Dergonu

I made this list almost 3 and a half years ago, making this list and maintaining it has taken a fair amount of effort, but for the most part I thought it wasn't too bad and updating it gave me a good insight into how scores on vndb would change after english releases and in general just a good overview of the official publishers of visual novels in english. However the last few months I really kind of stopped caring that much for this list and updating it became more of a chore. 
One reason is probably that I have been at this for quite a while about 3 and a half year is a fairly long time, the other being improvements to the visual novel database search functions, I recently made a video about these search functions and honestly I don't see the point in this list anymore. Especially now that you can search for producer/publisher on vndb and get things properly sorted rather than before where you could just get a chronological order of what they released.
 
Because of this I plan to stop updating this list, I will do my last updates for it this weekend, but after that I probably won't do further updates. I still see a point in the one for physical releases though and that takes way less effort so I will maintain that one.
 
 

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1 yen per 1 character (depending on experience). Crediting as the translator of the product. Access to the original version of the products you are asked to translate. 0.9 cents per character, wonderful offer innit? Actually worse than sol press. Well maybe they actually pay

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Required skills/experience ・ English: native with excellent writing and proofreading skills ・ Japanese: fluent (preferably JLPT N1 or equivalent) ・ Photoshop nice standards, but who would actually do the work for you at this skill level? Anyway I doubt they actually demand this for real, I've seen some dlsite translations...

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Successful applicants will be required to submit a certificate of residency from the country they live in. This does not apply for applicants residing in Japan.
Why is this needed lol that's way too mendou, trying to filter for conscientiousness or what?

Ever since I read If My Heart Had Wings/Konosora, I've always wanted to try out at Glider ride at least once. I was able to accomplish that, and even make a short vlog about it. You can view my experience in this video:
 

Nagisa Furukawa


^Miss little CLANNAD poster heroine in her prime right here, making everybody proudz :')
I've been slogging through CLANNAD for several weeks now, and it's only during Nagisa's route that they finally officially dump the OP on you, so saving her route for last I was like l0l really??

 
Her route though was... surprisingly average; not much to say. Nothing special or out of this world happens. But at least Nagisa in general finally grew on me. I disliked her meek softspoken personality at first but she becomes less reserved and speaks her mind more often later on while maintaining that same slow, gentle demeanor. Very wholesome to be around.
...Which is why it is absolutely hilarious that Tomoya pervs out on her at the randomest moments. He's a pretty reserved protagonist overall in that aspect, so I just burst out laughing here:

Really, Tomoya?? You're with one of the more wholesome heroines and this is what you scheme?!  
Out of all heroines I'd rank the route quality Kotomi > Tomoyo > Nagisa >= Fuko >= Kyou/Ryou > Others
Speaking of the others, sorry I ran out of gas and had to speedrun Misae, and literally Ctrl-skipped skimmed through Kappei. Just gib me them lights!
 
 

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And so... I've finally reached Awesome Stuff. Wish me luck.
 

Back when I was studying at uni in Japan, one of my professors recommended a series of grammar dictionaries that came in handy. When it comes to grammar learning in these types of communities, I rarely see people mention anything other than Tae Kim's guide, which I'm personally not a huge fan of. Figured these could be helpful for people specifically only learning the bare minimum for reading, so they can look up grammar just as easily as vocab when reading. You can just keep it next to you while you read, and quickly flip through the pages for whatever piece of grammar you encounter and want to look up. (They are fantastic for people actually learning the language for more normal use too, of course!)
Links:
Basic: Link
Intermediate: Link
Advanced: Link
I only use Japanese amazon, but I'm sure these books are available in other countries as well. Just google the title.

Back when I was studying at uni in Japan, one of my professors recommended a series of grammar dictionaries that came in handy. When it comes to grammar learning in these types of communities, I rarely see people mention anything other than Tae Kim's guide, which I'm personally not a huge fan of. Figured these could be helpful for people specifically only learning the bare minimum for reading, so they can look up grammar just as easily as vocab when reading. You can just keep it next to you while you read, and quickly flip through the pages for whatever piece of grammar you encounter and want to look up. (They are fantastic for people actually learning the language for more normal use too, of course!)
Links:
Basic: Link
Intermediate: Link
Advanced: Link
I only use Japanese amazon, but I'm sure these books are available in other countries as well. Just google the title.

Made a new video if anyone has ever wanted to learn Japanese for visual novels but don't feel they have the confidence or time to. Hopefully this can ease some of your concerns  on the learning JP front or the setting up grabbing text from the VN itself.
 

Horribly late best wished to @Dergonu! Hope you had a good celebration. :3

Thanks! 
Thank you! 

Thanks! 
Thank you! 

Happy birthday to @Dergonu!

Happy 26th birthday to mod @Dergonu, and I hope you'll have a good birthday.

What a beautiful banner

FINALLY.

I don't know when this happened, but thanks to awarded me this.
Feels good.

Good morning everybody,
Tonight I'm planning on finishing the update process for the forums (including all themes) as well as finalizing some back-end sharing necessary for Emi to take over my admin duties. I'm still alive and around, paying for the site (etc.), but enough is enough and this is what needs to happen. 
I'll post later today with more definite hours/timezones for the update, and will hop on Discord closer to the appointed FuwApocalypse hour.
Much < 3,
Tay

That sure took a while. I think we can rule out the porn having been written in from the start in this one, lmao.

That sure took a while. I think we can rule out the porn having been written in from the start in this one, lmao.

Tay

Tay

Burning down the Capitol is an old British pastime, and thus I condemn it in the strongest terms.

Liturgical Christmas has ended, so it's time for you dopes to actually switch your avatars back this year. Otherwise you'll be inflating the value of Christmas.
@Dreamysyu

@Zakamutt

@Dergonu

@Silvz
or
@Sillysa
I hope you saved your old avatar, because it's time to switch it back, bucko.
@droganpc
Change it back, nerd.
@FinalChaos

@MaggieROBOT

@mitchhamilton

@Mr Poltroon
As beautiful as your Santa hat avatar is, I insist you change it back to whatever it was before.
@1P1A

Why is this not dead nya 

Took me a while this year.