Mangagamer partners with Alicesoft to prevent the Rance series from being released in English

[Clephas]

I was kind of amazed they are bothering with Haruka... it is pretty much the least interesting title in a generally boring lineup, lol.

[XReaper]

nothing beats daiakuji. never. all hail them mafiosololige!
sadly most people in the western hemisphere wont experience them pleasures of doing nasty stuff to satsu & friends, unless a remake pops out of nukige heaven, so that mg could possibly license it, but thats only....

[Alucard]

I figure the translation community should just say fuck em and carry on their merry way. Sure there is the whole leagl aspect that spooks people but this is the Internet. You can't stop the Internet.

[sanahtlig]

Half of the fan translators are now working for Mangagamer, so it's not like they can just raise the skull and crossbones and keep going.

[Clephas]

Half of the fan translators are now working for Mangagamer, so it's  not like they can just raise the skull and crossbones and keep going.

^This... plus a lot of fantranslators that haven't been already have half an eye toward getting themselves recruited in the future (outside of the machine 'translators'). 

[Basileus777]

The fan translators chose to do this of their own volition and accept paid official work.  I'm not sure what grounds there are to criticize this, the people doing the work made this decision.  Blaming MangaGamer also seems pretty misguided.

[ashton]

Well rance 5 was almost done so it is partially true. Well another good reason to learn japanese. I was pissed off when they dropped daiteikoku, now i don't care as much.

 

 

Sucks they're not jumping in with something big like daiteikoku or rance games. 

[Crayten]

Well rance 5 was almost done so it is partially true. Well another good reason to learn japanese. I was pissed off when they dropped daiteikoku, now i don't care as much.

 

 

Sucks they're not jumping in with something big like daiteikoku or rance games. 

Daiteikoku would also have been my favourite choice besides the Rance Game.

[sanahtlig]

Daiteikoku's gameplay is infuriating.  The game rewards blitzkrieg tactics but various events force you to stall for time (if you want to pursue certain routes), causing the player to get stuck in a stalemate that's incredibly irksome to overturn.  I quit midway through because I just became exasperated.

[XReaper]

yop had the very same issues with the novel, despite it having a somewhat good plot & stuff. gameplay really consisted of a very halfbaked nature, which killed my mood to continue

[Clephas]

All of the Dai games are like that...

[sanahtlig]

All of the Dai games are like that...

Daibanchou's gameplay was actually fun.  I enjoyed the system nearly as much as Sengoku Rance.  Daiteikoku's system has been widely panned as subpar, and the game itself has a lower EGS score than most of Alicesoft's major releases.  It's basically Alicesoft's Kami no Rhapsody.

[ashton]

Dude, ww2 conquering game in space with naked girls, wtf do you want more.

[Alucard]

Half of the fan translators are now working for Mangagamer, so it's not like they can just raise the skull and crossbones and keep going.

Traitors

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Traitors

Yeah I have no idea why they'd take a chance to make some money for a task that's grudgingly long and hard, and have an opportunity to release a better quality translation this way. Sounds weird.

[Alucard]

Yeah I have no idea why they'd take a chance to make some money for a task that's grudgingly long and hard, and have an opportunity to release a better quality translation this way. Sounds weird.

Yes I guess sellouts would be the better term in that case

[sevencamelot]

Thats what happened.  Im so late to the news department for translation.  That sucks so much >_<  

I still don't get why does mangagamer not release Rance games?  The translators already almost finished many of them, it wouldn't take much effort to get them going, but now its been a year and nothing interesting was released after partnering with Alicesoft.  What gives...

[Decay]

"Interesting" is subjective, they released the game announced and many seemed to have enjoyed it, what with it being in the top 5 sellers at mangagamer for such a long time. They are also seemingly set to announce the next Alicesoft game very soon, probably at Otakon next month.

MangaGamer will probably start releasing the Rance series as soon as Alicesoft allows them to. Remember, this is a two-way partnership and both sides need to be willing. Alicesoft are the ones holding back Rance in the west, not MangaGamer.

[sanahtlig]

This was one of my favorite articles.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much demand for content like this that's directed at the VN fanbase.

[sevencamelot]

1 hour ago, Decay said:

"Interesting" is subjective, they released the game announced and many seemed to have enjoyed it, what with it being in the top 5 sellers at mangagamer for such a long time. They are also seemingly set to announce the next Alicesoft game very soon, probably at Otakon next month.

MangaGamer will probably start releasing the Rance series as soon as Alicesoft allows them to. Remember, this is a two-way partnership and both sides need to be willing. Alicesoft are the ones holding back Rance in the west, not MangaGamer.

Ah I guess that makes sense.  I would imagine Rance series would sell a lot and it felt kind of foolish not to release them for over a year already. 

Well heres hoping they get the rights to sell them.  I hope they can translate Rance X as soon as it gets release in japan as well. 

[novurdim]

Well, MG can sockblock Rance all they want, I just need muh Evenicle