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99.99% chance that everything in that image is pure bullshit. C'mon guys, don't get trolled so easily.

Da Capo 2, it's Otome.

I'm into some of the darker stuff out there but Fraternite... I dunno, it never really caught my eye. But I guess Maggot Baits interests me even less, so hey, whatever.

Hmmm... I never noticed this. You sometimes see companies use language like this when they're actually like a month away from announcing it, but yeah, I guess this puts more points in favor of Ero Manga, fewer in favor of Maggot Baits. "Eroge!" was really successful for MG so them licensing more stuff along those lines that wouldn't be unexpected at all.

None of that has actually happened yet.

From the various interviews he's given, Payne seems pretty displeased with how things have turned out with Steam rewarding low-effort releases and quick cash-ins. He seems kind of skeptical that it will last and doesn't seem happy with every company expecting similar performance to Nekopara. I get the sense that he's just plain disgruntled with the direction the industry is going in.

To be honest, Payne seems to be dumping a lot fewer resources into JAST these days. It was always a side project for him, but it seems like he made a pretty big go at it for the first few years of this decade. They made a lot of big announcements and seemed to be on the up. Then after some project delays, getting screwed over by some of his partners (5pb mainly), and the market shifting in a direction he's displeased with (steam), it seems like maybe he's a lot less enthusiastic? It's hard to say since he doesn't talk too openly about this kind of stuff, but the fact that they haven't even made a single convention appearance yet this year, not even a booth, tells me that JAST is a pretty small presence in general right now and Payne isn't too interested in rectifying that.

Lotta people not understanding the concept of bingo itt. Although this chart is a little too easy, imo. Real predictions: A Rance title will be announced, and not Evenicle. Chuablesoft is an easy layup, they'll be one of MangaGamer's new partners. A new clock up title will also almost assuredly be announced there. Possibly Maggot Baits, I think Ero Manga might actually be a little bit more likely. And they'll announce either a new BL or a new Otome title. JAST will announce either Muramasa, or something on the same scale. I don't have any insight into any specific announcements here, but I am told that all three big publishers are basically swinging for the fences here, and a Muramasa announcement would be relatively safe and easy for JAST to do. I also expect a new Alcot game announcement, but I'm less sure about that. I really don't expect more than two announcements from them. SP is always a total unknown. One thing to expect is a lot of actual 18+ announcements. They keep saying "Wait for AX" whenever anyone asks them about anything to do with 18+ stuff, including Maitetsu. And Dovac was talking about how he's happy that AX staff lets them talk openly about and show previews for 18+ stuff. Wild guess: SP will announce an August translation, possibly Daito before Eustia. The editor for the fan translation posted two or three months ago that the project was actually revived with the original translator back on board, and that they were working on the true route or something to that effect. Then we've heard nothing since. I wouldn't be surprised if that was picked up.

List of all Japanese to english translation releases in 2016: https://vndb.org/v/all?q=;fil=olang-ja.tagspoil-0;rfil=released-1.type-complete.date_after-20159999.lang-en;o=a;s=title;p=1 Some of these are re-releases or retranslations, but a lot of it is new. My personal recommendations are Tokyo Babel if you want action, Root Double if you want suspense and mystery, and Kindred Spirits/Yurirei if you want nice, mushy romance (and yuri). edit: Christ, I forgot Fata Morgana, get that if you want one hell of a dramatic and mature horror VN.

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Denpasoft's store currently only supports credit or debit cards. Paypal is really difficult to deal with when selling pornographic stuff.

A lot of people suspect this of being a political power play to bully the EU and for the UK's far-right to gain the upper hand internally. It seems like many of the Leave advocates actually expected to be able to renegotiate down the line so they didn't have to fully leave. The EU seems to be calling them on their shit and might wish to make an example out of the UK: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/europe-plunged-crisis-britain-votes-leave-eu-european-union "EU leaders call for UK to leave as soon as possible" So yeah, this could backfire spectacularly on the leavers if they didn't intend to actually leave. And pretty much nobody wins.

I skimmed through the E3 treehouse stream, At one point one of the hosts said that they removed some NPCs and villages specifically for the demo and the area shown would be more populated in the final release. So yeah, expect more stuff in the complete game. I think it looks pretty fantastic overall. It seems freaking huge. I'm gonna have to get a Wii U or NX to play it.

In a sense, it is Meikyuu and Rakuen that are canon and the first game that isn't.

To be completely realistic, you should probably expect a turnaround time of 2-3 months here on the 18+ patch.

To quote Doddler on what this version does and doesn't have: I will be reviewing it.

If it's only five scenes, maybe someone will make a restoration patch so we can experience their terribleness for ourselves.

I can't unsee the mouse cursor in your avatar.

The biggest surprise of this entire debacle is that the translation doesn't even seem bad. Like... it's fine, I guess? I certainly didn't expect that after everything else that went down. This whole release has been so thoroughly mismanaged. They probably intend to release the chapters piecemeal. I'm not entirely opposed to that plan if they're affordably priced.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/464780/ Uhh... as far as I can tell, there aren't any F2P aspects or DLC here, but here it is, on Steam, in English, for free. UPDATE: Apparently it's just chapter 1. Uh huh. Not gonna lie, I'm very confused right now.

Hey, look on the bright side, if the rights to these arcs shifted hands, maybe they'll be easier to license for localization? Yeah, I'm not betting on it. Yo, Asonn, don't be a fucking dick.

Looking forward to a good sale on Hitman.

The NekoHen translation patch is abominable. It is actual machine translation and is just insanely bad. Calling it "okay overall" is downright criminal, you might actually trick someone into playing that shitshow.