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Does somebody know what happened to Kimi ga Nozomu Eien ~Latest Edition~ translation? It's dead or still alive? It's one of the VN I wanted to get translated so I would become disappointed which translation are dead.

wow these are all terrible. I expected nothing and yet am still let down.

Okay, I finally slogged through this waist-high puddle of rainbow colored puke and happiness, so I feel like a proper sloppy write up from me is in order. If only because I haven't done it for a while. Fureraba is... Thoroughly enjoyable! As others have alluded to, it's a competent hybrid between a moege and a dating sim, which drops the two most common and also most annoying parts of both genres; The melodrama and on-screen numbers respectively. Fureraba pretty much nails what it what it wants to be, which makes recommending it pretty easy: Are you interested in hours of flutty girlfriend fantasy and are you okay with not much substance outside of that? If yes, dive in and if not, never touch it. Pretty easy, as I said. The few writing things that I will point out is the humor/language. I found the humor mostly chuckle worthy with a fair share of good ol' knee slappers. But a few times, the language was really... eh... blunt, which turned me off sometimes (especially that opening scene, oh my god did I cringe). Expect to be hit by "youthful" words like a sledgehammer. No comments on translation-faithfulness, because I don't know shit about that. Can't think of a clever segue, so let me get the technical stuff over with: The font "bug" is annoying, especially because it translates to other font choices, so it might take some eye-adjusting to get used to. I recommend turning the window transparency lower than you might be used to, because it makes non-bordered lines easier to read. As far as the other options go, it's what you would expect from a semi-modern VN, I can't think of any particular option I am missing, but I'm personally not into settings. Gimme volume scales and an "always inside" option and I'm good. Oh, that I might be missing. Speaking of getting graphic, the art. Yada, yada, art is subjective, yada yada yada, check the screenshots whether you like it or not. For me, the sprites are passable, the CGs are fine (give me very strong moonstone vibes for some reason) and the backgrounds are good. What brings me to even talking about this subject, is the "customization" I mentioned previously. 3 of the 4 girls can have their hairstyle adjusted and will wear a multitude of different outfits through the reading experience, which is actually hella neat. That shows that somebody, somewhere in the production cared enough to commission extra art. Which isn't free, because even "swapping" a hairstyle from a CG takes consideration in terms of layers, lighting and having the foresight to draw a CG considering different hair placements. More customization is found in the soundtrack. For usual purposes, there's enough tracks in this soundtrack and they are decent. People who like lyrical OSTs will be disappointed, not a lot of voice work in the music. The thing I wanted to point out, is that all the heroines have a [friend] and a [love] version of their individual themes. Which I think is pretty neat, the friend version are more upbeat and the love versions more sparkly. (Except for Rina, who for some reason gets a sick bass when falling in love. ) The spoilers window will talk very briefly about the characters. Rating the routes is almost pointless, because all of them have basically the exact same structure and there isn't a complex story anywhere either, so I primarily focus on the girls. liked Misaki the most, followed by Rina, Yuzuyuzuyuzuyzuyu at third and Himari at lowest. They're all good girls. Anyway, nothing really important to spoil in here, but I recommend „uncovering“ the fourth girl yourself rather than looking her up, because the setup for that is fun. That's it. Why did I waste my time writing this instead of reading more "pretend to not be lonely and sad for 10 hours"-porn games on my computer?

Thank you for the support, very much appreciated! We just updated the Steam demo to latest version, including dual language and new opening movie.

Here is a list of VNs officially released in english, I will likely not update this list anymore after August 2021 as I don't see much of a point in it anymore with improvements to the search function of vndb. Orange text means confirmed for an official english release while yellow text means that a part has been released but not the entire VN. I have also made a list with the ones with physical release, this list is sorted the same way as this but also has info on where the titles can be bought and if it is available List of physical english releases of VNs MangaGamer (Store) Sekai Project (Homepage)/Denpasoft (Store) JAST USA (Store) NekoNyan (Store) Frontwing (Homepage) Sol Press (Store) Shiravune (Loves DRM, especially Denuvo) Visual Arts Fruitbat Factory (Store) MoeNovel (Burn in hell) Cherry Kiss Games (Homepage) Winged Cloud Degica Aksys Games (Store) XSEED Games (Store) NIS America (Store NA, Store EU) PQube Others (Japanese) Others (not japanese) Himeya Soft (Bankrupt) Hirameki International (Quit the VN market) SakuraGame/Paradise Project (Machine translated, do not buy from them)

I've seen quite a lot of conflicting opinions about moege on this forum, but what do you think about moe in general? Do you like it or hate it? Do you think moe can be included in a serious story, or should it only be limited to more light-hearted works of fiction? Also, what do you think about making characters in more serious VNs/anime/etc moe just for the sake of them being moe, when it doesn't serve any serious purpose to the story (for example, showing contrast between their childishness and the cruel world around them, like in Planetarian)?

Someone with taste! Bro, I totally agree

I also object! Don't you know that catgirls are the ultimate expression of moe art?!!!! Now, please use the spell I implanted in your brain so that they can end civilizat- *Clephas coughs and pretends he didn't say anything*

Only one thing to do then... 1) Saltology. 2) Be yourself. 3) Show them some Fuwa comments and let the boys bash them. 4) Whatever, just remember to be salty about their answers.

1) Time travel. 2)Just show them Steins;Gate & Steins;Gate 0. 3)Tell them to bring bananas and practice teleportation. 4)Buy me chicken tenders.

Grisaia Charage Princess Evangile Moege

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I quite enjoy moe, mainly in relaxed SOL type stories, but it can be done well in serious stories, too. Sometimes it's nice to have some light scenes in between the heavy ones.

Personal take on the definition on Moege and it's brother genre, Charage Moege : Focus on 'moe'-ing (feeling attracted to. Note imo this is not necessarily the same as feeling affection for) your feelings towards it in the form of cute girls acting, story, and storyline which often takes the form a romantic one Charage : While there are quite a lot of moe-ing elements in a typical Charage VN (for example, most anything from Yuzusoft), the focus is a lot more on the characters interactions, background story, and building relationships Going by my definition, I don't think a Moege should ever include a serious story as it's contradictory by nature. For me, I like moege a lot as I like soppy, romantic stuff (as well as cute girls), and I think the moege genre lends itself best to that to that (See Fureraba). I read most generes, though, and I don't prefer moege more than others. Including Moe elements in something like a story-focused VN like Planetarian is just asking for trouble as, again, it's contradictory by nature unless you can somehow work them into the story (very difficult imo). There are a lot of ways to bring out the childishness of a character in a VN besides moe-ing then up

Agreed! I know, I'm late and it was my comment that started making people draw battle lines, but my late support is powerful!

i already play Sorcery Jokers and Tsujidou-san no Jun ai Road and they are so good!!, now im going to play the sequel of Tsujidou-san no Jun ai Road, Tsujidou-san no Virgin Road but the NVR dont Detect the Dialogues i got this problem

Yes it has many hentai scenes, although not at first. Here is a pretty hilarious review that sums it up rather well:

Translated fureraba Untranslated Himawari no Chapel de Kimi to

I really liked the charage/moege parts in Higurashi because they contrast with the rest of the VN. But in terms of pure moege, I think Chrono Clock is probably the best I've read, only slightly above Wagamama and Nekopara (pls no bully).

None of them are good. Jk, best charage is Grisaia no Kajitsu and best moege is Chrono Clock.

Hmmmm. The idea is pretty nice, but I don't know, I'm not particularly interested in taking part in it, to be honest. I guess, it could be fun if there's a decent amount of people interested in this project and motivated to make it happen, but I'm not sure there is a critical mass of such people here, or on any community not specifically dedicated to languages.

Hmmm... Sounds cool, I'm afraid that project of this scale is far beyond my current (or possibly imagined) amounts of free time. ...not that my duties aren't mostly self-inflicted fancies, but I'm pretty attached to them.

Yes! I've been waiting for this! SeaBed and now Chuusotsu, Fruitbat Factory keeps me supplied with just my kind of quirky (doujin) VNs.

Might also be caching, you never know with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A quick fix would be to stop caring about likes as much, but who am I kidding?

This looks lovely... Fruitbat Factory is one of those companies that you can easily forget about, but from time to time they come up with something really sweet and they seem to localize stuff with a lot of care. Nice to have them around. :3

Hello again. Today, I have the second week of progress updates. Not as much progress as last week unfortunately, but Ittaku was pretty busy and any progress is good progress in the end. Translation: Prologue - 36% (636/1791) TLC Prologue - 27% (486/1791) Again, we are still looking for a dedicated TLC as the other translator is only doing it for the prologue. If you think you are capable enough, please PM me. That's all for this week. I'll see you next week with some more progress.

Seems I have a total of 640 VNs on this list, didn't expect it to become this long. I really underestimated the amount of VNs that have been officially released in english.

Handle: Blake Positions I can fill: Image editor (UI, CG de-censoring, yes I’m one of those. I’m one of the abundant) Types of preferred projects: I really have no preference for this as I'm only working on the images. See conditions for my limited exceptions. Availability: Open 24/7 VN most interested in producing an ftl for: No specific titles, but anything from FAVORITE, YuzuSoft, Alcot, Pulltop, even older companies like Elf. Motivation for joining in on ftl: I like these things and I want to help out projects where I can. Conditions: As stated above I will pretty much work on anything with a few exception No Guro (Not much into gore and don't feel like drawing it) PC only Current Projects: Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi No Completed Projects: ToHeart 2 X-Rated (UI, CG de-censoring) Shinobi Harisenbo (UI) Contact: Send me a PM through the forums or a message or whatever it is on Twitter