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2 months and 9 days. That was rather fast, wasn't it. I mean, after over 5 months of getting to 500, my activity on this site really surprised me when I started to make this post. Anyways, thoughts on these past 2 months? Honestly, fast. It all went in a flash, and I had oh so much fun. I started a new thingy on my blog about mangas and it's thoroughly slowly dying there. Good shit. Other than that, I'm finally getting close and soon can read VNs freely in a bit. I also met a few nice new people, which I'll put in a spoiler because who really has time hear about me rambling on and on, which I do enough already. I'm also quite pleased on how the chat has been doing since I last talked about it. I also got my dirst Fuwa troll so that was fun. Nothing else much to say from these past two months, I've just been doing what I usually do. Now onto the nominations. Now that that obligatory segment is over, let's start up the part two: AMA. I'm willing to answer every and each one of your questions, there's really no discrimination about the type of the questions. If ye have a question you want me to answer, post it down. Here's to it all. To questions, the future, luck and good well-being of this entire site. I think the next one'll be 2000, if I ever get that far. Cheers, I'll be waiting for those questions.

Hey all, it's time for another convention! Anime Central is starting just tomorrow, the 20th of May. It's the biggest convention until July's Anime Expo, and most of the major players of the VN world will be there! Except for JAST, I can't actually find them or J-List on the exhibitor's list on acen's website. All times below are CDT, or UTC -0500, I believe. I will attempt to keep this OP up to date with all the latest developments. VisualArts/Key VisualArts is one of ACEN's "premium partners" so they get a nice posh booth that you'll want to visit if you're a Key fan (Booth 11). They will also have a panel, too. It will be held at 4PM on the 20th. "Join CEO Takahiro Baba, Artist Na-Ga, and Composer Shinji Orito for this multimedia industry panel all about your favorite games and shows from VisualArts!" Announcements: VisualArts announced that the Clannad side-stories will release in just a few weeks, and that they have plans for an Angel Beats localization. Sekai Project Sekai Project will of course be present as well. They'll have a premium booth at Booth #61. Their panel will be at 5:30PM on the 20th. Sekai Project has teased two new announcements from two new partners. It's always hard to predict exactly what Sekai Project will announce, especially since they have a fondness for partnering with pretty obscure doujin and OELVN developers. They've announced some pretty big stuff recently, though, so who knows? Sekai Project were previously planning a livestream but it unfortunately had to be canceled due to a lack of manpower. Announcements: Sekai Project announced a couple new doujin titles, the sci-fi doujin VN 2236 A.D. and a side-scrolling platformer MAGICALxSPIRAL. The previously announced yuri VN Ne no Kami will have an IndieGoGo launch on May 25th. MangaGamer MangaGamer may have the dinkiest booth (Booth #410), but they'll have the biggest panel, at 9PM on the 20th. MG has teased six new announcements for this show, one of them from a new partner. You can see their site for it here. Things to expect from MangaGamer: A new hardcopy announcement, perhaps euphoria. An "official" announcement for The House in Fata Morgana's fandisc, which has already been announced within the first game, MG seems to be waiting to give it a proper announcement. For the remaining four announcement, I'm guessing one of them will be a BL or Otome title, basically whatever Good Haro is translating next. We might also hear about the next Alice Soft title they're licensing at this point. Many people are expecting their new partner to be Chuablesoft, which is indeed possible considering their CEO took to twitter last year to engage english fans and talk about localization possibilities. That could just as easily be one of SP's announcements, however, or maybe they haven't yet made a commitment to the western market. They're also overdue for announcing their future SonoHana plans. There's a lot of possibilities with MG's announcements, it'll be interesting to see how they play out. @Yotek says that he'll be at the event and will attempt to record the panels for those interested. So what are you all expecting?

I too hate it when VNs are funny.

Gonna go ahead and make this update here as well. When I have something more than just the weekly update to share about the project, I'll make a blog post about it on my own blog, (so I don't spam the dev feed.) Hello everyone! Today I have great news, and some kind of meh news. First the good news! Porygon has finalized the patch making tools, so we can now get all sorts of stuff worked out. (Previously we had issues with the text not displaying right, some symbols dissapearing etc. That's all gone now.) On the translation side of things, I had some days off this week and got some decent work done. The progress has moved quite a lot since the last update. (Progress update and more is below.) Now for some meh news. I have a really important exam in one week, (like, if I don't study like crazy, I am so failing it,) and so I am kind of studying myself to death here. Because of that, next week I wont have a lot of time to translate. I will still make updates like usual, but expect like, a miniscule amount of progress the next week or two, as I try my hardest not to fail and screw up my life Also, @Meat_Bun1 is back on the project as an editor, and he will be fixing all the silly mistakes left in by me. Anyways, progress time! Here is the progress, and also, for those interested, a few pictures of the translation in game. (Note that these pictures have completely un-edited lines, so ... You know, this is not the quality of the final translation.) Progress: Pictures:

Muv luv needs more love...get it? get it...?

Decay's PM just has to go here, for it rivals the very essence and origins of this thread being OriginalRen's 'fession of believing suikashoujo being a dude when in reality she was female Behold! (to me)

Uh, was it? Where?! Prove? Evidence? Witnesses? Statutory declaration?

Ah... I just finished Calamity, ending the saga of The Reckoners. Such great books, I can already feel the existential void in me. I'm also reading (although quite leisurely due to its format and nature) the Necronomicon, since I found a really neat edition with his most emblematic works in my usual bookstore.

Fate was translated horribly, it also rhymes with ‘hate’ which is obviously a sign. Ever 17 is boring and it’ll feel like it’ll drag on ‘forever’. Muv Luv is getting a new translation, so may as well wait. You included the words ‘Neko Para’ in the second option, which is code for ‘the Devil’ so that’s obviously out. Alas, it’s option number 5 by default.

Finally completed my pilgrimage and finished Tokyo Babel Lilith's route was great. Samael and Cerberus made for great companions, they seriously blew every other side-character out the window. And let's not forget Mini-Lilith I also liked the implications regarding replicas and individuality. Anybody who's played the sci-fi horror game SOMA knows how fun it can be to ponder about that Best of all though, I finally got my heavily, heavily desired BUT, I feel the story could've, and should've, wrapped up around here, given how climaxy and powerful this moment was. But nope! Turns out you're only 50% of the way through, GLHF with 40% more filler battles before you can finally do final boss round 2 (which then only lasts like 5 seconds). TL;DR the second half for me suffered from ughhh pacing from the oversaturation of battle scenes. That difference between the Setsuna End and Lilith True End, though. Simply laughable. Like C'MON MAN, WHAT HAPPENED, YOUR POWER OF LOVE AIN'T STRONG ENOUGH SO YOU DROP HER, SETSUNA?!!! WTF!@#$ True End epilogue is one of the best epilogues I've ever read. And it was only 2 lines

If you were smart about your life you'd remember you could still eat those books instead of rummaging through rubbish. Alternatively, you could find a hefty book and throw it at someone's head, then steal all their food.

Then again, do we really want to see anything from them?

Danks, it worked for me. And im past that point.

Hmm looks interesting, I'm gonna give it a try to read it... Looks like Derg spreading his love for yuri to everyone hahaha

I like horror with cute girls and without horror.

Ask and you should be given. But you can search for yourself too. http://wallpaper.zone/ it doesn't have everything but a lot of good stuff.

You don't need to, don't bother your ittle widdle head with the difficult details

Too bad that Sekai doesn't have a soul to sell to the devil anymore That ship sailed a while ago I mean, Sakura games are still pretty bad, but Santa was a step to the right direction, albeit a small one We'll see

You are right, it's a good idea, I'll do that. In the meantime, I fixed some issues in my previous packer, so here is a new version (on mega for the moment) : https://mega.nz/#!859kjABB!4wJEUBwFFOw1qJUUMEsb7r9M8isZB3J_So-6YA4YT9w

Great work as always. I feel you with the exams, I have a very important set of exams that decide if I enter my career of choice in a couple of weeks. Anyways, it's always good seeing progress of a project. Keep up the good work.

Wow, modern people not completely bashing and demonizing arranged marriage, and even implying that it might just work at times...?! Oh, how times have changed. I can remember all the endless arguments I've had with people regarding this subject. It makes me happy to see that not everyone is willing to dismiss arranged marriage as a barbaric, out of date method that never has and never will work. Needless to say, I'm a strong believer in arranged marriages. Not only do I think they work, I dare say they're just outright better and healthier for a long term relationship than the standard date>girlfriend>marry-after-a-few-years formula we have going on right now. Most people just don't know how normal arranged marriages work. Just like the guy's father in the article, who dismissed the first two girls he met and settled for the third, you're not "forced" to accept who you're arranged with. If things really don't work out, then you can always divorce. Another thing the article mentions is patience, which imo is really undervalued these days in relationships. Especially in the later stages, it's even more important than love, since at that point you've been long enough to start questioning if you actually like your partner (unless you're exceptionally blind). It's the real test, to prove that you're willing to put up with your partner after all the spicy time is done. But enough from me, after all this is all based on my own personal observations- like many of you I don't have much real experience with romantic relationships. All I can do is hope that, when the time comes, I'll find a nice partner I'm willing to put up with

Sekai Project have fans?

Confession: Dear lord, I had completely forgotten how much I liked the older Call of Duty games, especially Call of Duty 2. Really makes me feel like a soldier in a squad, as opposed to Call of Duty 1 who took the approach of having us go solo for a good amount of missions. More surprising even is that, graphically, it looks better than some of the stuff I play nowadays. All those soldier models are so shiny~

I'd say that Ever17's art is a bit on the crude side, actually. Unmodified, original Umineko is obviously extremely crude. I rather liked the PS3 art, though. Muv Luv's art is mostly okay, except that character design is something else. It is clearly inspired by a certain early era of harem comedy, and the hair is especially silly. Mostly in a bad way. If you do play Umineko, get the most enhanced version possible, that full PS3-to-PC port that russian team is working on. Unfortunately, I think only the first 3 episodes are available for that.

None of the vn's you listed are really worth reading vs time investment required to finish them; There are better games out there. If you really want to read older vn's that badly, you should pick something like ToHeart, Yu-no, Sayooshi or perhaps Kakyuusei, if you like gameplay/simulation elements mixed in. Depends on your interests. In worst case, I'd say read Ever17.

Really? It's the super energetic style of posting. It's sort of effeminate in a way. Like, how Richard Simmons being overly enthusiastic about everything made him seem effeminate (well, also the lisp). I'm not saying that's how girls always are, it just gives that feel, you know?

But we all know that the word "Neko" means "Not the devil" and "Para" means "10/10 must play now"

Don't do Muv Luv now when a version with a much improved translation is coming out next month. (Well, of MLE/MLU) Read Fata Morgana, fool.

One, two and four will take hours and hours of your life to complete. They're all monstrous. I would exclude Muv Luv given the retranslation it's getting. Umineko will quite literally take a week of consecutive reading with no breaks to make any progress at all. Please sign here to sell your soul (and time) to the devil: I'm currently reading Amnesia;Memories. It's good. Nom Nom Nom Ever17 is also good, but as Rooke stated, it has some 'boring' moments; that is to say, moments where the characters are just hanging around and conversing and slice of life goodness, which I suppose hurts a tight sci-fi story more than they help it. However, I also believe you like slice of life nonsense so I don't see the problem. Fate/Stay: Night is good and terrible. It's got so much content there were whole routes I hated, routes I loved, characters I hated, characters I loved, scenes I hated, scenes I loved. Ultimately, since you seem more tolerant of the darker side of stories than I, I'd recommend it.

Eww! Bad art! All trash. 0/10 games I haven't played any of these myself, because we are apperantly like, equally scrubby. Voting for fate/stay because that's the one of these I'd be the most interested in playing first. I did not conisder that!

Will this finally be the day MG announces SonoHana Nyu Jene? Fingers crossed.

Happy Birthday @KosakiFag and @maefdomn Have a good one, you two

@KosakiFag If you based on date of join you still quite new indeed (I'm still beginner too actually if we based on join date). But I based that you experienced from post number here of course, and you already gather quite a lot of number (4700 post) for 20 or so months. Well, either way you're welcome and thanks to all of your posts here.

Actully want to be the first person to said this, but my internet connection back at 12 AM was suddenly unstable so I'm late to said this. Neverthless happy birthday @KosakiFag and for one of experienced member in Fuwanovel your quite young (17 years old Really? Just a little surprised here). Also, happy birthday @maefdomn and I'd remember that you involved with slightly heated discussion with Solidbatman back at 'Complain about moderation' thread. Hope both of you had well upcoming year.

Huh. I almost forgot. Happy birthday Saki!

Gonna be the first person to say this: Happy Birthday @KosakiFag. I always knew you were a faggot till the end.

Hey even if it's 1 line in 1 week it's faster than me Also it's normal to give the priority to your exam don't worry Plus, taking a break from the tl may be good since once you'll come back you will probably notice some new tl error you failed to see before Anyway good luck for your exam and keep up the good work

Finally started reading Hoshizora no Memoria today, somehow it's actually meeting my expectations so far (they were pretty high). Really loving the music and backgrounds which create a great atmosphere, and it seems to have some of the most beautiful sprites ever... If only they weren't so pixelated at 800x600 :( I'm also enjoying the story a lot, I'm a sucker for the whole idea of returning to your childhood town and reuniting with your childhood friends. Now if only there would be less boring comedy scenes with Chinami.. I mean, I don't think they could have made her ANY more annoying.

If you are ready to spend a lot of time watching episodes after episodes of pure filler then yeah probably. btw I started watching it after" two best friends play" (a youtube channel) played the game xD

I've been spending so much time editing in the last few weeks... this music is drilled into my skull by now.

No I'm a linux kernel and bitcoin hacker primarily. My VN interest is purely on the translation side. While I have a translation project of my own (ToHeart2), I did very little programming on it, being the translator for it and other groups' projects (currently Clover Day's).

Made a banner for my own project, Bishoujo Mangekyou Probably won't make a lot of banners anymore

A little contribution from me:

https://vndb.org/v5841 ~~~ I fucking had to. edit: gonna edit this thread with stuff that i come up with instead of mass posting lol

Well, since you seem to be dodging my question, I won't pursue the matter any further. Though with all due respect, I don't think it's a very sensible marketing argument to say that you can provide a better collaboration environment than others while not actually knowing how your competitors are proceeding. Hope you will succeed in finding people interested, and hopefully you can become a big publisher in the EVN world as well!

Some SF cosplay: