Posts in Feature
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Visual Novels on Kickstarter
May 11th, 2012, by in Feature
The increasingly popular crowd funding website Kickstarter has seen a number of visual novel projects try to get off the ground during the last year. Although recently failing to reach it’s funding goal, the project Devil Gene R had over $4,000 pledged towards it’s $10,000 goal when it failed, which to date has been the largest amount of dollars pledged towards any visual novel on the website. Not all projects have failed to reach their funding however, Kickstarter was successfully used for the team trying to reach a $2,000 goal last summer to work on the visual novel Bliss Stage. In a slightly different category, one of the artists for Katawa Shoujo used Kickstarter to get funding for a Katawa Shoujo art book to sell at this year’s Anime Expo, raising $15,500 despite having an original goal of only $750.
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Discussions with Digitarou – Anime Boston 2012
April 22nd, 2012, by in Conventions, Feature, Interviews
Last weekend, one of our reporters took a trip to Massachusetts for Anime Boston 2012. We were originally planning to attend to meet the Japanese guests Kanako Ito and Halko Momoi, and will be posting reports on them soon. However, first we would like to report about an unexpected visitor who came with Kanako.
Representing one of the sponsors of Kanako Ito’s visit was the Nitroplus president himself, Digitarou. After meeting him at Kanako’s press panel, he was kind enough to give us some of his time for a brief interview. We asked him about Nitroplus’s foray into the English-speaking market, from his initial impressions to his hopes for the future.
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a fairy tale of the three
September 26th, 2010, by in Feature, Press Release, Translation
The overseas website for the game company minori has now been updated to announce the cooperation between three parties in a new overseas venture: MangaGamer, No Name Losers and minori itself. MangaGamer has now posted an entry on their blog announcing this as well as the first two releases, which will be ef – the first tale. and ef – the latter tale. The website for No Name Losers has also been updated with more information about what will be in these two upcoming releases.
UPDATE: More details and links added to writeup and certain statements were removed at the request of our source. The article has also been reordered and NNL has issued a comment, stating that:
[W]e appreciate the summary of events that [have been] written up — and that we’d prefer that everyone: the community, Gemot Encubed, and No Name Losers, move on from the bitter events of the past, as the minori/Mangagamer/No Name Losers partnership demonstrates so beautifully.
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0verflow around the “world”
August 4th, 2010, by in Feature, Translation
The people at Sekai Project graciously filled us in on some details on how their relationship with 0verflow (or more precisely, the parent company STACK) started and progressed, and we thought we’d share the story from the point of view of the two parties involved.
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Sonohana Sales Stats
March 14th, 2010, by in Feature
We’ve been watching download sales of games from fuguriya’s Sono Hanabira ni Kuchidzuke o series on DLsite ever since the release of the fan translation patch for the first game back on Valentine’s Day. The translator posted a link to where people could buy the game from DLsite in the release post. It appears that the release may have triggered an appreciable amount of sales of the game on DLsite’s English site, although the total amount wasn’t very high, especially compared to sales on the Japanese side.