[Studio Frisay] H2O √ after and another Complete Story Edition Translation Project [Released]

[breadsan]

Sooo happy to see a translation for this coming!!! Thank you so much for blessing us with this sca-ji classic in english 

[shining_transcendence]

Congrats with 100% QC!

[nReus]

(very relevant, click for funni) https://streamable.com/fro2uk
Topic post was edited by Tooko earlier but in case you didn't know already, release is planned for this Friday! 

Edited September 6, 2023 by nReus

[Leverkuhn]

Just discovered this game a couple days ago and what do I know, the translation has just been fully completed!

Thank you very much for all of your hard work in brinigng this to us 

Edited September 8, 2023 by Leverkuhn

[Tooko]

At long last, I can finally release the English patch for H2O √ after and another Complete Story Edition. Download via either Google drive or Mediafire.

A lot of work went into this project over the past year, but despite the game's flaws (nothing's perfect, after all), it was still well worth the effort of translating this game into English. As a long-time fan of visual novels, I first heard about H2O way back in 2007 shortly before it had its anime adaptation the following year. However, like most anime based on visual novels, it was severely lacking and even changed some of the story. Fast forward about 15 years, and no one had ever translated the game, despite a couple of efforts (that I'm aware of) fizzling out years ago. So I hope you enjoy the story as much as I do, and also that you too fall under Yui-sama's spell (but don't worry, Yui won't hold it against you if she isn't your fav).

There was also a lot of work and time put into subtitling, rendering and upscaling the 9 videos in the game, all done by nReus. This was very significant to the project, and also addressed an issue that came up with the videos due to the game's age and how it interacts with modern graphics cards. You can read about the issue (and how to fix it, if it affects you) here, and this is also mentioned in the readme file provided with the patch. A walkthrough is also provided with the patch, since the choice progressions that lead into the individual routes is a little unclear, and there are at least 2 routes where to unlock them requires multiple other routes to be completed, so if you get stuck on how to get to a specific route, you can read that.

And if you encounter a target module error, edit config.json included in the patch on line 4 from BGI.log to BGI.exe.

Edited September 9, 2023 by Tooko

[Novel21]

I want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TO TRANSLATE H20, IT MEANS A LOT TO ME AND TOO EVERYONE ELSE, FINALLY I CAN PLAY IT IN ENGLISH, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH IM SO GREAT FULL TOO YOU GUYS. 

[shining_transcendence]

Come to think of it, it's quite incredible that you fully translated a VN so long in the span of ~ one year (from that I gather, it's fuckin' more giant than Sakuuta which is very "big" novel). Yeah, I know, some amount of lines is repetitive hentai-lines, but still. In some cases lesser projects take years. And there a ~year....

Says a lot about your passion (not to downplay the passion of other "slower" translators)

But still.... I myself remember times when I watched anime and with all it's flaws it really stuck with me as quite pleasant and atmospheric experience. And then I waited years for a translation.

Hope VN itself will be good.

Thank you!

Edited September 9, 2023 by shining_transcendence

[littleshogun]

Congratulation for the release, and thanks for all of the hard work on translating H2O. I hope that more people find this interesting, especially after your hard work on this.

[IndScen]

Congratulations and thank you very much for making this VN available in English.

[Nier]

On 10/5/2022 at 11:17 AM, Tooko said:

The game can be purchased legally from DMM (https://dlsoft.dmm.co.jp/detail/mnphs_0007/), but a Japanese proxy/VPN may be necessary to purchase it.

Hi, would you recommend the Digital Download version from DMM or the Physical version? Just wondering, because I do know that the Digital Download version of Imasugu Onii-chan had improvements for the digital download version from DMM compared to the older physical version, is that also the case for H2O?

[barbas]

it's been almost 2 years since the tl release but anyways congrats on it!! rlly great to see more KeroMakura games getting translated to English, more people deserve to see its works.

 

However is it possible to temporarily disable the tl patch if I want to see how one scene is written in Japanese?

[Tooko]

On 3/22/2025 at 1:40 PM, barbas said:

However is it possible to temporarily disable the tl patch if I want to see how one scene is written in Japanese?

Yes, just move the patched scenario archives out of the game folder, and reinsert the original archives. Then just load whatever save you have. The scenario archives are the 12 files from data01000.arc to data01011.arc.