JAST projects fast-paced release schedule for 2015

[sanahtlig]

According to a comment by the project manager in the new forums:

We're going to be releasing more titles in the coming 6 months than we did the previous 3 years combined. This is in one part due the natural time-lag of project start to finish, but on the second part with changes in staff within the company.

https://connect.jastusa.com/support/discussions/topics/5000025194/page/last#post-5000057746

 

These are the titles released in the past 3 years (2012-2014):

 

  Little Witch Romanesque

  Harajuku Dating Paradise

  Steins;Gate

  Saya's Song

  Moero Downhill Night Blaze

  School Days

  Yumina the Ethereal

  My Girlfriend is the President fandisc

 

Total: 8 (-1 if Little Witch Romanesque excluded)

 

 

This suggests most or all of the titles on their Tumblr page are planned be released in the next 6 months (release dates in parentheses): http://jastusa.tumblr.com/upcoming

 

  Kana Okaeri (released)

  Starless

  Hanachirasu (March)

  Shiny Days

  Raidy 3

  Seinarukana

 

Total: 6 (+2 if both versions of Little Witch Romanesque are counted)

 

 

Other titles we know they're working on (translation started): http://forums.jastusa.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7341

 

  Outlaw Django

  Sumaga

  Trample on Schatten

  Sweet Home

[Nosebleed]

inb4 "We had to push back a couple months to check the quality, it'll come soon in 2016"

 

Hey at least they released Kana Okaeri, I was waiting for it instead of playing the original, hopefully it paid off.

 

Hopefully all these releases are actually happening, i'll stay skeptical for now.

[Tawm]

Nothing but empty promises until proven otherwise.

JAST are notorious for running into invisible walls and fumbling around for months at a time - especially with physical releases.

[Decay]

Well, they have release dates on some of these projects. It does seem like they want to change how they operate. They let go of the guy who put Hanachirasu up for preorder many years ago and made plenty of other premature announcements, for example. I believe that Starless and Hanachirasu will actually release in the next few months, even if they get delayed again. Sumaga, well, it's hard to believe but the walls they've run into have already been overcome and they really do seem to be right near the finish line on that. Makoto has recently stepped down from his role of TLCing/editing every single release, so that probably means his work on Sumaga is done and he's back translating Django again. Seinarukana is legitimately ready for release. The team has done nothing to it for months, they've dusted their hands and moved on already, and claim  that it's good to go. I guess JAST is just trying to find a good time to release it. Shiny Days is maybe a little more questionable, they claim it will be out by summer but that assumes they won't decide to overhaul the translation. Makoto's not on the job anymore though so they'll probably just ram it through as is. It's actually a contracted Sekai Project translation, so here's hoping that it's at least a little bit better than their previously released translations.

[SoulJustIn]

........... maybe?

 

....................... *after read Decay post*

 

maybe i should go to sleep ,  and have a dream about it 

[Crayten]

Seinarukana and Sumaga release @ 2015 ... yeah right lol

If this is gonna actually happen i learn japanese for the sake of playing the Top 5 bottom VN´s on VNDB

[Decay]

Seinarukana and Sumaga release @ 2015 ... yeah right lol

If this is gonna actually happen i learn japanese for the sake of playing the Top 5 bottom VN´s on VNDB

Are you actually going to hold yourself to this?

 

People who make these kinds of remarks aren't actually paying attention to what's happening behind the scenes.