Sei Monmusu Gakuen

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And I don’t know what to say.

The VH4 After Story ended up being pretty good. No torture, no anal probing (not that I mind that, Dieselmine has just been overusing it in too many scenes where it doesn’t fit).

Sei Monmusu Gakuen translation continues slower than I like. I’m doing semi-regular updates on the Translations page if you’re worried that I’ve fallen off the face of the planet between updates. There’s always the #mgq channel on Rizon too.

I’d update more often, but there really isn’t anything to mention. Are there monster girl games coming out that I’m missing? Whatever happened to the MGQ doujin that Torotoro and Jingai Modoki were working on? Haven’t heard an update on that since it was announced last year. Setouchi cranks those things out like clockwork, but I guess Jingai is going for something a little more meaty.

Misc. Updates

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This might be the longest I’ve ever gone without an update. Sorry for that.

In Violated Hero news, Dieselmine is releasing a Violated Hero 4 expansion of sorts on April 25th. Fan-winning Nightmare and the Equipment Mimic thing are added along with new scenes with Lilith and Maid Robot. The site doesn’t really say if it’ll require VH4 or be a stand-alone, but at any rate it’ll be about $5.

In MGQ Paradox news, no update from Torotoro this month, but the MGQ Official Site will have 8 new monster updates on May 3rd, including some Eden CG apparently.

In Sei Monmusu Gakuen news… Well, my goal is 200 lines/day and to finish in 6 months at that rate. My actual progress has been closer to 50 lines/day. I could make excuses and plenty of reasons why I can pick up the pace from now on (or soon), but those are hollow promises. If I have to shelve this to translate Paradox and I end up finishing the translation in 2016 when no one even cares anymore, so be it. I hope that doesn’t happen, but I’m not giving up just because it might end up taking a very long time. I’m making progress almost every day, even if it’s a lot less than I want.

Many have tried, all have failed…

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To translate a Vanadis game into English. I’m next on the chopping block, and not for just any Vanadis game, but Sei Monmusu Gakuen itself. The sequel just came out so maybe now is a good time to get the original translated into English.

I’ve finished every translation project I’ve started so far, but I have to admit this one scares me. My goal is to finish it in 6 months, which is possible, although perhaps not reasonable. I doubt MGQ Paradox will be released in 6 months so that seems safe. Tentatively, I’m going to translate Rin’s route and release that first, then do releases for each other character route as I complete them. The files aren’t conveniently ordered by route so I really have no idea how much work Rin’s route is compared to the whole game. Sometime in April for the first patch is the earliest guess, sometime in May more likely.

Sorry to those who really wanted VH4 translated. If I manage to finish SMMG and there’s still awhile before Paradox, I’ll see if I can fit in VH4 or even VH5. I dreaded translating another VH game, whereas doing SMMG is actually refreshing. We’ll see how I feel around line 10000 though…

Huge thanks to Progvian for writing the tools I needed and quickly dealing with my unreasonable demands without any complaints. There may be some further technical challenges, but right now I can extract, translate, and pack very easily. We’ve got word wrap, character nameplates, some customization, etc.

I’ll get a progress page up soon. For now:
702/33929 Unique Lines (2.1%)