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As for Your Diary playthrough, I'd already decided with the playthrough plan here. For the first route, I think I'll going with Natsuki's so let's see what I could comment in regard of her route later.

Welcome to Fuwanovel even though we already know each other. Quite a sale that JAST did, so perhaps it could attract some people out there to buy it. Also since this is also a thread about JAST, let me say that if JAST want to improve themselves in regard of their lineup and speed, then I would like to look forward what kind of the improvement that they'll gonna have.

I can't agree more with your statement in regard of don't trust the hype there, so well said here. Yeah I also believed that it's still up to each other to find out whether the VN in question was really deserve the hype or not, and the answer could be different for each people. As for mean characters, just consider this as a politic lesson (ie politic is always mean) if we talk about Koichoco lol. That said, I believe that Chisato herself is at her worst in Isara's route from what I'd heard, otherwise she's quite tolerable in other routes. Also while this just my speculation, I believe that sprite might took some bad feedback in regard of Chisato, and from there they made her expy in Aokana (Asuka) is better than the former. For whether you'll gonna like it or not, I'll leave that to you. Also for Fureraba here, I would highly suggest you to try this and see whether you can accept the translation or not.

How about Song of Mine here, in which it's definitely not Saya no Uta lol. Anyway, for more serious recommendations I guess I can recommend Dracu Riot, Da Capo 2, Hapymaher, and Koiken Otome. Also for additional recommendation, you can wait for Sanoba release at October 26th later. I hope that my recommendations here would be helpful, even though it's quite belated one.

Looks like just a normal moege there, so I'll just pass for now. Good to see though now that Sekai did released another VN.

I did saw it coming though since the day when Steam did the censorship because of panicking, but it's surprisingly took a lot of time to finally have GOG sold Sono Hanabira 11. Well at least we already have alternate store for Mangagamer there, so it should be good for a while (Until GOG hypothetically change the policy).

I guess both topic could be quite similar in regard of VN at Steam, so it should be good. It's quite interesting that OELVN is growing, although perhaps it's inevitable because Steam was easier platform to access if one want to sell the VNs. As for mature contents thing, I believe that it would still needed to be reviewed by Steam and it could be even tighter, so I would say that some VN with nudity could be added with sexual content mark. So perhaps it could mean that there'll be more fanservice at Steam OELVN, if the research and the announcement was to believed.

If you chose to play the VNs on console only and wouldn't want to play otome, then yeah the library is going to be limited. Of course it didn't mean that there's no good VNs at the console though, although first of all I would like to ask though what console that OP owned here - because console VNs did need different machines (ie consoles) to play, and therefore limiting the library even further.

Let's see. If you mean fast pacing, then perhaps you can pick some short length VN such as Saya no Uta, Kikokugai, or Planetarian. Or if you want the VN with same developer, then you can pick I/O and Remember11. Also you can try Zero Escape series if you want more escape from danger story. I hope that my recommendations here would be helpful to you.

In that case, then I'll look forward to whatever that you prepared there. Happy birthday to you as well (At 28th), and I'm also hope that you'll have a good year ahead as well.

That's quite a dedication I must say, so good job there. Also I would like to admit that usually I skipped the H scenes, mostly because you can review it at the extra menu lol.

Back there I'd quite sleepy, so perhaps my word here was quite poor here. I'm apologized if you felt really offended with my word earlier here, and perhaps I should really watch what kind of word that I say here. I'll try to take my responsibilities in regard of my words earlier here. For 'untrustworthy' word here, perhaps I did quite harsh with my opinion here. But seeing that I've gave them chance several times in regard of Sakusakura and yet they still not release this by now, I believe SOME fans might have quite wary in regard of Sol Press promise which in turn causing them to not believe them (After all I did say MAY before untrustworthy, so it's more like a subjective opinion here). Of course I also understand if most people still want to trust them. As for the updates, yeah they have been putting them so I would like to say that they have good communication to the fan here. But still I believe that Sol Press here shouldn't made an estimation of the exact month if they realized that there's many extra works in regard of upscaling, and Doddler also said that they've been crazy to do that - before you say that I've been harsh with my word here again, here's the post where Doddler said that for the proof. I knew that Frontwing did also have some works besides Grisaia, so they did have some diversity in regard of their products compared to age and Type Moon. But they main franchise is still Grisaia though, and in regard of Phantom Trigger they've been releasing five volumes. Also while Fred did say that you should treat Phantom Trigger as the new series, Frontwing did use the label 'Grisaia' so people would think that this is another part of Grisaia even though most of the older cast didn't come back yet. Other than Phantom Trigger here, Frontwing also did release several Grisaia side stories before that, so if it isn't milking then I don't know what it is. I understand though if Frontwing want to do that, because it's the easier way for them to get some customer. Oh and they also like Sekai in regard of gathering the money by did some crowdfund (ie KS and IGG), and this time they using KS as some sort of their pre-order store for the hardcopy of Island - I understand their reasoning though. Once again, I'm apologize if you've been offended with my word here, and hopefully I could clear some of the mess here. PS - In regard of comparing the translation companies, I admit that I'm also into it as well. So let's just said that each of the companies have their ups and downs, and that's final.

If anything, at least Mangagamer keep pumping the release monthly as of now so it wouldn't look too bad, at least for now. Also most of their releases is bigger compared to Sekai, so it's a bit understandable that they probably need some planning before the release - keep in mind that it's just my conjecture though. @Hetzer123 As for prejudiced that I say in regard of VN, it was in regard of people who treat VN as a porn games, so naturally people would interested with it. Therefore, some people who think that probably think that VN is a porn game and therefore they chose to buy nukige. While the prejudice about VN is worked out, it's still quite prevalent for some people though. And yeah, some people also think that VN should have the gameplay because of the pricing, which is quite hard to worked out there. @Wildbreed For the rating, it was quite subjective of me here. But seeing that I've been interested with Fureraba (I think it's good enough) and they already worked hard to make sure that Sanoba will be released at October later, I'm sure that they can do well enough. Also in regard of the localization itself, I believe that they'll do well in Sanoba since Decay himself was involved in that. For Sol Press himself, well they keep delaying the release date so they may came as untrustworthy here, although perhaps I should gave them some slack as well seeing that they'd willing to improve Sakusakura scaling, their announcements tends to be smaller compared to Nekonyan though. Oh and as for Phantom Trigger I saw it as Frontwing's milking attempt so I'm not quite into that, but I agree that Island itself is a big release.

Right now I'm already at level 4 love for Misakichi back at Fureraba, so normally I should continue with that. However, right now I finally get Your Diary with Crispy patch lol, so perhaps I'll try to see of how bad the translations were. I might not be able to understand it from the text alone, but I believe that my experienced from read both of Flyable Hearts and Soukoku no Arterial will help here lol. PS - As for Rakuen, well I treated that as one of the FD seeing that the heroines story were already over in Kajitsu, and Meikyuu did a good job to give Yuuji some background. For the plot here, I would say that you better expect Hollywood movie plot in regard of Rakuen there.

I'm quite late for this, but let me say it anyway. Happy 25th birthday to our @MaggieROBOT even though recently you didn't come here much, and I hope that you'll have a good year ahead.

Foreword - Since we already knew that Decay would gonna be busy in regard of Nekonyan seeing that he's one of their staff and admin Tay was still absent (Probably from travelling), predictably we didn't have VNTS for this week as well. So one again I decided to write this week VNTS Review, and I hope that you'll enjoy this week VNTS Review. As for this week title, I understand if most of the user here wouldn't understand it just by looking it alone, so I'll explain the title first. For the information about who is Kirara and Wataru both of those two were the characters from Go Princess PreCure (GPPC), in which the former was a PreCure while for the latter he's the big brother of Kirara's fellow PreCure. As for the shipping, I'd read that the coupling for those two characters were quite well known albeit very subtle because there's more prominence shipping at GPPC there. Obviously I wouldn't talk about the GPPC shippings here, but instead I'd use the shipping as the seiyuu joke here because we have Hello Lady announcement from Nekonyan. For more detail here, the seiyuu for Wataru was Okitsu Kazuyuki who voiced Hello Lady badass MC Shinri Narita using pseudonym Umesaki Charlie, while the seiyuu for Kirara was Yamamura Hibiku and in Hello Lady she was voicing Katsuragi Sorako using pseudonym Mizusaki Lime. My rambling aside, this week we have exciting announcements from Nekonyan and an average one from Sol Press. Other than the announcement from those two companies, we have some updates from both of fan translation and Mangagamer. Speaking about fan translation, seeing that some of the official translator was probably the fan of their work and we saw many of fan translation project going official, perhaps rather than fan translation it would be fitting to call it unofficial translation. But still I understand though if people felt that the word 'unofficial' could be sounds rude for the people who do the translation, so I'll just keep the term 'fan translation' here. Anyway, welcome to this week VNTS Review and let's see what I can write for this week as well. No big update from Sekai at this week, but it seems to be the norm for them so whatever. I know that there's some background work in regard of their projects, but so far there's no visible progress on their bigger announcement such as Senren Banka and Nanairo, with the former is going to be ironic because Nekonyan managed to get first official release of Yuzusoft VN (Sanoba). That aside, even if I say 'no big update' it didn't mena that Sekai didn't have any update for this week because they still have one small update, and it was in regard of the exact release date for Love'S Sweet Garnish aka Koiama. The premise was looks like usual moege with cafe, so I'll just pass on this for now. As for fan translation more or less it's another usual week, although too bad though that Summer Pocket demo release was delayed again and this time they want to look up the script so the estimation release date for now was unknown until it was announced (Hope the best for the team). Speaking about delayed, Astro did say that there's some mess in regard of Clover Days so he couldn't release it because of some legal matter or something like that, so safe to say that perhaps he did messed up in regard of the project. I hope that the mess in regard of Clovers Days were sorted out now that the project was in torpor (Because Astro didn't say that it was dead), if only for the sake of the translator (Ittaku) - sorry for going personal here. For the progress, we have Eustia was at 50.42% translated along with 41.07% edited, Harugi's overall was at 15% translated with Toko's route was past halfway (51%) translated and Branch was at 26% translated (Along with 13% edited), Pure Pure was at 82.31% translated with Tobari's route was at 32.71% translated, and Watamasu show another progress with current progress was at 14% translated. From Mangagamer, we saw in Twitter that they indeed finished the translating and editing processes for Haretaka, and since we already knew about that back at Otakon we can treat the tweet as a direct confirmation from Mangagamer. For now I just wonder when they'll do the beta testing for Haretaka, and I hope that they'll do it in the near future. Other than Haretaka, we have Maggot Bait was at 95% translated (Good job to Kouryuu for almost survive in Maggot Bait), Amrilato was both fully translated and edited, Kyonyuu Fantasy 2 was fully translated, Son Nyl was at 58% translated, Trinoline was at 80% edited, Sukehime was at 10% translated, and Escalayer was at 72% translated along with 56% edited (Good job for the progress there Quof). Also while this is not included in their Twitter, the crowdfund for Overdrive's Swan Song (MUSICA) was already going and right now they almost gathered 90 million yen or in dollar it would be at 800,000. Even though we still don't know much about this, I'll going to keep my eyes on this since looking from the base goal alone it looks interesting. Other There'll be much to talk about Nekonyan's announcements here, but before that let's see some roundup for this section first. Since August here was already ended, obviously the KS for Frontier was delayed and therefore they'll set up the new month in which it'll be at this month - I just hope that they didn't keep delaying it to the next month each time the month ended. There's neighbor as well, in which they already released the demo for the backer. While I did saw some good news about this, unfortunately the graphic was quite bad so I would pass on this. Although of course it might have some potential, just like Fata Morgana. We also have Punchline VN release, in which it was adaptation from the anime series with new scenario. While the staff behind it looks promising with Uchikoshi work as the writer with both of Nakazawa (As senior director) and Abo (As other composer), it would be quite hard for them to have Punchline to be equal to Ever17 (Those three people were work together in Ever17) because the premise itselves were quite absurd in the first place. The premise for Punchline itself is that we have a boy who have a curse that if he saw woman's panties twice he'll be dead and a meteor would destroy the Earth (There'll be alot of that seeing that this is one of fanservice anime), and yet it shouldn't be a problem to a boy himself because he have an ability to travel back in time as a ghost to fix up his mistake. I'm definitely don't make up the premise here, because it's the real premise itself. So if you want to see of how both of Nakazawa and Uchikoshi handle the game itself, you need to approach it with open mind very much just to accept the premise. Anyway, as for the release it was released for Europe back at August 31st, with both of USA and PC version coming later. Have fun if you've been interested with the anime and want to try the VN itself. Once again back at this week we have big two announcements from Nekonyan, and those two were the projects that most people were been wanted to be localized. In regard of Nekonyan itself, I think so far they show that they'd eager to improve more in regard of the release so I would like to see more of them in the future, especially in regard of their two additional secrets announcement after Sanoba release. For now I just hope that they'll be able to handle the works himself seeing that they currently have to work on nine projects with three were working on and the other six (Including two big announcements and two secret projects) were in work, and hopefully the won't suffer the burnout too much because of too much projects. For the first announcement itself, it was Hello Lady in which it's one of the VN that I've been interested into as GPPC fan, mainly because of the seyuu themselves like I said before lol. Although if one want to see it from the VN itself, it was a chuuni VN which told the story about Narita who is quite capable transferred onto the high class school and managed to become the member of student council which mostly comprised girls (Eroge and all). Of course seeing that Narita himself is quite capable and badass, naturally he'd have dark past which cause him to have one goal in his mind and it was revenge. Almost forget that we also have some sort of special ability seeing that it's chuuni VN and all, so we'll see more action just like back at Comyu (Same developer). For unrelated notes here, from what I saw usually the MC from Akabei Soft and it's branch (Including Hello Lady developer Akatsuki Works) were quite capable and well developed, so once again if one want capable MC then Hello Lady should be good enough. As we know, their second announcement is Aokana in which it did go through drama road before finally saw the chance to be localized here. Before the announcement, most of the people were correctly predict that it'll be localized by Nekonyan seeing that Sprite already tweet that it'll be localized overseas, although their wording is questionable though (Overseas transplant) so I'm worried that SG might get this. For the drama, it's interesting to mention that both Ren and Astro did work together, and it's quite unfortunate that they didn't managed to finish the project properly because of the discord that happened, so much that the project was cursed. Enough about the past and let's try to talk about the premise, in which we'll gonna have the heroines will do Flying Circus (FC) with magical girl like tight body suit along with MC as the retired FC athlete did the coaching. The FC itself did have enough detail for a fictional sport, so perhaps Japan can make an exhibition match for that at Olympic 2020 later lol. Seeing that the girl was look like a magical girl in their suit, I'll look forward to the release. For the release plan of those two Nekonyan announcements, they said that they'll launch it at Q2 2019 later with Hello Lady first and after that Aokana at summer later, which is quite fitting flr the latter case seeing that Aokana time setting was in summer. Also they plan to release it a console port version and they'll add 18+ patch for the releases, which is not a big deal more than it sounds because both announcements did have low sexual content and I'm sure that there's no problem if they cut the sex scenes. They also work together with Hikari Field, in which if we remember was responsible with Tayutama 2 infamous translation, so Nekonyan here may have license Tayutama in the future. That's all that I can write for now, and see you next week. PS - I'd just realize that I forgot to write about Sol Press announcement (Daresora), so I'll write about that at next VNTS Review.

Pretty much I'm agree with what Mr Poltroon said, and to add more Mangagamer here was also have some nukige in their library. Seeing that general people were still prejudiced about VNs, it's a good move that Mangagamer release nukige in order to help the company, which in turn help the company in the long run. They also have the hardcopy as well, so at least we can gauge which title they'd have successes with looking from the hardcopy releases. While for Nekonyan, I would say that they pretty much still new so we still couldn't say whether they'll successful or not. That said, I hope that they'll learn more in regard of running the company and possibly take a page or two from Mangagamer if they want to release physical release. As for my ranking in regard of official localization companies at this year, I think Mangagamer still winning with the releases, followed by Nekonyan, Frontwing, Sekai, and finally JAST. While for the announcements, Nekonyan definitely win this with Mangagamer in the second, Sekai in the third, JAST in the fourth, and finally Frontwing in the last place. Of course there's still some month left, so my preference may change.

Happy belated birthday to both of @Palas(25th years old) and @kyrt out there, and hopefully both of you will have a good year ahead.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and if you want you can share your project here. Also if you need some recommendations for VNs, you can ask us here. I hope that you'll enjoy yourself here.

Add VNDB link is always the viable option, but as for how I distinguish it I'd call Hatsukoi 1/1 as HatsuKoi there - note that I'd use capital 'K'. Oh and Hatsukoi there is definitely less popular one lol.

Some of Nekonyan translators were well known translator, so you didn't need to worry about machine translation here. Although I'm quite worry though with a lot of job for them there, but perhaps they may find a way to solve that. As for me, both of those were quite well known even when untranslated and a lot of request were given to the company. So it's nice to see that finally we got those two to be translated, especially in regard of Aokana in which it's been cursed even since Ren's outburst after he 'accidentally' delete the scripts (More like half a year after that though). Too bad though that Sekai didn't get Aokana, because I still think that Astro was the one who deserved to localized his friend's hard work lol, but it's not like I'll have the problem with whoever will translate this in the first place though. For the last word here, good luck to the team and hopefully the work will going well.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and I see that you another user who can read untranslated VNs. Feel free to ask for some recommendations here if you need it, and hopefully you'll enjoy yourself here.

Well we did have enough drama back at the beginning of July 2017 in regard of their second announcement here, so I guess it would be fitting if one say that this is the VN that have a lot of drama. Anyway, here's the second announcement from Nekonyan with the name of Aokana, which obviously prove that at least Sprite did have some sense to not trusted the 'overseas transplant' to the company like SG. Once again here's Nekonyan's tweet for the proof.

Welcome to Fuwanovel, and as for your project good luck on that. I hope that you'll have fun here, and feel free to ask for some suggestion if you need it for your VN.

Well you can make your own introduction thread here though. Anyway, welcome to Fuwanovel and nice to meet you here as well. I hope that you'll have fun here, and feel free to ask some VN recommendations if you need it.