VirginSmasher

Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi No - VNDB Link
A translation project by Inbou Translations

OP:
VN Description: (VNDB Description with slight tweaking on my part. Sorry for it being so awkward to read)
Team:
Project Leader/QC - VirginSmasher, yours truly.
Translator - @ittaku
Editor (Main School) - @Pomelo 
Extra QC - @Arcadeotic
Extra TLC - @Clephas
Hacker - @Porygon2
Image Editor - @Blake
Translation Example:
Recruitment
Live Translation Updates can be found here - https://cookie4.com/projects/haruuru/progress/
Well, that's all I have to say for now. I'm pretty passionate about making this project succeed and we just need some more help on this project than we currently have. That being said, I will catch up with you guys soon.

It's finally released! I feel pretty emotional about this, since it was my first ever editing job. I'm so grateful to both VS and Ittaku for letting me work on this project and allowing me to get my foot into the industry. (I doubt I would've had my current job if I hadn't worked on this and met the people I've met through it.)

To recap, I worked on the prologue, the main school common branch, and Miyabi's route. Unfortunately, due to time constraints (and the fact that I worked very slowly), I wasn't able to work on Tonoko's route, but I'm sure it'll still be great!
I also want to thank Marche100 for helping me out by editing the branch school common route, Yuuna's route, and Shino's route. I know he did a really solid job on those!

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy it! I've been really looking forward to reading Yuuna's story.

All prooreading and graphic edits are in. Working on creating patch now, release soon.

1) Handle: Bee
2) Positions you can fill:  TLC (N1) — I professionally work for companies, but I am willing to help with a single project.
3) Types of projects (VNs) preferred: Anything I personally find interesting. I do not have specific likes.
4) Availability (edit this one as you get involved in projects): It may depend. Though I am consistent and promise weekly work, I do not promise to be fast. In fact, I'll be honest and say that I'll most likely be slow.
5) (VNs most interested in producing an ftl for: already working on those, being the Akatsuki no Goei trilogy.
6) Motivation for joining in on ftl: Wanting to help upcoming groups, as I am experienced in fan translation and have been going at it for years now.
7) Conditions* (any additional conditions, under which you will or won't work): I refuse to work on anything that does not catch my personal interest, has lolis, has strict deadlines, guro, scat, or BL. I also refuse to work with unorganized groups, or groups that openly support machine translation as a whole.
 

Hey man. I actually worked on this game's translation for a while before real life fucked me. 
Was actually curious because someone actually completing the game appeared, and I wanted to see what's up.
After looking into stuff for a bit though I'm left with no choice but to make a post.
You claim that you translated the entire base game and the fandisk "in a matter of weeks" working for 16 hours a day each day. Sorry, but this is impossible. No one, and I say no one, can work for 16 hours straight in translation for several days and not deliver a below par result. Also, honestly I can't believe that between the time you asked for the tools in another thread saying that "you were looking forward to translate this" exactly 2 months ago before releasing this https://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/24092-help-working-with-a-bgi-game/ you were able to translate over 2 Million characters and over 100k lines of text.
So yeah, I'm sorry to whoever was excited for this, but this 100% completion is entirely either machine translated or god knows fucking what. 
As a last word, before anyone claims that idk what I'm talking about, I tried to fan translate this some years ago, one year of approximately daily 1.5-2h of work ended up with me having done only 20k lines out of the 80k lines of the MAIN GAME. I'm slower than your average fan translator, but I just simply can't believe someone is able to translate just the main game in less than a year, let alone in 2 months. No matter the amount of time you sink in each day. Take my words however you want, since I assume you'll want to release your stuff anyway. 
 
PS: The main game has roughly 80k lines, fandisk no clue but definitely more than 20k. No one, I repeat, NO ONE, is able to even remotely come close to do more than 100k lines equivalent to what this game has in 2 months. We're talking about more than 1.5 MILLION CHARACTERS for just the first game ALONE. The fastest guy I know can pull off 1 M charas in a year btw, and he no lifes it 6-8 hours a day because he has infinite time.
 
Take this as you will. Have a nice day.

Saya no Uta is the purest, most wholesome romance I've ever read. Try it.

QA from Senmomo here.
In regards to the prologue patch, Pomelo and I are working as much as we can to get the prologue fully edited and QAed for release. It'll be on the slower side, however, because we both are quite busy and can only work when time is afforded to us. It'll take some time to do, but we'll definitely get this patch out.
As for how much progress there's been, we've edited and QAed a good amount of the first script. The TL is complete for the prologue as well.

Of course the world is a completely different place to what it was just a few months ago and those who committed to help translate this have all but disappeared due to world events (can't blame them). However, as it turns out I'm between official projects and bored so I've resumed translation on this slowly chipping away at the branch school till my next official project comes along. So some progress will happen in the interim, and perhaps eventually it will all get translated this way.

Like people give a shit about the translation being bad. As long as it's out in English, they won't care. Hell, there are still people who think they're truly reading White Album 2 by reading the TL.
Not saying that this TL is bad. I haven't had the chance to look it over. Just saying that nobody honestly cares about quality in fan translations just because they do it for free, as if it's any reason to excuse a bad TL.

Haruka ni Aogi, Uruwashi No - VNDB Link
A translation project by Inbou Translations

OP:
VN Description: (VNDB Description with slight tweaking on my part. Sorry for it being so awkward to read)
Team:
Project Leader/QC - VirginSmasher, yours truly.
Translator - @ittaku
Editor (Main School) - @Pomelo 
Extra QC - @Arcadeotic
Extra TLC - @Clephas
Hacker - @Porygon2
Image Editor - @Blake
Translation Example:
Recruitment
Live Translation Updates can be found here - https://cookie4.com/projects/haruuru/progress/
Well, that's all I have to say for now. I'm pretty passionate about making this project succeed and we just need some more help on this project than we currently have. That being said, I will catch up with you guys soon.

If you already know you lose motivation quickly, then I'd know not to give you a test, unless you actually want to take it.

Hello again.
Ever since the last update, I have some great news. We have found a translator willing to do the branch school routes. They've completed a few projects in the past, and are capable of helping us finish this project. That being said, don't expect the pace that Ittaku had when he was working. They're gonna take their time and do the best job they possibly can.
We're also still searching for a second editor who is good enough to work on either the branch school section or the main school section. If you think you have the capabilities to do so, please contact me here or on Discord at VS#1496.
That's all for today. I don't know when this will be updated again, but look out for some positive progress in the future.

Hello again.
Ever since the last update, I have some great news. We have found a translator willing to do the branch school routes. They've completed a few projects in the past, and are capable of helping us finish this project. That being said, don't expect the pace that Ittaku had when he was working. They're gonna take their time and do the best job they possibly can.
We're also still searching for a second editor who is good enough to work on either the branch school section or the main school section. If you think you have the capabilities to do so, please contact me here or on Discord at VS#1496.
That's all for today. I don't know when this will be updated again, but look out for some positive progress in the future.

Hello again.
Ever since the last update, I have some great news. We have found a translator willing to do the branch school routes. They've completed a few projects in the past, and are capable of helping us finish this project. That being said, don't expect the pace that Ittaku had when he was working. They're gonna take their time and do the best job they possibly can.
We're also still searching for a second editor who is good enough to work on either the branch school section or the main school section. If you think you have the capabilities to do so, please contact me here or on Discord at VS#1496.
That's all for today. I don't know when this will be updated again, but look out for some positive progress in the future.

Hello again.
Ever since the last update, I have some great news. We have found a translator willing to do the branch school routes. They've completed a few projects in the past, and are capable of helping us finish this project. That being said, don't expect the pace that Ittaku had when he was working. They're gonna take their time and do the best job they possibly can.
We're also still searching for a second editor who is good enough to work on either the branch school section or the main school section. If you think you have the capabilities to do so, please contact me here or on Discord at VS#1496.
That's all for today. I don't know when this will be updated again, but look out for some positive progress in the future.

I wrote a review on MM here: https://j-addicts.de/master-magistrate-early-access-review/

Man, I was just tryna be a good socialist and advocate for living wages for translators. Now we here 

what an asinine remark. the guy merely warned about how shitty the pay is, and the constant cost cutting measures affecting quality. if virtue signalling is "please pay me something livable" and then leaving when the company refuses, then consider me a virtue signaler. if all the employees just keep their mouths shut then nothing changes. If companies like SP and MG are unable to survive without worker exploitation, then they deserve to go under. You seem like the kind of person that would have defended the government for their actions during various union busting exercises. After all, workers were virtue signaling and taking their problems into the public sphere by demanding 8 hour work days. 

 

Good luck. You're gonna need it. Most worthwhile TLers/editors already work only officially, so finding fresh blood for any kind of fanTL project is incredibly difficult. But, if you manage to polish ittaku's work and release that as a patch, it's still gonna be a great success. This was a beast of a project to pick up, so managing to finish even a half of it is amazing.

Hello again. It's been a long time, and many of you probably thought this project was dead. However, we are still alive, just going through a few changes. I'll list everything that's happened since the last update.
First of all, Hasa is no longer a part of the team. He had many irl stuff to deal with and couldn't contribute as much as he would've liked to the project. So we're without a second translator, and are currently looking for on good enough to work on this project.
Second of all, since we don't have a good enough translator to fill Hasa's boots, the team and I have to decided that we will focus our efforts on finishing the editing and QA of the Main School half of KaniShino and release that as a patch. That means that the Branch School routes' future is in doubt atm, but if we find another translator willing to help us complete that half, then it should be finished.
TLDR: We'll be releasing the main school patch as the final patch unless we find a second editor and translator to help us finish the second half.
Progress will be slow, but I assure you that the Main School patch will come out as soon as we can manage it. Thank you for sticking with us, and we hope you're excited to see the patch.

Good luck, Mr. Sand.

Hello again. It's been a long time, and many of you probably thought this project was dead. However, we are still alive, just going through a few changes. I'll list everything that's happened since the last update.
First of all, Hasa is no longer a part of the team. He had many irl stuff to deal with and couldn't contribute as much as he would've liked to the project. So we're without a second translator, and are currently looking for on good enough to work on this project.
Second of all, since we don't have a good enough translator to fill Hasa's boots, the team and I have to decided that we will focus our efforts on finishing the editing and QA of the Main School half of KaniShino and release that as a patch. That means that the Branch School routes' future is in doubt atm, but if we find another translator willing to help us complete that half, then it should be finished.
TLDR: We'll be releasing the main school patch as the final patch unless we find a second editor and translator to help us finish the second half.
Progress will be slow, but I assure you that the Main School patch will come out as soon as we can manage it. Thank you for sticking with us, and we hope you're excited to see the patch.

Main school alone is the length of a medium-length VN, as it's around 34k lines.

Hello again. It's been a long time, and many of you probably thought this project was dead. However, we are still alive, just going through a few changes. I'll list everything that's happened since the last update.
First of all, Hasa is no longer a part of the team. He had many irl stuff to deal with and couldn't contribute as much as he would've liked to the project. So we're without a second translator, and are currently looking for on good enough to work on this project.
Second of all, since we don't have a good enough translator to fill Hasa's boots, the team and I have to decided that we will focus our efforts on finishing the editing and QA of the Main School half of KaniShino and release that as a patch. That means that the Branch School routes' future is in doubt atm, but if we find another translator willing to help us complete that half, then it should be finished.
TLDR: We'll be releasing the main school patch as the final patch unless we find a second editor and translator to help us finish the second half.
Progress will be slow, but I assure you that the Main School patch will come out as soon as we can manage it. Thank you for sticking with us, and we hope you're excited to see the patch.