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JAST USA will be releasing the crazy insect game "Inyouchuu: Insects of Insemination" by japanese eroge company TinkerBell on the 29th of August in the JAST Store. We were kind of thinking that Tokyo Necro would come before it, but it is what it is. Twitter Link The audience for this game will probably be very interesting to see. There are crazy madmen like Echelon who are the craziest fans of that game series that you can imagine, but I don't think this will be a smash hit - if it doesn't gain some notoriety like Euphoria or other anime with an anime adaptation got. What do you guys think? Will you try it out?

Dear Diary, It is not surprising that after the 5 years I'm already in this scene (it is probably more, because just 5 years ago the whole VN.Info thing took off and I oddly played some VNs earlier too) I met many people in this scene who came and went. After living for 3-4 years as a total meme, but totally unobstructed by whatever stood in my way to essentially shape VN.Info into what it is now, I had a big public fight with some people that left some psychological damage and required some introspective. I decided to completely switch my personality to someone who is just striving for harmony, does not get triggered at the occasional idiot anymore and is just focused on his goal to be "Making VNs popular in the west" or by extension probably due to my illusions of grandeur "Making VNs popular in the world". In order to achieve this goal, I have had the pleasure to meet a lot of special people from the scene and the VN community who carry somewhat an influence in companies, fan projects or generally the western VN world. I believe that Fuwanovel (the community we are currently in and that is trying to drag its body out of its coffin after it laid idle for effectively 6 years or more) can achieve everything that we desire from the VN community. I wish to create a society where ppl are not gatekept for external reasons, where fanTL and official TL can thrive in parallel and where a healthy blog scene is nurturing. In order to do that I sacrifice my time and effort to connect people who have otherwise never met in the hope they can create something great when working in collaboration with others. Many fan translation projects have failed not necessarily because the staff was incompetent, but because they either lacked the social skills for HR/management or their ego stood in their way of achieving greatness. Fuwanovel houses about 10 years of history and back in the day so many things were posted here where the githubs are still alive and still offer opportunity for the new generation of VN fans to learn how to deal with VN engines and how to start their own translation projects. The FanTL still scene has so much potential. I can see and 95% when I decide to hop fresh into someone's DMs and they get surprised like "who the fuck are you?" it still ends up being a nice talk. Mainly, because we all share the same passions. However, to get to the point of this post's title. Due to this "dancing on every party" that I perform day after day in my mission to lay bridges for people, I ran into an interesting roadblock that I was not aware existed. Discord only allows you to have exactly 1000 friends, an arbitrary limit that obviously now tugs on my heartstrings because it forces me to delete some people from my friendlist. I'm convinced that these people will eventually prove useful in some particular project and then I have to wrack my brain to recall their usernames. I can already see it... Someone from JAST once said that he knows what "type of person" I am. I'm a person that enjoys being the well connected one and would bask in being the go-to guy for the fandom I occupy. Indeed, I enjoy that very much. But as long as it contributes to great projects being realized, no one can say I'm doing this out of malice, can they?

It is not easy to be a blogger, especially not when you start working for multiple blogs at once, try to raise translation company with your best friends and do a lot of management stuff on your own. Thankfully, Zaka is a super helpful person who even shocked me today by throwing a script that was almost ready-to-publish right in my face. I remember that back in the day I loved checking out the fuwanovel VNTS post and it deeply saddened me when it suddenly ended somewhere around the time where Eiyu Senki GOLD released. Funkily enough, Eiyu Senki GOLD was my first project I have ever worked on for JAST and it was to this day one of the funniest and simplest games I played. I should eventually review it, but then.. so far there is not a single of the 6 games I QCed for JAST that I have played privately... maybe I should do Majikoi: Love me Seriously! again with full-voices... I don't really know. I think I missed a lot of entertainment factor that this game loses when you are only playing with the 7+1 voices that JAST could ship it with - bless the Majikoicord overlords. And here we have it again, I went on a tangent. This is actually a statement that someone made about me today after reading my musings on the VNTS post. They're totally right, but my brain operates differently. It operates at double the speed and this is not necessarily good. Well, let's get to the point of this post: When writing for the VNTS I realized that fuwanovel does not use the Gutenberg-Editor, which I have gotten used to while writing more than 500 articles for VN.Info. This means that I had to look at the questionable deception of a WYSIWYG editor again today. Unfortunately, such an editor definitely lies to you, because when making THICC H2/H3 headings it looks bigger and less orderly than it ultimately looks in the published post. Also I got memed by the fuwa Wordpress backend being setup to follow U.S. timezones so my suspenseful hitting the publishing button with my big left toe did not work... REE, Wordpress, my beloved ...

Typically in each of the four seasons and even more. Sites like Denpasoft, MG and Jast also have fidelity points that you gain by buying content. You earn back a small amount.

Ye JAST has a sale every few months, also regional pricing.

Disclaimer: I am not personally involved in this project. I am just posting this progress update to inform the masses and get the project the acknowledgement and recognition it deserves, since this project has been flying under the radar for such a long time. The Translation phase of the Ciel Nosurge Offline fan translation patch project is now finally 100% complete (as of last week)! Sooooo if you guys haven't known by now, there has been a fan translation project underway for Ciel Nosurge Offline during the past several years, with significant progress on it being made during 2020-2021. For context, Ciel Nosurge takes place in the same universe as the Ar tonelico series but is not considered a sequel to it since it takes place way before the events of the series. Though Ciel Nosurge ended up not being officially released in the West, however, for some reason, its sequel, Ar Nosurge, did. I am aware of Surge Concerto DX, which released in Japan earlier this year, though unfortunately, I have little to no confidence we will get any Western localizations of it so this is probably the best bet for playing a fully translated version of Ciel Nosurge. Anyway, I am hopeful we can get the patch release within the next year if not in the next few months, depending on how the editing and testing phases progresses. Source: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/revatail_hymmne/ciel-nosurge-offline-translation-patch-project-t1044.html VNDB: https://vndb.org/v15061 P.S. For anyone interested in the Ar tonelico series, the Ar tonelico II fan retranslation patch is a thing, if you guys want to check it out!

Greetings Fellow Creatives, I have a new music track to share with you: "THE GRUNGE MEISTER" As always, it's 100% free to download and use with attribution. You'll find it on my Funny 8 page. https://soundimage.org/funny-8/ Enjoy and please stay safe.

Fuwanovel completely approves of r/vns. If gambs bans you from r/visualnovels (like he did with me) just go there. We're pretty much supportive of another and you can also post cool stuff from the forums here over there. They'll grow slowly but I believe people kind of know what is going on now and go to r/vns anyways. Also, fuwanovel links kinda get gatekept by the moderation staff on r/visualnovels to halt our growth. We don't really need them so let them be in their own bubble. Both communitys offer benefits to the entire VN community and this is all that counts. Making VNs great is not a matter of what platform we use, it is about the contents.

Yesterday I started the famous Rikka's route in HoshiOri. I'm just a few days into it (still in June - I played only for 2 hours) but it's on another level already Look's like I'm in for a treat. And Rikka seems to be awesome character. I already liked to see how she opened up to others during other routes - I'm really looking forward to how they elaborate on that in her own route. For now she seems to be one of the cutest tsunderes I encountered so far . Also, her VA is extremely versatile - it's really hard to imagine that the person who voices Rikka also gave voice to characters like Airi from MashiroIro Symphony, Amane from Konosora, Satouin from Anokana or Karen from Making Lovers among others

Welcome to Fuwanovel. Seeing that r/visualnovels moderator has some bad decision and not to mention that literal autist who act like a bot keep saying that some VNs suck because it has mosaic along with some equally face-palming worthy statements, perhaps it would be for the best to joining Fuwanovel here. I did remember that I see your post several time on Reddit as well, so perhaps I should check it again later. Oh yeah there's also r/vns if you want another subreddit that was less problematic than r/visualnovels, although you may not quite interested with it which to say I can see why. My rambling about the state of Reddit aside of course you can do what you've been doing in the past, and obviously you can also ask for VN Recommendations here if you feel like to do so. Lastly I hope that you'll have fun in here.

Claro! También me gustan las westerns VN así que no hay problema. Ten por seguro que cuando lo lea hablaré de él en mi blog

you're gay but I'll still check here from time to time who the fuck are you

Ginharu is now fully translated, and yes you didn't read it wrong in which it's obviously meant that all of 10 sex scenes from Yuzuki's route were finished. What I can say is that for someone who claim that Yuzuki is not exactly the translator's favorite, he can keep up with the good pacing like back on Mizuha's route. Granted it might be faster if he translate Yuzuki's route at the same pace as Mizuha's route, but the pace for Yuzuki's route progress is still reasonable so no problem. Also it help that he find Yuzuki's route is a great one even though he said that the sex scenes is quite a slog. That said though, just because we have Ginharu fully translated doesn't mean that we'll going to have Yuzuki's patch released (As much as I want it to be like that) seeing that there's still some works left, such as translating the ending movie, artbooks contents, background images, and so on. Of course though the most important next step is editing in which it'll be Irru's job, and considering that we still not see Mizuha's patch being released yet easy to say that the editing process may took some time to be done. Lastly while I can understand the critic toward Trip (And I also want to question his own stance in regard of Yuzuki), I agree that without him wanted to translate Hoshiori we may never have two tone work's VNs (And Tsujidou) being translated so at least we should thank him for his work on those VNs and of course for translating at least majority of Ginharu here. That's all for the update here, and hopefully the next update can be in regard of Mizuha's patch release or even better Yuzuki's patch release.

Thanks...I hope some of my tracks are helpful! Greetings Everyone, Another hectic week...ugh...but I did manage to create a couple of cool new tracks to share: "TUNNELS UNDER METROPOLIS " "TUNNELS UNDER METROPOLIS _v001" You'll find them on my City/Urban 3 page. Here's a link: https://soundimage.org/city-urban-3/ Other News Glad to see that my Ogg music packs are coming in handy! They should be a huge time-saver...plus you can create your own playlists and listen to them to audition tracks while doing other things. So enjoy...and as always, please stay safe and keep being creative.