ridiculous prices attached to them. While rumors circulate that this is because of high licensing fees, I have a hard time believing that to be the biggest reason. I think the more likely answer is that Sekai Project doesn’t want to lose money on every Kickstarter, as that has admittedly been the case. One of their staffers said they want to make sure to cover all their bases, thus avoid as much risk as possible. I can understand that. I mean, World End Economica was initially set at only $22,000, which is ridiculously low compared to Root Double’s $135,000. A crazy price hike, but in all honesty completely warranted for a game that doesn’t look like it would hit it off well with the Sakura Spirit crowd. In turn, a business model that relies on post-Kickstarter sales will inherently cause cash flow problems, meaning the company will rather spend their time and resources on new inventory which is more likely to increase cash flow than old inventory. While Sekai Project says every one of their game projects has its own production team, I have my doubts they are keeping funding separate to each of them. In other words, if Sekai Project were to close their doors tomorrow, I doubt the translator would still be working on episode 03 to hit that four-month deadline. While I appreciate the efforts made by Sekai Project so far – in fact I’ve been hanging out with some of their staffers online for almost ten years now and I hate it has come to this – this project and its backers have to be treated with respect. A translation progress of one percent per month is not good enough, and some of their projects, as bold as they were, were walking a very fine line between success and bankruptcy. I’d like them to avoid the latter because they have been a net positive on the industry, it’s just frustrating to see them peddling new games every month. Meanwhile, the title that put them on the map gets neglected at the expense of backers that initially believed in them. Thoughts? Personally this is why I don't fund anything on Kickstarter (that and it rejected my card the first time I tried to back a project), it's a dangerous thing to invest in and could easily end up making you lose money and lately it feels like companies such as Sekai Project mostly use it not have to invest internal funds into their releases, which, as we can see, can only get you so far in the industry before it starts causing trouble. I do not wish for Sekai Project to go bankrupt in the slightest, but it worries me how they seem to be taking a hit in their efficiency due to their ambitions.

MangaGamer and JAST at least attempt to communicate if/when issues occur. SP just goes dead silent, which clearly inspires all the faith in the world. They've needed better PR for a while now, and it looks like they just don't care. "I backed World End Economica, and I haven't even recieved episode one. I've emailed them, I've commented on their updates about it, I've messaged them on kickstarter. But it's a goddamn black hole over there. I just want my damn game. It's asinine that I got episode 2, but not the first episode" ^ That right there is something that should never happen.

In marriage counseling they say that it takes multiple favors to counterbalance a single slight. Humans are hardwired to recall grievances more strongly than favors done. All it takes is a few of these negative experiences to completely ruin Sekai Project's ability to Kickstart future projects, no matter how well they do with other projects. Trust is hard to win and easy to lose, and it looks like Sekai Project's stock is plummeting.

Haha, that's exactly my genre. The following recommendations have a (good) story and aren't (just) gruesome gorefests. I will not mention the most obvious ones (most Black Cyc games, Innocent Grey, some of elf's masterpieces like Kawarazaki-ke no Ichizoku 2 or all the games which are easily found on vndb with the death of heroine tag). I will also only mention games which have a value beside killing girls. These are good eroge which happen to include the killing of heroines as an important aspect of the story (which makes them obviously even better): Heaven -Death Game-: Main character wins a trip to a deserted island. But as soon as he gets there, a Battle Royale starts and he must kill the other participants to survive. And contrary to most other Battle Royale visual novels... he will kill. This VN is an RPG and you can even decide whether you want new members in your party, or just kill them, hehe. This game has probably the most beautiful death CGs I have ever seen (that's Mink for you) and the story is interesting at first. Sadly, the game is far to easy and you probably don't trigger the really sick events because you are just to good at killing the others. By the way, look at this delicious teaser: 3M -Marionettes manipulate the marionette-: Most people think that this is just a guro nukige, but that's not true. The horror writing is brilliant, characters and story are very engaging. Only downside is that it will probably never get its concluding chapter. Hotaruko: Very good mystery game about your girlfriend and her past you're trying to uncover. Best thing is this nice feature while killing innocent little girls that the animation of the scene is linked to you mouse movement. It's like an interactive killing mini game! Very satisfying. I wish more games had a feature like this. Some other games where your heroines die horribly, but your main character is not involved in the act of killing (or is he?): Love Letter: Kinda like Kara no Shoujo, the girls around you get killed and you don't know why and want to solve this mystery. Game starts as a nice horror flick, then evolves into some kind of detective story. Story is good and the conclusion satisfying. Omokage: Probably the most gory non-doujin eroge. You are trapped in a mansion and need to escape before you and your friends get killed. Pretty slasher horror-like. Don't look at the screens on its vndb page, they're endgame spoilers. 13-nin no Uruwashiki Kedamono: Story is about 13 trapped individuals and the death game they are forced to play. Main character and heroines are pretty bland, secondary characters and their relationships and background stories however are great. Death scenes and CGs are very beautiful (Mink again). Not really a very good game story-wise but the setting and the secondary characters are written very well. I didn't check before I started writing because there were far to many to bother. Please forgive me. OTL

Read the review here. Don't play this game.

Someone should make a VN, that only shows the bottom half of the character sprites. Legs are the best part of the female body after all. ...

Regarding XReaper's comment etc. As a natural proofreader. WEE disgusted me. I loved the series so much after I read episode 1. But proofreading spelling/grammar/flow issues killed much of episode 2 for me. There are a TON of (simple) errors. It's distracting. I called SP out on it. It's like the game never went on any sort of QC. http://puu.sh/mOG1N/1739fc5244.png (blue hyperlinks) shows just how much I found and I wasn't even halfway through episode 2; it doesn't even show the ones I found on episode 1. Even some free fan-translations surpass this game by a milestone. They were asking me to keep submitting errors. I stopped reading since I lost motivation and I just told them to completely overhaul the whole script. No point in me pointing (no pun intended lol) out errors one by one when there's going to be hundreds of them. Even to this day, it's a slow drag to continue reading episode 2. I don't care much for 3 anymore. What a shame.

The problem seems to be them trying to do so many games at once. It's not as simple as "let's move on to the next one". Despite them saying they have parallel teams that work independetly, it's clear that it's not working out the way they intended it to, otherwise whenever a game got funded, all the funding would go to one single team and the game would get released in time, but they probably mix the funds in some way and have been losing some of the money because of it, otherwise they wouldn't have to raise the bar so high with Root Double. Not to mention we know some of their staff work in multiple projects, as mentioned in the above post, so there's bound to be some issues, likely due to there not being enough staff, which ultimately results in them losing money because they can't keep up with demand. "Moving on to the next one" is exactly what they shouldn't do if they want to stay afloat.

I dont support Sekai Project kickstarters because there's not much communication with them post-launch (if the campaign actually gets funded) plus their tier rewards suck ass. They just don't reward you hard enough despite being a loyal pledger. You are already making me wait for 1 year or more.... so at least suck it up and give me some incentive to fund your shitty campaign, Sekai Project. Other than Muv Luv and Kyuuketsuki no Libra, I haven't done shit to assist kickstarting VNs. Because it's easy to predict when a project is gonna flop like a fat kid doing slip n' slide when the funding has been struggling on the first 2 weeks and last 2 weeks. I want to know what I'm investing in and always want constant communication with project starters in all the details even if it's just letting us know like where the money is going like marketing/PR campaigns, translation status, and stuff. Heck, I'll take a picture of the cute voice actresses signing autographs like what onomatope*/@MiKandi Japan have been doing with Libra over nothing. It really gives me a peace of mind when something is shown and effort is being put into something no matter how small.

Basically the exposed skin between the short skirt and socks/stockings. The higher the stocking, and the less of the skin showing, the higher grade it is. This is one of those crazy phenomenon where less skin showing = sexier. From Fiddle's pic, Akari and Hinata are the only ones following zettai ryouiki. Akari has grade B of it which is slightly above the knee but not a thigh high stocking while Hinata is grade D which is her socks are about three-quarters long from the bottom of her feet to the knee.

Show me boobs, show me sex, show me everything! Get rid of this censorship. Underneath these clothes, we are naked anyway.

- Chisato (Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate) - Chinami (Hoshizora no Memoria) - Isuzu (Hoshizora no Memoria) - The FBI friends with Usami on G-Senjou no Maou - Kaede (Shuffle!)

I swear @Tyrosyn and @XReaper are my favorite people when it comes to recommendations

Confession: I can't believe anyone still remembers the "piece of paper taped to a body pillow" dakimakura. I did eventually get a real one, you know.

3 days in and they are already funded, How the heck did this get approved by Kickstarter?! The current connotation of pornography is to intend their audience with sexual stimulation. That is all. No type of literary value is focused. Hentai is considered as 'erotica,' it's main purpose is to tell a story with sexual arousal as a second thought and that is what gives this title a chance to be on kickstarter. How did I know? I didn't until I contacted Kickstarter about it and explained it to them what kind of project we planned to do. Their response was 'As long as it is not distasteful and offensive then your project is fine.' What is distasteful and offensive you say? We don't know until we find out. For this title, I know for a fact this will not be distasteful since this book is plain casual 'Vanilla'. =D Other good examples of these types of projects are 'Smut Peddler,' Tezuka's Swallowing the Earth and our yaoi Kickstarter "Finder restock" was able to pass due to the positive message and artistic value they carry.

Ayaka > Ritsuko > Rise > Chiho Ayaka has the combination of a good route and a good waifu. I like you Ritsuko, but damn your route has a bullshit resolution. Rise's route is pretty good, mostly due to her mom. Rise's yandere traits should have been played up more, like a milder version of Yuno. The love triangle wore out its welcome around 7/8 chapters ago. Chiho was more of a tsuntsun than tsundere.

This thread is starting to feel like deaf people are waving arms randomly at each others.

Why can't it just be called a Visual Novel? "English Visual Novel" doesn't imply anything special other than the fact it's in English, but do you really need the English part? Like, would you prefer to call FPS games "English FPS games"? Sure Japanese visual novels have a pretty established style and Western VNs tend to break out of that style, but I don't think that by itself is enough to excuse adding any extra words to the category of the game. You could rebrand your approach to something like "I'm trying to change what it means to be a Visual Novel in the West", doesn't that sound a lot nicer?

If you want to get slightly weirder with it, Saya no Uta related images might come in hand.

The fact that you are not even using a high school setting is already 70 points on a 100 point scale for me. Most of us here are tired of that cliched, over troped and overused nonsense and it's very refreshing to read VNs without using that boring setting. Good luck and looking forward to it and I hope you guys can be up there with Katawa Shoujo as one of the best OELVNs to ever be released.

So i was bored and thought why not add a new forum games Rules are simple Person A posts a statement about the person below. Whoever replies must state if it's true or not. You can give an explanation of course. After this they write a statement about the next person, and so on. Example: Alright i'll start The next user posting is non human

On life - An introduction: 'Life' is a visual novel created by Rain Dog Studios, which revolves around a young man as he struggles to keep up with life. Does he do that which is expected of him, or follow his dreams? As he further wrestles with these questions, he begins to question the world around him, the people in it, and his own memories. What is his life? What has he done with it? These are questions we all face, but which is scarier, the lies we tell ourselves, or the truth? Origins: 'Life' is an adaption of a series of unreleased novels. The story has been rewritten into a script that adheres better to the visual novel medium. Currently there is a projected 40 plus hours of game play in the various routes. Choice: 'Life' is not a story, life is a world, one which I want to share with you. This world is my dream, one which brings restless nights, and spontaneous shivers. Your choices will have consequences and effect the world around you, the answers are never straight black or white, and perhaps you will never truly understand the weight of your decisions. Understand however, the choice is always yours. Your choices will lead you down multiple paths as you interact with the world and those around you. Each of these characters have their own personalities and goals as deep as your own. Screenshots: Character Artist: Ainoyū Background Artist: Allen Lim Current Progress: Trial version: Alpha Full game: Common-route coded. Thank you for allowing me to share with you my dream.

Sounds like a case of trying to copy and paste the tropes of a JVN without adding substance or anything unique

One would think. Unfortunately, the software is wired in such a way that everything will burst into instantaneous combustion as soon as somebody gets anywhere close to that part of the code. Or so I've heard... Either that, or Tay has no idea where the one setting he needs to fix it is hidden, amidst everything else.

They've recently put out an abomination of a kickstarter, with no worthwhile high tiers and few rewards, corrected their position in only the last 7 days of the campaign, and still look to raise the 150,000 or whatever it is they need with thousands of people donating. This doesn't seem to me as a company who's stock is plummeting. People will point to a transgender, boy love kickstarter as 'proof' of the community's feelings against Sekai, but these people are either being disingenuous or they're naive. Boy love is niche within a niche, and the transgender aspect partly negates that niche, so it was always going to fail (imo.) WE3 is regrettable, but Batman here has the right of it. They haven't actually had any failures yet, and the hardcore communities 'angst' hasn't materialised into anything worthwhile. So either a) the hardcore community isn't as powerful as they think or b) it's only a small, but noisy portion of the hardcore community. The latest game they're publishing is some 2d weird actiony RPG game, and not at all a VN which is interesting. Sekai need to get their act together on WE3 though. They've definitely made some mistakes.

I didn't mean that exactly, I just mean all their stuff has already been funded. Theoretically, they could stop doing kickstarters and they'd stay afloat (not necessarily localising new stuff, just working on what they already have). People seem to be thinking: "Soon enough their games will stop being funded. That'll show them!" when in all actuality all that means is that they'll either move to the next one, or stop, with no real loss on their side. "Noone wants our games, bohoo ". This may be all theoretical on my part, but that's why I don't understand this "They're hurting themselves!" mentality.

Nothing has explicitly failed though, unless I am missing something. WEE 3 is regrettable and unfortunate, and SP has had some pretty bad issues on hand, but again, nothing has failed as of yet.

Most of those are for more fetish-y characters. Most piss scenes involving lolis are for the embarrassment factor (they'll start to tear up or cry after doing it). As far as non-nukige goes a lot of piss scenes involve loli or really petite characters. https://vndb.org/c24597 https://vndb.org/c577 https://vndb.org/c3930 https://vndb.org/c1793 https://vndb.org/c912 https://vndb.org/c5499 https://vndb.org/c9359 https://vndb.org/c17038 https://vndb.org/c788

Companies who keep releasing failures are only hurting themselves. It's not as simple as "move onto the next one" while doing the same exact bullshit approaches. That's the very definition of "insanity"....

I might be completely misinformed on this, but... why would they stop? The worst that could happen to them is for their games to stop being funded. If that happened... Well, too bad, let's move on to the next one. Worst comes to pass they change their business model, with no real loss beyond things going slower than before.

Yes it is. I just loved the meme though.

I go for the baby making one either way. Same attitude as Kiri-senpai. (Also, the last choice Killed me )

damn right. Mostly blacks and arabs. Once we get out the Rift, we will start seeing more diversity. The next chapters take place in Kemet, Kush, and Ur or in other words, Modern day Egypt, Sudan, and Iran

Amane in Grisaia no kajitsu, Miyako in majikoi, Yuuna/Nanami in SonoHana and many more. I used to be completely disgusted by it myself but ... Suddenly one day I started enjoying it. I have been corrupted But yes, by some / many it is considered arousing. Also, for sadistic people it would be cute I guess, as the person is showing a side of themselves that is very private and embarrassing.

So I just got back from whichever place I came from. Every month, heh.

rare to see everyone agree on which routes were the best Ayaka ftw

It was pretty much only Rise i didn't like. I never had any problem with Chise as many do, but she wasn't anything special either. Rise was practically leading you on the entire vn, but had no intentions of becoming your girlfriend until you revealed that you were her childhood hero. I wonder what she was trying to accomplish before that point. I'd take someone who likes you for being you over someone who likes you because you turned out to be someone else, any day of the week. Always detested these types of heroine routes. Well, i did like the route, but not Rise.

Looks quite amazing, i'll be sure to vote on GL...Love the backgrounds and artstyle, keep up the good work and best of luck

congrats even if you didn't mention me I wont hold a grudge against you

Ayaka > Ritsuko > Rise > Chiho

Thank you very much

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I shall now give you the same treatment I gave followers and those I follow on Twitter: TOTALLY LEWD, BANNED-IN-THE-USA HEADPAT!!!

If you're more hung up on Fapanese mythology than anything else, you could take a look at Aoishiro. Oh yeah, and enjoy the creepy sea-born

I'll postpone my vote until I have read every single visual novel in existence. Watch this space.

I'll happily support your VN through Steam Greenlight! It looks interesting and I can tell you've put a lot of hard work and effort into it, I hope it passes!

Dear Fuwa, Due to the recent update there are certain bugs, strange new systems and features and missing content, most offensive of them all is the missing avatars from the chat. Now i'd like to take this moment in time out of my rioting, specifically looting Tay's underwear drawer and setting Zebhra on fire to tell you that we have been given a crucial responsibility; We must band together and blame Maefdomn for all our troubles and ensure that all blame falls on him for no reason. Please remember this in your daily Otaku commute and stay angry my friends. Love Totodile. P.S; Maef is also the one responsible for slow TL times

YU-NO has quite a few adult heroines and amazing sex scenes. It's a VERY old VN with adventure game elements though. I'm playing it right now. It's pretty damn good. Eriko-sensei best girl. Also she's the school nurse AND a teacher, what more do you want? (the game has few scenes and very little romance though) Fuck yes, someone else who knows HTMMAS (It's amazing if that's your kink) I like your username edit: Eriko no longer best girl.