Posts tagged ef – a fairy tale of the two
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MangaGamer adds ef to online catalog
April 19th, 2012, by in Translation
MangaGamer has now added an entry for minori’s ef – the first tale. to their online catalog at 24.95 EUR. The listing also links to a download for the opening movie. Surprisingly, this game is tagged with “Reduced Mosaics”, instead of “with Mosaics” or “without Mosaics” like previous games. For ef – the first tale., mosaics aren’t entirely removed, but the pixelation and coverage of these mosaic patterns have been reduced. MangaGamer has posted a detailed message from minori concerning the issue on their blog, as well as comparison images showing the Japanese release and the upcoming English release. In the message, which was apparently written in November of last year, minori states two points. First, according to minori, they pursued an official release because MangaGamer agreed to bear any ethical issues arising from distribution of an English version, whereas a fan translation would not be able to provide that. Second, they wished to retain the mosaics in the English release due to fear of “some inconsiderate person” reinserting images from the English release back into the Japanese release, given the ongoing availability of tools to do so. However, minori said that they looked over some (adult) manga and video releases in Japan and decided that scaling the mosaics down for an English release would be acceptable even if the images made it back to Japan. The game is currently “waiting on a few final, minor changes” and no release date has been set yet.
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NNL posts ef preview
October 8th, 2011, by in Translation
No Name Losers has posted a lengthy preview of MangaGamer’s upcoming release of ef – the first tale. Improvements over the original game and/or the fansubbed release include the ability to choose fonts for the dialogue display, a revised English script, an improved upsampling filter and an option to use an alternate set of fade and scroll speeds. Furthermore, NNL and MangaGamer’s editor developed two different styles for resolving the issue of mismatched dialogue text length between the original Japanese script and the English script, which is very apparent with the Japanese audio. Chapter 1 of the game will use NNL’s approach and Chapter 2 of the game will use MangaGamer’s approach. The conclusion of the post suggested future sneak-peak updates of this nature.
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Tidbit: MangaGamer posts holiday update
December 31st, 2010, by in Tidbits, Translation
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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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Eden* edit war with minori
April 23rd, 2010, by in Translation
Earlier today, a user (or possibly users) from a single Japanese IP address claiming to be representing eroge company minori cleared the TLWiki entry for Eden*, resulting in an edit war until one of the TLWiki administrators locked down the page. Several legal notices were posted along the way, as well as an argument between the two sides. It remains to be seen what minori will do about NNL’s upcoming releases.
UPDATE: A video of the ef fandub produced in cooperation with NNL and linked from their website has now been taken off YouTube “due to a copyright claim by 株式会社ミノリ”.
UPDATE 2: An official response has been posted on TLWiki regarding minori.