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Now that's some good taste right there.

Added Release the Spyce and Zombeland Saga from this season

Bloom into you is really good. You're missing something if you don't watch it. I struggle with challenging shows and I wouldn't call it challenging. Bunny senpai remains solid to the end, though the first arc is undeniably the best. Gakkou no juliet loses a bit of steam along the way but is still a fun ride with its goofy couple. Irozuku world in colours is actually very good. It has a few slow moments during the show but it ends very strongly. I rated this the highest of the shows that finish this season. Vampire became boring as batshit. Index3 became even more confusing than any of the previous installments. One for people who have religiously watched all previous raildexes only, or read the LNs. Goblin Slayer is simple good vs evil fun in the end, though yeah disturbing. Slime is a bit of a gem. How to do a seriously OP character yet somehow entertain continuously. Akanesasu shoujo was meh cheap handheld game based fare. Anima Yall was mundane. Beelzebub was boring fluff Conception was the most amazingly bad piece of trash in a long time Hinomaru is predictable as fuck sport anime about sumo but still executed in a fun enough way that it's good clean entertainment Karakuri circus was a complete clusterfuck that fell to pieces only a few episode in and still has ages to go to execute even more clusterfuckery Imoimo is so bad the studio itself complained they felt like slaves. It's a hilariously badly executed and animated tropefest with zero value Release the spyce was actually great fun about kick arse girls SSSS grdiman was extremely popular because of Rikka's thighs but it was still entertaining as a weird take on the superhero thing SAO3 is actually the best SAO installment yet. Unfortunately you have to have watched the first two to make the most of it, but it's finally solid consistent entertainment. Tsurune was boring AF. Kyoani are making another formula driven but completely soulless show in this one Maid uzasugiru was kinda entertaining but creepy at the same time, and not in a good way Zombie land saga was good clean fun to the end. Himote house was the overlooked gem of the season. Terribly cheap 3d animation, almost no plot to talk about, but a bunch of adult woman sitting around saying hilarious things. Jingai san no yome takes the cake for the most bizarre anime of the year, though is strangely cute to watch Yes I watched most of these, though a lot of the dodgier ones I dropped a few episodes in.

You seriously need to finish shit before moving on...

Well I play everything on linux so I'm used to "getting things to work" for VNs. I recently bought HdR and downloaded it because I felt guilty that I played it by sailing the high seas over a decade ago, and it's an absolute bargain. So the archive is sitting there waiting for me to see. I do recall an extremely long common route, but once you get that out of the way and save it you can go straight to each heroine's route. I think I'd only play Asumi's route through again: my first tsundere crush Izumi from Clover Day's is my all time favourite tsundere, but I need to do something in the future to bring that project back to life for people to play it in English.

I have a real soft spot for HdR. Not sure if it has aged well but it really hit a nerve when I played it when it first came out. I should replay it to see if it still works for me. I do remember hating all the epilogues though (especially Asumi's.)

Asumi from Heart de Roommate. An oldie but a goodie. Others have already listed the two I would have recommended from To Heart 2

I resuscitated a twitter profile I'd never used and am posting my progress on there now since this thread is only updated every few weeks.

In before someone complains about localisation choices... oh woops way too fucking late. Dude, where's my car?

If this is anything like sugar+spice (and it almost certainly is since it's an evolution of that series) confessing isn't always the best way to get a heroine, and sometimes isn't a way to get her at all. So there's bound to be at least one heroine you can get without a confession. Wimp.

Picking one line that translates into something intelligible is hardly useful evidence of it working everywhere. I'd hazard a guess that only about 5% of lines come out that "good."

What is this, Hotel California?

Yay I get to be the first one to say... Learn Japanese. All MTL is useless without some knowledge of Japanese.

Nonsense, it's just an alternate universe execution. If you prefer to have them all die around you instead, that's your prerogative but I certainly don't want that.

Depends on how the other routes are written in the background. I prefer it if it's implied the other heroines have their issues solved/attended to in some other way. The one I'm currently translating does that. You see the other heroines you haven't chosen quietly get better, even if you have nothing to do with them. I much prefer this, but it's also the hallmark of many games that have no bad endings which is also something I prefer.

Never mind, did it myself with inverted 2.

I don't disagree, but the grammar being natural sounding is the editor's job. As a translator myself, I can tell you when you're deep in the translation process you can write some funky shit whilst trying to convey the nuance that was in the original Japanese, even if English is your native language. It then takes a fresh set of eyes to look at it and go WTF and fix it.

There's no doubt that a better grading scale could be created, but the only way to do it justice properly is to split it up into multiple components, separating out translation, editing, production values etc. My list was simply created to try and combine all of those values into one grading scale, assuming that in general quality of other components tends to parallel that of the translation. I also stated in the opening post that there are always exceptions to this, but the main thing that I'm interested in is the actual translation component itself, but one cannot ignore that editing is part of that process!

Nice bell-shaped curve we ended up getting there, though total numbers is pretty small. Of course it's a self-fulfilling prophecy given the way I worded the entries.

Shit ones.

Does that make this an untroduction then? So long as you have something to fap to, I guess you don't need VNs. Good luck with whatever your world consists of from now on.