Shiravune Retrospective | The Visual Novel Publisher Full of Surprises

[NowItsAngeTime]

It's been a while since I've done a visual novel publisher history retrospective video. This time I'm going to do Shiravune: a relatively newer publisher with quite the catalogue. Thanks to @TheLocalWeeb for editing!

 

 

[littleshogun]

Late to the party here, but better late than never.

Anyway, a lot of the mentioned stuffs in the video has a lot of change in just within a year, with the most notable one is they didn't do announce the title in mere weeks or days before the release, with them most likely waiting for Valve's (Very often) slow review process. Obviously there's more positive change in regard of it, such as all of Qruppo's title now licensed by Shiravune, they branched out a number of VNs to be sold outside Steam and Johren so no need to bother with Johren complicated procedure in case someone didn't like Steam, and they tried to get few of their older title into Steam (Primal Hearts). Although, recently they seems to do more announcements for RPGMaker game, in which I just hope it's just temporary despite it being rational choice if they want to do save the money for the license cost. By the way, I'm aware that my comment on this may be outdated within a year or two (Or maybe even less in a year), showing on how dynamic Shiravune can be, so let's see if they can keep up the positive here.

For their catalogue, while obviously the one that you mention are true, there are some more other newer title available after a year, such as Mashiro Iro, Amanatsu, Nemurenu, Destiny Star Girlfriend, and Amazing Grace, which while those may not your favorite I believe some would find themselves liking the titles, and I say this as someone who think that Nemurenu will deter most people had they find some disturbing contents in there. Also I hope that someday Shiravune will translate Study Steady 2 and if possible Marmalade's newest VN, Baka Couple Supplement, although I know it need times seeing even the latter is not available yet.

As far as controversy happening, well let's just say it's something bound to happen no matter on how well the companies tried to do. As for the translation, some didn't like the translation choice in Nukitashi and Mashiro Iro so much they made the new patch to fix the former, although since Nukitashi was already edited back when Sol Press still exist it bound to have editing controversy had they released it anyway. For mosaic, let's just say it would took more time to remove it compared to release it immediately and receive some critics about it. No comment on Kunado other than I see why Shiravune rushed the porting work after Aoi Tori release, and at least Shiravune fixed the problem quickly.

That's all for what I can comment in regard of Shiravune.

PS - Forgot to mention that Shiravune like to sell very barebone game on Steam with the full contents avilable in the 18+ patch with the newer VNs had them censored the school uniform for Steam version like in ExS-Tia Concerto. I didn't mean to say this as the flaw seeing they did this to getting through the reviewers with one explicit contents can ruin the plan to sell the game on Steam, but instead I just mention this as something to note here when it come to purchasing from Steam.

Edited December 19, 2024 by littleshogun