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I think you did summarize the school setting nicely, although I would like to add some. What I can say is school setting is definitely fill the trope Boring But Practical for the VN developers, and I say this because the writer can have easy time to explain from where the MC can get to know the heroines, and not to mention it make artist's job easier when it come to designing the outfit for the heroines (Just make variation of the school uniform for the heroines at most). Also while someone can argue that it could also has office setting, most of the customers are the office workers who probably longing for the school setting as escapism instead of face the reality with the office setting. That said, I definitely can see that school setting can become oversaturated, especially when the story that didn't need school still using it, as shown in Tokyo Babel. That's all for what I can write in regard of the school setting.

Well, maybe something like Apeiria or Sakuramoyu, but even then I understand not to ask Mangagamer to localize those two. Besides, it's not like I'm dying to have those two localized anyway, now that Mashiro-iro is finally got localized. Another VN that I wish to see it localize is Red Cherish, although it's still unknown on who is capable to get the license from the developer.

The result from the survey, and I can only say at least there's no more vote for WA2 now that Shiravune took the license for the first WA (Although it didn't stop some people to vote for Hentai Prison). Also note the survey was started way before Aniplex announce Fate/Stay Night, so it's only natural there's some who put too much hope on Mangagamer to localize Fate/Stay Night. The rest of the survey result are either the rest of 07Expansion work, otome/BL VN (Because Aksys Games only interested to localize all age otome on Switch), disturbing nukige, and Sakura no Uta along with the sequel (Sakura no Toki). Overall, I guess good for Mangagamer they manage to branch out their demography, albeit at the cost of their original demography to a degree. PS - By the way my votes are not included on the top 25, so oh well.

You definitely didn't read the title wrong, because they definitely manage to do so with them got the HD version along with Sana side story. While I did keep saying that I hope to see this available in English because of the art (And Kawamura indeed manage to make Tsubasu's art beautiful in the anime), I still can't believe that it finally happen. Anyway, apparently it'll be available in April, although Shiravune change the release time to Q2 of 2024, which is good move if we see on how slow review process in Valve can be (Especially with Amazing Grace). Oh yes, here's the link to the Steam store of the main game and the link to the Steam store of Sana side story.

Late to inform this, but as of now we finally have Irotoridori no Sekai released, so have fun to anyone else who already play this. By the way, good job to Nekonyan for their programming because they manage to reduce the initial since of HD version at 9.4 GB to reasonable 4.2 GB on top removed the requirement of changing the time language display to Japan just to be able to play the VN properly. PS - As for Hikari, there's still no word from Nekonyan in regard of it, so let's just hope that someday they manage to get a hold of the license as well if only for the sake of anyone else who backed it with Hikari in mind. That said, Irotoridori no Sekai is still complete on it's own (Well FAVORITE obviously made it with standalone VN in mind), so you didn't need to wait if you still hesitate to play this because the remaining trilogy still untranslated.

Visual Novel Translation Status (18/02/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and as you can see we have a number of releases in this week so obviously this week is a very interesting one. Release wise, the most interesting one to me is obviously Irotoridori, although Nukitashi 2 release is also interesting on it's own. Other than the releases, Shiravune also shown to be quite aggressive in their announcements. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week, and I'll tell about the title in PS later. For fan translation, this week we have Taima Seiko Alice is at 30% translated, ChuSingura is at 39.49% translated, and Akagoei 3 is fully translated along with 28.54% edited. Cherry Kiss also announced their newest nukige, in which the developer of the nukige decided to make the heroines breast as big as possible (Compared to the previous trap maid nukige). In case you want to try it, it'll be available in Saturday later. Almost forgot to mention that JAST also announce the exact release date for their high production value nukige, Sisters: Last Day of Summer, and the date is June 3rd later. Aksys did release one of their announcement, Death Mark 2, with the VN is also available on Steam (If only Aksys can also do the same for their otome VNs). For the VN itself, it's the continuation of the first Death Mark that was also localized by Aksys. Go get the VN if you want to see more Death Mark ever since you wait for it in 2018, and have fun. Sekai finally reveal the progress for Nekonin ExHeart Spin, and both work are already past halfway with currently it's been at 60% translated along with 55% edited. They also finally released Nie no Hakoniwa, in which it's the first time Nekopara developer (ie Sayori) tried to make a horror mystery VN, and obviously Sayori show that she can still make good art despite that her role is the art director. That said, the VN also has some disturbing sex scenes, which to say is far more disturbing compared to Nekopara or Kara no Shoujo so much a certain someone said it almost rival Maggot Bait level of disturbing. For the VN itself, it's about the MC who was adopted into one of seven influential family in the isolated village is about to marry his step sister, and on their supposed happy day suddenly they are thrown into the nightmare. Go get Nie no Hakoniwa if you're curious on how Nekopara team can make horror VN, and have fun. Since I mentioned Kara no Shoujo earlier, I should also mentioned that Shiravune is about to release the second game in June 30th at the latest. While it's quite interesting if not ironic on how Kara no Shoujo 2 was banned by Steam back when Mangagamer had the license of it, I can only say that it's redundant release despite it has prologue in which Innocent Grey usually only made it as the trial. Speaking of redundant release, we also have Shiravune announce Taimanin Yukikaze with them also will release it in June 30th at the latest. Shiravune also has one release with exact release date, and it's Criminal Border 2nd part with they'll release it on March 7th later. For Shiravune's release at this week, we have two. The first release is To Heart 2 Dungeon Traveler, in which it's the start of Aquaplus Dungeon Traveler series with the premise is some sort of To Heart 2 spin-off with the cast thrown into another world and must do the adventure as the RPG party. I don't know if it mean that someday we'll going to have To Heart 2 release by Shiravune or not, but at least I know it's the closest one when it come to To Heart 2 official release. The biggest release from Shiravune on this week is obviously Nukitashi 2, in which it's more fitting to call it as sequel/fandisc with the closest comparison is Majikoi S (Has main story with after stories for each of the heroines). For the main story, it's about Junnosuke who is masturbate and thrown into another world with his former enemies (Three FS members), so obviously Junnosuke need to work together with his former enemies in order to go back to his world. Go get Nukitashi 2 if you want to play more of it, and have fun. Oh yes, I also should say that it's good to see Qruppo manage to have Nukitashi duology in English, which is an accomplishment compared to when Sol Press is almost ruin the chance to see first Nukitashi in English. Last but not the least, we obviously have Irotoridori release, in which it's quite an ordeal to get it in English. To elaborate, it was started way back in 2012 with the translator has unfortunate health problem forcing him to stop the work after it's been at 91% translated. Some times after that, Akerou decided to work on this after he worked on Saku Saku, and obviously hoping that Sekai will pick it after they picked Hoshimemo. Then, Sol Press decided to pick this and they decided to do the Kickstarter because of the big scale of the project, only to have them failed to localize it. In 2022, finally Akerou (As Nekonyan CEO) manage to get the license to publish Irotoridori, and now we have it after 12 years of waiting. For the premise, it's about Yuuma who is a magician that has the healing power at the cost of his memories, and his life is about to get more busy after he save a girl who is falling down from the lighthouse. Go get Irotoridori if you've been waiting for 12 years, and have fun. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week. PS - For the title, obviously I parodied the first part of Narnia Chronicle (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) with I changed 'Lion' into 'Butterfly' and 'Witch' into 'Magician'. The 'Magician' part is obvious enough with Yuuma himself is a magician with it is the synonym for the witch, while for 'Butterfly' it's because Nukitashi 2 opening parodied Digimon Adventure opening with the opening song title of Digimon Adventure is Butterfly sang by the late Koji Wada.

Seeing Uma Musume on the list remind me that I need to watch it from the first season, so I'll comment on it later. Anyway, let's see what I can comment in regard of Spring 2018 anime here. Shokugeki no Souma Train Arc - The writer is clearly started to run out of the idea on the cooking school who keep expelling the students, so he decided to being out the bad guy in order to make the plot more interesting (And obviously allowing the series run longer). That said, it's still not the most desperate writing the writer pull yet. Aikatsu Friends - Speaking of allowing the series run longer, Bandai decided to try shake the Aikatsu formula by making the idol perform as duet (Or Friend System as the series mention) in order to gain the interest. Unfortunately, unlike the past series it only has 76 episodes, so it's clear Aikatsu franchise popularity has being waned since 2018, which make Friends as the last animated Aikatsu before Bandai decided to make On Parade with that series is the mix of animation and live action. Izakaya Nobu - Obviously the closest comparison would be Isekai Restaurant, only that it deal with the izakaya (Japanese bar) who somehow ended up in another world without magic (Said world is more like the parallel world with no magic like us). Also unlike Isekai Restaurant, the main focus is on Japanese food which is justified seeing that the Nobu is specialized in Japanese food (And izakaya food usually is Japanese food that was served with the beer). Gun Gale Online - The side story of SAO, although unlike the main series the MC is not the template of generic isekai MC Kirito, but instead it's a tall woman who want to play as cute girl in MMO. Obviously, said woman decided to play the game when she know she can play as short character, and from there the female keep proving that her short avatar is not going to stop her to being capable in the battlefield. Magical Girl Site - Another magical girl deconstruction show with the trend is started from Madoka, although unlike usual magical girl show they didn't have transform but instead they only got the superpower. That said, it more than make up with the setting has the female MC need to deal with the rotten situation that she experienced, especially from her older brother. Also it should be mentioned there'll be a lot of scary moment, so yeah it goes without saying the show won't be lighthearted magical girl series. Gundam Build Driver - Just going to mention that I never follow Gundam closely until Witch from Mercury later, so obviously I didn't watch Build Driver. Steins Gate 0 - It's very obvious that 0 is one of MAGES setup to milking Steins Gate, although at least it's not as forced as Robotic Notes DaSH. The story itself is depict on how Okabe keep fumbling in the middle of his search for the true ending in Steins Gate, and so we'll going to see on how Okabe desperately navigate what happen if the player didn't follow the walkthrough to get the true ending. By the way while I did say it very clearly milking the franchise, I must say that I like Suzuha and Daru relationship in here. Also it's normal if you call 0 as fandisc, because MAGES actually just adapt the side stories into the game itself. Persona 5 - Being very popular game, obviously Persona 5 got the anime, although it seems to not quite well received. In any case, at least it seems the story is quite faithful even though the fans didn't like the animation. Oh yes, conveniently Atlus just released Persona 3 Reload, which is the remake of Persona 3 with Persona 5 gameplay. That's all for what I can comment in regard of Spring 2018 anime here.

Visual Novel Translation Status (11/02/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and because we're about to have Nukitashi 2 release I parodied it's opening song, BWLAUTE BEIRRD, by changing 'BEIRRD' into 'BEURTTERFLY'. For the info, Nukitashi 2 opening song title is the arrangement of 'Blue Water Bird' word, so in here I arranged the word 'Blue Water Butterfly'. As for why I chose butterfly, I'll speak about it later, but it's interesting to note that Shinsou Noise writer is also write Butterfly Seeker even with different company. Anyway, for this week there's no much announcement compared to the last week even though there's still some interesting updates, such as Ginharu estimation release time and Konosuna VN release. Overall, this week is an average one, and let's see what I can write about it. We have Konosuba VN released, and the premise is about Kazuma who partying with three beautiful girls with quirk find a cursed tablet that allow the user to generate new outfit. The reason why it's cursed is because the tablet will reverse the personality of the people around the user, which Kazuma has bad luck to deal with the new personalities of his teammate. The only way to break the curse is by wearing the specific outfit, so Kazuma (And the player) will do his best to outfitted his party members in order to break the curse. Yeah, this is basically dress up game with Konosuba character, so you can get it if you're Konosuba fans and want to see you favorite female characters dressed up in different outfit. Obviously not my type of VN here, but it has its own fans, especially Konosuba fans. Shiravune planned to release their NTR VN on March 12th later, and once again it's about the MC who do the NTR in order to save the heroine from her abusive husband. We have a company announced a trap VN, with the title of trap VN is Trap Yuri Garden. Obviously, the title is quite confusing, especially with trap yuri stuff, although from what I see in the synopsis it's more or less BL VN with trap hero and trap MC. While it's still not the kind of VN that I would get, at least I can say the staffs finally do the good job to make the MC looking good as the trap instead of just standard male MC design. Oh yes, the VN will be released sometimes on this year, and looking from past developer works and the planned length of this VN we may have another parts incoming. Sekai decided to moved up Nie no Hakoniwa release to 15th, which mean you can get newest Sekai VN earlier than planned For fan translation, first of all we have a fan release the full translation patch of If My Life Were to End Tomorrow, with the VN tell the story about depressed girl who often thinking that she should die do one big mistake on her important exam, and obviously it ended in sad manner being utsuge and all (Although the translator think it's leaned toward nakige). For the rest of fan translation updates, we have Taima Seiko Alice is at a quarter translated, Nagi no Koi is fully translated and edited with the assets work is also done, ChuSingura is at 39.28% translated, and we have new updates from Konosora Snow Present with it is currently fully translated. Lastly, we have the updates from Daybreak with Akagoei 3 is at 98.59% translated along with past a quarter (26.66%) edited, and we have them announce the release estimation time for Ginharu Yuzuki's patch release time, in which the team will do their best to push the release in March or at the latest April 1st with them currently finising the last remaining work on Yuzuki's route, so let's wait and see if they can release Yuzuki's patch at around that time later. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

Bump the thread again to post the tweet from Nekonyan, with said tweet is relevant to the post because Nekonyan host Irotoridori giveaway. The reason why it's relevant is because Nekonyan will give the Steam key of Irotoridori for free as long as the backer provide their confirmation, so yeah at least it can be assured the backer won't lose the money over nothing thanks to Sol Press incompetency. Oh yes, for the reminder Irotoridori will be released in four days later (In 16th), so you can note the date if you want to get it. PS - Also just in case you wonder on what is the backer confirmation stuff thing, Nekonyan did tweet a bit more in regard of it below. So yeah, it's more or less that you should provide the proof that you're indeed back the project.

Time for another update, and the translator stated this is the last update before Yuzuki's patch release. As for the updates, it's simply that the translator will pushing the release on either March or at the very latest April 1st (To honor Bishoujo Mangekyou 2.5 full translation patch release at last year), so yeah it's almost time for Ginharu full translation patch release. For a bit of elaboration, actually the translator tried to push Yuzuki's patch release on February, although he thought it can't be done because the hacker just got through surgery with said hacker bedridden from it. Oh yes, it also has status update, and it simply says 'Finishing QA'. That's all for (Hopefully) the last update before Yuzuki's patch release.

For January 2024, interesting to note that it seems Japanese and overseas have different preference when it come to two of the best release of this month, Boku no Suki and Hakkenden, with Japanese prefer the latter (From Erogamescape) and overseas prefer the former (From VNDB). That said, VNDB votes is kind of unreliable anyway since the voters for both VNs are consist of different people, which obviously mean different taste between the voters. As for VN of the Month, well, let's just say that I would chose Hakkenden if only for the (Relatively) high production value. By the way, I know there are five VNs, but out of those only Boku no Suki and Hakkenden are notable enough. No info that I can find about the two doujin VN, and it's interesting to see Sudama Relation has bad reception. Anyway, let me comment on the two VNs below. Hakkenden - Once again it has higher production value, and it's a new VN from Irodori which as we know has released Ouka Sabaki with the gameplay similar to Ace Attorney (Which turned out it's not the coincidence because the writer did work on several Touhou fangame with Ace Attorney parody). That said, from what I see it seems Japanese is probably have more knowledge about Hakkenden compared to the overseas, so perhaps it's the reason why the VN has better reception in there. Seeing that Shiravune has Ouka Sabaki, I hope that they can also localize Hakkenden sometimes in the future. Boku no Suki - It's more or less another ensemble VN with trap MC, with the premise his childhood friend suddenly have jealousy toward the MC boy's form because the childhood friend only know when the MC do crossdress as cute girl, so obviously the MC will have some explaining toward his childhood friend before finally become the couple. While the VN has two other heroines (The MC older sister and the childhood friend maid), the VN itself apparently quite short so the main focus is the childhood friend, at least looking from the CG count. That's all for what I can comment in regard of January 2024 release.

Shibukuzu, eh? I remember that mod Dergonu who is now working as Cherry Kiss translator did work on this. Also Bug System still has knack to develop the VN with disturbing content in their newest VN (Which dubbed as Shibukuzu 2), so obviously I probably just skip their VN later. That aside, unfortunately I can't help much here, but still I figure that I should say good luck to the project and I hope it'll be successful despite my taste towards the VN.

Welcome to Fuwanovel @hoodi3flare. As for Oppai Ero App which I dubbed it as 2nd Milk Factory VN, I should say that it has nice looking graphic and varied number of heroines, in which it definitely what it need to make a good nukige, although from what I heard Milk Factory VNs usually have good comedy writing. That said, I still won't try it but at least good to know that you seems took a liking to it. Milk Factory VN aside, I hope that you'll have fun in here.

Welcome to Fuwanovel and sorry for the belated greeting, @squid. No much to say here besides I hope that you'll have fun in here.

Another green bar is increased, so we have yet another progress happen even with the leak. That said, the next script files work may took a longer while, especially since it has the most line in the whole Eustia's chapter (673 lines) while the translator just finished the shortest script files (189 lines).

Visual Novel Translation Status (04/02/2024) Because we have Shuuen no Virche FD announced with the subtitle 'Epic:Lycoris' along with we have the exact release date for Tengoku Struggle, I combine both word so we have 'Lycoris Struggle' as this week VNTS Review title. Anyway, this week we have Aksys Games very active with they announced four new title at once, although unfortunately it's only for console. Another thing to note is obviously Aniplex finally make their big move in regard of Type Moon, in which they announced Fate/Stay Night Remaster to be available in English. Overall, I can say that this week is definitely far more interesting compared to the whole January, and so this week is an above average one bordering interesting. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Cherry Kiss released their first BL VN (Or to exact it's usual VN with trap maid heroines), and nice to know they tried to branch out the demography. Visual Arts announced they'll release Lunaria on 22nd later, although there's no word if the PC version will also available at that date or not. Looks like Shinjuku Soumei staffs find out they did need to worked more on their VN, so they decided to delay the release from February to April 11th later. Idea Factory announced they'll localize Cupid Parasite FD, and they'll release it within this year. As we knew Aniplex has very big news with they announced they'll localize Fate/Stay Night. While technically it's the most interesting news, it should be noted that unlike Tsukihime Type-Moon didn't remake Fate, so basically this is a redundant release with they use PSV version (So no sex scenes), and even if one give the reason the old translation is very outdated there's more recent translation that translate majority of the VN. That said, if you want to purchase it, Aniplex will release it on this year, and it'll be available on both Switch and PC so good for Aniplex they did announce PC version of Fate directly (Unlike Tsukihime Remake). Once again Aksys has four new title, although unfortunately it's only for console. Other than four new title, they also has Tengoku Struggle exact release date announcement (At April 4th later). For the four new title, those title are Shueen no Virche FD, Radiant Tale FD, DesperaDrops, and Ihanashi no Majo. No comment of the FD besides that it seems to be quite substantial. For Despera Drops, it's about the female MC who got arrested because she was suspected in the murder case only to be freed when the vehicle who escorted her got the accident, and some bad guy tried to get the MC's unknown power. Ihanashi no Majo is about 16 years old boy who moved on to the remote island in Okinawa find out his grandfather who suppose to take care of him disappeared, and then the boy met the girl who call herself a witch. For the release time, Aksys will release Despera Drops in 2025 with the rest of the three title will be available in this year. For fan translation, we have Akagoei 3 is at 91.14% translated along with almost a quarter (24.25%) edited, Shin Koihime Musou is at 70% edited, Taima Seiko Alice is at 20% translated, and ChuSingura is at 38.48% translated with Chapter 2 is at 65.09% translated. That's all for fan translation updates on this week. Last but not the least, we have Shiravune announce the exact release date for Nukitashi 2, and said date will be on 16th later so yeah we'll going to have three releases at that date. Anyway for Nukitashi 2, it should be obvious that it's the sequel for the first glance, except not really because half of the contents is the after stories of Nukitashi 1 heroines so in a way it's more like fandisc, which perhaps I should calling it as sequel/fandisc with the VNs that fulfill the category are Grisaia no Meikyuu (And Rakuen) and Irotoridori no Hikari. Anyway for Nukitashi 2 main story, it's about Junnosuke who somehow thrown into another dimension together with his three former enemies (FS member) when he masturbate (Yes it happen all right), and the world is the opposite what Junnosuke tried to acheive in the prequel with he himself is the highest leader know as 'Sex Emperor'. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

From what you tell us, you probably need to learn how to do the coding in order to insert the text, so you didn't really need to learn Japanese if your problem is just grammatical or spelling error. That said, it still very tedious work to do so anyway even if said job is just to inserting the text, and unless there's easy to use engine (Like Eushully one) it'll took some times to learn about the coding. Unfortunately I don't know how to insert the text in the game outside the one from Eushully, but if you need on how to begin perhaps you can try to open the VN files by using Garbro.

I'm very late to inform this, but better late than never. Anyway, in case anyone else still waiting for the final QA to be completed, the colored bar is increased by one since around December, so at least we can be rest assured that the translator still willing to working on this despite his real life busyness.

@Clephas I said that I didn't think Ragnarok favorably, which obviously is because it's the sequel of the finished VN. That said, of course my feeling can change over time, just like Evenicle 2. It also interesting that Dualtail tried to add Ruin/Madness form into the story in Ragnarok, albeit at limited capacity. While you may think the story is not up to standard compared to Frontier (And admittedly it's the general problem in the sequels), gameplay wise Ragnarok is obviously has many QOL improvement compared to Frontier (If you want to chase S-Rank, and Frontier has tall order to got S-Rank in the first playthrough). Anyway, my real reason writing this is to talk a bit about my word on Ninetail decision. While I also want to see them localize Lagoon and Saviour, I didn't mind if they localize Ragnarok first. That said, if you ask me which Venus Blood game that I want Ninetail to skip, it's obviously Brave. Then again, looking from the cameo Ninetail proably already decided to localize all Venus Blood games (After Frontier), so there's no other choice to wait until they done with the Kickstarter of their current VN done before moving on to more interesting VN (Especially Lagoon).

Visual Novel Translation Status (28/01/2024) Welcome to this week VNTS Review. As for the title because we have Shiravune announce Real Eroge Situation 2 along with Cherry Kiss announce their newest nukige, Otoko Orgy at Maid Boy Manor, I figure that I'll just make the parody for the former, so we have 'Real Orgy Situation' as the title. If you ask me what I'd think about this week, then my answer would be that it's another below average one, but at least we have one release compared to the last week, albeit a smaller one. Let's see what I can write about this week. In case you're looking forward to Knight Case Files release, unfortunately the release time is no longer on January, which obviously mean that it's been delayed. If anything else, at least you can try the trial if you want to see the game beforehand. Once again Cherry Kiss announced their newest nukige with them will release it on February 2nd later, and said nukige name is once again called Otoko Orgy at Maid Boy Manor. I'm quite speechless when I saw the VN first, which is definitely not because Daybreak's translator was worked on this, but instead it's because it has male MC along with trap heroine, as in the male who looking good in female outfit. So yes, Cherry Kiss is basically announce their first BL VN, and if I may say something at least the love interests breast are not as big as the heroines in the previous developer's works. Feel free to note the VN if you have interest to it, although obviously I'll just pass on the VN. Sekai finally has the exact release date for Nie no Hakoniwa, and it'll be on February 16th later which is the same date as Irotoridori release. Shiravune did release Kagura Genesis on time, and from what I see it's the roguelike RPG with the MC is the miko who can suffer rape from the monster, so yeah usual Debonosu stuff. Lastly, Shiravune also announce their newest license, Real Eroge Situation 2 with them localized the Steam version of it as Real Anime Situation 2. No idea why they decided to skip the first game, although at least I know it's usual nukige with I did watch a clip of the OVA on Youtube. Anyway, the VN is about the MC who experience some things that usually happen in anime, such as find out his popular female classmate masturbate while reading his fetish diary, confessed by female close friend immediately, and confessed by his female childhood friend. So yeah, the MC will feel the real anime situation with three beautiful girls doing their best helping the MC fulfill his fetish. At least the art is nice with it remind me of Noraneko VN, and that it'll be available sometimes on this year. From fan translation, we have Taima Seikou Alice is at 15% translated, Nagi no Koi is almost fully translated at 95% translated along with 80% edited and its assets has been 63% worked on, ChuSingura is at 38.04% translated, and Akagoei 3 was reached 90% mark (90.21%) translated along with 22.78% edited. There's also a big update in regard of Axanael, with the translator turned out still try their best to work on it with them already translate the main story leaving some side stories untranslated, although currently they're in need of the editor so obviously it's still unedited. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and see you next week.

For Astral Air, even without info from Discord it's still easy to figure out that Nekonyan still have the translated script, moreso if we follow them ever since they have the name Shinku Translation way back in 2015 to 2016 (Or just search VNDB). So yeah, unless they're very careless so much they lost the script, obviously they should still have Astral Air script. That said, to turned Astral Air translated script into English release took a lot of effort and patience, one of which is definitely can't be helped if they get a random reviewer in the review process who then randomly decide to ban the VN. Another thing to note is the programming, in which they also need to wait because Favorite engine force the user to change the language to Japan (On date and time display) just to play their VN properly, in which its also happen with Sakuramoyu here.

In regard of character customization, let's just say that I experienced all three of the modes, although not necessarily in the VNs. For the name, as far as I know only Smee VN that offering the name change feature, and even then their VNs usually have default name in case the player is too lazy to change the name. For gender, I only know Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh DS games that has said feature, and the MC are Silent Protagonist so no need to change the pronoun in the first place. For visual customization, I only experienced it in Yu-Gi-Oh DS games, and while it also available in Pokemon it only for 3DS onwards games (My last experience on playing Pokemon is Pokemon Black a DS game). Generally speaking, I never bother with this kind of feature unless there's a need for it (Like in HaremKingdom in which the MC is totally nameless), although I suppose it should be nice feature if someone want to do self insert even more, so that's all for what I can talk about this topic.

Well there's a step to search VNDB atop, although I may as well give the exact VN recommendations here. For my recommendation, since it seems you like GL VN, then my recommendations would be Yurirei, Usonatsu, Seabed, and Amrilato. Also in case Japanese VNs are not your taste, then I can recommend some OELVN GL VNs such as Highway Blossom, Please Be Happy, Heart of the Woods, and A Summer End - Hong Kong, 1986. I don't know if you're already read those VNs or not, but I hope my recommendations will be helpful to you.

Welcome to this week VNTS Review, and because we have a fan finally working on 18+ patch for Lovekami trilogy along with we have Venus Blood Ragnarok translation announcement with it has the gameplay corrupting the heroine, I made the parody for one of Lovekami VN, Healing Harem, by changing 'Healing' into 'Corrupted'. so we have 'LoveKami -Corrupted Harem-' as the title. As for this week, let's just say that it's below average one bordering plain, but at least Shiravune show some activity even though it's just to announce their release plan. Let's see what I can write in regard of this week. Shiravune announced they'll release Kiss kara Hajimeru Egoism (English name Ego's Spark) on February 20th later, with the VN itself is a short single robot heroine VN. If anything else, at least we have the artist who drew Study Steady design the heroine and drew the sex scene, so you can get it for the art alone. We also have Shiravune confirmed they didn't have plan to release Holy Slave Academy on 30th later, with them revert the release estimation to Q1 2024 (ie March 31st at the latest). Lastly, Shiravune did tease a new announcement, although I should talk about it later. If you still hesitate to play Aojashin because some people make fuss in regard of the last remaining censorship, you didn't need to worry because the restoration team released the patch to restore the removed content back in last Christmas, so you can apply the patch if you want to play Aojashin like in the original Japanese. Of course, you can still play Aojashin without that last bit of restored contents, but at least the choice is there if you're still wary about it. Speaking of restoration, someone did work hard to add the sex scenes in Lovekami trilogy, which I did call it as Pulltop's answer to Winged Cloud's Sakura series (The link to the project page). It should be noted that the sex scenes are MTL-ed in case you want to see the sex scenes in Lovekami, so keep that in mind before trying the patch. There are some news on both Yosuga no Sora and Haruka no Sora. For the info, Yosuga no Sora is at 74% TLC-ed along with regressed to 59% edited (Might be because the team decided to do a bit reworking on it) and Haruka na Sora is at 84% translated along with regressed to 70% TLC-ed (Might be because the team decided to separated translation and TLC progress). For the rest of fan translation, we have Shin Koihime Musou is at 69% edited, ChuSingura is at 37.60% translated, Akagoei 3 is at 87.26% translated along with 18.24% edited, and Nagi no Koi is at 60% translated along with 40% edited and the assets was halfway worked on. Lastly, Rattan Man has working on another VN from Black Lilith, Taima Seikou Alice, and currently it's been at 10% translated. That's all for what I can write in regard of this week, and sorry for being short here. See you next week.

Violet Evergarden - I only know that it has female MC who is the former child soldier who has lost both hands, has good drawing courtesy of Kyoani, and it's the last work from Kyoani before a mad man struck the tragedy on them. Citrus - Well, you're right on it being serious GL. A very serious one, so much that my favorite GL reviewer called out Mei as robot just because the author keep writing her as someone who repressed the emotion very much even with Yuzu did her best to thaw Mei's heart. While to be fair Mei's situation is very messy, the fans definitely find the reservation toward what Mei do to Yuzu in the beginning (Forcefully kiss the latter) with the setting (Yuzu became Mei's step-sister) is definitely didn't help at all to the fans reception. So yeah, Citrus is more or less GL series with full of drama, and it's one of the first work with full GL story adapted as the anime. Sakura Clear Card - After CLAMP took a massive backlash toward their involvement in controversial Blood C, they decided to go back to their less confusing (And successful) word Cardcaptor Sakura with them making the manga in 2016 before asking Madhouse help to animate it in 2018. While it's quite clear that Madhouse can still make good drawing and the opening song is quite good, I'm not quite sure that it can rival the old series, especially with the Clear Card that resemble the old Clow Card and the mysterious situation behind the new characters. Also yes I know the manga is still ongoing, although I didn't feel like to check the manga to see more of the story. Darling in the FranXX - It's Evangelion like robot story with the MC are a male and female pair who'll become the couple at the end, and of course they'll face a lot of danger in the series. That said, my attention on this is going to a certain controversial scene in episode 14, which apparently cause very severe reaction among the fans so much that it's rumored the VA got the death threat. Other than that, obviously I didn't watch this in the first place, so whatever. HugPC - Toei clearly understand the fans didn't like no physical fight in KKPC, so much one of the announcement in HugPC is they'll return the physical fight. From there, Toei keep doing their best to satisfy the fans, to the point it become overdone to me by them add the past team into three episodes, which bear the mention those episodes are important episodes because two cadres are defeated in those three episodes. Thankfully Toei didn't make the cadres defeated by past team in the recent series (HSPC). Anyway, HugPC is about Hana who got the task to defeat the enemy that come from the future who chased the mysterious baby Hugtan. Forgot to mention that Kwamura did the design work for HugPC, so of course my favorite Precure reviewer like it (Alongside the crossover episodes). Emiya Family Menu - Someone definitely notice on how Nasu like to keep writing about food in good detail, and then made the manga about the food in Shirou's household. The anime staff obviously notice another Fate work to milk, and thus we have this anime. As for what I can say, at least the mangaka wrote about the recipe so the Fate fans can have the same food as Fate characters. That's all for what I can comment in regard of Winter 2018 anime